My days as a landlord in Gotham

(seven)

"Actually, I don't know much about the origin of the magic stone. I only know that it was around the 1880s, when our church was just a small church, on a stormy night."

Father Robin recalled, "In that era, humans were hunted down by magical creatures such as vampires and werewolves.

And the church is almost one of the few places that can shelter human beings. Our church was blessed by the Lord because of its devout faith at that time, so many poor people came to our church to seek shelter every night.

A poor and sick woman broke into the church suddenly, followed by vampires and werewolves.

Because of the presence of the crucifix, they dare not enter the church.

But they threatened the priest that if the woman was not delivered to them, they would surround the church until everyone in the church starved to death.

In fact, in those dark days, humans and magical creatures also had their own rules.

For example, after the sun is born, magical creatures cannot continue to harm humans, otherwise vampire hunters and demon hunters will come to trouble them; but after the sun sets, any human beings who are alone may become the prey of vampires or werewolves or Toy.

That's right, toys, they don't necessarily need human blood or meat, they just want to play an exciting game.

At that time, the priest wanted to protect the woman, but people stopped the priest. In the end, the priest watched the group of refugees relying on the church asylum throw the woman to the vampire.

The priest's eyes were full of sadness, and he refused anyone to enter the church to seek asylum since that night, so more and more humans were killed in Chicago that night.

Until the Holy See noticed this and sent paladins and cardinals.

After being raided by the Holy See, almost all the vampires and werewolves in the vicinity were slaughtered.

Of course, they also found the woman's body.

Next to the woman's body, she wrote her curse in blood.

The priest at the time cremated her and planned to take her ashes back to the church for burial, hoping to appease her resentment.

And at the scene, in addition to her body, there was also an orange gemstone ring of hers.

Since it was not a precious gem, the people of the Holy See asked the priest to take away the relics belonging to the woman.

That woman was the first person to be buried in our church and the beginning of our catastrophe. "

"Father Robin, if I'm not mistaken, that orange gemstone ring is related to all the secrets of resurrecting the dead in your church?"

Li Lei probably already guessed that the orange gem should be the ultimate gem without the orange gem.

Orange gemstone is also known as the "gem of life"

Therefore, it is not a problem for the priests to find that it is used to resurrect the dead.

Moreover, the orange gemstone also has a hidden power, that is, the resurrected people will be controlled by the gem holder. I think the church's ability to accumulate so much wealth is also related to this attribute.

"It's just Father Robin. What I don't understand is, why are you controlled by orange gemstones instead?"

"Once the greed in human hearts is aroused, there is nothing God can do."

Father Robin said.

"But after we discovered the wonderful use of gemstones, our original idea was to renovate the dilapidated church.

But as we resurrect more and more people and get richer, the church gets more and more wealth.

But until this time, we still have a very sober person, that is, we will never resurrect the priest who took office until this secret.

In fact, this is more caused by the darkness in our hearts, because the fewer people who know about it, the safer we will be.

But where is the absolute secret in this world?

The secret of the resurrection gem began to spread quietly. In order to protect the church, we had to seal up the gem.

In order to keep this secret, several priests even died for it.

Originally, this secret would be kept completely with the sacrifices of these priests, but because of my curiosity, I opened Pandora's box.

Now I have no ability to close this magic box, and John's use is becoming less and less in compliance with the rules set by the priest back then.

Perhaps in a sense, the blood oath made by that woman is slowly being realized.

Her curse back then was that Chicago would become a city of the dead! "

"Father Robin, that woman's curse is not that severe."

Li Lei comforted him.

The curses made by people at certain moments will indeed be responded by the Dao of Heaven, but the premise of everything is that they conform to the fair rules of the Dao of Heaven.

If the entire city of Chicago failed the woman and caused her death, then it is true that the woman cursed the city of Chicago.

But the reality is that only a small group of people in Chicago refused to shelter women at that time, and most of them didn't know it happened.

If the woman's curse can also be responded to by the Dao of Heaven, then the fairness of the Dao of Heaven will disappear.

Without the fair way of heaven, there will be no value of existence, so this curse cannot be recognized by the way of heaven.

"But your church has a lot of secrets.

Although the crucifix has a certain restraint effect on vampires and werewolves, it should not be that simple to protect a church like yours, so that neither vampires nor werewolves can set foot in it.

Father Robin, why don't you tell us about your background? "

Li Lei is very clear that most of the icons that can deal with werewolves and vampires are in the hands of the Holy See, a few are in the hands of the Orthodox Church, and perhaps a very small number are in the hands of a few Protestants in Europe.

However, it is absolutely impossible for Protestant Christians in North America to have such icons, unless they have a special connection with the three major Christian denominations in Europe.

"I didn't expect that an eastern monk would actually see through the biggest secret of our church."

