When Duanmu Huai returned to Arkham City again, everything was still in order.

The only thing to say is.........

"Misterina, what the hell are those people out there?"

After Duanmu Huai returned to the city, the first thing he did was to find Mistrina and ask her questions.

When he returned to Arkham City, the first thing Duanmu Huai saw was the long queue outside the gate of the territory, which made him quite puzzled, you must know that now the world of Feilun is already a deep winter world, and this group of people are idle and bored and run here without fear of freezing to death?

"Ah, I was about to report to you, Inquisitor, that a curse called Lost Soul is currently circulating throughout the Northlands, and those ......... They are all refugees who have fled. In fact, it has a little to do with you, my lord. ”

"Lost souls? What is it? What does it have to do with me? ”

Hearing Mistrina's inquiry, Duanmu Huai looked puzzled, and Mistrina quickly introduced the situation to Duanmu Huai.

It turned out that after Duanmu Huai killed the messenger and base of the true god, he shared this matter with the various churches in Arkham City, to put it bluntly, this is a bit of a case issued by the police station in its own jurisdiction, so that the local police station can pay attention to whether there are similar cases in their jurisdiction.

Evil gods like Shar don't talk about it for the time being, and gods of the good camp like Tyre naturally won't ignore it, so everyone looked down and was taken aback. They had always thought that this so-called supreme god or something might be a new cult that had just emerged, but after careful investigation, everyone found that this sect had been lurking in the Northland for many years, and they had been spreading a curse called Soul Loss.

To put it simply, people who fall under this curse will become comatose at first, and then they will seem to have lost their souls and are left with only an empty shell, and then they will disappear, and then when they find out again, they will all join that cult and become faithful followers of that sect.

For example, Emilia and Qasim also investigated the matter, and then at a farm outside Baldur's Gate, they learned from the local farmer's wife that her husband had met these mysterious guys, and then his whole person began to change, from a smart young man to an uncle who looked like he had Alzheimer's, and then disappeared.

Then Emilia and the others searched all the way to find a stronghold of the Supreme God nearby, and to their surprise, the missing farmer had become a complete fanatic inside, and even became an important member there.

Of course, Emilia and her party then defeated the cult stronghold, captured the farmer and others, and then escorted them to prison——— but no matter how they were interrogated, the farmer would only say over and over again that he believed in the One True God, and that it would eventually devour the world.........

The reason why this symptom is called soul loss is because after being examined by those priests and paladins, they were very surprised to find that these people did not have souls in their bodies, and their souls were completely missing!

That's weird.

Logically speaking, if the soul is destroyed, the body must be dead, and if the soul is lost and the body is still alive, then it must be a necromantic creature. However, these people are not necromantic beings, nor do they have the characteristics of necromantic beings, but instead behave almost indistinguishably from living beings, except for the loss of souls and fanatical belief in the so-called Supreme God.

"So what's the situation with so many people out there?"

"Hey............"

Saying this, Mistrina sighed helplessly.

"I don't know why, the results of the investigation were leaked, and the result is that people everywhere are panicking, many people are afraid of this terrible curse, and they think that they can avoid contracting this curse in this territory protected by the gods, so they rush to come here........."

"Are there any patients with soul loss in our territory?"

"Nope."

Mistrina shook her head.

"But we found several people with lost souls among the migrants, and they have been quarantined. It was left to the various temples to study the treatment options. ”

"How were the Soul Loss patients discovered?"

"It seems that through some kind of soul detection magic, you can see through it......... Sorry, I don't know much about magic in this world. ”

"Are they everywhere?"

"Yes......... According to reports, it seems that remote towns and villages have a high probability of appearing, and the mechanism of infection of this curse is not yet known. I've ordered the Night Guard to keep order, and so far it's normal. ”

"What about the exact number of infected people?"

"The world's means of communication are relatively backward, and according to the information we have gathered that can be verified, at least 800 to 1,000 people are infected with this curse."

"It's not a small number for the world."

"Does this have anything to do with what you said about the Chaos Gods, Inquisitor?"

"No, I don't think it's the work of those Chaos Gods, it's not like it's their means."

Faced with Misterina's question, Duanmu Huai shook his head, this kind of technique is not like the Chaos Evil God would do, and the stinky fat house will not engage in such a strange plague. He was more inclined that it was something that was something from the world of Ferron, but who was it......... That's not easy to say.

"What's the report from the Blade of Judgment?"

"The Judgment Blade team destroyed several cult strongholds, but they didn't find anything special."

"I see."

After listening to Mistrina's report, Duanmu Huai thought for a moment and nodded.

"I'm going to see the Lost Soul patients first......... By the way, call Mary too. ”

"Yes, sir."

Soon, Duanmu Huai came to the Church of Tyre in Arkham City, most of the soul loss patients found before had been taken in by the Church of Tyre, and Mary also joined Duanmu Huai, but .........

"What's going on with her?"

Looking at Xia Li who was standing not far behind, Duanmu Huai frowned, looked at Mary and asked, but the latter tilted his head suspiciously.

