It is obviously much more difficult to adapt to the improvement of mental attributes than to adapt to the improvement of physical fitness.

Leo's spiritual attributes that have been raised to twenty points can already be regarded as a formal spiritual psionic in the Earth Federation, but these improved spiritual powers are not obtained by himself after years of accumulation, and are likely to be produced after the soul of this body is completely fused with himself, so these spiritual powers belong to outsiders, and if they cannot be properly controlled, they will even interfere with his original spiritual power.

The most significant manifestation of the sudden increase in mental power is the talent of spiritual perception.

The talent of spiritual perception is directly related to spiritual power and spiritual energy, and when the spiritual power is still ten o'clock, Leo can easily control the spiritual perception talent.

But as his spiritual power increased to twenty points, the spiritual perception talent began to show signs of getting out of control, and the most obvious feature was that even if he did not open the spiritual network and activate the spiritual vision, he could easily distinguish the negative energy force field around him through perception, and he could also perceive the kindness and malice of the people around him, and even when some people burst out with strong emotions and thoughts, he could perceive the fragments of thoughts that emanated.

A large amount of information poured into Leo's mind uncontrollably, and if it were an ordinary person, he would have been driven crazy by these chaotic and negative emotions, thoughts, and so on.

Fortunately, Leo has a parabrain system, and at the same time as he was affected, he turned on the filtering mode of the subbrain, and summarized and analyzed the useful parts of these various information records that were constantly pouring in, and saved the useless parts, and discarded the useless parts directly.

Although it was opportunistic to use the parabrain system to deal with the drawbacks of the rapid increase in mental power, it at least gave Leo a buffer time to allow him enough time to adjust to the surge in mental power.

"Activate the spiritual web. ”

After getting used to the psychic perception talent that increased with his psychic power, Leo immediately began to try the psychic network skill that had just been created by the psionic skill mod.

Just as he had guessed in advance, after the spiritual network formed a spiritual skill, it no longer needed to turn on the spiritual vision, it could be activated alone, and the coverage of the activated spiritual network expanded to about two hundred meters.

He felt that if he used the Perfect Control Skill, the coverage of the Spirit Net should be able to double.

In addition, as the spiritual network opened, the surrounding negative energy force field also began to be pulled over under the action of the energy absorption characteristics of the spiritual network and penetrated into the spiritual network.

The negative effects caused by the spiritual talent just now appeared again, only this time it was no longer all kinds of thoughts and emotions that could be analyzed clearly, but an indescribable negative energy, which made him feel like he was in an ice cave, and his body and mind became extremely cold.

Leo, who felt the abnormality, immediately controlled the mental network to expel those negative energies according to the method of using the spiritual network sorted out by the Earth Federation, limited the ability of the spiritual network to absorb the surrounding travel energy, and only kept the most basic detection ability of the spiritual network unchanged, and quickly incorporated the surrounding terrain data into the auxiliary brain system, forming a three-dimensional topographic map in his eyes.

In order to gather as much data as possible about the surrounding terrain, Leo stood up and began to walk around, especially around the tower-like Saccharille, which puzzled some of the priests who had noticed his strange behavior, and since they had not done anything out of the ordinary, they did not stop him.

As soon as Leo returned to the starting location, a complete topographical map of the Saccharbelle was cast into Leo's eyes.

There is not much special about the Sainte-Chapel on the ground floor, and the building is completely the usual religious buildings such as vaults, stone columns, and religious sculptures. The only thing that surprised Leo was that there were three locations in the Saccharbelle, which his spiritual network could not penetrate, and one of them was supposed to be the meditation hall where Catherine had visited, which corresponded to the three high priests of the church.

However, Leo didn't care too much about the part on the ground, he just needed to know the terrain, it was enough to understand the defense deployment of the church guards, and he really focused on the catacombs.

According to Martin, the Saccharille contains a huge catacomb, into which only the terminally ill will be sent to see if they can be favored by Aknaya before they die.

