"This is the place where the last trace of energy fluctuations remain. They made a move and finished it quickly. They also cleaned it up afterwards. It was very clean. The technique was very skillful. It should have been done by experienced hands." There was one outside the dock area.

In the relatively quiet alley, Leo looked at the surrounding situation and gave his analysis results.

"I smell a little bit of the abyss." Sylvia frowned slightly and said.

"Abyss?" Leo said doubtfully, "Why didn't I feel it?"

Sylvia explained: "Because the smell of this abyss is very messy. I don't know how many times it has been changed. The smell is almost as weak as nothing. Even if I don't sense it carefully, I probably won't be able to distinguish it."

After listening to Sylvia's words, Leo couldn't help but smile: "It's really interesting that a power originating from the abyss attacks a quasi-paladin and a psyker apprentice in a city where the church dominates!"

After saying that, he looked around again, walked out of the alley, and then turned to look at the weird avenue on the left leading to the Black City District.

Although the dock area is located in Baicheng District, it is very close to Heicheng District. There is a special road directly leading to Heicheng District. This road is prepared for porters who live in Heicheng District but work at the dock, so it is also used

Call it Porter Avenue.

In order to prevent the porters from taking advantage of the opportunity to work at the dock to run to other places in Baicheng District, when building this avenue, they built two rows of special-shaped high walls on both sides of the avenue.

The body is tilted inward and the surface is very smooth. It is a high wall that ordinary people cannot climb at all. Moreover, the porters walking under the high wall will have an inexplicable feeling of being suppressed. This feeling will make them stay on the dock for a long time.

Be honest and don't make trouble.

Sylvia came over and after seeing Leo's actions, she asked as if to confirm: "Do you think the people who attacked Joan and Penny came from the Black City area, and they were also taken to the Black City area?"

"Suffering is not only a breeding ground for faith, but also a fertile ground for sin." Leo said with profound meaning.

After saying that, Leo lowered his head to look for clues. This time he did not use any extraordinary power, but relied on his five senses that were beyond ordinary people. Soon he identified the attacked Joan and Penny from the traces left on the ground.

After leaving the alley, he was loaded into a carriage, and the direction of the carriage was towards the Chamber of Commerce Street in the dock area, and the destination was the Black City District.

"Go to Chamber of Commerce Street first." After Leo told Sylvia what he had discovered, Sylvia immediately made a judgment and said.

Leo also nodded in agreement. Although it was easy to find Joan and Penny along the subtle track marks of the carriage, they wanted to know more about whether the attack on Joan and Penny was just an accidental operation or whether it was targeted.

Sexual, if it was targeted, who was behind it, and whether it was related to the two of them.

With a series of questions, Leo and Sylvia followed the subtle clues on the ground and came to the source of the carriage, the Red Sail Chamber of Commerce.

Leo and Sylvia quickly learned about the situation of this chamber of commerce through their own methods, but the doubts in their hearts not only did not weaken, but in fact became stronger.

Because this chamber of commerce is a typical black market chamber of commerce. They mainly sell stolen goods for some shady things. They also occupy a place in the black market in the black city area. They are not considered a big chamber of commerce. They are also closely related to the churches in the city and the Saint Pelia Port.

There is no connection with the Chamber of Commerce.

But such a chamber of commerce sent people to attack the knights of the Church of False Heart. This can only be described as crazy. You must know that the people of the Church of False Heart are all madmen. They can usually carry out this

Self-restraint, once they have an excuse, let alone a black market chamber of commerce, even other churches will dare to take action directly.

However, judging from the current investigation of the Spiritual Network, the people in this chamber of commerce are obviously not madmen, but normal people, which is a bit puzzling.

Leo and Sylvia did not stay outside the Chamber of Commerce for too long. They entered directly and easily used witchcraft to block the perception of the people around them, making them invisible in front of these people. Then they came to the Chamber of Commerce.

