Chapter 376: The Shoal Zone

The location of the Frogwalker Church is located in the shallow area, which is considered to be a relatively marginal part of the rushing stream on the map. Regardless of the geographical location, the edge area of the rushing river is basically occupied by various docks, large and small, after all, this is a city built on the water, as long as it can be used, it can be used to park boats.

In several slow flow areas, special piers were used to lift boats directly from the water to the deck, often as a maintenance point for the boat or as a private passage for special people. The exception is the shallow area, where there are surprisingly few piers.

The reason for this is not that the water level in the shoal area is too low to meet the requirements of cargo ships berthing, on the contrary, although the shoal area is called a shoal, the water is not shallow at all. It is located at the confluence of several rivers, where different currents with strong kinetic energy collide violently, causing the sediment at the bottom of the river to gush all year round, so that when viewed from the water, it looks as if the river beach is at your feet.

In fact, if anyone really tried to step on that beach, they would be swept up in a mass of irregular, violent water, and disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye. For this reason, people who go to the shallows are also known as newcomers.

Where there is a road, there is a business opportunity, which is the principle of both water and land, and the special position of the shoal area is destined to be only a vassal of the development of the whole city, and it cannot play the same important role as the areas where the ports are prosperous. So what kind of people will settle here? Most of them are financially strapped people and low-level workers in the city.

In such a place, the security is naturally not very good, and the waters of the shallow area are simply a natural place for throwing corpses, although the big gangs look down on this place, the team that sends the corpses has to go in and out of the area several times a day. The air was dilapidated and hopeless, and the eyes of those walking in the streets were sparkling.

Therefore, when Kraft and the Grey Man walked down the street, there was no need to deliberately hide their eyes, the former's conspicuous green and purple robes did not seem of much interest to passers-by, and strange costumes were common everywhere. Cheese deliberately takes a few steps behind his companions so that they are not easily recognized as companions.

This is also intentional, according to the information obtained, after the shipwreck that took his wife and daughter away, Kraft has no other relatives and friends in the city, except for the Frogwalker Order, he no longer intersects with anyone, and this doomsday man has taken the initiative to cut himself from the world.

In terms of what happened to him, Kraft was a poor man, and like most people living here, he could have lived his life with his family in spite of all the injustices he had suffered. But accidents are also a part of life, and for the rushing city, the frequency of boat crashes is like people having to drink water and eat every day, and it is even more common for people to die in boat crashes.

The problem is that not everyone can bounce back after suffering the heavy blows of life, and in the process of collecting information, Cheese has already discovered that this man has serious mental problems, and he is not far from madness.

This may be why when Jung said that he wanted to obtain all of his information by sucking blood, the mage did not stop him. Originally, the Bloodline wanted to spare his life, because Jung said that if he sucked too much blood from the unlucky guys, he would become unlucky. But when he was about to pull the fangs out of the man's neck, Kraft took the initiative to hold his head, a man who had been sucked blood and fasted for several days did not know where to get such great strength, so that Jung could not move his body at the first time, on the contrary, the sharp fangs opened two large holes in the neck of the bloodsucked person, and death was inevitable.

At least he died as a human being, at least he himself chose his own way of dying. This is the little thing Cheese has left to comfort himself, he is not a benevolent person, but the man's expression before he dies makes him feel guilty. Jung, by contrast, was much more prosaic, walking the streets with a restrained pace and excitement in the face of a deceased, more like himself than the man he imitated.

The two turned the corner, a three-way street, and in the middle of the fork were several men, all men, dressed in a cloak similar to a Kraft robe. When they saw Kraft, they greeted him cordially, kissed him on the cheek and the back of his hand, and offered their sincere blessings to the brother who was about to meet the messenger. Cheese walked silently past the men, towards another intersection, as if he were just passing by.

Jung's figure is farther behind him, and the first thing Cheese has to determine is the scope of control of this order. Jung's previous information does not accurately describe this, and after the two separate, Cheese must independently find a place for the congregation to meet the amphibians before the ceremony begins. Fortunately, the sun had not yet set at this time, and he still had time. And he's not clueless.

Amphibians, as the name suggests, are clearly beings with the ability to survive both in the air and in the water, and such a presence is generally not too far from the water. Therefore, the first target of the cheese was the waterfront location in the shallow area, which was most likely to be the site of the ceremony. In addition, having been taught many times about the composite structure of the city, the possible mezzanine under the ground is also a priority.

The streets, gradually becoming silent, the old buildings moaning in the wind. There isn't much light in the windows, so I don't know if it's not time to light up yet, or if people here are used to resting with the sunset. The grey robe looked around, and after making sure no one was looking, he turned and walked into a house with only half of the gate left.

He thought it was just an unattended abandoned house, but he didn't expect to take a few steps before he found traces of biological activity on the ground and walls. Among these traces are human, but they are very old, and more newer belong to another familiar humanoid, the ghoul.

"They say you are scavengers, decomposers of cities. I still think it's a beautification, but it's very uncomfortable that you guys are really like cockroaches everywhere. Cheese sighed, not knowing who he was talking to. The light of the setting sun shines through the holes in the walls and shines through the dust, giving the house a psychedelic atmosphere.

The inhabitants of this house did not understand the sarcasm of the mage, they were already hungry, and were about to go out in the night to find something to eat, who would have thought that fresh meat would be brought to their mouths immediately. The planks made a tooth-aching sound when they were squeezed, and the light was obscured by shadows.

After a few moments, Cheese took the beaten half-dead ghoul and slammed it against the wall, "I didn't want to ask the locals about things, it was a bit inefficient. However, since you have already sent it to me, it is better to ask about something. ”