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The murder of the bishop of the Chicago Diocese caused a sensation throughout Chicago for a time, especially the believers in the diocese, who were very angry about it. They believed that Bishop Billy Lee Tuttle was a kind, merciful, compassionate righteous man who regarded the Lord's cause as the highest goal of his life and was the most trusted pastor of all the believers in the diocese. The murder of such a person is definitely a provocation to the Lord.

It is no wonder that this case caused such a sensation, because in the West, the status of clergy is very special. They are the connection point between believers and God. Any act of killing clergy is an unforgivable felony. This behavior is intolerable in Western countries where God is generally believed. Even the most vicious criminals will not do such a thing. After all, when they die, they also need clergy to make the final confession for them.

What's more, he is still a bishop of a diocese, so the impact is naturally great.

However, the reversal of public opinion is also very fast in this fast-paced society. That afternoon, the police announced the collection in Billy Lee Tuttle's secret room. There are many things in it that are expressly prohibited by the Catholic Church, which shows that the bishop does not want to be as loyal to Jesus Christ as he shows himself. The more explosive news is that this Catholic bishop actually believes in a cult! This is big news.

For a time, Billy Lee Tuttle's house became the hottest news location in Chicago. Countless cameras and reporters surrounded the house. The Chicago police were also very generous. In addition to not allowing people to enter the house, everything taken out of it could be photographed.

This is naturally Kai's masterpiece. According to general procedures, unless it is necessary, the things at the crime scene cannot be announced before the case is clear. Moreover, many things in it are considered Billy Lee Tuttle's personal belongings. Logically, there is no direct connection with his murder.

But don't forget, Kai is a policeman. If he says something is related to the case, then it is related. If it is related, it is naturally evidence. Of course, the evidence must be taken back. As for being photographed by reporters? That's because the brothers below are careless. Well, we will criticize and educate them, or what? Are they fired for such a small matter? You know, it's difficult for the Chicago Police Department to recruit people now.

In short, a century-long melon was formed in Chicago, and then the Vatican Church in Europe was shot.

Damn, the world's first religion actually had an insider, and the level of this insider was not low, a bishop of a large diocese, and according to Chicago's influence, the level of this bishop was not low within the Vatican.

Perhaps because of the influence of the Catholic priests' child molestation incidents, the Vatican's crisis public relations were very good. As soon as the Chicago media exposed the scandal, a plane carrying a cardinal and a whole public relations team came to Chicago. They must minimize the impact of this incident.

The first stop was the Chicago Police Department. After all, the Chicago Police Department was directly responsible for this matter. And judging from the speed of the incident, the Chicago Police Department definitely did not play any positive role. They must figure out the position of the Chicago police.

Deputy Director Cooper was distressed. As a Catholic, he could not accept that his bishop had betrayed their faith emotionally, and found from the items in the underground secret room that their bishop was not just a cult believer, but also involved in some more terrible things.

According to his original intention, such cases should be handled in a low-key manner. This is not abuse of power for personal gain, but just doing things within the scope of one's duties. Unfortunately, Kai and Matthew refused to do it. Matthew was the most direct, running directly to Chief Cooper's office and making a rare quarrel, even breaking Chief Cooper's cup.

In addition, Kai also asked so, so Cooper could only do it.

There was no way, Matthew was his old subordinate. When Matthew was still a newcomer, Cooper threw him into the gang as an undercover. He did it for three years and three years. Ten years of undercover career almost ruined Matthew's life. Even if he returned to the police force, he had great psychological problems. And what about Cooper? Relying on the intelligence provided by Matthew, it cannot be said that he was promoted step by step, but he made a lot of contributions to his establishment.

In other words, Cooper owed Matthew, and Cooper himself thought so.

At the same time, Kai was also involved. Kai was not only the trump card of the police station, but also made a lot of contributions, which made Cooper's face rise. In addition to Kai's network of relationships, Cooper must also give some face.

So under the strong demands of Kai and Matthew, a big drama unfolded in front of everyone.

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Bishop Parma was very troubled. Since 2002, a report titled "Catholic Priests Molesting Boys" in the Boston Globe has revealed the dark side of sexual abuse by Catholic priests over the years, shocking the whole United States. The Boston Globe used a full page to expose the sexual abuse scandal of Father Geoghan. After the news was exposed, thousands of "child sexual abuse" victims filed complaints, and in the past 40 years in the Boston Diocese of the United States, no less than 60 priests have been criminally charged for reaching out to children.

After the Boston Globe attracted the world's attention to these sexual abuse incidents, the attention to the "Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Crisis" reached its peak in the early 21st century, and a large number of accusations followed.

