New Gods of North America.

Chapter 450 Handing the Knife

For the next two days, the staff of the church and the detective agency all seemed to have lost weight from running around, and the people were working non-stop.

However, if we only consider the "emergency response" part, the detective agency should be considered to have scored high.

The sealed objects that the Church of Light had arranged to place through Pastor Pycelle were recovered one by one and then secretly transported to the cathedral.
Finally, the active group of accomplices and gang members were tracked down. Those who committed murders and arson and participated in cooperation were basically treated as "wanted criminals". They were arrested if possible, and those who could not be caught would rather be beaten to death than let go.

Some of the church personnel involved were quietly transferred from their posts, some temporarily, and some probably never return. The better-off ones were "demoted", while the more unlucky ones might even have to "go to jail".
There are actually almost no serious "illustrious heretics" here, at least there is no solid evidence at present, but there are many people who "help out" for the sake of Pastor Pycelle, and it is hard to say whether those things are in line with the management rules of the church.

The big eyeball with blood vessels and nerves that survived now, after preliminary confirmation by Wayne, feels that it should be the "bad personality" of Macon Reeve.
This guy now has some of the memories of Pastor Pycelle, but his thinking seems to have become unclear, his operating time and thinking intensity are also limited, and his intelligence level seems to be jumping back and forth between "intelligent creature" and "fresh seafood".

Wayne took the opportunity to get a lot of information, and secretly made up his mind that if he found out that this guy was lying, he would get rid of him directly. After all, the detective agency already had enough pets. If there was one more thing that needed to be kept in a bottle and fed with raw meat, it would definitely be better to kill it directly and exchange it for extraordinary materials.
Unfortunately, this guy didn't give Wayne a chance. Although not everything could be "recalled" and only fragments of some things could be dug out, the things it said were reliable. So he could only keep it for the time being, and he had to be on guard against Peter secretly stretching out his long legs to fish into 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 people designated to be in charge of the investigation, Wayne also had to participate in writing the investigation report on this incident.

This is actually the most troublesome thing. If we are not careful, the scoring criteria of the cathedral may become "remove the highest score and then calculate the average score."

One of the more controversial points is that

Such a big incident has happened, and several fires in one night have caused a lot of discussion among the citizens. Although it is true that "all crimes are attributed to the criminals", is it appropriate to put all the responsibility on the dead?

Wayne didn't mind making a big fuss. Reverend Tyrell, Reverend Bazzini, and Cohen Pharmaceuticals, no one can hide, all of them should take the blame.
But after seeing what happened to Pastor Pycelle, who was parasitic on Macon Reeve, Wayne felt that he had to think about it seriously.

Take the example of Pastor Pycelle, who was in trouble this time. He was just a pastor of a college church, and he could not be promoted to a higher position. His authority was limited to the college. To be polite, even if he was not called a "small character", he was not related to the so-called "big man" in the general sense.

But now, a considerable number of pastors in the south come from various large families, and their power does not come entirely from the identity and title of "pastor". Pastor Pycelle also has a private identity as an "alchemy expert", and many people have been helped by him.

Even when his identity as a "heretic of light" was almost confirmed, he was able to rally a group of people to fight for him. The performance of some other priests was probably even more incredible.

Wayne didn't mind handing someone a knife, but if the hatred wasn't strong enough, it didn't seem necessary to stab them himself.

When the Monkey King made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, a lot of gods ran away in disgrace. I'm afraid it was just because they were causing trouble in the "Heavenly Palace". When they were on the journey to obtain the scriptures, they really had to fight one-on-one. Some gods were so powerful that they could send a little demon to give the monkey a headache.

For example, the daily operation of the detective agency can be regarded as Wayne and his colleagues’ own “journey of learning”.

So Wayne thought about it for a while and decided to limit the scope of the investigation report, simply discussing the matter at hand and only reporting on matters related to the "Illuminati Heresy" based on the existing evidence.

Since there was no evidence against Reverend Tyrell and Reverend Bazzini, Wayne would not say that they had any problems. If the cathedral had any ideas, then according to some of the situations mentioned in the report, Reverend Bazzini, as the parish priest of Georgeburg, should at least be held responsible for "inadequate supervision" in this matter.

"Sending people to jail" is not enough, but it is sufficient as a reason for "demotion" or "lack of ability and no promotion".

Although Reverend Tyrell had done some small things against the detective agency and had helped Reverend Pycelle "some favors", he was relatively clean in this matter.

However, they are still able to deal with him. As a senior executive in the Exorcist Association, he has had quite a lot of contact with Reverend Pycelle. Saying that he is "not sensitive enough" may be a shortcoming of "if you don't weigh two taels before weighing it, but if you weigh it, you can't even pull back a thousand pounds."

Wayne handed over the knife, and the rest of the firepower was vented on Cohen Pharmaceuticals and Reverend Pycelle.

The last basement is located in a relief home funded by Cohen Pharmaceuticals. It is clearly written on the promotional signpost. Why are the relief homes funded by others all fine, but the one you funded has problems?

This shows that Cohen Pharmaceuticals is extremely evil.

This child cannot be kept.

Wayne also unexpectedly discovered a big secret about Reverend Pycelle.
This old guy has had unclear relations with the Kingdom of Windsor for a long time. Not to mention the story that his family helped some Windsor people to "matchmake" in South Carolina, the fact that he would periodically report some internal situations of the church to "people over there" is enough to treat him as a "traitor".

Even Mr. Weisman is said to have long received funding and help from the Kingdom of Windsor. This is how the two of them first met.

As soon as this news broke, even Tom Hagen's attention was drawn to it:
"They are actually colluding with the Windsor people?"

Wayne spoke the truth. "From what I have learned so far, the Kingdom of Windsor has adopted a method of 'limited free assistance' to the heretics of light who are only active in America, but strictly speaking they cannot be considered as one party. As for Pastor Pycelle, he still has so many loyal accomplices until the end. To support people, you always need a source of funds."

Wayne did have witnesses on this matter, and not all of his accomplices who had caused the riot that night were dead.
Wayne asked questions again with the answers he got from the "Big-Eyed Octopus", and some things were soon confirmed from the side, so Wayne didn't need to mention the fact that Macon Reeve was not dead. He just said that he found out from his accomplices.

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

Wayne shrugged his shoulders. "At least in this investigation, we don't have any relevant clues."

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Compared to internal fighting, it is more interesting to have "external enemies around".

(End of this chapter)