Blue Sword

Twenty minutes later.

In the middle of the empty square, Asker held a knife in his right hand and a sword in his left hand, standing in the middle of the data fragments on the ground.

Raphael looked at him blankly, as if his expression was frozen.

"Your swordsmanship is wrong." After a long silence, Raphael finally said, "I just monitored your fighting process."

"Faced with such a highly complex battlefield environment, if we want to replicate the effects of your swordsmanship just now, the computing power required has theoretically exceeded the sky... This is not an ability that ordinary people can achieve. It comes from your The power of extraordinary swordsmanship?”

"I don't know what you are talking about." Asik sheathed his sword and looked around, "So these are all encryption programs?"

"What's the name of your extraordinary swordsmanship?" Raphael didn't answer, but quickly flew in front of him, with an expression of curiosity and excitement - as if a child had seen a beloved toy.

"Is this all?" Ask asked repeatedly.

"If I don't have a name, I'll give it one." Raphael said seriously, "How about calling it 'Laplace Demon Sword'?"

Ask:………………

“I think it’s better to call it the ‘Sword that Artificial Intelligence Must Die’.” Asik narrowed his eyes.

"Haha, I'm just kidding." Raphael said with a smile, "That should be all. I have sensed that the connection between the body and us has been restored. Do you want to go out now?"

"Hurry." Ask said.

"Okay." Raphael opened his arms and said with a smile, "Hold me and I will take you out."

Asker solemnly pulled out his sword.

Then he woke up from the information connection cabin.

"Asker!" Nora quickly helped him up, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine. I didn't die." Ask understood what she was worried about. "My sanity is not damaged."

"That's good." Nora breathed a sigh of relief and patted her chest.

"Where's your brother?" Asked.

"They seemed to have found something and went out temporarily." Nora said.

"Your Excellency Ask, Miss Nora." Raphael's voice sounded again. At this time, it was no longer as agile as in the virtual world, but a cold and indifferent female voice:

"Thank you both for your help in cracking the encryption. Please return to the Licinius Building as soon as possible and wait for further notice from us."

"Let's go." After noticing that Raphael was in a bad state at this time, Ask also realized that a plot mission was about to happen, and quickly said to Nora.

"Okay." Nora said seriously, "I will take you out."

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A few minutes ago, based on Raphael's analysis of the decrypted incomplete data, information about a certain location was exposed to the priests.

Bishop Varian led the papal guards to the outer city, and the remaining cardinals, together with the pope, were discussing how to deal with Bishop Langdon in the Lateran Palace and paying close attention to Varian's field progress.

Even after capturing and subduing Bishop Langdon, the hour hand of Giotto's Bell still stayed in place and did not roll back - indicating that Raphael judged that the threat had not been eliminated.

The location decrypted by Raphael is located in an abandoned building near the Tiber River in Beicheng District. In the Fourth Age, this place was originally planned to be developed into a commercial complex, but it was abandoned due to a break in the capital chain.

Everyone headed down the passage of the underground garage, and soon found the secret entrance: leading to the subway station at the bottom of the building, which of course was already abandoned at this time.

After rushing into the subway station, everyone discovered that the surrounding subway facilities had been removed and replaced with various biological research equipment. There was even a neat row of petri dishes against the wall. From the subway's exit A, Stretching all the way to Port B, it contains either humans or some kind of half-human, half-tree corpse.

A large amount of information was scattered on the ground. It was obvious that these staff members evacuated in a hurry and only had time to take away important documents. The papal guards rushed to the nearest computer, pulled out the data cable from their temples, and quickly invaded the server here.

In the Lateran Palace, the deleted information recovered by Raphael in real time was also fed back to the cardinals.

Ectoplasm Tree Project:

Using a large number of clones of transcendent beings that were on the verge of getting out of control, "stimulation mutagenesis" was carried out on some tissues of the Tree of Origin.

The purpose is to take advantage of the "evolutionary" characteristics of the Sephiroth Tree to mutate this part of the tissue into a "Trees of Sephiroth" that crave spirituality.

The tree of ectoplasm inherits the "pollution" ability of the tree of ectoplasm. It can secrete "ectoplasm" to pollute and create appendages. These appendages will autonomously crave any spiritual creature and devour and pollute them.

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"Get ready to activate level 4 martial law immediately!" Innocent suddenly said loudly before the message had finished scrolling.

The cardinals below all shuddered in fear. Level 4 martial law, corresponding to the outbreak of R4 level deterrence events, has not occurred for how many years?

In other words, the so-called spiritual tree...

...Has been released by Bishop Langdon’s people?

"Raphael!" Innocent stood up, "How many potential ectoplasm polluters are there in Solomon City today?"

Raphael was silent.

The cardinals also held their breath nervously.

A map suddenly appeared on the screen. The dense buildings were centered on Solomon City and radiated in all directions along the streets.

Then, several dark red dots appeared on the map, with blood-red numbers written next to them: 23.

"Currently, 23 ectoplasm polluters have been discovered." Raphael typed a video on the screen next to him, which was taken by the urban police officer while on duty.

Inside the window was a pedestrian on the roadside, his face frozen and his expression dull. From the neck bones on his back, a translucent figure protruded, covered with strange branches and vines, twisting and dancing crazily in the air.

Templars and vigilantes were shooting at him, but the tainted pedestrian was riddled with dozens of bullets and still walked forward tenaciously and mechanically.

"Currently, a total of 23 cases of ectoplasm contaminants have been confirmed." Raphael said indifferently, "The Templars and the Sheriff have been notified to deal with it."

Before the bishops present could breathe a sigh of relief, they heard Raphael continue:

"Based on the movement routes and contact ranges of these 23 polluters in the last six hours, a total of 28,821 potentially dangerous polluters were identified."

The Solomon map in the center of the screen was instantly covered with countless light red dots. Most of Solomon was dyed red almost instantly.

Bishops:! ! !

"Level 4 martial law has been activated, and the city-wide lockdown has begun." Rafael finally said, "But the estimated effect is not optimistic."

"Due to the recent influence of the demonic tide, complex technological devices including anti-magic magnetic fields cannot be used, and related industrial production lines have not yet been restored. Judging from the combat power displayed by the ectoplasm polluters, the Templars armed with ordinary gunpowder weapons must suppress Identifying polluters is difficult."

"And, in the next 24 hours, the number of second-generation polluters will increase exponentially. At that time, the difficulty of suppression will increase dramatically."

"Raphael." A certain cardinal suddenly asked, "What is the attack tendency of these spiritual polluters?"

"Analyze based on the information left by the other party." Raphael replied, "Out of the instinctive desire for spirituality, spiritual polluters tend to attack extraordinary people. The higher the level, the easier it is to be attacked."

"The second is ordinary humans who have not taken the magic potion, but have ingested a certain amount of spirituality through various channels on a daily basis."

"Celestine, what do you mean?" Innocent asked seriously.

"The human purists represented by Bishop Langdon." Celestine replied, "Their purpose of creating and spreading the ectoplasmic tree is undoubtedly to eliminate the extraordinary beings in order to purify mankind."

"If the Ectoplasm Tree attacks all living organisms indiscriminately and irreversibly contaminates the target like the Essence Tree, how can they possibly achieve their purpose of 'purifying humanity'?"

Celestine said solemnly: "I suggest capturing a polluter immediately for emergency experiments."

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