Chapter 40: Ministry of State Security

The port of Napoli is located at the tip of the Gulf of Napoli on the southwest coast of the peninsula of the Apennines, Italy, on the eastern side of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Also known as the Port of Naples, it is one of the main seaports in Italy. Founded in the 6th century BC, it was once a summer resort for Roman emperors.

The Port of Naples is the largest Italian seaport in the Mediterranean basin, and 100 kilometers southwest of it is the world-famous ruins of Pompeii.

The country is not only famous for its ancient buildings, but also has a well-developed industrial infrastructure, and because of its close proximity to the Mediterranean, the maritime industry is extremely developed.

If you ask the people of the world who are famous people in Italy, then football stars and the mafia definitely occupy the top two, and it is really strange that these two people can be juxtaposed.

At this time, in the corner of the harbor, a crane was lifting a black meteorite with a diameter of nearly 14 meters from the hold of a cargo ship, and not far from the crane stood more than a dozen Catholic priests in black uniforms.

A tall foreman is directing a crane to slowly place the meteorite into the compartment of an oversized truck, and over time, the meteorite finally stands smoothly in the compartment.

Then the foreman walked up to the priest and said, waving various gestures: "All right, dear priest, it is ready, pay for it." ”

A middle-aged priest in the crowd shook his head calmly and said, "No, you still have to transport it to the Vatican to get the money." ”

"God, you can't do this, we've already lost 2 cargo ships for this big guy, you have to find someone to transport it yourself, we don't care. The foreman waved his hand and said loudly.

"Foolish man, you are serving the Lord, when does the Lord's gift become an excuse for you to bargain? The middle-aged priest still said calmly.

"Alright, well, I'll listen to you, but you must promise to compensate me for the money for those two ships, or I won't agree to help you carry them even if you offend the Lord. The foreman said with a hint of cunning in his eyes.

"The Lord will not forget the Lamb who served the greedy one, and the Church will compensate you for your loss. Ship it away now and don't waste any more time. The priest said with a stern look in his eyes.

"Alright, boys, work hard, we're going to transport this big guy to the Vatican, Dante, you watch it from the carriage, be careful not to let it shake too much, and the others hurry up and take their places. Ready to go. The foreman shouted with his hands raised.

When he heard the priest say that he would compensate him for his losses, he became positive, after all, no one would have trouble with money. Although their tradition is to be lazy if they can, but now the money is not easy to make, and it is rare to have a big customer, so he has to cheer up.

In fact, the foreman has been complaining in his heart since just now, but it is a pity that who has made the economy sluggish now, and the workers have nothing to do and go on strike, and the result is getting worse and worse, and even the mafia in the south has begun to defect to the American organization in large numbers because they cannot receive protection money.

A few moments later, a dozen priests were quickly seated in several cars, among which the middle-aged priest and the foreman were sitting in the van, and a group of people were ready and drove in the direction of Rome to the north.

After about an hour and a half, they passed a local village and drove into a nearly deserted side road, looking out across vast pastures, with only a few stone houses scattered in the distance.

The foreman was sitting in the car and tasting the strawberry-flavored beer brewed at home, and he was even interested in inviting the priest to taste it with him, but the middle-aged priest politely declined when he saw the black flask.

The foreman did not care about the refusal of the other party, and he still enjoyed himself while humming a song in eight tunes and sipping a beer.

Just as they were about to leave the side road, the foreman suddenly heard a sudden 'clang' sound from the carriage behind him, as if someone was banging on the carriage with his hand, a loud sound, accompanied by a faint groan of pain.

He frowned, turned around and vigorously tapped the baffle connecting the carriage to the front of the car with his hand, and shouted, "Dante, what the hell are you doing, be quiet, we're almost there." ”

Just when he thought he could stop his workers from making noise, there was a more violent beating sound behind him, and the 'dong dong' sound became louder and denser, as if a man was beating a drum with a drumstick.

The foreman wanted to continue to slap the baffle, but the priest sitting next to him looked angry and reached out to stop him: "Don't knock, park the car on the side of the road, we need to see what happens in the back." ”

He thought about it and decided to follow the priest's command, who made him the owner of the money, at least before reaching the destination, he had to do what the other party said.

After the foreman gave the order to stop in the walkie-talkie, several cars slowly stopped on the side of the road, and a dozen priests got out of the car with the driver and foreman of the truck and came to the back of the car.

Because of the parking, the sound of beating in the carriage became clearer and faster, and just when everyone thought that Dante inside had an accident, the beating suddenly stopped.

The foreman shook his head from the driver: "Go open the car, we need to see what happened to Dante." ”

He was in a terrible mood now, and the interest he had just hummed on the road had been dissipated by Dante's beating, and he was only angry in his heart, and he decided that if he had nothing to joke, he would definitely beat him up.

After hearing the foreman's command, the driver spat twice into the palm of his hand, rolled up his sleeves, revealed his strong arms, and slowly exerted force on the heavy handle on the carriage door with both hands.

With his force, the handle is slowly moved down until it is completely vertically downward, making a 'click' sound.

The driver grabbed the handle of the car and slammed it, and the back door was slowly opened by him, and everyone looked inside the car.

At this time, the dim interior of the carriage seems to be covered by a black curtain, and even the bright sunlight outside seems to be unable to penetrate this curtain.

Everyone only saw this huge meteorite, and everything else was completely invisible, and only a humanoid figure could be seen faintly lying next to the meteorite.

The driver was frightened by the black atmosphere, and he leaned against the side of the car and shouted, "Dante, Dante, do you hear me?"

