"What is Nilgaard? Do you mind explaining it?" Leo walked to Catherine, squatted on the ground, and looked at the words and symbols on it. He did not feel any energy in these words and symbols.
.
"We'd better go look for it..." Catherine, who had many secrets in her heart, was unwilling to say more and was about to stand up and continue to search for Nelson's whereabouts.
However, before she finished speaking, her body that was about to stand up was pressed down by Leo's hand, and then she heard Leo say in an extremely cold tone: "Miss Catherine, I think we should put it down now."
It’s better to speak clearly.”
"What do you mean?" Catherine's face was solemn, and her hand couldn't help but place it on the battle ax that Leo had given her before.
"Let me tell you the truth! I don't trust you." Leo also acted extremely serious. He did not look at Catherine's hand on the battle ax at all, but looked at her and said: "But doctor
He believes in you very much. He thinks that even if you have lost contact with him for so many years, you are still the Catherine he loves. So as a comrade who fought together from the death line, I can try to trust you, but Miss Catherine, you are very
Disappointing! In my opinion you are not worthy of the doctor’s trust!”
When Nelson was mentioned, Catherine's eyes showed a trace of sadness, then she took a deep breath, stabilized her somewhat guilty mood, and asked: "Why did you say that?"
"Do you still remember the question I asked you?" Leo emphasized his tone and pressed forward step by step: "What is so special about the doctor that would attract Martin Luther's attention? He would not hesitate to come up with a plan full of mistakes at the last minute.
How do you want to trick him into coming to this catacombs with the help of his feelings for you? What does this catacombs have to do with doctors? Do you still remember these two questions? "
"Of course I remember." Catherine responded.
"When I asked you on the rail car coming to the parish, you didn't know the answer. I believed you, so I didn't ask again." The pressure on Leo gradually increased, so that Catherine did not dare to look at him anymore.
"Before entering the secret passage in Yongmian Palace, I asked you again. You deliberately changed the topic, but I didn't care. After all, finding a doctor is the key point. So what now? Do you still want to tell me that you don't know anything?"
Catherine couldn't bear the pressure that kept pouring out of Leo. She turned her head to the side and said without confidence: "But what does this have to do with Nelson? What does what I know now have to do with Nelson?"
"Okay! I believe what you said has nothing to do with Nelson." Leo reached out and put his hand on Catherine's shoulder and said word for word: "Now, I ask Miss Catherine to tell me what you discovered has nothing to do with Nelson.
It doesn’t matter, so I won’t ask any more questions.”
The surrounding atmosphere immediately became quiet and became extremely tense. Jason was not used to such a tense atmosphere, so he found an excuse to investigate the surrounding environment and temporarily avoided this embarrassing atmosphere.
"I don't know what your concerns are. I'm just concerned about the safety of my comrades." Leo let go of his hand on Catherine's shoulder, and said in a slightly softer tone, "The doctor must have been brought here for a purpose.
Yes, think about the case information provided by Mr. Martin! If there are no accidents, the doctor will definitely encounter similar things, so the more thoroughly we understand what we are facing now, the more safely we can rescue the doctor, you
What do you think?"
After Leo finished speaking, the surroundings became quiet again, but the atmosphere was inexplicably relaxed and no longer as tense and serious as before.
Catherine suddenly said: "I do know some things related to Nelson, but this matter is also related to my race. This is the secret of my race, so I..."
Before Catherine could finish speaking, Leo took the initiative to interrupt her explanation, stood up, and said, "In that case, just pretend that I didn't ask, and you don't have to say anything. Let's go find a doctor!"
"No! You are right, there are things I should tell you." Catherine stopped Leo, hesitated a little, and said, "Martin will target Nelson because of Nelson's background."
"The doctor's background?" Leo sat back next to Catherine and asked doubtfully.
Catherine said: "Nelson is the youngest son of the Matthew family in Port Sète."
