Soul Echo

The snow spread on the ground is enough to cover many things, such as low-lying, excrement, corpses...

Lilian follows behind Zhong Ye, stick one's head around to look for , looking at this 'ghetto' scene.

That is indescribable in words-because it has not yet joined the wave of industrialization, Burger's productivity is relatively lacking, and winter cannot meet the survival needs of everyone.

Every door that appears in front of you is tightly closed, or solid, or thin, or big or small, but even if the door is closed, these houses still can't stop the cold.

The naked eye of the wall is visibly weak and outdated, which can keep out the wind and rain, but it is difficult to provide warmth to the occupants.

This is the slum of Burg, the poorest and most backward place in the whole city. The people living in this place are just 'survival', not 'living'. Everyday all is struggling to survive.

The depressing environment creates bad people, and the bad people exacerbate the depressing environment. Almost all slums are like this. Without external support, the slums will always be slums, living in slums The people here will never come out.

As they continued deeper into the slum, the surrounding buildings slowly grew older, some closed doors were opened, and pedestrians appeared on the road.

In order to avoid catching a cold, women in several shirts leaned against the door and looked at pedestrians. When someone looked at them, they would walk over and enter the house with them.

These are relatively 'rich', the poor have no choice but to stand in the cold wind in ragged clothes, and the 'work place' is just an alley.

Lilian's pupils are trembling. For her, 'prostitute' is already a word submerged in history. She has naturally seen prostitutes in other cities, but she has never seen such... tragic !

She turned her eyes slowly, and her eyes fell on Zhong Ye's back.

Why did Zhong Ye bring her here?

Slums, slums...

Lilian was stunned for a moment, then heard Zhong Ye ask: "Did you see it?"

"What did you see? ?" Lillian blinked, subconsciously turning her head around.

At this time, her attention finally shifted from those prostitutes to other places, and found that there were many people in the corners, alleys, and in front of the door.

"Smoke?"

"Zhong Ye said yes." Some people just smoke, but there are a few who seem to have something added to their cigarettes. "

A word came to mind, Lillian's eyes widened, "Leducant?"

"So..." She looked around, "We're going from Do you start an investigation here?"

"Bulger is different from Annecy, here, we don't have so much help, the Mother Earth Church is one, but Bulger's psychedelic influx also shows the problem, They can't help us much."

The sweet smell lingered on the tip of the nose, Zhong Ye's eyes rolled back and forth, his eyes swept the streets, and he counted the number of people using hallucinogens in his heart.

Prostitutes, homeless people, pedestrians with shabby clothes...

these all are the lower classes of society, they either live in slums, or more in slums, because here are de facto 'outlaw places' and there are not that many people to run them.

At the same time, he tried his best to spread his hearing, listening to all directions.

Conversation, breathing, moans, prayers...

These sounds are mixed together, like a mess, Zhong Ye is also because the wisdom attribute is high enough to be able to Extract useful information from this mess.

The object of those prayers' beliefs is the 'Mother Earth', which surprised Zhong Ye, but if you think about it carefully, it's not surprising.

The Earth Mother Church has always been known for its 'kindness'. If nothing else, the Earth Mother Church in Burg has also tried to solve the slums, and is still trying to solve the slums, but the method is inappropriate and naturally ineffective. .

Not only the Mother Earth Church, but other churches in other cities have made similar attempts, but most of them have little effect.

These thoughts flashed through Zhong Ye's mind, he sank to look for information related to 'hallucinogens' or 'cults'.

More and more information comes into my mind, and he analyzes it one after another, sifts out the useless, stores the useful, and slowly fills up the blank frame of 'Bulger'.

However, if there are no accidents, people at the bottom are destined to be unable to access higher-level things. What he can extract from his words is only some information about the bottom-level traffickers...

"Go. ."

Zhong Ye, who seemed to be wandering in the sky, suddenly spoke up, and Lily felt relieved and quickened her pace.

Burg's slums are like a labyrinth. All the buildings were built without planning. The roads are not parallel on both sides.

Some houses are clinging to each other, but there are gaps between the houses that can be filled with half of the houses, and the streets form a fork here.

Lillian followed behind Zhong Ye through corners after corners, with Zhong Ye leading the way, the fierce imposing manner directly drove all the malicious gang members back, so that she was not harassed in any way .

Zhong Ye took her to the door of a big house and kicked the door open directly.

Lilian's mouth was slightly open, this scene was a bit familiar, but she couldn't remember when she saw it.

This is a pub, and Lillian can already feel the in a frenzy vibe from the outside.

Arguments, slapsticks, and happy laughter filled the tavern.

When the door was kicked open, the noisy atmosphere poured out of the tavern and filled the street, followed by a pair of eyes full of surprise and anger.

People stood up, drew daggers from behind their waists, long swords from under the counter, and sticks from the corners, and then they saw the person who kicked the tavern door entering the tavern. At the same time, a man-high sword was unfastened from behind.

Bang!

The vicious smiles on everyone's faces slowly changed, from anger to flattery, and weapons were thrown to the ground.

"I heard that you are in charge of half the slum?"

Zhong Ye glanced at the people in the tavern indifferently, and solemnly asked: "Then do you sell hallucinogens?"

"We don't touch that thing!"

One of the quickest gang members responded immediately after Zhong Ye threw the question: "We are all believers of Mother Earth, I will never touch that kind of thing!"

"Yes, yes! We are all believers of Mother Earth!"

"The boss won't let us touch that thing, he said that It's a gift from Evil God, once we accept it, it's over!"

"The boss also said that whoever dares to touch that thing will be hacked to death!"

All gang members have should be reconciled.

They knew that if they didn't answer that way, they might die.

The 'counselor' is the smartest among them. Since he admits it, they don't need to be stubborn.

"It's fine if I don't."

Zhong Ye put the sword back, told Lillian to close the door, then pulled a chair and sat unceremoniously with the gang members before.

"Now I want to ask a few questions, I hope you can answer truthfully."

Looking at the big sword behind Zhong Ye's back, a group of middle-aged men all nodded, no dare to refute.

Zhong Ye stretched out a finger, "First of all, do you know where those psychedelic dealers came from? Are they locals?"

The first The question stumped them and couldn't help looking at each other in blank dismay, trying to get an answer from the others, but unfortunately no one seemed to know.

At this time, the 'staff' sighed, came out from behind the crowd, "They are all locals, and all of them are from our land."

'This piece Dier' refers to the slums, and all the hallucinogen dealers are slum people?

"Including those in other urban areas?" Zhong Ye asked.

'Staff' nodded, "Including those from other urban areas."

Zhong Ye looked thoughtful, then stretched out a second finger, "Second, do they form gangs? "

"They don't form gangs, but they're affiliated with a lot of gangs - except us." The 'Staff' once again emphasized their 'special'.

"Okay, the last two questions—"

Zhong Ye asked in a cold voice, "Who are they? What hallucinogen are they selling? ?"