Chapter 727: The Sacrificial Slum's Apartment
The next morning, Leo left the hotel alone, and instead of taking a carriage to the abandoned factory where they were staying in Beluvuf, he walked there.
Sylvia didn't follow along, not only because she didn't like Leo's decision and had an awkward relationship with Leo, but also because in the early hours of the morning, her men reported that the people who had been sent out to investigate the coffin's final buyer last night were missing.
Originally, Leo was going to assist Sylvia in investigating the matter, but Sylvia rejected Leo's offer and wanted to go to investigate alone, and by the way, she also wanted to familiarize herself with her newly acquired powers.
Leo knew very well that Sylvia was an assertive person and would not be willing to become a vassal of others, and he could also feel that the surging witch power in Sylvia's body really needed a place to vent, so he agreed with Sylvia's decision to act separately.
Leaving the hotel, Leo did not take the avenue, but walked directly through the alleys of Moonlight City, taking a shortcut to the abandoned factory.
It's just that after passing half the city, entering the edge of the city, passing through an alley called Rabbit Leg Street, he stopped and looked at the crowd gathered not far away.
I saw that near the location of the crowd, there should have been a row of three-story apartment buildings, but now this row of small buildings has all collapsed, leaving only a piece of ruins, and the police of Moonlight City have set up a cordon around the ruins to block the onlookers.
From the conversation of the onlookers, Leo heard some information, this row of apartment buildings was originally a low-rent apartment built by the Moonlight City Government, specially for those poor people to live in, so the use of materials and materials is very arbitrary, coupled with the disrepair, as early as more than ten years ago, it was designated as a dilapidated house, stopped collecting rent, and issued an announcement to let people move out of these houses.
It's just that the people who live here are poor people who don't have much money on hand, and if they move out of here, they will have to sleep on the streets, so after the city government did not collect rent, the occupants who were worried about the collapse of the buildings were reluctant to move out of these buildings, and they were still full of people.
At first, these poor people were worried that the buildings would collapse, so they found some wood from outside the city to strengthen the houses, but after a few years, the buildings were still intact, and they did not take the matter to heart anymore, and even took some of the empty rooms in these buildings as their own property and rented them to some poor people later, and the number of residents of these buildings was more than before, making the already overwhelmed buildings even more precarious.
So the people who live in the neighborhood know very well that these buildings will collapse sooner or later, just to see when they will fall, until last night.
According to the occupants of the apartment building closest to the collapsed buildings, last night, more accurately in the morning, they seemed to hear some moaning, and then there was a thunderous sound, and the ground vibrated slightly for a while, and then they walked out of the house and saw that the entire row of houses had collapsed, and all the people who lived in them were crushed in the houses.
The gendarmes who had lived nearby mixed with the gendarmerie police who had rushed over to search for possible survivors in the rubble, but all they found were bodies, so in the morning, they gave up the search for survivors and the gendarmes retreated, leaving the police to cordon off the scene and wait for the city government to send someone to clean up the rubble.
During this time, those who gathered around to watch the excitement made various speculations about the cause of the collapse of the ruins, the most common of which was that the house was deliberately collapsed by real estate developers.
This speculation is not groundless, because it has been rumored recently that the city government is preparing to hand over the abandoned apartment building land to a real estate developer in Moonlight City for reconstruction, but the apartment building is already full of poor people, and if these poor people are not resettled, it may be difficult for the real estate developer to start construction.
That's why real estate developers will secretly do everything to collapse all the houses and solve this problem completely.
As for the evidence, it is the row of houses in front of them that have completely collapsed, in the eyes of onlookers, even if the houses collapse due to damage and obsolescence, they will only collapse partially, and it is impossible for them to collapse so completely at the same time, and only those who have mastered the profound knowledge of architecture know how to make these apartment buildings all collapse.
The claim that the real estate developer had collapsed the house is gaining acceptance from onlookers, and there have been people who have marched to the city hall to urge the city authorities to investigate the matter thoroughly.
Leo, who is also a bystander, may have recognized this so-called truth that has been recognized by the vast majority of people, but in his spiritual vision, this ruin is not as simple as it seems at the scene, this apartment building ruin underwent an evil god sacrifice last night, and the real eye attached to Leo's spiritual vision can clearly see that the sacrificial energy remaining in the ruins has formed a vague and distorted illusion in the air.
Because it had been too long, and there was too much movement of people, the sacrificial energy that shrouded the ruins had escaped seriously, and it was already difficult to tell who caused this tragedy from the illusion formed by these energy breaths.
However, Leo does not need to rely on these illusions to determine who caused this tragedy, because the murderer is at the scene, and there is no need to look for or deduce it.
I saw that there was a carriage parked not far from the ruins, and the sheriff who was responsible for maintaining order at the ruins site was standing beside the carriage respectfully at this moment, as if listening to the instructions of the people in the carriage.
Although the carriage was surrounded by curtains, these shields had no effect on Leo's spiritual network, and he could easily know who was sitting in the carriage.
"Bloody Lady Natasha. Leo silently recited the name of the person in the car, felt the residual sacrificial energy emanating from the other party through the spiritual web, and then looked at the ruin.
With two identical fluctuations in sacrificial energy, Leo was almost certain that the bloody baroness had been responsible for the tragedy, and that the poor people who lived in the row of apartment buildings must have been sacrificed by her to the god of clever words she believed in.
And the only question that came to Leo's mind was whether the Bloodline knew about it or didn't know about it, whether it was acquiescing to the Bloody Lady's actions, or whether the Bloody Lady's own actions.
If it's just the Bloody Lady's own behavior, then this matter is simple, it's just a cultist's sacrifice, whether it's the Church of the Hill King, or the Blood Clan will definitely deal with this matter, but if the Blood Lady's behavior is acquiesced in by the Blood Clan, then this matter is worth playing.
