After arriving under the direct jurisdiction of Shengyu City, Lin Yi found that thieves and primitive natives running around became indispensable.
Lin Yi killed at least dozens of thieves along the way. Almost every few kilometers he traveled, he would encounter one or two groups of thieves.
These thieves do not have the attitude of "I drive this road and leave the money to buy the road". They will not negotiate with the travelers at all. They just start killing directly and then do more. Loot property from corpses.
When walking to the edge of Shengyu City, Lin Yi finally saw many villages.
These villages all rely on animal husbandry as their main mode of production and management. The villagers in the villages seem to be extremely vigilant and have a strong xenophobia towards outsiders.
It wasn't until Toby Hubert showed off the witch hunter's exclusive ring that the villagers were willing to let them stay overnight.
Most of the residents in these villages came from other cities in Raven Star. Naturally, they are aware of the dangers of witches. They all believe in witch hunters unconditionally from the bottom of their hearts. .
After arriving here, Toby Hubert checked Charlene Sharp's body, and after confirming that she was still under anesthesia, he ordered two slaves to drive the carriage to Holy Healing City.
Not long after, a magnificent city wall appeared in sight.
This city wall is a hundred meters high, and faint traces of filling can be seen on the wall. Judging from the extent of its damage, it is most likely caused by witches.
Before entering the city, Lin Yi saw groups of patrolling soldiers. They were not wearing heavy armor, but more advanced and lighter scale armor.
Looking at the city wall of Shengyu City from a distance, it feels like looking at a big mountain, while looking up from a close distance, it looks like a sky wall.
It is unimaginable that with the level of technology in this world, how they could build this city wall that is 100 meters high and more than 20 meters thick. In other words, this is not done by humans at all.
As soon as Lin Yi approached the city gate, he heard a bustling crowd.
After careful observation, he found that entering Shengyu City was much simpler than he imagined. There was no need to pay entry fees or undergo cumbersome interrogations.
Those soldiers with old-fashioned shotguns stood on both sides of the city gate. Their eyes were like hawks, scanning every civilian who entered the city. Once they noticed a suspicious target appeared, these soldiers would immediately launch further inspections.
“Stop.”
Lin Yi and his party had just arrived in front of the city gate when five soldiers armed with shotguns walked straight forward.
Since the carriage Lin Yi and Toby Hubert were riding in had the curtain drawn, this situation naturally attracted the special attention of these patrolling soldiers.
“Stop.”
Lin Yi's voice came from inside the carriage, and the two slaves hurriedly stopped the carriage.
I heard a male voice coming from the carriage, but these patrol members did not relax their vigilance at all.
A long time ago, there was an incident where a witch disguised herself as a man and sneaked into the Holy Healing City.
That incident brought extremely serious and immeasurable damage to the Holy Healing Church.
Since then, an additional rule has been added to the rules followed by patrol soldiers, that is, both men and women must be inspected when entering the city.
A soldier took out a yellow crystal the size of an egg from his arms. Inside the crystal was a mercury-like fluid. The soldier brought the yellow crystal close to the carriage. In an instant, a significant change occurred inside the yellow crystal. Its color changed from its original color. The yellow quickly turned to red.
"Witch! Come out!"
After seeing the color of the crystal change, the surrounding soldiers moved in unison, pointing the muzzles of their shotguns at the carriage in front.
For a time, the civilians who had gathered near Lin Yi's carriage immediately moved back, leaving a large empty circle around the carriage in the blink of an eye.
Lin Yi opened the door curtain and motioned for Toby Hubert to go out and explain to others.
The moment Toby Hubert came out, the tight tension of these patrol soldiers relaxed slightly.
It can be seen that these patrol soldiers must have recognized Toby Hubert's identity.
"There is a newly captured witch in the carriage. Just send someone to get on the carriage to check it out." Toby Hubert yawned as he spoke, obviously he had already been familiar with such things. Get used to it.
"I'm sorry."
The squad leader of the patrol nodded, then hung the shotgun on his chest and came to the carriage.
There was only one woman in the carriage, Charlene Sharp. The team leader stepped forward and brought the yellow crystal close to Charlene Sharp, and then found that the color of the crystal suddenly turned scarlet.
Obviously, the woman in front of me is undoubtedly a witch.
