"This is outrageous. All the attacks against her have become an aid to her escape."
Ash quietly retreated to his outsider camp and complained: "This is beyond the scope of 'coincidence'. Is she the girl of destiny who is loved by fate?"
"If that's the case, then aren't you also the child of destiny?" Harvey laughed.
"What?"
"Indeed." Igula couldn't help but say, "I wanted to deal with you, but you framed me and I had to join the jailbreak team; Valcas wanted to deal with you, but he protected you during the Blood Moon Trial; and we happened to meet a necromancer who could control chip processors... It should have taken several years to plan the jailbreak, but because you were able to gather all the key people, we escaped in less than a month."
"Think about it carefully. Your prison escape experience is actually more bizarre than that of the doll girl."
"That's different!" Ash argued, "Isn't it normal that there are many people in prison who are proficient in various prison escape skills? Just like if you ask people on the train if they have bought tickets, then everyone must have bought them!"
"And the prison break was only possible thanks to my amazing willpower, unremitting efforts, tenacious perseverance, and a flash of inspiration at the critical moment. It was all my personal effort, not a bit of water!"
This time even Harvey couldn't help but smile kindly, "Yeah, yeah, I won't argue with idiots."
"What a double standard dog." Igula said with a spit: "Your is just personal hard work, and others are just blessed by fate? Is it so difficult to admit that you are a scumbag?"
"I call this the correct allocation of human resources, allowing you to play to your strengths and letting professionals do professional things—"
Igula sneered and said, "As expected, a jerk will never admit that he is a jerk, and a lucky person will never admit that luck plays a role."
"I understand." Ash showed a look of sudden enlightenment, "You are suppressing me again. You actually think I am important, so you bully me verbally, right?"
Igula was so angry that his mouth twisted, "You double-standard dog..."
"Okay, okay." Harvey quickly tried to smooth things over and change the subject: "If we had just jumped in, the only person on the other side would be a puppet girl with no offensive ability. And now..."
"And maybe the other side is also the headquarters of the Four Pillars Cult." Igula said unhappily, "And we already know that our dear cult leader does not have a high reputation in his faction."
Ash looked at the cave where bubbles were gurgling out and couldn't help but be slightly dazed.
He suddenly remembered that one of the observation point reports collected by Professor Schilling said, "There is an underground river across the virtual realm passage."
Could it be that Yongjie Changzai had gone to the Blood Moon Kingdom
What is this? A master of all tactics
despair.
The three outsiders looked up and saw Cleos approaching them. Their beautiful eyes were swollen from crying and their noses were twitching. “You, you three are from foreign lands?”
"According to the laws of the Gospel Kingdom, anyone who treats a foreigner must be put to death immediately."
Without giving them any chance to explain, she raised her gun and aimed it at Ash's forehead: "May the gospel guide your path."
Looking at the black muzzle of the gun, Ash realized that he was still in danger - they were not protected by local security personnel, but an alien invasive species, equivalent to the American cockroach and the southern cockroach. Killing them at will is the basic morality that good citizens should abide by!
To them, the Four Pillars Cult is indeed a group of ferocious beasts, but the locals are even more vicious natives!
But compared to the Four Pillars of God, the local security personnel are even more desperate - the bad guys can be dealt with by good people, but if the good people want to deal with them, who can disrupt the situation
At this moment, a pleasant voice suddenly came from above.
"Wait a minute, Cleos, didn't you say that the spoils belong to me?"
Someone came to rescue them!
The three stowaways turned around in surprise, thinking that no matter who saved them, they would definitely remember this kindness in their hearts.
However, the next second, all the gratitude in their hearts turned into anger.
"Long time no see, you three."
The purple-clad girl jumped down from the hole in the ceiling and landed slowly like a butterfly: "Although we just met an hour ago."
The young butler followed closely behind. He pointed towards the ground where there was still water, and a frosty path extended out, allowing the purple-clothed girl's boots to step on the clean ice.
These two people were the ambushers outside the virtual realm passage, the culprits who sold the corpses of the smuggled trio to the Four Pillars Cult, and members of the funeral agency!
