Chapter 1892 Doomsday School Believers
Lambert sat in the carriage with his eyes closed. In the middle of the carriage hung a very exquisite copper aromatherapy burner, in which some special aromatherapy tablets were lit.
This kind of aromatherapy tablet is a secret item of the Goddess of Civilization. The monks will use more than a dozen special materials to make it. It has a strong refreshing effect. The quantity is very small. Only some high-ranking clergy of the order can be distributed. Lambert also paid a lot of money to buy it. Usually, he only uses it a little when sleeping, but recently he needs to use it frequently, otherwise his tense nerves and panic mentality will not be relieved at all, which will drive him crazy.
Smelling this unique fragrance, Lambert's always tense nerves began to relax, his nervous mood also became relieved, and his heavy and confused mind quickly sobered up. While the effect of the aromatherapy was continuing, he began to seriously recall and analyze what he did in the office in the past two days and the details of the reactions of the people around him to determine whether he had been targeted by the people of the trial court.
These days, Lambert and his fellow believers were really frightened. The Inquisition was out in full force, and together with the Holy City's Redemption Army, the entire Holy City was searched inside and out by them. Countless high-ranking figures in the Holy City were arrested during this search, including Lambert's direct superior, the Minister of Finance of the Holy City.
He still remembered the day when the minister was arrested. They were holding a meeting to discuss how to use the remaining resources in the lost city to fill the financial gap after the recovery of the lost city. The minister had just started, and the chief inquisitor of the Inquisition broke into the meeting hall with more than a dozen fully armed trial monks, and directly took out the arrest warrant, and arrested all the more than a dozen high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Finance, including the minister. In the end, only four or five people, including him, were left.
At that time, he was completely terrified. He would also be included in the arrest list because he was a very devout believer in the Doomsday doctrine. Although he also believed in the Lord of Redemption, this did not prevent him from believing in the contents of the Doomsday doctrine at the same time. He found that Rokoman's Doomsday doctrine was just like the prophecy of the prophet, perfectly predicting the direction of the world, so he secretly joined the Doomsday School and gradually became a senior member of this school.
He never thought that his belief in the Doomsday School was against the will of the Lord of Redemption. On the contrary, he believed that the Doomsday School should not be listed as a heretical organization by the Order, because the Doomsday School's doctrine could just fill in the defects of some of the Doomsday Redemption beliefs in the Redemption Order's classics, and Rokoman should not be regarded as a heretic terrorist, but should be listed as a saint of the Order, so he never felt any guilt or worry in his heart.
But now he was a little scared. In his memory, the last time the Inquisition had such a large-scale action was the year when Saint Mariannelia died. He was just born at that time and had no memory of it. After that, the Inquisition monks rarely appeared in the Holy City. Most of the time, they went outside with the Redemption Army to fight against the tribal camps established by heretics and blasphemers.
Although he had no memory of it, he could understand what happened at that time from some secret documents that required permission to read. If you compare what happened at that time with what is happening in the Holy City now, it is not difficult to find that the Inquisition's purge of the Holy City and the Redemption Order has exceeded the purge of that year. You must know that among the dignitaries who fell in the purge of that year, there were no senior clergymen at the priest level in the order, nor minister-level officials in the Holy City.
Now, in less than half a month, more than 20 high-ranking clergymen of the priest level have been taken away by the Inquisition, and more than one-third of the high-ranking officials in the Holy City government have been dismissed, and there are thousands of secondary officials and clergymen. Although these people were taken away for investigation in name only, everyone knows that once they enter the Inquisition, they will never get out again.
This move by the Inquisition has undoubtedly brought a very big impact on the Order. Many policies and plans that are being implemented have to be stopped due to manpower problems. A large number of personnel transfers have made the already chaotic management even more chaotic.
However, this is not the most serious. The most serious impact is the impact of faith. From the lowest level of the grassroots people to the highest level of clergy, they are all shocked that there are so many heretics, cultists and blasphemers hidden in the Holy City. The faith in the Lord of Redemption has also begun to waver, because even the clergy have degenerated into blasphemers, so how can ordinary people maintain their devout faith?
Lambert was one of those whose faith was shaken. Even though he was a member of the Doomsday School, he was also a devout believer in the Lord of Redemption. He couldn't believe that there were so many heretics and cultists hiding around him, including some clergymen who made him feel extremely sacred at ordinary times. This made his faith in the Lord of Redemption begin to waver, but on the contrary, his faith in the Doomsday doctrine increased a lot.
The reason for this is that he believes that the current Redemption Order has begun to decay, and those senior clergymen who are identified as blasphemers are the best proof. Therefore, all the policies and administrative frameworks formulated by the order have problems. This is mainly because there are loopholes in the order's Redemption Code, and Rocoman's Doomsday doctrine can fill this loophole, making the Redemption Code perfect, and the order can naturally become more perfect.
It was precisely because of this idea that he began to look for opportunities that could be exploited to expand the power of the Doomsday School within the Order.
That is to say, in the process of deliberately looking for opportunities, he discovered an interesting situation, that is, during the Inquisition's purge of heretics, cultists and blasphemers, the vast majority of the Doomsday School's believers were safe. Only a few were involved because they were close to other cultists, and because the internal member structure of the doomsday school is extremely confidential, except for him, the doomsday executor, who knows part of the member list, only the doomsday mentor knows The complete list of members in the Holy City, most of the members do not know each other's identity even if they are standing next to each other.
Although Lambert does not know the list of all members, he believes that as long as he can promote the part of the church members he knows to some key departments, then the doomsday mentor who hides his identity will naturally come to see him and give him more information. Many lists.
