Chapter 303: Custody
"What?"
The minions had just been caught, and the boss ran to intercede - Zhou Heng quickly understood what was going on. It seems that the Cursed Dragon, as the leader, also understands the crisis of the current situation, and even puts down his body and comes to negotiate in person.
This hunt is getting more and more lively.
"Then tell me about it." Zhou Heng said.
Although the other party is a god, he is not afraid of him, and he is not asking for him, so Zhou Heng has no special feelings about this dragon, and directly starts negotiating.
The cursed dragon didn't talk nonsense, and came out of the black mist in a deep voice: "Whether you want their skills or want them to do things for you, I can let them do it for you, and there will be no betrayal or slackness." I only hope that you will not take their lives, that you will not change their faith in me, and that you will be at your disposal for the rest. β
Hu Yu on the side complained: "All of them are talking about what to let them do, don't you need to pay any price yourself?" β
"You don't believe in me, so I can't give you any help or price." The cursed dragon said, "I have nothing else left, so there is nothing else to ask you to accept my offer as a condition." If you think commitment works, I can promise to help you do something I can. β
The other party is a god anyway, and his attitude is too polite, and even Zhou Heng is a little unaccustomed to it - when Leilia came to negotiate, his attitude was much worse than that of the cursed dragon.
Of course, there are factors in the current situation, but this dragon is surprisingly familiar, and it is not too much to ask. Zhou Heng didn't mean to embarrass him. Directly agreed to his request -
"Oh well. I don't have a problem with that, but you'll have to say it yourself in terms of the church. β
Zhou Heng said, pointed to Venia next to him, and reminded him. Hearing Zhou Heng's words, Venia was obviously not very happy; It's not a good thing if the infidels who have just been caught are let go like this. He was about to refuse, but he heard the cursed dragon say:
"I heard that your church's sword of light has been contaminated."
Venia was stunned: "What do you want to say?" β
"It's said that some god did it, right?"
"That's right, seventy years ago, the Knights of the Holy Sword destroyed several evil altars. But it angered the evil god Alos. Alos was furious and retaliated by defiling the Sword of Light and the Sword of Protection. "The Sword of Guardian lifted the curse forty years ago, but the curse of the Sword of Light is too strong to be resolved. β
"That's right," said the Cursed Dragon, "and if you give up killing these criminals, I can ask Alos to come and help you lift the curse on the Sword of Light." β
The Sword of Light is one of the three sacred swords of the Church, but it has been sealed underground in the Church for many years because it has been tainted by evil; During this time, it was also stolen by some necromancers. Got the church in a lot of trouble. There is nothing very good for the church to do with this defiled holy sword; However, at this time, the Cursed Dragon has proposed a new Jianyì - he is the same god of the chaos camp as the evil god Alos. If he intervenes, he can intercede for the church and get Alos to lift the curse on the sword.
"Then I'll go back and ask the Bishop."
Venia thought about it, and finally relaxed, ready to go back to the headquarters to discuss it before making a decision. And with Zhou Heng's understanding of the church, there will probably be no problem with this requirement.
Although the church is strict with infidels, as a utilitarian religious organization, it does not have too persistent hatred for these cultists. Evil naturally cannot be tolerated, but as long as these cultists do not enter the Wind Continent to be evil, sparing their lives does not seem to be a big deal.
Looking at the cursed dragon who was persuading Venia, Zhou Heng finally realized that this guy seemed to be serious. There is nothing wrong with either the conditions or the construction, it seems that Zhou Heng's action has really forced it to be urgent - gods need faith, and it is even more important for a monster god like the cursed dragon that has no substance.
"Then so be it, I promise you a building." Zhou Heng said.
Before this, Zhou Heng had the idea of summing. In war, anger and hatred are always the least valuable things, and the most important thing is to fight for the greatest interests for oneself when you have enough bargaining chips. Now that the cursed dragon has come to the peace talks in person, his attitude seems to be quite good, and Zhou Heng has agreed to his conditions.
After all, although the gods are high, they are not essentially creatures of the same world as humans; And what Zhou Heng is interested in is only those knowledge of space magic, and it is useless to have more other things.
After understanding this, he did not have any objections to some of the conditional cursed dragons listed by Zhou Heng, so this peace talk ended in a happy atmosphere. Zhou Heng didn't care much about the conditions, as long as these cultists were still in his hands, he was not afraid that the cursed dragon would break the contract, and if there were any new conditions, it would be. And the cursed dragon itself does not need to pay any price, and the fulfillment of the conditions of a qiΔ condition is those who have been captured by the cultists; As long as they don't die or convert, it's an acceptable outcome for the Cursed Dragon.
