Chapter 165: Confusion and Truth
From Malek's expression, it is not difficult for Leo to see that he must have had an unspeakable experience, and this experience should be related to the Fog Village, although Leo was a little curious, but he didn't ask in detail.
In addition to sighing, Marek couldn't help but ask, "However, what makes me wonder is how did this foggist enter Laketown? How many foggers are hiding in Laketown, and what do they have to do with this murder?"
In response to Malek's self-talking question, Leo wanted to ask why the Fog Folk couldn't just climb the wall to enter, or enter from the water, but he didn't ask the exit, because he felt that these two questions should be two common sense questions that even the book didn't even bother to mention, and if they did, they would cause Marek to be suspicious.
So, he pondered for a moment, thought of the airship he saw in the cemetery that day, and said casually, "Could it be an airship?"
"Airship?" Leo's words made Marek think of something, pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Possibly." ”
Leo was also stunned, he didn't expect that he would be able to say it casually.
Marek said with a serious expression: "The entry of the Fog People into Lake Town is a big deal in itself, and it also involves the Chaos Society, I'm afraid something big will happen in Seventh Lake Town......
"Could it have something to do with the waste?" asked Leo as he interrupted Marek before he could finish speaking.
"Wasteland?" Malek looked at Leo blankly, puzzled: "How could it involve the wasteland ...... again" As he spoke, he suddenly stopped, seemed to understand what Leo meant, and said in surprise: "You mean that the wasted capital appeared in the town of the Seventh Lake?"
"Don't you know?" Leo pretended to be surprised, and said, "Don't you think it's strange that there are so many merchants directly under the chief wizard in the town of Seventh Lake during this time, and there are no real big business opportunities here?"
"No wonder, no wonder!" Leo's words seemed to point out some of Malek's questions, and he muttered to himself, "So this is the problem. ”
"What do you have in mind?" asked Leo.
"You should know that after the chaos was cleared, it didn't actually disappear, but went to the fog area and spread their chaotic apocalyptic theory among the fog people's villages. Malek didn't hide it from Leo, but recounted what he had in mind: "It's just that the Alliance Council and the Wizards' Council didn't know that the Chaos Society would split into two branches in the Fog Village, and one thought that they should stay in the Fog District to spread their doctrine, gather the strength of the Fog Village, and then counterattack Lake Town. The other group believes that neither the Fog Zone nor Lake Town is the real chaotic apocalypse, and they should look for the real chaotic apocalypse. When I left the Fog Zone, it was rumored that the second group of people looking for the end of chaos thought that the waste capital was the real chaos end times, so they wanted to enter the waste capital and seize the waste capital, and the female corpse was probably a member of the chaos society who sneaked in. ”
Although Leo knew the origin of the female corpse, he still followed Malek's words and said, "So the murderer did a good thing. ”
Not necessarily. Malek said in a deep voice, "I suspect that the murderer may also be a member of the Chaos Society." ”
Leo asked, "Why do you have this suspicion?"
"Because I've seen something like this before. Marek was silent for a moment, and said, "That time it was not the internal organs, but the brains and eyeballs of three people, and three living people were also used as living sacrifices......"
Listening to Marek's words, Leo immediately had some knowledge in his mind that he had never known, just as he immediately knew that this was a resurrection sacrifice when he saw the four hollowed-out internal organs, and after hearing Marek's description, he also knew that the person who did it was for a ritual called the True Sacrifice, and the interesting thing was that the object of the sacrifice was actually the True Eye. Yes, trapped in the stone ball in the hunting ground on the outskirts of Miria City, the spiritual will was sacrificed by Leo to the True Eye of the Lord of Turbidity and Lightness.
At this time, Leo suddenly thought of the person who had been in and out of the dream world many times and had a connection with the True Eye, so he tried to ask Marek, "Director Marek, do you know the True Eye?"
This somewhat inexplicable question made Marek stunned, and then he looked at Leo with a strange eye, stretched out his finger and pointed to the glasses that Leo kept in his pocket, and said, "Why do you ask such a question?
Leo was stunned for a moment, and reached out to take out the special glasses he had bought earlier, put them in his hand and looked at them, his eyes full of surprise.
Marek guessed Leo's thoughts with some self-inflicted cleverness, and said, "Do you suspect that the True Eye and Chaos will collude?"
Leo put the glasses back in his pocket, and then didn't intend to explain, but followed Marek's words and said, "I'm a little skeptical, what do you think?"
"Impossible!" As soon as Leo's words came out, Malek immediately shook his head and said, "The True Eye and the Chaos Society are mortal enemies, and the reason why the Chaos Society will all be cleared out of Lake Town is because of the help of the True Eye, so that those crazy chaotic people have nothing to hide, and they will be found and eliminated one by one." Therefore, the most hated thing by the Chaos Society is the True Eye, and it is impossible to cooperate with them if they do not want to destroy the True Eye all the time. ”
Leo smiled indifferently and said, "Director Marek, even a calm person like you feels that it is impossible for the two parties to cooperate, isn't this a good cover?"
"What do you mean by that?" Marek asked, frowning.
In order to obtain information about the True Eye from Malek, Leo did not hesitate to put his hat on the True Eye and said, "The Chaos Society and the Fog People have entered the town of Lake without a sound, this is an indisputable fact, right?"
"Yes. Marek nodded.
"We were skeptical about why the Chaos Society and the Fog People were in Laketown," Leo said, "We suspected that the most likely thing we were to enter Laketown by airship, right?"
Malek didn't answer this time, but nodded, but with a slightly thoughtful look on his face.
