Chapter XXXVIII

"He was waiting for you to come out at the bottom of the stairs over there just now, why didn't he disappear?" When Leo was using the spirit web to construct the topographic map, Jason was also paying attention to Nelson's situation from time to time, this was because Leo mentioned that Nelson was Martin's target, so he paid special attention to him.

"It should have been the commotion that caught the attention of both of us, and someone took the opportunity to kidnap the doctor. "When he found that Nelson was missing, Leo's spiritual network immediately opened, and under his spiritual network search, no trace of Nelson could be found, and it was obvious that Nelson had an accident.

Jason, who felt that he should have some responsibility, suddenly felt guilty in his heart, and said, "Damn! If I didn't look over there just now......

Leo said in a deep voice: "It's useless, no matter how you guard against them, you can find an opportunity." ”

Catherine was also very anxious about Nelson's situation, but she still judged the situation very calmly, did not panic, and made the decision that she thought was the most appropriate, and said: "I'll go to Major first, let the church send someone to find it, and then go to Martin, since he did it, he must know Nelson's whereabouts." ”

"No, if you go to the High Priest of Major now, I'm afraid it will take a while for the people of the church to send someone to find someone, and they may not be able to find it with their ability, and if it drags on for too long, it will be a problem. Leo stopped Catherine and asked Jason, "Where was the last place you saw the doctor?"

"There it is. Jason hurriedly pointed to the foot of the stairs not far away, then put his hand on the crossbow on his waist, and said fiercely: "If I know who tied up the doctor, I must ......"

"You're crazy! Aren't you afraid they'll misunderstand by doing this at this time?" Leo quickly reached out and pressed Jason's hand as he was about to pick up the crossbow, and then saw Jason's burqa re-cover the weapon, and pointed to several priests who were staring around not far away.

Although Catherine is by his side, according to Catherine's reputation in Cage City, there should be no misunderstandings or anything like that, but after seeing the crazy side of those cultists just now, Leo is also a little unsure whether Catherine's reputation can suppress the madness of those cultists, so try not to do some actions that cause misunderstandings, so as not to have unnecessary conflicts.

After motioning for the two to follow, Leo walked to the last place where Jason saw Nelson.

After arriving at the place, Leo first turned on the perfect control skill to control the nose to enhance the sense of smell, and soon he found Nelson's scent from a large number of mixed smells, and through data collation, restored to his retina, forming a humanoid illusion composed of odor particles.

Then he released the perfect control skill, and then turned on the spirit network skill, and began to use the odor particle analysis data as the basis, through the detection ability of the spirit network, it was easy to find the odor particles that matched the data, and also analyzed and sorted out, and projected on the retina.

Next, his eyes looked at what the Nelson Phantom had just done here as if he had seen an image of the past.

I saw that Nelson was also attracted by the movement over there just now, but he couldn't see the situation over there from his position, so he went up the stairs, walked to a relatively high position, and looked over there.

However, after less than five seconds of viewing, Nelson seemed to notice something, and his gaze seemed to follow an object from front to behind, and then he walked down the stairs and walked briskly in the opposite direction of the building where the riot was taking place.

"Follow me. Seeing this, Leo also followed the illusion and walked over there, and said to Jason and Catherine, who were at a loss.

Jason didn't have anything, he had a tendon in his head, Leo did whatever he wanted, he didn't ask what was right or wrong, and he didn't think about anything else.

But Catherine hesitated for a moment, not understanding what Leo was doing, she just saw Leo standing in this place for a moment, and then her eyes shifted to the steps as if she had seen something, and then to the other side, and said to follow him, but did not explain, which made it a little difficult for her to explain.

In Catherine's opinion, it is the right choice to turn to the church now, even if the church is suspected of Nelson's disappearance, but she can rely on her prestige in the church and organize a group of search and rescue personnel who are not affected by the church, rather than wandering around aimlessly.

"Can you explain what you're doing?" Catherine asked in a deep voice, following briskly as she walked almost parallel to Leo.

"Everyone has a unique scent, and that smell is like a unique identity of the person. Leo already had a certain understanding of Catherine's character, and knew that the other party would not cooperate with him honestly if he didn't figure out what was going on. So he looked at the humanoid illusion composed of scent particles and followed the way, and explained to Catherine without looking back: "The smell of a person does not disappear immediately because of the person's departure, but will stay in the air for a while, as long as these smells are captured, you can capture what the person has done before and find the person's whereabouts." Huh, how can this be?"

Leo suddenly stopped, looking at what looked like a prayer room in the grove in the garden not far ahead, Catherine was still so absorbed in Leo's knowledge that she was completely unaware of what was happening.

As he spoke, Leo had led the two of them to a garden on the right side of the Eucalypelle.

Unlike the gardens in other places here, there were no sick black-robed people sitting on the ground praying, but it was empty, and even the black-robed people were just sitting on the low wall outside the garden, no matter how crowded they were, without entering the garden.

Leo stopped and looked surprised, not because of the black-robed men who sat in the dense crowd and groaned in pain from time to time, but because he had discovered through the illusion of the scent particles that Nelson's disappearance was not kidnapped, as he had assumed, but more like he had voluntarily followed some people away.

From the small amount of movement that the scent particles could show, Leo could tell that Nelson clearly knew one of those people, and that Nelson had abruptly left the stairs because he saw that person.

Later, judging from Nelson's scent hallucinations, he was a little excited, as if he was trying to persuade or blame someone, but in the end he chose not to tell Leo about them and left with a mysterious person, which obviously did not match Nelson's personality.

