New Gods of North America

For the next two days, the horses of both the Church and the Detective Agency felt like they were running skinny, and the people were working around the clock.

However, if only considering the "emergency response" aspect, the Detective Agency should be given a high score.

The sealed artifacts placed by Pastor Percival of the Church of Light were identified and recovered one by one, then secretly transported to the Cathedral.

The last active batch of accomplices and henchmen were dealt with by following the vine. Those who committed murder, arson, or cooperated were basically treated as "wanted criminals". They were arrested if possible, and if not, they were killed rather than let go.

Some Church personnel involved were also quietly transferred from their posts, some temporarily, and some probably never to return. The latter were in a slightly better situation, being "downgraded", while the more unlucky ones might even have to "go inside."

The number of genuine "Light Heretics" here is practically zero, at least there is no concrete evidence at present, but there are quite a few people who "helped out a bit" for Pastor Percival's sake, and it's hard to say whether those things really complied with the Church's management rules.

The surviving large eyeball with blood vessels and nerves, after Wayne's initial confirmation, felt like it contained McKen Reeves's previous "bad personality".

This guy now has some of Pastor Percival's memories mixed in, but his thinking doesn't seem very clear, and his operating time and thinking intensity are limited. His intelligence level seems to fluctuate between "intelligent creature" and "fresh seafood".

Wayne took the opportunity to extract a lot of information, and secretly made up his mind that as soon as he found this guy lying, he would deal with him directly. After all, the Detective Agency already has enough pets. Adding another thing that needs to be soaked in a bottle and fed raw meat is definitely not as cost-effective as just killing it to exchange for extraordinary materials.

Unfortunately, this guy didn't give Wayne a chance. Although he couldn't "remember" everything, and could only dig up fragments of some things, the things he said were reliable. So he could only be kept for the time being, and he had to prevent Peter from secretly reaching out his long legs to scoop him out of the bottle.

Investigating the case is simple. The Detective Agency only needs to reflect the situation through facts, and the rest is the Church's headache.

That being said, as one of the personnel designated to be responsible for the investigation, Wayne also had to participate in writing the investigation report for this incident.

This was the most troublesome thing. Maybe with one wrong move, the Cathedral's scoring standard would become "remove the highest score, and then calculate the average score".

One of the more controversial core points was this:

Such a big thing happened, and a few fires in one night caused the citizens to talk a lot. Although it's true that "the crimes are attributed to the criminals", is it appropriate to put all the responsibility on the dead?

Wayne didn't mind making things bigger at first. Pastor Tyrrell, Pastor Bazzini, and Cohen Pharmaceuticals, no one could escape, all had to take the blame.

But after being stirred up by Pastor Percival, who was parasitized on McKen Reeves, Wayne felt that he had to carefully consider it.

Take Pastor Percival, who was involved in the incident this time, as an example. A mere pastor of a college church, unable to be promoted, and his authority limited to the college. To be polite, even if he's not called a "small character", he's not considered a "big shot" in the general sense.

But now, a considerable number of the pastors in the South are from various large families, and their power does not come entirely from their identity and title as "pastor". Pastor Percival also has a private identity as a "pharmacist expert", and he has helped many people.

Even with his identity as a "Light Heretic" almost openly confirmed, he could still gather a group of people to risk their lives for him. Other pastors are probably even more formidable.

Wayne doesn't mind handing people knives, but if the hatred isn't big enough, it doesn't seem necessary to stab them himself.

When the Monkey King wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace, a lot of gods ran away like cowards, probably only because it was the "Heavenly Palace" that was being attacked. When it came to one-on-one fights on the journey to the West, some gods were able to send a small demon to give the monkey a headache.

For example, the Detective Agency's usual operations are like their own "journey to the West".

So Wayne pondered for a while and chose to control the scope of the investigation report, simply dealing with the matter as it stood, and only reporting matters related to "Light Heretics" according to the existing evidence.

Since he didn't catch Pastor Tyrrell and Pastor Bazzini red-handed, Wayne wouldn't say they had problems.

If the Cathedral had any ideas, then according to some of the situations mentioned in the report, Pastor Bazzini, as the parish priest of Georgeberg, would have to bear at least the responsibility of "poor supervision" in this matter.

"Putting people in" is not enough, but as a reason for "demotion" or "incompetence and no promotion", it is quite sufficient.

Although Pastor Tyrrell engaged in some small actions against the Detective Agency and helped Pastor Percival with "some things", he was relatively clean in this matter.

But it's not like there's no ammunition to deal with him. As a senior manager in the Exorcist Association, and having a lot of contact with Pastor Percival, saying he lacks "sensitivity" might be a shortcoming that "doesn't weigh two ounces until it's on the scale, then it can't be pulled back even with a thousand catties."

Wayne handed out the knives here, and the rest of the firepower was all vented on Cohen Pharmaceuticals and Pastor Percival.

The last basement was located in the charity house funded by Cohen Pharmaceuticals. The signs were clearly written on the promotional signs. Why are the charity houses funded by others okay, but the ones you fund have problems?

It shows that Cohen Pharmaceuticals is extremely sinful.

This son must not be left alive.

And in Pastor Percival, Wayne unexpectedly dug up a big melon.

This old guy has been unclear with the Windsor Kingdom for a long time. Not to mention the story of his family assisting some Windsor people in "brokering" in South Carolina, just the fact that he would periodically report some internal Church situations to "those people" is enough to be considered a "traitor".

Even Mr. Weissman is said to have long received funds and assistance from the Windsor Kingdom. That's how the two of them met in the first place.

As soon as this news broke, even Tom Hagen's attention was attracted:

"They are actually colluding with the Windsor people?"

Wayne told the truth, "From what I know so far, the Windsor Kingdom is taking a 'limited free aid' approach to the Light Heretics who are only active in the Americas, but strictly speaking, they can't be considered a group. As for Pastor Percival, you see he still had so many loyal accomplices in the end. Raising people always requires a source of funds."

Wayne also had witnesses in this regard. Not all the accomplices who caused trouble that night died.

Wayne took the answers he got from the "Giant Eyeball Octopus" and asked questions again, and some things were quickly confirmed from the side. So Wayne didn't need to mention that McKen Reeves wasn't completely dead, just saying that he asked it from the accomplices was enough.

Tom Hagen then asked, "Does the matter with the Windsor Kingdom involve other pastors?"

Wayne shrugged his shoulders, "At least in this investigation, we have not grasped any relevant clues."

See,

Compared to infighting, "external enemies on the side" are more interesting, right?