Here, the Lord said this is a good thing

Chapter 51 Substitution and backup plan

The air in the carriage returned to silence. After a while, the carriage approached the Moon Glory Church and finally stopped slowly at the door of the church.

The coachman opened the carriages and put on the step stools. Before getting off the carriage, Anna turned around. She did not look into Ye He's eyes, but whispered a thank you to Ye He.

After stepping off the carriage, Anna seemed as if nothing had happened and she returned to the serious, serious and meticulous Bishop Anna.

There were carriages with patrols and chanters behind them, and they followed.

Anna asked the chant team to continue patrolling, let the patrol team continue to rest, and then quickly walked into the church.

Ye He was right, she did still have a lot to do, and she had to do it. Now was not the time to allow her to think about her "future".

Looking at Anna's upright, beautiful and re-energized back disappearing into the church with a half-smile, Ye He said to the goddess in his heart:
"Goddess, if your bishop falls in love with me and actively pursues me, that is none of my business!"

Ye He felt that Anna's words of thanks before getting off the carriage were worth pondering.

This stupid woman must have Stockholm Syndrome.

He comforted Anna, but it was just that he still needed a calm Anna, not that he had any undue thoughts about Anna.

【...I will kill you first then! 】

"Hahaha, great! Before that, goddess, can you reveal some information to me now?

For example, which god is hidden in the Imperial Research Institute?In other words, which god is it the legacy of? "

Ye He had long wanted to ask the goddess directly about this question, but before he asked it directly, the stingy goddess would definitely not reply to him. It was not until today that Ye He finally found the opportunity.

Except for existences of the same level, that is, things related to "gods", Ye He could not think of anything in a mere imperial scientific research institute that could make the goddess care.

This was confirmed by some records about the actions and words and deeds of "God" when he read religious books in the church.

In this world, the only person qualified to interact with God is another God.

Even Ye He, who was able to communicate directly with the goddess, did so thanks to his employer. Otherwise, he would not have received "divine enlightenment" and would not be able to distinguish the divine words without any faith in the goddess.

After what happened to Anna today, at least Ye He understood that Anna must be closely related to what the goddess asked him to investigate in the Imperial Scientific Research Institute!
If the goddess didn't explain things clearly to him, he would have no choice but to continue to "harass" Anna.

Goddess, you don’t want me to do this either, right?After all, you asked me to come here to investigate.

Ye He did not pass on this sentiment. He knew that even if he didn't say it, the goddess would understand this truth.

After all, his mobility is obvious to all, and the goddess cannot stop or restrict him.

Sure enough, after a period of silent silence, the goddess handed Ye He many divine words:

[You... are not worthy of knowing His divine name. Do your job well and investigate the changes in His blood!Don't let those filthy people take away His blood! 】

very good!

Ye He almost couldn't help but snap his fingers.

Isn’t the information coming now?

The priest nodded with satisfaction. He did not enter the church. Instead, after getting off Anna's special carriage, he turned around and boarded another carriage heading to the Civic Center.

He went back immediately after leaving the Municipal Center. This was because Ye He still had some "details" that he needed to check over.

On the surface, the hijacking incident that occurred today was the result of the fallen people from the [Tower of Dreams] coming out in force to kidnap Margrave Wolfgang and the municipal ministers, using their lives as a threat to force Anna to hand over something. .

This thing is very likely to be what the goddess said, "His blood."

And Anna is not stupid. According to what Ye He saw with his own eyes, Anna did not agree to the other party's conditions at all. The negotiation obviously broke down, and the other party began to prepare to kill the prisoners.

Only the sniping between himself and Christine, as well as the sudden appearance of Marquis Wolfgang, prevented these fallen ones from succeeding.

In the end, it seemed that the only victim in today's incident was the finance minister who was beheaded and his head thrown out as a warning.

Ye He felt that something was wrong with these people...

In Ye He's eyes, they were a group of extremely evil people who dared to kill hundreds of people first, including the entire clergy of the Lieyang Church, who were used as an "opening warning".