In the president's office on the second floor, the fat president stood in front of him.

At this moment, the president has not noticed that there are two strangers in the room. He is looking through the account books on the table and keeps cursing in a low voice. He seems to be extremely dissatisfied with the amount of money he has recently given to the forces behind him.

I think I have spent too much money.

Sylvia was not in the mood to wait for the man to finish complaining, and directly stretched out her hand to press on the head of the president. When her hand touched the man's head, a pendant worn around the man's neck suddenly emitted light.

There was a burst of black light, but as soon as this light flashed, it was quickly extinguished by Sylvia's powerful abyss dragon power, and the president also fainted.

"It has the aura of the power of the abyss." Sylvia cast an abyss spell to search the president's memory, took off the pendant hanging around his neck, and threw it to Leo.

Leo took it in his hand and looked at it, and said: "The production is very rough, with a bit of the style of primitive shamanistic beliefs. The material should be bones, not the bones of extraordinary creatures, but ordinary bones, but there are a lot of bones attached to them.

These negative energies do not come from the abyss. Obviously, the bone provider must have suffered extremely painful torture during his lifetime, and such strong negative energy was generated only under strong emotions."

"By torturing living beings to generate pain and resentment, this method is really crude. In the abyss, only the lowly ethnic groups can use it." Sylvia looked at the pendant with disdain, and then put her hand on it.

Take it away from the president's head, and the president has passed out and is lying on the table unconscious.

"Any clues?" Leo asked.

"Have you ever heard of a joint meeting?" Sylvia said in a deep voice.

"The joint association seems to be a street mutual aid club in the Black City." Leo's spiritual network once covered the entire St. Belia Port, and his understanding of the various forces in St. Belia Port even exceeded that of the city's managers.

.

Although the Federation is an inconspicuous small organization in the eyes of the managers of St. Paulia Port, Leo is very aware that the coverage of the Federation has spread throughout the Black City, and they have taken the opportunity to help people in various neighborhoods.

They already have a certain degree of influence among the people of Black City, because their actions do not touch the bottom line of the church, and the members of this organization do not try to obtain higher power and status, so the city council has no control over their existence.

It's also like turning a blind eye.

Sylvia recounted: "Today there is only one carriage going to the Black City. This carriage is the carriage specially used by the Federation to transport property. This black market chamber of commerce was opened with the support of the Federation. What this guy just said is to provide

The money is to be handed over to the Federation, and the carriage today is to transport an upper donation, but that upper donation is a temporary addition."

Leo frowned and said, "There is something wrong with the carriage transporting property, but it stops midway to transport people."

Sylvia continued: "There is nothing related to Joan and Penny in his memory, not even anything related to the abyss."

Leo asked: "Where did this pendant come from?"

Sylvia smiled and said: "You will definitely not think that it was given to him by a missionary of the Daru Church stationed in the Black City District. The missionary has an unusual relationship with the Union and can be regarded as the umbrella of the Union in the church.

"

"Daru Church?" Leo quickly found the information of Daru Church in the brain database.

The Church of Daru is not a Church of True God in the conventional sense, because it is a church that was born in the New World, and the area of ​​its believers is not very wide, so in the Old World, the Church of Daru is not recognized as the Church of True God.

The New World only believes that the Daru Church is not an evil heresy.

The Church of Daru was born on the coastline of the New World. Daru is a mysterious being who wanders along the coastline of the New World and its surrounding waters. He often appears in sea storms to help people and ships in distress escape from danger, so he soon

A group of believers.

After that, people who were blessed by Daru appeared among the believers. These people became the earliest missionaries of Daru Church. Under the propaganda of these missionaries, Daru Church gradually took shape and eventually became a complete system.

of church.

Because Daru was always rescuing shipwrecked people every time he appeared, he was considered a kind god and did not encounter many dangers during his missionary work.

