Claude, that is, the high-level demon hunter of the sect captured by the demon king's army on the front line before, he was in a strange mental state like other demon hunters of the sect, and he completely refused to communicate. Contact can be said to be fruitless, and he also tried to attack Vivienne. Hao Ren originally thought that it would take a long time for this guy to recover - after all, even the data terminal couldn't figure out what was going on with the other party's weird mental state, but he didn't expect him to suddenly wake up.
This sudden progress can be called a surprise, Y'zaks came to Claude curiously: "You know what you are doing now?"
"There are still some... sequelae," Claude stood in the middle of a circle of soldiers, his face was still a little pale, the clothes that had become tattered during the battle had not been changed, and he was still chained, looking quite embarrassed, he With an embarrassed expression, "It seems to have caused you a lot of trouble."
"It's not as simple as trouble," Bai Huo stood in front of Claude with his hands folded, "I'll ask you a few questions first to make sure you're really awake."
On the other side, Hao Ren came to La Nina and asked in a low voice, "Have you all seen the situation on the lower floors?"
"I followed the road signs and personnel instructions left by you all the way, of course I saw them all," La Nina's slender tail twisted in the air, her charming eyes were full of interest in something , "It's a wonderful phenomenon. If I'm not mistaken, the space-time structure of this tower must have been changed, and the people in the tower seem to be imprisoned in the gap caused by the dislocation of time and space. This world is really interesting."
A succubus who doesn't like men, doesn't like women, and doesn't even like her own racial talent, but only likes to lead troops to fight and study science. Hao Ren can only sigh that this sister is really worthy of being brought out by Yzaks.
Turning her gaze back to Claude, Bai Huo asked him some things, all about the internal affairs of the demon hunter and the details of a few things before and after this "civil war". In the end, she confirmed that Claude had fully recovered his sanity , couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief: "Huh... finally a guy has returned to normal. It seems that you can lock these runes on you first..."
"No. Let's wear these things," Claude took half a step back. The rune chains on my body jingled, "I asked for it. I feel that I am not completely stable. Those... those voices still echo in my mind from time to time, auditory hallucinations, hallucinations, and other thoughts... I Feeling safer wearing these things, safe for everyone."
"Voice?" Vivienne stepped forward. "You said there was a voice?"
"Yes, a voice... maybe not, it's hard for me to describe it precisely," Claude's muscles tightened when he saw Vivienne, as if some kind of attack impulse that did not belong to his own will still Remains in this body, but he and the rune chains on his body jointly suppressed this impulse, as Claude himself said, wearing these shackles is indeed a wise move, "That thing reverberates in my spiritual world .It's like directly overlaying an idea, a personality in my brain. It's not... a voice, but a more direct and effective... "
"Thinking Seal." Hao Ren interrupted him, "Seriously. You should prepare a few more textbooks on modern vocabulary. Two modern dictionaries in the middle of the pile of moldy potions in the library will make you Be more flexible."
"Okay, thinking stamp, this is very appropriate." Claude glanced at Hao Ren and twitched the corner of his mouth. "I know this word, but I just didn't think of it for a while."
"Then the problem really lies in the field of mind control," Vivian said with her arms crossed. She didn't expect the question to return to the most superficial point of origin, "Smarter. More effective, more subtle, but in the end it is still mind control? This answer disappoints me a bit."
Claude immediately shook his head: "No, it's different from mind control. I have experienced this process myself, and I can be sure that there is no external force distorting or remotely controlling our thoughts—it just stimulates and amplifies a part of our thoughts , and then let this trend develop. Although it is not good to admit this here, but... Purifying heresy is indeed the subconscious idea of every demon hunter, including these comrades who are standing by your side now, if they also 'Listening' to that thing in my head, they will be indistinguishable from the Order of the Elders."
Claude's words made a small part of the demon hunters on the scene a little turbulent. Some less stable demon hunters looked at the soldiers of the Demon King's Legion around them with embarrassed eyes, but none of the latter made a sound, and La Nina just remained indifferent. Said: "Everyone has a dark side in their hearts. Extracting and amplifying a specific dark side is not a clever technique for us demons. It's just that the guy who manipulates the minds of the elders and saints is more powerful That's all."
Bai Huo muttered softly: "You guys are quite generous."
"In our homeland, every panting creature in the world wants to kill us," La Nina shrugged. "We're used to being hostile by everyone. By a lower standard, you are model allies, at least you Really charge with us."
"Bring the topic back first," Hao Ren waved his hand to interrupt the conversation between La Nina and Bai Huo, he looked into Claude's eyes, "So it's the 'voice', the guy who manipulated the mind that influenced the Church of Elders and the saints? The current state of the tower..."
He raised his finger to the remains of Saint Bedolis: "And his current fate, is it also because of that 'voice'?"
Claude didn't notice Bedolis not far away until now, and he exclaimed uncontrollably: "Holy One!"
"He fell here when we found out. The way of death was very strange. His body completely turned into a state of smoke, leaving only the clothes and some ashes," Tutan explained the situation here. , "So what the hell is going on here?"
There was a flash of panic in Claude's eyes, as if recalling what happened in this tower still terrified him, he lowered his voice: "We have awakened an ancient will... a powerful, incomprehensible, intangible thing is The tower came to life, and then quickly affected everyone through the mysterious connection between the various ruins of Corpus."
"Who specifically awakened it? Why did it wake up? What was the original form of that thing?" Hao Ren asked one after another.
"It's the saints," Claude's answer was unexpected. "After Elder Hasselblad came back from the territory of Ancatero, the saints summoned him, and then they immediately had several secret discussions. I don't know their specifics. We were discussing something, but every saint was obviously very nervous after that. Then the saints took out a certain ancient sacred artifact from the treasury, and held a ceremony in the ceremony hall, and the situation started to go wrong after that ceremony .”
Claude tried his best to recall and try to describe the situation after the ceremony: "At that time, only the saints entered the ceremony hall, and the others were ordered to wait outside. There was a strange buzzing sound coming from inside the door, as if countless people were There was a quarrel in the hall. Then the ceremony ended, but the saints did not leave the ceremony hall. They sent an order that they would continue to meditate in the hall for a while. My clearer memory ends here, and what happened after that... all People's emotions have become a little strange, but no one is aware of this abnormality, and the influence is carried out subtly, and it has already taken effect before we are aware of it."
"That is to say, at least in your memory, those saints have never left since entering the hall?" Hao Ren stared at Claude, "Except for the power of 'something' running out of the hall, No one or anything got out of there, right?"
Claude thought for a while and nodded vigorously: "It's sure."
"I'm afraid they have been destroyed after the ceremony, at least spiritually." Vivienne pointed to the suit of clothes and a little ashes left by Bedolis. Sticking to this place, the message on the wall was all he could have left at the time."
Lily turned her head to look at the message on the wall: "According to the message...'that thing' should still be in the ceremony hall."
Baihuo was a little skeptical: "But the entire Corpus has been 'infected' by it, will it still stay in the lobby honestly?"
"Because it hasn't completely escaped," Hao Ren blurted out, "The only thing that leaked out of the hall was its power. The saints probably noticed that something was wrong in the second half of the ceremony, so they must have used some kind of method to put ' That thing's body was imprisoned at the ceremony site!"
Vivienne had an instinctive distrust towards the saints of the witcher: "How do you know those saints would do this?"
Hao Ren pointed to Bedoris' last words on the wall: "Because they don't want to release that thing at all—they don't even know they will release that thing!" (To be continued~^~)