"Shut your mouth, raise your head, and listen carefully. You can understand what I mean, your intelligence level is at the average." He said, "You can notice my weapons and armor, but I need you to look into my eyes. These armor and weapons are prepared to deal with threats you can't imagine, not for you, the other side of the torture instruments are yours."

The man opened his mouth wide.

His hands and feet were tied to the wooden seat by rough hemp ropes. He tried his best to move, but he could get nothing but the worn skin. The speaker looked down at him. The other party was very tall, majestic, and equipped with heavy gold armor. The other party was holding an extremely exquisite dagger in his hand. The man had not reacted yet, but felt a coldness on his wrist. The dagger was close to his skin and cut the rope tied to his wrist.

"Those who know you report you to me, they provide testimony. Their testimony has been recorded, archived, and their signatures and fingerprints on the parchment as a guarantee of the authenticity of this testimony. The file is in front of you. Don't look at the file, look at me." The Imperial Guard said, "When I ask a question you have to answer, I can know if you are lying, I just want the truth, so in order to get the truth I will do something you don't want to see. You only have one chance, don't turn your hope."

The man followed the instructions of the imperial guards with great fear. He looked at the blue and gray eyes from high places, and his body trembled uncontrollably. The cell was quite empty and he had no companions. When the imperial guards pushed open the door of his mud brick house, his family and he were caught. The man lived here for a week, his whole body was dirty and smelly, and no one had ever communicated with him during the imprisonment. He looked in a daze, and every night here he could only fall asleep with the wail from afar, and then imagined the end of himself and his family in fear. The fear of the unknown seriously affected his mind, allowing him to obediently accept the interrogation of the imperial guards. The man wriggled his chapped lips, but his voice could not be squeezed out from the gap. He waved his arms, bent his fingers in his ears and in front of him, twitched, and finally returned to silence.

The Imperial Guard did not speak, but looked down at him and waited. This was not the first interrogation, and the man was not the only one to interrogate. After a while, the man moved again, as if he had used all his strength to open his mouth.

"I... said..."

"You talked about your family history and those traveling businessmen. We know that your family began to worship paganism five generations ago, and we know that there is a basement under your mud brick house, stuffed with human skin, bones and gold."

The Imperial Guard sat in the marble seat in the center of the room.

He was not equipped with the Guardians, a garrison spear that combines perfect combination of close-fitting weapons and long-range weapons, with only the oath dagger and an extremely exquisite heat-ray pistol. This pistol was made using Attila technology, and when it appeared in the hands of the Imperial Guardians, it was hundreds of years away from the time it was born. The Guardians wiped away the mark of the Attila royal family on this gun and took away all the Attila technical reserves from the database. Although the man did not know what the weapons in the Imperial Guardians were for use, he knew that anything was a life-threatening weapon in the hands of the Golden Angels.

"Maybe you will be lucky, so we have to start over. In the last month, I have to hear different lies every day. If you lie to me again, we can only do it again. I will not use this gun and you know nothing about it, so I cannot understand the fear it brings to you, you can only understand the threat this dagger brings."

The man suddenly collapsed. He began to cry and began to tremble. The wooden seat supported his body to prevent him from falling down. "This is a mistake..." He raised his head, as if he suddenly gained courage, "But I don't know, my parents and grandparents all worship those gods! I was told since I was a child that the gods I respected were only true gods! Those priests said this, and I could not refute the priests!"

He became gushing, and the Imperial Guard remained silent, and the helmet placed on the armrest of the marble seat recorded every word and expression of the man. Two hours later, the Imperial Guard walked out of the room and walked through the young men and women of the nomadic tribe recruited half a year ago in the hallway. The Imperial Guard commander waited at the end of the corridor, and Hannibal handed him the data board and parchment paper scroll.

“He confided very little information,” Hannibal said, “he didn’t even realize he was lying.”

Constantine opened the document and heard the crying sounds of the man during the interrogation. He touched the parchment scroll written by the clerk with his fingers covered with armor. Eli was a primitive city of 4,000 people. Three households in this city were polluted. In addition, there were merchants who traded offshore and self-cultivated landlords in several nearby villages. The empty houses near the temple were filled with suspects. Considering the frequent exchanges between culture and trade in human settlements during the Obed period, this data is quite amazing. The Imperial Guards did not rule out that there were more potential believers who had not been cleared.

After interrogation, the sources of these pollution vary.

