Under the bright moon, a carriage drove up from the end of the street and stopped in front of a dilapidated stone house. The driver opened the door, bowed and said:
"Mr. Holmes, we're here."
The briar pipe came out first, followed by the polished leather shoes, tailcoat, top hat and walnut cane.
Looking at the deserted streets, Holmes took out two silver shillings and handed them to the coachman: "Wait for me here."
"yes."
Stepping onto the stone steps, Holmes gently clicked on the leaky wooden door. Soon the wooden door opened a crack, and a middle-aged man who looked like a farmer looked at Holmes warily through the crack in the door and asked aloud: "Who are you?"
Holmes raised the brim of his hat slightly: "I'm here to attend a party, and this is my invitation."
Seeing the Doomsday Party badge that Holmes took out, the farmer opened the door: "Come in."
In addition to the farmer, there were several young men in suits and ties in the stone house. They obviously knew Holmes. After nodding, they asked the farmer to open the cellar shutter to reveal the ladder below.
The stone house is just an ordinary stone house, and the cellar is also an ordinary cellar. The meeting location is random. No one knows where the meeting will be before receiving the invitation letter. The confidentiality work is done well, but the prerequisite is that there is no mole.
Holmes had already provided Ma Wei with the address of the stone house. Fat Orange and Edward were around, watching every move in the stone house.
Going down to the cellar, Holmes saw Mr. Butler, Colonel Moran, and three young men with gentlemanly beards. They seemed to come from noble blood families, sitting around the table, with their waists straight, as if they were participating in a game.
A grand banquet.
"Mr. Holmes!"
Mr. Butler pointed to the seat next to him with a smile: "Please sit down! Let me introduce you. These three are Liszt, Sisi and Carle. They are people sent by the headquarters to assist us in organizing London.
Divisional Action…”
Holmes's reputation is not only in the Kingdom of Windsor, but also in the United States of America. His legend is spread. The senior leaders of the Doomsday Party regard him as the star of mankind and attach great importance to him. Even the head of the London branch, Professor James Morea,
There was no assassination attempt on Holmes.
Compared to Mavey, who has been assassinated several times, Holmes's status is already high enough.
There was a kerosene lamp placed in the center of the square table, and the dim light illuminated the narrow cellar. The air was turbid, mixed with the smell of earth, and what was even worse was that everyone was smoking. In the lingering mist, the red light of the cigarette butts flickered brightly and dimly.
It's like a gas chamber.
"London is the main research base and nothing can happen. The headquarters has decided to get the support of Shukri I to avoid unnecessary threats and at the same time continue to excavate the underground Londinium ruins..."
Mr. Butler said: "Since the research laboratory has moved out of London, the exploration of Londinium has been temporarily suspended. The current situation in London is very clear. The Liberal Party has controlled most of the power. As long as they can get their support, the ruins will be destroyed."
I can continue exploring..."
"What if Shukri I doesn't agree to cooperate with us?" asked Lister, who was smoking a hand-rolled cigarette.
"He will agree."
Mr. Butler smiled and said: "He is a businessman, and I am also a businessman. Businessmen know businessmen best. Shukri I was greedy for power, but he was very timid, afraid of failure, and afraid of the end of life..."
"Shukry I is supported by Nicholas von Manstein, who is a lackey of the church. Can we think that Shukry I has surrendered to the church?"
Lister questioned the behavior of Mr. Butler: "If Shukry I really surrendered to the church, but we still told him about the existence of the Doomsday Party, wouldn't this lead to a purge by the church? We were hiding in secret
It’s because I can’t compete with the church.”
"This possibility is indeed not ruled out, but we have no choice." Mr. Butler said: "Apart from Shukri I, we have no one else in London that we can win over. Only with the support of the kingdom can we continue to dig in secret.
remains."
Liszt nodded and looked at Holmes: "I heard that Mr. Holmes has a good relationship with Nicholas von Manstein?"
"I've met him several times." Holmes nodded and said, "I have cooperated with him before, and we are not close friends."
"Then if Mr. Holmes tries to win over him, is there any chance of success?"
