When the old woman saw that the young priest was willing to help, she was immediately overjoyed, and at first thanked her for a thousand thanks, and then hurried home to her belongings, which she quickly handed over to Renault.

And the sheriffs on the side inevitably had some complaints about Renault's approach:

"Pastor Reynolds, it's time like this, so don't make any extraneous branches, right?"

"This old man's grandson has been missing for several days, so I'm afraid it has nothing to do with this incident, right?"

He is also telling the truth, the case of missing people is very common in the ghost place of the city of innocence, not long ago, there was a mysterious incident in the town of York next door where all the people in the town disappeared...

Although the city of innocence is prosperous on the surface, there has always been an undercurrent surging in the background, and no one can control it, and criminals like the skull crusher are still at large.

All kinds of countries, sects, and forces regard this place as a fragrant bun that must fight for every inch of land, and even the lich, a necromantic creature has been coveting this place, wanting to get involved...

No one can tell why the City of Innocence is so popular, maybe only the gods know?

All in all, the sheriff's idea that Renault would not be distracted by some chores is not wrong.

But Renault has its own insistence:

"I have a hunch that these two things are related..."

"There is only one truth, and we can't give up the slightest clue!"

"If so, can you inquire about any other disappearances here?"

Although the sheriffs felt that Renault was a little too sensitive, their boss sent a message asking them to listen to Renault's arrangement, so they had to continue to inquire again.

As a result, I learned that in this village alone, in the past three months, there have been more than 20 people who have disappeared one after another, more than the believers of the Miya Sect!

And I heard that there are also people missing in several villages next door, if you add up these missing people, I'm afraid it will be hundreds!

However, because these people did not disappear all at once, but one after another, and the time between them was inconsistent, there was no fixed pattern, so they did not attract much attention and were regarded as accidents.

After all, these villages are not far from the border of the empire, and from time to time there are aliens, rogues, cults, etc., and they are relatively close to the ruins and wastelands, and they are occasionally attacked by fierce beasts, demonic beasts, and even various monsters, so it is not uncommon for someone to disappear once in a while.

But more than twenty people disappeared in half a year, and this number is enough to cause alarm, and even the sheriffs are aware of it.

They even suspected that the anonymous letter was sent by a relative of a missing person, who may have realized that something was wrong earlier, and thought of the cult, after all, it is the cult that causes the most disappearances, and the situation of the whole village believing in the cult is also very common, this person should be afraid of being discovered by the cult and retaliate, so he chose the anonymous letter.

Renault hurriedly asked people to find the belongings of these missing people, and quickly took the sheriffs back to the Miya Church and asked the old bishop to help with divination.

With the belongings of the divination target, the accuracy of the divination will increase considerably.

The old bishop immediately got busy.

However, divination is still disrupted...

"It seems that this case is really unusual, they all use their belongings to help with divination, but they are still disturbed..."

"But the final scope was a little narrower..."

The old bishop looked at the slightly shrunken circle of petals on the map, and began to divinate the fate of the next missing person.

He divined more than a dozen times in one go, and finally narrowed the circle of petals to a barely acceptable range. doll

It was a wooded area in the northwest of the city, a little far from the village where it had been reached, and it was already close to a mountain range called 'Serpentine', and beyond this mountain range was the mysterious and dangerous vast wasteland of 'God's Forsaken Ruins'.

And the road from the City of Innocence to those villages basically spreads along the outer edge of this wood...

"So it seems that some dangerous monster in the ruins wasteland came to this wood, lurked, and attacked passers-by?"

"But its appetite is not very big, and there are very few people in each attack, so it has not been taken seriously..."

"And Lieutenant Wendini must have noticed something was wrong, and ran away with the people to die..."

Renault probably speculated about the whole story, and then said:

"Anyway, just go ahead and see. ”

He was ready to leave.

The old bishop hurriedly admonished:

"Although I don't know what kind of means are used, it can even interfere with my divination, and it must be very dangerous, you must be careful!"

"And this trip is mainly to find people and save people, you need more people to help, you don't have to act alone, take those sheriffs with you." ”

"If you need to do it, keep it as low-key and discreet as possible. ”

Renault naturally nodded again and again, answered, and quickly called the sheriffs to set off again.

It was almost dusk, and everyone had been tossing and turning all day since early in the morning, but Renault was fine, but the others were already very tired, and now they had to venture into a dangerous forest at night...

But in order to save the lives of his colleagues, no one complained, and no one was afraid to excuse himself.

The sheriff of the Nine Divisions is really not the same as other sheriffs.

So it took several more hours, and near the early hours of the morning, to reach the area marked by the old bishop, which was already deep in the woods, and no one except Renault's little donkey could get in.

There was a dead silence all around, not even the sound of small insects could be heard, and tonight the sky was not very good, there was no moon in the sky, only the torches provided some faint lighting, which looked eerie...

If ordinary people come to this kind of place, they will be afraid that they will not be able to walk.

But these sheriffs were not afraid at all, and they were still looking forward to drilling out some powerful monster and fighting with them for three hundred rounds!

At the same time, I didn't feel tired, but I felt full of energy, and I couldn't wait to run wild in the woods...

They even have the energy to call out Wentini's name:

"Lieutenant, are you there, Lieutenant?"

"Lieutenant, get out of here! we're not going to laugh at you for not having a boyfriend anymore!"

"Lieutenant marry me! If you don't agree, you'll acquiesce!"

Of course, this is all the credit of divine arts, the third-order divine skills of the protection system, durable and fanatical.

Renaud actually wanted to use those heroic prayers and courageous hymns that could not be used without permission, but the old bishop said that he should keep a low profile, so he could only regretfully choose these simple magic techniques.