Chapter 1877 Population Reduction Plan

"I object. All preparations have not been made at all. We do not have enough lamp-carrying monks. Even if you regain Rand City now, the existing lamp-carrying monks will not be able to purify the city. Those things will grow back by then." The top of the volcano In a room in the Redemption Temple, the chief priest of the Goddess of Civilization said to his colleagues with great dissatisfaction: "You simply want to take advantage of the opportunity to regain the city and let those people in the outer city die and reduce the city to a large extent. population.”

In this not very big room, there are three people sitting at a triangular table with the Holy Emblem of the Redeemer engraved on the top. The three of them are the real controllers of the city of New Rand, and they are also the most important people in this city. Although the leaders of the Redemption Church are in charge of the city together, they have their own exclusive duties. They usually deal with their own affairs separately. It is rare that they gather together to discuss matters like now.

Outside the room, the three subordinates gathered in an area, chatting quietly, and looking towards the door of the room from time to time, as if they were all waiting for a clear result of the matters discussed in the room.

"I am also doing this for the sake of New Rand." In the room, faced with the accusation from the goddess of civilization, the goddess of victory seemed very calm. After emphasizing that she was not selfish in making such a proposal, she retorted with emphasis. : "You also know how much grain storage is left in the city now. If new seeds are to be catalyzed, it will take a certain amount of time. With the current grain storage, it is impossible to supply the entire city and the troops stationed in the camp outside. During this period, all the food will be consumed in a month at most. When there is no food supply, no matter how solid the faith is, the people's hearts in our city will collapse. One bite will make them dare to do anything, and then the city will usher in a civil war. No matter what the final result is, New Rand will be destroyed." As she spoke, she stood up from the chair and put her hands on it. On the table, he leaned forward slightly and pressed towards the chief priest of the goddess of civilization from a overlooking angle. At the same time, he said: "Instead of holding everyone together and dying together, it is better to reduce the population through some methods and extend the time of food consumption."

The chief priest of the Goddess of Civilization waited for the other party angrily, and stood up from the chair, saying: "You are really crazy, have you ever thought about it? What you are doing is a disguised sacrifice to those things in the old city, and you have gained so much. Have you ever thought about how far those things will grow after the sacrifice? How much more time will we need to prepare to make up for this gap? Ten years, twenty years, or another sixty years... …”

"So what about sixty years," the Priestess of the Goddess of Victory said solemnly: "Although it has taken a little longer, at least we still have a chance to fulfill our sacred oath. But if this city is destroyed by civil war due to food problems, do you think we can still Is there a chance to rebuild the city?" As she spoke, her eyes shifted from the goddess of civilization to the goddess of the lantern who remained silent. She continued: "It's impossible. We can't rebuild New Rand. We will. He was transferred back to the Holy City, and then stayed in the Holy Seminary forever as a Sister of Tranquility.”

Faced with the aggressiveness of the officiant of the Goddess of Victory, the Goddess of Civilization couldn't resist. She was speechless when asked and did not continue to refute. How could she not know that although the other party's proposal had drawbacks, it was the fastest and the best that could be thought of now. The best way to solve the problems in the city. As the chief priest of the goddess of civilization, she is in charge of the daily government affairs in the city. She is also responsible for food distribution and storage, so she knows better than anyone else that the food shortage in the city is now very serious. , if some extraordinary means are not used to solve it, it will be difficult to have a chance to recover when the food is completely exhausted. However, her personal morality and her belief do not allow her to use the method of the goddess of victory. Solve the food shortage problem faced by the city now.

The method proposed by the Priestess of the Goddess of Victory is very simple. It is to use the recovery plan as an excuse to hold a victory march to recapture Rand City in advance. It is said to be an exercise to the outside world, but after arriving at the location, it changes from an exercise to a real recapture of Rand City. , in this case of insufficient preparation, the result is doomed, and a large number of casualties can also alleviate the current food pressure in the city. At that time, only one person with sufficient weight will be required to bear the responsibility for this failure. , and such a candidate is easy to find. Corrupted officials abound in the inner city, and you can pick out several at will. The reason why the three chief priests let these worms exist is that they intend to use them as officials when necessary. Abandoned son.

