Who hid my body?

But even so, Corey was already very satisfied.

"No matter whether the Lord had some additional considerations at the time." Corey said lightly, "but the fact is that this power is not enough. The power of the entire Rhine is based on the power of the Lord. Because we have a more powerful "God's Blessing" model than other churches, we can better utilize the power of the Lord. So when we first established the church, we were the most powerful existence in this land. At that time, we had four archbishops and tens of thousands of Rhine Knights, but what about now? How many years have passed, and we still only have these. We have been standing still for hundreds of years."

Hurry didn't say anything, but he knew what Corey said was right.

In this world, mortals’ power cannot compare to that of gods. Even mortals’ power cannot harm gods.

Gods will not be influenced by some earthly means - except for the existence that is unclear whether it is God or human.

So this means that no matter it is the church or an individual, the more proficient they are in using the power of God, the stronger they will be. Compared with other sects, Rhine's advantage lies here. The origin believers are the ones who have the deepest connection with Rhine, and Rhine's "God's Blessing" model also has a deeper "bond" with God than other sects, and can directly obtain stronger and more stable God's power.

It was with this advantage that Rhine became the most powerful force during the chaotic years.

But just as Corey said, Rhine's advantage lies in the power of God, and his disadvantage also lies in the power of God. The power distributed by God is limited. Before a bishop falls, it is impossible for a new bishop to appear. Before a knight passes away, the new knight cannot obtain his share of God's power.

"The Rhine Knights who used to dominate the world are now like a handful of pebbles thrown into the sea, so thin that they are almost invisible." Corey said, "This is no longer the chaotic era of the past. After development, the habitable area is getting larger and larger, and the population under the territories of various churches is also increasing. Everywhere is developing and progressing, except the Rhine. Our power, which has not grown at all, is completely unable to protect the current achievements, so that we can only send one or two low-level priests to govern the marginal areas, but even so, it is not enough..."

Corey paused, then looked into Hurry's eyes.

"We even have to take some special measures and methods to curb our own development."

Heri was silent for a while, then said, "Those are necessary sacrifices. They will return to the embrace of Rhine."

"Maybe, but you know I didn't come to you to hear that." Corey waved his hand impatiently and said, "It doesn't matter if we sacrifice or not, but we can't be the only ones to sacrifice. God's power is limited. This fact is not limited to our Lord, but also to every supreme being. But whether it is the other three major religions or the four worms in the gutter, they don't have the same restrictions as us."

Hurry said: "But their development is not fast, and no one can break free from this bondage."

"They are not fast, but we have not moved for a long time, and we are even retreating." Corey stared at Hurry and said slowly, "They have found a strategy to deal with it, but we haven't. This won't work. We need some power and means other than God."

Hearing what Corey said, Hurry subconsciously looked at his left eye. Although Hurry quickly looked away, Corey still noticed it.

But Corey didn't care, he just said calmly: "Yes, this is also one of the extra powers."

He Li hesitated: "But the power of corpses cannot be copied, and is more limited than the power of gods."

"So I said one of them." Corey said, "No one would want to copy Visas' power, and our Lord would not allow it. But at least we can learn from others."

"...You mean, Tianqin?"

"Yes, they want me to help get rid of that guy." Corey chuckled and said, "And the price I offered was... that guy's body."

He Li was stunned: "They agreed?"

"They didn't want to agree, but it was obvious that they really wanted that guy to die, so they nodded." Corey said, "Tianqin started studying how to maximize the use of their god's power a long time ago, and it was very effective. We will soon know what secrets are in those mechanical bodies."

He Li frowned slightly: "Then, when exactly is it?"

"Tonight at nine o'clock." Corey looked up at the setting sun and said slowly, "Right here."

"Right here?" Harry was very surprised.

"Yes, so you have to take the knights away and leave me alone here. After all, this is just a deal between me and them, not a deal between Rhine and Tianqin."

"…But will he come? Isn't this an obvious trap?"

"He will come." Corey said calmly, "I've read his information. He was once a hero of Lyra. If they ask him to die, he will really die."

He Li was silent for a while, but nodded helplessly: "I understand, but..."

"what?"

"Is Uru still in this city?" He Li said, "If he comes to you at this time..."

Corey interrupted Hurry calmly and said with a smile.

