"You haven't been in the mood to deal with the affairs of the city recently, and you have no idea what has happened in the past few days."
"you……"
Cobb's mouth widened, an indescribable chill ran up his spine, and the cold sweat stopped at this moment.
That pretty, fair face looked as scary as a devil in his eyes.
A madman, absolutely a madman, a madman even crazier than a madman.
"You... a heretic who betrayed your teacher and ancestors! You don't understand anything at all! You will definitely regret what you did today!"
Cobb pointed directly at Lancy's nose and started to curse:
"You ungrateful thing! Do you know how much effort your ancestors of the Iris family put in to obtain this honor?
"Do you know that if you weren't a noble, you would be an illiterate whore who would rot in a brothel sooner or later?
"Without the nobles, these people will not be able to accomplish anything! They will only become a group of ignorant, self-destructive lunatics! Without the nobles, even the Grace Church will not be able to control a country with such a large territory!
"As a young lady who has lived in an environment of privilege by the nobility since childhood, what qualifications do you have to question all this?! This is simply treasonous..."
I don't know whether he was truly filled with righteous indignation and fury, or was simply using roaring and anger to cover up his own fear and guilt.
Cobb's expression at this moment was like an angry tiger, roaring desperately, and all kinds of convincing words came out like a machine gun.
If the sound in this room had not been blocked by the power of the "Scroll of Silence", his roar would probably have been heard throughout the castle.
Faced with the barrage of accusations and insults, Lunxi said nothing and remained silent with a faint smile.
It was not until Cobb stopped talking due to exhaustion and breathed heavily, stroking his chest, that she blinked, took a few steps back, and walked in a certain direction.
When Cobb saw her walking away, he thought she was convinced by his righteous criticism. Before he could rejoice, he saw her calmly say:
"I understand, Viscount Double-Headed Axe. I completely understand your advice. This matter is easy to handle."
Walking all the way to the desk in the corner of the bedroom, she looked down at a spot.
Cobb noticed that she was looking at the wastebasket at the foot of the table.
Under his doubtful and uneasy gaze, Lunxi looked straight at the lord who ruled over more than 20,000 people, and made a "please" gesture to the empty wastebasket on the ground:
"The garbage dump of history, please!"
Chapter 425: Cognitive Overwhelm
"Great 'True Creator', I have left the ruins safely."
After connecting to Hill's senses, Qi Ji immediately heard her prayer, followed by a concise report:
"After I used the 'Shadow in the Moonlight' you gave me to escape from the giant cave, I quickly found Lady Otilia's team and reunited with them. Not long after, we ended the expedition and evacuated, and returned to the camp this afternoon.
"I have just finished dealing with some basic follow-up matters, and I took the time to report to you before going to bed."
There is no concept of "morning", "afternoon" or "noon" in the Last Kingdom, but after all, there is the alternation of day and night, so the day is still roughly divided.
Qiji's "language commonality" function made some localized conversions while translating Hill's language.
"How did you explain it to them?"
Qi Ji asked while lying on the windowsill, enjoying the night sea breeze.
"I told Lady Otilia that there is some special spiritual power under the abyss. I didn't die after falling down, but was bounced out... As for the spiritual items I brought up, they were thrown out of the cave together."
...Isn't this too perfunctory?
Such a far-fetched and ridiculous explanation made Qi Ji's face freeze.
You don't even need to think about such statements. You can feel that something is wrong and unreasonable just by relying on your intuition.
How could the expedition team, which is full of talented people and the officials of the Last Kingdom, believe such a ridiculous explanation?
"Didn't they suspect you?" Qi Ji asked back.
After such a long period of self-improvement, her magic skills have long since advanced to a level far beyond that of all other extraordinary beings in the mortal world.
Now that she wanted to communicate with Hill, she no longer needed to take out the Reed Mormon Mirror from the storage subspace and hold it in her hand as an intermediary.
With just a slight thought, all the steps of opening the channel, isolating pollution, and connecting the senses can be completed instantly.
She even began to reverse-analyze the structure and principle of this strange mirror. She believed that it would not be long before this item leading to the sealed space of the out-of-control angel "Moon" in the gray forest... would be completely revealed.
But before that, she might have crossed the "Mountains of End" in the eastern border of the Star Confederation and arrived at that distorted land in person.
"Suspect?"
Hearing the other party's question, Hill was slightly stunned, looking a little confused:
"What do you suspect?"