The first household had a paternal lineage that did not worship the local primitive gods. When humans were still smearing cattle and hunting grounds with their fingers on the cave, their parents had carefully hidden their true faith. They accepted the so-called "revelation" quite early, and the clues were interrupted because of the death of relevant personnel; the second household was foreign merchants, who had reproduced in Elidu for twenty years, and the pollution they suffered came from the northern Mesopotamian Plain. At first, it was just a social activity of people in the same industry, but later it was gradually attracted by regular secret gatherings. Finally, they received a piece of mudboard full of words and came to Elidu to settle in Elidu according to the instructions; the third household was a local residents of Elidu, and all 30 direct blood relatives in the city were participants. They made highly toxic psychedelic drugs through materials brought by merchants in offshore trade, and then sold them to the north by inland travelers. The initial polluters of this family were no longer verified, and time covered everything.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although the sources of pollution are different and these people do not know that they have similar religious beliefs, they have all performed burnt offerings. The earliest cases of these disappearances can be traced back to a hundred years ago. The victims are all over local residents and foreign merchants, and the places of hiding the bodies are from mud brick houses to undeveloped farmland in nearby villages. In the local records in Ellidu, the village had several plagues, and the symptoms were large bleeding from organs and pores until death. Once, a businessman traveled through the village and then went to Ellidu and then fell out of the city. The locals dug a hole and threw him in and buried him alive. Those who buried the businessman were also infected with the plague, and finally rotted and bleeding all over their bodies, and fell to death on the bed.

The plague stopped spreading until the entire village was burned and everyone was killed. Everything showed that this might be a filamentous plague similar to the Marburg virus, but the origin of the Marburg virus and Ebola virus originated in Africa. It was impossible for merchants who traded offshore to arrive in Uganda and contact fruit bats carrying the virus.

"My Lord needs the answer. The number of believers who have been found is above average, and we must figure out the source."

The settlement of 4,000 people does not take a few days for the Imperial Guards to fully investigate, but in this era there is no household registration information and identity certificate, the popularity of the drum seal is far from expected, and all investigations can only rely on visits. This means that the Imperial Guards need to talk to every household in Ellidu, and the Imperial Guards spend half a month making drum seals for every household in Ellidu and registering household registration information.

"Has Captain Miller caused any trouble?"

"No, the school was built smoothly, and he spent a lot of his time teaching those kids."

"Let the school attract all his attention and don't let him interfere with the movement of the Order." Constantine nodded, "The autopsy result?"

Another Imperial Guard, Hammurabi, was not wearing armor. He wore a heavy robe woven from several layers of linen, which was the most suitable medical work clothes in this era.

"The virus was not detected," he said. "The temperature in this era could not kill the filamentous virus, and no asymptomatic infections were found in the animal population near the burial site of the bone colony. It can be confirmed that this is a psychic plague."

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The emperor's work every morning was to wear a robe made of silk and cotton, and a golden crown on a twenty-five-meter-high rammed earth temple base overlooking the city. Every day, Dinah received gifts on behalf of the emperor. Sometimes it was 2 cows or 6 sheep, sometimes it was dates, honey, milk and lard, sometimes it was carefully brewed beer and at least 4 cherubs (volume units) of grains and flour, sometimes it was unrefined natural silver blocks. The emperor did not communicate directly with the local residents. He only represented the supreme power of this era, just like human fear of nature, the power he represented could not be self-aware, and He was not willing to abuse this part of his power.

Some of the imperial guards were sent out to declare the emperor's power to hundreds of kilometers around (basically the coverage area of ​​the Obed culture), bring some of the sons of literate merchants in the city to act as clerks, bring the clay tablets and the emperor's cylinder seals commissioned by the residents to issue land certificates for all the villages of Obed culture. These imperial guards were also responsible for recording geographical conditions, farm area, crop species, expected yield, farm tool usage rate and livestock quantity, etc. When the imperial guards returned, the emperor had already clearly known Elidu and his week.

How much property does each family own in the border village have, including livestock, precious metals and expensive dyed fabrics. Ellie has the first time the prototype of a social welfare system, although it only gives meat, livestock and grain to residents who set up new families and nurture new lives. Perhaps this welfare system has appeased the city, and the arrests carried out by the Imperial Guards in Ellie did not cause panic among the local residents. Instead, Ellie's former rulers were terrified, even though most of them had cleared of suspicion.

There was no written code in this era, and all laws came from the temple.

Managing the city was just the entertainment of the emperor during his spare time. He had been doing real research in the temple, but for Dinah, she was always dissatisfied with the fact that the city could not provide him with the best quality of life. There were no beautiful gold-edged crystal glasses, no soft silk bedding, and even the cushions on the marble throne were not made of cotton. The only thing that satisfied her was the wool carpet of the throne that extended from the temple gate to the throne above the stairs, which took one fifth of the women of Elidu for four months. For this carpet, the temple paid flour to the women who worked every day. In order to divert the attention of the maid and no longer bothered by the scarce supplies of this era, the emperor could only allow her to select young girls from the wandering tribes of Elidu and Hassulna to receive the standard education of the sisters.

