Chapter XXXV. Religious Symbols

The four Leos did not sit in the same carriage as the black-robed men, but sat in the last carriage.

As the rail car left the platform, the rail car began to accelerate, and the violently vibrating body, coupled with the fact that it was one or two hundred meters in the air, made people who took this rail car for the first time feel frightened, as if the rail car would roll over and fall below at any time.

Jason and Nelson each clung to the edge of the carriage and pressed their bodies down so that their butts could fit as close to the seat as possible. Even so, they felt unreliable, as if a violent jolt of the carriage would throw them out of their seats.

Catherine is accustomed to this seemingly dangerous, but actually safe, high-altitude rail car, because she often takes this kind of rail car to different places to treat doctors and patients. But what made her curious was that Leo, who was sitting opposite her, also seemed very calm, and sat very steadily, and the shaking caused by every vibration of the body could be accurately sensed by him in advance, and let the body sway slightly with the carriage, looking as if it was clinging to the seat.

The only thing that makes people feel weird is that he keeps his head down after getting on the train, as if he is looking at something in his hand, but because it is too dark in the carriage, he can't see what he is holding clearly.

"Doctor, let's take another seat! I would like to speak to Miss Catherine. After the rail car had traveled some distance, Leo suddenly raised his head and said to Nelson, who was trying to stabilize his body and not shake himself.

"What?" Either because the wheels were crushing the rails so loudly, or maybe Nelson was so focused on dealing with the shaking seat that he didn't hear Leo for a moment.

Leo repeated what he had just said.

"I'm okay, what about Catherine?" Nelson was slightly stunned and nodded, but instead of getting up immediately, he turned his head to look at Catherine, as if to ask if Catherine would like to talk to Leo.

"Yes. Catherine's eyes looked at the king and queen on Leo's waist and agreed.

Seeing Catherine agree, Nelson slowly got up from his seat, grabbed the railing in the carriage, and hunched over to Leo's seat, and Leo quickly changed seats as if he were walking on flat ground.

"Miss Catherine, knows the King and Queen well. After Leo sat down, he took the initiative to find a topic that could ease the cold atmosphere of the two of them, and said.

"I've seen my dad use it before. Catherine smiled and said, "I used to fantasize that my father would pass on the queen to me, and I fantasized that Valjean would give her to me, but unfortunately these are just fantasies, and now they have found their master." ”

Leo looked very curious and asked, "Can you tell me about Daddy?"

"One day Dad suddenly appeared with Valjean and settled down in the cage city, he is a master mechanic, there is no machine he doesn't understand, he personally designed the rail car we ride, personally designed the elevator, and personally strengthened the cage city that was already overwhelmed. Catherine's face was full of nostalgia when she mentioned the last Wyzik, and then she smiled sadly, "We didn't know what to do for a long time after Daddy died, but thankfully we survived and made a better life for the inhabitants of Cage City." ”

Leo could feel that Catherine's understanding of the father was only superficial, and she didn't know that the father had other mysteries, so she didn't continue to ask, but went to the point, and said, "Miss Catherine, there's a question I want to ask, is there anything special about Nelson?"

"Huh?" Catherine didn't understand what was going on for a moment, and looked at Leo blankly.

"I'll just say it simply!" Leo said with a serious expression on Catherine's face, "That Mr. Martin had bad intentions for encouraging us to do this from the beginning, and his target was Nelson, and it was clear that there was something very special about Nelson, and it might have something to do with the catacombs. ”

"W-This can't be?" ...... Martin?" Catherine was visibly confused by Leo's sudden inquiry, and her mind was a little confused, not knowing how to answer.

Nelson, who was sitting across from him, focused his main attention on the rocking carriage out of fear, but he also paid some attention to the conversation between Catherine and Leo, and wondered why Leo would talk to Catherine, who had never crossed paths, at this time.

Unfortunately, the sound of the rail car was so loud that he couldn't hear anything, and he could only see Catherine's embarrassed expression, at which point he couldn't help but want to stand up and ask Catherine about her situation, but stopped when Leo raised his hand.

"Why do you think Martin has bad intentions toward you?" asked Catherine, clearing her confused thoughts, in a deep voice toward Leo.

Leo said calmly, "Think about the order of the people he invited when he encouraged us to go to the parish you call it. ”

Catherine carefully recalled the scene at that time, and the expression on her face gradually became serious, and then it was even more difficult to hide her suspicion.

"You must be weird, too! There must be a certain danger in going to the diocese to search for evidence, so the people who go must be strong and capable of fighting. Leo said as he compared himself with Jason and Nelson, and said, "If you choose, you have a dangerous and important person, who will you choose first among the three of us?"

Catherine had already begun to believe Leo's words, but she still had doubts in her heart, and said: "But Nelson came to visit me suddenly, I didn't know that he would come before, and Martin had never been in contact with Nelson before, why did he suddenly target Nelson?"

"That's something I want to know. Leo said in a deep voice: "Judging from the previous situation, Martin's plan for Nielsen is very hasty, and it should be a plan that came to mind temporarily after suddenly knowing about Nielsen's arrival." The plan itself is full of holes, so someone needs to fill it, and that person is you. As he spoke, he suddenly asked another digression, and said, "Can you tell me, what is your relationship with that Mr. Martin?"

Catherine said with some embarrassment: "We, we used to be together, and then we separated because of some things. ”

"You have a high reputation in Cage City?" asked Leo.

Catherine said with some humility, "It's okay." ”

"No, it's okay. Leo thought for a moment and said, "Judging from what I, a bystander, have seen that your reputation is very high, not only among ordinary workers, but also among this Arconaya sect, not even that Mr. Martin. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Catherine's face changed suddenly, glaring at Leo, and said, "You want to say that Martin is because I am more famous than him, so he added me to his plan. ”

"That's for you. Leo, who had just started up, didn't mean to continue the conversation, and gestured to Nelson, who was nervously watching the situation on the other side, and switched seats back to Nelson.

