The heavy rain washed away the blood stains on Yin Fu and others.
There are a lot of bloody streams flowing on the ground.
"What should we do now?" Yin Fu looked at Xia Yanzhen and asked.
Father Anderson took the lead in this operation, and his performance just now clearly confirmed his leadership status.
Xia Yan really decided that the black crow and the blood-armored knights would not have a second thought.
"Go on, go inside and take a look." Xia Yanzhen said.
The sudden appearance of a large number of dead bodies is obviously abnormal. The castle and manor of Noda is right in front of you, so you might as well investigate it.
Send two black crows over to gather the scattered horses again and find a place to take shelter from the rain.
The remaining people walked into the castle manor.
There is a trench outside the castle, which is the "moat". It has experienced three stages: there was water, then there was no water, and now there is a little water due to heavy rain.
The black city wall is not too high, about three meters, and the main wall of the real castle inside is very high.
Medieval fortress.
The trench is three to four meters wide, and the suspension bridge has long been damaged, making it impossible to lower it to form a passage.
A group of people will not descend into a trench and then climb up like a dead body.
They easily jumped over and entered the castle estate.
Inside are various old and abandoned low-rise buildings. In theory, they will not be so completely abandoned in ten years.
There is only one reason why it is in such tatters, and that is because there are too many rats, which grind their teeth.
As everyone came in, they did hear the squeaking and rustling sounds of many mice.
Even the sound of heavy rain couldn't cover it up.
Several black crows spread out and searched everywhere.
Xia Yanzhen and the others went straight to the big castle in the center.
"Why is the door closed?" A group of people came to the castle. Compared with other buildings, the main body of the castle here is very complete.
Not too much broken.
The door is covered with iron sheet and is stained with rust.
"Is there a problem with locking it up?" someone asked.
"According to the scout's information, the door here was open. He saw many dead bodies running out of it, so he came over to report it," Yin Fu said.
The church attaches great importance to the security around the Holy City. There are Dark Crow Scouts and Red Knight squads patrolling every day.
The area is not small, and the dead bodies here were discovered by the Dark Crow Scouts.
Yin Fu and Xia Yanzhen read the mission information together.
Xia Yanzhen didn't speak, so she explained some situations.
"It's normal for the dead body to knock the door open, but can they still close it?" said a blood-armored knight.
Whether it's the Dark Crow of the Burial Agency or the Red Knight of the Knights.
The biggest enemy I have faced in these years is not other people, but the dead body.
They know a lot about dead bodies, and they know that this thing is a beast without intelligence and cannot open the door.
Yin Fu stepped forward and was about to push open the door, but paused for a moment.
"What?" Xia Yanzhen asked.
"There is resistance." Yin Fu exerted force, and everyone heard the sound of something breaking, and then the door opened.
"What's this?"
"this……"
Seeing the dim scene behind the door, a group of people were stunned for a moment.
Behind the door is not a flat ground, but a huge pothole that takes up almost all the ground space.
At the very center of the pothole, there is a deep well-like underground cave.
The diameter is about five meters.
The whole shape is like a huge funnel.
In this funnel, there were still a few dead bodies that were not very healthy. As Xia Yanzhen and others entered, they moved over with difficulty to attack.
It can be said that he is very dedicated.
The dedicated dead body was trampled to pieces by the ferocious blood-armored knights.
A group of people descended into the pit and came to the cave in the middle.
It was pitch dark in the deep well-like hole, and nothing could be seen except for the slightest sound of mice.
A black crow lit the small lantern on his waist and threw it in.
The hole is much deeper than imagined.
In the end, the lantern did not hit the bottom floor, but hit a group of dead bodies crowded in the cave.
The dead reacted violently to the fallen lantern.
He quickly destroyed it and spilled the oil on himself, igniting himself instead.
In the flames, everyone except Xia Yanzhen looked unhappy.
It was obvious that the dead body had emerged from the ground.
This means that there are already roads extending in all directions underground, which is difficult for humans to explore.
These roads, possibly opened by rats, now serve as passages for "transporting" dead bodies.
Dead bodies can appear everywhere through underground roads, making them even more dangerous.
"Something's wrong, something's wrong!" Valentine thought a lot. "I can understand rats digging holes, but rats dig such big holes, and dead bodies are scurrying through these holes. In the end, the door can be closed! Is this reasonable?"
If there is no problem behind this, Valentine will cut off his head.
All these years of worries came true, and Valentine wished he could retire on the spot and huddle in the Holy City motionless.
Fire does not cause dead bodies to escape like those "regular" rats.
They are not afraid of pain, and the damage caused by fire to dead bodies is negligible.
After a while, the flames extinguished, unable to stop the charred dead bodies from climbing upwards.
As the cave turned dark again, no one spoke.
Only Valentine's words seemed to still echo.
"It's the Damon siblings who are controlling them!" After a while, Yin Fu said.
