Chapter 656: Behind the Scenes
Leo didn't know that his act of taking the two balls had caused some trouble, and he had already returned to the hotel, and he was lying on his bed thinking carefully about what had happened tonight, and felt that something was wrong here.
Although the three lightning and thunder that changed the nature of the world were the cause of this out-of-control incident, it was unreasonable for a desert town like Ethiopia City to have so many clans, and this was still the Savile Kingdom, which had extremely strict control over all supernatural forces.
After going up the canyon to the ground, Leo spread the spiritual network to the whole city, and he didn't plan to use the spiritual network to perceive subtle things, so he reduced the perception accuracy of the spiritual network and expanded the range of perception, so that he could finally envelop the whole city in it.
After the spiritual network continued to feedback the perceived information, Leo felt very puzzled, because there were too many dependents in this town, roughly calculated, there were as many as seventy or eighty people, you must know that even if it was Miria City back then, there were no more than ten dependents hidden there, and the area of Ethiopian City was less than one-twentieth compared to Miria City.
With such a high density of family members, the local Church of the Lord of Life and Death will definitely find these families, and with the methods of the Church of the Lord of All Things, who are all heretics except me, none of these families can escape, and they will either be killed on the spot, or they will be sent to the dungeon of the church, imprisoned forever, and burned to sacrifice to the Lord of all life and death at a certain religious festival.
But now so many dependents have not been wiped out by the local Church of All Things, and let them live here, which is obviously completely different from the previous way of doing things in the Church of the Lord of All Things.
"Could it be them?" Leo suddenly thought of his previous guess that those runaway dependents were artificially created, and he was still wondering who was behind the scenes, and now after seeing the tragic situation in Ethiopia City, the Church of the Lord of Life and Death naturally became his biggest suspicion, and more importantly, he found out that the clergy of the Church of Life and Death of all things were taking meat balls from the corpses of those skilled monsters.
According to Leo, the Lord of Life and Death created these flesh-like alien cells and transplanted them into humans, and these implanted people may not even know that there is an extra thing in their bodies, so they have not undergone any kind of training to strengthen their will or prevent them from getting out of control.
Now that the world has suddenly been adapted, and the gods have begun to return, this happened except for the Black Forest, and I am afraid that even the Lord of Life and Death did not know, and the sudden change activated these flesh ball alien god cells, which mutated in these people's bodies, and finally became this out-of-control situation.
Leo thought about it repeatedly, and was also in the hotel room, perceiving all the movements that were happening in the city at the moment through the spirit network, and the information exposed from various details made Leo more and more sure of his guess.
"Why? Why did they do this?" after confirming his guess, Leo had a strong doubt in his heart.
Leo really couldn't figure out why the Church of the Lord of All Beings and Deaths wanted to create heresies, according to the teachings of the Church of the Lord of All Things, they were extremely hostile to any supernatural power, even other religions belonging to the Orthodox Church.
However, this doubt did not bother Leo for long, and the next morning, the hypnotic effect of the chanting had disappeared, and the people of the city recovered from their slumber, and remembered the events of the previous night, and when all kinds of emotions exploded, Leo understood the intention of the Lord of Life and Death of all things.
I saw that whether it was people who were grief-stricken because their relatives and friends died at the hands of monsters, or people who fell into an inexplicable panic because of those monsters, or people who were affected by other emotions, they all put down everything in their hands when they heard the morning prayer bell of the Church of the Lord of All Things, and rushed to the main square of the church in Beicheng District.
All of these people attend the prayer service as if they were the most devout believers, and not only those who have never believed in gods, but even foreign tourists who believe in other gods come here to pray to the Lord of life and death.
It is no exaggeration to say that after today's prayer, nearly 90 percent of these people will become devout believers in the Church of the Lord of All Things, others will become pan-believers, and even some foreigners will convert, and among these 90 percent of the devout believers, there will certainly be quite a few fanatical believers.
In this way, in the sudden disaster yesterday, the Savile Kingdom must have suffered heavy losses, and it will take a long time for the Saviles to recover from normal life, but for the Church of the Lord of All Things, this disaster is like a feast of faith, and from today on, the status of the Church of the Lord of All Things in the Kingdom of Savile will be unshakable.
You know, with the disappearance of the gods, industry began to appear in the world of Velon, people's belief in the gods is getting weaker and weaker, even religious kingdoms such as the Kingdom of Savile are still affected by the impact of this world change, the rights of kings, nobles, merchants, soldiers, and so on are increasing rapidly, and the rights of the church are inevitably greatly weakened in this case.
Although the power of the Church is still very large in the Kingdom of Savile, this greatness is only relatively speaking, and it is obviously not a little weaker than the absolute power of the Church in the past.
In that case, the church will definitely need to do something to restore the prestige and power of the church.
When religion is most attractive to believers, there is no doubt that when disasters occur, and in the midst of disasters that ordinary people cannot solve, believers will pray to the gods for protection without reservation.
Therefore, if the Church of the Lord of Life and Death wants to regain absolute power in the Savile Kingdom, the best way is to create a disaster, and a desperate and terrifying out-of-control family incident is definitely the most likely disaster to cause effects.
Thinking about what happened last night, in the face of the monsters that the out-of-control family members have become, ordinary people don't even have the strength to resist, just seeing these monsters, they have fallen into hysterical madness, and can only become food for monsters.
And these monsters that ordinary people resisted, but in the bells of the Church of the Lord of All Life and Death, and the chanting of scriptures, they turned into flames and were burned to ashes, and it is natural that ordinary people who know all this will think in their hearts.
