At this moment, Benny felt that Joey's eyes were shining brightly and brilliantly, the same look he had when he was offering sacrifices to the Poseidon.
It is a powerful self-confidence that comes from the depths of the soul.
"According to you, we should be enemies." Benny stared at Joey with a bad tone.
"No" Joey shook his head gently: "You are wrong. It is not external factors that cause Poseidon to sleep, but something wrong with them themselves."
"As for the root causes, these may only be known to the people above." He raised his hand and pointed to the top of his head.
"There are some things you don't need to ask." Joey changed the subject and his expression became serious: "The only thing I can tell you is that you and I are not enemies."
He thought for a moment and considered his words: "The two Poseidons hold the power, and our organization has chosen one of them."
After clarifying his words, he quietly waited for Benny's response.
After waiting for a while, he slowly said:
"What you roughly mean is that Poseidon is one body with two souls. His sleep is due to some uncontrollable factors between the two leaders, which led to the split."
"That's right" Joey nodded and snapped his fingers.
"What do you want me to believe?"
"Hmm!" Joey pursed his lips and said softly, "Yes, you don't need to believe it, you just need to consider the benefits and losses."
He played with the tea cup confidently: "Did you suffer any losses? No!"
"Moreover, I am not afraid to tell you the purpose of our organization. It will take time for Poseidon to be resurrected, and our Lord's resurrection also requires an environment. A chaotic environment, a situation that the Seven Gods have no time to take care of."
Benny's dim eyes suddenly brightened, and Joey's words made most of his doubts go away.
For a god who has returned from the past, even if he was once powerful, recovery does not mean recovery of strength. This will take a long time to re-preach and re-develop believers.
In a world system where the Seven Gods control the situation, it is difficult for the new church to have room for development.
Even the Poseidon Church, which was once the most powerful in the Second Age, is now struggling to survive.
In Benny's mind, if the gods behind Joey want to gain a firm foothold, they have only one way to stir up the world situation and contain the forces of the Seven Gods.
Choosing to support Poseidon makes sense.
With all the doubts in his mind gone, he laughed loudly and said, "I accepted the reward for this message."
Joey also smiled and extended a hand: "Happy cooperation."
Their hands separated at the touch of each other.
"I don't know much about Poseidon's secrets," he said first, in order to block Benny's possible questions.
The way to avoid it is to make things confusing so that Benny can't figure out the context.
Facts have proved that he was prescient. Looking at Benny's constipated expression, he knew that this guy had no good intentions.
But he couldn’t tell the matter to death. Joey coughed lightly and said:
"I'm not a core member now. Maybe when my level increases, I can get more information."
Benny stared solemnly into Joey's eyes for about ten seconds, as if he wanted to judge whether Joey was lying through his eyes.
"Okay, I believe you for now." As he spoke, his tone suddenly turned cold: "It's best not to lie to me."
"No, no," Joey waved his hands repeatedly: "Next, should we talk about cooperation?"
Seeing Benny nod slightly, he stood up and walked to the side, where there was a panoramic view of the topography of Port Lia.
There are also locations he marked with a red pen on it.
"Next, their next target is here."
"Church, they're crazy." No matter how good-hearted Benny was, he was still frightened.
"Don't worry! This is just the superficial purpose, the real purpose is here." His fingers slowly moved to another place.
After explaining all the plans prepared by Annie, Joey returned to his seat, played with the tea set, and waited quietly for the other party to digest the information.
There is a fundamental difference between a true Poseidon believer and the 'Mermaid Forest'.
Killing and blood have never been the means to win over believers, and Poseidon's teachings are not watered with blood.
Poseidon, he represents the vastness and tolerance of the sea, not bloodthirsty and killing.
Using blood sacrifice to awaken the Poseidon has never been a doctrine of the Poseidon Church. It is just a method used by the people in the Mermaid Forest. Not only the Church of the Seven Gods, but also the Poseidon Church classifies them as heretics.
