Endless Debt

Bureau of Order, Crow's Nest.

Among the many departments in the Field Service Department, the atmosphere of the Crow's Nest is undoubtedly the most depressing and cold. As an important intelligence department, strict regulatory review is implemented here, and every door and corridor is separated by different authorities.

Silence is the theme song here, and the only noise is the faint sound of footsteps. The staff responsible for intelligence, named Iron Whistle, walked past like ghosts, executing various orders in silence, making this complex The huge machinery composed of regulations and personnel operates silently.

It's just that there are some messy notes in the silence today. The sound of slightly heavy footsteps is approaching from far away. The other person seems to be in a hurry and is in an impatient mood.

With a document bag under his arm and a gloomy gaze, Ivan quickly walked through the corridor without any obstruction. With his arrival, all blockades and restrictions were opened, making Ivan's path forward unobstructed.

The deserted corridor became extremely long. Ivan stopped at a certain place and raised his hand to push open the door whose color was exactly the same as the wall. This door is almost completely hidden in the corridor.

As soon as he opened the door, Ivan smelled a faint scent of blood in the air. Various messy boxes were piled aside. The lights were emitting a cold, pale color. A man's low groan of suppressed pain could be heard faintly in the room.

Ivan deliberately made some noise to alert the other party that someone was coming. Then he walked into the room and saw the guy sitting in the corner.

The man was bare-chested, opened the medical kit, took out alcohol and cotton cloth, and wrapped them around his blood-stained abdomen. The blood soon dyed the cotton red and condensed together. Fortunately, there was no blood to continue. Oozing.

There were gasps, and the man glanced at Ivan with his bloodshot eyes. He unscrewed the medicine bottle without saying a word and swallowed a few painkillers.

After doing all this, he leaned back, and his tense muscles and spirit relaxed together. His whole figure was like a doll that had run out of clockwork, completely paralyzed.

Sweat covered his forehead, and he closed his eyes tightly, exhausted.

"Are you ok?"

Ivan moved a chair and sat opposite the man. His impression of the man became a little blurry, but as he saw his face clearly again, this blurry impression became clear again, and a lot of information that was about to be forgotten also became clear. come to mind together.

"Do you think I'm nice?"

Church took a long breath, with the smell of rust in his throat, "It feels so good to be back alive."

"Do you need me to take you to a border sanatorium?"

"No...no," Church said, resisting going to the hospital. Those doctors would find out his little secret. "My injury is not serious, there is nothing wrong with it."

"I'm just a little tired, and the feeling of ether depletion is uncomfortable."

Church looked at his surroundings and felt an indescribable feeling when he saw the familiar gray and white bricks and stones.

"It feels good to be back."

For the first time, Qiu Qi found that he was so attached to this place, even here he couldn't show his true face.

"It's been a long haul, hasn't it?"

Others didn't know what Church was doing, but Ivan knew very well that it was he who sent Church out.

"It's not just a long time," Church rubbed his temples, "I'm dancing with wolves every moment. I was almost discovered several times."

Ivan joked, "At least you are still alive and have come back successfully."

Church showed a bitter smile, then nodded vigorously and agreed, "Yeah, it's not okay to die in that place."

The joke ended, and both of them fell into silence until Church broke the silence again not long after.

Since the incident in Fengyuan Highlands, Church has been assigned to the seventh group, invisible infiltrators, and participated in a top-secret infiltration operation, and the destination of this operation was the Kogadel Empire.

Relying on the power of his own secret energy and after several months of lurking, Church successfully infiltrated the King's Secret Sword. After investigation and brutal interrogation, he obtained the information he wanted.

Church talked about the past history, "In the year 1217 of the Rhenish calendar, a bloody night broke out in the Pillar of Kingship. Austin, the King of Terror, killed almost all of his blood relatives and heirs, except Xilin."

"These are not secrets to us," Ivan said. "Have you found out the truth after the bloody night?"

