Soul echo

Chapter 183 Confrontation

In the increasingly violent snowstorm, Annecy, a town that should have fallen silent like other small towns, suddenly became lively like a volcanic eruption.

Adventurers set off from various inns, like the legendary winter wolf, hunting travelers lost in the snow.

It's just that what they hunt is not travelers lost in the 'wind and snow', but greedy people lost in material desires.

Through their respective relationships, adventurers and mercenaries either contact thieves, or gang members, or fish for law enforcement, and what's more, directly contact the addicts who use hallucinogens, and find out the whereabouts of the traffickers from them Location.

Intimidation, negotiation, and bluffing, just a few months can't change the essence of this group of rotten people. Their civilization and gentleness will only be reflected in the lobby of the Adventurer's House-even there they behave very well. Vulgar, but they've changed a lot from before.

But outside the Adventurer's House, they are still the same as before.

Walking on the edge of danger, they need to be vigilant at all times. They have tensed up countless times and relaxed countless times, because most adventurers will have problems with their spirit after repeating countless times.

Young adventurers are not so good, but most older adventurers have more or less mental problems.

Mental issues create a lot of stress, and that stress grows with their adventures, and continuing to take risks creates more problems, and the cycle repeats until they really have something physically or mentally wrong, and that's when they retire .

But now they can still be active in the lobby of the Adventurer's House, and they can also drink, laugh, and fight with other people, which means that they haven't reached the time to retire yet.

Zhong Ye was sitting by the window, looking through a layer of glass, watching the snow outside getting bigger and bigger, the snow dust being driven by the strong wind and dancing wildly, silently calculating what to do next.

Suddenly, he felt absurdly like the big villain in a movie or a game, thinking about his plan all day long, and thinking that he was also in the 'game' now, he felt even more like it.

"When will the first one be caught..."

Annecy is a small city with a population of only 3000, and hallucinogens are a shady business. The dealers who sell these things are like rats in the gutter, hiding underground all day long, not daring to show their heads.

According to his speculation, the number of hallucinogen dealers will not be many, at most a dozen, but as mice, they also have a strong point, that is 'hiding'.

I don't know if the local thieves' guild is related to those hallucinogen dealers. If there is a tip-off from the thieves' guild, it will be troublesome to catch them.

Zhong Ye sat by the window and waited silently. Not long after, the door of the Adventurer's House was knocked open with a "bang".

The howling cold wind carried the wind and snow into the hall, and the old dwarf sitting in front of the counter drinking hot wine immediately turned his head and glared, "Close the door quickly!"

The strong man carrying a person on his shoulders grinned, kicked the door shut with his feet, and then threw the person on his shoulders to the ground, causing him to let out a cry of pain.

Immediately afterwards, the strong man looked at Zhong Ye, and his voice slowed down a bit: "Your Excellency, I caught this guy on the spot, and he was trading hallucinogens with other people at that time..."

As he spoke, he also took out a pack of cloth from his waist pocket, and opened the cloth, allowing Zhong Ye to see the dead leaves wrapped inside.

"It's this thing, they call it 'Butterfly', it's very simple to use, just crush it and pour it into the water, don't think it's a small bag, it's enough for more than a dozen people—this is I asked him before coming back."

Zhong Ye took the cloth bag from the strong man, smelled it, and a stench came to his nostrils, making him frown.

Turning his gaze to the person lying on the ground, Zhong Ye squatted down and asked softly, "Is it yours?"

The man raised his head in horror, allowing Zhong Ye to see a bruised and swollen face, and shook his head, "No, no, it's not mine, it's not mine!"

But he didn't know, Zhong Ye saw his guilty conscience at a glance.

"You know what? I hate you guys."

Zhong Ye stood up and asked the strong man to go to the front desk to receive the reward, but he himself took a rope from the side and pressed down on the man lying on the ground.

He still tried to struggle, but he felt as if a mountain was pressing on his body. Not only was it difficult to move his hands and feet, but it was also difficult to breathe.

"For a little money, other people's wives are scattered and their families are destroyed. Of course, I know that some of you will not be able to live if you don't do this, but this still doesn't change my disgust for you as a group."

Dan's world is different from the earth. Some hallucinogen dealers do sell these things for their livelihood and for themselves and their families to survive.

These people are tragedies created by the times, Zhong Ye knows that he can't judge whether they are right or wrong, he just feels sad for them.

After the grief, he would not hesitate to hand them over to the church, and then try to help their families tide over the difficulties.

Zhong Ye tied up the first hallucinogen dealer three times, five times and two times. During this time, the dealer kept screaming and struggling, but Zhong Ye didn't give him any chance to escape.

Zhong Ye rented a warehouse in the Adventurer's House. Before the 'Shield of Perseverance' entered the venue, he would detain all the hallucinogen dealers he captured, and he himself was the caretaker.

According to speculation, one to three hallucinogen dealers will be captured and escorted here, so Zhong Ye just stunned the hallucinogen dealer and continued to sit in the hall and wait.

The brawny man left the Adventurer's House after receiving the gold coins just now. He had already tasted the sweetness and couldn't help but want to catch the hallucinogen dealer.

The old dwarf put down his wine glass and glanced at the hallucinogen dealer who was placed in the corner, "Boy, what are you going to do with them?"

What he asked was not where to put the captured hallucinogen dealers, but how Zhong Ye planned to deal with these people after that.

The discussion between Alek and Zhong Ye ended in disagreement, so Zhong Ye rented a warehouse in a hurry.

Zhong Ye replied: "Torture them, and then hand them over to the lord."

The old dwarf was taken aback, "You spent so much money to catch them, just to hand them over to the lord?"

Even the two receptionists couldn't help but look sideways and opened their mouths slightly, as if trying to persuade.

The reputation of Lord Annecy seems to be unbearable to these people. The Adventurer's House was established jointly by the nobles and the church. After all, half of their salary comes from the nobles. I didn't expect them to behave like this.

"Mr. Alek and I did not agree in many aspects, but we have the same view on the issue of hallucinogens." Zhong Ye glanced at the man on the ground, "Even if they will be released by the lord later , the church will take them seriously, and will never let them have the possibility of committing crimes again."

The old dwarf looked at Zhong Ye with strange eyes, shook his head helplessly, turned around and continued drinking without saying anything.

Let’s say he abides by the law. He is challenging the law by hiring adventurers to catch the hallucinogen dealers, but if he ignores the law, he will hand over the hallucinogen dealers he caught to the lord... too weird up!How weird!

Just as Zhong Ye expected, not long after, two more people turned over a hallucinogen dealer, and after Zhong Ye confirmed, they took a gold coin from the front desk.

They did not choose to exchange it into silver coins, because in most places, gold coins are far more valuable than silver coins, and they would lose money if they exchanged them directly.

When the two adventurers had just left the adventurer's house, the door was pushed open again. The old dwarf and the receptionist were a little surprised, so fast?
"What? What are you all doing?"

But when they turned their heads to look, what they saw was a young man with a thin body and a pale face.

"Who did it? Do you know that you are challenging the Lord Lord's law?"

The pale young man stared at the two receptionists sitting at the front desk with his frog-like eyes.

Zhong Ye crossed his arms and replied bluntly: "I issued the task, do you have any comments?"

"you--"

The young man turned his head to look, but saw a tall and majestic figure crashing into his eyes, blocking back the words he was about to blurt out.

"You, you are challenging the law... You must withdraw it immediately."

Zhong Ye tilted his head, "What if I say 'no'?"

(End of this chapter)