"Wouldn't that be better?"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 59 The Fifty-Nine Truth

God's power is limited.

This was something Uru had never thought of. In fact, this sentence itself was the greatest blasphemy, even more blasphemous than Bai Wei's view yesterday in the library that the power of the God of the Rhine would pollute the minds of believers. Uru subconsciously wanted to deny it: "This is impossible..."

"Is it impossible, or are you unwilling to accept this reality?" Bai Wei said with a half-smile, "In fact, there is very direct evidence, and you, as a priest, also know it."

Ulu subconsciously asked: "What?"

"How many knights were there when Rhine was first founded?"

This is also basic common sense. Ulu almost didn't hesitate and answered in his mind: "Ninety-seven thousand six hundred and eighty-two people."

"You remember it very clearly indeed." Bai Wei said calmly, "So what about now?"

Ulu's eyes under the mask gradually widened. He stopped at the end of the team and supported himself against the wall with his hands, barely stopping his body from shaking.

"Yes... 97,682 people." Ulu answered with great difficulty, "No increase."

"The standard for a Rhine Knight is to be able to enter the lowest level of the 'God's Blessing' mode, receiving the power of the God of the Rhine, which is also the most powerful weapon of the Rhine." Bai Wei said slowly, "But why has the Rhine been unwilling to expand the scale of the Rhine Knights for hundreds of years?"

Bai Wei paused, not giving Ulu too much time to think about this question, and continued.

"But in stark contrast, the population of the region under Rhine's rule has more than doubled since the founding of Rhine hundreds of years ago."

After saying this, Bai Wei felt Ulu's body trembling even more violently, and his heart was beating so hard as if it wanted to tear his chest apart.

"The power of God is limited, so the scale of the Rhine Knights cannot be expanded..." Uru murmured, as if he was talking to Bai Wei, or as if he was talking to himself, "But the population under his rule is increasing, which means that Rhine's control over the area under his rule will become weaker and weaker, and this process cannot be reversed, so..."

Ulu couldn't say the next words. He felt like there was a knife against his neck. Once he said those words, the knife would instantly pierce his throat.

But Bai Wei had no such concerns. He spoke for Ulu: "So, in order to ensure absolute dominance, those extra, uncontrollable people..."

He paused again, as if to give Ulu some time to buffer, or as if to prepare to appreciate Ulu's subsequent expression.

Finally, he spoke it slowly, word by word.

“…it should be cleared away.”

As soon as these words came out, Ulu's body swayed again. Even though he was holding on to the wall, Bai Wei's words almost made him fall down.

But he quickly stopped, and then, as if he had thought of something, he shouted to Bai Wei in his mind: "No, no, that's not the case!"

Bai Wei did not say anything, but just listened quietly to Uruna's words as if he had grasped the last straw.

"You want to say that Rhine wants to control the population, so they use those black bugs, right? You want to say that my mother was also killed by those bugs? But that's impossible! These bugs need to be recycled, but I have never seen a Night Crow Knight outside of Som City! Besides, do you know how many people are under the rule of the entire Rhine?!"

"Millions! Tens of millions!"

"Just relying on these bugs that need to be recycled can kill so many people?"

Ulu seemed to have grasped Bai Wei's weak point and began to counterattack frantically.

"Visas! Maybe you think you are very smart, maybe you think all your lies are perfect! But it is not like that, they are full of loopholes! You can't fool me, you can't fool me!"

The last half of the sentence was not just thought in Uludu's mind, but blurted out directly. The loud words echoed in the mask, making a dull and strange sound.

Ulu wanted to laugh, wanted to laugh out of relief that he had discovered Bai Wei's conspiracy, wanted to laugh out loud and mock Bai Wei's clumsy lie.

But in fact he couldn't laugh. Under his crazy output, Bai Wei didn't say a word of rebuttal. He just listened quietly, as if he was watching a lame clown jumping around wildly.

"When did I say that your mother was killed by that bug?" Bai Wei said, "What you just said is all correct, but it's not quite right."

Ulu repeated subconsciously: "A little short?"

"Yes, that little bit is the final, complete truth." Bai Wei said softly, "Do you want to witness it with your own eyes?"

Before Ulu could say anything, he heard footsteps.

