The fisherman druid is in another world

Chapter 371 Targeted Poverty Alleviation
Before entering the Mountains of Ash, Priest Luo decided to take a stroll around Night City.

This decision was due to his ulterior motives.

Eagle's Nest Castle was just being built, and he didn't want to see Night City trying to disrupt the construction progress in various ways.

How can we prevent this from happening as much as possible?

Of course, it is to prevent them from finding a good reason. And, they can live a peaceful life.

Therefore, Pastor Luo's trip can be regarded as a preventive measure.

If there are werewolves or dark creatures hidden in Night City, kill them on the spot to prevent them from showing up after he leaves.

He also bluntly told Godfrey that this trip was to "check the feng shui" of Night City.

Godfrey naturally wanted it very much.

His current mood was one of respect and fear towards Pastor Luo. He wanted to please him but was afraid of offending him. If his flattery hit the wrong horse's leg and he got kicked in the back, he would not be able to bear it.

Now that Pastor Luo has taken the initiative to go to Night City, doesn't this give us more opportunities to meet him? He has to do his job as a guide well.

This naturally includes sending someone to notify first.

So, when Pastor Luo arrived at Night City in the dark, even if there was no yellow soil paving the roads and clean water splashing on the streets, it was almost the same.

Marquis Matteo sent his heir to greet him in person.

The specific process was like attending a dinner party.

"I don't have any special requirements for food. If it's convenient, please change it to a buffet. I'll take a look around Night City first and then meet the upper-class people later."

Marquis Matteo was very considerate and readily met Father Luo's request. Moreover, he asked the heir to accompany him personally, and Godfrey was also there.

Together with an official who knew the situation in Night City very well, a total of four people began to wander the streets and alleys of Night City.

Pastor Luo waved his hand and cast a halo spell, making the four people walk as if floating and sliding. It was not tiring and was very interesting.

Night City covers an area of ​​less than four square kilometers, including the city walls. On modern Earth, many purely residential communities are much larger than this.

The layout of Night City is relatively primitive. The closer to the center, the richer it is, and the functional facilities are basically all in this area. On the edge are the residences of free people and even the poor. With the well and the surrounding open space as the center, a dozen households form a small cluster.

Those who have some money would group together several households, while the powerful and wealthy would occupy a similar piece of land as a single household.

This is roughly the pattern.

Pastor Luo was not interested in the rich households or functional facilities, but instead took a closer look at the ordinary households.

The connection between the houses is cleverly designed. The limited alleys can form a walled city effect through fences and gates, allowing several or even dozens of households to form their own separate community.

This structure is very similar to a fang. Once night falls, the external doors are locked, but some activities can still take place inside. Everyone has their own responsibilities, which makes management easier.

Those who still walk outside the streets are more conspicuous, and the patrol team will check them out because they find it annoying. It already has the flavor of a curfew, but the effect is indeed not bad.

Priest Luo does not need to enter the interior of the aggregation. His spiritual perception is like X-rays, with strong penetrating power. It is especially sensitive to supernatural powers. He can make a rough judgment by scanning and analyzing.

As he raised his hand, another black mist like black gauze was grabbed out of the void by Priest Luo.

This has been explained by Pastor Luo before. The accumulated dark power is harmful rather than beneficial to people.

In fact, the power of darkness is secondary, and negative emotions are more dangerous. These mental forces are carried by dark supernatural powers. They are invisible and colorless to ordinary people, but once they collide, it will be fun. Nightmares, depression, and emotional out-of-control may all occur.

"The darkness is so powerful that simply confronting it is not appropriate. It does not mean that we should compromise with the darkness, but we need to use our brains and ingenuity. It is like sailing in the rain. If there is water in the cabin, it is better to scoop it out than to evaporate it with fire."

"Master Hugo's words are insightful and every word is as valuable as gold." Godfrey habitually likes to listen to compliments.

The heir to the Marquis, due to his age and the relative unfamiliarity of the relationship, was both reserved and proud, and seemed to be a bit quiet, but he was not dull, and his facial expressions and body language were pretty good.