But this witch seemed unable to move physically. The team leader noticed that Charlene Sharp could only keep moving her eyes.
"Well, thank you Lord Toby for the witch hunt, let me go."
After the team leader got off the carriage and gave the order to let go, the rest of the patrol soldiers then They all put away the shotguns in their hands and continued to check the situation of other people entering the city.
"Is this the case every day here?"
"It is the same every day. Every year, more than 500 witches are arrested in Shengyu City. On average, there is almost one every day, so you Understand it too.”
While Toby Hubert was explaining to Lin Yi, there was an explosion not far behind the two of them.
"It's the witch! The witch is coming!"
A soldier looked panicked and hurried past the carriage with a shotgun.
Lin Yi lifted up the curtains and looked behind him, only to see a huge avatar appearing behind a woman not far behind the carriage.
This woman is wearing a gorgeous purple silk dress, a pair of exquisite white gloves on her hands, and a top hat on her head. At first glance, she looks like a noble lady. .
At this moment, the face of this noble lady is like a ferocious evil ghost. She is controlling the huge avatar behind her, killing the surrounding civilians like crazy.
"Go to hell! Go to hell!"
Seeing this scene, Lin Yi couldn't help but frowned, why did this witch do this?
"Don't bother thinking about it. Most witches are lunatics. If they were sane, they wouldn't become witches. Do you take action or do I?"
Lin Yi heard Toby ·Hubert shook his head and said that it was him who would do it. Lin Yi would not hand over the head of this witch to Toby Hubert for such a large amount of development.
After jumping from the carriage, Lin Yi looked up and saw dozens of soldiers holding shotguns, shooting wildly at the witch's body and the huge incarnation.
These shotguns do not fire conventional gunpowder bullets, but bullets mixed with diamond ingredients.
Once the diamond enters the witch's blood, it will affect the witch's sensitivity in controlling her avatar.
Lin Yi noticed that at this moment, the witch was controlling her huge avatar to stand in front of her, blocking all the incoming diamond bullets.
At the moment when the other party used his avatar to block everyone's view, Lin Yi stopped and disappeared from the spot.
When Lin Yi appeared again, he had already arrived behind the witch.
The witch noticed something strange behind her. A thick black energy gradually began to condense behind her, and it seemed that she was preparing to launch a self-destructive attack from behind.
But Lin Yi didn't give the witch a chance at all. The black and white rose directly pierced the energy node of the black energy ball, piercing the witch's body along with it.
The witch couldn't help but vomit blood, and then she felt a strange force quickly pouring in from the wound. The energy pouring into the body seemed to have an extremely strong rejection reaction to the elemental power in her body.
In an instant, the surface of the witch's body began to explode continuously, and the flesh and blood splashed everywhere like raindrops. The scene was very tragic.
These are manifestations of the conflict between the power of the elements and the power of the abyss within the witch's body. Once the conflict between the two parties is too intense, a series of small explosions will be triggered inside the witch's body.
Within a second, the witch's body was blown to pieces, but even so, the witch still held on to her last bit of consciousness, trying to control her avatar to kill Lin Yi.
But Lin Yi would not give her a chance. He raised his right foot and kicked the witch to the ground. Then he pulled out the black and white rose from the witch's chest and accurately pierced the witch's brain with a sword.
After the witch's brain was damaged, the witch's incarnation also began to dissipate, leaving only two incarnation fragments carrying the power of the dark element.
[Hint: You killed Russ Doris. 】
[Russ Doris is a three-stage elemental black witch. You gain 1.0% of the source of development, and now you have obtained a total of 1.8% of the source of development. 】
【You get a treasure chest (legendary level). 】
[Tip: This treasure chest has received an additional bonus, and the treasure chest reward has been increased by 100%. 】
"Thank you for your help."
You must know that this witch is a witch who can summon the incarnation in the third stage. In a real fight, these soldiers are no match for this witch.
They are ready to use their lives to delay the witch while waiting for support from the Holy Healing Church to arrive.
I just didn’t expect that Lin Yi would suddenly take action, and he solved the witch in three strokes, five divided by two.
"Where is the witch? Where is the witch?"
Just as Lin Yi returned to the carriage, an old man and a bearded man appeared at the city gate.
"You shouldn't have gone far yet. I can smell that disgusting smell that hasn't dissipated yet."
