The Vatican, the smallest country in the world and the only sovereign state with a theocratic system, is the center and holy place of the Catholic denomination, and can be called "the largest church in the world" in another sense.

If demons want to corrupt humanity in their minds and beliefs, this may be the best option.

"Would you like to meet the Sixteenth Pope? The family has always been one of the Vatican's largest patrons, and the Vatican's special property payments are also managed by the Bank of Rome. It doesn't take long for the family to arrange a meeting between you and the Pope. ”

The secretary Patsy drives a Pagani, and as Italy, the homeland of luxury cars in the world, there is no shortage of luxury cars in the garage of the Gattuso family.

"Yes, we can see with our own eyes whether this servant of God has sold his soul to the dragon king or the demon." Caesar turned his head to look at Lu Mingfei in the back seat, "Do you have any other suggestions?" Advice other than 'purification'. ”

"Nope." Lu Mingfei shook his head.

"OK, leave it to Patsy, you can arrange it. A formal private meeting is much less than a move to rush in and provoke the Pope's Hundred Guard. Caesar snapped his fingers.

"President Caesar, you probably don't understand the style of our warband, generally wherever our warband appears, the movement will be as big as ever." Fingal is a warm reminder.

"I experienced it more than a dozen hours ago," Caesar nodded, "I remember that shortly after you went to Japan last year, the weather turbulence there almost staged a realistic version of 'Japan Sinks.'" ”

Patsy's gaze glanced imperceptibly in the car's rearview mirror.

"Then it's none of our business, we almost blew up that shrine." Fingal had a big husband.

"I think I've heard that the building is in disrepair......" Caesar was stunned for a moment, "Wait, you did that?" ”

"Yes!"

"Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang are Chinese, I can understand that they are doing this kind of thing...... But why should you be proud? Wasn't Germany the same Axis power as Italy? Caesar couldn't help but complain.

"It's just that the den of heresy is right below there." Lu Mingfei explained calmly.

“…… Very well, let's hope that our Pope His Majesty is still a loyal servant of God, otherwise if the Vatican is bombed, then we will all have to go to hell. ”

After a long silence, Caesar breathed a sigh of relief.

If it were someone else, he probably wouldn't think anyone wanted to blow up the Vatican, but Lu Mingfei ...... Did he watch the other party twist off the head of the Norse god "Odin" with his own hands, and chop it into ...... "dry child" with an axe?

……

Mixed with pilgrims and Mass, Lu Mingfei and his party crossed the Bridge of Sant'Angelo, which connects Rome with the Vatican.

"Today is the day of Mass, where at least more than 10,000 believers will gather...... So either way, don't go overboard, or a stampede alone will kill hundreds or even thousands. Caesar was a little worried, and tightened his grip on the Desert Eagle, which was filled with alchemical bullets in his arms.

As far as the eye could see, there were solemnly dressed believers and tourists, all of whom were heading towards St. Peter's Square, where the noble young master Caesar theoretically did not need to be crowded with the "common people", he could have waited until the evening after Mass to formally meet with the pope.

But Lu Mingfei insisted on getting out of the car and walking to Mass, and he didn't hide his blazing golden eyes at all, looking back and forth in the bustling crowd, trying to find the hidden polluted by the forces of chaos.

This is a new ability he obtained after undergoing the baptism of the emperor's power called "The Power of Faith", which is different from the prophecy spiritual energy and the holy word spiritual energy suppressed by the real world, giving the eyes insight into the state of the blasphemy power is not too limited, and the consequence of using it for a long time is at most sour eyes.

Ordinary humans in their hometown belong to the category of "psionic inertia", and although they have a certain degree of resistance to psionic energy, it does not mean that they are completely immune; For example, a glass of water can extinguish a lit match, but it cannot extinguish a star.

And the power of the Lord of Change is strange and ever-changing, and it is not too simple to tamper and distort the subconscious beliefs of human beings, even in that dark universe, the Lord of All Kinds can even distort and modify the subconscious of a devout believer, maybe this believer still thinks that he is a devout emperor believer, but the object of his prayer has become the Chaos God of the High Heaven.

