Quadruple split.

Chapter 2598 Kevin's Concern

"excuse me!"

Brad's expression changed from ferocious to infatuated, and then from infatuated to panic. He stood up straight as if he had been electrocuted, and was silent as if he had seen some kind of ferocious beast, not even daring to look at the other person.

"..."

The female lion knight who called herself Hess Winterfang didn't say anything more. She just swept her cold eyes over Brad and Kevin, and then slowly walked to the back of the team.

"call--"

Brad didn't breathe a sigh of relief until the slender figure completely disappeared from his sight. He asked Kevin, who looked puzzled, "Boy, do you know the origin of that woman just now?"

Kevin shook his head and replied in a tone that was not very interested: "I don't know."

"The third in command of the Solar Cult's Knights of Defense. He once led his team in a bloody battle for three days and two nights with heretics that outnumbered his own troops by nearly ten times. Even though 80% of his subordinates were killed and he himself was seriously injured and on the verge of death, he fought the enemy to the point of collapse and finally successfully prevented a large-scale blood sacrifice."

Brad quickly read out the lady's glorious deeds. Seeing Kevin's expression of "what's the big deal", he added: "And you don't know that the Dongya family that the woman belongs to is a family of "sinners" from the Sun Cult."

"Oh?"

Although he was quite numb to the idea of ​​"XX is very young and promising", Kevin, who was very interested in all kinds of gossip, blinked and asked curiously, "What do you mean?"

"As a non-Christian believer with no background, I don't know exactly what happened, but what is certain is that the Dongya family seemed to have committed something very serious and evil in the eyes of the Sun Cult."

Brad shrugged and whispered, "In short, after making a 'big mistake' whose details are unknown, not only have their family members been responsible for the most difficult and dangerous tasks within the sect for many years, but they have also been extremely low-key and almost never appear in the public eye."

Kevin thought about it and wondered, "Since they are so low-key, how did you know?"

"It's because of that Hess Winterfang just now."

Brad raised his chin in the direction Hess left and smiled at Kevin, "You should also know that in addition to cooperative relationships, the major sects in our Holy Church Union also have a competitive relationship. In fact, in many cases, competition is the main theme of our dealings with each other, and the Knights of the major sects have the strongest competitive atmosphere."

Since they were just chatting, Kevin didn't care that the senior's introduction was a bit long, and just asked politely, "And then?"

"Then everyone discovered that the Knights of the Sun had a new standard-bearer, whose status was second only to the leader and vice-leader, and who often served as the highest officer on the scene."

Brad snapped his fingers and said happily, "Not only our Dawn, but also the Knights of Justice, Abundance, Melody, and Misty House are curious about the new flag bearer, so they secretly joined forces to investigate. We didn't know the result until we investigated. We found that the woman is not only terribly strong, but also has a special background, just like the protagonists in the bard's tales who have deep hatred and deep suffering."

"Is she strong?"

Kevin, who had been greatly shocked during the [Charge Debate] and was almost numb to super-powerful people, asked casually.

"If we only talk about hard power, her level of half-step epic is considered average among the top three in the major Knights of the Guard. She is even a little weak. As for strategy and tactics, although she is not wrong, she is far inferior to the genius like Priest Heifan."

Brad first made a rather pertinent comment, then changed the subject and said in a deep voice, "But her mental attributes are really frighteningly strong. She is always the first to arrive at training and the last to leave. She is always at the forefront in both simulated training and real combat. Although she doesn't talk much, she is very good at using actions to boost the morale of her teammates."

"I see. You're a natural born soldier."

Kevin nodded and asked in a low voice, "Speaking of which, Senior Brad, you have never met the Hess Flag Officer, but you know him so well. I feel that it's not just because of the competition between the Knights of the Church."

Brad grinned and answered without hesitation: "Of course, most people, including me, are particularly concerned about this matter because Hess Dongya is said to be a beauty."

"Good."

Kevin gave Brad a thumbs up, then stood there and became distracted, obviously not very interested in the tall girl who was indeed very pretty.

This is not because Kevin is not interested in this so-called two-dimensional paper man. In fact, for a long time recently, a slender and thin figure often appeared in his mind.

Most of the time, that figure looked weird and grotesque, whether it was the pale skin like a corpse, the bald head without a single hair, or the pair of eyes sewn together, all of which could make a normal person shudder.

But every time that figure called out "Kevin" with joy or anger, tears or laughter, the Great Knight of Light would always wake up from his trance and feel lost for a long time afterwards.

Although he was reluctant to admit it, Kevin, who had no luck with women and romance in his life and had no interest in dating, did care very much about the girl with a tragic life story who expressed her admiration for him so freely in the "Guilt Debate".

Many times, Kevin felt like he was just like that middle school boy who had never received any positive attention from the opposite sex of his age, so he could only invest the "youth" in his heart on an illusory paper man. He was a bit sympathetic in many ways. But even so, he still couldn't forget the "Walking Corpse Priest" who kept calling "Kevin" over and over again, and whose style was obviously gloomy and terrifying, but made him feel both distressed and at ease.

As a normal player, Kevin knew very well that as a carbon-based creature, it was impossible for a human to have a relationship with an NPC that existed as code. Rather, he himself did not know whether his feelings towards Hong Jiu were considered "liking" in the conventional sense, and whether he wanted to get a "result" in the conventional sense. As a player who had been playing the game "Boundary of Innocence" for more than half a year, Kevin also knew that the NPCs in this game were not just a string of code. In fact, like most players, he had suspected that even if the natives in the game were AI, they were the kind of AI that could complete the awakening of intelligent machines, pass the forbidden fruit test, obtain citizenship rights, and be no different from "humans" in many stories and settings.'