Priest Luo casually raised his hand and picked up a shiny paving stone from the ground. He didn't mind the dirtiness. He held it in one hand and used paper as a pen with the other hand to etch a rune on it.

At the same time, he explained: "I created this rune, it is of the dark element, just like a wooden barrel for scooping water, it can absorb the power of darkness. The material is not important, and the accuracy of the rune is not too particular, but it needs a spell to activate it..."

The spell taught by Priest Luo is that all soldiers who are about to fight will march forward in formation!

There is no doubt that this is Robo's fault again.

The meaning of the word is not important. The key is the energy vibration formed by a series of pronunciations combined with soul power.

So, why can't it be the nine-character mantra? Well, just for fun.

As for the relevant precautions given by Pastor Luo, he said: "There is no trick, just practice more. Once you succeed, in the current environment, a faint light will flow in the etched grooves."

In other words, after nightfall, it is easy to tell whether the activation is successful or not, just try it over and over again.

The heir to the Marquis was excited: "This is good, this is good!"

Yes, had he ever seen such a foolish, cheap, practical and extraordinary method before?

With this method, ordinary people can purify and improve their living environment.

And since it was initiated and spread by the Marquis, it would be no problem to replace it with another Buddha.

Priest Luo gave another instruction: "Once the rune is lit up, it means it is full and there is no effect of absorbing more. The amount of absorption depends on the material and craftsmanship. You can try more and sort out a set of processes that are suitable for the local area and the most cost-effective.

The runes filled with dark power can be sent to Eagle's Nest Castle. I can take care of it there and strengthen the gate to the Windward Valley to resist the erosion of the black wind."

Of course, this was a lie. The barrier on the Headwind Valley did not need extra fuel. On the contrary, Black Wind was actually delivering fuel.

Sending a large number of Naman Runestones to Eagle's Nest Castle will only make the dark supernatural power accumulate more, and it will also have a certain effect of gathering negative emotional energy.

The biggest benefit is that those who perform and use this method are bound by the salvation agreement.

The so-called use of this method means that the rune has collected enough negative emotional power.

Pastor Luo has even thought that if some extraordinary people see the benefits of the rune stone, instead of sending it to Eagle's Nest Castle, they will try to smelt and extract it by themselves.

Therefore, there is a loophole here. If the method is wrong, it is like using a forging hammer and anvil to hit gunpowder, which will result in nothing but sparks. At most, Eagle's Nest Castle will have no income, but the ritual of locking the appointment for salvation will be completed, and the dark supernatural power and negative emotional energy in the rune stone will also be transformed.

He was not prepared to start a belief system, establish a standard sect, and preach sermons.

So how do we accomplish the task of liberating souls? The best way is to let the target objects involved in the task complete it spontaneously and proactively.

Now that this method is provided, the automatic completion problem of one type of people can be solved.

A group of people who suffer from darkness, who are most likely to be deformed when alive and whose souls become corpses after death, now have a way to automatically complete their salvation. This can be regarded as targeted poverty alleviation.

In addition, Pastor Luo also wanted to raise a flagpole to see who would jump out and sing against him. The more people like this are killed, the safer the world will be.

After all, he is from the Hei Luo Bo faction, and he is not a good man at all.

While the Marquis's heir and Godfrey were still immersed in the prospect of the huge value of the rune stone, Father Luo had already discovered the purpose of this trip.

The other party was very courageous. After being discovered by him, he moved directly to the middle of the road and posed.

It must be said that Pastor Luo's perception scan was a bit impolite. It was even more annoying than waving a wolf-eye flashlight at someone in the middle of the night. It was rude and arrogant.

So the discovery was mutual, which was also a major reason why the play partner jumped out.

The lights were on, and the residents nearby also provided some lighting from their windows. The autumn dew was thick, and the surface of the cobblestone road was wet and reflected the light. The surrounding houses were either tall or low, and they were just the right amount of dilapidated and old. There was no one, but the atmosphere of life was still strong.

