High Above

  Chapter 382 Huaiguang priesthood? Investigator Huaiguang! (13)

  To be honest, it’s hard for Ian to explain that he didn’t actually come to dig up the corpse—he didn’t even know there was a corpse here, he just came here to find clues about the matter of “Baron Ryan harvesting the glow grass in advance”.

  Although the Xiahui grass has accumulated nutrients in the second year, it will be most effective when it is harvested in late autumn. Now it is only early summer, and Baron Ryan definitely has his reasons for harvesting in advance.

   Now it seems that these corpses may be one of the reasons.

  They somehow stimulated the growth of the radiance grass, allowing him to harvest sufficient medicinal power plants earlier.

  Different from Ian, Sister Reflecting Light investigates in another direction. She is not a psyker, so she cannot see the obvious clues to Ian, but she has also found some crucial evidence.

  So, exchanging information is a choice that is beneficial to both parties.

"it is good."

   Receiving the shovel, the nun seriously hung it on her waist, and readily agreed to the request.

  The two exchanged information.

  Yingguang is an official cleric of the Huaiguang Church. She came here for the abnormal disappearances that occurred around the Agate Stone Plain in the past three years.

   This is not something to be surprised about. After all, it is normal to accidentally disappear when you are away from home. It is a strange thing to find the bones.

  In the Terra ecosystem, there are quite a few creatures that can digest their bones cleanly.

  So in this land, missing is not simply missing, but also has the potential meaning of 'no bones left'.

  Huaiguang Church usually does not pay attention to these small things.

  After all, if even monster attacks are under their control, is there still a need for the local nobles and security brigade?

   What's more, there is no way to manage this kind of thing, even Huaiguang Church Jianguo can't manage it.

Having said that, the recent situation has become more frequent and serious. Since a year ago, there has even been a strange phenomenon in which an entire small business group disappeared completely before passing through the Indigo Mountain Gap, and that business group happened to be a Organized by devout Huaiguang believers.

  There were so many complaints and requests from believers that they also had to take a look at what was going on.

   Fast forward through.

  After several months of follow-up investigation, Ying Guang, who was assigned to investigate the matter, pinpointed the source of the disappearance in the territory of Laian.

   And she also discovered that a refugee gathering place in the western plains that originally existed in the Laian Territory had completely disappeared. There was no one in the empty camp, and it had been decayed and dilapidated for at least a year.

  This is very unusual.

  Because of the confrontation with Feiyan Land in the Western Territory, a large number of forts and military fortresses were built, as well as various harsh laws. Refugees continued to flow into Nanling.

  Even if these refugees who lost their homes will soon be killed by the harsh environment of Nanling, there will be new refugees every season, or ordinary people eager to find a new hometown.

   After all, tyranny is fiercer than a tiger.

Sister Yingguang believes that this incident may be related to another incident related to the "Nanling Cult", so she came here to negotiate with Baron Laian, who has a background of mountain people, and wanted to see from the other party's speech and behavior. There are some clues.

   As a result, Baron Ryan did not show any flaws. She could not grasp the evidence and could only go back to the church in the city.

After negotiating with the local staff, through the method of treatment and diagnosis, I finally got a clue from a flower sea grower. I know that in the late autumn of last year, the Viscount reorganized the planting area after harvesting the Xiahui grass. , making the sea of ​​flowers more lush.

   So she came to dig the ground.

   Very formal investigation process.

  Ian nodded slightly. Sister Yingguang was obviously from a professional background, and she found clues every step of the way through the investigation, which was quite different from a person like himself who directly opened clairvoyance with psychic powers and prophets.

  And he also told Sister Yingguang what he saw and heard in the castle, the news about Baroness Leanne and her child, and the news about Xiahuicao's guarding and stealing.

  Of course, remove the prophet-related information.

  "...The news from the city proves that the baron does have a child, but he is not in the castle because of his poor health."

   Opening her red eyes in surprise, the female monk fell into deep thought.

  She thought about the information in Ian's intelligence, and then nodded slightly: "I'm sorry, I was still farming in the countryside around the holy mountain six years ago, so I don't know much about the news about you southerners."

"But if Baron Nan's child died six years ago, and you perceive that there are four children in the castle, but only see three... Can I guess that the baron used some method to confuse the inside of Ryan's territory?" Everyone's perception?"

   Farming? What a village girl, no wonder you are so good at using farm tools... I thought you were from an archaeological team.

   Amazed in his heart, Ian raised his head. He looked at the rainstorm and dark clouds that kept falling, and then at the dark Laian Castle on the cliff in the distance.

  He said slowly: "This is private news from the aristocratic circle, and it is spread within Nanling. Even the southerners are unlikely to know."

   "As for the method..."

   After pondering for a while, Ian continued: "It is indeed very possible. After all, he is the lord, and he always has a way. Ordinary people don't care too much, or dare not care about these gossips."

   "As long as the busy farming season comes, all daydreams will disappear."

  —The most important thing is that there are three psionic children beside the baron.

  Who knows if they have the ability to rewrite memories? It would be better to say that there must be, the old butler's unhesitating words, even Ian can't see that he is lying, which is obviously a deep belief in a lie from the bottom of his heart.

  Even the old housekeeper who lives with him can be fooled, let alone ordinary people?

   "Then let's summarize the current situation."

  Sister Guangguang was very capable. She took out a small board from the package behind her, and then took notes with a waterproof pen.

  This action made Ian couldn't help but look sideways, and complained in his heart, "Could it be that the executors of the Huaiguang Church are all part-time investigators?" '.

  She concluded: "There are three physically and mentally disabled children in the baron's family, and there is a parent and child who is 'should be dead but can be sensed in psychic power'."

"There are frequent cases of disappearances around Lai'an, and some of the victims' bones appear under the sea of ​​flowers in Lai'an. Most of the residents in Lai'an have lost their memories of the baron's family. Recently, children have also disappeared in surrounding towns. .”

   "The baron himself has the blood of the mountain people, and his wife is also a noble branch of the mountain people. They may indeed have mastered the sublimation skills related to the primitive sacrifices of the mountain people, and even pagan sacrifices."

   "He has weird things in his hands, and there are treasures about the mountain people's spiritual inheritance... Wait, does he want to resurrect his child?"

   At this point, Yingguang was taken aback: "But this will only create a ferocious monster... an immortal wraith..."

   "This is troublesome..."

   Frowning slightly, she ground her teeth subconsciously: "The situation is serious, I think we should apply for the assistance of the Holy Church first."

   This is a normal speculation, the same as Viscount Grant, but the target is different.

   "I also think we should report it to Huaiguang Church first, but to be honest, it may be too late."

But Ian opened his mouth and said with some regret: "The baron's plan has lasted for several years, but you have only discovered it in the past three months, and it happened that a large amount of Xiahui grass was harvested in advance some time ago, which is spiritual nourishment. The raw material for the extraction solution...the plan has reached the last minute."

  He squinted his eyes, and the water-colored halo flowed, staring at the castle in the distance: "Although my spiritual power can't see the direction so far away, my essence perception tells me that there is no one in the Baron's castle."

   "He's gone."

  (end of this chapter)