Soul echo

Chapter 193 The Sorrow of the Times
The 'Consultant' hesitated for a moment, and said a series of names.

Zhong Ye silently memorized these names, and then heard the gang member in front of him say: "The most popular hallucinogen in Bulger is 'Flower Butterfly', and all 'Flower Butterfly' are shipped from them."

"Is it 'Butterfly' again?" Lilian whispered.

It is obviously no coincidence that Annecy's popular hallucinogen is 'Butterfly', and Bourger's is also 'Butterfly'.

Zhong Ye was silent for a few seconds, then asked again: "How do I use 'Butterfly'?"

Didn't you say 'the last two questions'...

The 'Consultant' slandered in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it out. After thinking about it, he answered truthfully: "You can crush it and pour it into water to drink, or you can add it to shredded tobacco to smoke - if you do this, the hallucinogenic effect will be stronger. Easier... dead people."

Hearing this, Zhong Ye lowered his eyes, touched the money bag, took out three gold coins from it, and threw them over.

"Thanks."

The 'Consultant' hurriedly caught the gold coins, looking at the three shiny metallic coins in his hand, his eyes were full of disbelief.

In fact, he wasn't the only one, other gang members couldn't help being dumbfounded when they saw this scene.

Zhong Ye got up and took Lilian away, but when he was about to open the door, he turned around and asked, "If there is a chance to work normally, would you guys want to do it?"

He didn't get an answer from those people, and the gang members didn't know how to answer for a while. Even the "consultant" who had always been very flexible, his brain became rusty after hearing this question, and he didn't know what to do. Open your mouth.

Zhong Ye waited for a while, but did not continue to wait. From their hesitation, he had already got the answer.

Stepping into the wind and snow again, Lilian shuddered slightly, and the white snow scene came into view again.

The heat is only temporary, and the coldness is the theme of this season.

Hearing about the two usages of 'Butterfly' from 'Consultant', Lilian's eyes also changed when she looked at the people on the street who were puffing.

"Teacher, that person just said that if you smoke it directly, the hallucinogenic effect will be stronger..."

And it's easier to die!

As far as the eye could see, some people were smoking cigarettes on the street, and it was not known how many of them had added ingredients to their cigarettes.

Zhong Ye looked coldly at the people on the street, "If Ananxi doesn't control it, it will eventually develop into this - from crushing and soaking to smoking cigarettes, in order to pursue stimulation, people who use hallucinogens will go one step at a time. Stepping into the abyss, even if they know that there is death ahead, they will go forward without hesitation."

As he said that, Zhong Ye took out a cloth mask from his waist pocket. The stitches of the mask looked a little rough, because he made it himself.

He sprinkled some holy water on the mask and handed it to Lilian.

"Take it."

Although it may be uncomfortable to wear a mask that is soaked in water in this cold winter, Lilian feels that it is not unacceptable to think of the hallucinogens diffused on the street.

The girl took the mask and looked up at Zhong Ye, "Teacher, what about you?"

Zhong Ye shook his head, "This little thing won't cause me to be infected with hallucinogens."

The physique of seventeen points is not just for his rough skin and thick flesh. His immune system, hematopoietic function, metabolism and other abilities have been greatly enhanced. Even the hallucinogens that directly attack the nerves and brain are of no use to him. Too much effect.

The fog in the street is useless to him, but to others, it is slowly leading them into the abyss.

Even if they don't use hallucinogens, the escaped hallucinogens will gradually erode their nerves, and their personalities will become weird, irritable and irritable, but they can't find the reason at all.

Until...they started using hallucinogens themselves!

This place is no longer just a 'maze', all Zhong Ye can see is a piece of 'chaos', if it is not controlled, there will be no future for this place, and all the people living here will be infected by hallucinogens, Hallucinogen slavery.

Does Mother Earth know these things?
They probably know it, but they are powerless to change it.

——Even the gods can't change people's hearts!

Magic can heal their nerves and brains damaged by hallucinogens. In a short period of time, former users of hallucinogens may not use hallucinogens because of fear of withdrawal reactions, but as time goes by, the depressed Life will destroy their persistence again, and hallucinogens will be able to take advantage of it.

'The flood of hallucinogens' is just a superficial phenomenon. The inner emptiness, the depression of life, and the despair of not seeing any future are the root causes of these poor people's use of hallucinogens.

This situation was not so obvious in Annecy, but after Bulger was magnified several times, the problem appeared.

These problems are not unique to Bourg, there are similar situations in many cities, and 'The Hallucinogen Flood' was developed on this basis.

Lilian followed behind Zhong Ye, her neck couldn't help shrinking because of the cold.

Looking back and forth, suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a figure nestled in a corner, and then stopped in his tracks.

Zhong Ye noticed Lilian's movements and looked over.

It was a tramp in ragged clothes, holding a burning cigarette in his hand, with chilblains all over his body, his face was blue from the cold, his lips were cyanotic, and his hair was covered with frost.

However, with his eyes closed, his face was full of joy and peace.

Lilian stared blankly at the figure, and the barrage of bullets passing by was also reduced a lot.

"He's dead." Zhong Ye said coldly.

"Um……"

Pursing her lips, Lilian nodded with difficulty.

Turning around stiffly, following Zhong Ye's leaving footsteps.

After walking a few steps, she couldn't help but look back again.

The smiling corpse lay quietly in the wind and snow, and the wrinkles with a few shadows seemed to have stretched out, and the body was slowly covered by frost.

I don't know why, he chose to drown in the hallucination of joy...

"Stop thinking 'this might be a good thing'!"

Zhong Ye's chilly voice suddenly reached his ears, Lilian was stunned for a moment, and turned to look at his back.

"In any case, this is not a good thing, even if his sorrow is caused by the social environment, but this is not the reason why we can accept his death calmly!"

—— Zhong Ye is angry!

Lilian seemed to understand Zhong Ye's emotions from that sentence, and felt his anger.

"Change it, not accept it!"

Zhong Ye straightened his back and strode towards the outside of the slum.

However, he was still taking care of Lilian's walking speed, and he didn't walk too fast.

The slums are a quagmire that can drag anyone who wants to save the area into it, unless they are big enough.

Zhong Ye remained calm, and when the 'staff officer' learned that Bulger's popular hallucinogen was also 'Flower Butterfly', most of his goal of coming to this city had already been completed, and the rest needed other people to cooperate.

He originally thought that he would need to stay in this city for a while to find all kinds of clues, but when he heard the hallucinogen 'Flower Butterfly', he realized a problem.

This era is different from the earth, and the transportation is not developed. The 'Butterfly' looks like a dry plant powder, but it is also somewhat difficult to transport.

If the hallucinogens in Geneva, Lyon and other places are also "Butterfly", then there should be a production base of "Butterfly" near this area.

If you find that production base, you can get more clues!

Now that the 'hallucinogens' thing has been done, it's time to tackle the 'ghetto' thing.

Whatever the interest group or the cult behind the hallucinogen dealers wants to do in the ghetto, just bulldoze that place and everything will be fixed!

The benevolent Earth Mother Church, the believers all over the slums, the large number of farms...

—He had a great idea!

(End of this chapter)