Chapter 139 Return
"Father!?"
Ina didn't expect Jellal to suddenly appear here. You know, this is the headquarters of the Skeleton Army. The two Skeleton Knights just wanted to get information about Jellal from her, but Jellal just appeared here?
But Jellal's words "The new God plans to come early" directly blocked Ina's question that was about to come out of her mouth, and turned it into greater astonishment.
"What does this mean?"
Jellal looked behind Ina and confirmed that no one was paying attention to this side, then he slightly lowered the brim of his hat and whispered: "Literally, come with me, this is not a suitable place for conversation."
Then, Jellal turned and left. After taking a deep breath, Ina quickly followed him.
"Bishop Oliver came back suddenly." Ina asked, "Does what you just said have anything to do with him?"
"Of course." Gerard said, "Otherwise I wouldn't have come here to find you."
"You knew I was here?"
"I can always make a rough guess." Jellal turned his head and glanced at Ina. After thinking for a while, he decided not to say "Actually, my eyes can see pretty far." "After all, I worked here before, so I'm quite familiar with the procedures here."
Are you familiar with the process here?
Ina couldn't help but think of what the two skeleton knights had said to her before.
"He just used you as our bait last night."
This made her a little dazed, and then she almost bumped into Jellal's back.
"You look a little distracted, Ina." Jellal's voice sounded again.
"I'm sorry... Father." Ina realized that she couldn't be confused at this time, so she immediately cleared her mind and cheered herself up. "It's just that what you said before was too surprising. Do you have any new information now?"
Ina originally thought that Jellal would produce solid evidence or have some new information, but what Ina didn't expect was that after asking this question, she saw a hint of hesitation flash across Jellal's face.
"There is no intelligence." Gerard shook his head and said, "If I have to say it, it's just a hunch."
Ina was a little surprised: "Intuition?"
In her memory, her father rarely acted on his intuition, because in polluted areas, vague intuition could kill people.
Jellal suddenly stopped, grabbed Ina's hand, and leaned against the wall.
At first Ina didn't know what he was going to do, but soon she saw a skeleton knight walking hurriedly past them. From his perspective, he just didn't see Jellal and Ina.
Ina was surprised by such sensitivity.
Was this how Gerard had walked in before?
No wonder no one noticed him.
But how did he do it?
Ina felt that there were more and more things about Jellal that she couldn't see through.
"I don't know how to explain it to you." Jellal looked into Ina's eyes and said, "But I just have this feeling that the new god can't hold back any longer. When I came here, I saw Oliver giving a speech at the Tower of Babel. He said that the future will come in two days."
"Do you think that the future that will come in two days will be..."
"The New God." Gerald said softly, "He is the future in the eyes of the New Society."
Ina's pupils narrowed slightly.
In two days...the new god will come?
This is too... fast.
For Ina, she just learned about the existence of the new god and the crisis of Lyra from Jellal yesterday, and today she was informed that the new god would descend in two days? !
She hadn't made any preparations yet, and she didn't even know what she should do or what preparations she could make.
A lot of questions came to her mind, but Ina told herself not to be anxious and to answer them one by one.
"Why two days later?" Ina asked, "Is this a critical date? According to what you said before, the new god should come in half a month, why is it so early?"
"This is the crux of the matter, Ina." Jellal said in a deep voice, "He said that heroes will bring new hope. Who do you think the hero he is talking about is?"
Ina subconsciously wanted to say "Evening Star".
After all, this was almost engraved in her bones, but when the words came to her lips she realized that something was wrong, because the last member of Xiaoxing was already in front of her.
"Could it be... us?"
The "we" that Ina mentioned naturally refers to the devil army.
"Yes." Gerald said, "The Devil Army must have found something in the contaminated land and is bringing it back, and the time they bring it back is very likely..."
"Two days later." Ina understood immediately. She murmured, "The new god wants to use the corpse brought back by the devil army to come early?!"
Jellal nodded.
Ina's expression immediately turned ugly.
After all, she is now a member of the Devil Corps, and her sense of belonging to the Devil Corps is not much different from Jellal's sense of belonging to Evelyn.
So when she learned that her troops were transporting back things that could destroy Lyra and were becoming accomplices in the destruction of Lyra, she found it a little hard to accept.
"How could this be possible?" Ina murmured, "So what we've been looking for is to... destroy Lyra? Could it be that the one who has been controlling and leading the demons is not the God of Lyra, but... the new god?"
"Now is not the time to think about this, Ina." Gerald put an end to his daughter's fantasies, "We have more important things to do."
Ina looked up at Jellal.
"We can't let that body fall into the hands of the new god." Gerald said word by word, "We have to stop him."
"Stop him?" Ina asked, "Do you mean to cut off the body parts in advance?"
"It's not just the body parts." Gerald said, "There's also the Purification Source Crystal."
"Purification Source Crystal?!" Ina was even more surprised. "You mean, the Devil Army also found the Purification Source Crystal?!"
That's what Ina has always wanted to find.
"Yes, Ina." Gerald said, "It's no use just retrieving the body parts. We also need to purify the source crystal. Someone told me before that Oliver was also contaminated by the new god. As the bishop of the Tower of Babel, there are too many things Oliver can do. We must use the purification source crystal to remove the pollution in his brain."
...Does this mean that I have to cut off the body parts and purify the source crystal at the same time?
Ina didn't notice Jellal's slip of the tongue just now. She was more concerned about how to snatch the two things from the devil's army.
