After solving the inexplicable death of the two gangsters, the three people refocused on this strange attack. As a person who has been fighting all kinds of strange evil forces for most of his life, Archpriest Arthur only relied on
From the evidence collected by Lawrence, we can roughly determine what happened.
"Those two people may be controlled by some kind of evil magic," High Priest Arthur said seriously. "But the evidence now is too little. The only remaining evidence can only prove the power that controls them.
Relevant to death and the lower realms.”
"That is to say, those two people are attached to the power from hell or the underworld." As Lawrence, who grew up in the Church of Knowledge, he naturally knew what High Priest Arthur was talking about. "This is what represents this time.
There is likely to be something related to the lower space in the ruins, and the conspirator behind the scenes wants to obtain the power inside, right?"
"No, not necessarily." High Priest Arthur shook his head. "You are talking about one possibility, and the other possibility is that the ruins are probably related to some good gods. If they are desecrated, they will make people use evil
People with strength gain the favor of the lower space.”
"In addition, it may also be some kind of wealth, a kind of wealth that all extraordinary people need. In fact, I personally prefer this."
"But why did that person attack me?" Lawrence asked in confusion. "I'm just an ordinary person. I can't stop those extraordinary beings from doing anything."
"Maybe it's because this expedition is not as simple as it appears." Priest Carter thought for a moment and said. "I suspect there is something in it that we don't know about."
"Your suspicion is probably right, Brother Carter." High Priest Arthur nodded. "Don't you think it's a coincidence? Not long after he arrived, the baron discovered a place around the city that he had never heard of before.
The ruins I mentioned.”
"Could this be because of luck?" Lawrence asked, "After all, those rich people have always liked to spend money to buy fame, and for the nouveau riche who just came to Eagle Castle, Baron Gonzalez heard that
It should be normal to see similar news and spend money to organize an expedition."
"I thought so at first." Priest Carter glanced at Lawrence and said, "But after you told me your suspicions a week ago, I asked someone to investigate. It turned out that Baron Gonzalez went to Eagle
The main purpose of the fort is to build a food factory for deep processing of his agricultural products."
"This is normal!" Lawrence muttered in a low voice. He thought that it was very normal for a capitalist with a large number of plantations to want to expand his business to the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.
The food processing industry is either close to the source of raw materials or close to the consumer market. As the largest port city in the White Eagle Federation, Eagle Fort is naturally a large consumer market, so it is not surprising to build a food factory here.
"But what happened next was not normal." Priest Carter did not blame Lawrence for muttering in a low voice, but said directly, "The work that the workers did when they discovered the underground ruins this time was to build a new site.
The industrial park is building sewers. And Baron Gonzalez’s factory is in this industrial park.”
"This is indeed too much of a coincidence." Lawrence frowned. "But these obviously can't explain anything, especially if he really doesn't want outsiders to join, he can exclude me directly from the expedition. There is no need to adopt the current method.
Such a drastic method."
"Yes, that's why we can't do anything now." High Priest Arthur looked a little helpless. "Because we are not an evil organization and we cannot take action just based on speculation."
"So I hope you can join this adventure." At this point, Priest Carter lowered his head and looked at Lawrence and said, "This is mainly because I think you have been involved in this matter now and can only be completely eliminated.
The evil guy behind it can ensure your safety."
"Of course, I have to admit that you will take greater risks if you participate, but I can assure you that as long as you make a contribution, our Knowledge Church will never treat our own people badly."
"Okay, I will join this expedition." After thinking for a while, Lawrence made a decision immediately. On the one hand, he considered that it was really bad to have people watching him all the time, and on the other hand, he considered his golden finger.
It requires sufficient resources as a backing. If you don't dare to take risks, it will be difficult to get enough opportunities.
For Lawrence, since he has determined that he will live in this world with extraordinary power in the future, he is not just satisfied with spending this life as an ordinary person, especially when he has the opportunity to become an extraordinary person.
So, he hopes to seize this opportunity to gain enough benefits for himself.
After seeing Lawrence agree to join the expedition, the two priests nodded in approval. Then High Priest Arthur suggested: "Since you agreed to join the expedition, for safety reasons I suggest that you
During this time, I stayed in the guest room of the church.”
"No problem." Lawrence nodded. After all, the mastermind behind the second attack today used some kind of weird supernatural power. He didn't think he could survive three days unharmed under such circumstances.
Next, accompanied by Priest Carter, he went back to the tavern to take away his luggage. At the same time, he got a letter from Aunt Susan. This letter was sent by Lawrence's childhood playmate. In the letter
On the night, she said that she had graduated from a girls' school and would come to Eagle Castle within half a month. She hoped to see Lawrence immediately after arriving in this city.
"It seems that we need to finish the matter at hand quickly." Lawrence thought as he followed Priest Carter to the guest room in the annex building behind St. Gutenberg's Cathedral. "Otherwise, it would definitely be a bad thing to let a friend pigeon."
Looking at the snow-white walls and brown simple furniture in the room, Lawrence relaxed immediately. He had grown up in the church of the Church of Knowledge before, and this familiar decoration style and the location of the room made him feel...
A unique sense of security at home.
In the next three days, Lawrence felt like he had returned to the time he lived with his adoptive father. Apart from getting up early to exercise, the rest of his time was spent reading books and helping at the church-affiliated school.
However, the day after he stayed here, Priest Carter brought him a letter from Professor Black. The letter stated that after investigation, the school had found the mastermind behind the incident.
The man behind the scenes is a medical student who is also the son of the largest bootlegger in Eagle Fort. In order to win this, he found a gang and hired gangsters to attack other candidates.
As a solution, the man has now been expelled from school. At the same time, his father paid compensation to each person who was attacked according to the severity of the injury. Lawrence also found his own compensation of 65 yuan in the envelope.
"Uncle Carter, I always feel that this matter is not as simple as what the letter said." After seeing that there was nothing else in the envelope, Lawrence raised his head and said to Priest Carter.
"Everything in this letter is true." Priest Carter said after taking a look at the letter handed over by Lawrence, "But after you were attacked, we immediately began to trace the identities of those two gangsters and related matters.
When we tracked down their boss, we found that his boss had been dead for two days. The cause of death was that he drank and celebrated after receiving the mission, and fell into the sewer and drowned while drunk."
"This is another coincidence." Lawrence pursed his lips. "It seems that there is quite a lot of trouble in the expedition team!"