"Blood Red Feast?" Lang Ning frowned slightly. He was very impressed by this name. Just as the man in the windbreaker said, he is an old rival, and he can also be related to another old rival: "I heard that they have been
Try to contact the Thirteen Hermits, want to join their alliance and gain more solid backing?"
"But it has never been successful." The man's tone was slightly disdainful: "After all, it is a carnival party composed of lunatics and fools. Solomon, who claims to be an orthodox magician, naturally looks down on these hiding hairless bats. Not to mention them
The Heavenly Eater whom I believe in is essentially just a mental patient who likes to eat raw flesh and blood."
"Can I think that this is them showing their sincerity?" Lang Ning thoughtfully said: "The people of Blood Red Banquet want Solomon and the Thirteen Hermits to see their determination, so they win over Lin Wei.
Other churches in the city openly resisted the "Religious Decree". If this negotiation can succeed, they have proved their ability, and maybe Solomon will treat them differently?"
The man shook his head: "This is just one of them. I think there is another more critical factor, that is, the Celestial Eater has been stuck in Sequence 3 for a long time. I am afraid he also wants to take this opportunity to try to advance. So, in the sewer
The activities of those rats have become more frequent recently, and the number of missing cases in the Holy Cross District and Baicheng District has increased significantly compared with the past few months."
One of these two blocks is close to the slums, and the other is a slum area. The population composition is complex. Even if a few homeless people or beggars disappear from time to time, not many people will care. It's just that the nature of the department where the man in the trench coat works is quite special. For this
Human disappearance cases are very sensitive, so we followed the clues and found the cultists hiding underground.
As for the fate of the missing persons, there is probably no need to elaborate.
"Flesh and blood sacrifice is really in line with the style of a 'monster'." Lang Ning said in a low voice.
The "monster" here is not a description, but a fact. Among the fourteen positive and negative paths, the "monster" path is destined to be closely integrated with blood. Therefore, it has attracted so many vampires to join the blood-red feast.
"What are you going to do?" he asked again.
The man threw the information back on the table and casually replied: "What else can we do? As usual, find an opportunity to catch them all, and at the same time, capture the senior leaders of the Crimson Prayer Society for interrogation and torture, and seize the tail of the Celestial Eaters.
Report it to the people of the Scales of Order. In this way, the so-called 'Religious Mutual Aid Association' will be destroyed, and there will be a chance to eliminate the blood-red feast as well. It saves time and effort. This is what the adults in the parliament have been doing.
We advocate the principle of efficiency first."
"But the adults also respect another principle: the overall situation is the most important thing." Lang Ning stared at the people coming and going on the street and said softly: "Don't you think that the "Religious Decree" encountered a lot of difficulties during the implementation process?
Is it an obstacle? To this day, the only religion that voluntarily obeys the control of laws and shows no resistance is the Holy Goddess Cult, but it does not have the support of any extraordinary power behind it, so it cannot be used as a standard reference."
His eyes were deep, as if he were staring into the endless night: "This resistance not only comes from the religions affected by the decree, but also from the internal forces of the secular world. From the Great Britta to the White City-State, from Murtosh to the Ming Dynasty
Delias... The secular rulers mistakenly believed that our ambition was eroding their power, but they forgot that no one was left out in the steam holy war five hundred years ago. If the scars cannot let them remember the pain, perhaps they can only use it to remember the pain.
Only when time repeats can they learn some lessons, and the conspiracy of Blood Red Feast happens to be a good warning, which will tell them that these cults and false religions that master refined magic are far more harmful to the secular government than anything else.
Natural and man-made disasters."
"We established order, they overthrew it." He finally turned around, looked at the man on the sofa, and said word by word: "There are only these two roads, there is no other choice."
"..."
The man was silent for a while after hearing this. When he finally spoke, it was neither agreement nor objection, but told him: "This will cause unnecessary casualties."
"No sacrifice is unnecessary." Lang Ning looked at him calmly: "With the power of the Night Watch, we can completely curb the development of the situation and ensure that it is within a controllable range."
The man was silent again. He knew that the "controllable range" mentioned by Lang Ning refers to the standards set within the association: if the number of deaths in urban security incidents exceeds 500, it will be classified as a large-scale hazardous incident, and the relevant person in charge will
Everyone must be held accountable; if the death toll exceeds a thousand, it is considered a very large-scale hazardous event, and may even attract the intervention of the Supreme Council.
What Langning wants him to do is to lead the night watchmen to maintain a wait-and-see attitude, wait until Blood Red Banquet completes the sacrificial ceremony, and then come out to clean up the mess, and control the level of the incident below a large-scale hazardous incident. In this way, the kingdom will realize that these cults are related to
The harmfulness of false religion makes them more firmly support the implementation of the "Religious Decree", and they no longer have to worry about accountability from associations.
