Soul echo

Chapter 423 Pursuit
After killing the monster transformed from the Lord of Schaffhausen, Lily didn't feel the slightest bit of relief, but instead felt an extremely heavy exhaustion emanating from her bones.

"Why...why is this happening?"

Lily glanced blankly over every object in the basement, cages, wooden frames, chains, saws... everything here is so disgusting!
She grew up in the court since she was a child. Even though she knew that the nobles were dirty profit creatures, she only thought that their evil and dirtyness were only in the struggle for power and profit.

Until now, she had really seen the dark side of the 'nobility'!
After seeing these things, Lily couldn't help but think, is it true that her friends who look gorgeous in clothes and have gentle smiles are also like this in secret?All they show is hypocrisy and high-sounding?

"Uh, uh..."

Just imagining it, Lily couldn't hold back her vomiting reaction. Regardless of Zhong Ye's watching, she vomited out most of her digested dinner in one gulp.

Zhong Ye approached silently, patted Lily on the back, without saying a word.

Lily couldn't stop vomiting at all, and she vomited for a while, almost emptying her stomach, before stopping.

At this time, a handkerchief was handed over, Lily was slightly taken aback, looked over her arm, and found that the owner of the handkerchief was Zhong Ye, she couldn't help smiling wryly, took the handkerchief to wipe the dirt around her mouth.

"... Let me show you a joke."

"It's okay." Zhong Ye shook his head slightly, "Let's go, Paulino is missing, but the lord of Schaffhausen has turned into a demon. I suspect that he deliberately stayed here to attract our attention, in order to delay time."

Lily nodded, folded and put away the handkerchief, and was going to return it to Zhong Ye after washing it.

"You mean he has escaped?"

As she spoke, she couldn't help but think of the question 'why did Paulino run away', but after a while, she thought of the answer.

"Paolino is the guy who invaded my dreams?"

Only in this way can Paulino escape suddenly and turn the lord of Schaffhausen into a demon. He did not hesitate to expose his identity as a follower of the evil god to attract their attention.

It is very likely that Paulino Baum discovered Zhong Ye's strength in her dream, so he decided to run away directly and not become an enemy of Zhong Ye.

"However, how can you be sure that Paulino is missing, and that he is the culprit who caused the lord to become a demon, instead of being... eaten by the lord?" Lily asked suspiciously.

Zhong Ye took a deep breath, "Just yesterday, when we met the lord, I was sure that he was influenced by my physique, and because of this, he believed what we said.

"And demons—even the species in this world affected by evil gods will not be affected by my physique, let alone demons."

Zhong Ye remembered the time when he first came to this world, when he first met the troll.

It can be said that the white troll was coming for him, otherwise, there was no need to suddenly appear outside the town alone.

At that time, he already possessed [Affinity Physique], but the troll still beat him up, indicating that [Affinity Physique] can only affect the native creatures in this world, and cannot affect the creatures born under the influence of the abyss Or something from the outside world.

The lord of Schaffhausen was still affected by [Affinity Physique] when they met yesterday, which means that until yesterday, that person was still human.

If the lord of Schaffhausen was a demon inspired by the abyss, his strength could not be so weak, and his mental state could not be so 'normal'-compared with other demons and cultists, his previous behavior can even be used 'Normal' to describe it, at least it doesn't sing praises in a godly way.

Therefore, Zhong Ye believed that Paulino Baum was the real culprit, and the lord of Schaffhausen was just a small character pushed by him to block the gun.

Zhong Ye explained his conjecture and deduction process, and Lily and Lilian nodded in agreement.

Looking at it this way, Paulino Baum is the culprit who caused all this!

After leaving the basement, just as they came to the corridor, Zhong Ye and the others saw a few figures hiding in the dark in the distance.

They thought they were hiding well, but the dimly lit oil lamps had already outlined their outlines.

Glancing at them, Zhong Ye looked down at Lily who was half leaning on his arms, and asked softly, "Is it better?"

Lily pursed her lips, although she was a bit reluctant, she still walked out of Zhong Ye's arms, "Okay..."

