Sinmonger Chapter 3: The middleman

The specific establishment time of the Steel Commandment has not been verified. Its predecessor can be traced back to the holy city of Jerusalem in the early twelfth century. The earliest members were only nine. The original intention of the establishment was to protect the pilgrims who came from all over Europe. Bandit attack.

By the end of the twelfth century, the scale of this organization was unprecedented, with more than 9,000 properties in Europe, including many well-known churches and castles; tens of thousands of members, and could tax the people or Direct plunder, even the nobles at the time generously donated gold and silver; they stood above the kingship and directly obeyed the Pope. This was the most powerful religious military force in Europe at that time - the Templars.

But this over-inflated power and wealth has also become a thorn in the heart of this organization.

France, October 13, 1307, Friday, Black Friday. The day the Templars perished.

A shrewd king was enough to get this done for the simple reason that in those days it was hard for any ruler of any country to endure an organization with thousands of castles and vast wealth in his kingdom, But he couldn't get his hands on it.

Seven years later, the remnants of the Order are in exile across Europe, most of whom have died on interrogation or at the stake. And their last chief, Morley, cursed the bishop and the king at the stake: within a year, the two would die in "eternal judgment".

Less than a year later, the Pope and the King died one after another, from a sudden illness and a mysterious death while hunting.

All of these grievances seem to be over, but the Templar fire never goes out.

It is rumored that Morley had secretly passed the position to his nephew, the young Earl Byrne, long before Black Friday, and made him swear before God that some treasures would be preserved in order to save the Knights Templar in the future. "End of the World". Those treasures were hidden in the giant column of the tomb of the former commander-in-chief, and were later smuggled out by the "Pure Architect" organization controlled by the Earl and moved to other places, only through a set of mysterious symbols and secret religions owned by the Templars. Rituals can be found and taken out again.

Until seven centuries later, no one has been able to decipher the secrets of those symbols, and the treasure has become a historical mystery.

In 2000, the era began after the Empire unified the planet.

In the chaotic age of the world, countless resistance organizations appeared, and then they were ruthlessly destroyed. In the end, only a few were hidden in the dark and survived. One of them was the Steel Commandment.

They are the lineage of the Templars, who merged Catholic and Orthodox teachings and established their own papacy and law. The leader who leads the whole regiment also serves as the pope, inheriting the faith and the spirit of the army.

Today, the Empire has ruled for a century. The Iron Commandment is already the largest resistance organization on the planet. It is one of the very few organizations that can fight against the military forces of the Empire on a frontal battlefield. It exists in Europe like the Second Dynasty. Even trying to eradicate them is useless, because people can be killed, but faith cannot.

Therefore, HL has the largest number of branches in Europe, and its overall combat power is second only to the headquarters in Tiandu.

The super-power criminals who walk in the dark world, no one dares to provoke the members of the Steel Commandment. Everyone knows that once they form a relationship with them, they will be chased to the ends of the earth in the name of judgment until they reach the end of the world. until the purpose.

But the blood owl will not consider similar issues. For him, the Steel Commandments, HL, no matter what position the person falls into, they are all experimental materials.

No matter how much he looks like a professional thug or a good swimmer, Xue Xiao is an uncompromising scientist. In fact, he has an Ivy League degree, although he used someone else's identity to study there and was impersonated by him. The replacement students and their entire families also became experimental subjects.

For many years, the blood owl has been looking for a way to "heal" himself. At this stage, there are two ways to achieve this ultimate goal. First, his research is successful; second, the world's human beings perish. .

Therefore, no matter from which point of view, the blood owl is steadily advancing towards the ideal.

After dealing with the last senior priest, he spent half a day searching the underground reflection city of the Iron Commandment, confirming that there are no more survivors here, and then began the design and layout work.

This underground labyrinth consists of passages and rooms. Each passage looks the same. There are thick metal walls on all sides. There is a luminous lamp above the head that runs parallel to the passage. It is difficult to walk in any part of it. Feel the difference from anywhere else. The rooms, on the other hand, only appear on the ground floor of some landmark buildings, except that they are more spacious than the passages and have more lighting on the ceiling. There are no extra features. The size and appearance of each room are exactly the same. The rectangular shape can accommodate about forty people. There are no tables, chairs or items. It is an empty iron box. Like the passage, even if you stand inside, you can't tell which room you are in.

This design can prevent external intrusion very well, because as long as outsiders enter these passages, they can't even confirm their own location, and they will soon be surrounded and captured by members of the Iron Commandment.

Through these rooms and passages, it is possible to move quickly under the city, take a short time to reach the designated location, and disappear from the ground at any time through the secret entrance, this underground labyrinth is the steel commandment members of Venice to communicate with each other and escape The most powerful hardware when hunting. Now, it fell into the hands of the blood owl. He was very satisfied with this place. He had always longed for a place where he could put enough experimental equipment and would not be disturbed by enthusiastic neighbors. The water depth of two meters and the shallow sand of nearly twenty meters, even if he was in this depth. The sound of the concert below will not be transmitted to the ground.

And the most exciting thing is the threat of the senior priest before his death, indicating that the other party will send more powerful organization members to destroy him. Will there be strong people? The blood owl was looking forward to it.

