The Pope nodded and continued,
"Head of the Inquisition, you will continue to pursue the remnants of the fallen angels and the Dark Papacy. Exterminate them as much as possible. Everyone else, besides coordinating the headcount within the Papacy, should investigate further and gather any methods that can heal Mr. Zhang Wei. I will go find some old friends and see if I can get some healing items from them."
After giving his orders, the Pope did not linger and set off immediately.
Meanwhile.
In the room in the Papacy where Zhang Wei was.
At this moment.
Zhang Wei, unaware that he had inadvertently become the highest-ranking distinguished guest of the Papacy, was still comforting Lu Lianxue, saying,
"Little Xue, don't cry. I'm really fine. I'll be better in a few days. I know my own condition, so don't worry. You'll just have to wait a few days without me spoiling you. When I recover, you can wait for my pent-up passion from days of restraint. No, I mean the bull's charge. Hehe."
Lu Lianxue replied upon hearing this,
"Zhang Wei, you're like this, and you're still in the mood to drive? Are you really okay?"
As she spoke, she noticed Zhang Wei's serious expression. It seemed he wasn't deliberately comforting her, but truly believed he could recover, not showing the dejection one would expect from irreversible injury.
Zhang Wei nodded seriously,
"Of course. When have I ever lied to you? And if I really couldn't recover, do you think I could still smile like this? I'm the brightest rising star in Great Xia today, already at the half-step Town-Guard level at such a young age, with an immeasurable future. If not a hundred percent, then at least ninety percent chance of reaching the Town-Guard level."
"Someone like me, with such a bright future, to be injured to the point where it might affect my reaching the Town-Guard level, no matter how ambitious I am, I couldn't smile so brilliantly, could I? Don't you think so? I'm confident I can recover, believe me, Little Xue."
Zhang Wei mustered his strength and reached out to hold Little Xue's hand, grinning and chuckling,
"You and Little Man Tou know my physical condition best. You understand."
Lu Lianxue's face flushed slightly upon hearing this, and the worry in her heart eased a little. However, she couldn't help but ask again,
"Are you really okay? Don't lie to me. By the way, should I tell Little Lin about this? You really don't want me to tell Little Lin?"
"I'm really fine, and there's no need to tell Little Man Tou. Knowing her personality, if she finds out, she'll rush over. Vatican City isn't safe right now, and I'm afraid I can't protect both of you. I think you should also return to Great Xia as soon as possible."
As he spoke,
Zhang Wei recalled the system's prompt. Through the system prompt, he knew that for some reason, the fallen angels couldn't kill him, so he wasn't worried about his own safety. However, Lu Lianxue was not covered by this, and returning to Great Xia was the safest option.
However.
Lu Lianxue refused Zhang Wei's request,
"You're not afraid of the fallen angels, but in your current state, someone needs to take care of you, right? You have trouble getting out of bed. It's fine. I've already called Grandpa and the others. The Guard Department is also taking this matter very seriously and says they'll send someone to protect you, as you are a future pillar of our Great Xia."
Zhang Wei said with a smile,
"Haha, at least the Guard Department has some conscience."
Zhang Wei was not surprised by the Guard Department's help. Not to mention the Guard Department's concern for him, he had helped the Papacy this time. In return, besides giving him a box, the Papacy had also given him more than half of the fallen angel corpses. He had just instructed them to be sent to the Guard Department. Coupled with the need to save the elderly master of the Huang family, for these two reasons alone, the Guard Department would definitely protect him.
"That's for sure. You don't know how much the Guard Department kept asking me about your situation when they learned you were in trouble. They even planned to provide you with healing medicine for free, without using your points in the Guard Department. It's on its way now. How about it? Do you want to know what medicine the Guard Department sent? It's quite remarkable."
Lu Lianxue blinked her beautiful eyes with a smile.
Zhang Wei grinned,
"I don't want to know. Compared to this, I'd rather know if you blushed when I was driving just now. Tell me, what scene were you thinking about? I want to know that more, what kind of pose was it."
"You're so annoying."
Lu Lianxue gave Zhang Wei a glare.
"Alright, I'm not joking with you anymore. The medicine is probably top-notch. After all, with the price I paid for my improvement, they definitely have to send top-notch medicine for treatment. If they send something cheap, the Guard Department knows it won't be effective, so I don't care about that. Compared to this, Little Xue, what is the Papacy's thank-you gift to me? Hurry up and let me see it?"
As soon as he said that,
Lu Lianxue looked at Zhang Wei with a mixture of amusement and exasperation,
"You really are a money grubber. You're injured like this, and you still have the mood to care about the thank-you gift. The box is here."
Although she said that,
Lu Lianxue still took out a box from the bedside drawer,
"Because you were unconscious, I put the box by your bed."
As she spoke,
Lu Lianxue's curious expression was unmasked. Before, when Zhang Wei was unconscious, she was too worried about him to pay attention to the box. Now that she knew Zhang Wei was fine, her curiosity was piqued.
Then.
At Zhang Wei's instruction, Lu Lianxue opened the box for him.
It could be seen that.
Inside the box was a bead, about the size of a thumb.
"Huh, is this the Heart of God? No, it looks a bit like it, but it shouldn't be."
Lu Lianxue exclaimed softly, then told Zhang Wei that the Pope had taken out the Town-Guard level artifact, the Heart of God, to heal Zhang Wei earlier, and she had seen the Heart of God. The bead in the box looked extremely similar to the Heart of God, the only difference being that the bead's light was not as dazzling as the Heart of God.
However, judging from the aura emitted by the bead, it was a half-step Town-Guard level artifact bead.
Not long after.
After asking Matt, who had come to visit, Zhang Wei and Lu Lianxue learned the origin of this bead.
"The original Heart of God?"
"Yes, Mr. Zhang Wei, the Heart of God is a Town-Guard level artifact of our Papacy, created by the tenth Pope. And the one in your hand is the prototype created by the tenth Pope before he made the Heart of God."
Matt smiled and pointed at the bead,
"Mr. Zhang Wei, don't think that the Pope is like the president of the Heresy Association and gave you a defective product. This is not a defective product; it is a semi-finished product left by the tenth Pope. He wanted to keep a backup. When he was making this Heart of God, he found that a material was missing. He didn't have the material, so he didn't proceed with the subsequent production."
"Instead, he chose to make another Heart of God. This Heart of God was kept as a backup, in case the Heart of God was ever damaged, there would be this one to use. As long as the material is obtained, it can be upgraded to the Town-Guard level."
"It is a semi-finished product, and although the material is not easy to obtain, it will not be difficult for Mr. Zhang Wei. It only requires the heart of an angel. When we find the fallen archangel and kill him, it can be used to complete the upgrade of this Heart of God."
As soon as he finished speaking,
Zhang Wei couldn't help but interject,
"Or I could purify a fallen archangel and get an angel's heart."
As he said this,
Matt was stunned for a moment, then his eyes lit up and he said,
"You know, that's possible too. Haha, as expected of Mr. Zhang Wei."
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