Who hid my body?

"He is Tianqin." Kud said softly, "He is our god, but unknowingly, we have forgotten Him. After returning from my father, I searched for a long time in the office of the Skeleton Corps, but I couldn't find any books with His portrait printed on them. They were nowhere to be found. But in my memory, I also swore an oath to Him before entering the Skeleton Corps, but now I can't find anything. It seems that He disappeared all of a sudden."

This is indeed a very heart-wrenching thing.

For ten years, Gerard has been looking for Clerk No. 44 and the truth of what happened back then, but he didn't realize that even the God of Lyra had disappeared from his memory.

He could also understand why Kud would take such a risk and come to him in such a hurry to cooperate.

Gerald looked at Kud and said, "I think you haven't told anyone about this yet."

"Yes." Kud nodded. "You are the first one. I haven't even told my father yet. He doesn't know what happened yet. He is very angry about me suddenly tearing up his book... because he still respects Tianqin, just like he did twelve years ago."

"Because you are not in Tianqin City, you are not affected?"

"That should be the case." Kud continued, "In addition to my father, I also asked other people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and their reactions were similar to my father's. They all seemed to be living twelve years ago, and they also had one thing in common."

"what?"

"They have rarely returned to Tianqin City over the years and have been staying in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." Kud said, "Those who return to Tianqin City more frequently will quit the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a short period of time and never come back. This has also caused the number of people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to decrease rapidly. Now there are only a dozen people left."

"In other words, it's still because of Lyra City." Gerald said in a deep voice, "Everyone has been influenced by Lyra City."

"Yes, now the feeling that Tianqin City gives me is like a gear train." Kud said softly, "It has been accelerating for ten years, faster every year, but the people on the gear train don't feel anything. Only those outside the gear train can see how crazy the gear train has become. It has even far exceeded its limit and may collapse and derail at any time. But... the people on the train can't feel it, and the people outside the train can't remind it."

Kud's description made Gerald silent for a long time, and then he nodded slightly: "Your summary... is very vivid."

"But fortunately, you and I are still on the train." Kud pointed at himself and Gerald and said word by word, "We still have a chance to stop it before it completely loses control and derails."

Kud's words made Jellal feel a little dazed.

He has been alone for the past ten years.

No one understood him, no one helped him, and everyone treated him as a madman. He was like the only normal person on the gear train. After realizing that something was wrong with the train, he wanted to remind everyone, but everyone treated him coldly and regarded him as an old psychopath.

But now, a young man finally stood up and said the same thing as him.

From "I" to "we", this is not an easy thing.

But Gerard was not blindly happy, he knew very well that what they were going to face could not be solved by passion alone. He had been stagnant in the same place for ten years, while the enemy had been taking action for ten years, even wiping out their gods...but they still didn't know what they were going to face.

So Gerald just looked at Kud calmly and asked, "Do you have any other ideas?"

"Yes." Kud said quickly, "I have thought about it carefully before coming here. The turning point that triggered all these changes should be the 'Evening Star' incident ten years ago, which happened to you, so my thoughts are all centered around you, but..."

He paused.

"Before I tell you what I think, I hope you can provide more information. I have told you everything I know. This is also my sincerity to you, Gerald." Kud looked into Gerald's eyes and said word by word, "I want to know why Xiaoxing entered the polluted land ten years ago, and did you bring anything out of the polluted land?"

"I know you don't have definite answers to these questions right now because you have lost your memory, so I won't demand all of them."

"Even a little bit is fine. If you have investigated something, or if you have remembered something, even just a little bit will do."

"In short, I want you to tell me everything you know."

"This way, we can find the key to stop Tianqin's gear train."

Gerald was silent.

He could feel the sincerity in Kud's words, and he knew that the key at the moment was still the mission from ten years ago. As long as this was solved, all problems would be solved.

And he was no longer as clueless as before.

But all the information he had and everything he knew came from...

"Tell him." Bai Wei's voice suddenly sounded in Gerald's mind, "You can tell him everything except the part about me."

"That's what you wanted to do, wasn't it?"

"And I also want to see how far you and your descendants can go." Bai Wei chuckled and said, "Will you reach the truth after working hard, or..."

What about praying for my strength after losing everything?

Bai Wei didn't finish the second half of the sentence, but Gerard could understand it.

So after a long silence, Gerard made a decision.