Not to mention whether Nelson and Leo's relationship has reached the point where they need to inform each other if they leave without permission, it is absolutely impossible for him and Catherine not to greet Catherine if they don't really encounter something urgent and important.

"What's wrong? Lost it?" Catherine, who had come back from the theory of scent particles, asked anxiously when she saw Leo stop suddenly, and immediately thought of Nelson.

"No follow-up. Leo calmly paused, then pointed to the garden and the buildings in front of him, and asked, "What is that place?"

"It was the little garden and the house of eternal sleep. Although Catherine was very anxious, she could also see that there was something unusual about Leo, so she still resisted her impatience and calmly responded: "The small garden is the first garden built by the sanctuary, and it is also the first garden in the cage city, which has a special meaning, and the eternal sleep hall is mainly used to bury all the ancestors who have contributed to the church. ”

Leo asked, "Why isn't anyone in here?"

"Because of the special significance, the canon restricts the use of this place, and no one is allowed to go in and disturb the spirits unless it is a sacrificial day. Catherine seemed to sense something from Leo's questioning, and asked, "Did Nelson go inside......?"

"Caught, you mean there should have been guards here?" Leo caught a small detail.

"Of course there are guards, but now ......" Catherine looked around, as if looking for a guard.

"Don't look for it, they should have been attracted by the movement over there. Leo pointed to the place where the disturbance had taken place before, and then did not ask any further, but under Catherine's surprised gaze, he stepped into the small garden and walked towards the Temple of Eternal Sleep.

Jason didn't think of anything else to follow, only Catherine hesitated, as if she had some scruples, but in the end Nelson's concern prevailed, driving her to the small garden at the risk of violating the canons of the Church of Arconaya.

The three of them soon came to the Temple of Eternal Sleep, which was now tightly closed, and there was a lock on the door, not like someone had opened the door and entered.

"The door is locked, no one should have been in. Catherine, who had followed closely, saw the situation at the gate of the Temple of Eternal Sleep, and said casually.

Hearing Catherine's words, Leo smiled and retorted, "Can't you just send someone to guard the door and lock it after you go in, so as to create the illusion that the door is not open?"

"Ugh!" Catherine couldn't answer for a moment, but opened her mouth.

"But you're right! the door never opened, and the lock never opened. Leo changed his words and said, "But they did enter the Temple of Eternal Sleep, and they went through the secret door. ”

"Secret door?" Catherine was completely stunned, although her relationship with the church was very delicate, she did not have any real power within the church, and she had never managed the affairs of the church, but she still knew more about the church than most people, but even then she had never heard of any secret doors in the Temple of Eternal Sleep.

Seeing Catherine's look of disbelief, Leo did not explain, but walked around the edge of the building to the wall covered by the dense woods, and then groped under the corner of the wall a few times, and then saw that his hand seemed to be pressed into something, and heard a slight click, and then the wall in front of them silently cracked to both sides, revealing an entrance.

"This?" Catherine was speechless for a long time when she saw this scene, and finally looked at Leo with deep meaning in her eyes, and said, "Who are you? Why do you know that there is a secret door here that I don't even know?"

"Please, Miss Catherine. Leo made a lady-first gesture, but a gentlemanly gesture like a man with a beard like him was a bit nondescript, which made people want to laugh.

Catherine only hesitated slightly, and then stepped into the Temple of Eternal Sleep, although she suspected Leo's intentions in her heart, and even suspected that Leo had come here with Nelson for a purpose, but her trust in Nelson made her temporarily suppress her suspicions.

After all three of them entered the Hall of Eternal Sleep, Leo twisted slightly on a hanging lamp next to the secret door, and the secret door closed silently again.

From the outside, the Hall of Eternal Sleep is not very large, but on the inside, because of the architect's ingenious technique, it gives the illusion that the space is magnified two or three times in an instant.

Now they were supposed to be a personal prayer room, and Catherine, who was familiar with it, knew it was just by looking at the decoration of the room, and pushed the door straight out and walked out through a one-way corridor to a chapel.

Although it is an enclosed interior space, the building makes clever use of the light refraction of glass, which makes the chapel very bright.

On the front of the chapel is the idol of Akenaya, but this one is different from the one in the square outside.

The statue is an irregular piece of obsidian, symbolizing the amorphity of the gods, with eyes carved into the obsidian front, then set in gold, and hearts carved into the back of the wall, all coated with ruby-crushed gemstone powder.

The first thought that came to Leo's mind when he saw this strange statue was that this church that had been built in the almost slums was very rich, from the free supply of food, from the expensive buildings and gardens outside, to the luxurious statue in front of him, all kinds of details revealed that this new church built in the cage city did not have to worry about finances.

However, Leo found out from Martin's information about the church that this church did not collect religious taxes from its followers like other churches in order to promote it in Cage City. Even if some devout believers are willing to give all their possessions to the church, how much money do people living in such harsh conditions as Cage City have? Compared to the expenses of the church, it is a drop in the bucket.

"It seems that this church has other sources of funding. Leo thought of this, and he had the answer in his heart.

At this time, Catherine suddenly deliberately lowered her voice, as if she was afraid that others would hear half of it, and whispered, "Someone has entered the tomb of the ancestors." ”

Catherine was standing in front of a huge wooden door, waving to Leo and Jason, just behind the altar where the statue was located.

Leo, who had turned to this side, barely needed to look closely to know why Catherine said this, because the wooden door was hidden, and at the bottom of the door someone had stuck in the gap with a wooden wedge so that the door would not be closed by other accidents.