Who hid my body?

"As for the other plan... that's much simpler. You just need to get closer to his real body, the half-dead guy." Bai Wei said, "Leave the rest to me."

"Just get close to his real body?"

"Yes, you should have guessed what controls these eight hands, right? Now, you just need to turn this guess into fact." Bai Wei said with a smile, "This is very simple for me."

Gerard was silent for a while, but he did not stop moving. He continued to retreat, constantly approaching the first carriage, which was also the place connected to the bridge of the fifth district. As long as they crossed the bridge, the devil army would immediately come forward to solve the trouble here.

But Gerard also knew that he would never be able to cross the bridge now.

So, after another carriage was destroyed by Ocot, he asked, "So, what do you want?"

"A promise."

"A promise?"

"Yes, Gerald, a promise," Bai Wei said, "a promise that will not violate your principles of conduct."

"…What are the specific contents?"

"Haha, I can't tell you the details now." Bai Wei chuckled and said, "Only one day in the future, I will tell you... How do you want to make this deal?"

"roar"!!!

Ocot let out a roar that was completely inhuman, and this time, he was infinitely close to Gerard.

It only takes a moment to decide the winner.

Gerard didn't want to agree. His intuition told him that the promise would bring him a lot of trouble in the future... But he knew he had no choice. He didn't even have time to think about it, because the mechanical arm had blocked all his escape routes.

Then he doesn't have to choose.

He stopped retreating, and under the restraint of the "body lock", he used all his strength to rush towards Okot's body.

"If it doesn't violate my code of conduct..."

He leaped high toward Ocot, his posture like a reptile that had broken free from a spider web and was launching a final attack on its natural enemy.

"Then I agree." He said softly.

In Ocot's eyes, Gerard's figure quickly enlarged. The few bits of rationality in his brain felt a little strange, but were soon swallowed up by greater madness. The uncontrollable instinct made him open his mouth again, almost tearing his entire jaw apart.

Then, a muddy monster crawled out of Ocot's throat, and it roared at Gerald, with endless madness and joy in its voice.

Jellal's eyes widened instantly.

Sure enough, the one controlling the eight robotic arms was not Okot, but... the pollution planted in Okot's body!

At this distance, Gerard had no way to avoid the mental erosion caused by the pollutants.

Soon, Jellal felt the pollution flowing into his brain along with the roar.

Then, that crazy roar began to echo in his mind.

Gerard knew that he was contaminated.

……

The pollution gathered and took shape in Jellal's sea of ​​consciousness.

They were running around madly, and the power surrounding them was enough to destroy the thinking and sanity of hundreds of ordinary people in an instant.

It's like a wolf rushing into the sheepfold.

But what confused them was that there were no sheep in the sheepfold.

There was only darkness and nothingness.

No matter how they explored, they could not find the edge of this sea of ​​consciousness.

Until they saw a chair.

There is a "person" sitting on the chair.

He seemed to have been dead for a long time. His entire body was empty, with more than half of his body parts and organs missing. What remained there seemed to be just a broken shell.

But even so, this remains still makes the pollutants "feel" uneasy.

But logically speaking, they should not have any rationality other than instinctive madness, but they still quieted down, stopped the roar that seemed to never stop, and looked at the broken body in silence.

Then, they "saw" the broken body slowly open one of its eyes.

The remains glanced over here.

Just a glance.

The pollutants all went crazy.

……

"pat".

Gerard landed safely, his eyes full of disbelief.

Because he felt that the pollution in his mind... had been eliminated.

How long has it been?

From the time he sensed that he was contaminated to the time the contamination was removed, that is, the time it took him to land... Was there even a second in between?

When could pollution be removed so easily? Or was everything just an illusion? Was he still polluted?

Before Jellal could figure out what was going on, a heart-wrenching wail immediately drew his attention.

It was Okot who screamed.

The eight mechanical arms seemed to have their own consciousness, and were now tearing Ocot's body apart like crazy, as if they wanted to tear their master into pieces.

Judging from the performance of these robotic arms, they don't seem to be killing their master, but rather... afraid.

They kept tearing, just wanting to escape from here, wanting to escape from something like crazy.

Pollutants are…crazy.

After coming to this conclusion, Gerard couldn't help but wonder if he was crazy.

……

Pollution is going crazy!

As their host, Okot could feel this more clearly. He didn't know what happened. The pollution that was released to corrode Gerard's mind returned in an instant, and showed great fear. This fear made them, who were already irrational, even more crazy.

Originally they were strong because of madness, but now they were mad because of fear. Their instincts changed from destruction to fear, and this fear almost tore Okot apart.

Ocot didn't know what was going on. He used all his strength to suppress the out-of-control pollutants and regain control of his arms, thus avoiding being torn into pieces on the spot.

But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, a crisp "click" sound was heard.

He turned his head subconsciously, and then saw a scene that he would never forget.

Gerard was slowly standing up, wiping the wound on his face, and said softly: "Sure enough, you used pollutants to control those mechanical arms. You planted the pollutants in your body. According to the laws of Lyra, you... can also be defined as polluted."

The "click" sound continued to ring.

Those were the "locks" that bound Jellal's metal body. At this moment, they were breaking inch by inch, and then falling from Jellal's body like rust being shaken off.

"According to the laws of Lyra, it is the duty of every knight to obliterate the pollutants. The pollutants will not be protected by the 'lock'."

Gerard had stood up straight, and the long-dusty metal was vibrating wildly at this moment, as if a sleeping lion had awakened at this moment.