After the exploration of the spirit network, it was true that as Martin said, the Sacred Chapel was about five meters down a huge space, but he found that the catacombs only occupied a small part of this space.

The downward boundaries of this underground space are beyond the scope of the spiritual network, and the analysis of the data that has been collected such as terrain, ruins, and overall structure makes it more like an underground city, an underground city centered on an ancient temple.

It's just that only a part of this underground city near the surface has been excavated, and this part is the catacombs, and the main body of the city deeper has been buried by rubble, and many passages to the deeper underground found through the spiritual network have been blocked by a large amount of rubble.

Interestingly, the Church of Arknaya should be well aware that there is an underground city down there, as Leo discovers that there is more than one team digging a blocked passage in the deepest part of the catacombs.

What's even more interesting is that not far from the excavation team, there is a group of monsters in a closed basement that only leads to a deep well, and the people of the Church of Arkenaya are throwing a large amount of meat into the deep well, it is obvious that the Church of Arkinaya is aware of the existence of these monsters, and it is even possible that they are the creators of the monsters.

When the psychic web sensed these monsters, Leo almost thought he was back at the Federal Research Base 21, because the situation of these monsters was very similar to the things in some part of his memory.

The Federal Research Base No. 21 is an institution that is not recorded by the federal government, and if Leo hadn't been escorting a batch of important experimental materials, he probably wouldn't have known that the Federation also had a No. 21 Research Base.

The main research project of this research base is the optimization of human genes, which is often referred to as xenogenetic modification.

As the Earth Federation entered the interstellar era and began to expand to the stars, human beings found that their bodies were very unsuitable for survival in the universe, and all kinds of harmful rays, countless unknown viruses and other common things in the universe could easily take human lives.

At the same time, the federal government has also discovered that many of the alien races that have been in contact with each other have strong survival and adaptability in the universe. So someone proposed to see if it was possible to integrate the excellent genes of the alien race into the human genes and optimize the human genes, and the Federation established this 21st research base that does not appear in any documents.

In this research base, there is a warehouse dedicated to the storage of failed experiments, and when Leo was assisting the base in dealing with the failed products, he entered the warehouse and saw hundreds of experiments that failed due to the fusion of alien genes, and those failed experiments looked very similar to the monsters that the spirit network saw in that basement.

The reason why it is very similar is not to refer to the appearance of the two, but to the distortion and deformation of the body caused by the collapse of the body's genes after the failure of gene fusion, which is very similar.

"The people of this world have already mastered xenogenetic modification technology?" Leo felt extremely shocked by his discovery, and even more unbelievable, after all, even the Earth Federation has just started in xenogenetic genetic modification technology, how can such a world where technology has only developed to the steam age have such top science and technology?

Confused, Leo didn't bother with the question for long, as they would soon be entering the catacombs, and a closer look would probably find the answer.

After dispelling the three-dimensional topographic map in his eyes, Leo also focused on the Psychic Net skill.

Since he had just tested the Spiritual Network skill, Leo had not taken back the Spiritual Network, and it had been about twenty minutes since he maintained the Spiritual Network, and he found that for such a long time, the consumption of spiritual energy caused by the Spiritual Network was only a little spiritual energy.

Such a small amount of consumption and the fact that the spirit net skill was not formed before it was formed, it was simply incomparable.

In Leo's opinion, in addition to the fact that the formed psionic skills themselves consume much less psionic energy than the unformed skills, the bigger reason may be related to the existence of psychic skills in the psychic talents.

Because from this situation, Leo's spiritual network may be regarded as a half-skill and half-talent, and the talent will not consume spiritual energy, so when the spiritual network is opened, his spiritual energy consumption will be reduced by half or even more than the normal spiritual network skill.

"Leo, something seems to have happened over there?" Just as Leo was concentrating on checking the details of the spiritual network skills, and was about to try several of the most common spiritual network use methods of the Earth Federation, Jason, who was sitting on the side, suddenly stood up, walked to his side, pushed him, and said to a place not far away that should be similar to a confessional room.