"No, it is said that all the information related to this part has been destroyed, and all the insiders have been killed," Church said. "I tried to sneak into the Pillar of King Power, but it has been completely blocked. The Avenue of Triumph is the only The passage to enter, and that passage is also controlled by the King’s Secret Swords.”

"Nothing found?"

Ivan was a little disappointed, but it would be great if Church could come back alive. Intelligence spying was not that easy, he knew.

"No, I found something else. This may be able to verify the deputy director's intelligence and also clarify the purpose of the sudden negotiation with the King's Secret Sword."

The current situation seems calm, but everyone's nerves are tense. The visit of the red dog, the king's secret sword with evil intentions, and the bloody past...

Everyone smelled brimstone and blood.

Church then added, "I was not able to bring back any documents, which means that this information is all relayed from my memory. There is no evidence to confirm its authenticity. Whether you believe it or not is up to you."

Ivan nodded seriously, "Continue."

“The inside story of the Bloody Night is not yet clear, but what is known is that the Bloody Night was initiated by Austin, the King of Terror and the Second Seat of the United King’s Secret Sword.

At that time, it was the Second Seat who cooperated with Austin's actions outside the Pillar of King's Power and imprisoned everyone inside the Pillar of King's Power. "

Church recalled what he saw and heard in the Kogadel Empire.

After the Bloody Night, the King's Secret Sword launched a large-scale purge of relevant personnel, almost completely destroying the past, but no matter how hard they tried, something happened, even if it happened, something would always remain.

"The King's Secret Sword seems to have started to fall apart since then."

Church's words surprised Ivan. He did not expect that the split could be traced back so far.

"The second seat followed Austin's order and launched the Bloody Night. He activated the virtual realm of the Pillar of King Power to isolate outsiders. While Austin was massacring madly, the first seat was attacking the virtual realm and trying to Stop this."

Ivan said, "The King's Secret Sword has been divided into two factions since then?"

"Yes, the second seat is in opposition to the first seat. One party agrees with the bloody night, and the other stops the bloody night."

When he mentioned this, Church had a headache. "I have been pursuing the truth of the Bloody Night. Many things outside the Pillar of King's Power can be unearthed, but nothing happened inside the Pillar of King's Power. As for the truth about the Bloody Night, The truth is even less known.”

"No matter how you look at it, it's hard to understand what the King of Terror is doing, let alone how he convinced the second seat..."

"It's normal. Only two people survived that night in the Pillar of King's Power. One person is still sitting on the throne, and the other person... He is in the Bureau of Order. Unfortunately, he is already dead."

Ivan thought of the other participants in the Bloody Night, "Where are the others? At least the second seat and his co-conspirators should know the specific plan of the Bloody Night. Are they all dead?"

"That's what I'm going to say next."

Bad memories emerged from Church's mind, "After the bloody night, Xilin was the only survivor in the massacre. Before the first seat broke through the virtual realm, the second seat escorted him with the secret swords who supported him. Xilin left the Pillar of Thrones.”

"As we know, after the Bloody Night, Xilin left the Pillar of Kingship and never went back. Many years later, under the guidance of the Second Seat, he became the overlord Xilin we are familiar with."

Church thought of a face covered in blood, begging for mercy in a low voice, while he did not hesitate to inflict pain on it until he told him the information he needed.

"The Bloody Night was an opportunity. Since then, the King's Secret Sword has been united in name, but in fact it has split into two factions. One faction is headed by the First Seat, entrenched near the Pillar of King's Power, guarding the terror. King, the other faction is led by the second seat, and they took Xilin to the border far away from the Pillar of Kingship to confront the first seat."

Ivan asked, "What divided them?"

Church thought for a long time and concluded, "Kingdom."

"The first seat is loyal to the King of Terror, and the second seat supports Xilin. The two factions confront and compete with each other."

Listening to Church's words, Ivan noticed something suspicious that he couldn't figure out.

"The Bloody Night was started by the King of Terror. He obviously cooperated with the second seat, but after it ended, he stood with the first seat again..."

