Chapter 127: Latent (4)
After Chet heard the name from the divine envoy's mouth, his expression did not change at all, and he said calmly: "I think you have recognized the wrong person, I have never heard of this place in Baicao Village, and I don't know anyone called Aluca. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info I'm an orphan and grew up in a temple in El City......"
"Don't do this with me, I have a hundred ways to pierce you if I want to. The oracle interrupted him, "There's no need for garlic." Like you, I'm here to investigate Lucas Gay's defection to the enemy, and I'm on the same side. As long as we can find evidence that he negotiated peace with the Hill Empire behind the back of Branch Secretary Brandon, it will not be a problem to climb to the position of secretary of the headquarters...... According to the informant, the army of the Hill Empire has rushed to Lebei City, more than 100 kilometers outside the city of El, and is waiting for backup and supplies, planning to eat the remnants of the Duchy of Guy in one bite, and it will be done in less than half a month. We've got to get Lucas in the hands before we go to war, and we've got to work together......"
"You're mad, Lord God. Chet gave full play to the spirit of a dead duck's mouth, and no matter what the oracle said, he just wouldn't admit it, "I can assume that I haven't heard these words, but I hope you don't slander Archduke Guy again, or ......"
The oracle let out a twisted laugh from under the iron mask again, and said, "Otherwise, what? You're going to run to snitch, don't make me laugh, Aluka...... No one can see Lucas now, otherwise what would we be doing in the barracks with all this effort?"
Chet took a step back, glared at the oracle and said, "I said I wasn't called Aluca, and if you pestered me any more, I would call someone." You should know very well that making trouble in the barracks is the result of all the jade burning, and your identity will definitely not stand up to scrutiny. ”
"Hmph...... You would be wrong, my identity is true even if the Pope is crowned and verified. The divine envoy flicked his sleeves and said in an unkind tone, "It's really a toast and a punishment for not eating...... Without your help, I could have investigated Lucas's affairs, and you would have found nothing. ”
After a few more harsh words, the divine envoy turned and walked back to the camp of the seriously wounded, presumably to continue to perform "miracles" and win people's hearts.
"Investigate Lucas's defection to the enemy......" Chet looked at the back of the oracle and thought to himself, "Where did this news come from? Lucas should have no way to contact the Empire to ......"
"Hey, Lord Priest, please come and change my medicine!" Chet's thoughts were interrupted by a gruff voice, a muscular middle-aged veteran with a white cloth stained with blood and herb residue wrapped around his right leg.
Chet hurriedly replied, "It's coming!
He stopped thinking about the affairs of the oracle and went to his "job." No one noticed, and as he walked, he shoved a piece of white cloth into the inside pocket of his gray robe...... And the oracle's robe was missing a corner at some point.
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If you want to assassinate an officer, you don't need to fake your identity to infiltrate the barracks, which will increase the risk of exposure. But when the officer hid in his tent like a turtle with a shrunken head, he had to take some risks......
Due to the news of Lucas's assassination not long ago, Brandon had to spend all day with Lucas in the big tent of the Knights of the Burning Sun camp to discuss military affairs with Lucas and Lucas under the condition that his subordinates were forced to die, eating, drinking, and Lazar were all solved in the tent, and there were more than thirty elite knights guarding the tent at all times.
What is the killer most afraid of? What he is most afraid of is that the assassination target does not even want his face, he goes to the toilet in the bedroom, and he will never act alone for a second.
So Chet had to fabricate the identity of a priest and enter the barracks to prepare for a long-term operation. Gaining a foothold in the Guy's barracks was the first step, and the Knights of the Sun camp was not chosen to be closer to the target because it was too easy to be recognized.
The second step of the plan is to lure the snake out of the hole. There are many ways to lure the snake out of the hole, and in order to try to solve the problem before the Hill Empire attacks, Chet chooses one that will work very quickly.
On the night that the news of "an oracle came to the barracks" spread, Jack, who had been busy all day, returned to the tent and found a letter on his straw mat.
He is now more and more clever, and he is a completely different person from the original peasant boy. The moment he saw the letter, he naturally blocked the view of his comrades with his body, secretly put the letter in his arms, and then walked out of the tent.
"Brother Jack, where are you going so late?" asked a young soldier.
Jack replied with a bitter face: "I don't know what unclean things I ate today, and my stomach looks like I've capsized." Why, do you want to come along?"
The young soldier's face turned blue, as if he had smelled something, and waved his hand and said, "No, big brother, you better go by yourself." ”
"Okay......" Jack snorted as he walked outside the tent, his expression changed, and he found a corner where no one was around, pulled out the letter, and read it.
I saw that the letter read: Please reach the tent in the southwest corner of the camp of the third team at midnight, where the miscellaneous items are piled up, God will give you a glorious mission.
