Whether in the Earth Federation or in this world of Velen, alcohol is always the best numbing drug when faced with the pain and panic brought about by life.

Compared with the desolation of other industries in Miria City, the wine industry has become particularly prosperous. In the market area opened by the black market and various gangs, in addition to the large and small street stalls, there are the most taverns that provide all kinds of alcohol.

Shop.

Among them were some ordinary refugees who brewed their own fruit wine from wild fruits. They had no way to rent houses built by surrounding gangs to open a tavern. They could only rent a stall every day, put up a few chairs and small tables, and it was considered a tavern.

Because this kind of fruit wine has not been carefully filtered and contains a lot of impurities, the tavern owner will put it into a small wooden barrel and insert a few reeds into it so that the guests can drink the wine through the reeds.

Although the brewing level of this kind of fruit wine is average, the taste is very poor, and it is astringent and bitter, but because it is cheap, you only need two underground coins to buy a barrel and drink it with a few friends, so the vast majority of refugees who have no money are

Regular visitor here.

For those scavengers and gang leaders who have some spare money, pubs with houses are the best choice. These pubs are no different from pubs in other places, or even better. As long as you have money here, you can

You can buy any kind of wine you want.

After Leo arrived at the market, he just walked around the market hastily, found a seat at the largest open-air wine stall in the market, bought a bucket of wine, and then pretended to be hospitable and invited a few people.

A smart-looking man drinks together.

"Mr. Leo, do you have any skills for finding things in those ruins?" After lame Paul took a big sip of his drink, he couldn't help being curious and asked Leo.

"Actually, whether you can find good things depends on luck. Just like I just found a damaged statue. I thought it was only worth a few underground coins, but I didn't expect..." Leo took the photo pretending to be mysterious.

Patting his pockets, he said, "Anyway, I made a lot of money today, and I'm pretty lucky." After that, he said to the tavern owner, "Give all the wine barrels here a round, and I'll treat you."

Hearing what Leo said, the people around him immediately burst into extremely enthusiastic cheers. Although it was just the first time they met Leo, many people had already regarded him as a friend because of the alcohol.

"Actually, apart from luck, information is also very important." Leo nodded to everyone around him, then returned to the previous topic and said: "For example, the statue I got this time is in the villa area of ​​the waxing moon...

…”

"That's the old dog's territory." Hearing Leo say this, someone next to him immediately exclaimed in shock.

Leo didn't know who Lao Gou was, but he could guess that Lao Gou was probably the leader of a scavenger group, so he said disapprovingly: "What's this? Lao Gou only has so many people under his command. The powerful villa in Xianyue Lake District

There are so many, and it's impossible for him to control them all, and I'm not the only one." As he spoke, he lowered his body, motioned for the people next to him to come closer, and said in a mysterious manner: "Actually, I heard someone say this beforehand.

It was said that someone found something interesting there and later sold it to the black market and made a lot of money."

"I've heard the news too,"

"Me too."

"I heard that he made a lot of money, bribed the soldiers of the Imperial Army, and now he has gone to the seven northern countries."

Everyone responded one after another.

"Fart, you went to the seven northern countries and are dead." Cripple Paul said, breaking the news that was different from others.

"Cripple, do you know something?" Everyone immediately looked at the lame Paul curiously, and Leo's attention also shifted.

Lame Paul burped and said, "Remember the guy with six hands?"

"Isn't he dead?" Others looked at the lame Paul with some confusion.

Seeing that his words attracted the attention of others, the lame Paul said with a look of embarrassment: "I know he is dead, but do you know how he died?"

Immediately, an insider said: "I heard that he offended someone and was thrown into the lake."

"Hmph! Only you uninformed guys would believe this." Cripple Paul smiled disdainfully, took another sip of wine, wiped his beard habitually, and then continued: "Six hands

When he died, I was right next to him, and if I hadn't been clever and able to hide quickly, I might have died too."

Leo motioned to the boss to refill the barrel, and asked emotionally: "Listen to what you said, that six-hand man is the person I heard about, the one who discovered good things in the First Quarter Moon Villa area and made a fortune.

The one with the big bucks?”

"That's that person." Paul, the lame man, saw Leo asking, and said carefully without any hesitation: "At that time, I, Casey, Roy and Zizi were awakened by the screams of six hands.

The content is not much, I just heard that Six Hands was probably hired by someone to find something in the Shangqianyue Lake area, but he was very greedy. When he found something, he not only did not give it to the client, but also hid it, leaving the rest

Some of his valuable additional treasures were exchanged for money on the black market, and he planned to use the money to escape from Miria City. Later, he was found by the victim, and was tortured into a human shape, and was finally thrown into the lake to feed the fish."

Although the lame Paul did not go into too much detail, nor did he give a detailed description of the item hidden by the six hands, Leo felt that the six hands should be the person who took away the Ring of Plague.

Because, from the tone of the people around him, it is not difficult to tell that this six-handed man is an experienced scavenger and has a good reputation here. Otherwise, no one would take the initiative to find him and hire him to find things.

And Leo looked at the various traces of the villa's excavation, and it was not difficult to infer that the excavator did it alone, and he was very skilled in the technique. He was a veteran. In the secret room, including the wizard's rare items that contained the ring of plague,

Everything of value had been taken away, even the precious metal decorations on the wall lamps, apparently by scavengers.

Thinking of this, although Leo didn't think that the lame Paul would know the answer, he still asked as usual: "Do you know what the six hands are hiding?"

"I don't know." Cripple Paul shook his head, but added: "However, it should be related to medical school, because I heard medical school mentioned in their conversation."

Leo had already gotten the information he wanted and did not continue to ask. Instead, he chatted about some daily chores here, seemingly passing the boring time like everyone else.

