While talking with his family, there was a knock on the door of the room. After getting permission to enter, it was the priest of the church who came to inform Jenkins that Miss Bevanna had business with him.
"I bet there's something going on that needs to be solved by me."
Before Jenkins left, he spoke to Alexia, and was kissed by Alexia on tiptoe (Jenkins bent slightly). So Britney came and gave Jenkins a kiss, Dolores blushed and kissed him on the cheek, and even Julia.
"No, I'll be back soon."
Then he followed the priest and left.
It was almost the same as what he expected, and there was indeed an unplanned change. The church collected and sorted out the locations of all trouble spots in the city today, and later found that those spots were not randomly distributed, but deliberately arranged.
A further conclusion was quickly drawn, that all accidents today were part of a large ceremony. Combined with the terrain of Nolan City, as well as the types of accidents and casualties in different locations, the church believes that the main purpose of this ceremony is "sacrifice".
In other words, the tree house and the gear craftsman will issue a mission to all the cultists in Nolan, and use their actions and consequences to jointly sacrifice to an unknown existence.
That unknown existence is, of course, the underground difference engine.
Because of the abnormal flow of the spirit, the church locked the current location of the difference engine through a ceremony, which is the extremely deep underground directly under the black metal tower. Jenkins didn't remember how deep it was, and it was impossible to reach that position anyway.
Jenkins was brought in because the Order of the God of Ceremony, where Miss Magic belonged, helped the church directly find the key nodes of the large-scale ceremony. By destroying those nodes, no matter how big of a problem Nolan is going to have next, the ritual itself won't work.
The church is well staffed, and Jenkins didn't need to go out. But after analysis, those nodes are connected to each other through invisible and intangible spiritual power, and they need to be touched by people with extremely strong spirit and soul to destroy them. The "extremely strong" requirement here is very high, but the Sons of God all meet the requirements. So the Holy Sons are going to destroy the nodes, and the demigods of the church are going to deal with the cultists who are hiding the rituals, and try to catch them all.
"Speaking of mental power, isn't that it?"
"Yes, we also suspect that it is the unowned spiritual power that tobacco smokers gather in their dreams, but anyway, destroying those nodes is the important thing now. This is what you have to deal with."
Miss Bevanna gave Jenkins a pair of parchment maps, which had been water-resistant so that the ink would not run off even in the rainy weather like this outside:
"You are in charge of these five. After touching them, they can be destroyed without accident. If everything goes well, you can come back in half an hour."
Considering that Jenkins is the only Holy Son who cannot fly, the five positions assigned to him are all close to the church.
"No problem, anyone going with me?"
"Do you need someone to go with you?"
"No, I think it's enough for me to take the cat with me."
"Well, be careful on the road, go early and return early."
Jenkins nodded, was about to leave and asked again:
"This time, why didn't the church insist on people acting with me?"
"It's daddy, daddy said, he thinks you're ready to be your own."
Miss Bevanna said, Jenkins stopped asking, got an umbrella and went out alone.
It was still raining, and it was raining harder than it had been when Jenkins and Pop went to church that morning. This season is not the Norland rainy season in the traditional sense, but due to the moisture brought by the ocean monsoon, such heavy rain is not uncommon.
Although the focus of destroying the ritual is on those hidden ritual nodes, the church believes that the Holy Sons will probably not encounter the obstruction of the cultists who arranged the ritual. Because the demigods of the church are mobilizing, we must let them know who Nolan is in charge of today.
Not to mention, it would be even better if the cultists appeared in front of the Holy Sons, each of whom has power beyond ordinary human demigods.
The so-called ritual nodes are not material existences that can be caught with the naked eye, but some spiritually-enriched areas generated by the flow of spirituality in the ritual matrix. For small ceremonies, the so-called nodes do not exist at all, and only such huge ceremonies relying on terrain will have this concept.
There will be no difference on the surface of these areas, which can only be measured by the ceremony itself. This is something that only the believers of the gods of ritual can do. If they weren't there, the church would probably use the method of breaking down one by one to prevent accidents from happening.
The first area was in an alley, and there was no one around, so Jenkins walked over directly. Sure enough, the eyes observed the abnormality of the aura in the area, but this abnormality is difficult to detect, and it would be difficult for Jenkins to detect it if it had not been pointed out.
He folded the map and put it in his pocket, trying to feel the spirits gathered by the ceremony. These spirits cannot be absorbed by the giver, and the accumulation of spirits can only be done by oneself, because spirits are not as simple as pure energy.
You can't absorb it, but you can feel it. But Jenkins couldn't feel anything, so he gave up after a little try. According to the method provided by Miss Bevanna, find the location where the aura is the strongest, and then mobilize your spirit to touch it.
As if touching an exploding steam bomb, the strong thrust made Jenkins subconsciously take a step back, but nothing actually happened. In his ears, the auditory hallucination of the explosion still exists, but the real situation is that there is only the sound of rain hitting in his ears.
Only a slightly lower temperature could prove that he had indeed damaged the original strange environment with mental power. The spirits in the environment no longer gather in a certain way, but naturally blend into the surrounding environment, which causes changes in temperature.
At the same time, Jenkins also smelled smoke in the air. It was not the usual smell in Nolan's air, but the smell of burning tobacco.
"Is it really those mental powers?"
Jenkins thought, seeing that there was nothing to do here, he turned and walked to the second location.
The second location was a little more troublesome, in an apartment facing the street. Jenkins had to use some means to break in through the second floor window of the apartment, and left quietly after processing the nodes.
The third location is in the middle of the street, and the fourth location is in an informal bar hidden in an alley and closed during the day. The handling of these two locations was also straightforward, and Jenkins ran into no trouble worth mentioning.
So much so that when he went to the fifth location, he was only 13 minutes away from leaving the church. Calculating the time in this way, he might be able to go back early. It's cold and humid outside, but it's really not a suitable weather for traveling.