Speaking of ability levels, no one knows when this set of evaluation levels began to circulate. It seems to have existed in that mysterious world unknown to ordinary people since ancient times.

In that era of numerous countries, governments of various countries concealed the existence of groups such as superpowers, transformants, mutants, etc., and cultivated them as their own weapons. And in this era of unification, the Empire has never disclosed this power to the general public. But they have developed a more standardized system for more accurate classification.

In fact, this system is very simple. From the paper level to the **** level, you only need to refer to two kinds of data, "time" and "quantity". For example, a paper-level person can kill 20 ordinary people in an hour, then a parallel-level person can kill 200 people in an hour, or kill 20 people in just ten minutes .

This assumption is based on the real premise that those people will resist or flee. The shorter the time, the greater the number of people, the higher the level. If you kill one million people in one second, you are naturally a god. Of course, the significance of the level determination is that you must use your own strength to do this, and people such as bomber pilots naturally cannot be counted.

In the system used by the empire for evaluation, "time" can roughly represent the highest destructive power, so those with better ability in time are generally inclined to be aggressive; while "quantity" represents those with ability the ability to sustain damage and its own survivability.

Of course, sometimes there will be surprises in this level, such as transforming people. These types of abilities generally do not have special abilities themselves. They fight with the help of their weaponized bodies. Although they can meet the requirements in terms of level evaluation, If one-on-one encounters superpowers of the same level, especially those with offensive abilities, the one who loses will definitely be transformed.

However, on the whole, this system is relatively accurate, and it is broadly applicable to all human beings on this planet, because so far, there have not been a few people on the earth who have reached the level of "God". People with superpowers often stop at the strong level in their entire life, and those who can reach the level of the fourth level "fierce" are already considered peerless masters.

Xue Xiao is such a master, and he is only in his early thirties, so he has the possibility of further improvement. All he needs is more prey and experimentation...

At noon on the second day of the copper parrot bar murder, the blood owl appeared in Venice again. He walked on the road so struttingly, not at all worried that his striking image would attract the attention of passers-by.

In fact, this phenomenon is very strange. The more afraid that the criminals who are caught, the more they will exude a kind of aura, but people like blood owls can disappear into the sea of ​​people, even if people watch more He glanced at it only because of his tall image.

People can't imagine that a murderer who committed a **** murder in public last night would dare to walk on the street as if nothing had happened. This is a habitual thinking that conforms to common sense.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, in a restaurant, the blood owl sat in front of two servings of fresh fish, shrimp and crabs, and even ordered two servings of tiramisu.

Not long after, an Asian man wearing small round sunglasses and an old ponytail walked into the restaurant. He skillfully looked at all possible escape routes, and then looked at every man and woman in sight. After confirming that there was no note, he sat opposite the blood owl.

"Mr. Chirios, it's me." As he asked the question, his eyes were still wandering around.

Xue Xiao replied: "I also ordered a meal for you, but because you were late, I ate your portion as well."

"I was only five minutes late. You even ate dessert. The dishes here are served one by one..."

"Stop talking nonsense, have I got everything I want?"

"Hey...Listen, man, after I left the bar last night, what you've done is about to make a splash in the city, maybe the police have caught me talking to you on the surveillance video, and now I'm in the middle of it too. In trouble..."

The blood owl interrupted the other party: "Mr. Zuo Dao~IndoMTL.com~ Do you want to increase the price?"

Zuo Dao wanted to increase the price. Before Xue Xiao asked this question, he still thought about it, but at this moment, when he met the other person's eyes, Zuo Dao immediately persuaded: "I don't dare... I'm a middleman. It's not been a day or two, it's always been well-received..."

"Your Excellency is very famous, you don't have to explain anything, tell me when things will arrive."

Zuo Dao's eyes under his sunglasses rolled twice: "You have already found a buyer for your painting, a private collector, a royal family, with a hard enough background, dare to buy anything, and pay within two days. Wait for him. The money goes to my account. According to what I said before, I will take 10% of the net profit from selling the paintings, and the remaining 90% will buy the equipment you want. I have contacted the sellers on the black market. The medical equipment will arrive on the same day, and the chemicals It's easy to get, but the torture tools are more difficult to get. They have to go to other cities for adults to use... um... I mean to get some goods from the supplier. As for the computer equipment, if you want it in stock, it will be a little more expensive. It's not difficult to get to.

As for the last remaining money, the cash you said was going to be laundered earlier, this poor man has helped you and a few big bosses nearby, and they said that you have to draw 15% of the money. Wash it, it's not negotiable, do you think it's okay? No, I will give you the account directly. "

Xue Xiao didn't think much of it. After sweeping the last bit of food on the plate, he stood up and said, "Three days later, the old time will come here to meet." After saying that, he threw two large-denominated banknotes on the table and raised his voice. go.

Zuo Dao watched the blood owl gradually out of sight through the window. Then, he looked around, took the two banknotes into his arms with lightning speed, and then cleared his throat: "Waiter, pay the bill!" As he spoke, he took out a debt-laden credit card from his wallet...