The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Do you think I'm a fool?" Ranko Byronville looked at Joan coldly. He could feel that Joan's words were insincere. Even if he told everything about the organization, the other party would never change his mind and organization Cooperation, and more importantly, if the other party changes his mind and cooperates with the organization, then he is really in danger, because the other party is likely to betray him to the organization to show the sincerity of cooperation.

"What a pity! I thought I could easily hear information about the organization from you." Qiao An sighed, looking helpless, and then the expression on his face suddenly changed, becoming indifferent and gloomy, and his tone was aggressive : "But what does it matter? You have to tell what you know anyway, because you have no choice. If you don't tell me what I want to know, then the whole city will know that you are a filthy cultist. Not only you, but even your companions, such as the big businessman Luce, Congressman Randall, etc., will all be exposed because of you."

Hearing Joan's words, Langke couldn't help taking a breath. He understood that the person in front of him knew not only his own identity, but also the identities of other hidden filthy believers in the city. At this moment, only A thing for traitors and traitors.

Obviously, there were traitors among the filthy believers in the city, and they leaked their identities on the surface to Joan.

However, just as soon as the idea of ​​a traitor surfaced, it circled in Lang Ke's mind, and he immediately denied it, because not to mention the filthy seeds that even the divine descent technique cannot remove, it is impossible for a traitor like this to get rid of it. Things appeared among the believers, and even if a traitor really appeared, it was impossible for that traitor to know the identities of all the believers in reality.

The filthy believers have always been the number one heresy hit by all the Churches of True God, so the filthy believers will do their best to hide their identities, and even their companions who are also believers will only know their identities as believers, not their real identities.

For example, the reason why Lang Ke himself knew the identities of some believers in the city was entirely because of his status as a filthy believer mentor. With some privileges obtained through this status, he was able to know the real identities of some believers, but only part of them. not all.

Therefore, Joan was definitely not able to know the identities of other filthy believers through the channel of traitors, and there must be other ways for him to know these secrets.

At this time, Lang Ke suddenly thought of something, and then looked at Joan with a strange look, and said in a deep voice: "You are now working with the dirty teacher, and you also know the identity of me and others through the dirty teacher yes, right?"

The reason why Lang Ke thought so was because he remembered the privilege that only a master filthy master has, that is, the filthy seed of the filthy master can easily sense any lower filthy seed within a certain range. It seems that there is a filthy master hidden.

However, Langke couldn't see any clues from the expression on Joan's face. The other party's expression remained unchanged, as if he hadn't heard his question at all.

"It seems that your Excellency is not ready to cooperate with me, it doesn't matter, I can still find the next collaborator." At this time, Joan stood up and said in a threatening tone: "However, since we are not collaborators, then I don't need to keep a secret for you, but I'm not a cruel person, I can give you a day to escape from here, and your information will appear in the hands of the church's heresy hunting team after a day, I hope you can be lucky in the hunt survived."

Hearing Joan's threat, Langke suddenly had the urge to torture the person in front of him to death with every means he could think of, but his body didn't do what he wanted because he could sense that he couldn't pose any threat to the person in front of him.

"Wait!" When Qiao An walked to the door and was about to open the door, he finally couldn't bear the pressure, and called to Qiao An, then took a deep breath, suppressed all the negative emotions in his heart, and let himself try as hard as possible. After regaining his composure, he gritted his teeth slightly and said, "What do you want to know? How do you want to cooperate?"

Joan, who turned his back to Ranko, showed a smile on his face. This result was completely expected. After all, after Leo and Sylvia analyzed Ranko Byronville through the data, it was judged that this person either had more The lofty goal is to get used to the current stable life, no matter what the situation is, he will make compromises in order to stabilize the current life, provided that the pressure given to him does not exceed his tolerance limit.

Just like Joan just said that he would inform the church of his real identity, which has already touched Netco's bottom line of pressure, so he added a time for him to escape, and moved slightly from his bottom line of pressure, so that he can room for compromise.

As Joan said before, facing the current situation, unless Lanke Byronville is the kind of filthy believer who is completely crazy, there is only one path he can choose, even if his current compromise is only temporary and false Yes, but as long as he compromises once, the next compromise will become easier, and eventually the fake compromise will become a real compromise.

Afterwards, Joan began to formally ask Leo some questions that Leo had prepared in advance to Ranco Byronville, and Leo was sitting outside the street tavern not far from this apartment, using the imprint power on Joan , while listening to Netac's answer.

As Langke answered Joan's questions one by one, some disappointment inevitably appeared on Leo's face.

Although Netco's answer answered some questions, there are still some more important questions that have not been answered. This is not because Netco deliberately concealed it, but because Netco's status in that organization is much lower than Leo expected.

According to Lanke himself, he is just a newcomer who has just passed the inspection period and ten test missions. He has joined the organization for less than a year, and he doesn't even know the official name of the organization, let alone the more core secrets. up.

However, even so, Leo still heard some things he wanted to know from Langke, such as the core purpose of the organization, its internal structure, and the relationship with the church.

The purpose of this organization is very simple, but also very grand, it is to find out the way for people to become gods, so that everyone has the opportunity to become gods, because in the opinion of the core circle of the organization, human beings should not live on the ground, but Should live above the stars and walk with the gods.

In addition, the internal structure of the organization can be roughly divided into four layers. From the outside to the inside, they are the outer ring, the inner ring, the core circle, and the core sages. People like Langke who have joined for a short time belong to the outer ring. The inner circle, while Satos belongs to the core circle, and wanting to be promoted to a more core level depends not only on qualifications, but also on talent.

