"Hey, that's strange. How did she know we were in danger? I don't remember Mom and Dad telling her..."
Qi Ji smiled but said nothing.
She naturally had the answer to the doubts that Daisy inadvertently expressed.
Because... the person who revealed the news to Nancy who was thousands of miles away in Sunset Harbor was none other than herself!
That night, there were two killers who sneaked into the hotel and attacked Gary's family.
One of them was captured on the spot by Qi Ji and turned into a living puppet. Later, he was killed by Lais and turned into nutrients for a strange brooch.
The other... took the opportunity to escape.
But Qi Ji did not really let him go, but sent a mini puppet with reconnaissance function to follow him.
What a coincidence! The killer who was deliberately let go by Qi Ji was actually one of the informants planted by the Church of Life in the Loen City Government!
Qi Ji suddenly had an idea and asked the tracking mini puppet to hide its presence. The next morning when he went to the Super Management Bureau to "work", the puppet hid in his clothes and was brought into the Super Management Bureau by him.
Then... while others were not paying attention, he controlled the mini puppet to find the communication room of the Super Management Bureau and sent a "telegram" to the Super Management Bureau's executor team in Sunset Harbor, informing them of everything that Gary's family had experienced in Loen City!
Chapter 161 On the verge of breaking out
The so-called "telegraph" is actually completely different in principle and structure from the telegraph on Earth. It does not transmit data through radio waves or metal cables, but rather utilizes certain supernatural powers and possesses a certain spirituality.
But its function and operation method are similar, which is to achieve the purpose of point-to-point information transmission by sending encoded messages remotely.
The official name of this instrument in this world is "Magic Communicator". It was developed by the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Its core is a small group of independent spirituality that has been specially processed.
Because of this, magic communicators can only be made by high-level transcendents who have at least reached the level of psychic or magician. They are very valuable and need to be maintained from time to time by transcendents in specific fields in order to maintain their effectiveness.
In short, this thing is not something that an individual can afford, and even most merchants and factory owners cannot afford it.
It’s not because they can’t afford it or maintain it, but because the empire has very strict control over such long-distance communication equipment.
Generally speaking, only organizations and groups belonging to official forces are qualified to be equipped.
The Superannuation Administration is of course included in this list.
Generally speaking, every city in the empire will have a super management bureau, a team of executors, and one to three magic communicators as standard.
Each magic communicator is set with a unique communication code when it leaves the factory. If you want to send a message to a specific magic communicator, you only need to enter the other party's code on your own magic communicator.
The communication codes for non-sensitive areas are public, including the one installed by the Sunset Harbor Super Management Bureau's Execution Team.
As soon as the mini puppet controlled by Qi Ji entered the door of the communication room of the Loen City Super Management Bureau, he saw the magic communicator placed in the corner, and on the wall next to it were the codes of the magic communicators of the Super Management Bureaus in various regions within the empire.
This was convenient for Qi Ji. Before this, she was still wondering how she would get the code of Sunset Harbor even if she successfully sneaked into the communication room. If the communication code was kept confidential,
All in all, she easily controlled the mini puppet to operate the slightly novel instrument, edited the dangers that Gary's family had encountered in the past few days into a short text, and sent it to Nancy's team of executors.
Didn't the Church of Life want to threaten Nancy by kidnapping Gary and others? Well, I'll bring her here directly so that you can meet and have a good discussion.
With Qi Ji's current abilities, as long as he is willing to investigate seriously, he will soon be able to find out all the members of the Church of Life hiding in Loen City.
They can even follow the clues to find the "archbishop" and uproot the entire cult from top to bottom.
She can do all this even if she is alone.
But in the end she didn't do it.
From a rational point of view, the Church of Life clearly believes in a mysterious existence with certain malicious intentions, which is very likely related to gods.
If Qi Ji intervened too deeply in this matter, she would very likely put herself under the gaze of that existence, which was contrary to her original intention of not wanting to come into contact with the existence of the divine level for the time being.
If the gods really hated her, even if she could ensure her own safety, it would be difficult for her to take care of others, such as Gary's family.
Putting innocent people in avoidable danger for the sake of one's own momentary pleasure...is not good.
And if Nancy were to be informed of this, the official power of the empire could be implicated, and even further, one of the nine major churches, the Sunset Spiritual Society, could be brought to an end.
