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Chapter 892 Cooperation with Huaiguang Church (6000)

Terra 775, May 5, Xiahui City.

The Victory Square, decorated with lights, is full of residents and tourists who come here admiringly. Because the foundation stone laying ceremony on June 6 is approaching, pieces of colorful curtains have been hung on the street, and vendors setting up stalls along the street enthusiastically Sell ​​your delicious snacks.

The sanitation of these roadside stalls is mostly not very up to standard, but the tantalizing aroma and lively atmosphere make people unable to control their hands.

A horse convoy that looked ordinary without any extra decorations came to the city entry checkpoint - although Xiahui City has no city walls, there are still management offices on the avenue to inspect the convoy.

After passing the review, the envoys of the Huaiguang Church came to Xiahui City in such an ordinary carriage.

"It seems that the lord already knows we are coming."

The sworn archbishop is a 'girl' wearing a red and black sacrificial robe.

The robes on her body are layered, black obsidian and light blue are blended together, making her look complicated and magnificent, and she looks at most fourteen or fifteen years old, her long hair dances in the wind like black flames, but her eyes are dead. Normal ice blue.

And if you look carefully, you can see a pair of black panther-like animal ears in the hair of the sworn archbishop.She is a filmmaker.

Walking with him was a bald man who was so tall that he looked like a Milosian.He closed his eyes, but there was light shooting from them, and he could vaguely see the bright golden eyes under his eyelids.

Archbishop Tianyan nodded slightly: "I feel that this city is shrouded by an invisible force that I can't capture. It is probably some kind of psionic magic lock, or the inscription circle of the superior."

"The Prophet and the King of the Mountain are waiting for us beyond the Silver Peak."

Turning his head, the Archbishop Ming swore that although his face was expressionless, he said softly to all the members of the envoy: "You move freely first, and Tianyan and I will go and pay a visit—the banquet can be eaten, but there is no need for such a big fanfare."

Silver Peak is the cliff peak where the Lord's Mansion is located. Although it is only 200 meters high, it is enough to overlook the whole city. The Lord's Mansion at the top of the cliff peak is brightly lit, and some people are even hanging 'Warmly Welcome Huaiguang Church Envoys' Regiment' banner, the banquet has been prepared to welcome.

Obviously, the Huaiguang party did not notify in advance, but the prophet did know that they would arrive today.

Everyone responded, and the two archbishops turned into streamers and disappeared.

The seven people who were allowed to move freely were divided into two groups. They smiled and looked at each other, made a few gestures, and then moved separately.

"It's really hard to imagine that this is actually the former Lai'an City..."

In the three-person team, the white-haired dragon nun stared at the city in amazement. Yingguang was not a person who made a fuss, but rather she was very calm, even in the face of something that could scare people. The remains of the Alien God who called out will not change color.

But for some things, the more contrast there is, the stronger the sense of contrast.

Sister Yingguang still remembers that when she first came to Laian City to investigate the disappearance of the caravan, it was only a small town with a population of tens of thousands. Some gloomy atmosphere.

Yingguang dare to say that even if Baron Lai'an did not secretly plunder the population for biological experiments, the atmosphere of Lai'an City would not be sunny - after all, this is a city in the mountains surrounded by mountains and forests, and people's personalities are also affected by Lai'an. An Ling's deliberate 'high welfare' makes him look lazy.

It was the protective layer that Baron Ryan used to disguise himself, so it was naturally impossible to have any internal vitality.

but now……

The dragon nun raised her head involuntarily, and looked at the huge chimneys on the west side of the city.

Unlike the chimneys of the alchemy workshops she had seen in the past, the chimneys here would not emit gray-black or colorful 'glow'.On the contrary, in this city named after Xiahui, the color of the chimneys is as pale as snow.

The Huaiguang Church has done their homework before, and they know that this is the practical result of the lord's 'reuse of alchemy techniques'.

Ian Yinfeng invented this genius technique when he first arrived in the imperial capital and passed the alchemy assessment. Although it is not suitable for high-end alchemy, a slight improvement is the best way to prevent pollution.

The chimneys that seem to be towering into the clouds spray thin white air, faintly connecting with the flowing clouds in the sky, and when Yingguang is watching those clouds and mists, a shadow flies across the sky, covering the city and streets.

It was a dragon—the draconian nun saw two real dragons coming slowly.

The real dragons landed on a mountain peak in the northwest of Xiahui, and then two rays of light entered the lord's mansion, presumably they were the mountain king of Nanling and his child Linglong Xiou.

