Chapter 313 The strange stolen goods

"Religion is originally a double-edged sword!" Roddy sighed, and he smiled bitterly: "It is naturally good to use it to control people's hearts. But the more sacred the things, the less sacred the little blasphemy. Once the devout believers discover that they have always regarded as the most sacred and holy bishops, and the high-ranking servants of the gods who serve the gods are simply a group of liars. Then such a gap will arouse anger that is so strong that it is unusual!" Roddy's tone gradually became serious: "That kind of anger is enough to destroy everything!"

Nicole lowered her head and thought for a while before slowly saying: "It seems that your plan is to take the opportunity to ruin the reputation of the Church of God. A notorious church cannot continue to win the hearts of the people."

Roddy gently hugged Nicole's waist and smiled and said, "Okay, we have been in this hunting ground for a day. It's time to go back and see the Bishop in the church. I guess the Bishop must have been so worried that he has lost several times in the past few days."

Miaosi next to her sighed, looking at Roddy with a complicated look: "Roddy, why have you never mentioned these ways to deal with the Divine Cult when you were in the Roland Continent? You have never suggested to King Sauron."

Roddy was silent for a while and whispered: "Miaosi, are you blaming me, right? Now that the war between the temple and the kingdoms has begun, many people will definitely die. Let me tell you, the method we use now, even if I told King Sauron at that time, they have no way to deal with the temple! The situation in the Roland Continent is different from the Empire of Light!"

In the church in Xiqiu City, the bishop has been living like a year. The soldiers of the public security office outside surrounded the church like a cell, and no one is allowed to enter or exit, and even those who help the church purchase food and food supplies they need on weekdays are no exception.

At the beginning, the bishop was even afraid that the other party would starve him to death in the church. Seeing that the person sent out to buy food and tried to negotiate with the other party in vain, but was beaten to death halfway, no one dared to go out again.

Fortunately, Roddy didn't want their lives now. Every day, he would always let the soldiers throw in a few pieces of the cheapest air-dried black bread.

When did the Bishop, who has always been in fine clothes and jade, suffer such suffering? And not many of the senior clergy beside him are real ascetic monks. After eating coarse grains for three days, none of them cried and called for their parents. It was just that he was frightened by the majesty of the Marquis Roddy, no one dared to do anything.

But, nothing else is enough, but the food is a little worse, it is nothing more than tolerating it. However, the soldiers outside not only blocked those who went out, but also blocked all the people who came into the church to clean up every day - naturally, including those vehicles responsible for handling the toilet.

There are dozens of people in the group of clergy. They are trapped in the church these days. No matter how little they eat, they always have to be excreted! The toilets in the church have not been cleaned for many days. As soon as they enter the church, they cannot hide the smell of a stench floating around the originally sacred church.

The bishop could only sit there and pray every day. When the matter was a big deal, he naturally knew that even if he could escape this disaster in the end, he would probably not be able to take some responsibility afterwards...

I waited for the flame warriors like stars and moons, but things did not develop as they thought in the bishop. The other party's Marquis Roddy was surprisingly tough and ignored the church's flame warriors. The soldiers surrounded by the security station outside did not disperse at all, and the flame warriors were simply left there!

Roddy did a really amazing job, and he didn't send anyone to arrange the station for the Flame Warrior Order. He just pretended to let the security officer greet him, and prepared a simple awning outside the church. After asking for Roddy to encounter a wall, Deputy Chief Streal of the Flame Warrior Order ran back to the church in shame. He also understood that it seemed that the matter could not be resolved in a short time.

His first thought was to find the Chief of Security and ask the other party to arrange a place for them to station two thousand warriors.

Streal's reason is very simple: First, the church's Fire Warrior Order was originally in any place in the empire, and there were naturally local churches responsible for the support, but now the church is surrounded, and as the fief of the Tulip family, there was never a church army stationed here, so naturally the Xiqiu side was responsible.

