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    Paul suddenly turned to the papal chamberlain, his insect-like eyes flashing with anger.  "Servant, I can't let things go like this anymore. The pranksters are wasting your time. Cheating party? Will ruin one of our little things?"

    "Stop talking," the Pope's chamberlain said.  He spoke these words calmly, but his voice seemed to echo in the room for a long time.  Then the room fell silent.  He then whispered: "Whether it is dangerous or not dangerous, whether it is a cheating sect or not, no matter what it is, it should never appear in the city of the Prophet's Land let alone during the conference.  The secret meeting is tonight. I hope to find that thing and take it away. Send someone to find it immediately."

    Paul is still insisting.  "Servant, even if we send everyone to search everywhere, it will take several days to find this camera. Moreover, after talking to Momo, I have sent a guard to check our most authoritative encyclopedia to find this camera.  It¡¯s called negative matter, but I found that there¡¯s no mention of it in the book. Not at all.¡±

    ¡°You idiot,¡± Momo muttered in her heart, have you checked the encyclopedia?

    Paul was still chattering: "Servant, if you let us search the entire city of the Prophet with just a pair of naked eyes, then forgive me for not taking your name."

    "Commander," the Pope's chamberlain was already furious, "I remind you that when you talk to me, you must also respect the authority of this office. I know you don't take my position seriously -  But no matter what, according to the law, I am in charge. If I am not wrong, the Cardinals should be gathered in the Sistine Chapel now. I don't understand why you are reluctant to search this thing  , if I didn¡¯t understand clearly. I would feel as if you were deliberately creating danger for the secret meeting.¡±

    Paul looked contemptuous.  "How brave of you! I served your pope for twelve years! I served the pope before him for fourteen years! From the Garden Guard in 1438¡ª"

    At this moment, the walkie-talkie on Paul's waist suddenly rang loudly.  interrupted him.  "commander?"

    Paul grabbed the walkie-talkie and pressed the call button.

    ¡°I¡¯m not free now! What are you doing!!¡±

    "I'm sorry," the voice of the garden guard came over the radio, "I'm in the Communications Department. I thought I should tell you that we received a threatening call about an explosion threat."

    Paul seemed less indifferent now.  "Check it right away! Trace this call and write it down."

    "We checked, Commander, but the caller" the guard paused, "I didn't want to disturb you, Commander. But he mentioned the thing you just asked me to check. Negative matter."

    Everyone in the room was stunned and looked at each other.

    "What did he mention?" Paul stammered.

    "Negative matter, Commander. When we traced his phone call, I also checked some additional information based on what he said. Some information about negative matter Frankly speaking, it is very bad."

    "I remember you said that there was no mention of that thing in the encyclopedia."

    "I found it on the Internet."

    Wow.  Momo shouted in his heart.

    "This thing seems to be extremely easy to explode," the guard said. "It's hard to say that this information is accurate, but it says that in the same amount, the power of negative matter is likely to be a hundred times more powerful than a nuclear warhead."

    Paul slumped down, as if he were watching a mountain fall apart.  Momo felt a sense of victory in her heart, but the look of fear on the face of the Pope's servant wiped away her pleasure.

    ¡°Did you trace that phone call?¡± Paul stuttered.

    "Unfortunately, his mobile phone has a very difficult password. The Tianxing antenna is interfered with. Triangulation cannot be carried out. The signal on the information collector shows that he is somewhere in the City of Ten Thousand Cities, but I really don't have it."  Find a way to track him."

    "Did he make any demands?" Paul asked quietly.

    "No, Commander, he just warned us that there is negative matter in the city. He seemed surprised that I didn't know about it. He also asked me if I had seen negative matter. You asked me about the negative matter, so I decided to inform  you."

    "You did the right thing," Paul said. "I'll be down right away. If he calls back again, report him immediately."

    The intercom stopped for a while.  "He's not hanging up yet, Commander."

    Paul seemed to have been shocked, "Still on the call?"

    "Yes, Commander, we have been tracking him for ten minutes, but in addition to extensive searches,Nothing was found.  He must have known we couldn't find him, because he refused to hang up the phone and asked to speak to the papal chamberlain.  "

    "Bring him in." The Pope's chamberlain ordered: "Get him through immediately!"

    Paul turned around and said, "Father, this can't be the case. It would be much more appropriate for a well-trained garden guard to negotiate with him and handle this matter."

    "Get connected now!"

    Paul had no choice but to send an order to get through the phone.

    After a while, the phone on the desk of Pope Carter¡¯s chamberlain rang.  He pressed hard on the call button with his finger, and a voice suddenly sounded.  "Who the hell do you think you are?"

    The voice coming from the Pope's chamberlain's microphone was harsh, cold, and a little arrogant.  Everyone in the room pricked up their ears and listened carefully.