"It's impossible for Nicholas to join the Doomsday Party!"
Before Holmes could answer, Mr. Butler said first: "He is obviously a member of the ancient god's force! Back in Paris, Anatole almost knelt down and begged him to stay! He still refused! What a rejection of a god!
Those who can reject a god can only be an equally powerful or even more powerful force!"
"The ancient god's power?" Mustache Kalai said in surprise: "Are you sure?"
"Who is Nicholas closest to? Freya de Chevalier!"
Mr. Housekeeper sneered: "Freya de Chevalier is very obedient to Nicholas. As long as Nicholas is in need, she will always spare no effort!"
"Before, I couldn't figure out the reason why Freya de Chevalier did this. Now I understand that they are in the same group! They are all the lackeys of the ancient god!"
Reasonable.
If Holmes hadn't known the real reason, he would have believed it.
There is no way, in the eyes of the uninformed, there is definitely something fishy between Ma Wei and Freya. Throwing out the possibility of love, the two can only be in a cooperative relationship. The possibility of belonging to the same force increases the gender!
Mavey is able to reach this day as Nicholas von Manstein, and Freya deserves the most credit!
She solved countless troubles for Ma Wei!
Such a relationship...
Can't you explain anything?
There is no loophole in Mr. Butler's reasoning.
On the surface, things are just as he said.
They are all deduced from the facts, how could it be wrong?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "It seems that the ancient god forces have already infiltrated into the church..." Mustache Kalai's face was solemn: "But this is not surprising, the ancient god forces are the same as us.
The game started decades ago, and since we can penetrate London, they will have no problem."
"Speaking of this matter, I'm very curious." Holmes suddenly asked: "The Doomsday Party learned the specific time of the god's arrival through the disaster stele left by Nereida, the god of apocalypse, but that was five years ago.
, how did you start the layout decades ago?"
Liszt glanced at Holmes: "Why do you ask these questions?"
"I'm just curious. You know, I'm a detective, and detectives just like reasoning." Holmes spread his hands: "Detectives who don't like reasoning are not good detectives, or they just don't know if you can satisfy my curiosity."
Not many people know these old almanacs. It happened that Liszt heard his father mention it. If you want to say that it is a secret, it is indeed a secret, but it is definitely not a secret.
News is timely, and so are secrets. What the Doomsday Party wants to do was completed decades ago. Even if the process is told to Holmes, it will not affect the overall situation.
"What happened decades ago is not as mysterious as you think."
Liszt flicked off the cigarette ashes, squinted his eyes in the rising smoke, and recalled what his father mentioned when he was a child: "When the gods did not revive, the doomsday parties were scattered all over the world, and they did not know each other. Only when a crisis came, would they pass through special
They gathered quickly in a way that last time was decades ago."
"After receiving the news, the first people to gather were the Lister family and the Kalai family. Our two families were originally competing with each other for the slave ship business, but we didn't expect that they were our own..."
Liszt smiled helplessly and continued: "The reason for the gathering is very simple. It is because a demon found us. It pointed out to us the burial place of the Demon Gate, and said that the ancient gods wanted to make a deal with us..."
"All the actions of the Doomsday Party are for mankind, so after learning where the Devil's Gate is buried, we immediately organized people to go to the Ghost Forest..."
"Wait a minute." Holmes interrupted: "The gods hadn't come yet. Where did the devil come from?"
"I don't know either, it was just sudden."
"Why doesn't that demon go on a killing spree?" Holmes was puzzled: "Once a demon with extraordinary power goes berserk, who can stop it?"
"Although the Devil's Gate seals the ancient gods, gods of faith and extraordinary creatures, in order to prevent accidents, the gods of faith often leave behind a family of guardians."
Liszt said: "The Guardian family is cursed. In order to escape the seal of the Devil's Gate, they must have the blood of the God of Faith flowing in their bodies and cannot survive until the age of 30. Because the blood contains magic power, the Guardians can often use powerful
Magic, protecting the Holy See, and protecting humanity are their mission."
Hearing the word guardian, Holmes immediately thought of Levin Berger. Levin, who was born in the Berger family, was not the last guardian of the family.