Ocot finally realized something. He quickly stepped back, shouting in fear: "You can't do anything to me! I'm not a pollutant! I'm a Lyran, I'm a Lyran!"

Jellal didn't say anything, just looked at Okoto quietly, and the metal on Jellal's body was in sharp contrast to his calmness.

The frequency of its vibrations became higher and higher, and the sounds it made became louder and louder, like a wild beast that had been bound for ten years, with its bones broken, its fangs ground off, and its eyes blinded. But when it smelled the scent of its natural enemy, the beast would still desperately destroy the cage, cut the chains, and let out the most deafening roar.

This is nature.

This is the nature of the evening star.

After being sealed away for ten years, this body that should have been eliminated long ago entered [Overload] with an extreme roar.

"boom"!

The last link of the chain deep inside the body was broken during the [Overload].

Ocot finally felt fear and immediately wanted to escape, but before he could turn around, Jellal grabbed one of the mechanical arms.

"You are a pollutant." Gerald said calmly, "and my duty is to prevent any pollutant from corroding Tianqin."

He exerted force suddenly, pulled Okoto towards himself, and raised his fist that was in [Overload].

Then he punched Ocott through the heart.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 84 The bottom line is always lowering

【Overload】Terminated.

The violent humming sound of the machine slowly stopped, but Ocot, who should have been dead, was not completely dead yet. Even with his heart pierced, he was still lying on the ground twitching continuously, his vitality was terrifyingly tenacious.

Gerard walked up to Ocot and said nothing, just looked at him quietly.

The life in Ocot's eyes had completely disappeared, and it was only his flesh that was still twitching, like a lizard's tail that had been chopped off from its body.

"What a strong vitality." Bai Wei's voice sounded in Gerard's mind.

"Because he sewed contaminants into his flesh and blood." Gerard was not stingy with his explanation. He raised his hand and pointed at the wound on Okot's open chest. He could see the flesh and blood inside was still squirming, as if trying to close the gap. "Such a wound is not fatal to the contaminants, so the contaminants will try to recover, but it is fatal to humans. So he is dead, but the contaminants are unwilling to admit this fact."

Gerard has seen too many scenes like this. Those who are contaminated will eventually have this fate and will not be able to rest in peace even after death.

Therefore, being polluted was the outcome that the Knights of the Evening Star least wanted to see. As long as there was any sign, they would rather destroy their bodies than be desecrated and toyed with after death and become real monsters.

And this guy in front of me was actually actively planting pollution in his body.

When he thought of this, Jellal felt an indescribable anger welling up in his heart.

Tianqin...when did she become like this?

"So why did you just kill him?" Bai Wei asked, "Didn't you ask him more questions?"

"The polluted people are not worthy of trust." Gerard leaned down and began to examine Okot's body. "The polluted people often pretend to be unpolluted, and then use various means to drag the unpolluted people into the abyss. The sound of their voices is a huge source of pollution and should not be listened to."

When he said this, Gerard paused again, and a strange look flashed across his face.

After all, just now, he suffered a more direct pollution than the sound. Ocot released the source of pollution into his mind. Anyone in that situation would inevitably go crazy on the spot, but he was... unharmed.

But is it really unscathed?

Gerard heard Bai Wei's exclamation again in his mind.

"Ah, the corpse is in such a state but it still refuses to die. It really has an amazing vitality."

Jellal couldn't help but think of a certain person who only had one finger and one eyeball left but could still speak properly here. He felt a rare urge to complain, but he still held it back.

"If you want to get information from him, it's better to find it directly from him."

Gerard fumbled through Ocot's clothes and soon pulled out a badge and an identity booklet, both of which had "IV" prominently printed on them.

When he saw the sign, Gerard's mind suddenly emerged with a familiar yet unfamiliar face that was engraved in his memory, and he immediately fell silent.

"What's wrong?" Bai Wei asked.

"This is,

"I see." Bai Wei said with a smile, "When the mastermind behind all this points to someone you once knew, you can't accept it? Tsk, if that's the case, why not think about it on the bright side? What if this is just a coincidence, and the bishop you know is unaware of all this?"

Gerard opened Ocot's identity book, which recorded his name and position - administrative assistant.

"This is a position that allows direct contact with the bishop," Gerard said. "I find it hard to believe that the man I know well would have such weak control over the lower classes. That would be an insult to him."

"So, you would rather believe that he is a cunning villain than to believe that he is just an idiot who has been sidelined?" Bai Wei said with a smile, "Maybe this is also a kind of understanding."

Gerard was silent for a while, then said, "Maybe I don't know him as well as I thought. Or maybe... too many things have changed in ten years."

"Yeah, after all, even you no longer abide by all the rules." Bai Wei said with a half-smile, "Before, when you activated the [Overload] state, it was not to fight pollution as you said... or it was not just to fight pollution. You wanted to use the [Overload] state to remove the old 'locks' on your body, right?"

Gerald had a blank expression on his face.

"The mechanic maintained your body, but he did not maintain the 'lock' inside it. This is consistent with what he said to you at the end." Bai Wei said slowly, "He hopes that you can leave Tianqin and break free from this lock."

After listening to Bai Wei's words, Gerard said nothing, nor did he question Bai Wei why he knew everything, as if he agreed with Bai Wei's guess.

But Bai Wei didn't finish his words.

The essential problem with Jellal unlocking the lock was... he had once again violated the rules that Tianqin had set for him.