Chapter 303 Discounts
North Wufei, in the territory of Adus.
The scorching sun in the sky was shining brightly. Under the dazzling sunlight was a desolate Gobi desert with dust all over the sky. In the Gobi desert, a railway track spanned across it, piercing into the distance. On the track, a train spewing thick smoke was moving forward at high speed, speeding towards the distant horizon.
The Desert Arrow, this luxury train that carried the church's special envoys to Addis for negotiations, after the negotiations ended in a relatively smooth manner, is now carrying the special envoys back on their return journey, and their return destination is the port of Kankedal where they started from.
After the Addis Incident, Shadi, who was the only one in the revolutionary army, immediately began to reorganize the internal forces of the revolutionary army. He did not rush to announce his break with Mukhtar, but prepared a grand memorial ceremony for Mukhtar to show his position to all the local Salvation forces and appease them. Then, he used the huge power vacancy in the top leadership of the revolutionary army after the death of Mukhtar and his subordinates as a lure to lure the local Salvation armed leaders to Beijing and let his people take over the positions of officers after the leaders left. After arriving in Addis, what awaited them were empty checks that they had high hopes for, but they didn't know when they could be redeemed. Some of these people would be secretly executed when the overall situation was settled in the future.
Using his enormous power as bait, Shadi began to win over and divide the local Salvation Army, and labeled those Salvation Army armed forces that questioned him as traitors of the foreign Salvation Army. Through inducement, division and suppression, Shadi gradually gained control of the leadership of the Salvation Army armed forces in various parts of Adus. For those Salvation Army armed forces that he could control, he immediately ordered a comprehensive reorganization, replaced officers, and secretly executed a large number of those who had strong resistance emotions.
As for the armed forces that were weak in control and could not be directly attacked, Shadi would transfer them from their original locations to areas where he had strong influence and strictly supervise them. As for those troops that had seen through his true nature and were stubborn and had obvious intentions of rebellion, Shadi's own troops had already quietly approached them, surrounded these stubborn troops without them noticing, and planned to launch a preemptive attack.
It is impossible to carry out a purge in such a huge country without bloodshed, but now Shadi has done his best to contain the conflict to the smallest scope. The large-scale civil war that originally affected the whole country will become just a few one-sided small-scale wars and countless purges and executions that will take place in secret when Shadi tears his face off. Although Shadi will inevitably bear countless infamy of betrayal, cruelty and cold-bloodedness after this, which will bring a huge stain on his ruling career, he, who was born a treasure thief, no longer cares about these.
After Mukhtar's death, the undercurrent beneath the surface of Addis not only did not subside, but became even more intense. Shadi's internal purge to consolidate power would not be completed for two or three months. There was no other use for the special envoys to continue staying here, and it would affect some of Shadi's policies. So after the remaining guards had recovered from their injuries, Vanya said goodbye to Shadi, left Addis with the special envoys, and started their return journey on the Desert Arrow. To ensure safety, Dorothy and Nephnesse also followed.
The long train sped across the desolate Gobi Desert. Dorothy sat in her own carriage, looking out the window at the dust blowing in the sky. She thought about the events she had experienced recently, and finally focused her attention on the divination she had experienced not long ago. This was also the reason why she planned to leave Addis immediately.
When she had Neveu dress up as a priest of Heaven's Judge, sent down a lightning disaster in the name of Heaven's Judge, and let the non-existent Heaven's Judge Cult take the blame for Mukhtar's death, she had already expected that she would be harassed by divinations from all sides. After all, this was the reappearance of the "Inspiration" God Cult that had fallen thousands of years ago, and the reappearance of the "Inspiration" ability that had never appeared in this era. It went without saying that it would cause an uproar in the secret world, and there would surely be many societies that would use divination to confirm. Although Dorothy had made preparations for this, when the real divination offensive came one after another, its scale almost made her panic.
Within three days, there were 12 divination attacks directed at Dorothy and Nefernis, whom she protected. Dorothy was forced to consume 12 points of her "Shadow" to fight against so many attacks. The most intense divination attack came in the morning of one day. In just one hour, she was able to perform divination several times, which made Dorothy panic.
At that time, worried that she would not have enough "Shadow", she immediately consumed 10 points of "Light" and launched a divination counterattack against the person she thought was most likely to perform divination on her, the Holy Mountain Church and the Salvation Sect. As a result, the divination offensive was barely stopped. In the next two days, Dorothy suffered some sporadic divinations from time to time, and finally consumed 12 points of "Shadow".
