"After that, the legend of the curse began to spread here. Now, the people in the surrounding towns know about it, and no one dares to come here anymore. Only us vagrants want to try our luck here and see if there is anything valuable that we can bring back to exchange for money. Of course, the most important thing is that there is another investigation team from the church here. They are quite nice to us vagrants, at least when we ask them for something, they will usually give us some," said the beggar.
"The investigation team from the church?" Li Huailin was a little surprised, but then he remembered that the pope did say that they were now re-investigating the situation, so they also sent people over. Li Huailin now felt that it was necessary to ask these people about the progress of the investigation, and if there was any news about the female knight, so he decided to go and take a look.
"Do you know where the investigation team from the church is now? Bring me there, "said Li Huailin.
"Sir, you want to go to the church? This is not a wise choice. The people from the church are very powerful, I think they will ignore you, "said the beggar kindly.
"Hehe, ignore me?" Li Huailin sneered. He was a Cardinal of the human territory, and they dare to ignore him. "Bring me there."
"Okay then." Since Li Huailin insisted, the beggar nodded and quickly brought Li Huailin to a cleaner looking building. This place was different from the messy streets. It seemed that with the people from the church here, the vagrants here did not dare to cause trouble. However, Li Huailin saw a lot of vagrants squatting at the door nearby, probably waiting for the charity of the church.
"This is the place. Sir, I will go first. I still need to reserve a good place here." After saying that, the beggar immediately squatted to the side and leaned against the wall next to him.
Li Huailin did not care about him and directly walked into the building. Sure enough, he saw four knights at the door. They were all dressed like knights from the church. When they saw Li Huailin, they immediately greeted him.
"This is the temporary investigation headquarters of the church, it is not convenient for the people of the empire to enter," the knight did not recognize Li Huailin, but seeing Li Huailin's appearance, he did not say anything rude.
"I am the Cardinal of the human territory, Ruolin. Where is your person in charge? Ask him to come out and see me," Li Huailin directly revealed his identity.
"Eh?" The four were surprised, but they did not recognize Li Huailin. After thinking for a while, they immediately said, "Sir, please wait, I will go and get the captain."
Li Huailin waited for a while, and sure enough, a person dressed like a knight captain rushed out. Seeing Li Huailin, the captain immediately saluted and said, "Captain of the 6th Knight of the Church of Light, Wurlitz, greets the Archbishop."
"Greetings to the Archbishop," the knights at the side immediately said.
"Oh, it's fine, it's fine." Li Huailin immediately said, "I came here this time to listen to the progress of the investigation. I just came from Huang Daren's place. He asked me to cooperate with your investigation, so I came to ask about the situation here and if you need any help. Can you tell me about it?"
"Yes, no problem. Archbishop, please follow me first." Naturally, no one doubted the veracity of Li Huailin's words. Captain Wurlitz immediately spoke up.
Following Wurlitz, Li Huailin arrived at the investigation department. As soon as he entered, he saw a huge square at the entrance. There were all kinds of corpses neatly arranged on it. Li Huailin immediately knew that this was the place where they investigated the corpses of the townspeople.
"Archbishop, we are now investigating the real cause of death of the townspeople." Wurlitz introduced, "Previously, we thought that the townspeople died from the attack of the Undead, but after careful investigation, we found that there were very few townspeople who actually died from swords. Most of the townspeople didn't have any wounds on their bodies, but the way they died was very horrible. At first, we thought that the villagers might have inhaled the Water of Death, but after the investigation, it may not be the case. As you can see, although the way they died is a little similar, the insides of the corpses did not rot, which is very different from death by inhaling the Water of Death."
"I see." Li Huailin nodded. "Now, do you know what caused the deaths of the townspeople?"
"We haven't found out yet," Wurlitz said.
"Then investigate here first. If you need any help, go directly to the church district of the main human city to find Archdeacon Morrisa. Tell her that I asked you to go," Li Huailin said immediately.
"Yes, Archbishop," Wurlitz immediately said.
"By the way, didn't you say that there was a branch of the Church here, the 41st Knights of the Vatican? Are they all dead? "Li Huailin asked.
"Yes, we found a few corpses that are suspected to be theirs," Wurlitz said.