The chief security officer had already obtained Roddy's secret order. After listening to the request of the Flame Warrior Order, he spread his hands and said lightly: "This forgiveness officer cannot do it. There has never been a barracks of the church warrior order in Xiqiu City. To be honest, the only barracks here are the stationing point of our security soldiers, and what else... Hehe, there was originally an empty barracks, which were responsible for guarding the Tulip Villa. Now they are also occupied by the escort army of Marquis Roddy, so I am really helpless at your request..."

Streal said: "Do you let our sacred Fire Warriors live on the streets!"

The chief security officer rolled his eyelids and said lazily: "That's right, to be honest, it's not within the jurisdiction of the Xiaguan. But if you have to find a place to live, you might as well go to the military camp of Tulip Villa and discuss with the escort army of Marquis Roddy to see if they can give up some of the barracks..."

Streal immediately sent ten people, but in less than half an hour, all of his ten warriors ran back with a bruised nose and swollen face.

It turned out that before they could finish their words, they were driven out by the escort army of Marquis Roddy. The two sides took action in the last disagreement. The flame warriors of the church were used to being proud of themselves on weekdays and never took the local army into consideration.

But this time they still kicked the iron plate.

This time, Marquis Roddy joined hands with his newlywed wife Miss Nicole to Xiqiu. The two thousand troops he accompanied him to guard. Although they were not Thor's Whip, they were probably not as good as Thor's Whip in terms of combat effectiveness. But their arrogance was ridiculously overwhelming!

Those are two thousand royal guards!!

Who is the Royal Guard? He has always been an imperial guard who is responsible for guarding the royal family! He always looks at people with his nostrils under the banner of the royal family. The Flame Warrior Order is arrogant? The Royal Guard's arrogance is even more arrogant!

At that time, both sides turned their faces, and the people from the Royal Guards cursed: We have always been the only one in the Royal Guards who stole other people's things, and no one dared to stole our territory!

Streal was in a state of turmoil. He was not a fool at first. Although he had a little irritable temper, after calming down, he immediately understood a strange aura.

It is obvious that this Marquis Roddy was deliberately trying to go against the church!

The new powerful figure in the empire has a somewhat subtle identity. Not only is the brother-in-law of the empire's first marshal Duke Tulip, but he also has the title of marquis. The identity of the commander of the northern legion of the empire is even more interesting... The marquis of an empire can take the "Royal Guards" as the accompanying guards when traveling. This is the glory of the royal family members!

Such a person is absolutely unaffected! It seems that the church is not prepared enough this time! I thought it was just a dispute in ordinary local dioceses, so I sent myself to mediate and suppress the mobs, but I didn't expect the situation here to be so complicated...

Streal would never dare to act rashly. The matter had developed to this point, and it was not something that people of his own level could handle. On the one hand, he immediately sent someone back to the imperial capital to report the situation here, and on the other hand, he had no choice but to order all his subordinates to stay in the square outside the church.

If this order continues, the flame warriors are really stupid.

Staying on the spot? How to stay? Do you sleep on the streets?

Because the Imperial Church is powerful, the Flame Warriors never need to carry any supplies in any city in the Empire. This time, two thousand of them came to Xiqiu, not to mention tents or other supplies, even the food and grass were just carrying some food and food.

These two thousand people, people want to eat, and horses want to eat grass - where do these things come from?

Streal even gave up his face and begged the chief of security. After seeing the failure, he took out the church's arguments and tried to influence these barbaric guys in the name of the great gods.

But when the other party, from officers to soldiers, rolled his eyes when he heard this statement, he simply replied: "I'm not a believer."

In the Empire of Light, although the Divine Church had established the status of the state religion, the imperial decrees did not make forced provisions to require the people of the empire to believe in the Divine Church. Although the decrees also stipulated that no other religions were allowed to believe in the other religions, it declared that only the Divine Church was the only legal religious organization in the empire. However, it also allowed the people to have the right to not believe in religion.

In other words, as long as you don’t believe in other religions, whether you believe in God’s religion depends entirely on your personal preferences.

