Soul Echo

"Wait! How did you know this?"

'Information' is naturally important, but 'source of information' is equally important, even more so 'Information' itself.

Because the information may be wrong, if you follow the wrong information, you will only get the wrong result.

Zhong Ye brows tightly knit, staring into bishop's eyes, questioning his 'source of information'.

He started from Valence and came to Bourges. Even if he was delayed for a day outside the city, it was only four days in total. If it was so easy to find out, why did Bourges Did the church not notice before this?

"Actually, we've tracked them down for a long time before this."

Looking at Zhong Ye's expression, bishop knew that he had misunderstood, shook his head and sighed: "It's just that I was looking in the wrong direction, thinking that the bandits were just ordinary bandits, and it wasn't until I got the information from you that I found the members of the group of cultists lurking in the city!"

If so If so, it can be said clearly.

Zhong Ye's frown slightly eased. If he was tracking the whereabouts of Viscount Barnes, he might be able to find the cultist he met.

"Sorry, I'm being too aggressive, please continue."

bishop nodded and continued: "The group of bandits has no fixed station, and it may be that we didn't find-- At least in our eyes, they're wandering around Kingdom Avenue.

"They've been around there for a year or two, but unfortunately, we haven't been able to catch them, even sending People are patrolling around there, and they can also find opportunities to continue the robbery.

"The people they robbed were either dead or wounded, and they were notorious for 'leaving nothing alive'. Before this winter, there were already many merchants and adventurers who would rather take a detour or walk through the mountains, Nor are they willing to walk on the Kingdom Road.

“However, this may be their purpose! "

Walking in the forest makes it easier to disappear and reduce the possibility of being discovered.

After thinking for a while, Zhong Ye asked: "Are they committing crimes at random?" "

bishop looked surprised, "Yes." "

If it weren't for a random crime, there wouldn't be any merchants and adventurers going through there, and for a group of cultists who want to engage in 'human trafficking', it's all about the fish.

"But, there shouldn't be many merchants and adventurers passing by, right? Why would they loot the population there? "

Zhong Ye is very puzzled that the human traffickers are not a mobile crime.

It's just a 'transportation route' like Montreux, why would those cultists Staying in the same place, looting a small number of people under the cover of 'bandit'?

And merchants and adventurers, who can they sell to?

"This That's why we want to ask you for help. "

bishop pursed his lips and spit out a word: "vampire!" "

hearing this, Lily Lieber, who was sitting by the side, couldn't help but be moved.

"You mean, they sold those merchants and adventurers to vampire?" Is there a residence of the vampire clan in the kingdom? ! "

Her voice was sharp, her eyes stared straight at the bishop, her fists clenched involuntarily.

vampires are undying creatures, and although their birth is a tragedy, the hundreds of years Come on, the crimes they commit are also genuine.

They are wicked monsters, wicked species rejected by sunlight and running water, and they can't even enter an on the verge of The collapsed thatched huts are a manifestation of the family Goddess' resistance to them.

Even the merciful Mother Earth refuses them to be buried in the earth, so when the vampire dies, the body immediately turns to ashes, nothing There is nothing left.

Any intelligent race in the world can coexist with vampire, because they regard life as the enemy.

In Lily's cognition, the species 'vampire' is a Born under the influence of the power of the abyss, but they do not obey the abyss, and even become enemies of the abyss.

Because they also live in this world, if the abyss destroys this world, they will lose Food, can't survive.

But now, bishop is saying that those merchants and adventurers may be offering vampires... ridiculous!

Vampire prefers those bodies to virgin blood The blood of healthy people, because there is vitality and vitality in this blood.

"It's just doubt now...but the probability is great. "bishop sighed.

At this moment, Zhong Ye suddenly asked: "So, are you going to ask me to investigate whether those cultists have any connection with vampire? "

bishop looked complicatedly nodded, "Yes, we suspect that there may be a vampire clan behind this, even if it is only a marginal clan, it is not something we can easily deal with...

"But you can rest assured, Your Excellency, we are not asking you to deal with those vampires, we just want to ask you to investigate, if the information is conclusive, we will contact the nearby titled battle group.

"And We also contacted the demonhunter, and if nothing else, a demonhunter is now on its way to Bourges! "

hearing this, Zhong Ye was lost in thought.

He turned his head to look at the window, the snow was flying outside the window, the howling wind was beating against the glass, the sky was like a black cloth, covering All sunshine.

He will naturally participate in this operation, even if bishop does not ask, he will get involved.

He is just thinking about these things, let him Feeling the 'strange' place...

After a long silence, Zhong Ye suddenly asked: "The cultist you caught, did he admit that he was a cultist? Tell yourself that you are in the business of human trafficking? "

"No, these are our own guesses." "Although there was some doubts about why Zhong Ye asked these questions, bishop still answered truthfully.

"He insisted that he was a bandit, and did not make any prayers during the detention, but our dive techniques all Point out, he's a cultist.

"Then we followed the clues we found in him and thought of the bandits - when they looted, they tended to take everything away, not just property, but also those merchants and adventurer itself.

"The bandits don't deal with corpses, they usually just leave the corpses in place, and recently more than a few villages around have asked us for support because of 'suspected discovery of vampire' , connect these clues together, and get the 'result' I just said to you. "

The derivation process is indeed correct...

After listening, Lily and Lilian turned their heads and looked towards Zhong Ye.

Zhong Ye gently took it a deep breath, lowered his eyes.

His intuition told him that there must be something strange in it, but he couldn't point out what was wrong.

"...Okay, I promise you! "

Zhong Ye opened his eyes, and bishop's nervous expression was relieved.

bishop walked back to his desk, took the map from the wall, and came to Zhong Ye again. In front of them, the map was spread out on the low table.

"This is Bourges. "He pointed to a 'city' marker on the map, then swiped his index finger to the right.

"And here, where the bandits haunted. ”

That area was circled by bishop with charcoal, Zhong Ye and the others saw that there were some places around that area that were marked as mountains and forests.

No wonder they had been If they didn't catch it, once they escaped into the forest, even the hounds would find it difficult to track them down.

Zhong Ye took the map into his mind, nodded, and looked up towards bishop, "Lord Bishop, we actually came to Bourges for a while. have other purposes. "

bishop froze for a moment, then laughed, "If you mean the Onas family, they have already handed over Nemo's drawing." "

"en?" Zhong Ye was stunned.

bishop said with a smile: "After what happened to Marta Count and the Raymond family, we released The news warned all the nobles in Bourges that the Ounas family was so afraid at that time that they quietly handed over the paintings collected at home overnight.

"We also checked their family later, and found no signs of being infected by the abyss."

Not every painting of Nemo can make people feel Sensing the abyss, or rather, because those paintings haven't been 'activated' yet.

Otherwise, Nemo became famous for several decades and painted at least hundreds of paintings. These paintings were scattered all over the West Road. If every painting could make people infected by the abyss, he would have been caught by the abyss long ago. Many churches are considered heretics.

The Ounas family is the noble family mentioned by the count of Blois. Zhong Ye relaxed when he heard Bishop's explanation.

Then, look down at the map.