Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

"However, being able to catch materials suitable for research doesn't mean that you can't bear the pain caused by aesthetic fatigue. Let's go! Children!"

The plague doctor suddenly quickened his pace, and ran towards the "inverted" pyramid at an unbelievable speed. Almost in the blink of an eye, he had already run nearly 100 meters, and his speed was no less than that of an adult Astartes.

?

Seeing this, the gray knights didn't say anything, but the atmosphere of silence was tantamount to extreme surprise.

How did this eccentric doctor run so fast? ?

Even Artemis was stunned for a moment, but she quickly regained her full moon bow and ordered: "Go forward."

"yes!"

Next, Artemis and the thirty gray knights ran quickly, kicking up the dust that could only be caused by a caravan on this hellish desert.

On the other hand, the plague doctor was getting faster and faster, leaving Artemis and the Gray Knights far behind, and the most amazing thing was that the doctor was able to speed up and take out his notebook to write.

but…

Plague doctors are anomalous phenomena in the earth itself. Since they are all "abnormal", how can there be any logic at all?

Because of this, the plague doctor arrived at the bottom tip of the pyramid one step ahead of Artemis and others, which was also the entrance to the interior.

Here, there are countless demonic creatures.

The vast majority of them are deformed and distorted humanoids, with red, sticky blood-colored skin, with gloomy green eyes staring at the extremely small and solitary plague doctor.

Immediately afterwards, the demons showed extremely greedy smiles, making the already ugly faces even more hideous.

They can't beat the Astartes, can't they subdue a "little man"?

But before the demon could make a move, the plague doctor took the initiative to approach the bull-headed, human-body demon that was the closest to him, about six meters high, and at the same time stretched out his right hand to touch the demon's left calf.

"Roar??"

The moment he was touched by the plague doctor, the bull-headed demon felt numb all over his body. After he uttered a bewildered sound, he couldn't control himself from falling into a faint, "Plop!", and collapsed on the sand.

"Huh~huh~ how fresh and delicious, oh... no, it should be said that it is such a fresh experimental product~ today's results are rich~"

Hearing the plague doctor humming a song, he opened the bag with his left hand, and grabbed the bull-headed demon's feet with his right hand. Then, he lifted the bull-headed demon with one hand in the "watchful eyes of all the demons", and directly gave this "poor" guy stuffed into his pouch.

The whole process is smooth and flowing.

? ? ! !

What's happening here? !

Demons are stupid.

On the other hand, the plague doctor didn't seem to be enough to just catch a live experimental subject, so he turned his eyes to the demons around him, moved his wrists, and said with a smile, "Please cooperate with the doctor's work and stay where you are."

Cooperate?

How is it possible to cooperate? !

"Roar!!"

The group of demons who were already terrified by Artemis, the Gray Knights, and the reserve staff turned around in panic, howled and fled here. Now, for them, this strange doctor in front of them is ten thousand times more terrifying than Astartes.

Shortly after.

When Artemis and others rushed to the entrance of the pyramid, they happened to see the plague doctor stuffing a dog-like demon into his bag, and waved at her and the gray knights.

"..." Artemis and the others were speechless.

At first, I thought that plague doctors were just eccentric and knowledgeable "medical" or "civilian" personnel. Even if they had a certain combat ability, they should be far weaker than the Astartes.

From this point of view, this plague doctor is by no means as simple as everyone imagined.

In fact, Artemis and this group of gray knights "joined" Umbrella later than the plague doctor. May, with Umbrella at the time, he simply had no ability to forcibly control this doctor.

After a short period of surprise, everyone entered the interior of the pyramid together, and continued to advance and investigate to the top, trying to search for the imprisoned "gods" in the records, or the "evil gods" who imprisoned them.

walk in.

Its interior is almost the same as the pyramid ruins on the surface of Sokoyan, but everything is reversed. The originally neat walls are covered with wriggling, twitching bloodshots, and viscous pus-like liquid.

If ordinary people saw this appearance, they would definitely stay away from it, but the plague doctor was full of interest in collecting samples, and sighed: "God! If I knew that I could get so much material on a business trip, I wouldn't live on the earth!"

