Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 96

[Chapter 96 Infiltration]

Another small group of sun heretics who infiltrated from Cold Harbor on a smuggling ship were picked out and held in a church near the port area.

Fanna returned from the prison area under the church and came to the rest room of the upper church. The regional bishop in charge of the church was already waiting in the room.

“Judge Fana,” the slightly emaciated regional bishop saluted the young judge, “may the waves protect your soul.” “May the waves protect your soul,” Fanna

saluted the bishop, and then walked a little With tired steps, he walked towards the seat beside him, “Just in the port area, this is already the second batch of sun heretics who have been imprisoned, right?” “Yes,

we caught more than a dozen people three days ago—they It was discovered and stopped in time when trying to kill a citizen, and now this is the second batch, and they aroused the alert of a meter reader when they held a dark ceremony in the apartment building,” the district bishop nodded, with a slight look in his eyes Anxiety, “Unknowingly, so many cultists have infiltrated in… Fortunately, we discovered it early, otherwise their dark rituals would have killed many people.

” In the past four years, everything has been calm, which has paralyzed the nerves of many people,” Fanna nodded, “But… it is still uncertain whether we will discover it sooner or later, and those heretics who arrived earlier are most likely already in the dark. It has been active for a while, but it was only recently exposed.”

The district bishop glanced at the judge’s expression, hesitated for a moment and asked, “I heard that many people were arrested in other districts?” “

Yes, almost all districts Yes,” Fanna didn’t hide it, “the sun heretics who have been caught are being imprisoned in the underground prisons of almost every church now, ranging from a few to dozens of people…but most of them are the bottom minions, in order to inquire They are active in the city-state because of intelligence, and have not received much training, so it is easy to be exposed…The real high-level priest has not been discovered so far.”

Fan Na’s tone unconsciously became serious when she finished speaking, her face With vague concerns.

Ever since these heretics’ search for the “shards of the sun” was exposed, the Pland authorities and the church responded quickly, and launched a large-scale raid in secret channels throughout the city, and actively mobilized citizens to report and investigate. This series of actions The results are not insignificant—

in a very short period of time, there are indeed a large number of cult members who have not had time to respond to their whereabouts and have been caught. These dirty and bloody believers are now almost filling the underground prisons of various churches, and their number has almost reached that of the past four years. The sum of the number of cultists found in the city-state.

However, so far, those who have been arrested are only those who acted indiscriminately. At most, there are some low-level priests who hold “mass-produced holy objects” and have just received blessings. Those real high-level powers are still hidden behind the scenes.

This made Fan Na slightly restless.

“There are results every day, but they still can’t grasp their ‘backbone’, which gives me a feeling that the situation is still deteriorating out of sight,” she said to the regional bishop in front of her, “such a large number of cultists in the city-state It is impossible not to have a high-level commander behind them to make overall arrangements, but this ‘commander’ has not yet appeared.” The

regional bishop pondered for a while, and slowly said: “According to the results of the current interrogation, these minions They all only obey the orders of the ‘messenger’, and the so-called ‘messenger’ is a group of low-level priests, who directly listen to the voice of the son through the imitation sun mask… Do you think there will be a son of the sun already lurking in the city-state? “

“The Sons of the Sun are lurking in the human city-state? Seriously… logically impossible,” Fanna frowned slightly. “Although they have great power, they also have obvious ‘traces of existence’. Can’t hide…the city-state is full of churches and patrolling guards, theoretically there should be no ‘blind spots’.” “So it’s just a guess,” the

regional bishop shook his head, “I also know that the children of the sun are very difficult. It is hidden in a civilized society, but those low-level ‘envoys’ do carry sun masks with them. Even if they are not directly controlled by the sons of the sun, they must have maintained contact with the sons of the sun to a certain extent… After all, mass-produced holy objects are also holy objects , Those cultists also have to consider the cost of action, they will not make meaningless arrangements.”

