With such an eye-catching shape, I could recognize the figure handcuffed to the radiator in front of me at a glance. He was none other than the current acting pope of the Amakusa Cross Sect, Kengosaiji.
After Kanzaki Kaori, who was originally a female pope, left and joined the British Puritan Church in order to protect the weak Amakusa Cross Sect, this man temporarily became the acting pope of this local sect, leading the members of the Cross Sect.
He is active in Japan, but why is he here now?
It seems he's not the only one.
After Jiangong jumped onto the deck and made a gesture to the people below, more agile figures jumped up immediately. Judging from their clothing, they were all young people dressed in ordinary or even fashionable clothes. They were very similar to those on the streets of the city today.
The trendy students are all the same. Except for holding various weapons in their hands, they are simply a group of ordinary boys and girls. But I know very well that these people are the members of the Amakusa Cross Sect.
Unlike behemoths like Roman Orthodoxy or English Puritanism, the Amakusa Cross Sect survives in a special place like Japan. It not only has to withstand positive pressure from other cross sects, but also has been affected by local religious forces and the shogunate in Japanese history.
In order to survive in such a crack, what they are best at is hiding themselves and completely integrating themselves into the lives of ordinary people. Even daily religious rituals can be hidden in ordinary food, clothing, housing and transportation.
With this kind of "religious clothing" in front of me, I was completely dressed like ordinary people.
The members of the Amakusa Cross Sect jumped onto the deck and immediately looked around cautiously. Then they gestured to each other and quickly dispersed. After a while, only Kengong Zhaiji was left in front of us.
"What are they doing?"
Confused, I turned around and asked Qianqian, who was busy picking ice flowers from the side of the boat.
Well, I asked the prophet through a cross-regional trumpet.
"They were sent by Kanzaki to help."
Lin Xue really saw something.
"Due to their status, Kanzaki, who is affiliated with the British Puritan Church, cannot directly help, just like Laura, but the Amakusa Cross Sect, which is considered a heretic by the Roman Orthodox Church and is hostile, does not have much concern.
Of course, this alone is not the reason for her choice. More importantly, it seems that Kanzaki hopes to take this opportunity to put the Amakusa Cross Sect under the protection of the "power of heaven" - the female pope made her own little calculation.
She doesn't hesitate to let her most valued former followers take the risk of becoming enemies of the Roman Orthodox Church, and she also wants us to help protect the Cross Sect in the future. It seems that the situation of the Cross Sect is indeed quite bad."
Small calculations are small calculations. Kanzaki made this choice just for the sake of the people he always wanted to protect. Indeed, according to common sense, in this way, the followers of the Amakusa Cross Sect will not be disappointed after serving the "angels".
You are really standing in the camp of the "Kingdom of Heaven". For these religious people, even if there is no visible benefit, this nominal thing is still very important.
And apart from that, what’s more important is Kanzaki’s character: she is the type who must repay favors from others. This persistence even reaches the point of causing headaches. We “absolved” her last time
For her "offense" against the angel, I gave her a magical weapon in my own name. According to Kanzaki's character, it would be abnormal if she didn't find a way to help this time.
But should we tell that female saint that we, the saviors, are actually going to leave after finishing the soy sauce?
Such unreliable things flashed through my mind, but I was quite happy with the appearance of these members of the Amakusa Cross Sect. Originally, after Laura explained that she was unable to provide help, I thought it was us who died from exhaustion again this time.
I worked so hard, but I didn’t expect that a company of coolies would pop up in the end. How can I be embarrassed by such a useful young man? Sister Kanzaki...
Judging from the way they are hiding one by one now, these people's original plan was probably to sneak into the Ice Battleship in advance and start taking action after we arrive. Because Kanzaki has not been through with us before, this choice is also the best.
method, but they obviously didn't expect that we had already arrived on the battleship, and were even standing a few meters away in front of them.
Thinking of this, I suddenly became interested in playing pranks.
"Young man, your appearance surprised me a little."
Deliberately pretending to be serious and majestic, I controlled my voice to echo within a two-meter radius around Jian Gong.
The sudden sound immediately startled the quiet man. He immediately took off the foul two-meter-long "flame-shaped sword" from his shoulder and began to look around vigilantly, looking fully alert.
It seemed, of course, that he couldn't see anything due to the camouflage field.
"Relax, Kengiya Saiji, I am the one you are waiting for, but it seems that Kanzaki didn't tell me about your arrival before."
Holding back my laughter, I continued to speak in a low voice.
It seemed that Kanzaki had not told the other party the true identity of the person he wanted to assist this time. Jiangong was stunned for a moment, then frowned and asked: "Are you the friend the female pope mentioned? It turns out that you have already sneaked in in advance.
We got the battleship, but why didn’t we show up?”
I felt slightly surprised and asked: "Friends... So what did Kanzaki tell you before?"
Jiangong immediately showed a vigilant expression, but it flashed away and replaced with a relieved expression: "She didn't say much, she just asked us to help a friend, and what we have to do is just sneak into a certain place.
