Before the thick smoke and flames on the execution ground dissipated completely, the priests and knights of the Holy See who were executing the execution turned around and left—this place filled with acrid smell and watched by a large number of ignorant and foolish people made the priests and knights feel agitated. On weekdays, they would enjoy staying at the scene, enjoying the awe and panic of the people around them, but now they are obviously not in the mood.
There is still a lot of trouble to be dealt with in the church district, and the impact of the brochures is not limited to the outer city.
The ordinary soldiers in the square also withdrew, and the gathered people also scattered and left. This short-lived fire torture slightly broke the dead atmosphere under the siege state, but it could not cheer up people's mood. On the contrary, the people in the square A conflagration in the United States has brought nothing but fear and doubt—
It was an illiterate tramp who was burned to death... The church just arrested people randomly... The essence of heresy trials is intimidation and violence.
Ordinary people may not know whether the things in those pamphlets are true, but now the church at least takes the initiative to admit that some of them are true.
The crowd dispersed, leaving only some servants of the Holy See guarding the burning site standing by the execution ground. They wanted to clean up the ashes here after the fire was completely extinguished, so as to prevent the fire from starting. The civilians were wandering around the edge of the square, but the Holy See servants who took care of the scene didn't pay much attention to these wandering crowds—it was just a group of idle fools.
After leaving the square, a few people dressed as farmers and craftsman apprentices got into the nearby narrow alleys, easily ignoring everyone's sight, and gathered in a semi-abandoned hut.
A man with messy hair and sunken eyes spat aside: "Those bastards... just burned an innocent person to death..."
"They've always been like this," another dark-skinned young man whispered, "It's a pity we couldn't save that poor man..."
The few people gathered in the hut couldn't help sighing softly, and a group of fuzzy and distorted shadows suddenly appeared in the shadows in the corner of the hut. The group of shadows trembled twice in the air, and quickly gathered and condensed into a petite Figure: "We can't save everyone, and our mission doesn't allow risking exposure to save people—the only way we can avoid standing by when something happens is to use the skills we've learned every day and use everything we can to save people." opportunity to spread chaos and division among rivals."
Several people gathered in the hut saw this petite figure that emerged, and immediately stood up and saluted respectfully: "Director!"
"You can't call your position during the mission, even if you confirm the safety of the surrounding area. Next time you commit a crime, each of you will remember it once—you still have a lot to learn," Amber waved her hand, and with one sentence, the faces of the people in front of her changed, and then she Looking around, "However, your actions on the square are still qualified."
This is a special operations team of MI, and Amber leads them personally.
Luan City has been blocked, and the last time someone entered and exited the city gate was twenty days ago, but for Amber, who has mastered advanced shadow skills, it is not easy to send a small team and a batch of supplies into Luan City through the Shadow Realm. Difficulty—Even if Amber, the "Military Intelligence Director", does not take action, the professionally trained MIB operatives have a lot of professional skills to help them sneak into the city and lurk in the outer city.
The lax attitude of the priests and knights in the cathedral to the outer city gave this team a lot of convenience—obviously, those people in the cathedral didn’t have any experience in dealing with spy sabotage, or almost everyone in this era is facing The military intelligence operators trained by Cecil will always appear to be full of flaws.
The temporary bishop of Luan put most of his attention on maintaining the operation of the church area, and for the outer city where a large number of "useless civilians" gathered, he only arranged a minimum number of soldiers and discipline monks to maintain order. Under the background of this era, there is nothing wrong with it: in terms of the confrontation form of this era, only the extraordinary and the vassal forces around the extraordinary are valuable, and the vast majority of the people at the bottom neither have the power to shake the order nor Without the idea of active resistance, for the civilians at the bottom, using enough force to deter is enough to ensure order-this is the most "cost-effective" idea so far.
However, the operatives of the Military Intelligence Bureau are precisely the experts who started to infiltrate from these lowest-level areas and gradually spread the chaos to the upper levels.
Since five days ago, Amber led this team to lurk in Luan City. According to the orders of the upper echelons, they spread the first batch of promotional materials in the outer city, and kept spreading the situation in Luan City to the outside. The priests of Ann Cathedral were slower than expected to respond to the promotional materials—it was not until the first batch of materials were all distributed that they finally noticed this.
What followed was a citywide search and arrest, with looting and violence in the process.
Everything was as expected by Amber—the Holy See knights in Luan City and the exiled knights who fled in had accumulated enormous pressure. As long as there was any reason to vent their pressure, their pressure would immediately turn into a shameful atrocity.
And they don't think there's anything wrong with doing so.
Although the situation inside the church district is still unclear, Amber can also guess what will happen inside the walls of the inner city: part of the content in the promotional materials directly points to conflicts of interest within the church, and other content implicitly mentions Cecil Although it is impossible to directly pull the low-level priests in the marginal areas to Cecil's preferential treatment policy with this level of propaganda materials alone, it is enough to cause a certain degree of shaking and confusion.
The city has been blocked for 60 days, and the internal conflicts that should be fermented have already begun to ferment. Any form of fanning the flames at this moment will have unprecedented effects.
And as the atmosphere inside the cathedral becomes tense, those in charge in the Cathedral of Luan will have less energy to pay attention to the outer city—they may even think that the problems in the outer city have been given to them by their "effective purification rituals". Solve it thoroughly, so as to relax your vigilance.
