Chapter 129: The Vatican's Confidential Archives
It was almost dusk, and the nun's screams woke up the quiet convent.
One by one, the priests ran over in a panic, some of the knights were fine, with exorcism tools, and some of the ascetics were simply holding brooms.
"Demons... Whew... Where is the demon? A gray-haired old knight at the head asked breathlessly with a cross.
Li Mo withdrew his big eyes after hearing the screams, looked at the old knight who was about to gasp to death, shook his head and said to Chieri: "Hurry up and get them away, this surprise is too embarrassing." ”
Chieri and Thomas hurriedly stepped forward, explained for a long time and repeatedly reassured the crowd before persuading the crowd to go back.
After closing the door, Li Mo summoned the big eyeballs again.
"That's... Are you really sure you're not a descendant of some evil god? Thomas swallowed and couldn't help but ask.
"What's the matter, you still want to purify me?" Li Mo snorted angrily, ignored these two goods, and directly turned on the energy detection.
In Li Mo's sight, Marcus's head swirled with a cloud of gray energy, weird and sticky, and occasionally a small bubble bulged like magma, and a wound appeared on Marcus's body after it broke...
Energy of this nature, how does it look... It's a little familiar, but it's also a bit too coincidental!
Li Mo scratched his head, his face was a little strange.
This is clearly the energy of the witch Keith's corpse banished to the dimension, and it is also the place where the thinnest of the three roots of his vampire vine tree is parasitized.
Old horse, this is not right, do you still want to renew the relationship with that witch corpse...
"Hey, Thomas, remember that witch corpse?" Li Mo turned his head and asked.
"What are you doing with that, is she coming back?" Thomas's face changed immediately.
"The witch's corpse, the time you lost the demon pestle? What the hell is going on? Chieri asked curiously.
"It's none of your business." Thomas's face flushed, "Don't ask. ”
Li Mo smiled, "Don't worry, she didn't come back." Marcus is invaded by a wave of energy, which is related to the space where the witch is banished. ”
"Do you have a solution?" Thomas asked worriedly.
"You can give it a try." Li Mo shrugged.
Then, observing the flow of energy through the Warlock's Eye, Li Mo stretched out the vine and poked into the old horse's head.
Under the horrified gaze of the two priests, the purple flower bones at the front of the vine suddenly opened, like a big mouth biting the old horse's head at once.
Li Mo pursed his lips, of course he wouldn't let the vampire vine eat the old horse.
After the vampire vine crossed over, it became entangled and fused with his soul, and its form also changed, between matter and soul.
In the past, when vampire vine was a normal plant, it had to absorb organic matter such as blood to grow. Now it's the metal that absorbs the energy and supports the structure.
It is not so much a tree, but an external manifestation of Li Mo's soul after alienation.
Of course, blood can also be absorbed, but it may synthesize things like blood pills like alchemy, and he doesn't practice dark blood magic, what does he want that thing for?
What's more, Li Mo has a serious psychological disorder for these, as soon as he thinks of absorbing the stinky flesh and blood, what hepatitis virus, HIV, and messy bacteria will pour in, Li Mo will be nauseous and retching, itching all over, and he can't wait to scratch a layer of skin.
He's never going to try it in his life...
There was no way to resist at all, and the energy in the old horse's head was smoothly extracted by Li Mo.
After Li Mo put away his tentacles and big eyes, the two priests found that Marcus's frowning brows gradually eased, and his expression became serene, and they finally relaxed their hearts.
It may take a while for Marcus to wake up, and Li Mo is led by Chieri to the inner city of the Vatican.
After Marcus's constant application, coupled with the huge reputation he won around the world after the Battle of New York, and the information he brought from the universe, and after paying some price, the upper echelons of the Vatican finally agreed to open the confidential archives to Li Mo.
The Vatican's Confidential Archives is known as one of the world's top 10 mysterious forbidden places. Many of the documents in its collection have never been transcribed, and even church archivists are ignorant of the secrets hidden within.
The Holy See claims that the Outer Lands are not so mysterious that they can be visited by licensed humanities and historians.
Of course, pure lies.
What Li Mo is going to is the real secret archives, where there are not only the texts looted by the Holy See from all over the world during the religious wars, but also many mysterious records that no one knows...
After observation and analysis, Li Mo came to a conclusion that the Holy See had indeed declined...
Maybe something happened to their God's dimension, and they hadn't set their sights on it for too long.
