Chapter 1012 - 841: Deploying Gem City’s Personnel

Chapter 1012: Chapter 841: Deploying Gem City’s Personnel

At this moment, Chun’s alt account and a bunch of Ancient Giant Beasts were carefully, effortlessly pushing this massive undersea "Ice Welding" ice car, ballasted with dozens of chunks of Meteorite Iron, toward the hidden Alternate Space Mei had mentioned.

Far off on the sea surface, the floe where the City Beauties were stationed seemed to be drifting along as well.

Chun felt this was trouble—after all, they’re City Beauties. There’s no way they wouldn’t notice such a big relocation.

Mei laughed: "Doesn’t matter. Even if they notice, they’ll just think it’s some huge piece of equipment and end up misleading the Imperial Army, right?"

Chun suddenly saw the light: "Oh, right!"

Why am I not as smart as Mei? Must be the all-nighter—panicked and exhausted, IQ taking a hit.

Chun decided to let his IQ drop even lower: "Why do these meteorites cause such huge thunder up in the sky?"

Mei said, "That’s the Warrior’s research result—induction currents, geomagnetic lines being cut to generate electricity—anyway, it’s the Meteorite Iron being magical."

Holy Shit! I can’t admit my IQ is worse than other players’, can I?

But fine, if it were me, I could figure it out too. I’ve got Void Thunder, way more powerful.

Right at that moment: ℴ

——Dios Commerce Association prompt: Congratulations! Fallen Angel Judias has joined the association. The association’s reputation has increased.

Chun’s eyebrow twitched: "Mei, Gem City’s Guardian God is called Judias, right? He really joined my Hell commerce association!"

But he can’t just auto-join; it can only be that Uriel is personally standing watch at Hell Plaza. Yet Uriel should be busy over in Black Dragon City’s Void—did he specifically run all the way back?

Truly worthy of the Ten Lords’ dedication. Good thing I didn’t fire Uriel back then.

Mei laughed: "Yeah. My real body over there also got some results—Gem City’s Church says they’ll ’consider it’, but they have to wait for a reply from the Imperial Headquarters."

Chun felt awkward: "So basically, that means they don’t agree, right? Imperial Headquarters isn’t going to approve either, is it?"

Mei smiled proudly: "I don’t care whether they approve. Faith doesn’t come from some headquarters’ rubber stamp; it comes from the people’s love. As long as they don’t explicitly kick me out, I’ll stay in Gem City and exert influence. Gem City’s Astrology Old Lady even invited me to her house as a guest."

Faith is not some dinner invitation, okay!

Chun thought of Gem City’s classmate Jenny, the fishing guy Hemingway, the Mad Pharmacist Dalron, the abstract painter Van Gogh, and then out in the countryside there’s the farm owner Hunter, plus three old buddies from way out in the sticks who gave me cigarettes, tea, and sugarcane seedlings. All these are people I’ve set up in advance. For the Mermaids to do a hearts-and-minds campaign now, they need support!

But Gem City’s Magic Mirror surveillance is the most intense. The Ten Lords have surely already built dossiers. There’s no way I can just dump all my contacts on her at once—if anything feels off, they’ll immediately dig into those dossiers. If they can’t find anything, they’ll definitely pin it on me. That would make all my covert work for nothing.

I can only start with one person. It has to be the fishing guy Hemingway! He’s a fisherman, Mermaids are fish! Mermaids going to him has perfectly logical reasoning.

Chun immediately made the intro: "Mei, go find a fishing guy named Hemingway at Gem City’s docks. I once helped him fulfill a decades-long wish, and they even set up an organization to help me. Now is exactly when they should come into play and assist you. But don’t say I sent you. Just say you predicted him through Astrology..."

Mei froze: "I hate fishing guys!"

Uh...

Chun broke out in a sweat: "Hating him is also a perfectly logical astrological premonition."

Mei laughed: "Fine, then I’ll go find him."

