Claude, the high-ranking Demon Hunter of the Order that the Demon King Army had captured on the front line, was in the same strange state of mind as the other Demon Hunters of the Order, completely refused to communicate, and everyone's first contact with him could be said to be fruitless, and he also tried to attack Vivien.Hao Ren originally thought that this guy would take a long time to recover - after all, even the data terminal couldn't figure out what was going on with the other party's strange mental state, but he didn't expect him to suddenly wake up.The sudden development was a pleasant surprise, and Itzhax approached Claude curiously: "You know what you're doing now?"
”"Some......
Sequelae," Claude stood in the middle of a circle of soldiers, his face was still a little pale, his clothes that had become tattered during the battle had not been changed, and he still looked rather embarrassed, his expression was embarrassed, "It seems to have caused you a lot of trouble." ”"It's not just trouble," Bai Huo stood in front of Claude with his hands on his chest, "I'll ask you a few questions first to make sure you're really awake." ”On the other side, Hao Ren came to La Niña's side and asked in a low voice, "You all saw it" Those who followed the road signs and personnel instructions you left behind to catch up all the way, of course they all saw it," La Nina's slender tail twisted in the air, and her charming eyes were full of interest in something, "It's a wonderful phenomenon, if I'm not mistaken, the space-time structure of this tower must have been changed, and the people in the tower seem to be imprisoned in the rift caused by the dislocation of time and space."
The world is really interesting. ”A succubus who doesn't like men, doesn't like women, and doesn't even like his own racial talents, but only likes to lead troops to fight and study science, Hao Ren can only sigh that this sister is really worthy of being brought out by Yizax.Turning her gaze back to Claude, White Fire asked him a few things, all about the internal affairs of the witchers and the details of several things before and after this "civil war", and finally she confirmed that Claude had fully recovered his senses, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "Whew......
Finally a guy is back to normal.Looks like you can give these rune locks on your body first......"
"No, let's wear these things," Claude took a half step back slightly, and the rune locks on his body clanged, "I took the initiative to ask for it."
I don't feel like I'm completely stable, those ......
The voices still echoed in my head from time to time, auditory hallucinations, hallucinations, and other thoughts......
I feel like I'm safer wearing these things, safe for everyone. ”"Voice?"
Vivien stepped forward, "You say there's a voice?"
”"Yes, a voice......
Or maybe not, it's hard for me to describe it exactly," Claude's muscles tightened visibly when he saw Vivien, as if some kind of attack impulse that did not belong to his own will still remained in this body, but he and the rune chains on his body jointly suppressed this impulse, as Claude himself said, it was indeed wise to wear these shackles, "That thing reverberated in my mental world, it was like directly covering an idea, a personality in my brain, it was not ...... sound, but more direct and effective ......"
"Thinking Seal," Hao Ren interrupted him, "Seriously, you should prepare a few more modern vocabulary textbooks, and sandwiching two modern dictionaries between the moldy potions encyclopedia in the library will make you more flexible." ”"Okay, Thinking Seal, that's a fitting statement," Claude glanced at Hao Ren and tugged at the corners of his mouth, "I know the word, but I didn't think of it for a while." ”"Then the problem is really in the realm of mind control," Vivien clasped her hands to her chest, she didn't expect the problem to finally return to this most superficial origin, "more clever, more effective, more subtle, but in the final analysis, it is still mind control?"
This answer is a bit disappointing to me. ”Claude immediately shook his head: "No, it's different from mind control, I've been through the process myself, and I'm sure there isn't any external force distorting or controlling our thoughts - it just stimulates and amplifies a part of our deep thoughts, and then allows this trend to develop."
While it's bad to admit this here, ......
Purifying heresy is indeed the subconscious thought of every witcher, including the comrades who are standing beside you right now, and if they 'hear' that thing in my head, they will be indistinguishable from the Order of Elders. ”Claude's words made a small number of witchers on the scene slightly commotion, and some of the less stable witchers looked at the Demon King legionnaires beside them with embarrassed eyes, but none of the latter said silently, La Nina just said indifferently: "Everyone has a dark side in their hearts, and extracting and amplifying a specific dark side is not a clever trick for us demons."
It's just that the guys who work in the minds of the Elders and the Saints are a little more powerful. ”Bai Huo muttered softly, "You guys are quite generous. ”"In our homeland, every panting creature in the world wants to kill us," La Niña shrugged, "we've long been used to being hostile to anyone.By a low standard, you're exemplary allies, or at least you're on the charge with us. ”"Let's get back to the topic first," Hao Ren interrupted La Niña's conversation with a wave of his hand, and he looked into Claude's eyes, "So it's that 'voice', that guy who manipulates the mind and influences the Elder Order and the saints?"
The current state of this tower ......" he raised his hand to the remains of the Bedolith saint, "and what happened to him now is also because of that 'voice'?"
”Claude had only now noticed Bedolis, who was not far away, and exclaimed uncontrollably: "O Sage!
”"He was down here when we found him, dying in a strange way, his body was completely in a state of smoke, and he ended up with only some ashes left in his clothes," Tutanin explained the situation, "so what the hell is going on here?"
”A hint of panic flashed in Claude's eyes, as if remembering what had happened in this tower still terrified him, and he lowered his voice: "We have awakened an ancient will......
A powerful, incomprehensible, disembodied thing awakens in this tower and subsequently quickly affects everyone through the mysterious connection between the various ruins of Colpers. ”"Who woke it up?
Why wake up?
What was that thing like?
”Hao Ren's questions are one after another."
Yes the saints," Claude's answer was unexpected, "after the Hasselblad Elder returned from the Ancatero realm, the saints summoned him, and they immediately had several secret meetings.I don't know exactly what they were discussing, but every saint was visibly nervous after that.The saints then took out an ancient artifact from the treasure vault and performed a ritual in the ceremonial hall, and it was after that ceremony that things began to go wrong. ”Claude struggled to recall, describing as much as he could what happened after the ceremony: "Only the saints entered the ceremonial hall, and the others were ordered to wait outside.There was a strange buzzing sound coming from inside the door, as if countless people were arguing in the hall.Then the ceremony ended, but the saints did not leave the ceremonial hall, and they ordered them to continue meditating in the hall for a while.That's all I can remember more clearly, and what happened after that......
Everyone's emotions became a little strange, but no one was aware of the anomaly, the effects were subtle, and before we even knew it, it was already in effect. ”"So, at least as far as you can remember, those saints haven't left since they walked into the hall?"
Hao Ren stared at Claude, "Except for the power of 'something' running out of the hall, no one or anything left there, right?"
”Claude thought for a moment and nodded vigorously: "For sure." ”"I'm afraid they've been crushed after the ceremony, at least spiritually," Vivien said, gesturing to the clothes and a bit of ash left over from Bedolis, "Bedolis may have barely escaped, but he only made it to this place, and the message on the wall was all he could leave at the time." ”Lily turned her head to look at the message on the wall: "According to the message......
'that thing' should still be in the ceremonial hall." ”Bai Huo was a little skeptical: "But the whole Colpers has been 'infected' by it, will it still stay in the hall honestly?"
”"Because it's not completely out of the trap yet," Hao Ren blurted out, "It's only its power that leaks out of the hall, and the saints probably sensed that something was wrong in the second half of the ceremony, so they must have used some method to imprison the ontology of 'that thing' at the ceremony site!"
”Vivien had an instinctive distrust of the witcher's saints, "How did you know those saints would do this?"
”Hao Ren pointed to Bedolis's last words on the wall: "Because they don't want to put that thing out at all - they don't even know they're going to put it out!"
”(To be continued.) )