In the car, Ji Xun sat silently in the corner.

His "withdrawn" character has been set up, and those colleagues didn't care about him, chatting on their own.

"Boss, where are you going on this mission?"

"There was a fight between workers at the gunpowder factory, and more than a dozen people died. I heard that the bombing was very bad, and it was another tricky job..."

"Oh, lately, the group of people in the union didn't know what medicine they had taken wrong, and they were also making a demonstration. People are dying every day, and I don't know what to do. ”

"I heard that the consortium from Shangcheng opened a factory, and the salary was nearly 4,000 a month, which is too high for other factories. At first, the gang said it was a conspiracy, and no one went. But then the people who tried it got the money, and the people in the other factories gradually began to make trouble. The union is also putting a lot of pressure on the gangs..."

"yes. My buddy is the 'wall painter'. Recently, the gang has been tasked with assassinating several foremen who have taken the lead in causing trouble..."

"There are four thousand ordinary workers? Hiss... In this case, the wages of our corpse collectors should also rise. ”

“...”

Ji Xun listened to these things and it was not new.

Workers have also been one of the biggest sources of unrest in Innocence City lately.

After Cao Sihai was killed, the parliamentarians of the Federation also knew that it was difficult to gnaw the hard bone of the City of Innocence by force alone.

And the chaebol businessmen are obviously more far-sighted and have much more tactful methods.

They knew that once the Old World was developed on a large scale, the City of Innocence would inevitably become a throat city, so they began to seize all kinds of resources in the City of Innocence as soon as they came.

With its huge financial resources, it has acquired, invested and built a large number of factories.

The chaebols have a lot of money, and in order to squeeze down the small workshops in the city in a short period of time, they concentrate on seizing resources, so the wages are very high, and they poach people almost two or three times the salary.

This suddenly made the contradiction between the people at the bottom of the innocent city from unanimous external to internal conflict.

For example, the Nugget Pier.

Although the Nugget Dock, the only access to the Old World, is controlled by the gangs, it is the low-level workers who actually do the work.

Originally, there was no risk, but the salary was low.

The porters are only 3000 a month.

Now someone drives 6000, who are you going to do with?

It's strange if you don't make trouble.

This is the conspiracy.

Even if you know, you can't help it.

The gangs in the city of innocence, is it possible that they can still play with the chaebol to raise wages?

At first, I tasted the sweetness, and it was eaten up little by little.

Now I want to stop it, but I can't stop it.

Playing with power and economy, the people at the bottom can never be the opponent of those politicians.

The influx of a large amount of hot money has also led to skyrocketing prices in the city of innocence, and people will have to pursue higher salaries if they want to survive, and the contradictions will become more and more intense.

But this is a transcendent world, where power reigns above politics.

Originally, the methods of the merchants were not so vicious, at least not that some people had this kind of long-term insight.

But it seems that another invisible force is secretly fueling the flames, and some people deliberately guide the wind direction at several key nodes, and the turmoil is intensifying.

Ji Xun felt a familiar formula from the recent turmoil.

Like a maze of necropolises, a few pieces of news buried the Cao family's path to the governor.

I never saw any "mastermind" from beginning to end.

The same is true of this turmoil.

Obviously, behind these turmoil, there is a master layout.

If it continues like this, it won't be long before the nobles don't send any lords to forcibly suppress it, and all classes of the City of Innocence will clash and split on their own.

In the previous life when information was developed, Ji Xun was used to seeing this method.

But he also thinks it's good.

Judging from the information he has now learned, the mysterious "Old World" is a place where there are real legends of gods and demons.

That's the sea of stars.

Ji Xun is full of interest in that mysterious place.

It's good to develop early.

......

A short time later, the steam truck arrived at the gunpowder factory.

The fighting here has receded, and it is a mess, just waiting for their corpse collectors to clean up the battlefield.

Ji Xun and a few people got out of the car and began to collect the corpses as usual.

Originally, this was a very ordinary field mission, gathering stumps, sprinkling chemicals, and then bagging and getting into the car.

However, no one expected that a strange event would come.

Putting it away, suddenly the light around me brightened.

It's not the glow of a dim gas lamp.

It's a white silver light.

