When Brown arrived, he accepted the antique shop and told Leo to avoid it outside, while he took a few people to treat the fainted people in the store and ask them about what happened.

Although there was no suspicion in itself, Leo still took the initiative to stay and participate in the investigation of this matter, after all, the three skull bowls had been regarded by him as his own, but now they were lost, and he was naturally not willing to give up the three skull bowls.

After waiting outside the antique shop for a while, Brown walked out of the shop, and Leo immediately asked, "How's it going?"

"None of the others were injured except for Old Bill. Brown didn't seem to want Leo to step in, and simply responded.

"Can I go in and have a look?" asked Leo.

Brown shook his head and refused, "There's no need, let's let the Holy Blood Society deal with it!"

Leo accentuated his tone and said, "The lost thing is mine, and I feel like I should intervene in this matter." ”

Brown still refused: "Mr. Leo Dodd, you don't seem to have paid the bill for those three antiques, which means that they are not yours yet." ”

"Mr. Brown, you don't seem to understand what I mean, I'm not asking you to agree to me to investigate this matter, I'm just saying a fact, it doesn't matter if you agree or not!" Leo frowned slightly, and then showed extreme toughness, without waiting for Brown to speak, he pushed him away and walked straight into the store.

Leo's rude behavior was seen by several other members of the Holy Blood Society, who seemed to want to teach the stranger a lesson, but Brown stopped him in time, and Brown did not show Leo's rejection of his involvement, but followed Leo silently.

After entering the store, Leo's eyes quickly swept over the shopkeepers and customers who had not yet woken up from their slumber, and then looked around, and by walking into the special room, he looked at the shopkeeper who had not yet recovered his consciousness and was dealing with the injury in the back of his head, and then turned around and walked out of the store without asking a word.

Seeing Leo turn away, Brown, who was following alongside, couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Dodd, don't you ask?"

"Ask what?" asked Leo rhetorically.

Brown responded, "What happened before?"

"If you could ask something useful from them, you wouldn't have that look, so I don't have to waste my time. Leo replied coldly, and continued walking.

"Where are you going now?" Brown asked.

Leo turned his head to look at Brown and replied in the other party's previous words, "Won't this be a matter of your Holy Blood Society?" ”

With that, he walked out quickly, passed through the crowd around him, and disappeared into the narrow underground passage.

"He must have found something?" said Brown, frowning.

A masked man next to him heard Brown's words and asked, "Head, do you want to send someone to ......?"

"Don't!" Brown shook his head, he still didn't know if Leo really didn't want to interfere in the investigation of this matter, or if he deliberately made a suspicious gesture, but he knew very well that Leo couldn't get the handle, if he sent someone to spy on Leo at this time, it would give Leo enough excuse to intervene in this matter, and even if the crow came forward, it would be impossible to change the fact that Leo intervened.

"What do we do now?" asked another of his men.

"Immediately and secretly investigate those who have recently joined and left the organization, and also investigate all those related to underground churches and cults in Venaya Harbor. Brown ordered in a deep voice, thought about Su again, and said: "Haven't there been more than a dozen groups of underground church organizations that have fled from Minsk recently? Start investigating from them, remember to investigate secretly, and as for the outside world, treat what happened in the antique store as an ordinary robbery, and don't show any flaws." ”

"Got it, head. When the men had been told, they dispersed and conducted various investigations as Brown had instructed, while Brown returned to the antique shop and waited for the shopkeeper to come to his stupor.

As Brown had guessed, Leo had found some clues, but like Brown, he wasn't going to cooperate with the Holy Blood Society to investigate the matter, and he was going to retrieve it himself, which would save a fortune on the cost of buying it.

Back on the surface, Leo did not go back to the hotel, but called a carriage and headed to the port area.

While he was checking the situation of the store just now, he also used the quick memory of his brain to compare the scene he saw when he first entered the store, and he found that there was one thing missing without changing the staff, or one of those customers was missing something, and the customer didn't seem to know that he was missing something, as if that thing never existed.

It was a cat pendant hanging from a customer's backpack, and Leo didn't pay any attention to it when he entered the store, just glanced at it, and didn't find anything strange about it. Looking back now, he felt that he had been a little negligent at the time, or that the psionic wall he had just entered the shop had interfered with his perception of psionic fluctuations, and that he had not been able to realize that the cat pendant, which seemed to be just an ordinary ornament, might be a magical artifact controlled by man.

According to the statistics of religious scholars, there have been at least 70 cat-related gods in the world of Vilun, and these gods have all disappeared now.

In the eyes of ancient humans, rats that eat food and spread diseases are always the most evil species, and cats that are very good at catching mice have become the most sacred existence in the eyes of ancient humans, and they have created a variety of cat-related gods, the most famous of which are the cat god Belus of the desert kingdom of the Minsk continent Saville, the cat head sage of the Moisan continent and other gods.

Like other gods born out of faith, all cat gods quickly weakened their faith after humans found other ways to deal with mice, and eventually disappeared completely.

However, these cat god churches will more or less leave some legacies, including some psionic wonders infused with divine power.

The civet avatar is the favorite deity artifact of various cat gods, and Leo has gained knowledge about this deity from the knowledge of the webweaver, and it is very detailed. The reason why it is so detailed is because they once had a deep cooperation with a certain cat god, so that the cat god became a soul guide, and they also gained a lot of knowledge about the cat god.

