008 The Root of the Mutation
After dealing with the giant wolf, and reaching an agreement with Archer, they returned to the eighteen-story building.
"Well~ Good job, Larry, why don't you take over the position of director, whether it's communication skills or magic strength, I think you can do it!" The illusory screen stood in front of Larry, and Leonardo da Vinci was talking excitedly.
"No, I don't know what you're thinking." Larry looked down on the other with a blank of disdain.
It is conceivable that one is that Leonardo da Vinci did not have the right to delegate the position of director to anyone, and on the other hand, she is just trying to evade responsibility, after all, now Chaldea is only two people, Larry and Leonardo da Vinci, if something happens, it is natural that someone with higher authority will be responsible.
Well, but if you can't fix the anomaly of the anomaly, no one will come to hold you responsible.
So before thinking about these things, Larry was more concerned about this peculiar situation.
"So, Archer, what's going on here, and why do you have to kill its inhabitants?" Although some information has been speculated, in the final analysis, it is only speculation, and it is not necessarily the real situation.
"Until then, can you make her quiet....." Archer leaned against the wall with a helpless expression, and the girl next to him stared at him.
"Hey, where are you from? Is it a slave? But why are you using a gun? I've heard that servants aren't all heroes of antiquity? Has anyone ever used this weapon before? Why didn't you pierce the skin of that giant wolf? Is this gun so powerful? You see, I knocked it out with one punch. ”
Compared to [What's going on?] [What's going on?] 【What's the matter?】 【Teach me, big guy! ] Ma Wei is more like a bored puppy who is so flustered that she keeps chasing after her owner and barking non-stop, asking questions that are not nutritious, not to mention that there are mocking words interspersed in the middle.
"Mavi... Can you help me monitor my surroundings? "Larry can't even talk about it, after all, what's wrong with accusing a curious girl like a newborn baby? That's too naïve.
"Hmm.... Okay, you guys talk first. Probably feeling that she was affecting the conversation between the two, Ma Wei naturally followed Larry's words and walked to the side window to monitor the surrounding situation.
Finally taking away the unpredictable girl, Larry and Archer breathe a sigh of relief at the same time.
"So, let's get back to the conversation, time waits for no one."
"That's right." Archer tucked two pistols into his waist, clasped his hands on his chest and said slowly, "Speaking of the root cause of the mutation, you have already seen it just now. ”
"The giant wolf?" Larry was a little curious, if that was the root cause of the mutation, wouldn't it have been solved?
"To be exact, it's a guy ten times bigger than it, the one just now, it's like a wolf cub, although it was eliminated by her, but I don't need to spend a lot of time dealing with that giant wolf, it's just that I'm just preempted." As he spoke, Archer kept staring at Ma Wei, who was monitoring her surroundings by the window.
This guy is still a little unwilling to admit defeat.
"So, the root of everything is the big guy you said?"
"I guess so." Speaking of this, Archer paused and sighed before continuing: "It seems embarrassing to say this, but I haven't seen the real appearance of that big guy yet, but I just saw a figure by chance. ”
Archer stretched out his hand and pointed into the distance, and after crossing the Fuengawa River, there was a quiet deep mountain town.
"There's a temple on the hill over there, and there's a big hole at the bottom of the temple, I think that big guy should live there, well, it's just speculation, after all, wolf cubs like that just now are everywhere in the deep mountain town, and even if I want to sneak in, I don't have a chance."
"Are you saying that the root causes of the anomalies are concentrated in Fukayama Town?" Larry recalled the situation when Mavi ran before, it seems that he also ran from the deep mountain town, compared to Ryry, who was transferred to the new capital, was not attacked much.
"Yes, big guy aside, there are dozens of wolf cubs, as well as thousands of skeleton soldiers, all gathered in the deep mountain town, protecting the temple on the top of the mountain, if nothing else, it should be the source of the mutation."
"Is that so?" Larry got up and walked to the window, looking in the direction of Fukayamachi.
Unlike the burning Shinto, Fukayama Town is unusually quiet and does not flicker with firelight, and when you unfold your clairvoyance, you can indeed see a few skeleton soldiers walking through the streets, as if they were patrolling.
"Sure enough, does it still have something to do with the Holy Grail?"
In previous anomaly events, most of the root causes of the anomalies were inseparable from one thing, and that was the Holy Grail.
The temple that Archer is talking about, in fact, is called Liudong Temple, and in the big hollow underground, there is the basis for the operation of the Holy Grail War, which is the basic magic style called the Great Holy Grail, and there is no problem in saying that it is the body of the Holy Grail, if the big guy Archer said is entrenched there, then the mutation and the Great Holy Grail must be inseparable.
"Anything else? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with you killing the inhabitants here, right? Larry continued to ask questions, not because he didn't trust Archer, but because he knew the information, he would be able to better judge the situation.
"It wasn't long ago that I was summoned here, and it was already full of strange places, not as dilapidated as it is now, but it was a different scene."
"People are fighting, attacking each other, as if they are enchanted, and when they see a random person, they will curse and pick up whatever weapon they can use at hand, and attack each other until they are completely killed, as if an invisible force has given them a hint to fight each other, and the city is in chaos."
"Of course, even I was the target of the attack, just like the zombies in the movie, I had no choice but to kill everyone who attacked me, and it was at that time that the giant wolf and the skeleton soldiers appeared together and turned the new capital into what it is now."
At this, Archer fell silent, bowing his head, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Really?" Larry smiled, reading Archer's thoughts. "You wouldn't kill someone just because they attacked you, right, there are other reasons, isn't there?"
"Sure enough, you know me very well, and people are becoming more and more curious about who you are." Archer smiled in response, apparently understanding what he was saying.
Specifically throw out the unreasonable place to see if the other party can see it, this is also a little calculation between the two, and if you want to understand each other, it is also a good choice in this way.
"To be exact, those people were controlled by some kind of force, and when I appeared, someone directed them all to rush towards me, so I had to kill them, and before I did it, they were already puppets, and after being hit by my bullets, all the people who were controlled turned into smoke, and there were no corpses left."
Therefore, there will be no traces of human life here, and perhaps its existence will be eliminated when the slain turns into smoke.
"Giant wolf.... Flame... Is it a controlled crowd? Larry grasped the dots and thought about it to see if he could extract some information about the big guy.
"That's all, I don't even need to do it later, those people will also turn into dust, there should be a time limit, how exactly to do it is not clear, and then I tried to sneak into the deep mountain town, but it didn't work, the wolf cub's nose is also very sensitive, and finally returned to Xindu to wait for the opportunity."
"And then they ran into us, yes, that's a coincidence, if you hadn't caused the explosion, we wouldn't have gone there."
"Hmph~ Then you're mistaken." Archer shook his hand, looking disgusted. "It wasn't me who caused the explosion, but someone else, forgot the question I asked you in the first place?"
[You two, are you the guy's companions?] 】
"So you're not asking about our relationship with the big guys, but about anyone else here?" Larry understood where Archer's initial hostility came from.
"To be exact, it should be other servants."