In this era, girls after twelve are the best age to form new families, and men around ten have to undertake production tasks. The school’s admission age frees the selected children from breeding tasks and farming. The girls carefully selected by Dinah also do not need to work, but have to receive more courses. In addition to standard military training and medical training, there is also the most important housekeeping education. She regrets that this era cannot provide girls with sufficient chainsaw swords and power armor, and also regrets that these girls are not real sisterhood reserves after all, and girls work in the temple and even have wages.

The emperor did not know what Dinah's selection criteria were, but he found that the girls selected by Dinah seemed to have learned to wear makeup, adequate nutrition, enforced hygiene regulations and carefully selected clothing also made them look stronger and more beautiful than before. At first they were afraid of the emperor and the imperial guards, but half a year of close contact weakened their fear. Despite not making any statement, the emperor still felt that this would make him feel better, and He was happy to see them playing naughty in places that Dinah could not see.

The girls held trays in their hands, and the pure glass wine glasses and bottles that could not be produced in this era. Dinah stood beside the throne with a stern look, looking at the girls standing quietly on both sides of the stairs. They were very awe and envious of Dinah. Judging from the functions of this temple, Dinah was the emperor's priestess, and they were priestess apprentices. They expected to wear that body of power armor like Dinah and become as beautiful as Dinah. Perhaps in their small heads, the priestess' job is to chop people with swords. This cannot be blamed, after all, Dinah is not a priestess.

“You did a great job.”

"Half a year of education is not enough to make them fully qualified. They cannot fight and cannot complete their services independently." Dinah looked at the girl coldly, "I'm sorry, my lord, they are just half-finished products."

The emperor looked down at the data board in his hand without looking up. He was used to not wearing armor in the temple, and even the holy sword was put away and handed over to the guards for safekeeping. He wore white and crimson silk robe today. The sultry and humid weather was not suitable for wearing tight clothing. The crimson holy skeleton cloth was not suitable for the Mesopotamian plains of this era. The temple was the tallest building in Elidu. The thick mud brick rammed earth walls and glazed mosaic walls separated the heat from the sun, and the moist wind passed through the temple to bring a little coolness.

"I need the interrogation report from the Imperial Guards today."

The emperor put down the data board and picked up the clay board next to it. Running a primitive city of 4,000 people plus some slaves means that his work is not heavy, and he does not need to use a lot of complicated regulations to supervise the lives of every inhabitant. Even local residents raise sheep and cattle in the city is a permitted matter. He is promoting the construction of sewer systems, which requires the investment of the Ellid nobles. The temple cannot afford the cost of establishing a sewer system that can be used for hundreds of years. "Where is the representative of the grain merchant, I remember he had a negotiation with me today. Tell him that the meeting was postponed until thirty standard minutes. Is there any problem, Dinah?"

"They are looking for you, and you are still caring about the survival rate of livestock and cubs in the city."

The emperor looked up at Dinah and found that she was as deaf as the girls. Time seemed to be still, and even the floating curtains stagnated in the air.

"I'm glad you have come to this world from the vast sea. I hope you have obtained the ultimate mystery of the universe." A figure in a black robe appeared next to the throne, and the Supreme Mage nodded at him with a smile. The emperor no longer remained indifferent. Few people in this world can see him expressing emotions, and the Supreme Mage is a few. "I hope you can still call me a child, but we all know that this is unlikely. I have brought the crown and become the Lord of Kama Taj."

"I didn't expect that the person who defeated the white giant god in mythology was you. The Holy Sword was yours, and I just kept it temporarily. Fate was always so capricious and annoying." said the Supreme Master. It seemed that after abandoning the body of the earthly body, the Supreme Master was in a much better mood. "I came here to remind you that they were looking for you. They dismantled every Planck time since the birth of the universe to find you. Be careful, you may think that these cases are just remnants of the age of the gods, but no one can rule out that it might be the bait they threw."

The emperor raised his eyebrows and reached for the crystal wine glass on the tray beside him. The crimson wine resumed movement, and the physical laws of the real plane worked again. "This is a wine made from picked wild grapes. It tasted bad and was not suitable for making wine, but this wine was my only choice. There are no Belgian wheat, Indian pale ale and sturgeons, not Shirley barrels and bourbon barrels, and not tequila and rum."

"Do you think you have only one option?"

"They cannot come to this era for the time being, are they? The curtain is not always just attackers, and the relationship between illusion and reality is not eternal. Now that you have found me, I must ask you for some help. I know that you cannot directly interfere with the plane of reality, but passing messages in the mezzanine between reality and illusion will not change the Shannon entropy of this universe, and will not attract attention after the curtain." The emperor said happily, "I am preparing to fight back to them. Are you interested in seeing?"
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