Pollution throughout the territory

"Alan Bart, the bartender told me this name!"

An idea suddenly came to Xia Ren's mind.

The shop owner has a good relationship with Father Ray Nuttall. They went to the bar together and summoned monsters...

Father Ray Nuttall has disappeared with the novelist Thomas Miller Wright, who is suspected of being a wizard. The shop owner who was close to the priest has now been confirmed to have been killed, and traces of mucus were found in his home.

Connected.

Seemingly unrelated disappearances and aberrations are connected!

The evidence in front of us is enough to prove that the content of the argument between the priest and the shop owner in the bar was to summon a slime monster, or something that can turn people into monsters.

But they didn't expect that they would be attacked. Now that the shop owner has turned into a monster, the priest may not be immune.

"But something's still wrong."

Xia Ren pondered deeply.

Since the two were good friends before their death, and even the bar owner knew that the priest had a good relationship with the shop owner, why didn't the police come to see the shop owner when the priest disappeared? So that you didn't notice the scene here until you were attracted by the bottle?

The superintendent of Acera City is not so incompetent.

Then there is only one explanation: immortality.

They deliberately caused the superintendent to ignore this clue. But why does the superintendent have to ignore it?

His thoughts were stuck for a moment and he couldn't continue to speculate. Xia Ren decisively changed his mind.

What would happen if the superintendent came to Alan Bart's house?

First, some police superintendents will be fainted by the stench, and then their sanity will be eroded by the strong pollution in the room. Even if they are not crazy by luck, they will become trance-like and nagging.

After that, the Logistics Department will immediately notice this area and come to investigate the site. Then the Arbitration Court will take over the case and this area, and the Foundation will send investigators here...

In other words, the Elder Club deliberately let the superintendent ignore the news about Alan Bart in order to hide their plan in the dark.

However, based on this idea, Xia Ren would have to re-examine the mission that attracted him to Esela City.

If he had not come here, the anomalies here would never have been exposed so quickly. In other words, judging from the results, his arrival was a good thing for both the foundation and the residents of Esera City.

Could it be that the person who issued the task actually meant well?

But why didn't he (she) tell the foundation about the secrets of Esela City directly, or tell him or herself directly?

Xia Ren shook his head, really unable to understand the intention of the person behind him.

Another thing he couldn't figure out was why the novelist Thomas Miller-Wright disappeared with them?

Among the three people now involved in the disappearance, Father Ray Nuttall and shop owner Alan Bart have a deep friendship, so they can be connected, but the novelist Thomas Miller Wright has a perverse personality and is difficult to get along with. He was not popular with his neighbors at all, and as you can imagine, he had few friends.

And according to Captain John of the Logistics Department, the novelist Thomas Miller Wright often declared himself an atheist and extremely despised those who believed in gods.

This is exactly the opposite of Father Ray Nuttall. Although the latter likes to study the gods of other religions, he is still devout to the gods he believes in.

The two were opposed to each other in terms of beliefs, and there had indeed been unpleasantness between them, and their relationship was extremely bad.

But the fact now is that the novelist Miller Wright and the priest Ray Nuttall disappeared together. Captain John also said that the day before they disappeared, someone saw them walking on the street together.

If it was Father Ray Nuttall and shop owner Alan Bart who summoned the monster, what role did novelist Thomas Miller-Wright play in it?

Why did he join in? What about the current situation? Is he alive, or has he become an aberration like Alan Bart?

"It's really complicated."

Xia Ren rubbed his temples and felt his head was a little swollen.

He then searched other places in the house and found no useful information, especially since Alan Bart had no habit of keeping a diary, which made him feel quite regretful.

When he was about to leave the room, Xia Ren saw the door that he had kicked broken and hung on the door frame. There was a piece of black paper stuck on the back of the door, exuding an aura that disgusted him.

This aura was very weak and was covered up by the pollution, so he didn't even notice it when he first entered.

Xia Ren shook the door so that the paper was facing him, but when he saw the pattern on it clearly, he couldn't help but be shocked.

On the black paper, there was a red eye clearly drawn, as if it had life, staring straight at him.

The irregular five-pointed star pattern wraps the eyes, forming an extremely familiar shape:

Old seal.

There are old seals here!

No wonder no pollution is detectable from the outside.

But, who put down the old seal here?

After taking Lily out of the store, Qin Yun and Lu Yi were waiting in the car. Xia Ren told them what he found in the house, including old seals, and some conjectures.

Lu Yi looked flattered, but then became sad.

Although it is a good thing to be valued by her boss, it is difficult for her to calculate addition and subtraction with more than ten fingers, let alone such a complicated problem.

She listened to what Xia Ren just said as a sacred book. She knew every word he said, but when they were put together, they became blah blah and she couldn't remember them at all.

After Qin Yun listened, she first sorted out the logic, then thought for a long time, and first asked a question: "Did you find anything like a cross when you entered the house just now?"

Xia Ren shook his head and said, "No."

Qin Yun thought for a while and then said: "I remember the bartender said that in addition to opening a shop for business, the shop owner also likes to collect some antiques. Generally, such people will be happy to show others their collections. You also Remember what the bartender said about the argument he and the priest had at the bar that night?”

Xia Ren said: "It seems that Alan Bart blamed the priest for summoning the monster."

"Yes."

Qin Yun nodded: "After that, the priests blamed each other and said it was all because of those damn things that Alan Bart found. So..."

"So?" Xia Ren quietly waited for her next words.

Qin Yun looked diagonally downward and said while sorting out the contents in her mind: "The true identity of the novelist Thomas Miller Wright is doubtful. Captain John once said that he might be from the Wizards Alliance, so let's just treat him as him. It's a wizard. Now we know that the thing that summoned the monster was found by Alan Bart in the shop, and it is most likely one of his collections. Since it can summon monsters, it means that the thing itself may be contaminated. If it is a wizard, It’s definitely recognisable.”

"etc."

Xia Ren said: "The premise of your reasoning is that Alan Bart is willing to show Thomas Miller Wright his collection, but how is that possible?"

"Why is it impossible?" Qin Yun asked.

"Thomas Miller's character is quite eccentric and unlikable, but Alan Bart is a businessman. Even if he hates someone, he will not say it directly. He will still smile on the surface. It is easier to make friends with this kind of person, and when you first entered the house, you didn’t find anything representing faith in his house.

Although Ray Nuttall is a priest, he likes to collect things from other religions, so no one nearby goes to his church. If Alan Bart is also a believer, then he will not be related to the deviant Ray in the eyes of everyone. . Nuttall became a close friend.

So Alan Barth must be an unbeliever. "

With the characteristic of a nonbeliever, there is no natural contradiction between him and the novelist Thomas Miller Wright.