Originally, Catherine was expecting Leo to show surprise, but Leo had no reaction at all.
Catherine asked: "Do you already know Nelson's life experience?"
"I don't know." Leo shook his head and said honestly, "I don't even know about the Matthew family."
"Are you from the Kingdom of England?" Catherine showed an incredulous expression and said, "Robert Matthew, Lord Protector? The withered White Rose Family?"
It's a pity that after Catherine said so much, Leo still looked confused and confused.
It’s no wonder that Leo reacted like this. This body used to be just a blacksmith in a remote town. He knew very little about the history of the Kingdom of Inge and only cared about things around him. Even if he had some memories with him,
The fusion is not complete, so naturally you don't know about the Protector of the Country or the White Rose Family.
Seeing that Leo really didn't know these things, Catherine explained carefully: "Robert Matthew is the founder of the White Rose family. Because he saved the British royal family, he was granted the title of Lord Protector and made his own
The son married a princess of the royal family, and his daughter married the later Charles I, which started a century-long era of red roses and white roses co-ruling the Kingdom of England. However, for unknown reasons later, the white roses
The Rose family declined day by day, gradually withdrew from the political center of the Kingdom of England, and moved to Port Sète."
Leo asked in confusion: "What does this have to do with this underground tomb?"
Catherine said: "After a hundred years of intermarriage between the Matthew family and the Inge royal family, the blood of the family also has royal blood, and the Inge royal family is said to have the blood of gods."
"Bloodline of the gods?" Leo was stunned for a moment. If he had sneered at such a thing before, but now he couldn't help but think of the black shadow he saw in that unknown place and the golden color he saw in the black forest.
Giant deer, in a certain respect, these existences are no different from gods.
"I really doubt you are from England." Catherine misunderstood that Leo was stunned because he didn't know the matter, so she muttered to herself, but she didn't know that she had revealed the truth, "The creation of the British royal family
William I, the earliest general of the First Dynasty of France, was convicted of treason because he offended the then Emperor of France. However, because other nobles interceded, the punishment was changed from beheading to exile at sea. Legend has it that William I and his family were at sea.
After drifting for many days, the food was exhausted and all hope of survival was completely lost. At this time, a sea god appeared, rescued William I and his family, and brought them to what is now the Inge Islands. Later, William I
He and his descendants became his dependents, giving them the blood of the gods, so the Yinge royal family has always regarded themselves as descendants of Poseidon."
"Poseidon?" Leo was stunned for a moment when he heard this and said, "The octopus on the army badge is Poseidon?"
"Yes." Catherine already knew very well that Leo knew nothing about these legends, whether they were from his own country or not.
"Okay! The doctor has the blood of the gods, which is why he was targeted." Leo summarized it a little, and then asked: "What about this underground tomb? It has something to do with the doctor, or the blood of the gods in the doctor.
what relationship?"
When talking about the catacombs, the worry on Catherine's face appeared again. After much hesitation, she decided to speak out.
Catherine walked to the foundation of the statue, squatted down and touched the strange words on it, and said with emotion: "This is not a catacombs, this should be an ancient underground city-state called Nilgard, which is the ancestral land of us lonely people.
The real names of us people should be Nilgardians."
Hearing what Catherine said, Leo was stunned and asked doubtfully: "Are all the workers living in Cage City from your tribe?"
"Not entirely, but most of them." Katharine Han answered vaguely, then remained silent for a while, and asked Leo: "Do you know the history of the French Dynasty? For example, the slave kingdom that almost cut off the inheritance of the French Empire
.”
"I heard the doctor say it on the way to Lanxi."
"Everyone knows that His Majesty destroyed the dynasty of the newly established Western Continent, rebuilt the French Empire, continued the bloodline of the French royal family, and destroyed all writings about that dynasty, because that dynasty was established by slaves, and others mentioned
When it was born, we could only give it the name of the Slave Kingdom." When Catherine mentioned the French Empire, she inadvertently revealed a look of hostility and hatred, and when she mentioned the Slave Kingdom, she also had a hint of inexplicable sentimentality, saying
: "Everyone only sees the glorious French Empire, but how many people know the final whereabouts of those who participated in the establishment of the slave kingdom?"
