Law Enforcer's Handbook

Chapter 272 Two Wills
Under the leadership of the captain of the guard, they passed through an intricate labyrinth, followed the signs that were not obvious along the way, and arrived at the holy place that the believers said.

Song Lan had to be thankful that they met the captain of the believers' guard, otherwise, if he and Lu Xiang were to find it by themselves, they might not be able to find the exit of the maze until tomorrow day.

He guessed that Andrew, who broke into the cave at that time, should have just turned around the outermost circle, and returned immediately after getting the news of "mother's nest" from the mural.

The holy place is located in an empty place deep in the pit. Believers built wooden houses here. The candle lights on the top of the wooden roof illuminate the whole holy place. At the bottom of the holy place is a weird pool, in which there are people A mutant biological egg more than one meter high.

Many believers walked by these giant eggs, and they put their ears on the eggshells from time to time, listening to the movement inside.

"What are they doing?"

Song Lan asked curiously. He guessed that the flying mutated creatures mentioned by Dr. Oleg were hatched from these eggs.

"Checking the degree of hatching." The captain of the guard explained, "The high priest said that the old gods had sent a decree to move all the offspring that were about to hatch to the entrance of the cave, and let them welcome the new life."

Hello High Priest!

It turns out that you sent the unhatched dragon to the face of the Marine!

He had wondered why the wild devourers inhabited the deepest part of the pit, but they could lay their eggs at the entrance of the pit every night, and it was all sent out by the believers.

They don't seem to know anything about the outside of the pit, and if they know that the eggs that have worked so hard to remove the entrance of the cave every night are finally burned to clean by Dr. Oleg's team, I don't know how they will feel.

Song Lan can only lament that countless coincidences have created the current situation, and they are undoubtedly lucky. They not only had the opportunity to recruit an experienced medical team, but also came here before this wild devourer was about to break out of its cocoon. .

If they wait a few more nights until the Devourer hatches, Oleg and the others may be in dire straits.

But it is obvious that the high priest does not seem to welcome their arrival. From the moment the two of them entered the door to reveal their identities, this hunchbacked, white-haired old man kept a straight face, and he did not hide it. My own vigilance and disgust towards Song Lan and others.

Song Lan soon realized that this also represented the will of the Devourer to some extent.

According to the captain of the guard, the high priest had been baptized by the "mother's nest", and what he described was the process of assimilation between the Devourer and the individual.

"You are not welcome here."

After the captain of the guard left, the high priest said coldly, "I don't know the mechanical bug swarm, and I don't want to communicate with you."

Song Lan ignored the other party's bad attitude, and instead asked, "You should be aware of the consequences of moving the egg to the entrance of the cave. Why did you do that?"

It seemed a little subtle to him.

The biggest characteristic of the Devourer is that it has a swarm consciousness. Whether this decision is at the will of the high priest himself or the Devourer, they must know that all the eggs moved to the door are destroyed.

"Because it can slow down the progress of metamorphosis."

Although he said he was unwilling to communicate with them, the high priest answered Song Lan's question with practical actions.

"Slowing down the progress of metamorphosis...what good does it do you?"

This answer was beyond the two's expectations. In their cognition, if there are no external conditions to restrict it, the Devourer will follow the instinct to spread endlessly. However, a wild Devourer knows how to restrain its own desire to evolve .

"There are enemies out there, and we're not ready."

The high priest's tone changed slightly. Song Lan, who had studied the Devourer quite a bit, immediately realized that it was the wild Devourer who had connected to his mind.

It seemed that on the issue of communicating with the mechanical bug swarm, the High Priest had different views individually and collectively, but in the end he had to follow the will of the mother hive.

"Enemy? You mean the medical team?"

Song Lan was even more confused. Even if Oleg stole the "Commander IV" equipped with heavy firepower, in front of the Devourer, a few combat-type exoskeleton armors were not enough. There is a wave of mutated creatures in the cave, and it is enough to wipe out Dr. Oleg's team without needing to show up.

"Not they, our enemies, live in heaven."

"So you didn't make that weird moon?"

Song Lan immediately realized the meaning of the other party's words, and asked. Until now, he still didn't understand the principle of that strange moon. After seeing the holy place of believers, he felt more and more that the two belonged to the same a species.

There are actually two devourers in this small town!
Or a Devourer, and a mysterious species they've never seen before.

"The moon is the enemy, it is interfering with my thinking, it is waiting for my transformation to complete!"

Before he finished speaking, the tone of the high priest changed again, his eyes were bloodshot, "Didn't I tell you? I don't want to communicate with you, don't meddle in your own business!"

After finishing speaking, he threw the crutch aside, scratched his forehead frantically with both hands, and with such force that his nails embedded into the skin, tearing off the flesh forcefully.

The following words were incomprehensible, the high priest was completely in a state of confusion, his words didn't match up, as if two different wills were fighting for the control of his body.

"Don't... trust... the moon... it's eroding..."

"Get out, get out, you are not welcome here!"

This was the first time Song Lan saw someone who could resist the mother's will, and the current situation seemed that another kind of will was vying for the control of the high priest.

"Everyone calm down first."

In order to prevent the high priest from directly tearing himself alive, Song Lan said hastily, "Give me some face, sit down and have a talk first."

However, this time, the two sides did not follow his suggestion. When the competition for consciousness in the body became fierce, suddenly a pitch-black arm penetrated the dome and the building, pressing down on the high priest.

But after touching the exoskeleton armor on Song Lan's body, the pitch-black arm retracted as if electrocuted.

The mad high priest paused, his head was held by Song Lan's other exoskeleton armored arm, and his pupils exuding ominous black air were forced to look at Song Lan.

At this moment, his face was covered with blood, and his skull could be seen directly from the wound, which made him look like a zombie at this moment. If it were an ordinary person who had not been strengthened by the Devourer, he would have died at this moment.

The two just stared at each other.

The room fell into a deathly silence.

"Interesting, interesting!"

After an unknown amount of time, the High Priest suddenly grinned. Against the background of his face covered in blood and wounds, this smile looked particularly creepy.

——"Come and find me, I'll be waiting for you!"

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