This is indeed the best of both worlds. The only problem is that many innocent people will be sacrificed.
But——
"No sacrifice is unnecessary."
He murmured in a low voice, knowing clearly in his heart that these words did not come from Ronning, but the original words of the great leader.
It was she and the Supreme Council who single-handedly laid the foundation for today's union of religious orders, or in other words, single-handedly laid the foundation for today's civilized world. The people who sacrificed for this, whether they were innocent people or like-minded people, cannot be calculated with simple numbers. p>
Everyone followed her back and understood her choice.
Ronning is such a person. If not for this, he could have stayed at the association's headquarters with a bright future, accumulating merits and waiting for promotion. Why put himself out in this remote area, in front of the so-called tribune, and have to endure the local people?
What about the conflict between church power and secular government?
Huh——
He breathed out lightly, raised his head and said: "I understand, I will support your decision, but besides me, you have to get the support of five other people. This is a rule, I cannot go beyond it." "Don't worry." A smile slowly appeared on Lang Ning's face: "They will support it, just like you support me, because... this is our common goal."
The man in the trench coat said nothing, seeming to acquiesce to his statement.
The other five people include Mr. Clermont, the head of the city's diocese and Bishop of Linwell Cathedral, who is a believer of the Crimson Order; and Mr. Rundenell, the representative of the parishioners, who is a believer of the Death Prayer Society.
; Ms. Vera, Secretary General of the Municipal Education Bureau, who is a believer of the original sect; Mr. Raymond, the senior inspector of the city police, who is a believer of the Judgment Holy See; Mr. Woodgate, chief technical officer of the Municipal Natural Disaster Detection Bureau, who is a member of the Natural Disaster Mission
believers.
In addition, there are two people present: Ronning Lavelle, the tribune of the city and parish council, a believer in the garden; and the man in the trench coat on the sofa, his name is Lestrade, the "civilian custom countermeasures bureau"
Director of the "Axiom 2", a believer in the Night Habitat. The Axiom 2 also has a notorious nickname among folk magicians and aliens, that is, the "Night Watcher" or the "Black Death".
These seven people are the top leaders appointed by their respective churches in Linville City. Together, they can act on behalf of the will of the entire religious sect. Moreover, they also have a common characteristic: in addition to being believers of the unified sect,
, and is also a member of the "association".
Their rank in the association is "apostle".
***
When Ringer returned home, it was already afternoon, and Metien was reviewing relevant information for the pharmacist exam. Although she was very interested in the life-and-death negotiation of Tianxin Church, she could not go to Linwell City Religious Mutual Aid in person.
Association" to ask what happened, because this was something Ringer did not allow. Therefore, after reading the report in the newspaper, he could only stay at home and prepare for the exam.
As for Alice, she was a maid, but she had no professional qualities at all. After lunch, she went back to her small room, sneaking around and messing with something. Ringer vaguely knew that she had something to do with the strange-looking machine.
The game console has something to do with it, but as for the specifics, he didn't ask, and he wasn't interested in asking.
Holding a broom and a paper bag for garbage, I pushed open the kitchen door and walked into the backyard. Several tall Baicheng sycamore trees came into view. Their sparse leaves swayed in the October frost wind, like withered yellow butterflies.
It spun and fell, forming a thin carpet on the open ground.
One of them is particularly tall, but also very old. Between the rugged skin, there are ravines covered with time. The lifespan of Baicheng Wutong is generally about eighty years, but it will enter the aging stage at the age of thirty. This one is in front of you.
This is the case with this strain, which was planted by Mr. Yang Ke, the original owner of Tianxin Church and the adoptive father of Linge and Metien.
Mr. Yang Ke was born in Mirhail, the "city of sycamore trees" in the White City-State Republic. He has always been obsessed with the sight of sycamore leaves falling all over the streets he saw in his childhood. Unfortunately, he can only look back on his childhood in this narrow yard.
I can gain some comfort from the memory of that time.
The two younger sycamore trees next to them were planted by Lin Ge and his sister Metien in the year when their adoptive father passed away.
According to Metien, Alice fell from a tree, but which tree among the three trees did it fall from?
Is her arrival really a revelation from the goddess, or is it the words Mr. Yang Ke wants to convey?
Will encountering create meaning?
Or a silent farewell?
The young man held a broom and stood under the trees, quietly staring at their rough branches and yellowing dead leaves, looking for familiar traces among the veins like blood vessels, but found nothing. After a while, he withdrew his gaze and began
Clean the fallen leaves from the ground, pile them together, and shovel them into paper bags.
He thought, there is no meaning.
This year the sweeping is completed, next autumn the sycamore leaves will fall as usual.