Spellcasting Heavens

Adam, have you ever heard of the Priory?

After returning to his own cabin, Zhang Cheng immediately dialed the satellite phone and contacted the artificial man responsible for monitoring the situation on the entire earth.

You must know that in theory, it is impossible to maintain absolute confidentiality when it comes to spreading beliefs.

No matter how careful you are, some flaws will inevitably show up.

Among them, buying children who have not yet established their three views is precisely the most noteworthy point.

The reason is very simple. It is basically the same as some religions that require parents to bring their children to worship together and participate in various brainwashing scripture reading activities, which has an irreversible impact on them.

Children who grow up in this environment will naturally choose to support the religion they grew up with and the gods worshiped by that religion.

In short, if you want to gain devout faith, you need to create an environment where believers can influence and communicate with each other.

Generally speaking, unless the scale is extremely small, every secret gathering has a certain chance of being discovered by the outside world.

The Priory?

Adam on the electronic screen frowned subconsciously, seeming to be thinking about something.

It took about two or three minutes before he sent a piece of information and explained in a deep voice: The Priory is an organization that only started its activities six years ago. It was small at first and did not attract my attention. But later , they quickly developed in the eastern continent of North America, and currently control more than ten pirate ships, two important ports, and a large number of bandits and gang members. What, is there anything suspicious about them that caught your attention?

Yes! As far as I know, this organization has been purchasing children under the age of ten everywhere. Isn't this alone worthy of attention? Zhang Cheng asked bluntly.

He couldn't believe how Adam, who had never made any mistakes, could make such a big mistake.

Sorry, Master, I don't think this is anything worthy of attention. I'm afraid you don't know yet. The world today is no longer what it was before the asteroid impact. Things like human trafficking are nothing at all. According to my rough statistics, There are currently about 470 million people in the world, and slaves account for more than 40 million of them. In other words, an average of more than 1.3 million people are bought and sold as animals every year. Organizations and individuals like this kind of buying and selling of children ,

There are simply too many to count around the world. ” Adam spoke in a calm tone about the current cruel reality of the world.

1.3 million per year? Zhang Cheng raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Adam nodded immediately: Yes! 1.3 million. Of course, this is just the number of transactions. It does not mean that 1.3 million people are forced to become slaves every year. Many of them are from slaves. The master was transferred to another slave owner. But since you are interested in the Priory, I will focus on them next, and if there is anything suspicious, I will inform you at any time.

Well, it seems that the new era is much worse than I expected. Maybe we should speed up the evolution of civilization a little. Zhang Cheng touched his chin with a thoughtful expression.

There is no doubt that due to the current cruel living environment, as well as the poor traffic and security conditions, it is not an easy task to find the gods hidden in the dark.

But if there are a few powerful conquerors, establish several powerful empires around the world, and greatly improve the level of agriculture and technology, then the population will grow rapidly, and it will not be so easy to spread faith secretly.

Thinking of this, he immediately called up a map of the distribution of major forces around the world and began to look for candidates, intending to support them and become the emperor of one empire after another.

Of course, he didn't intend to give up on the Priory, and planned to investigate clearly along this clue first.

…

Time flies, half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

After half a month of repairs in Gerlint Port, Joanna finally couldn't bear the loneliness and boredom, and drove the Sea Serpent back to the endless sea, planning to rob passing merchant ships along the northerly channel, and then arrive at Take a look at the famous Colosseum in Puerto La Mancha in the north.

The reason why it is famous is that the competitions held here are not like other places, where slave gladiators fight each other. At most, they include lions, tigers, bears and other beasts. Magic monsters fight with humans, and their cruelty and bloodiness are many times higher than the former.

Almost every contestant has very powerful supernatural powers, otherwise it would be impossible to defeat a monster that is twenty or thirty times larger than themselves.

Just as Zhang Cheng was sitting alone on the deck, enjoying the refreshing sea breeze blowing across his face, he suddenly heard the lookout shouting at the top of his voice: The target was found on the port side! It's a merchant ship!

What? Merchant ship! Joanna's eyes suddenly shone with excitement.

After all, she had never successfully robbed a merchant ship since she became a pirate, so she immediately became excited.

Also extremely excited were the pirates who were busy on the deck.

For them, successfully looting a merchant ship not only means that they can get a generous share of loot, but also can have a sumptuous meal and unlimited drinking of wine after the war.

Soon, with more and larger sails and a streamlined hull, the crew of the Sea Serpent finally saw a medium-sized merchant ship that was nearly half the size of themselves appearing on the sea level in the distance.

Although Xiaogui is small, the belly of this ship is extremely round. It is obviously designed to carry more cargo, and the sailing speed is very slow.

As the distance between the two sides grew closer, the pirates could even see the desperate expressions of the sailors on the other side's deck.

Hahahaha! Look at those poor bastards! They're almost scared to death! Ross, who had just been promoted to boatswain, grinned and laughed unbridled.

We are so lucky! We actually caught a merchant ship that was defenseless!

“I hope the goods above won’t be too disappointing!”

Shit! This is a medium-sized cargo ship! Even if it is filled with the most worthless grain, we can still make a fortune.

…

As the pirates were shouting and talking, they seemed to regard each other as a meal on the plate, and they wanted to rush up and take a bite immediately.

But the owner of the merchant ship was not a fool. He began to loudly order his men to throw boxes of heavy cargo into the sea in an attempt to reduce the weight and increase the speed of the ship. Otherwise, if he was caught, there would be absolutely no good end.

But before they could throw much, the experienced pirates of the Sea Serpent used the crossbow on the bow of the ship to shoot arrows with ropes at the end, and then used the power of the winch to forcefully pull the two ships closer. He then completed the gang jump with extremely skilled movements, rushed forward to kill the crew members who tried to resist, and took control of the entire ship in less than ten minutes...