The world-devouring dragon

In an underground church in London, England.

The original cross logo has long been cleared away, replaced by a large number of snake-themed sculptures and patterns. This church makes no secret of its worship and fanatical belief in snakes, and is filled with pagan beliefs that are different from the world.

Since that night's incident, all the monks in the monastery who did not believe in the Father of Snakes have been cleared away. The remaining ones are the old monks who insist on believing in "Snake and Truth". They continue to take over the various monasteries under the monastery. Small forces, while eliminating any remaining old forces.

And all this happened under the cold gaze of the big snake sculpture...

At the foot of the big snake sculpture, many old monks were prostrate and murmuring prayers. The former servants of God and the monastery had completely become believers at the foot of the snake. As Uberto said, both Uberto himself and the Priory themselves are too close to the truth.

People are not chasing knowledge, but knowledge is chasing people. Its pursuit is ruthless, just like a hawk in the sky chasing a rabbit on the ground.

At this moment, the Priory has been overtaken by the once dusty knowledge, which is reborn through the mortal body, just as many vultures gather on the corpse, gnawing at the flesh and blood on the corpse with their hooks, claws and sharp mouths, in the shape of greed. A gluttonous feast.

The monasteries of the past rejected many supernatural powers, viewing them as "flaws in the creation of the world, things that should not exist." Every old monk is just an ordinary mortal, ruling many small forces according to human rules, but now these old monks are covered with snake scales and beast characteristics, and they do not hide their supernatural powers at all.

"The son of God who carries the destiny has returned to the earth. Soon, our Lord will wake up from his ancient slumber."

The leading old monk opened his scaly arms, raised his head, and celebrated the progress of his destiny step by step.

Many old monks behind him were equally delighted. They opened their mouths wide, revealing their mouths full of sharp teeth. Then they all bent over the big snake sculpture in front of them and sang in a low and disgusting weird voice.

"C-GNAIIH-OG!PH'NILGH'RI-N'GHFT-OR!SYHA'H-FHTAGN-THROD, H'NYTH-STELL'BSNA-OOBOSHU!YA-YAR-HAI-THARANAK!"

Our Father, beyond all the power of darkness, the near-eternal sleep is about to end, your servants are looking forward to your coming, our time is coming...

The singing sound shook the entire underground church and made the ancient church buzz.

…

"Roberts, there is something I want to ask you...have you ever thought about..."

When the flying saucer was near the window, Wendy, who suddenly called Roberts over, was silent for a moment. She turned her back to Roberts and spoke hesitantly. Looking at the blue planet below her, her eyes flickered a little, and there was a certain brilliance in her bright eyes. She spoke hesitantly, but she couldn't speak for a long time.

This fashionable girl who is already thirty years old but is still single, it seems that time has lost its effect on her, and her appearance is as if she was in her early twenties.

She turned her back to Roberts, revealing only half of her profile. The deep space and the blue planet beneath her seemed not as beautiful as that half of her profile.

Roberts knew exactly what answer she wanted, but he also knew that he could not give her any promise. But even if he wanted to refuse, she would quietly change the subject before she refused, and would not let herself The possibility of saying no, and then continuing to fully expect that one day in the future you will say yes.

"Wendy, I..."

He opened his mouth to speak, but according to past experience, whenever he wanted to refuse decisively, a cheerful voice would definitely change the topic deliberately, without giving him a chance to refuse.

but……

No.

Right in front of him, the slim figure with his back to him did not speak again this time, but quietly waited for his answer.

But Roberts' keen insight was able to see the clenched hands of the figure with his back to her. The fingers were clenched so tightly that they almost made white marks... She was so nervous that she even had to turn her back to him. Roberts can barely maintain his composure.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the unattainable flower of the high mountain, the highly sought-after sexy queen, in front of Roberts, she is just like the 8-year-old little girl back then, lowering her head, just clenching her hands, and not daring to say anything. .

Roberts was silent for a moment, but spoke anyway.

"Wendy, I'm sorry, I only love Betty in my life. In my eyes, you are always like a sister to me."

After all these years, Roberts finally said these words, as if a big stone fell in his heart. He couldn't help but feel a little relieved, but along with it came worries about Wendy. He didn't want to hurt the person he regarded as his sister. of Wendy.

But unexpectedly, Wendy just lowered her head, not showing any sadness, just biting her lower lip, as if she had expected all this, and then just murmured.

"Then...have you ever had a crush on me...even if it's just occasionally...even if it's just a little bit..."