The King of the Mountain was originally responsible for guarding the treasure of the Iron Dragon, waiting for the successor to appear. After Ian Yinfeng became the envoy of the Dragon God and inherited the inheritance of the Iron Dragon, he should return to Dragon Island and wait for the next action.

But it may be because of the relationship between Mahdi and Dragon Island, or Ian himself is the target of Dragon Island... In short, the King of the Mountain who should have left not only did not leave, but even directly participated in the belief of the former Dragon God , the construction of the new holy place of Chongling Sect, 'Frost Sky Dome'.

At this point, no matter how much some nobles in the imperial capital murmur, saying, "How can the Yinfeng leader not be worthy of the honor of being the first earl of Nanling without the fourth energy level?" "How can a 20-year-old young man control such a large piece of land?" Territory', are also useless.

Because on this land, there really are real dragons of the fourth energy level living.

The appearance of the dragon did not cause disorder among the people on the street. They all just stopped, saluted silently, and then continued to laugh and laugh, doing what they should do.

"strangeness……"

The Milosian at the side, Juguang, muttered, "Longwei doesn't mean that you won't be afraid if you see it a lot. It's an instinctive reaction of your spirit and blood. How can this group of Yinfeng people be so calm?"

"I'm afraid it's because this group of Yinfeng people are unusual."

And Hui Jian, the cleric of the White People, smiled slightly. He scanned the street in front of him, the 'fluorescence' in everyone's body, and then looked towards the north of the city.

Different from the bustling southeast city, the western part of Xiahui City is densely packed with alchemy parks, where the guards are heavily guarded, and the atmosphere is as hard and indifferent as steel tempered, except for the sound of workshops running.

The north side is another extreme - it is a group of towers flashing with infinite thunder, like a lightning storm... This is the energy center of Xiahui Territory, and one or two electric sparks explode in the void from time to time between the high-voltage electricity towers .

The magnetic storm coils scattered throughout the city, the Prism Tower and another brand new, constantly rotating octagonal prism tower all rely on this location for energy supply.

The energy pipeline here is buried deep underground. Although it has been hidden, it can be clearly seen that the main structure of this place, that is, the power furnace core is located underground.

[The pipeline leads directly to Xiahui Lake...has an energy furnace core using the 'Heavenly Fallen Relic' been built...]

The pure white psychic light flashed in Hui Jian's eyes, and he thought thoughtfully: [Ian's ability once again exceeded our expectations, maybe there is a reason why he took the initiative to choose the Xiahui Territory as his territory... …According to the deduction, his choice should be to return to Harrison Port, use some means to get rid of Viscount Grant, and seize that port and the South China Sea Labyrinth]

[But looking at it now, he still has information that we don't know about]

"Do you want to go directly to the Lord's Mansion?"

Noticing the behavior of his companion, Zhuang Guang said, "I'm sure the archbishop will tell you when he comes back."

"Well. Take it easy."

Hui Jian responded with a smile, and he motioned for Ran Guang to follow Ying Guang: "Let's take a look at this city first."

The city is bustling and bustling, and Xiahui City looks like a big city at the moment. The refurbished commercial street is wide and lively, brightly lit, and vehicles are not allowed to pass through. A less mobile hot dog shop and kebab shop.

"It's only been a year since the food disaster? Can they eat meat like this?"

Redemption opened her mouth wide, not because she was surprised, but because she was hungry. The female paladin of Milos touched the corner of her head, swallowed, and said, "Besides, they used too much spice. Don’t spices cost money?”

"It's just chicken and duck meat. Breeding is already fast."

Huijian noticed that Xiahui's meat is still based on fast-growing poultry such as chicken, fish and duck.

As for the spices, Canaan Moore, which cooperates with Xiahui, is the origin of spices, and the Jindeng family directly controls many spice plains, not to mention that most of the knight manors in the Golden Plain also grow spices, as long as they reach a cooperation agreement , there is certainly no shortage of this aspect.

"Is the supply of civilian supplies the main priority?" The only thing that made Hui Jian think about it was Ian's attitude. Obviously, the lord didn't seem to intend to turn the territory into his own testing ground or sublimation material supply point—— If so, he would not set up any chicken and duck breeding factories and agricultural buildings, but let everyone go to mine in the mountains.

Now, what Ian is doing is mainly to make ordinary people eat well... Although it is indeed a good thing, what is the purpose?
Even Huijian couldn't figure this out for a while. According to the current situation known to Terra, after the people are fed, their work will become slack...or even give up thinking.

Although it sounds a bit unpleasant, the fact is that some elves in the remote areas of Canaan Moore still live in wooden houses. Isn't it because the life in the coastal jungle is too simple, and it doesn't take much effort to get enough?