Father Robin smiled wryly, "Our church belongs to the Baptist Church in name, but in fact we belong to the Holy See.

It's just that not many people know this secret. We are a church sent by the Catholic Church to monitor the magical forces in North America on the North American continent.

At first we existed in the form of an independent church. Later, with the formation of several mainstream denominations in North America, we had to attach to one of them.

So you know that the icon in our church is actually a gift from the Pope, one of the icons made by the Holy See himself. "

"I wish I had confessed earlier. I'm not interested in the contradictions within your Christianity. I'm just curious."

Li Lei said.

Watching the boy take a shower and change his clothes, he stood there refreshed.

Li Lei joked, "I haven't finished eating the pizza yet, why don't you continue eating?

It's also fortunate that you can stay in this tomb. It's really impossible to replace it with someone else. "

Although the tomb was slightly refurbished by Li Lei, it was a tomb after all, dark and damp.

Even now, Li Lei felt chilly.

"Don't you think it's very rude to criticize his tomb in front of the tomb owner?"

The old ghost James suddenly said, "I think my tomb is pretty good.

Look, not only have I lived here for more than a hundred years, but now I can let you live here. "

"Wait, James, don't talk nonsense.

We didn't live in, we just took refuge with you. "

Li Lei quickly blocked James' words.

Live in a tomb?

No matter how you hear it, it's not a good word.

Especially now that Li Leishen has more contact with ghosts and ghosts, he has his own little taboos about these auspicious and unlucky words.

"Remember, we are here to take refuge."

"Okay, you are taking refuge here."

James probably guessed what Li Lei was jealous of, so he followed his words.

"By the way, James, how much do you know about the current distribution of the church?

For example, where does Father John usually conduct experiments?

Is there a personal armed force in the church belonging to Father John? "

Li Lei turned the topic back to the content related to Father John.

"Actually, there are many places in the church that I cannot enter."

James said awkwardly, "Especially where the priests and other clergy rest, where most of the crosses or icons are placed.

Under their prayers, those holy images have long been divinely powered, so I cannot enter or approach them.

All that was left was the literacy class in the church, which used to be an orphanage, as I remember, but then the church was forced to hand over the orphanage to the government because it couldn't make ends meet.

Later, Father Robin probably built a literacy class there for children and teenagers aged 6 to 16 to study here for free.

In addition to the clergy, other volunteers will also come to help these children learn knowledge.

Except for the literacy class, there is only a rehearsal place for the choir.

But the church is having a hard time now, so there is no choir, and the place is deserted. "

"Father Robin, I really don't know how you guys live."

Li Lei couldn't help complaining, "When you have money, you should set up a foundation anyway, and if you can't, you can buy some real estate or something to manage it.

It's you who are talking about sitting and eating, right?

At any rate, you were rich and powerful back then, but now you are so ugly, I really don't know how you can be worthy of your predecessors. "

"Since we are believers in God, we must live in poverty."

Father Robin blushed and said, "We're so happy!"

"Okay, then you can continue to live in poverty, and I'll go out and continue looking for the whereabouts of the orange gem."

Li Lei found enough information from Father Robin, and planned to continue searching the church before dawn.

Li Lei took some food and water from his own space to Father Robin and Jack, and also left a cell phone behind.

"I'll leave here right after I finish my investigation, and I'll probably come back tomorrow night.

I'll be in touch with you before I come, you stay here and don't venture out for food just yet.

I estimate that Father John will increase his vigilance these days, James, you also stay here. "

After Li Lei settled the old, young and dead, he left the tomb.

Li Lei first took a breath of fresh air outside, and then looked at his watch. It was already past four o'clock in the morning.

According to the data Li Lei got from the local observatory, the sunrise would be about an hour away, so he had less than an hour left to move around.

After a few jumps, Li Lei appeared in the dormitory area of ​​the clergy. These dormitories were very simple and small. Li Lei took a closer look and found that there was probably a bed, an altar table and a simple wardrobe.

Other than that, there is nothing.

It seems that what Father Robin said "be content with poverty"

These four words still fit them.

Seeing that there was nothing to investigate here, Li Lei immediately headed towards Father John's residence.

Father John's residence was still very large, but Li Lei found several anti-reconnaissance devices before he got close, as well as some devices for checking magic fluctuations.

Li Lei saw that Father John was so cautious, so he simply jumped up and stood on the roof to check.

Li Lei didn't directly step on the roof. God knows if this cautious priest will do something on the roof.

On the roof, Li Lei used a spying spell to inspect Father John's room.

As a result, everything in the room made Li Lei feel like he was blind.

He played around and didn't expect Father John to be such a perverted person, he tortured innocent people.

"brute!

How dare you commit such a terrible crime against your father!

