Enforcer's Handbook

Under the leadership of the guard captain, we passed through a complicated maze and followed the unclear signs along the way to arrive at the holy place that believers call it.

Song Lan had to be grateful that they met the guard captain of the believers. Otherwise, if he and Lu Xiang were to find it by themselves, they might not be able to find the exit of the maze even during the day tomorrow.

He guessed that Andrew, who broke into the cave at that time, probably just walked around the outermost perimeter, got the information about the "Mother" from the murals, and then returned immediately.

The Holy Land is located in an open space deep in the pit. Believers have built wooden houses here. The candle lights on the top of the wooden roofs illuminate the entire Holy Land. At the bottom of the Holy Land is a strange pool with rows of people. A mutated biological egg over one meter tall.

Many believers walk around these giant eggs. From time to time, they put their ears on the eggshells and listen to the movements inside.

"What are they doing?"

Song Lan asked curiously. He guessed that the flying mutant creatures mentioned by Dr. Oleg were hatched from these eggs.

"We are testing the degree of hatching." The guard captain explained. "The high priest said that the old gods had issued a decree to transport all the children who were about to hatch to the entrance of the cave so that they could welcome new life."

What a great high priest!

It turns out you were the one who sent the unhatched flying dragon into the face of the Marine!

He had previously been wondering why the wild devourer lived in the deepest part of the pit, but could lay eggs at the entrance of the pit every night. All these were sent out by believers.

They didn't seem to know much about what was going on outside the cave. I don't know how they would feel if they knew that the eggs they worked so hard to move out of the cave entrance every night were burned clean by Dr. Oleg's team.

Song Lan could only sigh that countless coincidences had created the current situation, and they were undoubtedly lucky. They had the opportunity to recruit an experienced medical team and came here before this wild devourer was about to break out of its cocoon. .

If it had been a few more days until the Devourer hatched, Oleg and the others would have been in trouble.

But it was obvious that the high priest did not seem to welcome their arrival. From the moment the two of them revealed their identities after entering the door, the hunchbacked, white-haired old man kept a straight face. He made no secret of it. I am wary and disgusted with Song Lan and others.

Song Lan soon realized that this also represented the Devourer's will to a certain extent.

According to the captain of the guard, the high priest had been baptized by the "Mother". What he described was the process of assimilation between the Devourer and the individual.

"We don't welcome your arrival."

After the guard captain left, the high priest said coldly, "I don't understand the mechanical insect swarm, and I don't want to communicate with you."

Song Lan ignored the other party's bad attitude and asked, "You should know the consequences of moving the egg to the entrance of the cave. Why do you do this?"

He felt that this matter seemed a bit subtle.

The biggest characteristic of the Devourer is that it has the swarm consciousness. Whether this decision is made by the high priest himself or the Devourer, they must know that all the eggs moved to the door have been destroyed.

"Because this can slow down the progress of transformation."

Although he said he was unwilling to communicate with them, the high priest answered Song Landi's questions with practical actions.

"Slowing down the progress of transformation...what good will this do to you?"

This answer was beyond their expectations. In their understanding, if there were no external conditions to restrict it, the Devourer would follow its instinct and spread endlessly. However, a wild Devourer actually knew how to restrain its desire to evolve. .

"There's an enemy out there and we're not ready."

The high priest's tone changed slightly, and Song Lan, who had considerable research on Devourers, immediately realized that this was the wild Devourer connected to his mind.

It seems that on the issue of communicating with the mechanical insect swarm, the high priest as an individual and as a collective had different views, but in the end he had to follow the will of his mother.

"Enemy? You mean that medical team?"

Song Lan was even more confused. Even though Oleg had stolen the "Commander IV" equipped with heavy firepower, in front of the Devourer, a few combat-type exoskeleton armors were not enough. There is a wave of mutated creatures in the cave, which is enough to wipe out Dr. Oleg's team without even having to show up.

"Not they, our enemies, dwell in heaven."

"So, you didn't make that weird moon?"

Song Lan immediately realized the meaning of the other party's words and asked. Until now, he still didn't understand the principle of that strange moon. After seeing the holy land of believers, he felt more and more that the two did not belong to the same place. a species.

There are actually two Devourers in this town!

Or maybe it was a Devourer, and a mysterious species they had never seen before.

"The moon is the enemy. It is interfering with my thinking. It is waiting for my transformation to be completed!"

Before he finished speaking, the high priest's tone changed significantly again. His eyes were bloodshot, "Didn't I tell you? I don't want to communicate with you, so don't meddle in your own business!"

After that, he threw the crutch aside and frantically scratched his forehead with both hands, so hard that his nails dug into the skin and tore the skin off.

The next words were incomprehensible. The high priest fell into a state of complete confusion. His words did not match his words, as if two different wills were fighting for control of his body.

"Don't...believe...the moon..., it is eroding..."

"Get out, get out, you are not welcome here!"

This is the first time Song Lan has seen someone who can resist the will of his mother. The current situation seems to be that another kind of will is fighting for the control of the high priest.

"Everyone calm down first."

In order to prevent the high priest from tearing himself alive, Song Lan quickly said, "Give me some face, sit down and talk first."

However, this time, both sides did not follow his advice. When the struggle for consciousness within the body became fierce, suddenly a dark arm penetrated the dome and the building and pressed down on the high priest.

But after touching Song Lan's exoskeleton armor, the dark arm retracted as if being electrocuted.

The high priest who fell into madness paused. His head was held by Song Lan's other exoskeleton armored arm, and his pupils exuding an ominous black energy were forced to look at Song Lan.

At this moment, his face was covered with blood, and his skull could be directly seen from the wound, which made him look like a zombie at this moment. If he had been an ordinary person who had not been strengthened by the Devourer, he would probably be dead at this moment.

The two just stared at each other.

A deathly silence fell in the room.

"Interesting, interesting!"

After an unknown amount of time, the high priest suddenly grinned. Against the backdrop of his face covered in blood and wounds, this smile looked particularly scary.

——"Come to me, I'm waiting for you!"

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