The air was filled with a choking scorching stench, the unextinguished sparks fluttered in the wind, and the blackened and twisted body of the flying god was entrenched in the sky, and after the battle, the pupil of heaven quietly disappeared, leaving only the slender black hands poking out of the spatial cracks, dismembering the wreckage of this behemoth.

There was a deathly silence in the streets, and people were lying on their backs or stomachs, motionless, and they could only be judged by the slight heaving of their chests that they were still alive.

At the last moment of the judgment, the flying god took the initiative to rush towards the pupil of heaven, and used his body to block the fire that fell from the sky, not only detonating the extremely unstable high-energy fire mass, but also bearing the vast majority of the explosive energy pouring.

The ensuing storm and high-temperature flames were weakened by the transcendent techniques and limbs he left behind, leaving only a relatively harmless shock wave that swept across the twentieth street.

The residents of Twentyth Street, who were protected below, were temporarily robbed of their sight by the glare of light when the high-energy fire was detonated, and then a deafening explosion followed the world's silence.

They lost consciousness.

He did his best to protect the neighborhood.

Somewhere on the corner of the street, a space suddenly rippled like a lake, and a gap was opened in the completely separated mezzanine space, and two figures walked out of the void, and their figures gradually became solid from the unreal.

"He departed from ......"

Giovanni (?) First looked at the sky, and was relieved after not finding the shadow of the pupil of the sky, but he did not relax his vigilance because of this, and opened a rippling spatial passage with his backhand to drill into it, Zhao Xida followed without saying a word, and after flashing to the new location, he still did not stay, and opened another spatial passage......

In this way, the figures of the two flashed around Twentyth Street, and after several teleportations, the two finally stopped in an uninhabited hut.

"...... here"

Zhao Jida glanced around casually, the interior of the house was elegant and exquisite, including exquisite furniture and valuable collections, low-key and luxurious, at first glance it is not something that ordinary people can afford.

"Probably not on Twenty Street, right?"

"This is my safe house...... "Giovanni (?) Shrugged, "Located in the Kingdom District, far from the power projection range of the Heavenly Pupil, he occasionally comes here to take a break, of course, it's basically me quietly covering up the traces of my actions......

His self-proclaimed name changed from moment to moment, as if a consciousness was competing with him for the right to speak, making it impossible to tell in which capacity he was talking to Zhao Xida.

"You're even more crazy than you were just now." Zhao Xida commented.

Giovanni (?) Stunned for a moment, he said thoughtfully: "You're not wrong if you really want to say that, I've been trying to take control since the beginning, and it's normal for my self-perception to occasionally become chaotic under unconscious influence."

Zhao Xida nodded and accepted the other party's explanation: "So, what is your current situation?"

The Doll Maiden refers not only to her symbiotic relationship with Giovanni, but also to the various varieties of Elizabeth she has seen along the way.

"You really want to know?" Giovanni (?) He asked rhetorically, seeing that the other party's eyes did not waver in the slightest, and finally sighed and said, "Okay."

He turned around and grabbed the short hair on his forehead slightly, then suddenly pinched it and pulled it back, and in the tooth-aching tearing sound, the thick layer of flesh with hair was torn off like an extremely elastic plasticine, and the ...... was hidden under the flesh of the hair It's a human face with closed eyes!

The electric light circulating in Zhao Xida's eyes froze at once.

She knew the face.

Countless analyses popped out of her field of vision, and the final result was presented in the core of her calculations—the face and Elizabeth's appearance overlapped more than 90 percent.

It was Elizabeth's face.

"That's where I am now."

Giovanni's voice came faintly from behind the face, and then the face opened its eyes, its emerald green eyes glinting with an eerie light, and took over the conversation.

"I can only live in this posture, parasitizing on others, and living by stealing other people's brains."

Zhao Xida's eyes were blue, and she swept out a light curtain visible to the naked eye, and the data scene that was fed back next surprised her.

It is not only the superficial skin that is distorted, but the data fed back from the scanning beam shows that under the skin and flesh of that face, the cheekbones, maxilla, mandible, and nasal bones are all available, but only the skull structure that a normal person should have in the back of the brain cannot be seen.

"How do you ......?"

After a moment, the puppet girl looked at Elizabeth and asked with a slight hesitation.

"Will it become like this?"

"I woke up like this." Elizabeth pouted, "Although I only woke up in the last two or three years, this guy's memory shows that he can hear my whispers since he was a child, and in order to cure him, his parents sent him to receive blood therapy from the church several times, but you can see, it doesn't have much effect......

"Blood therapy?" Zhao Jida caught the keyword, "What's that?"

"The medical priests ......will tie the patient to the operating table, cut the blood vessels and blet the blood bags, and take out the blood bag for blood transfusion, until the blood of the patient's whole body has been replaced by 'pure blood', and the blood therapy is completed, even if it is an old-stage cancer in the old world, the vast majority of patients can miraculously recover after one or two blood treatments."

Zhao Xida's eyes flashed, and doubts surfaced on the chip.

And at what cost?

If blood therapy is really a panacea for all diseases, then what price does the patient have to pay? High cost of treatment? The privileges enjoyed by the clergy class monopolized? Or is there a price to be paid for this?

Elizabeth seemed to see through what she was thinking: "Not only did the church not monopolize the panacea, but even opened it to the public for free, as long as the people of the city lived in the city, whether rich or poor, they could enjoy this benefit......

The puppet girl nodded knowingly, "That's another price."

"According to your description, 'pure blood' should be a supernatural thing with healing effects, and the popularity of 'pure blood' in urban areas means that the production of 'pure blood' is not too small, and it can ensure a long-term and stable supply, but it stands to reason that the Church has neither used it for internal or external gain, nor has it become a privilege for a very few......

Then there must be a greater interest that drives the church to promote blood healing.

Combined with Elizabeth in front of her, more memories of her own self began to flash, and she suddenly came to a strange conclusion.

"Are they making you?"

"That's right." Elizabeth glanced at her in surprise, "To be precise, I suspect that they are using blood healing to create gods in batches......

"Iniquity?"

The other party's words immediately reminded Zhao of what Giovanni had said before.

"Divine ...... What is it?"

The memory of the gods is not in the database of the otherworldly puppets, and there is no record of the gods and evils mentioned by the other party, she initially thought that it was just a code name given to Elizabeth by the believers of Apocalypse City, but now it seems that it may not be as simple as she thought.

Hearing her ask this question, Elizabeth burst into laughter.

"O God ......"

There was not a hint of a smile in her green eyes, and she grinned without smiling.

"Divine iniquity is literal: the sins of the gods, the mistakes made by the gods, that we who have lost our original bodies and are still interfering in the world like ghosts......

"A memetic virus named 'Elizabeth.'"

"At the same time, we are also the key to their seizure of Elizabeth' power."