The stage was pretty good, and the actors' looks were also okay, with hunting suits and long, pointed leather shoes. The most unique thing was the shawl hood, which was made of broken leather and sealed with large stitches. The top brim of the hood was pointed, like a bird's beak, and the face was shrouded in unnatural darkness, with eyes glowing yellow like light bulbs.

Pastor Luo scolded him dissatisfiedly: "Who taught you this leather craft? How can human skin be tanned like you? You haven't even scraped off the oil film!"

The actor is even more pretentious than Father Luo, but he doesn't use words, but actions.

"Caw!" Such a big man turned into a group of crows flying around. These crows appeared suddenly and disappeared quickly, as if there was a backstage in the air around him. They appeared for a moment and then went back.

Then the playboy appeared two or three meters away from the four people, with sharp claws, charging and slashing! The target was the heir to the marquis.

The heir to the Marquis was startled and instinctively wanted to shout, but he only uttered "ah" halfway before ending it awkwardly.

Because Pastor Luo was faster, he brought up a bluish-white light and shadow with his back as the model, which intersected with his accompaniment.

Psionic Rush! The biggest advantage is that it can counter anti-magic.

The actor has an anti-magic force field, and many magics will fail when touched by it.

With little intelligence, short time and emergency response, we must try our best to choose effective means.

Psychic power can control any type of supernatural being, and it can also form its own pattern, which is effective against any supernatural being. So Priest Luo used psychic power at this time. He also used claws, not knife claws, but psychic claws, the grip of the soul, with light on his hands, the werewolf claws that could be called glowing boards, and when they crossed, they hugged the actor's body, and the soul of the same size was hugged out of the opponent's body by him.

It was like reaching out from the side to knock someone down, but halfway through the action, the faint soul as big as the body had already turned into a brighter ball of light.

"Plop!" The actor's body fell to the ground two meters in front of the heir to the Marquis in a manner of a corpse falling unconscious.

'Gaga! Bang!'

A few meters away, another flock of crows appeared, but Pastor Luo raised his hand and made a pistol shape, shooting out spiritual energy, and a human figure fell out from among the crows and fell to the ground.

There are not one but two actors in this play. The one who plays with the crows is responsible for the sleight of hand, and he plays with a piece of magic cloth to perfection, like optical camouflage, and combines it with the crows to perform together.

You only need one 'tongue', so catch one and the other can die.

And this time, the crow really flew away.

Let them fly.

Crows are very intelligent and spiritual creatures, especially when they are blessed with extraordinary powers.

These crows were tamed. Before this, Priest Luo had never seen these things in the Dark Forest area, so they seemed very strange to him. He wanted to see what he could catch by following this vine.

So when he was playing with formalism and aiming with his hand instead of a gun, he had already given the crow a psychic mark by glancing at it with the corner of his eye.

With a flick of his hand, priest Luo wiped away the corpse and all traces with a gray light like a living thing, more cleanly than licking. Oh, that's how professional he is.

"Let's go? Do you still want to watch the live torture?" Pastor Luo called to the other three witnesses who were a little overwhelmed.

It can only be said that Priest Luo's purification action was somewhat beyond their imagination.

They had fully expected that Priest Luo was very powerful.

But the handling method and fighting style were almost completely different from what they expected.

To sum it up in one sentence: It doesn’t look like the method used by a positive character, but more like that of a top assassin.

The top assassin said: Except for the missing persons, no one can prove that I have been here...

This style will make all those who wear shoes, especially the powerful and wealthy, tremble in their hearts, and it will be even more terrifying if you think about it carefully.

It turns out that Night City is worthy of its name.

There are three major dark schools: those who play with corpses, those who suck blood, and those who spread diseases.

The zombie player is a bit more advanced. In a certain mansion, it is almost turned into a controllable version of the mansion in Resident Evil 1.

The blood-sucking person is very friendly. He uses a certain poor community as his base to promote blood therapy.

The most miserable one who spreads the disease, a werewolf that escapes the net.

