Chapter 740 Prologue
The waning moon was in the sky and dark clouds were rising.
In Tivian under the cover of night, a carriage was driving alone on a street somewhere. Dorothy was sitting steadily in the carriage, reviewing the information analyzed so far and making judgments on Bajian's intentions.
'From what Bajian did at Sofox's house, they are now leaning towards the goal of the 'vigilant faction' represented by Misha to guide Charlie IV. Regardless of what Charlie IV is planning now? Since Bajian is deliberately targeting him, he can't just follow the script they set as they wish.
"But if I want to direct other forces to target Charles IV, in addition to the 'Vigilance Faction', there are many more useful forces, such as... Atholli's Secret Court. The Secret Court is now active in Tivian. If I am the Eight Points and want to target Charles IV, I will definitely not miss this opportunity. I will definitely find a way to direct the hostility of the entire church to Charles IV through the Secret Court..."
Sitting in the slightly swaying carriage, Dorothy pondered this in her mind, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that this was the case. Then she continued to think about it deliberately.
"If Bajian is really trying to bring hatred to Charlie IV, then Misha must be incidental, and the Prison Secret Court is the main thing. No, I'd better communicate with Atolli now and remind her of what happened here just now, so that she won't be misled by Bajian's intentions..."
Dorothy thought so in her heart, and after making a decision, she took out her magic box, opened it, took out her "Wenhai Voyage" from it, and after flipping through Atole's contact page, she picked up a pen and wrote on it.
After simply greeting Artoly, Dorothy slowly began to wait for her response, but after waiting for a long time there was no response, which made Dorothy frown slightly.
'It's been such a long time since she responded... If I remember correctly, Artori should have added the extraordinary induction settings to her contact texts just like Beverly, so she shouldn't have been unaware of the message... If she didn't respond, does that mean Artori is busy now? Is she doing some mission right now?'
Dorothy thought so in her heart, and then a trace of uneasiness emerged in her heart. What if Atollie is carrying out a mission now, and this mission happens to be used by Bajian to guide hatred, isn't this dangerous?
Thinking of this, Dorothy's expression froze, and then she found a place to get off the carriage. After parking the carriage, Dorothy changed into black clothes and took off into the air. Under the cover of night, she began to fly at high speed over the suburbs of Tivian, aiming directly at a certain direction in the distance.
Dorothy was going to the headquarters of the Security Bureau's Tivian headquarters, Gale Fortress. When Dorothy and Atwell parted ways before, she heard Atwell tell her that if she wanted to investigate a case in Tivian, she could start with the royal family or the Security Bureau, so if Atwell was really busy with a case, it was very likely that she was in the Security Bureau.
After flying for a distance, Dorothy approached the Gale Fortress located in the far suburbs of Tivian, and slowly landed on the top of a mountain quite a distance away from the fortress. Then she looked at the fortress in the darkness in the distance, and saw the tower at the edge of the fortress that was cut into two ends by some powerful force.
"There was a battle here... Did you come here?"
After seeing the current situation of Gale Fortress, Dorothy couldn't help but think in her heart, and then she immediately let her bird corpse doll and the miniature corpse doll sneak into the Gale Fortress by airdrop, and found that the inside of the fortress was in chaos at the moment.
A large number of black figures wearing black masks and church decorations are now scattered throughout the Gale Fortress, trying to control the key outposts in the Gale Fortress. The secret agents affiliated with the Secret Monitoring Court are trying to take over the control of the fortress from the hunters of the Security Bureau and monitor many of the hunters. A large number of hunters and fortress guards have refused to cooperate with the secret agents of the Secret Monitoring Court without receiving clear instructions from their superiors. In some places, disputes are breaking out between the two sides.
Although the Church's Secret Court has a much higher status than Pritt's Security Bureau, the two are not under the same system, and it is natural that the actions of these spies have caused various resistances from the Security Bureau. There are many chaotic places in the fortress, and small-scale conflicts broke out between the two sides in local areas. Many hunters were alarmed by the conflict that broke out in Harold's office and the collapse of the tower. After thinking something happened, they strongly demanded to see Harold, but were stopped by the spies.
'What happened?'
Looking at the scene below, Dorothy couldn't help but think in her heart, and then she controlled her miniature corpse to gradually descend in altitude and sneaked into the Gale Fortress.
The extraordinary defense function of the Gale Fortress was not weak. In the past, Dorothy's infiltration and reconnaissance would have consumed a lot of spiritual power. But now the entire Gale Fortress was in chaos due to the confrontation between spies and hunters, and many extraordinary detection systems were not manned, which made it a lot easier for Dorothy to sneak into the fortress.
