Chapter 332: Stringing together intelligence
The interrogation in the next room was still going on, and more and more shocking truths gradually surfaced as time went by.
A timeline gradually became clear before Yu Sheng and Baili Qing's eyes.
The theory of "the world is terminally ill" is a concept that the Holy Hermitage has had since the beginning. All their subsequent actions and research on the Dark Angels started with the mysterious "Adar Pit" seventeen years ago, and the angel remains "Shadowless Skeleton" found at the bottom of the pit. During the research, they believed that the fragments of the Dark Angels, namely "Angel Catalyst", could be used to "heal" the world. The activity of the Angel Catalyst found in the Adar Pit had subsided, so they set their sights on Ankaela...
That was ten years ago. In order to obtain Ankaela's "Angel Catalyst", they lurked in the border area for a full ten years.
"How did you learn about the existence of 'Ankaela'?"
In the shadows, the interrogator's voice sounded calmly. This voice contained a powerful spiritual power, which continued to weaken the spiritual strength of the priory, making it difficult for him to rebuild his psychological defenses once he began to answer.
"…The information comes from the Angel Cult, a communication that happened long ago."
"Have you reached a cooperation with the Angel Cult?" The interrogator leaned forward slightly. "You want the 'remains' of the Dark Angel, which is an unacceptable blasphemy to the Angel Cult. Will they be willing to tell you the secrets of the 'Lord'?"
"We do have differences, but that doesn't mean we can't use each other," the cultist on the chair hung his head and spoke slowly, "Besides, they don't know the truth about the 'Angel Catalyst' - we explained it as a kind of 'gift' left by the Dark Angels, and the Priory hoped to obtain this gift. Apart from that, we didn't reveal any details, so they mistakenly thought that the Priory also wanted to convert, so they happily cooperated."
"Oh, so you also deceived your 'partners'?"
Hearing this, the pale-faced man on the chair smiled. He shook his head, mockingly saying, "Cheat? The voices of the angels have long burned the minds of the angel believers. They are mortals full of flaws, and now even their souls are festering. Our deception of them is a kind of salvation... Yes, it's not deception, it's pulling them back from the wrong path. And did we really deceive them? Why can't the remains of the Dark Angels after their death be considered their 'gift'? In the final analysis... it's a gift, but the giver is not willing."
"Okay, let's not discuss this part of the details," the interrogator shook his head, obviously not interested in judging the deception between the two cult gangs. "Then the next question is - Ankaela was still alive at the time, but was sealed. How did you know that you could get his 'Angel Catalyst'? You know, before this incident, no one could have imagined that the 'Angel Fall' would happen."
This time, the cultist on the chair suddenly fell silent. After two or three seconds, he spoke slowly in a somewhat strange tone: "We didn't expect that 'Angel Fall' would happen."
"Um?"
"We are targeting Ankaela only because he may be the weakest known dark angel, and the only one who is sealed and cannot move, so he can be used as a research subject - although for a long time, we didn't even know where exactly he was sealed," the cultist said slowly, "In our best expectation, Ankaela will be released by those angel cultists, and the border will fight to the death for him. With the power of the border, even if you can't fight Ankaela, you should at least be able to injure him, just like the battle when the Algrad people tried to kill the 'Goddess of Beauty' in the border area - and in this process, perhaps an 'Angel Catalyst' will be produced..."
Baili Qing, who was standing behind the observation window, pressed the button again: "So, you were just waiting for an opportunity to fish in troubled waters, waiting for the border area and Ankaela to be defeated, so that you could collect some fragments that fell off the Dark Angel?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Irene, who had been silent beside Yu Sheng for a while, began to mutter: "Well, it has changed from fishing in troubled waters to groping in troubled waters... Let them grope around blindly!"
Yu Sheng poked a finger at the doll's head and said, "You've used all your intelligence to come up with puns, right?"
In the interrogation room next door, the cultist sitting on the chair did not hear Yu Sheng and Irene's voices. He just smiled bitterly and nodded slowly: "Yes, this is what we planned at the beginning. Therefore, when the 'Angel Fall' suddenly happened, many plans were disrupted, which indirectly led to... our subsequent exposure."
Interrogator: "Did it indirectly lead to your exposure?"
