Chapter 68: The Papal Crown
What is the best way to convince a person?
As far as Pan Long knows, the most reliable way is probably a common ideal, a common interest, and a common hobby...... There is no more reliable way to do it further, whether it is authority or money or beauty or violence...... Even if it is brainwashing directly on hypnosis, the effect is not very reliable.
It means convincing decent people.
If the object of persuasion is an evil demon or something like that, then the difficulty of persuasion will be much lower. Many people know a lot of effective persuasion methods for evil demons.
Pan Long too.
With his fifteenth-order "blade" physiognomy as evidence.
According to his experience, when it comes to convincing demons, it is usually just a matter of beating them up first and then saying anything.
If a violent beating is not enough, you can use healing techniques to cure the opponent, and then beat them violently, and so on.
With this method, there is basically no evil way that cannot be convinced.
If you are really unlucky, and you encounter that rare strange species, how can you not listen to persuasion - then it is better not to listen to persuasion, hack him to death, and find someone else to convince him.
Three-legged toads are hard to find, two-legged people ...... The cult leader may not be so easy to find, but if you look for it seriously, you can still find a few.
Interestingly, the Anti-Suppression Bureau actually has a lot of information on cult gangs.
Looking at the thick stack of materials, Pan Long couldn't help but be shocked.
"If I'm not mistaken, isn't the main job of the Anti-Suppression Bureau to eliminate evil cults?" he couldn't help but ask, "so many evil cults...... Why don't you go and destroy it?"
Douglas sighed: "The Anti-Suppression Bureau is also a human being, and if it is a human being, it has seven emotions and six desires, and it has interests and human feelings." Although it is true that we have been working very hard to eradicate the cult, we will always encounter some inconvenient ones. One for two...... Slowly accumulated, so much was accumulated. ”
The proud and stubborn captain of the operation showed a rare look of helplessness on his face.
Pulling him in was Natalia's suggestion. In order to complete the Ascension Ritual, it is certainly not enough for just two people, even if one of them is a great name-bearer, not to mention that the ritual they are doing is completely different from the previous ones, and they need enough reliable helpers.
The first reliable helper that Natalia could think of was her old classmate and good friend, Douglas.
Douglas came from a family of navigators, but did not engage in maritime trade like his elders. When he was in middle school, the great "father of detectives", Mr. Conan Doyle, happened to publish the first Sherlock Holmes detective book. Like many of his peers, he was immediately captivated by the book and fell into a frenzy for detectives.
But unlike the average book lover, Douglas was a man of talent and action.
After graduating from secondary school, he managed to get into Scotland Yard and became a police detective. His career as a police detective was not long, and in just two years, he arrested a number of vicious or cunning criminals, and became famous for a while, becoming a rising star in the London police scene.
During an operation to track down a cult, Douglas awakened his talent for invisible magic. As a police officer, he was naturally transferred to the Bureau of Prevention and Suppression, and soon became the captain of an action team of the Bureau.
Natalia and him have been friends since childhood, and in Oriental terms, the two can probably be regarded as childhood sweethearts.
Although there was a time when the two sides distanced themselves because of their different jobs. But when Natalia was ostracized by the academic community for her study of history, it was Douglas who recommended her to the Bureau of Prevention and Control and served as her guarantor, allowing her to work in the Bureau of Prevention and Suppression, thus surviving the most difficult low point in her life.
Douglas himself never took credit for it, and he didn't even want to mention it. But Natalia is not a heartless person, for her, Douglas is the person she trusts the most, and if there is a chance to achieve immortality, she is certainly willing to share it with Douglas.
The road to immortality is very long, and the immortal is often lonely, even if he cannot become a partner in life, having such a good friend who can watch and help each other is enough to call it happiness.
So when she persuaded Pan Long to expand the research team, the first one to be pulled in was Douglas.
La Douglas joined the gang with an immediate benefit - intelligence.
As one of the operations captains of the Bureau, Douglas had easy access to the cult's information, and he had access to it as a matter of course that would not arouse anyone's suspicion - because that was part of his daily job.
After a little flipping through the information, Douglas listed more than a dozen cults that could be alternative. The number of them made Pan Long surprised.
There are more than a dozen cults that have not yet been extinguished...... Do you British play so wild?
He flipped through the materials and soon came across a record of what he had made a few impressions.
"Papal Tiara".
The name of this cult looks quite atmospheric, and it ...... He also looked a little familiar.
After carefully checking the information, sure enough, the leader of this cult is named Clifton, who was originally a Catholic. He had come into contact with some occult organizations in Romania and learned about the invisible arts.
When he returned to England, he founded a cult that worshipped the sun, prayed at sunrise every day, and often offered sacrifices to the great Sichen "Blazing Sun", although in this history, the "blazing sun" had long since fallen.
Clifton is known to believers as "His Majesty the Pope", and it is said that his ultimate goal was to establish a new branch of Christianity independent of the mainstream denominations such as Catholic, Orthodox, and Catholic.
In terms of Pan Long's knowledge, it is probably ...... He wanted to start a Mormon-like denomination.
Again, it was probably to establish a sect similar to Puritanism.
(Puritanism is a Calvinist branch of Protestantism, and Mormonism is a branch of Christianity that runs parallel to Protestantism.) )
This goal is a bit far, but Clifton himself has a lot of complicated social relationships, and his "Pope's Crown" faction also has some twists and turns with St. Isaac, the founder of the Bureau, so the Bureau has not moved him.
At present, among the various "lamp-looking" cults throughout Britain, his faction is quite prosperous.
To be sure, he must have the means to uplift believers. If Natalia wants to take a shortcut, save decades of cultivation time, and reach a level where she can prepare for ascension as soon as possible, it should be the most appropriate to ask him for help.
...... If he's willing to help.