As a modern person with a normal mind and thinking ability, who knows how to flexibly use tools such as search engines, Kevin has long learned a cruel fact through forums, online discussion groups and other channels, that is, although the NPCs in the [Realm of Innocence] are "alive" in a sense, those stories and characters that serve as the background of the [Guilt Debate] cannot affect the players' living in the Innocence Continent in the year 9571 of the Holy Calendar.

To put it simply, suppose the Great Light Knight Kevin went back several decades in the game and killed his then underage mentor, the Grand Knight of the Dawn Sect, Green Tiree, [Judgment], it would not prevent him from continuing to be tortured by his mentor's devilish training after he finished the game and logged back into the game.

In other words, all the background of "The Controversy" is, in theory, an independent IF line that has nothing to do with the game itself and may be interfered with by players but will not affect the official history in the slightest. The absurdity of wanting to change history through the course of the game is no less than going to a bookstore to buy "The Complete History of the Second World War" edited by Arnold Tombien, and then using correction tape and other means to cover up any facts about Seer's defeat, hoping to completely exterminate the ancient Semitic branch of the world, that is, the ancient Middle Eastern Hebrews.

Therefore, given that Kevin was already at an age where he liked to surf the Internet intensively, long before his personal battle with Mo Tan, he had already learned how fragile the historical fragments in the "Guilt Debate" were through a large number of research posts in the forum.

Those are stories that are as delicate and fragile as bubbles.

Whether it's the emotion or the bond, it will all dissipate like bubbles the moment the game ends, leaving no trace.

As a result, it happened that in this situation, Kevin met Hong Jiu and Tychus from the past, and in the very end, he gave Hong Jiu the last hope of survival through the reward for completing the task.

But Kevin knew very well that in real history, there was no such person as Kevin, nor was there any mission reward that Kevin received, the [Phoenix Swallow Blood] that could revitalize anyone with strength lower than epic and dispel all their negative effects.

And in that situation, Kevin couldn't imagine how Hong Jiu would survive.

Therefore, if nothing unexpected happened, Hong Jiu in the [Realm of Innocence] would have died long ago. In fact, according to Kevin's investigation of the [Walking Corpse Priests], these people who dedicated almost their entire lives to the Grand Inquisition hardly lived past the age of 40, and most of them died abnormal deaths.

Dying in a mission and bidding farewell to one's absurd and miserable life is the fate of most [Zombie Priests].

Even if we take a step back and say that Hong Jiu not only did not die in the conspiracy planned by the Grand Archbishop of the End, she did not encounter any accidents in the countless subsequent missions. As a pure-blooded human who is not an immortal and whose physical condition is not ideal, it is almost impossible for her to survive until now.

But even so, Kevin still didn't give up.

[If she were still alive, she would be an old woman now. As a face control, I naturally cannot lose control of myself for an old woman. This way, I can completely distance myself from such absurd and stupid things as "falling in love with paper figures"]

Although he used the above reasons to convince himself, even he himself could vaguely feel that this was obviously more like a lame excuse.

In fact, if the 'Black Brahma Priest' with an absolutely neutral personality knew about this, he would definitely say - yes, brother, yes.

All in all, no matter why, Kevin never gave up tracking down Hong Jiu's whereabouts. However, considering that the Grand Inquisition is also the institution with the highest level of confidentiality in the Holy Church Union, it is not easy for Kevin, who is just an ordinary paladin of the Dawn Sect, to find information about a former [Zombie Priest] from it.

Of course, if it was His Holiness Saint Tychus Folsom who participated in that mission decades ago, he would most likely not have forgotten Hong Jiu, who possessed the Eye of Hemmer, the God of Justice. But the problem was that although Kevin did know Tychus and even got along well with the latter, His Holiness Saint Tychus Folsom did not know Kevin now.

After all, when he was young, people from other worlds had not yet appeared in the [Realm of Innocence].

Not only that, as an ordinary paladin of the Dawn Sect, Kevin had no chance or qualifications to ask the Pope of Justice for information, unless...

Snapped!
Kevin, who had wanted to seek help from his mentor, one of the most powerful legendary figures in the Holy Alliance, Grand Knight of Dawn [Judgment] Green Tiree, more than once, patted his cheek and gave up this unrealistic idea.

Reality is not a bardic story or some illogical literary dregs. Those who act arrogantly just because their mentor is a bully and who think that anyone who doesn't give them face will die, as if the meaning of life is to pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger, will probably only get pig feed in the end, or simply become pig feed.

As one of the legendary strongmen of the Dawn Sect, Green's identity is actually quite sensitive. Although not every move of his is read under a magnifying glass, he has to be cautious in his words and deeds on weekdays. And as Green's knight apprentice, Kevin can't let his mentor do those inexplicable investigations. Even if he wants to find out the information himself, he has to keep it secret, for fear that someone with ulterior motives will interpret it.

Indeed, Kevin, who had already told Green about his alien identity, knew very well that if he went to his mentor to make things clear and explained the ins and outs of that personal battle and even the entire [Guilt-Asking Battle], there was a high probability that Green would help him investigate the situation at the Grand Inquisition, or even ask Tychus about the situation.

After all, the relationship between Shuguang and Gongzheng has always been good, and Green is a positive and handsome man with strong qualifications, achievements, strength, and character. The Pope of Gongzheng will definitely give him this face.

but……

It was really ignorant to bother my mentor with something that seemed like a teenage worry.

Sighing silently, Kevin scratched his hair, trying to drive those messy thoughts out of his mind and shift his attention back to the "business" at hand.

Then it failed.

[As expected, I should ask Hei Fan for help later...]

After making up his mind, the Great Knight of Light, who had been sought for decades by the Pope of the Church of Justice, smiled contentedly and felt that he was simply too smart.

Chapter 2589: The End