Chapter 719: The ceremony begins? (Two in one super large chapter, please vote for me)
"So, the purpose of your phone call is just to say thank you?"
He Ao asked with a smile.
"of course not,"
The other end of the phone also smiled and said, "But for the church, the update of doctrine you brought has cleared up the fog for us. This thank you is the most important thing."
When he said this, he paused for a moment. It was obvious that he also realized that such an update of 'doctrine' would lead to the disintegration of the chaotic church.
Immediately, he continued, "So I would like to ask you to join us. Your understanding of chaos will make the belief in gods more widely spread."
Hearing his words, He Ao knew his plan.
This church leader has most likely blocked the 'meaning of chaos' explained by Howie, and is trying to draw Howie into their camp, minimizing the spread of the true doctrine of chaos, in order to maintain the church's existence for as long as possible
.
After all, the longer the church exists, the greater the benefits that the church leader can gain.
Even in a world where gods really exist, the church does not completely operate in accordance with the gods' tendencies.
"Aren't you afraid of being punished by your gods like this? If your gods really exist."
He Ao laughed dumbly.
"God doesn't care."
The church leader on the other side of the phone said calmly.
He Ao, who was leaning by the door and talking on the phone, raised his eyebrows. Gods indeed rarely care about what their believers are doing. In fact, apart from sacrifices, they don't care much about anything about mortals.
But this sentence "God doesn't care" made He Ao think of something else, and he chuckled softly.
"Interesting, but I'm sorry. I think my point of view has been expressed clearly enough. I, Lenk, have no intention of joining the Chaos Church."
"It's a shame, you're a born Chaos Cultist,"
The church leader sighed, "Then let's change the way of cooperation. Are you interested in coming to the city center tomorrow afternoon? We can meet and chat. The right missionary is dead, and we need a strong partner. I will help
The gift you strive for the most."
"Sounds good,"
He Ao chuckled and said, "How do I know you won't find a few people to ambush me and get rid of this potential threat that I can't recruit once and for all?"
"This is indeed a matter of concern,"
The church leader replied, "But, I think you can trust me. We are all people guided by the light of chaos, and you are very strong, aren't you? Dealing with you is not a cost-effective thing, we can
become friends."
"Then can I see some 'sincerity' from my friends?"
Heao asked.
“What ‘sincerity’ do you want?”
The church leader paused and asked in a low voice, "Power? Wealth? Women?"
"I want the 'contact information' of your god."
He Ao shrugged, "If your gods really exist, then let me see for myself."
Although there is a lot of information about the Church of Chaos in the dungeon world, unlike information such as doctrines and anecdotes that can be spread as gossip on a small scale, the occult rituals that can truly communicate with the God of Chaos are basically restricted information.
Unless you really come into contact with the preachers of the Chaotic Church, it is difficult to understand this knowledge.
Although He Ao had dealt with the Church of the God of Chaos, the other party did not teach him the rituals, nor did he obtain ritual knowledge from other places, so he really did not know the communication rituals of the God of Chaos.
He doesn't mind knowing the communication rituals of the God of Chaos. Multiple friends, multiple paths.
"Um···"
The other end of the phone pondered for a brief moment, seeming to be thinking about whether he should impart this knowledge to He Ao. Finally, he said,
"Of course, my friend, I believe that after you have witnessed the vast power, you will become a firm believer in our Lord. Under the light of chaos, we are all brothers with different surnames."
Immediately afterwards, he continued, "It is actually very simple to communicate with our Lord's ritual... or 'method'..."
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The bright moonlight shines on the smooth floor through the floor-to-ceiling windows. The man sitting in the main seat hangs up the phone and looks up ahead. Where the sea and the sky meet, the bright moon hangs high.
"This 'Lunke' is a bit too strong,"
The man sitting on his left said in a low voice, "From the information we collected, he was only a D-level peak in Xi Tu. It is impossible for his strength to increase so much in such a short period of time."
"This is a man with a secret."
The man in charge said calmly, "But people who can possess C-level power more or less have some secrets."
"Could it be some kind of powerful extraordinary object? Hao Yi came to Newland almost at the same time as him..."
The man on the left thought in a low voice, "Could he have gained something from Hao Yi..."
"We have collected and sorted out all of Hao Yi's information,"
The man in charge said slowly, "From a standpoint, Hao Yi obviously prefers the standpoint of lawful good."
