Soul echo

Chapter 320 Connection
The people who ran out of the house were both male and female, except that there were no old or young, they were all young and middle-aged.

They hold all kinds of weapons in their hands, not only the types are different, even the same type of weapons have very different appearances and degrees of wear.

Some are extremely sharp, while others are like a rough embryo.

It only takes one glance to tell that the weapons are not from the same region.

I am afraid that only adventurers and businessmen from various regions will carry these weapons, and the fate of the original owners of these weapons...

Even if these people in front of them are not cult members, but just a group of ordinary bandits, they deserve death!

After seeing Zhong Ye split the whole person with a knife, the group of people didn't stop, and even their expressions didn't change much.

The people on the opposite side did not hold long-range attack weapons such as bows and crossbows, only various melee weapons, and the clothes on their bodies looked rather rough, and they did not wear armor.

They didn't answer, and Zhong Ye didn't intend to ask any more.

Outrageously drew out the straight knife, stepped forward, and crashed into the crowd.

Swords, axes and hammers came together, and Zhong Ye swung his arms suddenly, cutting off a series of arms and heads. The sharp blade cut through the human body, as easily as cutting tofu.

Lilian also rushed forward, raised her hand and shot an arrow, killing a bandit who was trying to pounce on him, then turned forward and threw out the light sword.

Under the action of centrifugal force, the blade of the light sword was slightly bent, and when the force reached the tip, the trembling sword tip pierced a person's throat and shattered the person's trachea.

Death was so simple and straightforward, these people couldn't stop Zhong Ye at all.

At best, they are ordinary people who have undergone some combat training, and they are inferior to the most ordinary abyss believers.

Lilian only had time to deal with a few people, and the rest were all defeated by Zhong Ye.

Zhong Ye didn't kill them all, because he still needed some survivors.

Everyone fell into a pool of blood, and even those who survived were sweating profusely while clutching their broken arms.

Zhong Ye bent down and stared at a fallen man, "Tell me, who are you?"

During the fight just now, he felt that the mood of these guys was quite wrong.

There is no anger or resentment towards him, only deep malice and killing intent.

"Pooh!"

The man lying on the ground spat, Zhong Ye didn't even try to hide, because the saliva couldn't fall on him at all.

"If you dare to kill a devout believer, God will punish you!"

As soon as this sentence came out, it was like flipping a switch.

Those who were not killed by Zhong Ye shouted and cursed: "Those who don't believe will eventually fall into the abyss!"

"God will cast out you unbelievers!"

"The gods and angels will punish you!"

There were endless shouts and curses, as if they were about to overturn the roof of the cave.

Hearing these voices, Zhong Ye frowned.

These guys are indeed cultists, but they also have the status of 'bandit'.

However, these cultists don't seem to be believers in the abyss, and the believers in the abyss are not that weak.

Believers of Dan World Evil God?However, how many evil gods are there in this world now?

Zhong Ye clearly remembered that most of the evil gods in the Dan world were cleaned up by the righteous gods, and such evil gods who rejected other beliefs were the most important targets.

——The west land used to have many gods, but after the invasion of the abyss, those gods were either infected by the abyss like the "God of Plague", or they rejected other beliefs and were besieged and killed by other gods.

So, what kind of evil god is this?
No wonder this group of cultists didn't buy the paintings of Viscount Barnes, they were not the same from the beginning.

Zhong Ye took a deep breath and looked up at the houses in front of him.

This is the place where cultists live, so among those houses, there should be a room where the leaders of these cultists live.

Even if the leader was accidentally killed by him, there should be some information left in the room.

"Lilian, let's go."

After speaking, Zhong Ye stepped over the pool of blood and corpses, and walked towards those houses.

Lilian, who turned on the underage mode, couldn't see the blood pools and broken limbs on the ground, but she still felt that the pile of corpses was a bit creepy, so she trotted around.

Leaving behind a bunch of cursing, Zhong Ye and Lilian walked into the settlement.

They didn't try to explore the run-down or outlying houses that were clearly not where the leader would live.

Most of the houses in this settlement are made of mud, and only a few are stone houses.

Zhong Ye pushed open the door of the stone house one by one to check the decorations in the house.

There was a room covered with animal skins, and both Zhong Ye and Lilian felt that this room was the room where the cult leader lived.

They lit torches and went into the house to search.

However, there is nothing in the house!

Zhong Ye found some traces in the house. From these traces, it can be seen that the owner of this room once packed things in the house.

So, what about 'stuff'?

Zhong Ye remembered very clearly that when he was fighting just now, he didn't find anyone carrying 'luggage'.

In other words, the owner of this room may not have participated in the battle just now!

"... He should have escaped." Zhong Ye frowned and let out a foul breath.

Moreover, he packed up 'certain things' and ran away with them.

If nothing else, those things may be related to the evil gods behind those cultists.

Rumble!
At this moment, a huge earthquake suddenly appeared.

But the tremor lasted only for a moment, and soon disappeared.

Zhong Ye and Lilian ran out of the house, but did not see any falling stones.

what happened?

The two of them looked left and right, searching around.

Seeing a barrage flying past her eyes, Lilian exclaimed, "It's another cave!"

Zhong Ye took a breath, stretched out his hand to grab Lilian, and ran wildly.

After crossing the pile of corpses and pools of blood, leaving behind a group of heretics who were still cursing them, Zhong Ye rushed through the passage and came to the fork in the road.

The fork in the road did not collapse, and there was still light inside.

Zhong Ye frowned slightly, and ran in.

After another long passage, they came to a wide cave.

This cave is different from the cave where the cultists lived before. Apart from the passage behind them, there is an opening at the other end, which leads to nowhere.

In the cave, there was something that caught the attention of Zhong Ye and Lilian.

It was a pile of black stones, but those stones looked...

Zhong Ye didn't approach rashly. After putting Lilian down, he used his spiritual power to pick up a stone from a distance, and saw some lines on the back of the stone with eyesight comparable to that of a falcon.

Those lines made him subconsciously stunned for a moment, because...it looked very similar to something in his memory.

He grabbed several other black stones with his spiritual power, and Zhong Ye could see the 'textures' in places other than the section of the stones.

"……altar?"

It is the altar found outside the city of Chartres, and those lines are the 'words' under the stone bricks that make up the main body of the altar.

How did this incident get in touch with 'Painted Skin' again?

Many doubts appeared in Zhong Ye's mind, but he quickly suppressed them.

After the cultists were defeated, their leader fled with 'something', and when he and Lilian discovered this, they felt a violent shock.

Then, they came here and saw this ruin...

As expected, this cairn used to be an 'altar' - the kind of altar that can be related to the 'painted skin'.

Does this mean that the evil gods worshiped by those cultists are related to those 'painted skins'?
(End of this chapter)