Dorothy began searching after sneaking her miniature corpse into Gale Fortress, and quickly found a valuable target, Harold's office, where she saw several leading figures among the spies.
The most important one among them is a spy with an upright figure, a more complicated uniform and still a mask. At this moment, he is pacing on the floor of the office with a little anxiety, and other spies under his command are coming from outside the door to report to him.
"Priest Nifeng...the hunters outside have become more and more impetuous. Some of them have now organized themselves and said they want to meet their Chief Prince. Their attitude is very firm. Although they have not been stopped by our people, they may be raped at any time and anywhere." The spy reported to the priest whom he called Nifeng, and the other party quickly responded.
"Let's put it off for now... Let's keep putting it off until at least Lord Ateli returns."
"Yes!" After hearing Ni Feng's words, the spy on the message immediately retreated to convey the order. At this time, another spy in the office took the opportunity to come to Ni Feng and said quietly.
"Priest Nifeng... When will Her Excellency Ateoli come back? She has been chasing the prince who was dragged into the inner world by strange virtual tentacles for a long time... With Her Excellency Ateoli's ability, it wouldn't take her so long to handle ordinary things. Now I feel that something is wrong. Should we go to Shenglin Mountain to report the situation here?"
"Don't panic... It's not time yet. Let's wait for a while. If Atole-sama doesn't come back, we can consider reporting it."
In Harold's office, several spies had a brief exchange. Only after Dorothy used the zombie doll to carefully monitor their conversation did she understand more clearly what was going on.
"Attori confronted Harold directly, and in the end Harold chose to escape, while Attori chose to chase him... It seems that he has chased him to the inner world and has not returned yet? "
Dorothy said this in retrospect, and then immediately continued to analyze it in her mind.
"Oh no... Now that Artori is gone, her subordinates are all starting to want to report the matter to Saint Linshan! If she doesn't show up, this matter will definitely be sent directly to the front of the Council of Cardinals!" Dorothy thought to herself with some seriousness. It is normal and correct to report the boss's long-term disappearance to the head office, but this cannot be done in the current environment.
The head of a country's secret police, the royal prince, was proven to be completely corrupted, and even a saint disappeared during his escape. When this matter reached the Holy Land Mountain, wouldn't the group of saints come directly to search Tivian's land? In this situation, it was impossible for Charles IV to protect himself!
'Well, Misha's side is just a minor quarrel, Atole's side is the real deal... This battle is directly intended to draw the hatred of Saint Linshan to Tivian to the greatest extent... If it succeeds, Charlie IV's side will not be able to withstand it at all...
'Although we don't know what Charlie IV is doing and what Ba Jian is trying to stop him, since Ba Jian can't spend so much effort to deal with Charlie IV, then it is absolutely necessary to disrupt Ba Jian's plan.'
Dorothy thought this in her mind, and at this moment she had decided to stop these spies from the Secret Court from reporting the situation to Saint Linshan.
But...how to stop them? First of all, it is impossible to use force to make them all lose their ability to move. The entire Secret Court in Tivian is not just this few people. In addition to the Secret Court, there is also the local church located in the Cathedral of the Holy Chant. They have been unable to get in touch with this spy and Atzili for a long time, and will take the initiative to report the situation to the Holy Mountain, so they cannot use force.
When it was impossible to use force, profiling was also extremely difficult. To profile a person, Dorothy either had a lot of text information about the person or had a long conversation with him. This was fine for ordinary people, but these spies were spies of the church! The text information of the spies was highly confidential and well hidden, and Dorothy couldn't find it for a while. Because of the nature of their work, spies would not chat with others for a long time. It was not that Dorothy could not completely profile this team of spies, but it would take a lot of time. If these people could not wait for a while and did not get the news of Atole, they would report it, and Dorothy had no time to slowly profile.
Therefore, the best choice facing Dorothy right now is to find a way to find Atole, either to bring her back or to tell her about the current situation and let her find a way to stop her men personally.
'From the information given by the spies before, when Artoly was chasing Harold, Harold was sucked into the inner world by the tentacles of an illusory body. Then Artoly transformed into an illusory body and chased him directly... the tentacles of the illusory body... the inner world. From this description, Harold might have been sucked into the dream world.
'In this situation, being able to break through the realm barrier and directly rescue people from the dream world, this operation is only consistent with the hint given by the front mirror moon. It seems that now Hei Meng has indeed cooperated deeply with Bajian, and launched a large-scale attack, and even a very core figure has come...
"Atoli has been in the dream world for such a long time and has not returned. Perhaps she encountered a protracted battle or was trapped inside. With her strength, it is unlikely that she will be killed... Therefore, we still need some special means to contact her..."
