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The investigation of the "Elkwood Manor Incident" was ultimately successfully led astray by Lin Ruo.
He also successfully shifted the blame onto the Aurora Order.
This wasn't too difficult, after all, the Aurora Order was jokingly called the Blame-Absorbing Order in the original work because this organization directly under the True Creator was truly a troublemaking vanguard among the secret organizations in Loen. Furthermore, it had close ties with the Iron and Blood Cross Order, and had once had a Hunter pathway Big Brother like Medici, so it was entirely possible that they had cultivated another Hunter pathway angel, or possessed a high-sequence sealed artifact of the Hunter pathway. Whether from motive or ability, the Aurora Order had both.
In addition, with Lin Ruo, a favored one of the Evernight Goddess, subtly guiding things, shifting the blame couldn't be easier.
However, at the tail end of the investigation into the "Elkwood Manor Incident," after successfully shifting the blame onto the Aurora Order without leaving a trace, Lin Ruo learned of another matter.
"Lanevus is still at large... Tsk, is the Aurora Order hiding him that well?"
In the office, Lin Ruo pinched his chin and said with a slight sigh before raising his hand.
In his hand, the pen representing truth condensed, and he wrote the following sentence in the air:
[Lanevus will be found by official Beyonders in the near future.]
After writing this, feeling the consumption of his Beyonder power, Lin Ruo slightly curled his lips.
He had been so busy with other things these days that he had really forgotten about this con artist, Lanevus. He originally thought that after reporting him for so long, the Nighthawks should have already taken care of him, but he didn't expect that they still hadn't found him.
But thinking about it carefully, it didn't seem strange. In fact, the Nighthawks had never found Lanevus's whereabouts in the original work. Later, Klein came to help—after all, the Aurora Order, as the vanguard of secret organizations in Loen, was still active, so they weren't just freeloaders. They definitely had their own set of hiding rules, otherwise they would have been wiped out long ago.
"Aurora Order... Tsk, after this wave of scrutiny passes, I'll see if I can infiltrate gatherings related to the Aurora Order. I have to keep an eye on them. I don't know if Mr. A's gathering will continue after this... The Loen royal family hasn't made any moves."
Lin Ruo tapped the edge of the table lightly, thinking about his subsequent actions.
During this period, because of the upcoming Backlund smog incident, Lin Ruo naturally kept an eye on the movements of the Loen royal family, the Demoness Sect, and the Aurora Order.
However, monitoring the latter two was not easy. After all, as secret organizations hiding in the shadows of Backlund, the Aurora Order and the Demoness Sect would conceal their various actions, making them difficult to find sometimes. As for the Loen royal family, the target on the surface, it was not easy to understand their movements because monitoring them too obviously might startle them. The power of the Loen royal family in the Loen Kingdom meant that this was a difficult task.
Fortunately, Lin Ruo had asked Justice Audrey for help in this regard. He didn't need her to do a deep investigation, just to help her pay attention to the movements of the several princes of the Loen royal family. This was a very normal act for Justice Audrey's age and status and would not arouse suspicion at all.
Now that Ince was killed, to be honest, Lin Ruo was not sure what kind of situation the Backlund smog incident would appear this time, and he was not sure whether the Demoness Sect would rename Tris to Triss Cheek, as in the original work, and match her with the Third Prince of Loen, using these two as a sign of cooperation and sacrifice.
But one thing Lin Ruo was clear about was that as long as the Loen royal family needed to cover up the population they were using for George's god-ascension ritual, as long as the Primordial Demoness of the Demoness Sect and the True Creator of the Aurora Order wanted to descend, as long as Adam wanted to cause trouble and become a god, the Backlund smog incident would happen sooner or later.
This was not something he could directly prevent by reporting the Aurora Order and suppressing the Demoness Sect now. Just like this time, he shifted the blame to the Aurora Order, which might make the Aurora Order behave for a while in Backlund in the next period of time, but after that, everything would still be the same.
After all, the Beyonders of the churches could not maintain a high degree of suppression against the Aurora Order; they did not have that energy.
Moreover... even if there was no Aurora Order, would there really not be a Numinous Episcopate, a Rose School of Thought, or a fanatical cult of the Mother Tree of Desire?
As long as the Loen royal family still had the need and had not given up on their dog-shit god-ascension plan, their cooperation with secret organizations was almost inevitable.
Moreover, in this matter, Lin Ruo could not report it in advance.
After all, he had no evidence, and the Loen royal family was not a little white flower to be bullied. This was an existence that could confront any church, not to mention that, in addition to the Evernight Church, there were basically still double agents in the high levels of the Storm Church and the Steam Church. Reporting in advance would not only be useless, but also easily startle them, exposing him to the Loen royal family and making him a thorn in their side.
Moreover... who knew what kind of attitude the gods really had?
Lin Ruo's eyes dimmed for a moment, and then he breathed out again.
As things stood now, the only thing he could do was keep an eye on it, waiting for the Backlund smog incident to really show signs of starting, and then report it.
Just like Klein did in the original work, when they had already planned to do bad things and the evidence was in front of them, he would steal their home, forcing the Loen royal family to behave in the face of the evidence, severely damaging the Aurora Order and the Demoness Sect, making them behave honestly, and allowing the Backlund smog incident to be nipped in the bud before it started.
Otherwise, everything he did would only be postponing the Backlund smog incident.
"In fact, isn't this just treating the symptoms but not the root cause?... Heh!"
Lin Ruo smiled, somewhat mockingly, not knowing who he was mocking.
"After all, I'm too weak... Alas, I need to digest the Pyromaniac potion as soon as possible, and I also need to urge Klein to digest the Magician potion... Well, let's set a small goal: let Klein advance to Faceless in a month and a half."
Having decided to urge Klein to digest the potion properly later, Lin Ruo casually opened the newspaper and browsed it. After not finding any hidden information about Beyonder gatherings, he curled his lips again.
"Why are you all so timid? Be bolder!"
However, although he complained like this, Lin Ruo also knew that this was normal.
It should be known that although the blame for the "Elkwood Manor Incident" was shifted to the Aurora Order by Lin Ruo, resulting in the official Beyonders currently targeting Aurora Order members, this did not mean that they would not conveniently arrest other wild Beyonders.
In fact, recently, Backlund was in a bloody storm in the entire Beyonder field because of the "Elkwood Manor Incident." I don't know how many wild Beyonders were affected. Even Xio had not been active in the East Borough recently and began to huddle at home with Fors all day long.
Under such circumstances, unless it was an official fishing operation, which Beyonder gathering would dare to commit crimes against the wind at this juncture!
"As expected, I should go to sea once. The Beyonder gatherings in Backlund are probably useless in the short term..."
Lin Ruo sighed and made a decision.
He was going to the sea to buy the main ingredient of the last material for the Schemer, and by the way, digest the last part of the Pyromaniac potion. If possible, Lin Ruo also planned to contact the Admiral of the Stars.
It wasn't for any other purpose, mainly to meet Frank Lee.
It was time for City of Silver to improve its food.
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