But before that...
How did Gerald know that the Devil Army had found the body parts and the purification source crystal?
Even she, the deputy captain, hadn't received the news yet.
Could this also be part of the extraordinary intuition that Gerard had just displayed?
Gerard naturally saw Ina's doubts, but he had no way to tell Ina the truth.
After all, these were what Bai Wei told him.
Before leaving, Gerard also asked Bai Wei how he knew that the devil army had found his body parts and were coming back.
Bai Wei's answer was simple: "Nonsense, your body is approaching you, can't you feel it?"
This answer was as self-evident as "Of course you eat with your mouth", and for a moment, Jellal couldn't find any reason to refute it.
As for Bai Wei, the new god's sudden action also surprised him.
He actually chose to advance the time of His coming again. Compared with the timeline in the game, it is much earlier.
Was he forced into a corner, or did he have other plans?
Bai Wei has no way of being sure now, because there are too many variables, and it is no longer possible to fit the plot and timeline of the game into it, so he decided to let Jellal take action in advance, at least to prevent the new god from getting his tongue so easily.
But for Ina, who didn't know much about all this, it was a little difficult to accept all the information at once.
Jellal also noticed this and was thinking about how to explain it to Ina, but Ina spoke at this time.
"Father, after everything is over, will you tell me the whole truth?" she said softly.
Jellal turned his head and looked at Ina's face.
At that moment, the scene of last night came back to Jellal's mind.
"Tell her everything."
This is what Ian wanted Jellal to do.
So after a brief silence, Gerard also replied softly: "Of course, when the time comes, I will tell you everything."
Hearing these words, Ina's originally uneasy mood immediately calmed down, as if she had been waiting for this promise.
"Okay, father." Ina nodded slightly, "Then let's take back Tianqin's future now."
…
Yuri took a deep breath, and the heavy mask suddenly made a dull "huffing" sound.
"You seem a little uneasy, Lord Yuri." A slightly sharp voice sounded behind Yuri. Yuri turned his head and looked at the man wearing the same mask as him. "You have completed the mission. As long as you send these things back safely, you will be a hero of Tianqin."
"Really?" Yuri said calmly, "Mr. Hogen, are you referring to a hero like the former Evening Star?"
"Haha, you are joking again, Lord Yuri." Hogen said, "Why do you compare yourself to that notorious rebel? You are a true hero."
"If you hadn't brought so many people here, I might have believed what you said."
"This is not a lack of trust in you, but just the most basic security guarantee." Hogeni replied, "You haven't been to the city for a long time, so you probably don't know that the city is in chaos right now. That Knight of the Evening Star is still causing trouble for us. He is simply a terrorist."
Yuri didn't say anything, he just looked back and looked at his team.
This is a huge team with hundreds of people.
Just like primitive people, they pulled carts with human power, and the carts were loaded with piles and piles of pollutant debris like small mountains.
Because there is no way for gear trains to lay tracks in polluted areas and animals cannot enter, transportation in polluted areas can only rely on the simplest and most direct human labor.
Although Tianqin apparently possesses the most advanced technology in the world, here they are no different from primitive people.
The reason why they had to transport these huge pollutant debris was naturally because of Hogen.
After learning that the Devil Squad had found the purification source crystal and corpse parts, Hogni rushed over immediately and brought a large force from somewhere unknown, demanding that they cooperate with the Devil Squad.
In Tianqin, no one has ever been able to cooperate with the devil's army.
Yuri naturally wanted to refuse, but the problem was that the other party brought Oliver's warrant.
Bishop Oliver of the Tower of Babel, Yuri almost forgot this name. After ten years, this bishop who nominally had the greatest power in Lyra finally showed up. This made Yuri feel a little dazed, and he subconsciously thought that the warrant was forged.
Yet it is true.
Bishop Oliver asked the devil troops to work together with the troops led by Hogni, and asked them to not only purify the source crystals and corpses, but also to pick up the huge pollutant wreckage from so many vehicles.
This is something that has never happened before.
They usually squeeze the pollutants into raw oil and then ship it back. This is the first time they are transporting raw materials like this.
Because the pollutants will not die before they are completely turned into source oil. Just like now, the remains are still constantly reviving and growing new bodies.
Therefore, the Devil Knights had to cut off the newly grown parts every once in a while to keep them within a controllable range.
The reason for doing this is just to hide the body parts and the purification source crystal.
Yes, in name, these large debris are better raw materials, but in reality, Hogni used them to hide the corpse and the purification source crystal.
He stuffed the two items into the wreckage of these pollutants.
"The bodies of the pollutants are enough to block all means of detection." Hogeni said to Yuri, "Even the best dogs can't find them by nose."
Yuri naturally didn't understand. He said calmly, "Do you think Xiaoxing can take the things away under the protection of so many people?"
"Haha, Captain Yuri, if you knew what Xiaoxing has been doing in the city recently, you would know that our caution towards him is reasonable." Hogen said with a smile, "He is too troublesome, and these two things are too important. If we don't do this, we will find it difficult to feel at ease. Like now, only you and I know where the two things are. This is the safest way."
Yuri ignored Hogni.
He just felt uneasy.
And this feeling of uneasiness reached its peak the following night.
Because, they finally returned to Tianqin.
When their footsteps stepped on the land of Lyra, Yuri suddenly had a very strange feeling.
It was as if... the breathing of this city suddenly became heavier.
(End of this chapter)
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