This time I chose Paladin

"..."

The people gathered around the dog bowl fell silent.

At a time when some people still don't have enough to eat, it's a bit strange and ironic that human food and human parts appear in dog bowls.

"I suspect the granary theft is related to these people." said a gray-haired young man.

He had a pair of sharp eyes and was currently picking up the finger in the dog food bowl, which was a white and tender female finger.

It is tender, sweet and has a good taste. In theory, it should be eaten first, but it has been left until now.

"Look around for any children's skeletons..." he said, glancing to the side.

A dog, more than half a man's height, was pinned to the ground by several men. Its eyes gleamed fiercely, and a growl rolled from its throat, but its muzzle was tied with a green chain, making it unable to make any sound or bite. It was worth noting that its back had a row of barbs along its spine, and the end of its tail had a hard structure like an anchor hammer, with sharp, pointed barbs that were quite terrifying.

"This dog is a mutant, not a summoned one. We found it in a basement. It seems someone is domesticating it, but the residents here say they've never heard of it." A young man introduced it to Nie Weiyang, "This is an unknown breed..."

"The Danzhu Dog is a native species of the New World, generally found in mountainous areas," Nie Weiyang said. "If you need one, you can catch a few and tame them. This one belongs to the dead in the room, so don't touch the chain in its mouth..."

He paused and warned seriously, "In the new world, don't touch anything that glows green. It's not a sign of safety. Of course, this doesn't mean you can touch anything that glows other colors. Don't touch anything unusual. Everyone, remember this."

The green light is Dukongmo's spell, and it looks like a binding effect. If an outsider touches it, he might be handcuffed to the dog. It will not be so easy to break free from the restraints at that time.

As for the Danzhu dog... its ancestors were pet dogs of the previous civilization. After the previous civilization disappeared, these animals survived in the wild of the New World and were gradually alienated by the environment, becoming what they are today.

It is very strong, and even if Nie Weiyang goes up, he may not be able to completely pin it down. It is best not to keep animals that have eaten human flesh.

"Kill it," Nie Weiyang said, "and cut open its stomach..."

Not far away, another voice said the same thing.

"... Check its stomach to see if there are any undigested bones."

The man froze for a moment, then turned to look at Nie Weiyang. Nie Weiyang, recognizing the man's features, couldn't help but smile. This was the best assassin in the city before his arrival in his previous life, with bat bloodline. The two had collaborated many times, and it was a pleasant experience. It was just that he kept asking, "Can't you, a vampire, transform into a bat?" and constantly saying his own bat bloodline was "a flying rat, and I can't even fly," which was truly frustrating.

By the way, this guy is a movie lover and really likes the Batman series of movies. He aspires to become the best detective in the new world.

At this moment, the gray-haired young man realized Nie Weiyang's identity. His eyes lit up and he walked over quickly. "Hello, Mr. Nie! I'm Qiao Xing, nice to meet you. I just went up to see you. How did you manage to send the enemy's brains flying to the ceiling with one blow..."

Nie Weiyang: “…”

What a strange question! People around me looked at me with strange eyes.

"...It was a coincidence," Nie Weiyang said. He didn't want to talk about these outrageous issues, and he didn't even want to dwell on these investigations.

Unless he is asked to investigate someone's movements and hunt them down, he is generally not responsible for handling these matters.

He came back just to see the 'strange green light, the same as in the book' that Xu Rui mentioned.

In the previous life, the Return Cult domesticated a large number of mutant animals to serve as companions. This was easy for them, as they only needed to slaughter a few more settlements to obtain a large amount of blood and flesh to feed the mutant animals. Sometimes, this human flesh would be made into food.

Normal people called it a plan that was against the harmony of nature, while the Reversion sect called it "allowing the life carrier to return to the life cycle." Some people who were anti-human at heart applauded, and some enemies of the Reversion sect began to tamper with this "cycle."

Yang Wuji chose to use poison, not only to defeat the strong with the weak, but also because the bodies of those he poisoned could not be recovered by the Return Sect and used as food. Although the purpose was to deprive the enemy of their rations, in a sense, it did allow more people to rest in peace... Well, maybe not quite, but rest nonetheless.

