"Hmph, even if you kill me, I won't give in to the minions of the evil gods!"

The cultist mage who had been captured by Luo Ming was screaming in a righteous manner.

In fact, it is not surprising that he said this at all - except for a few extreme cases, who wants to call themselves evil? Many of the "Demon Gates" in martial arts know how to call themselves "Holy Gates".

When she was chatting with Aya, she directly cited a typical example of a cult:

"Wickedness and ignorance fill the earth, and evil gods corrupt hearts among the nations, attracting countless foolish people. Only we can believe in the true God and understand the truth, and sooner or later, our true God will come down and make things right. ”

Present yourself as the truth, and then despise all outsiders...... Such a cult would have a great appeal, and even many people within it would be convinced of their own righteousness.

After all, the feeling that everyone in the world is turbid and I am alone is very refreshing.

However, Luo Ming didn't think that the guy in front of him was a fanatic or a tough guy.

Probably, shouting like this is just to embolden yourself.

Just like when the robbers of the Celestial Empire go to rob, they often shout two sentences for the heavens, so that their criminal behavior can be at ease.

Luo Ming didn't deliberately learn any torture, at best, he knew how to put a wet cloth on his face, or ordinary torture.

But as a martial artist, he knows where the blood vessels will itch when they are compressed, and where they will cramp after being beaten.

It is probably more frightening to have an uncontrolled body than to be tortured by an enemy.

Anyway, before the third minute, the mage was already kneeling down with a handful of snot and tears begging for mercy.

"My lord, my lord, it's the little ghost! The little one is damned! But before you kill the little one, please allow the little one to tell you about those villains, as long as you don't get dirty with your ears!"

Luo Ming didn't have time to ask anything, he took the initiative to explain everything he knew, and even helped streamline it very intimately. Of course, there are also two sycophants mixed in.

...... It seems that this guy was probably a puffed up bag in the cult organization, and his level of Qu Yi is very high. Although he is a relatively precious mage, it is not surprising that his strength is so weak that he is not taken seriously.

In order to reward his honesty, Luo Ming finally gave him a meal to eat - he had been hungry by Luo Ming all the time, but now he had hot bread and broth with a slice of meat, and he was almost in tears, and he was busy thanking Luo Ming for his distant back.

This is probably Stockholm syndrome.

Except for those strong who are able to completely overcome their instincts, human instincts are always to avoid death and seek life.

The miscellaneous fish mage knew that he had no hope of resisting Luo Ming, so it was no good to keep the resentment in his heart, and once Luo Ming saw that he was dissatisfied, he might have to lose his life.

So, subconsciously, these grievances are gradually eliminated, and even some gratitude is created out of thin air - after all, it is still possible to see through the simple performance, but if it is grateful from the heart, it will appear very sincere.

Although it has an instinctive effect, Luo Ming also thinks that this is just a slut - the kind that is honest after a beating.

This kind of person is actually very easy to control, especially for Luo Ming......

But that's all for later, and now Luo Ming's first task is to analyze the information he gets from his mouth.

- This cult is called "Gift of the Earth", and it has a total of 23 core members and thousands of ordinary believers, but these ordinary believers have little combat effectiveness, so they basically did not come to Van Xi County, only a few people lurked in the county as eyes and ears.

While the name Gift of the Earth may sound like a church of elves, the truth is that only the leader of the organization is a half-elf who has been banished from the group, and the rest are all humans, and there is a filthy half-orc hunk.

They revered the natural law of wildness and the law of the jungle, and the most common ritual was to slaughter a living creature – a chicken at a small size or an unlucky living person at the largest – and bury the blood, intestines, and bones into the earth, before everyone shared the rest of the raw meat.

And the "god" they worship is the evil god who caused the monster disaster that affected more than a dozen counties, including Fanshi County, the Mother of the Swamp.

Therefore, they have gained a simple but practical ability this time, and that is to communicate with monsters and their nests to a certain extent.

Of course, a small minion like this miscellaneous fish mage is at most an equal exchange with ordinary monsters. And the leader of the organization, the "Bishop", can give orders not to be too much about the lair and any monsters, as long as they have enough intelligence to understand.

As for this "bishop", it is the focus of Luo Ming's attention.

It is said that he had always been wearing a robe, gloves and a mask, and only his eyes were showing up and down, and there was an abnormal aroma faintly emitted from under the robe - Luo Ming immediately thought that there might be something wrong with his body, and this abnormal aroma was probably using some kind of spice to cover up the smell.

However, shortly after arriving in Van Shee County, or once to be exact, the leader of the cult suddenly took off his robes, mask, and gloves, revealing his muscles and a face identical to that of the native baron.

Then, he killed the local baron, and pretended to be the baron to give orders, so that the soldiers of the barony threw themselves into the net, so that the local residents were also exposed to the monster's claws, and also took the initiative to buy some livestock to feed the monsters and the nest.

In the end, this man posed as a baron and sent a plea for help to the Earl of Conlehill, secretly setting up a monster ambush, and almost completely buried the Earl and his elite troops.

If it weren't for the Inquisition's army arriving in time to rescue the Count and form a coalition army, it is estimated that the monster would have become overwhelming, and then divided into several armies to sweep through the county.

At that time, the count was lucky, the "bishop" himself was doing something in the lair, and he couldn't pull away, otherwise he, the great swordsman, would be killed, and it was estimated that the count would not survive when the reinforcements arrived.

"I used to have a physical problem, but now I seem to be back to normal, and I have a face that is exactly the same as that of the baron...... At the critical moment, I had to stay in the lair again, and I couldn't come out to hunt down the earl, hehe. ”

Luo Ming laughed twice, already understanding the whole incident.

In other words, although this is just his speculation, this speculation is also supported by a lot of evidence, and it can be said that it is very close to the truth.

Since the lair itself can create a monster that does not exist in nature, it must have a strong ability to manipulate flesh and blood...... This great swordsman, known as the "Bishop", is probably using the power of the lair to gradually heal some kind of disease in his body.