After Brown arrived, he accepted what happened at the antique store and asked Leo to go outside for a while, while he led a few people to treat those who fainted in the store and asked those people what happened.
Although he had no suspicion, Leo still took the initiative to stay and participate in the investigation of this matter. After all, the three skull bowls were regarded by him as his own, and now they were lost. Naturally, he would not be willing to give them up.
The three skull bowls.
After waiting outside the antique store for a while, Brown walked out of the store, and Leo immediately asked: "How is the situation?"
"Except for Old Bill, no one else was injured." Brown didn't seem to want Leo to intervene, and simply responded.
"Can I go in and have a look?" Leo asked.
Brown shook his head and refused: "It's not necessary, let us, the Holy Blood Society, handle it!"
Leo emphasized his tone and said: "The lost things belong to me, and I think I should intervene in this matter."
Brown still refused: "Mr. Leo Dodd, it seems that you haven't paid for those three antiques, which means that they are not yours yet."
"Mr. Brown, you don't seem to understand what I mean. I'm not asking you to agree to investigate this matter. I'm just telling you a fact. It doesn't matter whether you agree or not!" Leo frowned slightly, and then
Showing great toughness, he pushed Brown away without even waiting for him to speak and walked straight into the store.
Leo's rude behavior was seen by several other members of the Holy Blood Society. They seemed to want to teach the stranger a lesson, but they were stopped in time by Brown, who did not show his rejection of Leo's involvement in the matter.
Instead, he followed Leo silently.
After entering the store, Leo's eyes quickly scanned the few waiters and customers who had not yet woken up from their drowsiness. Then he looked around again and walked into that special room.
, looked at the shop owner who had not yet regained consciousness and was dealing with the injury on the back of his head, then turned around and walked out of the shop without asking a word.
Watching Leo turn around and leave, Brown, who was following him, couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Dodd, don't you ask?"
"What's the question?" Leo asked.
Brown responded: "Ask what happened before?"
"If you could ask useful things from them, you wouldn't look like this, so there's no need for me to waste my time." Leo replied coldly, and continued to walk out.
"Where are you going now?" Brown followed and asked again.
Leo turned to look at Brown and replied in the same words as before: "Hui Hotel, isn't this a matter of your Holy Blood Society? I don't need to get involved."
After saying that, he walked out quickly, passed through the crowd watching the excitement, and disappeared into the narrow underground passage.
"He must have discovered something?" Brown frowned and said to himself.
After hearing Brown's words, a masked person next to him asked: "Boss, do you want to send someone..."
"No!" Brown shook his head. He still didn't know whether Leo really didn't want to get involved in the investigation of this matter, or whether he was deliberately making a suspicious gesture, but he knew very well that he couldn't let Leo get the handle.
Sending someone to monitor Leo at this time will give Leo a sufficient excuse to intervene in this matter. Even if the crow comes forward, it will not be able to change the fact that Leo intervenes.
"What should we do now?" Another subordinate also asked.
"Immediately secretly investigate the people who have recently joined and left the organization, and also investigate all the people in Vinaya Port who are related to underground churches and cults." Brown gave the order in a deep voice, then thought about Su, and said: "Isn't there recently?
Are there more than a dozen groups of underground church organizations who fled from Minsk? Start investigating from them. Remember to investigate secretly. As for the outside world, treat what happened in the antique store as an ordinary robbery. Ten million
Don’t show any flaws.”
"Got it, boss." After listening to the instructions, the subordinates dispersed and conducted various investigations according to Brown's instructions, while Brown returned to the antique shop and waited for the shop owner to wake up from his coma.
Just as Brown guessed, Leo did find some clues, but like Brown, he was not prepared to cooperate with the Holy Blood Society to investigate this matter. He was planning to retrieve the things himself, which would save him a purchase.
The cost of this thing.
After returning to the ground, Leo did not go back to the hotel, but called a carriage and headed to the port area.
