Soul echo

Chapter 242 Step through the iron shoes and find nowhere

There is a wooden fence around the village, but there are gaps in the fence, and it is not very high. Riding on horseback, the knights can easily look over the fence and see what the village behind the fence looks like.

They could see a group of crooked goblins walking on the road, or leaning against the wall, lying on the ground, even in the cold weather, there was no other reaction.

Those goblins were not wearing too thick clothes, even thinner than the clothes on the soldiers.

Standing in the woods, Zhong Ye and the others could feel the howling cold wind, how could the goblins in those villages not feel it?

It should be said that they have felt it, but 'no response'!
"Are goblins so frost-resistant..." a knight and his companions asked doubtfully.

The gate of the village was open, Zhong Ye pondered for a moment, and walked in first.

In his perception, there is no ambush or trap around the gate.

Compared with letting other people go in to explore the way, it is better to let him go, at least his strength is the strongest among all people, if there is any accident, he can react, while others cannot.

— nothing happened.

Zhong Ye just walked through the gate of the village. He turned his head and looked at the walls on both sides of the gate vigilantly, but he didn't see the flow of energy on it.

After discovering that Zhong Ye was fine, the others followed in his footsteps and walked into the village.

However, after they entered the village, the goblins still didn't respond.

More than one person approached the goblins, wanting to see if they were dead or alive, and all the results were 'alive' - these goblins were not only alive, but also breathing quite smoothly.

But apart from being 'alive', they never showed any other physiological responses.

Goblins fall when shoved, stand still when picked up, and even a slight nudge will make those standing still goblins move forward.

What is puzzling is that they will turn when they encounter corners, and they will not directly hit the wall, but simply wander on the road.

This reaction can't help but make people wonder, even if they are goblins, people have no desire to kill them.

Looking at these goblins, an idea suddenly appeared in Zhong Ye's mind.

He walked up to a goblin who was standing there blankly, and squatted down to look at him at the same level. In those cloudy eyes, he could only see dullness and emptiness.

After Zhong Ye walked over to observe the goblin, Lilian also realized something, and exclaimed, "Lucogen?"

The reaction of these goblins looks like the reaction of addicts after using hallucinogens!

Lilian had met Lilian when she was in Bulger. That time Zhong Ye took her to the slums of Bulger. It was also there that they saw the reaction of addicts who had used the 'Butterfly'.

The characteristic is dull eyes, all the people who use the 'Butterfly' will be immersed in a 'sweet dream', this fantasy is conceived by themselves, in that fantasy, they can enjoy what they most hope for.

Whether it is family affection, money, or pleasure, you can experience it in the illusion.

But the illusion is just an illusion after all, the more immersed in the illusion, the more disgusting the ugly and disgusting reality makes them feel.

Therefore, they will continue to pursue hallucinogens-because as long as the 'Butterfly' is used in sufficient doses, no matter how much the dose is increased in the future, it will not be able to improve the experience, so addicts often do not increase the dose used .

If the dose is not increased, it will not cause too much pressure on the body and will not cause sudden death.

The reactions of these goblins looked a lot like Bulger's drug addicts. Lilian believed that they most likely used 'hallucinogens' too!
But... why is 'hallucinogen' here?
Lilian turned her gaze to Zhong Ye. At this time, Zhong Ye also stood up and asked the knights: "Can alien races like goblins provide faith and provide power to gods?"

He found that his previous thinking had gone into a 'mistake'.

Because the consciousness has been affected by the power of the evil god before, so I didn't expect it in time-the evil god does not need to believe in it!

Evil gods do not need faith, they are similar to the original gods, their own power is great enough, and they do not need believers to provide faith at all, and they can grab power from believers.

If the incident of 'the flood of hallucinogens' was really caused by those four evil gods from outside the domain, then the situation would not be as 'mild' as it is now.

Behind this incident, there is also a force that got 'help' from the King of Conspiracy and the Lord of Pleasure, or in other words, deceived the two evil gods and won a share of power to develop its own. power.

This force is the mastermind behind the entire 'hallucinogen flood incident', and even that interest group is just a 'tool' of the mastermind behind the scenes!
The knights looked at each other, they never thought about it.

The knight commander pondered for a moment, and the face behind the visor frowned.

"...I've heard other people say this."

The knight commander said slowly: "Although as far as I know, goblins don't believe in gods, but all creatures with 'souls' can theoretically provide power for gods."

Zhong Ye put his gaze on him, "Sounds a bit like a mage's research?"

The knight commander nodded, "Yes, this is what I heard from a mage friend when I went to Paris ten years ago-I heard her say that in the mage circle in Paris, this argument It has been discussed by many mages."

Hearing this, Zhong Ye was silent for a while, then walked towards the inside of the village.

"This place seems to have been abandoned..."

The others followed him, and under the order of the knight commander, all the knights spread out in groups of two.

The same is true for the lord's private soldiers, except that they are in groups of five and follow behind the knights.

After going deep into the village, Zhong Ye quickly saw an open space. There was no well or other things here, just a simple open space.

He silently walked to the center of the open space and stepped on the ground.

"...Here, what was placed there?"

Ordinary people can't feel it, but he can feel that this piece of ground feels different from other places.

Looking at Zhong Ye's serious expression, Lilian couldn't help asking, "Is it a 'God Statue'?"

"God statue?"

The knight captain who was following Zhong Ye frowned, "The statue of the evil god?"

"No!"

Zhong Ye shook his head and denied the knight commander's conjecture, and said seriously: "It should be a 'false god'!"

He raised his finger to the surrounding buildings and goblins, "This is the production base of hallucinogens, and these goblins are the workers who grow hallucinogens. It caused trouble to the 'Goblin Tribe', so when this production base was abandoned, they were also abandoned here!
"Through this village, if nothing else, we can see a farmland used to grow hallucinogen raw materials."

After saying that, Zhong Ye stepped forward resolutely and walked straight to the other side of the village.

"Hallucinogens..."

The face behind the knight commander's mask instantly became ugly. As a high-ranking member of the Church of the God of the City, he had naturally heard of the incident of 'the flood of hallucinogens'.

Limas hadn't had a hallucinogen-infested time, but the town was close to Lyon, and they knew what was going on there.

The knight commander and another knight followed in the footsteps of Zhong Ye and Lilian, passed through the village, and indeed saw a piece of farmland on the other side of the village—even if it was covered with snow, they could still tell the difference.

However, that piece of farmland looks no different from ordinary farmland that grows food...

"It's actually here..." Zhong Ye murmured in a low voice.

He never imagined that the hallucinogenic production base he had been looking for was in such a place!

(End of this chapter)