When he entered the fifth small hall to greet the musicians, Jenkins was very curious about what method Hathaway used to arrive faster than himself riding a unicorn. Everyone set off from the city. There's no reason for Selvie to be faster than the unicorn even if she starts immediately after arriving home.
But he didn't have a chance to ask now. Seeing four women and scattered musicians sitting in the front row of the auditorium, he walked over and said:
"It's really early for you to come."
"There is no room for mistakes in this meeting. In order to prevent accidents, I have been here after lunch."
said Miss Burnett, and motioned Jenkins to look around at the curtained boxes:
"Besides us, there are also some churches that have the intention to cooperate. They have also sent representatives. But they don't fully trust you, nor do they trust this cooperation very much, so they hide in those boxes. If they agree with what you proposed Conditions, they will show up."
Although it is a small performance hall, there are not many boxes. Jenkins glanced around with his eyes of truth, and knew that there were quite a few people who came early. He also saw Miss Magic, a follower of the God of Rituals, just as Miss Magic said, her church members were not prepared, and they had not decided whether to trust the cooperation with believers of lies.
"You don't have to tell me who is coming tonight, but I at least want to know how many pagan sects you have contacted?"
Jenkins asked slowly, and chose a seat in the front row near the central aisle. Hathaway was sitting on the other side of the aisle, she didn't even look at the man who was speaking, her eyes were on the white cat.
"Seven, but as long as four are willing to cooperate with you, more collaborators will definitely be found in the future."
Ms. Stillwell said Jenkins was skeptical about how many of the seven different orders she spoke of had been connected to her.
"Tomorrow is the start of the church's joint meeting. Are your people ready?"
Miss Harms asked again.
"We have already obtained the current meeting schedule. The meeting will be held in five local churches in turn, and then go to the Evergreen Forest, and then choose a day to close the meeting. In this way, a week is used as a meeting cycle, so we Need to sneak into different churches on different days. But don't worry, it's not difficult."
He said casually, and then reminded:
"Different from the meeting of the Three Kings, the meeting of the church will not take a long time. In fact, many detailed contents have already been discussed. The formal meeting is only to announce the results that can be seen by ordinary people. After all , This is not the first disaster and doomsday faced by the material world, the church has many previous experiences."
"You want to say that you have obtained the negotiating materials within the church."
Hathaway asked.
"certainly."
Jenkins said that he spent a lot of time looking at those documents in the past few days, lest he say the wrong thing at the opening ceremony tomorrow.
"It's better than I thought. It seems that your spy work is quite good."
Miss Burnett commented.
"It's not even close to the church."
Jenkins answered, stroking the cat, and Miss Stewell suspected he meant something.
Everyone arrived earlier than agreed, but the specific negotiation still didn't start until 7:30. Before the start, the musicians performed on the stage ingeniously. It took about 20 minutes to briefly describe the changes and history of the 18th century in the form of singing poems, and finally used a magnificent ensemble to express the current situation. Even the apocalypse that is happening.
Their singing is quite good, and Jenkins does not need to buy a ticket, so he welcomes such a ritual performance.
Because it has been said before that believers of lies will give preferential treatment to musicians. All the content discussed here today is just a unified treatment for all pagan sects who are willing to support believers of lies. The treatment of musicians will be discussed separately later.
In return for this discriminatory treatment of Mr. Candle, the musicians will appear to be on the same side as the people in the box during this negotiation, and in fact play the role of less-than-stellar lobbyists.
The conditions that Jenkins can come up with to attract false gods are not real money, and he also believes that the support obtained with money is often disloyal and unreliable. So the condition he gave was a more unreliable verbal promise, still the same set of rhetoric when he met the musicians for the first time, but he would fully support their church in the next century to get the right to walk in the material world and build churches Treatment, reduced to just being able to preach freely.
But this is attractive enough. Free missionary means many things, not only the expansion of the number of church members, but also has a completely different effect on the influence of churches and gods from this era.
Since Jenkins couldn't come up with any substantive things at this time, he could only sit there and talk about his vision for the next era, and his wish for people of multiple faiths to walk together under the blue sky and white clouds.
