Here, the Lord said this is a good thing

This trip to the church ended much faster than Ye He had imagined. Although he was unable to explore the Church of the Earth, he at least focused on exploring the practicality of the Church of the Earth's standard nun uniforms.

Ahem, I've gone off topic. Anyway, according to the news sent back by Caesar who was attached to Leila, Ye He already knew that Bishop Connor would "come to him".

Is there really an angel imprisoned in this church? After the "teaching" is over in the evening, Ye He will have plenty of time to explore.

So now...

Ye He looked at the gradually bustling city of South Folia, and without restoring his appearance, he stepped into the city in disguise.

Ever since the exploration of the Wailing Cave began, the Ice Knight has been sent out by Ye He alone.

Ye He did not let the Ice Knight enter South Folia, but instead circled the city, searching for secret places that might exist on the edge of the city.

From the very beginning, the Ice Knight was Ye He’s second-hand preparation.

This is an insurance policy to prevent the base of the mastermind from being in the city at all, or to prevent the mastermind from leaving immediately after exploring the Wailing Cave.

This is a city after all, and a breeding base for insects that enjoy killing is not actually suitable to be placed in the city.

Once the bugs come out, this kind of war weapon made to deal with the empire will first harm the civilians of the country, which will be a loss.

In fact, there was nothing wrong with Ye He's preparations, and the Ice Knight did discover something.

Before Charlie had the chance to tell her the addresses of the three laboratories she had set up for Wilson on the outskirts of South Folia, they had already been found one by one by the Ice Knight.

But even Charlie didn't know that these three laboratories had long been abandoned, and the Ice Knight came to nothing and found no useful information.

Perhaps when Ye He appeared in the town of Alvin, the staff in these three laboratories had received the news of evacuation.

Those behind the scenes who truly control the means of production and the core of value will not waste truly valuable things.

Ye He had also received the news that the Ice Knight had failed. He was not surprised but very happy.

Because the more these people behind the scenes fear themselves, the more actions they take, and the easier it is for their identities to be exposed.

As for the three names Charlie mentioned before, including Bishop Connor of the Church of the Earth.

Obviously, they are just the "glove" on the "inside".

Now that he's here, how can Ye He leave with peace of mind if he doesn't pull this hand out completely and decide whether to cut it off based on the situation and his mood?

He never cared about danger, weapons, or crises because these things meant nothing to him.

Ye He was just enjoying this game of cat and mouse, that's all.

If the mouse behaves well enough, it's possible that the big cat won't even harm it.

Catching the mice and checking their quality was the driving force behind Ye He's activities in South Folia.

"Sir, would you like a ride?"

A carriage just stopped in front of Ye He who was standing at the intersection, and the coachman greeted Ye He casually.

Ye He, who wanted to just walk around to kill time, was about to decline, but suddenly she received a message from the Ice Knight using Caesar on her side.

Ye He's eyes lit up, and the polite refusal on the tip of his tongue suddenly turned into:

"Okay!"

He got on the carriage, told the coachman an address, and then began to wait with his eyes closed.

Ye He's attention has moved to Caesar's "live broadcast". The Ice Knight, who was active in the suburbs of South Folia, unexpectedly caught a big fish!
They were a group of masked men who were secretly moving in the dense forests outside the city, carrying some things dug out from the ground onto a carriage.

Through Caesar, Ye He could not directly see the personal information tags of these people, but Caesar reported a message to Ye He.

During the brief exchange just now, these masked men once said this:

"Lord Marvin can't wait any longer, we must deliver it to him before tonight!"

Marvin...a director of the Federal War College, one of the three people named by Charlie.

That is, he is one of the direct manipulators who caused the bugs to be created.

Although he is not the biggest one, he is at least much "bigger" than the pure thugs like Merkel. Natasha also told Ye He that Director Marvin is also from the same faction as the director of the research institute.

As for the Federal War College...it is now the largest, best, and most famous institution in the Federation.

