The smell of decay was in the air, and the moldy planks and ruined walls were visible, and the gutters beside them were littered with discarded human objects and food scraps.

The withered trees were perched with ominous crows, black as they swept across the sky like the Grim Reaper.

The original shiny floors have long since cracked and blackened, and the dilapidated atmosphere envelops the area.

Here is yes. The outer part of Lantier, a long distance from the city centre.

The nobles who had planned to renovate the area gave up on this idea because of the robbers and black workers here.

For the nobles, instead of building an area for them to destroy, it is better to let this group of miscellaneous people stay in such a bad place.

The cool breeze of the night blows through the alley, and the man with the oil lamp, dressed in a gray robe and wearing a hat, carefully observes the surroundings.

It was precisely because it was inhabited by many wanted, evil and black workers and robbers that he was so careful.

Of course, this man is also such a person.

He knocked on the closed door, and used a certain regular knock as a code, and the door opened with a creaking sound.

"You're finally here, are our carriages ready? To avoid the knights of the kingdom and the soldiers of the nobles, you need to go out of the city at night, and it is not easy to bring these guys to other noble territories. ”

"Who do you think I am? You just have to take care of those stupid black workers, they won't be risk-takers for the rest of their lives. ”

The man with the oil lamp entered the room.

It's less like a room and more like an abandoned warehouse.

In the corner sat a dozen or so ragged guys, all of them trying to be adventurers. But a naïve fool without any strength.

Glancing at the mixed slave group. The man snorted. Raise your head and look at your fellow patrolling above.

These people are also adventurers with some strength, but they prefer to 'hunt humans' rather than fight monsters.

"Speaking of which, you've recently caught another person?"

"yes, what's it called Edward. Clark, who seems to be the son of a wealthy family. ”

"Oh? It might be possible to sell it for a good price, but now the nobility of the north is in dire need of slaves to dig gold and coal mines. ”

"In this way, I heard that occasionally there are guys from the empire who buy from them, and they are really a group of nobles who don't know whether they are alive or dead."

Kingdoms and empires are inherently hostile. If such a deal is discovered, even nobles can be sentenced to death.

"Alright, let's wait until it's a little brighter, and we'll go."

The man made such a decision, looking at the dim sky outside the window and raising the corners of his mouth.

At this moment, the originally closed door was slashed open, and a man with a knife in one hand rushed in.

"Excuse me!"

"Who are you?!"

"Justice, passerby, right?"

Faced with the guy who suddenly appeared, the accomplices around him. The adventurers with weapons all reacted.

The number prevailed, and the man scoffed.

"Then let you suffer first."

……

Yay three hours ago. Lantier.

Hiiragi and Nagi returned to Lantier. The information gathered began to be put together.

Since he had been taken care of by the coachman Hughes Sr., Hiiragi also planned to investigate a little about his friend's son, Edward.

Having heard rumors of disappearance in the Adventurer's Guild in Rantir and the same in Karn Village, Hiiragi also thinks that there must be a group of guys in this city who specialize in this kind of thing.

"Koya, can they not spy on Ainz?"

"Anyway, there's nothing to worry about when the plot gets here, we just need to be ready for a big battle."

Because after the escort of Enfirea ended, the Sword of Darkness was destroyed, and the heroic villain Clementine and the necromancer appeared, so Hiiragi didn't plan to interfere with anything.

Besides, having caught the attention of Anz, Hiiragi also decided to distance himself.

"To that end, let's investigate the issue of missing people."

"There's a little bit of the sour smell of RPG adventures."

"Isn't it the sour smell of love...... Forget it, it doesn't matter, now that it's all decided, I want to go to the tavern and have a look. ”

"Yes, anyway, I've been arranged since I was a child, even if it's all. There is no problem with sitting down on bare soil. ”

"That's a joke, right?"

Xiao Na nodded, then added

"Of course it is, but it's all small. It's definitely fun to sit down on bare soil. ”

"I won't do it."

