Chapter Ninety-Five: The Great Empire
With a land area of 13.69 million square kilometers and a population of about 600 million, the Da Yu Empire is one of the few military powers on the mainland, and it is the most powerful and prosperous side compared to the surrounding countries, with more than 1.2 million regular troops on land, sea and air, not including third-rate troops composed of a large number of slaves.
For hundreds of years, they have almost never suffered losses in war, so the people of the Great Empire are generally belligerent, and once they encounter a diplomatic setback or the goal is not achieved, they will threaten and intimidate you if you disagree, and you will fight if you don't agree with each other, so you have offended many countries, and several of them are not much worse than them.
The Great Eagle Empire was originally called the Great Eagle Empire, but later kings felt that the name was too aggressive, so they changed the Eagle to Eagle, taking the soft meaning to at least make it look non-threatening, and by the way to send a friendly signal to neighboring countries, but this of course does not include those weak countries, after all, slaves are needed to do things for them, right?
In a small town in the south of the Da Bang Empire, the rainy weather has been going on for a month, even the stone brick houses are a little moldy, and the muddy roads are full of water, so that people have nowhere to put their feet.
"Fack! There's no end to this broken weather! ”
A middle-aged man with a scruffy beard rolled up his trousers and trotted all the way to the door of a church, shook off the rain on his body, and opened the door of the church.
"It's all the beginning and the end." A girl's voice suddenly came from behind his ears.
"Oh! Lena! You're scaring me again! Can you not be so elusive? The man patted his chest helplessly.
"It's just that you don't understand ......," the girl named Lena looked at the door that had been opened by the man.
"Hey...... The gods talk all day long, and they are more deceitful than me. The man sighed.
"Actually, you don't have to come, no one will come here in this kind of weather." Lena added.
"Huh? Not coming? So what do you eat? I don't want to be called child labourer. The man shrugged his shoulders in a pretending to be dashing, but his endless appearance was not on the same level as chic.
"Did you hear that...... A family in the next town has been murdered. The man spoke suddenly.
"Huh? And then? Lena tilted her head, seemingly unconcerned about such a thing.
It is said that all six members of the family were disemboweled...... That's not all, even the intestines are gone... The police didn't have a clue after a few days of investigation, but they just said that it could be a vendetta or a perverted murderer, so let's be careful at night and try to go out as little as possible. ”
"I'm not going out ......"
"Then you must remember to lock the door, I bought you some bread, you can ...... yourself if you are hungry"
"Hmm...... Are you going out? Lena asked suddenly.
"Uh...... Can you even see that? The man said incredulously.
“……”
“…… All right...... There are some things that may take a little more time, but they will definitely be over in a week at the latest. The man looked swearing.
"Be careful yourself...... Father...... Rodman. With that, Lena left the lobby.
Does she already know what I do? No, I've hid it so well......
Rodman frowned and began to wonder if he had shown his feet somewhere.
Lena was unremarkable until she was 8 years old, growing up in an ordinary family, and I heard that her mother was expelled from the house for eloping with commoners, and I don't know if it's true, maybe they used to be nobles, but now they can't go to the verify, because her parents are dead......
It was a thunderstorm night, her parents were killed by robbers who broke into the house, and Rodman was the first to arrive at the scene, when he was a guest at the next door's house, and when he came out, he happened to collide with the robbers who ran out, and then they fought, and the rest of the story is not to be mentioned...
When he found Lina, she had this cold expression, looking like she was not approached, and she thought she should have been stimulated, but after so many years, he found that maybe it was not so simple, and something that might have happened to everyone, and he also wondered if he was being taken by the devil, but he secretly tried her several times, and it turned out that she was normal, very normal, even more normal than him, a so-called priest.
"It's really not worry-free...... Rodman thought of this tragic murder case again, he had already seen the crime scene, and he could feel a faint non-human breath, and most of the internal organs were eaten by that thing, "It's not easy to show that something kills people......
Clenching the cross in his pocket, Rodman was unsure whether this incident could be resolved.
"Let's hope it goes well........."
Mysterious things are always unknown and dangerous, people who can deal with this kind of incident are called exorcists by the church, they not only have a wealth of theoretical knowledge and strong fighting skills, but also have some extraordinary abilities, Rodman is one of them, this is the twentieth year he has called an exorcist, even if he is a senior exorcist like him, he has encountered more than 20 times that can really be called a mysterious event, and the others are either complete rumors, or someone pretends to be a ghost.
This incident is more important, in addition to him, three people were sent over to assist, and I heard that it was a senior exorcist with two rookies.
"Father ...... Your death is already predestined, and I can't save you...... But those who have died once can ......," Lena whispered as she looked out the window at the figure leaving in the rain.
"So die......"
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In a dilapidated and abandoned wooden house, Rodman was one of five people gathering at this time.
"We've tracked the target...... But...... "This man is the leader of the church, and he will be part of the operation."
"Say something quickly, isn't it a bad opponent." Another veteran exorcist said.
"It's hard to say...... It looks like she's just a girl, but ...... Even if staring at her from afar is terrifying, there are only a few possibilities left to observe...... One is that she was taken by a demon, and the other is that she is not a human in the first place, maybe it may be something like a zombie, and I personally prefer the second one, which may be something that has lived for a longer time. The leader of the road said his opinion carefully.
"And where is she now?" Rodman asked.
"In a cemetery three kilometers away." Speaking of this, the leader couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
"Graveyard...... It's a bit unlucky," Rodman took a long puff of his cigarette and threw the rest of the cigarette butt to the ground.
"Hurry up, there may be another victim when it's too late......"