CHAPTER 1098: CHAPTER 107: NOW THE PRESSURE IS ON SIX DRAGONS CULT

At the top floor of the Life Furnace Knights Order’s base, several Vice Captains gathered once again for a secret meeting.

The main reason is...

The development of events has really exceeded their imagination.

"The Church Member claiming to be a survivor of the Pacific Ocean event has been contained. He is currently in our special containment area, with independent hardware not connected to the external network," said Deputy Chief Devinia. "The Dinan Knight affiliated with His Excellency Pennsylvania is handling this matter entirely. He is commanding warriors brought from our ’hometown’ to keep an eye on this far-traveled Church Member. This arrangement is very appropriate."

So far, not a single Vice Captain has personally met the mysterious guy.

This is only natural. In the terrifying Paradox City incident, the newly emerged Martial God demonstrated Internal Strength Cultivation just below that of King Aqini. Moreover, in the satellite network between the Earth-Moon System, he leveraged the distance between Earth and Earth’s satellite orbit to surpass King Aqini on the Moon.

And in the Pacific Ocean underwater event, known only to the insiders of Six Dragons Sect, he obliterated the most core institution of the Six Dragons Sect. Even the most elite members of Six Dragons Sect couldn’t protect their core secrets.

These high-tier hermits of the Six Dragons Sect still don’t know how the Martial God accomplished this.

Even though they have been in hiding for decades.

Given the Martial God’s destructiveness, everyone unanimously agreed that, at this stage, they should not randomly appear in front of any suspicious individuals.

Therefore, they have indeed arranged for someone to meet that mysterious "Church Member". That Church Member of the Church used the Captain’s spare Prosthetic Body and claimed to be the Captain of the Furnace Knight Order to negotiate with the Mysterious Person.

After leaving the special containment area, the Church Member of the Six Dragons Sect impersonating the Captain would enter a special corridor. This corridor was arranged directly in the area during their conversation. All monitoring equipment along that route was shut down, and heavy firepower was stationed at the route edges and intersections. If the Church Member responsible for impersonation did not proceed as planned, they would be regarded as being "controlled by Inner Strength" and immediately be taken down, incapacitated, and serviced with a change of motherboard.

In a specific area, he would leave non-electronic data forms as the fruits of negotiation.

"That guy’s Preacher, Advocate, and Scripture Teacher all martyred themselves with the underwater base," Devinia said with a heavy tone, then continued, "This coincidence is quite coincidental, but it doesn’t justify us killing him."

The treatment within and outside the Church should be two separate standards.

Being able to rise in a knight order like the Life Furnace, these Vice Captains had seen blood in field investigations, their hands stained with lives.

But this is not a method to be used against Church compatriots.

"The Six Dragons Sect’s database cannot be accessed remotely now; we only have locally stored data," Devinia continued. "And the information he provided does not contradict the part we can confirm."

"So, what he’s saying is true?"

"That’s hard to say."

Truth serum is not reliable either. The most it can do is make the injected person say information they currently believe is somewhat true. Under this premise, there is a lot of room for manipulation.

"We’ve talked for so long without confirming anything," Mississippi said, "Let’s get directly to the main point."

"We have yet to reestablish contact with all Earth’s Messengers. Also, logically, such a significant event, we should contact the Holy Maiden or the Messenger; the Sect-protecting Dharma King also... alright, alright, I know these aren’t very likely. Let’s fast forward to the main point we want to discuss. The cells that guy brought. Deputy Chief Parmion..."

Many Scientific Knights immediately noticed something amiss.

The Six Dragons Sect is very particular about titles, and it follows a set of rules different from the Scientific Knight rituals.

In simple terms, it is...

"Refer to the position when working" and "Call by the position corresponding to the work."

According to the general rules, Deputy Chief Devinia should refer to Deputy Chief Parmion’s title in the Six Dragons Sect, "Permian Great Hermit."

And his current tone seems to be...

To allocate work while playing the role of Scientific Knight.

"The living sample that person brought is cellular, deeply modified nerve cells, and experimental technology," said Deputy Chief Parmion/Permian Great Hermit, "According to the current data, a brand-new protein complex fills these cells, traversing the astrocytes and neurons to form a new structure. This thing brings the cell’s toughness to a new record. Perhaps only King Aqini’s nerve cells can compare in toughness."

"Experimental? Why do you say it’s experimental?" Deputy Chief Mississippi noticed this issue.

