Chapter 252: Crazy Martyr

In the not-so-large corridor, the long tails of the snake-like Deadpools were entangled with each other, and their violent muscles had a metallic color. It was not difficult to imagine the power these muscles could unleash.

"These guys seem to have some bad intentions." An annoyed expression of "Oh, why is it always so troublesome?" flashed across Jiude Mai's bright and beautiful face.

“We are the newcomers.” Lu Mingfei used a joke that only appeared a few years later.

"Of course I know. But even so, can't they be more humble? Using violence against girls is not gentlemanly behavior." Jude Mai shook her head, and her long hair tied into a high ponytail swung back and forth, revealing her fair and slender neck.

"These snake-like deadpools should be the missing hunters." Charlotte in Lu Mingfei's arms lowered her eyes and said softly, "I didn't expect that they had all become Bernardo's experimental subjects. It's all my fault that I discovered it too late. If it had been a few days earlier..."

Before Charlotte could finish her words, she was suddenly interrupted by Lu Mingfei.

"You don't have to blame yourself so much, Charlotte." Lu Mingfei said, "You have tried your best to do everything you can, and you deserve everyone. At least we still have a chance to save the last person."

Charlotte looked up blankly, only to see the boy looking straight ahead seriously, with a smooth and delicate jawline and golden eyes, completely different from his usual nonchalant appearance.

"Just comfort me, why are you trying to be cool..."

Charlotte's face was stiff, and she suppressed the thought "So handsome!" that popped up in her mind just now.

Dozens of snakes rushed out from the depths of the corridor like a toppling. Jiude Mai showed no fear, the pretty lips that had kissed Lu Mingfei were holding the back of the ninja sword, and her hand had taken out a Glock pistol at some point, her long hair fluttering, and she backed away and fired the bullets in the gun chamber in one go, and the mercury bullets instantly exploded among the group of deadpools.

Mai Jiude obviously had a lot of combat experience. She had already replaced all the bullets in her pistol with mercury alchemical bullets before arriving at the church. For this highly dragonized Deadpool, this kind of bullet is undoubtedly the most lethal. Mercury mist rose, and the metallic scales were stained with large patches of mercury as if they were white.

Lu Mingfei heard the wailing of this group of snake-like deadpools, which was as tragic as the cries of pagans tied to the stake in the Middle Ages.

"Next, this magazine is loaded with ordinary bullets." Jiude Mai, holding a knife, made an unclear sound, pulled out another Keglo pistol from behind her hip and threw it to Lu Mingfei. Lu Mingfei, who was holding Charlotte, could only catch it with his right hand.

Seeing that Lu Mingfei was actually trying to load the gun with his teeth while biting the barrel, Jiude Mai was also stunned. Fortunately, Ling beside Lu Mingfei immediately stood on tiptoe, snatched the gun from Lu Mingfei's hand, and loaded it.

"I'll help you." Ling said expressionlessly and put the gun back into Lu Mingfei's hand.

"Pervert..." Charlotte in his arms pouted and muttered, shaking her legs to break free from Lu Mingfei's arms and jumped down, walking to a place two meters away from Lu Mingfei.

No, I just want to load the gun! Why are you a pervert again! Isn't the reason why I can't load the gun with my other hand because I'm holding you? Besides, she and I have even kissed each other before, so what's the big deal about this little thing! And why does Ling seem to care about this matter? Shouldn't she and me be unfamiliar with each other?
Lu Mingfei made a timely complaint in his mind.

But now is obviously not the time to worry about these things. Because the Deadpool in the mercury vapor is frantically crawling out. The vitality of the snake-shaped Deadpool is much stronger than that of the ordinary Deadpool. Although mercury is highly toxic to them, the small amount of mercury vapor produced by the explosion of the pistol bullet obviously cannot cause too much fatal damage to them.

"Mai." Zero said coldly.

"I know." Jiude Mai replied.

A snake-like Deadpool was the first to crawl out of the mercury vapor, but at the moment it crawled out, Mai Jude's double swords had already been sent out. This Deadpool was covered with scales with defense comparable to tank armor, and there was almost no weakness on the surface. However, the two ancient ninja swords were sent into the Deadpool's eyes with incredible accuracy. The tip of the knife even avoided their tightly closed eyelids and inserted through the gap between the closed eyelids.

Deadpool screamed violently, and his sharp claws scratched forward randomly, but Lu Mingfei had already quickly fired the bullet from the Glock pistol in his hand. Although the gun was loaded with ordinary bullets, it was obviously modified, and the powerful impact caused Deadpool's claws to be suspended in the air for a moment.