Streal was completely desperate. He had seen that in Xiqiu, and even in the entire Xilin Province, anyone here, whether soldiers or ordinary people, seemed to have an extraordinary superiority. In their hearts, whether the emperor of the empire or His Majesty, were not as great as a tulip duke! They only recognized tulips in their eyes, not others! This was simply a private kingdom of tulips!

Fortunately, Roddy didn't really want to force them to death.

Just after these flame warriors slept in the square for a night, Marquis Roddy finally showed up.

At noon the next day, the young Marquis probably got up late, had breakfast, and washed up. He brought the cavalry guards with fifty Thunder Whip and rode his horse and showed off his might to the church.

Looking at Mr. Streal with a haggard face, Roddy finally showed a peaceful smile on his face. But he still didn't dismount, but sat upright and said with a smile: "Mr. Streal, you arrived yesterday, right? Thank you for your hard work along the way. I wonder if you had a good rest last night?"

Streal looked at the young marquis' smile helplessly. At this moment, he had not slept all night and his stomach was empty, but he had to smile and deal with it for a few words.

Roddy yawned and smiled and said, "Since you have had a good rest, let's start dealing with this dispute today. I must have understood what happened a few days ago. I have surrounded the church early and prohibited anyone from entering and leaving, just because I am afraid that someone will take the opportunity to destroy the evidence. I hope you understand that I did this entirely to maintain the sacred glory of the church!"

Speaking of this, Roddy waved and signaled the soldiers surrounding the church to move aside. Roddy finally got off the horse and took Streal's hand and smiled, "Let's go in and meet the Bishop now."

When he walked into the church and saw the bishop, Roddy was not so good. He looked at the bishop coldly and said in a deep voice: "Sir, I have sent someone to investigate in detail these days. Someone is indeed cheating in the name of the church..."

The bishop's voice was hoarse, but he still shouted: "That's a frame-up! It's a scapegoat!"

Roddy shook his head and said lightly: "Whether it is framed is certainly clear. As the saying goes, catch thieves and dirty things. In order to show justice, I want to send someone in to search the church to see if there is any dirty things. If not, such behavior is the most direct and effective blow to those rumors! Use iron evidence to teach you a cleansing! I think this is the best solution now, what do you think?"

His last sentence "You see," was clearly what he said to Streal. Then Roddy added: "The reason I haven't searched here for a long time is to wait for your arrival. I have just sent people to surround the here these days, with the purpose of waiting for you to come and search under your witness, so that I can show justice!"

Search the church? Search the religious premises of a diocese of the Empire's Theocracy?!

Even in the era of Abbas, a powerful person like Abbas did not have such disrespect to the church!

But then again, even Emperor Abbas did not make such a move as sending troops to surround the church.

Streal carefully considered Roddy's words and searched the church. Since the young marquis dared to make such a proposal, he was naturally confident. Otherwise, wouldn't all the things he did these days have become useless?

But now I am reasonable and it seems that it is not easy to refuse...

After thinking about it, Streal lowered his face and said, "Mr. Marquis, the church is a place for worshipping the great supreme gods. Sending troops to search the church is disrespectful to the sacred and majestic dignity of the divine religion. Look..."

"I'm sorry." Roddy said lightly: "First, I am not a believer myself. Second, I am a marquis of the empire, and I only obey the decrees of the empire! The regulations of the church do not apply to me!"

Although his words were short, there was no room for maneuver in his tone.

Streal glanced at the bishop, who hesitated for a moment, then nodded fiercely. Streal was relieved.

Since the bishop said that searching is okay, then search it! The soldiers outside have surrounded the place so closely these days, I believe the other party can't frame it even if they want to frame it.

Roddy smiled slightly and said, "For fairness, the searchers, the soldiers of the Empire and the Fire Warrior Order of the Church each account for half of them. What do you think?"

The more Roddy said this, the more suspicious Streal was in his heart. Could it be that the young marquis was so sure? Even the bishop's expression seemed a little uneasy, but then he made a tough attitude and shouted: "If the search fails, the Marquis will give us justice! Because this is a blasphemy to the gods!"

