Chapter 68: Control of Public Opinion

None of the women in the narrow alleys have gone out to work today, which is a rare thing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info But in their eyes, comforting the poor mother at the moment is a much more important thing than working.

Barr's mother, Aunt Roon, was once the most respected woman in the Narrow Alley. But since her proud son made a mistake three years ago and was imprisoned in the "Holy Light Inquisition", Aunt Rohan, who was in good spirits in the past, has never looked better.

Now, seeing this woman with a dead face slumped on the ground after receiving the news, even the middle-aged women who were usually sour and mean and took pleasure in spreading gossip couldn't help but feel gloomy in their hearts, and the feelings of jealousy and schadenfreude that had once disappeared in this instant, turned into deep sympathy for this neighbor.

"My son Barr is not going to die."

After surrounding Aunt Roon for a long time, everyone only got such a simple answer, and they couldn't help but shake their heads, and several women who had received Aunt Roon's favor on weekdays couldn't help but burst into tears.

Seeing this, the paladin attendants in the Templar who had come to deliver the news quietly left. This is what the Bishop meant, and he only gave notice and did not apologize, in order to treat the matter as a "natural disaster", to show that it has nothing to do with the management of the church, etc., so as to prevent some people from taking advantage of the topic.

"My son Barr is not going to die."

Aunt Rohan said the same sentence nearly a hundred times in half a day, so that most of the people who had sympathized with her later turned away. Everyone thought that she might be grieving too much for the loss of her son, which caused her nerves to be a little abnormal.

However, in the evening, just as the sun was about to set in the middle of the narrow alley, a small figure suddenly appeared on its fiery red background, and then slowly grew larger, like a giant growing rapidly in the eyes of Aunt Rohan.

Barr is back.

Such news stunned everyone, and those who saw the reunion of mother and child with their own eyes couldn't help but wonder when they felt the shock of their hearts.

How did a paladin squire who was imprisoned in the Inquisition of the Holy Light escape from the flames? I'm afraid there is only one answer, and that is jailbreak.

But when the mother and son, who were crying with joy, were finally able to calm down, they were in a state of flux, and Barr, who had just escaped death, recounted the ins and outs of the incident, which immediately made everyone present feel angry and frightened.

As the fire reached the gates of the prison, the prisoners made a request to be transferred, which was rejected by the temple guards, who then left them and fled on their own. Almost all the prisoners were ready to die, but they didn't expect that at the last moment, a man in a black robe came out of the ground and brought more than a hundred prisoners out of the city through the secret passages deep underground.

"Oh my God!" Aunt Roon let out an exclamation of surprise when she heard this, and looked into the sky with tears in her eyes, "Could it be that the Holy Spirit has sent someone to save you?" ”

Unexpectedly, Barr shook his head and said weakly: "On the contrary, it is not the Holy Spirit who comes to save us, but the Night Race, which has always been regarded as an evil force by us. ”

After that, before everyone could recover from their shock, the guy said coldly, "Besides, the reason why I was arrested by the Templar three years ago was not because I made any mistakes, but because I was on the wrong side in the struggle between the two factions in the Templar. More than a dozen people were arrested for this matter, and even more were secretly executed. ”

The people who lived in the narrow alley didn't understand what Barr meant by "standing in the wrong line", but in their simple minds, they felt that a place like the Holy Church should be the fairest and kindest place, how could they lock up a person or even kill someone because of such a trivial matter as "standing in the wrong line"?

"We have all been deceived by the Templar, and the so-called place of light is actually the most unsightly place." Barr said bitterly.

……

While the Templars were still in the dark, many of the prisoners who were claimed to have died in the fire had returned to their homes.

After these people and their relatives were reunited after crossing life and death, they all condemned the king of the Templar without exception. Bastard behavior: how to frame yourself, and how to see death in the fire without help. At the same time, they also consciously or unconsciously glorified the Night Race. Although the act of "digging tunnels" seems to have some kind of premeditation, the matter of saving people is real, who cares why the Night Race digs tunnels?

Thus, in just one day, the news that was unfavorable to the Templar swept through the city of Ontario like a violent wind. By the time the news reached the ears of Cardinal Harvey through various channels, it was almost universally known.

So, very rarely, everyone saw the purple bishop slap the table.

"Bastard, are those restrictions you have set up near the Inquisition of Light to keep rats out? They have allowed the Night Race to dig tunnels directly into our lair, and news is spreading all over the city that is bad for our Templar. Something so bad has happened, what's the use of remedying it now? ”

That being said, all remedies are still ongoing.

The Templars quickly sent people to arrest the more than 100 so-called "fugitives", but they were far from manpowered, so they had to turn to the security brigade for help. Unexpectedly, this request was denied on the grounds that "the Principality Administration does not interfere in the affairs of the Templars". Such a reason is high-sounding, but the discerning person can immediately smell the Principality's power and the Templar game in it.

And the people in charge of arresting the Templars all returned empty-handed. All the "fugitives" only appeared briefly, and then disappeared, and they could not be found in the whole of Ontario.

It is undoubtedly a great shame that the Templars have been unable to respond effectively to the repeated provocations of the Night Race.

In an unknown small church in Ontaree, the most important people of the Principality's Light Race sat solemnly behind the long table, frowning one by one.

Bishop Harvey leaned back in his chair and muttered, "What did you say, go wrong?" ”

An old paladin stood up, his voice loud even though it was nearly twilight.

"Lord Bishop, I don't think we're a match for the Night Race because of the limited number of times we can fight them. Although the Duchy of Finnier, which has avoided the losses caused by the battle several times from the two camps, has also deprived us of the ability to deal with many aspects, and lacks war strategy, the initial defeat is of course inevitable. ”