"Raymond?" Opal said, "Raymond!"
Raymond immediately pushed the door and came in. Opal hugged Gleibney and turned to look at Raymond, his eyes full of complicated emotions. Raymond quickly walked to Glebney and knelt down on one knee to check the side of his neck. Glebenny had stopped breathing.
"How did you die?" Raymond asked in a low voice.
Opal shook his head and said, "Suddenly died."
Raymond said, "Did you die?"
Opal said: "I don't think so...he wanted to tell me something at the last minute...what now?"
Andis pushed the door and came in, and the two turned their heads at the same time, startled.
He pushed on his glasses, came over and carefully picked up the Pope, Opal and Raymond voluntarily backed away, giving way. Andis wrapped the Pope in a blanket and said, "Wait here, I'll inform the other archbishops."
He left in a hurry, leaving only Opal, Raymond and Gleibney's bodies in the study, Raymond said: "The teacher asked you to protect him."
Opal said: "How to protect? If you say death, you will die... I can't even read his consciousness. The last sentence before death is... "
Raymond said immediately: "Don't say it."
Opal licked his lips, remembering the Pope's life form, and said, "We have to protect that baby. Maybe he has entered the baby's body."
Raymond said: "Don't go now, wait until everyone arrives."
A moment later, all seven archbishops were present and bowed to the Pope's body with a special etiquette. Andis turned on the switch on the table and led several people into the corridor. Opal and Raymond kept their eyes on the fetus in the culture cabin. It was close to the size of a fully grown newborn, and the light screen flashed with life data.
Raymond asked them, "What are you going to do now?"
"Complete the Nirvana ceremony." An archbishop said, "Waiting for the resurrection of the Holy Child."
Opal read the hearts of all the archbishops with the power of faith, and found that the only thought in their hearts was the fetus in the training cabin, and there was no distraction. Opal has always suspected that there are spies in the archbishop’s ambush, but it is impossible for the Pope not to take any countermeasures and allow the spies to do whatever they want under his nose.
Opal was prepared for the sudden situation, and even thought of breaking the plan of the nutrition capsule to escape when the Holy Child woke up, but several people stood quietly in the hall, and the time passed by minute by minute. The fetus in the culture medium is always unresponsive.
Opal exudes the power of belief to perceive the fetus, it has no soul, let alone inner thoughts, just like an object.
An hour passed, and the archbishops were a little uneasy. Opal glanced at Raymond, and Raymond asked: "I thought the Holy Child would... at least a little movement?"
"Yes." Ames' thick voice trembled a little, and said, "If all goes well, the Holy Child has awakened as it stands."
Opal turned to look at him and asked, "What happens when you wake up?"
No one answered, Eames' fingers flexed to his nose, and Opal cut into his heart with the force of faith in an instant, and read a fleeting fragment - Ledgerson.
Two hours later, the bishops were almost certain that something very serious had happened.
"Ricks, Andis," Ames said. "What did His Majesty say before he passed away?"
"Has this kind of thing happened before?" Raymond said first.
"Yes," said a red-haired archbishop, "Occasionally, His Majesty..."
Several bishops gestured with their eyes. The red-haired archbishop glanced at Raymond, and Eames said, "Who was there when Your Majesty died, Andis?"
Andis looked at the opal from behind the glasses.
Opal said: "He didn't say anything, just a normal lecture... As soon as he talked... he died."
"What content," Eames said.
Opal made a clever circle and said, "I have the right to keep the matter of the meteorite a secret for His Majesty Cororin."
After a long period of silence, time seemed to pass very slowly. The last time Raymond looked at the time, it had been four hours since the death of the Pope.
"Let's go." The red-haired archbishop said, "The two guests please go back to rest first. We need to discuss countermeasures."
Andis said: "I think both Opal and Raymond need to be present. His Majesty had this intention before his death. He invited Opal to participate in the resurrection ceremony of the Holy Child."
Ames said: "There is no record of the conversation, Andis, be cautious, and this matter does not require the intervention of the guests of Meteor Star, and the shepherd is recalled to prevent a new evolution of the situation."
Opal said: "Wait, I'm a little bit unclear, the death of His Majesty Drummond is a rebirth, right? He's not here, did he go somewhere else?"