The 'Mermaid Forest' penetrated the upper echelons of the church and used blood sacrifices to try to awaken the Poseidon. In Benny Hoyland's view, that was a blasphemy against faith.
He clenched his fist angrily and smashed it against the wall, making a loud bang.
"How dare these damn heretics. If these things are exposed, even if Poseidon returns, he will be spurned by the people. How can they develop the church?"
Women and children have always been taboo, and all magical rituals using blood sacrifices are classified as paganism. Once labeled with this label, it is absolutely impossible to develop and grow.
The purpose of the 'Mermaid Forest' is to revive Poseidon, but in fact it is cutting off the way for Poseidon to recover.
How could he, an orthodox church member, not be annoyed.
However, at the same time, he was hesitating whether he could really bear the consequences if this matter was exposed. Will it make civilians more hostile to Poseidon believers?
Joey caught the change in his hesitant expression and whispered:
"If a tumor is not removed, it will only grow and eventually lead to cancer."
Benny, who was still hesitant at first, heard Joey's words, and the emotion in his eyes gradually became firm.
He gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "Do it!"
"I will send everyone away when the time comes."
As Benny spoke, he cast an appreciative look at Joey and said softly: "Your choice is correct. Without this conversation, your plan will definitely fail."
"Huh?" Joey looked up at him suspiciously.
Isn't blowing up the church enough to lure all the people from the Sheriff's Department away?
"Firearms and ammunition are a first-level ban in the order established by the Alliance of Seven Gods. No matter what happens in the ammunition depot of the Public Security Department, there will be a magic circle. As long as the secret key can enter, external forces, even high-ranking people, will not May break”
"The secret key is in my hand! Even if no one is left in the entire Public Security Department, you still won't be able to open the ammunition depot, let alone destroy it."
Joey scratched his head and said with a smile: "Last time you took me in, there wasn't even a guard. You thought it was because the security was slack!"
"What do you think is a first-level ban?" Benny said with a cold smile: "Except for the sheriff and the church investigators, once civilians are found carrying guns, they can be killed on the spot regardless of the reason."
Joey took a sharp breath, and thought to himself at the same time: Fortunately, I was cautious. If I really followed Annie's plan, I would probably die without knowing how.
Benny glanced up at the clock on the wall.
"It's getting late. Do you want to stay for lunch? Or?"
As he spoke, he raised his hand to disperse the power that blocked the room.
Joey waved his hands and shook his head: "No."
. . .
After walking out of the Sheriff's Department and looking at the endless crowds of people on the street, Joey felt a little lost.
The next step is to wait for Anne Block to take action.
No one can predict how the situation will eventually develop. The only thing he can do is to obtain enough benefits from it and remove himself.
The western sun stretched his shadow very long. Behind him, there was nothing to rely on. He had nothing but himself.
. . .
Three days later.
As the church bells rang, huge light curtains appeared in various neighborhoods of Port Leia to ensure that everyone could see it.
In the light curtain, the man in black robe had a deep and deep voice.
No one could see his face under the black robe, only a hideous skull mask could be seen.
"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen! Nice to meet you all"
"This time, I have prepared a big surprise for everyone."
While speaking, a huge map screen appeared behind him.
There was a big box in front of him. He opened the box and found white banknotes inside.
The crowd of onlookers became restless and stared at the box with burning eyes.
"I hid 8 boxes in Port Lia. Go and find them. The wealth belongs to you."
'Boom!' At this moment, the noise resounded throughout the whole town.
Everyone was yelling like crazy, and some people were even teaming up to look for treasures.
Such madness appears in every place in the town where a light curtain can be seen.
Joey and Benny stood on top of the Sheriff's Department building, quietly watching what happened.
Benny said: "This is the beginning"
"The next step is up to you, Director."
"Don't worry, I've arranged everything"
He must reasonably expend the Sheriff's Department's staff.
This is just the first stage, creating chaos, and the next step is to blow up the Church of Light.
Joey watched the light curtain gradually dissipate, turned around and waved to Benny: "Director, I have something to do, I have to leave first!"
