Compared with adapting to the improvement in physical fitness, it is obviously much more difficult to adapt to the improvement in mental attributes.
Leo's mental attribute that has been improved to twenty points can be regarded as an official spiritual psyker in the Earth Federation. However, these improved mental powers are not obtained by him after years of accumulation. It is probably The soul of this body is completely merged with his own, so these mental powers belong to outsiders. If they are not properly controlled, they may even interfere with his original mental powers.
The most obvious manifestation of the sudden increase in spiritual power is the talent for spiritual perception.
The talent of spiritual perception is directly linked to mental power and spiritual energy. When the spiritual power is still ten points, Leo can easily control the talent of spiritual perception.
But as his mental power increased to twenty points, his spiritual perception talent began to show signs of losing control. The most obvious feature was that even if he did not open his spiritual net and activate his spiritual vision, he could easily distinguish negative things around him through perception. The energy field can also sense the goodwill and malice of people around you, and can even sense the fragments of thoughts emitted when some people burst out with strong emotions and thoughts.
A large amount of information poured into Leo's mind uncontrollably. If he were an ordinary person, he would have been driven crazy by these messy and negative emotions, thoughts, etc.
Fortunately, Leo has an accessory brain system. When he was affected, he turned on the filtering mode of his accessory brain, summarized the various information records that were constantly pouring in, analyzed the useful parts, and saved them, and the useless parts. Then discard it directly.
Although using the accessory brain system to deal with the shortcomings of a rapid increase in mental power is a bit opportunistic, it at least gives Leo a buffer time, allowing him enough time to adapt to the surge in mental power.
"Activate the Spiritual Network."
After a little adapting to the spiritual perception talent that increased along with his spiritual power, Leo immediately began to try the spiritual network skill that he had just completed creating the spiritual skill module.
Just as he had guessed in advance, after the mental network formed the psychic skill, it no longer needed to activate spiritual vision. It could be activated independently, and the coverage area of ​​the activated mental network expanded to about two hundred meters.
He felt that if used in conjunction with the perfect control skill, the coverage of the mental network should be doubled.
In addition, as the mental network opens, the surrounding negative energy force fields begin to be drawn in by the energy-absorbing properties of the mental network and penetrate into the mental network.
The negative impact caused by his spiritual talent just now appeared again, but this time it was no longer a variety of thoughts and emotions that could be analyzed clearly, but an indescribable negative energy that made him feel like he was in an ice cave. Generally, the body and mind become extremely cold.
Leo, who felt something abnormal, immediately followed the method of using the mental network compiled by the Earth Federation, controlled the mental network to expel the negative energy, limited the mental network's ability to absorb the energy traveling around, and only kept the basic detection ability of the mental network unchanged. Quickly collect the surrounding terrain data into the accessory brain system, forming a three-dimensional terrain map in your eyes.
In order to collect as much terrain data as possible, Leo stood up and started walking around, especially around the tower-shaped sacrament hall, which puzzled some priests who noticed his strange behavior. , because he didn’t do anything extraordinary, so he didn’t stop him.
After Leo returned to the starting point, a complete topographic map of the Holy Chapel was projected in Leo's eyes.
There is nothing special about the Sacramentum on the ground. The building is completely the same kind of common religious buildings such as vaults, stone pillars, and religious sculptures. The only thing that surprises Leo is that there are three places in the Sacramentum where his spirit can be found.
The net cannot penetrate, and one of the places should be the meditation hall where Catherine went, which corresponds to the three high priests of the church.
However, Leo didn't care too much about the parts on the ground. He just needed to understand the terrain and the defensive deployment of the church guards. It was enough. What he really paid attention to was the underground tombs.
According to what Martin said, there is a huge catacomb underground under the Holy Chapel, and only those believers who are terminally ill will be sent into it to see if they can obtain the favor of Aknaya before they die.
After investigation through the Spiritual Network, it was indeed as Martin said, there was a huge space about five meters down from the Holy Chapel, but he found that the catacombs only occupied a small part of this space.