"In that case, come to my house," Gerard said, "I can show you something."

……

There are four towers in the four districts.

Zamen took several deep breaths in front of an office door, and after making sufficient mental preparation, he knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Yongxin's voice was heard from inside, and Zhamen pushed the door open and walked in, then bowed respectfully to Yongxin inside.

"Lord Yongxin."

There was still an undisguised nervousness in his words, and he didn't even dare to look up at Yongxin, because the change in Yongxin that night kept echoing in his mind, causing him to have nightmares about using the wrong quantifier, which still made him feel palpitations until now.

But Yongxin didn't care, he just asked calmly: "Have the people sent to Gerald's house returned?"

This question made Zamen even more nervous, and he stammered in response: "Report, report to Master Yongxin, they haven't come back yet."

"Not back yet?"

"Yes, it is."

"No news at all?"

"No, no." Zamen asked quickly, "Should we send out a second team?"

“No need.” Yong Xin didn’t seem surprised by this outcome. He said calmly, “The fact that they didn’t come back already indicates a lot of problems. It’s useless to send more people… and we’ve already alerted the enemy.”

"I'm sorry, Master Yongxin." Zamen bowed even lower. "So what should we do now?"

"Now..." Yong Xin pondered for a while, and then said softly, "Since it has been confirmed that Gerard has become an uncontrollable person, then we can't proceed step by step. Let's start in advance."

Zamen was slightly stunned: "Start early? So much early?"

"Yes, after all, plans cannot keep up with changes." Yong Xin said lightly, "If I remember correctly, tomorrow night is the day when Bishop Holman returns, right?"

"Yes, it is."

"In that case..." Yong Xin chuckled and said, "Then let the bishop light this new fire himself."

……

"How is this going!?"

After arriving at Gerald's house, Kud was stunned by the scene before him.

This ordinary wooden house has been mostly destroyed. Outside the house is a huge corpse that looks like it has been burned. Behind the huge corpse is a series of bloody footprints, as if this guy walked out of a sea of ​​blood. However, the end point of this series of footprints is the wooden house.

So what the hell happened in the house!?

Kud looked at Jellal in shock, thinking that this was what Jellal wanted to show him.

But he soon discovered that Gerard's expression was not much better than his, and he was obviously not very aware of what was happening in his family.

Because Gerard really didn't know what Bai Wei had done. He just knew that he had eliminated three invaders, but he didn't say that he did it in that way!

"I don't know what happened here." Gerard said in a calm voice, "But the corpse seems to be contaminated. I'll go check the corpse, and you go to the house to see if there are any living people. I think the footprints seem to be human blood."

It has come to this, is there still anyone alive?

Kud complained in his mind, but he said nothing. He nodded and immediately entered Jellal's house.

Gerard strode towards the corpse of the pollutant, and then, under Bai Wei's instructions, retrieved the finger that was swallowed and then spit out from right in front of the pollutant.

This is also something that Kud must not know.

After retrieving his finger, Gerard did not immediately return to the house to reunite with Kud, but instead carefully observed the contaminated corpse in front of him.

To be honest, Gerard had killed at least eight hundred pollutants over the years. He had killed pollutants in various ways, but he had never turned their bodies into this state - the whole body looked like it had been burnt dry and burned through, and the pollutants' proud regeneration and reorganization abilities seemed to have disappeared at this moment.

This was the second time Gerard had seen such a situation.

The first time was in the city of Som half a month ago, when he buried the man named Uru with his own hands.

Is this the final outcome of using Visas' power?

Whether it is humans or pollutants that have more tenacious vitality than humans, they will eventually become what they are now... without even a trace left.

Jellal looked at the polluted corpse in front of him and suddenly felt like he was looking at his future self.

Just then, footsteps were heard behind him, and soon after, Kud stood beside him with a very unhappy expression.

"I checked, there are three bodies inside." Even the experienced captain of the Skeleton Corps found it hard to hold back after seeing the tragic state of the bodies in the inner room. "The body of one of them was completely broken into pieces, so I initially thought there were only two bodies... Tsk, I don't want to say anymore."

Kud shook his head and looked at Jellal again.

"If I ask you about the identities of those three people, you would probably say you don't know, right?"

"I really don't know." Gerald shook his head and pointed to the polluted corpse in front of him. "I originally wanted to show you this."

"Pollutants?" Kud frowned. "Why are there pollutants here?"