When he checked the store just now, he also used his brain's quick memory to compare the scene he saw when he first entered the store. He found that while the personnel did not change, something was missing, or among the customers
Someone is missing something, but the guest doesn't seem to know that he is missing something, as if the thing never existed.
That thing was a cat pendant hanging on the customer's backpack. Leo didn't pay attention to these things at all when he entered the store. He just glanced at it and didn't think there was anything strange about it. Looking back now, he
He felt that he was a little negligent at the time, or that the psychic wall he had just entered the store interfered with his perception of psychic fluctuations, and he failed to discover that the cat pendant that looked like just an ordinary decoration might be one that was controlled by someone.
Divine wonders.
Beliefs in gods related to cats were very popular in the ancient world of Velen. According to statistics from religious scholars, there have been at least 70 cat-related gods in the world of Velen since ancient times, but all of these gods have now disappeared.
In the eyes of ancient humans, rats that gnawed food and spread diseases were always the most evil species, and cats, which were extremely good at catching rats, became the most sacred existence in the eyes of ancient humans. For this reason, they created various cat-related creations.
Among the gods, the most famous ones include the cat god Belus of Savil in the desert kingdom of the Minsk continent, and the cat-headed saint of the Moissan continent.
Just like other gods born out of belief, all cat gods' belief quickly weakened, collapsed, and eventually disappeared completely after humans found other ways to deal with mice.
However, these cat god churches will more or less leave behind some legacies, including some magical magical objects infused with divine power.
The incarnation of the civet cat is the favorite magical object made by various cat gods. Leo obtained the knowledge about this magical object from the knowledge of the web weaver, and it is very detailed. The reason why it is so detailed is because they once and
There was an in-depth cooperation with a certain cat god, allowing that cat god to become a soul guide, and Hidden also gained a lot of knowledge about the cat god.
Although most cat gods are good gods, there are also some cat gods who waver between good and evil. The Elegant Lady is such a cat god. The Elegant Lady originated from a script written by an ancient dramatist.
The playwright called all the cats in his plays elegant ladies because of their elegant posture when walking and moving. This title was soon accepted by the aristocracy and other upper-class society, and was promoted and eventually became "elegant ladies".
became a church.
I don’t know why, but during the later spread of the Church of Elegant Lady, Elegant Lady, who was originally just the patron saint of noble estates, suddenly became the patron saint of thieves. A large number of thieves from the bottom joined the Church of Elegant Lady.
The influence of the elegant lady spread throughout the upper echelons of the aristocracy and the lower classes of the common people. Until the cat god belief collapsed, the elegant lady's belief always existed in various cat god beliefs.
Although it is now generally accepted that the belief in cat gods has disappeared, Leo now feels that perhaps Ms. Elegant’s belief in cat gods has ended, but Ms. Elegant’s own belief may still exist in this world, but it has become
A very secretive underground church.
It is not unreasonable for him to have such an idea, because unlike other cat gods who have a single belief, even though Elegant Lady's belief originated from the cat god, her own belief is not limited to the cat god.
The patron saint of nobles, thieves, and prostitutes, the god of caress, the inspirationer, the moonwalker, and other divine names and responsibilities are all given to the elegant lady. Although the belief in the cat god has collapsed, with the belief in other god names, elegance
The lady may not be able to survive like a physical god like the Eye of Truth.
The main reason why Leo is going to the port area now is because he needs to determine whether there is a church of the Elegant Lady in Vinaya Port, because the port where dragons and snakes are mixed is always the favorite place of the Church of the Elegant Lady.
If it exists, then the person who stole the skull bowl must be a senior member of the Elegant Lady Church, because only the senior members of the Elegant Lady Church are qualified to possess and use the Cat God incarnation of the Elegant Lady.
The reason why I chose the port area is because the guest with the cat pendant on his backpack should be a foreign businessman who has just arrived at Vinaya Port, judging from his clothing and behavior, and this businessman is not planning to stay here for a long time.
