When she felt that the atmosphere was not right and Cen Xiangyun was about to jump up and tear up the invitation, Luo Ling finally couldn't help but speak out and accepted the invitation.
"you!"
Cen Xiangyun was so angry that she was shaking. She pointed at "Eve" and said, "Eve, I really didn't expect you to be this kind of person. You are taking advantage of Miss Luo Ling and little Elsa! How can you be worthy of their spirits in heaven by doing this!"
Although Lu Manqing was not as excited as Cen Xiangyun, her eyes clearly expressed her opinion, which was similar to Cen Xiangyun's.
It's also a problem if your teammates have too deep feelings for you.
Luo Ling felt a little annoyed. She was a person of few words and not good at socializing. Especially now that the situation was so complicated, it was difficult for her to use the art of language to appease her two teammates.
Fortunately, Lu Fangling took action. She held down the two people and said softly, "But you have to know that Miss Luo Ling and Little Elsa are in heaven. They don't want you to stop because of their death, right
"They... would also want you to live your life well."
Luo Ling always felt uncomfortable listening to this. Grandma Lu was right, but she was still alive.
Oh, I knew that playing the role of a teammate was a troublesome job... Now that things have come to a point, I can only grit my teeth and continue acting.
Granny Lu's words finally calmed the teammates down. After careful consideration, they decided that accepting the invitation from the Single Word Team was indeed the best option at the moment. However, their expressions were still full of indignation, and their attitudes had become much more distant from "Eve".
It was obvious that this incident had created a rift within the team. Even if Cen Xiangyun and Lu Manqing didn't say it, they both felt in their hearts that for Eve, joining the Single Word Team might be more important than the death of her teammates.
In this regard, Luo Ling could only silently mutter in his heart...
Miss Eve, I'm so sorry.
"Report to the Star Team this afternoon. We have more important things to deal with next."
Granny Lu's expression became more serious, and she said in a deep voice, "The pioneers have reached a deal with the White Witch. What we are about to face next is a terrifying existence that massacred 400,000 civilians in Jiangcheng County, a truly terrifying "high-risk weirdness."
Hearing this, Luo Ling was stunned.
What
What deal
Who to trade with
How come I don’t know
Chapter 66: Miss Luo Ling is a brick, she can be moved wherever she is needed (6k5)
Victoria is still a bit chilly in early March. Amid the drizzle, a dreamy, hazy fog shrouds the entire Victoria.
In front of Highgate Cemetery, three young women in black dresses and black veils looked sadly at the two tombstones, one large and one small, in front of them, and mourned in silence for a long time. Luo Ling thus completed the achievement of attending her own funeral for the second time.
However, at this moment, Luo Ling's consciousness has been separated and she is no longer playing the role of Eve. The actions of the Eve doll are completely driven by Eve's memories and emotions.
Before, it was only because of the existence of Ms. Nightingale, a powerful person with the ability of the "All Souls" path, who was able to see into the essence of life and was one of the humans who had gone the furthest on the "All Souls" path.
Perhaps some awakened people on the same path are stronger than her in combat, but in terms of healing, Ms. Nightingale is second to none.
The puppet made by Luo Ling was able to deceive Ms. Nightingale's perception, which was already the incredible thing about Puppet Song. The empty shell's consciousness could easily be discovered during her treatment.
If it is not in the treatment stage, the empty shell consciousness is not so easy to detect.
The main reason why she left the Eve doll now is that Luo Ling felt that she still couldn't play Miss Eve perfectly with her concentration. There was no problem with her ability, but when she encountered many scenes, she could not hold back easily...
There was no such problem when she played the role of the stranger Alyssa. Even Stasha, who grew up with Alyssa, only vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
Seeing her two teammates in deep sorrow through Eve's eyes, Luo Ling couldn't help but sigh in her heart. Next, the three of them will join the "Star" team to encircle and suppress the apostles of the White Witch.
... Of course it can't be Elsa, because at this moment Elsa is living well in "Starry Victoria".
Obviously, this is a scapegoat that the "Pioneers" put on the White Witch...
"They are indeed two organizations with the same origin but different paths. They are so skilled in shifting the blame and tied me to their chariot for no apparent reason." Luo Ling sighed in his heart.
Since the three members of the team have returned to being screws in the big machine of the "company", there is nothing for Luo Ling to worry about. She still has to hurry to the "Pioneer" to see the specific situation and what exactly is going on.
Why was the White Witch able to reach a cooperation deal with the "Pioneers" without anyone knowing, so secretly that even she herself didn't know about it.
After his consciousness separated from the Eve doll, Luo Ling immediately descended into Alyssa's body.
At this moment, the blindfolded nun was sitting in a wheelchair, accepting the worship of believers on the pulpit in front of the nave of the cathedral, facing the position of the Sacred Heart statue, and performing mass earnestly.