Perhaps it was the driver's shouts or some other reason that played a role, and the body of the young man lying in the car writhed slightly with a painful moan.

The foreman noticed that Dante seemed to be injured, and he shouted to the driver, "Go up and see how he is, and if he is injured, take him to a nearby hospital." ”

After listening to the foreman, the driver really didn't want to go in, but who let the other party be the boss who paid him, and the result of disobedience was likely to be no salary, and without salary, the wife and children at home would have no living expenses.

Thinking of this, he had to climb into the carriage with courage and feet, and moved his steps a little closer to Dante. Although the temperature inside the carriage seemed to be several degrees lower than outside, as if there was a cold aura surrounding him, he still mustered up the courage to approach Dante.

The driver slowly leaned down and flipped Dante's body over, and found that the other party seemed to have been injured, and the blood had stained his entire face along his forehead.

He put one of the other party's hands on his shoulder, and his waist and abdomen exerted force at the same time, and he struggled to help Dante up, and shouted outside as he walked: "Dante was bruised, his head is bleeding." ”

When the foreman heard what the driver said, a classic Italian swear sentence popped out of his mouth, he now regretted letting Dante guard the meteorite alone in the carriage, he should arrange for two people to be right, but unfortunately there is no regret medicine in the world.

The driver helped Dante out of the car as they were about to walk into the sun.

Sudden mutations.

Dante, who was supported by the driver, seemed to suddenly lose his mind in the next moment, he opened his mouth as much as possible, and his teeth were still connected to the filaments formed by saliva, and he bit the driver's neck, and at the same time, his eyes and the whites of his eyes turned completely black, and the first look would make people feel terrified.

The driver was completely stunned by the sudden attack at this moment, he never imagined that Dante would suddenly bite his neck like a mad dog, he struggled to get out of the other party's mouth, but the other party's bite force was surprisingly large, not at all like the strength that a normal human should have.

The driver yelled loudly while pushing Dante's body hard, "Help, help me." ”

Everyone outside the carriage was shocked by this scene, and they were all unresponsive for a while, until they saw blood gushing from the driver's neck like a fountain, and the moaning became quieter and quieter, and they reacted to go up to save people.

Unfortunately, it was too late, and the driver's throat had already been bitten. When he felt that the person in his mouth was about to die, Dante let go of his mouth.

The driver put his hands on his neck to stop the blood gushing out, and he took two steps forward with difficulty: "Help............ Save ............"

But before he could finish a word, he crawled into the carriage clutching his neck, blood flowing from his fingers and dripping down the gap in the carriage to the ground, making a 'tick' sound.

The moment the foreman saw Dante's eyes outside the carriage, he only felt that his heart was beating violently, and the adrenaline in his body was soaring, and he only had one thought left in his mind at this time, that is, to run, how far to run.

But before he could turn around, Dante's black eyes were already fixed on his neck, and the foreman's back was so stared at him that he couldn't care about anything else, and his body began to turn backwards.

The moment he turned, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Dante coming at him like a beast from inside the carriage, and he only had time to curse an Italian swear word in his heart.

Maybe the heavens did favor him, maybe his dirty words were heard by the Lord, and just when life and death hung in the balance, the middle-aged priest standing aside raised his foot and kicked it towards Dante's body.

Fortunately, the priest had trained hard in martial arts in his early years, and his reflexes were far better than ordinary people, and although he was also shocked by Dante's mutation and suffered a brief loss of consciousness, he was also the fastest to recover.

As soon as the priest sensed that Dante wanted to continue attacking the foreman, he couldn't help but kick it out with a kick that was not only to save the foreman, but also to injure Dante.

The moment he kicked Dante, it felt like he was kicking on a broken skin, not at all like the real feeling of kicking on a human body.

Despite this, Dante was kicked out of the carriage, and he fell from mid-air to the ground and rolled a few times before getting back to his feet.

At this time, Dante was covered in blood, half-squatting, the skin of his arms showed a strange black, his expression was distorted and hideous, the entire whites of his eyes were completely occupied by black, the blood vessels on his face protruded, his teeth bared and roared like a beast, and the blood in his mouth dripped down the corners of his mouth to the ground.

The other priests standing behind had recovered from their fright, and they looked at each other, all of them slowly leaning forward with grim expressions ready to surround Dante.

As if sensing the intentions of the other priests, Dante half-crouched, turned his blood-stained dark red head, looked around with black eyes, and suddenly turned and ran towards the pasture not far away.

The middle-aged priest saw that Dante showed a leaping power far beyond ordinary people at this moment, and the other party could jump forward a distance of 9 meters at a time, and jumped into the ranch in a blink of an eye like a humanoid grasshopper.

A dozen priests could only watch Dante disappear into the distance of the ranch, they looked at each other, and they all felt palpitations, all of them wondered how this Dante could have become completely uninterested in a human in such a short period of time, could it be that the meteorite had changed from affecting animals to affecting humans?

The middle-aged priest looked at the direction in which Dante had disappeared, and ordered with a solemn expression: "Contact the bishop immediately, everyone will rush to the Vatican immediately, and someone must be sent to find him before he attacks others." ”

Although he said that he wanted to find the other party, he actually knew very well in his heart that doing this now was just a remedy, and with the amazing bounce power of the other party, he would soon find others, and by the time they sent someone to find him, those people were probably already dead.

When the other priests heard the order, they immediately took out the rags in the car and wrapped the driver's body and stuffed it into the trunk, and the foreman was coerced and lured to sit in the driver's cab.

The group rushed towards the Vatican.