There should be a village nearby, so let's look around and see if we can find anything. But how can we judge whether it is a cult or a false god or a real missionary?"

Legonier asked.

Although the power of the Holy See is shrinking in East Antarctica, it is difficult to break the religious faith, and there are people who preach even in Beisen Continent, but out of Antarctica, the armed forces of the Holy See are very few.

Not all those who do not belong to the power of the Holy See belong to cults, there are some small religions and primitive cults, although these were pagan religions when the Holy See was powerful and in Antarctica, but they are not illegal organizations on other continents, nor are they the cults they are looking for.

If they want to go to the village to look for traces of "cults", they must distinguish between these normal religions.

Kaichi thought for a moment and said, "If there is a sect that only gives without asking for anything in return, and casually displays so-called 'miracles,' or only needs to pay very little to get obvious benefits, then there must be something wrong with that. ”

If it is an individual, it is likely to be highly conscious, but an organization, if it wants long-term development, must ensure that the benefits are greater than the expenditure, even if it is a public foundation, you can leave 30% of the fundraising every year to deal with yourself. By analogy with a religious organization, it would be nice to be able to use about 10 percent of its income every year to do good deeds.

Otherwise, where will the religious inheritance come from, and where will the beautiful costumes come from, and where will the tall and majestic buildings and the majestic statues of the gods come from?

Legonier smiled, and immediately understood what Jia Yi meant: "Yes, this summary of yours is very accurate. ”

Even if there are miracles in this world, it is impossible for everyone to reveal them, and it does not conform to the law of conservation of energy at all.

Jin said that although he didn't quite understand what you were talking about, what you said was right.

Together, the three of them set out to search for the nearby village.

Although it is close to the Sea of Death, it is not particularly far from the Thundering Harbor, and there are several small villages where they grow dates, breed camels, and hunt, and during the rainy season, the vegetation here will grow luxuriantly, and life is quite passable.

They soon came to a village with a very high fence around the perimeter, and a dense array of wurm trees were planted on the perimeter, the surface of which was covered with sharp spikes, the leaves were small and oval, and there was a layer of skin on the surface, and the roots were rarely forked, like sticks full of nails on the ground.

Seeing a combination of mages, elves and dwarves coming, the village chief came to receive him neatly, although everyone was a little curious about such a combination, but none of the villagers dared to take the initiative to come up and talk.

Kaichi accompanies the village chief, and Kim and Legonier go to question the rest of the village to see if there are any other clues.

Soon in the evening, they found a place to stay in the village, and Kaichi raised a ball of light in the room, and the three of them sat down around the table.

Jia Yi was the first to speak: "I asked the village chief, several people in the village have gone out hunting recently and have not returned, and there is also such a situation in the nearby villages, although hunting often encounters danger, but there are too many people who have accidents this time, and they are all alive and dead. ”

The village chief reported the matter to Thundering Harbor for help, and Thundering Harbor sent someone over to find the altar used for the blood sacrifice, and finally asked for the head of the Supreme Council. However, the village chief here did not know about the blood sacrifice, and he thought that the investigation of this matter had no results.

"I think I was killed. Legonier said.

"I thought the same way, maybe the sacrifices used in the blood sacrifice were these missing villagers. It's just that I have a question, in general, isn't blood sacrifice just for the soul enough? What about the corpses of these people who were sacrificed by blood?"

Generally speaking, the blood sacrificers like the souls of intelligent creatures, and are not interested in flesh and blood, among which humans are the most favorite and most commonly used sacrifices of various evil forces because they have enough wisdom and most individuals are weak.

Legonir's expression was solemn: "We have been tracking for so long, and we have never found a corpse, so we think that these bloodstains were done by one person or organization, and the monster that was priested is probably not outside the realm, but in the main material realm." ”

If Legonir's guess is correct, then it will be even more dangerous for them to track down the Blood Sacrifice, after all, the power that can be exerted in the main material realm is very different.

They looked at each other, and Legonir said, "I've also asked about the disappearance, but I'm not as detailed as yours." There was no one to proselytize in the vicinity, but some time ago a wandering merchant came over and stayed here for a short time, and left before the villagers disappeared from hunting. ”

According to the villagers, the wandering merchant did not carry much with him, but his goods were plentiful, and he always carried a cloak, and no one ever saw his appearance clearly.

"I'm different from you," said Kim, "I asked the old people in the village, and they said that the wandering merchant had an assistant who had preached to them about the All-Knowing Lord, but he didn't go deeper. ”

Perhaps because everyone had beards, Jin had a good chat with the old people in the village, but with this information alone, there was no way to tell whether the wandering merchant's assistant was a blood cultist.

"Tomorrow, tomorrow I will go to a few nearby villages to check. The denser the population, the more difficult it is to sacrifice blood, and the easier it is to be exposed, and the other party has run here from the Thunder Plateau, and it is likely that it is nearing the end. ”

They decided to go to the nearby village tomorrow to investigate, and the main thing was that although the wandering merchant had some suspicions, no one knew where the other party had gone.

The next morning, they went to other villages, and the results were very similar, but this time there was a different discovery.

"There's something wrong with this wandering merchant. Kim jumped into a chair specially prepared for him and sat down, "The wandering merchant and his assistant have spread the faith of the All-Seeing Lord in another village, and they say that they can receive free healing by praying sincerely to the All-Seeing Lord on the altar. It is said that this altar is located in the wilderness to the north. ”

When they found a clue, they immediately asked someone to lead them into the wilderness to the north.

Most of the wandering traders were not young, so their altars were not far from the village, and they soon found a poorly hidden altar in a patch of dead grass outside the village.

The altar looked a little dilapidated, as if it had been built by hand, but the style was very similar to the altar of the Blood Sacrifice, especially Legonir, who found a stone tablet with a carved emblem, which he had found in other altars.

"But where will this wandering merchant be, will he be gone?" said Legonier, a little apprehensively, fearing that he would be too late again.

"There's a canyon to the southwest, should we go over there and have a look?" Kim suggested.

The canyon is not big, it looks like someone has randomly thrown an axe on the ground, it is already a little deep into the desert, very desolate, and there is no output, only the rainy season where the water rises a little to get a little change, usually few people will pass.

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