After Jack read the letter, the letter turned into a pure white stream of light in Jack's hand, drifting in the humid and cool air of the night. Seeing such a shocking picture, Jack was naturally convinced of the content of the letter.
"The Divine Messenger ...... I'm touched!" Jack's heart was mixed with excitement, ecstasy, surprise and disbelief, and the muscles of his face distorted like a surreal portrait, "Oh my God...... I'm going to be a warrior of God! What should I do...... What am I going to do when I become a warrior of God...... By the way, go home first and beat up my second brother who always bullied me, and then marry the prettiest Miss Rose in the village, she will definitely fall in love with me now! But I am already a warrior of the gods, and I can't marry only one wife...... Alas, who told her not to marry me sooner, it's too late to monopolize me now......"
He felt that he had spared no effort to publicize the actions of the Divine Envoy to other soldiers today, so that the Divine Envoy could realize his piety, so he gave himself a precious opportunity to become a Divine Warrior.
Jack was eager to rush to the place mentioned in the letter, but he did not dare to disobey the will of the divine envoy, so he could only crouch by the tent and wait for the moon to rise overhead. Jack couldn't remember more than ten words when he followed the priest of the army, but every word in the letter just now seemed to be imprinted in his mind, and he could remember even the curved arc of the lines on the letters.
For the first time since he was born, Jack felt that time was passing so slowly. He really wanted to fly to the sky and push the moon into the middle of the night sky, or grab the beard of the god of time and force him to turn the time faster.
Finally, it was midnight, and there were few people left in the camp. Jack avoided the night patrol and reached for the tent of the sundries mentioned in the letter. He remembered that the tent was piled up with torn armor, broken spears, broomsticks, buckets, and improvised military pots and pans......
Early the next morning, early rising soldiers found Jack's body near the gendrums tent. This incident caused a stir in the entire Third Squad camp, because Jack's death was so tragic - his limbs were cut off by the roots, his left arm was on his head, his right arm was attached to his chin, his left leg was next to his left ear, and his right leg was next to his right ear, forming a cross that was long and short from side to side. And Jack's heart was gouged out and stuffed into his own mouth......
"Fallen Cross ......," the third squad leader recognized the terrifying symbol, "It's a devil-believing cultist!
The squad leader then organized all the officers in the squad and launched a search in the camp. It's a pity that they wasted a whole day, but they didn't even find the shadow of the cultist, nor did they find anyone suspicious......
The clerk suggested that the squad leader report the matter to his superiors, but the fact that cultists were infiltrating the camp was a big or small matter, and the squad leader was afraid that he would be held accountable for the lax supervision, so he suppressed the matter with a fluke mentality, and strictly forbade the officers to talk about it, but only asked the patrol team to send more manpower.
He thought that as long as he found that the patrol intensity had increased, the cultists would not dare to do it again, and besides, it was not every day that a fool like Jack ran into a no-man's corner alone......
However......
After one night, the death toll had risen to thirteen. The murderer's methods are still so complex, cold, and precise that there is not a trace of pity or hesitation, and each body is dismantled, making it hard to imagine that it was done overnight. The killer had to avoid the patrols, lure out twelve daring idiots at different times and places, kill them, and cut off their limbs to pose for them......
This requires not only artistically perfect skills, but also a strong steel-like psychological quality, and the ability to plan meticulously.
The squad was only 1,200 men at full strength, and now one percent had died for reasons other than the war, which was a major dereliction of duty for the squad leader. After the clerk reported the serial murders that had occurred in the camp of the third team, the leader of the third team was immediately removed from his post and replaced by the deputy leader.
The newly appointed deputy captain was still very tactful, threw the pot off, and handed over all the investigation of the case to his superiors. The squadron leader also smelled the conspiracy and flatteringly threw the investigative power to the captain. The older the official, the farther away from the truth, the captain was quite happy, and the capture of the cultist was a great political achievement, so he sent his own personal guard to investigate the murder.
The officers of the captain's level are all members of the personal guard, and if they are thrown into the mercenary group, they can at least be mixed with the deputy commander, and even the possibility that a few people have the blood of gods and extraordinary power cannot be ruled out. They are much more powerful than a certain red hair and black hair before entering the end of the world, as the so-called learning of literature and martial arts, sold to the emperor's family, the real masters of the St. Ainos continent often make a living in the army and temples.
A total of 30 people from the Guards were sent out to form a night patrol. Those who know the matter believe that this is the end of the murder incident, and even if the cultists cannot be caught, the cultists will definitely not dare to kill people again.
I didn't expect ...... On the night of the murderous night when the moon was dark and the wind was high, thirty members of the personal guard died silently under the moonlight. Probably due to time constraints, this time the cultists did not dismember the dead again, but simply burned them to a pile of charcoal.