Luo Ling did not take over Alyssa's body immediately. After all, she knew nothing about religious rituals. She directly looked through all the memories of the Church of Light during this period in her consciousness.
"Good fellow..."
After flipping through it for a while, Luo Ling narrowed his eyes slightly.
No wonder the "company" believed that some kind of deal had been reached with the White Witch, or even that they had already formed a unified alliance and reached a cooperation.
In these few short days, the "pioneers" have made quite a few moves...
During this time, the pioneer leader gave orders directly to the "theologian" Alyssa, asking her to expand the number of priests in the Church of Light.
Previously, almost all the priests of the Church of Light came from the evil cult organizations under the original pioneers. Even if they were not part of this cult, they were all extremely vicious people.
All of these people were killed and perfectly controlled by Alyssa, becoming complete puppets.
Therefore, although the Church of Light has been in great demand recently, it has never expanded on a large scale.
At most, when encountering an evil person who is destined to die, Alyssa will make him physically lay down his butcher knife and become a Buddha on the spot, go to meet Lao Ye in person to repent, and convert to the Church of Light with his body.
As time went by, the number of priests in the Church of Light has remained at several thousand, which is quite small among other church branches. Even if more people want to join the Church of Light, the number of priests has never been expanded.
It is precisely because of such strange and abnormal behavior that there are rumors in Victoria that only those who are most devout to the Lord are qualified to follow the saint.
... In a sense, this statement seems to be correct.
However, under the order of the pioneer leader, Arisa, who had just become a "theologian" not long ago, had no room for disobedience and could only obey the order to expand enrollment.
Due to the large scale of the expansion, it was impossible to find so many sinners who had already died to come and become Buddhas on the spot. For the first time, Alyssa opened the recruitment of priests in the Church of Light to Victoria.
This news was an earthquake for the religious community in Victoria. Everyone had seen the rise of the Church of Light in recent times. Let alone the treatment, just being able to join it would make a big difference in one's status and position.
The enrollment expansion work was completed with great fanfare a few days ago, directly recruiting nearly half of the people as ordinary people, and expanding the original church size by nearly one-third.
At the same time, the locations of the church's resident branches have increased a lot. From the map, we can roughly see that the radiation range of each church combined has completely covered the entire Victoria.
It is obvious that the philosophers wanted to use these churches to do something.
At the same time, among the newly recruited personnel, the intelligence network has detected several unusual awakeners. According to Alyssa's judgment, these people should be members of the Pioneers.
The pioneer leaders did not tell Alyssa about this, but judging from the religious man's recent behavior, he should know about it.
... Philosophers and others still did not give Alyssa enough trust.
This is normal. After all, the theologian Alyssa is just a new member who has joined the Pioneers for a short time. Even if religious people are unpopular, they are still trustworthy old members.
Speaking of religious figures, after resigning from his position in charge of the church, he did not take on more tasks. Perhaps he was preparing for the promotion ceremony, or for other reasons. In short, he was very idle.
From time to time, he would come to Alyssa to discuss issues concerning religious classics, and explain to her some things about the world of awakeners. It was a bit like an academic discussion, but it also felt like he was trying to win over Alyssa.
Luo Ling could roughly guess what the religious man was thinking. He was going to be the fourth leader of the Pioneers in the future. If he could win over this extremely talented colleague, the theologian, to his side, he would have more say within the Pioneers in the future.
Where there are people, there will be selfishness. Even if there is no internal fighting, the struggle for power will always appear in any organization at any time, unless the entire organization is full of saints.
It was during the time of the expansion that the pioneers hid their identities and entered the church. They used the secret techniques that had previously come at a heavy price to steal the White Witch's authority once again, and used this to spread the news that the White Witch had reached a cooperation with the pioneers.
As for why the "company" believed this information...
A strange-looking object emerged in Luo Ling's mind. It was the sacrificial vessel that the educator gave her after she passed the interview when they first met.
Every time the religious people come here, they will take some things from this sacrificial vessel. These things can disguise the strange aura belonging to the White Witch, not just abilities.
This is the real purpose of this sacrificial vessel. It is not used to collect the power of the White Witch, but to simulate the corresponding aura through the connection with the weirdness.
—The Company was well aware of the secret skills possessed by the Pioneers, and simply stealing a few of their abilities would not be enough for the directors to conclude that the two powerful enemies had formed an alliance.
Only through this strange and unique atmosphere can it be truly confirmed that the two parties have indeed reached a cooperation, forcing the company to devote some energy to deal with this matter.
The pioneers are most likely not afraid that the White Witch will really appear and retaliate, because all the organizations disguising themselves as strange are church organizations in various parts of Victoria.
If He wants to kill, it doesn't matter if He kills them all. It can also make the "Company" more busy dealing with a violent and high-risk monster.
As long as the pioneer can weaken the attention of the "company" at this critical moment, his goal will be achieved.
Without knowing that the "White Witch" had already planted a chess piece inside the Pioneers, the philosophers' calculations were very thorough and their calculations were clattering.
