In thirty seconds Angelio needs to make an important decision that affects his life and death. ※%, but he was still hesitating and trying to find other solutions.
"Do you need me to burn this church? That may help you make a decision." Xia Lei said: "Or, I can go back and melt that piece of metal. In that case, you will never have the chance to find yours again." It's a sacred object. If you give me the armor now, you still have a chance to get it in full. If not, then you will never get it again."
Thirty seconds had actually passed, but Xia Lei no longer wanted to shoot Angelio a third time. This was not because he was merciful, but if he shot Angio again, he might die.
Angelio was silent for a moment before he said, "Come with me."
He got up from the ground and limped toward the office door. Both wounds were bleeding, and his bloody footprints were left on the floor.
Xia Lei followed him out of the study and at the same time awakened his clairvoyance ability to see through the surrounding environment again. But he didn't find any hidden space or mechanism. After the clairvoyance investigation, he also made a rough judgment in his mind that the Holy Palace was not in this church.
Angelio took Xia Lei into a corridor.
Statues of knights of the Knights Hospitaller are lined up on both sides of the corridor. These statues are all wearing ancient armor and have swords, shields, maces and other weapons in their hands. They add a strong sense of history and a chilling atmosphere to this corridor.
At the end of the corridor is the back door of the church. Outside the back door is a stone-paved road that extends to a rock wall, about seventy or eighty meters in length. There are also many statues of knights placed on both sides of the stone road, and they are all sitting astride their horses.
Xia Lei's left eye penetrated the back door and reached the rock wall at the end of the stone avenue. He secretly said in his heart: "There are so many knight statues on both sides of this stone avenue. It can't be just works of art, right? They have special meanings." … Could it be that the Holy Palace is in that rock wall?”
But just as he was observing the stone wall and thinking about this problem, Angelio suddenly grabbed a battle ax from the hand of a knight statue, and struck Xia Lei's neck with the ax with his backhand.
Xia Lei tiptoed slightly on the ground and leaned back. The ax missed his Adam's apple.
puff! Gunfire.
The battle ax in Angelio's hand fell to the ground with a clang, and there was already a bleeding hole on the back of his hand.
Xia Lei said coldly: "You'd better be honest, or the next shot will kill you."
"You're going to hell," Angelio said.
"We have been in hell." Xia Lei said.
"Humph!" Angelio snorted coldly, and then limped towards the door. He lowered his shot hand and put his other hand into his pocket.
Xia Lei's eyes locked on his hand and penetrated his pocket. At that moment, he saw Angelio's hand holding a golden card and folding it hard!
Gold is soft and bends when folded. One of the electronic cards on the card was also broken.
Xia Lei recognized it at a glance. It was a pass to enter the Holy Palace. What Angelio had just destroyed was the same one he had copied from Arthur's hand.
"Haha..." Angelio laughed like crazy. He took out the ruined pass and threw it to the ground in front of Xia Lei. "I have ruined the pass to enter the Holy Palace. Don't even think about going in again." Now. Just shoot and kill me."
Xia Lei frowned, "Why are you doing this?"
"Even if I take you into the Holy Palace, you will kill me. I don't want to be a traitor to the Knights Hospitallers. Even if I die, I will die with glory!" Angelio seemed to have made a decision.
Xia Lei said: "Can't you enter the Holy Palace without a pass?"
"Don't even think about it!"
"I really didn't expect you to keep such a trick, you are very cunning." Xia Lei spread his hands, looking disappointed and helpless, "I don't have to go in, I can leave. But I have one last question, I believe you won’t believe the story about the knight of the apocalypse riding a red horse, right? You have no hope of returning to the country, so why are you so insistent and working so hard to find the fragments of that armor?”
Angelio looked at Xia Lei coldly and said nothing.
"You even stole the Iron Book from the Vatican. What do you want? Or what is your purpose?"
Angelio was silent for a moment before saying, "Do you believe in the existence of God?"
I don't know why, when asked this question, Xia Lei suddenly thought of Zhu Xuanyue and the man in black robes. These two people have power comparable to "gods", but are they "gods"? He said: "I believe it, but sometimes it is the wishful thinking of mortals that glorifies the gods. They may not be our guardians at all, but hunters."
"You are blaspheming God!" Angelio shouted at Xia Lei, and he waved his fist.
"Are you doing this for God?"
"That armor is the armor of God, and we believe in his existence. We can awaken him, and we can obtain his gifts, thereby gaining powerful power and even immortal life." Angelio's eyes Flashing with excitement. He seemed to be sketching a picture of a certain god in his mind, as well as the gifts that god had given him.
"Just for this?" Xia Lei was not satisfied with this answer.
