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In the evening, in the afterglow of dusk, the recruits returned to Rock City. These rookies finally completed the first and most important test of their careers. Although the recruits also suffered casualties, and more people were wounded, there were joyful smiles on the faces blackened by the flames of war. That night, Zero fulfilled his promise, each recruit received his due pay, and the families of the war dead received a pension sufficient to satisfy them.
It's just that after spending this part of the reward, Zero's treasury is obviously much smaller than before, which made Leah, who assisted in financial management, quite complain. The implication of the girl's words is that the pocket money is too extravagant. Regarding this point, Zero doesn't care about it. In terms of money, with the cooperation of Istar and the Dark Brotherhood, the wealth will only continue to flow in the future.
What's more, the defenders of Panshi City are not from his own system after all, but are recruited from the local residents. Naturally, they must first buy their loyalty with money. As vulgar as this is, there's no denying the power of gold coins is enormous. They are enough to make people forget their original position. Of course, this is also the role of Paul's previous oracle.
Otherwise, money alone is not so easy to impress them.
Overall, today is a happy day for the people of Rock City. Even Yafidi, who is in the room, can feel the cheerful atmosphere on the street. Yafidi did not appear to be affected by the atmosphere outside, and his mood was very complicated. Not only for another big defeat in the Pope's Hall today, but also for the strange phenomenon of feeling restless since the afternoon.
It seems that something happened. And it's a bad thing, Yafidi thought. He was so filled in his heart again.
At this time, Mina opened the door. After several days of recuperation, her injuries have largely recovered, and her mental state is not bad, but she looks thinner than when she was in Rome. She smiled at Yafidi: "It's time to eat."
During the meal, Yafidi said to his wife: "Your injury is almost healed. I think we can leave in two days. I have prepared materials and supplies these days and bought a car New cars, enough for us to go everywhere."
Mina took a bite of the bread, but didn't express it.
"What's wrong?" Yafidi asked softly.
Mina raised her head and said with a beautiful smile, "Yafedi, go ahead and do it."
"What?" Yafidi frowned.
"Your stage shouldn't be at home, but on the battlefield, right? In fact, you really want to go to fight, right? Especially the Pope's Hall has become like this, which makes you feel very disappointed?" Mina nodded. : "In this case, you can work together with Zero and the others to overthrow the decayed Pope Hall."
"Mina, I didn't think so."
"Come on." Mina smiled, pointing at herself and said, "I am your wife. If you don't even know what your husband is thinking, then I am too unqualified as a wife."
"So, no matter what you decide, I will stick to it."
"So are we!"
The three children also raised their hands and shouted.
Yafidi patted their hands and said, "Eat quickly, it's nothing to do with you."
Then he said to Mina: "Well, I admit that Sauron's actions made me feel chilled, and I really want to fight back with Zero and the others to the Pope's Hall, and ask him face to face if it is necessary to be so heartless? But Mina, You guys are the most important thing to me right now. More than anything!"
Mina shook her head helplessly, but said with a smile: "I'm very happy that you can say that. Really..."
The knock on the door sounded inappropriately at this time, Yafidi frowned and got up from his seat. He opened the door, and outside the door was a man wrapped in a cloak, covering his face, only showing a pair of eyes that Yafidi felt familiar with.
He quickly pulled down the cloth covering his face, revealing a face that should never have appeared here.
"Huo Dou?" Yafidi's body shook slightly, and he lost his voice: "Why are you here?"
The man in front of him is Signe's confidant, if he appears here, it can only explain two situations. One is that Signe also came to Rock City, and the other is that something happened to Signe. Regardless of the possibility, it is not a good thing in the current situation.
Huo Dou showed a wry smile: "Lord Yafidi, I haven't seen you for a long time. I'm very happy to see you. Although I really want to have a long talk with you, the current conditions don't allow it. I can only make a long story short..."
He took out an envelope from the cloak and stuffed it into Yafidi's hand, saying: "Master Signe has had an accident, and the reason is all in this letter, and Lord Yafidi will naturally understand after reading it."
"What happened? What happened to Signe?" Yafidi asked.
Huo Dou pointed to the envelope, then pulled a strip of cloth to cover most of his face, and left in a hurry. Yafidi watched him turn into an alley across the street, and in a blink of an eye he had already merged into the night. He could only close the door and walk back. Hearing his heavy footsteps, Mina asked softly, "What happened?"
Yafeidi said: "Just now Huo Dou came, and he brought me a letter, saying something happened to Signe."
"What? Lord Signe, he also..."
Yafidi covered her mouth lightly and said, "You and the children have dinner first, and I'll go to the living room to see what Signe wrote in his letter."
Mina nodded obediently, walked back to the dining table without asking any more questions. Yafidi came to the living room, tore open the seal, and inside was a letter and a storage chip. He opened the letter first, and it was written in Yafidi's familiar font. The handwriting by Signe is always elegant with a trace of melancholy, and that trace of melancholy is always revealed in a curve of a certain letter.
