Chapter 128 The Relics of Saint O'Hagan
Xu Yi quietly stared at the Button Communicator, from which no more sound came forth; the fate of Father Notting was self-evident, and in his heart, he silently said, "Rest in peace!"
He remained silent for a moment before swiftly taking out the map from Annabelle's toy Treasure Box.
Before entering the sewer, he had naturally made adequate preparations, and the map of the sewers was one of them.
He quickly found the location of area B205 and realized that it wasn't too far away.
Xu Yi planned the nearest route, then put away the map and sprinted with all his might.
He felt a flicker of excitement; Father Notting had no reason to deceive him, and now was indeed the best opportunity to exterminate the Evil God.
Moreover, according to Father Notting, the Evil God had astonishing regenerative powers, which meant that if they could kill him, there was a great chance of obtaining a fragment of the Hyper Accelerated Regeneration entry.
"I have something very important to do! Wait for me in a safe place!"
Xu Yi picked up the communicators for Lisa and Ailan and quickly finished speaking, then hung up the communicators as he now had to race against time.
He didn't have time to wait for Lisa and the others, and he didn't want them to risk danger either, knowing that his opponent was an Evil God.
Ratma was undoubtedly not as fearsome as the Evil God backed by the Ram Cult, but this time, they weren't facing a mere projection of the Evil God but a truly resurrected one!
On his way, he encountered a swarm of black rats, but he didn't stop, running headlong with Annabelle's evil-control protection, passing straight through the swarm of rats.
He threw out an Exorcism Lighter, which turned into a Molotov Cocktail and burst into flames, temporarily blocking the rats behind him, and giving him the chance to run at full speed to shake off the rats.
Area B205 was almost the deepest part of the sewers, and from a distance, Xu Yi could smell the pungent stench of blood, mingled with a foul odor.
Turning a corner, the scene abruptly changed before him, with the ground covered in corpses and remains, and blood spattered on the concrete walls as if it were a curtain of red.
He jumped onto a platform, where a mystical array was drawn connecting a large number of Exorcism Artifacts, all of which were now cracked and no longer had any exorcistic effects.
At the edge of the platform, he found Chen Lin, just as Father Notting had said; the man was already dead, his heart torn out by something.
Xu Yi crouched down; Father Notting lay next to Chen Lin, eyes tightly shut, his face showing no expression of pain, as though he had simply fallen asleep.
He knew now was not the time for sorrow, so he reached out to move Father Notting's hand away to get to the Holy Artifact remnants he had hidden.
But Father Notting's hand didn't move at all, clamped over his abdomen as if in a vice, stubbornly protecting the remnants.
The man was already gone, yet his body subconsciously tried to protect the Holy Artifact remnants.
Xu Yi's brow furrowed, wanting to quickly retrieve the Holy Artifact remnants. He would have to break the man's hand to do so, but the man was undoubtedly deserving of respect, and he was reluctant to proceed in such a manner.
But he also understood that now was not the time for misplaced kindness.
Just as he was about to forcibly take action, something suddenly occurred to him. He softly chanted, "May the holy light persist!"
A miraculous scene unfolded; the hand that had been tightly clamped over the abdomen suddenly relaxed, dropping limply to either side of the body.
Xu Yi paused for a moment, then reached into Father Notting's torn open abdomen, searching through the blood-soaked organs.
His hand suddenly encountered something hard, and upon taking it out, he found it to be a strange weapon, completely silver and shaped similarly to an ice pick, with intricate patterns engraved on its surface.
At the top of the Silver Spike, a line of Latin was inscribed.
Xu Yi had taken a Latin class at school and had done quite well. He softly recited, "Saint O'Hagan."
He suddenly realized why this operation was codenamed "Saint O'Hagan"—it was the name of an Exorcism Holy Relic.
The front end of Saint O'Hagan had been snapped off, revealing a sharp, broken edge.
Xu Yi secretly felt alarmed, as an Exorcism Holy Relic, Saint O'Hagan was crafted from an extremely rare metal of astonishing hardness; yet now it had been forcibly broken by an Evil God?
His Spirit Communication Ability sensed something unusual about Saint O'Hagan, as the powerful magnetic field surrounding it was extremely unstable.
Father Notting had asked him to find the Evil God quickly not only because the Evil God possessed a formidable healing power but also because it implied another meaning, namely, that Saint O'Hagan would soon become "junk".
Saint O'Hagan had been broken by the Evil God, and its exorcism efficacy should have dissipated, but it was Father Notting who used a Secret Technique to forcibly preserve part of the Holy Artifact's power.
However, the duration of the Secret Technique was limited, at most it wouldn't last longer than an hour before the Holy Artifact would completely lose its effectiveness.
Xu Yi placed the Holy Artifact into Annabelle's toy space, and at this moment, a dense sound of footsteps came from behind; he stood up and looked back.
A large number of soldiers and exorcists hurried over, their faces filled with urgency. Xu Yi hadn't seen these exorcists in the plaza, so they were most likely "government officials".
Father Notting's guess was correct; the New York government had indeed run into trouble, as traitors had suddenly attacked the commander of this operation.
They had managed to quell the unrest only to find out that Father Notting had contacted them; when they tried to contact Father Notting again, there was no response.
The person in charge knew something had gone wrong and quickly organized a team to rush over.
When he saw the bodies scattered everywhere, especially Father Notting lying in the corner, he felt his blood run cold.
"What exactly happened?" the person in charge looked towards the only living person present.
"Everyone was wrong. The source of this curse wasn't a Demon but an Evil God!" Xu Yi sighed.
There was nothing good to hide; he recounted what he knew as quickly as possible, of course, he definitely wouldn't talk about the remains of Saint O'Hagan.
"So, the Evil God is severely injured now, and we must find and kill it before it recovers," the person in charge concluded.
He didn't suspect Xu Yi as the traitor; if the other party were the murderer, he wouldn't foolishly wait here and tell them all this key information.
Xu Yi nodded and ignored the team behind him.
Even as he spoke with them, his gaze never settled on them but was always observing this "battlefield".
He stared at the black liquid on the ground, coming to a conclusion that this must be the blood of the Evil God Ratma.
The black blood was splattered everywhere, carrying a strong curse and was highly corrosive.
The ground was pitted from the corrosion, and the bodies that had come into contact with the black blood were corroded to the point where not even bones remained.
Xu Yi jumped down from the platform and walked towards the corner ahead.
He looked down and saw a conspicuous trail of black blood, as if something had been dragged and smeared across the ground.
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Xu Yi could imagine the scene at the time: the severely injured Ratma, dragging its blood-drenched body, struggling to move through the sewer, leaving such a trail.
Father Notting hadn't deceived him; the Evil God was indeed severely injured, otherwise it wouldn't have had difficulty even walking.
Xu Yi felt a surge of excitement as he followed the trail of black blood, tracking it for several hundred meters before turning a corner.
He suddenly stopped in his tracks, the blood trail abruptly ended in front of him, and there was no sign of the Evil God Ratma, the sewer was empty.