Chapter 434: Reliable Salted Fish Player
Bennett was sitting sideways with his legs crossed, leaning forward, holding his head with one hand and using the other hand to support himself on the ground to prevent himself from completely collapsing to the ground.
The girl maintained such an awkward posture, raised her head woodenly, and looked at the huge curtain in front of her and the chattering female militia under the curtain.
What is she saying?
Holy religion, is it a cult?
The chief priest is the leader of the cult?
Was that majestic temple demolished by the leader of the priests?
Bennett seemed to hear a hissing sound in her ears, and the sound was so harsh that it gave her a splitting headache.
Impossible... How could it be - a holy religion, how could it be a cult? !
Bennett heard the sound of her heart breaking, and this time her heart was broken even more than the last time she saw the temple being demolished.
Robin, the commentator holding the microphone, had no time to see the shocked, painful, and unbelievable faces of the civilians in front of the screen. She had never spoken loudly in front of so many people before and was actually very nervous. She stared at the script and read out the words verbatim:
"After witnessing the leader of the cultists become deformed, the Tarantan Undead found the remains of a person suspected to be the 'Holy Church' cult leader, who claimed to be the chief priest, under the ruins. After considering the on-site environment, they believed that the cult leader who claimed to be the chief priest must have died in the collapse of the hall..."
"Afterwards, two more Tarantan undeads found a secret cave behind the temple. The cave contained the sect's huge living sacrifice site..."
The screen played the scene of the hall collapse three times in a loop, and some of the scenes of the live sacrifice taken by Yang Qiu himself when he went deep into the cave were displayed.
Naturally , the altars, sacrificial patterns, and sacrificial runes could not be shown to the public, lest someone follow suit and perform sacrifices; the only images on public display were the stone slabs stained dark black by blood, and... the layers of human corpses piled up in the corner of the cave.
The corpses were in varying degrees of decay; some had completely turned to skeletons, while others still had dried human tissue and hair remaining.
Most of the corpses still had clothes and accessories on their limbs.
Before "cremating" the pile of corpses, Yang Qiu used his mobile phone to take multi-angle and all-round photos of the pile of corpses to serve as a warning. As soon as the images were projected onto the big screen, civilians nearby and townspeople in the distance let out screams one after another.
"Oh My God!"
“Oh my god!”
"What is that? Oh my God!"
Bennett, a girl in pain from having her worldview shattered, was also frightened by the overly "inappropriate for children" scene on the screen and instantly woke up from her self-pity. She screamed meaninglessly and crawled backwards using all fours.
The people around her reacted similarly. Those closest to the curtain even hid back crying.
"This is the true face of the so-called 'holy religion'!" The commentator Robin did not look back at the big curtain behind her. The female militia was already enraged by the facts described in the script and became more and more agitated. "These hateful heretics, in the name of selecting 'holy servants' and 'holy attendants', allow devout believers to bring their families to the holy land to enjoy a good life. They deceive people into offering them money and goods and handing their families over to them to take away!"
"The wealth that was taken away under the pretext of offering became the flashy temples and altars of the so-called 'holy land'. The deceived believers became the victims of living sacrifices, dying painfully in secret valleys far away from their families, in desperate situations with no one to turn to for help!"
"You paid such a heavy and painful price, but what did you get? Nothing but empty promises that will never be fulfilled and petty favors worthless. Think about it carefully. Is what you paid to the so-called 'Holy Church' really equal to what you received from it?"
"The so-called 'priests' who walk among the crowd and deceive you into believing in them, who once cured you and gave you food - but have you ever thought about how much medicine, bread and meat you can buy with the money you give them?"
The scene was silent.
Everyone just stared in silence at the images of corpses from different angles flashing across the screen.
Due to lighting and stacking issues, it is difficult to identify the specific styles of the clothes remaining on the corpse, but there is no doubt that they are all coarse linen and fine cotton fabrics familiar to the locals.
When your relatives, whether from your own family or your neighbors' families, followed the great priest away...what were they wearing?
The woman next to the girl Bennett suddenly lowered her head and covered her face and cried bitterly, calling out someone's name intermittently.