Suddenly, someone burst out: "Look, what's in the sky!" ”

Ji Xun was also attracted by the light, and when he looked up, he was also stunned.

The heavens showed a vision.

This is...

Moon?

Ji Xun's eyes froze.

I don't know when there was an extra moon in the sky!

How can a dungeon have a moon?

He dazzled and thought he had seen it wrong.

But if you look closely, isn't the bright celestial body in the sky a silver hook-like moon?

Ji Xun looked at it and shrank his eyes, and he was also puzzled in his heart: "What is the situation..."

Although the space of this dungeon is high, it is far from high enough to accommodate such a huge celestial body.

What you see in your eyes is not necessarily a real thing, and it is most likely an optical anomaly similar to a projection.

"How?"

Ji Xun observed for a while, but did not see the trajectory of the projected light.

To the naked eye, the moon was exactly like the real thing, hanging high in the endless darkness.

Moreover, looking at it, it is as if the moon has a magical power, and it makes people feel a sense of pleasure on the spiritual level.

Ji Xun felt that this feeling was inexplicably familiar.

......

"What's that?"

"I don't know, could it be a new lighting device from the Uptown Labs?"

"Hey, don't say it, it's pretty good."

“...”

The dungeons had never seen the moon, and no one knew what that meant.

One by one, they pointed at the glowing objects in the sky.

Ji Xun always felt that something was wrong, and vaguely felt that something big was going to happen.

However, the moment he thought about it, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he shouted in his heart: "That's how it feels!" ”

He finally realized that the familiarity just now was the only thing to do.

Earlier, in the secret room in the labyrinth of the Great Necropolis, he looked at the carving of the "☾" symbol on the ceiling.

That's how it felt!

Same!

Ji Xun immediately understood, and the direction had already been determined in his heart: "The moon in the sky... It was the Old Gods cultists behind the cellar in Tailor Street! ”

And almost for a moment when he looked at it more, a thought-provoking revelation emerged: "You are exempt from the slightest contamination of faith."

"It's... Pollute the faith! ”

Thinking of something, even Ji Xun's current state of mind looked at this method and was amazed: "What a big stroke..."

He squinted at the moon in the sky, his eyes gradually darkened, and he muttered to himself: "Are those guys from the old sect playing so big... It's just a matter of hiding in the shadows on weekdays, and this appearance directly comes to pollute the faith with the moon, which is to pollute the entire city of innocence? ”

These guys are playing so blatantly, this is going to make a big wave?

It turns out that not only the chaebols are lively, but the followers of the ancient gods are also very lively in the shadows.

The inspirational hints are already obvious.

This moon is more than just pretty.

It's a source of pollution.

Contaminate the cataclysmic source of faith!

If it weren't for the [JOKER] trickster who exempted the faith from tampering with the entries, maybe Ji Xun himself would have been tricked, and he would not have been able to detect it at all.

At this moment, he also understood the meaning of this entry.

What kind of pollution is this, and the threat of faith pollution is even greater?

It's like a spiritual seal that enslaves people, this thing is tricked, and even cognition will be biased.

The more I think about it, the more I feel like my scalp is tingling.

It was at this moment that Ji Xun seemed to see a big hand from the ancients, quietly pulling away the dirt from the tomb and stretching out, covering the eyes of human beings looking at the heights.

An old god who has long been buried in the dust of history, after thousands of years, wants to awaken the instinctual horror that has been sleeping in the human veins, and regain control of that domination over the lower creatures.

Ji Xun's expression froze: "Faith pollution, it's lively now..."

Killing people and making bloody sacrifices, human beings are afraid that they are no different from animals in the eyes of the gods, and the followers of the ancient gods gave him a very bad impression as soon as they came.

Ji Xun could already foresee that humanity would be dominated by the old gods and fall into the endless eternal night.

It is a kind of eternal night, like a human being trapped on an island by a god, and recognizing the true eternal night that is blinded by the falsehood of faith.

Facing the dominating terror originating from the indescribable ancient gods, Ji Xun snorted and let out a sneer, his eyes full of burning color. The curvature of the corners of his mouth grew higher and higher, to an almost evil degree.

Tsk, I'll just talk about the shortcomings...

