Tivian North Suburb, around Royal Saint Crown University, Green Shade Town.
The hazy clouds still hung over the sky of Tivian. Inside Green Shade Town Number 17, Dorothy, dressed in comfortable home clothes, sat on the sofa in her living room, sipping a cup of hot coffee while looking at a letter in her hand. There were many similar letters scattered on the coffee table in front of Dorothy, all of which were exchanges between Vanya and Dorothy regarding the mysterious Wolf Blood contact person over the past few days.
"Cup Mother's nurturing... I am very happy to hear the news that White Prayer Sister you are safe and sound. This finally allows my heart, which has been hanging, to settle. I sincerely do not wish to see any accident happen to the understanding person of the great Mother's belief, who finally appeared on Light's side..."
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"You said my worry was a bit excessive? No, no, no, you don't understand White Prayer Sister. I have seen too many truly devout people in the Church who were treated cruelly because they pursued the true meaning of God. I can already see the shadows of those people in you. I do not want you to follow in their footsteps again.
"The Church's cruel burning at the stake is a persecution of enlightened theologians, which I believe is an obstruction to theological progress. Our cause is to seek the true meaning of the divine, to influence this world with the true divine will, while some people are desperately obstructing this. They are trying to distort the true meaning of God, and what we need to do is to make the true meaning of God return to this world again..."
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"You ask me what the true meaning of God is? Perhaps I can try to explain it to you. I don't know if you have ever thought about it. The Holy Mother resides in heaven, loving all people, yet the only one in this world who can hear the Holy Mother's true words is the Holy Mountain Pope alone. Other Holy Mother believers, no matter how sincere and devout, cannot perceive a trace of the Holy Mother's true meaning. Don't you think this is a bit ridiculous? Why must the existence of the Holy Mother be explained to us by another person?
"The Holy Mother loves all people, so why doesn't She personally pour out this love to the world? Even if She needs to find messengers, She can completely spread them throughout the world, allowing more people to hear Her words and perceive Her will. However, the reality is not like this. The high and mighty Pope of Light is the Holy Mother's sole spokesperson. Not only that, but he is even the sole spokesperson for the Saint Child and Saint Father. Even the other six saints have no power to hear the divine will. If such a situation were to happen in my Taiyi Three Teachings, it would simply be absurd.
"The Holy Mother loves all people, yet what the Light Church has done is constantly bring suffering and war to various parts of the world. In the nearly fourteen hundred years since Light was founded, how many countries have been tragically annihilated by holy wars simply because they did not believe in their ways? How many innocent people have been displaced, how many civilians have been cruelly executed in the name of heresy and otherworld? And this is just a microcosm of Light's tyrannical holy wars over the past thousand years.
"Sent along with this letter is a copy of "Turbid Current Secret History", which records the numerous crimes committed by Light during the Turbid Current War. Tens of thousands of people died directly under religious trials, and hundreds of thousands were forced to flee into exile. The entire Iweig became a hell on earth because of this. White Prayer, I know you are a devout believer of the Holy Mother, and you once said that you worship the Holy Mother as your own mother. Then I ask, what mother in the world would treat her own children like this? Simply because they don't believe in Her, She wields the butcher's knife. Light... no, what Holy Mountain is doing, is it truly worthy of the Holy Mother's name?"
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"Ah... yes, I think you have finally gained some understanding. God's spokesperson is not God. What right does the Holy Mountain Pope have to interpret God's will alone? Any divine oracle of Light comes from his mouth. The Three Saints in heaven must be too fond of him. There are seven saints in Light, and hundreds of millions of believers in Light. Why do the Three Saints only favor him? He has launched so many wars, causing countless innocent people to suffer and be harmed. Is this truly the Holy Mother's true meaning? I don't think the Holy Mother would kill her children just because they don't believe in Her.
"I am very happy, White Prayer, you have agreed that the Holy Mother's doctrine should not be interpreted solely by the Holy Mountain Pope. We should find other ways to understand the Holy Mother's true meaning. The correct interpretation of the divine true meaning is what we theological researchers should do, not blindly follow the doctrines compiled by others with blind devotion. It just so happens that I now know a method to speculate on the Holy Mother's true meaning.
