Chapter 746 The New Pope
Yule nodded: "I know."
Lina now looked somewhat confused.
Her eyes swept over the delicate and intricate mechanical structure on Yuler's face, but she could not guess what this man was thinking.
"You're just going to surrender?"
"How could that be?" Jules chuckled. "Of course I will resist to the death. I will send all the troops of the Holy See to fight the prince's army to the death."
"You know you can't win, but you still want to die?"
"Isn't it possible? I was originally planning to take revenge on the Candlelight Society. Now that the Holy See has been destroyed, I am very happy." Jules said slowly.
Lina's eyes flashed.
She knew Jules's life story - he and Isaac were both [investigators], but they were abandoned by the Vatican. Although the Candlelight Society had been blocking the news, it could not hide it from her.
It is reasonable for Jules to take revenge on the Candlelight Society and destroy it in one fell swoop.
But Lina always felt something was wrong.
She stared at the man in front of her. Jules looked bored at the moment. He took off the triple crown on his head, put it on the table, stretched out his hand and flicked it, and the triple crown began to spin.
Like a childish and bored kid.
But it was this man who had been forbearing for many years and overthrew the entire Candlelight Society in one fell swoop. He secretly manipulated his niece to become Pope, and now he even wears the crown himself. It is possible that he killed those "Secret Keepers".
How could such a person be so selfless?
Lina's voice was a bit tentative. "I think you look more human. Those mechanical priests in the Mechanical Society speak with logic and code, which gives people a headache."
"That's because they still retain their flesh and blood, but I'm completely mechanized." As if afraid that the other party would not believe him, Yule lifted his hood, and the steel skull cracked to both sides. There was not a trace of flesh and blood in it, and it was completely composed of various complex mechanical structures.
Lina paused, not knowing how to answer for a moment.
After a moment's hesitation, she chose to skip the topic: "I can provide you with some help. Help you deal with Caster."
"That's great, thank you for your timely assistance."
Ignoring the other party's sarcasm, Lina directly threw a package onto the table.
"What's this?"
"Some of the early techniques of the Mechanics Society."
The Mechanical Temple has hardly developed any new technology, and is even unable to preserve and inherit it.
From the Mechanical Society to the Mechanical Temple, the overall strength of the entire church may be increasing, but its technology is constantly declining.
Many ancient technologies had long been lost, and no one could understand them, so the manufacturing process was slowly abandoned. In addition, the Mechanical Temple gradually classified the equipment of the old era as sacred objects, strictly prohibiting their use and research, and only allowing worship. As a result, more and more things were lost.
The information that Lina casually pulled out was enough to make the fanatical mechanical priest launch a holy war.
"With these, the extraordinary people of the Candlelight Society, plus the mortal auxiliary army, may be able to fight Castel. Let me tell you how to read this information."
The decline of the Mechanical Temple is comprehensive. Not only has the technology been lost, but now even the means to read these data are probably gone.
Lina was about to say something when her eyes suddenly fixed.
Jules opened the package directly and inserted several cassettes into the card slot on his arm, reading them with an interested look.
"Steam rifles, steam tanks, battle fortresses. Not bad, not bad, really good stuff."
"Where did you get the interface?"
"Oh, you mean this." Jules raised his arm, and the card slots on it were emitting a faint blue light. "I took it from Bruno. It's hot-swappable. It works immediately after I put it in. It's very convenient--"
Before he could finish his words, he was blown away by a huge force. The long table in front of him shattered into pieces, and Yule's iron body left a deep mark on the ground.
Bricks and rocks flew everywhere, and he was pressed against the wall. Lina's hand that was pinching his neck was bulging with veins, and the other hand was clenched into a fist.
"I kill you!!!"
As he squeezed out a few words from between his teeth, his clenched fist struck down without any hesitation, but the fist suddenly stopped before touching Jules' face.
Jules blocked Bruno's slot in front of himself.
“Lina, it’s been almost a thousand years, and you’re still so anxious.”
The casual tone carried a certain familiarity that made Lina's heart tremble uncontrollably.
It was a sound that had not been heard in a long, long time.
The expression on her face was very distorted, and she kept telling herself that this was a trap and not to believe it.
But as soon as she opened her mouth, all her forced defenses collapsed.
"Master Bruno?!"
"It's not Bruno. Bruno is dead. I just read his memory chip."
Lina's eyes were filled with anger again. She was about to attack, but Yule raised his hand again with a smile:
"My memory and his have merged. If you kill me, Bruno will die too."
Lina was breathing heavily, her eyes were so hot that it seemed to burn a hole in Jules, her fists were so tight that the joints were crackling, but she didn't smash down in the end.
"Jules, what do you want to do?!"
"I'm not Jules. I'm a new personality formed by the fusion of Bruno and Jules. I'm here to complete our unfinished mission. As for other things, I have no comment."
Lina was stunned for a moment, then suddenly became excited: "Great, great mission!?"
"Yes, I fixed this part from the underlying code. The old Bruno didn't complete it, and the new me will continue to execute it."
"Well, then what should I do? I mean, I want to help too!"
"Stand by for now. This information is very interesting. I need to study it first."
“Okay, okay!”
Lina's grip on Yule's neck loosened little by little, and her fingers trembled slightly.
Jules stared at her, but she didn't even look up. She just stumbled and stumbled away.
As he left, he kept muttering "great mission" to himself.
Yule said nothing and watched her leave quietly.
He didn't move until Lina left.
The wall behind him was knocked into a groove in his shape. Jules took a step forward and pulled his arms a few times before he could get out of the wall where he was embedded.
Looking at the devastated house, Jules brushed off the dirt on his body.
"What's written in the information is indeed correct. The [Named Person] is absolutely insane. She actually believed such an outrageous lie."
"but."
Jules looked at the socket in his arm.
"As long as the Church remains at a disadvantage, she will continue to help me, Lina. How many secrets are you hiding?"
(End of this chapter)
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