Chapter 174: Collapse
"Click..."
It wasn't until the sun was shining throughout the square that Alan turned to leave, and behind him, a thin crack suddenly burst out on the surface of the statue of the god of light, which radiated a golden glow, and the crack quickly spread, and soon covered the entire statue, and then after a loud bang, the statue of the god of light collapsed, and this collapse quickly spread to other statues.
The devotees who were visiting the far side of the square heard a strange noise, they did not know what was happening, they looked around, and quickly confirmed the source of the sound, only to find that the originally towering statues of the gods of light had disappeared from the center of the square, leaving only a pile of fine stones in its place.
"What happened?"
The guard standing guard at the entrance of the church also heard the noise and hurried over to inquire about the reason, but was stunned by the sight in front of him.
"The Statue of Light has fallen!"
The guards shouted in shock, the Statue of Light, which was the symbol of the Holy See, had just ended, which was not a good sign, and they hurriedly went to report to Bishop Dennis. When they saw Bishop Dennis, who was furious because of De Yero's dereliction of duty, they could only report the collapse of the idol, and Bishop Dennis did not care about arranging for people to chase the saint's team, and hurriedly followed the guards to the square, when he saw that the statue of light, which had been standing tall, had turned into a pile of rubble, and it was like a lightning strike, and then secretly cried in his heart:
What's going on today, the saint ran away quietly, Dejero disappeared, and now even the statue of the god of light has turned into a pile of rubble, and it's really a disaster!
"The square was sealed off and no outsiders were allowed to enter without my permission. ”
Bishop Dennis, who was worried, immediately ordered the news to be blocked, and all the believers who witnessed the collapse of the statue were arrested, not only because these people had major suspicions, but the impact caused by the collapse of the statue at this time was too bad, if it spread, not only would it have a bad impact on the Lua Church, but if there were good deeds who preached that it was the God of Light expressing their dissatisfaction with the Lua Church in this way, it would be a big trouble. Fortunately, there were not many people in the square in the early morning, and this matter was still under control.
At this time, Bishop Dennis began to rejoice, fortunately the saint had left early, otherwise the consequences of seeing this scene and returning to Winston were unimaginable, and even the Pope could not be indifferent to such a thing no matter how much he trusted himself. Forget it, if the saint wants to go, let him go, the sooner the better.
The guards were ordered to seal off the entire square, and immediately contacted the city's sheriff's office, putting them in charge of maintaining order, and sent a priest to persuade the believers in the city to leave as soon as possible. At the same time, the investigation of this incident began, judging from the collapse of the statue, it is absolutely impossible that this is a problem with the quality of the project, it should be someone who is making trouble in secret, so who is it?
"For my respect, Your Majesty, we have just investigated each of the people who were present in the square at the time of the incident, and they say that a nobleman led his servants to stay near the square for a long time. ”
The investigation began with the people who appeared in the square at the time of the investigation, but the results were disappointing, no one saw the destruction of the statues, and no one had the ability to destroy a large group of statues in a short period of time. So a nobleman with a servant became the only suspect, although the suspect was not really suspicious.
"Where is this nobleman now?"
Bishop Dennis asked, after rolling his eyes twice.
"He had already left after the statue fell. ”
"This man is seriously suspected, he must be found and brought to justice quickly, and you must do it immediately. ”
Dennis's eyes stopped, and he said with a flickering light.
Just when Bishop Dennis was busy cleaning up the aftermath of the collapse of the Statue of Light, Allen, the initiator of the matter, had already come to the north gate of Lua City, and ten miles ahead of the north gate was the place where he and Steven had made an appointment to meet, Alan returned to the warehouse before leaving the city to take a look, the warehouse was already empty, and it seemed that Steven and they had left ahead of schedule according to the plan they had agreed before.
Alan wasn't in a hurry, Taylor's men wouldn't find out he was missing until at least noon, and when they confirmed Tanner's disappearance, it would be at least evening, and it would be at least tomorrow when they found out that it might be related to them, by which time they were already far from Lua City. According to the plan, Steven arranged for another group of people to disguise themselves as them and head north to attract the attention of possible pursuers, while they chose to take the flying magic circle to the west and then turn north, passing through the Baden area to the capital of Higg, Triumph City, where they handed over Gracis's body to his family, thus fulfilling their original promise to the dragon Userondia.
Thinking of these things, Alan walked unhurriedly through the streets, and finally came to the gate of the city.
After passing the quiet and empty city gate, Alan looked into the distance outside the city gate, and then unexpectedly saw a large number of people gathered in the distance outside the city gate, they were stopped by the soldiers, looking at their anxious looks, it seemed that they were waiting to enter the city, but I don't know why the checkpoint to enter the city was closed, and no one was allowed to enter.
Could it be that they had already discovered that something was wrong so soon and were closing the city to prepare for a search?
If it was really because Tanner was missing or the bodies of Djero and the others were found, the Sheriff's Department should have forbidden people from inside the city to go out, not from outsiders from entering, and the city should have already been in trouble, why is there still silence?
Thinking of the silence in the city! Alan finally felt that something was wrong, and the cave he was in was also silent, not even a single shadow, not only no pedestrians and vehicles entering or leaving, but even the guards guarding the gate did not see a single one.
There was only one person in the huge city gate cave.
Allen, who felt that the situation was not good, immediately quickened his pace, but he didn't take a few steps when a man's voice suddenly came from in front of him:
"Your Excellency the Magician, it's been a long time, and I've said goodbye to the Congo Mountain, but I didn't expect that we would meet again in Lua City. ”
At the entrance of the door, the light dimmed, and several people dressed as swordsmen had already walked in, and one of the leaders looked at Alan from a distance and said with a smile.
"It was you, I didn't recognize you before. ”
Hearing the words of the visitor, and then carefully observing the appearance of the visitor, Alan finally remembered that the person he met in the morning was actually an old acquaintance, the Holy See guard who was enclosed by himself in the Cyclops Cave at the foot of the Congo Mountain. It turned out that he had already recognized himself, but for some reason in the morning, when they were outnumbered, he didn't do anything to himself, but waited here. However, figuring out the identity of the opponent and his own grievances, Alan felt a little more down-to-earth, this person obviously came to him because of old grievances, and it has nothing to do with Steven, so as long as he doesn't leak Steven's news, they are safe.