"I knew that Bichi had a ghost. ”

Fingers flicked the spider silk up and down, and the spider murmured coldly.

Needless to say, she was referring to the Holy Maiden of Giel.

Because she was a heresy who had undergone reform, was physically and mentally different, and was good at trapping and disguise, she and Flower Mantis were skeptical of Jielle and the Church's invitation from the beginning. The spider even used spider silk to monitor the movement in Notre Dame without telling Roland. I didn't think it was set up by the church - in front of the soundproof junction that stretched underground, the spider silk used for eavesdropping became a pure ornament. By the time he realized that something was wrong, the other party had already moved.

"It's too late to say anything, and it's imperative to find out exactly where they've gone as soon as possible. ”

The flower mantis flipped through the bound paper with both hands at the same time, and the records of Lüdes's entrances and exits were quickly imprinted in his mind.

When they brought the news back to the academy and informed Minerva and the others, the atmosphere was immediately filled with the smell of gunpowder.

With a fiery temper like Gloria, she immediately asked to bring someone to rush into the Bourbon Palace or Notre-Dame Cathedral. This brainless impulsive request was vetoed on the spot by Minerva. Not to mention that they don't have any evidence in their hands to prove that Roland was kidnapped by the crown prince or the church, and now they don't even know where Roland was taken, so they will only be charged with being vexatious and framed if they kill him like this;

Of course, they don't just wait. Everyone immediately took action to search for Roland, and in order to prevent the situation from expanding out of control, the investigation and search work was limited to a few girls who were close to Roland. Despite their outstanding abilities and fighting spirit at the moment, it is still a little more difficult to search for a group of cunning kidnappers and carefully hidden meat tickets from the vast sea of people.

"Only at times like this will I miss Stacy and the Nightfog Decree immensely. ”

The flower mantis gritted its teeth and complained.

The tables that he knew at first glance were false stories made him deeply sick. In Alfheim, if anyone dares to do this, they will be sent to the hard labor camps of Sachsenhausen or Dachau to be stoned until they encounter **** or rot inside. Charlemagne, on the other hand, seems to have resigned himself to a bloated, malfeasing, unresponsive, and unregulated bureaucracy, wasting precious time and resources in this bottomless pit, along with his time and brain cells.

"When this is over, I'm going to show those dog officers a good look! Kick the pigs' butts with high heels, shove the heels into their assholes, stir up the intestines, and smash their eggs!!"

The coarse mouth resounded in the office, and the ladies present nodded subconsciously, those scum really deserve this kind of treatment.

In the past, Lüdes, the first prosperous city on the mainland and the pearl of the civilized world, can now be regarded as a classic negative teaching material that combines all the cases of administrative failure. The prices of all kinds of goods in the market are rising, and today you can sell a bag of flour, and tomorrow you can only buy a fist-sized black loaf of black bread as hard as wood. Many goods have been removed from the shelves, and many of the remaining goods have been labeled with purchase limits, which are not available to ordinary citizens. Middle-class families who used to have fish and meat for three meals a day can now only eat some cured meat at night, and some poor households who were already living a tight life can only feed their livestock coarse grains such as coarse oats and turnips, and the standard of living in the slums has reached the point of concentration camps.

In contrast to the fact that citizens are suffering from inflation, the black market is another picture that is not a good one to describe if it is not prosperous. That's right, it's prosperity and prostitution. You can buy everything on the black market, you can trade anything, as long as you can afford it. I really can't give money, barter, sell my sons and daughters, and pay off my debts. Anyway, human trafficking is also one of the businesses here, not to mention prostitutes and young prostitutes, and there are also many child prostitutes who cut off their limbs for the rich to play with. The ugliness of everything that can be imagined and what cannot be imagined can be seen everywhere in the underground world of Lüdders.

The main reason why the capital of Charlemagne, the best place in a country, has fallen here is because its enemies, the consortium, have left this place.

The retreat of the consortium was very clean, everything that could be taken away was packed and taken away, and everything that could not be taken away was destroyed to prevent the enemy. Now the production lines of the factories in the jurisdiction of Lüdes have become a pile of scrap metal, and Nuo Dawang cannot even produce a pack of compressed biscuits, a screw, or a bearing. Until the factory resumes production, it can only be maintained by depleting stocks and transferring materials from other places. However, the enterprises under the actual control of the consortium in the area have also been disposed of in the same way, and the local government is already overwhelmed by the maintenance of people's livelihood needs and social order in the area under its jurisdiction, and the royal capital with a population of 8 million is really more than enough to do so. Second, the withdrawal of the consortium has created a huge power vacuum, and various forces that have been driven to the underground society in the past have risen one after another, and they have attached themselves to the aristocracy and bureaucracy, transporting all kinds of materials seized by illegal means to the black market and selling them at high prices for huge profits. The bigwigs in the upper reaches of this criminal industry chain provide a protective umbrella for the underworld forces and open the door to illegal transactions. Passes, identification, pretended inspections, authentic military ranks, underpasses left behind by the consortium...... Things that should be strictly managed have become props for the abuse of power for personal gain.