This feeling, even if you want to fake it, you can't fake it.
Signe wrote in his letter:
Literally.
My friend, when you read this letter, I may not be alive. Please don't be sad for my departure, on the contrary, you should be happy for me. I was finally able to get rid of this depressing life, and kept my promise to Sari again. If there is heaven, she will be waiting for me in heaven, so what is there to be sad about
Long story short, I found something in the Vatican, Sauron's palace. I have recorded it and asked Huo Dou to bring it to you. Whether to make it public or not is up to you.
I was tired, exhausted long before the sari left me. If I hadn't agreed to Sari's promise, I would have followed her long ago. Thankfully, I have you by my side in these days when there is no hope at all. But now, the time has come for me to leave.
That silver-haired man will fulfill my long-cherished wish for many years!
Signed is Signe's name.
Yafidi's hands were trembling slightly, he knew exactly what Signe's long-cherished wish was. Speaking of which, Signe, like him, is a person who values family very much. It's just that he was more unfortunate than Yafeidi. His young wife, Sari, passed away due to a genetic disease when she was in her prime, and she didn't even have time to leave an heir for Signe. The only commemoration is the ring that Signe wears on his little finger, witnessing the faithful love between him and his wife.
If Sari hadn't asked Signe to promise her that she would try her best to live on no matter what time she was dying, Signe might have left with her long ago. For so many years, Signe has been longing for a way to leave this world on the premise of keeping the agreement with Sari.
That was his long-cherished wish.
Kesigne is a high-level ability user and an extremely rare creator. It can be said that there are very few people who can kill him. If the so-called silver-haired man in his letter had the power to kill him, then this person's strength was zero, or even above his level.
Yafidi has fought against Zero, and he knows exactly where Zero is. And this reunion, he keenly felt that Zero had made great progress. Yafidi is not optimistic even if Sauron is against Zero, which shows that Zero is already very strong. So, who is this man who stands side by side with Zero, and is even stronger than him
Yafidi's eyes fell on the storage chip, and he thought or the answer could only be found in it.
In the office of the city hall, Zero and Su, Leah, Mamelo and others are holding a meeting. The content of the meeting is the next work arrangement. According to the news received by Zero, Paul will arrive in two days and join them in the Rock City. Then on the next day, I set off with Isabel to the headquarters of the Dark Brotherhood.
Isabel has applied to the Committee of Seven for a meeting opportunity for Zero and Paul. The application has been approved and the meeting place and time have been given by the supreme leader Gao Li. At that time, Zero will go with Paul. But for the sake of confidentiality, he will not take too many people with him, and only Cinderella and Mr. X will go with him.
The meeting place was on an island surrounded by water. In the event of an unexpected accident, Cinderella's water system capabilities will be brought into full play. And Mr. X is not interested in his combat power, but out of seniority considerations. After all, he was the first head of the Holy Seal Knights, and he had heard about the Dark Brotherhood. Moving forward with him can make up for Zero's lack of knowledge in the Western Continent.
As for the others, they will stay in Rock City, and Mamelo will strengthen the training of recruits and train a group of mech pilots. Froman and the Trident formed the backbone of Rock City, and the last high-level guards were Yousu and Yeliu and other capable people.
It can be said that apart from the insufficient number of ordinary soldiers, the strength of the current garrison in Panshi City is enough to challenge the Pope's Hall.
Now, Zero is already one of the important figures in the mainland. Hearing that he only brought Cinderella and Mr. X with him, the others felt uneasy, but Zero had already made up his mind, and the sudden departure of a large number of high-ranking officials would indeed attract the attention of the Vatican, so the others had no further objections.
During the meeting, a soldier trotted in and whispered in Zero's ear: "My lord, please see Mr. Yafidi."
"It's him?" Zero was a little surprised.
Fortunately, the matter has been explained almost, and Ling asked others to stay and continue to refine the work after he left, while he went to the reception room to meet Yafidi.
In the reception room, when Ling opened the door and walked in, he saw Yafidi walking around with a very anxious look on his face. As soon as Zero came in, he immediately said: "There is a very important video for you to watch."
"What video?" While speaking, Ling let the soldiers go out and closed the gate. Don't let anyone bother him until he comes out. Then he sat down with Yafidi, and the latter handed him a brain with a video window already open, ready to play at any time.
Yafidi said: "This is the information that my friend and the leader of the Fourth Knights, Signe, secretly asked someone to send to me. Signe may have had an accident, and the one who made him pay the price with his life is This video."
Zero listened, and put on a dignified expression. The importance of something that can make a legion commander sacrifice his life and hand it over to Yafidi cannot be overstated. He immediately clicked to play, the video started with a square, and there was a majestic and gorgeous building in front of the square. Yafidi explained next to him: "This is the Pope's Hall in Rome, and it is also the highest authority."
