Suppressing the spiritual polluters in the city, and capturing a polluter for experiments, are obviously not in conflict and can be carried out simultaneously.

The situation of the former is not encouraging. In just one hour, the number of psitronic polluters in the city quickly increased from 23 to 118, wandering the cordoned off streets, breaking into buildings on both sides of the streets and attacking residents under the fire of Templars and sheriffs.

On the other hand, the experiment also went well, because the scientific research materials were obtained from the abandoned subway station, so all the conditions and parameters were readily available, and the priests only had to repeat the experiments according to the data.

Experiments have shown that anyone who is attacked by a Psionic Polluter will transform into a Spiritual Polluter within 20-30 minutes, and the clinical feature is a translucent spirit figure spreading from the back, which contains a large amount of supernatural power, which will significantly improve the Polluter's own anti-killing ability.

Psitron also shows a high degree of selectivity when it comes to targeting them:

For "pure-blooded humans" who have never ingested spiritual substances, the spiritual polluters are dismissive of them and have no intention of attacking them at all.

For ordinary people who have not leveled up, but have ingested spirits (such as killing or eating supernatural beings), psionic polluters have shown a certain interest in attacking.

This attack mainly pierces the opponent with the vines of the spirit behind it, and does not bleed or cause substantial wounds, but causes it to gradually transform into a spirit polluter.

For the transcendents with the rank, the spiritual polluters have a strong attack jade hope.

There are not many ways to kill the Psionic Polluter, and physical attacks are the least effective. Autopsies have shown that even if a Spiritual Polluter loses too much blood, his mutated spirit will replace blood to sustain his life.

Instead, energy attacks have a better effect, such as fire, electric shocks, or lasers, which can be effectively killed by directly hitting translucent spirits that spread out from behind the target.

After the annihilation of the spirit behind it, the contaminated humans also showed different symptoms. If the target was an ordinary person before being contaminated, they would have suffered some physical and mental damage, but not enough to be fatal; If it is an extraordinary person, it will fall out of control almost on the spot.

So the results are already obvious. The Spirit Tree is a special weapon specially developed by extreme humanist forces to deal with the transcendent.

As a result, after the 4th level of martial law was issued, a fierce quarrel broke out at the Council of Cardinals over how to deal with the large number of spirit polluters in the city.

How many people are ordinary people without rank, but what about those who have ingested spirituality? Raphael roughly estimated that Raphael accounted for about 30% of the total population of Solomon, but he was the richest of the bunch.

Because only the rich will buy the meat of transcendent creatures to taste it.

Among the cardinals, such as Licini, Medici, and Esther, who were members of wealthy Italian families, were naturally severely opposed to appeasement and insisted on the use of maximum force to suppress it.

The second is those bishops from ordinary families, who have self-confidence and no spirituality, and have no relatives who have eaten transcendent creatures at home, so most of them invariably try to demonstrate the difficulty of suppressing spiritual polluters from various angles, and the most important thing is that "as long as you are not transcendent, you can be saved if you are polluted".

It's just a little traumatic, and it's not a big deal.

Of course, although they didn't say it, the subtext was also obvious that as long as this thing spread, it would inevitably constitute an extremely effective weakening and killing force for transcendental forces outside the Holy See - this was actually beneficial to the Holy See, after all, Italy plus the least transcendent.

This kind of remark was strongly criticized by cardinals from wealthy families, what does it mean to be "good for the Holy See"? How did those of us who have ingested spirituality become "unfavorable to the Holy See"? Do you deserve to be attacked by the polluters?

The debate lasted about ten minutes, and Innocent took out the majesty of the pope and stopped everyone from arguing with a wave of his hand:

I am the Pope, and now I order that it be suppressed immediately with the maximum military force, and you all listen to me.

As a result, more Papal Guards and Templars soon moved into action, and the resumption of military-related production lines was also given higher priority, and they began to resume work in full force.

Suddenly a light rain began to fall on the streets of Solomon. The water splashed down on the extinguished neon lights and holographic projection bases, raising a curling mist.

The black steel jungle was immersed in this mist, like the corpse of a giant beast. The fierce sound of gunfire echoed through the heavens and the earth, accompanied by the hoarse and incomprehensible roar of the spiritual polluter in the distance.

The Blue Sword stayed on the upper floors of the Licinius Building, looking out of the floor-to-ceiling windows at the gloomy sky. Outside, the patrolling sheriff was broadcasting a radio message that some kind of biological weapon had escaped from the lab, and the Templars and sheriffs were cleaning it up, asking everyone to stay home and not go out.

"So we can't get out?" Mia was bored and leaned on the edge of the pool wall, complaining, "It's boring, what are they talking about spiritual polluters?" ”

"Those are monsters contaminated by mutations, like the greenskins we encountered earlier in the Duchy of Swabia." Nora walked in from outside and placed the information collected by the Licinius family on the table, "All the relevant information is here, let's take a look." ”

Everyone took the information and looked at it.

"The Spiritual Tree?" Sheila frowned.

"Looking at this feature, it's clear that it's artificially created specifically for the extraordinary." Medea sneered, "However, the transcendent is not something that can be wiped out by crowd tactics. ”

"Especially after the third round of the Demon Tide, the level cap has been raised to Lv.20. Demigods are already free to expand their realms, where can this kind of thing be wiped out by relying on the number of heaps? At best, it will be a clean up of Italy and the peninsula. ”

"If it's just a siege, of course it's impossible." Nora pulled out a file from the bottom, "Look at this. ”

"Convergent evolution?" Sheila and Medea pronounced the above words.

"Remember the filthy lord who once ravaged the Duchy of Bavaria?" Nora said with a worried expression, "At that time, the upper limit of the Demon Tide was only Lv.10, and the other party was a Lv.19 transcendent, trying to be promoted to Lv.20 and cross the demigod threshold by devouring a large number of living spirits. ”

"The accumulation of spiritual accumulation will be triggered by quantitative changes to qualitative changes, and spiritual polluters are similar. Although no aggregation of these polluters has been observed, it is speculated from the available data that ......"

"At some point, these polluters may try to come together and merge the spirits behind them into a high-level mutant supernatural being."

"That is, the 'Spiritual Tree'."