After the end, the cursed dragon provided some information that Zhou Heng needed according to Zhou Heng's request. First of all, it's about 'Soul Fall' -
"That's my soul medium, and every time I appear as an entity, I spend a lot of mana, and this magic burns and condenses into a special crystal, which is the thing in your hand." The Cursed Dragon explained, "Normally, the size of the wreckage crystals is not very large, but the last time you appeared, you provided a lot of mana, so its form was surprisingly complete. β
"So that's ......" Zhou Heng nodded, and then asked, "So what is it for?" What is the principle? β
The Cursed Dragon replied succinctly, "It allows two humans to swap bodies. β
"Of course I know that," Zhou Heng said, "but how does it work?" Why is it able to change the nature of the human soul? β
"I don't know." The Cursed Dragon replied directly. "I don't know exactly how it works."
"Huh?"
"I don't know how my own rules are used." The Cursed Dragon confessed. "I only understand the basic role of it."
"You don't know, who knows?"
"They know." The Cursed Dragon glanced at the cult lords who had been tied up by the Five Flowers. "For example, my 'fog of chaos', I can use it myself, and I can use my faith to give it to my followers, but I don't know how to use it myself. All the space magic is something they have developed themselves. I don't know much about the use of these things in the normal world. β
Is that all there is to it? Zhou Heng was helpless, and after thinking about it, he didn't continue to explore this question; And after the cursed dragon has achieved its goal. Soon it disappeared with the black mist.
With the advent of the Cursed Dragon, this negotiation came to an end. The boss of the other party came out to intercede in person, and the conditions proposed seemed to be acceptable, and the next thing was simple.
After receiving orders from the Cursed Dragon, the cultists were much more divided; After untying them, he didn't resist, and followed Venia to the other world to be judged. Because of the conditions of the cursed dragon, the church will not torture these guys at the stake; But even so, face work must not be less-
Caught from outside the world, the members of the Cult of Chaos who were defeated in the void a hundred years ago will have to parade through the streets for a few days before saying anything. Today, the Church is one of the two most famous neutral organizations on the mainland. On par with the Tower; This kind of limelight will naturally not be missed in vain. And then deal with the problems of these guys. It's not that important. Anyway, the cursed dragon has never asked for these people to be free, so as long as they don't let them out, they can do evil.
With the arrest of these Cult of Chaos' lords, the war ended. The people of the Church have been withdrawn from Earth one after another, and the combatants of the Executive Department have begun to cross into the other world one by one to continue their work. Helleri is commissioned by Zhou Heng to go to the other world to find the other descendants of the Sky Knights. According to the descriptions of those cultists, the 'Silver Moon' magic array in the Wind Continent was still operating, but according to Zhou Heng's own experience, even the improved version of the 'Silver Moon' only lasted about a day.
Because of this reason, Zhou Heng guessed that there were still descendants of the Sky Knights on the Wind Continent who were maintaining the operation of the 'Silver Moon', and from these people, he might be able to get some useful information. As an assistant, Zhou Heng was going to send a few people to help her, but before Zhou Heng could arrange it, his sister volunteered to go together-
"Brother, did you hear that Sister Qin is going to the Otherworld with Herelli?"
Zhou Heng replied: "Yes, if you don't want them to go, Qin Yue and I can change to someone else, and Herelli will go back to find her family, but maybe she will come back after this time." β
"I want to go together," Zhou Lu said, "okay?" I want to travel to the Atlas with Herelli! β
"Huh?" Zhou Heng was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, he asked, "Aren't you going to school?" β
"We're still halfway through the holidays!"
"Okay then......" Zhou Heng agreed, "But pay attention to safety, the talisman I gave you last time was repaired, remember to bring it with you." But now that you're in good shape, you shouldn't be in any danger over there. β
"Hehe, brother, you're the best," Zhou Lu was overjoyed, and immediately hugged Zhou Heng's arm, "I'll come back and bring you the meat pie rolls, as well as the white fish cake I ate last time." β
"You know how to eat ......"
In this way, Zhou Lu and the three of them happily went to the other world to travel at public expense. Zhou Heng originally wanted Lin Feng and a few people to accompany Zhou Lu, but they didn't seem to have any plans to return to the other world - compared to the Wind Continent, which had too many painful memories, Lin Feng and his companions obviously liked life on Earth more.
On the other hand, Hu Yu's father's injury still did not improve, and after the war, Hu Yu asked Feng Yixin to find a few worlds that might have zΓ i consciousness healing techniques, and then set off to investigate. And Zhou Heng's cheap junior brother Zhong Youxin also set off to go back to the 'master'.
At the beginning, because of Zhou Heng's bad taste, he made up some things like the Wenshi Sword Sect to him, and until now, Zhong Youxin still thinks that he and Zhou Heng are both cultivators; Later, Zhou Heng got a set of cultivation exercises that seemed to be very good from Ziwei Xingjun, and handed it over to Zhong Youxin.
