It was originally an assassination, but it turned into a fierce battle between three parties. Due to the participation of these people, it turned into a four-way melee.
So many things happened one after another that even Ling Cang was a little unable to turn around.
"Let's go," the other party growled. The leader picked up Ling Cang, and the other two picked up Cao Zhengqing and Yu Zhiqian, and quickly fled away.
At first, they had been hiding their power, but now they unleashed all their power. The Great Priest immediately noticed that new power had joined, and he immediately wanted to catch up.
Fortunately, the speed of these people was very fast, and they had eclipsed the Imperial Priest in a blink of an eye.
Soon, a group of people came to a ravine, a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, where few people came. The worldly masters described in martial arts novels usually appeared in such places.
Ling Cang bumped into the master now. I don't know if he was an outsider. Anyway, he couldn't figure out the origin.
"Are you okay?" The person headed by the other party was quite concerned about Ling Cang: "I see you are a bit seriously injured."
"It's okay," Ling Cang took a few deep breaths slowly and felt that his body was no longer in so much pain. Then he took out a tissue and wiped the blood stains from the corner of his mouth: "You are really not the Illuminati,"
The other party smiled and asked: "Why should we lie to you?"
"But you guys are so similar to the Illuminati..."
"No, you said the opposite. They are too similar to us," the other party shook his head and corrected solemnly: "To be precise, they used our name to satisfy their own ambitions and desires."
"That's right," another person on the other side said, "They are blasphemous cultists."
"You..." Ling Cang became somewhat enlightened after hearing these words: "Could it be that he is from the Pope?"
"Yes, we are envoys of the Holy See," the other party stretched out his hand to Lingcang and said with a smile: "Let me introduce myself, I am Li Pingwei, and my position is elder,"
"You...are from the Holy See," Ling Cang was stunned and didn't understand.
The so-called "Vatican" is the leading institution of Catholicism in the world, but the country it directly manages is only a very small Vatican. The contemporary Vatican only deals with religion and does not engage in other activities. The Vatican is even more of a mini-state, with only a few dozen people. It's just a guard, I have never heard of the existence of any other armed forces.
More importantly, the Holy See has never set foot on the Chinese mainland, but now they are not only here, but the envoys are also authentic Chinese.
Li Pingwei saw Ling Cang's confusion and smiled: "If you are interested, I can give you a brief explanation."
Ling Cang nodded: "Please tell me,"
Li Pingwei glanced sideways at Cao Zhengqing and Yu Zhiqian. He didn't want these two people to know too much, so he pointed to a tree not far away: "Let's talk under the shade of the tree." When Ling Cang followed him, he then He slowly said: "I think you know that the Holy See and the mainland have always been insulated. The two sides do not recognize each other. The Catholics in China have never accepted the leadership of the Holy See. But this is the past. In recent years, the Holy See has come to China. , it just developed very slowly and was not made public,”
"Oh," Ling Cang nodded and asked carefully, "You are the Holy See in the Vatican,"
"Is there a second Holy See?" Li Pingwei told Ling Cang very frankly: "Since the evil religion Illuminati can form an armed force, the orthodox religion that defends truth and justice should have the power to protect itself and all the people in the world who pursue truth. and righteous people,”
Due to his status, Li Pingwei always spoke with a bit of preaching, which made Ling Cang feel a little strange: "I know a little about the Holy See through books, but I don't know what department you belong to,"
"The supreme leader of the Holy See is the Pope, who has established a College of Cardinals under him, with jurisdiction over nine holy departments, each of which performs its own duties. We are the tenth holy department that exists secretly and never exists publicly to the outside world. Our duty is to eradicate the existence of evil in the world. "The evil forces." What Li Pingwei said is confidential and very few people know about it. However, this time he found Ling Cang to discuss something. Li Pingwei felt that it would be difficult to gain Ling Cang's trust if he did not reveal some of his own situation.
"So, you are the orthodox and the Illuminati are the heretics,"
"Yes, the Holy See has been fighting against the Illuminati for thousands of years. The last Apocalypse War was launched at the call of the Holy See, and it successfully prevented the Apocalypse from coming to the world."
"So, knowing that the Illuminati has arrived in China, you also followed it,"
"No," Li Pingwei shook his head slowly: "We never thought about going to war with the Illuminati in China."
"real,"
"Of course," Li Pingwei paused and explained in detail: "One is that China has its own strength and is very taboo about others interfering in internal affairs. In addition, the Holy See has a special status and will take strict precautions. Although we have no relationship with China, We don’t have any formal contact, but we don’t want to offend because of it; secondly, our power in China is very weak and not enough to compete with the Illuminati,”
"Then what are you doing here,"
"Looking for you,"
"I,"
"Well," Li Pingwei nodded, and said with great solemnity: "I have been ordered to come on behalf of the Holy See and canonize you as a bishop."
