"Have you heard? In the past few days, several tragic incidents have occurred along the dividing line between the aristocratic faction and the merchant faction, which is appalling!"

In a tavern, several adventurers were chatting, and one of the rangers was dressed as having drunk too much, and his voice was a little loud: "It's really, it's terrible!"

"Isn't it scary?" asked a gruff warrior, "and we've only heard vague news that there have been several large-scale murders in quick succession......

"Homicide? haha...... Murder!" The ranger sneered a few times, shook his head vigorously, and poured a large sip of wine, "Where is the murder case! It's a cult sacrifice!"

Hearing this, the tavern, which was quite noisy just now, suddenly fell silent, and everyone closed their mouths and looked in the direction of the ranger. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

For these old rivers and lakes, the murder case is not a big deal, most of them have killed people all year round, and many of them have killed more than one. But cult sacrifice is different, cultists kill people and sacrifice in order to summon demons to the world, and when demons come to the world, they will inevitably cause great damage. If you don't have a village, if you have a whole city, you will die.

In addition, their own strength is not weak, and in the face of ordinary gangsters and villains, they don't know who killed whom when they really fight, so they are not afraid of murder. But in the face of demons, their strength is not worth mentioning, and when the demons start to slaughter, they are not stronger than ordinary people, and they may not be able to escape.

Therefore, when they heard this word, everyone was stunned, and many people immediately made up their minds that as long as they were really sure of the cultist activities in this area, they would leave immediately, and go as far as possible!

Of course, there are also people who are suddenly excited, and feel that they have encountered an opportunity to make money or become famous, or to be chivalrous. The crackdown on cults is one of the few things on which the countries of the main plane have taken the same position. Once an organization is designated as a cult, then it is needless to say that the most generous punishment is to execute all of them, and the slightly more severe ones are relatives and friends -- rather, it is relatively rare to kill only oneself, and under normal circumstances, at least close relatives such as parents, wives and children will definitely die with them.

The latest attack on the cult was the destruction of the "Isis" organization by His Majesty the Void Kamene. Although everyone knows that this organization is backed by the orc gods, not the abyss demons, since Sui Xiong has labeled them as a cult, and no one is willing to clear their name for them, it is natural that they have to trouble them to die.

And judging from what this ranger said, it seems that what is making trouble at the junction of the aristocratic faction and the merchant faction this time is a real cult -- they are all playing murder and sacrifice.

"What's going on?" asked a warrior as he leaned over and asked with a worried face.

The ranger, who had been drunk for six or seven minutes, sighed and said, "A few days ago, I set off from Bronze Hand City and planned to go to Silver Shield City. One night, staying in a small village...... I won't say the name of the village, there are no living people anyway, and there is no point in saying it. In the middle of the night, I suddenly woke up from my sleep and felt a strong danger......"

"Strong danger?" the warrior asked, stunned for a moment, "what danger can wake you from your sleep?"

"I don't know, but my experience has taught me that if you hide, you can only survive if you hide. The Ranger shook his head and took another long sip of wine, "So I quickly cleaned up my room a little, as if I had woken up in the middle of the night and hurried out of the house, and hid myself under the bed." ”

"It's not safe to hide under the bed, the bed board may not be able to cover you completely, and you will be heard breathing. The warrior said.

Ranger smiled slightly: "Of course I have my own way, but I won't tell you." ”

He really didn't say what method he used, but went on to talk about the follow-up: "I hid for about an hour, and only then did I come out from under the bed when the sense of crisis in my heart finally dissipated." As soon as the results came out, I smelled a thick smell of blood!"

"The whole village is dead?" guessed the warrior at the table with him.

The Ranger nodded, grabbed his glass, but his hand trembled a few times.

"I put on my gear and looked through the window, and I saw a few paladins in the small square in the middle of the village, with white light on their bodies, talking something. There was also a priest with two paladins who were performing a purification ritual - with the aura on their bodies, I could clearly see that the ground was full of the corpses of the villagers, and the blood was flowing all over the ground, and it even merged into a magic circle that made my hair stand on end at the sight of it!"

Hearing this, more than one adventurer was already packing up his things and preparing to escape.

"Who are those priests?" asked one adventurer.

"A believer in the Lord of Justice. The ranger replied, "I saw that my hairs stood on end, and I hurried to them." After chatting with them for a while, I learned that someone had just held a sacrifice here to open the portal to the abyss and summon powerful demons. But that guy was unlucky, the soul strength of the ordinary villagers was not enough, and he was not able to open the door completely. The priests sensed the evil aura and used teleportation spells to come directly to the vicinity, but they arrived. It was precisely because they came so quickly that the cultists had to flee in a hurry, leaving only the scene of the unsuccessful sacrificial summoning ceremony. ”

"Then you're lucky, if the priests don't come, you'll be found hiding under the bed when the demon is summoned. ”

"Yes, my luck is good, but the luck of the people of that village is not good!" said the ranger, sighing, "I was dragged around for a long time, and I was tested three times on the polygraph alone, and at last the clergy finally decided that I had nothing to do with it, and let me go." By the way, they also took me along to help the villagers with the funeral - a total of fifty-one people, men, women and children, one of whom made up for the missing ......"

As he spoke, the ranger shook his head and drank again.

There was silence in the tavern for a long time, and then one of the adventurers said, "But...... Murders have occurred elsewhere, too. I remember that there were a dozen deaths in the village of gray goats. ”

"Sacrifices, they must all be sacrifices!" said the ranger categorically, "Once a cult is active on a large scale, it will definitely not be sacrificed only once!"

The adventurers looked at each other, most of them seeing uneasiness in each other's eyes.

"So...... Where should we go safely now?" a young adventurer finally couldn't help but ask this question that everyone was concerned about.

"Go to the capital, it might be safer there. "Someone said.

"No! Hurry up and get out of the Gold Federation, it's really safe!" someone else said.

"But where can you leave the Gold Federation?" someone asked.

"Take a boat to the south, even if the cult wants to sacrifice, it will not usually make trouble at sea......

"No, let's go to the North, or even go directly to the Northwest Republic!" said a middle-aged adventurer, "The Northwest Republic has good security, and although it is not easy to find a job to do, you can still live as a worker...... I'm getting older, so it's time to retire!"

The adventurers were talking, and soon some people were leaving, until at last the only drunken ranger was left in the tavern, lying on the table and falling asleep.

It's just that no one noticed that there was a somewhat sly smile on the corner of his mouth...... (To be continued.) )