Deep Sea Embers Chapter 95: Infiltration

Another small group of sun heretics who had infiltrated by smugglers from Cold Harbor were pulled out and held in a church near the port area.

Fanna returned from the prison area under the church and came to the lounge of the upper church, where the regional bishop in charge of the church was already waiting in the room.

"Inquisitor Vanna," the slightly emaciated regional bishop saluted the young Inquisitor, "May the waves protect your soul."

"May the waves protect your soul," Fanna returned the salute to the bishop, and then walked towards the seat with some tired steps, "Just in the port area, this is already the second batch of suns thrown into prison. Is it heretical?"

"Yes, we caught more than a dozen people three days ago - they were caught and stopped in time while trying to kill a citizen, and now this is the second batch of them performing dark rituals in an apartment building. At that time, a meter reader was alerted." The regional bishop nodded, with a little worry in his eyes, "Unconsciously, so many cultists have infiltrated... Fortunately, we found out early, otherwise their dark rituals I don't know how many people will be killed."

"Prand is the transportation hub of the boundless sea, and everything has been calm in the past four years, which has paralyzed the nerves of many people," Fanna nodded, "but... It is still uncertain what we have discovered. Sooner or later, it is highly likely that those heretics who arrived early have been operating in the dark for some time and have only recently been exposed."

The regional bishop glanced at the judge's expression, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "I heard that other regions have also arrested a lot of people?"

"Yes, there are in almost every urban area," Fanna did not hide, "now almost every church's underground prisons are detaining sun heretics who have been caught, ranging from a few to dozens... ...but most of them are the minions of the lowest level, and they operate in the city-state in order to inquire about information. They have not received much training, so they are easily exposed... The real priests of the upper ranks have not been discovered so far."

Fana's tone involuntarily became serious when she spoke at the end, with a faint worry on her face.

Since the actions of these heretics to search for "sun fragments" were exposed, the Prand authorities and the church responded quickly, launched a large search through the city's hidden channels, and actively mobilized citizens to report and investigate. The results of a series of actions can be said to be rich—

In a very short period of time, a large number of cultists who did not have time to respond were indeed exposed and arrested. These dirty and **** believers are now almost filling the underground prisons of every church, and the number has almost reached the number found in the city-state in the past four years. The sum of the number of cultists.

However, so far, all the people who have been arrested are just scoundrels who move around randomly. At most, there are some low-level priests holding "mass-produced sacred objects" who have just received blessings. Those real high-level powers are still hidden to this day. behind the scenes.

This made Vanna a little restless.

"Daily results, but never getting hold of their 'backbone' gives me the feeling that things are still getting worse out of sight," she said to the district bishop in front of her, "with such a large number of cultists In the city-state activities, it is impossible not to have a high-level commander behind them to make overall arrangements, but this 'commander' has not yet appeared."

The regional bishop pondered for a while, and then spoke slowly: "According to the current interrogation results, these minions only obey the orders of the 'messenger', and the so-called 'messengers' are a group of low-level priests who listen directly through imitation sun masks. The voice from the heirs...you say, is there a heir of the sun already lurking in the city-state?"

"The Sons of the Sun are lurking in the human city-state? Seriously...it's not logically possible," Fanna frowned slightly. "Although they have great power, they also have obvious 'existence traces', filthy and stench. The breath can't be hidden at all... The city-state is full of churches and patrolling guardsmen, and theoretically there should be no 'blind spots'."

"So it's just a guess," the regional bishop shook his head, "I also know that it is difficult for the Sun descendants to hide in a civilized society, but those low-level 'Messengers' do carry sun masks with them, even if they are not directly controlled by the descendants. , and must have maintained contact with the Son of the Sun to a certain extent... After all, mass-produced sacred objects are also sacred objects, and those cultists also have to consider the cost of action, and they will not make meaningless arrangements."

Fana put her finger on her chin, and suddenly said while thinking: "I read yesterday's interrogation record, those heretics are mainly inquiring about the extraordinary events that happened in the city-state eleven years ago... They think it is related to Sun fragments?"

"It looks like this now," the regional bishop nodded. "Although they don't know their intelligence source, they seem to believe that sun debris caused the 'chemical factory riot' in Prand eleven years ago. ...I remember that you were also..."

The regional bishop said, and suddenly stopped. He looked at the eye-catching scar on Fanna's left eye, and lowered his head slightly: "I'm sorry, I made a blunder."

Fanna subconsciously raised her hand and brushed the scar on her face, but soon she smiled lightly and shook her head: "It doesn't matter, it's just a scar, you're right, I was also a witness to the riot, There's nothing that can't be said."

"There were also those cultists in that riot. As many as 100 of the saboteurs arrested after the incident were sun heretics," said the regional bishop Shen Sheng, "but now the sun heretics that have infiltrated the city-state are not Don't you think it's strange to ask about the truth of the events eleven years ago... as if they really didn't know what happened here eleven years ago?"

"...Either, it was the sun heresy from the city-state of Perand that acted without authorization 11 years ago, so the cultists in other city-states didn't know the truth here, or... 11 years ago, the sun fragments appeared in Perland. It was just an accident, or it was the handwriting of a third-party force, and those heretics who participated in the riots were just used as gunmen," Fanna said lightly, "According to the interrogation records of that year, the 'saboteurs' who were captured at that time were They are indeed in a state of unconsciousness, and their madness is not out of control, but more like being influenced by powerful forces."

"...Chasing twisted and strange things, being dominated by strange powers and going mad, becoming the fuel of the chaotic fire in the confusion, and finally being abandoned in the ashes..." The regional bishop sighed, "It is extremely sad. life.”

Fanna didn't speak for a while, she just stood up silently and came to the window of the lounge.

Through the window here, she can see the situation in the port area from a distance - the total blockade of the entire port has ended, and many docks and trestle bridges have been reopened, but Pier 1 still maintains the highest level of blockade , the beautiful and new steamship "White Oak" is still quietly moored at the end of the pier, undergoing constant monitoring and a daily purification ceremony as planned ~IndoMTL.com~ The crew of the White Oak Has been transferred to the Central Cathedral - as the subject of close contact with the Lost Country, they are now under the highest level of surveillance.

The heretics who follow the Black Sun are imprisoned in the basement of the church, a "lost homing ship" is moored in the port, and a group of sailors who have met Captain Duncan at close range live in the Central Cathedral. Inside...it makes one's head dizzy just thinking about it.

The setting sun was gradually sinking, but before the turn of day and night, the regional bishop lit up several oil lamps in the room in advance, and the shaking flames were reflected on the glass windows.

Fanna withdrew her gaze towards the port area: "I heard that the out-of-control notification document about anomaly 099 has been sent to the port area?"

"Yes, it was just delivered this afternoon, do you want to take a look at it?" The district bishop said, and took out the folded documents from his pocket, "For some reason, it was a little later than expected. "

"Show me," Fanna reached out and took the document, looking directly at the afterglow of the sunset beside the window, while explaining casually, "It's normal to be later -- after all, the out-of-control situation of Anomaly 099 is very special. , it broke free from the seal in frontal contact with the ghost ship, and the bishops of the various city-states must carefully weigh the wording and information directions in the announcement document, in case the document that is about to be distributed to all the shipping routes produces too many 'Directional connection'...otherwise what was supposed to help captains avoid risk could instead link them to Homeless."

In the dim light of the setting sun, the oil lamp closest to Fanna in the lounge suddenly jumped, and along with the word "Lost Homeland" she casually uttered, the flame in the oil lamp emitted Subtle crackling.