Standing on a distant hilltop, Dorothy pondered this in her mind, and then she silently took out her magic box, and took out "Wenhai Hangzhi" from it again. After flipping through it for a while, she turned to the contact page for Atole.
'If the information is true, Atoli entered the dream world by transforming her own entity into a dream body, not by entering the dream world through mimicry while sleeping. In this case, the personal belongings she carried with her should have been brought into the dream body, which means that the contact document is still with her, but she cannot communicate due to the barrier of the realm.
"The dream world is mainly composed of 'shadow', with some 'inspiration' elements mixed in. Because of this, the extraordinary items of 'shadow' and 'inspiration' should not be suppressed too much in it, and they can also have corresponding effects after being transformed into dream bodies. As long as I can break through the barrier of the realm, I should be able to transmit the information."
Dorothy thought so, because she could not convince a saint of the church like Atole to pray to a pagan god like Akka. Therefore, she could not establish an information channel with Atole and could only use the "Hanging Records of the Sea of Literature" to communicate. Fortunately, Dorothy had a way to let the "Hanging Records of the Sea of Literature" break through the realm barrier.
“Divine revelation…”
Dorothy murmured softly while stroking the cover of "Wen Hai Hang Zhi". With a barely perceptible flash of purple light in her eyes, the "Wen Hai Hang Zhi" that was being stroked began to float automatically and hovered in front of Dorothy's eyes. The edges of the pages gradually returned to their original state after a faint purple light appeared.
Now Dorothy used her own divine power of "inspiration" from the Judge of Heaven to enchant "Wenhai Hangzhi" with divine power. That's right, divine power enchantment is not limited to extraordinary abilities, but can also be applied to extraordinary items. As long as it is an extraordinary item with "inspiration", Dorothy will infuse it with a certain amount of divinity to enhance its ability.
After the divine enchantment was added to Wen Hai Hang Zhi, its communication ability would be greatly enhanced, and it could cross the barriers of realms. In addition, it would also gain additional new abilities. However, Dorothy did not need this ability at present. All she needed was enhanced communication.
After the divine enchantment was completed, Dorothy immediately began to write new words on the pages of the communication book with Artori.
"Where are you now?"
Not long after writing these words, Dorothy couldn't help but frowned slightly. After "Wen Hai Hang Zhi" was strengthened, at this moment, she could feel the information transmission status of "Wen Hai Hang Zhi". She could feel that "Wen Hai Hang Zhi" had successfully broken through the limitation of the realm and transmitted information to the dream world, but after entering the dream world, the information was blocked by something outside the first layer of the realm barrier!
This is a kind of disturbance! A powerful disturbance. Dorothy can feel that there is an extremely strong disturbance force in the dream world where Atwood is now, which disturbs the entire information transmitted in. This disturbance directly destroys the transmission content of the information and destroys the orderliness of it!
"Is this... disturbance? Disturbance that can affect the divine power and information? Where exactly is this Atoli?"
Seeing this scene, Dorothy couldn't help but frown and thought in her heart, the information she had communicated was supported by divine power, how could it be disturbed? What kind of power was disturbing the information? !
This question appeared in Dorothy's mind, but she quickly found the answer in her heart. Only divinity can be related to divinity. In the dream world, there is almost only one source of divine power that can affect the divine power of Judge of Heaven, and that is the "butterfly/moth", or the "holy cocoon" that is nurturing the butterfly!
Although the butterflies and moths are still in a state of half awake and half asleep at this moment, they are still aware of the fog unconsciously emanating from the outside. This fog cannot be successfully passed through even in a dark dream, and if you fail to enter it, you will only be lost forever.
The mist was created based on the divinity of the young angel god, the butterfly/moth, which was at least a demigod close to the true god level. Although Dorothy's divine nature did not belong to the main god's divinity, as the carrier of the divine nature, Dorothy herself was only at the level of the mature, so the level of her divinity was also weakened to a certain extent, and she could not directly isolate herself from the disturbance of the mist.
"So, how did Atolli suddenly run to such a place?..."
Analyzing the current situation, Dorothy couldn't help but mutter with a serious expression.
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Another aspect, the dream world, the woodland.
In the endless white fog, between the looming shadowy giant trees, Atolli, wearing a tight cloak, is walking on the gorgeous grass. While walking, she looks around, as if she is trying to find the right path in this maze.
Since entering the dream world, Atoli has been trapped in this white fog forest for a while. During this period, she used various methods to try to escape from the current predicament, but all failed. The current maze is still deep and confusing for her. She can't find any sense of direction in it. No matter which direction she looks, whether it is east, south, west, north, up, down, left, right, or whether it is crossing realms, she can't find a way out. No matter how she "moves", what is presented to her is only the deep forest in the fog besides the white fog.