There are the largest number of nocturnal werewolves and the most cases of infection, so we have accumulated considerable work experience, which has been switched from being done openly to being done covertly.

However, they also have their working difficulties. During a certain period of time every day, they will go crazy and out of control, and it will be easy to be exposed if not handled properly.

But with a large base number, there are exceptions. This most destitute nocturnal werewolf is the one who has a good combination of talent and wolf poison, which can suppress the dark power in his body that is like the secretion of dopamine, so that he will not be affected by the environment and undergo a drastic transformation.

This guy didn't do anything bad.

But the source of infection was real. If he could do it, it meant that others could do it too. Being able to do it for a while didn't mean it would always work. So, he was still taken to Eagle's Nest Castle and became a person to be studied.

The main purpose of corpse players is to provide a corpse with plenty of food and drink, but the only drawback is a long lifespan.

Therefore, Father Luo pushed this problem to Marquis Matteo, and let respectable people deal with it. In the name of torture, he shared his experience of living a life worse than death, so that these people would not be so unrealistic and fantasize about being zombies, and would be ready to act one by one.

The bloodsucking guy is not a genuine blood fang, otherwise he would be caught like a nest of cockroaches.

However, this guy is more harmful than a group of vampires. He successfully took advantage of the ignorance and negative emotions of the people and spread an inhuman dark blood. Behind it is an organization called the Twilight Church.

The previous partner in the play was the church's guardian stationed in Night City, who escorted the Dusk Blood mission.

There is no doubt that this kind of organized cult activity is the biggest hidden danger in Night City.

What is particularly worrying is that the organization is taking the route of the poor. It is not only deceptive, but also uses sugar-coated bullets. The positive effects are obvious, the harm has a long incubation period, and it is extremely deceptive.

This cult organization has technology, ideas, a standardized missionary system, strong execution, and the ability to endure hardships. Even Pastor Luo believes that it can subvert the country from the bottom up.

Therefore, at the buffet later, Marquis Matteo, who was always known for his calmness, composure in the face of danger, and the demeanor of a great aristocrat, could not help but change color on the spot when he heard this.

There was nothing much to talk about at the buffet itself. Pastor Luo, like Rob Bo, found the farm-style dishes not presentable and was very impatient with such empty-headed socializing. Although he knew very well that such activities were an important stage to prevent people from becoming fools who only practiced but did not say anything, and they were also an alternative battlefield.

Throughout history, there have been many cases of winning battles but losing negotiations, which is why so many people hope to win at the negotiating table when they cannot win on the battlefield.

Moreover, as a social animal, "mingling in circles" is an important part of life.

Of course, anything is excessive, especially if you lack hard power but make do with big talk. Sooner or later you will lose face, from being gossiped about behind your back to being laughed at in person, and end up being socially ruined.

However, since there are people in the world who are not very good at sex, and there is no such thing as a person with a small appearance and a small stature who can become a friend of women with a silver tongue and eat soft rice. This fully proves that there are top talents in every field, and becoming a top person in the field of communication can also be glorious.

Coupled with its indispensability in real social activities, investing time and energy in this area is much more cost-effective than learning bird language.

Therefore, if you are mentally resistant to socializing, it will be extremely difficult to train yourself to be a good hand. If you just practice without doing the hard work, your performance will be half the result with twice the effort. When you are laid off in a major layoff, you hope that the boss who has been hit hard by the layoffs will be humble and come back to you. This in itself is a negative coping strategy.

This is also one of the main reasons why Robbo didn't do well on Earth.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with self-deprecating that the dishes are farm dishes. Those who do not have the ability to market them can only work like cattle and horses, for others or for themselves, and they should focus on being hardworking and simple, and become the cornerstone of society.

Fortunately, after traveling through time, I have a high-level cheat, which is even more awesome than being born in Rome. I can be rich and willful, and my shortcomings are not obvious. It is useful enough, you don't have to go to the mountain, the mountain will come to you.