"Suspected?" Li Huailin asked.
"Yes, it's very difficult to identify them," Wurlitz said. Wurlitz said, "You also know that Death Valley is filled with poisonous fog, and this poisonous fog is quite corrosive. When we found these corpses, their skin and flesh had basically been corroded, and not much of their clothes were left. However, we still found the highly corrupted swords and armor of the Church. Basically, we can confirm that these are members of the Church. They should be people from the 41st Knight Regiment of the Vatican."
"Have you found all of them? Are there any missing members? "Li Huailin asked.
"This … In fact, we didn't find all of them," Wurlitz replied. Wurlitz replied, "In Death Valley, we found about 16 corpses that should be from the 41st Regiment of the Vatican Knights. Then, we found another 11 corpses in the town, and about 9 corpses from the 77th Regiment that we sent later. These corpses are well preserved. Do you want to take a look, Sir? "
"No need," Li Huailin said. "In other words, you have found all the corpses?"
"No …" Wurlitz said again. "In fact, there is a discrepancy in the number of corpses. There are too few of them."
"Too few?" Li Huailin asked. Then, he immediately thought of the female knight and asked, "How many are missing?"
"The total number is missing by one, but we don't know which one it is because we can't identify the 16 corpses found in Death Valley. So, we only know that one is missing, but we don't know which one it is," Wurlitz replied.
"Do you have a list?" Li Huailin asked.
"Yes." Wurlitz immediately took a list from the side, then handed it to Li Huailin and said, "The lines on the list are those who have been confirmed dead. Of the remaining 17 people, 16 are dead, and one can't be found. We don't know which one it is."
Li Huailin immediately looked at the list and saw the name Lisa. After a little thought, he realized that this should be the female knight. After thinking for a while, he asked, "If these people are still alive, they should report the situation to the Church, right?"
"Yes, Archbishop, that's for sure." Wurlitz immediately said, "The knights of the Church Knights are the most loyal knights. They will never betray the Church. Please rest assured, Archbishop."
"In other words, one of them might have died somewhere else?" Li Huailin asked.
"Yes, that's possible," Wurlitz said.
"I understand. Continue to investigate in this direction. "Li Huailin nodded.
"Yes, Archbishop," Wurlitz immediately said.
After a while, Li Huailin did not find any useful information, so he found an excuse to leave. After walking out of the door, Li Huailin thought about the current situation. First of all, he could confirm that Lisa had already left. He saw her leave and did not return to the Vatican. However, according to Wurlitz, it was impossible for her to directly betray the Vatican. So, she should have encountered some unexpected situation.
"If she's alive, I have to see her. If she's dead, I have to see her corpse. I have to investigate clearly." Li Huailin thought for a while. Sure enough, he should not be careless. Anyway, he had time now, so he carefully asked whether she was dead or not.
After thinking about it, Li Huailin remembered something. That was, Lisa and he had evacuated the villagers in this town. It seemed that they were preparing to evacuate them to a nearby big city. Li Huailin vaguely remembered that this city should be called Degara City, because he had also received a related evacuation mission.
Thinking about it this way, Lisa was scared and left in the direction of Degara City. After all, there was a teleportation circle there, and she could directly teleport to the headquarters of the Church of Light to report. So, it seemed that Lisa should have met with an accident on the way to Degara City. Although he did not know what happened, she could not return to the Church.
Thinking about it this way, Li Huailin also had a way, and that was to look directly along this road to see if there were any clues in the end. However, although the route was very clear, Li Huailin was not very familiar with this area, so it was a little troublesome to find it.
Just as he was thinking about this, the beggar who had previously led the way for Li Huailin came up again and said, "My Lord, you came out. It seems that your identity is really not ordinary. I can see that those usually very arrogant Knights are bowing their heads and greeting you."
"You... are you familiar with this generation?" Li Huailin suddenly asked.
"Hm? I'm very familiar with it. I've been wandering here for a long time. I'm very familiar with the surrounding cities. Of course, I'm most familiar with Degara City, but it's not easy to get along there now, so I came here. "The beggar said.
"Well, do you want to make some more money? Take me to Degara City. "Li Huailin immediately said.
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