If the two "appetizers" of blowing up the steam plant and Tu Lieyang Church are seen as these people's pressure on Anna, then today's hijacking of the Civic Center incident... seems to be a bit anticlimactic?
Thunder, little rain?
To put it bluntly, Ye He felt that it was not enough for only one finance minister to die!

Comparatively, if he was planning this incident, then before Anna stepped into the mansion's door, everyone's heads should be piled at the door, except for Marquis Wolfgang.

Perhaps the hands and feet of Margrave Wolfgang can be placed on top of this pile of heads?
This is called "effective deterrence."

In addition...

Are there too many people on the other side?

The Fallen, or monster user, is a crushing existence to ordinary people.

Ye He confirmed it from Yulia. Even though Yulia is so thin, her physique, strength and other physical qualities are actually no less than Ye He, who has twice the attributes of an adult.

These fallen ones are only slightly more powerful than Yulia, and they also have the class ability of [Tower of Dreams].

Just for the ability that Andrew used on Ye He before, which made people fall asleep instantly, Ye He didn't see anyone using it today.

It's a matter of life and death, is there any need to hide it?
Also, if they just hijacked a municipal center with only ordinary people, could so many degenerates be allowed to "come out in full force"?

This is the No. 50 fallen group... Tsk, if they want to attack a small army, Ye He thinks it is more than enough.

It was these things that made Ye He feel that something was wrong, which made Ye He return to the Municipal Center.

He wanted to confirm some details from the corpses left by these fallen ones.

"Father? Why are you back? But you came just in time. Come over and see what's going on?"

It was Detective James who first noticed Ye He approaching the mansion.

It seems that Marquis Wolfgang has taken Christine away, leaving the finishing work here to James and other Klein Field police officers.

In fact, it was just to collect the corpses of the fallen. After all, even the [Judge] from the West City came over. Even if the fallen who remained in the mansion had not followed Frank's flying slate, they were killed by Ye He's missile. If you are killed by the explosion, you will also be "judged" by the [Judge].

What's more, Moonlight's patrol team and chanting team came over at that time, and so many demons surrounded them to destroy the fallen ones, so there was no chance of any fish slipping through the net.

However, while collecting the bodies of the kidnappers, the detectives at Klein Field discovered many things that were wrong.

James brought Ye He to the hall of the mansion. The corpses that had been moved from various locations in the mansion had been neatly placed on the smooth floor of the hall one by one.

Ye He stepped into the hall and saw the "problem" James mentioned at a glance.

There were several corpses that appeared to be unscathed, with only their heads cut open. They were obviously the ones killed by Christine with the AWP.

But the AWP's bullets would not turn their entire faces into a bloody mess, leaving not a single piece of intact skin.

Yes, every face of the corpses that caught Ye He's eyes were "missing", including the eyeballs. All that was left on the faces of these corpses was a ball of facial bones smeared with plasma!

Face... appearance!
Ye He understood something instantly. He couldn't help but praise these corpses and said to himself:

"Ha...that's awesome..."

He lowered his body and inspected several corpses whose heads had been shot by AWP.

Ye He soon discovered that "they" were actually "them".

After thinking about it again, Ye He confirmed his thoughts after seeing from the camera that the people whose heads were shot by Christine were indeed "them"!
There is a saying that "the golden cicada escapes from its shell". In the words here, it is the "scapegoat".

To put it bluntly, these degenerates of [Tower of Dreams] may have run away long ago!

What's left here is just a group of "substitutes" whose bodies have been usurped by them and still use their looks!

Although this is not like the class ability of the fallen in [Tower of Dreams], the ability is never that rigid. Maybe they use some kind of magic equipment?
In short, those ordinary people and municipal clerks who were released in advance before Ye He and others arrived should probably be lying here.

The ones who actually left were the fallen ones from [Tower of Dreams]!
Ye He glanced at the corpses, and he noticed that two corpses that were put together because they had similar death conditions actually still had faces.

Both corpses had a slender iron stick about one meter long nailed to their heads.

They are the "lucky guy" who was used by Ye He to test the gun, and the leader of these degenerates who negotiated with Anna and others. Ye He learned the name of this leader from James, who asked the municipal minister. , Maxwell.