The two men left the inn where they were staying, and then set off towards a nearby tavern.

Hiiragi also feels that Nagi is not very useful now, after all, her setting is a smart character, not a combat character.

"I'm also good at fighting, as long as the enemy is a thinking creature, I'm sure to defeat the opponent."

"If you think about it, this kind of speech of yours is really quite dangerous."

"Why?"

Because the person who can defeat all thinking creatures is no longer considered human, is he?

Hiiragi thought so in her heart, and then took Nagi's hand and dodged the carriage that almost hit her.

"Oh, it's dangerous, thank you, Xiaoya."

Xiao Nagi pounced behind Hiiragi, and as usual, Hiiragi also carried her forward.

In the face of the wayward eldest lady, Hiiragi only needs to carry her into the tavern.

Nagi rested her chin on Hiiragi's back, and she glanced at the tavern and motioned for Hiiragi to sit at the table in front of her.

"It's the best location, and Koya's level is very high, so his hearing has been strengthened, right? So it could be heard in all directions, and several adventurers at the table next to it looked a little uneasy, probably because they had encountered some problems. He subconsciously put his left hand on his saber, looking vigilant, which made people a little concerned. Then the most corner location. Two hooded males talking about 'the subject of attacked adventurers'. It's easy to understand from lip language. ”

"I learned about it all at once."

Hiiragi also sat down at the central table with Nagi on her back. Sitting facing each other, you can see behind each other.

Many people must have seen such a scene, because gathering information in the tavern is common knowledge for adventurers.

The tavern is not very large, most of the guys sitting here are adventurers, and only a few merchants are in inconspicuous locations.

The order was handed over to Nagi, and Hiiragi also calmed down, intently eavesdropping on the conversations of the adventurers around her.

"You know what? Recently, I had a good mission.,Kill the water monster of the Eastern Swamp.。 You can get ten gold coins! ”

It is the information of the receiving task.

"Nice task? No kidding, a lot of people have gone and never returned. ”

"I heard that the minotaurs in the stone glades were all wiped out, and then a team knocked down the stone giants that appeared unexpectedly, who did it?"

It was rumored after the battle that day.

"Isn't it the team I saw yesterday, what is it called [Wingsdawn], didn't they exchange the monster core, they must have been lucky to knock it down."

"Who knows, but in the team I saw yesterday, that is, the tall man wearing armor and carrying a giant sword, I heard that it is really powerful."

"Is that so? You haven't seen it again. Don't talk about this, let's drink! ”

It's useless information.

"But you have to tell your friends to be careful. Some of the people who want to be adventurers lately have gone missing. ”

"What's the matter, the nobles don't care about it, and the knights stationed here haven't solved the problem?"

"Most of them are black workers and newcomers, and no one pays attention to them at all, but I recently heard from the guild leader that he saw a suspicious team in Yay. Activities in the outer city of Lantier. ”

"That place...... Maybe it's a den of thieves. ”

Taking the wine that Xiao Nagi handed him, Hiiragi also held the wine glass, saving the information just now in his mind.

"It's almost an eyebrow."

"That's good, let's enjoy today's dinner before the food cools down!"

"You're really energetic."

That's why Hiiragi doesn't find it boring to travel into this world.

But instead of coping, Hiiragi must also be prepared to deal with the trouble caused by Nagi.

After all, Xiao Nagi is a strange guy, occasionally willful, occasionally submissive, and unpredictable.

However, it is undeniable that Xiao Nagi is indeed an excellent person.

"I'm a bard LV10, should I find a way to learn something else? For example, mind control. ”

"Why the Mind Control Department? That doesn't work much against high-level monsters and opponents. ”

After all, they are all high-level existences, how can they be simply controlled by the mind.

"Wrong, the reason I chose the mind control department is not to control the minds of others, but to gain the memories of others."

"Huh?"

