Alien Knights

Behind the Mother Temple Garden is a waterfall rushing down from the top of the mountain. Climbing up the steps from the path on the side of the mountain, there is a hidden stone door behind the waterfall.

Standing in front of the stone door, Eleanor smiled at Todd, and then stretched her right hand into the hole under the stone door.

Along with a sharp noise, the sound of gears turning came from the stone door, and the door gradually opened.

Eleanor took back her right hand, and there was a wound the size of a green bean in the center of her palm.

Eleanor blew on the wound, and the wound healed quickly and finally disappeared.

"This door is called the Holy Oracle Stele. It was built by the Tyro aliens thousands of years ago. Only the highest-ranking person in the Presbyterian Church can open it. According to legend, the key to this door is not a physical object, but a human soul."

Todd looked at the door that was gradually opening and asked in confusion: "Isn't there only one person holding the key? What if the holder dies?"

Eleanor stepped into the door: "Every few decades, the Presbyterian Church will hold an elder succession. All alien species will enter this stone monument and participate in the succession ceremony. The old Presbyterian Church will choose the most suitable person among the new elders. , to inherit the key to the stone tablet."

Todd's face was full of doubts, and he wondered in his heart, why did the last old presbytery choose Eleanor as the head of the new elders?

Eleanor looked back at Todd and smiled: "You will also find it strange, right? Lawrence obviously controls the large and small industries of the Presbyterian Church, and Iliad serves the sage Sutherland, but the old elders chose me as the elder. The chief heir of the society.”

Eleanor said softly: "Because one of them is arrogant and the other is conservative. Only I can lead the Presbyterian Church to a bright future."

Todd suddenly felt that these words sounded familiar.

Rachel once said the same thing.

However, Eleanor refers to the Presbyterian Church, and Rachel refers to the heterogeneous group.

Walking into the oracle stone tablet, there is a long corridor that has long been dilapidated. Huge reliefs are hung on the walls on both sides. The reliefs describe the history of alien species for thousands of years. Most of them have been dilapidated due to weathering, and only a small part is still intact. Vaguely visible.

Following Eleanor through the corridor and pushing open the stone door at the end, Todd saw a huge and empty hall.

Thousands of stone seats, giant stone statues tens of meters high, and a luxurious and spectacular large ceremony platform, everything shows the glory of the Presbyterian Church in the past, but now only rubble and gravel are left that have been destroyed by time. .

"This used to be the center of the world, the temple of the alien species." Eleanor stood in the center of the hall, stretching out her arms and said: "When I was a little girl, I was brought here for the first time by my parents. Everyone put on their best clothes and gathered here to laugh, sing, and dance to celebrate the most beautiful holiday."

"At that time, I thought this was heaven, an eternal beauty."

Eleanor slowly lowered her arms, looked at the sky and whispered, "I was wrong."

"The war against alien species has burned into the valley, and all the children, including me, have been hidden here. I can hear the fighting and screams outside the door, and I can see the horror and despair on everyone's faces."

"Three days and three nights, when everything fell silent, we walked out of the door."

"That beautiful and peaceful home is gone. All I see are corpses, ruins and flames..." Eleanor's back looked thin and lonely, and there was inexplicable emotion suppressed in her voice: "I spent a day and a night in it. I found my parents in the pile of corpses and spent another day and night burying them. On the last day and night, I shed all the tears in my life in front of their graves."

"After another three days and three nights, we caught the traitor who betrayed everyone... Can you imagine? Just a pile of gold as heavy as an adult made this traitor betray his original oath and sell out His friends, relatives and loved ones..."

Todd looked at Eleanor's back and asked in a low voice: "What happened next?"

Eleanor turned her head, with a devilish smile on her face, her bright red tongue gently licking the corner of her mouth, and what she said made people shudder: "He was eaten alive by the angry crowd, and I grabbed his heart. ."

Seeing the shock on Todd's face, Eleanor stretched contentedly and said, "Keep moving forward, we will be there soon."

The two of them went out from the archway at the back of the hall and walked deeper and deeper down the steps.

Eleanor said to Todd as she walked: "Do you know about the spirit transformation ceremony?"

Todd said: "You mean the resurrected insect?"

"The resurrecting insect is just a tool in the ritual. The whole ritual is actually very complicated. Generally speaking, the soul-turning ritual can transfer the human soul from one body to another. But one thing is very important. The body being transferred must be Clean, that is, no soul can live in it.”

Todd asked while listening: "What will happen if there is already a soul in the body being transferred during the spirit transformation ceremony?"

Eleanor said: "Then two souls will live in the same body, and there will be competition and battle between the souls. Only the winner will have control of this body."

"Therefore, before the Presbyterian Church performs the spirit transformation ceremony, it will repeatedly confirm that the body as the carrier is a soulless body. Generally, the method we use is to use drugs and supernatural powers, but sometimes when things are urgent, we It also kills the carrier, ensuring the carrier is a fresh body."

Todd said: "I think I heard about this process. Mia committed suicide. In order to punish Rachel, you transferred her soul to Mia's body."

Eleanor blinked and said to Todd: "I feel sorry for your little lover? Let me guess, what did Rachel and Eliade say to you? In order to punish Rachel, Eleanor Her soul is imprisoned in her friend's body? In order to protect Rachel, Eliade deliberately told Eleanor that the body was defective and could not be used."

"Todd, you really trust people. That's what makes you funny, but it's also what makes you lovable."

Todd frowned and said, "What do you mean?"

"If Rachel had angered me, I had a thousand ways to imprison her soul, torture and humiliate her, and make her miserable. Why should I use the soul-transformation ritual to change her body into another body and give her freedom? "

"Iliad used humans for cloning and captive experiments. He was a ruthless and cruel butcher. Hundreds of experimental subjects were born in his hands. Why would he have a soft spot for Rachel and risk his life with another person? The risk of an elder turning against her to protect her?"

"Eliad told me that Rachel's body is defective and cannot be used. Would I really be so stupid that I don't even check it myself and just believe his lies?"

Eleanor pressed close to Todd, gently touched his cheek with her hand, and said softly: "Even so, you are different from the people I have met. You have always tried to believe and trust others from the bottom of your heart. Even if there are some obvious lies, you are not willing to expose them."

Todd pushed Eleanor's hand away expressionlessly and said in a deep voice: "Then tell me the so-called truth."

Eleanor reluctantly looked away from Todd's face, and continued to walk forward while saying: "The truth is very simple, Eliade wanted to find the secret in my body, and Rachel was still useful to me at that time, I don't want her to die."

After saying this, Eleanor stepped down the last step, looked forward and said: "We are here, my holy place, the future of the Presbyterian Church, the Mother's Nest."