Soul echo

Chapter 328 Heading to Auxerre

For some reason, Zhong Ye suddenly felt that Lilian was clinging to him even more.

Why did my attitude as a student change after I went offline and went online again?What happened while she was offline?
Although he was a bit puzzled, Zhong Ye didn't intend to delve into it.

There is a world between them, and it is impossible to meet in reality for the time being. Even if they know what happened around her, there is no way to solve it.

Several churches didn't make them wait too long. The day after Zhong Ye brought Cyril back, several churches marked the route to the vampire clan's stronghold in the Bourges area through merchants and adventurers.

And just this morning, when Zhong Ye had just finished exercising, the priests of the Commercial Church delivered the map to him.

The location of the stronghold is a little far from the city of Bourges, about a hundred kilometers away, and it is already close to another town, and according to the marks on the map, the stronghold may be in the deep mountains and old forests.

Now that the snow has not completely melted, it may be a little troublesome to walk in the mountains.

When the clergy of the Commercial Church delivered the map, they also brought Zhong Ye a message from the bishop.

Several churches have notified the nearby titled battle groups and demon hunters, and there should be many people participating in this operation.

Lily and Lilian approached Zhong Ye and looked at the spread map.

On the map, a large town mark is extremely conspicuous.

The town is called 'Auxerre', which is their destination afterward, and the stronghold of the vampire clan is near this town.

When seeing this map, Zhong Ye fell into doubts.

Although he was transformed into a vampire, how did Cyril know where Bourges was?Could it be that he had found his way back to Bourges by mistake?

Moreover, Auxerre is located in the northeast of Bourges, far away from the cultist settlement they discovered. Is there really a connection between cultists and vampires?
If the altar in the cultist colony wasn't used for experimenting on vampires, what was it used for?

These doubts lingered in his mind and did not dissipate for a long time.

When Zhong Ye was packing his luggage and taking the carriage out of the warehouse of the Adventurer's House, he was thinking about these things.

Intuition told him that there should be a connection between these things, but he has not yet realized where the connection between these things is.

Since he can already feel the connection among these things, the information he has now can prove the existence of the 'connection', so his intuition will react.

After thinking for a long time, Zhong Ye sighed and temporarily suppressed these thoughts until Lilian and the others loaded their luggage into the carriage.

His ingenuity is still not sensitive enough, otherwise, he would have been able to find the connection of these things from the known information.

Zhong Ye did not bid farewell to the clergy, and they should have known that he would leave for Auxerre as soon as he got the news.

It is about a day's journey from Bourges to Auxerre, and this is because of the heavy snow on the road. If it is in summer, it may take half a day to arrive.

——It hasn’t snowed in the past few days. The snow on the road is a little thinner than the previous two days, and the speed of the road is much faster.

…………

The next day, Zhong Ye and the others arrived in Auxerre.

This is a little-known town, not famous, and naturally not prosperous.

This town is no different from other towns in the Gaul Kingdom. The dirt and mess of the streets are exposed to people after the snow melts.

But the people living here have long been familiar with all this, and turned a blind eye to the dirty things on the street.

Even though many churches have been propagating that dirty and untidy environments are prone to breed plagues, and have been using actions to clean up the dirty environments in cities and villages, the people don't care about these.

They don't have much knowledge, and they don't know the dangers of the abyss. They don't know that after the plague breeds in a dirty environment, if there are abyss believers or plague believers present, it will quickly infect the whole city.

After Zhong Ye and the others arrived in Auxerre, they just ran into a plague spreading——

"Cough cough!"

"Cough cough cough..."

Driving the carriage on the street, Zhong Ye heard coughing from all directions.

There was no one on the street, all the shops were closed, and the voices Zhong Ye heard all came from the house.

Lily and Lilian didn't hear the cough, so they were wondering why all the shops were closed?

"I'm afraid it's the plague."

At this moment, Zhong Ye's voice sounded from outside the carriage.

He scanned the deserted streets and thought about it.

"What? Plague?!" Lily Lieber exclaimed.

She leaned against the window and cast her gaze from the compartment.

"This...how can there be a plague?"

"Because it's winter now." Zhong Ye replied calmly, "Winter is a season of plagues. In the east, many plagues will break out in winter. Since it is inconvenient to walk outside in winter, the news has not been spread."

However, he still has a little doubt.

There should be 'unusual' ways of passing messages among churches, although there is no way to pass the news in the usual way.

If there was a plague in Auxerre, didn't the other towns around Auxerre get the news?

It was less than a day since they left Bourges. Could it be that the plague spread to the entire city during this day?
And why, after the plague, had the gates not been closed?

Then again, if there is a plague in Auxerre and other towns are notified, the churches in Bourges should also tell him that there is a plague outbreak in Auxerre after handing him the map. ...

strange!
It is so strange!

Zhong Ye was extremely puzzled, could it be that he is really a 'Sorrowful Star'?Walking to a place, will the doom of that place explode?

But he was not like this when he was on Earth. If this is true, what happened to him?
Although Zhong Ye already knew that his time travel was not easy, but now that he is further aware of the strangeness in this matter, he has more doubts and vigilance in his heart.

With such doubts, Zhong Ye drove a carriage through the city and found the church in Auxerre.

What surprised him even more was that the mainstream belief in this town was the 'God of Medicine'!
Even though the mainstream belief in this town is the God of Healing, there will still be suspected plagues in the town?As believers of the God of Medicine, didn't the priests of this town think of 'isolation'?Why are the gates still open?

"Don't get out of the car!"

With such doubts, Zhong Ye told Lilian and the others, and pushed open the door of the church.

There were more than a dozen breaths in the church, and other than that, there was no other sound.

This is obviously the church of the God of Medicine, and it is likely to be used as a 'hospital' by the clergy, but there is no coughing sound in the church.

That is, the church does not house any sick people?
Zhong Ye frowned, walked quickly through the hall, and entered the chapel.

This is the hall where ordinary believers gather to worship and pray, but now, there are only a few breathing sounds.

Zhong Ye didn't see any figure here, his brows furrowed deeper, and his pace quickened a little.

Soon, he was on a few benches and saw several clergymen who fell there.

They were short of breath, their faces were flushed, and they looked badly burned.

what happened?Aren't they priests of the God of Medicine?

Zhong Ye was extremely surprised, so he turned his head to look at the statue placed at the end of the chapel.

—broken!

(End of this chapter)