The bearded man's nose twitched slightly for a few times, and then his face An excited smile appeared.
For this group of witch hunters, hunting witches is even more exciting than visiting a brothel.
"Okay, don't be in a daze, go back." The old man looked around the situation. After seeing the fragments of the incarnation remaining on the ground, he understood that someone should have killed the witch who was causing trouble here. Solved.
At this moment, Lin Yi passed by these two people.
The old man and the bearded body suddenly froze at the same time. The moment Lin Yi just passed by the two of them, they only felt a black hole passing by, and in an instant, they all All the senses were swallowed up.
When the two of them came to their senses, Lin Yi had already got on the carriage and was heading towards Shengyu City.
"Interesting, it seems that the church is going to have another ruthless person." The old man looked at the back of Lin Yi's carriage gradually disappearing, with a meaningful smile on his face.
And in the team that was entering the city not far away, there was a rather eye-catching woman.
She wore a strapless dress, a pair of black gloves, and held a thin pipe in her hand. Her long wavy purple hair was fluttering in the wind, but at this moment her forehead was constantly flowing. Cold sweat.
Originally, she thought that the reputation of the Holy Healing Church was just blown out, but the scene just now shattered her illusion.
Good guy can summon the incarnation of the elemental black witch, but she was suppressed here before she could even survive for half a minute. If she dared to make a mistake, she wouldn't be able to survive for ten seconds. .
Thinking of this, the purple-haired woman had the idea of leaving the team entering the city.
But after the attack just now, the number of surrounding city guards instantly increased a lot.
Once this purple-haired woman breaks away from the team entering the city without permission, she will immediately arouse the suspicion of the surrounding soldiers, and then it will become even more dangerous.
Shengyu City, city center.
A carriage passed by on the street, dust flying.
Not long after, the carriage stopped steadily next to a building that looked quite large.
Toby Hubert quickly carried Charlene Sharp, who was still under anesthesia, and jumped down from the carriage.
The two walked towards a majestic building, which was the headquarters of the Holy Healing Church. Although it was majestic, it was slightly old. It looked like it had been there for some time, and some parts of the outer wall had begun to weather.
The first floor of Holy Healing Church is open to the public, and the areas above the first floor are only open to internal personnel.
The wall on one side of the lobby is inlaid with a large piece of thick wooden board, on which are densely packed many wanted notices. These wanted notices vary in age, and some of the papers are slightly yellowed. , obviously it was posted a long time ago.
Although the lobby is quite large with an area of several hundred square meters, the furnishings inside are very simple.
On the inner side of the front of the lobby is the staircase leading to the second floor; on the left is a bulletin board; and on the right is the commission office, which is mainly responsible for receiving various information provided by civilians. news, bounty information and other related matters.
Behind the window of the commission office, a blond girl was sitting.
She always maintained a sweet smile, but judging from the way she glanced at the clock from time to time, it was probably time to get off work soon.
When Lin Yi came to the window, the blond girl stood up politely.
“Hello, what are your instructions?”
The girl’s voice was clear and polite, obviously professionally trained.
"Submit the task." Toby Hubert threw Charlene Sharp from his shoulders.
After Charlene Sharp let out a muffled groan, many witch hunters in the hall looked over.
After feeling the malicious eyes around her, Charlene Sharp quickly closed her eyes and pretended to be dead.
“Alive?”
“Alive.”
"Let me see, Charlene Sharp, the second-stage black witch, is still an elemental witch. She has committed a lot of crimes. She can just be handed over to the guys in the R&D department. I heard that they have recently developed some new drugs. "I'm worried about the lack of some experimental materials," the blonde girl said as she quickly walked out from behind the counter, then squatted down, took a closer look at Charlene Sharp's appearance, and then put it with the one in her hand. The information was carefully compared.
You must know that a living black witch is naturally of greater value to the Holy Healing Church.
If the Holy Healing Church wants to continue to grow and develop, it must develop a variety of weapons and equipment against witches.
Among them, diamond bullets and witch ashes were items developed under such circumstances.
“Okay, the contribution value has been transferred to your account, is there anything else?”
After the girl stood up, she looked at Lin Yi. She noticed that Lin Yi seemed to have the residual aura of the witch on him.