However, quelling public anger is not the main problem of this plan. The real problem is, as the Priestess of the Goddess of Civilization said before, a large number of casualties in the urban area of ​​Rand will inevitably cause the giant vines entrenched there to mutate again. , then the difficulty for them to regain Rand City will increase exponentially, and they may not be able to complete this sworn mission in their lifetime.

But if this plan is not implemented, the situation in the city will only continue to worsen, and in the end we will have to watch the New Rand that was finally established collapse step by step. This is something the three chief priests absolutely do not want to see.

After a moment of silence, the chief priest of the Goddess of Civilization suddenly suggested: "Maybe we can ask the Holy City of Redemption for help."

"No." This time, the Victory Goddess Priestess had not had time to express her opposition. The Lantern Goddess Priestess, who had not spoken since the beginning, had already opposed the proposal immediately, and repeated with a stronger tone: "We absolutely cannot ask for help from the Holy City of Redemption. All problems can only be solved by ourselves."

Although the three goddess priests in the room advertised that they were equal in status, in fact, everyone who knew the Redemption Order knew that the Lantern Goddess was the leader of the three goddesses. Therefore, the status of the Lantern Goddess Priestess was relatively higher than the other two, and she knew more things. So when she expressed her opposition so clearly, the other two goddess priests couldn't help but look at her, as if waiting for the other party to explain the reason for the opposition.

The Lantern Goddess Priestess fell silent, and seemed unwilling to tell the other two colleagues what she was thinking, but the other two had no intention of letting her go, and they kept staring at her without saying a word.

Faced with this situation, the Lantern Goddess Priest couldn't help but frowned, a look of hesitation appeared on her face, but she finally let go and explained: "I have accurate information, the three of us are on the list of the Redemption Trial."

Hearing this, the other two goddess priests were all stunned, and even stopped breathing. It was hard to tell whether the expressions on their faces were joy, excitement or worry. In short, they were very complicated.

After a long while, the Victory Goddess Priest couldn't help but yell at the Lantern Goddess Priest: "Are you crazy? You told us such an important thing just now. If you had told us earlier, this situation would not have happened at all."

The Civilization Goddess Priest also showed a look of dissatisfaction on her face.

The Lantern Goddess Priest immediately defended herself, "I just found out recently, and I was the same as you before."

Hearing her say this, the Civilization Goddess Priest immediately thought of something and asked, "Have you asked for help from the Holy City of Redemption?"

The Lantern Goddess Priest nodded, acknowledging her colleague's guess, and said, "The High Priest said that we can be provided with support, but our trial will be considered a failure, and our qualifications to meet the Lord will be cancelled."

"We can't ask for support." At this moment, the other two goddess priests all gave their decisions at the same time.

After the voice fell, the three goddess priests looked at each other at the same time, and no one said anything. They all knew that in the face of the only opportunity in their lives to meet the Lord, all worries, concerns and reluctance could be abandoned, and the final decision no longer needed to be discussed.

Just when the three goddess priests made a decision and were ready to discuss further plans, the Civilization Goddess Priest suddenly froze in place as if she had sensed something, then turned and looked in the direction of the large library under her management, with a hint of doubt on her face.

"What's wrong?" The other two goddess priests noticed the same thing as their colleagues and asked.

The goddess of civilization hesitated for a moment and said, "I seemed to feel that I was in the Great Library just now..." Then she stopped again, shook her head, and said, "It should be an illusion, it should be an illusion."

The goddess of lanterns frowned and said in a deep voice, "Say it in full, what did you feel in the Great Library?"

The goddess of civilization replied, "My Lord, I felt that my Lord seemed to be in the Great Library."

"This is impossible." Before the goddess of lanterns could speak, the goddess of victory shook her head and said, "Even if my Lord descended, he would only appear in the Lantern Temple, and never appeared outside the Lantern Temple, let alone the Great Library."

