Chapter 11: Conspiracy
The street vendors rested their shops, and after the lights were tired and they fell asleep, the group left the inn dressed in black.
Red, Rickles, and Iseti found a hidden place outside the stronghold to guard, and Ifu used the transfer technique to lead Canary and Charlie to the main hall where the chant was held.
There were no torches in the main hall of the Twelve Churches at night, but a few rays of light flowing through the cracks illuminated it, and the statue of the goddess looked even more solemn and sacred in the soft moonlight, and the olive body gently swayed in the wind, ignoring the slightest hint of silence broken by the trespasser.
Pushing open the door behind the statue of the goddess, the inside was almost the same, the clear water was shining with moonlight coming in from nowhere, and the three of them walked forward according to the moonlight, listening vigilantly to the movements around them.
This promenade has many twists and turns, and it is longer than usual.
Suddenly, there was a rustling sound not far away, and the three of them hurriedly hid behind a stone fountain.
Soon a few men in priestly robes came over yawning, and one of them complained as he went, "When is this the end of a day, if the headquarters knows about this, Tizoa can rely on Liz-sama's connections, we can't." ”
"No way, if we don't listen to her, she will definitely not let us go. ”
"I wanted to report this to the high priest who came to inspect, but I didn't expect it to be Liz. ”
"Liz-sama's words should... I've heard that although they are sisters, they are not close. ”
"Even if that's the case, we can't really think that, after all, the blood is connected, and now Liz is so trusted, if something happens to her sister, she won't be poked in the back in the church?"
"Be quiet, you've been speaking more and more presumptuously lately. ”
"So what's the matter, except for Tizoa, we're the last to go. ”
As the priests walked away, they stepped out from behind the fountain and looked at each other, and exchanged words without saying a word.
After a little further on, the long ordeal finally came to an end, and there were no doors, only a semicircular arch for one person to enter and exit.
Entering the archway, there are several divided corridors in front of it, and the positions of the doors seem to be random.
Although they knew that only Tisoya was left here, the three of them did not dare to slack off, and the canary looked up and down for a week, pointed to the top of his head, and whispered, "We can go up the beam." ”
Ifu and Xia Li followed her advice and slowly crawled on the beam, and when they came to the top, they found something more surprising - because the underground ventilation was not very good, many of the rooms were not completely sealed, but there was space in the place of the door to ensure air circulation.
Many of the rooms were dim now, except for the faint glow of a distant room where Tizoa was doing something.
"Let's go to the other rooms first. The canary released a golden butterfly to check on the situation, and Ifu and the others sneaked into the other rooms, hoping to get some information.
Many of the rooms here are used as warehouses, and are placed in different rooms according to the properties of the materials, and on the shelves you can see glass bottles, or exquisite feathers, bloody one-eyes, claws, etc.
The rooms in the first column were almost all of these things, and since Tizoa's room was also on the first column, they didn't search for fear of alarming her.
At the beginning of the second column, there are some recipes, the contents of which have been memorized by Xia Li and Iseti, and there is nothing worth paying attention to.
The rooms in the third column were all cleaned, and there were many pieces of paper wrapped in brown paper on the shelves, and when they were about to step into the room, Xia Li suddenly raised her hand to cast a spell, and the light blue halo fell where they wanted to fall, and sure enough, those halos fell on the silk thread, as well as several traps on the wall of the room.
Seeing this, the canary remembered the bad memories of the previous seat in the upper winding seat.
"It seems that the things put here are more important, and those mechanisms have been sealed by me, but you still have to pay attention when you go down. Xia Li said softly, and then carefully bypassed the lines and made her way to the room.
The vellum has the year and date written on it, which is quite old, and the contents are not written in a common language, but in some foreign script.
Later, they found the recent contents in the other rooms, and from the thickness of the above, it can be seen that the activities of the twelve churches have suddenly intensified in recent years.
The cautious Charlie did not choose to take these things with her, but asked Ifu and Canary to go to see Tisuoya's condition first, while she stayed in the room, opened the brown paper, and began to recite the symbols and words on it.
The canary called the goldeer back, and the goldbutterfly flapped its wings and told her what it had seen.
"Tisoya is refining medicine, but she doesn't seem to be alone. ”
Hearing her say this, Ifu's alertness increased, and they went out of the room and climbed over the beam.
Before they could get close to the room where Tisoya was, a pungent smell rushed into their nostrils, causing the two of them to almost make a sound, and they leaned over to inquire about the situation in the room.
Tisoya was standing in front of a pot, the liquid inside was green, but after a while, it turned purple again.
Every time the potion inside changed color, she would take out a bowl and hand it to someone leaning against the wall, because that person was in the same direction as Yifu and them, so she couldn't see the person who tried the medicine.
"How?" she asked.
"No, I can't. A hoarse voice replied. "As I said, such concentrations and dosages can only affect people's minds at most, and if you want to achieve your goals, you must increase the amount of medicinal herbs. ”
"That's not enough?! This is made with a full forty-five kilograms of raw materials, and even the high-ranking priests may not be able to stand it, let alone her? If the dosage is increased to the extreme, then what is it? It has become a bowl of deadly poison!"
Tizoya was unwilling to let her efforts only get such a result, these days she kept ordering her subordinates to collect materials for that purpose, and she also paid a lot of money for this, and she had to hide from the headquarters from being discovered, and finally got so much, this person only lightly said "no", and all her efforts were shattered.
"It is precisely because the high-ranking priests can't stand it that they have to continue to increase the amount, no matter how much you use, this thing will cause damage to the human body, as it is now, you can only do it to the detriment of others and yourself, and you can rest assured, eating those things all year round, the body will be very different from the other priests under you, you don't understand this, but I believe that as long as I disembowel it so that you can see it clean, you will definitely be shocked by this." ”
"No, no. Tizoa hurriedly said, and after much hesitation, she finally spoke.
"Tomorrow... I'll send someone to continue collecting materials. ”
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