"But it is also very difficult to enter Lake Town by airship, after all, this process must be very closely checked, so it is difficult for people on one side to enter Lake Town silently. Little by little, Leo led Marek's thinking astray, and said, "But what if someone answers? Not only does that person have great power, but he will not be suspected even if something happens afterwards." ”
Although Marek still didn't quite believe Leo's words in his heart, he was already a little shaken, and no longer immediately rejected Leo's speculation, but showed a contemplative look.
Leo waited for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Do you have any information related to the True Eye here?"
"Yes. Malek nodded.
Leo purposefully proposed, "Check it out, and if there is a problem, there will definitely be some clues in the data." ”
Malek thought about it for a moment, nodded in agreement, and then he told Leo to wait and walked out of the office himself. After about ten minutes, I saw him walk in with three archives the size of a desktop and the thickness of a dictionary.
After putting the file on the table, Marek was silent for a moment, and then said to Leo with great seriousness: "Although this file is not a particularly important secret file, it can't be shown to people casually, because the matter is a bit urgent, and I am a little powerless alone, so I will open these files to you, I hope that after you have seen it, you will forget it all and say nothing when you leave this room." Is that okay?"
Leo thought about it very seriously before nodding cautiously and saying, "Yes." ”
Seeing Leo's cautious attitude, Malek chose to believe Leo's promise, picked up one of the files, handed it to Leo, and he himself directly opened the file in front of him and carefully checked it.
Leo was not polite, took the file, and flipped through it, and he looked at it much faster than Marek, and his eyes almost just swept over the page, and then immediately turned to the next.
This speed of reading once made Malek wonder if he was really looking for clues seriously, but when he saw that Leo could easily say the contents of the files he had read earlier, Malek was immediately shocked, and an idea was born in his heart.
By the time Malek had barely read the ten pages of the file in his hand, Leo had already finished reading the two huge files. Perhaps expecting Leo's abilities, Malek did not continue to read, but handed Leo the file in his hand, as if handing over the work of analyzing clues to Leo, an outsider.
As for Leo, he was not polite, after taking the file, he continued to flip through it, and recorded the three files in the auxiliary brain database in ten minutes.
After reading these materials, Leo pretended to think, leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes and pondered, while he was actually cooperating with the parabrain system to sort out and look through the recorded information.
Just like the rulers of the Velen World or the Earth Federation, the Council of the Silvermoon Lake Alliance, which holds the administrative power of the Ten Towns, is also extremely vigilant against some of the big forces under its rule that can affect their rights, so they will send strong people like Marek to monitor these big forces and collect information on the activities of these forces, and the True Eye is also the focus of the Alliance Council.
Perhaps because Malek himself is not a specialized intelligence officer, he does not have a systematic concept of collecting intelligence information, but he has collected all the information related to the True Eye, and no matter which of these materials are useful and which are useless, they are all compiled randomly according to the date.
Although this chaotic data file will cause great obstacles to other people who read the files, Leo has a secondary brain system to organize the data, so these obstacles are not a problem at all, but because of the large and detailed information, Leo can obtain a lot of useful information from it.
Among these information is not only the intelligence information of the True Eye itself, but also a large amount of information about the Ten Towns and other forces in Silvermoon City. The reason why these materials are put together is only because these forces have some connection to the True Eye, and they are all recorded by Marek.
And this information gave Leo a deeper understanding of the Silvermoon Lake Alliance, even better than the vast majority of people in the Ten Towns, who knew more about this civilized world built with Silvermoon Lake as the center.
The Silvermoon Lake District Alliance is a republican state established with Silvermoon Lake as the center, and although there is no name for the country here, there is actually no difference between the meaning of the alliance and the state.
Except for the special existence of the Wizarding Association, the supreme power of the Alliance is the Alliance Council, just as the people here have an unusual love for the number ten, the Alliance Council also has ten chief councillors, and under the chief council, there are also ten secondary councillors, for a total of one hundred and ten seats.
Five of the seats in the chief council belong to the Wizards' Guild, the remaining five seats belong to the leaders of the guilds, more than half of the second councillors are held by the nobles of the ten towns, and the rest are divided among the great merchants, scholars, and military nobles of the various lake towns.
The Night's Watch is not under the control of the Lakeland Alliance, it is independent of the Alliance, but it has a close relationship with the Alliance, so there are five special observation seats in the Alliance's Council, which are served by the Night's Watch.
In fact, because of the emergence of fog areas, the attack of fog monsters and other crises surrounding the alliance, ordinary people in the alliance are always in unrest, and this uneasiness is the best breeding ground for the emergence of religious organizations.
According to the information collected by Marek, there are no less than fifty-four large and small religions in the town of Seventh Lake alone, which is a small place within the alliance that belongs to the lower lake town.
The True Eye Church is not primarily missionary like other religious organizations, preferring to be merchants, selling other goods such as potions in addition to producing glasses that can read words.
According to records, before the appearance of the True Eye Cult, although the people of this world had a large number of books brought from the other world, no one could read and understand them, so the inheritance of civilization here was passed on by word of mouth, and it was not until the appearance of the True Eye that words gradually became the main way to inherit civilization.
The Wizarding Guild has also tried several times to unravel the process of making special glasses, but in the end it has been fruitless, and they have to rely on the production of the True Eye.
It is also the dependence of the entire civilization on specially made glasses that has allowed the True Eye to expand smoothly in the Ten Towns, and gradually grow into an object that even the Alliance Council must be wary of, and even have to express its acquiescence to its covert missionary behavior.
From the information provided by Marek, it can be seen that the True Eye has a very deep influence in the town of Seventh Lake, and many nobles are True Eye cultists, while more than half of the city guards and guards have joined the True Eye Church, and the remaining half also have close contact with the True Eye Church. Not to mention the ordinary people at the bottom, even if they are members of other religious organizations, they will maintain a certain level of faith in the True Eye Church.