1207 Europe Row 2
Nine times out of ten, there will be a doomsday Shinrikyo cult in a place where white Claudia blooms, and it is not difficult to find clues to this cult, but the difficulty is to distinguish between the activities of peripheral personnel and the activities of core personnel. Focusing solely on White Claudia will often only catch some ordinary people who have been seduced by the Doomsday Shinrikyo religion. Although there are some mysterious events around White Claudia and "Paradise", these events tend to be very mysterious, and once they show too much mystical power, they will startle the snake. Activities centered on White Claudia and "Paradise" are generally carried out by the Goat Guild, a subordinate organization of the Doomsday Shinrikyo Church, and except for some special purpose sacrifices, the middle and upper echelons of the Doomsday Shinrikyo will not give special purposeful instructions, let alone participate in it personally. The first time I encountered the Goat Guild, I encountered the situation of the Doomsday Shinrikyo sending a priest, which is also a very rare case in the statistics of the Netball, of course, if you look at it from the perspective of "script", it is like an invisible pen specially designed this scene for the sake of "drama".
At that time, the priest in charge of the sacrifice was a student named Luan Chong, who was at the same school as me, and I can only say that whether or not he can become a priest of the Doomsday Shinrikyo is not determined by his age. And the middle and upper echelons of the Doomsday Shinrikyo are not all staying in their nests. Who knows if a passerby in the place of daily life and study is a believer in the Apocalyptic Truth Religion? In the same way, not every Doomsday Shinrito priest is always in the same position as Father Sissen and Father Edward.
With the support of the middle and high-level personnel of the Doomsday Shinrikyo Cult, the Goat Guild, an organization with many personnel but only low-level mysteries on average, will burst out with energy that makes occult experts feel a headache. A mystical expert can easily wipe out a goat guild stronghold under normal circumstances, but. Once this stronghold has upper-middle and upper-level members of the Doomsday Shinrikyo Cult, it is best to prepare a team of occult experts to deal with this stronghold. In the past, when I first participated in a mysterious event created by the Goat Guild, it was because of the existence of Father Luanzhong. A terrible war broke out. At that time, there were so many Demon Emblem Envoys and Greystone Enhancers who died that it made people's scalps tingle, and even strong men like Files and Drifters who were good at fighting didn't survive. At that time, the fate of these friends I was familiar with was quite different from the fate they had in this apocalyptic fantasy now.
Dorothy was also nearly killed in that war, and I only took her right eye, and it was only during the rest of my adventures that I gradually restored her to a strange form. The relationship and gap between Dorothy and Mae. It was also in that war that it was vividly expressed. Even so, Dorothy was still the second strongest participant at the time, only under Mae , after all, her background was also a "decisive battle weapon made by the Cyber Ball with reference to the final weapon of the Doomsday Shinrikyo Sect".
The first time I encountered the Goat Guild, I encountered a sacrifice triggered by the middle and upper echelons of the Doomsday Shinrikyo Cult, which was quite a special experience. But, on the other hand. In the conflict with the Goat Guild, it is also necessary to reach the danger and mystery of this process. in order to truly find clues about the activities of the core members of the Doomsday Shinrikyo Cult. White Claudia and "Paradise" alone are the secrets that cannot lead seekers to the Doomsday Shinrikyo religion.
Even if these are only experiences from the past apocalyptic illusions, they can still be used as a reference to judge whether their actions can achieve the desired goals in this repeater world. Among the clues provided by the NOG team, there are many sources of clues. It is only the growth area of Claudia White, and the area suspected to contain Zài "paradise", and there is a lot of information about these two iconic objects, and perhaps some of them contain deeper secrets, but they cannot be expected to be unearthed by chance.
Mystery experts like to use intuition. The same is true for identifying one or a few more likely targets from a large number of pending selections, but until then, I prefer to use more intelligence leads and further sift through a large number of suspicious things to reduce the pressure of intuitive judgment. In the information brought by John Bull, there are only hundreds of places in Europe where there is a suspicion of "paradise" sales, and they are generally distributed in bars in various towns. Just from the geographical location and the size of the city, there is no special commonality. NOG can't even pack a ticket to whether or not these places really have zài "paradise", which means that if you search the past like a carpet all the way, there is a good chance that you will only find false clues, or information that is not enough to involve the core of the Doomsday Shinrikyo at all. And my actions will also attract the attention of the Doomsday Shinrikyo with this kind of long-term and large-scale investigation, so that the other party's precautions will be more complete.
