On my second playthrough, they were full of malice towards me.

The young man involved felt very wronged.

because

He really just wanted to get tested.

"Mr. Liao, next you just need to place your hand on the instrument and wait a moment. The display screen will then show the level of turbidity pollution in your body. Generally, a value below 10 is within the normal range. When it is between 10 and 20, it indicates different degrees of turbidity infection. If the number on the screen exceeds 20..."

The young knight didn't explain further. Tamik took a deep breath and finally asked the youth:

Are you sure you want to get tested?

In response, Liao Ji chose to place his hand directly on the instrument.

Beep. Beep. Beep

Along with the detection beep, the alarm bells that Dulin had imagined did not ring. Instead, what was ultimately displayed on the detector's screen was...

[Test complete.]

[Current user's turbidity fluctuations, constant value 0, peak value 0]

Congratulations! Your health surpasses that of 99.9% of other users nationwide. Please keep it up!

"Get out of the way!"

Dulin roughly shoved aside the astonished young knight. He frowned as he looked at the message on the detector, as well as the congratulatory easter egg that had even been triggered. Then he took a new one from the knight next to him.

Liao Ji didn't mind and continued to cooperate with the second test. However, although the equipment was changed, the final result remained the same.

Tamik stared at the young man opposite him with disbelief.

Because of this value, let alone anything else, the "normal" or even "dangerous" afflicted beings they speculated about were practically like the privileged class in big cities, living in a pure world completely isolated from the turbid afflictions.

The next group of knights then checked the remaining people at the Sea Sand Bar, as well as Irene.

One of them did indeed have an excessive level of Turbidity, but unfortunately, this person was not Irene, but a waiter at the bar who was one of Brian's subordinates and had inhaled too much Turbidity Red Mist when he was too close to the gray wolf.

His value reached 12, which is considered mild pollution. On the surface, it seems fine, but if left unchecked, it may develop into some malignant disease in the future.

The nuns accompanying the knights immediately stepped forward to purify him. A holy light shone on the silver cross on the nun's chest. After the purification, when the waiter checked again, the value had dropped sharply to 3, returning to the normal range.

"Thank you for your hard work, Captain Du Lin. It's fortunate that we did the testing, otherwise there might have been a real hidden danger," Liao Ji said with some emotion after everything was over.

Dulin didn't reply. Ever since the test results came out, he seemed to want to stay there for not a second longer.

"Mr. Liao Ji, we have now completed all our work. If there is nothing else, we will call it a day and leave."

After finishing speaking, the middle-aged captain turned to leave, but Liao Ji called him to stop.

"Please wait a moment, Captain Dulin. We've met before, and I think you're a very responsible and capable captain. So, could I have your business card?"

"Sorry, I don't have a business card," Dulin refused outright.

“Your assistant behind you, who has a strong sense of justice, would also be fine,” Liao Ji said, turning his gaze to the young knight who had previously recorded his testimony.

Suddenly being called out made Tamik panic, especially when Liao Ji was smiling at him.

Before Captain Dulin could even speak, the young knight almost instinctively pulled out his business card and handed it to the youth in a daze.

"Tamik? I'll remember your name. If I encounter any trouble in the Black Hole in the future, can I ask you for help?"

"Of course!"

"As members of the Church, the mission of our Knights is to extend a helping hand to those in need! This is the glorious duty bestowed upon us by Her Majesty the Goddess!"

Tamik straightened his back and gave Liao Ji a standard knightly salute.

Captain Dulin, standing beside him, sighed and rubbed the corner of his eye.

After sprinkling the corpse of the gray wolf, which had been transformed into a monster, with the church's specially made "holy water," it quickly melted away like snow under the blazing sun.

After cleaning up the source of pollution, the knights arrived and left quickly. They boarded their vehicles one by one and drove away from the Sea Sand Bar, heading back to the church.

In the car.

"Captain Dudulin, so Mr. Liao Ji and his female companion are actually just ordinary people? So, was our reasoning wrong?" The young knight sitting in the passenger seat couldn't help but ask.

However, Dulin seemed a little angry. After remaining silent for a while with a dark face, he impatiently said:

"Does that matter? On the contrary, you, you fucking idiot, who told you to give him your business card! All the things I taught you to learn have been wasted on those damn dogs!"

"Ah? But isn't that what the Goddess taught us?"

Before the young rider could finish speaking his aggrieved words, he was rudely interrupted by Dulin, who was driving.

"Goddess. Heh, Goddess. If the Goddess were truly still watching over us, how could she allow such a beast to run rampant?"

Dulin's words came to an abrupt halt. The young knight beside him shrank back, not daring to point out his captain's disrespect towards the goddess, nor daring to ask about what his captain had left unsaid.

Tamik couldn't help but recall the rumors in the Knights, saying that since his debut, the young Captain Durin had been ruthlessly suppressing the arrogance of the gangs. At that time, the security in the Black Hole gathering place had improved significantly, and some people even hoped that the Knights could wipe out the gangs under Captain Durin's leadership.