It is also a higher education institution spun off from Stuart University, once the top university on the continent.

Stuart has too much of an academic atmosphere, and there are too many conscientious teachers who are willing to impart knowledge to civilians and the poor, and they have long been a thorn in the eyes of some federal authorities.

As the saying goes, the more you confront your enemy, the more you will look like a couple!
Even though the Federation's constitution righteously states that "there is no aristocratic empire in this Federation", the kings of the small countries that make up the Federation and the big merchants who can influence the Federation have always been the "unknown aristocrats" within the Federation.

Capitalism has always been proud of deceiving itself and others. It's ridiculous, so Ye He smiled.

"Hiss..."

But at this moment, some air suddenly spurted out from a corner of the carriage, mixed with colorless and odorless anesthetics, which immediately filled the entire carriage.

Um? ? ? ? ?
To be honest, instead of feeling angry at the audacity of the person who attacked him, Ye He felt an indescribable sense of surprise.

This is so sudden and so interesting. Someone actually dared to...

and many more!

Ye He suddenly remembered that he was in disguise and these people didn't know his true identity at all...

tsk...

The feeling of surprise was immediately diluted by this fact, and Ye He lost interest in pretending to be fainted to get an advantage.

He reached out and knocked on the wall of the carriage on the coachman's side, coughed heavily, and signaled to the other party that he was not hit.

The carriage slowly stopped.

When Ye He opened the door and got out, the coachman who had jumped out of the car earlier had disappeared without a trace. Only the horse pulling the car turned back innocently and looked at Ye He.

Kidnapping? Robbery? Or organ or human trafficking?
Forget it, let’s do business first.

Ye He shook his head and walked forward, as if he was going to let these daring criminals go.

At the end of the street behind him, two pairs of eyes were staring at his figure through the window glass of the corner shop.

It was not until Ye He walked completely away, with his figure disappearing around the corner on the other side of the street, that the two pairs of eyes looked at each other indignantly.

"Did you get the anesthetic formula wrong again?"

"How is that possible! I must be right, there's something wrong with this guy!
Humph, he actually ran away like this, it seems that he is not a good person either."

"I don't know if he's a good guy or not. I only know that we've missed another suitable target. You just watch here, I'll ask someone to bring the carriage back."

"it is good!"

The two criminals had no idea that their conversation was being transmitted word for word into Ye He's ears in real time.

They need to be thankful because Ye He's current target is not them, but they don't have to be complacent because Caesar, who follows them, will tell Ye He everything about their lair and what they want to do by knocking people out.

If Ye He finds their "work" interesting enough, they will soon hear Ye He knocking on the door in their old nest.

As he had lost his means of transportation, Ye He could only use a little trick to quickly move himself to the dense forest in the suburbs where the Ice Knight was.

As he stepped silently into the dense forest and quietly approached a girl who was peeking out from behind a big tree.

Ye He covered the Ice Knight's mouth in advance and held down her hands to prevent her from being frightened and alerting the masked men behind the tree.

"It's me, what's going on?"

The Ice Knight turned around and saw Ye He's face. He glared at Ye He and bit the palm of Ye He's hand in anger.

The consequence of doing this was that Ye He pressed her against a tree and used a passionate kiss to soothe her efforts of the past two days.

Ever since he regained his body, the Ice Knight has been placed in the dark by Ye He as a hidden chess piece and has never been exposed to outsiders.

Perhaps even Cathy and Victor don't know of her existence, and that is why she can help Ye He catch the traces of those behind the scenes.

"look by youself."

The Ice Knight, who was softened by the kiss, hung himself in Ye He's arms, breathing in the scent of his lover, while Ye He nonchalantly stretched his head behind a big tree.

After crossing the last few meters, he saw a group of masked men digging something out of the ground and carrying it onto a carriage among the lush branches and leaves.

The key point is what they dug out from the ground. If Ye He was not mistaken, this kind of small thin coffin is generally used by the church.