"The nerve cells in this sample show few signs of modification, lacking mainstream hardened glial cell modifications, and the protein complex hasn’t significantly altered the thermal performance of the cell tissue—in simple terms, there’s been no mainstream external strength or internal strength specialization modification. It’s obviously just a purely experimental product."

"So, why are we discussing this issue using our apparent identities? Devonian Elder."

Devinia said, "We arranged for a second negotiation, and according to the results of that, the person doesn’t know much about the details of these cells."

"Oh?"

"He can only provide a portion of the data. Perhaps he is merely a team leader for other project groups, possessing only partial data," Parmion added. "I don’t know what happened that would make someone like him bring this result here."

Devonian Elder Devinia said, "There’s a possibility that he privately undertook this action. He secretly transferred results not under his responsibility."

At this point, all the vice-captains were invigorated.

These vice-captains were mostly individuals who had already attained the title of Great Knight. Those who have reached this point within the Scientific Knight Order mostly know the rules.

The church member of the Six Dragons Sect, unfortunately, adopted a method that wasn’t entirely compliant, transporting a high-value result.

The crucial point is...

During that brief period, this "high-value result" was completely under their control.

Of course, this result was ultimately destined to be handed over within the church, but...

"It seems to be within our group’s research field, the exploration and statistics of gene modification technology," Vice Captain Mississippi spoke.

Furthermore, it’s in the single-field performance enhancement to the cutting-edge modification technology at the King of Godspeed level.

Vice Captain Devinia nodded, "Yes, competing with the Bloodline Order is very troublesome, do you understand?"

"So we..." Vice Captain Pennsylvania’s tone gradually turned threatening.

"Tsk, tsk, the troublesome point is right here." Devinia sighed, "That kid, in order to connect with us, randomly repeated previous actions several times, causing too much commotion. Levy Envoy also found out. Moreover, our inquiries about related data have also left traces. If we proceed with this matter, we will forever hold leverage over each other, leverage within the church system, which is not feasible."

Within the Scientific Knight system, holding leverage over each other won’t have too severe consequences. Protectors have always favored Scientific Knights.

But within the church, some things simply cannot be done. The Sect-protecting Dharma King is safeguarding the "church" itself.

"And if we don’t count that guy in, the information he possesses would prove that the institution he belonged to previously ventured into this technology earlier than us—this could cause us to fail to gain a foothold within the Scientific Knight Order," Devinia sighed, "This matter precisely stands between the Six Dragons Sect and the Scientific Knight Order."

A member of the Six Dragons Sect, using non-compliant means, transported an extremely valuable sample to a Scientific Knight Order affiliated with the Six Dragons Sect.

The operational space within, as well as the involved interests...

Is indeed vast.

"The Holy Maiden also did transport a biological sample, but it should have been damaged during the battle with the new Martial God," a vice-captain stated, "Is there an issue with this?"

"No, I’ve matched the genetic information of this biological sample. I dare say, such a mad sample can only be found in ’our’ projects."

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Xiang Shan wasn’t in the least bit anxious. He was simply enjoying life in the reception area prepared by the Scientific Knight Order for him.

Occasionally, he would use computing power and data to simulate sensory stimulation from past eras, enjoying various entertainments, at times leveraging computing power to cultivate his inner strength, occasionally engaging in meditation.

Ah, of course, external strength had the risk of exposing his true level, so it was temporarily set aside.

He understood these Scientific Knights all too well. Merely through records obtained underwater, he could profile personalities from bits of clues, roughly deducing the behavioral preferences of the high-ranking members of the Life Furnace Knights Order.

Moreover, it was surprisingly simple.

Humans haven’t changed at all till this day.

Even with a more powerful brain, the underlying logic of human thought still hasn’t changed.

"Still the same, still the same." Xiang Shan shook his head.

Now was the moment to test the scientific level of the Six Dragons Sect, it could be said that the greatest challenge at present has already been thrown to the Six Dragons Sect by him.

This is called "making effective use of every resource," especially the resources under "one’s own" control; they must be utilized well.

It should be said, whether or not to take on the Scientific Knight Order base doesn’t matter. Without securing the transfer of a massive number of infants, attacking the Life Furnace would only be burdensome.

Hmm, the best outcome would be the Life Furnace analyzing the cell samples he provided, yielding data, and then he would hand the data to Niyaguti.

If he could secure permission to access the Space Elevator, that would be best.