On the contrary, they live in the mountains, plains, and even underground spaces. Those elves who need to work hard to fill their stomachs began to develop and expand very early, and evolved into the embryonic form of Canaan Moore.

Unless, Ian finds another way that allows ordinary people to still have 'desire' after they are full.

And just when Huijian was thinking, and when Huiguang had already paid for Xiahui's specialty grilled stone shrimp sausage, Yingguang discovered a novelty on the side of the street.

"Vending machine?"

She was quite curious and came to a huge square glass 'storage cabinet'. There was a special terminal on the left side of the vending machine, where a local from Xiahui Ling used the terminal to buy something.

I saw that after they manipulated it, the vending machine would automatically push a product and drop it into the sales outlet, and the buyer took it and left, and it was very smooth from the beginning to the end.

"It can still be like this..."

Yingguang has gained a lot of knowledge: "Aren't there any thieves stealing things here under the leadership of Xiahui? Such a big container is placed here, and no one is looking at it. Isn't it stolen all at once?"

With such doubts, Yingguang went to a passerby to ask this question.

"That's going to jail! And no one can escape!"

The passerby's answer was very simple: "In the first two weeks, there were idiots stealing things from the vending machines every day, but everyone who stole things would be caught, and it was useless to hide."

"The first time was just to criticize education for three days, the second time was to go to the West Swamp to work and reclaim wasteland for a month, and the third time... I have never seen such a stupid fool, dare to do this kind of thing three times , die."

"But don't say it yet." The passer-by seemed to have thought of something, and the gray-black-haired mountain uncle said: "I really know a 'thief' who has stolen three times—he is not a thief, but he is short-sighted. Let's see what happens if you steal three times."

"A few days ago, he came back from the laboratory. He became decent and decent, and he didn't talk nonsense. I almost didn't know the original silly boy-he even called me third uncle instead of 'old man' Something's gone!"

Hearing this, Ying Guang frowned slightly.

The law of Xiahui collar is not strict at all. It is normal for a thief who stole the "government property" arranged by the city hall to have his hands cut off directly in other noble territories of the empire. The second time he will have to beheaded no matter what. up.

As for the third time, it is obvious that there is no cure, even the kindest lord has to hang this kind of person-put it in a hellish place like Terra, just be content with being hanged, some people are worse than death Law.

But the last third time... the third punishment, what happened?

This reminded Yingguang of the three children led by Laian, the one who can manipulate memory... It seems that his psionic ability can play a similar role?
I had some doubts in my heart, but Yingguang didn't think too much about it. After all, there are very few people who will really steal official things three times when they will be caught every time.

Not to mention, how could a kind and reliable knight like Ian use the same terrifying methods as Baron Ryan back then?
The only strange thing is how the Xiahui leader can catch everyone who steals.

Could it be a prophet?

No, no, no, it is not advisable to rely on the prophet for everything...

And just when Yingguang comforted herself, she suddenly saw a person running out of the vending machine not far away.

Holding a fan in his hand, the man complained profusely that it was too hot inside the vending machine, and the passers-by also teased him.

"Huh? Artificial?"

Seeing this scene, Sister Yingguang was stunned, and the demeanor of a clergyman who had been well maintained suddenly turned into a country girl—not only her, but even Shuguang took a bite of the shrimp sausage in shock: "I thought it was a real automated system, but I didn't expect it to be human!"

It was now perfectly clear why every thief was caught.

But Hui Jian raised his eyebrows.

He noticed that the clothes on this person did not look like a vending machine operator, but more like an engineer... He seems to be a maintenance and replenishment person?

Vending machines may really be automated.That being the case, then Xiahui Ling must have the means to monitor the entire city, and that is the 'monitoring circle' and 'psychic magic lock' that Archbishop Ming Swear and Archbishop Tianyan said.

"Or in other words, the network program of the pre-epoch civilization?"

He thought about it.

And just when the Huaiguang Church team was moving freely in Xiahui City.

In the Lord's Mansion, Ian has already met with the two archbishops.

"This time, we are here on behalf of Huaiguang Sacred Mountain, and we want to reach a 'natural disaster mutual aid cooperation' with Chongling Sect in Nanling."

As soon as we met, the leader, Archbishop Sworn, didn't have any greetings, and said directly: "Because there are prophets in Nanling, and you, an influential prophet lord, exist. The Holy Mountain cannot predict any disasters around Nanling. Even if it is predicted, we cannot be sure whether the intelligence is distorted."

