Chapter 77 We have a traitor among us
Church of Nature, Windsor Division, London Headquarters.
The headquarters is located in Lundam Central District, Lundam, the political and cultural center and the most economically prosperous city of Lundam.
From the outside, this is a public library that is free and open to the public. It preserves documents and provides citizens with inquiry, borrowing and other related services.
The architectural style is classical and the facilities are slightly outdated. It is not a first-class library in Lundam.
However, there is a universe within. The office building where members of the church headquarters enter and exit has three portals, which are the six-pointed star, the cross star, and the three-pointed star in order.
Through the cross in the middle, you can reach the Cathedral, the headquarters of the Church of Nature.
The cathedral is located in a vast valley. The design inspiration focuses on integrating with nature. The overall structure of the church is mainly based on nature and incorporates part of human architectural aesthetics.
The towering spire is like a towering mountain, and the green lawn surrounding the church is like a stretch of mountains. The walls are carved with a large number of plant shapes, lifelike, protected by the goddess of nature, and filled with surging green vitality.
The interior of the church is still designed to incorporate natural elements. Towering giant trees serve as pillars, supporting the layers of the building. Gorgeous umbrellas block the sky. Light shines through the colorful glass into the interior of the cathedral, creating a gorgeous and mysterious light and shadow effect.
In other areas, elegant-looking plants can be seen everywhere. They are full of vitality and have their own uses, serving the natural disciples in the church.
There is a difference between believers and disciples. Believers on the street are not allowed to enter the cathedral. Only on special days, they can come to the lawn surrounding the cathedral to pray and worship under the guidance of disciples.
Disciples are purified believers. In addition to being more firm in their beliefs, they also claim the identity of a magician and have a certain degree of contribution to the natural church.
But not all disciples can enter the cathedral. The Lundam headquarters is an administrative organization and the center of the Natural Church in the Kingdom of Windsor. The nerves spread from the center regulate and control the entire Windsor division.
Under normal circumstances, only the administrative staff of the Lundan headquarters can enter and leave the cathedral freely. The other disciples are not allowed to enter without permission.
Some time ago, Heaphy was under pressure and asked for help from the headquarters of the Church of Nature. The two knights of Death and Darkness were active in Lundam. In order to protect the interests of the Windsor Division, they requested that the higher-ups send permanent reinforcements based in Lundam.
After delaying for a few days, the church sent out a support force. The number was not large, less than ten people in total, but each of them was an elite among the elite.
Especially the leader of this trip, Flora Evelina, the last saint of the Church of Nature, the priest of the headquarters, and the extremely famous Golden Mage.
Flora was from Frank, and she and Heaphy had a working relationship. The two cherished each other and spoke highly of each other. The headquarters hoped that the two would work together to restore the Windsor Division as soon as possible.
conference room.
The light penetrated the floor-to-ceiling windows and illuminated the long conference table.
Xifei raised her hand to her chest, bent down slightly, and welcomed her old friend with a smile: "My Lady Saint, after so many years of separation, your beauty has not diminished at all. I'm really enviable."
Flora was dressed in a light green dress and looked elegant. She bent down and said in return: "High Priest, I have been ordered by the headquarters to come to Lundan to assist you. If you continue to be so polite, I don't know what to do."
"That's right, you are a saint after all."
"I resigned as a saint last year. Now I am just a priest in my headquarters. I plant flowers, water the flowers, and do some pension work. In your position, you are the high priest, and I am now your subordinate."
The two women, one heroic and heroic, the other gentle and decent, have perfectly complementary personalities. They can be called golden partners, which shows that the Nature Church headquarters has a good eye for selecting people.
Xifei took Flora's hand and guided her to sit down intimately, with the smile on her face unchanged: "You and I have worked together in Paris and have been friends for many years. Even if you are no longer a saint, you are still my best friend. I don’t treat you as a subordinate…”
Flora also smiled when she heard this. The two recalled the past and talked a lot about the deep sisterly love back then.
About twenty years ago, Xifei and Flora met for the first time. At that time, the two were in a competitive relationship. The former was from Lundan and the latter was from Paris, competing for the title of Saintess every twenty years.
In fact, there are saint sons, and the goddess of nature does not choose. The gender is not so strict. If a woman is chosen, she will be a saint, and if a man is chosen, he will be a saint.
But after all, she is the goddess of nature, with a female character, and the image promoted by the church is that of an elegant and noble hazy goddess, a holy son or something. When the goddess descends into the will, there is no guarantee that there will be some discomfort.
Therefore, the Church of Nature has not seen a holy son for so many years. From ancient times to the present, she has always been the saint of Qing Yishui'er.
The competition in that session was very fierce. The main competition was between Xifei and Flora. They were both God's favorites. Their starting point was the finishing point of others. It was their competition, and the others were responsible for running with them to watch the fun.
