Whether it is in the Earth Federation or in this Vilen world, when facing the pain and panic brought by life, alcohol is always the best paralyzing medicine.

Compared with the abandonment of other industries in Miria City, the liquor industry has become extraordinarily prosperous, and in the market area opened up by the black market and various gangsters, in addition to those large and small stalls, the taverns that provide all kinds of alcohol are the most shops.

Some of them are ordinary refugees who make their own fruit wine from wild fruits, and they have no way to rent a house built by the surrounding gangs to open a tavern, so they can only rent a stall every day, set up a few chairs and small tables, even if it is a tavern.

Because the wine is not carefully filtered and contains a lot of impurities, the tavern owner will put them in a small wooden barrel with a few reeds in it for guests to suck the wine through.

Although this fruit wine is brewed at an average level, the taste is very poor, and it is astringent and bitter, but because of its cheap price, you only need two underground coins to buy a barrel and drink it with a few friends, so the vast majority of refugees who don't have much money are frequent visitors here.

For scavengers and gang bosses who have some money to spare, taverns with houses are the best option, and these taverns are no different, or even better, from taverns elsewhere, where you can buy any kind of liquor you want as long as you have the money.

When Leo arrived at the market, he just walked around the market in a hurry, found a seat in one of the largest open-air wine stalls in the market, bought a barrel of wine, and invited a few clever people to drink with him.

"Mr. Leo, do you have any tips for finding things in those ruins?" asked Leo the Cripple Paul after taking a long sip of his drink, and couldn't help but be curious in his heart.

"Actually, whether you can find good things, the most important thing depends on luck, just like I just found a broken statue, I thought it was only worth a few underground coins, but I didn......'t expect it" Leo pretended to pat his pocket mysteriously, and said: "Anyway, I made a lot of money today, and my luck is not bad." With that, he said to the tavernkeeper, "Give all the barrels present a round, and I'll treat you." ”

Hearing Leo say this, the surrounding people immediately burst into extremely enthusiastic cheers, although it was only the first time to see Leo, but because of the alcohol, many people have already regarded Leo as a friend.

"In fact, in addition to luck, news is also very important. Leo nodded to the people around him, then returned to the topic and said, "For example, the statue I got this time is in the villa area of the first quarter moon......

"That's the old dog's territory. Hearing Leo say this, someone next to him immediately exclaimed.

Leo didn't know who the old dog was, but he could guess that the old dog was probably the leader of a scavenger group, so he said disapprehantly: "What's this, there are only so many people under the old dog, and there are so many powerful villas in the Upper Quarter Moon Lake District, he can't control them all, and I'm not alone," he said, he lowered his body, motioned for the person next to him to lean over, and said mysteriously: " Actually, I heard in advance that someone found something interesting there, and later sold it to the black market and made a lot of money. ”

"I've heard the news too,"

"Me too. ”

"I heard that he made a lot of money, bought off the soldiers of the Imperial Army, and now went to the Seven Northern Kingdoms. ”

Everyone responded.

"Fart, what went to the Seven Northern Kingdoms, it's dead. Cripple Paul broke the news that was different from the others.

"Cripple, do you know anything?" everyone immediately looked at Cripple Paul curiously, and Leo's attention shifted.

Cripple Paul burped and said, "Remember the guy with six hands?"

"Isn't he dead?" the others looked at the lame Paul with some bewilderment.

Seeing that his words attracted the attention of the others, Paul the Crippled said with a smug face, "I know he died, but do you know how he died?"

Immediately, an insider said: "I heard that I offended someone and was thrown into the lake." ”

"Hmph! That's something that only you unsuspecting people would believe. Cripple Paul smiled disdainfully, took another sip of wine, and habitually wiped his beard before continuing: "When the six hands died, I was beside me, and if I hadn't been clever and quick to hide, I might have died." ”

Leo motioned to the boss to refill the barrel, and asked emotionally: "Listen to you, that six hands is the person I heard about, the one who found good things in the villa area of the first quarter moon and made a lot of money?"

"That's the man. Seeing Leo's inquiry, the lame Paul didn't hide it anymore, and said carefully: "At that time, I, Casey, Roy, and Grinning were awakened by the screams of the six hands, and I didn't hear a lot, but I heard that the six hands should have been hired to go to the Upper Quarter Moon Lake District to find something, but he was very greedy, and when he found something, not only did he not give it to the client, but also hid it, and some of the remaining valuable extra treasures went to the black market to exchange money, and prepared to use the money to escape from Miria City." Later, he was found by the victim, but he was tortured to the point that he was not human, and finally thrown into the lake to feed the fish. ”

Although Paul the Cripple did not go into too much detail and did not give a detailed description of the object hidden by the six hands, Leo felt that the six hands should be the one who took the Plague Ring.

Because, from the tone of the people around him, it is not difficult to hear that this six-handed is an experienced scavenger, and his reputation here is not small, otherwise no one would take the initiative to find him and hire him to find something.

And Leo looked at the various traces of the excavation of the villa, and it was not difficult to deduce that the excavator did it alone, and he was very skilled, he was a veteran, and all the valuable things in the secret room, including the wizard strange objects that put the plague ring, were also scavenged, and even the decorative objects with precious metals on the sconces were also dug up, apparently by scavengers.

Thinking of this, Leo didn't think that Cripple Paul would know the answer, but he still did it as usual and asked, "Do you know what the six hands hide are?"

"I don't know. Cripple Paul shook his head, but added, "However, it must have something to do with medical school, because I heard them talk about medical school." ”

Leo had already gotten the news he wanted, so he didn't ask any further, but chatted about some of the daily chores here, seemingly passing the time of boredom like everyone else.