"According to what I know, in the forbidden library of the Tivian Church, there is a secret transmission. On it, the Holy Mother is interpreted from another perspective, which might become one of the key references for our interpretation of the Holy Mother's true meaning..."
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"White Prayer, you are very right, it is very difficult for you to enter the forbidden library alone. I will not make it difficult for you on this point. How about this... I will never ask you to do the dangerous thing of directly sneaking into the forbidden library to steal that secret transmission. You only need to provide the detailed route to the forbidden library. If possible... it would be best to draw us a map of the Tivian Church District...
"After you provide these things, leave the rest to us. My lovely White Prayer, after such a long period of communication, I also want to meet you. After everything is over, if you are willing, you can officially leave the Church and come to our side. I will be very honored to personally guide you to witness the crimson, be immersed in the crimson, and finally taste the crimson...
"Oh, and one more thing, that is the state of your former Archbishop Francesco in your Church... Is he really, as rumored, already transported to Holy Mountain for healing? Is the one currently in charge of Saint Chant Church really just that so-called legendary Sister, Vania Chafilun? If it is her, then can you tell me what kind of person she is? How are her abilities?"
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Sitting calmly on the sofa, Dorothy looked very seriously at the many letters placed on the table in front of her. All these letters were from the person arranged by the Wolf Blood Society to contact Vanya. In just a few days, Vanya had already exchanged letters with the other party multiple times, and their intentions were already exposed in these letters.
'As expected, if the Wolf Blood Society is targeting the Tivian Church... then their goal is only one: "True Crimson Mother" sealed in the forbidden library of Saint Chant Church.'
Dorothy thought to herself, realizing this. A year ago, the Wolf Blood Society's goal in corrupting Kirk, the then head of the Historical Scripture Department, was to make him sneak into the library and steal the secret transmission called "True Crimson Mother". However, their plan failed after Dorothy interfered.
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But they did not give up their attempt. Afterwards, Smith, the Werewolf cadre stationed in Tivian, was still thinking about how to obtain "True Crimson Mother". At that time, Dorothy also used him to establish contact between the Wolf Blood Society and Vanya, to lure their corruption.
'Now that the former Archbishop Francesco of the Tivian Church is absent, it is a great opportunity for the Wolf Blood Society. It is impossible not to seize it properly, so they have intensified their contact with the White Prayer, accelerating the corruption and making her work for them. They should now be preparing a plan to seize "True Crimson Mother", which requires the White Prayer to provide them with internal intelligence.
'I really don't know what the hidden content of this "True Crimson Mother" is about? It can make the Wolf Blood Society so desperate to get it. "True Crimson Mother" is obviously very important to the Wolf Blood Society, but the Church seems to not understand its value very well, just sealing it in the local Church as a general forbidden secret transmission. If the Church truly knew the value of "True Crimson Mother", it should have been sent directly to Holy Mountain for sealing... I also don't know how the Tivian Church obtained this secret transmission...'
Dorothy thought to herself, pondering this, then she shifted her attention from "True Crimson Mother" itself to the Wolf Blood Society.
'The top priority now is still to figure out the purpose of the Wolf Blood Society? And first, we need to find their people. It is unrealistic to find people through the White Stone Craftsmen's Guild, so fortunately, I just happen to have a new ability that can solve this problem.'
Saying this, Dorothy refocused her gaze on the pile of letters on the coffee table. These letters included not only the recent communications between Vanya and the Wolf Blood Society but also all their mutual communications over the past year.
'Letters are also communication, and communication is also a medium. Using information as a medium can also obtain information...'
Dorothy recalled the content of all the letters exchanged between Vanya and the Wolf Blood Society contact person in her mind, inferring clues from the words.
'In the past few days, the Wolf Blood Society's replies to Vanya have been very quick. This proves that the Wolf Blood Society member who contacted Vanya can see Vanya's letters and reply in a timely manner, so he should be in Tivian, able to conveniently enter and exit the Craftsmen's Guild stronghold in Tivian to pick up and send letters.
