Shadow Apostle

Standing under the four huge kerosene chandeliers in the conference room, Horst felt his blood rushing.

Not only were my palms sweating, but my heartbeat was even a few beats faster.

He is the kind of person who gets more excited the more people there are.

The common saying in my hometown is that people come crazy.

Facing the six most authoritative people in Mingyue City at this time, Horst showed no stage fright and his voice was sonorous and powerful.

"The Burnt family is indeed a model of aristocratic family, and has provided the greatest assistance to my actions, especially Miss Burnt herself. It was me and her who were able to discover in time the conspiracy of the cultists, which was quite huge. conspiracy."

"Mr. Horst Drom." The elderly nobleman on the left spoke slowly, "According to you, the cultist incident is not an isolated one?"

"Yes, Marquis Venn." Horst turned to the old nobleman, bowed and said, "I have witnessed their sacrifice ceremony with my own eyes. If the sacrifice is allowed to be completed, the fate of the sacrifice will be the same as in a few months." The victims are consistent with the homeless deaths that have occurred frequently in the city."

"So?" the old Marquis asked.

"So I believe that these cultists Wormis who worship Tsathogya are the perpetrators of the homeless deaths. The corpses of homeless people that appear again and again are exactly the remains of them after performing sacrifices again and again."

"This is just your guess, Mr. Drom." The gorgeously dressed Mayor Carl Scott adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses. "Even assuming you are telling the truth, it doesn't explain anything. Where all the homeless people died. It is a very common phenomenon for rats to appear, and it is also a normal event for a corpse to be eaten by rats. Your so-called consistency is most likely just a coincidence caused by the similarity between corpses of the same type."

"Sir Scott." Without even waiting for Mrs. K's introduction, Horst called the person he guessed his identity as a matter of course, "First, please note that if I explain this matter to everyone here, the premise is that I will acquiesce. What I said is subjectively true. If you are still questioning the subjective authenticity of my words, then this meeting is a waste of time. It is not only a waste of your time, but also a waste of my time. "

Carl Scott pursed his lips, and there was a trace of hostility in his eyes, but he could not argue with it.

“Second, we don’t even consider the iron law that there is no coincidence in mysteriously related events. Even if we treat it as an ordinary event, when an event occurs multiple times and is obviously different from previous time periods, it can no longer be explained by coincidence. Yes, your statement is not only a waste of your and my time, but also a trampling of statistics."

"you……"

"I am an Awakener and a front-line person fighting against the mysterious. I hope you will not waste my time. Mr. Mayor, I would rather spend my time fighting against the mysterious." Horst directly interrupted Carl Scott's words. Accused, "I am not interested in who is responsible for a thing or who is responsible. I only talk about what I saw and the conclusions drawn from it. That is, those worshipers of Tsathogya, very Maybe he’s the one who made those homeless people’s bodies.”

"Your Excellency the Mayor."

A strange voice suddenly reached Horst's ears. The voice was not pleasant, it could only be said to be very ordinary. The voice came from Princess Sophia in the main seat. She waved her hand:

"Now is not the time to worry about responsibility, and no one intends to pursue responsibility. Let's solve the problem first. Mr. Horst, please continue."

"After determining the murderer's problem, the next step is to find out their purpose. These mysterious aliens should not behave without purpose, at least not frequently. Only then can we find out their purpose. Stop them. Let’s talk about the sacrifice at Viscount Star’s house first. Miss Burnt and I have discussed that once their sacrifice is successful, the result is likely to be a long period of political turmoil.”

"Ahem, not necessarily." Marquis Venn on the left said slowly, "The territory has its own set of mature rules for the replacement of officials, so that the loss of a few officials will not lead to political turmoil."

"Your Majesty the Marquis, you don't need to convince me, you just need to convince yourself." Horst asked with a half-smile, "Can you really convince yourself with your opinion?"

Marquis Wein suffocated, leaned back, and crossed his arms.

"Look, you can't even convince yourself." Horst looked at the posture of Marquis Wein crossing his chest and said with a smile, "I'm just an awakened person who hasn't experienced anything big. I don't understand politics, but I know something. Something. In any field or industry, if a senior practitioner has a problem, it is very difficult to find a skilled replacement in a short time. It is difficult for one, let alone more than thirty at the same time. Before finding a replacement Before the selection, it is estimated that there will be quite a few problems in the operation of these areas. Until the new people are adjusted, how long will there be a period of chaos? Three months? Half a year?"

"This is only the result, not the cause." Marquis Wein insisted with a stern face, "It is not safe to guess the cause based on the result. It is too easy to guess wrong."

"Those are the rules of the modern world, not the rules of the mysterious world." Horst said without thinking, "If you want to penetrate the mysterious interference and see the reality, you must downplay the interference of common sense in the current world. Things in the mysterious world The causal connection between things is endlessly strengthened, and it has always been a very common method to infer the causes through the results.”

Marquis Wein looked at the three bishops, and the three nodded to him.

His Excellency the Marquis sighed, shook his head and stopped talking.

"This is the part about Viscount Star. If their purpose is really to create political unrest, then what are the remains of the sacrifices found in the corners of the city and the frequent sacrifices? My current investigation results in this regard are not yet clear. Let me come up with a clear answer, but I suspect that they must also have a purpose like creating political unrest. Even if there is no other purpose, just the fact that there are mutilated dead people everywhere will definitely cause panic among the people over time. This is already the lightest result.”

"Mr. Horst Drom." The bishop in black robes on the other side interrupted Horst's speculation and retorted, "I must remind you that with our understanding of the mysterious world, you may have overlooked an issue."

Horst made a gesture of invitation.

"You are facing cultists, not normal humans." The black-robed bishop said, "Cultists are crazy aliens. The only thing they have left is the worship of evil gods. My only thought is to please the evil god."

"Isn't this contradictory, Your Excellency Bishop?" Horst asked rhetorically, "If these are the wills of the evil god, it is only natural that they follow them."

"Contradiction may not be contradictory to other evil gods, but Sathoggua is different." The man in black robe waved his hand, "Satogua is called the one who sleeps in Enkai, because it has been sleeping for a long time. He is rarely sober and is unlikely to be able to convey the message to his followers that would lead them to engage in these complex behaviors."

"But the will of the evil god is just an idea you put forward." Horst retorted calmly, "What if there are other normal people guiding and controlling it behind the scenes?"

"Huh?" the black-robed bishop asked doubtfully, "Other normal people?"

"Yes, for example, a more complicated conspiracy." Horst briefly introduced his experience in the Burnt family. "Those dependents of Tsathogua tied everything together, and the Burnt family The incident is related to Rank 4 of the Temple of Fraud. So, using the incident at the Burnt family as a springboard, can you deny that the possibility that Rank 4 is also related to the sacrifice has skyrocketed?"

"we can not."

Horst spread his hands: "So, this is the result of my current investigation. Everything points to a man behind the scenes, and he is preparing to create more and more turmoil, chaos and panic."

"We are satisfied, at least for now, with the preliminary findings of your investigation."

The cloaked man finally spoke again and sighed softly:

"If possible, we hope that you can continue to be responsible for the investigation. All departments in Mingyue City will try their best to cooperate with you."

"But I hope you can be mentally prepared to know what the results you have detected before actually mean."

"War, warning of war."

"Someone is going to war against the Kingdom of Norland."