"Register me, I want to join the Holy Healing Church." Lin Yi threw Abe Joy's wanted notice and several incarnation fragments harvested in the previous battle on the counter.
"This is..."
The smile on the girl's face faded, and she touched the dark black crystal piece lightly with her fingers.
“The carrier of the incarnation?”
As a civil servant of the Holy Healing Church, the girl also has multiple responsibilities such as front desk and customer service, so she naturally knows something about such items.
“Where did you get it?”
“Kill a witch and leave this thing behind after her avatar is broken.”
The girl listened to Lin Yi’s words After answering, he subconsciously looked at Toby Hubert, obviously wanting to confirm from him whether what Lin Yi said was true.
Toby Hubert nodded, indicating that what Lin Yi said was true.
"Wait a moment."
The girl picked up the cloth bag and stood up, walking into the wooden door behind her. Lin Yi waited for about 10 minutes, and the blond girl and an old man walked down the stairs on the second floor. .
After seeing Lin Yi's appearance, the old man was obviously stunned for a moment, and then walked down steadily step by step on crutches.
"Holy Councilor, it is this gentleman..." the girl said to the old man respectfully.
"I know." The old man responded briefly.
The old man in white robe had a severe hunchback. He came to Lin Yi with a cane.
“We meet again, young man.”
The old man in white robe is named Carmen, and he is one of the twelve holy councilors of the Holy Healing Church.
The founders of Holy Healing Church were indeed far-sighted. They carefully divided the power system of Holy Healing Church into two important parts, namely the force department and the management department.
The force stationed here at the headquarters of the Holy Healing Church is the military department, and all major decisions here are adjudicated by the Anglican Church.
There are twelve holy members in the Anglican Church, and this old man named Carmen is one of them.
These twelve holy councilors directly govern all witch hunters, but speaking of it, in fact, they don’t have to worry too much about anything in daily life.
The only task of witch hunters is to investigate and hunt those witches. Most of the time they perform such tasks outside. As long as they can complete the task and bring back the results, they have achieved the basic requirements of the church for them. requested.
The second part of the authority of the Holy Healing Church is the management department, that is, the officials of Holy Healing City. They are managed by the Pope. The so-called Pope is essentially the king.
Under the power structure of the Holy Healing Church, many aspects such as the military, finance, and officials at all levels are controlled by the Pope.
However, the Pope is not allowed to interfere in any way with matters related to the Anglican Church and witch hunters.
Although the Pope is like a king in terms of status, he does not have the power to order witch hunters to do anything. Only the Anglican Church has the power to assign witch hunters to perform various tasks.
The pope is higher than a single saint. The twelve saints can easily remove the pope after gathering. The pope is an electoral system and is elected by officials who are loved by the people.
Within the Holy Healing Church, the division of power, finance, royal power, and the mysterious side can be said to be clear.
Because of this, among the group of witch hunters, there is basically no such kind of intrigue.
Each of them knew very well that one day they might die in battle while out hunting witches. In this case, there was no need to fight internally.
Don’t think that witch hunters are very kind. In fact, each of their hands is stained with blood. They have experienced too much cruelty in the process of performing the task of hunting witches.
There are some extreme witch hunters who don't care about the lives of civilians at all when they act. They only focus on completing their tasks, and their behavior can be described as quite ruthless.
“It’s you.”
Of course Lin Yi recognized Carmen. When they were at the city gate just now, Lin Yi passed by Carmen, but Lin Yi didn’t pay attention to Carmen at that time. .
"I haven't thanked you for your help at the city gate. Since you are willing to join the Holy Healing Church, we naturally warmly welcome you to join. Shirley, go through the procedures for him."
"Mr. Holy Councilor , this process has not yet..." Shirley looked embarrassed, as if she wanted to say something.
"The process is originally prepared for ordinary people. This gentleman cannot be a lackey of the witch. It is enough for me to know this in my heart." Carmen waved her hand and interrupted Shirley with a very firm tone. words.
Hearing Carmen's words, Shirley had no choice but to nod slightly, and then took out a piece of paper from the side, which was filled with a lot of forms.
After Lin Yi filled out the form, he handed it to Shirley. Looking at the doctor above who was obviously a code name, Shirley ignored it and completed the membership application for Lin Yi according to the normal procedures. (End of chapter)