From the elongated sniper warhead, many self-extending iron needles burst out, pricking their heads into hedgehogs from the inside out.

The viciousness of the special sniper bullets surprised Ye He a little. He soon discovered that perhaps it was because the viciousness of the sniper bullets erupted from these iron needles, which indirectly affected the performance of certain abilities of these fallen ones, so this The faces of the two people were not as bruised as the others, but still maintained the appearance they continued to imitate.

Ye He touched it carefully with his hand. He looked at James's astonished gaze. Suddenly, he completely took off the face of "Maxwell"!

A layer of something like plasma, but more viscous, adhered to the bottom of the face. The original face looked as bloody as the others.

"Ah! This..."

James on the side made a fuss.

Ye He ignored him. Judging from the number and level of monsters in his body, he was not much weaker than Maxwell.Tsk... I was careless before. After the sniper bullet hit Maxwell, I didn't continue to observe the changes in the monster's power in Maxwell's body.

Through the moonlight vision, Ye He clearly saw that there was a layer of darkness in the layer of "plasma" under the face. This was the power of the monster that had not been completely dissipated.

He tried to inject some divine power points into this face, and soon the power of the monster was completely dispelled, allowing this layer of "plasma" to dry up quickly.

And during this process, this "Maxwell" face actually changed rapidly, and finally turned into an unfamiliar face, displayed in front of Ye He and others.

The empty face was difficult to identify, but it was definitely not Maxwell. Ye He temporarily "returned" the restored face to its original appearance, and now it looked very clear.

"This...this...isn't this...the face of the Minister of Agriculture?"

James recognized who this face was, and then he suddenly shuddered, as if his hair stood on end immediately.

He turned his head and scanned the corpses around him, and a very terrifying possibility appeared in his mind.

"Yes! It's exactly what you think!"

Ye He stood up and smiled at James:

"Congratulations, detective, we didn't catch a single kidnapper today. These people are standing in other people's faces. They are probably in Cedarville right now..."

Having said this, Ye He's smile suddenly froze...

A few minutes ago, some "guests" were welcomed into the Moonlight Church.

These were the city ministers who passed the police detective's questioning and stopped by the church on their way home.

From the police detectives, they learned that it was mainly people from the Moon Glory Church who helped deal with the kidnappers, so they made a special trip to find Anna to express their gratitude.

Although Anna was very busy, because these people were all the municipal ministers of Cedarville and they came together, she had to see them. So she could only put down the work at hand patiently and invite these ministers to the cathedral. , entertained a little.

After a few polite words, the Minister of Agriculture suddenly stood up, changed positions with the others, and sat next to Anna.

This middle-aged man, who was a bit older but still looked honest and honest, smiled cheerfully at Anna, and then said to Anna:
"Mr. Bishop, thank you again for your sect's rescue... By the way! Well, how have you considered the conditions we mentioned before?"

Anna, who was about to say a few polite words, heard the minister suddenly ask her what conditions he mentioned, and she asked with some confusion:
"Ah? What conditions?"

Is there any cooperation between the church and the Cedarville Department of Agriculture?

Anna, who was still in a business-like state, was not aware of the danger that was close at hand.

Until the Minister of Agriculture suddenly changed his tone and voice, and smiled honestly at Anna:

"Of course... I ask you to bring out the [Blood of God] and give it to me."

Maxwell's voice made Anna's eyes widen, her pupils shrank slightly, and her whole body trembled as if she had a chill.

She slowly turned her head and looked at the "Minister of Agriculture" right in front of her.

Facing Anna's gaze, the middle-aged man with a honest smile suddenly swayed like water waves, letting a gorgeous dream wrap around him for a second.

Then, the splendor dissipated, and Maxwell, still wearing a meticulous formal suit, looking gentle and calm, appeared in front of Anna.

He still kept that gentle and gentlemanly smile towards Anna.

Anna, who was stiff all over, turned to look at the others. She immediately discovered that there were no municipal ministers here. Several high-level fallen people from the "Tower of Dreams", including Frank, appeared in front of Anna's eyes.

