The thick smoke and flames on the burning ground had not completely dissipated, and the priests and knights of the Holy See who were performing the burning turned around and left - this place filled with a pungent smell and watched by a large number of ignorant people made the priests and knights feel good. Irritated, although on weekdays, they would happily stay at the scene and enjoy the awe and panic of the people around them, but now they are obviously not in the mood.
There are still a lot of troubles to deal with in the church district, and the impact of the brochure is not limited to the outer city.
The ordinary soldiers in the square also withdrew, and the gathered people dispersed in scattered directions. This brief burning torture slightly broke the lifeless atmosphere of the siege, but it could not cheer people up. On the contrary, a fire in the square only brought fear and doubt to people -
The person who was burned to death was an illiterate homeless person... The church just arrested a random person... The essence of heresy trials is intimidation and violence.
Ordinary people may not have known whether the things in those brochures were true, but now the church has taken the initiative to admit that at least some of them are true.
The crowd dispersed, leaving only some Vatican servants who were guarding the burning site. They wanted to wait for the fire to be completely extinguished and clean up the ashes to prevent a fire. The last small group of sparse civilians were wandering around the edge of the square, but the Vatican servants guarding the scene didn't pay much attention to these wandering crowds - they were just a group of idle people.
After leaving the square, a few people dressed as farmers and craftsmen's apprentices entered the nearby narrow alleys. They easily escaped everyone's attention and gathered in a semi-abandoned hut.
A man with messy hair and sunken eyes spat to the side: "Those bastards... just burned an innocent person to death..."
"They It's always been like this," another dark-skinned young man whispered, "It's a pity that we couldn't save the poor man..."
The people gathered in the hut couldn't help but sigh softly. , and a blurry and twisted 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, our The mission also doesn't allow for risking exposure to save people - the only way we can avoid standing by when things happen is to use the skills we have learned to spread chaos and division among our opponents at every opportunity."
When several people gathered in the hut saw this petite figure emerging, they immediately stood up and saluted respectfully: "Director!"
"You cannot call your position during the mission, even if The same goes for making sure the surroundings are safe. If you commit another offense next time, each of you will get a demerit - you still have a lot to learn." Amber waved her hands, and with one sentence, the expressions of the people in front of her changed. Then she looked around, " But your actions in the square were passable.”
This is a special operations team of the Military Intelligence Agency, and Amber personally leads them.
Luan City has been sealed off, and the last time anyone entered or exited the city was twenty days ago. However, for Amber, who has mastered advanced shadow skills, it is necessary to transport a team and a batch of supplies through the Shadow Realm. It is not difficult to send them into the city of Luan - even if Amber, the "Military Intelligence Director", does not take action, the professionally trained Military Intelligence officers have a lot of professional skills that can help them sneak into the city and lurk in the outer city.
The lax attitude of the priests and knights in the cathedral towards the outer city gave this team a lot of convenience - obviously, the people in the cathedral had no experience in dealing with spy sabotage, or in other words In this era, almost everyone will appear to be full of flaws when facing the military intelligence operators trained by Cecil.
The interim 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 only arranged the minimum number of soldiers and soldiers. Discipline monks maintain order, which is understandable in the context of this era: in terms of the form of confrontation in this era, only extraordinary people and the vassal forces around them are valuable, and the vast majority of the people at the bottom are neither They have the power to shake order and do not have the desire to actively resist. For the civilians at the bottom, using sufficient force to intimidate them is enough to ensure order - this is the most cost-effective idea so far.
However, the officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau are experts at infiltrating from these lowest-level areas and gradually spreading chaos to the upper levels.
Since five days ago, Amber has led this team to lurk in Luan City. In accordance with the orders from the superiors, they spread the first batch of propaganda materials in the outer city and continued to send people to Luan City. News of the situation spread outside, and the priests of Luan Cathedral were slower than expected to respond to the propaganda materials—it was not until the first batch of materials had been distributed that they finally noticed it.
What followed was a city-wide search and arrest, as well as 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 were accumulating huge pressure. As long as there was any reason to vent, their pressure would immediately turn into shame. atrocities.
And they don’t think there’s anything wrong with doing so.
Although the situation inside the church district is still unclear, Amber can also guess what will happen inside the walls of the inner city: part of the content in the promotional materials directly points to the conflict of interests within the church, and other content It vaguely mentioned Cecil’s policy of preferential treatment for “awakened priests”. Although this level of propaganda materials alone could not directly attract low-level priests in marginal areas to Cecil’s side, it caused a certain degree of shaking and There is enough confusion.
This city has been blocked for sixty days, and the fermenting internal conflicts have begun to ferment. At this time, any form of incitement isIgnition, the effect will be unprecedentedly good.
As the atmosphere inside the church district becomes tense, the people in charge of the Luan Cathedral will have less time to pay attention to the outer city - they may even think that the problems of the outer city have been "overtaken by them" "Effective purification ritual" to completely solve the problem, thereby relaxing your vigilance.
Then the next activities of the Military Intelligence Bureau operators will be easier.
Amber touched her smooth chin - this seemingly classy thinking action she learned from Gawain, which can make herself look more majestic: "Magic Network Terminal is working How's the situation? Has the video been sent back?"
