The smoke and flames at the stake had not yet completely dissipated, and the priests and papal knights who had been burned at the stake turned away - a choking position that made the priests and knights irritable, and although they would enjoy staying there on weekdays, enjoying the awe and panic of the people around them, they were obviously not in the mood for now.

There are plenty of troubles to deal with in the church district, and the impact of the brochure is not limited to the outer town.

The ordinary soldiers in the square also withdrew, and the gathered people scattered and left, this brief burning at the stake slightly broke the lifeless atmosphere of the siege, but it could not lift people's moods, on the contrary, a fire in the square only brought fear and doubts to the people-

It was an illiterate homeless man who was burned to death...... The church just grabbed a random person...... The essence of heresy is intimidation and violence.

Ordinary people may not have known whether the contents of those pamphlets were true, but now the church has at least taken the initiative to admit that some of them are true.

The crowd dispersed, leaving only some of the papal servants who were guarding the burning site by the stake, waiting for the fire to be completely extinguished to clean up the ashes to prevent a fire, while the last few scattered civilians wandered around the edge of the square, but the papal servants who watched over the scene did not care much about the wandering crowd - they were just a bunch of idle fools.

After leaving the square, a few men dressed as apprentices of farmers and craftsmen burrowed into the narrow alleys of the neighborhood, easily throwing off everyone's eyes and gathering in a half-abandoned hut.

A man with messy hair and sunken eyes spat to the side: "Those bastards...... Just burned an innocent person......"

"They have always been," whispered another dark-skinned young man, "but unfortunately we can't save that poor man......

The few people gathered in the hut couldn't help but sigh quietly, and a blurry and distorted shadow suddenly appeared in the shadow in the corner of the hut, the shadow shook twice in the air, and quickly converged and condensed into a petite figure: "We can't save everyone, and our mission doesn't allow us to risk exposure to save people - when things happen, the only way we can avoid standing idly by is to use the skills we have learned on a daily basis and use every opportunity to spread chaos and division among our opponents." ”

When the few people gathered in the hut saw this petite figure that emerged, they immediately stood up and saluted respectfully: "Director! ”

"You can't call it a position in the mission, even if you make sure that you are safe, and the next time you do it, you will have a demerit for each of you - you still have a lot to learn," Amber waved her hand, and the face of the person in front of her changed in unison, and then she looked around, "But your actions in the square are quite qualified." ”

This is a special operations squad of the MIA, and Amber personally leads them.

The city of Lu'an has been locked down, and the last time anyone entered or exited the city gate was twenty days ago, but for Amber, who has mastered advanced shadow skills, it is not difficult to send a team and a batch of supplies into Lu'an City through the Shadow Realm - even if Amber, the "MIA Director", does not intervene, the professionally trained MIA operatives have a lot of professional skills that can help them sneak into the city and lurk in the outer city.

The lax attitude of the priests and knights in the cathedral to the outside city made the team a great convenience - it was clear that the cathedrals had no experience in dealing with spy sabotage, or that almost everyone in this era would be flawed when dealing with Cecil's trained MI agents.

The fact that the temporary Bishop of Luan devoted most of his attention to maintaining the operation of the church district, and for the outer city, where a large number of "useless civilians" gathered, he arranged only a minimum of soldiers and ordination monks to maintain order, which is understandable in the context of this era: in terms of the form of confrontation in this era, only the transcendent and the vassal forces around the transcendent are valuable, and the vast majority of the people at the bottom have neither the power to shake the order, nor the idea of active resistance. Deterrence with sufficient force is enough to ensure order – the most "cost-effective" idea to date.

However, it is precisely from these lowest areas that the MIA operatives infiltrate and gradually spread chaos to the upper echelons.

Since five days ago, Amber had been lurking in the city with this team, and on orders from above, they had spread the first propaganda materials in the outer city, and kept spreading the news of the situation in Luan to the outside, and the priests of Luan Cathedral were even slower to respond to the propaganda materials than expected—and they didn't finally notice this until the first batch of materials were all distributed.

This was followed by city-wide searches and arrests, as well as looting and violence in the process.

Everything was expected by Amber - the papal knights of Lu'an and the exiled knights who had fled in were under tremendous pressure, and at the slightest reason for catharsis, their pressure would immediately turn into a shameful atrocity.

And they don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Although the situation inside the church district is not clear, Amber can guess what will happen inside the walls of the inner city: some of the propaganda materials point to the conflict of interests within the church, while others implicitly refer to Cecil's preferential treatment of the "awakened clergy", and while this level of propaganda material alone cannot directly draw the low-level clergy from the marginal areas to Cecil's side, it is enough to cause a certain degree of vacillation and confusion.

The city has been locked down for sixty days, and the internal contradictions that should be fermented have already begun to ferment, and any form of fanning the flames at this moment will have an unprecedented effect.

And as the atmosphere inside the church district becomes tense, the principals in Luan Cathedral will have less time to pay attention to the outward city, which they may even think has been completely solved by their "proven purification ritual" and let their guard down.

Then the next activities of the MIA agents will be easier.