I believe that as a huge force that is also protected by gods, they must be more experienced in such incidents and know how to handle them properly.
As for herself, in this situation she was just a "warm-hearted adventurer passing by". Her presence could not be said to be low, but at least it was not as high-profile as single-handedly overthrowing the Church of Life.
From a personal perspective, a game involving multiple forces and full of open and covert struggles is definitely more exciting and more "entertaining" than one person crushing a criminal organization with overwhelming force.
If the plot develops too smoothly, it will be boring...
As a result, the development of things was both within her expectations and beyond her expectations.
Qi Ji had expected that Nancy or her team members would come over.
After all, the "telegram" was sent to the Sunset Harbor Execution Team. Under the premise that the local Super Management Bureau in Loen City is no longer reliable, it is reasonable to send her or her team to handle the matter.
But what Qi Ji didn't expect was that she came so quickly!
I just sent a telegram to Sunset Harbor this morning and she arrived in the afternoon, so only half a day had passed.
You know, half of the Glorious Plantagenet Empire is between Sunset Harbor and Loen City. Even with the magic train, it takes almost a whole day to cross it. This is the most ideal situation without stopping or changing stations.
Nancy actually got there in just half a day! How did she do it?! Could it be that she is so strong that she can open a portal? Or fly?
Qi Ji's eyes sparkled with curiosity as he looked at the girl who was walking towards him step by step with great caution from afar. He subconsciously scanned her and tried to judge her realm.
And at this moment, the tentacle fragments that were shattered by the mysterious force and scattered around the carriage... moved!
They squirmed like maggots crawling in rotten meat, twitching and crawling on the ground at a very fast speed, gathering in the same place.
The moment they came into contact with each other, their dark and shiny bodies merged together, like a bunch of plasticine kneaded together into one whole piece.
These "black muds" gathered together seemed to have life. They changed their shapes rapidly and stabilized into one shape in the blink of an eye.
It was a black bulge more than two meters high, with a smooth and round surface, shaped like a bamboo shoot that was small on the top and large on the bottom. At first glance, it looked like a piece of smooth, inky black cloth covering a person.
The black bulge stood about ten meters away from the carriage, exuding a filthy and dirty smell, just blocking Nancy's path.
This is…the puppet that followed the robbers when the Garys were first attacked yesterday morning!
However, the puppet in front of him was obviously not the same one as the one at that time, because the latter had been blown to ashes by Qi Ji using an extremely powerful transmutation spell.
"So there's more than one of these things? No wonder they were willing to 'give' them to a group of robbers..."
As soon as the black puppet appeared, dense, deep red lines lit up on its smooth black surface.
They twist and entangle with each other, forming complex, manic, and ostentatious symbols and lines, moving restlessly like unwilling and trapped souls.
Just by taking a few glances, you can feel the strong evil and bloodiness.
"This is……"
Seeing this black puppet that suddenly appeared, Mrs. Gary seemed to recall some difficult memories. Her face became much uglier. She hurriedly reminded Nancy who had already stopped:
"Nancy, this is a very dangerous monster, be careful!"
Needless to say, Nancy stopped moving forward the moment the puppet appeared. She turned her back to the dazzling setting sun and stared at it intently.
The puppet's shape is clearly radially symmetrical, and it's hard to tell which is the front, but at this moment it gives people a feeling:
It seemed that its "attention" had been focused on Nancy not far away, and the two formed a strange confrontation.
The battle is about to break out!
Chapter 162 Strange Battle
Daisy held her breath, all her attention focused on the man and the puppet confronting each other not far away, not daring to blink.
The still shining twilight slanted down from the western sky, coating the empty and flat green fields with a layer of golden color, like plump ears of rice in autumn.
A cool and dry breeze blew by, picking up a few fallen leaves, dead grass, and dust, forming mini whirlwinds in the air, making a slight sound of crisp friction.
Nancy, standing quietly, and the black puppet, standing motionless, all maintained an almost frozen state. If it were not for the grass and trees passing by from time to time, one would almost think that this was a completely still picture.
calm.
Only calm remains.
So calm... like a bowstring stretched to the extreme.
"brush!"
This eerie silence lasted for who knows how long, and finally one side... moved!