Now is not the time to talk about love, the real culprit has not been executed yet, that guy is still at large, maybe he will harm other people at some point.

Paulino Baum had to be caught or killed before he hurt anyone else, and more people would be hurt.

Therefore, Zhong Ye looked at the few people who were hiding in the dark and did not dare to speak out again, and asked loudly, "Where is Paulino Baum?"

Those people froze for a moment, and moved their steps to retreat, but the tall man said again: "Don't run away, it's you! I just want to know where Paulino Baum is, and I'm not interested in other things. "

Zhong Ye stared at the shadow, and said forcefully: "We came from the church, Paulino Baum turned your lord into a monster, it has been killed by us, now I just want to know, Paulino Where's Baum?"

What he said caused a little commotion among those few people. They skipped Zhong Ye's other words, only remembering 'the lord has been killed by him', and they all shuddered.

"No, don't kill me, I don't know anything!"

"I do not know I do not know!"

Those people shouted, turned and ran.

Seeing their fleeing backs, Zhong Ye frowned slightly, his eyes flickered a few times, and he turned and left.

"Go, go to the gatehouse."

Now many people may have the idea of ​​'escape'. If they want to escape, they will definitely go to the castle gate. Only there is the only escape route they can use.

Zhong Ye and the others walked out of the inner castle holding torches, and walked quickly towards the city gate.

Sure enough, they saw a group of black shadows gathered in front of the city gate. The servants who escaped from the castle begged the soldiers guarding the gate, begging the soldiers to open the gate and let them go out.

The servants became more and more anxious and couldn't help pushing and shoving the soldiers blocking the door.

As a result, the soldiers' anger was also aroused, and they pushed back with their backhands. This push pushed several servants to the ground.

The servants finally stopped, but then there were low sobs and suppressed cries.

At this time, the soldier captain stared at a pair of bloodshot eyes, and led a group of soldiers out of the gatehouse.

"Can anyone tell me what happened inside?"

The servants, who had become cowardly because of being constantly shouted about, didn't answer, they just sobbed and wept, and the more the soldier listened, the more irritable he became.

At this moment, a cold voice crossed the crowd and reached their ears: "Your lord was turned into a monster by Paulino Baum, and that monster has been killed by us, and Paulino Baum Missing, probably on the way to escape - who can tell me, who knows where Paulino is?"

"Who?" The soldier captain's face changed, and he looked behind the crowd in surprise.

Zhong Ye, who was more than a head taller than the people around him, stood quietly behind the crowd with a torch in his hand, looking at him silently.

The soldier captain who is a retired mercenary saw Zhong Ye's strength at a glance, his eyes widened slightly, and he gritted his teeth, "How can you prove this?"

"The body of your lord is in the basement, but I don't suggest you go see it. People from the church will come to clean up the mess after a while. Apart from this, I have no other way to prove your identity. If you really want to fight I don't care, I can accompany you to the end."

Hearing these words, the soldier captain instantly put out his thoughts of action, raised his hand to stop the other soldiers, and silently watched Zhong Ye.

Zhong Ye glanced at him, then turned his attention away from him, "Does anyone know where Paulino went?"

Perhaps the [Affinity Physique] played a role. People subconsciously listened to Zhong Ye's words, looked at each other, and thought about Paulino's whereabouts.

"I... When I got up at night just now, I seemed to see a figure on the west wall..."

West?Will it be such a coincidence?
Zhong Ye frowned, but there were no other clues at the moment. He turned around and told Lili and the others: "You wait here for the church personnel to come to support you. Try to eliminate, I believe in your strength."

Lily immediately understood Zhong Ye's thoughts, nodded, and immediately asked, "Zhong, are you going to track down Paulino?"

"Yes." Zhong Ye nodded earnestly, and turned his gaze to the west wall, "I must stop him!"

After speaking, his body suddenly lifted from the ground, jumped directly onto the city wall, and strode towards the west wall.

The others stared dumbfounded, and a thought emerged in their hearts.

——Is this still human?
(End of this chapter)