You are an "ordinary person" who doesn't have any supernatural powers in the official world. You fell into a mysterious abyss of unknown depth alone, but not only did you come back intact, you also carried a lot of messy equipment. It's hard to imagine, right? !
If the "Holy See of Redemption" had no suspicion at all, then Qi Ji would extremely doubt how this group of people could survive in such a dangerous and difficult situation for more than two hundred years.
Qi Ji was immediately speechless about the girl's thoughts, and resisted the urge to complain and explained:
"For example, when the follow-up troops arrive at the ruins and send people deep into the big hole, they will soon find that there is no such thing as a 'spiritual force that can eject people'. Wouldn't that expose you?"
"Isn't it normal for the actual situation to change over time? The investigators' findings are different from what I said. Isn't that strange?"
"you……"
Such a naive idea made Qi Ji's mouth twitch. Just when he was about to scold her, he was suddenly stunned.
"Wait a minute, I can't use the 'ordinary' way of thinking to speculate on the way the people of the 'Last Country' think..."
She suddenly realized something, a blind spot that she had not considered before.
That is, why would she think that people who have been struggling to survive in a hell with harsh environment, lurking dangers, scarce resources, and murderous monsters everywhere all year round would be like the people in the human world... fearful and wary of "their own people"?
In the last kingdom, in the gray forest, they are the only ones who possess wisdom, civilization and intelligence. Apart from them, there are only monsters and evil spirits without any intelligence or personality, and the desolate, poisonous and inedible gray trees.
Is there any benefit in living in such an environment for a long time, full of intrigue and mutual suspicion?
Due to Qi Ji's habitual thinking, she subconsciously believed that Hill's so-called "explanation" was full of loopholes and not reliable at all. If the officials of the Last Country did not think there was a problem after hearing it, it could only mean that these people had problems with their brains.
However, even if Hill's words are inconsistent with reality, why would the Last Kingdom need to target her and exclude her? Why would they think that this person is disloyal to the Last Kingdom?
In the human world, "actual environment" is more reliable than "people".
Because "people" will lie, be evasive, evasive, and deliberately mislead for their own personal interests, when the "actual environment" is inconsistent with "what people say", people will first suspect that the "person" is hiding something.
But in the Last Kingdom, the situation is completely the opposite: "People" are always more trustworthy than "environment"!
Even if investigators go deep into the bottom of the pit in the future and find that the actual situation is completely different from Hill's description, they will think that the environment has changed during this period, or that Hill remembered it wrong or saw it wrong, rather than lying.
Therefore, Hill's explanation, which was full of errors and omissions, was not wrong at all in the context of the Last Kingdom!
——They don’t have extra energy to waste on infighting.
At this moment, Qi Ji realized... in a sense, the residents of the Last Kingdom all had simple minds.
"Damn... No wonder Hill always seems like a little brat without any scheming, so this is the norm over there?!"
Qi Ji was shocked, and a subtle feeling suddenly arose in his heart:
"If I teach Hill some of the mind games and speech skills from the human world and Earth... even if she can master the most basic skills, she may be able to make the entire Last Kingdom go around in circles..."
This is a crushing victory in terms of cognitive level! It's just like a lion jumping into a group of rabbits!
If Hill used these techniques to enrich himself, it would be a disaster for the Last Kingdom.
But from another perspective, if she could uphold her noble beliefs and ideals and carry out her determination to save the people of that land...
Then these techniques can be used to unite hundreds of thousands of people into an unprecedentedly strong cohesion, thus taking a big step towards true "salvation".
Qi Ji's opinion of Hill changed a little. He thought that for the sake of all the people of the Last Kingdom, he must change his "education policy" for her in the future, so as not to cultivate a devil who is proficient in sweet talk...
"I see - did your team gain anything else?"
He immediately stopped the topic to prevent Hill's thoughts from straying into some dangerous direction, and Qi Ji asked about other information.
"After the 'collapse' in the square, most of the team members survived with the help of Lady Otilia. Afterwards, they continued to investigate the ruins, and no further accidents occurred."
Hill didn't think much about it, and his thoughts easily followed Qi Ji's:
"The team has initially explored the general situation of the ruins and drawn a rough map. It has now been handed over to the headquarters of the Last Kingdom. The subsequent decision will depend on the will of the Church of Redemption.
“Whether to send a large force to search and explore, or to temporarily shelve the plan, is still unclear.
"As for the task you assigned to me to collect information about the 'Pure White Gate', I may have to wait until I return to the headquarters before I can start. After all, only the library in the Central Diocese has sufficient and comprehensive information... Please forgive my negligence, sir."