"The mind control department doesn't have the ability to create illusions, it's very similar to 'controlling memories'. It's like changing the memory of going to the beach with your family to the memory of being chased by monsters with your family. ”

"Good Horror Practices......"

"In my opinion, the so-called skills are connected to the human subconscious. Didn't modern scientists say that the human brain is fully developed and can control everything around it, including its own memories? ”

In other words, humans are more terrifying than you think, right?

"Then, I want to go into the 'collective subconscious.'"

"What is that?"

Xiao Nagi laughed when she heard Hiiragi's question.

"It's just a conversation in the middle of a meal. The so-called 'collective unconscious' is the unconscious at the bottom of the personality structure, the genetic traces of the activities and experiences of generations, including ancestors, in the human brain. The difference between the collective unconscious and the individual unconscious is that it is not a forgotten part, but something that we are never aware of. ”

"Something like a shared memory?"

"Yes, as Mr. Jung, the author of this statement, he used the analogy of islands, and the small islands that emerge from the water are the consciousness that man can perceive; The part of the ground beneath the surface of the water, which is revealed by the ebb and flow of the tide, is the personal unconscious; And the bottom of the island is the seabed that serves as a base, which is our collective subconscious. ”

The individual unconscious is a container that contains and accommodates all mental activities that are inconsistent with the individualized functions of consciousness and all kinds of content that was once a conscious experience, but is suppressed or ignored for various reasons, such as distressing thoughts, unresolved questions, interpersonal conflicts, and moral anxieties.

There are also experiences that are irrelevant or insignificant to people, and because they are too weak in themselves, they do not reach the level of consciousness when they are experienced, or they cannot remain in consciousness, so they are stored in the individual unconscious.

Yes, these memories are not forgotten, but hidden, hidden in the boundless 'ocean of memory'.

All of this constitutes the content of the individual's unconscious, which can often easily reach the level of consciousness when needed.

To put it bluntly, the collective subconscious reflects the collective experience of human beings in the course of previous historical evolution, and not only can all fragments of human history be found in the collective subconscious, but also traces of primates or animal ancestors who evolved into humans can also be found in the collective subconscious.

Since the collective subconscious arises from the common experience that all human beings have, or have always had, the content of the collective subconscious is essentially the same for all human beings.

Therefore, as long as Xiao Nai can see the 'collective subconscious', it is equivalent to seeing the memories of all mankind.

"Then you can see what Koya looked like when he was a child."

"Just to see me as a kid and want to have such a powerful ability?"

"Because I only know the young age, I don't know the early childhood, is it Shota? Or go to the bathhouse every day to peek at the girls taking a bath? ”

"It's not Zhengtai.,Won't peek at girls taking a bath.,And I did that when I was a child.,It's okay when you grow up.。

Does the gentleman grab the doll......

The two of them finished their meal and officially headed towards Yay. The outlying towns of Lantil advance.

Carrying Xiao Nagi to his destination, he found that if he wanted to enter the outlying city, he had to pass through a stone bridge that looked a little dilapidated.

Occasionally, there will be some adventurers lying on the ground on both sides of the road, all of them are some guys who have lost their fighting spirit.

After crossing the bridge, a strange smell entered the nasal cavity.

"It's like a slum."

"There are areas like this everywhere."

"Because they're all human."

Officially entering this neighborhood, it is full of houses that are not very clean.

The occasional sound of passing wagons clashing with weapons is presumably the cargo being transported by arms merchants.

"What is that?"

"Sneaky guys."

In the field of vision of the two people, a man wearing a robe and holding an oil lamp appeared.

He could see the road clearly by the moonlight, so Hiiragi followed him.

Hiiragi didn't know who he was, but he just wanted to make sure what this guy was going to do.

If there is no suspicion, it is okay to catch him and ask about the road conditions and the distribution of people in the vicinity.

After following him for three minutes, the man stopped at the door of a house and began knocking on the door in a regular manner.

The man's actions became more and more suspicious. (To be continued.) )