Out of that kind of way of acting in a way that is unique to superiors, Zhong Youxin is a very pragmatic person - overly believing in the benefits that can be seen in front of him. Never doubt what you don't have a clue about; Ever since Zhou Heng made him a few years younger by means of transformation. Zhong Youxin was convinced of Zhou Heng's words. Later, at the time of that massive enemy attack. Zhou Heng couldn't be busy, so he made a phone call to inform Zhong Youxin, saying that there was an invasion of demons outside the sky and asked him to come to help. There are all kinds of people in the base, and it's not a secret that you use fantasy to locate things from other worlds; But after hearing about these things, Zhong Youxin did not express any suspicions.
However, it seems that because that set of cultivation exercises is really powerful, Zhong Youxin has now formed a spiritual root and completed the foundation building for a long time; Although it was only an introductory method in that set of exercises, its strength was already considered to be at the top level in the research institute. And said that he would return to the teacher. It seems that the time has come to cash in.
In order to let Zhong Youxin 'return to the master', Zhou Heng began to think of a way - Zhong Youxin's ability came from the world of He Lei's "Flying Dragon Breaking Army", but there was no condensation in that world, and there was no Wenshi Sword Sect; Zhou Heng found an ordinary person from that world and told him a story that included the Wenshi Sword Sect and Ning Xuzi; Then let that person locate a world - because it is the world positioning carried out by the natives of the world of "Flying Dragon Breaking Army", even if some additional settings are added, the rules are exactly the same as those of the other world; If Zhong Youxin is active there, he doesn't need Zhou Heng to provide too much energy for rule protection.
Although Zhong Youxin was a little puzzled as to why the Wenshi Sword Sect that was originally in Kunlun Mountain had become the Wenshi Sword Sect of another world, there was basically no difference anyway, so he didn't doubt it too much. returned to that world and threw himself into the arms of the teacher. In order to make the lie round, in Zhou Heng's setting. The condensation of that world had actually gone when he was traveling all over the world; However, neither Shimen nor Zhong Youxin knew about this, so after sending Zhong Youxin away, Zhou Heng didn't need to worry about going through the gang next.
Everyone else was busy with their own things, and Zhou Heng's acquisition of the 'loot' officially began.
First of all, it is the space technology mastered by these cultists. And as the most important part of the space magic of these cultists, Zhou Heng immediately noticed the 'fog of chaos'-
The last time Rellia came to sue for peace, bringing with them all the information related to their space technology, except for the most important thing, the 'Mist of Chaos'. Just as the Church's magic requires faith to be cast, these spatial skills must have the 'Mist of Chaos' to use. At that time, Leilia refused to hand over the 'Fog of Chaos' and the negotiations eventually broke down, but this time, Zhou Heng knew what this Fog of Chaos was.
Unlike the 'faith' of the church next door, this 'fog of chaos', although it contains some other attributes, is very similar in nature to the faith itself. These cultists believe in cursed dragons to obtain 'Mists of Chaos' as a drive, and then use them as a medium to use magic, which is why Rellia has not said anything about such things before - not just trying to hide them, but not giving them at all. Handing over the fog of chaos is equivalent to handing over his faith to Zhou Heng; If Zhou Heng deliberately wanted to target them, as long as he did something to these beliefs, they would be instantly rejected by the rules of the other world and crushed into pieces.
However, this also limits Zhou Heng's use of this kind of thing.
The Mists of Chaos are closely related to faith, and only those who believe in the Cursed Dragons can fully use them. After discovering this problem, Zhou Heng couldn't help but be a little disappointed; The fog of chaos itself is not something very active, nor is it something that anyone can touch.
Of course, in addition to the believers of the Cursed Dragon, there may be other ways to use these things, but Zhou Lu is an unavoidable situation after all, and it is still too far for Zhou Heng to put these things into practice in a general way. The reason why Zhou Heng was interested in such things was that they might replace the rules of the main god and save a lot of energy, but it didn't seem very realistic now.
A day later, news came from the other world that the church that had released the cultists had agreed.
As promised, the Cursed Dragon found the evil god Alos and had him undo the curse on the Church's Sword of Light; In addition, there is no need to say much about the compensation for the war dead, the cession of resources, and the provision of magical research results. After the symbolic proclamation of victory in the war, the church was in the limelight once, and then the cultists were sent back; In addition to arranging two inspectors to supervise the behavior of these guys, all other issues were handed over to Zhou Heng. These creatures are scouring the void for worlds and waging wars, and while they can't see it, the Church won't allow it to continue.
Of course, this is only a request from the church. As punishment for these guys, Zhou Heng planned to keep them locked up for a while - it would not be appropriate to say that they were imprisoned, Zhou Heng's plan was to let them work in the research institute for a while, just to help him with some experience and skills in space research. For one thing, these guys were originally researchers from another world, so it was just right for them to work in the real room; Second, the villains caught in Zhou Hengshi's room are not few, and in fact, they are not bad. (To be continued......)