Taking advantage of the moment when Deadpool's claws stopped, Mai Jiude held the knife in her backhand, turned around, and stabbed the two knives diagonally into Deadpool's brain, rotating and crushing it. Then she stepped on the head of the snake-like Deadpool with her boots, kicked the Deadpool back into the mercury vapor, and retreated with the force. The several snake-like Deadpools that rushed out later were suppressed by the dense mercury bullets.

Next to Lu Mingfei, the petite Zero was holding a rather large Remington ACR rifle. She took out another weapon from somewhere and fired at the group of Deadpools with a cold face. The muzzle flash shone on her equally small pretty face, which suddenly reminded Lu Mingfei of the lolita heroine Matilda in "Léon: The Professional" who held a gun and shot at the enemy fiercely.

Can I just say that she is worthy of being a Russian girl...

Since she was no longer holding Charlotte, Jiude Mai simply threw the other gun and spare magazine to Lu Mingfei.

The division of labor among the people was clear. Jiude Mai was responsible for using the sharp double knives to cut through the snake-like Deadpool's defenses, severing their spines or smashing their heads, while Lu Mingfei, who had accurate shooting skills, was responsible for using double guns to cover Jiude Mai. Ling used the alchemical mercury bullet to continuously produce mercury vapor.

Compared to the people from Kassel Academy, the temporary combat team composed of Lu Mingfei, Jiude Mai and Ling was obviously more coordinated. The snake-like deadpools that could tangle with Ye Sheng Yaji for a long time were greatly reduced in number due to the seamless cooperation of the three people, and almost one or two rounds of attack could kill one. Even Charlotte was a little suspicious whether these people had been working together for many years, and there was no mistake in their cooperation.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the three of them have much more combat experience than Ye Sheng Aki and the others. Among the three, although Jude Mai and Zero do not have many tasks to perform together, each of them is a powerful weapon in single combat, and the combat memory engraved in their muscles allows them to form a tacit cooperation without too much running-in.

Although Lu Mingfei has carried out fewer missions than Jiude Mai and Ling, every mission he has participated in was a Dragon King-level mission, and his teammates were elite students of Kassel Academy such as Caesar, Chu Zihang, and Nono. The worst of them, the useless senior brother Finkel, was once an A-level student.

However, even though they cooperated perfectly, the number of Snake-like Deadpool seemed endless, and they rushed up one after another.

"Leave this to us." Ling suddenly said, "Take Charlotte and break through that door first."

"What about you guys?" Lu Mingfei asked. He was worried about Ling and Jiude Mai.

"We'll be fine." Ling replied, without a trace of emotion in his voice, as if he was stating an objective fact.

"There's no point in wasting time here. Don't you still have to save the person inside?" Zero added.

Lu Mingfei paused. This sentence completely cut off his hesitation. He nodded decisively, squatted in front of Charlotte, and looked back at her. Charlotte, who looked unwilling, obediently lay on Lu Mingfei's back and wrapped her hand holding the cane around Lu Mingfei's neck.

"Take the guns and use them for self-defense." Jiude Mai withdrew and said to Lu Mingfei with red eyes. Lu Mingfei nodded.

It was not known which round of attack it was, but the snake-like Deadpool struggled desperately, and was immediately suppressed by Zero's heavy firepower of mercury bullets. The moment the mercury vapor spread, Lu Mingfei held his breath and carried Charlotte through the white vapor. The vapor was also poisonous to hybrids, but hybrids who were still humans were much more resistant to mercury than dragons.

Several of the snake-like deadpools spotted Lu Mingfei, swung their tails and turned around to change their targets, but when they met the pair of ignited golden eyes, they were subconsciously shocked.

Lu Mingfei walked to the door and fired several shots at the door lock without hesitation, then kicked it open.

"This is..." Charlotte raised her head, her green eyes spinning and scanning the walls.

Behind the door at the end of the corridor was another corridor, but this corridor was no longer guarded by the snake-like deadpools. For some reason, the snake-like deadpools from before did not chase after him. In the dark corridor lit by candlelight, the words on both sides of the wall twisted like snakes, one side was engraved with Latin phonetic characters, and the other side was engraved with Hebrew phonetic characters.

"'I am called the Thrice-Great Hermes, for I have command over three parts of the world . . . '" Charlotte read aloud some words on the wall.

"The words engraved on the left wall in Latin are all from the Emerald Record. The words engraved on the right wall are the Hebrew version of the Bible," Charlotte said. "I heard that in the Middle Ages, some fanatical missionaries would engrave the original text of the Bible everywhere they could see to express their piety. I thought Bernardo's clergy status was just a disguise for himself, but I didn't expect that his belief in God was so crazy."

