The one who joined the communication at this moment and appeared before Ziegler was his wife, whom he had believed dead for more than a century.
"Paulina, I thought you..."
"Ziegler, what I'm about to say concerns that matter, so..."
Interrupting Ziegler before he could continue, Paulina spoke, then glanced at Aierduo beside him.
That matter?
Something Aierduo could not be allowed to know?
Could it be...?
"Aierduo, leave first!"
Having formed a few guesses, Ziegler ordered Aierduo to withdraw.
Though he desperately wanted to know what that matter was, and was deeply uneasy about the conversation that would follow—after all, that woman had clearly mixed with the Heretics—
He could not disobey the Pope's orders and could only withdraw.
"Ziegler, I have met that person—the chief scientist of the Great Xia Federation mentioned in that outpost, Luo Li!"
Her very first sentence was a bombshell. Ziegler's eyes widened as he stared at Paulina in disbelief.
One had to know that although little information had been extracted from the Great Xia Federation's outpost, it was enough to confirm that the chief scientist Luo Li mentioned within had lived hundreds of billions of years ago.
Paulina said she had met her.
How was that possible?
At the same time, in the main control room of the Mobile Church headquarters.
"Everyone, get out, immediately!"
Aierduo, who had been ordered to leave by Ziegler, arrived here at once.
This was the control hub of the entire Mobile Church, including the communication currently in progress.
No one dared disobey the order of a red-robed archbishop, and everyone immediately withdrew at speed.
Once the main control room doors closed, Aierduo immediately got to work, operating a console nonstop.
Before long, three figures appeared within the control room, along with the sound of their voices.