"That's not true." Chu Ci explained: "It's rare for people overseas to pray to the God of Fire. Zhuoyang came to the world in place of the God of Fire. It will take some time to get here."
"I see."
Starfire God nodded, didn't ask any more questions, found a place and sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes to rest, and looked like he wouldn't let strangers in.
That serious face completely eliminated Chu Ci's thoughts of getting involved in the relationship, and he ran to another place to sit down angrily.
Chu Ci was not surprised by Star Fire God's attitude towards Zhuoyang.
Although the Starfire God is a lower god, he is much older than Zhuoyang. In the early days, when Zhuoyang was not favored by the Flame God, he studied magical knowledge with the Starfire God for a period of time.
Because of this, the relationship between the two is unusual.
When Chu Ci learned the information about Star Fire God from Zhuoyang, it could be seen that he was a little afraid of Star Fire God.
Originally, Chu Ci was surprised that the God of Sparks taught you magical knowledge, and there is such a relationship, what are you afraid of?
Now that he saw the Starfire God himself, he vaguely understood.
Xinghuo Shen's character and tone of voice reminded Chu Ci of the primary school teacher in his previous life. His serious and old-fashioned look was almost carved from the same mold. You can imagine how Zhuoyang and Xinghuo God got along with each other back then.
On the other side, Luo Jiuyou and Qise Shen got along very well.
Speaking of this, Chu Ci was very surprised. Luo Jiuyou once said that she didn't like the God Realm.
But whether it is him, the giant spirit, Zhuoyang, or even the current Seven-Colored God, they are all gods of the divine world.
When Chu Ci got along with Luo Jiuyou, he did not feel that she was dissatisfied or disgusted with the gods of the divine world. It seemed that she simply hated the divine world.
Qise Shen didn't know this. She only knew that Luo Jiuyou was a middle-level god, but he didn't have the airs of a middle-level god. This made her favor him greatly.
Moreover, although Luo Jiuyou didn't speak much, her tone was gentle, and her beautiful eyes were like autumn water, giving people a timid feeling, which made Qise Shen feel like he wanted to hold her in his arms and take good care of her.
Wait, I’m a woman too!
Qise Shen shook his head vigorously, trying to get rid of the strange thoughts in his mind.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Luo Jiuyou looked curiously at the strange behavior of the Seven Colored God.
"Nothing." Qise Shen's shaking head froze, and he quickly turned to look at Chu Ci and changed the subject: "Hey! You have been here for so long, have you collected any useful information?"
"My name is not Hey, my name is Chu Ci!"
Chu Ci corrected, and then told Qiseshen and the others the information they had investigated recently.
While waiting for reinforcements, Chu Ci and Luo Jiuyou were not idle, secretly investigating the Thirteen Cities Alliance.
Although they already knew that the Thirteen Cities Alliance was under the control of the Temple of Life, Chu Ci and the two still didn't know what they wanted to do by controlling the Thirteen Cities Alliance.
Unlike the several cities with the Temple of Life that we encountered before, in the Thirteen Cities, the Temple of Life exists in the form of a group and does not have as much influence and binding force as the Temple.
Chu Ci was still confused at first. Although the Temple of Life did this, it was more convenient to collect faith, but it also lost the prestige of the temple itself.
Except for the top executives of the group, many people in the city do not know that there is such a thing as the Temple of Life, and they cannot rule the city through the temple.
Later, Chu Ci discovered that the Temple of Life did this because they did not need to use the temple to stabilize their position.
Judging from the information we have learned, these temples disguised as groups have been taking root in the Thirteen Cities for at least several decades.
In these decades, they eliminated dissidents, coerced and induced, and turned the thirteen cities upside down.
Nowadays, most of the ruling classes in all the cities in the Thirteen Cities Alliance, from top to bottom, are people from the Temple of Life.
As long as they want, the Thirteen Cities Alliance can be renamed the Life Alliance in one day.
After taking control of the Thirteen Cities Alliance, in order to prevent the rulers of these thirteen cities from causing trouble secretly, the Temple of Life canceled most of the patrol teams and only retained the minimum city guard force to act as a facade.
However, this does not mean that the strength of the Thirteen Cities Alliance is weak. The Temple of Life converted all members of the original patrol team into a group army and brought them under the control of the temple, becoming the power of the temple.
