Although Hao Ren was very curious about the process of Y'zaks' "soul interrogation", he didn't dare to follow the past to watch the fun from the perspective of protecting the three views. Instead, he went to Betsy's house with the others to see off the elves and receive them by the way. Some information about the return sect. After he led the others back to Wangcheng, the interrogation process had just ended.
With Ophra leading the way, everyone went directly to the cathedral, and met the pope and several bishops in a simple but very spacious room. The pope's spirit still seemed to be a little sluggish, and the assassination incident that happened today was still a big burden for him, but after all, with the support of divine magic, he recovered quickly. And Y'zaks and his father were also standing in the room, and it seemed that the "work" was finished.
When the little girl Elizabeth saw Hao Ren, she jumped up excitedly to say hello: "Uncle Ren! It's done! The rune of pain is very useful!"
Hao Ren patted the delicate little horn on the little girl's head - after a period of contact, he knew that this little devil likes others to touch her horn, which means intimacy - and then looked up at Yzaks: "Old Wang, by the way, is it really okay for you to let your daughter learn these things?"
Y'zaks also nodded in agreement: "It's a bit late to learn soul extraction and pain runes at this age. But after all, this child's blood is not pure, and he should learn demon spells later than demons of the same age."
Hao Ren: "...I didn't mean that. Forget it, I can't clear up with you two about the world view. What did you ask?"
"That monster is a 'Fusion Corpse', created by the return sect using a kind of 'magic' they call 'God-given power', which is somewhat similar to undead magic, but it is a living creature, and it is not I am afraid of all kinds of divine power, so I suspect that the Returning Sect really has some knowledge related to divine arts, but they have just used it crookedly."
Yizaks sat on the wide-backed chair next to him while talking: "In addition, the Regression Sect does not know the real situation of the banquet held in the palace today. The Glory Sect has been careful to keep the secrets about the eldest son and the foreigner from the very beginning. , and deliberately guided it when publicizing it to the outside world, and also released false information to some suspicious people, so the returning sect mistakenly thought that today's imperial city feast was just an ordinary noble banquet. Their assassination plan has been planned for more than two months. They even infiltrated Some of the royal guards and high-ranking monks, they chose to do it today because the king and the pope were on the scene. And some soldiers on duty in the imperial city happened to be under their control, and more importantly, they got some kind of Artifact'—that’s the scroll. But they were unlucky, they didn’t realize that the truth of the banquet was to entertain a group of extraterrestrial superhumans, so they failed in such a muddle.”
When Lily heard this, she felt that she had contributed a lot, and she shook her tail happily: "So I'm pretty good, right?"
"Okay, okay, you're amazing, you're amazing," Hao Ren pressed Lily's head to stop her jumping. "Why don't you recall that sour taste again?"
Before Lily could say anything, Vivian slammed Hao Ren's back hard: "You took advantage of the meal to take revenge on the society, right?"
Ofra's expression was extremely serious: "The royal guards and high-ranking monks have been infiltrated? How could those cultists do this?"
"Because they are good at controlling mental power," Y'zaks replied, "They got a lot of evil spells from an evil god. These cultists are very patient, and they didn't sit still when they were pressed by you every step of the way."
"The evil god should be the 'Voice of the Lord'," Hao Ren immediately recalled the information he just learned today, "And then? Have you dug out the list of infiltrated personnel from the soul of that monster?"
A white-robed archbishop next to him shook his head: "There is no list, that monster is just an assassin, he doesn't know too many details. And even if there is a list, it is useless. After the assassination, we went to track down the guards on duty, but found Many guards have disappeared. We found the bodies of some guards near the outer wall of the palace. The death gesture is suicide. But it is possible that they were forced to commit suicide under the condition of mind control. The fate of other missing soldiers should be similar. Those heretics have the power to control people’s hearts. This makes every action of theirs impeccable, and there is almost no problem of being caught alive or leaking secrets or poor communication—except this time, we successfully tortured the souls of the heretics.”
Hao Ren stroked his chin: "That is to say... are all the infiltrated personnel dead?"
The Pope sighed: "Not a single one was caught."
At this time, Lily suddenly interjected: "But how do you know that there are no controlled people among the remaining guards?"
Hao Ren didn't realize it all at once: "Didn't all the guards who were mind-controlled run away?"
"Let some of the abandoned children run out to attract your attention, and pretend that everyone has evacuated after the incident is revealed, so that the remaining guards will naturally not have many people suspicious, at most they will check routinely," Lily shook her head lightly, "but God knows how many of the remaining guards are under control."
Vivienne looked at this Erha in surprise: "Okay, you, Big Dog. I didn't expect you to have such a scheming?"
Lily folded her arms and shook her tail vigorously: "Nonsense, no matter what I say, I also came from a novel writing background. There is still some logic in this. And what do you think those spies did when the country was in chaos and war? I have seen a lot! I Let me tell you, the Central Command and Military Command back then..."
Hao Ren quickly pressed Lily's mouth: "Don't say anything irrelevant...don't bite my hand!"
"In short, all soldiers and monks of the church will be investigated," Ofra said in a deep voice, resting her hand on the hilt of her sword. "The situation is far from what we think is good. But fortunately, the problems have been exposed this time, otherwise If it continues to develop, I’m afraid something big will happen.”
"By the way, have you found the lair of those cultists?" Hao Ren flicked his fingers and looked at Y'zaks.
"People have run away," Y'zaks shrugged. "They are spiritually connected."
Vivienne asked immediately, "What about the information about that scroll? Where did the scroll come from? Who sent it? What was it used for?"
"That's kind of interesting," Y'zaks laughed. "In the fusion corpse's soul memory, the scroll came from 'outside the sky', and it was brought by a 'great' creature from the goddess to the return sect. They Call that great creature the sound of what..."
Hao Ren reminded: "It's the voice of the master."
Y'zaks patted his bald head: "Oh yes, the voice of the master, I just said that it must not be the voice of the campus... By the way, you know it too?"
"It seems to be similar to what I speculated." Hao Ren chuckled, "A giant brain has come to this planet, and it has the ability to bring things from its hometown. But it must not be easy, so return to the sect Only one scroll has been obtained so far, and the peripheral sects can only stir up the atmosphere by summoning the descending clone of the giant brain."
Speaking of which, he looked up at the Pope and Ophra: "I'm more straightforward—you can handle this by yourself, right?"
"This is the duty that the Goddess' people should undertake," the Pope nodded slightly, "Let us handle these things ourselves."
"Then I have to say goodbye and leave." Hao Ren stood up, "After all, I have to deal with more troublesome things than a bunch of cultists—the two lumps of steel wool dug from your planet. "
After leaving the cathedral, the group will go to Tanagus through the portal in the basement of Betsy's house. The whole basement smelled of wine: it was a small wine rack that the elves accidentally knocked over when they came over. The mercenary girl looked at the baby bumps in the wine cellar with worry on her face: "I have to have someone dig another wine cellar next to it. It's too unreliable to put the baby at the exit."
"You should take the trouble to keep an eye on the matter here," Hao Ren told Becky before leaving, "You are also a nobleman now, and you can directly participate in many things. If there is any progress in the investigation on heretics, remember to let me know as soon as possible. .Besides, the bearded man will stay here. The two of you will take care of each other. Safety comes first.
Becky nodded again and again: "Don't worry, I'm good at this."
Hao Ren: "..."
(I need to go out to do errands tomorrow. I don’t know how long I will be busy, so I asked for a leave in advance. I can’t update it at noon. I shouldn’t be delayed at night. Well, in theory.) (to be continued~^~)