Above The Sky (Yin Tianshen Yin) Chapter 400: Dragon Cult (1/3)

The trees in the mountains trembled in the refreshing wind after the summer rain, and the branches and leaves swayed noisily.

Sunshine lay on the flagstone avenue. Ian led the camel and carried his own luggage, and bid farewell to Sister Yingguang at the gate of Boyin Workshop.

Steward Moda is accepting an 'inquiry' at the Huaiguang Church... Of course, this is also a form of protection. All in all, it's time for this tired old man to go to sleep.

Although after waking up from the dream, the world is still this world.

But at the very least, he should rest at this time.

"Thank you for your assistance." Sister Reflecting Light bowed her head seriously to Ian: "If it wasn't for your help, maybe it would take me a long time to find out the truth about the disappearance case that happened around Laian Territory. "

"Actually, you have already found the thread of the truth, and it has nothing to do with me." Ian raised his eyebrows, put on his helmet, and replied seriously: "I just did it by hand."

To be honest, compared to Sister Yingguang's gratitude to her co-worker, he also thanked her for her cooperation in showing the corroded sample of Xiahui Grass from the 'Flying Flame Land'.

In this way, the water is muddied.

Regardless of the truth, all subsequent investigators had to face a problem.

——Is Baron Laian colluding with Feiyan, or is the "Ghost School" behind him colluding with Feiyan?

The latter cannot be confirmed, and the former is a bit perfunctory... But because the timing is too coincidental, and Fei Yandi has really engaged in biological warfare recently, it cannot be said that there is no such thing.

In any case, no matter which side it is, the investigation will go astray.

What's more, no matter which side has its own reasons, they don't really want to investigate the truth.

Especially the Academy of Gnosis—only they knew that the deputy section chief could not have died with Baron Ryan, but they were really the masterminds behind this incident, so they never dared to come forward to defend themselves.

"Wishing to go along with it is the biggest help. Always."

Dragon Girl smiled slightly, and then sighed softly: "It's just a pity, we can only finish after the event, the tragedy has already happened, and the dead cannot be recovered."

"Can Huaiguang Church really do nothing?"

Ian had already turned around and got on the camel beast at this moment. The camel beast shook its head meekly, allowing the young man to stroke its furry head.

Passing the camel beast's head, he said softly: "I also know an old man from the Huaiguang Church... I have asked him many things, but I have never asked this question."

"Because I know that they have done a lot...even beyond the responsibilities they should bear, and they are worthy of anyone in this world."

"Just now, I still can't help but want to ask..."

Ian raised his head and stared at the nun in front of him: "Is Huaiguang really not going to do it?"

Ian has something in his words, and he also knows that what he is asking is not human.

Although Sister Yingguang's strength is good, she is obviously not a high-ranking Huaiguang, nor is she a real clergyman. She can't answer her own question.

However, she was feeling emotional. Feeling that the Huaiguang Church can only end things afterwards, Ian is curious... curious about how the Huaiguang Church views the consistent course of action of his organization.

So, just ask.

Facing this question, Yingguang's smile restrained.

She frowned slightly, and even the light of the dragon horn above her head gradually dimmed.

Dragon Girl said slowly: "...I don't know."

She was a little unwilling and at a loss: "I also asked my teacher this question, but she said that I am not a real priest, so I don't understand."

"Knight, although it sounds weird, a few years ago, I was just a shepherdess in the village of the people with spirits around Huaiguang Holy Mountain in the north... I also grew some potatoes and carrots."

Speaking of this, Longnu looked at her hands with nostalgia - there were many calluses on them: "Although it was hard work, it was indeed a peaceful life. There were no wars, no cults, no monsters, There is no oppression from the lord, we are self-reliant."

"I didn't think so at the time, but after being away from home and traveling for so many years, I finally understood why the old people in the village said that our life was like a paradise."

Looking up, Sister Reflecting Light and Ian looked at each other: "The clerics of Huaiguang are all good people."

"They don't collect taxes, don't care about things, and don't set rules. They just pay the surrounding monsters regularly as rewards, trade some food with us, and mediate conflicts between a few villages due to water sources at most-but it's not a brute force stop. Instead, open up another water source, so that the village will naturally stop disputes."

"One day, when I took my family's potatoes to trade, the cleric who led the team said that my blood has natural potential, but if I don't practice it and let it burn wantonly, it will hurt others and myself, so Ask me if I would like to become a sublimator—the light of Huaiguang, this is the glory of the whole village and my luck, how can I refuse to become a monk of Huaiguang?"

