Don't call me evil god

Chapter 770 There is something wrong with this place
There is something wrong with the theory.

The most devastated are actually the scholars who are obsessed with research.

They may not be good at fighting monsters, nor may they be powerful professionals, but they have spent a lot of time and energy observing, summarizing, and generalizing the characteristics of monsters and the laws of pollution.

They are committed to finding a way to truly drive the evil god back into the void, so that the continent of Plantis can return to the stable and harmonious order of the early days of the new Huili.

If you want to study monsters and pollution, the Dark Forest is a place you cannot avoid.

Many of the commissions seeking adventurers to explore deep into the Dark Forest and collect items were issued by these scholars.

Many brave scholars would even ask adventurers to help take some of the testing equipment they prepared into the depths of the dark forest, and then wait for weeks, months or even years before finding someone to bring it back to observe and compare the changes that occurred during this period.

In short, the conclusion currently recognized by scholars is that the rich pollution lurking in the dark forest comes from an extremely powerful pollution source in the deepest part.

Therefore, as long as the source of pollution is not eliminated, there is little point in briefly purifying the peripheral areas, which is equivalent to being dragged into an endless war of attrition.

The Dark Forest is the home of the "evil god".

The mortals protected by the Xinhui gods were fighting away from home, and they would never be able to kill the opponent by outlasting them.

Therefore, most scholars actually support the "conservative theory" of the Glowing God Cult.

That is, before solving the source of pollution deep in the dark forest, don't waste resources trying to get out of the forest.

In their view, this is the best solution at the moment.

The territory opened up by the followers of the Church of Knowledge has caused many scholars to begin to doubt their lives.

They suspect that all their years of investigation and research, as well as the experience summarized by their predecessors, have been in vain!
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The 57-year-old scholar Wallace Conan Doyle felt as complicated as if he had been screwed.

He was originally from the royal capital, but in recent years he has been living in the Territory of Kalez in order to investigate and study the pollution in the Dark Forest.

When news came from Ceylon that someone had opened up a territory outside the Dark Forest, Wallace sneered.

"Waste of time! Waste of resources!"

He could guess the fate of those people without even thinking about it.

The so-called opening up of territory is most likely just a hundred people cutting down a few trees, finding a relatively open and flat area, setting up a few sheds, putting up some fences and then daring to claim to have established a territory.

In that place, even the river water has to be purified with the glow magic before it can be drunk. Basic survival has become a problem, and maintaining the territory is even more ridiculous.

It won’t take long, half a year at most!
They will surely flee back to the kingdom in disgrace!

As an old scholar, Wallace gained confidence from knowledge.

Then he was quickly slapped in the face!

The new territory outside the Dark Forest was not only successfully opened up, but also grew larger and larger!
The source of the information was the adventurer he found some time ago.

Wallace asked them to help him go to the outskirts of the Dark Forest to retrieve the items left there last year.

The adventurer accepted the commission, but returned empty-handed.

"Where's the stuff?"

"Gone."

"Ah?" The old scholar was confused and bewildered.

He placed some plant seeds and other things in different containers. Some of them were specially buried underground by adventurers to form a comparison and see the impact of void pollution under different conditions.

Even if we can't get all of it back, it should be okay to get some of it back, right?

The adventurer reluctantly explained the reason:
"There is now a safe and orderly territory over there, called the Territory of Xiwei, and the lord is a goblin named Hugo Xiwei."

"The city wall of Xiwei Territory has been built. The place where you buried the things last year has now become a small square. Even the stone slabs on the ground are neatly laid, and there are people specially assigned to clean it."

"Pry open the stone slab and dig down?" "Let's not talk about whether the things can be found again. If we do that, it will be considered as destroying public property in the territory. We will be fined."

Wallace was shocked.

Where is the small open space that could accommodate a hundred people?

Didn't you say that you would come back in disgrace soon?

Did he hear it wrong, or is there something wrong with this world?

So many people live in the Dark Forest area where pollution is the most serious. Even if it is just the outer areas where pollution is less serious, it is still the Dark Forest!

After some careful consideration.

Wallace gritted his teeth and made up his mind!
He wants to go and see for himself what is going on!
……

Then there is Wallace's current doubt about life:
"This is impossible!"

This thin old man stood on the commercial street of West Victoria.

This was the nth time he had lost control and shouted loudly since arriving in Xiwei Territory.

Mercenaries and adventurers were coming and going around him, and on both sides were a variety of shop signs.

"A good and complete first-level monster material workshop!"

There is a line of small words under the sign:
"Bulk orders must be booked in advance. Please make sure to contact us at: Haoyouquan Level 1 Monster Material Workshop. Please indicate your purpose when adding friends."

Next to this store, there are shops such as "Transcendent Materials Shop", "Arcane Secrets Spell Materials", and "Great Harvest Bone Meal Wholesale".

The wrinkles on Wallace's forehead were almost squeezed together by his frown.

Ever since he came to Xiwei Territory.

Everything here seemed to be pressing down and rubbing hard all the knowledge he once believed in.

Pollution spreading from the depths of the dark forest?
Not at all!

When he just crossed the border and left the protection of [Past Glory], the old scholar Wallace felt dizzy and nauseous for a while. He deliberately drank some clean water blessed by divine magic that he bought in the Church of the Glowing God, which made him feel better.

As a result, the closer we got to Xiwei Territory, the weaker the feeling of the ubiquitous "void pollution" became.

After he showed his ID card and entered the city, the impact of the pollution completely disappeared!
There was no feeling of holiness, peace and purity here that he had experienced in the Glowing Church, but more of a feeling of order and stability.

After all, this is the outskirts of the Dark Forest!

How did the people who opened up the territory and built this city do it? !

Which god's protection can be so powerful? !

It's not just these things that puzzle the old scholar Wallace.

There were also topics that he heard the adventurers discuss while resting in the tavern.

If it wasn’t some “limited time winter event”;
Either that or it’s a “free contribution value auction”;
Others were enthusiastically discussing things like "shipping, group tours, tickets, and land reclamation."

Wallace, who is almost 60 years old, was filled with question marks after hearing this.

As a scholar, he considers himself to be well-informed and well-read.

Why do these adventurers seem to be living in another world?

After searching his memory for a long time, Wallace simply couldn't find anything that matched the number!

“There’s something very wrong with this place!”

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(End of this chapter)