"You say it's possible that Grand Commander Tyrell and Priest Luther have been possessed by a high-ranking race of the Abyss called Lifestealers?" Alice, who had just come out of the post-war cleanup, heard Leo and Sylvia's words, and looked at them speechlessly, trying to find signs of telling jokes on their faces, and after a while, she covered her forehead with a headache and said, "Do you know what this accusation means, and what kind of impact it will have?" I'm starting to have some doubts about the worst thing I've ever done to bring you here. ”

"It's probably the best thing to do. Leo calmly faced Alice's questioning and said, "You think that without our discovery, Lifestealer may infect anyone with the power of the abyss through the possessed person, and it only takes a short time for Lanxi City to be completely swallowed by the power of the abyss." ”

"Whether or not Grand Commander Tyrrell and Priest Luther were possessed by that Lifestealer is unknown, but that's just one side of the story. Alice shook her head and said, "Even if I believe you and are willing to investigate this matter, do you know how big the resistance will be? Grand Commander Tyrell is the commander of all fearless mecha sergeants, and also the commander-in-chief of all mecha sergeants, and is the most powerful person in Lanxi, although Priest Luther is not as powerful as Grand Commander Tyrell, but he is the spiritual mentor of the clergy of the Mother of Filth in the entire Lanxi City, one of the three patriarchs of the Church of the Mother of Filth, and a candidate for the future pope of the church. What do you think would happen if I investigated them because of an unconfirmed piece of information?"

"You don't need to investigate them. Sylvia motioned for Alice not to worry, saying, "We can lure the Lifestealer out, you just need to create opportunities for us when necessary, so that others don't get in our way." ”

"What's the plan?" Alice asked.

Leo and Sylvia smiled at each other and said nothing, looking like they didn't trust Alice.

Alice frowned and said dissatisfiedly, "If you don't tell me anything, how can I help you lure out the Lifestealer?"

"Alice, you seem to be mistaken, we don't need to deal with Lifestealer!" Leo calmly corrected Alice's words, "We won't stay here for long, according to Sylvia's situation, it will only take a few days at most for the fetus in the womb to stabilize and grow normally." We do this to help you, or rather you, avoid being swallowed up by the abyss. ”

Hearing Leo's words, Alice's face was displeased, even though what Leo said was the truth.

"Of course, you can just ignore it and just think we're alarmist. Alice added: "However, you must know that once Lanxi City is invaded by the power of the abyss, the lord of the Black Forest will definitely abandon this place as he did when he abandoned the Adolescence Forest, and no other gods will help him, and this place will inevitably fall into the abyss at that time." ”

Alice was lost in thought, and after a while, she asked, "What do you want me to do?"

Leo made a condition: "Put me and Sylvia in the observatory where Archlord Tyrell or Priest Luther stays, and we need to be close to them to determine which of them is possessed, or both are possessed." ”

"Yes, that's not a problem," Alice nodded, and said, "It just so happens that the Church of the Afflicted is going to send a group of people to the observatory to change the guard, and by the way, check if the priests who assisted in the defense before have been infected by the power of the abyss, just add your name." ”

Leo said very seriously: "In addition, we must deal with the upper echelons of Lanxi City and the Church of the Mother of Filth in advance, once it is confirmed that it is possessed, we will do it immediately, because Lifestealer is very cunning, and if he escapes, it will be difficult to find his whereabouts." ”

Alice hesitated a little and said, "This needs to give me some time to prepare, because this matter cannot be solved by passing on a word." ”

Leo made a final request, "I need to get into the Intelligence Core at the end, and with the help of the Intelligence Core, I can more easily determine who is possessed." ”

Alice didn't immediately agree, but looked at Leo with suspicion, as if to confirm whether Leo was faking public interest.