As the Danzhu dog died, an experience point fell into the experience slot of the executioner.

When it comes to experience points, everything is the same.

As the blade sliced ​​open the stomach, some undigested contents flowed out, caught in a basin by the arriving forensic pathologists. Faced with the disgusting, sticky substance, they calmly examined and rummaged through it, quickly finding several bones. After a brief moment of identification, they identified its source.

"Children's finger bones," said the forensic doctor.

Everyone looked ugly.

"...Why are they all fingers?" someone murmured.

Nie Weiyang's face didn't look good either. He stared at the piece of finger bone and frowned.

Children are the future of a race and a civilization. Everyone who survives to the end of the apocalypse will show leniency to children. Even criminals need children to grow up and become part of their apocalyptic economic system...

- Damn it, you're a returner! You're doing everything you can to feed your damn flower!

If that's the case, then...

Disguise? Secrecy?

Protect your ass!

Even if the whole world knew I had a secret, as long as I was strong enough, no one could make me tell it! And now, wait for death and return to the sect!

Nie Weiyang turned and walked away, saying as he walked, "I know what's going on. I'm going to Zhengyang District now."

He does attach importance to social rules, but he has long been accustomed to doing things within the boundaries of the rules.

Originally, he wanted to conduct a normal investigation, giving the world the illusion that "Nie Weiyang is very disciplined", and also give those who are watching him the illusion that "Nie Weiyang has his own source of information, but this source of information belongs to the normal way of obtaining information, but I just can't do it."

Now?

After three knocks on the door, Nie Weiyang, who had been authorized through various levels of authorization, walked into a new conference room, a brightly lit conference room.

None of the upper-class people in Gushi were asleep. They gathered around a massive sand table, which depicted the entire environment within dozens of kilometers of Gushi. At that moment, they all raised their heads. Every one of them, even the youngest, would have been called "brother" by Nie Weiyang in his previous life. Even the smallest dark circles under their eyes would have made one suspect that their staple food was bamboo.

"I have information to provide about the Return Sect, aliens, a cult, and the Dream Flower—the last one is a drug." Nie Weiyang said bluntly, "Don't ask me where the information comes from. If you have any doubts, send someone to investigate and verify it. But now, I ask you to cooperate with my next move—I want to eradicate this cult's stronghold in Zhongzhou. Do you agree?"

There are always people who say that as long as a network of order linked by interests is established, even if the order is dark, there will be a steady stream of people who will spontaneously maintain it. In this way, it will be easy to build a kingdom.

But whether they are professional criminals or cult believers, there have always been many people who take it as their mission to break the existing rules.

There are even some people who initially chose a criminal career when they were not very suitable for it, and did so just to be "cool".

Such people are also quite harmful. After all, sometimes bad guys rack their brains but are not as good as a fool's sudden inspiration.

For these people, appeasement is basically ineffective, and stance is always the most serious issue. When "New World" quantifies it into intuitive keywords and data, internal conflicts among human beings are bound to occur.

Maybe others have their own opinions on this...

But Nie Weiyang has always had only one word.

"kill!"

I'm very busy and may not be able to maintain 6 a day in the future, but if nothing unexpected happens, the minimum will be .

(Thumbs-up Rabbits fall down all over the ground)

Chapter 103 I Will Light Up for You

Are there enemies? Kill them!

Have questions? Ask!

Have information? Tell us!

Having trouble? Help!

Natural evolution gave humans mouths, which provided them with the option of communication, and humans grew hands to achieve their goals!

Especially, give the enemy a fucking punch!

I can seek help for the matter of Administrator No. 2, but why can't I seek help for returning to the sect?

What nonsense are you talking about - when facing a large number of enemies, we have to mobilize the whole group to fight!

"The Return Sect is a cult, there's no doubt about that. Their behavior is consistent with every cult you can think of, because their own action plans are based on those cults..."

"Dukongmo... this part of the information, those with mental power below 30 points will be notified.

"The name of the Sky-Drifters is 'Torienga'. In their language... never mind, that's over 50 points of information. In short, the Sky-Drifters come from outside the New World. They are a highly developed civilization, but their primary racial image, life form, and social culture fit every 'demon' label you can imagine..."

