After shaking his head, Helene realized that he was lying on the floor of the bedroom, with a chair under his body, and his whole body was full of pain caused by the wrong sleeping position.
She slowly got up and looked at the table covered with thick books and the streets where many people were already active. She couldn't remember when she fell asleep.
Of course, that weird nightmare was still echoing in her mind, and combined with the contents of the books she read before going to bed, Helene was basically certain that those scenes were the underground part of the church cemetery and the part close to the core of the seal.
The law enforcer in black robe, blindfolded, carrying a lantern, and the fog that made it difficult to see the environment, and finally the mountain peaks made of corpses... She raised her chair and sat back at the table, flipping through "Underground Mausoleum Construction Examples" again, and quickly found part of the map of the winding passage she walked through in her dream.
But the hall filled with Corpse Mountain is completely blank on the map.
"There is no doubt that that is the location where 'Salinger’s Blood Banner' is sealed, so the map was deliberately erased... Anyway, let William combine the rest of the map first and find the road leading to that location..."
She muttered, closed the book, and moved her sore limbs, joints and muscles. A dark holy symbol tied with a silver chain on her left wrist gave off a dull luster in the morning light.
Miss Angelica Didn't it mean that in addition to Anti-Divination's anti-prophecy function, this holy emblem can also prevent people from being disturbed by nightmares... Doesn't that dream fall under the jurisdiction of Evernight Goddess? But I do feel that I need to be more awake in my dreams, at least I can remember the complete dream, except for the object on the mountain at the end...
Looking at the Holy Emblem that was exactly the same as the one he saw in the book last night, with a somewhat cold surface, Helene fell into deep thought.
In the next few days, the three Helene did not change their action plan because of Gusin's plan and Lisa's possible peek.
William quickly put together the images in "Underground Mausoleum Construction Examples" and drew the Underground Mausoleum map with a huge area and complex terrain. According to the complete map, it can be seen that this mausoleum is almost a quarter of the size of Molora. It is divided into several layers and hidden about fifty meters below the city.
Tia arranged many hidden mirrors in corresponding ground areas according to the map. They were marked by "Ice Mirror" Charm, which is equivalent to a certain positioning method. Even if you get lost in Underground Mausoleum, you can use them to determine your location, or enter Mirror World to escape back to the ground.
The most important thing is that she and William sent several teams of "volunteers" to sneak into Underground Mausoleum, each carrying marked mirrors. Even if they died or disappeared due to various accidents, the mirrors would have a chance to stay in Underground Area and extend these coordinates into the mausoleum.
As for Helene himself, apart from occasionally going to Knowledge Church according to his original habits to inspect the industries, shops and bars under his jurisdiction, he spent most of his time in his bedroom, relying on "Hunter"'s sensitivity to the environment to memorize the complex Underground Mausoleum map.
She still has similar nightmares every night, appearing in different locations in Underground Mausoleum. With her gradual familiarity with the map, she can determine where she is. The map and the map corroborate each other, making her more familiar with the mausoleum that she has never actually entered.
But with this deepening "familiarity", Helene can feel that his thinking in the dream is getting slower and slower, and he is becoming more and more similar to those "Experiment Personnel". Even every time he walks into the hall where Corpse Mountain is, he seems to be more pious.
She suspected that if she continued to read relevant books and memorize the map of the tomb, one day she would be completely controlled by this power and become one of the puppets without her own thoughts and ideas.
"In "Principles of Sealing", this situation belongs to the pollution of Sealed Artifact. The more I know about the powerful Sealed Artifact, the deeper I am contaminated by it..."
Sitting in front of the desk, Helene muttered to himself, and then he understood why Miss Angelica wanted to give her this holy emblem that seemed to have little use while giving "Rose Necklace".
If she didn't have the ability to stay awake in her dreams, she would have been more contaminated. Maybe in just these two days, she would have become Sealed Artifact's puppet, joining "Experiment Personnel" patrolling the underground, or she might have become a new corpse among Corpse Mountain.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and Helene walked out of the bedroom and found that William was back.
He was still dressed in breeches, short boots, and a loose coat, except that he did not wear a three-cornered hat, which was not much different from that at sea.
But two months of Molora life inevitably made him a little sloppy and lazy, and he would only stand up straight when reporting:
"Captain, the people from 'Earl' Gusin just contacted me. They will take action as planned at noon today. I hope our people will participate simultaneously."
"So fast?"
Helene asked subconsciously.