The downward extending boundary of this underground space has exceeded the coverage of the spiritual network. Analysis of the data collected such as terrain, ruin fragments, and overall structure, etc., shows that this place is more like an underground city, a city based on ancient times.
An underground city centered around a temple.
It's just that only a part of this underground city close to the surface has been excavated. This part is the underground tomb. As for the main body of the deeper city, it has been buried by rubble. Many passages leading to deeper underground have been discovered through the spiritual network.
They were all blocked by a large amount of rubble.
What's interesting is that the Church of Aknaya should be well aware that there is an underground city below, because Leo discovered that there were more than one team of people digging blocked passages in the deepest part of the catacombs.
What is even more interesting is that not far from the excavation team, there is a group of monsters in a closed basement with only a deep well leading to it, and people from the Aknaya Church are dropping a large amount of meat into the deep well. It is obviously members of the Aknaya Church.
They are aware of the existence of these monsters, and it is even possible that they are the creators of the monsters.
When the mental network sensed these monsters, Leo almost thought he had returned to Federation Research Base No. 21, because the conditions of these monsters were very similar to what he remembered in some parts of his memory.
Federal Research Base No. 21 is an institution that is not recorded by the federal government. If Leo hadn't been escorting a batch of important experimental products, he probably wouldn't have known that the Federation had Research Base No. 21.
The main research project of this research base is to optimize human genes, which is often called xenogeneic modification.
As the Earth Federation entered the interstellar age and began to expand into the interstellar space, humans discovered that their bodies were very unsuitable for survival in the universe. Various types of harmful rays, countless unknown viruses, and other common things in the universe could easily take away human lives.
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At the same time, the federal government also discovered that many of the alien races that have had contact with it have extremely strong survivability and adaptability in the universe. So some people proposed to see if the excellent genes of the alien races could be integrated into it.
In order to optimize human genes, the Federation established the No. 21 Research Base that does not appear in any documents.
In this research base, there is a warehouse specially designed to accommodate failed experiments. When Leo was assisting the base in dealing with failed products, he entered that warehouse and saw hundreds of experimental products that failed due to fusion of alien genes, and those failed experiments
The appearance of Pin is very similar to the monster that Spirit Network saw in that basement.
The reason why they are similar does not refer to the appearance of the two, but to the distortion and deformation of the body caused by the collapse of the body's genes after the failure of gene fusion. This situation is very similar.
"Have people in this world mastered xenogeneic modification technology?" Leo felt extremely shocked and even more unbelievable about his discovery. After all, even the Earth Federation has just started to develop xenogeneic modification technology. Such a technology
How could a world that had just developed into the steam age possess such cutting-edge science and technology?
Although he was confused, Leo did not worry about this problem for too long. After all, they would enter the catacombs soon. If they check it carefully then, they might find the answer.
After dispelling the three-dimensional terrain map in his eyes, Leo also focused on the mental network skill.
Since the test of the mental network skill just now, Leo has not taken back the mental network. It has been more than twenty minutes since he maintained the mental network, and he found that for such a long time, the consumption of spiritual energy caused by the mental network was only
Just a little bit of psychic energy.
Such a small amount of consumption is simply incomparable to before the mental network skill was formed.
In Leo's view, the reason is that in addition to the fact that the formed psychic skills themselves consume much less spiritual energy than the unformed skills, the bigger reason may be related to the existence of the mental network skill in the spiritual perception talent.
Because from this situation, Leo's mental net should probably be regarded as half skill and half talent. The talent does not consume spiritual energy, so when the mental net is opened, his spiritual energy consumption is higher than that of the normal mental net skill.
Reduce it by half, or even more.
"Leo, something seems to have happened over there?" Just when Leo was concentrating on checking the details of the mental network skills and preparing to try several of the most common methods of using the mental network in the Earth Federation, Jason, who was sitting next to him, suddenly stood up.