"To put it simply, due to the 'impact' of the fallen angel on the structure of space itself, coupled with our lack of understanding of angel catalysts, errors in the contact and containment process... a series of reasons led to the overflow of catalyst power during an experiment, which briefly penetrated space, allowing you to discover the existence of the 'Deep Realm City' - which is what you call the 'City in the Mist'."
Behind the observation window, Yu Sheng and Baili Qing subconsciously looked at each other when they heard this.
Yu Sheng instantly thought of how the "foggy foreign land" suddenly appeared - there was no sign, but before its entrance was opened for the first time, there was a series of frequent and short "tremors" near the opening point, which did not look like the normal characteristics of the opening of the foreign land at all, but rather like some kind of man-made "interference"...
And that is exactly what happened shortly after the angel fell.
"So that's how it is?" he whispered to himself.
So it seems that the series of short "tremors" when the "Mist City" was first opened were probably not an attempt to open the foreign world, but rather the monastics who failed in the experiment were trying in vain to close the foreign world? However, they obviously underestimated the "penetrating" power of the "Angel Catalyst". After hundreds of leaks and blockages, the Mist City still opened and swept a person in...
The unfortunate nephew played a great role in this.
Yu Sheng felt a brief sympathy for Zheng Zhi, and then his attention was drawn to the voice coming from the loudspeaker.
In the interrogation room next door, the interrogator's deep voice sounded again: "What do you know about the 'City in the Mist', or as you call it, the 'Deep Realm City'? How was this foreign land created?"
"I, I'm not sure...really!" said the cultist, as if trying to make his words sound more credible. "I just followed orders and boarded the 'Pillar of Order', but that place already existed before we came. Perhaps only sages or higher-level people know what that foreign land is... I only know that the scope of that foreign land is very large, even as large as the entire border. Yes, there is another entire 'border' in the endless fog, 'under' the border in reality..."
Behind the observation window, Yu Sheng and others looked at each other.
"Oh my god..." Irene scratched her cheek, "Is it really so outrageous? It's not just the boundary city, it's even the area outside the boundary city?"
"The level of talent and beauty in the border area has improved again," Yu Sheng glanced at Baili Qing and spread his hands, "So this is the 'second floor'?"
Baili Qing didn't say anything, but her expression slightly changed from sunny to cloudy.
The secret under the nose of the Secret Service, the situation that the people in the border area themselves didn't know, was finally revealed by a cultist of a monastic order... This obviously made her, who was always cold and indifferent, feel very unhappy.
Yu Sheng looked at the director's sister who had become cloudy, and wisely decided not to continue joking with her.
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Two seconds later, Baili Duoyun seemed to have calmed down a little, his face finally returned to normal, and he pressed the button again: "So, you stole the Angel Catalyst from under the noses of our recycling team through the Fog City, a 'channel' hidden under the real world?"
What she was referring to was the Ankaela crystal that mysteriously disappeared in the suburbs after the angel fell.
However, the cultist in the interrogation room shook his head.
"Strictly speaking, we didn't 'steal' it, but it fell in on its own initiative," he said slowly, "The crystal directly smashed through the barrier between the real world and the Deep Realm City, forming a penetration point for a short time... As I said, the Angel Catalyst has a very powerful 'penetration' property. Even if it is not deliberately activated, it has a chance to release this power.
"We actually didn't intend to take any action at the time, because the fallen angel disrupted all our plans, and the Secret Service reacted faster than we thought. The expected chaos did not happen. All eyes were focused on the fallen angel. The wilderness outside the boundary city was still full of your outposts and monitoring points. We had no chance to recover the angel catalyst that fell outside... But no one expected that a piece of crystal would fall directly into the thick fog..."
“And you picked it up?”
Baili Qing said something into the microphone, and at the same time turned back and looked at Yu Sheng with a somewhat strange look.
She obviously remembered what Yu Sheng said at the beginning -
It's not uncommon to see a shiny thing in a pothole on the side of the road and put it in your pocket...
What could Yu Sheng say? He also remembered his unintentional words at the beginning. At this time, he could only scratch his head awkwardly: "The situation is still a little different from what I said at the beginning. The crystal is so big, they should not be able to put it in their pockets..."
Baili Qing: “…”
(End of this chapter)
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