Chapter 379: Sacred Mountain
Jiang Yan, who didn't know that his little maid was making a fuss in her name, and even rose to the point of whether she wanted to take the initiative to warm the bed, was still worried in the bathroom.
"If the source of the crisis is not in the 'undetectable area', is it in a distant place outside the scope of the slave network......
Jiang Yan's current network coverage is relatively comprehensive, limited to the human countries on this side of the Western Continent, and only occupies a small part of the entire world. If the source of the crisis is from outside this range, it is no wonder that the submachine network has no clue.
It's just that if this is the case, this makes Jiang Yan even more confused. The position of the sub-machine forces established by Jiang Yan can be called hostile objects is not small, and the first to bear the brunt is the Holy Light Church, and the empire and kingdom should also be regarded as potential enemies.
After all, the 'cake' on the table has already been divided up by countries and churches of all sizes, and if Jiang Yan wants to reach out again at this time, it will inevitably cause an impact on the interests of the local forces that originally occupied the share of the 'cake', so it is not surprising to be regarded as an enemy.
Not to mention, Jiang Yan's experiments with development potential, as well as the acts of secretly abducting slave workers from the bottom of society in various countries for their own use, and quietly establishing private bases within the territory of various countries and mining wild mines and wild herbs and other resources, are undoubtedly secretly robbing the interests that originally belonged to various countries.
Even if those wild mines, wild herbs and other resources, countries do not have the ability to develop them efficiently for the time being, but no matter how they say it, it is something in their territory, from their standpoint, Jiang Yan's behavior of not asking questions is no different from stealing.
In the face of these huge forces that have been rooted in the local area for a long time, Jiang Yan's current accumulation of strength is not enough to fight head-on, so he has always acted very cautiously.
If it is discovered, it will be properly listed as an enemy by various countries.
However, even if it is discovered, it stands to reason that the other party should not directly target Jiang Yan! Although many people under his command know that Jiang Yan, the highest-ranking master, exists, there are almost no people who actually know his identity on the surface, coupled with the restriction of the authority of the supernatural network protocol, no one can betray him without Jiang Yan being able to find out!
However, this time, the crisis that Jiang Yan sensed felt was that he directly skipped all his subordinates and pointed directly at him!
What can create a sense of threat to Jiang Yan now is undoubtedly a powerful enemy that he can't resist yet, at least starting with a third-level combat power, but Jiang Yan doesn't remember exposing any flaws that would be directly targeted by that kind of existence.
"On the surface, my performance is only a well-qualified elite of the Assassination Department, and the strength I have shown at present is also controlled to the extent that only elite soldier-level elf envoys are available, and it is unlikely to attract the attention of third-level powerhouses...... Could it be Lukes, the most likely one who will be staring at me is that old fellow!"
Thinking of this, Jiang Yan called out to Zhi Brain and asked him to collect and sort out the latest information about Lux.
Although the old guy spent most of his time hiding in his own research institute and living in a shallow way, Jiang Yan paid special attention to him because of his background in this life, and had secretly inserted a submachine into the eleventh research institute.
Although the defense strength of the Eleventh Research Institute is one of the best in the empire, as long as there are selfish people, there will be flaws, and there will always be hundreds of researchers in a huge research institute who can be leveraged by Jiang Yan.
For this reason, Jiang Yan also deliberately used his ability 'Soul Data Invasion' for a long time, and forcibly took those spies into his own sub-machines at the risk of being polluted by the target's mind. Fortunately, the targets he chose were all people who were not tenacious and not very strong, and the burden of spiritual pollution that accompanied the invasion of soul data could be borne by Jiang Yan, who had not yet fully recovered his true spirit.
Later, Jiang Yan also erased their memories for safety, turning the researchers themselves into spies without even realizing it.
The reason why he has to be so cautious is because Lux's guy is too cautious, and he actually set up a strict and outrageous inspection level in the only entrance and exit of the research institute, and the researchers under his command not only undergo a round of all-round physical examinations every time they enter and exit, but even their mental condition has to be scanned and tested by a specialized person's psychic spirits, just for fear of encountering a situation where people who go out are secretly controlled by the enemy.
That's why Jiang Yan deleted the memories of those researchers who were accepted as spies, so that they wouldn't show the slightest flaw when facing the level inspection, especially when facing the elven detection for mental fluctuations. As long as their own spirits did not show any abnormality, then with the elven detection of those inspectors, it was impossible to discover the hands and feet that Jiang Yan had personally done with his abilities.
The results of the Zhi Brain investigation came out quickly, and to Jiang Yan's disappointment, Lux's side didn't seem to be abnormal recently.
"Since it's not the old guy, what the hell is this ......"
The inexplicable sense of crisis in Jiang Yan's heart was still gradually increasing, which stimulated his heart to become more and more irritable.
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In the place that Jiang Yan's mobile network cannot currently explore, the Holy City of St. Angel's Church, "Mariatier".
This is the capital of the Church of St. Angel and the headquarters of the Church of the Light.
With the development of the times, even the religious state that advocates the faith is also keeping pace with the times, and this city, which is named after a certain church saint, has developed much worse than a modern metropolis, with the same traffic and high-rise buildings, but compared to the cities of other countries, there is a clear landmark in the city of Mariatil.
Here, there are churches of all sizes, big and small.
After all, this is the base camp of the Holy Light Church, and basically every citizen is a believer in the Holy Light Church.
The history of the Church is very long, and after a long period of development, its capital, Mariatier, has become one of the most prosperous cities in the world with a diameter of tens of kilometers, but its structure is somewhat peculiar, and the most central part of the city is less densely populated because it is a special area.
A huge mountain covering an area of nearly 10 kilometers and reaching a maximum altitude of more than 1,000 meters is located in the center of the city, which is named the "Holy Mountain" by the Holy Light Church, which is the true core of the Holy Light Church, and is also the closest place to the "holy place" of the "Lord" in the mortal world in the minds of all the believers of the Holy Light Church.
Halfway up the mountain, the mountain is surrounded by a wall more than ten meters high that is whitewashed and whitewashed, as if it cannot tolerate the slightest filth. If you look down from the sky, you can see that behind the wall, there are many classical buildings and cathedral-like buildings everywhere, which gradually spread out in an orderly manner towards the top of the sacred mountain according to a certain sense of hierarchy.
The most striking thing is that at the top of this sacred mountain, there is a huge castle-like church made of white and gold masonry, and the entire church is shrouded in a huge pale golden aurora that seems to fall from the sky, looking like a ladder to the realm of the gods. Clusters of white-gold glow with holy spirituality scattered from the periphery of the aurora, covering almost the entire holy mountain, and the closer you got to the center of the mountaintop, the denser the holy aura became.
The sky above the sacred mountain reverberates faintly at all times the chant of a large number of believers praying in unison, its melodious, pious and contagious, with a soothing and inexplicable charm that can be faintly heard even in the town at the foot of the mountain. Even the most vicious criminals, if they were to be exposed to this ubiquitous chant every day in such an environment for a long time, I am afraid that they would gradually lose their inner anger and devote themselves to the same faith as them.
And today, at the foot of the holy mountain, a group of priests, accompanied by two teams of brightly dressed apologetic knights, stepped onto the slopes.
The majestic and sacred holy mountain above the head of a gray-robed priest at the head of the leader showed a look of excitement in his eyes.
Turning around, the priest gently stroked a silver iron coffin with a holy cross and multiple inscriptions engraved on the surface of the carriage, and whispered: "My friend, do you feel it, we are back! May your soul ......rest in this holy place" The latest chapter, please pay attention