Leo is even sure that even if last night's World Mutation Event hadn't happened, the flesh ball alien cells in those human bodies would have been stimulated for other reasons, turning those people into runaway clans and completing a divine redemption in a catastrophe.
At this moment, Leo can already imagine that in the near future, the Church of the Lord of Life and Death will return to its top in the Kingdom of Savile.
It's just that Leo is not interested in the power struggle in the Savile Kingdom, he has already got the information he wants in the Savile Kingdom, and he may not come here again for a long time after leaving, and he is now concerned about how to leave.
After the prayer service of the church, the innkeeper returned to the inn and brought Leo the bad news that the knights of the church had taken over the city defenses and were going to conduct an investigation of the whole city in case there were still out-of-control families hidden here, and during this time, no one, including foreign tourists, was allowed to leave the city, and even the canyon train had been stopped.
Although the church's reasons were very good, Leo didn't think that the church's blockade of the whole city was really for some hidden runaway family, it must be for something else, and what came to his mind was the two flesh balls alien god cells he had taken.
He thought that if his assumption was true, and that last night's disaster was the work of the Church of the Lord, then it must be very important to recover the flesh balls and alien cells in the bodies of these runaway dependents, and it would make sense to close the whole city for this.
At noon, several clergy of the Lord of Life and Death arrived at the inn where Leo was staying with a team of clergymen, and asked the innkeeper to gather all the foreign tourists who lived there.
There are not many foreign tourists living in this inn, except for Leo, only a couple and an explorer.
When the four of them arrived in the hall, the clergy noticed Leo first, as Leo was the only one of the four who had a different look.
The other three, even the adventurer who seemed to have a lot of experience, his face was extremely pale, and even his hands and feet were shaking involuntarily because of the events of last night, and his eyes were full of fear and uneasiness, but Leo was completely different, he seemed very calm, calm as if nothing had happened.
"Name?" asked in a deep voice as the older one gestured to his companion and walked up to Leo.
"Leodode. Leo had no intention of clashing with the Church of the Lord, so he replied truthfully.
"Nationality?" the man asked again after a quick mental search of the names in his memory, not remembering anything relevant.
Leo replied simply, "Kingdom of Inge." ”
The clergyman asked, "Please tell me what happened yesterday." ”
Leo unhurriedly recounted yesterday's events, but the content naturally had to be revised, saying that when the accident happened, he followed the flow of people fleeing the Canyon Bend Market back to the surface, and then after hearing the bells and chanting, he fell asleep until he woke up during the day.
Although Leo's words were not much different from the others, when Leo mentioned the riverbend market, the eyes of the clergy immediately flashed, and then told Leo that they needed to check each other's bodies, and when he said this, those church knights also gathered and blocked all the entrances and exits, vaguely encircling Leo.
Then, the clergyman took out a metal disc from his pocket, put it in his hand, and silently prayed a few words, and the disc burst into bursts of light.
The innkeepers, hostesses, and guests were all attracted by this strange sight, and the eyes that looked at the clergy became extremely awe-inspiring.
On the other hand, the expressions of the clergy showed disappointment when the disc shone brightly.
And the clergy led by the leader repeatedly brought the disc to Leo, and after testing it several times, he did not see the scene in his heart, so he withdrew the divine power from the disc and took the disc back into his pocket.
"The lockdown of the city will take a few more days, so it's best to stay in your hotel and not run around. The clergyman put the disc away and said to Leo and the others.
After saying that, he didn't plan to stay any longer, so he turned around and walked out of the hotel and walked towards the next location.
Hearing that they still need to stay here for a few days, those ordinary tourists all showed dissatisfied looks on their faces, but the people of the church were there just now, and none of them dared to talk nonsense, and when the people of the church left, they couldn't help but curse a few words, but after the innkeeper's face became gloomy, they also realized that they had done a stupid thing, and they actually scolded the clergy of the Church of the Lord of All Things in front of the believers of the Lord of All Things.
Ignoring the minor contradictions that were taking place in the hotel, Leo went back to his room, put the things he had bought yesterday on the table, and studied them, not paying any attention to what had just happened.
Just now, he could say that he had confirmed the speculation about the reason for the lockdown of the church, and at the same time, he was also sure that the Abyss Great Serpent's eyeball would not cause any trouble to himself after devouring those two flesh ball alien god cells, so all he had to do now was to wait for the lockdown time to pass.
The next three days passed very peacefully, and two teams of clergy brought people to inspect them, but no items were found from Leo, and finally the Church of the Lord of Life and Death could only announce the complete lifting of the lockdown and the reopening of the Canyon Railway.
In the past three days, some news from abroad has reached the Savile Kingdom one after another, and has been compiled into the newspapers of the Savile Kingdom.
Leo asked the innkeeper to buy a copy of all the newspapers he could find on the market and flip through them one by one, and as he finished reading the newspapers, he also had a general idea of the current situation in the world.
As he had predicted, the lightning and thunder that day had also occurred in other parts of the world of Veron, and there were also clans out of control, but the number of out-of-control clans in those places was far less than that of the Savile Kingdom.
For example, the neighboring country of the Savile Kingdom, the Maris Kingdom that is now in a civil war, there are five cities where there are out-of-control families, three of which have escaped from the city and entered the mountains, and the families that appeared in both cities have been exterminated, and both the rebel army and the government seem to be hiding the matter of the family, and only vaguely write some facts in the newspaper instead of the content, and write these times as tragedies caused by the other party, etc.