Ivan could not imagine the entanglement involved. He knew that after the Bloody Night, the King of Terror had tried to recall Xilin countless times, like a loving father, but they all knew that during the Bloody Night, Xilin almost Die by his sword, and then think about his reaction with the first and second seats.

The various behaviors of the King of Terror are like schizophrenia, acted by completely different personalities.

"I don't know, this should be related to the inside story of the Bloody Night..."

Church's breath froze, and he stared into Ivan's eyes, a strange atmosphere rising between the two.

"Have you thought about it?"

Ivan didn't understand what Qiu Qi said for a while, but then he noticed the deep meaning behind Qiu Qi's words.

"It just occurred to me," Ivan said, "that if they were involved, then it wouldn't be too weird no matter how weird it is."

devil.

There is no need to guess. Ivan can be sure that the devil must have been involved in this weird and bloody incident. Those crazy existences will never let this carnival go.

Behind every major event in history, there is the shadow of the devil. They shuttle through historical nodes like ghosts, interfering with the progress of the world.

If there was a devil behind the bloody night, then everything would make sense.

“After the Bloody Night, the King’s Secret Sword is still not really divided, it’s just different factions.

The King of Terror lives in the palace, and all power is delegated to the first seat, who is fully responsible for the operation of the king's secret sword. The second seat gathers its own strength to confront the first seat, and there is external pressure. Now, they won't completely fall out. "

Church continued, "Although the second seat and the first seat are both glorious ones, the overall strength between the two factions is quite different, not to mention that the first seat is directly supported by the King of Terror.

Judging from the information I have obtained, in the years since the Bloody Night, the First Seat has presided over many secret offensives against the Second Seat. "

"Do you want to kill the second seat?" Ivan said, "From the perspective of the first seat, the second seat is nothing more than a traitor."

"A civil war at the Glory level? That's crazy," Church shook his head. "If a Glory-level civil war breaks out within the King's Secret Sword, they know very well that the Bureau of Order will not let this opportunity go."

"Based on my inference, I think it's more like taking back Xilin."

On the way back, Church had already prepared what he wanted to say, including all kinds of inferences.

"During the bloody night, the King of Terror seemed to have been severely injured. He lived deep in the palace and received treatment from doctors. After losing Xilin, he did not give birth to an heir in so many years.

Even if the King of Terror doesn't want to have a child, the First Seat will force him to do so. The heir will represent the ownership of the king's power. But now, the King of Terror is old and Xilin is growing. It can be said that who controls Whoever gets Xilin will control the future of the royal power. "

"But as Xilin gradually grew up, the power of the first seat to limit the second seat became less and less, and the second seat even took the lead in the King's Secret Sword."

Church suddenly stopped. He thought of the secret war a few years ago and recalled the magnificent power that controlled all things.

Overlord Xilin.

The youngest Glory Person in history, and also the most powerful Glory Person in the records of the Order Bureau. He almost overturned the Kenshi with his own strength. If his rash advance had not given the Order Bureau a chance to encircle and suppress him, No one knows the final outcome of the secret war.

After so many years after the Secret War, the Kenshi still has not completely healed, and most of the area is still in ruins, and the power of Overlord Xilin is still destroying everything.

Church said, "A new suspicion."

"The first seat is directly responsible for the King of Terror. He controls the main body of the King's Secret Sword. All resources and power will be mainly inclined to the first seat, and no matter what the reason, the first seat will never use resources Leaning towards the second seat, not to mention that after the second seat is far away from the pillar of royal power, he will lose most of his logistical support.

Even if the second seat can get enough assistance from the local area, how does he solve the problem of the alchemy matrix? "

Church has never experienced the Secret War and has never seen the power of Overlord Xilin, but Ivan has seen that almost all the team leaders of this generation came out of the Secret War. Even today, Ivan still remembers that time The cruelty of war and the terrifying power of Xilin.

It was also the Secret War that made the Bureau of Order realize the huge gap in the alchemical matrix between them and the King's Secret Sword.

