Another day has passed.
The Lateran Palace held another emergency meeting of cardinals that evening to discuss how to suppress the "Tree of Spiritual Essence" mutation.
Despite the Templars' best efforts, the number of contaminated people in the city still increased from dozens to nearly a thousand cases. Most of the victims were wealthy middle-class people who had experience consuming supernatural creatures and were unfortunately contaminated by the ectoplasm.
The advertising airship has resumed operation tonight and started broadcasting that everyone should stay at home and not go out. If you feel unwell, please contact the sheriff of the city immediately.
The effect is minimal.
The cardinals looked at the meeting materials with serious faces, staring at the exponentially rising lines in a daze. Some cardinals even secretly speculated that the Vatican might have to run away again this time.
Of course, the Church had run away more than once or twice in history. Because the magic tide destroyed the production line, enemy countries, barbarians, extraordinary sects, suppressed R-level deterrents, and various other dangerous factors liked to take advantage of this time to come to Solomon City to cause trouble.
If the rebellion cannot be suppressed, the Vatican can only make a strategic retreat to a safe area to trade space for time, and then come back to recover Solomon after technology is restored. This has become a traditional strategy.
"Hey, why are there so few spiritual polluters in the Barberini city area?" A cardinal suddenly noticed that a certain city area in the center of the map was particularly light in color (the darker the color, the greater the number of polluters), and it was particularly eye-catching when embedded in a group of dark-colored city areas.
"That must be the base of the Blue Sword Mercenary Group," said another cardinal.
"The R4 mercenary group? Is His Excellency Bishop Varian's sister also in it?"
"Yes, that mercenary group. It is said that they cleared nearly a thousand polluters today."
"The Templars are currently mainly equipped with gunpowder weapons, so they are certainly not as efficient as the Transcendent Mercenaries."
"But asking a superhuman to clean up superhumans, isn't that a bit..."
The cardinals were discussing this, and then someone suggested:
"In that case, why can't we also hire the extraordinary people in the city to help us clean up the spiritual polluters?"
"After all, pure kinetic energy weapons are far less effective against polluters than extraordinary abilities, aren't they?"
"Bishop Chino, are you trying to imitate Romulus's past deeds?" a cardinal said sarcastically.
Romulus, the last emperor of the Western Solomonic Empire, once trusted the barbarian general Odoacer, but he rebelled and deposed him. The "old story of Romulus" mentioned by the bishop means "entrusting safety to dangerous people."
Bishop Chino smiled and said:
"Your Majesty is willing to believe in the Blue Sword, so why can't we believe in these extraordinary people? Besides, it's basically spread in the city now that the Eccentric Polluters will only attack the extraordinary people. If they don't cooperate with us, can we cooperate with the Eccentric Polluters to overthrow the Church?"
So the other bishops began to think. As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so it seems that there is no problem in cooperating with the extraordinary people - after the mutation is over, the worst that can happen is to send them out of the country.