The bishops did not answer, and Ames said briefly: "Yes. Now, leave here, you are only His Majesty's guests. When His Majesty is not present, I have the right to enforce the law and order of the Cathedral."
Ames ordered the expulsion, and Opal and Raymond had to come out, and an archbishop took them to the door.
When they left the study, Eames said, "The church is sealed off. Please wait in the monks' and soldiers' lounge. After forty-eight hours, no matter what happens, I will give an explanation to His Majesty Cororin."
Two monk soldiers came over and made a gesture of invitation. The bishops ordered the expulsion, and Opal and Raymond had to leave the Hall of Stars.
The cathedral was completely blocked, and Opal looked around from time to time. Raymond knew what he was thinking, and whispered: "If you can't lose it, find a place to talk and organize the news first."
Opal returned to Raymond's dormitory, and the two sat down one stop at a time.
"There was no way at all," Opal said. "He didn't explain anything."
Raymond asked, "Now that I can say, what were his last words?"
Opal said: "Before we were still talking about the third question..." He suddenly glanced at Raymond, thinking of an absurd possibility, could it be the consciousness of the stars that killed Gleibney? If so, why are you okay
Or not tell Raymond this paragraph first, Opal skipped the question about the five-dimensional world and said to Raymond: "The last sentence is 'I entrust the shepherd to you'."
Raymond said: "Ames mentioned that he would recall the pastor. He wants to use the pastor to stabilize the situation?"
Opal had to admit that the pastor's status at the moment was crucial, but now that he has traveled to Iszur, the Pope should be aware of the danger the pastor may encounter.
He thought about it for a long time and said, "There is an inner response from the Rotman family in the archbishop."
Raymond snorted, frowned, and said, "Who do you think it will be?"
Opal said: "I think the most likely one is the monk named Ames."
Raymond said, "I don't think it might be him."
Opal said: "It was he who proposed to recall the pastor. If he can guess the Pope's mind, he should not do so. The first thing to do is to protect the personal safety of the pastor."
Raymond was silent for a long time, and then said: "Maybe he needs to stabilize the situation? If the news of the Pope's death spreads, will Ledgerson return to the church immediately..."
Opal only felt that the current situation was really a mess, and the most troublesome thing was their lack of intelligence.
"We have to collect information." Opal said: "The Pope's soul is still there, that's for sure, because he told me that he was hiding in a curling dimension."
Raymond: "?"
Opal: "It's just... a slit in the world, he's not dead, I can confirm. Do you want to ask the teachers for help?"
Raymond turned on the communicator and found that Rector's location was "unreachable". He said, "Try if you can contact Cororin in your dream. I'll be responsible for inquiring about information."
Opal said: "By the way, look for Dragon Ray, Dragon Ray will be more at ease with us."
At night, there is an atmosphere like a great enemy everywhere. Opal ate with a heavy heart. Lei went out, and Opal lay down on the bed, hoping to find Cororin in the dream.
But no, he slept for an unknown length of time, and when he heard a very slight sound in the distance, he opened his eyes in the darkness.
E7 and Xiao Q light up at the same time, Opal said: "What time is it?"
At four o'clock in the night, Raymond hadn't come back yet, Opal rolled over and got out of bed, ran out of the living room of the dormitory, drank a glass of water, and Raymond said in the ear button: "Opal, the entire cathedral is under martial law, I can't enter. Go to the Star Map Hall, and Ames is guarding the front of the forbidden area of the Sanctuary."
Opal said: "I didn't get in touch with Coroline, he was like missing... dammit."
Raymond said: "Dragon Ray doesn't listen to my call, and the shepherd seems to be back, because when I just passed the Hall of Stars, I saw a small flying shuttle and people wearing meteorite emperor clothes."
Opal asked: "Who is that?"
Raymond: "I can't see clearly at night."
Opal said: "You continue to think of a way, I will go to the Hall of Stars to see."
Raymond: "Everything is careful."
Opal: "Don't worry."
The two cut off the communication, and Opal said to E7: "You two stay here, no matter what happens, you can't go out."
The top light of E7 lit up, and Opal pushed open the door. At this moment, the outside of the Monk and Soldiers Hall was empty, and there was no one there. He walked quickly across the cloister and opened the door leading to the central section of the Cathedral.
