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Xiaobai: "I'm special. I don't know why I'm so small. But the wolf I turned into is very big!"
Wang: "I can prove that it is indeed very big."
Old Mrs. Hashir laughed: "It can be seen that you two have a very good relationship."
Xiaobai: "After all, we often ride on each other."
Hashir: "Oh? So this is the style the Captain likes."
Wang: "You misunderstood. Come on, Xiaobai, show me how to do it."
Xiaobai climbed up onto the king's back and rode on his neck.
Hasher laughed out loud: "It's this one!"
Wang: "When I ride her, I ride the animal she has transformed into, and when she rides me, it's like this."
Old Mrs. Hasher: "When my husband was still alive, he liked to take his grandson out like this. Okay, let's get down to business. Let me introduce myself. I am the current boss of the Pelican Gang, and I manage the entire Shallow Water City dock."
Wang: "I am from the rescue team..."
"We know you, the unparalleled wise man, the terminator of the Kusanian Civil War, the savior of the Monrovia Emperor, the unlucky star of the Monrovia nobles, the nemesis of the Wasteland King, the punisher of the Lich, the thorn in the side of the cult... Your titles are really long, and recently you have to add the Lord of the Floating City." After saying this, old lady Hasher threw down a note. It seemed that the long list she just read was all the contents of the note.
Wang: "You're right, that's all me."
Hasher: "Now that I've introduced myself, I'll speak frankly. The cult you're fighting against seems to have some strange movements in Shallow Water City recently."
Wang: "Cats in Shallow Water City are also starting to disappear?"
Hashir: "It would be fine if only the cat was missing. But it's a pity. Kosania is very, very far away from here. You may not feel it, after all, you are sailing downstream. But for us, Kosania is a distant country.
"Because it's so far away, the cult's tentacles haven't reached there much. The cult should still be busy infiltrating the nobles of Monrovia."
Wang: “In fact, the positive energy of Monrovia has not been distorted much.”
Hashir: “But it’s different here.”
Wang: "Cheap healing potions are starting to appear here?"
Hashir: "Not yet. But cheap psychedelics are starting to appear here."
As he spoke, Hasher took out a bottle of orange-yellow potion from the table and placed it on the table. "According to our investigation, this potion came from the cult. This potion has replaced traditional hallucinogens such as Moon and has become the favorite of drug addicts."
Wang frowned. “Why would the cult sell this kind of stuff?”
Hasher: "It may be to raise funds. By the way, there are rumors that when the nobles catch people who believe in the ideas passed down from Sissel, they will pour this thing into their bodies to destroy their will. In the end, those people will become puppets who obey the nobles' orders and do anything to get this thing."
Wang: "Wait a minute! What kind of ideas are coming from the Sissel Republic? Can you tell me about it?"
Hasher glanced at the foreman who led Wang and his men here, and the foreman gave him a brief account.
Wang: "I see. By the way, is the industry of the Republic of Xisel particularly developed?"
Hashir: “Yes, industry, textiles.”
Wang: "What do the looms they use look like?"
Hasher: "It just so happens that the former emperor of Kuosania imported a lot of it, and it all came through us. Do we have any left?"
The foreman nodded: "Yes, I can get it now."
Hashir: "Go get them. Do these have anything to do with this new hallucinogen?"
Wang: "No. But this is the best opportunity to understand the technological level of this plane. We can't let it go."
Hasher frowned: "Aren't you the rescue team?"
"Yeah, but..."
At this time, the foreman led two workers and moved in a textile machine.
Wang looked at it and nodded: "It seems that my judgment is correct. It is still early for the Industrial Revolution. Now is the era of handicraft guilds. Okay, it's okay, let's talk about this hallucinogen."
Chapter 189 Odolf (Shocked)
Hasher nodded: "This hallucinogen began to appear on the market about four months ago..."
Wang: “What market?”
Hashir shrugged. "The hallucinogen market. Moon, Enshima, and other more niche stuff."
Wang: “You guys also run these?”
Hasher lowered his hooked nose slightly. "I know that in order to give you a better impression, I should say that we don't run this business, but unfortunately, there is no gang in Shallow Water City that is not involved. Even those nobles only pretended not to know what these things popular in Shallow Water City are.
"But when their children were infected with the moon or Nshima, their reactions spoke volumes. No one in this city is clean, no one. So there are no paladins in this city, and every paladin who arrives here wants to purify the city completely."
King: "When a paladin has such thoughts, they can no longer be called a paladin."
The Paladin is very fanatical, but he is still in the lawful camp and will not kill indiscriminately. He is more inclined to legal and procedural justice.
But completely purifying a city has obviously deviated from most of the procedural justice. It is a kind of indiscriminate killing and more like the practice of the Chaos Camp.
When a paladin's alignment changes from lawful good to chaotic good, it loses most of the abilities it gained through the commandments. If it is a paladin of a god who cares a lot about the commandments, such as Typhon, when he changes to this, he will completely lose the gift of God and become a forsworn.
But if it is a paladin of a god who has already straddled the two realms of guarding good and mixing good, the paladin will become the "inquisitor" of that god, and the organization to which he belongs will also be transferred from the Knights of that god to the Inquisition of the same god.
The court of justice doesn't care about procedural justice. If they find evil, they will kill it without regard for the means or the cost. (*)
That's why the king asked this.