It's very interesting that in the wilderness, where there is not even a tombstone, there are a lot of coffins produced by the church buried.

No matter what was in the coffin, this scene alone was enough to make Ye He excited.

"Is it over? Retreat!"

"Okay! Let's go!"

Ye He arrived at the right time, and the masked men had just finished loading the last coffin into the truck.

They jumped into the carriage with their shovels and followed the carriage to the outside of the dense forest.

This direction...isn't it Nanfolia?
Ye He was not in a hurry to catch up. There was no need to do so because Caesar would always lead the way for him.

If it weren't for the pleasure of following the clues, Yehe people would not have to come so early. He could have gone straight to Huang Chao through Caesar's surveillance.

"The smell of another woman... Hmm, the city is fun, right?"

The Ice Knight actually knew in his heart that Ye He asked him to stay in the dark so that he could secretly learn the rules of this era so that he could reintegrate into society.

This is no longer the era in which she grew up, but a new era that will come many years in the future.

Her habit of not letting outsiders see her skin is still very problematic in this era. Ye He can't just parade around with a knight in gorgeous women's armor.

But one thing is for sure, the Ice Knight still felt uncomfortable smelling the scent of those church nuns on Ye He.

"Hehe, if I tell you that I paid money to let those women serve me, would you feel better?"

Ye He has always been good at coaxing women, and he has personally experienced the era in which the Ice Knight lived.

Unlike "modern" ladies who would immediately think that Ye He was "spending money and cheating", the Ice Knight nodded seriously to Ye He upon hearing this.

"Okay, I forgive you, but you are not allowed to touch me before I take a shower!"

In the Ice Knight's era, women's status was slightly higher than men's, and the literal meaning of the term "male prostitutes and female thieves" could not be more appropriate to describe it.

In other words, men are the ones who act as lovers to women.

If a man receives a woman's "service" and pays for it, the woman will feel "humiliated" and "insulted".

...Good times!

Back to the topic, Ye He smiled and agreed to the Ice Knight's cleanliness, then slowly walked forward with her.

There were still large pits on the ground dug by the masked men. Ye He was somewhat surprised to find that there was no breath of death in these "tombs" where coffins had been buried.

The evidence was that the dragon head ring on his index finger did not release coldness in response to the power of the undead nearby.

This is the certification of a death dragon, it can't be more accurate than this.

Therefore, Ye He judged that either there were no corpses in those coffins, or the "corpses" in them were not dead at all!

Things are getting more interesting.

Following the ruts made by the carriages, Ye He led the Ice Knight forward and left the dense forest nearly half an hour later than the other carriages.

In front of the two of them appeared a dirt road that was neither wide nor narrow. It showed signs of heavy human use, and the soil had been compacted so much that there were almost no wheel tracks left.

Looking in the direction of the wheel tracks that finally disappeared at the edge of the dirt road, Ye He discovered that this side of the road actually led to the bank of the river that served as the border between the two countries.

The carriages must have sped up after they were on this dirt road, and Ye He was in no hurry to travel, so they could no longer see the dust raised by the carriages.

"Fly up and look for it?"

The Ice Knight was not in a hurry either. The road was so open that she could just fly with Ye He and they would soon be able to find the carriages.

"Need not."

Ye He smiled at her and waved forward.

Silver ripples bloomed, and a steam locomotive, which was not uncommon in the city of South Folia, appeared on the dirt road.

Although this thing is a bit noisy and vibrates when driving, it is still the most primitive "car" after all.

In order to keep them as collections or to take them back to Sedawell as souvenirs, Ye He had already purchased several of these steam locomotives.

Now is the time to use it!
"Is this... a means of transportation from this era? I've seen people driving it. Can you drive it?"

The Ice Knight was obviously also very interested in steam locomotives, and Ye He immediately gave her a meaningful smile.

"Not only can I drive, hey, hey, come on, get in the car, I know where they went."

(End of this chapter)