Chapter 1872: Empire Gray Gang in Action (6k)
“What? Someone’s shielding us?”
Within the Che Li Civilization, having finally managed to find some time to hide away in the lab, Bai Yi heard an astonishing and perplexing piece of news.
“Yes, three days ago, during that Insect Swarm attack, weren’t we exposing the Red Moon Church on purpose as per your instructions…
Over the past few days, the retaliation from the Three Great Civilizations has come as expected.
Our people were already prepared, so there shouldn’t have been much damage.
But strangely, our people noticed something wasn’t quite right.”
The witch reporting sounded uncertain, pausing for a moment before continuing.
“At first, our believers thought it was just an illusion; within the encirclement of the Three Great Civilizations, there would always be some loopholes, intentionally exposed to us, even occasionally providing unexpected alerts.
It’s as if someone among those encircling us is deliberately letting us go.”
Yet, we’ve already sent out witches specifically on watch, finding no one among the besiegers to be one of our own…”
The witch shook her head. Their witches—or more accurately, the Red Moon Church—had begun infiltrating the Three Great Civilizations. Initially, she indeed suspected it might be their own doing.
For this, she even used internal methods, riskily sending people to question those infiltrators, ultimately arriving at an entirely unrelated conclusion.
“Furthermore, besides this, it’s happening even online.
Though the mainstream forces are suppressing us, promoting negative sides, smearing us, hiding or drowning most of our information in false messages.
Yet, there’s a force secretly spreading for us, the methods are extremely covert.
I even asked Knight to have a look; she said such methods require at least a High-level Mechanician to achieve.
And it definitely requires a significant number of personnel in support.”
Knight was already considered a veteran among the witches, very experienced, formerly an artificial intelligence, known within the witch circle for her powerful mechanical abilities.
Even the judgment of an AI intelligence like hers wouldn’t be wrong.
But if it isn’t wrong…
“We don’t have that many High-level Mechanicians, even if we did, we wouldn’t have the time.
In the starry sky, unless there happens to be enough wild Mechanicians doing this, otherwise driving so many Mechanicians…”
Only the Three Great Civilizations…
Bai Yi sensed the subtext in the witch’s words.
“So, is someone within the Three Great Civilizations intending to let the Red Moon Church go…
It’s impossible for them to do it casually given their position; there must be some interest involved.”
But…
Who stands to gain?
Bai Yi couldn’t make sense of these twists; if anything, none of the three are without possibilities.
The Saien Civilization has the Business Alliance, having collaborated with the Red Moon Church before. If they’re valuing the connection between the Red Moon Church and the Insect Swarm, or suspecting the Red Moon Church controls the Insect Swarm, secretive collaboration isn’t off the table.
The Gemini Empire is even more obvious, having mastered the Faithful Gods system, the Empire might well be interested.
As for the Radiant Federation, the chance is smaller, but they too have the embryonic technology of Faithful Gods, potentially sharing the Empire’s motive.
However, if thinking from a different angle, if they truly are interested in the Red Moon Church, besides waiting for that side to make contact…
It’s that they have already contacted…
“How’s the situation with newly recruited believers recently?”
The witch immediately caught on but shook her head to explain a bit awkwardly:
“No, the Church’s missionary methods, Your Highness, you’re aware.
It always starts with ordinary believers who haven’t formally joined the Church, needing to complete enough missionary tasks to earn an opportunity to connect with the Church.
It’s only been a few days; even if someone arranged it, the process couldn’t have been completed.
And those ordinary believers are impractical to count…”
Simply put, they’re a group far from the core, without direct contact with the Church, merely developing independently as missionaries.
In comparison, if you think of the Church’s Pope as the Emperor, then these newly developing believers are soldiers recruited by ordinary knights under a Baron, some even just subordinates of soldiers.
One can’t realistically expect the Emperor to constantly know how many subordinates every knight has recruited, it’s impractical.
Even if counting is required, many missionaries lack real-time contact means with the Church.
By the time the counted results come in, that infiltrator might have already gained transcendent abilities through normal means, attracting real attention from the Church.
Rather than being busy, it might be better to focus on the next few days to see which missionaries begin applying for Artificial Abnormality and screen out those who progress particularly quickly.
“That’ll be troublesome, these families…”
Bai Yi scratched his head, “Can’t identify who specifically, it’s hard to arrange…”
“Forget it, worrying now is pointless; let’s wait, continue monitoring the Church and report any abnormal personnel immediately.
Additionally, compile the number of believers from the Three Great Civilizations, because if they truly intend to enter the Red Moon Church, new believers are indispensable, see which side has the fastest increase in new believers.
Though they may deliberately arrange infiltration in other civilizations, counting will still help.”
After agonizing for a while, Bai Yi ultimately chose to give up.
Just as the witch said, rather than effort, it’s better to wait for natural development, especially since it currently benefits the Red Moon Church.
Compared to a person who poses no threat to the Red Moon Church currently, those who still pose a threat are more worth noticing.