One can imagine how credible the documentation provided by management is in this context.

"Not to mention, will those moths be willing to offend the crown prince and the church for 'a little thing'. ”

The bug lets go of its fingers, and the curtains block the annoying flies from view.

Since the Night of the Long Knife, there have been suspicious figures around the National Academy of Magic, even though they are clumsy and naïve rookies and unskilled laymen, as long as nothing happens. But there are really a lot of flies gathered today.

"There are 28 people on my side, except for three rookies, the rest are professional soldiers in civilian clothes. ”

"There were 151 people in the sewers, and it seemed that they were intended to attract attention with a feint attack on the ground, and the main force underground would carry out a surprise attack. ”

Feeling the small movements coming from all corners of the school, the spider shrugged and said lightly.

A spider capable of weaving huge traps that exceed 1,000 times its own size - Darwin's bark spider, a genus of flat-fronted spiders in the family Roundaceae. The spider spits out silk that is 10 times stronger than Kevlar fiber, making it the strongest known biomaterial, with the same volume of Kevlar fiber being only one-tenth the strength of the silk. The 18-millimeter-long cobwebs are about 82 feet (25 meters) wide, about the length of two buses.

Modified spiders possess all the abilities of the subphylum Chelicera, Arachnida, Arachnida, and Arachnids, including the Darwinian bark spider. Now the entire academy is a spider's nest, and no information above or below the ground can escape her surveillance.

"Not necessarily. ”

Valrhona, whose eyes had been half-closed, suddenly interjected.

"Three large transport vehicles had just stopped half a block from the side door, and from the size and weight of the vehicles, and the flow of Mana, it was probably a new type of metal gorem. ”

"The one that was originally developed for the War Cart is impossible, it has proven impossible to use on the battlefield, and the development work should be frozen. ”

Minerva suddenly stood up, and the princess, who was proud of her memory, was very sure that the report of the freeze on development had been on her desk three days earlier.

"It's probably useless to fight the defenders who like to scatter interference particles all over the battlefield, but if you can deal with humans, ......"

The rest of the words don't have to be spoken, everyone knows what they mean.

"Girls. ”

Valrhona clapped her hands, Minerva, who sat down in her chair, Flower Mantis and Vigna, who were doing her best to deal with the documents, and the spiders and insects who were in charge of guarding looked at the majestic dragon princess.

"Stop what we're doing and we'll get the whole thing straight. ”

The girls gathered as they were told, and Valrhona opened the silent barrier that enveloped the entire office and began to explain her reasoning.

"The first thing that is certain is that the whole thing was a joint effort between the crown prince and the church in order to bring about Charlemagne's integration. ”

There is no objection. At this point, anyone whose IQ is above the level can see that the crown prince and the church are joining forces, and their ultimate goal is, of course, to fight that powerful common enemy. As for kidnapping Roland, raiding the academy, it should only be part of the plan.

"Now they are preparing to launch an attack on this place, and the target is not surprisingly Her Royal Highness, as long as Minerva is eliminated, the hindrance and negative impact of the integration process will be kept to a minimum - so far, it is relatively obvious. The question that needs to be clarified now is: why did they kidnap Roland? Flower Mantis, you say it first. ”

"It must be something nasty!"

The flower mantis, which almost jumped up, clasped its hands in front of its chest and said with a worried face.

"The crown prince is a well-known scumbag beast, and there are 50 women who have been abandoned by him after being toyed with last year alone! It is said that he is still a pervert who likes SM, and Young Master Roland must be tied up and abused now!...... It's scary just to think about it!!"

Although there is a saying that same-sex love is true love, is it really good for you to be a boy shouting about this kind of thing? Go back and write a review book, and you should be deeply critical and self-critical. Come on, next!"

"Could it be that the Church is doing something to the Holy Maiden? Recently, more and more people have gathered under the command of Her Royal Highness because of their admiration for the Holy Maiden. Did the church get dissatisfied with this and decide to strike first?"

"Venia's analysis is very reasonable, it is indeed very possible, next!"

"Brother Wang has asked me many times before about the Holy Maiden, and at first I thought he was just curious, but now that I think about it, he may have some kind of wrong thoughts. ”

"Uh-huh, I see. ”

Valrhona recorded Minerva's speech in a pamphlet, closed the notebook, and Valrhona got up and said:

"Everyone has their opinions, so let me share my opinions. First of all, I want to say that everyone's thinking should be right, but it is a little one-sided. ”

From the beginning, Valrhona felt that things were unusual.