Although the vast majority of cat gods are good gods, there are also some cat gods who oscillate between good and evil, and Lady Grace is such a cat god. Lady Grace originated from a play written by an ancient dramatist, who called all the cats in his plays Lady Grace because of the graceful gesture of the cat when it walked and moved, and this title was quickly accepted by the aristocracy and other high society, so it was popularized and eventually became a church.

I don't know what the reason is, in the later spread of the Elegant Lady Church, the Elegant Lady, who was originally just the patron saint of the aristocratic manor, suddenly became the patron saint of thieves, and a large number of thieves from the bottom joined the Elegant Lady's church, making the influence of the Elegant Lady spread all over the noble high-level and the common people, until the collapse of the cat god faith, the belief of the elegant lady has always existed in all kinds of cat god beliefs.

Although it is now accepted that the belief in the cat god has completely disappeared, Leo now feels that perhaps Lady Grace's belief in the cat god has ended, but Lady Grace's own faith may still exist in this world, but it has become a very secret underground church.

It was not for nothing that he would have such an idea, because unlike other single beliefs of cat gods, even if Lady Grace's beliefs originated from cat gods, her own beliefs were not limited to cat gods.

The gods of nobles, thieves, and prostitutes, the gods of caresses, inspirations, and moonwalkers are all given to Lady Grace, and although the faith of the cat god has collapsed, with the belief in other gods, Lady Grace may not be able to survive like the physical god of the True Eye.

Now Leo is heading to the port area mainly because he needs to determine if there is a church of the Lady of Grace in the port of Venaya, because the port of dragons and snakes will always be the favorite place of the church of the Lady of Grace.

If it exists, then the person who stole the skull bowl must be the upper echelons of the Lady Grace Church, as only the upper echelons of the Lady Grace Church are qualified to own and use the cat god avatar of the Lady Grace.

The reason why the port area was chosen was because the guest with the cat tag on his backpack should have been a foreign merchant who had just arrived in the port of Venaya, and this merchant was not going to stay here for a long time, just to stop here, make a little resupply, buy something, and leave soon. So it is likely that the cat charm was hung on the merchant's backpack when he was in port.

In addition, Leo also sensed that the perpetrator was probably improvised, because if it was a premeditated crime, he would never choose to commit the crime during this time period, and as for the reason for the temporary decision to snatch the skull bowl, I am afraid it is also related to the fact that he is going to buy the skull bowl.

The moment he entered the shop, Leo inadvertently showed his strength, causing the person controlling the incarnation of the cat god to realize that if Leo bought the skull bowl, he would never be able to take it, so he would take advantage of Leo's departure for a short time to snatch the skull bowl.

In about ten minutes, Leo, who had disembarked from the carriage, walked down the bone staircase to the port area below, although it was almost evening, the port was still very busy, many ships were waiting to be loaded and unloaded, and there were still a large number of ships waiting for the dock to be vacated outside the sea to temporarily anchor in the sea.

"Take me to the best brothel here?" Leo asked, looking around, snapping his fingers at a kid who was struggling at the docks who was looking at him not far away, and as he got closer, he took out two Venaya coins and handed them over.

When the child saw the money in Leo's hand, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly took it, and without saying a word, led Leo towards a city area with mostly three-story houses on the edge of the dock warehouse.

Soon the child took Leo to a three-story attic made of red bricks, and at the entrance of the attic, several strong men with weapons pinned to their waists leaned against the wall next to them, and when they looked through the doorway, they could see some wealthy businessmen holding women with heavy makeup in their arms to have fun in the attic, and cheerful music accompanied by noisy sounds came from the door.

"Little Peter, what are you in trouble again?" It was clear that the child who led the way had something to do with the brothel, and when he saw the child hurrying over, a strong man guarding the door walked over without saying a word, lifted the collar of the child's neck, and shouted.

"Put me down, you goddamn idiot. The kid who was lifted up in the air kicked the strong man's thigh a few times, then pointed to Leo who was following behind and said, "I didn't cause trouble, I brought a guest." ”

When the strong man saw Leo coming over, he immediately threw the child aside, then saluted Leo and said, "This is the first time you have come to us, right? ”

"No need! I just wanted to inquire about something. Leo didn't say much nonsense, and directly raised his hand to cast a Yaksi seal, and then asked, "Where is the altar of the elegant lady?"

"In Monaya's little garden. Without resistance, the strong man said what Leo wanted to know.

"Took me to Monaya's little garden. Leo commanded again.

"Yes, sir!" replied the strong man in a daze, and then staggered as if he were drunk and led Leo towards the backyard of the attic of the apartment.

After passing through a small arch, the two came to the backyard of the apartment, as the strong man said, there was indeed a small garden in front of them, judging from the neatly manicured flowers and plants in the garden, the owner of this place took great care of the garden, and took care of it almost every day.

Leo didn't say anything, he directly released the strong man's control, let him sleep in the corner of the garden, and then walked into the garden, walking towards an obvious shrine altar not far away.

There are many god names of elegant ladies, among which the vast majority of the god names are the protector of so-and-so, such as the protector of travelers, the protector of nobles, the protector of thieves, etc., and the protector of prostitutes appeared in the later period of the cat god faith. This is mainly because most of the prostitutes at that time liked to have cats, so it was easy for some people to associate the two, and prostitutes also needed faith to fill the emptiness in their hearts, so in the later period of the cat god belief, the belief of prostitutes has almost become the main force of various cat god churches.

In Leo's opinion, if the belief in the cat god disappears, the belief in the name of the other gods may disappear with it, except for the belief of the prostitute, which should always exist, and the quaint altar in the middle of this small garden just proves Leo's speculation.