Then the next activities of the officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau will be easier.
Amber stroked her smooth chin—this seemingly elegant thinking movement was learned from Gao Wen, which can make herself look more majestic: "How is the magic network terminal working? The picture has been sent back Is it?"
A tall and thin MIB operative patted the black metal box at his feet: "It's in good condition—and the miniaturized Magic Net terminal is much lighter, so it's very convenient to use."
This tall and thin MIB officer was the one who was carrying the sackcloth in the square before.
The black metal box at his feet is obviously a magic device—one end of it is slightly narrower, and a crystal is inlaid on the front of the shell and on the top. The entire metal box is less than half a meter in size, and it is wrapped with straw or the like. It fits nicely into a sackcloth bag.
In fact, it still has a considerable size and weight, and it is not very portable, but for those who have seen the prototype of the magic net communicator, this device is already an unbelievably small black technology.
"Be careful when using it—the Mechanicians have spent a lot of effort to make it so small," Amber nodded, "This is the key to defeating those magic sticks, our purpose is not just to destroy the city of Luan , not only to drive them out of the cathedral, but more importantly, to drive them out of the 'Southern Territory', and whether we can achieve this goal... depends on our next actions."
The operatives of the Military Intelligence Bureau are gearing up, fighting with high spirits: "Yes!"
"Very good, then assign the next task—slim, you and the hound will continue to operate in the outer city, and record all the scenes that are unfavorable to the Church of the Holy Light and send them back to the headquarters; Bucktooth, you and the mouse will continue to be near the church area Distribute the news that Bishop Bremont once said and acted strangely, but pay attention to your own safety. The others will follow me into the Shadow Realm and move things."
The well-trained officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau immediately took action, and a team member who was named by Hu Po into the Shadow Realm asked curiously, "Boss, what are you moving?"
"Leaflets and picture books," Amber grinned, "another 20,000 copies came later—and more are on the way."
"Wh-" the team members couldn't help blowing a whistle, with a happy smile on their faces, "they didn't burn as fast as our printing..."
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After traveling day and night for more than ten days, the witch Jibri finally returned to this long-lost land.
She still remembered the scene she saw when she passed through the gate of the Rock Fortress in the north a few days ago—the magnificent Rock Fortress seemed to have turned into a huge construction site, with scaffolding and construction machinery everywhere, completely renovating and rebuilding the entire fortress, The workers used steel plates and shock-absorbing skeletons to reinforce the northern wall of the fort around the clock. Magic technicians and mechanical soldiers installed large and small magic cannons on the guide rails and gun mounts on the top of the city wall. The brand new magic net Arrays and all kinds of magical equipment that had never been seen before filled the sight, almost making Jibri and Pierce who was traveling with him dazzled.
After seeing the scene of the Rock Fortress, the two officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau, who had been on a mission for more than half a year, realized that this return trip was correct: the speed of development in the local area is simply unimaginable, and living in the slow and backward capital of Ansu Here, watching the nobles hold dances and socialize every day, I can’t imagine what my hometown is developing every day. If I really live in the capital for three to five years, I’m afraid even the children will die when I come back. Not as good.
But even with such awareness, when they actually entered Cecil City, the capital of the Principality, the two operators still fell into a long period of sluggishness.
This city... not only doubled in size when they left, but even the layout of streets in many places has changed.
The temporarily built workshops and sheds have been moved to the industrial area in the east, and have been perfected into huge factory facilities, while the streets with only a few brick houses and at most a few small brick buildings have become The bustling neighborhoods, full of Ansu style, and practical residential buildings are arranged in various areas like the guards of the city, and between these areas are commercial blocks that are rapidly developing due to the increasingly prosperous economy...
The two officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau probably never imagined that there is a larger new city construction plan on the north bank of the Baishui River that has entered the foundation laying stage-because of the population migration in the southern border and the merging of villages and towns, the population of Cecil City will be reduced again. doubled...
In this way, Jibri and Pierce entered the city with mixed emotions of surprise and pride, and successfully completed the report at the MIB building-thankfully, at least they did not get lost in the military area.
"Director Amber is on a mission," the receptionist of the Military Intelligence Bureau said while registering the two expatriate operators, "but she knows that you will return in the near future, and she has already arranged the next plan for you."
After completing the report registration, the young female clerk who served as the receptionist handed over the new identity certificate and information bag to Jibri and Pierce, then stood up straight, and said solemnly: "Thank you for doing Cecil Contribution - hard work!"
Pierce and Jibri were stunned for a moment: they had been away from here for too long, and had missed too many critical stages of perfect organization, so they didn't know how to react for a while, so they could only smile a little awkwardly and cautiously. The lady receptionist seemed to have expected the reaction of the two seniors in front of her, and also resolved the short-term embarrassment with a smile: "Please don't be reserved, this is your home. Operator Pierce, you can dismiss and rest now. As for Operator Jibri ... There is a special task for you."
Jibri widened her eyes in surprise: "Mission?"
She couldn't help muttering in her heart: Is there no vacation...
"Please relax, you don't need to go out to work, the task is relatively easy," the receptionist lady seemed to see Jibri's thoughts, she showed a slightly mysterious smile, "This task is issued by the lord—you can rest for half a day , please report to the Lord's Mansion on time at four o'clock in the afternoon."
(surprise!!)