"Annie, Bell, Mavic, long time no see, you've all grown up a little bit!" Jessica has the demeanor of a big sister, stroking the heads of the little ones one by one, and taking out bread to share with them.

To her surprise, the children did not accept her gift, and said sensibly: "Sister Jessica, you keep the bread for yourself, and the food that Mr. Colossa has given us is enough to eat."

Roland watched the laughing children in the room, and gradually realized what Colossa had said before.

Why don't the people in the vault come out to fight the fanatics? The obvious answer is that there are no more adults to fight in this last refuge.

"The older 'sobers' either died in battle with the fanatics, or they could not bear the pressure and became madmen in despair...... Children's thoughts are not as complex as adults', and they don't have as many desires and worries as adults, and the innocent little ones can survive longer in Akron, and in the end, these children are the only ones who survive. Glova stood beside Roland and looked at the children with emotion.

"It's like a kindergarten here, and it's not easy to take care of these little ones." Roland whispered.

"It is also Maria's responsibility to take care of them, she has read some books, she teaches the children every day, teaches them to read and write, and hopes that one day the children will escape the nightmare of Akron and go to the outside world, and they will always be able to use more knowledge."

"Mary is an amazing girl." Roland sincerely admired, "Where is Holmonx, doesn't this master teach the children himself?" ”

"Follow me." Gropha opened the door next door.

Roland followed him into a hallway, and Anthony and Lyudmila quickly followed.

At the end of the dimly lit hallway was another door, and Geropa pushed it open, and Roland was the first to enter, and found that the small room was filled with psionic light, a "lamp of reason" hung from the ceiling, and on the table directly below was a crystal jar the size of a wine jar, which seemed to be well sealed.

"Master Hallmonks, I've brought some friends to visit you." Grofa bowed to the crystal jar with an unusually respectful expression.

"Hey! Who are you talking to? Anthony looked around in confusion, "There's no one in the room?" ”

"Look there." Lyudmila gave him a wink, and then pointed to the crystal jar.

Anthony curiously approached the crystal jar and took a look, and immediately jumped back with a scream of fright, hiding behind Roland at a lightning speed, and said in a trembling voice: "Strange, monster! I'm scared to death! ”

Roland glanced at him angrily, approached the crystal jar, and bowed slightly to the mass of flesh soaked in transparent liquid: "Master Holmonks, I have long admired the great name. ”

The mass, soaked in the jar, was the size of a fist and looked like a piece of brain tissue, with a wrinkled surface and a few small pieces of ore stuck in it. Judging by the light blue hue and translucent texture, Roland speculated that the ore fragments were extremely pure magic crystals, and that Hallmonx was probably using this simple device to amplify his psychic power.

"Young people of Vares, welcome to Vault 13." "Brain in a Jar" responded to Roland's greeting telepathically, "I am Hallmonx, I'm ashamed, my body was usurped by Higgs many years ago, only this part of the flesh and the personality attached to the flesh and blood have been hiding in the jar to survive to this day, please forgive me for my rudeness." ”

Roland smiled understandingly. I thought that the leader of the sober was in a miserable situation, losing his body and being forced to parasitize in a jar, unable to leave Vault 13, let alone fight the fanatics himself.

"Master Hallmonx, you mentioned that your body was taken by a guy named 'Higgs', that Higgs...... Could it be the leader of the Church of the Fanatics? Lyudmila voiced her guess.

"Higgs, ah......" the elder in the jar conveyed a sigh to everyone's hearts, "Higgs's original name was Higgs Holmunks, and he was also a member of the evil god, but the power he inherited from the evil god was stronger than the other dependents, and it was closer to the essence of the evil god, he did not grow into the 'holy mind' of the evil god like other dependents, but a high-level 'mad minder'. ”

The "Mind Maniac" is a relatively rare psionic class, and Roland had heard Eltaran talk about the peculiarities of the "Mind Thinker", when the "Eye of All Worlds" compared it to the Psychic Warlock. Contrary to the "Psychic Warlock" who advocates reason and knowledge, and calmly uses wisdom to discover his own psychic abilities, the "Psychic Thinker" relies on instinct, emotion and rhapsody to stimulate his own spiritual power, so as to achieve a level of manifestation comparable to that of a psychic warlock.

Roland didn't know how high the level of the madman sect leader was, but he could see that Holmens himself was a level 16 "madman", so his old enemy would not be inferior to him. Since Holmonx and Higgs both have a rare psionic inheritance in the life of the "Maniac", and Holmonx just said that Higgs's surname is also "Holmes", Roland naturally made up a series of family grievances and ethical dramas.

"Master Holmonx, that mad sect leader has the same surname as you, are you related?" Roland guessed that the two were mostly brothers, and that they had gone down a hostile path because of their different ideas—Holmens insisted on reason and became the leader of the sober, while Higgs allowed the beast in his heart to devour reason and degenerated into an accomplice of the evil gods and the leader of the fanatics.

However, the truth is even more bizarre than he imagined, and when Holmonx tells the truth, not only Roland is stunned, but Lyudmila and Anthony are even more shocked.

"Higgs and Holmonx were once the same person, and Higgs Holmonx was our common name, at least until our personalities split into two parts that were hostile to each other." The old man in the jar was silent for a few seconds, waiting for the crowd to recover from their shock before continuing to tell his grudge against Higgs.

"Time flies, I have lived in the long nights of Akron for two centuries since the day I was dragged into a nightmare by the evil gods, during which I have never succumbed to the evil gods, to my wild instincts, in order to protect the people who have been trapped in Akron like me, I have created the 'Lamp of Reason' so that people's nature is not deprived of their nature by the evil gods, and I have also gathered people to establish the 'Sober One' organization, and with the assistance of Hendrik and other old friends, I have created Vaults from 1 to 13, for' The 'Sobers' provided refuge, and these undertakings were accomplished before the 'Higgs' personality split out, and frankly, he also had his credit. ”