The Doomsday Shinrikyo entered this repeater much earlier than NOG, and they have more information about this repeater than NOG, so it is conceivable that they have been laying out here for a long time, and in terms of soft and hard power, they are more than NOG that has just begun to develop. Even so, when NOG had already begun to act with great fanfare, the movement of the Doomsday Shinrikyo was still dull, and this abnormal expression would certainly make people think of a conspiracy. If it is said that the Doomsday Shinrikyo has no conspiracy at all, it must be impossible to believe, but the larger the target, the greater the movement caused when it is acted, but the movement of the Doomsday Shinrikyo is too small, so small that it does not match their strength, which makes people feel uneasy.
For this reason, NOG was even willing to let go of the mustard and use John Bull's network to seek cooperation with me. I can understand their uneasiness and decision-making, because any occult expert, as long as his IQ is not lower than average, should be understandable that when a bad thing that is destined to happen never happens, it does not mean that it has been properly resolved, nor does it mean that it will not happen again. Even if it is an extinct volcano, there is a time when it erupts again, not to mention, the Doomsday Shinrikyo is actually an active volcano that can erupt at any time.
NOG threw all the information on the side of the whisperers, although there were some suggestions, but there were no more specific analysis results, obviously intentionally, even if they were strongly asked to give more accurate information, they would not get a better answer. From my point of view, though. The results obtained from the analysis yourself will of course be more credible. However, it is still not an easy task to deal with so much information in a short period of time. What's more, Tomie has already left, and Dr. Nguyen Le and I are about to leave.
Intelligence support. You can only continue to trust the other members of the Whisperer and the Cyberball represented by John Bull.
Just after noon, I boarded a direct flight to Paris, France, with my suitcase, and another flight to the city where Dr. Nguyen was going to be attending the seminar. It's a French city I've never heard of, and Dr. Nguyen Le has been there a few times, so I have some impressions of what it looks like, and it is said that you can overlook a forest reserve from a stretch of highway leading to the city. The city was only a large town in the Central Principality in terms of size, and its roads and buildings were full of the atmosphere of the steam age, not because of the new era for the sake of cultural protection and tourism resources, but because of its geographical remoteness and lack of strategic value, thus avoiding rapid development and the devastation of the two world wars.
Today, the old buildings that remain in the city have been preserved as tourist attractions. However, for a variety of reasons. Tourism is still undeveloped. Most young people have left the big city, and the atmosphere of the city tends to be old and peaceful, and the level of consumption is relatively low, but it is not very attractive to outsiders.
That night, we spent the night in Paris, and Dr. Nguyen Li was sorting out his academic reports and other manuscripts. I was able to use the hotel network to get in touch with the Whisperer headquarters. Under the guidance of Zuo Chuan and John Niu, Sakiya and Hakkei began to learn how to analyze information related to the mystery from the perspective of occultism, and their task was to screen out some suspicious locations closest to me and Dr. Nguyen Li. For my reference. It's not clear for sure how they're doing, but when the processed file was uploaded to me, there were only nine suspicious locations left.
Paris, France is a cosmopolitan city with countless bars, and it is not easy to identify the most suspicious ones. The NOG team has done a lot of work, and the whisperers will not have an easy time taking on this job. The development of the Doomsday Shinrikyo in Europe is different from that in Asia, if in Asia, it tends to penetrate in second- and third-tier cities, but in Europe, it will choose the most prosperous cities to penetrate. A metropolis like Paris, France, is 100% the most priority object of suspicion in the information of the NOG, although the Doomsday Shinrikyo will not maliciously destroy such a metropolis, but its movements are definitely greater, and it is easier for people to catch the handle. Of course, generally speaking, if you don't have the right time, you can only end up catching the people of the Goat Guild. The Goat Guild is only a subordinate body of the Doomsday Shinrikyo Cult, and its members are naturally considered followers of the Doomsday Shinrikyo in a broad sense, but for us occult experts, the Doomsday Shinrikyo is naturally narrowly defined and limited to the mystery of "having supernatural manifestations".