What's interesting is that when mentioning the matter of promotion, Langke suddenly mentioned Leo, because according to the news he got, Leo would be invited to join the organization by exception, and he would not join the outer circle at the beginning, but directly enter the inner circle. Huan, because in the eyes of Stave and others, Leo's talent made him eligible for an exceptional promotion.

As for the relationship between the organization and the church, it is very delicate. On the surface, the church does not allow underground forces such as organizations to exist, but what is interesting is that some high-level members of the church are members of the organization, such as Satos. The most senior priests of the Spirit of Knowledge Church are even members of the core circle of the organization, and there seem to be quite a few high-level church leaders like Sartos with double identities, as if the organization has parasitic on the church.

It is also because of this that Ranko thinks that it is a kind of ignorance and arrogance for Joan to be an enemy of the organization, and it is the most correct way to cooperate with the organization.

"What about you? Why did you join the organization? I think a filthy believer who hides his identity and joins the organization should not just be as simple as adding a layer of identity to himself?" Joan saw that Langke admired the strength of the organization so much, even I could feel some of his admiration towards the organization, so I asked puzzledly.

Lang Ke didn't answer Joan's inquiry, but after a moment of silence, he said, "This is my private matter. Do you have any other questions?"

Joan thought for a while and said, "There is one last question, what is the relationship between Barbarisa and the organization?"

"Barbarysa?" Ranko didn't understand Joan's question for a while, and said, "Which Barbarysa?"

"It's the Middle Kingdom area..." Joan added.

Before Joan could finish speaking, Langke showed a look of surprise, and then asked back with a surprised expression: "Is that Mr. Barbarisa related to the organization?"

Joan watched the surprised expression on Lanke's face, but did not find any trace of camouflage. Obviously Lanke didn't know that Barbarisa also had a perfect implant similar to Joan.

Joan didn't ask any more, but took out a note from his pocket, put it in front of Lanke, and said: "This address stores the entrustment I gave you and the cooperation reward I paid. I hope you can It doesn’t matter if the noise is louder, it’s best to attract the attention of the whole city.”

Lanke looked at the half-body murloc in the study of the mayor's mansion written on the note, his face immediately became extremely ugly, and said in a deep voice: "Do you think I'm crazy? Attacking the mayor's mansion as a filthy believer, is it true that the mansion Those guys from the Church of the Dead Chaser are all blind, I’m afraid that just as I appeared at the gate of the official residence, those lackeys of false gods have already rushed over, you clearly want me to die!"

As he spoke, the agitation of the filthy seeds in Ranko's body spread uncontrollably, affecting his emotions, causing him to stand up from his chair and glared at Joan, a black oily substance that looked extremely evil Bubbled from his hands, dripping and corroding holes in the floor.

Obviously, if Joan doesn't give a reasonable explanation, Netac will definitely choose to shoot and die with Joan.

Joan didn't seem flustered, but raised his hand in a harmless manner, lowered his tone, and said, "Don't worry, you are my carefully selected collaborator, and you will be more useful to me if you are alive. Not only will I not Harm you, but also help you go further in the organization." As he spoke, he pointed to the other party's hand that was covered with corrosive black oil, and said, "If I were you, I wouldn't let this state continue, don't forget , there are quite a few senior clergymen of the church outside who are always monitoring the surrounding movement, how long do you think it will take them to discover the heresy power in you?"

Hearing Joan's words, Langke's expression changed slightly, he hesitated for a moment, then withdrew the power of the filthy seed, and then still stared at Joan with a gloomy expression, waiting for the other party's explanation.

I saw that Joan took out another ordinary-looking stone ball from his pocket, handed it to Lanke, and said: "Use your strength to stimulate it, don't use too much force, just a little excitation will be fine." gone."

Lanke finished the stone ball and looked at it in front of his eyes, but he didn't see anything unusual from it. Then he looked at Joan again, hesitated for a while, and finally tried to drive it according to Joan's words. A weak seed of filth was injected into the stone ball.

The moment its power touched the stone ball, a circle of extremely complicated light and shadow patterns immediately appeared on the surface of the stone ball, and then quickly disappeared.

Lang Ke could feel that there seemed to be some extremely profound secret contained in the light and shadow pattern that emerged just now, but when he seriously recalled the shape of the pattern, he couldn't remember anything.

In addition, he didn't know what the meaning of this pattern appeared, so he looked at Joan with a questioning expression on his face.

Joan didn't answer either, but pointed to the mirror in the room and motioned him to look in the mirror.

Ranke walked to the mirror, and his surprised expression immediately appeared, because he saw that he was already a stranger in the mirror, so he moved his hands and feet, touched his face with his hands, and made sure that he had really become a stranger. Another person.

"Is this an illusion?" Langke checked repeatedly, and soon found some flaws, for example, there was a scar on the face of the person in the mirror, but when he touched the same part of the face, he couldn't feel the existence of the scar. The image in the mirror is only an illusion, and this illusion can almost be mistaken for real.

Joan nodded and said, "I believe that with this thing, you won't be in danger of revealing your identity."

Lang Ke looked at the stone ball in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "This alone cannot guarantee my safety. What about those lackeys of false gods? Once they find abnormal movements, they will immediately rush over, and I will be regarded as a Another person..."

"I'm just a forcible collaborator who holds your handle, not your nanny. If you can't find a way to safely take away the entrusted tasks and rewards I gave you from the designated place under these conditions, then why should I Want to cooperate with you?" Qiao An said with a blank face: "If you can't do this kind of thing, then you can die in the mayor's mansion, which is a good thing for you and me! "

Faced with Joan's threat, Ranko no longer planned to die with Joan as before, but fell into deep thought, and did not respond even when Joan left.