Soul echo

Chapter 315 Goal

"Wait! How do you know this?"

"Information" is naturally important, but "source of information" is equally important, even more important than "information" itself.

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

Zhong Ye frowned, staring into the Bishop's eyes, questioning his 'source of information'.

He set off from Valensais and came to Bourges. Even if he stayed outside the city for a day, it was only four days in total. If it was really that easy to find out, why didn't the church in Bourges notice it before that? ?
"Actually, we have been tracking them down for a long time before this."

Seeing Zhong Ye's expression, the bishop knew that he had misunderstood, and shook his head and sighed: "It's just that I was looking in the wrong direction before, thinking that the bandits were just ordinary bandits, and I didn't find them until I got the information from you." Members of that group of cultists lurking in the city!"

If this is the case, it is also clear.

Zhong Ye's furrowed brows eased slightly. If he traced the whereabouts of Viscount Barnes, he might still be able to find the cultist who met him.

"Sorry, I was too aggressive, please continue."

The bishop nodded and continued: "The bandits don't have a fixed location, and it's possible that we haven't found them—at least in our eyes, they are wandering around the Kingdom Avenue.

"They have been around there for one or two years, but unfortunately, we have not been able to catch them. Even if we send people to patrol the area, they can still find opportunities to carry out robbery.

"People who were robbed by them were either killed or injured, and they 'leaved no one alive', so that they were notorious. Before this winter, many merchants and adventurers would rather detour or pass through the mountains and forests than walk in the kingdom. on the road.

"However, this may be their purpose!"

Walking in the mountains and forests makes it easier to go missing and reduces the possibility of being discovered.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhong Ye raised a question: "Did they commit the crime randomly?"

The bishop looked surprised, "Yes."

If it wasn't for random crimes, there wouldn't be businessmen and adventurers passing through there. For a group of cultists who want to 'traffick people', this is a waste of money.

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

Zhong Ye was extremely puzzled by the fact that the traffickers were not criminals.

The "transportation route" like Montreux is nothing more, why would the group of cultists stay in the same place, using the identity of "bandit" as a cover to rob a small number of people?

And who can merchants and adventurers sell to?

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

The bishop pursed his lips tightly, and said a word seriously: "Vampire!"

Hearing this, Lily Lieber, who was sitting by the side, couldn't help being moved.

"You mean, they sold those merchants and adventurers to vampires? There are vampire clans in the kingdom?!"

Her voice was sharp, her eyes were fixed on the bishop, her fists clenched involuntarily.

Vampires are undead creatures, and despite the tragedy of their birth, the crimes they have committed over the centuries have been genuine.

They are evil monsters, bad species detested by sunlight and running water, and they cannot even enter a crumbling thatched cottage without the invitation of the owner of the house. This is the performance of the domestic goddess' resistance to them.

Even the merciful Earth Mother refuses to bury them in the ground, so after the vampire dies, the body will immediately turn into ashes, leaving nothing behind.

It is impossible for any intelligent race in the world to coexist with vampires, because they regard life as their enemy.

In Lily's cognition, although the species of 'vampire' was born under the influence of the power of the abyss, 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 their food and cannot survive.

But now, the bishop said that those merchants and adventurers might be provided to vampires... Absurd!
Compared with the blood of virgins, vampires prefer the blood of those who are in good health, because this kind of blood is full of vigor and vitality.

"It's just a suspicion now...but the possibility is very high." The bishop sighed.

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

The bishop nodded with a complicated expression, "Yes, we suspect that there may be a vampire clan behind this, even if it's just a fringe clan, it's not something we can easily deal with...

"But you can rest assured, Your Excellency, we don't want you to deal with those vampires, we just want to ask you to investigate, if the news is true, we will contact the nearby naming war group.

"And we also contacted the demon hunters. If there is no accident, there are demon hunters coming to Bourges now!"

Hearing this, Zhong Ye fell into deep thought.

He turned his head to look at the window, there was heavy snow outside the window, the howling wind hit the glass, the sky was like a black cloth, covering all the sunlight.

He would naturally take part in this operation, even if the bishop did not ask for it, he would participate in it.

He is just thinking about these things now, which made him feel 'strange'...

After a long silence, Zhong Ye suddenly asked: "The cult member caught by you, did he admit that he is a cult member? He said that he is in the human trafficking business?"

"No, we deduced these by ourselves." Although he was a little puzzled as to why Zhong Ye would ask these questions, the bishop still answered truthfully.

"He insisted that he was a bandit, and he didn't make any prayer movements during the detention, but our magic spells pointed out that he was a cultist.

"Then we followed the clues we found from him to the group of bandits—when they plundered, they often took everything away, not just property, but also the merchants and adventurers themselves.

"Bandits don't know how to deal with corpses. They usually just leave the corpses where they are. In addition, recently, more than one village around the world has asked us for support because of 'suspected discovery of vampires'. If these clues are connected together, we have The 'result' I told you just now came out."

The derivation process is indeed correct...

After listening, Lily and Lilian turned their heads to look at Zhong Ye.

Zhong Ye took a light breath and lowered his eyes.

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

"...Okay, I promise you!"

Zhong Ye opened his eyes, and the bishop's nervous expression eased.

The bishop walked back to his desk, took down the map from the wall, went to Zhong Ye and the others, and spread the map out on the low table.

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

"Then here is where the bandits haunt."

The area was circled by the bishop with a charcoal pencil. Zhong Ye and the others saw that there were still some places marked as forests around that area.

No wonder I haven't caught it before. Once I escape into the mountains, even hunting dogs will find it hard to track me down.

Zhong Ye memorized the map in his mind, nodded, and looked up at the bishop, "My lord bishop, in fact, we have other purposes for coming to Bourges."

The bishop was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "If you mean the Onas family, they have already handed in Nemo's painting."

"Huh?" Zhong Ye was stunned.

The bishop smiled and said, "After what happened to Earl Marta and the Raymond family, we released a message to warn all the nobles in Bourges. At that time, the Ounas family was terrified and quietly handed over the paintings collected at home overnight. up.

"Later, we also checked their family, and found no signs of abyss infection on them."

Not every painting of Nemo can make people feel the abyss, or because those paintings have not been 'activated'.

Otherwise, Nemo has been famous for decades and has painted at least a hundred paintings. These paintings are scattered all over the West Road. If every painting can make people infected by the abyss, he would have been recognized as a heretic by many churches up.

The Onas family was the noble family mentioned by the Earl of Blois. Zhong Ye heaved a sigh of relief after hearing the bishop's explanation.

Then, lower your head and stare at the map.

　Today is the National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims, cherish peace and warn the future
　　
　
(End of this chapter)