After the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, two world wars, and countless bloody battles within the Holy See, this powerful religion has become secularized.
They valued the influence of their faith more than they cared about mystical powers, and their Knights Templar had become even more fragmented.
Because the magic of this world focuses on the use of dimensional energy, many powerful beings in many dimensions have left a trace in history.
Li Mo was extremely curious about these, which dimension of the demon god were worshipped by those religions that disappeared in history? What is Thanos' relationship to Greek mythology and the vanishing Olympus?
Hopefully some clues can be found there.
After many formalities and five closely guarded searches in a stately Baroque building, the two arrived at an archive located 50 meters underground.
The material here includes the most primitive lithographic frescoes, as well as a large number of parchment scrolls, paper manuscripts and video archives.
The information here can only be consulted on the spot, and it is not allowed to be filmed or taken out.
Of course, Li Mo would not comply, and when he walked in, the invisible camera of the nano detection glasses was already turned on.
Accompanied by a special person, Li Mo started to inspect the original murals. The surveillance personnel saw many things in Li Mo, and only glanced at them before relieving their hearts.
And Li Mo didn't care about them at all, and the record here is really interesting.
For example, the petroglyphs depict the once-vanished civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria, who were prostrating a sacred object together. Li Mo knew and had seen the forgery of the artifact, the Monument of Life in Odin's Treasury...
A petroglyph shows that Olympus once had a terrible explosion and upheaval, then split and the gods flew to the stars...
There is also a petroglyph that has aroused Li Mo's interest, it is a world on the verge of destruction and an evil god with tentacles and big eyes, but I don't know who it is.
Several medieval scrolls contain accounts of the enemies of the Holy See, several unrest caused by Mephisto, and the vampire Count Vlad Tepes Dracula.
Some of the scrolls of vanishing religions may be able to analyze their methods of applying dimensional energy...
An unknown master analyzes the difference between Western astral projection and Eastern Taoist Yang Shen out of the body...
President Golden Dawn's original manuscript of Solomon's Key...
The manuscripts of the Western alchemists Newton and Jabir ibn Haiyan...
The author of The Book of Cagliostro, an Italian court magician, wrote a diary in which he described his thoughts and speculations about the dimensions of time and space.
There are records of the Salem Witch Trial and Bell the Witch, as well as an account of Lemo and their fight against the corpse of the Witch Keith (which is beautified). There are also some famous witches such as the Romanian witch Cynthia von Dono...
Of course, there are also some interesting accounts that cannot be told to outsiders, such as Pope Pius XII actually lent the Gun of Longinus to Hitler for a period of time, which caused a terrible and strange event, and gave the Red Skull a clue to the Cosmic Cube...
These vast archives may have been valued by the Holy See at the time, but they were forgotten over time and used for dust from generation to generation. To this day, it was actually opened to Li Mo because of some pills and curvature engines.
In this regard, Li Mo could only secretly exclaim that he was glad, if it was an era when the Holy See was still strong, he wouldn't even think about it.
Li Mo stayed here for two days and two nights...
The monitoring personnel have changed twice, and they are already a little impatient, but they are helpless about the opinions that have been reached at the top.
Li Mo, who walked out of the confidential archives, was satisfied, perhaps influenced by his previous life, he found that he had more and more of a habit of collecting, not collecting treasures but collecting knowledge.
Asgardian's historical texts, he had access to only the most ordinary, important ones that were all in Odin's hands. How to get it is a question.
There are also Kama Taj, Xandhar, the Kree Empire and even some of the bigwigs in the universe.
How rich will their collection be?
Thinking about it, he was a little excited, and Li Mo seemed to have finally found a goal to strive for.
By the time he returned to the monastery again, Marcus had woken up, and although he was a little weak, he seemed to be in good spirits.
"Li, thank you, if you hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid I wouldn't have survived this time." Marcus said with a sigh as he lay on the bed.
"Tell me, what have you been through?" Li Mo asked curiously, "Can you torture a tough guy like this." ”
Marcus nodded, and slowly began to speak...
On the first night of his investigation into Baden-Baden, he saw a pair of green eyes in a daze...
When he awoke, he found that it was already dawn and he was sitting on his hotel bed in his clothes.
After walking out of the door, the whole town was empty, and there was a thick white fog everywhere. Then some deformed and indescribable monsters continue to emerge, including several famous ghosts, such as Freddy, Sadako...