"Annan." Cleos took out a handkerchief and wiped his nose. "Do you want to protect these foreigners?"
"It's not about keeping them, but taking back what belongs to me." The purple-clothed girl An Nan said with a smile, "We agreed before that as a reward for my reporting the Four Pillars Divine Religion's base to the Red Hat, these three are my spoils of war, and you can't just dispose of them casually."
They sold us out, and then sold out the Four Pillars Sect. After eating up the underworld, they also ate up the white world. It was a win-win situation for both sides, and now they want to continue recycling us for reuse
Ash gave Igula a look - look, it's your kind.
Igula shook his head—one of your kind.
"The three of them are from the foreign land." Cleos said word by word, "They are pests that harm the world and blaspheme the gospel just like Selina. They must be killed as soon as possible. Otherwise, when the gospel disappears from behind their ears, they will go back and inform the evil god of the foreign land behind them, and lead the demons to trample on our fields, cities, and innocent citizens."
Gospel behind the ear
"Ash, turn your head to the right."
"Why don't I see you..."
Ash muttered as he turned his head obediently. Igula took a look and said softly, "There is a light yellow countdown behind the ear. It should be counting down from 72 hours. The effect is most likely to prevent us from moving through space."
"That is the punishment from the All-Knowing Lord for you demons who attempt to invade the Kingdom of Gospel." Cleos pointed the muzzle of his gun at Ash's forehead: "Before the countdown ends, we who listen to the gospel will kill all of you blind and foolish demons."
Ash and the other two looked at each other, and the same thought came to their minds - it seems that this country's anti-invasion mechanism is not very good. They know that someone successfully returned to the Blood Moon alive from here three days ago, so there will be a hunting festival on May 1st.
"They can't do it anymore." The purple-clothed girl smiled and said, "After they came to the Gospel, the virtual world passage they passed through was closed, and they can't go back. If you don't believe me, you can use the Gospel to check if I'm lying."
Cleos hesitated, "You didn't lie to me?"
"It's cheap to check if I'm lying, right? You don't even want to spend these few points? At worst, I'll treat you."
“No need.” Cleos’ eyes were red again: “But they are foreigners after all…”
"They are foreigners who won't earn you any points even if you kill them." The purple-clothed girl said, "I just checked. There is no bounty for these three people in the Gospel. Killing them won't improve your Red Hat ranking. On the contrary, the contract between you and me states that the spoils belong to me. If you insist on breaking the contract, your credit record will have a great impact on your Red Hat ranking. You might even be dropped from the Red Hat Ranking."
"But they are not trophies..."
"So you admit that they are natural persons? They don't have any criminal records now. It is taboo for Red Riding Hood to kill natural persons without criminal records."
Cleos sniffed, "You guys in the agency have so many crooked ideas... But they are foreigners after all, and have a high tendency to commit crimes. If you want to take them away, you have to have a way to control them."
"I've been ready for a long time."
The purple-clothed girl took out three contracts with gold edges and white backgrounds: "The contract paper exchanged directly from the Gospel is bound by the Void Realm and the Omniscient Weaver. Even the Four-Winged Legend cannot violate it. As long as they sign these three contracts and accept my constraints, they will never be able to harm the Gospel. Are you satisfied with this?"
"I bet on the name of Duolan. They will only be a force for good under my command."
Cleos raised the muzzle of his gun, as if convinced: "If that's the case..."
They looked at the three poor, weak and helpless stowaways sitting on the ground. Under normal circumstances, the stowaways would be crying and begging to sign a contract to save their lives.
However, the three of them did not speak, but just looked at them calmly.
"It seems that they are unwilling to be restrained." Cleos pointed the muzzle of the gun at Ash's forehead again: "We have to bury the cultists anyway, so we don't care if we bury a few more-"
"Don't be impatient, Cleos." The purple-clothed girl squatted down and looked at them: "Don't you want to live? Why don't you speak?"
The three of them looked at each other, and finally Ash said, "I would like to talk, but seeing that you are so engrossed in your performance, I am sorry to disturb you."