"Can William still control the dead body?" Xia Yanzhen asked.
His younger brother William can control ordinary mice by turning them into red-eyed mice, but to be honest, his control is very low.
Xia Yanzhen still remembered the difficult appearance of William's veins on his forehead.
It's like going to the toilet for someone with constipation and hemorrhoids.
He didn't think William had the ability to control so many rats to dig tunnels and then control the dead bodies to gather there.
"Is she a witch?" someone asked.
Xia Yanzhen looked over with a questioning expression.
Yin Fu explained: "Mrs. Damon, the mother of the Damon siblings, she has been imprisoned in the Holy City."
"Does she have this ability?"
"I don't know, if William can control mice..." Yin Fu shook her head.
Even Yin Fu didn't know much about Mary Damon.
The Black Death broke out that year, and after the source was determined, it was the Pope, several cardinals, and the most powerful blood-armored knight Lancelot who worked together to capture the witch and imprison her in the deepest part of the church prison.
Why do you just imprison the witch instead of killing her?
Even Yin Fu and others didn't know and didn't dare to ask.
There are many secrets involved, and I am afraid only those at the Cardinal level are qualified to understand them.
"Let's go." Xia Yanzhen turned around.
"Just leave like this?"
"Well, you don't want to jump down and get caught by a bunch of rats," Xia Yanzhen said.
He was not sensitive to an environment like an underground passage filled with rats.
Report the information here and let the Cardinal worry about it.
Walking out of the castle, the heavy rain outside showed no signs of stopping.
Several black crows who were probing around returned and determined that there were no more holes here, only the big hole deepening the pit.
This is where the dead emerged.
After leaving the castle, everyone rode horses and headed towards the Holy City.
After dark night fell, everyone returned to the Holy City.
Outside the Holy City, lights dotted and spread out, illuminating the surrounding buildings.
The bright lights can effectively prevent rats from emerging and injuring people and spreading the Black Death.
It's darker inside the Holy City.
Because the Holy City does not need additional light, it can also isolate rats and dangers.
Xia Yanzhen and Yin Fu found Huolun who was woken up from his sleep and reported the situation.
After hearing this, Huo Lun's expression changed and he left in a hurry.
You should go discuss it with other people.
"Where are the other five blood-armored knights?" Xia Yanzhen asked Yin Fu.
Yin Fu shook her head and said she didn't know: "You don't really want to collect all the eternal blood armor, do you?"
"Isn't it good? I'll put it at home and it will look very neat." Xia Yanzhen said.
It was difficult for Yin Fu to understand Xia Yanzhen's false collecting habit.
But he thought that coming to the church wouldn't stop him from sparring with the blood-armored knight.
As for the eternal blood armor, whether it is in the hands of the blood armor knight or the sanctifying priest, it still belongs to the church in the end and has no impact.
At least that's what the church leaders think.
After the report, Xia Yanzhen returned to his residence to rest.
On the other side, Huo Lun and a group of cardinals entered the underground prison of the church.
In the rooms deep underground, the corridors are not narrow, dark, and damp.
At first glance, it looks similar to the walkway on the ground, except that the glass is missing.
A group of people walked through the corridor and came into a large room.
In the center of the room, there are three crosses.
On the cross, three people were bound.
The one in the middle has a pale face and is dressed in clean white clothes. His long red hair and red lips are in sharp contrast to his pale face.
Her hands were nailed to the cross, spread out to both sides.
Didn't move.
There was a black pipe piercing his body in front of him and connected to the chair in front of the cross.
In the soft and wide chair, the old Pope shrank, and the black tube penetrated into the Pope's arm through a small hollow metal tube.
It can be seen from the faint blood seeping out that the Pope is being transfused.
Nailed on the other two crosses were Jones, brother and sister William.
Unlike the mother in the middle, they seemed to be more energetic and resistant, so their hands and feet were nailed to the cross.
The same thing is that there is no blood flowing out of the wounds of the three people, and they all have a black tube on their bodies.
Forming the shape of a trident, the blood passes through the tube and eventually flows into the Pope's body.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Huolun and others coming together, the Pope opened his eyes and asked.
Huo Lun told Xia Yanzhen and others what they had discovered.
The Pope pulled out the needle on his arm and stood up, letting the blood slowly drip from the needle onto the chair.
He walked up to the three crosses, raised his hands and began to chant.
A ray of light emerged from the void and rolled towards the three unconscious people on the cross.
Mary, Jones, and William felt pain while in coma, and their bodies began to tremble unconsciously.
But none of them woke up.
Let the light travel through your body.
It looked like Xia Yanzhen had seen the scene where the Book of Divine Purification swallowed the Book of the Dead.
After a moment, the shuttle light disappeared into the void.
The Pope then retracted his hand, returned to the chair, and inserted the needle into his arm, allowing the blood of the three people to continue flowing into his body.