'I have been closely monitoring the periphery of the Golden Contract Bank using Corpse Puppets for a while, trying to find the Wolf Blood contact person among those who enter and exit the Golden Contract Bank based on the rhythm of receiving letters in the White Prayer's account, but I haven't succeeded. On the days when the White Prayer's account received letters, there were no repeated individuals among those entering and exiting the Golden Contract Bank, so the other party should be sending subordinates to deliver the letters... and using different subordinates each time.
'I briefly and closely monitored everyone who came to the Golden Contract Bank on the day the letters were received, but none of them showed any signs of being involved with the Wolf Blood Society. This might prove that the Wolf Blood contact person doesn't even use subordinates to deliver letters, but purely temporary hires, and it's a different hire each time, so it's difficult to find him through the channel of catching proxies. He is a very cautious person.
'In his early correspondence with Vanya, he was very polite and restrained, with beautiful handwriting, exquisite wording, and extreme restraint in describing many sensitive contents. He would not directly be hostile to the Church, but was just secretly probing Vanya's attitude step by step, behaving like a gentle and elegant gentleman rather than a 'Cup' cultist.
'In subsequent letters, as he confirmed that the White Prayer was getting more and more 'corrupted', his writing and language became more open, his attitude became more obvious, and his writing was not as elegant as before. He began to directly and rampantly attack the Church, and finally even exposed some of the 'Cup's true nature...'
Dorothy began to summarize the clues about that Wolf Blood contact person from these letters, using some extraordinary power to extend the information of these clues to the outside of her thoughts. She could feel that the information of these clues ultimately extended into the Shi Jie (consciousness realm) deep within the inner world.
Although Dorothy could not see the situation in the Shi Jie (consciousness realm), Dorothy knew that this clue information was automatically gathering other related information within the Shi Jie (consciousness realm). This was like Dorothy using the small amount of clue information summarized from the letters as "bait", casting it into the Shi Jie (consciousness realm), and fishing out more information from it.
When this new information that was "fished out" entered Dorothy's mind, she immediately began to organize it.
'This Wolf Blood Society contact person... is a male, whose personality appears very calm and cautious on the surface. He operates in public as a polite gentleman. At this time of year, he likes to wear a standard suit and trousers, a dark red tie, a top hat, always carries a cane, and has a steady gait. In front of secular people, he deliberately cultivates a gentlemanly demeanor, thus lacking the frankness and ease of a true gentleman. His movements and expressions are slightly stiff. Although his overall temperament appears elegant and gentle at first glance, careful observation can reveal hidden suppression and dullness.
'Beneath the gentlemanly exterior, his heart suppresses a bloodthirsty madness. His inner self is a standard 'Cup' cultist, craving primitive sensory stimulation such as devouring. He is lurking alone in Tivian, likely warned by his superiors not to cause trouble and attract attention, so he usually tries his best to restrain his desires, honestly and dutifully acting as an ordinary citizen. However, when his desires accumulate to the point of unbearable thirst, he still attempts to seek limited solutions.
'Therefore... clues about him should be found in some hidden red-light districts in Tivian. Given his introverted and brutal nature, he is likely to cause some injury incidents in these places.
'Compared to releasing desires, he craves fresh flesh and blood even more, especially from humans, but due to restrictions from above, he dares not hunt casually, so he can only frequently visit slaughterhouses to buy animal organs for raw consumption. However, this still cannot satisfy his craving. In extremely difficult circumstances, he will go to hospitals or cemeteries, steal newly deceased or newly buried corpses to gnaw on, so there should have been corpse theft cases in the cemeteries and hospitals around where he usually lives.'
Dorothy organized the various complex information in her mind like this. After all the information was organized, her personality profile was complete. From this profile, Dorothy had obtained enough clues to find that contact person.
"Red-light districts where injury incidents frequently occur... slaughterhouses where single individuals frequently buy organs... cemeteries and hospitals where corpse theft cases have occurred... residential areas suitable for upper-class individuals..."
While muttering, Dorothy simultaneously peered into the Tivian map in her mind, which she had memorized by heart, analyzing each area and searching for suitable locations.
Although Tivian is large, there are definitely not many locations that can simultaneously meet these requirements. With Dorothy's information processing ability, finding him is very easy.