"Are you the descendants of the Slave Kingdom?" Leo guessed with understanding.
Catherine did not admit or deny, but continued: "In the past years, our people have been tortured by the French royal family in every possible way, making us do the heaviest and most dangerous work, and letting us live in the worst housing.
They eat the worst food in this place and neither let us live well nor let us die in pain. They want to torture us forever."
As she spoke, she felt something was wrong with her mood, so she stopped and closed her eyes slightly to calm down her increasingly agitated emotions. Leo did not disturb her and waited quietly for the rest of the story.
At this time, Jason, who had walked away before, seemed to feel that the atmosphere here had returned to normal, so he walked over and sat aside without making a sound.
"We survived. We returned to our royal capital, rebuilt a city, reunited our faith, and rediscovered our past history." Catherine narrated happily: "We discovered the remains of our predecessors in the catacombs.
The ancient books that came down include ancient books about the slave kingdom that was erased from existence by the French Empire, and there are also ancient books that are even older."
"Wait!" Leo suddenly stopped Catherine from continuing, then very suddenly took Catherine's hand, signaled to Jason, and ran towards one of the stone houses, and quickly hid in the stone house.
He placed his hands on the two battle axes on his waist, pressed against the edge of the window, and peered out.
Leo's sudden move made Jason and Catherine who followed him instantly become nervous. Although they didn't know why, they each took out their own weapons and held them tightly in their hands. At the same time, they used their robes to cover the wall lamps in their hands.
Cover.
However, they waited for a long time but didn't feel any movement outside. They couldn't help but have some doubts in their hearts, wondering whether Leo had made a mistake in his judgment. When they were about to ask, Leo raised his hand to stop him, and then they saw Leo.
Pointing to the ruins on the edge of the square.
Jason and Catherine poked their heads out from the edge of the window and looked carefully at Leo's finger. Soon they saw a clue. There was a black figure lurking in the ruins, but what made them confused was the black figure.
His body shape is very weird no matter how you look at it.
The overall image of this black shadow is very much like a ball of mud. When it moves, it doesn't feel like it is moving, but more like it is flowing on the ground.
In addition, its body is transparent, allowing the light emitted by the fluorescent plants covered by the body to pass through the body and project outward, creating an effect similar to invisibility.
If it weren't for the fact that the black shadow's ability to be transparent disappears from time to time when it moves, allowing its true form to be revealed, it might be difficult for Jason and Catherine to see that such a monster exists in the ruins.
I saw that the monster's movement seemed very slow, but in fact it was very fast, and it was not affected by the terrain. It quickly climbed over a rubble ruins that was difficult for ordinary people to climb over, and came to Leo's previous location.
In front of the square where they were staying.
At this time, the monster suddenly stopped, circled around the base of the statue, and stopped next to the foundation stone where Catherine and Leo had just sat. Its mud-like body wrapped the foundation stone.
Seeing this, Leo didn't say anything. He immediately took out a church robe that he had put in his backpack, took out a tomb wall lamp, poured all the lamp oil on the robe, rolled it into a ball, and took it out.
Got a lighter.
Jason and Catherine on the side also became nervous. At this time, Leo made a gesture to Jason again, pointing to the flintlock hand cannon that Jason carried on his back.
Jason immediately took out the hand cannon with understanding, quickly inserted a piece of ammunition, handed it to Leo, helped him carry it on his back, and at the same time took the breech-loading gun equipped with five special bullets from his hand.
At this moment, the monster suddenly released its transparent body ability, and arched up from the ground, about a person's height, cracked a hole in its mud-like body, and let out a scream towards the house where Leo and the others were.
Chapter completed!