"Xia Li has been acting with me all this time, can't you?"

"It's not impossible, but ......... Never mind. ”

Duanmu Huai looked at Xia Li, who was standing not far away, who saluted him respectfully. It's just that Duanmu Huai always feels that something is not quite right, how to say it, he thinks that Xia Li's eyes looking at him are not very normal, a bit similar to the kind of taste that fanatical star chasers have when they see idol stars.........

Probably my own delusion, right?

Think about it, just like yourself, how can anyone worship themselves fanatically?

Thinking too much, thinking too much.

Duanmu Huai retracted his gaze and didn't think much about it.

"Alright, let's go inside."

"Yes."

After explaining his intentions, Tyre's priest quickly took the two to the underground shelter for the soulless, and also introduced them to the patients.

"Although it is said that they are devastated in their souls, their demeanor is not abnormal, and they are even very conscious, and the only thing they have to say is that they are very fanatical about the so-called supreme god........."

"Are you sure they haven't read too much of the Ciri Sutra?"

Duanmu Huai quipped, and the priest also had a strange face.

"I'm sure......... Probably not, Lord Inquisitor. ”

The so-called Ciric Sutra is a book written by people after Shirek became a god, to put it bluntly, what he thought after becoming a god is that other gods are false gods, and only he, Shirek, is the real god. So he deliberately found someone to write a book of Cirek, the content of which is nothing more than how great Shirek is, and how Shirek is the only true god in this world.

Of course, it's just self-exaltation, but I don't know if it's because the humanistic pen that wrote the book is too good or what, after the Ciri Sutra was written, all the people who read the Ciri Sutra really became the most faithful and crazy believers in Ciric as if they had been brainwashed.

And then Ciric looked, huh? This book is so useful, I'll take a look.

And then......... Well, Ciric is crazy.

Reading his own autobiography, then worshipping himself madly, and then narcissizing to the crazy god, this is really the first person in ancient and modern China and abroad.

The most ridiculous thing is that if you want to resist the power of this book, it is actually very simple, that is, to read "The True Biography of Ciric" before reading this book, to put it simply, the difference between the two is basically the difference between "Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms......... After you have read the "official history", there will be no cognitive errors when you read the "Shiri Sutra".

So in the final analysis, "The Book of Syri" is a book of romance, and after reading it, Ciric conflicted with his own memory——— am I like that in the book? Am I not? Am I? Isn't it? Is it? Isn't it?

And then it went crazy.

It can be seen that blowing rainbow farts is also dangerous.

As they spoke, the three of them also came to the places where the soulless patients were housed.

From the outside, it is a bit similar to the mental ward in Duanmuhuai's memory, each room is independent, and then there is a small window in the door, and the paladins and guards of Tyre stand on both sides of the corridor, and from time to time there are angry roars and curses coming from the door———well, it seems to be a combination of a mental hospital and a prison.

"You didn't find any way to do it?"

"Nope."

The priest shook his head.

"It's also strange to us that their souls are gone, but their bodies are still living. It wasn't like the undead, they could get sunlight and they needed food and water, and if it weren't for their fanatical worship of the Supreme God and the detection that there were no souls in their bodies through divine magic, no one would have thought there was anything wrong with them. ”

"The Supreme God is the only god!! You lackeys of false gods! ”

"Let us out! You treat us like this, and when the Supreme God appears again, it will destroy you all............!! ”

Before the priest could finish speaking, however, the shouts of the men came from the doors around them, and they put their faces in the window and shouted loudly outside, which frightened Mary a little at a loss——— she had never seen anything like it before.

"Humph!"

Hearing these roars, Duanmu Huai's face sank, and then he snorted coldly, and the next moment the aura of fear instantly spread, and those screaming soulless people suddenly seemed to be choked by someone's throat, and they didn't dare to happen again.

"You should starve them for ten days and half a month, and see if they dare to talk nonsense."

Duanmu Huai looked at the priest, who shook his head.

"That's not Tyre's way of doing things."

"Well, although I know that too."

Duanmu Huai complained, and then looked at the guards.

"Bring these soulless out."

"Yes."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's order, those guards immediately opened the locked door, and then brought out the soulless people who were trembling under Duanmu Huai's frightened aura, at this moment these soulless people were still frightened and their legs were weak, and they could only collapse on the ground, no matter how the guards helped, they seemed to be unable to get up from the ground.

"Over to you, Mary."

Duanmu Huai turned his head to look at Mary and spoke.

"Let's take a look at these people."

"Uh......... I see, it's probably not easy to describe........."

"Do you want to do it again?"

Hearing Mary's answer, Duanmu Huai silently took out the pink book, but seeing Duanmu Huai's movements, Mary suddenly turned pale and shook her head desperately.

"No, no, no, no!! I can express it with a painting!! ”

Thinking back to her previous experience, Mary really didn't dare to let Duanmu Huai use that trick again.

(End of chapter)