However, after not being able to see Leo's thoughts, she shook her head slightly and said, "This matter is very difficult, and it is almost impossible to succeed. ”

"No, it's not as difficult as you think. Leo smiled and said, "Don't forget that the Psychic Connection System has already shown amazing results in this battle, and the combat cooperation of the Dreadnought Mecha Sergeant is almost flawless with the assistance of this system, and the casualties are far less than expected. If you think about it, the dreadnought mech sergeant is only a small part of the entire mecha sergeant group, and the vast majority of other mecha sergeants are just ordinary mech sergeants, and now those mech sergeants can't form any combat power because of the spirit connection system, and I can help those soldiers rebuild their combat power, and let them improve their overall combat effectiveness through the spirit connection system. ”

Hearing this, Alice pondered for a moment, but still did not give a positive response, and said: "I'll try, but it may not be successful, you'd better prepare a backup plan." ”

With that, she didn't stay here any longer, and turned to leave the room.

"It's too obvious that you're doing this!" Sylvia said to Leo after Alice left, "She should have seen that your condition had nothing to do with finding Lifestealer." ”

"What if you can see it?" Leo smiled and said, "There's no way she'll refuse, after all, the bait I've thrown is so big." With that, he turned to look at Sylvia and said with a serious expression, "According to your method, how sure are you that you will be able to lure the Lifestealer out?"

"If it were just me, I would be 30 percent sure, but with you, I'd be 90 percent sure. Sylvia gave her own estimated answer, and before Leo asked, explained: "Lifestealer has three evolutionary forms, after he evolves to his final form, he will become the Abyss Lord, and if he wants to evolve into his final form, he needs to devour the Abyssal Blood, and there is only one high-level Abyssal Race with the purest Abyssal Origin Blood in the entire Abyss, and that is the Abyss Serpent." As long as you leak out the power breath of the Abyss Serpent, and the Lifestealer senses it, his greedy nature will not let go of this opportunity, and will definitely try to catch you and extract the source blood, and then he will know who the Lifestealer possesses. ”

"You don't want to be directly involved in this. Leo looked at Sylvia, who looked eager to try, and said, "Your body is not suitable for ......."

"No! my body fits perfectly. Sylvia interrupted Leo's words, and then saw that the pupils of her eyes suddenly changed to those resembling snake eyes, and a powerful energy fluctuation emanated from her body.

"Abyss Demon Dragon?" Leo, who felt this energy fluctuation, immediately reflexively appeared in his mind, and it was obvious that the energy fluctuation or power aura that Sylvia was now showing was almost exactly the same as the Abyss Demon Dragon in the memory of the Abyss Serpent. And what surprised Leo even more was that the energy fluctuation intensity on Sylvia's body was already extremely close to that of a sixth-level psionic, which showed that her strength had improved by leaps and bounds.

"What do you think?" Sylvia asked with some smug expression as she dispelled the blood power gathered on her body and her pupils returned to normal.

"The power is very strong," Leo agreed, and then changed his words and said: "But strong strength does not mean that strength is also strong, if there is no suitable way to use power, no matter how strong the strength is, it is useless." Your current strength has just improved by leaps and bounds, and you can't control it perfectly at all, and I'm afraid that some of the techniques that used to use power in the past can't be perfectly controlled now, and letting you join the battle will only distract me. ”

Hearing Leo unceremoniously point out her current problem, Sylvia was a little annoyed, but she couldn't refute Leo, because she was very clear about her situation, Leo was not wrong at all, her current control of her own power was very different from before, and she had just shown her improved strength in front of Leo, and it had reached the limit of her control, and it would definitely be out of control for her to use her current power according to the method of using the witch's ability in the past.

"Has your current bloodline power been fully stimulated?" Leo asked curiously.