In this way, these military forces are loyal to the temple first, and then to the city where they are located. Even if the two cities fight for their own interests, they will have no choice but to stop as soon as the temple speaks.
The reason why the Temple of Life values Thirteen Cities so much is because of its superior geographical environment and the huge wealth they possess.
Located at the junction of six deserts, the Thirteen Cities Alliance controls the rare resources in the six deserts and is the largest trading city in this area.
Only with the support of such wealth, they can conduct research without any scruples, and a large number of wandering sand people can be used as their research subjects. Basically no one will pay attention to the disappearance of the wandering sand people.
Not only that, some of the experimental products developed can also be traded to other cities in the desert.
While making a fortune, you can also obtain experimental data for free.
In the past half month, Chu Ci and Luo Jiuyou have discovered six research bases. This is because they did not want to attract the attention of the Thirteen Cities Alliance and did not conduct extensive investigations, otherwise the number would be more than these.
"You mean, there are also false gods in these bases?" Starfire God frowned.
"Yes." Chu Ci nodded: "These false gods are a trouble. I learned from the memory of a false god before that they signed a contract with the Temple of Life. This contract comes with some information sensing functions."
"Within a certain range, if the false gods lose contact, the Temple of Life will know the situation, so once we take action, we will fight against all the false gods."
"Are there no false gods who are far away?" asked the Seven-Colored God.
"There is one." Chu Ci said hesitantly: "But if there is only one, it will have little impact on the overall situation, and there may be a risk of exposure, so I didn't take action against him."
Starfire God pondered for a while and said: "Can you take us to see it? I feel ashamed to say it. Since the lower world, we have found several cities with traces of the Temple of Life, but the False God has not found much. It is not easy to find one.
But he ran away early."
"Can."
Under the leadership of Chu Ci, everyone came to the Baisui Mountains.
Of the six research bases discovered by Chu Ci, four are inside the city and two are outside the city.
Since Baisui City is the closest to the Spitting Fire Desert, the city has a large population and a mixture of fish and fish. If the base is in the city, the risk of exposure will undoubtedly increase a lot, so the base is set up deep in the Baisui Mountains, which is far away from the city.
Originally, it was so far away and the base was underground, so it was difficult to be discovered.
But by coincidence, when this base was transporting materials from Centennial City, Chu Ci happened to discover it, so he followed them and discovered this underground base.
Standing outside the underground base, Xinghuo God closed his eyes and sensed the aura of the false god underground. He opened his eyes for a long time and said, "As expected, it is as you said, this false god is not weak. Judging from the aura, and
The seven-colored gods are comparable to each other."
The seven-color god beside him raised his eyebrows.
When did I become a unit of measurement?
"If all the false gods in the Thirteen Cities are of this strength, then they are indeed a threat. We should wait for Zhuoyang...Guardian Star God, what's wrong with you?"
Xinghuo Shen was still analyzing, but when he saw Chu Ci's solemn expression, he stopped immediately.
"The situation is not right." Chu Ci said solemnly: "The number of personnel in the underground base has decreased a lot."
"How do you know?" Starfire God was a little confused.
"My perception is more sensitive." Chu Ci pointed to his ears: "Compared to when I came here before, the number of people in the base is much less, and there is less movement that can be heard."
"Not only that, I can smell the residual scent of a large number of people here." Chu Ci sniffed lightly, flew to a place, and looked at the large number of messy footprints on the ground: "Judging from the traces, the personnel of this base three days ago
There was a big move."
Three days ago, it happened that Chu Ci and the others had finished their investigation and were waiting for the arrival of Xinghuo Shen and others.
"Could it be that Centennial City summoned them?" Qise Shen made a guess.
"No, when we came here just now, I took a look at Baisui City. Everything was normal..." At this point, Chu Ci suddenly noticed something and frowned: "Wait a minute, let's talk about it, Baisui
The city is a bit strange. When I was observing just now, I found that the flow of people in and out of Centennial City has decreased a lot today. Could it have something to do with this? "
"Let me see."
Luo Jiuyou rose into the sky and looked towards the direction of Centenary City, with divine light flowing in his beautiful eyes.
Qi gazing!