Dorothy believed that although she had been subjected to 12 divinations, the number of divinations about the truth of the Addis Rebellion in the world should be far more than 12 times. There were countless associations, countless religious groups, countless national secret police, the Salvation Army General Association that wanted to force the truth of Mukhtar's death, and the Holy Mountain Church, which was rich and powerful and had countless resources in its hands. Surrounded by countless forces, there would definitely be a large number of divination attacks one after another, and it was possible that the total number of divinations would exceed half.
Faced with such a huge number of divinations, Dorothy might not be able to withstand even the most "Qi" let alone "Shadow". In the end, she only spent 12 points of "Shadow" to survive this wave of divination. The biggest reason for this was that she relied on the Temple of Qiwen.
This thunderstorm was not entirely caused by Dorothy relying on her own strength, but was largely dependent on the legacy of the First Dynasty. As a result of the power of the Qiwen Temple, the scope of Dorothy's ability release was expanded, and Dorothy was provided with abundant spirituality, allowing Dorothy to hide from the public. These were all the credit of the Qiwen Temple. Therefore, when divining the truth about the Thunder Judgment Change, many divinations inevitably involved the Qiwen Temple.
For example, if you ask where the power of the Thunder Judgement comes from? The truth about the thunderstorm in Addis? Does the thunderstorm in Addis come from the Heavenly Judge Cult? Did the thunderstorm kill Mukhtar? Is Shadi, the leader of the revolutionary army, the creator of the thunderstorm? Many divination questions will be blocked by the anti-divination system that connects the Qiwen Temple and the First Dynasty because they involve the Qiwen Temple.
That is to say, almost all divinations involving thunderstorms and the Heavenly Judge Cult will be directed to the Temple of the Enlightenment. However, some divinations with weird angles will still be directed to Dorothy. For example, if someone asks whether the person who killed Mukhtar is a man or a woman? Such divinations will directly point to Nefernis, and have no direct relationship with thunderstorms and the Temple of the Enlightenment, so Dorothy has no choice but to accept such divinations.
Therefore, in response to the change of the judgment of Addis, most of the normal divinations were resisted by the self-disciplined anti-divination system of the first dynasty of the Qiwen Temple. The remaining divinations with unique ideas and tricky angles were resisted by Dorothy. After that, some tricky divinations specifically targeting Shadi were resisted by his own anti-divination. After Shadi took control of the entire Addis, he confiscated the extraordinary resources that had been controlled by the Jiufu faction, and immediately rebuilt the anti-divination defense of the revolutionary army, and re-arranged himself and his subordinates who had been secretly excluded. In this anti-divination confrontation, he also helped Dorothy share some pressure.
If it weren't for Shadi and the Qiwen Temple helping to share the pressure of divination, Dorothy's own spiritual power would be completely insufficient in the face of such a large-scale divination. Even so, Dorothy still paid a price of 12 points of "Shadow" and 10 points of "Light" in this wave of divination offensive, causing the spiritual power that was not easy to fill up before to shrink a lot and become what it is now.
24 cups, 12 stones, 10 shadows, 15 lights, 25 silence, 50 enlightenment.
"Huh... The two spiritual powers of 'Shadow' and 'Lamp' that had originally reached the target have returned directly after this wave. I am a little depressed. Although I expected that there would be a large-scale divination attack with such a large disturbance, I thought that it shouldn't be a big problem with the Qiwen Temple. Who knew that even if the Qiwen Temple resisted the spiritual power, it would still lose so much...
"This wave of events has attracted too much attention. After the divination boom, the various forces that cannot get the results should directly send people to Adus to conduct on-site investigations. Then I have to get out of here first, otherwise it may be difficult to get out after they arrive."
Looking at the flying dust outside the car window, Dorothy thought to herself that in order to avoid the on-site investigation by people sent by various forces, she chose to slip away quickly, taking Neve and Vanya back to Kankedal. She would wait for Shadi to slowly deal with those people, and she would not get involved.
Although it's a pity that I'm far away from the Qiwen Temple and can't look for books there for the time being, but when I think about my current level of Gubei Wu language, it will take a lot of time even if I can find books there, and the benefits of staying there for a long time are not high. It won't be too late to go back to the Qiwen Temple to read books when I have learned all of Gubei Wu language.
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