The grand festival had come to an end, and Northern Town was once again bustling with activity. Suhlen followed Kris to the underground world.
He was going to try to breed underground spiders. It was not easy to weave stockings with the silk of underground spiders, and alchemy was also involved. The price of each pair of stockings sold in the Underdark was more than 50 Kinnar. Even so, the demand still exceeded the supply. The main reason was that the quality was not good, and it was basically disposable.
Suhlen planned to divide an area in the underground world to breed underground spiders, and the silk produced could be used to weave stockings. The drows were very experienced in breeding spiders. Although the drows in Northern Town had left the underground world for a long time and had even mixed with humans, the method of breeding spiders had been passed down.
Underground spiders were large spiders with a ferocious appearance. They had eight limbs, and their legs were about one meter long. The body in the middle was about the size of a dog. Its abdomen was large, and its body was covered with short, dark gray hair. It looked ferocious and terrifying. This spider had eight eyes and a pair of ferocious fangs in its mouth. It was the kind of monster that could leave a psychological scar.
Although the underground spiders looked ferocious, they were herbivores. They liked to eat mushrooms and all kinds of fungi. Although they were poisonous, it was their weapon of self-defense. There was a silk sac in the abdomen of an underground spider, and it would produce some silk every day. However, the silk could not be used directly. It was too sticky, and it had to be processed.
After Suhlen learned about the living habits of the spiders, he built a large farm outside Crete. At the same time, he sent some drows to take charge of the production. Currently, there were more than 100 underground spiders in the farm, and they could produce more than 300 pairs of stockings per month.
In fact, the raw materials for the stockings were easy to find, but the production was difficult. Hathaway could not spend a lot of time and energy processing the silk with alchemy. Fortunately, the alchemy part wasn't a very difficult spell. It was mainly to eliminate the stickiness of the spider silk. It took two days to create a runic array, and as long as the runic array was activated, the spider silk would be dealt with.
This kind of work could be done by the wizard apprentices. As for the silk stockings, it was left to the half-elf weavers. Although the Weaving Bureau in Northern Town wasn't very famous, it could still produce silk, fine linen, cotton, and so on. However, due to the lack of manpower, the production was not very high.
Currently, only a few half-elf master weavers could do fine work like knitting stockings. Suhlen could only let them try to train some weaver apprentices.
Just as Suhlen was about to build the interior of the Adept Tower with Hathaway and the others, a guard hurried over.
"Sir, the security team found some corpses in the city."
"Have you caught the murderer yet?" Suhlen said without raising his head. In a city with more than a hundred thousand people, it was not a big deal to have one or two murders occasionally. Although the laws in Northern Town City were strict, there were still people who didn't believe in evil and wanted to try.
"I'm sorry, sir. We didn't find the murderer, and the number of deaths is quite high."
"How many? Do you have any leads? "
"Twenty-four! No leads yet. "
Hearing this number, Suhlen suddenly raised his head. "Twenty-four people were killed, and you don't have any leads?"
"I'm sorry, sir. I'm sorry to disappoint you."
"Where are the corpses? Take me there. "
Under the guard's lead, Suhlen quickly arrived at the crime scene. At this time, the crime scene had been isolated by the security team. As soon as he entered, Suhlen smelled a strong smell of blood. After seeing the corpses on the ground, his face became even more gloomy.
"Sir, all the corpses were killed with one blow, and all their hearts were dug out," Harrison said as he walked forward.
Suhlen came closer to observe. There were both men and women, and they were about 30 years old. They were in the prime of their lives. There were signs of struggle on their bodies. Some of them even had their hearts dug out when they were still alive, so there was a lot of blood at the scene.
"Who found the corpses first?" Suhlen asked.
"It's Bobby." Harrison waved to a middle-aged man who looked a little submissive next to him and asked him to come over.
"Sir, you're looking for me," Bobby said, nodding and bowing.
"Tell me what you know about these corpses again."
"Yes, sir …" Soon, Bobby told the story from beginning to end, and Suhlen didn't find any clues.
"These people are just ordinary refugees. Who would kill them and dig out their hearts?" Suhlen said with a frown.
"Sir, I know some clues." At this time, outside the quarantine circle, a man who looked like an adventurer waved his arms and shouted, but the soldier in front of him didn't allow him to get close to the quarantine circle.
