Soul echo

Chapter 388 Speculation
I don't know if it's because the group of plague believers put the virus in the lake, but there are obviously a lot more animals that have been transformed into living corpses.

Before they got close to Kreuzlingen, they were attacked by a living animal corpse, and then encountered several more one after another on the road.

Originally, they only encountered animal corpses near Constantia, and that was just a rabbit, but now, they encountered animals such as deer, sheep, and wolves.

There are also a lot of infected birds, but for some reason, they have stayed in Constantia and refused to leave.

Their strange behavior reminded Zhong Ye of the falcon he saw over the city yesterday before they entered Constantia.

When they approached Constantia, the falcon flew to the other side of the city and disappeared.

However, Lake Constance was on the other side of the city, but Zhong Ye and the others did not see the falcon there.

The falcon hovering over Constantia was not attacked by other birds that turned into living corpses, was it because it was also a living corpse?
The only thing that is certain now is that the plague had already begun to spread secretly when Zhong Ye and the others were still in Schwenningen, or even Tubingen. After lurking for more than ten days, it finally broke out in an all-round way.

There are not so many travelers walking outside in winter, so the plague appeared in so many human settlements, no doubt because someone is spreading the plague—just like the plague believers that Zhong Ye killed this morning.

And now, it's time for the plague believers to 'harvest'.

As more and more animals are turned into corpses, the spread of the plague will be further accelerated.

With such worries in mind, Zhong Ye and the others returned to Schaffhausen.

Instead of going to the town, they made a detour to the Dimu Church on the outskirts of the city.

Perhaps it was because today was not the Sunday of the Earth Mother Church, there were not many people in the church, there were only four of them, and one of them was an apprentice clergyman.

The apprentice met Zhong Ye and the others with the pastor the day before yesterday, so he was taken aback when he saw Zhong Ye and the others coming.

"You... oh, you're back? How's Constantia doing?"

Seeing the blood on Zhong Ye's body, the apprentice frowned slightly.

The others also looked back, and then hurriedly looked away as if they were being stabbed by needles.

Zhong Ye didn't answer, walked straight to the apprentice and said in a low voice, "We need to see your mentor."

A look of astonishment flashed in the apprentice's eyes, he pursed his lips, and nodded slightly.

Without saying anything, he turned around and walked towards the back of the church.

Zhong Ye and the others waited in the chapel for a while, during which one of them got up and left, while the other two closed their eyes tightly, as if they were praying with all their strength.

Seeing their reactions, Zhong Ye couldn't help shaking his head.

It seems that [Affinity Physique] still has a limit. Once it exceeds the tolerance threshold in people's hearts, this trait will not work.

After a while, the apprentice came out again and invited Zhong Ye and the others to the reception room.

Until Zhong Ye and the others disappeared into the chapel, Zhong Ye heard the two believers outside heaving a sigh of relief.

The pastor had already been waiting in the reception room, and when the apprentice brought Zhong Ye and the others into the reception room, he waved his hand and told the apprentice to leave the room.

"Constancia..."

The pastor hesitated for a moment, then sighed: "...has it really been completely destroyed?"

"Yes." Zhong Ye nodded heavily, "We saw it with our own eyes, and we can even say that it was because of me that all the last survivors of Constantia died..."

The pastor looked up at Zhong Ye in astonishment, his lips twitching.

Lily bumped Zhong Ye with her elbow angrily, and found that he didn't intend to explain, so she hurriedly explained for her.

After listening to Lily's explanation, the pastor's face became a little better, but it was still quite complicated.

In that situation, even he couldn't do better, he couldn't even be like Zhong Ye, who blamed himself for the casualties of innocent people killed by the enemy's attack.

"This is... something that can't be helped." The pastor comforted Zhong Ye.

Zhong Ye didn't speak, and remained silent.

Afterwards, the pastor sighed again: "You came back this time to tell us that there is also a plague in Schaffhausen, right?"

"Very likely." Zhong Ye nodded, "But the main purpose is not this, as we told you before, the reason we came back is to find traces of those traffickers."

The pastor had already been mentally prepared. When he heard Zhong Ye say 'very likely', his mood didn't change much, but he frowned when he heard the latter sentence.

"Did you find any clues in Constantia?"

Hearing this, Lily shook her head, told what she and Lilian had guessed, and at the same time, spread out the map.

Looking at the town and the two routes marked on the map, the pastor suddenly realized.

He didn't know exactly where Montreux was before, and in which direction Schaffhausen was in Montreux, but now that he looked at it this way, it became much clearer.

From this point of view, Zhong Ye and the others should indeed go to the west or south to find evidence...

"Is one of the routes ending in Schaffhausen?" The pastor frowned at the map.

Around Schaffhausen, apart from Constancia, there are indeed no other towns. If the group of human traffickers want to resupply, there is a high probability that they can only do it in Schaffhausen.

However, he lives in Schaffhausen, but he has never seen any suspicious people appear.

In this small town, it was not easy to hide from his attention.

After all, Schaffhausen is not big and has a small population. Most people believe in the Earth Mother. Basically, what happens in Schaffhausen cannot be hidden from him.

In Schaffhausen, there is only one person who can do this——

"Lord!"

The pastor took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice, "In Schaffhausen, probably only our lord can do this kind of thing!"

This answer was not surprising to Zhong Ye and the others.

The old lord of Montreux belonged to that group of guys, even the new lord, and his beliefs were quite firm, he was able to kill himself decisively, and he didn't intend to tell them any information.

——Although now they have suspected that the new lord Laruitue is a skin controlled by the 'Painted Skin'.

Because of this, it is not surprising that the lord of Schaffhausen is also the helper of the traffickers.

I'm just a little confused, if this is true, then the lord of Schaffhausen was manipulated by 'Painted Skin'?Or is it just a relationship of interest?

Now they only expect the latter, in which case they can still pry some information from the lord.

Zhong Ye thought for a moment, then said: "Then, can you introduce us to the lord of Schaffhausen under the pretext of 'curing the plague'? After all, this problem does exist."

The pastor was stunned, "Now?"

Zhong Ye nodded, "The situation is urgent—no matter what it is."

Hearing this, the pastor frowned slightly.

What Zhong Ye said is correct, the situation is urgent, Constantia is so close to Schaffhausen, and there are plague believers who are secretly operating, trying to spread the plague, if there is no accident, Schaffhausen should already have Many people are infected, they just don't know it yet.

But the pastor is not worried about this matter. When he contacted the church members in Kreuzlingen before, the church members there said that the medical church has mobilized many priests and is preparing to go here support.

Based on the situation of Constantia, it can be inferred that the incubation period of the plague of living corpses is not long but not short. Maybe they can support it until the Medical Church arrives.

However, it is also what they need to do to minimize the spread of the plague and the number of infected people-they need to control Schaffhausen.

That being the case, meeting the lord is a must.

"I hope that you can confront the lord after the Schaffhausen matter is resolved." The pastor looked embarrassed, "Schaffhausen can't stand the toss..."

"Don't worry, there are priorities, and we know that."

Zhong Ye said forcefully: "Until the plague incident in Schaffhausen is over, we will not touch a hair of the lord!"

(End of this chapter)