He is actually not a person who is good at speeches, but before becoming Jenkins, he has heard too many excellent speeches, and has seen too many touching speeches. In this world where no one can expose him, Borrowing a little bit can have a very good effect on him persuading others.
At least the musicians sitting next to him showed their agreement. Now the believers of Lie really know the Orthodox Church well, and they have more detailed plans and appeals for the negotiations with the Orthodox Church in the near future. For these people, they have shown enough respect and equality. Such a "liar" is completely different from the rude, rude, violent and cunning they imagined before.
If it was not a secret meeting in the small hall of the opera house outside the city at this time, or if the man who spoke in front of him was a famous nobleman in Nolan, they would all be willing to believe it.
There was also a small episode during Jenkins' speech, and the roar of the dragon reappeared overhead, and there was a very noisy sound of horseshoes passing by. You must know that this is an opera house, and the sound insulation effect of the walls is absolutely top-notch. These sounds indicate that fierce battles are taking place above the opera house.
Those noises died away quickly, and Jenkins reassured the crowd a little, explaining what the church was doing. Including the people hiding in the box, most of these people are not from Nolan, and they are very surprised that there are dragons in the local area. But generally speaking, this matter has little to do with everyone, so I just made a few comments and continued to listen to Jenkins' speech.
Jenkins did not use the power of the priesthood to deceive others, he really explained his conception wholeheartedly.
This secret meeting was considered a success. In the end, five sects made it clear that they would appear in the negotiations with the Orthodox Church and support the believers of Zhan Lie, and they also promised to lobby more false god sects to join their camp.
Those who did not express their views on the spot actually did not refuse immediately, but wanted to make a decision after discussing within themselves.
But they all agreed that it would be a piece of cake to tell any friends they could meet that the believers of lies were gathering supporters, and since the believers of lies don't care about confidentiality, they naturally don't care.
To be on the safe side, after making a verbal agreement and agreeing to meet again before formally negotiating with the Orthodox Church, everyone left in batches. The musicians were the last to leave, because they had matters to discuss with Jenkins after everyone had left.
"Is everyone gone?"
Miss Stillwell asked the woman who had come in through the door. She had gone to check all the boxes just now to make sure that no one was left to eavesdrop.
"They're all gone, and according to Mr. Candle's instructions, remove the things stuck on the wall."
She showed the crowd a handful of broken metal pieces, the remains of the spell.
"Just leave, we can talk about things. Mr. Candle, I thought you would take out a contract or something like that today and let the people who left just now sign it."
"The composer of the score," said Miss Harms.
"Do you think I'm a demon from hell? No matter how strong the contract is, it can't restrain the betrayer. We don't need paper documents, because we are sure that no one will be able to deceive us."
Jenkins said.
"This sentence sounds like everyone's actions are within your plan. Have you devised a bigger scam to lure us?"
Miss Stillwell asked suspiciously.
"Ma'am, you need evidence to speak. And, do you women have anything worth deceiving me?"
Seeing that someone wanted to speak, Jenkins nodded again and said:
"Yes, I know you're all pretty, but I've seen a lot of pretty girls."
Hathaway, who had been looking at the cat, gave him a suspicious look.
"Rather than beware of being deceived by me, it is better to show me more sincerity. You know my sincerity. In the next negotiation with the church, we will try our best to fight for power for all decent believers of false gods. And as Our original facilitators, I can assure you, what the believers of lies can get, you can too."
When he said this, he was indeed a bit guilty. After all, Jenkins' ultimate plan was to let all the believers of lies leave the stage, and all honors belonged to the holy son of the church, Jenkins Williams. Of course, he will not treat these women badly. After the matter is over, as a reward for their assistance in helping the church "break" the believers of lies, the Holy Son will suggest that the church give them good treatment.
"Does this condition not leave a written record?"
"Archbishop" Lydia Burnett asked suddenly, and the other musicians also looked at this man.
"If you want, of course you can leave a written record, but don't want me to write my real name, it's impossible."
Jenkins replied.
PS: Wrong time was set.