We just stopped here, made some supplies, bought some things, and would leave soon. So the cat pendant was probably hung on the businessman's backpack when he was at the port.
In addition, Leo also felt that the perpetrator might have acted on the spur of the moment, because if it was a premeditated crime, he would never choose to commit the crime during this time period. As for the reason for the temporary decision to snatch the skull bowl, I am afraid that he also wanted to buy the skull bowl.
related.
The moment he entered the store, Leo inadvertently showed his strength, which made the person who controlled the cat god's incarnation realize that if Leo bought the skull bowl, he would never be able to take it away, so he took advantage of it.
Watch Leo leave for a short while and grab the skull bowl.
In about ten minutes, Leo, who got off the carriage, walked up the bone stairs to the port area below. Although it was almost evening, the port was still very busy. Many ships were waiting to load and unload, and there were many ships outside the sea outlet.
There are a large number of ships temporarily anchored in the sea waiting for the dock to be vacated.
"Take me to the best brothel here?" Leo looked around, snapped his fingers at a kid hanging out on the pier who was looking at him not far away, and when he got closer, he took out two vitamins.
He handed over the Naya coins and asked.
When the child saw the money in Leo's hand, his eyes lit up and he quickly took it. Without saying a word, he led Leo towards an urban area with mostly three-story houses on the edge of the dock warehouse.
Soon the child brought Leo to a three-story attic built with red bricks. At the entrance of the attic, several strong men with weapons on their waists leaned against the wall next to them and looked in through the door.
You can see some wealthy-looking businessmen having fun in the attic with their arms around women wearing heavy makeup, and cheerful music accompanied by noisy sounds came from the door.
"Little Peter, what trouble did you get into?" It was obvious that the child leading the way had something to do with this brothel. When he saw the child running over in a hurry, a strong man guarding the door walked over without saying a word and mentioned the child.
The collar on the back of the neck shouted.
"Put me down, you damn idiot." The kid who was lifted up in the air kicked the strong man's thighs hard several times, then pointed at Leo who was following behind and said, "I didn't cause trouble, I brought guests here.
Already."
When the strong man saw Leo approaching, he immediately threw the child aside, then saluted Leo and said, "Sir, this must be your first time coming to our place, right? Please allow me to lead the way for you.
"
"No need! I just want to inquire about one thing." Leo didn't say any more nonsense. He directly raised his hand to cast an Yakxi seal, and then asked: "Where is the altar of the elegant lady?"
"In Monaya's small garden." The strong man said what Leo wanted to know without any resistance.
"Take me to Monaya's small garden." Leo ordered again.
"Okay, sir!" The strong man responded vaguely, and then he led Leo toward the backyard of the attic of the apartment as if he was drunk.
After passing through a small arch, the two came to the backyard of the apartment. Just as the strong man said, there was indeed a small garden in front of them. Judging from the neatly trimmed flowers and plants in the garden, the owner here took great care of the garden.
, cared for almost every day.
Leo didn't say anything, and directly released the strong man's control and let him sleep in a corner of the garden. Then he walked into the garden and walked towards an obvious shrine altar not far away.
There are many divine names for elegant ladies, and the vast majority of them are the patron saints of certain people, such as the patron saint of travelers, the patron saint of nobles, the patron saint of thieves, etc. The patron saint of prostitutes is the cat.
Belief in God only appeared in the later period. This was mainly because most prostitutes at that time liked to keep cats, so it was easy for some people to connect the two. Prostitutes also needed faith to fill the emptiness in their hearts, so in cats
In the later stages of god belief, the belief in prostitutes has almost become the main force of various cat god churches.
In Leo's opinion, if the belief in the cat god disappears, other beliefs in the names of gods may disappear with it. Only the belief in prostitutes should always exist, and the quaint shrine and altar in the middle of this small garden just proves it.
Chapter completed!