Chapter 93: I Underestimated You All
Looking at the armed workers who had fallen around her, originally intended to act as bombs to obstruct her actions, none of them managed to explode.
Sister Superior Gretel felt full of gratitude towards Gu Hang.
It wasn’t that she hadn’t seen more powerful psykers; on the contrary, she had seen many.
In her opinion, Governor Gu’s psionic strength was outstanding but still not at the level of a master.
However, today, the psionic control ability he demonstrated was enough to astonish anyone.
The way he could sever the external psionic manifestations of the cultists was truly impressive!
This kind of psionic ability was something Gretel was seeing for the first time.
Although she didn’t have a deep understanding of psionics, she believed the Governor’s performance was decisive.
And she, of course, wouldn’t waste the opportunity the Governor created.
She had already sprinted to a position where she could see the cultist leader.
The sight of the extremely obese female emissary in a grey robe made Gretel feel disgusted.
She fired two bullets with her explosive gun, which were barely blocked by the Wind Shield.
Gu Hang had the ability to weaken the Wind Shield, aiding Gretel’s shots to directly try and kill this heretical emissary. But he did not go out of his way to do so.
His most important task now was to cut off the cultists’ detonation signals for the corpse bombs.
Not a single one could be missed.
Interfering with the Wind Shield would be unnecessary.
After all, it would only mean the fat emissary would live a couple more seconds.
The enraged Sister Superior had already reached the heretic’s front; the ‘Holy Gold Halberd’ was raised high!
Shadow Wind Emissary’s face was filled with terror.
She tried to unleash a gust of hurricane energy to blow away the Battle Nun, but the spell, once formed, turned out to be just a breeze.
At such close range, the psionic suppression characteristic of the Sister Superior was fully displayed.
The active spell was obstructed by her, failing to produce the desired effect.
Then, the ‘Holy Gold Halberd’ slashed down.
The Wind Shield dissipated like actual air; next, the sinful and ugly body of the Shadow Wind Emissary was vertically cleaved into two segments from head to toe.
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The biggest threat was dead, but this did not mean everything was over.
In theory, as long as there was a single cultist left alive nearby, the danger still existed.
The Sister Superior understood this well. After chopping down the strongest grey-robed cultist leader, she didn’t pause for a second, immediately targeting the ordinary blue-robed ones around.
One shot from the explosive gun, one life taken.
Meanwhile, the soldiers who were originally retreating, along with six other nuns, turned back to join the battle.
During this process, Gu Hang’s figure remained floating in mid-air.
Occasionally, the soldiers in combat would lift their heads and look at their Governor with eyes full of reverence.
They didn’t fully understand what the Governor had done, but from the messages conveyed by the officers and the shouts of the Battle Nuns inspiring them, they knew that the situation had been extremely dire, and the Governor had saved everyone’s lives.
The Battle Nuns also frequently looked up.
They had a clearer understanding of what had just transpired, making their gazes even brighter.
Gu Hang, flying in the sky, could feel the upward stares.
But he didn’t pay much attention to them.
Half of his focus was on the battlefield, vigilant for any signals to detonate the corpses.
Although the obese emissary was dead and no one could activate all the Storm Bombs at once, even if the blue-robed cultists could only sporadically detonate a few, Gu Hang was there to prevent their success.
As for the other half of his focus, it was on contemplating the entire situation.
The Original Owl Beast Sect’s infiltration of Revival City was more severe than he had initially thought.
After capturing Revival City, the system interface revealed a host of debuffs the city was facing.
Among them was a line indicating “Cult Rampant,” categorized under “Moderate Decrease in Grace Points Income.” Compared to the numerous “Significant Decrease” debuffs, it didn’t seem like a major issue.
Because of this, Gu Hang had somewhat overlooked the problem.
Even when the Alliance government, under his pressure, conducted a thorough investigation into the cult, forcing the Original Owl Beast Sect members to ambush and assassinate him, Gu Hang had misjudged: he thought their influence in Revival City was minimal, reduced to desperate measures.
Gu Hang knew they had some influence in Revival City, but he thought it was insignificant, just a minor nuisance.
Turns out, they had orchestrated such a large-scale operation right under his nose!
Even the Battle Nuns, experts in anti-heretical cult operations, almost fell into their trap.
“It’s me who underestimated you all…”
Gu Hang thought to himself.
“This is not a minor issue, but a serious internal threat.”
Especially the Storm Bombs implanted in human bodies, this technology is the most suitable for terrorist attacks.
The cultists have been gathering people in the industrial area, preparing for a major strike.
If they realize that this approach doesn’t work and turn to brainwashing ordinary people to carry out suicide bombings in crowded places, factories, or on military routes, it would truly be a headache.
Gu Hang realized that unless he completely dealt with these people, he wouldn’t be able to live in peace.
The two sides had become sworn enemies.
As for how to catch them?
First, finding clues and investigating is the conventional method.
During the battle, the nuns intentionally spared a few blue-robed cultist sorcerers.
Getting these fanatical cult members to talk wouldn’t be easy, as they likely weren’t afraid of dying. However, Gretel mentioned that they had some special methods in this regard, and Gu Hang chose to believe her.
Second, there are some unconventional methods: a city-wide thorough screening.
This is where Osena comes into play.
The outer city is the main concern, but its residents are poor and have no savings.
After Lambert had taken control of the city’s food warehouses, Osena was supposed to go outside the city to distribute the food to prevent chaos from the hungry poor, and incidentally, while distributing food, also encourage the people to get back to work as soon as possible to restart production.
Now, it’s just about having Osena conduct a cult screening process while distributing the food.
But this task also has its complications.
Gu Hang doesn’t have the technology to simply probe someone’s throat to determine if they are part of a cult; figuring out how to properly screen for cultists is indeed a troublesome matter.