Soul echo

Chapter 322 Investigation

A handsome, tall adventurer who doesn't look like an adventurer came to the village.

He carried a weapon on his back and a knife on his waist, but he didn't look fierce at all. Even without a smile on his face, he could make people feel very gentle. This is probably the biggest difference between him and other adventurers. different.

Because it is winter, people don't have so many entertainment activities, either go out to chat with other people, or prepare things at home for next year's busy farming season.

Therefore, when people wandering outside said that a 'strange' adventurer had come to the village, the panicked villagers couldn't help but look out from behind the window.

Bang bang bang!
"Germain! Germain!"

The son of the village chief who was in charge of receiving Zhong Ye slammed the wooden door in front of him.

This village is less than five kilometers away from Bourges. It is a village formed spontaneously by the people. It is still under the jurisdiction of the lord of Bourges and has not been entrusted to others.

Therefore, there is no lord in this village, only the 'representative of public opinion' elected by the villagers, also known as the 'village chief'.

However, the village chief was old, and if he went out for a walk at this time, if he contracted any disease, it would definitely be a big trouble, so the village chief asked his son to take care of Zhong Ye.

This village is the village that discovered the 'vampire trace' and reported the situation.

After Zhong Ye told Lily and Lilian to rest in the Adventurer's House obediently, he took the information he got from the bishop of the Commercial Church and set off alone to this village.

Since he held the bishop's certificate in his hand, the village chief quickly believed his words and asked his son to take him around the village and question the witnesses who 'witnessed vampires'.

The son of the village chief was a middle-aged man with thick body hair. He was very strong, and he slapped on the wooden door, as if he wanted to remove the wooden door from the door frame.

"Come here! Don't shoot!"

An irritable voice came from the house, and soon, a man in unlined clothes opened the door, "What are you doing, Kari?"

The man in the house couldn't help but sneezed when the cold wind outside the door blew, and the droplets fell directly on the village chief's son.

"Jermain what are you doing?"

The village chief's son raised his clenched fist, and then he felt his wrist tighten, his arm was clamped, and he couldn't move.

Looking back, it was the adventurer.

Zhong Ye shook his head, "Although I'm sorry, it's wrong to hit someone."

Hearing this, the village chief's son angrily shook off Zhong Ye's hand, but he didn't raise his fist again.

Zhong Ye sighed, and turned to look at the man called 'Germain'.

"I heard that you have seen vampires haunting this village?"

Hearing this, Germain twitched his lips, "What does it have to do with you?"

"I'm here to exterminate vampires. If you don't want to sleep one day and never wake up again, you don't have to say it." Zhong Ye shook his head and sighed, "Especially for people like you who have seen their whereabouts , most likely to be their target."

Hearing this sentence, Germaine's expression changed suddenly, "Here, I...I said it! I said it!"

Apparently, he doesn't know that all vampires are repelled by the goddess of the house, unable to set foot in a house they haven't been invited by their master.

After being frightened, Germaine stammered out everything he knew—even when his wife in the room asked him why he didn't close the door, he just cursed back and turned to the clock. Ye told what he knew.

Because he hadn't read the book, Germaine's description was not very clear and fragmented, but Zhong Ye still managed to piece together the things he described by relying on his association ability.

Not long after leaving that house, Zhong Ye heard the quarrel and exclamation from inside the house.

Noticing the worried eyes of the village chief's son, Zhong Ye thought for a while, and understood what he was thinking, and explained with a smile: "I lied to him just now, if I didn't say that, he wouldn't be so easy to tell the truth Come out, actually you don't need to worry about vampires invading your house at all, because all vampires are resisted by the goddess of domesticity, under the protection of that goddess, as long as you don't actively invite vampires into your house, they can't set foot in you House half step.

"Don't worry about them attacking your house, because the God of Craftsman will give you shelter when the evil creatures attack. If you don't pay the blood price, they don't want to tear down your house, so everyone But don't worry."

Hearing this, the village chief's son was relieved.

Then he suddenly remembered Germaine's frightened appearance just now, and couldn't help laughing out loud.

Although he couldn't beat him up, it was pretty good to see how frightened he was.

Afterwards, led by the village chief's son, Zhong Ye visited several other families and got enough clues from them.

The actual situation was similar to what the Commercial Church told him. No one in this village died from vampires, so people behaved so 'comfortable'.

It was only because of the bad reputation of the 'vampire' that he was afraid that he would be hurt, so he reported the news.

In fact, what died in this village were 'livestock', the chickens, ducks, geese, and sheep they raised.

For example, Germaine's family, he was the first to discover "the whereabouts of vampires", and his sheep were also the first to suffer.

After his sheep were killed by 'vampires', other people's livestock gradually suffered.

In fact, Zhong Ye didn't need to intimidate Germain, as long as he said that he was here to destroy the vampires, Germain would tell him the situation—a sheep died for no reason, and he was already so angry that he wanted to kill someone. He looked at everyone like a 'murderer' who killed his own sheep, and it wasn't until this happened to other families that they realized that it wasn't a jealous neighbor who killed their livestock, but some kind of monster.

However, after entering deep winter, this situation never happened again in their village.

'Vampires' who don't kill people, but kill livestock?
Zhong Ye sorted out his thoughts in his mind, and pieced together a 'ridiculous' conjecture.

In the eyes of the clergy in Dan's world, this conjecture may be deviant, so they would not think of this possibility.

It is also possible that they have already thought of this, but their past knowledge made them subconsciously deny this possibility.

However, Zhong Ye was born at the end of the 21st century and grew up in the 22nd century. He has seen similar settings in many films and games.

Even though he himself had some doubts about the existence of such vampires, he would not directly deny this possibility.

"Thank you for your help."

Walking to the entrance of the village, Zhong Ye waved to the village chief's son, ready to leave the village.

"Here, let's go?" The village chief's son stared blankly at Zhong Ye. Didn't he come to help them deal with that vampire?
"Your village is not the only one where this happens." Zhong Ye laughed. "Similar things happened in other villages. I still need to go to other villages to investigate before I can ascertain the movements of that 'vampire'."

If there is only one vampire, then the frequency of that vampire's eating is too high.

However, if there is not only one vampire... how can it be explained that they only suck the blood of animals and do not harm humans?

Zhong Ye didn't think that vampires must harm human beings, and that human beings must suffer casualties. It's just that this series of actions does not conform to human's impression of vampires.

After leaving that village, Zhong Ye ran wildly to the next village.

Four villages around Bourges reported the news of 'discovering vampires' to several churches in Bourges, and the priests also went to investigate, but they found nothing.

This is also the most surprising thing—since there is activity, there must be traces left. Vampires are active around Bourges so frequently, why didn't the priests who went to investigate find anything?
Three of the villages reported that only animals were attacked, while in the remaining village, humans were attacked and died.

—Only in this village is the situation the same as in Bourges!

(End of this chapter)