The Goat Guild, which only relies on "Paradise" to gain extraordinary athletic ability, and relies on ordinary firearms and militarized organizations to strengthen its attack power, is no longer in the eyes of mysterious experts.
At nightfall, looking down from the heights of a five-star hotel can be particularly dizzying, not out of fear but more in the power of humanity in transforming the world. You can't see the starry sky upwards, but you can see rivers of brilliant lights downward, and these rivers of colorful light are rushing all the time, containing a heat of life, just looking at it, it seems to seep into the body through the pores. The cosmopolitan cities I've been to have their own characteristics are the same, but they are all the same in terms of their vibrancy. The will embodied in people's activities is similar, so there is a smell of déjà vu floating in these unique cities at all times.
It wasn't the first time I've been to Paris during my trip, and although I didn't stay for a long time, most of the time, I just used it as a stopover, but because I could feel the commonality of the city due to the convergence of people, I didn't feel strange at all, even if I didn't have a map, I would get lost here.
Dr. Nguyen Le worked late as usual, and we had already booked our flight tickets for the next night, as Dr. Nguyen Le planned to spare the whole day to accept invitations from friends in Paris to participate in some industry activities. Dr. Nguyen Le never intended it. Involve me in this sort of thing. She just wanted to go out alone and let me stay in the room all the time - judging from Takakawa's diary in the past, she was like this almost every time she took Takakawa out. Then again, it's these industry activities that allow her to always raise a lot of money to maintain a decent living and research. I don't quite know. As a psychology expert, how exactly does she make money in these industry activities, but the large amount of money transferred after going out, the efficiency and quantity are enough to make people respect.
These gold-making activities in the industry did not interfere with Dr. Nguyen's daily planning, and most of the time, her routine was extremely punctual and almost palpable. She has a watch in her head, pinching the time to complete everything, and when something exceeds the allotted time, she will not hesitate to stop. Dr. Nguyen Li's strict adherence to the rules of the routine allows me to always find the right time to leave secretly.
At the end of the night, I changed into a combat outfit, a dark red and almost black coat, and let me be in this bustling night. It won't be too eye-catching. Cast the Moquark into a cloak and wrap around my body and cast into the shadows of the room. The next moment, there was a different scene in front of me. I was standing on the roof of a building thousands of kilometers away from the hotel, with a steel wire fence behind me to prevent people from falling, and the stone bricks I stepped on could only hold the length of the footboard, and if I took a step forward, I would step into the air. So, I took this step forward.
Fifty meters downstairs is the brightly lit avenue. However, my building is located on the inside, forming a 100-meter-long alleyway with the other buildings. The dark and uninhabited alleyway, like another world, swallows up the noise of people and cars fifty meters away. Even if there is the sound of stars, it is only to set off this ominous silence. I fell into the alley against the side wall of the building, and under the power of the quark, it gently touched the bottom like a feather, and the faint echo dissipated like the sound of the wind.
I took out my phone and opened the location map to determine my coordinates. According to the information sent by the Whisperer's headquarters, there are four suspicious locations in the vicinity of the area, and although these locations are often centered around bars, it does not mean that the only places where clues can be found are in the bars. I have to do a lot of investigation, and if I don't have the ability to detect a large area, it will be a lot of work.
The chain judgment has been unfolded, and the composition of the scene I see in my mind is a different one. Objects within a radius of 50 meters are presented in a three-dimensional perspective of black and white, and the line segments seem to fit and intersect, but if you change the position, you will find that they are far apart, and even some of the line segments are just dotted lines. Even though I'm familiar with the scene of the chain decision, there are still many details that come to mind about the line composition that makes it difficult to grasp the meaning. The patterns that come to my mind are constantly changing, and this change seems to be a complex and interlocking movement caused by the microscopic changes in the drawn lines. Concentrating on the gaze can cause me a lot of mental stress, so I tend to make extensive observations of the movement of objects only by using the changes in the general outline.
I turned my back to the street and walked deeper into the alley, the buildings next to me seemed to be pierced by an invisible sieve, revealing all the structures inside. Not only do I observe the images in my mind, but I also pay attention to the sensations of the senses, which are probably also affected by chain judgments, and become very sensitive to certain situations.