Bennett turned her head stiffly and looked at the woman who got on the carriage with her... She remembered that this woman, who was about the same age as her mother, had personally sent her son away three years ago.
When entering the holy land... no, when entering the terrible, devilish canyon, the woman excitedly said that her son might be among those formal believers in black robes... She even leaned close to the car window, expectantly looking for her son in the crowd.
"Maybe he has grown taller and stronger, and I can't recognize him anymore. But it doesn't matter, he will definitely recognize me, and he will find me tomorrow..."
Bennett was stunned, and a huge fear suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart, and he hugged the thin girl tightly.
“Oh… God…”
Cold tears rolled down the girl's pale cheeks quietly.
The terrible fear that seemed to drag her into an ice cellar froze her heart and body. Bennett, who realized the fear belatedly, shrank her shoulders, hugged her arms tightly, and trembled uncontrollably all over her body.
She was...almost becoming one of the corpses in the mountain.
An anti-cult propaganda class ended with loud crying...
Not only the civilians in the camp who had managed to survive, but also many of the townspeople outside the camp who had just gathered to watch the excitement were crying their hearts out.
The "Holy Religion" has been active in Baboba Town and the two nearby towns for more than 20 years!
Among ten families, at least two or three have sent off their family members with great anticipation.
They thought that their family members were just not pious enough and needed to continue practicing in the "holy land". They thought that although it was difficult for them to meet their family members, at least they were living a good life in the "holy land" without having to worry about food and clothing - who could have thought that the truth was so cruel!
The tour guide Robin put down the microphone and looked silently at the civilians lying on the ground. He then turned his gaze to the townspeople outside the camp who were crying bitterly.
After a long time, the female militia let out a sigh.
The team officer came forward and whispered to Robin, "You did a good job," then lowered his head and silently packed up the important projector.
The male and female militiamen who were maintaining order nearby were also in a bad mood. Some came to help clean up, while others went to persuade civilians to return to the barracks.
After wrapping the projector in cotton cloth and putting it in the box, Robin packed up the microphone and speakers as well. He whispered to the captain, "I brought a radio... Tomorrow, let's use my radio to play the radio drama for the people here. I think the people here really need to listen to the radio drama "The Deceiver's Code."
The officer nodded, then shook his head, and said to Robin gently, "You did remind me, but there's no need to use your personal belongings. I'll apply to Mr. Yang for it."
"Isn't this a bit... too much trouble, Mr. Yang?" Robin said embarrassedly.
"No." The team officer smiled and picked up the box containing the microphone and projector. "When you are promoted to a non-commissioned officer, you will know that Mr. Yang is only dissatisfied with us for not doing enough, and he never dislikes us for causing trouble for him."
Robin nodded vigorously: "Yeah!"
Of course Yang Qiu wouldn't mind the trouble... He is eager to make use of the indigenous people who have ideas, suggestions and strong subjective initiative, and there is absolutely no reason to turn them away.
After receiving the request from the militia officer, Yang Qiu directly assigned a task to the lazy player who was wandering around Innadli City and whose transmission CD was always on.
The two casual players who were strolling around Innadli City with buckets in their hands had no doubts about the tricks in the quest they had received. When they saw that it was a quest that only required running errands and no monster fighting, and that could also increase reputation for the Chamber of Commerce, they happily ran to the Undead Chamber of Commerce to get the "quest item" and were teleported to Lars City.
After coming out of the Lars City teleportation point, the two casual players looked around and realized that they had never been to this map before.
Salted Fish Party A: "Why haven't I seen this map before? Is it a new map?"
Salted Fish Party B: "I took a look at the forum before going online, and it seems that a big guy has done a world view breakthrough task, opened a large map, and added a lot of BOSS-killing tasks."
Salted Fish Party A: "Those big guys are awesome!"
Salted Fish Party B: "Why else would you call me boss?"
Then the two players went to deliver the goods with the "mission props" on their backs... They didn't even have the slightest idea of joining the big boss' team to fight the BOSS or take on the cool missions.