As she spoke, she lowered her head and saw her hands, the slender fingers intertwined unconsciously, and asked in a slightly unconfident voice. The rejection for more than ten years has made her lose confidence. In fact, she has already accepted this reality, but there is still a trace of unwillingness in her heart.

Just a little bit is fine. She doesn't want to argue with Sister Betty, but really just a little bit is fine...

With his back to Roberts, but behind him...

No reply.

My heart is sinking into the darkness a little bit, and I am gradually despairing.

Looking at the inexplicably sad figure, Roberts couldn't bear it. He knew that the best way at this moment was to deny it outright, but he couldn't deceive himself and Wendy. After a long time, he nodded.

"……Had."

In an instant, the slim figure in front of him seemed to freeze. Roberts couldn't see her face clearly, but he could feel that she was going through a drastic change in mood at this moment.

Suddenly, a little sparkling crystal object appeared in front of Roberts. The little crystals were as transparent as glass, floating like pearls in the flying saucer with only a small amount of gravity, and the source of the crystal was...

"Wendy, you..."

Roberts stopped talking before he finished speaking.

In front of him, Wendy turned her head.

In front of the blue planet behind him, the happy and angry face was filled with tears at the moment. The tears did not fall, but lingered nostalgically beside the bright eyes, which contained unprecedented joy. .

"I'm happy, Roberts, I really am."

Her voice was choked with sobs, and there were tears in her eyes, but there was only happiness and joy from the heart on her face.

Human beings are such wonderful creatures. When they are extremely angry, they have a smile on their faces; but when they are truly happy, they often have tears on their faces.

"Roberts, I'm very happy. I keep telling myself that I should laugh and shouldn't cry in front of you, but I don't know why, but my eyes don't listen to me and I can't help crying...Roberts, I Isn’t it very useless?”

"Wendy, I..."

Just as he was about to say something, the soft body hugged him directly, and his lips were gently blocked. He subconsciously wanted to push away, but suddenly found that his body was soft and weak, and the soft feeling came from his lips.

"Wendy, you..."

But before he finished speaking, only a soft female voice sounded in his ears.

"It's okay... don't feel guilty, everything is my fault, you have nothing wrong... Just treat this as a dream... Roberts, you are the only person I have ever loved..."

In this space flying saucer specially designed to invade the earth, there is an extremely wide space that can accommodate more than a dozen Atlanteans, not to mention humans who are not as tall as the Atlanteans. Not aware of what was happening in this cubicle.

During that time, Roberts seemed to be awake from a dream, as if he was embraced by the gentle clouds. He rarely relaxed, but he vaguely heard a voice murmuring something...

"I'm sorry, Sister Betty...I'm sorry, Roberts...I'm glad, Roberts..."

"Goodbye, Roberts."

…

A few days later, on the flying saucer about to return to the sky.

"Bang!"

With a furious fist, he hit Umberto hard on the head. The thin young man was knocked away directly. There was a pop sound, the young man's body hit the instrument, and the blood oozed out. .

The embarrassed young man was barely holding on to the metal floor. Before he could stand up, he was dizzy, and then his collar was clenched tightly by a thick hand, and the clenched fist was quickly enlarged in front of him. Spread into a huge shadow...

"Bang!"

It was a similar feeling again, the huge force hit the facial bones, making the bones scream, and the head hit the metal floor directly. Accompanying the severe pain was a dizzy world, and the saliva in the mouth could not be suppressed. After giving birth, everything in front of me seemed to go dark, making it almost impossible to see.

"Dad...stop fighting!"

"Cough... cough cough..."

He fell weakly to the ground. Before his chaotic eyes, the panicked voice of a young girl vaguely sounded in his ears.

For some reason, the fist did not fall on him again. He coughed a few times and vomited out the blood in his throat. Uberto opened his eyes with force, and his eyes were blood red, but he could still see the angry face of his daughter who was beaten by his daughter. Roberts stood in front of him and tried to stop him.

"Qiong, get out of my way, this guy actually pushed Wendy into the sea... He killed Wendy..."

Besides the angry and desperate voice, Qiong tried her best to dissuade her.

"Ahem...hehe, if we don't kill her, we should be the ones who died just now."

However, Uberto, who was lying on the ground with severe pain and multiple wounds all over his body, glanced at Roberts, struggled to hold himself up, and said shaky.

"Roberts, use your brain to think about it. That woman must have had some signs before. Even if she keeps secret from you, she will still reveal something."

"A sign? What sign?"

Roberts, who was already extremely angry, barely suppressed his anger with reason and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth.

In front of him, Uberto, who was struggling to even stand up, glanced at him.

