Chapter 380 Preparation
Total silence...waiting for the storm to subside.
This was the final instruction Gregor, who was still using the identity of "Adlin", received from the Eight Pointed Nest two days after the Duke was assassinated. In this order, the Eight Pointed Nest asked Gregor to actively terminate all active espionage activities and switch to passive silence to resist the high-pressure search by the government of the Kingdom of Put.
The assassination of the Duke shocked the Putin upper echelons, including the King. Soon after the incident, they joined forces with the Church to launch a rigorous hunt for all members of the Eight Points in Tivian.
Originally, the Eight-pointed Nest was just one of the countless evil secret societies in the capital that the Security Bureau had to deal with. Their original criminal projects included... spreading secret knowledge to others through illegal associations... worshiping evil gods... kidnapping people to create slaves... stealing and selling intelligence against the Security Bureau, etc...
These crimes caused the Security Bureau to list the Eight-Pointed Nest as a high-threat target, on par with several other societies. And after this wave of assassinations of the Duke, not only was the threat level of the Eight-Pointed Nest infinitely raised by the Security Bureau, their information also appeared directly in an important royal meeting attended by the King and the Great Cult.
At this imperial meeting, the entire Putt Kingdom's high-level officials unanimously agreed that the Eight-pointed Nest was the most serious threat to the kingdom at present, and that they must mobilize all forces to severely attack it. Therefore, the enemies of the Eight-pointed Nest suddenly rose from the Security Bureau to the entire Putt Kingdom, and the church also provided full support on the side.
Starting from the third day after the assassination of Duke Barrett, a huge force led by the Putt Security Bureau, with the participation of the Putt Army, the Putt Royal Navy, the Putt Royal Guards, the Church's Crusade Knights... and many other forces, began to launch a cleanup operation against the entire secret world of Tivian, dedicated to eradicating the power of the Eight Points from Tivian in one go.
With the full cooperation of the church's numerous "Lights" extraordinary members, countless joint search teams swept across Tivian, and in just over a week, more than 80 strongholds of secret societies of all sizes in Tivian were wiped out. Among them, only about seven could be confirmed to be the strongholds of the Eight-Pointed Nest, and the vast majority of the others were strongholds of other societies.
In this extremely severe search, almost all of Tivian's secret societies were affected. With a large number of society members arrested and a large number of strongholds destroyed, all of Tivian's secret organizations had to suspend their activities for a while, and everyone was silent.
The actions of the Eight-pointed Nest had a profound impact on the entire secret world of Tivian. Even the Wolfblood Society told Vanya to be cautious in the near future in their letter to Vanya. Their forces, which had already been hit in Tivian, were also hit in this round of large-scale raids, and they lost several bases. When Dorothy was visiting her neighbors, she also heard a clockwork man complain that the activities of the Kingdom Government and the Church had greatly reduced the secret activities in Tivian, and her interest in the matter suddenly cooled down a lot.
Due to the large-scale official search, many non-cult associations were also affected. Some decent extraordinary people and extraordinary trainees were arrested for no reason. The extraordinary prison of the Security Bureau was already overcrowded. Greg worked overtime every day in various arrest operations. On the other hand, Adele's Scarlet Heart was not affected too much because of its church background. Instead, it grew in strength because it accepted some extraordinary people who came to seek refuge in the chaos.
In short, because of Bajian, the entire Tivian secret world was severely tossed around, and the secret of Bajian's plot to assassinate Prince Putt also spread like wildfire in the secret world. Many associations that suffered losses in this search spontaneously resented Bajian. Bajian itself had anticipated this result and launched an evacuation plan early. Bajian's main forces in Tivian were withdrawn before the big search began, and the bases they lost in this search were not too important.
For more than a week, Dorothy rested at home while learning about a series of major events in the city through multiple intelligence channels such as Adele... Misha... Greg... Vanya... Beverly... After learning about the turmoil caused by the assassination, Dorothy couldn't help but sigh in her heart that her choice seemed to have caused such a big wave in the world for the first time.