As Leo got up to change his seat, Catherine opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't say it, but looked at Nelson with a strange look after she sat back, making Nelson look dazed.

Leo directly picked out Martin's plan in front of Catherine just now, mainly because of the scene on the platform, which made him feel that Catherine should not be Martin's accomplice, but he was not sure yet, so he would use this method to confirm it.

As the commander of the special operations team, interrogating the prisoners and judging the truth of what the prisoners say are all compulsory courses, and Leo, as the leader of them, can easily judge the opponent's mentality and thoughts from various details that are not easy for ordinary people to detect.

In the course of the conversation with Catherine just now, Leo had determined that Catherine was indeed unaware of Martin's intentions, and she simply thought that she was going to the parish to find clues and evidence of the brutal murders that occurred in Cage City in a row.

In addition, he was very sure that Catherine knew something, but she seemed to have great concerns and had no way to say it.

He didn't plan to press Catherine further, because doing so would only make Catherine disgusted, and the more reluctant she would say it, so he left a little space for Catherine to think clearly for herself, and to say what she wanted to say but didn't dare to say, which was a little trick of interrogation.

The cage city is very large, this is the consensus of all Lanxi people, but being outside the cage city to see the size of the cage city and being inside the cage city to feel the size of the cage city are completely different things, and darkness often makes people have an illusion of space and time.

The rail car only traveled on the air track for nearly twenty minutes, but it made the people sitting in the carriage feel like a few hours had passed, and even felt that the rail car would never come to an end.

Therefore, when the rail car enters the parish and sees the unique white buildings of the parish, both those who have experienced it and those who have not experienced it on the rail car can't help but relax.

Upon entering the parish, almost all of the buildings were painted white, and some religious symbols resembling the emblem were painted with red lacquer in some striking places.

When Martin mentions the cult of Aconaya, Leo only thinks of this religion as a religion of faith, as a tool for Martin to harvest people's hearts, but after seeing those religious symbols, he realizes that this religion from the swamps of the Black Forest may contain incredible power just like the Black Forest itself.

For he found that these religious symbols, like the scratches he had seen on the amulets of the Wyziks, would produce strange changes that could not be put into words as he concentrated his gaze. This change may just be a twist of the form, or it may just be the extension of a certain line, but it is this subtle change that makes this seemingly ordinary religious symbol produce a dizzying and extremely disgusting feeling.

Although the change was not as strong as the Wyzik amulet, it was enough to alert Leo.

So, Leo tried to activate his vision skills to check his surroundings.

However, he was somewhat surprised by what he saw, as he found that the parish of the Aknaya sect was clean.

This kind of cleanliness is not the kind of cleanliness in the conventional sense, but the air around it does not have the thick gray-black negativity that the rest of the cage city has.

"It was discovered that a trace amount of high-grade negative energy force field can be absorbed, and the side effects will be weakened, mental confusion, and unpredictable mutation. ”

However, through the paracerebral system, Leo was able to obtain a piece of information that surprised him even more.

The negative energy force field shrouded in the cage city did not dissipate because of the disappearance of that gray-black negative aura, but instead underwent a transformation, forming a high-level negative energy force field. Even if it is only a small amount, it can be directly absorbed and used to improve one's personal data, but the flaws are extremely obvious, that is, weakened will, mental confusion and physical mutation.

"Mr. Dodd, what's wrong with you?" Catherine also began to pay attention to Leo through the conversation just now, although Leo didn't make any big moves just now, but Leo's face changed significantly after he entered the parish, which made her guess that Leo must have found something, and also thought of some other things, so she asked.

Leo didn't respond immediately when he heard the inquiry, and after pondering for a moment, he suddenly asked an inexplicable question, "Miss Catherine, are those symbols on the wall the badge of the Arconaya Sect?"

Catherine was stunned, shook her head, and said, "No, these symbols were painted by Major after Martin resigned as Patriarch, and they represent new life. Oh, and Major was one of the three high priests. ”

"Is that so?" said Leo.

From the spiritual vision skill just now, he could clearly see that the religious symbols on the wall were absorbing the negative aura around them, and transforming the negative aura into a higher negative energy force field.

Ordinary people are under such a negative energy force field for a long time, just like being in the midst of radiation, and the body will inevitably have various discomforts, and some may even mutate, which has been confirmed in the Earth Federation. This is also very consistent with what Nelson said on the platform before, what serious illness will be cured of the divine power blessing of Akenaya, obviously because of the mutation caused by the negative energy force field.

Leo was curious about what Martin's role was in this matter, because from some of the things he had seen before, it was clear that Martin knew the role of these religious symbols, and he was strongly opposed to the use of these symbols, and even more opposed to the people who had been reformed by the symbols becoming clergy, but the three high priests tried their best to promote this matter, and even did not hesitate to coax the sick believers to come to the parish and wait for death, judging from these details, Martin seemed to be a good man.

However, as soon as the thought that Martin was a good person came to his mind, Leo immediately shook his head and dispelled it. If he had been a biological weapon before, he might have trusted the results of collecting data and analyzing them, but now he trusts his feelings more.

When the rail car drove through a curve and drilled out from behind a tall building, the scene in front of everyone's eyes suddenly opened up, and the dense steel-framed buildings in the cage city disappeared, and a huge hole in the city with a diameter of five kilometers like a deep well appeared in front of everyone.

The giant cave is surrounded by two hundred tall buildings in the cage city, and at the bottom of the giant cave are some very simple granite buildings, the most striking is the 50-meter-high auditorium building in the center of the giant cave.