Chapter 1196 (1/2)

Chapter 1196: 375. Clear conscience

No, no, no, that’s not how it is.

Just considering Soul Energy, opening the Pollution Zone indeed requires 2 billion points.

However, if using living creatures as sacrifices in a ritual, then only about 1 million life creatures are needed to open the Pollution Zone.

Noland Lee didn’t have a deep understanding of the ritual to open the Pollution Zone, but he knew that the Undead Cult and the Metal Ancestor Dragon could indeed achieve this through a ritual.

“Knowing these things and then looking back at Tatis’s Revival Festival…I can only say that there is something fishy about the ministers in the Emperor’s cabinet,” he mused.

Noland Lee sighed in his heart.

He had become aware of the conspiracy of the Undead Cult and the Metal Ancestor Dragon, but he lacked any evidence to prove it all.

To convince Morster to strenuously prevent the Revival Festival based solely on his own worries and conjectures was like talking in one’s sleep.

It was not Noland Lee’s style to just watch a disaster unfold, especially since he had previously promised the Assassin Angel to delay the opening of the Pollution Zone as much as possible.

He had to do something to report to the Assassin Angel who would appear in the future.

After some thought, Noland Lee had a covert plan in mind.

That night, after finishing dinner with Morster, Noland Lee didn’t return immediately.

He and Nolin each controlled about a dozen Mechanos and rapidly explored along the railway of Revival City.

In this era, the main transportation tool within the Tatis Empire was the train.

If the railway was destroyed, then the speed of personnel movement would be greatly reduced.

How to destroy the railway in such a way as to avoid suspicion and not cause any casualties was an art that required meticulous planning.

The thirty-odd Mechanos dispersed along the extensive railways and flew toward the heartland of the Empire.

This exploration journey lasted most of the night, and finally, as the sun was about to rise, Noland Lee and Nolin found suitable places to sabotage the railways.

These places were all located in mountainous areas.

The railways passed through the foot or the waist of the mountains.

A small landslide could make the nearby railways impassable.

But one should not underestimate the power of the Empire’s workers; at most, it would take three days for the boulders on the railway to be cleared and the twisted tracks replaced with new ones.

To completely sabotage the railway due to natural disasters for an extended period of time, Noland Lee had to control the destructive power so that the tracks could not be repaired.

This required him to use Earth Rock Magic to alter the foundation under the tracks.

An Underground Hollow created by vibration and rainwater erosion could lead to widespread collapse at any moment, undoubtedly putting an entire railway line into a state of crisis.

Noland Lee spent three days altering the soil beneath six railways, creating six Underground Hollows.

Throughout the process, he used the “Veil of Different Worlds” to cover his actions, avoiding detection by anyone.

With the rumbling sound of landslides, the tracks of six railways were buried under huge rock fragments within five days; train drivers pulled the emergency brake upon encountering the obstacle on the route, their souls shaken as they stared at the boulders blocking the way, sweating cold sweat.

The workers who hurried to clear the debris and repair the tracks discovered the Underground Hollow beneath the tracks, and then, the railway was shut down until the hollow was manually refilled.

Within five days, six railway lines were taken out of service.

The rate of incoming population to Revival City suddenly slowed.

Technical officials attributed the natural disasters that occurred in quick succession to the pressure on the railway’s capacity, meaning they believed it was the overly frequent train transportation that caused the Underground Hollows.

Noland Lee was satisfied with the outcome; it was the result he had deliberately sought to achieve.

It’s worth mentioning that he didn’t paralyze all the railways.

Those responsible for transporting soldiers, supplies, and medicine were not affected.

The paralyzed railways were only those used for trade and transporting passengers.

Noland Lee simply wanted to prevent the population from concentrating toward Revival City and did not intend to doom it entirely.

Just when Noland Lee thought his plan was a great success, an unexpected change left him astounded.