This has caused the church's top leaders to be overwhelmed, and they have to deal with hundreds of lawsuits every year. Not only that, the Catholic Church has also been calling for a fight in recent years in terms of public opinion.

There is no way, who says Catholicism is the world's number one religion, too conspicuous.

Bishop Palma also hates his colleagues very much, but for the dignity and face of the Holy See, he has to run around every year to eliminate these negative influences.

As a member of Opus Dei, Palma is very conservative.

Here we need to explain Opus Dei. This sect was founded by Spanish priest José María-Escrivá in 1928. It advocates a return to conservative Roman Catholic values ​​and encourages believers to make great sacrifices in order to practice "God's good deeds." The full name is "Higher Order of the Holy Cross and the Grace of God". The organization operates with strict and ruthless efficiency; anyone can be dispensable, but the rules must be followed unconditionally. Opus Dei always recruits the most talented students from colleges and universities. Because of the terrifying atmosphere of "Black Cloak Dagger" surrounding it, it is often called the "Holy Spirit Mafia".

Although there are many controversies, there is no doubt that this organization has an extremely important position in the Roman Curia, because they always uphold the idea that the majesty of the Curia is above all else, and are highly valued by the Vatican.

Their way of dealing with scandals is very simple. They can transfer the clergy involved in the scandal, but they will never allow conviction and trial. Many clergy who have caused harm have become "cardinals" with high status, and some have even been recommended by the Catholic Church to work in the "Disney Theme Park" in the United States. This is simply sending wolves into the flock of sheep...

In a word, it is impossible to admit that you have made a mistake!

This way of handling is undoubtedly deeply appreciated by the Vatican, so the main members of this sect all hold important positions in the Vatican.

Bishop Parma is one of the best. It is precisely because of his public relations that the scandals over the years have not affected the authority of the Roman Curia.

But this time, Bishop Parma feels that the situation is more serious than all the previous scandals.

Apostasy!

A term that seems to exist in the Middle Ages.

But now it happened to a bishop! This is undoubtedly a scandal, a huge scandal, and it may even affect the authority of the Catholic Church. After all, a bishop's apostasy and an insignificant believer's apostasy are two different concepts. If a religion even has senior clergymen betraying their faith, what prestige and credibility does this religion have?

Palma came to Chicago in a low-key manner, and then found a city council member and asked him to take him to the Chicago Police Department to find Deputy Chief Cooper, who was in charge of the case. This is already a very high standard, otherwise, with the arrogance of the Roman Catholic Church, a deputy chief would never get a personal visit from a cardinal.

Faced with the visit and mediation of a cardinal, Cooper couldn't bear the pressure.

This pressure comes not only from faith, but also from votes.

When a policeman reaches Cooper's level, he can no longer be simply called a policeman. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a politician. Indeed, in the United States, a cardinal cannot control a deputy chief of a large city police department, but don't forget that they control the believers.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago is a Roman Catholic province archdiocese in the United States and one of the 32 archdioceses in the country. It covers Cook County and Lake County in Illinois, and has five parishes under its jurisdiction. There are 2,364,000 church members!

They don't need to influence the votes of more than two million people. Even if they only influence one tenth of the votes, it is a very large number.

No politician can ignore such a powerful force.

Cooper wants to be promoted to the chief, which is basically known to the entire Chicago Police Department. He dares to offend a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church?

But he can't go back on his words to his subordinates. So Deputy Chief Cooper simply went all out and called Kai and Matthew directly.

Kai's response was even simpler. He took out the videotape directly.

After that...

After watching it for no more than ten minutes, Bishop Palma screamed and asked someone to turn off the videotape.

"This videotape was obtained from the intelligence team. When they were helping us track down the murder of Billy Lee Tuttle, they caught a thief who was selling stolen goods nearby and got this videotape from him."

Kai ejected the videotape from the video recorder, put it into an evidence bag, and threw it on the desk. Then he crossed his arms and looked at the big shot at the scene with an expression of "you decide what to do".

Cooper saw this videotape for the first time, and he was shocked and felt physically uncomfortable. He also quickly guessed that the reason why Kai and Matthew were so eager to ask him to help get a search warrant was that they must have known the existence of this videotape, but they didn't say anything. Obviously, they were even on guard against him.

But at the moment, he didn't want to blame these two people for being on guard against him.

Because the content of this videotape was too horrifying.

Parma finally resisted the urge to vomit, and stared at the videotape. It seemed that he was going to pounce on it and destroy it the next moment.

Unexpectedly, Kai took the initiative to push the videotape in front of Bishop Parma.

"If you are interested, you can take it back and enjoy it slowly. After all, your Catholic Church has done a lot of disgusting things over the years. But I want to remind you that before we got this videotape, this thing had been copied. As for how much it was copied... I don't know. Anyway, it is very likely that this thing will be all over the country tomorrow."