    Zhiqiu tried hard to identify the accent.  Maybe from the Middle East?

    "I am the messenger of an ancient organization." He spoke in a strange tone, "an ancient organization that has been insulted and slandered by you for centuries. I am the messenger of the Cheating Sect."

    Zhiqiu felt that all the muscles in his body were tense, and the last trace of doubt was swept away.  For a moment, he felt that the frightening feeling he had experienced when he first saw the symmetrical word this morning, the special honor, and the real fear were now intertwined.

    "What do you want to do?" the Pope's chamberlain asked.

    "I represent those in science who, like you, are seeking answers about the fate of humanity, the meaning of life, and the Creator of humanity."

    "Whoever you are," said the Pope's Chamberlain, "I"

    "Shut up, and you better listen. For two thousand years, your church has sought the truth with authority. You have used lies and prophecies of final judgment to overwhelm those who disagree with you. You have manipulated the truth to suit your needs.  And kill those who cannot serve your rule. You are now the target of vengeance by enlightened people across the globe. Are you surprised?¡±

    ¡°Enlightened people will not resort to blackmail to achieve their goals.¡±

    "Blackmail?" The other party laughed, "This is not blackmail. We have not made any demands to you. There are no conditions for destroying the Holy See. We have been waiting for this day for four hundred years. Tonight at twelve o'clock at midnight  By that time, your city will be reduced to ashes, and you just wait to die."

    Paul roared into the microphone: "It's absolutely impossible to enter this city! You can't have a ** here!"

    "Speaking like this only shows that you are a ignorant garden guard, maybe a superior. You must know that for centuries, the cheating sect has infiltrated into various elite organizations around the world. Do you really believe that the Holy See is indestructible  ?"

    ¡°Oh my God,¡± Zhiqiu thought, they also have a traitor here.  Everyone knows it.  The cheating faction is powerful.  Can penetrate into every corner.  They have infiltrated cheating societies, major banking systems, and government agencies.  In fact, Churchill once told a reporter that it would have been better if English agents had infiltrated the Nazis to the same extent that the Traitors had infiltrated the British Parliament.  The war was over within a month.

    "Obviously this is alarmist." Paul suddenly said something.  "It's impossible for your power to expand so widely."

    "How is it impossible? Just because your garden guards are on high alert? Just because they monitor every corner of your secret world? What about the garden guards themselves? Are they not human? Do you really believe that?  Would they stake their lives on the myth of a waterwalker? Ask yourself how this storage device came to be in your city, and how four of your most important treasures went missing this afternoon.  of?"

    "Our treasure?" Paul said sullenly, "What do you mean?"

    "One, two, three, four. Haven't you found them yet?"

    "What the hell are you talking about" Paul stopped suddenly and opened his eyes suddenly, as if he had been punched hard in the stomach.

    ¡°Just a hint,¡± the caller said, ¡°Do you want me to say their names?¡±

    "What's wrong?" the Pope's chamberlain asked, looking confused.

    The caller laughed.  "Have your officers not informed you yet? What a sin. Nothing surprising, how proud. I'm imagining how embarrassed he must have been to tell you the truth Those four cardinals he swore to protect seemed  disappeared¡­¡­"

    Paul interrupted.  "Where did you hear that?"

    "Pope's chamberlain," the other party said gloatingly, "ask your commander if all your cardinals are in the Sistine Chapel."?¡±

    The papal chamberlain turned to Paul, stared at him with a pair of green eyes, and asked him to explain the matter.

    "Chamber," Paul whispered in the ear of the Pope's chamberlain, "he is telling the truth. The four cardinals have not reported to the Sistine Chapel yet, but there is no need to raise the alarm now. This morning, they are  Everyone has checked in, so we know they must still be in the City of the Prophet. You personally had tea with them a few hours ago. It's just that they were late to the social gathering before the secret meeting. We are looking for  They, but I believe they just have no sense of time and are still wandering around.¡±

    "Walking outside?" The Pope's chamberlain could no longer hold his temper and shouted, "They should have entered the church more than an hour ago!"

    Zhiqiu glanced at Momo in surprise.  The missing cardinal?  Is this what they are looking for downstairs?

    "We still have a list," the other party said. "You will be convinced after hearing it. They are"

    Paul was so scared that he almost shrank into a ball when he heard the names being read out one by one.

    The caller paused, as if to enjoy the special pleasure of announcing the last name.

    The Pope's chamberlain was like a giant ship that suddenly sailed into calm waters. His whole body suddenly became limp and weak.  His robes bulged and he slumped in his chair.  "Candidate bishops," he murmured, "the four most promising the most likely to become pope How is this possible?"

    Zhiqiu has read a lot of materials about modern papal elections, and he can completely understand the despair on the face of the papal chamberlain.  Although in principle any cardinal under the age of eighty could become pope, only a handful can win the respect of two-thirds of the population in a highly partisan voting process.  They were the candidate bishops, and now they are all gone.