"I'll be gone in a while, Lord Bishop."

"Hello, Lord Bishop."

These people also greeted Anna deliberately.

If it was Anna from before, she might be frightened and frightened by this nightmare-like scene, and she would be at a loss what to do.

But it just so happened that she had just experienced a more terrifying turmoil not long ago, and she almost lost her.

Recalling the priest who brought her back from her loss, Anna took a deep breath and slowly stabilized her emotions.

She looked at Maxwell again and asked the man seriously:

"So, where are the original ministers?"

"good question."

Maxwell’s smile did not diminish and he continued:
"What your people do to 'us' is equivalent to what they do to 'them', oh! This is really a nightmare, isn't it?"

Maxwell's voice was ups and downs and persuasive, as if he was really lamenting the fate of these ministers. He sounded extremely innocent, not at all proud of himself as the initiator.

"call……"

Anna was not too affected by Maxwell. She took another deep breath and lowered her gaze slightly.

If that's the case... then the others are probably all pretending, right?
Damn it... everyone has done so much, yet not a single fallen person in the [Tower of Dreams] has been killed?

"Okay, Lord Bishop, I have answered your question, can you also answer my question?

How are you thinking about it? When are you going to go to the Imperial Research Institute and take out the [Blood of God] and give it to me? "

Maxwell seemed to see that Anna was not affected by their intimidation, so he decided to get straight to the point.

"My answer is still the same, it's impossible! Just keep dreaming!"

Anna replied without thinking. She secretly searched for Ye He's figure with her eyes, but she saw no one. The clergy were all busy at this time, and there was not even a nun in the cathedral.

"Oh! What a pity, I can only ask next time."

Just like he was on the balcony, Maxwell stood up, buttoned up his formal suit, and then said to the fallen people around him as he always did:
"Kill everyone except the Bishop."

All...killed?
This is the Moonlight Church!

Ah... They have already massacred the Burning Sun Church, and they have proven their ferocity...

Anna's eyes widened and she looked at these people with some confusion.

Maxwell walked towards the outside of the church, while the other fallen ones slowly drew out various weapons, as if they were ready to kill.

At this moment, Sister Diana's voice came from outside the cathedral: "Your Majesty, Bishop?"

The young nun appeared at the door of the church and immediately saw Maxwell walking towards her.

Maxwell smiled at her and nodded, and Sister Diana subconsciously made way for him.

When Maxwell passed by her, Sister Diana noticed that Anna's face was pale and she was looking at her with despair.

Then, she reacted after seeing the murderers standing next to Anna with weapons in hand.

Why does that person look so much like the one who was talking to Lady Anna on the balcony of the Civic Center...

There was a gentle push from behind, causing Sister Diana's body to sway.

She lowered her head and saw the edge of a stone sword that broke out from her abdomen.

Eh……

"Diana!"

Amid Anna's heart-wrenching screams, Maxwell withdrew the stone sword, causing Sister Diana to collapse to the ground helplessly.

He casually waved the stone sword, causing it to quickly dissipate into dust in the air, letting the blood of the girl stained spread out a trail of blood!
Maxwell smiled at Anna again, turned around, and was about to leave.

At this moment, Maxwell suddenly turned around.

He looked past Anna and the others towards the statue of the goddess in the cathedral. He widened his eyes to the extreme, and the smile disappeared from his face, revealing an expression of extreme horror.

Anna, as well as the other fallen ones, suddenly turned around uncontrollably and looked towards the statue, showing the same horrified expression as Maxwell's.

Everyone's spirituality had boiled to the extreme, and then fell into hopeless silence!

They watched helplessly as a fist-sized, black thing suddenly fell between the pair of hands pressing the lower abdomen of the goddess statue and the small gap between the lower abdomen of the statue.

There is a small display screen on top of this thing, and the number displayed exactly returns to zero before it touches the ground.

This is a portable high-explosive polymer: [G6 Cleaner].

No one knows when Ye He placed this thing in this place.

Maybe it was the night he and Alice fought here?

　One more chapter during the day!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)