Chapter 1121: 108. Trouble

The air fell completely silent.

Muen raised his head and looked up at the sky, pretending to admire a sky that did not exist at all.

Marcie squatted down on the spot, as if she had eaten too much black bread just now and could not digest it well.

Only Theresa stood there in the cold wind, feeling his heart turn icy cold.

There was no living like this anymore.

Theresa let out a long sigh, thinking to himself that he, the mighty Bear King, had actually fallen so low that he was being bullied by little girls. This was truly...

Forget it.

Forget it.

Sigh. Serious business came first. As a great man, he would not remember the offenses of petty people. For now, he would not argue with these fellows!

“This is the plan. You two, take a look.”

Theresa rubbed his lower back as he handed Muen a document.

Muen took it, slightly surprised.

Because this document was actually made of paper.

“President said that since this is the final battle, there’s no need to be stingy, so he took out all the good things that had been stored in the warehouse for so long.”

Theresa sighed with emotion. “I heard he even distributed all the black tea he had personally treasured. He was so heartbroken he nearly lost hair over it.”

“He is indeed a good president. I admire him very much.”

Muen nodded.

No matter what schemes Theodore had once made against him, he had always devoted his heart and soul to this Annabawei. That much was beyond doubt.

The Gobi Desert on top of his head was probably the best proof.

“But... isn’t this plan a little too crude?”

Muen’s gaze quickly swept over the document in his hand. He did not even spend ten seconds on it, because there truly was not much content inside. Even if they casually found someone to pass the message, there probably would not be any mistake.

Making it into this form was most likely to give this expedition, which concerned Annabawei’s life and death, a greater sense of ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) ceremony?

“Ha. What’s crude or not crude about it? It’s nothing more than killing our way to the Goddess and going straight at her.”

Theresa took out a pitch-black earthen cigarette. This was also a rare thing. If not for a moment like this, he would not have been willing to take it out and smoke it.

“The target is right there. Even the sacred artifact capable of killing her is right there. What, are we supposed to come up with some complicated conspiracies and tricks? Useless. That damn Goddess can’t even move right now. You could throw her flirtatious looks and it’d all be wasted.”

“You really did have a plan prepared long ago.”

Muen sighed and handed the document to Marcie beside him, who had been straining to lean over and look at it, only for Muen to keep lightly dodging her.

Marcie glanced at it twice and curled her mouth too.

They had specially used a sheet of paper for this little bit?

Wasteful!

“It isn’t anything complicated. We have, at least, been paying attention to this place since ten years ago.”

A faint wisp of smoke rose and mixed with the mist, indistinguishable from it.

Theresa stood at the edge of the valley, narrowing his eyes as he looked down.

“In reality, the most troublesome part of this operation has never been the Goddess herself. Theodore confirmed it. The current Goddess of Night is too weak. It is hard to say how much combat power she herself still has, but she definitely will not be too strong. At the very least, since the former First Pioneer, Lord Alan, was able to severely wound her with the sacred artifact, although we are far, far inferior to Lord Alan, we should still be able to add this final strike.”

If they could not add even that, then that would be far too shameful. They might as well just die cleanly and be done with it. They could hardly blame anyone else.

“So the real trouble... is those evil believers?” Muen rubbed his chin.

“Correct. Just as the plan says, the key this time is dealing with the evil believers protecting the Goddess.”

Theresa said, “Those evil believers generally obey the Goddess’s commands, yet they do not obey her completely. Through our probes, at least when it comes to protecting the Goddess, even the Goddess who used to be clear-headed during the Daylight Period could not order them to change. That was also the reason we temporarily refrained from acting ten years ago.”

“Are those evil believers very strong?”

Muen asked seriously, “I mean their overall strength.”

Up until now, the evil believers Muen had faced here amounted to only those few embarrassing things he had encountered at the forest farm before, as well as the later Third Attendant.

To put it with high emotional intelligence... the overall level of evil believers here still had room for improvement.

To put it with low emotional intelligence... they were all weaklings.

Aside from that terrifying ability to pollute, Muen currently did not think those crooked melons and cracked dates of evil believers were his match one-on-one.

Of course, the residents here were not afraid of those pollution abilities, so for Bear King and the others, that instead did not constitute trouble.

“Overall... very terrifying.”

Theresa sighed. “In reality, the overall strength of the evil believers here far exceeds that of us Pioneers.”

“Oh?”

Muen raised his brows. This was the first time he had heard that.

“Details.”

“You bastard... President said your identity is special, and nobody knows where you popped out from, but as a proper Pioneer, how can you know nothing when asked even this kind of basic intelligence?” Theresa looked at him suspiciously.

“Ahem. I’m new, after all. I haven’t had time to understand many inside details for the moment. But on this point, please rest assured. I am absolutely standing on your side. President Theodore should have guaranteed that to you.”

Muen glanced at Marcie beside him. Regarding the evil believers’ overall strength, it seemed her notebook did not contain anything either.

If even she did not know, that meant this point had been deliberately concealed.

...At least deliberately concealed from the ordinary people here.

“Sigh! If that is how you put it, then there is nothing to be done. Indeed, this kind of thing is something only Pioneers are qualified to know.”

Theresa clasped his hands behind his back and glanced at Marcie and Landa beside them. After thinking about it, he ultimately had no intention of avoiding them. After all, under these circumstances, avoiding them was of no use.

“In the end, the reason this matter has been hidden is because we were afraid of unrest among the lower people. Its impact is too great.”

“Impact? What impact?”

Marcie blinked from the side. She had already opened her notebook long ago and was ready to record at any moment.

She had a feeling that what came next would definitely be huge gossip!

“The impact on their confidence... After all, if they knew that the vast majority of the current evil believers were once Pioneers, they would surely be shaken in the current Pioneer system, right?” Theresa said with a sigh.

“Wow! This really is huge gossip!”

Marcie’s recording hand was already writing so fast it left afterimages. Gossip of this level hit her right from the start and made her... Huh, wait.

What had Lord Bear King just said?

Marcie’s expression froze. She looked at Theresa in disbelief. “You... What did you say? The evil believers... were mostly former Pioneers? How is that possible?”

Miss Landa beside her also had her little mouth open, as if she could swallow an egg directly.

Muen remained calm. “Wasn’t that previous Third Attendant a Pioneer too?”

“That was only an individual case!”

Marcie grabbed and shook her own notebook. “Only an individual case from the past hundred years. An individual case spread everywhere as a negative example. What can that prove? Lord Bear King, are you...”

“I am not senile yet. This is the truth.”

Theresa’s expression was complicated. Even his sigh revealed a certain bewilderment and vicissitude.

“In reality, at the very beginning, even we did not believe this matter. But as we discovered the Goddess’s hiding place, in order to monitor the Goddess, we came into contact with those evil believers more and more often. We had no choice but to acknowledge this point...

“Among the evil believers, a very large portion were once Pioneers. The Third Attendant’s condition is not an individual case, but the norm—a norm that chills the heart!”