Innocence City, the end of the world, a place of exile, if it is only violence and disorder, the folk customs are really simple.

Now that I'm doing this,

It tasted right all of a sudden.

It doesn't matter what kind of ancient gods, old sects, and evil gods are sacrificed...

This is the right way to open the dark side of the otherworld.

This is a world of gods and demons!

......

Contaminating beliefs, this mystical method is simply impossible to prevent.

If there is no restraint, even a high-level spell card master will be hit.

The hands of those Old God believers are much more threatening than the turmoil brought by the chaebols.

Ji Xun looked at the moon in the sky, and the thoughts in his head flew around.

At the moment, the pollution is not serious, but after a long time, it is difficult to say.

However, at this moment, the surrounding light dimmed.

When I looked again, the moon in the sky suddenly went out.

The night returned to calm.

There is nothing left in the sky.

As if everything was an illusion.

"Huh... Interrupted? ”

Ji Xun looked at it and immediately thought of something, and said in his heart: "Could it be that the energy is not enough?" ”

Now that the old sect has appeared, there is no need to hide it.

Since the whole city is polluted, it is good to do it to the end, but now it is suddenly interrupted?

It should not be interrupted by external forces.

This moon is the first time it has appeared, and those old believers should not be so stupid, the first time it has been discovered.

Ji Xun thought of something else.

He was a staunch materialist.

He also recognized that everything in the universe is a unit of energy body, and even a god should be described by some special energy unit.

With such a large scale of faith pollution, there must be a need for energy sources.

Even if it's magic, it has to be supported by magic.

"So, what will be the energy that this 'moon' needs?"

Ji Xun's mind quickly pondered.

In his eyes, the moon was like a light bulb that only turned on when it was turned on.

But where does the "electricity" come from?

Following this line of thought, Ji Xun suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind.

"Huh... Energy? Could it have been a sacrificial ritual? ”

Ji Xun instantly thought of the bloody sacrifice ceremony in the cellar of Tailor Street.

Could it be that the [Secret Cause Medium] is actually energy?

Not only that, but he also instantly thought of the layout in the maze of the Great Necropolis.

There were four stone pillars in the chamber on which were carved rituals of human sacrifice, and then there was the moon symbol that the priest pointed to the ceiling.

Pray for the gods' response with sacrifices...

The more I think about it, the clearer it becomes.

Ji Xun's brain was running rapidly at the moment.

The pieces of information about the old sect kept colliding in my mind.

The secret chamber of the cemetery, the four-pillar arch moon, the sacrifice of the tailor street...

It's like a piece of a puzzle, and in the blink of an eye, a corner of a certain pattern is pieced.

Although there is no glimpse of the whole picture.

But just this corner is enough for Ji Xun to speculate on a possibility that is very close to the truth.

He was almost certain that there would be a sacrificial ritual before the "moon" would appear.

Ji Xun's eyes flickered, and a bolder conjecture appeared in his heart!

"Now that the position of the moon has been determined, could it be that the position of the 'four pillars' is actually fixed?"

Although he didn't understand why the stone pillars in the secret room were designed this way.

But his intuition told him that those four stone pillars must have secretly combined some kind of formation, and they must not be easily changed!

Now the position of the moon has been determined, it is in the very center.

So if you are a little more sure, isn't it possible to determine the position of the four columns?

"Tailor Street Cellar!"

Ji Xun's eyes rolled, and he had already grasped the point.

If he guessed correctly, the Tailor's Street Cellar was one of the four pillars in front of it.

So in other words, there should be three other strongholds of the same sacrificial ritual in the other three locations?

......

Ji Xun doesn't care about the old sects.

The spell masters in this world have coexisted with gods and demons for countless years, and that kind of game at that level is not something that he can consider with his current strength at all.

There is a dragon and a crouching tiger in the city of innocence, and he doesn't think that he is the only one who has discovered that there is something wrong with this moon.

At this moment, a bold idea popped up in Ji Xun's mind: "If you can find another place to sacrifice, will you also be able to find the [Secret Cause Medium]?!" ”

Thoughts suddenly cleared.

Ji Xun's eyes burned.

He thought that he might have to surprise those old believers!