We are just waiting for your arrival on an ice ship. What happens next... the female pope asked us to obey your orders."
Such a vague order? The people of the Amakusa Cross Sect are really loyal to their former female pope to the point of being speechless. I am afraid that even if Kanzaki tells them to die, these people will immediately turn around and find paper to write a will. Of course
, I don’t think Kanzaki really dares to let her valued followers take such risks. I’m afraid there are still many things she has to explain. At least there is some kind of arrangement for Jian Gong and his team to dare to sneak into the ice battleship rashly, but now it seems
Come on, Jiangong won't tell me anything more.
"How many of you are here in total? How did you know we were on this ship?"
I asked curiously, the Queen's fleet has a total of more than a hundred battleships, Kanzaki sent these strong men without any communication with us before, with a posture of forcing us into the water, Amakusa-type people want to sneak into these battleships
Meeting someone you don't know what he looks like is almost like finding a needle in a haystack.
"We have about two hundred people here," Jian Gong replied. "As for meeting you here, it was just a coincidence. The female pope seems to trust your power quite a lot. She told us that as long as we do our best after the battle begins,
It is enough to create a certain amount of chaos on the battleship, and it is no problem even without meeting you. Although in terms of combat effectiveness, we do not have the strength to shake such a huge fleet, but it is quite easy for us to just sneak in and destroy it.
things."
It turns out that this is the case, so Lin Xue and I misunderstood Kanzaki at first. The main thing she wanted to do was really just to repay us.
"Then, you guys can help save people in a moment. The risk of sabotage or anything like that is still too great, and I already have my own plan."
I thought about it and arranged the most suitable job for them. Although the Amakusa people are powerful, their numbers are not enough after all. It is easy to hide an ice ship with their own stealth skills, but as a combat force and
The entire Queen's fleet was too weak to fight against them. Kanzaki certainly didn't intend to let his own people serve as cannon fodder at the beginning, otherwise Jian Gong would have simply sneaked into the opponent's flagship.
"Save people?" Jiangong nodded, "We have a convenient underwater boat. When the time comes, we just need to..."
I interrupted the other party with a smile: "I'm afraid that's not enough. I mean - all the crew members of the entire Queen's fleet."
"I know that you have special magic to quickly build ships. The entire Queen's fleet may collapse in an instant. You can just help rescue the prisoners of war. Of course, if the other party does not cooperate, let them fend for themselves."
After saying this, I didn't care about the look of shock and disbelief on Jiangong's face, and directly led Qianqian and Pandora away from the frigate.
The Queen of the Adriatic Sea, the flagship of the entire Queen's fleet, because of its huge size and completely unconcealable energy fluctuations, makes it as eye-catching as a pearl in the night sky. Without any effort, the three of us have arrived at this ship.
The largest ice battleship is different from the previous frigate that was patrolled at all times. When we arrived here, we did not find a single person.
Pandora turned on the life detector and said for a long time: "All life responses are on the lower deck, which should be defended by automatic defense devices."
"Magic is amazing," Qianqian sighed again, "They were able to create automatic gates a few centuries ago."
"But a few centuries later they can still only build automatic door guards - compared with technology, the progress of magic takes too long and requires higher requirements. Except for the high-energy world, practicing magic in a civilization dominated by technology would be a tragedy.
ah."
Of course, excluding those superhumans from the Xiling Empire...
Since the entire battleship is maintained by the "ice magic" that is running all the time, this ubiquitous and layered chaotic magic greatly interferes with conventional energy perception, and our perspective screen has now become a full screen.
Snowflake Point, the detection of this battleship can only be carried out in the most conservative and step-by-step manner - so I don't like dungeons, especially dungeons without mini-maps.
Pandora opened the way in front, while Qianqian and I looked around curiously behind. The structure of this ice battleship seemed quite strange. Its internal structure was full of useless corridors and rooms, which were completely unsuitable for combat ships, and there was often a
Two turns appeared out of nowhere in front of us, but in fact this turn would turn back in the opposite direction after only a few meters - if my men had designed this thing, I would have shot that bastard dead, it's a pain in the ass
Too rippling.
Of course, I know that this thing must have magical significance, such as a large permanent magic circle or three-dimensional runes, but now it seems that it just makes a bunch of road idiots who have lost their perspective become more and more angry.
.
"Brother, there are a lot of energy traps ahead."
The sudden sound of Pandora made me interrupt my depressed tour of the map. The little guy had already taken out his signature minigun and was staring ahead with a serious expression at the moment.
I struck this girl on the head with a violent shock: "We are operating in secret!"
Pandora yelled, and reluctantly replaced the machine cannon with two lightning-shrouded ship-killing knives.
I asked Alaya to activate magical intervention, hypnotizing a large number of traps ahead, and then carefully stepped into them.
It seemed to be going well - the wide and dark frozen corridor was still calm, and no large number of Jedi suddenly appeared due to our entry. Circles of white halo spread out from under my feet, constantly appeasing the defense mechanisms that were ready to move.
