After Wendell came out of the underground laboratory in Crystal City, he first went to the government guest house where Cheng Shi and the others stayed alone, and after learning that they had left, he took his men and began to look around. However, after searching for several days, no trace of Cheng Shi and the others was found. However, although people were not found, the rumors about the coming of the true God became more and more violent.

Wendell had come up with a way to deal with the rumors, and it worked well at first. He ordered his men to enter the taverns in the city, large and small, and spread the so-called true God coming down to be just a small trick carved by some strangers, and that the true God would not come to the world easily at all, and only those who were familiar with the teachings and prayed sincerely every day could listen to the teachings of the true God.

But when the rumors from other parts of Tikonia spread into Crystal City, the rumors spread by Wendell's men soon became untenable, and the mainstream rumors made everyone more willing to believe that the true gods were coming to be true, because more and more people witnessed it.

In order to make the people more convinced of the existence of the true god, in many easy-to-control places, Cheng Shi even took out the egg-shaped pod produced by the god realm at the bottom of his box.

He had some seriously ill believers lie down in egg-shaped pods, and then had the Information Bridge operate egg-shaped pods to heal them. People in many places have seen with their own eyes that some dying people have been brought back to life after being magically used by the true gods. Some people who lack arms and legs, after being cast by the true god, actually grow new arms and legs, which makes them have to believe in the true god more and worship more.

After Wendell's plan to counter rumors with rumors failed, he began to focus his work on finding the whereabouts of Cheng Shi and the others.

One day, one of Wendell's right-hand men, Bernie, was having dinner with a friend in a tavern when he met a group of men, one of whom claimed to have taken a few strangers to Charleston with him and made a fortune from it. And his description of the physical features of the outlanders is very much like what Wendell said about the people they were looking for. So Bernie asked his fellow friends to keep an eye on the group, and he went back to report to Wendell.

"Elder Wendell, the person we are looking for has a clue." Bernie said sincerely.

Wendell glanced at Bernie in surprise, then nodded, motioning for him to continue. So Bernie told Wendell everything about the group he had met in the tavern.

"Go over and arrest someone right away." Wendell immediately ordered.

When Wendell and the others hurried to the tavern, Bernie's friends told them that the group had already left in the car. After some inquiry, Bernie found out that the direction of the car was the small town of Holm. So Wendell and the others immediately chased after him.

Nowadays, the great changes in Tikonia are not only reflected in the buildings, weapons, etc., but also in the way of transportation. Horse-drawn carriages that used to be can now only be seen in very remote places. Modern magic trams have long been common, not only comfortable and fast to ride, but also inexpensive.

Wendell and his party drove the magic trolley all the way to the gate of the small town of Holm, and finally caught up with the public magic trolley that the group was riding.

"Quick, go down and get someone now, ...... quickly," Wendell shouted impatiently.

After Bernie jumped out of the car with a few people, he ran towards the public magic tram in front of him at great speed. The arrest went well, and after 10 minutes, all the targets were arrested.

"What's your name?" Wendell looked at a trembling young man in front of him and asked, this person was the same person Bernie said he claimed to have taken people to Charleston.

"Who are you? Depend on...... Why arrest us? The young man exclaimed with some humility.

"Answer my question!" Wendell's tone rose and he roared angrily.

"I ...... My name is Ron," the young man said, turning his head from side to side, "they're Elton and Bowen, and we're both small businessmen, and we've done nothing bad. ”

"Did you take a few outlanders to Charleston?" Wendell asked, staring at Ron.

Ron nodded instinctively, then shook his head hurriedly.

Wendell dismissively "Huh? "Yes.

"I said, I said, it was a long time ago......"

Ron timidly told Wendell in detail about the events he had taken to Charleston.

"How do you know them?" Wendell asked again.

Ron glanced at the magic tram of Wendell and his group, and knew that these people must have a great background: "I met them in the Crystal City Market, at that time the Crystal City was still a ruin, and the leader among them broke one of my goods, I asked him to pay the money, and after he compensated according to the price, he said let me take them to a place where they could dig up metal." The next day they came to Holm to find me, and I took them with me. But I haven't seen them since, that's the way it is, and I promise that what I'm saying is the truth and nothing is hidden. ”

"Hmm...... You'd better be honest," Wendell said very unceremoniously, "so you don't have much friendship with them anymore?" ”

Ron nodded.

