Chapter 262: Enlightenment

What did Twilight do?

In short, betrayal and deception.

But it's a bit too much to say that she is a traitor, she is not that ruthless, and what she does can only be regarded as a half-ass.

To put it simply, it is the two ends of the snake and the rat, wanting to betray and not boasting that line, wanting to be loyal but unable to control their hands and hearts.

Some time ago, during the chaotic season of the Jiaocheng regime, the bigwigs of Jiaocheng fought openly and secretly for the position of the city lord, and it was natural that all the forces of New Winteria City were involved.

Even Rorschach himself had met with the candidates as a proxy and came up with a report that was an important reference, and he was really tired enough to choke at that time.

In terms of looking at people, Rorschach's ability is even more than mind reading, no one can hide his true political ideas and visualizations in front of him, and those who refuse to meet him are regarded as having ghosts in their hearts, and are directly kicked out of the shortlist.

But even so, the profiles of those candidates are too big to look at, and there are really not a few good goods in them.

Those who are excellent are often hostile to outsiders, those who are not hostile often can't be supported by a mess, and those who are too selfish are not at ease, who knows when they will sell themselves to the evil gods or outsiders who bid higher.

As a result, the churches of all parties hesitated and deliberated, and even though the list of candidates had been determined, they still considered the investigation and consideration........ and the evil god came.

Well, nothing is wrong, as always, the old problem has not been solved, and after a little delay, the new problem has come again.

Add to that the high-level of the Horn City, who led the fleet to attack the city of New Tonia, and a series of new ententes between the two cities, and the matter was delayed.

What makes people feel funny is that there is even a vague consensus within New Tonya - "Just let Horn City maintain the status quo, it's better for us to mess up like this." ”

This reflects the reality in the Harait's wasteland from one side, the new leader of Horn City, New Tonia City, can not only intervene, but also vaguely have the ability to decide the final candidate...... Comparing the scene of the dominant family in Corner City five years ago, it is really touching.

Outsiders do not intervene, and it is difficult for the warlords and politicians in the corner city to determine the final winner in a delicate balance, no one is a fool, and fighting too hard will only cheapen outsiders.

But if Horn City is still in a state of semi-split and half-infighting for a long time, New Tonia City will be more secure and wealthy (better than the bad winner), and it is naturally Horn City that suffers, and the Seymour residents of Horn City will suffer.

On the dark side of the heart, the Church of the Ichites looked forward to such a development, as the steady flow of immigrants would bring new blood and an insatiable demand for labor to the new city, and the increasingly chaotic situation in the corner city would also make the Seymours of New Tonia more and more reassured, and feel more and more that they had made the right choice.

But someone can't stand it, yes, it's her, the former saint Twilight.

As the chosen successor of Martha, the former spiritual leader of all Seymours, Twilight has been demanding herself as a racial leader since she was a child, and has always cared for each of her people in the spirit of the Virgin....... which is commonly known as the Chosen Son, the king of the keyboard, Dragon Tsundere.

However, her luck was really bad, and she had become a war slave for a time, although she did not suffer any bad luck under the protection of the old city lord, but the loss of humiliation and honor was extremely heavy.

This can be said to be a fatal wound for a politician, and it is only then that he is banished.

Her vision has always been very high, and she even looks down on Rorschach who is from an ordinary background and does not have many lofty ambitions, and standing at the height of the future leader of the Seymours, she has always been a little hostile to outsiders, although she is careful to hide, but how can she deceive Rorschach.

This kind of political concept seems to be somewhat contrary to the concept of Martha and the old city lord....... in fact, this is the political concept of the normal young generation.

After all, as the master of this wasteland, it is natural to have the mentality of the eldest and the second of the heavens, and the old lord and Martha have both had this kind of political philosophy, and it is only after traveling to the Eich city-states and deeply understanding their culture and ideas that they have determined the development route of coexistence and integration.

To put it mildly, it is "the gap is too big, you must surrender if you can't fight, at least you can suffer a little less", but if you refine it, it sounds more decent:

"The opponent is ahead of your civilization for several eras, there is no possibility of fighting at all, and the opponent's culture is inclusive, and needs our human resources, they are few and naturally need us to join, this is a coexistence and win-win route, and there is no who annexes whom, not to mention, according to the cultural concept of the Ash, we are originally blood brothers of the same origin. ”

Such an idea, in the eyes of the old city lord and Martha, is the most realistic development route.

However, in the eyes of the new generation who have not come into contact with the Eichish city-state and civilization, they are unusually conservative and timid, and the political ideas of the conservatives have been ridiculed and attacked by the radicals on various occasions.

