Soul echo

Chapter 374
After leaving the lord's manor, Zhong Ye and the others separated.

Lily had received a royal education and was proficient in etiquette, so she chose to inquire about the situation with nobles and businessmen; Lilian wanted to learn from Zhong Ye to find trouble with gang members, but Zhong Ye thought she was underage. In the name of driving her to ask the townspeople for information, he himself went to contact gangs and thieves' guilds and other evil organizations.

Although Lilian is strong enough, she still has little experience and is too young. If she is allowed to deal with those gangsters, she may be deceived into getting a lot of information.

Zhong Ye casually inquired a few times on the street, and easily got the location of the local gang.

Schwenningen is a small town. Although there are gangs in this place, there are only three or two cats and dogs. They do all kinds of sneaky business on weekdays. They don't even dare to collect protection money. Calling them a gang is just flattering them .

The place where they usually meet is an abandoned warehouse, Zhong Ye went directly to the door, and happened to bump into a few gang members.

The warehouse door was locked, but there was a sound coming from inside.

Zhong Ye walked a few steps and found a hole on the side near the top, presumably those people crawled in through this hole.

He gestured to his body shape, and found that with his current physique, he couldn't climb into that hole smoothly.

With a soft sigh, Zhong Ye walked towards the door and kicked the door panel.

Just the right amount of force snapped the latch instead of shattering the door panel, and the door burst open.

The kicked open door panel hit the walls on both sides, making a loud noise, which startled several people in the abandoned warehouse.

They all turned their heads to look over, and finally met Zhong Ye's eyes.

Seeing a little light on the edge of those bright black eyes, the heart rate of several people suddenly increased-just this time they looked at each other, and several people in the warehouse fell into fear.

One reacted quickly, turning around and trying to run away.

— Duh!

A straight knife flew towards him immediately, piercing the ground between his legs, tripping him to the ground.

"Don't be afraid, I'm just here to ask you some questions." Zhong Ye walked towards them slowly, every step he took felt like a heavy blow to their hearts.

You don't look like you're asking someone a question...

Although I thought so in my heart, several people in the warehouse did not dare to say this sentence.

Turning his head to look at the door panel embedded in the wall, Zhong Ye smiled and said, "This is just a small measure to prevent you from not answering questions, I hope you don't mind."

The corners of their mouths twitched, barely holding up a smile.

As Zhong Ye approached, those people could only keep raising their heads so that they could see his eyes.

Zhong Ye walked to the place where the blue bird fell, pulled out the straight knife, patted the dirt on it, and inserted it back into the scabbard.

Next to it was a wooden box. Zhong Ye pumped his lungs, and blew away the dust accumulated on the wooden box in one breath, and then sat on it. The wooden box creaked and almost collapsed.

After Zhong Ye sat down, he became a little shorter instead, and the necks of the few people finally didn't have to be so tired.

"I heard that you are the only gang in Schwenningen?"

Hearing this sentence, several people shook their heads quickly like a rattle, denying it flatly: "No, no, we are not."

"We're just a bunch of thieves, not a gang at all."

"Where in this world is there any gang that uses stealing to sustain itself!"

Several people laughed, and you denied your identity as a 'gang member' one by one.

Obviously before this, when they announced to the outside world, they were still proud of their status as 'gang members'.

"It doesn't matter whether you are gangsters or not, I just want to get some news from you." Zhong Ye shook his head and suppressed his smile, which also made the few people standing opposite him stagnate.

He looked at them and said seriously: "You should be well informed. I want to know if you know the inside story of those disappearances."

As soon as the words fell, those people shook their heads quickly, "No, no, no, we don't know, we don't know..."

"Duplicity!" Zhong Ye's face darkened, "You are lying!"

The powerful perception ability allowed him to discover the abnormal physiological reactions of those people, and according to his previous observation, these physiological reactions would only appear when one person was lying.

The sudden rapid heartbeat was due to fear, but Zhong Ye was sure that they were not afraid of him.