"Looks like there's going to be a big change here. A thought crossed Leo's mind, and he continued walking in the direction of the abandoned factory without looking back, without looking at the ruins again.
And just as Leo was leaving, the curtain of the carriage of the Bloody Lady was lifted, and the Bloody Lady Natasha looked at Leo's figure in the distance from the corner of the lift, her expression was extremely serious, and her brows were furrowed, revealing a little worry.
In fact, when Leo's spiritual network probed the carriage, the bloody lady in the carriage was also aware of it, but she didn't dare to make any countermeasures, because she instinctively had a sense of danger, and this threat was very strong, so strong that she felt like she had a knife on her neck.
In her memory, she had only had this strong sense of danger a few times, and the few times she faced the existence was an existence that she could only look up to, so she also subconsciously regarded Leo as this kind of existence, and she didn't dare to do any superfluous actions, and she didn't dare to say anything superfluous.
It wasn't until that feeling wore off that she breathed a sigh of relief, and with a strong curiosity, she lifted the curtain to see who the man who had given him such a strong sense of danger was.
Although she only saw a back, she still judged Leo's identity from details such as clothing and body shape.
Among the Bloodline, Leo Dodd already has a lot of fame, and the source of his fame is not because of the rumored status of the wizard of the Tower, nor the wizarding potions he made, but because he is the companion of the witch Sylvia Belmont.
Almost every blood clan knows about the agreement signed by the blood clan and the witch, and they all know that in the agreement, the blood clan has given the witch a lot of privileges, plus some stories about the witch that have been passed down by the blood clan, so that the blood clan has an inexplicable awe of the witch, even if the blood clan has never admitted this emotion.
Therefore, for some blood clans, becoming the partner of the witch means automatically having a layer of eye-catching aura, and all the blood clans' attention will be focused on each other, guessing the identity of the other party after dinner, what qualities can attract witches, and so on.
Although Natasha is not among those Bloodlines who fear witches, as long as she is in the Bloodline, she will inevitably hear about witches, and it just so happens that Leo was also mentioned by the other Bloodlines in the early morning.
If it was somewhere else and at the same time, Natasha might have asked Leo out of curiosity to talk to Leo and get acquainted with this legendary figure known as the last tower wizard, but now in this place, especially Leo observing her actions, she couldn't help but be a little worried, worried about whether Leo noticed something.
This worry was rapidly amplified from the moment it arose, and it was amplified to the point that it had already affected the mood of the Bloody Lady, so that she was not in the mood to stay here any longer, and immediately ordered the coachman to meet the Kuifan Manor, and she should report it to the top as soon as possible, and see what decisions were made from above.
Leo didn't know that his habitual use of the spirit net to check the situation made the bloody lady with a special sense aware of it, and it caused some bad associations, but even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
He had cleared the ruins from his thoughts at the moment, and he was not ready to meddle in this matter, because if this matter was really as he guessed, it was tacit approval of the blood clan last time, then he would undoubtedly be the enemy of the entire blood clan when he investigated this matter, and with his current strength, facing the blood clan of Asha County, I am afraid that there is only one way to escape.
Sensing that Moonlight City had become a nest of right and wrong, Leo felt that he should finish what he needed to do and get out of here as soon as possible, so his pace also sped up a lot.
After walking down the alley and two blocks later, Leo came to the outside of the walls of the abandoned factory.
Because of the abandonment, the walls around the factory were not repaired in time, and many places collapsed, revealing breaches that people could easily walk into.
However, the people who live around the perimeter of the fence seem to be extremely afraid of the wall, not only avoiding the wall from a distance, but also not even opening the windows and doors facing the busy old factory, so that the area next to the wall is extremely deserted, as if no one lives here.
Leo walked through a breach in the wall into the factory, bypassed an abandoned factory building, and walked along a weedy path towards the same place where the factory garden had been located yesterday.
The moment he entered the factory, Leo had already noticed that some werewolves were lurking around him.
Compared to the blood clan that lives with humans and serves as government officials of Asha County and nobles of the Mares Kingdom, werewolves are obviously much more low-key, and they will only send some young werewolves every once in a while to manage their forces in Asha County, as the experience of these young werewolves, so the outside world does not know much about werewolves, but they know that the internal institutional structure of werewolves is still maintained in the elder stage of early tribal civilization.
Some people who are hostile to werewolves, such as the Bloods, use this as a weapon to attack werewolves, claiming more than once that werewolves are still a barbarian race.
Leo didn't care about this kind of malicious rumor, but when he sensed these werewolves inhabiting the abandoned factory through the spirit network, Leo felt that there seemed to be some truth to this statement.
Because under the perception of Leo's spiritual network, the emotions and demeanors emanating from these werewolves are all beasts more than human nature, and he feels that these werewolves seem to prefer to keep their bodies in the beastly state of werewolves rather than in the human state.
"Is this due to the degradation of the species due to the lack of maternal guidance?" Leo had a conjecture in his mind.
Leo walked fast, and it didn't take long for him to come outside the garden where he had arrived yesterday.
At this moment, a werewolf nearly three meters tall emerged from the bushes and landed in front of Leo, baring his teeth at him as if in intimidation.
"You know you're a dog. Leo said calmly as he looked at the werewolf.
After hearing this, the werewolf was stunned, followed by a look of anger, and opened the wolf's mouth at Leo, but before he could make the next move, Leo's fist had already hit him on the head, sending him flying out directly, hitting a tree not far away, falling to the ground, and fainting.
I didn't expect Leo to make a move, and all the werewolves around were stunned, but soon they reacted, and one by one from the woods, they surrounded Leo in the middle, and there was a momentum of preparing to besiege Leo.