Compared to transforming humans into Dragonblood Deadpool, who has greatly reduced psionic resistance and has sufficient combat power, this method of corruption is inefficient, but the subsequent effects will spread like a plague among humans with faith, and may eventually be able to directly ignore the suppression of the real world and erode it.

"Did you find anything, Captain? Anyway, should I get you a pair of sunglasses to wear? Otherwise, at night, your sparkling eyes will be in the spotlight. ”

Fingal whispered beside Lu Mingfei.

"The power of blasphemy has not been found for the time being. Maybe the Corruption Ritual hasn't started yet. Lu Mingfei followed the crowd into St. Peter's Square, still maintaining a scrutinizing posture, his golden eyes sweeping over one believer after another.

They are sane and there is no trace of profane power contamination in their bodies.

"I don't know much about corruption rituals, but it sounds like the more people gather, the worse it gets......" Fingal glanced at the crowd gathered in the square, "I haven't thought of any other way to evacuate these people than to shoot them in the air." ”

"That would have caused a stampede riot that would shock the world." Caesar looked serious, "The first task of the secret party is to protect humans from dragons, not indirectly against humans. ”

"The Sixteenth Pope appeared." Patcy reminded in a low voice behind him.

An old man wearing a high golden crown, a bright red and ornate embroidered papal robe with a cross, and a cross scepter in his hand, surrounded by many white robes of high priests, chanters and other clergy, appeared on the high platform of the square, and his deep voice was heard through the loudspeaker throughout St. Peter's Square.

Lu Mingfei's blazing golden eyes immediately locked on the most powerful pope in the world in his homeland, and the clothes on the other party's body were somewhat similar to the clothes of the archbishop of the empire in that universe, but the latter would have many more mechanical devices and the emperor's proverbs.

The relationship between the Weepers and the State Religion was not bad, as some of the State Religion believers were also committed to spreading the faith and glory of the Emperor in the outlying worlds of the Empire, and they praised the Weepers for "saving the Emperor's faithful and his people", and sometimes used various supplies to make Astarte the Weeper serve as the Archbishop's personal guard for a short time.

More or less, the Weepers, though not as fanatical as their brethren in the Black Templars or the Red Hunters, worshipped the Emperor as a great god, but they also began to learn to recite the Emperor's Word and pray to the Emperor—as sons of Holy Lies, it would not be a bad thing to have more ways to suppress the "blood thirst" and "dark wrath".

Even when the Weepers were sentenced to a hundred years on the Atonement Expedition, several cardinal archbishops lobbied the Inquisition to buy them a few more years to resupply.

"Is there anything out of the ordinary?" Caesar leaned in and whispered.

“…… Not at the moment. ”

In the time when the images of memories flashed like fragments, Lu Mingfei did not realize that the Pope who read the Bible was hidden in the pollution of blasphemous power, and as the Mass began, the believers in the square chanted Christmas carols with the choir, and the sound of beautiful organ music reverberated over the smallest country.

"Hallelujah, it seems that our Pope His Majesty is still a devout servant of God." Caesar breathed a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that Lu Mingfei would do something out of the ordinary and cause a riot.

"Will the Pope's meeting with you continue after the ceremony?" Patcy asked softly.

"Go on, let Lu Mingfei confirm it closely." Caesar replied after a moment's thought.

After the main part of the Mass is the "Eucharist", the central part of which is the most complicated, with the Pope reading the Bible, recreating the famous scene of the Last Supper, and then consecrating the bread and wine, representing the body and blood of Jesus Christ, which are distributed to a large number of believers.

The ritual lasted nearly two hours, and at Lu's request, Fingal pretended to be a devout Catholic and brought back a small piece of bread for him to examine, and then put it back in his pocket to make sure it was normal, intending to throw it away when he went out—not here.

Lu Mingfei's surveillance continued until the end of the ceremony, when the believers gradually left St. Peter's Square, during which time he did not find any trace of the Chaos Pollution.

"Hope is my delusion." He whispered to himself, perhaps because he had been infected by this religious ritual, and at the same time he silently prayed to His Majesty the Emperor in his heart.

It's just that he didn't get any response, and His Majesty seemed to be very busy.