Before the Secret War broke out, the Bureau of Order did not have much information about Xilin. Apart from knowing his rank and secret energy faction, there was no more information. During the Secret War, the Bureau of Order witnessed Xilin's power with his own eyes. , that powerful and overlord-like power surpassed everyone's imagination, and the extremely solid Kenshi fell apart in front of him.

From that moment on, the Bureau of Order realized that Xilin possessed an alchemical matrix far beyond this era.

"If there have been differences and divisions in the King's Secret Sword since the Bloody Night, then how could the First Seat allow Xilin to have such power? How could he allow this power to flow to the Second Seat's camp? , instead of strengthening your own camp?

Not to mention, since Xilin, why has no such power been born in the King's Secret Sword? "

The two of them couldn't help but fell into silence. Although they were not alchemists and did not understand the complex and profound alchemical matrix, they still understood the basic knowledge.

Church asked, "Do you have any ideas?"

Ivan took a deep breath, "Yes, but the idea is too scary."

"Tell me."

"Xilin's alchemical matrix does not come from the King's Secret Sword."

Silence fell again, but this time it became even more oppressive, as if the air had condensed into iron stone, and cement poured into the mouth and nose, making people feel a strong suffocation.

"So where did he get such power?"

Qiu Qi said distressedly, but then a ferocious figure broke into his mind, with hundreds of scarlet eyes staring at him, and the mixed laughter was deafening.

Church thought about it. He was about to say something, but was severely interrupted by Ivan.

"Okay, let's not talk about this now."

They were in a fortress-like room, but they felt a chill crawling on their bodies, and their breath was filled with ice.

Church murmured, "At least this terrible power has not continued."

He was thankful from the bottom of his heart.

Ivan said, "The information you detected is very important. We know the split within the King's Secret Sword after the Bloody Night."

"More than that, I speculate that the secret war may have been started by the Second Seat," Church continued to talk about what he knew. "At least a few of the people I investigated were once members of the Second Seat faction, and the First Seat faction People from the Xi faction don’t seem to be involved in the secret war.”

Church said, "It's normal that we didn't realize it. At that time, the King's Secret Sword was still ostensibly united, and we regarded it as a whole."

"Did the second seat initiate the war?" Ivan didn't understand. "What did he do for? This war even cost Xilin himself."

"I don't know. Since the Bloody Night, the King's Secret Sword has been covered by a cloud. There are too many contradictions and doubts within them."

Church rubbed his temples. The journey to the Kogadel Empire was not pleasant, and many messy thoughts disturbed him. "After the Secret War, the power of the second faction was almost completely consumed, and the first faction also thought they were dead. Empty."

"But they did not die. Instead, they hid under the big rift and evolved into the current King's Shield Guards." Ivan said.

"Exhausting one's own strength and launching such a war just to hide? To avoid the gaze of the first seat?"

Qiu Qi followed Ivan's words and speculated, but it was full of loopholes. He really didn't understand what these people were thinking.

"After the Secret War, the Second Seat faction existed in name only. In addition to Xilin and the Fifth Seat who died in the battle, the Second Seat and the Third Seat disappeared together. The deputy director's guess may be right. The so-called Shadow King is hiding. Second seat.”

It was Church's job to explore the divisions within the King's Secret Sword and deduce the identity of the Shadow King. Obviously, he did a better job than what the Bureau of Order required.

"Is the Shadow King the second seat?"

Ivan thought deeply. When he first heard the deputy director's speculation, he still didn't believe it, but now it seems that this possibility is extremely high.

Church said, "As for the purpose of Red Dog's negotiation, it is obvious that they want to get Xilin's body back and replicate that power."

"We won't agree to it, absolutely not!"

Ivan's attitude is extremely tough, and one overlord Xilin is enough.

"Yeah, we can't, and they know we can't, but the red dog still comes."

Qiu Qi did not continue speaking, and their eyes met again, and they both read the same answer from the other's eyes.

"Have preparations begun?"

Facing Church's question, Ivan nodded stiffly.