Although Leo didn't expect to get any useful information from these chats on daily topics, things often had some unexpected surprises, just like getting the news about six hands from the lame Paul.

While chatting with these people, Leo discovered that a large number of missionary priests appeared in various refugee areas of Milia City, providing free medical treatment and food to the refugees, and recruiting believers. What is interesting is that the religions of these missionary priests are all different.

They are some religions that have never been heard of, such as Maya, the Mother of Conception, Mobison the Observer, etc.

Faced with the appearance of these preachers, various organizations that control the situation in Milia City have different reactions. Among them, the black market and gangsters are letting it go and ignore them as long as the other party does not mess with them.

The Freedom Front was strongly opposed to it, and even did not hesitate to assassinate those missionaries in public. It was precisely because of this move that the reputation of the Freedom Front took a hit. Several refugee towns where the missionary pastors were concentrated were very hostile to the Freedom Front.

Compared with the attitude of these forces in Milia City towards missionaries, the empire's attitude towards these missionaries is a bit strange, because there are many signs that these missionaries are constantly supplying believers and ordinary refugees.

Supplies are flowing out from the imperial military camp.

According to the empire's previous attitude towards the Orthodox Church, they should strongly oppose any preachers, but now they have expelled all the Orthodox Churches from the city of Milia and destroyed all the temples and churches of the Orthodox Church.

Secretly supporting some other mysterious spiritual churches that are not on the list of Orthodox Gods, such contradictory behavior will inevitably make people think a little bit. So when the Freedom Front attacked these preachers, their behavior was different from those who were not affected by these preachers.

Anyone who is kind is also excusable in the eyes.

Although ordinary people don't know what the gods of these new religions are, Leo knows very well that these gods have appeared on the continent of Velen, but they appeared very early and disappeared very early. According to time,

By calculation, they should be regarded as the oldest ancient gods. When they disappeared, the righteous gods enshrined in the Orthodox Church had not yet appeared.

The reason why Leo urged these ancient gods to understand so much was because he had seen the churches of these gods in the dream world, and he had also read about the origins of the beliefs of these churches in the books he acquired.

What’s even more interesting is that judging from some of the information leaked from the conversations between these people, the transactions spread by the preachers of these new churches are somewhat similar to the church teachings of these gods in the dream world. It is very similar to the church saints in the dream world.

Modify the code and then use it in Velen World.

Therefore, at this moment, these mysterious new churches reminded him of the dream world.

Although Leo has not yet found effective evidence, he was able to discover from some clues and information that the dream world and the Velen world are communicating, but these communications are only in the hands of a few people.

In addition to the newly emerged mysterious church, Leo also learned from the conversations of these people that there had been a large number of disappearances in the refugee area recently, and there were also some very brutal murders. One of them was Leo.

Somewhat familiar, the characteristic of this case is that the murderer killed a certain victim's entire family, skinned one of the victims, made other victims make prayers, and left a large number of patterns similar to magic circles on the walls and the ground.

After Leo heard this secret, he immediately thought of the murder that happened to Emily. It was obvious that after many years, Emily still had not caught the murderer of her whole family, and this murderer

He did not leave the city of Milia, which was shrouded in war, and even took advantage of the chaos in the city to continue his religious rituals.

Thinking about it carefully, it is not difficult for Leo to understand that in any world, as long as a city falls into chaos and disorder, all kinds of evil things that were unimaginable in the past may happen, and Miria City is in this period.

During the conversation, Leo asked Cripple Paul about the people who killed Six Hands without leaving any trace, mainly asking who those people were.

The lame Paul, who was already a little drunk, naturally knew everything. Unfortunately, he and other people who also heard the noise were too frightened and hid in the cracks between some gravels, not even daring to raise their heads.

You can't see the physical appearance of those people.

However, there is one detail that Lame Paul remembers very clearly, that is, the accents of those people are not locals of Miriam City, and as far as he knows, most of the outsiders are concentrated in the refugee towns where new churches have appeared.

Refugee areas are rarely seen.

After drawing nearly half of his underground coins and giving them drinks to the people here, Leo had already extracted a lot of information from these people that was not recorded in the information provided by Sylvia, which also gave him a temporary basis for his investigation.

some directions.

After paying the bill, Leo left the trading market opened by the black market amid the cheers of these alcoholic refugees who were immersed in drunkenness and dreams, and prepared to find a temporary place to live in the city.

Just when Leo walked through a refugee shack and passed by a disabled beggar who was wrapped in linen and begging along the street, the beggar didn't even raise his head and said something inexplicably: "Leo...

Mr. Dodd, your friend is waiting for you in the small garden in the Lake District of the Last Quarter Moon."

Leo did not stop or turn his head to look at the beggar. He continued to walk forward as if he had not heard anything. After turning around a piece of rubble and ruins, he walked towards the Xiaxianyue Lake area.

Because of the large amount of rubble and rubble and the gang station blocking the road, Leo had to take a detour. In addition, in order to avoid attracting attention, he couldn't let go and hurried on, so it took him a little longer until it got dark.

, just arrived at the small garden in Xiaxianyue Lake District.

This small garden was not a well-known place when Miria City was still intact. It was only a place for the dignitaries in the villas in the Xiexianyue Lake District to take a leisurely stroll. The flowers and plants planted were also very simple and had no special features.

But after almost all the exquisite and majestic buildings in Miria City were destroyed, this small garden was actually preserved intact under the devastation of countless bombs. When all the residents of Miria City saw this small garden,

, couldn’t help but think back to the disappeared city of Milia and that great city. It was precisely because of this nostalgia that the small garden was preserved in this chaotic city, and all

It has almost become an implicit rule for all the forces in Miria City that no fights are allowed to affect this small garden.
Chapter completed!