Afterwards, while listening to the plague doctor's babbling, everyone shuttled through the pyramid, passed through the reverse hall with load-bearing columns, and continued on. Finally, they came to the most "top" part of the pyramid, which also has the largest area. square.

Here, there is no imaginary gathering of demons, but there are two stone pillars engraved with imprints in the center of the square, and the metal chains hanging from the top of the stone pillars tightly bind a "prisoner" standing between the two stone pillars.

Not far behind the prisoner, there was a crystal coffin. Due to the angle, Artemis couldn't see exactly what and who was in the coffin, but the first time she saw the prisoner, she immediately blurted out:

"uncle?"

Even though the other party's hair is disheveled, Artemis can still recognize that it is her uncle, Hades, who was once one of the twelve main gods of Olympus.

?

Hearing the familiar voice, Hades, who was bound by the metal chain, recovered a little bit of consciousness, slowly raised his head, looked at the front with his bloodshot eyes, and then "his" face froze, it was hard to believe that the demon Samael Sneak attack, how could the sleeping niece appear here.

"Little..." Hades just wanted to remind something.

"Boom~---!!!" It was interrupted by a burst of shaking like a mountain shaking.

A humanoid "Titan" with a height of 400 meters, raging fire skin, green gemstone eyes, and bull horns on both sides of his forehead jumped from the sky and landed on the desert at the edge of the pyramid.

Moreover, as the "Titan" fell to the ground, the flames that had been continuously burning the sky dissipated without a trace, just like the flames that enveloped the entire field, it was the incarnation of this humanoid "Titan".

From this point of view, this "Titan" may be the evil god who imprisoned Hades, the king of the underworld, in the records.

If it was tens of thousands of years ago, Artemis, who had not been pierced through the abdomen by the Cassius gun and fell into a deep sleep, would habitually report his identity, ask the name of the enemy, and then test each other to confirm the strength .

But after waking up, especially Artemis, who was influenced by Sui Bian, was also too lazy to say anything or try anything. The moment she saw a change in the sky and the "Titan" came into view, she was already Withdrawing the less powerful Full Moon Bow, he used his right hand to remove the Thunderbolt, and then swung the Thunderbolt's tip towards the "Titan"...

Ri~———!

The thunder crystals emerged more and more intensely, exuding dazzling golden psychic brilliance.

"Crack!!!"

A psychic lightning shot out in an instant twisted and bent. With just one blow, this psychic lightning shattered and scattered the body of the humanoid titan.

The whole process did not last even two seconds.

Two seconds later, the flames in this area disappeared, the whispers and corruption stopped abruptly, and everything returned to tranquility. When Artemis shook his numb right hand and hung the thunder around his waist again, it meant that the battle was completely over. End.

"Oh, what a good material." Only the plague doctor shook his head again and again, "regretful" for the "Titan" who had been killed in seconds and didn't even know his name.

"Fortunately, there is another..." At this time, the plague doctor looked at Hades with his deep eyes, and his eyes gradually became "hot".

"..." Artemis glanced at the plague doctor, then stepped forward and ordered: "Ran Min, bring your brothers and follow me. The rest of the team is scattered and stay alert."

"Yes, ma'am."

The four teams of gray knights dispersed immediately, and the other team of gray knights walked to the center of the square together with Artemis and the plague doctor to inspect the crystal coffin and the bound Pluto.

When she approached, Hades said extremely weakly: "Artemis... you... why are you here, that is... thunder? Zeus...how is it?"

"It's a long story...Uncle." Artemis did not rush to explain, but said to the plague doctor: "Doctor, I will leave it to you first."

"Hahaha, good boy, don't worry, although I am impatient, I will not treat patients who are willing to cooperate too badly. Okay, let me check and check!"

The plague doctor smiled, and took out his favorite large bone saw from his small bag, and easily cut off the metal chains that bound Hades, so that Hades could lie flat on the ground and at the same time take out all kinds of bone saws. Such tools conduct a comprehensive inspection of Hades to confirm whether he is suffering from the plague, or it can be said to confirm whether Hades has been corrupted.

