Chapter 418 Captain Mays on the Pirate Ship
At eight o'clock in the morning in the other world, an hour before the players reached Kata Town, at the Dutata City Hall, Miss Fei Pi, who had just finished her breakfast, received a verbal transfer order, ordering her to hand over the work at hand before the end of the morning.
"I think I'm doing a good job in the secretarial department..." Miss Phoebe, realizing that something was wrong, instinctively tried to refuse.
"I'm sorry, Miss Feifei, this is a transfer order from Mr. Yang." The operator who came to deliver the message said apologetically, "Please give me your room key. We will arrange for someone to pack your luggage and belongings to ensure that you can leave with the team before noon."
"What do you want to do? Where do you want to send me? I won't do it! I want to see Ms. Zhao! I want to see Ms. Zhao~~"
Including Miss Fei Pi from the Secretariat, dozens of mid-level clerks and staff from the Logistics Department, the Civil Affairs Department, the Commerce Department, and many other departments simultaneously received the highest priority transfer orders from Lord Yang.
Also receiving the transfer order were a militia team from the Militia Department of the Public Security Bureau that was conducting closed training in the port area and 800 young and strong contract workers from the Municipal Construction Engineering Department of the Civil Affairs Bureau.
At nine o'clock in the morning in the other world, when the players just discovered Kata Town, Mace, the captain of the night watch of the Gold Coin Church in Dutata City, who was wandering on the street, was stopped by senior agent Stanford and half-forced and half-tricked into a restaurant directly operated by the roadside Logistics Department.
“Puff! Cough cough cough! You, you guys are going to send troops to Takia?!”
In the restaurant's private room, Captain Metz, who had just sat down, spat out half a cup of pre-dinner sweet drink in astonishment.
"No, no, no, we are not sending troops. It's just that our undead friends discovered that there are clues about the Eternal Sleeper sect in the Taqiya territory, so they rushed over enthusiastically to help the Taqiya people eliminate the hidden dangers of the cult." Agent Stanford said calmly.
"I see." Captain Mace nodded in admiration at first. He has always admired the spirit of the Tarantan Undead to eliminate evil forces.
But soon, the captain of the Night Watch, who was not too smart, felt something was wrong: "Wait - did Lord Tachia send an invitation or request for assistance to the undead?"
"Regarding this... our Lord Coulson O'Neill is actively trying to contact Lord Tachia." Agent Stanford said calmly.
Captain Mace: “…”
No matter how obsessed Captain Mace is with exorcism, he is not completely without political acumen.
"This is no small matter, Stanford." Captain Mace said with a twitch in his mouth, "The undead entered the Taqia Territory without an invitation. This kind of thing - let alone the Taqia Territory, the capital will not ignore it, right?!"
If Captain Mace had not gotten along very well with the current "Count O'Neill regime", or rather, the Undead regime, he would never have been so tactful in his words - what's the difference between this and an undeclared war against the Tachia Lord? !
Who doesn't know that an army of 30,000 undead can even force the Church of the Fiery Sun to lower its noble head and negotiate with the black magician Yang!
Such a notorious army of undead suddenly came to their territory. Who would believe that they were just taking a walk!
Agent Stanford had a blank expression on his face, but his heart was certainly not as calm as he appeared... If he wasn't on a mission, he would actually be the one who wanted to complain crazily the most.
The Dutata City Hall was already so short of staff that most people only had one weekend off a month. Even so, Lord Yang suddenly came and asked them to find a way to free up some staff to take over the Tachia Territory. Stanford, a senior agent who had been ordered around by the City Hall to do his job for the past six months, would have been tempted to resign immediately if he hadn't been reluctant to give up his salary, benefits and agent status.
"I can swear on my faith in the Lady of Gold Coin that our undead friends are only going to destroy the cult, nothing more, and they have absolutely no other intentions."
After a pause, Agent Stanford said solemnly, "The only thing that worries us the most right now is that Captain Tachia has misunderstood our undead friends who have come all the way to help with good intentions... You know, Captain, our undead friends are not warlike, but they will never let go of any enemy who dares to provoke them."
"If we can invite the Night Watch to participate in this matter, there may be a chance to avoid unnecessary disputes. In any case , we hope that the Rhine Kingdom will not be too turbulent because of this. Our Lord and the Black Mage who follows the Lord all hope so."
Captain Mace: “…”
The nightmare butcher who airdropped the undead to interfere in the battlefield of Middle-earth from thousands of miles away, hoping for peace? ?
Go ask a three-year-old kid on the street, will he believe it?
Captain Mays wanted to spit in Stanford's face, but his character allowed him to control his impulse.
First, such a big matter is obviously not something that Agent Stanford can decide, so it’s useless to criticize him.
Second, the special trip by Agent Stanford to inform me was a gesture of goodwill from the Undead Regime to the Gold Coin Church... No matter whether the Gold Coin Church supports the Undead Regime or not, they will defeat it! The Nightmare Butcher did not ask for the opinion of the Gold Coin Church when he attacked Adler Territory!
Captain Mays had no choice but to say stiffly: "I need to report this matter to His Excellency the Bishop before I can give you a reply."
"I'll leave everything up to you."
Agent Stanford stood up, bowed respectfully, reached out to pick up the hat on the coat rack and put it on, then politely bowed and said goodbye to Captain Mays, and then strode away - he was also on the list of personnel to be urgently transferred, and he had to go home quickly to pack his luggage!