Leo listened, his attention withdrew from the psychic web and the personal data interface, and looked towards the place Jason was pointing.

Perhaps because of the great improvement in all aspects of his body, the vision of his eyes has also improved a lot, and even if he does not turn on his spiritual vision, he can easily see the scene in the distance.

At this moment, a large number of church guard priests armed with swords and crossbows quickly gathered towards the building that Jason was referring to, and the church guards who were already there seemed to be planning to rush into the building, but then a burst of gunfire came from the building, and those who tried to rush in were forced to retreat.

At this time, an astonishing scene happened, the cultists around the building suddenly pushed away the priests who were about to attack the building, and one by one they turned into fierce warriors who were not afraid of death and rushed into the building unarmed.

After a rush of gunfire, cheers rang out from inside the building, and the Aknaya, who had not died in the conflict, were seen dragging a dozen unconscious people in black robes out of the building and handing them over to the church guards. Then one by one they sat back down like they were all right, continuing their interrupted prayers, not even treating the wounds of those who were wounded.

Later, the clergy of the church guard were seen removing more than thirty corpses from the building, as well as a dozen seriously injured and immobile worshippers. This shows how tragic the battle in that building just now was less than a minute.

"What a madman, a bunch of madmen!" After watching the whole turmoil, Jason looked at the other cultists around him who were so indifferent to what had just happened that he couldn't help but swallow dryly, and his face couldn't hide the look of horror, and he said with palpitations.

Leo knew exactly what Jason was talking about, and to be honest, he was also shocked by what he had just seen, and he felt a sense of fear that he had never felt before.

In the war of the Earth Federation, it is not uncommon for soldiers to charge because they are cornered and they are not afraid to die, but such things usually have two prerequisites, one is that there is no way back, and the other is adrenaline injection.

However, those followers just now obviously had nothing to do with these ordinary church believers, and they didn't need to interfere in what was happening inside the building, they just needed to stay and watch the church guards deal with these people who caused the turmoil.

But these people suddenly rushed into the building like crazy people, and they didn't need to inject any drugs at all, and they were able to solve those who caused turmoil without fear of death, and afterwards they had an indifferent attitude towards the death of the enemy and other believers, which really made Leo, who was used to all kinds of battles and all kinds of death, feel a little chilled.

As for what made him afraid, he thought of the cultists who were as fierce as they were just now, and there might be many more. His gaze swept around, and in this five-kilometer-diameter sanctuary of light, there were no less than 50,000 cultists who could turn into madmen at any time, not counting the other cultists who lived in those steel-framed buildings.

According to Martin, there are more than a million followers of the Aknaya Church in Cage City, and I am afraid Martin does not know how many fanatical believers there are like this. But even if there were only a tenth of such fanatics, then the Church of Aknaya would have at least 100,000 dead to drive away.

"What do they want to do? It's not something that ordinary churches do. Leo was keenly aware of the strangeness, and he couldn't help but think of the 100,000 death-defying cultists rushing out of the cage city with all kinds of deadly weapons.

At this time, Catherine hurried out of the Sacred Chapel, and from her gloomy face she could tell that the meeting with the High Priest of Major had ended unhappily.

Standing on the steps of the Saccharelle, she looked at the place where the turmoil had just taken place with some confusion, her face a little dazed, and she didn't seem to know what had just happened. Then, she looked around again, and saw the tall Leo and Jason standing in the midst of a group of seated black-robed believers, and immediately walked over quickly.

"The catacombs are sealed, even I won't be allowed to enter, we have to think about it separately...... "Catherine walked over quickly, and told the results of the conversation she had just had with High Priest Major, but she stopped before she could finish speaking, and then looked around, and asked with a puzzled expression, "Why are it only the two of you, Nelson?"

When Catherine asks, Leo and Jason realize that Nelson has disappeared for some time.