Artemis' psychic perception told her that Hades is still the kind uncle she knew ten thousand years ago, but Hades' divine power (spiritual power) has been weakened to the lowest point.

But she didn't trust Hades easily. After all, there are various ways of corruption in different spaces, so Artemis asked the plague doctor to check.

"Ma'am!" At this moment, after seeing the scene inside the coffin, the gray knight named Ran Min hurriedly reported to Artemis: "There is also a suspected resident of Mount Olympus here."

?

Hearing this, Artemis walked slowly to the crystal coffin, looked down, and saw a beautiful "goddess" with a figure of golden ratio, wearing a black ancient Greek dress, and long black hair.

Moreover, the face of this "goddess" has some similarities with Artemis, but the appearance of this "goddess" is much older, lacking the kind of "out of tune" of Artemis, and more Steady and mature.

Persephone?

The moment Artemis saw this "goddess", she recognized that lying in the coffin was her half-sister and also her aunt, "Queen of the Underworld" Persephone.

As for my aunt's sake...

Because Persephone and Hades are husband and wife.

No way, the relationship between the gods of Olympus is extremely messy, which is why she was too lazy to get involved in it back then, and has always been alone. A model couple between gods too.

Seeing that it was her sister lying in the coffin, Artemis stretched out his hands and tried to lift the coffin lid.

But with the sound of "嗞!", her hands were burned by the electric current, forcing her to give up the idea of ​​lifting the coffin lid.

It seemed that this coffin was cursed, and it was a curse that could not be removed even with her strength.

"Ma'am?" Ran Min aimed his exclusive power halberd at the coffin.

"No problem." Artemis waved his hands emitting a few wisps of smoke, and said, "Transfer the coffin and get ready to evacuate here."

"Yes." Seeing that his mentor and chief were safe, Ran Min lowered his halberd blade and began to direct his brothers to carry the coffin.

And Artemis returned to the plague doctor and Hades, and asked, "Doctor, how is it?"

"Hmm..." The plague doctor groaned, and shook his head lightly in response: "The situation is not very good, and the body has irreversible damage. The only good news is that although this patient is in the plague, he has not been infected by the plague."

"Enough." Artemis put away his worries, and then continued: "Doctor, please complete the examination as soon as possible, we have to withdraw from this chaotic realm."

"Okay boy, give me five minutes, no! Three minutes is enough."

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…

Fourteen days later.

The Inner World of the Aegis of Terra.

The Full Moon spread its wings, sailed into the inner world of the earth through the North Pole entrance that had been kept open, and then headed for Umbrella's exclusive star port in New Raccoon City at a constant speed.

Half an hour later, in the underground base located 100 meters below the new headquarters building, Artemis and a group of gray knights, who had removed their power armor, accompanied the plague doctor and the soldiers responsible for the safety of the plague doctor. Push the cart and lead Hades, who is lying on the hospital bed in a comatose state, and Persephone, who is still lying in the crystal coffin, to the central hall.

The floodgates open.

into it.

Sui Bian, who was always dressed in a black formal suit, also appeared in everyone's sight.

"Ah~! Sir, I am very glad to see you as soon as I come back from a business trip!" The plague doctor said excitedly the first time he found Sui Bian, as if he was very satisfied with the business trip.

"Chairman." In public, Artemis no longer referred to him as "boss", and pushed the crystal coffin in front of Sui Bian, saying respectfully, "We have no choice but to seal the curse of this coffin."

"Ok."

Sui Bian nodded, then stretched out the index finger of his left hand, and poked lightly on the coffin, only to hear "Ka~" and "Wow!", and he easily pierced the invisible and invisible curse.

Everyone who witnessed this scene looked as usual and got used to it.

After all, anything and any threat is a "spike kill" in front of the current chairman, and the Gray Knights believe that if the evil god really dares to step into the physical universe, the result must be a violent beating by their father.

Sui Bian, who removed the curse, put his hands behind his back and smiled at the plague doctor and Artemis: "Okay, it's time to understand what happened to the Pluto couple."

"Yes, Chairman (Mr.)."