Whether to copy or not is not a matter of Kai's words, so this sentence can be completely understood as a threat. Of course, it may be true, but no one present believes it.

Palma's face flushed and glared at Kai.

But Kai smiled happily.

"By the way, after a technical comparison, there are several young people without masks in the picture, including Billy Lee Tuttle, the former bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago."

Another lore!

Palma's flushed face immediately turned darker.

Catholicism has dioceses all over the world except China. There are many bishops, and many places are far away from the emperor. It is very common to indulge in extravagance and do some excessive actions in private. But the content of this videotape is too crazy. Once it is circulated, the prestige of Catholicism will definitely suffer the most terrible blow in history.

Even if this is a pagan sacrifice, there is actually a bishop of a diocese in it!

How do others view the Roman Catholic Church?

Blind or in collusion?

This is not the end. As soon as Kai stretched out his hand, Matthew immediately handed over a document. Kai threw the documents in front of Bishop Parma very rudely.

"This is the Siyuan Project hosted by Billy Lee Tuttle during his lifetime. He planned to open church schools throughout the state to enroll poor children for free. But the interesting thing is that children and women continue to disappear around these schools, and even some of them have disappeared in the school. We roughly calculated that at least more than 380 children and women have disappeared, and this is still on record. Look at this document. It shows some missing cases that have been cancelled in some counties. There are about 45 missing persons, and the missing persons have never appeared again. All the victims of the missing cases have been seen around the schools opened by the Siyuan Project."

"Isn't it interesting that the charity run by the church has become a killing factory! I believe those reporters outside will be very interested in this report."

Parma's originally dark face immediately turned pale.

For the first time, he hated himself and the Vatican's previous cover-up strategy so much. What kind of monsters have they cultivated?

As long as these scandals are exposed, he doesn't need public relations, just commit suicide to apologize.

He really can't wash it off!

Even if the Pope stands here, it's useless. Maybe the first pope to be impeached and removed from office will appear in the Vatican.

At this time, the black-clad attendant who had been standing behind Bishop Parma hurried over and handed Parma emergency medicine to prevent the old man from having a heart attack and dying in excitement. At the same time, the black-clad attendant raised his head and looked at Kai: "What do you want?"

Kai smiled this time, and smiled happily.

He took the bait!

The plan succeeded!

...

Let's go back to two hours after receiving the news that Billy Lee Tuttle was killed yesterday.

After Kai came back from the scene, he found everyone and told them the situation.

From the scene, Billy Lee Tuttle died of the poison of the lamp god! In other words, he was silenced by his own people!

Matthew lost his temper on the spot and smashed all the tables, chairs and benches in front of him. Sam and Dean looked at each other in disbelief. Martin was at a loss. They had clearly reached the last step. How could it be...

No one expected that the cult organization would be so decisive. As soon as they learned that Billy Lee Tuttle's underground secret room was stolen, they killed Billy Lee Tuttle to eliminate future troubles.

Kai didn't have any good ideas for a while.

He was very strong, yes. He could kill all the cult members by himself! But he was not God. It was impossible for him to know all the members of those cult organizations out of thin air. Now even if he wanted to kill someone, he didn't know who to kill.

What's more hateful is that these cult members are not the most important. What's really important is the guys who protect them. As long as they are there, the cult will definitely come back again! Originally, Kai wanted to catch Billy Lee Tuttle, follow the clues, and directly beat up all the relevant people.

Even if some people are not suitable for arrest, he can kill them all in the name of Hannibal. Anyway, they are all called Hannibal, so their reputation can't be any worse. In this case, it is natural to make full use of them.

But at this time, a person gave Kai inspiration.

William called immediately after learning that Billy Lee Tuttle was killed. With his experience, he was a little confused about the situation at hand and had no idea what to do. All he could do was comfort Kai and Matthew and tell them not to lose heart.

At the end, William sighed, "Blind faith kills people."

This sentence was like a flash of lightning that broke through the dark clouds, allowing Kai to see the light.

This sentence reminded Kai of a force he had always ignored, a religious force.

The Catholic Church!

Indeed, the power of this cult is very large. But what is it compared to the Catholic Church?

And no matter from which aspect, this cult organization seems to be the enemy of the Catholic Church, right? Whether it is ideology or personal interests!

This cult is using the power of the Catholic Church to develop and grow itself!

No one can tolerate such an act of eating from the inside, right?

The only problem was how to get the Vatican to stand up and join them.

So Kai decided to expose the scandal in advance to attract the attention of the Catholic Church, and then use Billy Lee Tuttle's scandal to make a deal with the Catholic Church!