There were many people standing inside, most of them were monks and soldiers, as well as soldiers in imperial clothes.
"Who?" Someone spotted Opal right away.
Opal noticed that the man's rank was a colonel, and said, "It's nothing, I'm a guest invited by Archbishop Ames."
The colonel walked towards him, and Opal retreated behind the door. This action immediately made the officer suspicious. When he quickly ran out of the corridor, Opal used the power of faith to close the door, making a muffled sound.
The people in the hall looked sideways. The timing of the automatic closing of the side door was just right. It seemed that the officer closed it himself. The officer himself did not notice that the two were separated from the hall. The force instantly impacted, causing him to faint to the ground.
This road could not go any further, Opal turned back to the monks' hall, looked up at the twinkling stars on the circular dome, and recalled the moment when Gleibney took him down this road.
He immediately understood the deep meaning of Gleibney's wink when he arrived in the Land of Arcs on the first day.
It turned out to be like this... Opal vaguely remembered the direction at that time, he ran to a side door and pressed his fingerprints.
opened!
All the secret passages in the hall of monks and soldiers were all opened, and Opal closed them one by one. He followed the road he walked three days ago into the gallery and then into the garden. The path was already full of heavily guarded robots. Opal held his breath and returned to the gallery to try. Go another way.
After trying them in turn, one of the roads was an underground staircase. Opal walked up the stairs quickly, and heard a voice behind a door - it was a man.
"Cololin's temper is much calmer than before." The man's voice said: "But for that guy, life itself doesn't have much to look forward to. You know his character, nostalgic, stubborn, and hostile. Emotions are very strong."
"Forgive me." Caesar said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty and His Majesty Corolin are old acquaintances?"
"Very good friend." The man said: "I don't want to interfere with his actions against the Holy See, just come back and get something that should belong to me."
Who is this person? ! Opal frowned alertly, he had never heard the man's voice. The other one who mentioned Cororin and called him 'Your Majesty' should be the one who brought the shepherd back? ! It's from the Meteor Legion!
[Hello, I'm Opal.] Opal's voice sounded in the other person's mind: [Who is he?]The man's face changed slightly, but he didn't show too much surprise, and replied in his mind: [His Royal Highness Opal? I know you, I'm Fei Luo, Colonel of the Intelligence Department of the 13th Army Ground Forces, under the direct control of Major General Allen, but the situation is not clear, I'm taking his words.]Opal: [What about the teacher?]
Fei Luo: [The four generals thought that His Majesty was with you! It had been a long time since he had heard back from Iszur.]Opal: [Where is the shepherd?]
Philo: [The pastor received a communication from Lord Ramos and insisted on returning to the country of the Arc. His Majesty was not in Iszur, so I could only escort him back. After the pastor came back, he went to the Pope's study. Jason is also there.]Opal: "!!!"
[Ferro, don’t act rashly. ] Opal said: [No matter what happens, don't fight with them, remember! ] Opal ran out of the dark passage, tried the passages one by one, and finally opened an organ and entered the corridor outside the Hall of Stars.
Opal walked in along the corridor, the music came, the sound was grand and solemn, echoing in the whole side hall, Ledgerson turned his back to him.
"Welcome to the hall of stars, dear Opal." The music stopped, and Ledgerson said, "We meet again."
Opal stopped and said, "Ledgerson, what are you doing here?"
Ledgerson said: "Modify a person's memory, let me guess, it was Coroline who asked you to interfere with my actions?"
Opal said: "I came to protect the Pope at the orders of Teacher Lecter and Cororin."
Ledgerson said: "He's dead, he's lived too long, and he's finally found his place, and it's a good thing for him, it's finally got his wish, and I guess he doesn't even want to be born again, what do you think, Ou Park?"
Opal noticed that the shepherd was lying on the Pope's throne, with his head tilted back slightly and his eyes closed, he invaded his mind with the power of faith and read many complicated memory fragments, but the next moment, Ledgerson said: "It's not a good habit to meddle in your own business, Opal."
In an instant, the two forces of belief collided, and Opal was hit by a volley and flew out of the garden.