The buffet is a mountain of rentiers. With the example of Marquis Matteo making huge profits, everyone naturally wants to have a mouthful of candy with just a few licks.

The people in this circle are basically born or acquired social bullshitters, with their skins stacked on top of each other, one side shameless and the other two thick-skinned, highlighting their thick-skinnedness. How arrogant they are to those below them, how humble they can be to those above them. When they meet Pastor Luo, they are more choking than American donuts, and they are almost offering their wives and daughters to him on the spot.

Pastor Luo had not expected that the upper class people in this remote place could be so flexible. He felt that this kingdom might not survive for many more days.

However, he is a social rookie who cannot save face when others are very respectful to him. He is very good at the method of turning benefits into rain. With a blow of magic wind, he can eliminate certain physical diseases of the people present, making them refreshed and several years younger, and then he can treat it as sending away beggars.

From humble to arrogant, it is a lack of true dignity, which is a typical case of a poor man suddenly becoming rich.

Of course, everyone present had different interpretations of Pastor Luo's behavior.

In particular, there is no wall that is impenetrable. Before Pastor Luo came to the buffet, some of his actions in the city had already been reported back.

He can make people disappear in an instant and never be found again. He can also make people's chronic diseases disappear and become healthy and light. He is a person who has thunder, rain and dew in his hands and is not stingy in using them.

Everyone is prone to over-interpreting Dihua. Human beings have an instinctive worship of the strong, which is engraved in their genes.

So many times, the truth is not important, what is important is how others are willing to believe it.

Pastor Luo did not tolerate this group of rentiers, and dropped important information about the Twilight Church in public, even using the soul-searching technique without shying away, and directly ruined his partner in the play, fully displaying his dark side for people to savor later.

Then it was just a bunch of cobblers who discussed and came up with three or two wise men. The terrifying aspects of the Twilight Church were pieced together through their conversations. No matter how they chose to deal with it later, at least they had an idea of ​​the harm and power of the organization.

This is what Pastor Luo wants. Being bad is not a problem, but being bad and stupid is a problem. Because the latter can be very low-level and basic, and the scope of influence is often large, such as those that harm others and do not benefit oneself.

What's the point? Is it 160? Too much stupid talk, the enemy is going crazy.

If they were a little smarter and put aside their intrigues and flattery, and didn't fall for stupid tricks, the cost of causing trouble for cults like the Twilight Church would increase dramatically.

This is enough. Cost accounting controls, financial resources are limited, and they can't afford to waste money, so they have to show their true colors in advance. Even if they succeed, their power is limited. Otherwise, they will be directly overturned.

Marquis Matteo was a man who knew how to take advantage of others. He invited Pastor Luo to his study to discuss important matters in private, and then he knelt down: We have few soldiers and generals, and we are poor and have no skills. None of the strange men and masters sent by the kingdom before were reliable. I hope God will have mercy on us and send down a saint. Please help us!
Hey! You're pushing your luck, aren't you? I'm just... I'll just take your advice.

Okay, I'll be sincere for once, pay attention to the Holy Light!

Priest Luo left a few rune headbands to Marquis Matteo, and arranged for White Fang to be his guard, then he left.

The rune headbands were an upgraded version of the 150 rune headbands that Priest Luo had made and sold at Akkad Star Fortress when he joined Grand Duke Malos's northern patrol on Alex.

In the words of Pastor Luo: It is important to ensure that you and the people you trust are themselves.

Priest Luo believed that as long as the leader could keep his IQ online and at least know to ask Eagle's Nest for help when he encountered difficulties, then everything would be fine.

In short, it's okay to help, and it's just a small thing for him, but he still needs to be sensible and stop when he's done. Especially from top to bottom, from point to surface, he has already helped a lot, how can he take care of everything from the delivery room to the end of life?
We should respect other people’s choices and destiny.

The Dark Forest officially came to an end. On a late autumn morning when the sun was not bright, Priest Luo left Eagle's Nest Castle, entered the Windward Valley, and headed deep into the Ash Mountains...

(End of this chapter)