Grandma Hashir shook her head. “I don’t know any paladins, not even one, so I can’t answer you.”
"Well, that's not important. What's important is, are you sure this thing became popular four months ago?" Wang changed the question.
Hashir: “Of course.”
"That has nothing to do with us starting the trip. We only started at the end of March this year."
Elizabeth: "Not necessarily. I've been investigating missing cats and dogs since last year."
Wang: "Yes, but the cult didn't care about your investigation at the time."
Elizabeth immediately wilted: "Well, after all, it's just a play house with a bottle that emits scorching rays."
Marika patted Elizabeth's shoulder gently to comfort her.
Hasher: "Wait a minute, judging from what you said, the sect is starting to target you?"
Wang: “Yes.”
He then recounted in detail what had happened before the floating city was activated, and took out the cult bulletin seized from the cult branch originally stationed in the floating city.
Hasher frowned and read the report: "This sect's intelligence capabilities are not very good. They don't know as much about you as we do. As a result, the branch has hit a wall now, right?"
Wang: "Not really. This branch is originally more research-oriented, and their actions against us may have been spontaneous. When the cult headquarters knew that they were confronting us, they immediately sent out an airship to transfer them."
Hasher raised his eyes, looked at the salvation team, and said, "It's the right decision. You have extremely powerful wanderers, and the rangers are also quite strong. Although the priests are not very strong, they have powerful weapons given by the Emperor of Monrovia.
"Considering that you may have magical equipment that cannot be seen from the outside, even we would have to think twice about this configuration, let alone a branch of the cult that is engaged in research."
Wang: "But we are also very afraid of the army of the Order."
Hasher: “The cult does have a well-equipped and well-trained army. As far as we know, there is a detachment of the cult lurking in this shallow water city, with at least 300 soldiers whose training and equipment are comparable to those of regular troops.
"And the commander of this army is Odolf, the consul general of the Order in the Principality of Frank, who is selling new hallucinogens and seizing the hallucinogen market!"
Wang: "Odolf (shocked)!"
Elizabeth: "Odolph (confusedly)?"
Flint: "Odolf (firmly)!"
Xiaobai: "Odolf (joyfully)!"
Nini: "Odolf (curiously)?"
Marika: "Odolf (helplessly)..."
Barbarian: “High!”
Hasher looked at them in confusion: "Is this some kind of ritual? Something like a voodoo ritual?"
Wang touched his nose awkwardly: "No, we just confirmed the goal of this stage in this way. We will help you solve the problem of the new hallucinogens - I mean, we will kill this Odolf and clear the cult, so that the problem of hallucinogens will also be solved.
"We, the Salvation Team, will never get involved in your dirty business, so we will never accept your monetary rewards. We killed Odolf only to fight against the cult."
Hashir: "I know, I know. If you kill Odolf, we will benefit, so we can't just not do nothing. You are here to find a church in Isonzo, right? I have already found the location of that church.
"If you kill Odolf, I will tell you the location of the church."
Marika suddenly said: "Since you know it, other forces in Shallow Water City should also know it."
"Humph," Hasher glanced at Zhuo Er, "We are better informed than other forces here. Of course, this little bit of information is not enough to make this information our exclusive. So we set up an ambush and killed the investigators sent by other forces."
Wang: "But we can get this information from him when we kill Odolf."
Hashir: "The management model of the cult is very similar to that of the Shadow Thieves. So the leaders of each branch don't know much about the affairs of other branches. Odolf also has to investigate the church in Isonzo on his own. Do you think he succeeded in finding out the information?"
Wang thought about his interrogation of Lily and the others and nodded, "You have a point. But if we get rid of Odolf, your excellent spies will definitely steal the formula of this new hallucinogen, right?
"You have received so many benefits. Isn't it too stingy to just give you one piece of news?"
Hashir: "Don't you need this information to save the world?"
"Yes, you see, we are here to save the world, and saving the world includes saving you. If we don't save the world, when the cult's evil purpose is achieved, you will probably be doomed too.
“My teacher didn’t say what the world would become if salvation failed, but I speculated based on the current performance of the cult that if salvation fails, everyone in the world would turn into ugly tumor monsters.
"Look, our mission is closely related to you! You should provide this information for free. After all, it is to save you!"
Wang spoke with great confidence.
The other members of the rescue team all had an expression that said, "Here we go again."
Hasher: "I don't agree with your statement. Who knows if there is really a crisis? Didn't your teacher say that there would be cheap healing potions in the second stage? I don't see any now."
Wang: "My teacher said that the crisis will not fully come for another five years. The potion will probably appear next year. But when the signs of the next stage appear, it will be too late for you to regret not giving us the information directly today.
"By then, we might have been wiped out because of your lack of information. I have already started traveling in other dimensions to revive Elizabeth and the others. No one can save the world anymore."
In fact, Wang deliberately concealed one point, which is that if they were wiped out, several angry mages might come to this world and destroy the cult.
I don't know why I really want to see the scene where the cult is wiped out by the coalition of high-level demons and high-level devils. If nothing else, it's worth watching just because demons and devils fight side by side.
Hasher was silent for about five seconds, then he said, "You have a point. Okay, I'll provide you with the location of the church. It can be considered as our contribution to saving the world."