While Leo doesn't expect to get any useful information out of these everyday chatters, there are often some surprises, like getting the news about Six Hands from the mouth of Paul the Cripple.

During the casual conversation with these people, Leo found that there were a large number of missionary priests in various refugee towns in Miria City, providing free medical care and food to the refugees, and recruiting believers, and interestingly, the religions of these missionary pastors were all religions that they had never heard of, such as Maya, the Mother of Conception, Mobison the Observer, and so on.

In the face of the emergence of these missionaries, the various organizations that control the situation in Miria City have different reactions, among which the black market and gangsters are resigned, as long as the other party does not provoke them, they will not pay attention.

The Freedom Front was strongly opposed, even to the point of assassinating the missionaries in public, and it was precisely because of this move that the reputation of the Freedom Front was somewhat damaged, and the refugee towns with the highest concentration of missionary priests were very hostile to the Freedom Front.

Compared to the attitude of these forces in the city of Miria towards the missionaries, the attitude of the Imperial side towards these missionaries is somewhat strange, because there are many indications that the supplies in the hands of these missionaries for believers and ordinary refugees are flowing from the imperial military camps.

According to the Empire's previous attitude towards the Orthodox Church, they should have vigorously opposed any missionary, but now they are secretly supporting some other mysterious gods and spirits that are not on the list of the Orthodox Church, after expelling all the Orthodox churches from Miria City and destroying all the temples and sanctuaries of the Orthodox Church. So when the Freedom Front attacked these missionaries, they behaved in the eyes of those who did not receive any favor from them.

Although the general public does not know what the belief gods of these new religions are, Leo knows very well that these gods have appeared on the continent of Veron, but they appeared very early and disappeared very early, according to time, they should be regarded as the oldest ancient gods, and when they disappeared, none of the gods who were worshiped in the Orthodox Court had yet appeared.

The reason why Leo urged these ancient gods to know so much was because he had seen the churches of these gods in the dream world, and he had also seen the origin of the beliefs of these churches in the books he had acquired.

What's even more interesting is that judging from the information leaked from these people's conversations, the transactions spread by the missionaries of these new churches are somewhat similar to the church teachings of these gods in the dream world, much like modifying the church canon in the dream world and then taking it to the veronon world to use.

So, at this moment, these mysterious new churches reminded him of the dream world.

Although Leo has not yet found effective evidence, he was able to find that there is communication between the dream world and the world of Velon, but these exchanges are only in the hands of a few people.

In addition to the new Church of the Occult, Leo also learned from the conversations of these people that there have been a large number of disappearances in the refugee city in recent times, and there have been some very brutal murders. One of them, Leo was familiar with, and this one featured the killer killing a victim's entire family, skinning the victims, making the other victims pray, and leaving a large number of patterns on the walls and the ground that resembled magic circles.

After Leo heard this, he immediately thought of the murder that happened to Emily, and it was clear that after many years, Emily still did not catch the murderer of her whole family, and this murderer did not leave the war-torn city of Miria, and even took advantage of the chaos in the city to continue her religious rituals.

If you think about it, it is not difficult for Leo to understand that in any world, as long as a city falls into chaos, all kinds of evil things that were unimaginable in the past can happen, and Miria City is in this period.

During the conversation, Leo asked Paul the Cripple about the men who had killed the Six Hands, mainly asking who they were.

The lame Paul, who was already a little drunk, naturally knew everything, but unfortunately he and other people who also heard the movement were so frightened that the whole person hid in some gravel cracks, and he didn't even dare to raise his head, so naturally he couldn't see the figure of those people.

However, there is one detail that Paul the Cripple remembers very well, that is, the accents of those people were not native to the city of Miria, and as far as he knew, most of the outsiders were concentrated in the refugee towns where the new churches appeared, and the other refugee towns were rarely seen.

After drawing nearly half of the underground coins on his body and giving them a drink to the people here, Leo has extracted a lot of information from these people that is not recorded in the materials provided by Sylvia, and has also given his investigation some direction for the time being.

After paying the bill, Leo left the black market to find a place to live temporarily in the city, to the cheers of the drunken refugees.

As Leo walked past a refugee shack and walked past a disabled beggar wrapped in sackcloth and begging along the street, the beggar did not raise his head, and said inexplicably, "Mr. Leo Dodd, your friend is waiting for you in the small garden of the Lower Quarter Moon Lake District." ”

Leo did not stop, nor did he turn his head to look at the beggar, as if he had heard nothing, and after turning a rubble of rubble, he walked towards the lower quarter moon lake.

Because of the large amount of rubble and ruins, the gang station blocked the road, Leo had to take a detour, and in order to avoid attracting attention, he could not let go of his hands and feet, so it took a little more time, until it was dark and night, and he came to the small garden of the Lower Quarter Moon Lake area.

This small garden was not a well-known place when Miria City was still intact, but it was dedicated to providing a place for the magnates in the villas in the Lower Quarter Moon Lake District to take a leisurely stroll, and the flowers and plants planted were also simple and unremarkable.

But after almost all the exquisite and majestic buildings of Miria City were destroyed, this small garden was unexpectedly preserved under the destruction of countless bombs, and all the residents of Miria City couldn't help but think of the vanished Miria City and the great city when they saw this small garden. It is precisely because of this nostalgia that the small garden has been preserved in this chaotic city, and all strife is not allowed to affect this small garden, which has become an implicit rule for almost all the forces in Miria City.

When Leo came to the outside of the small garden, before he could walk in, he saw a person who had been waiting at the entrance of the garden for a long time, and couldn't help but be surprised: "So it's you?"