"Nope. Sylvia shook her head and said, "I need to make a choice, whether to choose the Abyss Demon Dragon or the Faceless One in order to continue to develop the power of the bloodline." ”

"Is this still a choice?Of course it's the Abyss Demon Dragon?" Leo said with some puzzlement: "The Faceless One is much worse than the Abyss Demon Dragon in the Abyss Sequence Level, and the further the bloodline develops, the greater the gap in strength. ”

"I know that too. Sylvia sighed and said, "It's just that the power of the Abyss Demon Dragon is too strong, and the further the bloodline develops, the greater the danger of renting back, and I am not absolutely sure that I can resist the side effects of the Abyss Demon Dragon's bloodline." In addition, the Faceless's strength and sequence level are much worse than the Abyss Demon Dragon, but the Faceless One has some very weird, but useful abilities, such as this possession, and imitation, etc., these abilities may be much weaker in terms of lethality, but in terms of practicality, they are much higher than the Abyss Demon Dragon, and I have some difficulty in choosing. ”

Leo said, "It's going to be a long time before you're fully in control, and that should be enough time for you to think about what choices to make." ”

Subsequently, Leo communicated with Sylvia about the method of exercising control, and analyzed the difference between the power of the two high abyssal race bloodlines on Sylvia's body, and assisted Sylvia in finding a suitable method for using her own power.

Because the tide of the abyss has passed, although Leo still pulls the power of the abyss around him to gather, but there is no longer the obvious momentum of the before, and the ash butterflies also began to sway around at this time, the ashes they flap their wings and fall have a strong ablation effect on the power of the abyss, all the abyss power that was attracted to it, except for the part that was gathered into the room, the rest of the parts were all dissolved by the ashes of the ash butterflies.

Although Leo is distracted and assists Sylvia in exercising control and attracting the power of the Abyss, his spiritual web is still covered on the battlefield, monitoring the movements of Titan Mecha Sergeant Tyrell and Luther the Priest of the Mother of Filth.

After two days of observation, Leo did not find anything unusual in the two of them, nor did he feel any abnormal power in them, but there were two things that caught Leo's attention.

One thing is that Sergeant Tyrrell had submitted an application to the Sergeant Council Front Command a day earlier, stating that the Sergeants on the Front were extremely tired after the Great War, and that they would like to be allowed to return to the rear city in batches to rest for a while.

There is nothing wrong with this matter itself, anyone who looks at it will think that it is a commander who cares about the physical and mental condition of his subordinates and asks his boss for leave, even the most demanding people will not object to it, but if you think about it carefully, you can detect that something is very wrong.

Because the dreadnought mecha sergeant has undergone multiple surgeries to deal with all the brain cells that grasp negative emotions, the feeling of mental exhaustion will not appear in them at all, and physical exhaustion is because there is a special nutrient solution inside the mecha, which can replenish body loss, repair body functions, and stimulate body excitement, so there is no possibility of exhaustion.

And another point is that the dreadnought sergeant can take a vacation without going to other urban areas at all, because the tide of the abyss has passed, and the battle on the front line has become extremely rare, and even if it is encountered, it will not be too dangerous, so Sergeant Tyrell can completely let the new dreadnought sergeants and the front-line sergeants who are guarding the battery position take a turn, so that the front-line sergeant can rest in the battery position.

This can not only solve the so-called problem of exhaustion, but also allow these experienced soldiers to join the battle as soon as things happen, and there is no need to rest in the rear city at all.

The other thing had to do with Luther, the maggot priest, who spent the two days alone at the top of the observatory to observe the entrance to the abyss.

Under normal circumstances, this is nothing, after all, the tide of the abyss has just passed, and who can be sure that it will not appear a second time?

But the problem is that in order to stay at the observatory and observe the entrance to the abyss, he actually gave the Filthy Mother prayer ceremony that was supposed to be presided over by him to his deputy.

This incident also caused quite a stir among the fully mutant families, because it seemed to be the first time that Priest Luther had given the prayer service to someone else, you must know that in the Church of the Mother of Filth, Priest Luther has the name of Pious Luther, and this act of giving the prayer ceremony to others seems to be disrespectful to the Mother of Filth.