"So I had a teacher, she took me and other disciples to travel around, and finally arranged for me a position in Nauman City, asking me to practice and study in this well-connected place."

Speaking of this, Ying Guang's tone became firm instead.

She raised her head and said seriously: "Please forgive me, knight, I said a lot of tedious things... But what I want to tell you is that Huaiguang doesn't care about everything."

"In addition to taking the initiative to quell those huge disasters, we will also deal with the problems caused by 'inhumans'."

"For example, monsters, aliens, or the 'spirits' of cults offering sacrifices to spirits... just like this time, the local church believed that the disappearance was caused by a cult in Nanling, and some believers asked for prayers , so I was dispatched."

"It's just, like Baron Ryan's murder of his subjects, this kind of 'human' thing... Huaiguang's handling method is probably the same as dealing with the water source problem in my hometown, trying to open up another water source , let disputes and oppression stop naturally."

"This is what I understand as 'Huangguang', just as the sun can make people take off their thick armor and clothes, and stop being on guard against each other; but the cold wind can't. People are becoming more and more vigilant."

"Just..."

Speaking of this, Sister Reflecting Light sighed deeply: "The things among human beings are not so simple as the source of water, the sun and the cold wind can't do anything... Most of the time, we can't do anything either."

"I'm sorry, I may not be able to express my thoughts clearly, but this is roughly the case. I don't think Huaiguang's handling method is wrong, but it may...not be the best."

"No."

And Ian, who listened quietly, spoke, and he categorically denied Sister Reflecting Light's statement: "It's very good, it's very important——I've roughly understood it."

The young man's eyes were lowered, and he had some understanding, thinking: "Anarchists? Or the most extreme kind of 'pastoral order' among collective anarchists? Deny authority and entrust everything to Man himself, everything else is left to itself?"

"Where did this group of lunatics come from..." Ian felt helpless in his heart: "In a world where there are sublimators, they still do this? No, no, no, I made a mistake, it is because there are sublimators I would think about doing this, because everyone's productivity is extremely high...but isn't Huaiguang itself a kind of authority?"

Although it is somewhat one-sided, according to Yingguang, there are no towns around Huaiguang Sacred Mountain in the north, only villages gathered together according to ethnicity.

The villages cultivated naturally, took care of their own water sources, and traded their necessities with each other. There was no emperor, no king, no governor, and all "rulers"—they didn't even have a nominal village head.

Whether this kind of flat society is the society Huaiguang wants to build, or whether they are unwilling to manage too much, so they can see their tendency if they let nature go.

——Huaiguang is unwilling to intervene in the problems of human society, but keeps himself out of human society and maintains an "independent" perspective.

What is anarchy, what is not interfering, what is only responding to disasters, not intervening in society.

It's all minutiae.

In Ian's view, this independent perspective may be the real key.

——A request from the Book of Prophecy? Or is it a special condition for psychic power?

As a prophet, Ian feels that he can probably understand...

Perhaps, Huaiguang Church's "Book of Prophecy" that can predict all disasters... is an inducement.

Because it is independent from human beings, it can see all the future of human beings.

"Thank you very much."

Recording the thoughts in his mind into the silver chip, the boy smiled, and his voice came through the helmet: "Then I hope we will see each other again."

"So is."

Sister Reflecting Light nodded, and she suddenly remembered something: "By the way, knight, if your next destination is Nauman City, please try to slow down your journey."

"Nauman City is now under martial law. According to my senior brother and the executor of the Bright Sword, there is a lot of trouble in the city. Archbishop Tianyan has been shutting down. Flameland, but it may also be because of Canaan Moore, maybe it is still the Dragon Worship Cult, the current theory is extremely confusing, and the capital of Nanling has become a mess."

Speaking of which, she couldn't help sighing: "Anyway, it's best not to go there so early."

"Brother? Flame Land? Are there other things?"

Ian was ready to go, but stopped after hearing this sentence.

He wondered: "With all due respect, I was a little unclear just now-isn't the executor of the redemption, uh, a lady?"

Yingguang explained euphemistically: "But she likes to be called senior brother...maybe it's...well, her personal hobby?"

"So that's it." Ian said with emotion: "Everyone has his own ambition... Thank you, Sister Yingguang."

"Just a word of advice."

So saying, Ian drove the camel beast away, while Sister Reflecting Light watched the camel beast go away.

Afterwards, she turned around and prepared to return to the church for the next handover with members of the Imperial Academy of Truth and the noble court.

After Ian left for a certain distance, the expression shrouded under the helmet gradually became serious.

"Dragon Worship Cult..." He muttered to himself: "Linda's prophecy..."

"The prophecy that changed because of me?"