Captain Mays sat alone in the private room for a moment before he realized...After Agent Stanford dragged him in, he only asked the waiter to serve sweet drinks to moisten his mouth, and he didn't order any full meal at all!
I didn't pay for the sweet drinks...
Captain Mays paid for the sweet drink with a helpless smile and ran straight to the church with a pained look on his face.
In the Gold Coin Church, the Bishop of the Adler Diocese slammed the table angrily when he heard the news brought by Captain Mace: "I knew that guy's ambitions were more than just this. Look, I guessed right! But the people in the Holy Land believed the lies of Lee Gene (Bishop of the Innadri Diocese) and refused to face up to the biggest hidden danger, the Nightmare Butcher!"
Next, the white-robed bishop, who had always been at odds with the Undead regime (Nightmare Butcher), began to accuse the evil black magician incessantly, and he kept accusing him for several minutes without any intention of stopping.
Captain Mays's expression gradually stiffened: "..."
Captain Mace did devote most of his life's energy to exorcism, but he was a mid-level clergyman in the church and the captain of the night watch in the archdiocese, so he was not without the most basic political sense.
His Eminence the Bishop's attitude showed that he didn't want to deal with this matter at all.
Whether accepting the invitation of the undead regime, sending out night watchmen to monitor the entire process of "the undead entering the Taqiya territory without permission to expel and eliminate the cult", or directly refusing, it would be of no benefit to His Excellency the Bishop, and even harmful to some extent - the former would be maliciously criticized for associating with the undead and the evil black magicians; the latter would also be maliciously criticized for watching the cult problem worsen and doing nothing as a diocesan bishop, and no matter which side he was involved in, it would become a black history.
Since no matter what choice you make, it will be wrong, then just don't make any choice.
After being scolded for a while and knowing the attitude of His Eminence the Bishop, Captain Metz uttered a few painful but superficial words of self-reflection, then excused himself and left.
"——I am the only one who can shoulder this responsibility."
After leaving the church, Captain Mace shook his head helplessly, and trotted back to the Night Watch headquarters to call for help, while silently pondering how to write the report when he reported the matter to the Holy Land.
If His Eminence the Bishop of the diocese is unwilling to get involved, then it can only be him, the captain of the night watch, who "acts recklessly", "acts on his own", "arbitrarily" condones and even accompanies the undead of the Adler diocese to "enforce the law across borders"...
Having decided to take the blame, Captain Metz's mentality actually improved a lot.
Anyway, there are only those who died in the line of duty or were promoted and transferred as night watch captains; no one was fired halfway through the job. The worst that happened was a salary deduction; this loss can be fully compensated by the part-time job (director of adult night school) received from the city hall.
As for the relationship between the Undead Regime and the Gold Coin Church, even if things go to the worst possible point and the Territory of Tachia and even the Rhine Kingdom become the territory of the Undead Regime, they are still the diocese of the Gold Coin Church.
Captain Mace adjusted his mindset and returned to the Night Watch headquarters. He picked out a few people and went straight to the city hall diagonally opposite the headquarters to "report".
At noon, when Captain Mace and his companions got on the carriage arranged by the City Hall and headed for the port area to take a boat (the water route can also reach the Tachia Territory, and it is faster than the land route), the captain of the Night Watch was shocked to find that... the dock was full of clerks, militia and contract workers from the City Hall. There were at least a thousand people (mostly militia and contract workers).
"…Just going to Tachia to lead the exorcism?"
Captain Mace looked solemnly at the Sheriff's Department detective who was in the same car with the night watchman.
"Indeed." Agent Stanford said in a steady tone.
Captain Mace: “…”
If he had no choice but to board the pirate ship of the Undead Regime, Captain Mace would have wanted to point at the crowded crowd on the dock and yell at Stanford: When did you go blind? !
Less than twenty meters away from Captain Mays, who was staring at Agent Stanford and gasping for breath, Yang Qiu was getting off another carriage.
Kingsley also got off the car with Yang Qiu.
"Do you really not need me to help?" Kingsley said as he and his disciples got off the carriage one after another. "I have stayed in the Rhine King for a while and know the court mages supported by the Rhine royal family. If the old king sends a group of court mages, at least I am more familiar with their fighting styles than you are."
"I'll feel more at ease if you stay behind." Yang Qiu said calmly, "As you said, you know more about the court mage group supported by the Rhine royal family."
Kingsley thought about it and said, "Okay, then you be careful." Then he returned to the carriage.
Spellcasters have long been accustomed to being separated for years or even decades, and they do not feel reluctant to say goodbye every time.
Yang Qiu glanced at the crowd at the dock and nodded with satisfaction... It took only half a year to develop so many available people. The efficiency of the national team was indeed amazing after it got on track.
I calmly boarded one of the boats and found a seat in the cabin.
Four large ships with skulls printed on their hulls sailed out of the dock, upstream, and headed towards the Territory of Tachia.
When it was time for dinner, Yang Qiu, who was sitting at his seat reading a magazine, noticed that the staff distributing meals walked past him without even looking at him. Only then did he realize that he had cast an invisibility barrier even on his own boat.
After canceling the subspace barrier, Yang Qiu turned sideways and called to the staff who had walked to the back row: "Give me a standard meal."
The staff member looked back and realized that he had missed a passenger, so he quickly went back.
Sitting opposite Yang Qiu, Captain Metz, who was opening the lid of his lunch box, stared blankly at the black magician who seemed to appear out of thin air in front of him.
