Leo bent down and picked out what he had just found from the pile of rubble, put it in the palm of his hand, and looked at it seriously, the look of surprise on his face became thicker and thicker, and finally reached the point of overflowing.

I saw that the thing in Leo's palm was a crystal the size of a grain of rice, although it was small in size, it emitted real light, and it was particularly eye-catching in this dark environment.

"It's actually a negative energy crystal?" Leo couldn't help but be surprised as he looked at the crystal that made him feel familiar.

In the universe of the Earth Federation, although the subspace is full of unpredictable dangers, various cosmic civilizations and countries, including the Earth Federation, have never stopped exploring and researching the subspace, and negative energy crystallization is one of them.

Negative energy crystallization is a special ore produced in subspace, and before Leo came to the world of Veron, the scientists of the Earth Federation could not find out the cause of the formation of negative energy crystals. However, the lack of understanding of the source of negative energy crystallization does not prevent various civilizations in the universe from using this subspace ore.

In fact, at that time, various civilizations in the universe had a very wide range of use of negative energy crystals, such as star destroyers used for weapons, antimatter bombs, etc., which all needed negative energy crystals. If there is no negative energy crystallization as a navigation material, any spacecraft entering subspace may be lost, and the final place may be tens or even millions of light years away from the expected destination.

However, Leo seems to have inadvertently found the answer to the cosmic problem that has plagued countless scientists in the universe where the Earth Federation is located, and he has faintly discovered the secret of the formation of negative energy crystallization.

Obviously, this negative energy crystal is the product of the soul bonfire rune just now, and its raw material is very likely to be the negative spirits that remain after the bonfire purifies the soul, such as despair, pain, remorse, and so on.

At this time, Leo couldn't help but think of the scene of the tragedy he had seen before, several of the dead had been tortured so tragically before their deaths, originally he thought it was just a necessary part of some kind of evil god ritual, but now it seems that this may just be the murderer's desire to increase the negative spirit of fear, pain, and despair, and then condense into negative energy crystals through runes from the ruined capital royal city.

Thinking of this, Leo felt that he needed to go back to the scene to investigate, maybe he could find more useful clues, and his strong curiosity also made him interested in tracking down the murderer who had been hidden for many years.

After putting the negative energy crystals that he didn't know to be useful for a while into his storage space, Leo observed the situation of the negative energy crystals in the storage space, and then tried to use it to touch several other important items in the storage space, such as feathers, but nothing unusual happened.

Slightly disappointed, Leo turned his attention to the real world, and he walked over to the three unconscious members of the Church of the True Eye, examining their belongings. Two of them were just ordinary scavengers, most of them carrying some of the items that scavengers always had, and the other cultist whose body had been transformed into a family should be the true cultist of the True Eye Church, and on him he not only found the badge of the True Eye Senior Missionary, but also a holy book of the True Eye.

Leo ignored the two ordinary cultists, and instead carried the clan cultists on his shoulders and walked towards a ruined house he had found on the road to live in.

This ruined house is the first floor of a small building, the upper part of which has been destroyed in the bombing, but the first floor of the house is still standing, and it is suitable for a temporary shelter from the wind and rain. The main reason why such a good place has been vacant is that it is located on the edge of the bow area, although it is not within the range of the psionic magnetic field, but no one dares to live here, and no one even dares to approach it, so it is also very quiet, and no one will disturb anything.

Leo threw the Clan Cultist on the ground, used a cleaning technique to clean the room a little, and then sat down on a fairly well-preserved chair, facing the Clan Cultist lying on the ground, and said, "How long are you going to lie down?"

There was no reaction from the people on earth.

Leo continued: "A person may be able to disguise his breathing rate while asleep, but he has a hard time disguising his heartbeat, and your heartbeat rate tells me that you are awake now, and you are nervous and frightened. ”

Hearing Leo's words, the Clan cultist could no longer pretend to be unconscious, opened his eyes, stood up from the ground, and removed the hood from his head, revealing his appearance with obvious clan changes, and said, "Bayes has seen the wizard. ”

Leo looked at the mutated organs on the family in front of him, and saw some scaly tentacles growing out of the corners of his eyes, and the eyeballs had no pupils, all of them were whites, which looked very strange. Although the spiritual energy fluctuations on the other party's body were still very weak, Leo could clearly feel that this spiritual energy fluctuations were exactly the same as the spiritual energy fluctuations of the True Eye back then, so Leo couldn't help but think of the True Eye burial place that had become a lake.

"That was given to you by the True Eye?" Leo said, pointing to the other party's mutated eyes.

"A gift from our Lord. Bayes was well aware of his current situation, so he didn't dare to hide anything, and responded honestly.

Leo asked another crucial question, "Has the True Eye Church been merged into the Snake Mother Church?"

Regarding this question of relational beliefs, Bayes quickly explained: "My lord is only an alliance with the source of the serpent, not annexed. ”

"Wasn't it annexed?" Leo smiled with a slight contempt, "A person like you who has obtained the favor of the True Eye should have a certain status in the True Eye Church, right?" But an ordinary member of the Snake Mother Church can command you to do things, and this alliance method is somewhat new. ”

Bayes' face immediately became extremely gloomy, and his eyes could not hide a wave of hatred, but he didn't know if this hatred was aimed at Leo who exposed the scars, or against the Snake Mother Church that oppressed them.

It's just that Leo is not in the mood to pay attention to Bayes's emotions now, he has already obtained the clue he wants from the conversation just now, the body of the True Eye should have been taken by the Snake Mother Church, and it seems that the Snake Mother Church has also used the True Eye. Not only can it control the followers of the True Eye Church, but it can even give the followers divine grace and make the followers clanstry, which is almost equivalent to the Snake Mother Church mastering the power of a higher creature with an eighth-level psionic ability or above.