However, as time passed, the representative of the radical faction, Sideon, died, and the representative of the conservative faction, the Holy Mountain faction, was completely integrated into Sideon City, and the culture and city-state of the Ich people became more and more prosperous, and it seemed that it was already a complete victory for the conservatives.

At this critical moment, Twilight, who is a conservative and has a radical heart, has taken extremely irrational actions.

As the supreme person in charge of the Game Church in Horn City, she has a lot of power in her hands, and when the Board of Directors of New Tonia City decided to "maintain the status quo and not interfere in the selection of the master of Horn City", she couldn't stand the continued chaos in Horn City, and used the power of the Game Church in Horn City to act in private.

She chose a target to invest in, used the public opinion tools of the game church to build momentum for it, and even released the news that the people of New Tonia City value him and see him as the future leader of Horn City.

I have to say that Twilight is very smart, and the Ash people are quick learners, and this approach has indeed paid off.

Everyone knows that now the Ash people in this wasteland have the final say, and now that the Ash people have determined that he is the future king of the Horn City, the probability of him succeeding in reaching the top is very high.

This world is very realistic, everyone knows that the favor of the wind is not as good as the charcoal in the snow, but most of them will still choose the dominant side, and these choices themselves can cause a balance of tilt.

Especially now that Neotonia and Kakuro have just signed a new covenant, and Kakuro has completely become a vassal of the Ash people in a sense, Ash's decision is even more weighty.

In just one week, the strength of the already powerful candidate has skyrocketed, and investors and political investors have been ushered in in all aspects, and he really has a bit of a king's posture.

As a result....... Rorschach was blocked.

The inexplicable Rorschach was questioned by the twenty-member board of directors why the game church would violate the consensus made before and interfere in the internal affairs and political struggles of Horn City without authorization.

This behavior makes the game church very passive, and Rorschach himself is super embarrassed.

And the propaganda tools of the Game Church really brought that candidate close to the reality of enthronement, and made other churches more wary of the Game Church and Rorschach.

Very passive, unusually passive, Rorschach was on fire at the time, and he also guessed who was reckless and who would be so stupid.

These things can't stand scrutiny in the first place, so when I go back and check, as I guessed, Twilight is exposed.

Rorschach remembers very well that this is not the first time, she had privately intervened in a corner city infighting before, and was warned by Rorschach himself.

This time, taking advantage of the game church's full efforts to run the affairs of New Tonya, she quickly cut through the mess, and the raw rice has been cooked into cooked rice.

And now she is just going to the end, not directly executed, because she is not lying, that person is indeed favored by all forces in New Tonia City, and is a candidate for the "king" city lord.

Von Beinth, the boss of the Brotherhood of Steel in Horntown, is a doer and revolutionary with political tendencies, and he is not hostile to the Ish, but on the contrary, he also takes the initiative to absorb the culture and technology of the Ish, which is a very practical person, and it is also the target that Rorschach personally chose at the beginning.

He has no obvious political leanings, but his pragmatic approach is highly compatible with conservatives.

It was precisely because of Rorschach's choice that this candidate was finally finalized by the 20-member board of directors, but due to the change of events, the members of the New Tonya board lost interest in interfering in Horntown, and the plan was put on hold indefinitely.

In the early days, the game church had invested a lot in him, and even at this time, he thought that Twilight was doing what she was ordered to do, and she really wanted to promote him to the top.

This is not the worst outcome, if he is really in power, the game church and the twenty-member board of directors will be able to accept it.

In a different candidate, Sunana should have already dispatched and personally removed Twilight's head.

But this is still a betrayal, Rorschach originally thought that she had led a group of people to become independent, and was ready to pick up the butcher's knife for a big purge, but after checking, she found out that it was a fake transfer order, and everyone else was kept in the bones.

It's very simple, it's enough to liquidate her alone.

Twilight is not a fool either, she also finds a way out for herself, and even privately hooks the line of the eagle's crown.

Her idea seemed convincing, for that night the Game Church had broken with the Eagle's Crown, which had moved from its friendly alliance to the side of the Glorious Picture of Hostility, and the betrayer was always the most hated, and the Eagle's Crown was bound to have resentment and resentment, even if it had no intention of retaliating.

In such a situation, coupled with his grandmother Martha's service for the Crown of Eagles, even for the sake of grandma's face, he will also cover himself, at least see that he is the director of the Horn City Intelligence Station, and he has a lot of valuable information in his head.

She calculated the favors and interests very clearly, but she did not expect that the development of the situation would be completely beyond imagination.