"And Lenk is a heinous villain,"
The man on the left took over the sentence naturally, "Let's not talk about whether Hao Yi would hire such a villain. Even if he hired him, he would not be able to give the villain powerful extraordinary items, otherwise it would easily lead to backlash.
"
He thought about it and realized that his idea just now was a bit hasty. He lowered his head and said, "It's me, Meng Lang."
"It's a good idea of you,"
The man in charge shook his head, "We need to have the habit of careful thinking. We cannot completely rule out the possibility of Lenk being hired by Hao Yi, but this is actually not important. Apart from the chaos, he knows nothing about us. The situation has never been the same.
It's not out of our control.
"And even if he is hired, Lenk may not really be loyal to Hao Yi. He is a person caught up in chaos, and his goal will ultimately be the same as ours."
The man on the left nodded slightly. He looked at the man sitting next to him and complimented him at the right time, "The leader is wise."
Then he thought thoughtfully and said, "Moonlight's branch is on Vinland Island. If the right missionary dies, our arrangements..."
"Isn't Lenk there?"
The man in charge glanced at the man beside him. He knew that the subordinates beside him had actually had an idea for a long time, and said calmly, "Arrange people to act according to the original plan. When chaos breaks out, all those who long for chaos will
The blood will boil and draw people in. Let's see how valuable this 'Mr. Reason' is."
"yes!"
The man on the left grinned.
The man in charge calmly stared at the moonlight outside the window.
Although there was a little accident, everything was on the right track.
No one can stop the glory of chaos.
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Newland City State·Vinland Island
The moon set and the sun rose, when the rays of the morning sun spread from the sea to the land, He Ao opened the door, stood at the door and stretched, and then walked out along the rays of the morning sun.
"Good morning, brother!"
Not far away, the little girl who was standing at the door and drying straw talismans in front of the window sill saw He Ao and happily greeted He Ao.
"morning."
He Ao smiled and nodded to her. He raised his hand and showed the plate that held the apple pie yesterday.
The little girl immediately ran away from the window sill, came to the door and opened it.
Part of the scene inside the house appeared in Heao's field of vision. It was an old house that was much smaller than Lenk's house. The house was divided into two floors, with dark walls and old furniture.
On top of a cabinet against the wall hung a huge wedding photo, which seemed to be the wedding photo of the little girl's parents.
He Ao handed the plate in his hand to the little girl, "Thank you for the apple pie, it's delicious."
"As long as brother likes it, hehe."
The little girl scratched her head and took the plate. Then she looked back at the room and seemed to remember something. She warmly invited, "Brother, have you had breakfast? Grandma went to the market to buy bread. We can do it later."
Let’s have breakfast together.”
"I won't eat,"
He Ao shook his head. He looked at the little girl in front of him and asked with a smile, "Is there a place in your home where you can hide?"
The little girl looked at He Ao, blinked her eyes, and seemed to think for a moment, and then she carefully replied, "There was an old cellar where you could hide in when you met a robber."
"Will it be stuffy in there?"
He Ao asked in a low voice.
“It won’t be boring.”
The little girl shook her head.
That means there are vents.
He Ao thought for a moment, looked at the little girl, and said slowly and clearly, "Then when grandma comes back, you will lock the door, then hide in the cellar with the bread, and don't come out if there is any noise outside, until night
,May I?"
The little girl blinked her eyes, as if she didn't quite understand what He Ao said.
After a while, she nodded carefully.
Although He Ao's request sounds a bit weird, she seems to have realized something after growing up in the chaotic Vinland Island.
She looked at He Ao and thought carefully, "Brother, please wait a moment."
Then she ran into the house in a hurry. After a while, she held a straw amulet in her hand and handed it to He Ao, "Brother, the goddess of luck will protect you."
"Thanks."
He Ao took the amulet from the small hand and showed a slight smile.
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Core Island·Maple Leaf Hotel
Wu Lan stared at the mirror in front of her and stretched out her hands to comb the long hair on the back of her head.
She took off the red hair rope from her pursed lips and tied her beautiful long hair into a high ponytail.
The roar of the train seemed to echo in her ears, and the words Hao Yi said last night flashed through her mind.
She stared at herself in the mirror, stretched out her hand to straighten her ponytail so that it would not fall apart easily, then she took a deep breath and walked out of the bathroom.
The first thing that caught her eye was the series of mirrors. These mirrors were scattered throughout the wide restaurant. On the basis of protecting privacy, they maximized the visual space and made this restaurant, which was not small in the first place, look like
More magnificent and broader.
The clock on the wall goes to eleven o'clock.
