# 820
Chapter 821: I Come from the Church of the Ancient Gods
"That's right! It's the Outer Gods. If the Outer Gods want to breach Great Xia, they must first break through the defensive lines set up by Night Watch at the border—the War Passes.
Do you know why the War Passes still haven't been fully operational to this day?
Because there are too few Night Watch!
The number of Night Watch members is nowhere near enough to both guard the various cities and send people to defend the passes, so Night Watch chose to expand recruitment, absorbing more new recruits to solve the manpower shortage."
"I get it!" Ding Chongfeng exclaimed in sudden realization. "Their target isn't this training camp, but us—the recruits inside?"
Shen Qingzhu glanced at him, a hint of appreciation showing in her eyes.
Ding Chongfeng continued along Shen Qingzhu's line of reasoning: "Whether we six hundred plus recruits can be added to Night Watch is a crucial link in this war. Once we die, Great Xia's personnel flow will suffer a massive断层!
Once this断层 appears, Great Xia will have no one to use, and the combat power of those War Passes on the front lines will be greatly weakened. The Outer Gods can then take the opportunity to invade.
This truly is a crisis sweeping across Great Xia!"
After his analysis, everyone in the auditorium had an epiphany.
"So that's how it is!"
"No wonder the Church of the Ancient Gods—this scheme behind it all is so massive!"
"Deeply unsettling when you think about it!"
"......"
While everyone was discussing heatedly, Shen Qingzhu spoke again:
"So, if the Church of the Ancient Gods wants to strike this training camp and erase us recruits, they definitely can't breach it from outside by brute force.
Although the training camp's location is in the suburbs, this is still Shangjing City, home to Squad 006 and Night Watch headquarters. Once they attack from the outside and create a huge commotion, it will alert a large number of high-end combat powers, and this surprise attack will inevitably end in failure.
So the best approach is to impersonate the [Mask] Squad and sneak into the training camp.
First, all members of the [Mask] Squad wear masks and rarely show their true faces, making them difficult to identify after impersonation.
Second, in every training camp throughout the ages, it has become a tradition for new recruits to undergo a placement assessment on their first day. Once the instructors activate the Town-Ruin Stele, the combat power of the entire training camp will be lowered below the 'Pool' realm. That way, the instructors in this training camp will lose their original combat power.
With their disguises, if they launch a surprise attack after dispersal, instructors at the same realm level will easily fall into their trap.
Once all the instructors are dead, the entire training camp will fall into their hands."
After hearing Shen Qingzhu's analysis, all the recruits were convinced by her reasoning. Some couldn't help but start applauding.
"Hiss, what you said makes a lot of sense!" Ding Chongfeng couldn't help but exclaim. But then, a confused expression appeared on his face. "However, there's one point I'm not quite clear about...
If according to your reasoning, the Church of the Ancient Gods wanted to attack the training camp, wouldn't it be much easier to impersonate recruits and sneak in?
Could there be Church of the Ancient Gods people among us recruits?"
Hearing this sentence, Shen Qingzhu froze in place.
Ding Chongfeng saw that Shen Qingzhu had frozen, thinking she hadn't understood, and continued his earnest analysis:
"Look, impersonating the [Mask] Squad requires ensuring your own strength meets special squad standards, and also maintaining your disguise under the scrutiny of everyone watching. Isn't that risk extremely high?
But if you impersonate recruits, that's completely different!
This time Night Watch is正好 expanding recruitment, with a total of over six hundred recruits. It shouldn't be easy to screen all of them and verify their backgrounds, right? If it were me, I would choose to impersonate a recruit to infiltrate the training camp, then wait until the placement assessment when everyone's realm is suppressed, and then suddenly strike—take out the instructors and seize the training camp."
Ding Chongfeng clapped his hands together. "See? Isn't this more reasonable?"
Shen Qingzhu fell into deep thought.
"Of course, I'm not saying your reasoning is wrong! I just think that impersonating the [Mask] Squad isn't the optimal solution... Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that they've infiltrated people on both sides!"
Ding Chongfeng thought Shen Qingzhu was unhappy about being upstaged, and quickly explained.
On the stage below.
The three Church of the Ancient Gods members disguised as recruits were all stunned.
"What's going on?" The young recruit said uncertainly. "Have we been exposed?"
"No, not yet. They're just speculating."
"But these speculations are too accurate! How does that Shen Expert manage to analyze our motives so thoroughly? It's as if he participated in our operation!"
"Is there such a possibility that this Shen Expert is actually one of Qianmo's avatars, using this method to redirect everyone's attention to the fake [Mask] Squad, thereby dispersing their vigilance toward the recruits and creating an opportunity for us to act?"
The female recruit's speculation immediately caused the other two Church members to fall into contemplation.
"What you said... makes sense?"
"Otherwise, this can't explain his predictions that are almost like prophecy. How could a new recruit come up here and slander the Church of the Ancient Gods? And know so much about us?"
"But doesn't this mean there are too many avatars of Qianmo? Counting the three suspected fake [Mask] members they mentioned, this is already the fourth existence suspected of being an avatar of Qianmo, right?"
Just as the three were puzzled, from below the stage, a sinister cold laugh rang out.
"Hehehehehehe......"
In the quiet auditorium, this cold laugh was especially harsh. All the recruits turned to look in the direction of the sound, frowning slightly.
The one laughing coldly was Li Zhenzhen, who had just been let in from outside.
Li Zhenzhen stood in the crowd wearing the recruit uniform, her gaze coldly sweeping across the surrounding recruits, the corner of her mouth raised in a mocking smile.
"Li Zhenzhen?" Fang Mo beside her frowned tightly. "Why are you... Hmm?"
Fang Mo's nose twitched, as if detecting something. He took half a step back, pulling out the short blade in a ready-to-fight stance, his eyes filled with solemnity!
"You're not Li Zhenzhen! Who are you?" Fang Mo gripped his blade, speaking coldly.
"Who am I? Hehehehehe..." Under Jiang Er's control, Li Zhenzhen's eyes narrowed slightly. As the surrounding magnetic field subtly changed, the entire person exuded a strange, cold aura. "I come from the Church of the Ancient Gods!"
Hearing this sentence, the recruits' hearts all clenched!
Church of the Ancient Gods?
The Church of the Ancient Gods, for real!
All of Shen Expert's speculations were completely correct!
Beside them,
The three Church of the Ancient Gods members' gazes simultaneously went blank.