Qi Ji expressed her understanding. She was not in a hurry anyway, so she did not urge the other party. She just asked curiously:
"I'll send you a coordinate, and you can help me check if the Last Country has investigated or recorded this place."
After saying that, she passed on to Hill the relative position of the sealed space where the "Moon" out-of-control angel was sealed.
Chapter 426 Secret Meeting
After receiving the coordinates, Hill, who was sitting in the camp lounge, was stunned.
The location of the sealed space of the out-of-control angel is extremely far away from the headquarters of the Last Country, with a straight-line distance of more than 500 kilometers.
Five hundred kilometers, in the human world, is a journey of less than a week for a caravan, but if you take the magic train, it only takes a day and a half.
But for the Last Kingdom, this is an insurmountable obstacle - in the gray wilderness without any supplies and filled with evil spirits, even the troops with the most abundant food and the best preparations can hardly move forward, and casualties occur almost every day.
In addition to the headquarters of the Last Kingdom, the Church of Redemption has also established more than a dozen large, long-term camps in this gray forest, the farthest of which is less than a hundred kilometers away.
Historically, the farthest distance that the exploration team of the Last Kingdom could reach would not exceed two hundred and fifty kilometers.
Beyond that... for the members of the Last Kingdom, it is a completely unknown place.
A place more than 500 kilometers away... let alone exploring it, I'm afraid we don't even know what the situation is there.
In theory, it was impossible for Hill to find any information about that location.
"Yes... I understand, honorable 'True Creator'. I will check it after returning to the headquarters."
However, she still did not explain it on the spot. After all, she was just a grassroots member of the Last Kingdom, and she might not know some of the information. If she wanted to make a conclusion...it would not be too late to look carefully in the library after returning to the headquarters.
"Anything else to say?"
The voice coming from the "True Creator" seemed lazy and comfortable, and I didn't know what His real body was doing.
Hill thought for a moment and said:
"When I returned to the camp with the vanguard team, Lady Otilia asked me to talk to her privately tonight... I don't know what she wanted to talk about."
The other end was silent for a few seconds before answering in a more serious tone:
"Then let's stop here today. Go meet that person first, and report the details to me after you return to the city. During this period, do not pray or offer sacrifices to me. Remember."
Then the True Creator cut off the communication. Hill, exhausted, bowed deeply to the air, walked out of the rest room built of logs, and headed towards the square in the center of the camp.
She is currently in Camp No. 2, which is only a dozen kilometers away from the headquarters of the Last Country and is one of the largest camps among the dozen or so permanent camps.
There are two thousand soldiers here at all times, one third of whom are "Silent Soul Wizards"... However, most of them are only at the level of "Disciple", which is equivalent to the apprentice to the initial stage of the "Mage" system.
In addition, there are a large number of service, reserve, production, and medical personnel. In total, the permanent population here is close to five thousand.
It was now night, and the dark clouds in the sky had obliterated any light. The camp could only be illuminated by torches, and the visible range was not very wide.
After a busy day, Hill should have lay down to sleep immediately, but she didn't. Instead, she came to the central square, where the soldiers trained, exercised and gathered.
Of course there were not many people here in the middle of the night. Apart from a few soldiers on night patrol, there was no other figure. It was pitch black and looked very eerie.
She walked towards the most remote and darkest place in the square and soon disappeared from everyone's sight.
The only "enemies" of the Last Kingdom are the dangerous natural environment and irrational demons. No one would be suspicious of humans, so even if the patrolling soldiers saw Hill walking into the night alone, they did not think she was suspicious and no one paid attention to her.
"Snapped!"
After leaving the range of the torch, Hill took out a small torch from his pocket, raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and a flame lit up at his fingertips, lighting it.
She walked through the darkness and came to a corner. Under the light of the fire, a gray figure emerged from the darkness of the night.
The senior deacon of the Seventh Parish Church of the Last Kingdom Headquarters and the leader of the previous pioneer expedition team, "Requiem Master" Otilia.
She was still wearing the grey robe she had worn when she led the expedition before, with traces of the demon's blood, dust and dirt still on it.
The gray-haired woman clasped her hands behind her waist, her tall but thin body standing straight, gazing at the lights in the camp with a gloomy look, wondering what she was thinking.
After sensing the light of the torch in Hill's hand, she slowly turned around and looked over with her blue eyes. Her overly pale skin and slender figure made her look a little haggard.