A tall and thin Military Intelligence Bureau officer patted the black metal box at his feet: "It's in good condition - and it's small. The magic network terminal is much lighter and easier to use."
This tall and thin Military Intelligence Bureau officer was the one who was carrying the sack in the square.
The black metal box at his feet is obviously a magical device - one end of it is slightly narrower, and a crystal is inlaid on the front and right above the shell. The entire metal box is less than half a meter in size. , after wrapping it with something like straw, it can just fit into a linen bag.
It actually still has a considerable size and weight, and is not very portable, but for those who have seen the prototype of the Magic Network Communicator, this device is already incredibly small and black. Technology.
"Be careful when using it - the mechanical bachelors have spent a lot of effort to make it so small," Amber nodded, "This is the key to defeating those magic sticks, ours The purpose is not only to dismantle Luan City, not only to drive them out of the cathedral, but more importantly, to drive them out of the 'Southern Territory', and whether we can achieve this goal... it depends on what we do next. The action is in progress."
The officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau were gearing up and said, "Yes!"
"Very good, let's 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 Holy Light Church and send them back to the headquarters; Bucktooth, you and Mouse continue to spread the news about Bishop Bremont's strange words and deeds near the church area, but you must pay attention to your own safety. "Others, follow me into the Shadow Realm to move things."
The well-trained military intelligence officers immediately took action, and a team member who was named by Amber asked casually. One sentence: "Boss, what are you moving?"
"Flyers and albums," Amber grinned and smiled slightly, "Another 20,000 copies will be sent later - and more are on the way. "
"Phew -" the team member couldn't help but whistle, with a happy smile on his face, "They can't burn as fast as we can print..."
... …
After more than ten days of traveling day and night, the witch Jipri finally returned to this long-lost land.
She still remembers passing through Rock Fortress in the north a few days agoThe scene you see when you enter the gate - the magnificent rock fortress seems to have turned into a huge construction site. Scaffolding and construction machinery can be seen everywhere. The entire fortress has been completely renovated and rebuilt. Workers work day and night to use steel plates and reducers. The seismic skeleton reinforced the northern wall of the fortress, while magic technicians and mechanical sergeants installed large and small magic cannons on the guide rails and gun mounts at the top of the city wall. Brand-new magic network arrays and various types of magic net arrays had never been seen before. The magical equipment filled the sight, almost dazzling Jipri and Pierce, who was traveling with them.
After seeing the scene of the Rock Fortress, the two military intelligence officers who had been on missions for more than half a year realized that the return trip was the right one: the speed of development in the local area was simply unbelievable, and living there In the slow and backward Ansu King's Capital, people watch the nobles holding dances and socializing every day. They can't even imagine what their hometown is developing into every day. If they really live in the King's Capital for three to five years, what will happen when they come back? I'm afraid I'm not even as good as a child.
But even with this awareness, when they actually entered Cecil City, the capital of the principality, the two operators still fell into a long period of sluggishness.
This city... is not only twice as big as when they left, but even the street layout in many places has been changed.
The temporarily built workshops and public sheds were moved to the eastern industrial area and improved into huge factory facilities. Originally there were only some brick houses and at most a few small brick buildings. The streets of the building have become prosperous neighborhoods. Residential buildings rich in Ansu style and focusing on practicality are arranged in various areas like city guards. Between these areas, there are rapid developments due to the increasingly prosperous economy. The developed commercial district...
The two Military Intelligence Bureau officers probably never imagined that there is a larger new city construction plan on the north bank of Baishui River that has entered the foundation laying stage - due to the migration of people from the south, As the merger of villages and towns continues, the population of Cecil City will double again...
Jipley and Pierce entered the city with a mixture of surprise and pride, and successfully entered the Military Intelligence Bureau The building completed its coverage - thankfully, at least they didn't get lost in the military zone.
"Director Amber is on a mission outside," the receptionist of the Military Intelligence Bureau said while registering the two dispatched operators, "but she knows that you will return in the near future, and has already arranged for you to pick up. "
After completing the report registration, the young female clerk who served as the receptionist handed the new identity certificate and information bag to Jipuli and Pierce, then stood up straight and solemnly paid attention to them. He said matter-of-factly: "Thank you for your contribution to Cecil - thank you for your hard work!"
Pierce and Jipri were a little stunned for a moment: they have been away from here for too long and have missed too much. It was such a critical stage of perfecting the organization that I didn’t know how to react for a while, so I had to smile a little awkwardly and reservedly. Fortunately, the receptionist seemed to have anticipated the reactions of the two seniors in front of me, and also resolved it with a smile.There was a brief moment of embarrassment: "Please don't be formal, this is your home. Operator Pierce, you can take a break now. As for Operator Jiprey... there is a special mission for you."
Jipli opened her eyes in surprise: "Mission?"
She couldn't help but mutter in her heart: There is no vacation...
"Please relax, There is no need to go out on the field, and the content of the task is relatively easy." The receptionist seemed to have noticed Ji Puli's thoughts. She showed a slightly mysterious smile, "This task was assigned by the lord - you can rest for half a day, please come in Report to the Lord's Mansion on time at four o'clock in the afternoon."
(Surprise! Happy!!)