"Roberts, the entire Priory is crazy, everyone is crazy, they are too deeply exposed to the truth, but why do you think Wendy, as the guardian of the Priory, will have no impact?"

"I said, don't trust Wendy too much, because even if she doesn't want to harm us, she is a time bomb, and she may mutate one day. Wendy has been infected, and she is transforming step by step. She has known this for a long time, so she has told me and Joan a long time ago."

"Now on this flying saucer, except for you, both I and Joan know about this matter! Roberts, Wendy is only hiding it from you. She doesn't want you to know about it. If I hadn't told her in time just now, Pushed into the sea, the three of you and I will die now!"

The sudden sound made Roberts confused, and his steps became a little clumsy. Joan hurriedly helped her father, but Roberts was unaware of it. He just looked at Joan and murmured blankly.

"Joan...is this true?"

Qiong didn't speak, just lowered his head silently, but this was actually equivalent to acquiescence.

If Uberto was the only one who said this, Roberts could think that this guy was talking nonsense, but if his own daughter also said this, Roberts couldn't help but not believe it.

Enduring the pain, Uberto managed to take a breath, and then spoke earnestly to Roberts.

"Roberts, think about it carefully. In the past few months since we have been working together, I have never harmed you? I have always been helping you."

"I don't want to push Wendy into the sea. Originally, we planned to wait until later to tell you that it will take some time for her to truly change. But not long ago, I don't know why. Maybe she was stimulated by some kind. The speed of mutation suddenly accelerated, maybe even she didn't notice it herself, I had no choice but to do this..."

Roberts didn't listen to all this at this moment, but he only noticed this sentence.

"...I don't know why, maybe she was stimulated by some kind of stimulation, and her mutation speed suddenly accelerated..."

"Goodbye, Roberts."

In a daze, the hazy female voice sounded in his ears again. He vaguely guessed the reason, and felt numb in his heart.

After a moment of silence, Roberts said in a hoarse voice.

"What do you mean by mutation?"

Uberto gasped slightly, then answered.

"Snake transformation. The body gradually shows the characteristics of snakes. Scales grow, the teeth become sharp, the bones deform, and finally a snake tail grows. It looks like a snake that walks upright like a human. .”

"The female sculpture we obtained from the moon has something inside it that is the source of all these problems. It seals some magical secrets. The more you try to pursue those secrets, the more you will be gradually obsessed by those 'secrets' Eroded, and finally 'snake'."

"You should still be able to find some runes on that sculpture. Those are the ancient mages who tried to use the power of the gods to seal the statue. The symbols of gods from various religions are all on that statue, but the effect... haha , you also saw it.”

Roberts turned to look at him and said expressionlessly.

"I watched Wendy grow up when she was 8 years old. I know everything about her. How on earth did she become the guardian of the Priory? It is obviously impossible for her to do such a thing."

"Then have you ever thought... that she was actually the guardian of the Priory before she was 8 years old?"

Uberto stared at Roberts coldly and spoke word by word.

"She's been hiding her secrets from you, and she knows more than you do."

"What exactly is a Patron of the Priory?"

Roberts looked at Uberto with a cold expression. There was no emotion on his face, but anyone who knew him well knew that the more extremely cold and calm he showed, the more it proved that the anger in his heart had reached its limit.

"...a secret you can't know yet."

Uberto was silent for a moment and then said.

Roberts' fists were clenched and veins popped out on his forehead. Suddenly he stepped forward, grabbed Uberto's collar with one hand, and forced him against the metal wall.

"Bang!"

Uberto was hit hard against the metal wall, his feet were dangling in the air, and his body could not exert any strength.

In front of him, there was a vague flame in Roberts' pupils, which was one of the few supernatural powers contained in his body. When he was angry, the flame would appear in his pupils.

"Secrets, secrets, Wendy is dead, and you are still telling me secrets???"

The loose hair made Roberts look like an angry lion, making Uberto feel threatened by death.

"Hiccup... Roberts, the less people know about some secrets, the better... Neither I nor Wendy... would ever want you to know this secret. It will only put you and Joan in danger..."

Umberto was almost out of breath due to being oppressed by the force, and he spoke with difficulty.

Roberts was silent for a long time, and his anger seemed to begin to subside. But at this moment, suddenly, his eyes suddenly looked at Uberto's wrist, and then he was inexplicably stunned, as if he saw something incredible.

Uberto also followed his gaze, and then his pupils shrank slightly.

On his wrist, there are several transparent snake scales. They are not big, but they are particularly conspicuous...

Finally, this self-proclaimed genius like Leonardo da Vinci also began what he called "snake transformation."