That was the sound of heavy leather boots stepping on puddles, dull and crisp.

He subconsciously raised his head, and within his field of vision, two night crows walked out of the darkness, with a frightening luster reflected on their black masks, as if the god of death was waving at him.

Wu Lu subconsciously wanted to step back, but Bai Wei's voice sounded at the right time: "You are only one step away from the truth."

He stood still.

"Matthews." The leader's voice came, the voice behind the mask was chaotic and noisy, "What's wrong with you?"

Ulu took a deep breath, straightened the mask that had been tilted due to excessive excitement, and whispered back: "I'm fine."

Then he walked towards his two colleagues.

This time, he did not pause or speak again. He followed them in silence all the way back to the Night Crow's base.

But he did not go back to the dormitory directly, but came to a special warehouse next to the dormitory.

The Night Crow leader stopped, looked back at the two team members, and asked, "Whose turn is it to contain today?"

Another Night Raven replied, "Matthews."

The leader turned to look at Uru, and after a moment of hesitation, he said, "Matthews, I know you are not in good health today, but rules are rules. The admission must be in order, so you have to do it."

Uru nodded, and then the leader took off his cloak and handed it to Matthews.

Hanging under the cloak are boxes containing "holy insects".

"I don't need to remind you. As usual, put it where it belongs." The leader patted Ulu on the shoulder. "Also, don't touch things you shouldn't touch, you know."

Finally, after giving the key to Uru, the leader left with another night crow.

Ulu took the key and looked up at the warehouse in front of him.

From the outside, this is just a normal warehouse, but even Uru can feel the subtle surge of magic in it.

He knew that the truth that Bai Wei mentioned was behind this door.

After taking several deep breaths, Ulu opened the door of the warehouse with the key, and then he felt a cool breeze with a fishy smell blowing on his face.

He took a deep breath and walked in.

The warehouse was large, but the lighting was not good. There were only a few oil lamps on both sides of the main road in the center, which barely allowed people who came in to not be blinded. But the more so, the more uneasy the darkness on both sides of the main road was. In the flickering candlelight, shadows flickered in the corners, as if something was hidden and could jump out at any time.

Ulu walked alone on this main road. The warehouse was so quiet that the only sound he could hear was his own footsteps.

He originally thought that this situation would continue for a while until he came to the truth that Bai Wei wanted him to see.

But what he didn't expect was that not long after, he heard a slight "creaking" sound coming from deep inside the warehouse.

Ulu was a little dazed.

This sound,

He seemed to have heard it somewhere.

Ah, it was a dream.

He had heard it in his dream last night, but last night's dream was a memory, which means...

Ulu unconsciously quickened his pace, and his heavy boots created a loud echo in the empty warehouse.

He ignored the strange-looking boxes around him, and didn't care where he should put the black bugs in his cloak. Now Ulu just wanted to find the source of the sound.

So he stood in front of a sea of ​​flowers.

……flower?

Looking at the sea of ​​flowers that suddenly appeared in front of him, Ulu was a little confused.

How could flowers appear in a place where the sun doesn't shine? And they are so large, as if they were specially cultivated.

Just as Ulu was about to study what was going on with this flower, he heard a "crunching, crunching" sound again, like the sound of a cicada chirping.

Only then did he remember what he was looking for, so he immediately looked around and finally followed the sound to a table. Hundreds of yellow boxes were neatly stacked on the table. They were somewhat similar to the boxes that the Night Crows had used to collect the "holy insects" before, but also somewhat different.

And the "creaking" sound came from one of the boxes.

Ulu subconsciously raised his hand and wanted to open the box.

But he soon thought of something and his hands froze.

Because the last time he opened this strange-looking box, it contained Visas' finger, which is the one he has in his hand now.

This finger cost him half his life.

So...what now?

Such strange thoughts came to Ulu's mind, but he soon realized that he was too nervous. At this moment, his heart beat as fast as a beating war drum.

Finally, he reached out and opened the box.

There was a "click" sound.

When the box was opened, the "creaking" sound immediately became louder, and Ulu also saw the source of the sound - a dark-black insect, somewhat different from the holy insect, but equally ugly.

It has wings like a cicada and there is a broken cocoon next to it, as if it had just hatched from the cocoon not long ago.