"The conflict between the Sky-Dubbing Demon and the previous civilization has a long history..."

"The Skywalker is very interested in the cities and refuges of former civilizations..."

"The main material of the Sky Crossing Demon's beacon is..."

"The Sky-Dumb Demons need human souls because they are a pure source of spiritual essence... The spiritual essence that has been demonized is one of their energy sources. Of course, it is only one of them. They are not yet capable of using spiritual essence as their primary energy source."

"The Return Sect will do whatever it takes to satisfy the Dukong Demon's demands, because they worship the Dukong Demon as a 'god'... I don't know what the Sun Lord and Moon Lord think, but ordinary believers do."

"The Dream Flower of the Return Sect is actually a poppy that has been blessed with the Transitional Void Magic. It is even more addictive and will destroy the soul. It will use demonic spiritual essence to erode the soul of the user, gradually transforming them into demonized beings. The soul of the demonized person is incomplete, and they survive by eating souls..."

"The Demonized Ones and the Sky-crossing Demons are fighting for resources? No, they're just collecting them." Nie Weiyang said, recalling some of the scenes he had witnessed in his previous life. His already furrowed brows furrowed even more, with a hint of disgust on his face: "...The souls of the Demonized Ones will gradually be filled with the souls they eat, but they will not merge, they will just parasitize each other.

"Until the gap in the soul is filled, the pain and appetite will never end. Until a certain moment, the Skywalker will think they are ripe and pick them for other uses.

"Not many demonized beings can reach this stage, so this 'bunch of grapes' soul is generally not eaten directly."

The Dukongmo, or at least the Returning Sect, calls different kinds of souls using different fruit names.

The souls of ordinary people are "grapes," the immature souls of demonized beings are "lychees," the aggregated souls of multiple souls are "grape bunches," and the souls processed by magic are "apples"...

Everyone in the conference room looked at each other and saw the solemnity on others' faces.

This is no longer a matter of competing for survival resources and means of production; this is about treating all human beings as resources!

"In that case, that sect..." someone muttered to himself, as if wanting to ask, 'How come so many people joined?' - but he stopped.

Because everyone knows that for those who are trying to survive in desperate situations, everything they say now is about the future, and the imminent death is the present.

If a person can't even afford to eat, how can he have the time to think about whether it's a cult or not? Those who feed him porridge before he starves to death are all good people.

"...Alas." Someone in the room sighed.

The atmosphere was dull for a moment, but soon all these emotions were gathered together and put into a corner where they would not affect thinking and fighting.

"Now, I suspect that the Return Sect is related to humans traveling here. Even if there is no direct connection, there must be an indirect connection."

Nie Weiyang directly exposed the past of the Return Sect. Everyone suddenly became alert, their eyes filled with murderous intent. Nie Weiyang spread his hands and said, "The Sky-crossing Demon can transcend time and space... This is also a kind of time travel."

The crowd did not panic, but after a moment of silence, they asked, "So, where is the headquarters of the Return Sect you mentioned?"

Nie Weiyang pulled out a brush and neatly carved out the outline of a map of Zhongzhou on the table, then poked a small hole somewhere on the edge.

"The Zhongzhou Bone Sacrifice Court is right here," he said. "You guys investigate, arrange, and reason, and I'll be in charge of the pursuit and the killing. We'll divide the work and cooperate."

Liang Zhenduan touched his chin.

"You insisted on clearing out the Zhongzhou Bone Sacrifice Hall first... You think we can't go back. Is that right?" he suddenly asked.

This question aroused the attention of many people. Under the gazes from all directions, Nie Weiyang was silent for a moment and replied: "...at least not now."

"Returning to the sect, Crossing the Sky Demon... I don't think Zhongzhou is special enough to warrant such a strong force's attention." Liang Zhenduan said slowly, "After all, it's very different from Yuzhou, right? So, what's hidden here?"

Nie Weiyang pointed his finger at the center of the map, a place not far from the ancient city.

"Server," he said. "One of this planet's internet servers, a creation of a previous civilization. It's... not a 'server' as you know it, but it has similar functions."