Fan Na curled her fingers against her chin, and suddenly said in thought: “I read yesterday’s interrogation record, those heretics are mainly asking about the extraordinary event that happened in the city-state eleven years ago…they think it has something to do with sun fragments “

It seems so now,” the regional bishop nodded, “Although they don’t know their source of information, they seem to firmly believe that the sun fragments triggered the ‘chemical factory riot’ in Pland eleven years ago… …I remember you were too…”

the district bishop said, and suddenly stopped, he looked at the eye-catching scar on Fan Na’s left eye, and lowered his head slightly: “Sorry, I made a slip of the tongue.”

Fan Na subconsciously raised her head. He brushed the scar on his face with his hand, but soon smiled lightly and shook his head: “It’s okay, it’s just a scar. You are right. I was also a witness to the riot. There is nothing I can’t say about it.”

” There were also those cultists in that riot, and as many as a hundred of the saboteurs arrested were sun heretics,” the regional bishop said in a deep voice, “but now the sun heresy that has penetrated into the city-state is asking about eleven The truth of the incident years ago… It seems that they really don’t know what happened here eleven years ago, don’t you think it’s strange?

” Acting without permission, so the cultists in other city-states don’t know the truth here, either… It was just an accident that the sun shards appeared in Puland eleven years ago, or it was written by a third-party force, and those who participated in the riots back then The heresy was just used as a weapon,” Fan Na said lightly, “according to the interrogation records of the year, the ‘sabotage elements’ who were captured at that time were indeed in a state of insanity, and their madness and loss of control did not seem to be out of intention. , It’s more like being influenced by a powerful force.”

“… Chasing twisted and weird things, and then being dominated by strange forces, becoming the fuel for the fire of chaos in a daze, and finally being abandoned in the ashes…” area The bishop sighed, “What a sad life.”

Fan Na didn’t speak for a while, she just stood up silently, and came to the window of the lounge.

Through the window here, she can see the situation in the port area from a distance—the complete blockade of the entire port has ended, and many piers and trestles have been put back into use, but Pier 1 still maintains the highest level of blockade. The beautiful and brand-new steamship “White Oak” is still moored quietly at the end of the pier, receiving continuous monitoring and daily purification rituals as planned.

The crew on the White Oak has been transferred to the Central Cathedral – as the parties who have had close contact with the Lost Homeland, they are now receiving the highest level of monitoring.

The heretics who followed the black sun were imprisoned underground in the church, a “ship lost and returned” that had been in contact with the Lost Homeland was moored at the port, and a group of sailors who had met Captain Duncan at close range lived in the Central Cathedral… Thinking about it makes me dizzy.

The setting sun was gradually sinking, but before the turn of day and night, the regional bishop lit a few oil lamps in the room ahead of time, and the swaying flames were reflected on the glass windows.

Fan Na withdrew her gaze towards the port area: “I heard that the out-of-control notice document about anomaly 099 has been sent to the port area?” “Yes, it was just delivered this afternoon. Do you want to have a look?

” the district bishop asked. As she spoke, she took out the folded documents from her carry-on, “I don’t know why, it’s a little later than expected.” “Let me have a look,”

Fan Na reached out to take the documents, and directly borrowed the document by the window. Sunset looked at it, and at the same time explained casually, “It’s normal to be late—after all, the out-of-control situation of Anomaly 099 is very special. It broke free from the seal when it came into direct contact with the ghost ship. The bishops of various city-states must be careful. Weigh the wording and direction of information in the circular to prevent too many ‘directive links’ from this document that is about to be distributed to all routes… Otherwise, what is supposed to help the captains avoid risks may instead lead them to failure. Connect with the Xiang number.”

In the dim light of the setting sun, the oil lamp closest to Fanna in the lounge suddenly jumped, and along with the word “Lost Country” she unconsciously said casually, the light in the oil lamp There was a small crackling sound from the flames.

(end of this chapter)