God will never forgive you! "

The young man struggled to escape.

But Father John quickly caught him and threw him on the bed covered in welts and dripping blood.

Then Father John slowly undressed himself, and the young man continued to curse and abuse.

"Father, your God has forgiven you, why won't you forgive me?"

A cold and cruel smile appeared on the corner of Father John's mouth.

Li Lei felt even more uncomfortable now, because he roughly guessed what happened in front of him.

Father John's birth was against human ethics, and Father John blamed all this on his father.

And the young man in front of him was his biological father. He actually used that orange gemstone to resurrect his father, and then tortured and humiliated his father in an even more unethical way.

When facing the Nemesis, human reason is often lacking.

But now Li Lei could feel not only the triumphant smile of the Nemesis, but also the whispered words of the Three Fate Goddesses.

Are they pitying the father and son, or cursing the father and son.

Li Lei didn't know either, he only knew that the impact of this incident on him was too great.

"Another metamorphosis!"

Li Lei didn't have any interest in watching it anymore, he just complained in his heart and left.

He had just seen the orange gemstone ring on Father John's finger, so Li Lei probably knew who his target was.

Kuiran confirmed the final target, and Li Lei planned to evacuate.

It's just that when he appeared in the alley, a group of werewolves discovered him.

Li Lei looked at Xiwei's sky light, and his blue-black and green eyes. The magic wand had already appeared in Li Lei's hand.

"I don't want to fight with people now, if you don't want to die, then get out of here quickly!"

Among the magical creatures that are known to exist so far, the IQ of werewolves is probably slightly higher than that of giants and trolls. Basically, the average IQ of humans is about 70. It barely falls into the category of mentally handicapped, but it is definitely not that smart. magical creatures.

But thinking about it, if the werewolf had an IQ, the werewolf would not become a slave of the vampire for thousands of years.

Even if the werewolves chose to resist later, it was only because the number of werewolves was so large that the vampires could no longer control them, and the vampires had to choose to endure because of the existence of a large number of demon hunters and exorcists.

But even in such a disparate battle, the werewolf didn't completely kill the blood clan, and was defeated by the blood clan for a while.

This group of races that only have instincts to fight, if they didn't have a strong enough body, they might have disappeared long ago, right?

Although they understood Li Lei's threat, they didn't think that a thin Asian man could deal with a group of strong werewolves like them.

The werewolves looked at each other, and they gradually narrowed their encirclement.

"Damn it!

Can't you idiots listen to the advice of wise people? "

Looking at the movements of the werewolves, Li Lei knew that they had decided to hunt him. It seemed that a battle was imminent.

Fighting with magic next to a church, it is estimated that Father John knew immediately that he had been spied on by night.

This was not in line with Li Lei's principle of keeping it secret, so Li Lei had no choice but to put away his wand, but Li Lei still added a defensive spell to himself.

The advantage of the defensive spell is that it will not produce too much magic fluctuation. Except for those who are at the level of the archmage, the rest of the mages basically cannot feel it.

Then replace it with a Huaxia knife that is about the same length as bunt.

This sword is called the Blood Transforming Sword, and it is a weapon in the Conferred Gods.

Although this knife is not as powerful as those ancient artifacts, Li Lei is quite satisfied with its own poisoning effect and continuous blood loss effect.

The important thing is that this knife is sharp enough to cut the throat of any werewolf, just like the one in front of Li Lei.

Li Lei didn't plan to strike later. When the werewolf was about to hunt and kill him, Li Lei did it first.

The werewolf in front of him fell down with a bang, his throat was completely cut open, a large amount of air was poured in, and blood was gurgling.

Li Lei's stunning strike shocked the werewolves, and they realized that the thin man in front of them seemed not so easy to deal with.

However, Li Lei didn't give the werewolves a chance to react, he immediately jumped up and slashed at a werewolf.

The sharp knife sliced ​​the werewolf in half as if cutting tofu, and blood and internal organs spewed out immediately.

The style of these two knives was enough to scare the rest of the werewolves, but Li Lei didn't give them a chance to escape. Several knives went up and down, and the werewolf corpses piled up all over the alley.

"laugh!

Listen to people's advice, eat enough! "

Seeing that the original Xiwei sky had turned pale, Li Lei used a burning spell to quickly dispose of these werewolf corpses.

Before anyone found out, Li Lei immediately returned to the safe house.

"You fought someone?

Why does it smell like blood? "

Hamada Hiroshi said nervously when he saw Li Lei coming back.

"When I came back, I encountered a group of werewolves, so I had to take action."

Li Lei walked towards the bathroom, and then put the clothes on his body into the space.

The space has an automatic cleaning function, which is a small benefit.

