Chapter 479 Fermentation

The thick smoke and flames on the burning ground have not completely dissipated, and the priests and the knights of the Holy See who executed the burning turned around and left-this place full of pungent smell and watched by a large number of ignorant and foolish people made the priests and knights feel annoyed, although On weekdays, they would happily stay on the scene, enjoying the awe and panic of the people around them, but now they are obviously not in that mood.

There's still a lot of hassle to deal with in the church district, and the impact of brochures isn't limited to the outer city.

The ordinary soldiers in the square were also evacuated, and the gathered people also scattered and scattered. This brief burn at the stake slightly broke the lifeless atmosphere of the siege state, but it did not make people feel uplifted. On the contrary, in the square. A fire in the 1970s only brought fear and doubts to people——

It was an illiterate tramp who was burned to death... The church just arrested people at random... The essence of heresy trials is intimidation and violence.

Ordinary people may not have known whether the things in those brochures were real, but now the church has at least voluntarily admitted that some of them are true.

The crowd dissipated, leaving only some clerical servants of the Holy See who were guarding the burning scene and still guarding the burning ground. They had to wait for the fire to be completely extinguished to clean up the ashes here to prevent the fire from starting, and the last small group was sparse. The civilians of the people are wandering around the edge of the square, but the Holy See servants who are watching the scene don't care about these wandering crowds - they are just a group of foolish people doing nothing.

After leaving the square, a few people dressed as farmers and artisan apprentices drilled into the nearby narrow alley, easily throwing everyone's attention, and gathered in a semi-abandoned hut.

A man with messy hair and sunken eyes spat at the side: "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 the poor man..."

The few people gathered in the hut couldn't help sighing softly, and a blurred and distorted shadow suddenly appeared in the shadow in the corner of the hut. The shadow shook twice in the air, quickly gathered and condensed into a petite Figure: "We can't save everyone, and our mission doesn't allow us to risk exposure to save people - when things happen, the only way we can avoid standing by is to use the skills we Every opportunity to spread chaos and division between opponents."

When the few people gathered in the hut saw this petite figure emerging, they immediately got up and saluted respectfully: "Director!"

"You can't call your position during the mission, even if you confirm the safety of the surrounding area. The next time you commit a crime, each person will record it once -- you have a lot to learn." She looked around, "But your actions in the square are still qualified.

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It was a special operations team from the MI, and Amber personally led them.

Lu'an City has been blocked, and the last time someone entered or exited the city gate was 20 days ago, but for Amber, who has mastered deep shadow skills, it is not necessary to send a team and a batch of materials into Lu'an City through the Shadow Realm. Difficulty - even if Amber, the "Director of Military Intelligence", doesn't take action, the professionally trained officers of the Military Intelligence Agency 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 gave this team a lot of convenience - obviously, the people in the cathedral had no experience in dealing with spy sabotage at all, or almost everyone in this era was in front of them. It will be full of flaws when dealing with military intelligence operators trained by Cecil.

The temporary Bishop Luan focused most of his attention on maintaining the operation of the church district, and for the outer city where a large number of "useless civilians" gathered, he arranged only a minimum number of soldiers and monks to maintain order. In the context of this era, it is understandable: in terms of the confrontation form of this era, only the extraordinary and the vassal forces around the extraordinary are valuable, while the vast majority of the people at the bottom have neither the power to shake the order, nor the power to shake the order. Without the idea of ​​active resistance, for the bottom civilians, using enough force to deter them is enough to ensure order - this is the most cost-effective idea so far.

However, the operatives of the Military Intelligence Agency started to infiltrate from these lowest areas, and gradually spread the chaos to the experts at the top.

From five days ago, Amber took this team to lurk in Lu'an City. According to the order of the upper level, they distributed the first batch of propaganda materials in the outer city, and kept spreading the situation in Lu'an City to the outside. The priests of Ann Cathedral were slower than expected to respond to the propaganda materials - they didn't finally notice this until the first batch of materials had been distributed.

Then came the city-wide search and arrest, 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 accumulated enormous pressure, and as long as there was any reason to vent, their pressure would immediately turn into shameful atrocities.

And they don't think there's anything wrong with it.

Although the situation inside the church district is unclear, Amber can also guess what will happen inside the walls of the inner city: some of the propaganda materials directly point to the conflicts of interest within the church, and other content implicitly refers to Cecil The preferential treatment policy for the "Awakened Priests", although this level of propaganda materials alone cannot directly pull those low-level priests in marginal areas to Cecil's side, it is enough to cause a certain degree of shake and confusion.

The city has been locked down for 60 days, and the internal contradictions that are fermenting have already begun to ferment. Any form of fanning at this moment will have an unprecedented effect.

And as the atmosphere inside the church district becomes tense, those in charge of Luan Cathedral will have less energy to pay attention to the outer city - they may even think that the problems of the outer city have been "effective purification ceremony" by them Give a complete solution, so as to relax your vigilance.