Among them, Xifei was favored by the church's senior leaders because of the dragon's blood blessing. Unsurprisingly, she was the perfect saint for this generation.
As expected, an accident appeared. The accident was a pretty boy with oily hair and pink face, named Auston Landau. He licked her wildly and captured the beauty's heart. He took Xifei home and got married.
Flora escorted the saint, Xifei found love, and they both have a bright future.
Love makes people blind. Xifei voluntarily abstained from voting for the Holy Maiden election, which offended many senior officials who were optimistic about her. This also led to her subsequent being sent to the Scalpel Institution, where she has been on the front line of the battle all year round, doing dirty work.
What's worse is that the love is not so perfect, it is as lifeless as a cemetery.
After marriage, Xifei discovered that her husband was a nonbeliever and was not interested in her natural beliefs. He also strictly restricted her food, clothing, housing and transportation, requiring her to become an elegant lady instead of just immersing herself in work every day.
Why didn't you tell me before you got married that you were mute when it came time to fall in love?
Who are you smiling at? Did you tell me earlier? Did you tell me that I would marry you?
The two quarreled a lot about this, and Xifei began to engage in domestic violence during the quarrels. It was not until the birth of their love that the relationship eased a lot.
Xifei thought this was a good sign that the dead man had finally changed his mind, but she didn't know that this was the beginning of her husband getting worse. After having a daughter, her husband increased the degree of restraint on her and even asked her to resign from her church position. In the end, the two broke up on bad terms and began a long separation and confrontation.
Heaphy's husband, Auston Landau, had a powerful position in London and found the Windsor royal family to put pressure on the Windsor branch of the Natural Church. At that time, Heaphy had given up her status as a saint and her status in the church was equivalent to that of a transparent person. The Windsor branch The ministry was willing to help Alston in exchange for political and economic support.
This is called a win-win situation!
Little Transparent was furious and went straight to Paris, starting from the grassroots level.
The friendship between Xifei and Flora happened during this period. From rivals to fraternal sisters, Orange enjoyed great success and made others envious.
Later, Flora was transferred back to the headquarters of the Church of Nature and served the goddess as a saint. As the spokesperson of the goddess of nature, her status was extremely high.
Xifei couldn't do it, so she could only rely on herself, step by step, to become the leader of the scalpel organization, and to break out of the status of the district priest.
Twenty years later, the top management no longer hid this outstanding disciple of nature. Heifei won the position of high priest of the Windsor Division based on his ability, and returned to his hometown in London with honor.
The two chatted a lot, lamenting the past and present, and two hours passed before they knew it.
"Flora, you have traveled a long way and are tired. I have asked someone to arrange a place for you. We will not talk about business today. You have a good rest."
"Thank you, High Priest..."
"Just call me Xifei. As I said, I don't treat you as a subordinate."
"Okay Heephy, see you tomorrow."
The two hugged, and Flora left the conference room with a smile on her face, followed by Xifei who was still smiling.
The moment the office door closed, Xifei's face turned cold. She wiped her hands in disgust and muttered in a low voice: "Bah, that's disgusting. Why is it her? This little bitch is not a good person. She is full of conspiracies." , I don’t believe she will help me obediently.”
Xifei returned to the office and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window overlooking the mountains and grasslands. Flora was very powerful. As a former saint, she listened to the teachings of the goddess of nature. She was definitely a strong supporter.
With her assistance, Xifei is optimistic about repelling the Dark Knight. As long as the two knights of darkness and death are not dispatched at the same time, the chance of winning is at least 50%. But Flora is ambitious and extremely competitive. Either she is inappropriate or she must be the boss. She will never be subordinate to others and become a district priest.
The divisional priests seemed to be on the same level as the headquarters priests, but in fact their status was very different. Flora traveled thousands of miles to come to Lundan, and she was definitely not here to provide for her retirement.
"She wants to be the high priest..."
Xifei muttered to herself that Flora had basically reached the end of her climb at the church headquarters. If she wanted to go up further, she would have to wait for qualifications and time. This was not in line with the other party's psychological expectations. A person who was unwilling to be mediocre would not be willing to be lonely, so she took the initiative to propose Accumulate political capital through external investment.
It just so happened that she and Flora, the plastic sisters, had just succeeded the high priest not long ago, and their position was not stable.
After sorting out the general cause and effect, Xifei closed her eyes in silence. Flora brought her close subordinates, all of whom have been trained for many years. Her loyal subordinates are all in Paris. Without capable officers, they will only be defeated by the other party. Divide power little by little.
"Okay, let me give you some of the power, and you will be fully responsible for the two knights from now on."
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"So big!"
West End of London, Manor Street.
Wayne looked at the mansion in front of him, which was almost the same size as the villa in Enlord Town, and lamented that the teacher was rich and yet worked overtime every night for being so rich. Is this a successful person?
Thinking again, the teacher was not only rich, but also a powerful magician. Wayne was so envious that his fists became hard.
