Under the incandescent light of the gas lamp, Resno held a piece of gauze in his mouth, took off his coat, pierced the tip of the dagger into his own flesh, and picked out a deformed black bullet.
Bang!
The blood-stained bullet landed on the metal plate, making a low sound.
What was even deeper than his voice was Resno's pale face.
Big drops of sweat rolled down his forehead, and he barely managed to bandage the wound. His whole body looked like something fished out of water, soaked all over and still breathing heavily.
Although there are professional doctors in the church, Resno no longer dares to trust them.
"Unexpectedly... Nicholas Inam has been in contact with the mysterious world for a long time... He hides it so well... No, I have to inform the Great Temple as soon as possible..."
Resno scratched his hair irritably.
Just being exposed to the mysterious may be a serious crime for ordinary people and will lead to imprisonment in the Bureau of Investigation, but for those nobles and high-ranking people, it is really nothing.
And Nicholas is the latest role model promoted by the Holy Spirit Church and cannot be immediately knocked down and slandered.
"More evidence is needed...I suspect that he is an extraordinary person in his own right."
The irritability in Resno's heart became more and more intense. He opened the drawer, took out the letter paper, and prepared to write a letter.
"Wait... I seem to have overlooked something... This kind of bullet is very strange... My spirituality seems to be hurt..."
"No, it's pollution!"
A voice suddenly sounded directly in Resno's ear.
"pollute?"
Resno nodded, suddenly reacting, and the muscles on his cheeks became twisted and ferocious: "Who are you?"
"I...I am you!"
In front of Resno's eyes, a figure emerged from the void, and it was exactly the same as him, with a melancholy expression on his face, 'Resno' himself!
"Hallucination? No... I'm schizophrenic? Impossible, I've always paid attention to this aspect, and there has been no promotion of essence recently..."
Resno's expression changed horribly, and he suddenly took action to attack the phantom in front of him.
The next second, his hand passed through the opponent's body in a meaningless manner.
"I am you..."
A voice came directly from the back of his head, and in the thick hair, a human face emerged: "We are originally one..."
Resno's heart seemed to be sinking into an abyss, and he became extremely depressed. He felt as if the world was covered with a layer of dust and glass, and he was isolated from the world.
In the past, it was his lifelong pursuit to fight for the cause of the Church and the Holy See and gain his own status and glory.
But now...Resno feels that everything has lost its meaning, as if he has lost his purpose in life.
Not only that, his threshold for happiness was suddenly raised to a desperate level.
In other words, women, alcohol, tobacco...all the things that made him feel excited and happy in the past suddenly became unattractive.
In just a short period of time, Resnor became a severely depressed patient and even had suicidal tendencies.
Without saying a word, he took out the revolver, put it in his mouth, and rubbed his finger on the trigger.
"Sure enough... although my 'dirty bullets' were not very lethal at first, the sequelae are the most serious."
"If we don't get timely intervention and treatment, we will be in big trouble..."
Next to him, Aaron, who possessed Auclair and turned into an evil spirit, calmly watched the mental patient's performance.
However, Resno played with the firearm for a while, and finally put down the revolver by force of will, without actually trying to commit suicide.
He shrank into a corner, talking to himself for a while as if he was having a conversation with someone, and then remaining silent, looking at everything around him in horror.
"Became a real madman."
Aaron observed for a long time and made a diagnosis: "Well... I originally wanted you to commit suicide, but now it seems..."
He controlled the evil spirit and possessed Resno.
In an instant, Resno's expression became calm and he stood up like a zombie.
Feeling the chaotic spirituality of the other party, Aaron was completely sure that the other party was really crazy and not just pretending!
"Unless you are saved by the 'spirit of vanity', it will be difficult to save yourself from this situation."
Aaron controlled Resno, took out various props, and arranged the ceremony on the ground.
"I swear...I will never tell anyone about what I saw tonight!"
At the heart of the ritual, Resno made a solemn vow.
This is the 'Secret Keeping Ceremony', which Aaron originally used on his maid Sylvia. The normal process requires the swearer to be sincere in order to achieve the effect.
However, at this time, Aaron improved the ritual and chose to use an inhuman evil spirit of the fourth essence as a 'witness', so the binding force would only be stronger than the original version!
"Am I too careful? It's hard to believe what a madman says..."
Aaron muttered to himself, and the spirit left Resno, taking away those deformed and dirty bullet slugs before leaving.
…
The next day, early morning.
Even though there were activities last night, Nicholas got up on time and led the believers and nuns in a morning prayer.
"Your Excellency the Archbishop!"
Just when Nicholas was about to have breakfast, a nun in a black robe came quickly, with no trace of fear and panic on her face.
"Aunt Fraley, what happened?"
Nicholas's voice was soft and seemed to have soothing power.
Aunt Fraley calmed down a little, but her voice was still frightened: "I served breakfast to the clerk, but he... he... he is crazy!"
"What?"
Nicholas couldn't help but be stunned.
A few hours later…
He looked at Resno, who was huddled in the corner of the room, shaking constantly. The disbelief on his face had not faded. He looked at a doctor from the church next to him: "What happened to him?"
"Your Excellency, the Archbishop, the patient is suspected of suffering from mental illness and has shown symptoms of split personality and severe depression..."
The doctor who specializes in serving the church answered with a serious expression.
"Mental illness? I have been working with a madman? Resnor's usual words and deeds are not like a patient at all... Sigh... Could it be that he used amazing perseverance to cover up his illness? This is really for
The cause of the church does not spare one's own body... It is so noble, so great, almost like a saint..."
Nicholas sighed silently in his heart.
"However, while I was examining the patient's body, I also discovered several recent gunshot wounds and abrasions. Judging from the wounds, it seems that they were just in the past two days..."
The doctor continued.
Nicholas regained his composure instantly and understood that the secretary had probably provoked some enemy from the mysterious world and was left in such a miserable state.
'It is also possible that he repelled the enemy, but mysteriously lost control of himself? For extraordinary people, this is not uncommon. If he asked me for help last night, I might be able to perform a purification ritual for him...'
Nicholas sighed in his heart and asked the doctor: "What is the treatment?"