Amber touched her smooth chin - a seemingly fan-like thinking action she had learned from Gawain to make her look more majestic, "How's the Magic Web terminal working?" Did you send the footage back? ”

A tall, lanky MIA operative patted the black metal box at his feet: "It's in good shape—and the miniaturized Magic Web terminal is much lighter and easier to use." ”

This tall and thin MIA agent was the same person who had been carrying a sackcloth bag in the square before.

The black metal box at his feet was clearly a magic device - it was slightly narrower at one end, with a crystal inlaid at the front and directly above the outer shell, and the entire metal box was less than half a meter in size, and after wrapping straw around it, it could fit into a burlap bag.

In fact, it still has a considerable size and weight, which is not very portable, but for those who have seen the prototype of the Magic Network Communicator, this device is already an incredibly small black technology.

"Be careful when you use it - it took a lot of effort for the mechanics to make it so small," Amber nodded, "This is the key to breaking those gods, our goal is not only to break down the city of Luan, not only to drive them out of the cathedral, but more importantly to drive them out of the South, can we do that...... It's up to us to do what we do next. ”

The MIA operatives were gearing up and in high spirits: "Yes! ”

"Very well, then assign the next task - Thin man, you and the Hound continue to operate in the outer city, and record all the scenes that are unfavorable to the Church of the Holy Light and send them back to the headquarters; Buckteeth, you and the rat continue to spread the news that Bishop Lemont used to be weird about what Bishop Lemont once said and did, close to the church district, but watch out for your own safety. The others followed me into the Shadow Realm and moved things. ”

The well-trained MIA operatives sprang into action, and one of the team members who had been named by Amber to the Shadow Realm asked curiously, "Boss, what are you moving?" ”

"Flyers and albums," Amber grinned, "and another twenty thousand were delivered—and more were on the way." ”

"Huh-" The team member couldn't help but whistle, with a pleasant smile on his face, "They don't burn as fast as we print......

……

After more than ten days of day and night travel, the witch Jipli finally returned to this long-lost land.

She still remembered what she saw a few days ago when she walked through the gate of the Rock Fortress in the north - the magnificent Rock Fortress seemed to be transformed into a huge construction site, scaffolding and construction machinery could be seen everywhere, the entire fortress was completely renovated and rebuilt, the workers worked around the clock to reinforce the northern wall of the fortress with steel plates and shock-absorbing skeletons, and the magic guide technicians and mechanical sergeants installed large and small magic guide cannons on the rails and gun mounts at the top of the city wall, and the new magic net array and all kinds of magic guide equipment that had never been seen before filled the sight. It almost dazzled Jippley and his fellow Pierce.

After seeing the scene of the rock fortress, the two military intelligence agency agents who had been on a mission for more than half a year realized that this return trip was correct: the speed of local development was simply incredible, living in the slow and backward Ansu royal capital, watching the nobles hold balls and socialize every day, they couldn't imagine what their hometown was developing every day, if they really lived in the royal capital for three years and five years, and when they came back, they might not even be as good as children.

But even with this awareness, when they actually entered the capital of the principality, Cecil, the two operators still fell into a long period of sluggishness.

The city ...... Not only has it doubled in size since they left, but the layout of the streets has changed in many places.

The temporary workshops and public lofts have been moved to the eastern industrial areas and have been transformed into huge factory facilities, while the streets that used to have only a few brick houses and at most a few small brick buildings have been transformed into bustling neighborhoods, with Ansu style and practical residential buildings lining the various districts like the guardians of the city, and between these areas are commercial districts that have developed rapidly due to the booming economy......

Little could have been imagined by the two MIA operatives that plans for a larger new city on the north bank of the Whitewater River were already in the groundwork phase, as the population of Cecil was about to double as the population of Cecil continued to move from the south and merge towns and villages......

Thus did Gypley and Pierce enter the city with a mixture of consternation and pride, and successfully completed their reporting at the MIA building—thankfully, at least they didn't get lost in the military zone.

"Director Amber is out on a mission," the MIA receptionist said as she registered the two expatriate operatives, "but she knows you'll be returning in the near future, and she's already got your plans in place." ”

After registering for the report, the young female clerk who worked as a receptionist handed the new identification and information bag to Gippley and Pierce, then straightened up and said solemnly, "Thank you for your contribution to Cecil—great work!" ”

Pierce and Gippley were a little stunned for a while: they had been away from here for too long, and they had missed too many critical stages of organization and perfection, so they didn't know how to react for a while, so they had to smile a little awkwardly and reservedly, but fortunately, Miss Receptionist seemed to have expected the reaction of the two seniors in front of her, and also resolved the temporary embarrassment with a smile: "Please don't be restrained, this is your home." Operator Pierce, you can disband and rest now, as for Operator Gyprie...... There is a special point of mission for you. ”

Gipley's eyes widened in surprise: "Mission? ”

She couldn't help muttering in her heart: Didn't you take a vacation......

"Please relax, you don't need to go out in the field, the content of the task is relatively easy," the receptionist lady seemed to see what Ji Puli was thinking, and she showed a slightly mysterious smile, "This task is given by the lord - you can rest for half a day, please go to the lord's palace at four o'clock in the afternoon to report on time." ”

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