Then the next activities of the MI agents will be easier.

Amber touched her smooth chin - this seemingly very fanciful thinking action she learned from Gawain, it can make herself look more dignified: "How is the working of the magic net terminal? The picture is sent back. Is it?"

A tall and thin MIIA operator patted the black metal box placed at his feet: "It's in good condition -- and the miniaturized magic net terminal is much lighter and more convenient to use."

This tall and thin MIIA operative was the one who carried the burlap bag in the square before.

The black metal box at his feet is obviously a magic device-it is slightly narrow at one end, and a crystal is inlaid at the front and directly above the shell. The size of the entire metal box is less than half a meter, and it is wrapped with straw. After that kind of thing, it just fits into a burlap 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 web communicator, this device is already incredibly small and black technology.

"Be careful when you use it - the mechanics took a lot of work to make it so small," Amber nodded, "This is the key to defeating those gods, our purpose is not only to destroy Lu Ancheng, it is not only to drive them out of the cathedral, but more importantly, to drive them out of the 'Southern Territory', and whether this goal can be achieved... depends on our next actions."

The officers of the Military Intelligence Agency were gearing up and fighting with high spirits: "Yes!"

"Very good, then assign the next task - thin man, you and the hound continue to operate in the outer city, record all the scenes that are unfavorable to the Church of the Holy Light and send it back to the headquarters; The place spreads the news that Bishop Bremont has spoken and acted strangely, but pay attention to your own safety. Others will go to the Shadow Realm with me and move things."

The well-trained operatives of the Military Intelligence Agency acted immediately, and a member who was named by Amber into the Shadow Realm asked casually, "Boss, what are you moving?"

"Flyers and picture books," Amber grinned and smiled, "another 20,000 copies were sent later—and more are on the way."

"Hey—" the team members couldn't help whistling, with a happy smile on their faces, "they don't burn as fast as we print..."

...

After more than ten days of traveling day and night, the witch Jibry finally returned to this long-awaited land.

She still remembered what 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, and the entire fortress was completely renovated and rebuilt , Workers used steel plates and shock-absorbing skeletons to reinforce the northern city wall of the fortress day and night, while magic technicians and mechanical sergeants installed large and small magic guns on the guide rails and gun mounts at the top of the city wall. The web array and all kinds of magic devices that had never been seen before filled the line of sight, almost blinding Jibry and fellow Pierce.

After seeing the scene of the rock fortress, the two officers of the Military Intelligence Agency who had been out for more than half a year realized that the return trip was correct: the development speed of the mainland is simply unbelievable, living in the slow and backward capital of Ansu Here, I watch the nobles hold dance parties and socialize every day. I can't imagine what my hometown is developing every day. If I really live in the capital for three years and five years, I'm afraid even children will be lost when I come back. Not as good.

But even with this kind of awareness, when they actually entered the capital of the duchy, Cecil City, the two operators fell into a sluggishness for a long time.

The city... not only doubled in size from when they left, but even the layout of streets in many places has changed.

The workshops and public sheds that were temporarily built before have been moved to the eastern industrial area, and have been improved into huge factory facilities, while the streets that originally consisted of only a few brick houses and at most a few brick buildings have become The bustling blocks, rich in Ansu style, and practicality-oriented residential buildings are arranged in various areas like the guardians of the city, and between these areas are the commercial blocks that have developed rapidly due to the increasingly prosperous economy...

The two officers of the Military Intelligence Agency could never have imagined that a larger new urban area construction plan on the north bank of the Baishui River had already entered the stage of laying foundations—because the population migration in the southern border and the merging of villages and towns continued, and the population of Cecil City increased again. going to double...

So Jipley and Pierce went into town with a mixture of consternation and pride, and finished their report in the O.I. building—thankfully, at least they didn't get lost in the military zone.

"Director Amber is out on a mission," said the receptionist of the Military Intelligence Agency while registering the two expatriate operators, "but she knows that you will return in the near future, and has already arranged the next plan for you."

After completing the registration of the report, the young female clerk serving as the receptionist handed the new identification and information bag to Jibry and Pierce, then stood up straight, and said solemnly: "Thank you for your kindness to Cecil. Contribution - hard work!"

Pierce and Jibry were a little stunned for a while: they had been away from here for so long and missed so many crucial stages of organization that they didn't know how to react for a while, and had to smile a little embarrassedly and reservedly, fortunately The receptionist also 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 cautious, this is your home. Operator Pierce, you can disband and rest now. As for Operator Jibry ...there is a special task for you."

Jibry's eyes widened in surprise: "Mission?"

She couldn't help but murmured in her heart: Is there no vacation...

"Please relax, you don't need to go out to work, the content of the task is relatively easy," the receptionist seemed to see Jibry's thoughts, she showed a slightly mysterious smile, "This task is given by the lord - you can rest For half a day, please report to the lord's mansion at 4 o'clock in the afternoon."

(surprise!!)