"You kid, I'm afraid you don't want to find the box."
"Hehe" Joey smiled dryly: "Can't waste it, after all, I am quite poor."
Joey's eagerness made Benny a little surprised. He asked, "Is the money in the box real?"
"Director, if it is fake, how can it cause a commotion?" As he walked away, his voice gradually faded away: "When the first box is found, people will be even crazier."
In this regard, Joey still admires Annie's wealth and wealth, and she is worthy of being the eldest lady from the Bullock family.
All the preparations have been done, and the only thing he can do now is to wait. While waiting, it makes sense to dig into a box to find treasures, doesn't it?
Time passed little by little, just as Joey predicted, when the first box was found.
It was discovered that there was indeed a large amount of cash inside, and at this moment, the residents of Port Lia went crazy.
Joey followed the crowd and ran for several blocks, with big beads of sweat on his forehead.
Even though he was in a good mood, he couldn't hold back his temper at this time: "Another trip in vain."
She complained in her heart that Anne was being unkind, giving him free money but not even giving him a box.
There were eight boxes in total. When he was feeling depressed, a man's voice suddenly came to his ears and he complained: "The church is really unkind. There are only eight boxes, how can there be enough?"
At this time, all eight boxes had been found.
The man began to incite the emotions of the people around him: "Let's go to the church to see if there are any good things left."
Until now, the civilians of Port Lia believed that this was an event planned by the church.
His proposal was quickly echoed by those around him.
Joey watched a large group of people gathering towards the church.
He even doubted whether the man who spoke was the person Anne had arranged for him in advance.
The current population of Port Lia is roughly between 40,000 and 50,000. I am afraid that these people will all gather in the church in a short time.
Joey was stunned when he realized that someone had bumped into him. He looked up and saw a head of fiery red hair.
The two looked at each other without any communication. They moved forward with the flow of people and turned into the alley next to them when they passed the corner.
"Why are you here?" Joey asked.
"I'm here to find you." A dark and unclear meaning flashed in Annie's eyes, and she looked at Joey with a solemn expression:
"Next, Ollie and Mi Pang will detonate bombs in the church and attract everyone there. You need to follow me to the Sheriff's Department."
This was very different from the pre-arranged plan, and Joey couldn't help but look at Annie one more time, with an ugly look on his face.
The original plan was that he should be a free man now and completely remove himself in order to cope with the possible exposure in the subsequent search.
He just needs to wait quietly for Anne and the others to complete their plan, pick up Barbara, and then leave Port Leah with a sum of money.
"Sorry, I didn't want to implicate you originally, but I remembered something." Annie stared at Joey's gloomy face with a complicated expression.
"Does it have something to do with me?" Joey felt baffled at this moment, how could something so good be related to him again?
Anne nodded slightly, but seemed to be in a dilemma as she hesitated to speak.
"You'd better give me a reason to convince me," Joey teased dissatisfiedly.
His instinct told him that it would be dangerous to get too close to Annie.
"Someone told me that no matter what I want to do, you must be involved, otherwise it will be difficult to succeed."
"Huh?" Joey rolled his eyes angrily: "Come on, let's talk about who spread the rumors."
On the surface, he looked angry and depressed, but secretly his heart was pounding.
Only one person knows his true sequence and true abilities, and he doesn't think Maimaiti will announce this matter.
As a low-level Sequence 8 like him, he might not be able to even breathe into Maimaiti.
Excluding Maimaiti's leak, now there is a second person who clearly knows his abilities.
Anne shook her head blankly: "There is no information about that person in my memory."
Joey looked directly into the other person's eyes, as if he wanted to find evidence of her words.
Unfortunately, nothing unusual was found.
The feeling of being held by the throat and used as a puppet appeared again, which made him very uncomfortable.
Joey didn't ask any more questions, but silently followed Annie towards the Sheriff's Department.
It wasn't that he didn't want to ask, but Joey knew that there might be someone behind Anne Block, who he thought was the chess player, and he might know this person.