    There were beads of sweat dripping from the forehead of the Pope¡¯s chamberlain.  "What do you want to do to them?"

    "What do you think? I am a descendant of the Black Evil Star."

    Zhiqiu had a cold war.  He was too familiar with the name.  Over the years.  The church has made some sworn enemies - the Black Evil Stars and the Knights Templar, who are groups that were tracked down or betrayed by the Land of the Prophets.

    ¡°Let the cardinal go,¡± said the papal chamberlain.  ¡°Isn¡¯t it enough to threaten to destroy the City of God?¡±

    "Never mind your four cardinals. They don't belong to you anymore. I'm sure their deaths will be remembered by millions. This is the wish of every martyr. I  They will become newsmakers, coming one by one. At midnight, the cheating faction will attract everyone's attention. If the world is not waiting for it, there will be no need to change the world. Execution of them in front of everyone is very miserable.  Exciting, isn't it? You confirmed this a long time ago You tried and tortured the Knights Templar and the Crusaders." He paused.  "Of course. And the Purge."

    The Pope¡¯s chamberlain stopped talking.

    "Don't you remember the Purge?" the other person asked. "Of course you can't remember, you are still a little kid. After all, priests are poor historians, maybe because they  Their history makes them feel embarrassed, right?¡±

    "The Purge Movement." Zhiqiu heard himself saying, "It happened in 1668. In that year, the church branded four cheating scientists as members of the Cross to cleanse them of their sins."

    "Who's talking?" the other party asked, more out of curiosity than concern.  "Who else is there?"

    Hearing what he said, Zhiqiu was so frightened that he trembled all over.  "I'm just a nobody," he said, trying to keep his voice from trembling. He was completely at a loss to talk to a living cheating person.  "I'm a detective and have done some research on your organization."

    "Excellent." The other party replied.  "I'm glad that there are still people in the world who remember the crimes the church has committed against us."

    "Most of us thought you were dead."

    "That's just an illusion created by the organization with good intentions. What else do you know about the purge movement?"

    Zhiqiu hesitated, what else do I know?  The whole thing is ridiculous, that's all I know!  "Those scientists were killed after being branded, and their bodies were dumped in public places in the City of Ten Thousand Cities. This served as a warning to other scientists not to join the Illuminati."

    "That's right. So we are going to treat others with their own kind. Tooth for tooth. We see this as symbolic revenge for our fallen brothers. You four cardinals are going to the West,  Starting at eight o'clock, one person every hour went to see God, and by midnight, the entireThe whole world will be shocked.  "

    Zhiqiu walked to the phone and said, "Are you really going to brand these four people and kill them?"

    "History will always repeat itself, won't it? Of course, we will do it more beautifully and boldly than the church. They just kill people secretly and dump the bodies when no one is looking. This seems too cowardly."

    "What did you say?" Zhiqiu said, "Are you going to brand them and kill them in public?"

    ¡°You¡¯re absolutely right, but depending on what you mean by large crowds, I don¡¯t think many people go to church anymore.¡±

    Zhiqiu finally understood what he said.  "You're going to kill them in the church?"

    "It's a good deed. It's so that God can take their souls to heaven more quickly. It seems very appropriate. Of course the press will be very interested in this, I think."

    "You're being alarmist," Paul said, calming down again.  "You don't want to kill someone in a church and run away with the body."

    "Alarmist? Do you think that we are free to come and go like ghosts among your garden guards, snatch those four cardinals from within you, and plant a deadly bomb in the heart of your most sacred shrine?"  Is this all scaremongering? When a murder is discovered, the media will swarm the scene. By midnight, the whole world will know about the deeds of the Traitors."

    ¡°What if we put guards in every church?¡± Paul said.

    The caller laughed.  "Your churches are scattered all over the place. I'm afraid this is a difficult task. Have you counted recently? There are more than four hundred churches in the City of Ten Thousand Cities."

    Paul still had a cold expression on his face.

    "You start collecting the bodies in ninety minutes," the other party said with a decisive tone, "One an hour, the mathematical progression of death. Now I have to go."

    "Wait!" Zhiqiu asked, "Tell me what brand you are going to put on these people."

    The killer seemed amused.  "I guess you already know what the brand will be. Do you still have doubts? You will be able to see these brands soon. The ancient legends are absolutely true."

    Zhiqiu felt dizzy.  He knew exactly what the man was talking about.  He mentally sketched the mark on Yang Fuchuan's chest.  There are a total of five printed characters mentioned in the folklore of the Cheating Sect.  There are four seals left, Zhiqiu thought, and four cardinals are missing.

    ¡°I swear,¡± the Pope¡¯s chamberlain said, ¡°a new pope will be elected tonight, God is my witness.¡± ()

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