It is a black puppet with filthy dark red runes flowing on its surface!
It suddenly exploded, as if mud was stuffed with firecrackers, and turned into countless large and small fragments that flew in all directions.
However, the fragments were not completely separated from each other. Instead, they were all connected by shiny black and extremely tough threads, looking like some very viscous semi-liquid substance.
Dozens or even hundreds of sticky fragments of varying sizes splashed out, but they all stopped after flying less than ten meters, and solidified in mid-air as if time had stopped.
Those deep red runes and lines that glowed with a strange crimson glow also dispersed and were evenly distributed among the fragments that the puppet had turned into, filling the large space of more than ten meters in radius where they existed.
"boom--"
There was a rustling sound like flames, and the number and brightness of crimson runes increased dramatically. The bright red light that was so bright that it hurt the eyeballs seemed to be condensed into substance and was about to drip blood!
The next second, the red light that was so dazzling that it almost overshadowed the sun suddenly dimmed, like a match that was suddenly blown out, leaving only a spark, as if all its energy had burned out.
However, the crimson light that suddenly dimmed was not extinguished, but...
It gathered into a stream and shot towards Nancy with a soul-shaking roar!
"Boom!"
But Nancy was not a target that stood still. She responded immediately when the black puppet changed.
She seemed to have anticipated something. She took a powerful step forward, raised her hand, and used her palm to block her eyes. She spoke a word in a short and powerful way in the universal language of mankind:
"Recast!"
Her voice was clear and pleasant, which should have made the listeners feel peaceful and happy. However, it now inexplicably gave people an impression of being passionate and ambitious, and they had an irresistible urge to fight against the strong.
As these words containing magical power were uttered, a bright orange shadow appeared in front of her.
It was a ball of blazing flame that rose up out of nowhere in mid-air and became increasingly fierce, as if it would never stop.
At the same time as the phantom of flame ignited from the void, the black puppet shot out a beam of light formed by the crimson light of the runes, hitting Nancy at an unavoidable speed!
"boom!"
A loud noise like an explosion rose from the ground, deep red and orange and yellow intertwined into a ball, and shining light burst out in large patches, instantly engulfing an area of more than ten meters in radius, and the place where Nancy was standing was suddenly ablaze with fire.
"hiss……"
The scorching heat wave hit her in the face, and Mrs. Gary subconsciously held her breath, her eyes half-closed by the flickering firelight.
Seeing his sister disappear in the flames, a strong sense of worry crept into his heart, and his hands clenched involuntarily.
"boom!"
Before she could whisper a prayer to the gods, a graceful figure rushed out from the rising flames and red light, and ran from the side towards the black puppet that was still there.
It's Nancy!
She was completely unharmed, and even the clothes she was wearing had no signs of burning or yellowing, and there were not many wrinkles left. She looked so neat and tidy, as if she had just walked out of a party.
At this time, the exploding flames and red light had begun to weaken. She stretched out a hand and waved it quickly toward the place where the explosion occurred. The shadow of the blazing bright orange flame appeared beside her again.
Once this flame that seemed to have endless vitality appeared, it was like a magnet with extremely strong gravitational force, attracting the remaining energy that had not yet completely dissipated not far away.
Whether it was the bright orange flame that leaped up and then went out in mid-air, or the scarlet light that came from an unknown source, all of them rushed towards Nancy.
Those bright orange flames merged into the shadow and returned to their origin.
The crimson glow that originally belonged to the black puppet lingered around Nancy, moving with her, as gentle as her own power.
All this happened in just a few seconds, during which the black puppets were still in an "attack state" with scattered figures and dark red runes spreading out.
Perhaps because the "red light shooting" just now consumed its energy, the dark red runes and lines have become very dim, and the speed of flow and floating has also dropped significantly.
Nancy took this opportunity to approach from the side, swung her outstretched arm, and aimed her palm at the black puppet again.
Then, he turned his wrist very quickly!
"brush!"
The few wisps of crimson light that lingered around her like mist suddenly became restless and poured into the shadow burning with bright orange flames, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
And that illusory yet extremely vibrant flame seemed to be injected with new fuel, its brightness and intensity increased dramatically, radiating a scorching texture.
"Boom boom boom——"
Then, real flames burst out from this illusory projection and hit the black puppet that was very close!