The video continues, and the photographer enters the Pope's Hall. Then came to a spacious hall, and then Zero saw Sauron. After Sauron gave a passionate speech to the ten or so officers below, he was led away by someone. Judging from Sauron's words, he really has the same method as Zero guessed before, and has a method for advanced abilities.
Then these officers entered a palace-like building, and Yafidi pointed out in time that this was Sauron's palace, and it was also the place where he usually rested and worked. But the photographer did not enter the palace, but retreated quietly, and then went through several complicated corridors to the back of the palace. At this moment, the picture paused for a moment, then the camera began to rise, and then poked in through the gap in the window. It seems that the photographer should have used equipment such as a miniature camera.
In the picture, a tall man in a black trench coat suddenly appeared. He turned his back to the camera, showing off his well-proportioned and perfect body. The long silver hair was spreading out, holding the officers who had walked into the palace like tentacles, and transmitting some kind of energy towards these officers.
When a certain task is done, the man lets go of the officer and stands still. It wasn't until a moment later that he turned around suddenly, and then Zero saw a face very similar to himself, and that golden left eye that was like gold!
This is the end of the video.
Subconsciously, Zero reached out to touch his right eye.
He knew who the silver-haired man was.
That is Gaia, the dark knight of Proseus. Zero originated from him, the ultra life form created by Agladis, which was originally intended to be used as a body to carry the will of the planet. Reluctantly, Gaia has consciousness himself, and Agladis can only seal him up. Unexpectedly, in this era, it was discovered by Proseus and transformed into his own knight.
Zero knew that he would meet Gaia sooner or later, because Proseus wanted to find himself out and kill him through him. Unexpectedly, Gaia is on the western continent, and it is still in Sauron's palace. Agladis once said that Proseus obscured his perception of Gaia, so Agladis, who borrowed the brain of the queen of Andura bugs to temporarily bring her will down, did not mention this.
Otherwise, with the danger of the black knight, Agladis will remind him no matter what.
And now, everything seems to be happening too fast. Before Zero was ready, Gaia suddenly appeared.
Yafeidi said at this time: "How could this be? Zero, why did you and this man..."
No wonder Yafidi was so confused, after all, that man was very similar to Zero. Whether it's the appearance, or the golden pupils on the left and right. The two are like the positive and negative sides of a mirror, making people unable to help but speculate about their relationship.
"It's a long story. In short, this guy should be regarded as my destiny enemy. I knew that I would meet and fight with him sooner or later. But I didn't expect that I would bump into him in the Western Continent." Ling Shen said: " If it's him, then I'm sorry, Captain Signe probably has no chance of surviving."
Yafidi's face darkened, obviously Zero was very familiar with this man. If even he said that, then Signe was basically dead.
"However, Captain Signe risked his life to send this information to you, so there must be another meaning behind it?" Zero asked.
"Yes, once this video is released, it will cause a huge blow to Sauron's reputation. Signe should also know this, because no matter how we fight for power, it is an internal struggle after all. But if Let others know that Sauron borrowed external force, then he has already stepped on the bottom line that many people can tolerate." Yafidi smiled bitterly: "Signe wants me to choose, to publish this information to speed up the process of Sauron Long’s demise. It’s better to destroy it, so that you can’t break through the city of Rome so easily.”
"But you showed him to me..."
Yafidi nodded and said with determination in his eyes: "Because I can no longer tolerate what Sauron has done!"
"I see..." Zero said, "In two days, Pope Paul will arrive in Rock City, and you can give him this information at that time. I think he is more suitable than anyone else to handle this information. You What do you say?"
Yafidi thought for a while and said, "That's true."
Two days later, Pope Paul arrived in the Rock City as scheduled. His arrival undoubtedly gave the residents of the city a shot in the arm. The appearance of Paul, to a certain extent, explained the "legality" of the zero-class people, and put a layer of protection on them called "angels of the gods", and at the same time pushed Sauron to the other end of the opposition to the gods. If Sauron hadn't held a heavy army, he would have been condemned by the Inquisition now.
The Rock City has now become the focus of the entire continent. Paul's public appearance and the legal transformation of the invaders are full of too much information. More importantly, on the same day that Paul arrived in Rock City, Joseph and Mendriza issued a statement at the same time, stating that the family would support Pope Paul without hesitation, which was undoubtedly another blockbuster.
That night, Yafidi secretly met with Paul under Zero's arrangement. Three days later, a video was quietly circulated in Rome. In the video, when the pope's hall, Sauron's palace, and the mysterious man were connected together, there were rumors that Sauron and outsiders persecuted the officers of the Knights. After all, in that video, no matter how the silver-haired man behaved Look also has nothing to do with the word friendliness.
For a time, opposition to Sauron's ruling was raised in the city of Rome. After this incident, it is not difficult to see Mendriza and other giants behind the scenes fueling the flames.