The straight-line distance from Lars City to Baboba Town is only more than 30 kilometers, but because it is a mountainous area outside the city, it takes nearly 50 kilometers to get there by going around and climbing.
It was a dark and windy night, and the mountain road was steep. If mercenaries were to travel this distance, they would have to wait until dawn, otherwise it would be easy for something to get into trouble late at night.
If it were a player, there wouldn't be so many problems...
The two players, whose military level is only enough to kill the sandworms in the mining area of the Tarantan map and the lazy players who dare to go to the spider's nest to kill the offline players, carried a hand-cranked generator (military version) on their backs, plus a few palm-sized radios, speakers, batteries and other "mission props" whose total weight was not as heavy as the equipment of elite players. They jumped around in the mountains and played parkour. In a little more than half an hour (game time), they delivered the things to the destination.
At the camp outside Baboba Town, the team officer who had submitted the application less than an hour ago calmly took over two backpacks , and skillfully paid ten undead coins (reputation Yang Qiu paid himself).
After completing the mission, the two lazy fishers were still in no hurry to leave. They wandered around the new map of Baboba Town, which didn't even have a teleport point. They found a river next to the camp, so they happily went there to fish...
The next day, Robin got up before dawn, took care of his personal hygiene, and reported to the team officer.
The team officer directly handed her two backpacks and asked her to find someone to go to the town to install the loudspeakers.
Robin had just called a teammate to walk out of the camp when he saw two undead squatting by the river outside the camp, fishing.
"Our undead are really reliable." Robin said to his teammates with emotion, "They will come to help no matter how far or remote the place is. Seeing them makes me feel at ease."
"That's right." The teammates nodded proudly.
On this day, after the townspeople of Baboba got up and had breakfast at home, their neighbors began to visit each other.
"Have you heard?"
"Have you heard that those outsiders caused a big commotion last night..."
In this small town with a permanent population of only a thousand households, everyone is more or less related to each other. Before nine o'clock in the morning, the big news that the "Holy Church" was actually a cult that came out last night had already spread to everyone.
If someone in a family is being selected as a "holy servant" or "holy attendant" and has never seen the scene on the screen with their own eyes, they will naturally strongly oppose it and curse, saying things like "those outsiders have bad intentions" and "don't talk nonsense, if you offend the high priest you will suffer bad consequences."
Some people were skeptical and went to other families in the same situation to inquire for information.
Those families who had just sent their family members away six days ago could no longer sit still and nervously rushed to the "outsider" camp - because they were worried that the militia from outside the town would harass and rob the townspeople, the townspeople had consciously avoided approaching that place since the militia appeared outside the town the day before, and they were not aware that their family members were also in that camp.
There were also some "smart" locals who immediately prepared to go to the next town to find the "priest" to report the news...
The Adler militia naturally would not easily allow the townspeople to come into contact with the "isolated" civilians in the camp, and stopped the townspeople who came to look for their relatives outside the camp.
Of course, the militiamen would not really prevent people from even speaking. While stopping the townspeople, they also sent people to notify civilians in the barracks, asking those civilians from the town to come out and see their families so that their families could feel at ease.
Bennett and several girls he knew came out of the barracks and saw from afar their mother, father, and brother standing outside the camp fence.
"Mom! Dad! Brother!"
Bennett ran quickly to the fence and hugged his mother and cried bitterly across the wooden fence.
When the team officer saw this touching scene of family reunion, he immediately called Robin, who had just installed a loudspeaker in the town, and asked her to prepare a speech. He also ordered the male militia to quickly hang the curtain on the wooden frame that had been used last night and had not yet been dismantled.
The light outside was too bright during the day, and the image on the screen was not clear enough, but it was still barely visible...
The townspeople, who were questioning their families about the Holy Church, were all stunned as they saw the shocking scenes on the screen from close up through the camp fence.
Not far away, two players squatting by the river fishing turned their heads to look at the bustling NPC camp.
"These NPCs are so noisy, no wonder the fish won't take the bait." Salted Fish Party A said angrily.
"Change place, change place." Salted Fish Party B said after finishing his club.