Her grandmother not only did not protect her, but even angrily denounced her for being stupid and arrogant, "How can I have such a stupid granddaughter as you", "Do you know what this kind of behavior means to us Holy Mountain people?", "You gave that person a reason to raise a butcher's knife!"

Twilight's idea is not obviously wrong, under normal circumstances, a hostile organization takes in a traitor, and Twilight's intelligence is the most valuable traitor, but she is wrong about one thing, the same well-informed Martha can see, and Twilight, a native in Corner City, is impossible to see - the delicate relationship and bottom line between the Church of Shinshin

As a competitor, the Shinkin Church is fighting fiercely, but in any case, in Ash they are allies, with Ash's main gods overseeing each other, and it is forbidden to kill each other on the surface, some actions can be done, and some things cannot be touched at all.

Containing the betrayers of the other side is one of the bottom lines, otherwise this competitive relationship can really easily turn into a life-and-death hostile relationship - "You dare to shield the traitors who killed my 200 people!", "You just insert a spy inside me, and destroy the plan and kill our friends".

Especially for a period of time, many churches sent spies to each other, and the final result was often that the two churches became mortal enemies, and the two sides were fighting to the death in the two worlds.

This is undoubtedly an unspoken rule, since there is no soil for traitors in New Tonia, nothing like this has happened before, and the general public entering and exiting the church and choosing other Ishite beliefs is quite laissez-faire, and the locals have nowhere to understand the hatred and disdain of the Ishians for traitors.

Of course, there is such a thing as an unspoken rule, whether to abide by it or not depends on the strength of the individual and the church, if the gap is too large, it is normal not to follow the rules - he can kill you at will, why do you have to talk to you about the rules and reason, you want to complain?

If it was the first two years, or even the first two months, it was really possible for the Eagle's Crown to accept Twilight, and no matter how angry the Game Church was, it would be impossible for this person to turn its face against the Eagle's Crown.

It's a pity that now the game church is already the fifth big guy on the board of directors, and it is no longer the weak chicken at the end of the crane, or the crown of the eagle, and he dare not ignore the opinion of the game church.

Especially now that the top management of New Tonia City is 2-2 balanced, the game church is fifth, and it is a vote to decide the winner or loser.

So, naturally, before the game church could react, the Eagle Crown sent a bewildered Twilight back.

In this incident, the game church did not lose it, but instead gained the gratitude and trust of von Beinth.

But if betrayal has already occurred, it cannot be regarded as non-existent because it is not harmful, otherwise loyalty would not be too cheap and stupid?

So here comes Rorschach.

Smiling at him, he was actually in a good mood.

Martha wasn't wrong, "You gave the man a reason to raise the butcher's knife", Rorschach had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, and he didn't expect anything for a long time.

Now, it's an unexpected surprise that Twilight has given herself.

"By the way, the strongest knight of our church has successfully completed the Divine Descent, and she will integrate our military organs and warbands, Miss Saizeriya remember to cooperate and quickly complete the handover of those warbands in your hands. ”

What Rorschach said with a smile made the faces of the three people present extremely ugly.

As a Templar, Saizera is the high-ranking and core backbone of the military within the Church, as well as the commander of the military power and force of the entire Holy Mountain faction.

Originally, as a pure martial artist, she had no interest in politics, but this attitude itself Rorschach also liked it, and in the current environment, she was the most suitable person to stand in a high military position, and if she was replaced by Twilight, Rorschach would not agree at all.

And no matter who serves as the military governor within the game church, considering the high proportion of Seymours in the interior, she does need a deputy like Saizeriya to help, her position has always been very stable, and several Seymour warbands in her hands are very well trained.

But now, the situation has changed, and Rorschach's meaning has become clear, "As the price and punishment for Twilight's betrayal, the Holy Mountain faction must surrender all military power."

Lynn's arrival may have been just an excuse, but it was indeed a very timely and appropriate excuse.

In an instant, Twilight's face turned pale, and she finally knew the anger and despair her grandmother felt when she said, "You know what this means to the people of the Holy Mountain."

Stupid, she did the most inappropriate thing at the most inappropriate time, and personally handed over the reason of "doing something to the Holy Mountain Sect, or even breaking up and reorganizing" to Rorschach, who had been waiting for a long time.

At this moment, Rorschach, who was not in a hurry at all, turned his attention to the delicious pastry, patiently waiting for the betrayer's answer.

"Since you dare to betray, don't you even have the consciousness to pay the price....... hey, I accidentally said what was in my heart, so you (don't) must care. ”

Honest Rorschach, accidentally told the truth again.