Roddy happily agreed.

At that moment, Roddy's fifty Thunder Whip and fifty samurai warriors under him, Qili began a search in the church. They searched very carefully and did not let go of almost every inch of land. After two hours, nothing was found.

The bishop's attitude gradually became tougher, and Streal also looked at Roddy with some smugness.

Roddy was not panicked at all, squinted her eyes and smiled. After listening to the report from her subordinates quietly, her eyes suddenly fell on the statue of the god directly in front of the church hall, and suddenly whispered: "Put the statue of the god away!"

"No!" The bishop's face changed, and even Streal showed an angry expression and gritted his teeth and said, "Marquis, the statue of God must not be turned! This involves the majesty of the Supreme God! The empire has never happened for hundreds of years since its founding! You have already been a little too much today!"

Roddy ignored the clamor of the two people, looked coldly at the Thunder Whip of his subordinates, and said lightly: "Didn't you hear my order?"

No matter what kind of thunder whips are or not, they only recognize the Tulip family in their eyes! Now this Marquis Roddy is the Duke's brother-in-law, and he also comes from the Thunder whip. In their eyes, they are his own people. After hearing Roddy's order, the wolf-toothed soldiers immediately received the order and went to move the statue of the gods with all their hands and feet.

Streal's eyes were red and he was about to turn against him. Just as he was about to loudly order his warrior to come forward to stop him, Roddy narrowed his eyes, and his hand was pressed on the hilt of the knife at his waist at some point. A hint of coldness appeared in his eyes, and the murderous aura on his body made Streal and the bishop chill all over his body.

"You two should not act rashly! This is Xiqiu! It is the fief of the Tulip family. Everything here must be followed by my orders! I will say again, I am not a believer! The rules of the church cannot control me, I only recognize the decrees of the empire!"

He exuded a stern aura, and the faint aura made the Bishop and Streal suffocate.

Only a crack sound was heard, and the huge stone statue had been moved away halfway. The bishop's face immediately changed, his legs trembled like a sieve, his face was as dark as earth, his lips trembled, and he didn't know what to say in a low voice.

"Marquis, there is something here!" A soldier from Thunder Whip reported loudly.

Roddy sneered, looked at the two of them coldly, and strode over. The bishop's legs were weak and he sat down on the ground on the spot.

Streal's expression also changed drastically. He glanced at the bishop and quickly followed.

Below the statue of the god, there was a wooden dark grid. Roddy glanced at it, suddenly shouted lightly, and pulled out the scimitar. A sharp cold light flashed by, and with a chirping sound, the dark grid was already split, and countless golden gold coins were scattered inside!!

A large pile of gold coins suddenly appeared, and for a moment, the faces of the people standing next to him were filled with golden light. However, Streal's face immediately turned dead gray.

"I didn't expect that I saw that there were at least 50,000 gold coins here... Gentlemen, the clergy in the church have always claimed to be the duty of serving the great gods, but how could they own so much private property? If it is blasphemy to search the church and move the statues, then what is it to hide so many gold coins under the statues?" Roddy's voice was still lukewarm.

Streal glanced at the bishop with indescribable resentment and despair in his eyes. The people from the Fire Warrior Order looked at the clergy in the church with indescribable contempt.

"Yi? There is another layer below..." Roddy suddenly smiled slightly, and with a backhand, splitting another layer open.

With a thud, some fragments of things scattered out. Now everyone present looked strange and looked at the bishop who could no longer speak.

"Well... candles, whip, iron shackles..." Roddy said in a strange tone, sighing, as if with a strange smile, and laughed slowly: "The Bishop's interest is very strange..."

The bishop then came back to his senses and screamed suddenly, "These...these things are not mine!!"

Roddy snorted coldly and said, "It's not yours? It's not yours, is it mine? Master Bishop! Now the dirt is here, what else do you have to say!"

Streal's eyes rolled twice, and suddenly a trace of sharpness flashed, and he shouted suddenly: "I'll kill you, the scum in the Divine Sect!"
To be continued...