"Let him in!" Suhlen thought for a moment and said to the soldier, then the soldier stepped aside.
"Hello, Sir Lord, I'm Luen. Nice to meet you, I'm a Rogue …" The adventurer said respectfully.
Suhlen waved his hand and said, "I'm not interested in this. You said you have clues, now tell me."
"Uh, Sir Lord, I do have some clues about those murderers, but …" Luen said as he made a universal gesture.
"As long as the clues you say are true and can help us find the murderers, I can give you 1,000 Kinnar as a reward. How about it?"
"Deal!" Luen quickly nodded and said. "Sir, I wonder if you've heard of any rumors?"
"What rumors?" Suhlen asked with raised eyebrows.
Luen looked around cautiously and said in a low voice, "The Heartless!"
Suhlen was a little confused. He had never heard of this name. Seeing Suhlen's expression, Luen continued, "Sir, it's not surprising that you don't know. The Heartless are actually an evil god's church. They used to be active on the southern coast, but later on, they did something that caused a large number of civilian casualties and were hunted down by the forces on the southern coast.
"They often dig out the hearts of living people and use them as sacrifices to the evil god. Therefore, they are also called the Heartless." According to Luen's explanation, Suhlen finally figured out what kind of people the so-called Heartless were.
These people believed in an evil god, and this evil god's favorite sacrifice was hearts. Therefore, after these people defeated their enemies, they would dig out their hearts or use a massacre as a sacrifice to the evil god they believed in. In the end, they would dig out their hearts and use them as sacrifices.
There were many types of gods in this world. Even among the orthodox gods, there were many types. There were good, evil, neutral, lawful, chaotic, and other combinations. Apart from these gods, there were also evil gods that were not recognized. These evil gods had a part of the gods' power and liked blood sacrifices. The orthodox gods had divinity, divine titles, and divine power, while the evil gods only had a part of it.
Although the evil gods would respond to their believers and give them power, they would eventually devour the power and believers. Even if the person who used the evil god's power was not killed by others in the end, the evil god would snatch their soul.
"Are you saying that the Heartless evil god's believers have come to North Town?" Suhlen said.
"That seems to be the case!" Luen nodded and said, "I suggest you seek the help of the temple. Those Heartless are not weak."
"You are a rogue, so you should be proficient in tracking. You are also quite strong. Help me find the traces of those evil god's believers," Suhlen said as he looked at the rogue in front of him. Su Lun looked at the Rogue in front of him and said. This Rogue was a Level 3 Transcendent professional and was familiar with the Heartless' style of doing things, so it was very suitable for him to search for the Heartless. As for seeking help from the church, Su Lun did not consider it for the time being.
The church was indeed very willing to help Suhlen deal with these evil god's churches, but this way, the church would have the opportunity to intervene in the matters of North Town, which Suhlen could not accept.
"Okay, but tracking also requires payment. Moreover, this mission is very dangerous. I want 2,000 Kinnar!" Luen hesitated for a moment before nodding and agreeing.
"Okay." Suhlen nodded in agreement.
After Suhlen paid 1,000 Kinnar as a commission, Luen began his official work.
As a rogue proficient in tracking, Luen was still very reliable. It did not take long for him to find some clues and start following the clues left behind. Suhlen followed behind with a barbarian guard.
Following the traces left behind, everyone quickly arrived outside the city. After arriving outside the city, the traces became more obvious. It was obvious that these people no longer hid their tracks after leaving the city.
After a while, Suhlen suddenly discovered that they had come to a cemetery. This was the place where North Town City buried the dead. There were also cemeteries in North Town City, but only soldiers who died in battle or citizens who paid a large sum of money could be buried in those cemeteries. Ordinary refugees, serfs, and monster slaves were buried outside the city.
Although North Town City had been established for less than two years, many people were buried in this cemetery. Because it was a cemetery, it was indeed hidden and deserted.
The rogue walking at the front suddenly stopped and quickly walked to a cemetery. He said in a deep voice, "Look at these graves! The tombstones have been here for a long time, but the soil underground has been turned over recently! "
Hearing his voice, everyone stepped forward. Indeed, there was something wrong with the soil here.
"It should have happened in the past two days!"
Luen squatted down, picked up some soil with his hand, and asked. Then, he pushed away the weeds in front of the tombstone. There were obvious traces of movement under the tombstone.
"Someone opened this grave three days ago at most."
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