The electronic demon messengers of Las Vegas have thrown the whole city into chaos, some people play the role of decent, some choose the role of villain, and more people wander on both sides, powerful and eerie mysteries, so that many people die without the knowledge of others, and these abnormal deaths will cause new chains, intensified reactions, so that NOG has to put more energy on that side, but the control of Europe has been reduced. They had intended to dig up the Doomsday Shinrikyo stronghold in Europe and carry out a tentative attack, and if the situation allowed, they would carry out further sweeps, and, according to their intelligence, the Doomsday Shinrikyo was also relatively active in Europe, but the cooperation with the American government prevented them from sitting back and watching the situation in Las Vegas deteriorate. And after I got involved in the pursuit of the Doomsday Shinrikyo on the European side, they seemed to be relieved to transfer all their manpower to Las Vegas.
However, even if it is not a mysterious disaster area like Las Vegas, there are still a large number of electronic demon messengers in this place in Paris, these people are all over every class, whether they are poor or rich, no matter what industry, there are already people who use their power to try to carry out activities on a larger scale. John Bull believed that there was a shadow of Doomsday Shinrikyo hidden in the activities of the lowest and most elite people. Of the suspicious locations sent by the Whisperer's headquarters, three were high-end bars for the social elite, while six were low-end bars and even illegal bars.
It is not easy for strangers, especially minors, to enter a high-end bar to inquire about the news. Although I can use the power of consciousness to dig into the secrets of my target's heart, I don't like to prioritize this power at all times, after all, because I don't like this naked way of probing into the hearts of others. I'm good at psychology, but it's not the same as guessing what the other person is thinking and intuiting what the other person thinks.
So, I chose illegal places that were also not very friendly to outsiders. Small gangs, unemployed, prostitutes, and people who don't know what they do are building a paradise for themselves in the corners of the bustling city. Yes, paradise – I turned the corner and saw the name of this bar, which sits just across the street at the end of this laneway.
The streets are not wide, and they are also full of neon lights, but it is rare to see pedestrians with temperament and proper dress, there is a sinister and vulgar smell floating in the air, the women standing on the street laugh unscrupulously at the pedestrians, and some people squatting in the corners of the wall secretly observe people with another look at their prey. During the day, it may be a different place, but at night, it is always a scene that makes ordinary people curious and timid. In this short alley of less than fifty meters into the street, there are more than a dozen people standing or squatting, who look like beggars, prostitutes, and gangsters, but it is impossible to confirm from their appearance that they are such people. To ordinary people, their black color seems to be very distinct, but for mysterious experts with sharp intuition, they have a layer of ** disguise.
From the point of view, they weren't looking at me, but it didn't feel like that. The source of the gaze is hidden by the turbidity here.
The people in the alleyway didn't embarrass me, they looked listless, both men and women, and they didn't know why they were staying here, when the evenings were supposed to be their working hours. I didn't pay much attention to it, the smell in the alley was not very good. As I walked briskly down the street, I was immediately pestered by a group of prostitutes, whose age became a place of ridicule and, after my rejection, the focus of ridicule. If Tomie had been around, there probably wouldn't have been so many stupid things.
Tomie didn't contact me, but I knew that she had come to Paris, somewhere in the city, and that she might stay here for a while, or leave before Dr. Nguyen Le and me. And where she ends up going, I think, will end up going to be where I end up. She and I have the same goal, both of them are Doomsday Shinrikyo, but I rely on the Whisperers and John Bull to gather clues, and she seems to have her own way of obtaining information, and she seems to have more faith in herself, even though she is already a member of the Whisperers in name.
I sometimes think that she's lurking just outside of me.
I pushed open the door of the bar, looked at the man sitting on the side of the door, pushed open the door to his heart, and after that there was no obstruction. The interior of the Paradise bar is very old, but the lobby is still almost full, and there are women on the dance floor who are pole dancing, causing a whistling of whistles. The bartender at the bar was a man of five big and three thick, and he didn't look like a good talker in terms of appearance and temperament, but he was very perceptive and noticed me immediately. Until I sat down, he was just staring at me, to my right was a woman who seemed to be drunk unconscious, and on my left, within a few breaths, was occupied by a man dressed as a gangster, staring at me as well. I think he's also a bar guy.
"Who are you?" The bartender asked a very interesting question. (To be continued......)