"This design is quite special."
Wu Lan walked to a seat by the window and looked at the man sitting opposite.
"Of course, the Maple Leaf Hotel is a landmark building in Newland City. All the designs in the hotel are designed by world-renowned designers,"
West smiled and handed the menu to Wu Lan, "Ladies first, the grilled snails in this restaurant are very good."
"So you called me here specifically. Do you have any information you want to share?"
Wu Lan took the menu and asked casually while flipping through the pages inside the menu.
"Can't I just do it for you?"
With a smile on his face, West glanced at the city outside the window.
"Actually, you overestimate my rights. Newland City State is very complicated. I am a local, and the empire does not trust me very much. Although Moonlight was forced by the pressure of the city-state council, I was appointed as the person in charge of Newland City State.
, but another 'deputy' was assigned from the headquarters to restrain me. I don't have as much real power as you think, and I don't have access to a lot of information."
"Shouldn't it be yesterday to take the wind and wash away the dust?"
Wu Lan continued to flip through the menu, "And you are the person in charge here, aren't you? The information I got is that you basically controlled Moonlight's organizational structure in Newland City-State, and established a 'temporary' on the core island.
Branch', most of Moonlight's staff are in your temporary branch to follow your orders.
"And the power from the Tia Empire and your deputy who restrained you were placed in the 'Moonlight Branch' on Vinland Island to handle some trivial matters."
She paused slightly, "So Mr. Manager, you are not really loyal to Moonlight Headquarters. Can we have opportunities to cooperate, such as information about the disappearance of the research institute branch?"
"Your intelligence agencies are really pervasive."
West reached into his pocket, took out a small silver coin, and sighed softly, "Okay, where have you investigated now?"
Before Wu Lan could speak, West played with the coins in his hand and said to himself, "Let me guess, that investigation report on missing persons in the city-state?"
Upon hearing these words, Wu Lan stopped moving her hands, raised her head and looked at the man in front of her.
Buzz——
It was the sound of coins being bounced into the sky.
"It's you?!"
Wu Lan realized something, immediately stood up and jumped back.
The fiery red whip suddenly flew out and struck West, who was sitting opposite.
However, the long whip only hit the void. At some point, West's figure appeared in front of her, and then like lightning, he stretched out his hand and pinched Wu Lan's neck.
"So I said, can your dog's nose be less sensitive?"
West looked calmly at Wu Lan, who was grabbed by his throat and raised with his feet in the air, "It's obviously none of your business. Sometimes, if you don't understand anything, you can die a little happier."
Wu Lan struggled to raise the whip again, but West stretched out his other hand and suddenly grabbed his wrist.
Then West used both hands hard, as if he was choking a chicken, and he swung Wu Lan's body violently, hitting the glass on the side.
boom--
The flying glass shards were scattered.
Wu Lan reached out to touch the phone with her other hand, but because of this sudden swing, she lost control and the phone flew out.
The pitch-black screen had already lit up, displaying the dial-up interface.
A call was made to 'Hao Yi', but the next second, the screen flickered and went off again.
"Do you think there's going to be a signal here?"
West looked at her with a smile.
Wu Lan's body had been pushed out of the window at this moment, and a cold wind blew across her cheek. She glanced down, and she saw that there was not an empty city under her feet, but an empty nothingness.
At this moment, she finally realized something, and she looked inside the restaurant.
The restaurant, which originally had some customers, was now empty as deathly silent. The surroundings were so silent, it was as if everything in the outside world had been erased.
Until this moment, she finally seemed to understand. She looked at West and made a difficult and hoarse voice from her stuck throat, "Mirror... is a mirror..."
"very smart."
West grabbed Wu Lan's hand and swung it back hard, throwing Wu Lan away and hitting a pillar with a mirror.
The blow was so powerful that a stream of blood with yellow light spilled directly from the corner of her mouth.
She climbed up with difficulty and glanced at the pillar. Normally, due to this kind of impact and her physical strength, the pillar would have been smashed, but in fact she was injured and the pillar was unscathed.
And on the mirror next to the pillar, the scene of the restaurant is reflected at the moment.
But this scene was different from the world Wu Lan was in at the moment. A waiter carrying a plate was walking through the world in the mirror.
What is inside the mirror is the real world, and where she is now is a kind of 'reflection', the world in the mirror.
Wu Lan raised her head and looked at the man in front of her, "Is this how you use this method to make everyone in the research institute 'nothing'?"
At that moment, West pulled her into the world in the mirror.