With the blessing of divine magic, Luo Jiuyou saw a cloud of black energy in the sky above Baisui City.
The strange thing is that the black gas did not condense over the city as before, but part of it escaped and extended towards the Spitting Fire Desert.
"The number of evil spirits above Centenary City has been reduced by half than before, and it's still..."
Returning to Chu Ci, Luo Jiuyou told what he saw.
Qise Shen looked confused and did not understand the meaning of this, but Chu Ci and Xinghuo Shen understood what Luo Jiuyou meant.
Soldiers are evil spirits.
Wherever there are armed troops, there is an atmosphere of military evil.
Especially in cities in the desert, the atmosphere of war is even more serious.
Although Centennial City is a trading city, they are secretly controlled by the Temple of Life, so evil spirits are naturally inevitable.
It can be said that the number of evil spirits reflects the number of armed forces in the city to a certain extent.
If the people in the underground base returned to Baisui City, the military evil spirit of Baisui City should have improved, but now it has not increased but decreased. Chu Ci is very clear about what this means.
No one from this base returned to Centennial City!
Not only that, the force in Baisui City has also been reduced!
The city defense force of Centennial City is negligible, and most of the most important group armies are also in this underground base.
With the strength of the remaining troops in the city, even if they all fled, they would not be reduced by half.
Unless the one running away is a false god!
Thinking of this, Chu Ci quickly flew towards the Hundred Years City while everyone looked at him with doubts.
After a while, Chu Ci came back and brought everyone a message.
"One of the false gods in Centenary City is missing!"
This news surprised everyone. Starfire God frowned and said, "Why is there one missing inexplicably?"
"I don't know, the younger one is still the strongest." Chu Ci was also puzzled, and he had a bad feeling in his heart.
After pondering for a while, Chu Ci said in a deep voice: "I can't wait any longer. I feel that there should be some big move in the Temple of Life, and we must understand their actions immediately."
"How do you know? The investigation takes time. Should we ask a senior executive to come and ask? People who read human minds without permission will be punished by the law." Qise Shen frowned slightly.
"Don't worry about this, I will take action." Starfire God said calmly: "Special circumstances will be treated with special treatment. I and the Guardian Star God have the same opinion. We cannot be led by their noses without knowing anything."
The Seven-Colored God fell silent. The Starfire God had already said this, so naturally she would not object again.
"Don't go to such trouble. We can't take action against humans, but there are 'temple members' who are not humans." Chu Ci looked at the underground base.
Everyone also reacted and looked towards the entrance of the base together.
"A sneeze!"
A certain false god who was practicing in the underground base suddenly sneezed.
"Strange, I can still catch a cold?"
The false god was a little confused, so he opened his eyes and looked around.
However, just this glance made his body suddenly stiffen.
I don't know when, four people with extraordinary momentum appeared around him.
These four people, two men and two women, with indifferent expressions, stood around him, like four walls, surrounding him.
The cold eyes looked at him, as if looking at a dead person.
"Gulu!"
The false god swallowed his saliva. He could feel that the strength of these four people was very extraordinary. Even the weakest one had a slightly stronger aura than him. The stronger one was even more unfathomable, which made him feel
To despair.
God!
Damn they are four gods!
Why does the god appear here and stand next to him?!
The false god forced a smile: "I don't know if all the gods and lords are coming to visit me, but I missed you from afar, so I hope I can forgive you."
"There's no need for Yuan Ying. We have a few questions to ask you, and you have to answer them truthfully." Chu Ci said calmly.
"No problem, I will definitely tell you everything I know!"
The false god suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that he was just asking a question.
But the first question immediately made him despair.
"Where have all the people from your base gone?"
The false god's expression froze, and with his last hope, he carefully asked: "Before answering, I would like to ask, are you adults from the temple?"
"no."
"Can I change the question?"
"cannot."
"Then can I not answer?"
"What do you think?"
The false god is in despair.
The answer is death, and the failure to answer is death.
Why is he so unlucky today!
If I had known earlier, I would have gone with the large group!
Thinking of this, the false god gritted his teeth and said: "I can tell you, but..."
"boom!"
Before he finished speaking, the false god took advantage of everyone's opportunity to listen carefully, unleashed all the power of faith, and rushed outside!
As long as he rushes to the ground, he still has a chance to escape!