In normal times, such large-scale promotions or transfers of manpower are almost impossible. Even if you do it, you will be targeted. But it is different now, because a large number of government officials have been implicated in heresy cases, although only part of the evidence has been caught. It is true, but there are still many people who have been implicated, temporarily suspended, or even under house arrest. Therefore, various departments within the Holy City government are extremely short of manpower. Almost all departments are calling people from the bottom to temporarily fill this vacancy, so he mobilized manpower, The move to promote people is not very conspicuous.
However, even so, he still did it carefully. Every transfer order was carefully designed by him. All transfer orders did not directly pass through his hands, so as to reduce the danger of his involvement as much as possible.
However, everything is unexpected. In the past two days, he has been responsible for more than twenty promotion orders. Only three of them were issued by him personally, and one of these three transfer orders was from the Doomsday School. Friend, it’s just that he didn’t know about it when he sent it out. It wasn’t until he was responsible for leading the person to the new department where he was transferred. When he was talking to that person, he heard that the person actually used some banned books of the Doomsday School during the conversation. vocabulary and sentences, and realized that this person was a church member.
This is not good news for Lambert, because from the conversation with that person, he can feel that the person always habitually quotes some words and sentences from banned books of the doomsday school. Ordinary people listen to these The vocabulary and sentences will not have any special ideas, but the trial monks of the Tribunal need to conduct in-depth research on various forbidden books. They know the contents of all forbidden books well, and even know the other party's forbidden knowledge better than some cultists themselves. content, so as long as a trial monk interrogates him, this church member will be identified 100% of the time.
And the department that the man is going to now happens to be the department that the Tribunal needs to conduct three reviews recently. During the third review two days later, if the man cannot change his habits, then he will definitely not be able to escape, and he will be If he is found out, then Lambert, as the issuer of the transfer order, will definitely be investigated. Even if Lambert is very confident that he usually has nothing to be suspicious of, he is still worried about whether he will be investigated. Something unexpected happened.
So in the past two days, he had to consume a large amount of incense inventory, use the power of incense to clear his mind, and repeatedly analyze whether there would be any loopholes in his recent and previous actions.
After confirming that there were no loopholes in his body, Lambert couldn't help but think: "Should I remind him?" As soon as the idea came up, he immediately shook his head and said to himself: "No, it's better not to It’s too dangerous to do this.”
Although he could remind that person to take some precautions in advance and correct his behavior habits, so as to escape the scrutiny of the trial court and prevent him from being implicated, but when he thought about it, he was worried that the person was actually thrown out by the trial court. Bait, after all, that person's behavior is so outstanding, the Tribunal should have discovered this person long ago based on the shrewdness of the Tribunal, so this person is most likely a bait deliberately thrown out by the Tribunal to lure other members of the Doomsday School. If I give a reminder rashly, I will undoubtedly fall into a trap.
The most correct thing to do now is to reduce the doubtful aspects of yourself, especially those banned books of the Doomsday School on hand. Although during this period, he used the sewers of the Holy City to send some of the banned books to a secret place, there are still some The banned books were left at home. Although the banned books of the Doomsday School were not the highest level banned books, even if they were discovered in normal times, they would only be warned and then confiscated. But now, these banned books may be given to He caused a lot of trouble, and he might even be sent to the court of justice.
Imagine being caught in the trial court. No matter how much Lambert thought he was a tough guy, he had to admit that he would definitely not be able to survive the interrogation and would definitely tell everything he knew.
"Burn it! It must be burned!" Thinking of this, Lambert made up his mind.
As time passed, the incense in the carriage gradually faded, and its effectiveness began to fade. Lambert opened the curtains of the carriage slightly to let some air in, so that the turbid air in the carriage could be blown away.
However, when his sight passed through the gap in the curtains and fell outside, he found something wrong, because the scene outside the carriage was no longer the red brick, uniform and boring apartment houses in the Holy City, but a primeval forest. The trees that entered his field of vision were all very thick and lush, feeling like the primeval forests recorded in the remaining images before the catastrophe.
After the catastrophe, the Abyss vines appeared and occupied the city. They not only devoured the energy crystals, but also absorbed nutrients from the earth and air. This caused the plants growing in the primeval forests around the world to wither on a large scale. Only vines, shrubs, mosses and other low plants could grow. As for the tall trees, except for a few forests that were not within the range of the Abyss vines, they could still remain the same. It was basically difficult to see ten-meter-high trees in other places.
Abyssal vines grow where the Holy City is located, and there are many lost cities around. The abyssal vines in the lost cities are connected together, and have long caused all the trees within a radius of thousands of kilometers to wither. They have not recovered yet. If you want to see trees, you need to go thousands of kilometers away to see them. Therefore, you can't see any trees in the carriage that was still on the streets of the Holy City a moment ago.
This scene reminded him of some bad things. Although his department has nothing to do with hunting down heretics, as a senior official in the department, he has more or less heard about some mysterious events designed by evil from other channels. Many of these mysterious events mentioned that the encounterer will enter a space formed by a certain evil force, and then encounter terrible things in the space, just like what he is encountering now.
"I can't go out. If I go out, I'll die!" Fear instantly filled Lambert's heart. He hurriedly lowered the curtains, curled up in the carriage, took out his self-defense gun, and held it tightly in his hand. Even though he knew that if he really encountered those mysterious events, he might not be able to save himself even if he had a gun, but he still felt that holding a gun could make him feel more at ease.
After the carriage traveled for a distance, it suddenly stopped. The driver in front did not move. In fact, Lambert thought that the driver might have been killed just now, and now the carriage stopped, making him wonder if the horse was dead too.
Just when Lambert was in awe, a white light penetrated the wooden board of the carriage and shone on him. He felt unprecedented warmth, and his fearful heart seemed to settle down under the light.