He tried all kinds of methods but couldn't get out of that place, but fortunately, his years of exorcism had cultivated an extraordinary courage. ran and killed like this, and lasted for a month.
Just when he was about to take it anymore, the world suddenly collapsed, and then he woke up.
"Why is it still this routine, isn't this the same as last time?" Li Mo pursed his lips and said.
"No, it's not at all." Marcus shook his head, "Last time I could clearly tell it was an illusion, but this time it's definitely a real world!" ”
"Lee, I ask you for one thing." Marcus said suddenly and solemnly.
"Is it for me to settle this paranormal event?" Li Mo frowned, "This time the guy won't be easy to mess with when he hears it, won't you report the situation and let the local residents evacuate?" Anyway, there are many ghost towns around the world that are empty because of this situation. ”
"Listen to me." Marcus was anxious, "I've seen a lot of humans in that world who have turned into twisted ghosts, I've seen pictures, all dead residents, and none of the children. I have a hunch that they're all alive! ”
"That's it..."Li Mo scratched his head, if the children were still alive, he really had to save them.
Thinking of this, he didn't hesitate anymore and immediately agreed.
"Great, Chieri knows that place well, and he'll be your guide." Marcus struggled to sit up, "Without further ado, Thomas will take you to the airport." ”
"It's important to save people, don't waste time." Li Mo shook his head, walked over to the balcony and called Father Chieri over.
"Are you afraid of heights?" Li Mo asked suddenly.
"Just kidding, how could I... Ah——!h As soon as Father Chieri said a word, he was dragged out by Li Mo and gradually disappeared into the sky.
Li Mo already had experience in this flight, and the nanoglasses were directly linked to the McQueen's planetary probe, marking the flight path in the air.
If Italy is like a tall boot, then the Vatican goes right down at the knee of this boot.
Beyond the Po plain in Italy and over the Swiss Alps, you will arrive at the Bavarian Plateau in Germany.
Arriving in the Black Forest, located in southwestern Germany, Li Mo finally found a place to stop.
There was no way, he forgot that Father Chieri was only a mortal, and he had long since fainted from the cold and lack of oxygen in the sky.
For this situation, Li Mo also has his own local methods. A sip of Asgardian honey was poured down, and the hapless priest was tossed back to life.
"Crazy! Lunatic! Father Chieri collapsed on the ground with blank eyes, trembling and snotty flowing down, and he no longer took Li Mo's air express train.
Li Mo had no choice but to follow the hapless priest on foot in the Black Forest, but fortunately, the small town of Baden-Baden was not far away.
The Black Forest, the source of the Danube and Neckar rivers, is a densely wooded area with towering fir trees and a cold mist wafting through the valleys in the humid air.
Snow White, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Cycle, most of the stories in Grimm's fairy tales take place here, and of course there are witches.
While passing by an elevated bridge over a deep mountain lake, the two finally hitched a ride.
The owners are a young couple from France, François and Christina, who have come to Baden-Baden for a holiday in this European bathhouse.
"Haven't you heard about the strange things happening in Baden-Baden?" Li Mo shook his head and kindly persuaded: "See, this is an exorcist master from the Vatican, we are going there to check the situation." It's better to leave after sending us there. ”
"We just heard about what's going on here." François said excitedly: "We are from the Paris Paranormal Research Society, and there is our large army behind us!" ”
Li Mo rolled his eyes helplessly, "That's a witch, a ghost, something that kills people!" ”
"Great, glamorous witch, dear I'm sorry, it's just an adjective." François raised an eyebrow at his girlfriend, "I'm just expressing my excitement." ”
f**k! Li Mo was speechless, and no longer cared about these brainless young people.
When we arrived in Baden-Baden, it was already dark, and the group arrived at a very elegant hostel.
"We stayed at this one last time." Father Chieri said to Li Mo.
The landlord was an old-fashioned old lady with neat silver hair, an emaciated countenance and deep nasolabial folds.
She stroked a black cat in her arms, "Welcome to the Black Cat Inn, I'm Agatha Hackson, the owner here." ”
"Excuse me, Mrs. Landlady." François asked expectantly, "Look at your costume and this black cat, are you a witch?" ”
Silly X! Li Mo covered his forehead helplessly.
The old lady Agatha, the landlady, twitched the corners of her mouth, "Guess what? ”