"According to the records of the Doomsday Party, the guardian family of the Apocalypse Divine System is hidden within the Apocalypse Church. The guardians are very mysterious and will only appear when necessary. Unfortunately..."
Liszt sighed: "The Church of Apocalypse was overthrown by Peter the Great more than 20 years ago, and the Guardian family lost news."
Before Holmes could ask, Liszt added: "I know what you want to ask. You can obviously use magic and shoulder the responsibility of protecting the Holy See. Why did you let the Apocalypse Church be destroyed? I don't know. Who knows what happened twenty years ago?
What’s wrong with the Guardians? They sit back and watch the Apocalypse Church collapse... This is unprecedented!”
"you misunderstood."
Holmes said: "I want to remind you that you are digressing. What I want to ask is the devil who guides you."
"Oh, that demon...that demon took the Lister family and the Kalai family into the ghost forest and dug out the Devil's Gate. There's nothing to say about that."
"Dig the Devil's Gate, and then what? What did you do?"
"We reached a deal with the Ancient God." Liszt said: "The content of the contract is very simple. We released a few demons in advance, causing the seal to loosen. The price was that the Ancient God told us the location of the golden age city ruins, and at the same time gave the top management some power.
We agreed not to harm members of the Doomsday Party, let alone deliberately sabotage the Doomsday Party’s plans.”
Holmes frowned: "The Doomsday Party says it is for mankind, why do they release demons?"
"The purpose of releasing demons is for mankind!" Lister said categorically: "First of all, the contract we signed ensures that demons cannot attack humans, because the Doomsday Party will stop them! And they cannot violate the contract!"
"Secondly, the system of belief in gods has long been decayed, and humans should become the masters of the world! In the period of ancient gods, humans were ruled by ancient gods, and in the period of belief in gods, they were ruled by gods of belief. Is there any difference? The only way out is for humans to be the masters of their own affairs.
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"So, the Doomsday Party needs the alchemy technology of the Golden Age to create puppets that can compete with the ancient gods and gods of faith! And defeat them! Turn them into nutrients! Serve mankind forever!"
Holmes finally understood why most people always changed their minds when mentioning the Doomsday Party, thinking that these people were crazy.
You are absolutely right, the doomsday party is crazy!
The idea is good and the starting point is good, but it is unreliable!
If the alchemical technology of the Golden Age could defeat the ancient gods, what would happen to Odin's group of believers in gods?
It is obvious that the alchemical technology cannot defeat the ancient gods, so they need the help of Odin and the others!
"The blue is better than the blue. The path we want to take is different from the golden gods. The puppets we make are far more powerful than the statues of the golden age! The golden age can only be reproduced, but we are creating!"
Holmes did not question, and nodded in apparent agreement, then changed the subject: "Have you ever thought that it was because of the few demons you released that the Apocalypse Church was destroyed?"
Liszt was stunned for a moment: "Maybe, the Doomsday Party will not protect the church, because the church is also one of the targets we want to eliminate!"
"Then what?"
"What then?" Liszt was confused: "After learning the location of the ruins? We gathered more members and began to infiltrate various kingdoms, and then secretly excavated the ruins and established laboratories to study alchemy technology...
"
"Since then, have you still had contact with the ancient gods' forces?"
"Very few. They have something to do, and we have something to do."
"Where is the devil who led you to the Devil's Gate?"
"Holmes, why do you keep asking about the devil?"
Karai couldn't help but interjected: "Are you too curious about the power of the ancient gods?"
"I am now a member of the Doomsday Party, and the ancient god forces are my enemies. Is it wrong for me to study my enemies?"
"....That's right."
"Isn't that enough?" Holmes puffed out smoke and said, "Go on."
Liszt, who always felt something was wrong but couldn't explain it, shook his head and followed Holmes's words: "The devil disappeared after the contract was concluded, as if it had evaporated from the world and never appeared again."
"No clue?"
"If I insist..."
Liszt racked his brains and recalled: "My father said that the demons went to the east after being released."
"East?"
"Yes, to the east of the United States of America, maybe it's the Kingdom of Windsor."