"That's what I want to tell you." Gerald said, "Ever since that incident ten years ago, I have been haunted by these things. No matter where I live, these things will find me, so I moved to a remote place like this to avoid accidentally hurting others."

Kud thought, "How long have these things been bothering you?"

"Like I said just now, they have been happening since that incident." Gerald said calmly, "They appear every few days, as if I stole something from them, but I don't know what it is."

As he said this, Gerard looked back into his house.

"As for who's in there, I can only say... there are a lot of people who want to cause trouble for me recently. Maybe they just bumped into each other by chance."

Kude did not have too many doubts about Jellal's statement. The tragic scene inside did seem to be caused by pollutants, and judging from the blood stains left behind, Jellal should have been imprisoned in the headquarters of the Skeleton Army when the tragedy occurred. It was impossible...

Ok?

Kud narrowed his eyes slightly, and then murmured: "In other words, when these three people came to your house, you were locked up by us... and you were locked up in violation of the rules, is that right?"

Gerald turned to look at Kude and said, "Now you should know what I am facing."

"The pollutants are looking for you, and Lyra is looking for you too." Kud said softly, "It's like you took something that they all care about, but you don't know what it is."

"Yes." Gerald said calmly, "What you have seen is all I can tell you."

Kud slowly closed his eyes, as if thinking about something.

After a long time, he opened his eyes, as if he had made a decision, and took out a uniquely shaped key from his pocket.

"I got this from my old boss," Coode said to Gerald. "With it, we can find Bishop Holman directly."

Gerald immediately showed a surprised expression: "You want to find Holman too?"

"It seems that we have the same idea." Kud nodded, and then said softly, "The bishop is connected to Tianqin above and the mortal world below. If Tianqin really has a problem, he must know it."

Gerald looked at Kud and asked, "What if he's the one with the problem?"

"So..." Kud took the key in his hand, and then suddenly smiled at Gerald, "I can only go by myself..."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 101 Thirty-two Keys of Order

When he heard Kud say that he wanted to go find the bishop alone, Gerard immediately shook his head: "No, that's too dangerous."

Kud looked at Gerald and asked, "Do you feel dangerous because you think Bishop Holman is in trouble?"

"I think this is obvious," Gerard said. "For ten years, the five archbishops have not shown up. Even though Tianqin has become so abnormal, they have not taken any action. I can only think that they are the ones with the problem."

Kud was silent for a while, then shook his head: "My opinion is the opposite of yours. In my opinion, the bishop should not be in trouble."

Gerard frowned slightly, but did not ask immediately. He just waited for Kud's explanation.

"Because most of Tianqin's rules are still in operation. Even before we returned from the Rhine, the order we received was to kill you within the scope of the rules, and we even made a deal with the bishop of the Rhine." Kud said slowly, "In my opinion, this is the most direct evidence that the rules are still in operation. And Gerard, have you ever thought about this question, if the bishop wanted you to die, would you really be alive now?"

Gerald's expression changed slightly: "You mean..."

"I don't know if you have ever heard of such a saying, that God's will will affect His believers." Kud said, "I don't know how it is presented in other churches, but in Lyra, our God worships machinery and rules, so the whole Lyra is like this. The will and power of Lyra is transmitted from the Tower of Babel to the four sub-towers, and the four sub-towers are transmitted to the whole Lyra, so the whole Lyra can receive the grace of our Lord."

Gerard nodded slightly. He knew this.

"And there is one point, that is, ordinary people cannot face Tianqin's power and will directly. They must go through the branch towers, and the only ones who control the branch towers and can directly connect with Tianqin are the five bishops." Kud said slowly, "In other words, apart from my Lord Tianqin, the power of the bishops is unlimited. They are not just like the bishops of other churches who only hold power and wealth. They are real, and they have the ability to influence every area under each other's jurisdiction... The branch spirits, from the perspective of mechanical theory, are nodes."

As Kud spoke, he noticed a flash of confusion in Jellal's expression, and he realized that what he said was a bit complicated.

So Kud started to gesture on the ground with his fingers, and this really helped Jellal to understand. After all, the pioneer unit that Jellal was in before did not have in-depth research in this area.

With Kud's simple gesture, Gerard quickly understood what Kud said - "God (the main tower) influences the bishop (the branch tower), and the bishop (the branch tower) influences the world."

"I understand." Gerald nodded, "You can continue."