There is a special lotion in the dark compartment in the bathroom of the safe house, which can quickly wash off the blood and gunshot marks on people's bodies, so as to avoid revealing their identities during pyrotechnic tests or other tests.

In addition to this special cleansing effect, this lotion also has an additional depilatory effect.

After Li Lei finished washing, he was completely naked.

Fortunately, the attached shampoo does not have this hair removal effect, but the fragrance added to cover up the smell of blood and smoke is extra strong, and the fragrance is very cheap.

After Li Lei took a shower and changed his clothes, he was depressed.

Of course Hamada Hiroshi knew the special side effect of this magical bath liquid, he held back a smile and said: "Don't worry!

According to the growth rate of a healthy adult, the body hair on your body will return in a maximum of two months.

Besides, you don't have a girlfriend now, so don't worry about who will know this secret. "

As he spoke, Hamada Hiroshi couldn't help laughing.

Li Lei gave Hiro Hamada an angry look, and then told everyone that the root of the resurrection incident was actually the orange gem from the ultimate gem.

As for how orange gemstones appeared and how churches used them as gemstones, Li Lei talked about it.

In the end, Li Lei also talked about how the priests planned to seal up the orange gems but was reused by Father John, and how Father John resurrected his father and told everything this man did and said.

"Disgusting can't just be disgusting to me, you have to feel the same!"

Li Lei said with the pleasure of revenge.

"Is every holder of the Ultimate Gem a pervert?

As far as we met the three holders, none of them were normal people. "

Sure enough, Jason said with disgust, "Ray, I hope you won't become weird because of this."

However, Hamada Hiroshi was very calm and had nothing to say.

As the chief claw of the owl court, Li Lei estimated that what Hamada Hiroshi had experienced would be even more disgusting.

Therefore, Li Lei also extinguished the idea of ​​continuing to tease everyone.

But for Jason's disgust, Li Lei still turned back.

"Don't confuse me with them!"

Li Lei said, "I think the ultimate gemstone should have something to affect people's hearts, but it can never turn a good person into a bad person, but can only magnify a person's dark side.

If the person is unable to resist the influence of the Ultimate Gem, then he will fall for it.

I have a special gem box here, and the storage place of the gem box is not in the same space as me, so I won't worry that these gems will affect me. "

"What do we do next?

Directly lead someone to seal up this church? "

Hamada Hiroshi asked, "Or continue to wait?"

"At the moment we don't have enough evidence to seal down the church, and this Father John has a high reputation among the local people. If we rashly seal up his church, I'm afraid it will cause protests from the people."

Li Lei said, "Especially in the final battle, if there are too many people at the scene, the more innocent people will be harmed.

I don't want that to happen! "

"Then you mean we continue to wait?

But we can't wait forever, can we? "

Hamada Hiroshi said.

"Of course."

Li Lei said, "Based on the information we have so far, it's clear that Father John intends to join forces with vampires and werewolves to make trouble these days. As long as we grasp the reason for his collusion with vampires and werewolves, then blocking this place is a federal matter.

Not only can I enforce the closure of traffic in this area, but I can also dispatch the National Guard to cooperate.

By that time, I can naturally keep innocent people out of the scope of the situation and avoid unnecessary casualties. "

While Li Lei was discussing the details of the operation, Father John was furious at the werewolf leader.

"You said that your men disappeared near my church, or it just happened. Are you questioning my secret actions against you?"

Father John asked coldly, "You have to know, I chose to cooperate with you because you are a little smarter than other werewolf tribes.

But now, your IQ has completely disappointed me!

Didn't I give you a secret way in and out of my church?

Why do you still swagger around my church?

Didn't I tell you?

Now the Office of Special Organisms and the FBI are scratching my sore feet.

Do you know what will happen if they find out that I have anything to do with you werewolves?

They will immediately seal up my church and take me away to investigate, and then we will have nothing to hide.

I only have one life anyway, let them take it if they can.

But what about you?

Where is your tribe? "

"John, we are wrong this time, but since it has happened, how should we solve it?"

said the werewolf.

"Go and check!

Don't act rashly now, and investigate at night to see who is against your people. "

Father John said calmly.

"Okay, now take this werewolf away.

Remember, I want him to sell his body in the lowest place. If he receives less than twenty werewolves every day, then you werewolves will make up for it! "

"John, this won't work. Many diseases of your humans are fatal to us werewolves."

said the werewolf leader.

"You don't know how to use condoms?

What do you think humans invented condoms for? "

asked Father John.

The werewolf reluctantly took the dying young man away, while Father John calmed down.

He changed into his own robe, and appeared in church with his own kind smile.

He was courteous and greeted everyone kindly; he was humble and kind, and he always listened patiently and tried to help those who had suffered misfortune.

He stood on the altar, and the sun fell on him.

At this moment, he is so holy and noble.