"Fortunately, Earl Yinfeng, you happen to be a crisis prophet, so we want to sign a prophetic agreement with you on behalf of Huaiguang Sacred Mountain—as long as there are signs of large-scale disasters or crises occur , notify us immediately, and we will send relevant personnel to cooperate with you to deal with all possible natural disasters on the mainland."

Although Archbishop Mingswear is petite and young and beautiful, looking at Archbishop Tianyan's low-browed and pleasing-looking posture as a servant, one can clearly understand her seniority... This posture is not just because of strength.

Demihumans are very young until some time before their death, and so is the Sworn Archbishop apparently.

As for the proposal of sworn archbishop, Ian's idea is 'Of course I agree'.

Huaiguang Sacred Mountain must have reached cooperation and intercommunication with all prophetic forces in terms of natural disasters, so as to avoid some extremely influential disasters that cannot be predicted in a certain territory in a certain place.

This is also the reason why Terra Continent respects the Prophets exceptionally. They can indeed guarantee the survival of the vast majority of people in the entire continent from multiple dimensions.

But there is only one thing that worries Ian.

(I know there are too many natural disasters)

Ian thought to himself: (Would it be better to say everything to prevent problems before they happen, or to say one by one? I always feel like I don’t know how to talk about it...)
After Ian was distressed and vowed that the archbishop had finished speaking the most important thing, Archbishop Tianyan spoke.

He slowly talked about another key cooperation: "In addition, the existence of Chongling Sect has been recognized by our four major Orthodox Churches. Later, before June [-], envoys from other Orthodox Churches will also arrive at Xiahui Leader, we will publicly conduct an accreditation of Chongling Sect at the time you wish... and as a requirement, you must be very clear about it."

"I must have a regular team of psionic priests."

After regaining his senses, Ian took over the words of Archbishop Tianyan, and he said with a smile: "And the core goal of this team is not simply to fight, but to be able to go deep into the void—it's about demons, Are you right?"

"It seems that there are many things that we don't need to talk about."

Archbishop Ming swore raised his brows, while Tian Yan smiled, and the burly former knight calmly said: "That's right. Sure enough, you already know a lot, and you have even mastered the technology of artificial psykers... But in order to avoid misunderstanding, We still have to inform you of the relevant details."

Having said that, he raised his finger and said seriously: "And - please don't get me wrong!"

"In order to ensure our cooperation in the future, the clergymen on the side of Chonglingjiao may need to be trained by us... This is not for the purpose of seizing power, nor is it for containment, nor is it forcibly intervening. It is just that the clergymen are in great need. Only by following some rules can we survive better, so we may send some trainers to teach..."

"awesome!"

Ian was too lazy to listen to the self-proving words of the Huaiguang Church. He clapped his hands and praised: "When will you send someone to teach our priests? Of course, you also know that there are not many priests on our side at present. Just two young people are on duty..."

"it's the same."

Archbishop Tianyan obviously didn't expect Ian to be so insensitive, or...to put his trust in Huaiguang so much.

So after a pause, he also nodded with a smile and said: "According to our judgment, Chongling Sect will have a long period of development, so our instructors will be stationed in Xiahui for a long time."

"As for the candidate...you should know Earl Silver Peak."

"They are moving freely in the city now, and will respond to the call later."

And at this time, Yingguang's trio had already arrived at the foot of the Silver Peak.

The manor next to Yafeng has long been vacant.

There is only one super-huge battleship model located there today.

"What it is……"

Redemption, who doesn't know much about this aspect, muttered to herself. She looked up at the exquisite battleship model in front of her, and said with some hesitation: "When I went to the World Tree Capital, I felt as if I had seen a similar structure before. , but the world tree capital is vertical, and this battleship..."

"It should be the world tree capital."

Hui Jian raised his head and said: "According to our information, Ian Yinfeng received a gift from the World Tree Capital, and this model is probably one of them—could it be that the World Tree Capital also shared its own model with Ian?" Structure? Then what did he do to get this kind of reward?"

"I don't think it's that complicated."

Yingguang raised her head thoughtfully and said, she said quite firmly: "I think Ian might like this kind of model - it should be a hobby. This model should be a miniature model, isn't it?" What is a miniature airship that can really fly”

"how is this possible."

Juguang didn't care about his junior sister's naive thoughts: "A person like Earl Yinfeng has a purpose in everything he does. With such a big model, how could it be purely for hobby?"

"Too."

Yingguang thought about it, and felt right: "Earl Yinfeng's idea is definitely not that simple."

"We still have to think about it."

(End of this chapter)