“So, I was tricked.”
Luo Ling's eyes flickered slightly. Even though she had the advantage of being in the dark, she still seemed a little immature in the tug of war between several old foxes, and was easily treated as a neutral entity that could be exploited.
However, there is a price to pay for using her.
This is true for "companies" and also for "pioneers".
The reason why the Pioneer's move was able to go so smoothly was inseparable from Lin Jianming's death.
If Lin Jianming hadn't died, the hatchery nodes throughout Victoria would probably have been fully deployed.
The "company" that has the upper hand will not worry about the White Witch and the Pioneers joining forces. At most, it will take the risk of initiating the collapse. On the contrary, the Pioneers will be constrained and fall into a disadvantage.
But now that Lin Jianming is dead, the hatchery nodes are difficult to deploy, so the Pioneers can take advantage of the opportunity to turn the tables. Unfortunately... they used the wrong chess piece and made a wrong move.
But it must be said that the game between the two sides is very thrilling. Even if you slow down a little, you will be bitten to death by the other side.
Just when Luo Ling had almost finished reading the more critical information in Alyssa's memory, her mass was almost coming to an end.
After Alyssa stepped down from the pulpit, the religious leader was waiting for her behind the scenes in the church nave as usual. When he saw the wheelchair slowly coming down, he hurried over to greet her.
"Your Highness, thank you for your hard work. Are you feeling well today?"
"Thank you for your concern, sir. It's like this every day. I'm used to it."
Alyssa had a gentle smile on her face. She nodded slightly to the religious man, then pushed her wheelchair towards the back of the hall with ease.
The religious man quickly followed and entered the prayer room with Alyssa.
A barrier has been set up around the prayer room. Until this time, the religious man and Alyssa can reveal their true identities and have a conversation between pioneers.
At this time, the religious man finally couldn't help but smile with joy and said, "Theologian, the adults have brought some good news."
"Oh? Mr. Religious Man, please tell me in detail."
Luo Ling, who was taking over Alyssa at this moment, became interested immediately when he heard the religious man's words.
"You have done a great job in everything that the superiors have assigned to you. The educator is very satisfied. Now is an extraordinary period. You have been promoted as an exception and can tell you more secrets about the pioneers."
The joy on the religious man's face was indeed sincere, because in his opinion, it was almost a foregone conclusion that Her Highness the Theologian Saint would stand on his side, and it was certainly a good thing to be promoted out of turn.
"Thank you sir."
Luo Ling's expression was calm and she still had a smile on her face. Given Alyssa's personality, this kind of thing was quite ordinary for her and not worth being overly happy about.
However... being able to get closer to the core of the "Pioneer" at this time is indeed good news for Luo Ling.
The religious man took out a piece of parchment, an antique ring, and a dagger that was as exquisite as a work of art.
"This is a secret technique unique to the pioneers. It can, to a certain extent, call upon a power far beyond our own. However, it requires a certain price. You can use it as you see fit."
The religious man first handed the parchment to Luo Ling. After Luo Ling took it and glanced at it, his expression instantly became a little solemn.
This parchment scroll records in detail how to depict the ritual, how to construct the inspiration circuit, how to perform sacrifices, and how to avoid being completely taken away by the weirdness.
The reason why the Pioneers can rely on their numbers far less than that of the Order-side organizations is largely because they possess this secret technique.
After obtaining the secret technique, even a mid-level awakener of level 4 to 6 could threaten a high-level awakener above level 7.
If you are not careful, you will die miserably.
"However, the 'Company' seems to have a similar secret technique. Lin Jianming used it once before he died, and it seems to be more complete... So, this should be considered a modified version?"
Luo Ling calmly put away the parchment. The religious man then took out an ancient ring. He held the ring carefully and gently in front of Luo Ling and said,
"This is a 'Forbidden Ring', which contains a trace of the power of 'Taboo'. If used with secret techniques, it can gain the power of 'Taboo' for a short period of time... However, you must be extremely careful when using it.
"Once you embark on the forbidden path, it is irreversible. Even with your talent, it will be difficult to fully control it, unless—"
At this point, the religious man suddenly realized that he had said too much, so he paused, changed the subject and continued, "You will know later. Anyway, put away the "forbidden ring" and keep it carefully. It can save your life at a critical moment."
"Wow, they can even get the "taboo" things and give them to ordinary members. The "Pioneers" are really the number one enemy of the "Company". "
Luo Ling couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He took the ring and hid it.
In fact, she had another idea. She wondered if she would be able to make further progress in the "Naraku" form or gain a new form if she "swallowed" this ring.
If it's the former, it would be a huge loss. A little bit of "taboo" power is definitely much better than just being dog food. The latter is very good, but... the existence of "taboo" may be difficult to control perfectly.
The "Naraku" form is not very obedient, and there are many mistakes when using abilities...