Bayes quickly restrained the hatred in his eyes, lowered his body, and looked like a lowly servant and asked Leo, "Your Excellency, what do you want me to do when you have captured me?"

Although he had already obtained the information he wanted from Bayes, Leo thought that he might be able to extract more useful information from this underground churchman, so he thought for a moment and said, "I don't need you to do anything, just a few questions I want to ask you, and after answering, you can go." ”

"Ask, and I'll answer truthfully. Bayes nodded hurriedly.

Leo asked in a deep voice, "Are the Observer churches that are appearing now also a branch of your underground church, and why have I never heard of them?"

Hearing that Leo's question was not related to his church's secrets, Bayes immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and said truthfully: "These churches are not part of our underground churches, and they have never heard of these churches before. However, there is news from the Snake Mother Church, don't easily enter the refugee city controlled by these churches, I heard that it is because these churches have the support of the Empire behind them, and once they clash with them, they may attract Imperial troops. ”

"What do you think?" asked Leo.

"What do I think?" Bayes asked, puzzled, "is that what you think of these new churches?"

Leo nodded.

Bayes was silent for a moment, and said: "I think these churches should be the tools sent by the empire to divide the Miria refugees, as long as they join these churches, those Miria refugees will become the subjects of the empire, with abundant food and safe shelter, as for the others, they are the ones who do not want to belong, once the war on the front line subsides, the empire will definitely clean up these people who do not want to belong." ”

Hearing Bayes's opinion, Leo also has a certain understanding of the True Eye family in front of him, and knows that the other party should have learned a little knowledge from the True Eye Church, and can make some analysis of current affairs, but due to problems such as vision, the analysis results have no reference value.

Seeing that he couldn't get more information about the Emerging Church of the Old Gods from Bayes, Leo asked another person who wanted to know, "Do you know where the Ring of Plague is?"

This question made Bayes silent for a moment, obviously this matter had involved the secret plan of the True Eye Church, and Leo did not ask anything, just looked at the other party quietly, and his body also exuded a burst of power, which caused a certain amount of pressure on the other party's psychology.

"The Plague Ring is in the hands of the Blood Wizard. Eventually, Bayes couldn't take the pressure and told him what he knew.

After hearing this answer, Leo was stunned, but quickly figured out why the underground church thought that the Plague Ring was in the hands of the Blood Wizard, but he didn't intend to explain it to Lawrence Hillman, but changed the subject and asked a third question: "Do you know about the tragedy that happened in Fish City?"

"Tragedy?" Bayes was stunned, a little dazed, after all, Fish City is the safest place in Miria City now, but that is only relative to the rest of Miria City, there are also a large number of people who die every day for various reasons in Fish City, and there are countless things that can be regarded as tragedies, so he didn't know for a while what tragedy Leo was talking about.

"Skinning and sacrifice. Leo gave a hint.

After hearing this, Bayes's face immediately changed, his expression was full of fear and panic, and he hurriedly defended: "This is not what we did, we don't engage in sacrifice now." That was a long time ago, and now our methods of proselytizing are no different from those of the churches of the Orthodox Church, except that the propaganda of the Orthodox Church has made us bear the reputation of cultists. ”

It is not difficult to see that Bayes regarded Leo as a bounty hunter or night watchman who hunted down the cultists, and hurriedly defended his church. It's just that he is obviously not a high-level of the church, and he doesn't know that the core high-level of the True Eye Church will still carry out some large-scale sacrifices from time to time to please their masters, just like the sacrifice that was destroyed by Leo and others back then.

"I know you didn't do it. Leo refuted the other party's defense, signaled the other party not to panic, and said, "I'm just asking, do you know who did it?"

Bayes's mood stabilized a little, and he recalled it carefully, and said: "I heard the old man of the church say that the murderer who committed this case did not appear recently, but also appeared in the past, and if he committed such a case a few times in the future, it will be hidden, and in a few years, when everyone has almost forgotten about it, there will be ...... again."

"Wait!" Leo suddenly stopped Bayes, as if inspired by Bayes' words, his face showed a contemplative look, and after a long while, he said to himself, "Is this what he did all this for?"

After saying this, Leo raised his hand and signaled that Bayes could leave.

Seeing Leo's gesture, Bayes was slightly stunned, a little unable to believe that the other party let him go so easily, but soon he realized that Leo did not continue to ask other questions. So he cautiously stepped out of the ruined house, and only after walking a long distance did he turn around and run for his life in an unidentified direction, which was quite a sense of escape.

Bayes' departure did not affect Leo's thinking, he had already gained a little inspiration and clues from Bayes's words just now, and he could vaguely deduce who the murderer of these bloody crimes was.

Just now Bayes said that this murderer is not the first time to commit crimes, and he will strike again every few years, when people are about to forget those murders, create murders, and evoke horrific memories of that murder.

This casual remark, in Leo's opinion, may be the murderer's purpose, then the murderer wants to create a long-term and intense fear.

Fear is the same emotion as other ordinary human emotions, once experienced too much, this emotion will become numb, and even worse, fear can no longer be felt.

However, when the fear is forgotten for a while, and there is still a trace of the impression, and the fear is reawakened, then the fear that arises in the heart of the person will become stronger and last longer.

And for the murderer, not all fear is useful, because in the current Miria City, the emotion of fear is generated all the time, if the murderer simply only needs fear, there is no need to do this kind of murder at all, so the fear that the murderer needs can only be the fear of him.

Such an obvious trait made Leo quickly think of a strange fear demon that should not exist in the world of Veron.