On the rooftop, Apperios had already put away his smile, looked into the distance again, and once again entered a cold and rigorous state of rational calculation.

The addition of the Immortal Phantom Sword undoubtedly increased his certainty to his plan.

However, politicians should not be superstitious about probability, even if there is a 99% chance of success, there is still a 1% risk of losing the market.

As the lord of a city, he must make good use of every hole card in his hand.

Take out your phone and dial a special number. The cell phone signal passed up through the atmosphere, reached the Holy See's space-based communication base station satellites, and then went through special transcoding and encryption to the city of Solomon on the Apennine Peninsula again.

Inside the Sistine Chapel, a slender hand picked up the phone.

"Your Excellency, Lord of Aperios."

"His Majesty Pope Innocent."

"Your crusade has caused me some trouble."

"Really? The Holy See has fully anticipated this, and it should not hurt your Olympia City. ”

"Even so, the nightly shelling was still annoying, especially as we prepared for the tide at the same time."

"I understand that you wish to request assistance from the Holy See."

"The Holy See is eager to negotiate, so there is this call. Mortars are nothing more than a means of disgusting, and what we will talk about next is the point. ”

"Not bad. What kind of assistance does Olympia City need? ”

"Space-based tactical nuclear bombs."

The Pope's voice on the other side fell silent: "Leviathan? ”

"Didn't the Holy See detect the huge signal of life at the bottom of the Aegean Sea? I thought you were monitoring the whole world all the time. ”

"Of course, that's the reason for my doubts. Gabriel has over 300 processes monitoring the Leviathan, and we don't think it has any chance of reviving anytime soon. ”

"Can the Holy See ensure that it is 100% unawakened by the next wave of demons?"

"No, the word 100% doesn't appear in science, only in theological propaganda."

"It's amazing how seamlessly you switch between science and theology, but I'm not an ignorant believer." Apperius said in a deep voice:

"I'm a politician, not a researcher. As long as there is a 50% or more probability, perhaps a scientific scholar will think that it will happen based on mathematical expectations. ”

"However, even with a 99 percent success rate, politicians must eliminate the remaining 1 percent of possible risks."

"Even if it's likely to cost you extra money in the negotiation?" Innocent chuckled, "Well, after all, it's not good for the Holy See. ”

"What's your offer?"

"We demand that the city of Olympia and Emperor Otto sever all contact, including the withdrawal of all transcendents within the Holy Solomon Empire."

"You should understand that the city of Olympia is in the transcendent realm and does not have the transcendent status of the Holy See in the scientific world. I can promise to do it, but please don't expect too much from you. ”

"That's nature. However, the Crusader artillery siege will continue, which will help to increase the hostility of your forces towards Emperor Otto. ”

"The same is true for the Holy See."

"The Holy See does not care about secular hostility." Innocent said lightly, "The only target that the Holy See has tried its best to deal with has always been the Antichrist. ”

"The Antichrist refers to chaos?"

That's a broad term. You can understand it that way. ”

"That doesn't explain your precautions and fears of Otto."

"That gives me a less rigorous, but more understandable way." Innocent pondered the words, "Emperor Otto will be defeated in the coming battle, just as the Crusaders will be defeated in the following battle." ”

"However, Olympia was never worried about the Crusaders, and it was not Emperor Otto that the Holy See was worried about, but the chaos lurking behind these events."

"Aren't you preaching, can that supercomputer calculate everything, how can there still be chaos?" Apperios said coldly.

"Gabriel was never invented to do everything. Infinite information requires the consumption of infinite energy to obtain, which is considered difficult to achieve in science. ”

"Hard to achieve? I don't think it's possible. ”

"You see, this is the difference between Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy." Innocent sneered, "Despite our belief in science, we firmly believe that everything in the world can be discovered, and you Orthodox believers are almost all agnostic. ”

"Once you fall into the trap of agnosticism, you will waver in science and succumb to seclusion and the unknown."

"It was your Holy See who was the first to raise the banner of theology." Apperius said lightly.

"We kept our heads covered to maintain order, and reality proved that it worked. What about you? ”

"The original definition of the Antichrist was 'mortal becoming gods.' The level of advancement in the hearts and minds of your transcendents must be the only way to become a god in the end. ”

However, the path proved to be dead, and to reach the end would mean to lose one's sanity. Under Hippocli's university, are there fewer demigods who try to become gods, but end up in madness? Why don't you pull it out and show it to your transcendents? ”

"They voluntarily chose this path, and everyone should have the right to choose." Apelios said.

"Man can be held accountable for the consequences of his choices, but who can be held accountable for the demise of human civilization?" Innocent's tone became stern, "Constantinople has fallen, how far do you plan to wander on this dead end?" ”

"When the demon tide is coming, doesn't the Holy See plan to take care of Solomon City first?" Appilius did not mention the fact that "it was the Crusaders who captured Constantinople", but simply changed the subject indifferently.

"We're ready." Innocent said coldly, "As for Olympia, in exchange for benefits, we will provide two space-based neutron bombs, if Leviathan really wakes up." ”

There was silence in the communication channel.

Almost every communication between the Eastern and Western churches erupts into a quarrel over the differences of faith. The West thinks that the East is playing with fire, and the East thinks that the West is too conservative, and there is no possibility of mutual understanding between the two sides in the short term.

In terms of interests, they can still reach an agreement, which is about to become a tacit understanding between the two sides.

"Where has the hour hand of Giotto's clock gone?" Aperius asked.

"Six o'clock." Innocent replied, "When the next wave comes, it's expected to be 6:30." ”

Giotto's Clock, the famous bell tower located in the residence of the Holy See, has only the hour hand on the dial.

According to the book of Revelation, once the hour hand reaches 12 o'clock, the terrible punishment of destruction will be ushered in, so there are groups of believers under Giotto's bell tower who prostrate and pray devoutly all year round.

However, Apelios knew that the clock hand was not moved by the invisible hand of the gods, but by the super-artificial intelligence "Gabriel".

The countdown is not about the world, but about technological civilization.

The closer we get to 12 o'clock, the more technological civilization is on the verge of collapse, and the more crazy the Holy See's actions will become.

"At least our goals are the same." Apelios said.

"At least for now." Said the other side.