The "action" that Gusin is talking about is naturally the riot that he said a few days ago to test the power of Church of Knowledge. After two years of operation, this "Earl" has hundreds of subordinates in Molora, including Low Sequence's Beyonder. Once instigated, serious criminals who are extremely vicious and dissatisfied with being Exile and having to follow the law can easily gather tens of thousands of people to attack Knowledge Church in the city center.
But this matter requires careful planning and long-term preparation, but Gusin only notified Helene a few hours in advance?
"Oh, you want to use my manpower, but you don't want me to gain too much benefit from this riot... You can tentatively enter Underground Mausoleum, and you can get some information, but you are never allowed to find the Sealed Artifact first..."
After thinking about this, Helene continued his analysis:
"Unfortunately, our advantage is that we have already obtained the map of the mausoleum and relevant information about the seal with the help of Church of Knowledge's collection of books, but they can only slowly collect the information...
"William, you go and agree to them now. At noon, let all the forces we can control and Gusin's people besiege Knowledge Church. Don't be too active, slowly agree to their conditions, and look reluctant."
"Yes, Captain."
William nodded in agreement, and then asked doubtfully:
"Do you need to inform that Archbishop?"
He knew that Helene had been studying and taking exams under the guidance of Hella Berg in the past month. Maybe he had one foot in Church of Knowledge and became half a "literary person".
"If Church of Knowledge doesn't even know these things, then it's impossible for them to control this city for thousands of years," Helene replied with a chuckle, "But I still go and tell him. At least it explains our attitude, which may be of some benefit to future actions."
After seeing William leave again to find Gusin's contact, Helene went back to the bedroom and put on the Shadow Cloak he bought from "Blaze" Danitz. It turned into a shadow that was almost invisible to the naked eye, slipped out of the window from the wall, came to the street, and moved quickly in the direction of Knowledge Church.
The reason why she did not use "Ice Mirror" Charm to enter Mirror World was because she was worried that "Affliction" Demoness Lisa might have recovered from her injuries in the past two days.
Since she can detect the changes in the mirror when someone uses it, there is no reason why Demoness, who is also Sequence 5, can't.
Passing through another batch of serious criminals who were sent to "City of Exile", Helene soon saw Archbishop Hella Berg holding the registration list with a calm expression and a little smile. He was still wearing the white robe inlaid with brass threads, which almost blended into his gray hair and beard. Only his amber eyes were majestic and not turbid.
"How was your review of the content in the book? Are you still having nightmares lately?"
Hella Berg asked with a smile as soon as he saw Helene.
He really looks like a teacher... Helene muttered, nodded and answered:
"As my studies progress, nightmares have become more frequent and real recently. I even feel like I am wandering in the winding passage of Underground Mausoleum, seeing mountains of corpses and seas of blood... Does this represent a kind of 'pollution'?
"Well, I learned this in "Principles of Sealing"."
Hearing her rhetorical question, Hella Berg nodded slightly, as if very satisfied.
"The fact that you can think of this means that you have truly used the knowledge in the book for your own use," he narrowed his eyes slightly and said in an emotional tone, "Some high-ranking beings will be 'contaminated' if you just have some understanding of them, but in Molora, every Exile er will continue to be polluted like this until they completely become a part of this city... What you have to do is to be closer to that item than them, but you cannot completely obey it."
Complete obedience means becoming a puppet, becoming those Experiment Personnel who are worse than dead and have empty bodies... Helene added in his heart, and then asked:
"Is this the reason why you, I mean the clergy of the church, use puppets instead of real bodies to operate in Molora?"
Compared with Exile, the prisoner whose life and death no one cares about, and Experiment Personnel, who has become a puppet law enforcer, Church of Knowledge definitely values his precious clergy more, and will not let them be easily contaminated by "Salinger’s Blood Banner", and voluntarily stays in this city to become a part of it.
"You can understand it that way. Of course, there are other reasons, but they are not important to you..." Hella Berg patiently explained, "Since you have already started dreaming about Underground Mausoleum and dreaming about that hall, it means that the time is almost there. You only need an opportunity..."
"Opportunity?"
Helene asked in reply, suddenly remembering that the purpose of coming to the church was to tell Gusin about the riot that would start at noon. Just as he was about to speak, there was a commotion at the main entrance of the church.
A middle-aged man in a white robe walked quickly. His expression was a little flustered and his steps were uncoordinated. But in Helene's view, these vivid expressions were just part of the performance of the "doll".
"Riots! Riots have broken out all over the city! A large number of Exile ers are heading here!"
The puppet Pastor pointed at the door and shouted before he could stand still in front of Hella Berg.
The latter did not show any emotion. He just looked at Helene calmly and said in a calm tone:
"This is the opportunity you want."