What, my teacher, that’s okay.
Xifei made a phone call and transferred all the servants in the manor house, including the housekeeper, who were all on paid leave in the near future.
The big house was empty and unusually quiet, which satisfied Wayne's request that no one should be disturbed. He walked around the house to familiarize himself with the environment so that he could move in easily in case of emergency.
In the basement, Wayne discovered an authentic tunnel with a standard air-raid shelter design that stored a large number of essential supplies.
The structure and storage are very similar to the underground tunnels of the Landau family in Enlord Town. Wayne turned on the wall lamp and secretly said that the rich people were more precious than the others. If the predictions are correct, the tunnels must be connected to the city's sewers.
The rich man did not disappoint him. He opened the gate in less than two minutes and successfully entered the underground transportation network extending in all directions.
"Fellow, what a coincidence, you are here too!"
Wayne was overjoyed, opened his hands, and raised his dense tentacles to embrace the fellow villagers.
Who said it well? We are strangers in a foreign land. Meeting each other means knowing each other. When fellow villagers meet fellow villagers, they should take care of each other and understand each other.
His life essence has not been filled yet, so he can only trouble the fellow villagers to take care of and understand him.
The fire element was very excited, showed its loyalty, and was willing to take care and understand. It held the other three elements in place and waited for the tentacles to be served.
The fire element represents desire, and Wayne suspects that he has been forgetful recently because he took in too much fire element. Although the fire element in his body is extremely calm and has never had any record of committing crimes, the truth in the book does not lie. The fire element must bear the blame.
"If it weren't for you beating gongs and drums everywhere, I would be so ignorant and so mature that I would be so complacent."
Wayne found the culprit and immediately criticized the fire element. The fire element shouted that it was wronged. In order to win back Wayne's favor, he increased his efforts to hold down the three elements of earth, water and wind.
Three Elements: We have a traitor in our midst!
Wayne took a deep breath and felt that the basements of rich people were different. They even had more reserves of the four elements than other places.
Put it in the sewer, he had already eaten it up and went to harm the next villager. Now he has only sucked 90% of it, and there is still a steady stream of four elements to fill the gap.
"Hey, fill the gap?"
Wayne was surprised to find that the air-raid shelter in the big house had a strange force field that automatically gathered the four elements. It might not be able to keep up with his crazy plundering speed, but the automatic filling situation was completely different from that in the sewer.
After the four elements in the sewer are plundered, it will take several nights to fill them up, which is quite a bit of a waste.
Unlike the big houses, here we can catch fish sustainably.
Because it was a teacher's residence, Wayne guessed that a magic circle had been cast here, and he called on the four elements traveling from north to south to come in and take a look.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier? Why didn't you risk stepping on shit and wandering around in the sewers?"
Wayne complained that this teacher was good at everything but liked to tease students.
Academics are the most important thing. Is this a place where I can just play tricks?
I forgive you once, but I won’t do it next time!
Wayne's meditation has reached 24/7, and he has learned to meditate on his own. Even if he is sleeping, he will instinctively plunder the four elements around him.
With such a holy place for cultivation, Wayne decisively decided not to leave. He moved the pillows and sheets from the guest bedroom and lay on the bench to catch up on his sleep. The invisible tentacles moved on their own, removing the four elements that accidentally entered this place. Locked in a small dark room.
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That night, Wayne, whose routine was completely reversed, received a call from Heaphy. He was very satisfied with his new residence and promised not to leave the house and not cause any trouble to Heaphy.
This was the best news Xifei heard today. She praised the student a few times before hanging up the phone.
Wayne had nothing to do, so he released the owl and the white pigeon to feed. The two messenger birds got along well with each other. Maybe it was because they were different breeds and were not competitive, or maybe the snowy owl was too big, so the white pigeon weighed it and didn't dare to be rough.
In short, even if there was no fight and the rat strips were sufficient, Ashue did not regard the white pigeon as prey.
"I'm warning you, kid, if you dare to eat it, I will kill you and make you into a big plate of chicken."
Wayne put down his harsh words and picked out a few literary classics in the study, preparing to take them to the air raid shelter to pass the time.
The white pigeon bird relied on the strength of the people and got the support of Wayne. Gugugu jumped around in front of Axue. After Axue waited for Wayne to leave, he pinned the white pigeon to the ground with one paw, lowered his head and bit off a few handfuls of white hair.
The white pigeon was so frightened that it cooed and became motionless, as if it were dead.
Not bad, at least in front of Wayne, they get along fairly well.
On the other side, several figures took advantage of the darkness and came to the front of the big house.
"That's it..."
"This kid is alert and knows that we are targeting him."
"So what if I know? He's just a magician's apprentice. How can he resist?"
"That's right. The world of magicians is very cruel. Let's teach him tonight what magic is!"
"Hahaha---"
(End of chapter)