Charlotte took a deep breath and looked at the two different words on the left and right walls.

The whole person is caught between religion and alchemy... It's like Father Bernardo's self-portrait!
"Let's go in first." Lu Mingfei pointed to the door at the end of the corridor.

"Yeah." Charlotte nodded.

The sound of footsteps echoed in the corridor. The corridor was not long, and it took only four or five seconds to run to the end with Charlotte on his back. Lu Mingfei was about to draw his gun and shoot, but he found that there was no lock on the door, and the whole door was even made of wood.

Lu Mingfei put his hand on the door and pushed it open easily without any effort.

With a creaking sound, they really reached the end this time, because what appeared before them was a square room of two to three hundred square meters. The crucible, the inscriptions on the wall, and the various materials randomly piled up clearly indicated that this was a place like an alchemy workshop. On both sides were alloy iron cages, and at this time the doors of the iron cages were all open, and there was nothing inside.

At the end of the iron cage was a wooden cross. Qin from the Temple of Solomon was tied to the cross like Jesus on the cross, with her head tilted and unconscious. A figure stood beside Qin.

"You guys are here so soon?" Hearing the noise, the figure frowned and turned back. If it weren't for the silver robe and the familiar voice, Lu Mingfei would definitely not believe that the man in front of him, who looked no more than 40 or 50 years old, was the Father Bernardo he had met before.

"People from Kassel College and the Valentine family are on their way." Charlotte said coldly, "You've already lost, stop it."

Bernardo snorted coldly: "Stop? Just you? A bunch of despicable humans?"

"Aren't you also a human being?" Lu Mingfei asked in a deep voice.

"Yes, I am human." Bernardo said slowly, his voice echoing in the room like thunder, "But only in the past and now, I will not be soon. After exchanging pure dragon blood, I will be a true dragonborn. Eternal, powerful, and immortal."

"I actually never understood why you did such a thing." Charlotte said, "Bernardo, you were once an outstanding dragon slayer of the Solomon's Temple and a beloved priest. When you were young, you participated in many dragon slaying missions and had a lot of experience. That's why you were appointed as the regional leader of the Solomon's Temple, even though you only have B bloodline. You should be very devout in your faith, so why did you do such an anti-human thing?"

"You're right. I participated in many dragon-slaying missions when I was young."

Bernardo suddenly pulled open his divine robe.

Lu Mingfei and Charlotte were stunned. Under that spirited face was an ugly, shrunken, withered body. No, it could no longer be described as a body, it was a broken body. Muscles were bulging in some places and missing in others, as if a large piece of muscle had been cut off. Only the body above the belly button was intact. The gray-purple muscles under the withered skin were surprisingly erect, barely supporting the divine robe.

"Look, this is the proof of my achievements. Isn't it disgusting? Whether it's the dragon-slaying business or religion, I was once a staunch martyr. But after getting old, the pains of my youth will gradually be reflected one by one. Can you imagine that a B-level hybrid feels that he has run out of energy at the age of 80?"

Bernardo sneered, "And the position I worked so hard to climb up step by step is about to be replaced by a girl in her twenties, just because she is an A-level mixed-blood and I am a B-level."

Charlotte was suddenly choked by Bernardo.

"At this time, I accidentally obtained the long-lost 'bloodline recasting technology', which can not only improve my bloodline and heal my injuries, but also make me a real dragon." Bernardo narrowed his eyes, "At this time, what choice would you make? What choice would I make? I just want to cure my illness and live a little longer. Is that wrong?"

"That's right." Lu Mingfei lowered his eyes and shook his head. "There's nothing wrong with you wanting to cure your illness. There's nothing wrong with you wanting to live a little longer. For you, there's nothing wrong with that."

Bernardo suddenly laughed wildly: "Hahahaha! You can understand me! You are very holy!"

"Lu Mingfei..." Charlotte said softly, biting her lip.

“So accordingly.” Lu Mingfei opened his eyes, and the tiny figure of Bernardo was reflected in his golden pupils: “We came to kill you in order to avenge those hunters, to save Qin, and to protect other people in the city. It’s not wrong for us to do so. It’s not wrong for us to do so either.”

Bernardo's smile froze at the corner of his mouth, and then turned into deep hatred.

"Arrogant and ignorant human, I will make you pay for your ignorance!"

Bernardo’s response was a series of gunfire: “Bang bang bang”!
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(End of this chapter)