She walked up to him, pushed him, and said to a place not far away that should be a confessional.
Upon hearing this, Leo withdrew his attention from the mental network and personal data interface, and looked towards where Jason was pointing.
Perhaps because all physical qualities have been greatly improved, the vision of his eyes has also improved a lot. Even if his spiritual vision is not turned on, he can easily see distant scenes.
At this moment, a large number of church guard priests equipped with sabers and hand crossbows were quickly gathering toward the building Jason pointed to. The church guards who were already there seemed to be planning to rush into the building, but bursts of gunfire followed.
The sound came from inside the building, and those who tried to rush in were forced to exit.
At this time, an astonishing scene happened. The believers around the building suddenly pushed away the priests who were about to invade the building, and each of them turned into brave warriors who were not afraid of death and rushed into the building unarmed.
After a burst of rapid gunfire, cheers came from the building, and then they saw the Aknaya believers who were not killed in the conflict dragging a dozen people who were also wearing black robes and were unconscious and unbelieving from the building.
After they came out and handed them over to the church guards, they all sat back down to where they were before as if nothing was wrong, continuing their interrupted prayers without even treating the wounds of those who were injured.
After that, I saw the priests of the church guard clearing out more than thirty corpses and a dozen believers who were seriously injured and unable to move from the building. From this, it can be seen that the battle in that building in less than a minute was
How tragic.
"What a madman, a bunch of madmen!" After watching the whole commotion, Jason looked at the other believers around him who were indifferent to what just happened. He couldn't help but swallowed dryly, with a look of horror on his face.
He said with lingering fear.
Leo knew exactly what Jason was talking about. To be honest, he was shocked by the scene just now, and he felt a sense of fear that he had never felt before.
In the wars of the Earth Federation, it is not uncommon for soldiers to charge without fear of death because they are forced into a desperate situation. However, such things usually have two prerequisites. One is that there is no way out, and the other is that
Inject epinephrine.
However, those believers just now clearly have nothing to do with these ordinary church believers, and they do not need to intervene in what happens in the building. They only need to stay aside and watch the church guards deal with these people who are causing trouble.
But these people suddenly rushed into the building like madmen. They did not need to inject any drugs at all, and they were able to deal with those who caused the unrest without fear of death. Afterwards, whether it was the enemy or the opponent,
The deaths of other believers were all treated with indifference, which really made Leo, who was used to all kinds of battles and all kinds of deaths, feel a little chilled.
As for the reason that made him fearful, he thought that there might be many believers who were as brave as before and were not afraid of death. He glanced around, and in this bright sanctuary with a diameter of five kilometers, he could be transformed at any time.
There are no less than 50,000 lunatic believers, not counting other believers living in those steel-framed buildings.
According to Martin, there are more than one million members of the Aknaya Church in Cage City. Martin may not know how many such fanatics there are among them. However, even if there are only ten such fanatics,
One percent, then the Aknaya Church also has at least one hundred thousand dead soldiers to drive.
"What do they want to do? This is definitely not something ordinary churches do." Leo was keenly aware of the strangeness. In his mind, he couldn't help but picture these 100,000 death-defying believers armed with various deadly weapons.
The scene of leaving the cage city.
At this time, Catherine hurriedly walked out of the Holy Chapel. From her gloomy face, it could be seen that the meeting with the High Priest Major had ended on bad terms.
Standing on the steps of the Holy Chapel, she looked at the place where the turmoil had just occurred with some doubts. Her face was a little dazed, and she seemed not to know what had just happened. Then she looked around again and saw the tall Lei Lei.
Ou and Jason stood very conspicuously among a group of seated black-robed believers, and immediately walked over quickly.
"The catacombs have been sealed. Even I am not allowed to enter. We have to think about something else... Hey!" Catherine walked over quickly and told the result of the conversation with High Priest Major, but the words were not spoken yet.
After that, he stopped, then looked around, and asked with a puzzled look: "Why are there only two of you, Nelson?"
Chapter completed!