"That's why I think it's an illusion." The goddess of civilization rolled her eyes at the other party and said.

"No, you should go to the library." The Lantern Goddess Priest did not completely deny her colleague's feelings, so she made a suggestion, then turned to the Victory Goddess Priest and said, "You should also go back to prepare a plan, and come back tomorrow to discuss the implementation details."

The Victory Goddess Priest did not object, but asked the Lantern Goddess Priest with a little doubt, "What about you?"

The Lantern Goddess Priest said solemnly, "I will go back to the temple to pray to my Lord, hoping to get inspiration from my Lord."

At the same time, in the library, Leo had scanned all the books in the library into the database of his brain through the mental network, but he did not sort out the information immediately at this moment, because another thing attracted his attention.

Just when he took back the mental network just now, he seemed to have triggered some kind of restriction hidden in the statue of the goddess of civilization in the hall of the library, and then produced a short energy resonance with it. This energy resonance did not cause any abnormal phenomenon, nor did it have any subsequent effects. It felt like two people with a good relationship greeted each other after meeting, ordinary and simple.

Leo walked to the statue of the Goddess of Civilization. Although the statue looked quite different from Sylvia and did not show her appearance, Leo could still feel a sense of familiarity, as if he had seen Sylvia herself.

On the book held in the statue's hand was the holy emblem of the Goddess of Civilization. This holy emblem exuded a burst of divine power. This should be the divine power of the Goddess of Civilization. Although it was divine power, the energy fluctuations generated by the divine power were a bit similar to Sylvia's witch power. Obviously, the power corresponding to the Goddess of Civilization came from the witch power.

However, the power that resonated with Leo's power just now was not the power of the Goddess of Civilization, but the holy emblem ring of the Lord of Redemption made of alloy metal behind the head of the Goddess of Civilization. In this holy emblem ring, there is another kind of power, which Leo has never seen before. I think this should be Sylvia's exclusive power, and he also wants to know whether Sylvia has sensed the resonance just now. If she sensed it, then Sylvia should know that he has also come to this world.

Therefore, Leo stood under the statue and did not leave immediately, but waited for a while, wanting to wait for the holy emblem of the Lord of Redemption on the statue to produce some reaction, but disappointed him, there was no reaction.

Somewhat disappointed Leo was about to turn around and leave, and then he heard a movement from the entrance of the library, and then he saw a woman in religious clothes coming in from outside, and when the other people in the library saw this woman, they stopped what they were doing, saluted the woman very respectfully, and called her name.

"The head priest of the Goddess of Civilization." Leo looked at the woman and felt that the woman contained a power belonging to the Goddess of Civilization. Obviously, she should be an extraordinary person.

Under the influence of psychic power, people turned a blind eye to him, and naturally they were not surprised that he did not salute the ruler of the city.

Although the chief priest of the goddess of civilization was a supernatural being with divine power, she was not strong enough in front of Leo. Facing Leo's psychic power, she was no different from the others around her and also turned a blind eye to Leo.

She walked to the statue of the goddess of civilization, and then prayed in a strange way with her hands covering her face. Then the power of the goddess of civilization on the statue resonated with the power in her body. This resonance was not just a reaction between supernatural powers, but also at the same time, some information was transmitted from the statue to the chief priest, so that she had some understanding of what happened in the library before.

However, she found that nothing happened and everything was normal, which made her suspect that the strangeness she felt before might really be just an illusion.

However, she did not know that the power that just reacted with Leo's psychic power was not the power of the goddess of civilization she possessed, but the power of the Lord of Redemption. She was completely looking in the wrong direction.

At this time, Leo, who had achieved his goal, did not continue to stay in the library and turned around and walked out of the library.

Just as Leo walked out of the library, the high priest of the goddess of victory seemed to sense something and turned to look towards the library door. Leo's psychic power lost its effect for some reason, allowing the high priest to see his leaving figure. However, the high priest did not find anything unusual, and did not know why he suddenly noticed a person leaving the library. His face was full of confusion.