, Alaya's power has an absolute advantage over magical creations. At this moment, I feel that I have finally become a protagonist-like creature with a halo, and I can't help but feel proud in my heart.
And the next second after the excitement was over, the wall next to him suddenly made a crisp sound.
"Qianqian, did you hear anything just now?"
I thought it was my auditory hallucination, so I turned around and asked Qianqian.
This girl is leaning on the wall, using ice cubes as a mirror, and making faces - at least you make me feel a little nervous!
"Wow!"
Immediately afterwards, a burst of crystal shattering sounded behind me, interrupting my attention. I subconsciously stepped aside, and an armored warrior made entirely of ice rushed over, holding a spear and wiping my hair.
"The defense device is activated!"
I yelled and casually detonated an ice sculpture guard who had just separated from the ice wall and was rushing towards me with a weapon raised. Pandora next to me had already waved the ship-cutting knife in her hand and rushed towards the opposite side, killing the ice sculpture guard.
The wall blocking the ice sculpture guards that were constantly spawning was smashed into pieces.
"It's so annoying..."
Just after I eliminated the first wave of enemies, Qian Qian's miserable voice suddenly sounded from behind me, and then there was a sudden spread of low pressure. After changing her personality, Qian Qian lowered her head slightly and couldn't see clearly the expression on her face.
With an expression on his face, he just whispered: "This garbage will only waste my time..."
"Be shattered into pieces in endless time!!"
"Boom!!"
There was a dense sound of collapse, and the entire corridor suffered serious structural chaos in the rapid passage of time, and finally collapsed into crystal fragments all over the sky.
But then, more neat and heavy sounds of the friction of armor and the sound of heavy objects sliding on the ice gathered from all directions.
"Brother Monarch!" Alaya's voice rang, "The magic spell here has changed. All the nearby ice blocks that make up the ice ship have turned into things that can continuously produce guards. I need a moment to recalculate.
Such magic!"
I rushed up and clamped the violent Lolita who was happily chopping the ground with a long knife under my arm, turned around and greeted Qianqian, "Girl! Don't waste time! We have alerted the guards! Hurry up and find Sylvia."
!”
Damn it, I should have known better, I would never be able to successfully play Metal Gear Solid in this life!
As Alaya said, the magic spells in this battleship are quite weird. They will constantly reorganize themselves. God knows when I triggered the mechanism. Now, no matter where we go, the surrounding ice will immediately become guards.
At the manufacturing site, Pandora, who was trapped in my armpit, refused to rest for a moment. While being trapped and running, she threw plasma grenades everywhere. Qianqian turned on the death force field to the maximum. The time around us was measured in milliseconds.
The cycle fluctuated wildly, and the rampaging guards were often blown to pieces by grenades or washed away by time into pure water. In the end, I didn't bother to care about these two crazy girls, and simply used them as mobile door openers.
Wherever the group passed, it was as messy as a demolition crew swept across it.
"They're over there!"
A loud shout suddenly sounded not far away, and out of the corner of his eye, a small group of men in black cloaks wearing priest robes rushed out from the corner. The leader was holding a foul weapon that looked like a javelin but with a long spearhead.
Pointing this way and shouting loudly.
The IQs of these guys are definitely not above average! Any normal person would have turned around and run away when he saw the rapidly collapsing space behind the three intruders!
"You will rot in your own flesh and blood!"
Qianqian suddenly shouted loudly before I took action, and then the few Roman Catholics who were blocking her suddenly turned into black remnants that filled the sky before they even had time to scream. This move was called Thousand-Year Killing by her to deal with short-lived people.
Humans are simply more efficient than Pandora's artillery.
"More enemies are approaching."
Pandora suddenly said something calmly in my armpit, then casually took out a small, shiny oval-shaped object and threw it far away.
"Hey! Girl!"
"boom!!!"
"Don't throw quantum bombs indoors..."
I snatched another quantum bomb from Pandora's hand. Why is this kid neither light nor heavy?
"Alarm device intervention completed."
At this moment, Alaya finally said something slowly.
…At this point I say let’s continue sneaking, will you kill me?
However, although it had alerted the enemy, the quantum bomb thrown by Pandora still successfully distracted the enemy. Even if it was a small grenade, the powerful shock wave would probably destroy one-third of the entire upper deck area.
, taking advantage of the opponent's chaos, our three-person team from the Imperial Demolition Office quickly moved to the lower deck area. Then, with the help of Pandora's life sensor, we evaded other searchers and gradually approached a certain magic operation method that was obviously different from his.
place.
"Strange, why are there not so many guards here?"
According to the shared life detector signal transmitted from Pandora, there were only a few life forms behind the door in front of us, which surprised us who were already prepared for the boss battle.
"The boss in reality shouldn't be so stupid."
I muttered lowly, and then a man's voice suddenly sounded in the air around me: "Since you can come here, why don't you have the courage to come in?"