"Is this... a divine maze...
"Hiss... I feel a little dizzy... Is it because I've been wandering around here for too long?"
Looking at the scene in front of her, Atoli couldn't help but hold her forehead and sighed slightly. Then she sat down beside a towering tree in the mist and began to take a short rest. At this time, she suddenly felt something strange.
Atoli, who noticed something strange, couldn't help but look frozen, then she fumbled in her cloak and took out a small book. After looking at it carefully, there was a hint of strangeness in her expression.
"This is... the extraordinary communication item that guy gave me? Is there any response? Is she contacting me? Do they have the means to contact me in the fog of the dream world?"
Looking at the text in her hand, Atoli couldn't help but wonder in her heart that she had been trying to contact the outside world in various ways before, but all failed because of the obstruction of the fog. This fog can not only make specific things lost, but also information lost.
After being slightly curious about the so-called Rosicrucian method, Atoli immediately opened the book in front of her, and then saw a piece of handwriting that had just emerged. Just as Atoli was about to identify it, she couldn't help but frowned.
The handwriting on the text in front of her was not neat characters, but a mess of confusing symbols that she could not understand. As the church's supervisor, Artori knew many languages and was very proficient in semiotics, but she could not understand the meaning of the text at all. She felt that these symbols were like scribblings by a baby, without any meaning in them.
'What is she saying? Is this some language I haven't seen before? No... this doesn't look like a language... There's no pattern to the construction of these shapes and lines, it's like they were put together randomly...
"This doesn't seem like the information that the so-called scholar sent me... It feels like the original information has been tampered with... Is this also the effect of this fog?"
Looking at the traces of scribbles on the text in front of her, Atolli couldn't help but ponder in her heart that her judgment was indeed correct. This was the result of Dorothy's original information being disturbed by the fog of "butterfly/moth".
The divinity of the butterfly/moth lies in illusion and confusion. This fog is the embodiment of the power of confusion in the divinity. Any direction will be confused, any journey will be lost, any goal will be blurred, reality and illusion become indistinguishable, and everyone will fall into confusion...
This not only includes the people or things caught in it, but also includes various forms of power and even information itself. Any information transmitted in the fog will have its order disrupted and become chaotic. The meaning of words is based on the construction symbols of order. Once the order collapses due to the influence of this confusing fog, it will become chaotic, and ordered characters will become disordered "garbled code".
If normal information is transmitted in the fog, it will be lost and cannot be transmitted to the recipient. However, because the information transmitted by Dorothy is protected by the divinity of "Enlightenment", it barely does not go out of order at the target, but the content is disturbed and disordered, and the meaningful content becomes garbled code, which is impossible to decipher.
'This is totally incomprehensible. What on earth is she trying to say?'
After seeing the messy garbled characters on the text in front of her, Artoli couldn't help but think curiously in her heart. Then after thinking for a moment and really unable to answer, Artoli also used her dream-like pen to write a reply on the page, asking Dorothy the specific meaning of her words just now.
After Dorothy's information was successfully transmitted to Atwood's text, the divine power of "Inspiration" had established a link between Dorothy's "Voyage of the Sea" and Atwood's text. Therefore, Atwood's recovery also quickly appeared in Dorothy's "Voyage of the Sea" in the real world, but it was also a version that could not be disturbed by the fog and was so chaotic that it could not be interpreted.
'What is this? Is it garbled? Why did this Ateori respond to me with a bunch of garbled words?'
On the hill in the dark night of the real world, Dorothy looked at the garbled content on the "Wenhai Hangzhi" in front of her and couldn't help touching her chin. She began to think about the cause of this so-called garbled phenomenon with a puzzled look. After a while, she also thought that it was probably caused by the influence of the powerful interference source in the dream world.
"Is this... the influence of the divine mist? This is amazing. It can directly affect the information being transmitted. It looks like the information is being disordered. Is this the manifestation of the power of the god in the cocoon?"
Looking at the scene on the page in front of her, Dorothy analyzed it in her mind, then she picked up the pen again, wrote down the words on the contact page, and continued to contact Artoli. After a while, she received a reply again, but it was still in the form of garbled code, and no information could be deciphered from it.
Seeing this scene, Dorothy paused for a moment, and then tried several more times, but the effect was still the same, she was completely unable to understand the message after being disturbed. Seeing that there was no way to communicate at all, Dorothy thought for a while and began to change the way of communicating with Atwood, and continued to write on the "Wenhai Hangzhi", but this time she did not write any specific information, but directly used the pen to mark on the pages.
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