Chun said, "You need some Astrology content to work with! His story is that he spent decades in the same spot, fishing for Treasure Phoenix Fish... and he even attracted City Beauty Eve’s attention. In the end it was the Empire’s Fourth Prince who, to curry favor with Eve, stole one from the Palace collection room, sent a diver down to hook it onto his line!"

Mei burst out laughing: "You can play it like that?"

Chun was actually serious: "I even comprehended the Power of Miracle as Divine Magic—that’s Astrology, all about reversing cause and effect. That Fourth Prince is the guy who chased us across the Arctic snow mountains with cannon fire last time. This counts as him leaving a handle for us to grab. If the opportunity is right... you say you got it through Astrology and mess with him!"

Mei suddenly stopped laughing: "When the Imperial Fleet shows up later, this guy might be there too, so we absolutely have to mess with him! What’s the crime for stealing Royal Family tribute?"

Chun was a bit helpless: "He’s a Prince, probably no crime—just a scolding or two?"

Mei sneered: "It’s not like there’s only one Prince. Princes all compete for favor. Getting scolded is already pretty harsh."

Chun suddenly remembered something: "The Emperor is a god and doesn’t grow old and die. Princes can’t inherit the Emperor’s throne, so what’s the point of competing for favor?"

Mei was stunned: "Yeah, huh?"

In that instant, Chun suddenly had a crazy thought—could it be that the ones most eager for the Emperor to croak... are precisely these Princes?

...

Sariel was excitedly watching Uriel’s Demon God Hall livestream when Eve, over on the ice ship’s floe, noticed something: "They’re moving under the sea. Something huge."

Fafnir said in surprise: "Do we follow?"

Eve said, "Of course we stick close! That way, when the Imperial Fleet comes, they can use depth charges to blast them or send divers to salvage."

Fafnir sweated: "Trailing such a big lump of ice ship all the way into the deep Ice Ocean... just imagining it feels a bit..."

"We can fly."

Sariel got anxious: "Ladies, the deeper in we go, the deeper we’ll be into the forbidden zone. If spellcasting starts to go wonky, then stop following. We’ve already done our duty anyway, and there’ll be plenty of chances later!"

Liya chimed in: "Mr. Silver Sage makes sense. Let’s do that."

Sariel felt very gratified.

Remia sighed: "Liya, I finally figured it out—something’s been off about you this whole trip. You actually—"

Liya’s expression got strained: "I what?"

Gabriel immediately picked up on the oddity: "So it’s not just me thinking Liya’s off?"

Remia sighed: "You’re actually really afraid of dying, aren’t you?"

Liya’s face sank: "I’m a Physician! Saving lives, Risk Avoidance—that’s called professional ethics!"

All the City Beauties were wide-eyed: "Oh~~~ the high-priced fake-medicine dealer grew a conscience?"

That was brutally harsh! Even as a joke that’s too far!

Sariel instantly tensed up: "Ladies, this forbidden zone has a mind-disrupting effect. The Guardian God probably fell because he got hit by it."

The City Beauties finally snapped out of it: "Ah? This... Liya, sorry..."

Liya let out a long sigh: "You’re right. My family does sell high-priced fake medicine, and we even develop new illnesses just to sell more. Mm, saying it out loud—I feel so much better."

The City Beauties were stunned, but Fafnir smacked her own forehead: "Just now, I think I felt the disruptive power of the forbidden zone—I already forgot what you were saying?"

Remia coughed dryly: "What were you all just talking about?"

Eve said solemnly: "We were discussing how to use a vortex to accelerate and catch up under the sea!"

"Ah right, right—let’s all accelerate together and watch the Mana consumption."

Sariel also let out a big breath of relief: "Good, this level of intelligence is way better than Gabriel and Sela."

Gabriel flared up: "What’s wrong with me, huh? At my level, I can’t be bothered to pretend!"

Just then, the butler reported: "The Mermaids and Fifth Old Lady Wu have left the Church and gone to the docks."

Raphael immediately gave the order: "Rainbow Team, stick tight to them at once..."