Miyamoto Tetsaki sat cross-legged on the tatami, closing his eyes and meditating. There was an incense burner in front of him, with sandalwood burning inside.
A subordinate opened the sliding door and came in, knelt in front of Miyamoto Tsaki, and said respectfully: "Sir, there is news from the front.
Miyamoto Tsusaki still closed his eyes and asked slowly: "How is it?"
"Failed to kill Ling Cang..."
"What happened,"
"The Illuminati suddenly appeared and started fighting with the priests. Ling Cang took this opportunity and slipped away..."
"Oh," Miyamoto Tsusaki nodded slightly without showing any surprise: "So how is the battle going?"
"We will annihilate all the Illuminati," he swallowed, and his subordinates said excitedly: "According to the investigation, we killed two elders, four bishops, seven deacons and more than 20 evangelists."
"What's our loss?"
"Fourteen Imperial Priests,"
"Okay, very good," Miyamoto Tatsuzaki opened his eyes and laughed loudly: "It can be called a complete victory, I am gratifying and congratulatory."
"Miyamoto-sama..." Seeing that Miyamoto Tetsaki was in a good mood, his subordinates asked a question they had always wanted to ask: "Why don't we deal with the Illuminati directly, but kill Ling Cang?"
"This Ling Cang is not simple," Miyamoto Tosaki waved his hand and told his subordinates: "He was originally a small person. If he hadn't accidentally appeared in our field of vision, we might never know his existence. However, after those failures, I reflected After learning what Kondo-sama did, I found it necessary to pay attention to the inconspicuous little people, so I investigated and found out that he is actually the boyfriend of the daughter of the Shen family. He collaborated with the Jiang family on a project some time ago, and recently he somehow got involved. There are very few people in the Long family in Southeast Asia who are related to the three major families at the same time. Now I am very suspicious that our previous failures are closely related to Ling Cang,"
"I see,"
"What's even more strange is that no matter how much I check, I can't find out the reason for the business between him and the Jiang family. In addition, there is news that Ling Cang is not an ordinary orphan and has an unusual life background. Therefore, I feel that such a person Keeping him may become a disaster, so it is better to get rid of him as soon as possible. However, this time I am not going for him, I am just using him as bait."
"My subordinates don't understand,"
"The reason is very simple. Recently, we have been well hidden and the Illuminati cannot find us. But they must be paying attention all the time and must find opportunities to annihilate us in one fell swoop. So I took advantage of the plan and set up an ambush to catch him off guard. ,"
"So that's it," the subordinate suddenly realized: "On the surface, we want to kill Ling Cang, but in fact, we want to attract the Illuminati."
"That's right," snorted disdainfully, and Miyamoto Tsusaki added: "Otherwise, just to kill a mere Ling Cang, do we need to dispatch so many priests?"
In fact, Miyamoto Tsusaki's strategy was very obvious. At that time, the Omori Priest had already monitored the entire area. After the Illuminati appeared, all the Priests launched attacks in batches from different directions, which was a typical encirclement and annihilation tactic.
Miyamoto Tsusaki was not as resourceful as Kondo Yuichi, but he also miscalculated a bit. He originally wanted to make the matter bigger and lead China to use all its strength to deal with the Illuminati, but unexpectedly the Illuminati had the same plan.
After a moment of silence, Miyamoto Tetsaki suddenly ordered: "Order everyone to move to the location immediately."
"yes,"
"Today's bloody battle will definitely drive China's top management crazy and try their best to retaliate against us. We can't be the ones who stand out, let's let the Illuminati be the scapegoat,"
"yes,"
Miyamoto Tsusaki said this, but he knew very well in his heart that the Illuminati would definitely use the same method to prevent the Chinese forces from catching it. This means that after this bloody battle, the two sides will usher in a relatively peaceful period. period.
It's just that beneath the surface peace, there is a bigger storm hidden. Miyamoto Tsuzaki has received the news that the Knights of the Apocalypse have probably arrived, so he is eager to severely damage the Illuminati in order to prevent the Illuminati's power from letting go. Go beyond yourself too much.
However, Miyamoto Tosaki knew very well in his heart that the Kikusui Club was already on its last legs, and it would be good if it could protect itself. It would be difficult to continue to contribute to the great cause of the empire. If Mochizuki Kaede had not led the ninjas to escape, there might still be some hope, and now the Kikusui Club He can only deal with the major forces and use his ingenuity and ruthlessness to get some scraps.
"For thousands of years, our Japanese nation has been like this, struggling to survive in the cracks..." Miyamoto Tessaki took a long sigh and asked himself with great emotion: "What is the great Japanese nation? Only when the time comes can we rise and be able to dominate the destiny of others instead of being dominated by others.”