Angelio suddenly chanted: "O the only God who guards the world, I died for you, please guide me on the way back to heaven!" After reading, he suddenly pounced on a statue of a knight and pulled it out of the knight's hand. Got a two-handed sword. After drawing the sword, he didn't hesitate at all. He grasped the hilt of the sword tightly with both hands and stabbed Xia Lei in the heart.
Puff puff!
Xia Lei fired three times. The viper equipped with a silencer trembled slightly, and three bullets plunged into Angelio's chest.
Bang! The two-handed sword in Angelio's hand fell to the floor, and then he fell down.
Xia Lei walked to his side and looked at Angelio calmly.
Blood kept pouring out of Angelio's mouth, and he opened his mouth, "You will die, God's punishment will come, you... and everyone around you will die!"
"You haven't forgotten to curse me at this time? Well, I originally wanted to make it easier for you, but you are so unkind, so I will show you something." Xia Lei put his hand into the pocket of his underwear inside.
Angelio stared at Xia Lei with a pair of bloody eyes. His life was passing quickly, but he wanted to see what Xia Lei would show him at this time. He expected it to be holy.
Xia Lei stretched out his hand from his underwear pocket, holding a golden card in his hand.
Angelio's expression suddenly changed.
Xia Lei shook the pass and said slowly: "Did you see it? I have a pass. I have been wanting to tell you just now, but you didn't want to hear it. You destroyed yours, is it useful? I'm going now Holy Palace, take what I want to take away. You can go to the mountains and stop insisting."
"Pfft..." Angelio spat out a mouthful of blood, then tilted his neck and died. He could have persisted a little longer, but the pass Xia Lei showed him made him angry to death.
Xia Lei walked past Angelio's body and didn't look at him again.
Leaving the church, Xia Lei quickly passed through a stone avenue.
He saw four corpses of black-robed gunmen lying under the rock wall, which were obviously the work of Tsukino Kyoko.
A pass is required to enter the Holy Palace, as well as a document of passage signed by Angelio himself. Those four black-robed gunmen were obviously the last hurdle in guarding the Holy Palace. However, Tsukino Kyoko had already solved this trouble for him in advance. It's just that she doesn't know the secret behind the rock wall.
"Her efficiency is really high. We must give her some rewards after this operation is over." Xia Lei thought in his heart.
He soon came to the rock wall at the end of the stone. This rock wall was flat and smooth, at least two to three hundred square meters. Carved on the rock wall is a knight on horseback. The horse is red, wearing silver armor and holding a silver sword. He looks very majestic and fierce.
However, under the cover of the knight's helmet, the knight riding the red horse has no face at all.
Xia Lei secretly said in his heart: "Riding a red horse and wearing a sword, isn't that the Knight of the Apocalypse who represents war and persecution among the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? But Angelio didn't mention half a word of the Knight of the Apocalypse when he was dying. But he mentioned something about the only god...the only god..."
He suddenly thought of the prehistoric one, but this thought shocked him.
Is it possible that the only prehistoric god who survived the Ice Age and became a Knight of the Hospitallers
"Forget it, think about these problems later. Now is not the time to think about such problems." Xia Lei cleared his mind and started looking for a place to insert the pass.
He soon discovered something similar to an ATM card slot in one of the horse's hoofs of the Knight Statue. Instead of rushing to insert the pass, he looked through it. The perspective startled him. This rock wall is actually a metal gate disguised as a rock wall. It has an extremely complex electronic and mechanical structure inside.
If you don't have a pass, you can actually go in, but you'll probably have to use the Cerberus individual artillery to blast it a few times.
Xia Lei inserted the pass into the card slot.
After a few seconds, the metal door slowly opened. It slid into the mountain, and an arched passage was slowly revealed.
The passage is not long, only ten meters deep. The rock walls are carved very smoothly because there is no air and there are no lights inside. But this did not prevent him from using the weak light outside to see clearly what was going on inside. At the end of the passage is a vaulted space that looks like a church worship hall.
Xia Lei took off the tactical flashlight and walked in with the light of the tactical flashlight.
On both sides of the passage are tall statues of knights with majestic and sacred faces. They looked like they were alive and could attack the intruders at any time with the cold weapons in their hands.
Xia Lei came to the arched space at the end of the passage. There is no statue of Jesus Christ here, nor is there a statue of the Virgin Mary. Instead, there is a silver armor standing where the gods should be worshiped. It was covered in cracks, and there was a hole in the helmet, as if someone had stabbed it through with a sword or a spear.
It stood there quietly, motionless, but gave people a lively feeling. It also releases an ancient and mysterious aura, and being in front of it always gives people a weird feeling that something bad is about to happen.
Xia Lei walked towards it, and when he came to the side of the armor, his eyes suddenly moved to an artificially carved stone wall behind the silver armor.
There is an oil painting on the stone wall.
Seeing the content on the painting, Xia Lei felt as if he had been struck by lightning and was unable to move.
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