What's more important is that compared to the land god system, which already has many gods and a complete system, the sea god system is still very chaotic. There are no other sea gods to compete with it for believers or other resources, so in the end the Daru Church was lost to the True God Church in the New World.

Acceptance was also very smooth.

With the increase in maritime trade, Daru's faith has gradually spread. Almost all ships traveling between the two continents will have Daru's shrines on board. They will also pray to Daru when they encounter shipwrecks. This makes believers of Daru Church

Rapid growth, it can be said that it is the fastest growing church in the New World.

Among the various churches in Saint Pelia Port, Daru Church was the last one to settle in, so the power it holds in this city is not very great. Moreover, because Daru’s divine power is at sea, his church temple does not have

It was established in Baicheng District, but on a rock protruding toward the ocean at the junction of the dock area and Black City District. In other words, it was the only church among the churches in the city that built its own temple.

Leo didn't expect that a little investigation would involve the Church of the True God. He couldn't help but wonder if continuing the investigation would involve the entire church in St. Paulia Port.

Afterwards, the two went through the various ledgers in the room. In addition to discovering that the Federation was using the chamber of commerce to carry out various smuggling activities, they also discovered that the Federation seemed to be conducting some child trafficking activities, and the children being trafficked were not

They are not from the New World countries, but from the Old World.

Although in name, all countries in the New World do not allow any slave trade, human trafficking is not prohibited. This is because the New World has been developed for so many years, but there are not many places suitable for living. The environment in many countries is not very good. If you are willing to live there,

Naturally, there are not many people there, so in order to maintain the reproduction of the country, some countries will often secretly conduct a large number of population transactions to fill the gap in their own citizens.

In human trafficking, adults are not the most popular, because adults already have their own ideas. If they are not trafficked, even if they are given normal resident status, they will not live in peace of mind, and will find ways to leave, or even

They will also deliberately cause trouble, create rebellion, etc., so unless there is an urgent need to supplement adult labor, there will not be a large number of adults trading.

In the population trade in the New World, children are the main business of the trade, because children can be cultivated and reshaped, and their abilities are not enough to allow them to return to the Old World. By the time they are able, they have already regarded this place as their

I will never leave my own home.

Although the countries in the New World are not opposed to human trafficking due to their own reasons, it is not a good reputation after all, so they will not carry out it with great fanfare. Most of them are just entrusted to different ocean-going chambers of commerce, almost all of which can be named in the New World.

Large chambers of commerce will engage in this type of business secretly.

However, countries with poor populations will never leave such business to black market chambers of commerce and low-level organizations, because these low-level chambers of commerce and forces are unreliable in their eyes.

Therefore, the human trafficking of the Federation is definitely not due to those countries with a lack of population, and the church does not need to cultivate believers through this method. In this way, there is only one answer that can be thought of, and that is the cult and heresy that has been completely suppressed by various churches.

, only these shady forces need to maintain their number of believers through this method of human trafficking.

"What do you think about throwing these account books into the hall of the city council?" Sylvia easily analyzed the secrets hidden in these account books, and selected a few important ones, and then asked Lei

Ou said.

"I have no objection." Leo nodded and added: "But we have to wait until we find someone."

After saying that, the two of them searched the room again, and after confirming that they found nothing else useful, they left the office and walked out of the Chamber of Commerce in full view of everyone.

After that, Leo continued to follow the carriage traces towards the Black City District, and soon passed the Porter Avenue and came to a very large central square.

The square is triangular in shape, with a statue at the top of each corner. The statue should have been erected later and should be a well-known figure in the Port of Santa Pelia.

The square is like a steel knife splitting the porter's avenue that is rushing straight in half. One half extends to the Black City area, and the other side leads to the Daru Church Temple on the cliff in the distance.

Because of the Daru Church, this square is also called the Salvation Square. Every day, many Daru Church believers who have participated in the morning ceremony will gather in this square for daily exchanges. It is not difficult to see from the crowds in the square.
Chapter completed!