Weakened and struggling to lift even a finger, Jerome struggled to lift his eyelids, and a glimmer of light entered his sight.

Everything in front of me is blurry, and I can only make out the general outline of the things around me.

Jerome noticed that someone was walking by, and the other party was wearing a white robe, and he couldn't really see his face, and he couldn't even tell the gender.

"I ......"

Opening his mouth, Jerome found his throat burning like fire, his voice hoarse like sandpaper rubbing.

Someone noticed his actions and ran out of the room screaming.

Jerome took a deep breath and tried to sit up, but all he got was aches and pains and restraints on his hands and feet.

"Damn. Jerome moved his hands and feet, and was dismayed to find that his limbs were firmly chained to the stone bed, and in his right hand was a needle and connected to a dripping glass bottle. The left hand, which can use the "Split" ability, is tightly closed by a metal box, and he doesn't know what the material of the box is, not only the shell can't be disassembled, but he can't even move his fingers.

A young man dressed in fine linen walked quickly to the bed, watched Jerome regain consciousness, and said with a smile: "You have slept for four days and four nights, and it is normal for you to feel weak now. ”

Jerome shook his left hand, looked at the needle on the back of his right hand, and cast an inquiring gaze to the person in front of him.

The boy took the cardboard from someone else's hand, and while checking the records, he said, "Your left hand is very dangerous, we have isolated it, and as for the needle on your right hand, don't worry, it's the potion you've been relying on for the past few days." ”

"Okay...... Stranger, where am I?"

"My name is Todd Fischer, Grand Master of the Knights of Twilight, and you are now in the underground of Twilight. ”

"You're Todd?the rumored Son?!"

Jerome tried to turn sideways, but when he saw his upper body, he suddenly gave up struggling and lay down on the stone bed: "When are you going to do it?"

Todd looked at him in surprise: "Do it?"

"You should know who I am, why I came to Twilight, aren't you going to rule me out as a threat?"

"I really don't understand, if you have such thoughts, why do you want to run to the border of Twilight?" Todd looked at the loneliness and hopelessness on Jerome's face, and did not choose to continue on the topic: "We will not execute you because your body has great value. ”

"Value?"

"I personally examined your left arm and found that you had received the 'Sutherland Legacy', but you also had the mutation of the 'Inheritor', but the mutation in your body did not spread. ”

"That's right. Perhaps with a laissez-faire mentality, Jerome talks about his past: "I was once a xenomorph and was captured in the Council of Elders. Before I came into contact with the Sutherland Relic, I was told that only one out of ten people would survive. The truth is, the goddess of fate played a joke on me, and although I won the jackpot and became the "inheritor", the left arm of my body was mutated. ”

Todd found a chair and sat down, listening to the other man's statement.

"The Council of Elders then made me inhale more Sutherland Relic, hoping to suppress the mutation. But the alienation spread along my left arm to the left half of my body, and at its worst, half of my head was transformed into a monster. I gradually lost my mind and began to attack everything around me. Until someone rescued me......"

Todd remembered the secrets that Rachel had told him earlier, and asked, "Theodore saved you?"

Jerome glanced at the other party and nodded: "That's right, the master injected some strange black liquid into my body, my mutation gradually stopped, and my body began to recover, only my left arm has maintained this appearance, and it can never be recovered." ”

"If I asked you, what exactly is that black liquid? I guess you wouldn't tell?"

"Yes, but actually, I don't know what it is. ”

Todd sat down in his chair, pondered for a moment, and then said, "I have two questions, one, you have recovered from the mutation, aren't the rest of the Council of Elders suspicious, and two, since Theodore has found a way to stop the alienation, why doesn't he apply this method to the 'successor' of the Council of Elders?"

"Theodore's healing of me is very secretive, not many people know about it, those people in the 'Presbyterian Church' just regarded my revival as a miracle, and as for why the master did not make this technology public, his exact words were, 'Surrendering such a thing will save only a few unlucky ghosts, and in the end it will only satisfy the desires of careerists.'" He hoped that with this technology, he could create a weapon, a weapon that would deter all forces, and adopt a coercive threat capability to eliminate xenomorphic warfare. Unbeknownst to him, he chose you as his savior and lost his life as a result......"

Todd sighed: "I've heard about Theodore, it's a tragedy. If I had persuaded him sooner, or accepted him as soon as possible, maybe it wouldn't have happened......"

After Todd finished speaking, his mind began to think quickly. In the past, he had always been very strange that the "Necromantic Inheritor" was also a type of "Inheritor", and these corpses retained basic physiological symptoms, even if they ingested more xenomorphic microorganisms, they would not undergo abnormal changes, which was really a very bizarre thing.

But now, through the Necro Inheritor and Jerome's affair, he has caught a line in these mysteries.

Theodore must have found some kind of substance, a substance that can activate or even upgrade the "Sutherland bacteria". Through the reactivation of the nervous system, the spliced corpse can be reshaped into a complete creature, and the effect of "Sutherland bacteria" can also be adjusted to suppress the progress of mutation.

At the moment, there are a few very important questions left for Todd.

1. What exactly is this substance?

2. How exactly does this substance work?

Third, the most critical thing, how to use and deal with this substance?

Todd looked at Jerome on the stone platform and asked suspiciously, "One thing I'm curious about, I'm the head of the church, you're a member of the 'Legion of Discord', I can't see hostility in your eyes, and I'm surprised by your cooperative attitude......"

The latter glanced at Todd in confusion: "Lord Theodore once said something to me. ”

Todd looked at the man, waiting for his next step.

"He said to me, 'Compared to the violence and cruelty of the Presbyterian Church, I have found a better place to protect the dignity and lives of the xenomorphs......,'" Jerome glanced at Todd hesitantly, "But, after all, you are a loyal Church Captain......"

Todd walked to the exit of the room and said to Jerome with a smile: "Not soon, at this time the day after tomorrow, the chief head in front of you will be the king of the 'Knights of the Twilight West'." ”