He had long since ceased to inflict fear on them, which meant that, in that sentence he mentioned, there was something that could scare them.

——These people must know something!
Hearing Zhong Ye's scolding, the faces of several people became extremely depressed.

On one side is the secret that cannot be told, and on the other side is the strong man who can break the solid wooden door latch with one kick. They don't want to offend either side.

Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, struggling inwardly.

"Look over there." Just when several people were struggling, Zhong Ye spoke suddenly, attracting their attention.

They looked in the direction of his finger and saw a door panel embedded in the wall.

Zhong Ye just pointed and didn't say anything, but his face was stern.

From the top of the door panel, several people seemed to see something, and couldn't help swallowing.

But the thing behind that incident seemed to have given them a lot of fear, and after a moment of silence, one of them spoke with difficulty: "We... know something..."

Zhong Ye rolled his eyes to look at him, but didn't speak.

"Those people... should all be dead." The man stammered, his eyes flickering.

The others didn't look surprised at all, which meant that they knew about it a long time ago.

The point is here...

Zhong Ye asked in a deep voice: "Who killed them?"

"...I don't know." The man pursed his lips and shook his head, "He's from outside the town."

Oh, outsiders?Isn't this interesting?
"Did you see those people were killed?" Zhong Ye asked again.

Several people looked at each other and shook their heads, "We didn't see it, we only saw it once... That time Warren wanted to board the ship, but he was discovered before he got close to the ship, and then he was caught. Take it on board and never show up again."

"ferry?"

Zhong Ye raised his eyebrows lightly, "Is it referring to the big ship of the lord's house?"

The person who spoke before nodded obediently, "Warren said more than once that he would also be a crew member of that ship, but the lord stipulated that only adults can become crew members. He was not yet an adult at that time, but his family was short of money. I just wanted to hide after boarding the boat, and reappear after sailing..."

When he said these words, the man showed a bit of sadness on his face, and the others also lowered their eyes in silence.

Only then did Zhong Ye notice that the people gathered in this abandoned warehouse seemed to be of the same age group.

Not surprisingly, they should know the missing person called 'Warren'.

Therefore, they will know the plan of 'Warren' and why he disappeared.

Zhong Ye rubbed his fingertips together, and continued to ask: "What else? What else do you know?"

Seeing them shake their heads, Zhong Ye thought for a while, and changed the way of asking: "It doesn't have to be related to those missing persons, but it can be related to that big ship, for example, the 'outsiders' on that big ship—how ​​do you Are you sure it's someone from outside the town?"

"We all know everyone in the town. The man jumped directly from the boat to Warren. There is no such person in the town."

Hearing this answer, Zhong Ye narrowed his eyes slightly, "Then, apart from that time, have you ever seen any outsiders board that big ship?"

"No."

"I have not seen it."

"……I have seen."

A different answer made everyone's eyes turn away, and even the others were surprised, looking at their companion, as if they knew him for the first time.

The person who gave a different answer was a thin man. He swallowed, and couldn't help shrinking his neck, "I've really seen..."

"Kelvin, didn't we agree not to get involved in this matter?" The person who had talked with Zhong Ye before opened his eyes and couldn't help scolding.

"I didn't do it on purpose..." Kelvin cried, "I, I just went to steal something, and I saw a group of people walking outside the town..."

Zhong Ye took a deep breath, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and stood up from the wooden box.

"They boarded that ship?"

Kelvin gave him a flinching look and shook his head, "I just saw them walking towards the pier..."

"enough."

As he spoke, Zhong Ye took out a few gold coins and handed them out to them one by one.

Facing their unbelievable eyes, he smiled, "Let's do some serious things in the future, and stop stealing."

After saying that, he turned around and walked out of the abandoned warehouse.

Feeling the sun shining on his body again, Zhong Ye narrowed his eyes and took a deep breath of the fresh air.

The breath circulating in the body seemed to have faded away from the decay, broke through the shackles, and suddenly became smooth and refreshing.

【——Acquired legendary skill information ([-]/[-])】

(End of this chapter)