"We're looking for those people now, do you have any way? Does anyone else know them? Wendell asked again.

Ron frowned, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "By the way, they also know a few of our local guides, well, that's right, one of them I know, but I don't know him well, his name is Tony, I met him once a few days ago in Crystal City, he used to work as a coolie, and now he seems to be a teacher in a magic school." ”

"Oh? Wizard? Come to think of it, Tony should have a good relationship with them. Wendell muttered softly.

"That's all I know, can you let us go?" Ron said pleadingly.

Wendell got up and waved at his men, "Get them all to our car, and we'll consider releasing them when we find Tony." ”

"We've said everything...... You can't ...... like that," Ron cried out hoarsely, his eyes full of fear.

After receiving the order, the subordinates forcibly brought the three of Ron to the car without saying a word.

After interrogating Ron, Wendell did not stop at Holm and hurried back to Crystal City.

After returning to Crystal City, with the cooperation of the city archons, Wendell found many people named Tony, but only one of them met Ron's description, and that was Tony, who was a first-level magic teacher at Barnott Magic Training School.

Upon hearing the news, Wendell ordered his men to drive to Barnott's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry immediately. It was past three o'clock in the afternoon, and the magic school was still in session, so Wendell's men couldn't take care of it that much. When they arrive at the school of magic and wizardry, they rush straight into the classroom and arrest Tony who is teaching the students.

Bruce, who is also a teacher, panicked for a while after learning that Tony was taken away for no reason, he didn't know what Tony had done, but he must have committed a good crime, otherwise he wouldn't have been treated so roughly. And he, as Tony's younger brother, is with Tony almost every day except for going home and sleeping at night. But even so, he couldn't figure out what Tony hadn't done anyway.

"Tony is caught, and I'm going to be sooner or later, and I can't save him now anyway, so it's better to slip away early," Bruce thought secretly, and suddenly, a few of the most magical outlander figures flashed in his mind, "They have spaceships, and when they had dinner with them a few months ago, they said they lived in a government guest house in Crystal City." That place is not for everyone to live in, presumably they have some friendship with the government of Crystal City, even if they can't help rescue Tony, they can find out some specific situations, but I don't know if they still live there now? ”

In a hurry, Bruce thought of Cheng Shi and the others, but he didn't know that Cheng Shi and the others had left the government guest house two months ago.

After Bruce's search was fruitless, he completely lost his mind, and hid in the Crystal City for several days. I stumbled upon a picture of Tony on a notice wall in Crystal City.

"This is definitely a frame-up, how could Tony have gotten a lie to confuse the public, we are in a magic school every day, how can we go to the tavern and spread rumors that question the doctrine? Who is framing Tony? What is their purpose? Bruce thought indignantly.

Wendell arrested Tony, and after interrogation, he learned that he had a good relationship with Cheng Shi and the others. In order to force Cheng Shi and the others to show up as soon as possible, he deliberately asked his subordinates to fabricate Tony's rumors, and made notices with Tony's photos with text and posted them all over the city.

"I think Karel already knows what we're doing." After Cheng Shi returned to Crystal City with his group, he said after seeing the notices posted everywhere about Tony's becrums to confuse the public.

"Why do you say that?" Barbara asked, confused.

Cheng Shi turned his head and glanced at Barbara: "Tony and Bruce are just small people in this world, and they are not members of the church, with their cautious character, even if they witness the illusion of the coming of the true God that we have created, he will not dare to openly question the doctrine." Also, spreading rumors is not a big crime, as for posting notices all over the city? And the one below is also pasted with a whole wall, which is clearly for the people on the spaceship to see. Also, you see the notice also says where Tony is being held, who would do that under normal circumstances? Karel must have known from Tony that he had some friendship with us, and that we were going to save him, so he did that. ”

Barbara nodded convincingly.