"Wonderful?"
West looked at Wu Lan and said, "This is a 'miracle'."
"Hey," Wu Lan stood up and shook her whip, "It's just an extraordinary prop."
She raised her hand and whipped it towards West.
West stepped back and avoided the whip.
The tail of the long whip struck the dining table behind him, shattering the dining table in an instant.
"I've become stronger, which is interesting."
West glanced at Wu Lan, took two steps back, raised his hand, and pulled out a thin sword from the corner of a dining table.
Wu Lan was about to raise her whip and swing it again, but West appeared in front of her again.
too fast.
She couldn't catch West's movements at all.
The slender long sword pierced her body in an instant, and blood splashed out.
However, the sword only penetrated half of it, and the other half was held tightly by Wu Lan's outstretched hands, and blood flowed down her palms.
"Oh, although I don't look young anymore, my body's ability to withstand injuries is quite strong."
West glanced at her, with a smile on his face, and with a slight exertion, the sword suddenly moved forward, and the sharp sword tip pierced Wu Lan's back.
"Damn it, I'm a bitch,"
Wu Lan gripped the thin sword tightly and pulled the sword out of her body little by little, "Twenty-eight!"
"oh!"
West suddenly drew his rapier.
This sudden change in force caused Wu Lan to lean forward, and the next second, West turned forward and pierced her body with the thin sword again.
More and more blood flowed out from the wound. West pulled out his rapier and took two steps back.
Wu Lan's body swayed, and she stared at West, as if she was ready to raise the whip in her hand again, but this time, her hand was raised, but she did not raise it again.
But she did not give up, but tried to raise the whip again and again.
In the end, she gave up raising the whip in her hand, and instead put her hand on her waist, seeming to use her last bit of strength to rush towards West.
West dodged slightly to avoid the impact, but Wu Lan hit the table, shook her body and almost fell down.
This time, West walked over. He glanced at the knife hidden in Wu Lan's waist, stretched out his hand to pinch Wu Lan's neck, lifted her up again, and led her towards the largest mirror in the space.
.
Just as the two people approached the mirror, ripples rippled on the mirror surface, and the two figures passed through the mirror easily as if they were passing through water.
After the two people left, the silent space flickered, quickly collapsed, and was swallowed up by nothingness.
In Wu Lan's field of vision, the next second, they appeared in a magnificent room.
There are mirrors everywhere in this room, and the floor is covered with blood patterns.
"leader!"
A tall woman saw West approaching and quickly came over holding a wooden shackle.
"Um."
West threw Wu Lan on the ground, "Hand her up and take off everything on her body."
"yes."
The woman stretched out her hand and, under West's gaze, tied Wu Lan up with wooden shackles. She looked at Wu Lan trying to break free of the shackles and said, "Don't try to resist. These are shackles with divine grace. You
Even when it's at its peak, it can't be broken away with C-level power."
Then she reached out her hand, searched Wu Lan's body, removed the knife and whip, and then took out a smart bracelet, a locator, a recording pen, and a locating earphone.
These things were finally crushed to pieces by West.
During this process, Wu Lan seemed to gradually lose strength and fainted.
After everything was searched, the woman scanned the area with a metal detector, then carried Wu Lan to the corner of the room.
West did not leave, but stood where he was. A thin man walked towards him, "Leader, all the troubles have been solved now, and the sacrifices are here."
Then he glanced at Wu Lan, who seemed to have lost consciousness, "It's impossible for a C-level student from this institute to be seriously injured..."
"It's okay, C-class is not that easy to die,"
West glanced at the mirror in the center of the room, and walked into the mirror with the skinny man, "Let's prepare for the ceremony."
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On the other side, the blood-stained figure was dragged in front of several people who were also shackled.
The tall woman glanced at the Zhongtu-looking 'prisoners' in the corner, threw Wu Lan directly in front of them, then turned and left. Several people who looked like soldiers were patrolling around, seemingly as guards.
"Wu Lan? Wu Lan?"
Almost the moment Wu Lan fell in front of the crowd, a shackled and quiet woman with short hair rushed out from the crowd. She leaned next to Wu Lan, looked at Wu Lan covered in blood, and tried her best to shake Wu Lan.
body.
She separated Wu Lan's clothes with difficulty, tried to check the wounds inside, and stopped the bleeding of her friend.
At this moment, her body just blocked the sight of the patrol sentry. At this moment, she saw that the eyes of her friend lying on the ground had opened at some point.