'It's obvious that Bajian had anticipated the reaction of the Kingdom Government after Barrett was assassinated, so they specially designed to lure the natives of the New World to come here to take the blame. However, due to Dorothy's secret planning, the natives gave up their original revenge plan one after another, resulting in the fact that although Bajian's Nest did not succeed in the assassination, it also exposed itself.
'Just imagine, if all of Bajian's plans had been successful, the current large-scale search operation like the one being carried out by Tiwi would no longer exist. Instead, Putin would recruit soldiers to the New World. In the New World, Putin's expeditionary force would start a war against a large number of indigenous tribes.
'And now, Bajian's plan to rely on the indigenous people to take the blame has failed. They have no choice but to strategically retreat under Put's anger, and even withdraw from Tivian.
'This will undoubtedly have a significant impact on Bajian's long-term plan, but from the point of view that Bajian insisted on executing the assassination after knowing that the scapegoat aboriginal had problems. In Bajian's eyes, as long as Duke Barrett's research cannot proceed and their core engine is not exposed, then enduring this suppression is acceptable. Perhaps in their eyes, as long as the core engine is not exposed, they have the possibility of turning the tables.
"No matter what the core engine of the Eight Points is like, given the current situation, they will definitely be quiet for a while. The Eight Points should not make any waves in the entire Tivian secret circle in the short term."
In the villa of Greenshade Town, Dorothy, wearing thick pajamas, sat by the fire, analyzing the intelligence she had obtained over the past week while thinking in her mind.
While thinking, she raised her hand, then looked at it with a serious look and continued thinking.
"The Eight Points are no longer a threat to Putt for the time being... but for me, the potential threat cannot be ignored."
"I really didn't expect that the derivative of the Spider Fang Priest would have kept something back..."
Looking at her own hands, Dorothy murmured so. At this moment, she could feel an extremely weak spiritual thread connecting her body and extending to the distant and vague other side.
Dorothy now had spiritual threads connected to her body, but the problem was that she could not control even a corpse or a living puppet.
This spiritual thread was connected to an abandoned bird-shaped corpse doll of Dorothy. This was the bird-shaped corpse doll that Dorothy sent to investigate the Barrett mansion on New Year's Eve!
That night, when the bird corpse puppet was delivering the holy emblem of "Shadow" to Dorothy, it was discovered by the Spider Fang Priest who was chasing after it, and was captured and photographed. At that time, Dorothy felt that the spiritual thread of the bird corpse puppet was broken, so she thought that the bird corpse puppet was completely destroyed by the Spider Fang Priest, and therefore she ignored it afterwards.
But the reality was not what Dorothy had imagined. On the morning of the first day more than a week after New Year's Eve, Dorothy sensed an imperceptible spiritual connection with herself. After checking, she was surprised to find that the target linked by the spiritual thread was not the bird corpse that she thought was damaged!
This discovery shocked Dorothy at the time. She immediately checked the condition of the spiritual silk and found it to be unusual as well.
The spiritual thread that connected them was very weak, so weak that Dorothy could hardly detect it if she didn't feel it carefully. Moreover, its state fluctuated, sometimes strong and sometimes weak. When it was weak, she could hardly feel it.
Faced with such a thin spiritual thread, Dorothy couldn't even try to control and conduct it. It was difficult for her to even sense the location of the target, and she couldn't even determine the general direction.
Faced with this phenomenon, Dorothy pondered for a long time and began to look for the cause. After thinking about it, she came up with some possibilities.
Dorothy thought that her bird corpse puppet must have been tampered with, and that tampering could only have been done by the Spider Fang Priest. He had the ability to use blood to corrode the puppet and the spiritual threads on it, making it impossible for her to break the connection with the spiritual threads. When he used his claws to attack the bird corpse puppet, he should have injected enough of his own blood into the bird corpse puppet, thereby corroding the spiritual threads connecting him to the bird corpse puppet.
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