The confluence of the Church with the Dauphin was not unexpected. As the saying goes, things gather like and people are divided into groups, ambition and the crown prince and the church that fears the decline of the future status and incidentally build a dream of a ******** new world, and the common interests of the two are far greater than their differences at this stage. Before defeating Li Lin, an unprecedentedly strong enemy, the two sides are bound to exchange interests and cooperate. Showing sincerity, striking at potential rivals, and maximizing the anti-elf forces are the three ways in which the Church will sooner or later jump out to side with the crown prince at some point in the Charlemagne royal strife.

This is a development based on strategic and interest considerations, which will happen sooner or later, and no matter how good intentions and righteousness are demonstrated, it will not help.

But she never imagined that it would come so quickly, and the church would be so ruthless as soon as she made a move.

"The reason behind this radicalization is that the strength of the elven camp is completely beyond the imagination of the Church, and in connection with the recent complete shut-off of information on the Eastern Front, we can boldly speculate that the expeditionary force is likely to have suffered some kind of change, and in the worst case it may have collapsed. After receiving information through certain channels, or speculating on this outcome, the Church, deeply frightened by the strong fighting power displayed by the elven camp, decided to act in advance in order to balance the impact of the defeat on the Eastern Front. ”

In fact, the expeditionary force was not defeated, but destroyed, and due to intelligence control, the Church did not know the true situation. But an army of 120,000 men was cut off for two or three days, and anyone could have a premonition that they were in trouble or misfortune, and for those with good heads, the amount of information was enough to speculate on the prospects of war.

"The church, which had a premonition of possible failure, decided to speed up its cooperation with the crown prince, but the improvised alliance was still not enough to confront Li Lin head-on, and they had to deepen the level of cooperation and at the same time master the trump card enough to contain Li Lin as much as possible. That is, Roland. ”

"But, but will the hostage tactics be useful? The other party is that bloodless and tearless Li Lin! Besides, they kidnapped the holy maiden, could it be said that Roland's identity has been ......?"

Venia jumped to her feet, and the rest of the audience looked incredulous.

The hostage tactics are not useless, and they are also well aware of the delicate and special relationship between Li Lin and Roland. If it was a normal adoptive father and son, no, even if it was an ordinary relationship, maybe there was a real possibility of success, and no matter how bad it was, it would make Li Lin a bogeyman.

But Li Lin is not a human being, he is a substitute of divine will, calm and rational to the point of being almost cold-blooded, and at the same time very fair and just. Put Roland and the completion of the world change at both ends of the scale, and it is clear which side Li Lin will lean towards.

The church doesn't even know about it.

"Human beings are not Li Lin, they can think rationally and calmly at any time. Especially the guy who is cornered will become extremely extreme and short-sighted. As long as the probability is not zero...... It doesn't matter if it's zero, as long as you feel that you have a chance to turn around, you will gamble. This is the same reason that a person who is about to drown does not spare even a straw. ”

"Then they know ......"

"No, they shouldn't be clear yet. Since the 'Night of the Long Knife', Roland has basically not appeared in public, and the Holy Maiden has also been active on campus in the name of 'Assisting Her Royal Highness'. Even if the interpersonal relationship between the two overlaps, it can be explained by the fact that the princess is surrounded by these people. The most important thing is that the fact that 'Roland is the Holy Maiden' has not been told to Diana, and it is unlikely that the church will have the truth. I suspect that the abduction of the Holy Maiden was a unilateral request by the Crown Prince, and that assistance in the abduction of the Holy Maiden was made as a sign of the Church's sincerity in forming an alliance with it. The church may have other plans, which may be used as a prop to blackmail the princess, or it may be to take advantage of the popularity of the holy maiden. Now the legend of the Holy Maiden has spread among the people, and this influence is ...... Who's ?!!"

With a loud shout, Valrhona raised her hand and released a bolt of lightning that pierced through the wall illuminating the two figures who broke through the wall.

"Since you asked sincerely!"

The black shadow on the right fell steadily on the coffee table, and a clear female voice sounded.

"I'll tell you with great mercy!"

The little man in black with a red rose in his mouth did a nice somersault, and the officer's leather shoes stepped on the desk.

"To prevent the world from being destroyed. ”

"To protect the peace of the world. ”

"Carry out true justice and love. ”

"Charming and dashing messenger. ”

"Victoria. ”

"Nied Hogg. ”

"We are the Archon's personal guard—"

Before they could finish their lines, the POSE was lit up, and the conference room was fried.

"Copy guy!!"

"Sound the alarm! Signal flares! Organize evacuation and evacuation, women and children first!"

"The pets at home are all bolted, and the children are held steady!!"

"Emergency alarm, emergency alarm! There are perverts in the academy, every household locks their doors and windows, and takes good care of their children! Pay attention to fire prevention, anti-theft, and anti-black dragon! This is not a drill! Repeat, this is not a drill!"

“......”

In the face of the group of girls who were like a great enemy, Nidhogg immediately thanked the rose in his mouth. (To be continued.) )