However, one day, Dulin's personality changed drastically. He became listless and unmotivated, not only shirking his duties but also showing great disrespect for the church's faith. Many members of the Knights of Faith petitioned for Dulin's dismissal, but the priests rejected all their requests.

Even after Dulin became lazy and gave up, he was promoted even faster than the diligent and hardworking Dulin before, rising through the ranks until he became the captain of the entire Knights Order.

After half an hour.

After parking the car, Dulin usually handed over such incident reports to Tamick, but this time he wrote the report himself in the car before opening the door and heading into the church.

Tamik, as a lower-ranking knight, was not qualified to submit reports to the priest, so he parted ways with Dulin and prepared to drive home. After dealing with the incident at the Sea Sand Bar, it was already six o'clock in the evening.

but

Boom!

Just as the young rider switched to the driver's seat and was about to close the car door, a pair of large hands pressed down on the door.

"Captain Dulin?"

"Remember, if that young man calls you, don't answer."

“Captain Coco, I don’t even know Mr. Liao Ji’s number. How would I know it was him calling? Besides, as a member of the Knights, I believe I should take every phone call seriously.”

"Damn it! I'm so unlucky to have a jerk like you!" The vulgar voice interrupted Tamik, and it was clear that the middle-aged captain was furious.

After a few seconds of silence, Dulin's voice came again, and it was very serious.

"Remember, after you finish that call with that young man, no matter what he says, don't move. Call me again immediately, you brat!"

This time, Tamik replied quickly: "Roger that, Captain Dulin!"

"Get out of here!"

"Yes!"

Watching the departing car of his junior, Dulin stood there lost in thought for a while. Only then did the captain step into the church. On the way, he inevitably passed the chapel, but Dulin didn't even glance at the prominent "Shutia" goddess sculpture in the center.

The church in the Black Hole settlement is actually the size of a city church, with a complete knightly order, hundreds of nuns, a library, a grand hall, a confessional, and an underground solitary confinement room specifically for a series of criminals and "cursed ones".

However, it still enjoys the characteristics of a dark place, because it still falls under the category of "gathering place". Therefore, according to regulations, the highest leader of the church is still the "priest" class.

The priest's office was on the top floor of the church. When he arrived at the door with the silver cross hanging on it, Dulin knocked a few times as a symbolic gesture. He was about to throw the report directly into the bag hanging in front of the door, as usual.

However, this time

It was almost exactly the same time he knocked on the door.

"Please come in," came the priest's voice from inside the room.

Dulin paused, frowned, and glanced at his watch. The hands pointed to 6:30 p.m. In all the years he had "worked" with the priest, Dulin had never seen the priest still in the office at this hour.

The strange feeling intensified after Dulin pushed the door open and entered.

The priest sat upright at the table, on which lay an open document. As Dulin approached, he glanced at it out of the corner of his eye; it was a discarded report that had been processed two weeks prior.

"An incident involving a mutated individual went berserk at the Sand Bar in the Belgian district. It has now been dealt with, and the details are in the report."

"Alright, I understand. Thank you for your hard work, Sir Durin. It's getting late, you should go back and rest."

The priest smiled and placed his crossed hands on the documents on the table.

Dulin didn't say much, nodded, and left the room. The whole process, from entering to leaving, probably took less than a minute.

After leaving the church, Dulin lit a cigarette he had taken from his car, watching the cigarette butt slowly burn to ash.

His premonition grew stronger.

Black Hole Cluster

Something big is probably coming.

Church, priest's room.

The priest, who had just been sitting upright at his desk, had now stood up. He looked somewhat apprehensive and dared only to lower his head and glance at the other person in his room out of the corner of his eye.

She was a nun.

The nun's status should theoretically be below that of the priest, but judging from their current attitudes, the priest is clearly under immense pressure and doesn't even dare to breathe too loudly.

The reason is also very simple.

First of all, the nuns' uniforms on the other side were not ordinary ones, but battle nuns, the third armed force hidden in the shadows by the Church, in addition to the knights and crusaders that were openly present.

The bearer of light.

Without exception, they were all powerful afflicted beings secretly trained by the church. They usually stayed in confinement rooms to counteract the pollution of afflictions and maintain their clear minds, and would only be deployed in very rare and critical situations.

If Father Groon had a clear conscience, that would be fine, but unfortunately, he had a guilty conscience, and a very big one at that.

That's why Groon is so trembling and walking on thin ice right now.

Fortunately

“Lady Maria, you just said that you came to the Black Hole to find someone?” Groon asked the nun opposite him tentatively.

"Correct."

The priest breathed a sigh of relief; at least they weren't there to investigate him. Gron immediately retorted, "Yes, Your Excellency, we will cooperate fully with you, however..."

"What information can you provide about the person you are looking for? Such as their name, identity, physical characteristics, etc."

Sister Maria didn't speak, but instead focused her gaze on the report that Dulin had just delivered.

The priest, who had just felt a little relieved, immediately felt his heart leap into his throat again.

He had learned a thing or two about the rampage of the Evil Ones from other sources, which was why Gron was cursing Kaleva in his heart at this moment. Why did these gangsters have to cause trouble at this critical juncture?

"The most prominent characteristic of the person I'm looking for is..."