Seeing that the young pastor was willing to help, the old woman was overjoyed immediately. She first expressed her gratitude, and then hurried home to retrieve the belongings, and quickly handed them over to Gallo.
The sheriffs on the side inevitably complained about Gallo's actions:
"Pastor Gallo, it's time like this, so don't make extra trouble?"
"The old man's grandson has been missing for several days. I'm afraid it has nothing to do with this incident, right?"
What he said is also true. Cases of missing persons are very common in the ghostly place of Innocence. Not long ago, there was a mysterious incident in which the entire town disappeared in the next door York Town...
Although the city of innocence is prosperous and prosperous on the surface, there has been an undercurrent surging behind it, which has never stopped, and no one can control it. Criminals like the Skull Crusher are still at large.
Countries, sects, and forces from all walks of life regard this place as a sweet steamed bun that must fight for every inch of land. Even necromantic creatures like liches have been coveting here, wanting to get involved...
No one can explain why the City of Innocence is so popular, maybe only the gods know
All in all, there's nothing wrong with the sheriffs hoping that Gallo won't be distracted by chores.
But Gallo has his own persistence:
"I have a hunch that these two things are related..."
"There is only one truth, and we cannot give up the slightest clue!"
"If possible, can you inquire about other missing cases here?"
Although the sheriffs felt that Gallo was a little too sensitive, their immediate superior had sent a message asking them to listen to Gallo's arrangement, so they had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to inquire.
As a result, after inquiring, I found out that in this village alone, there have been more than 20 people who have disappeared one after another in the past three months, more than the believers of the Miya sect!
And I heard that there are also people missing in the next few villages. If these missing people are added up, it may be hundreds of people!
However, because these people did not disappear all at once, but one after another, and the intervals between them were not consistent, and there was no fixed pattern, so they did not attract much attention and were regarded as accidents.
After all, these villages are not too far from the border of the empire, and from time to time there are aliens, rogues, and cults haunting them; they are also relatively close to the ruins wasteland, and occasionally they are attacked by ferocious beasts, monsters, and even various monsters, so they occasionally disappear. Neither is uncommon.
But more than 20 people disappeared in half a year. This number is enough to cause vigilance, and even the sheriffs are aware of this.
They even suspected that this anonymous letter was sent by a relative of a missing person. He may have realized something was wrong earlier and thought of cults. Very common, this person should be afraid of being discovered and retaliated by the cult, so he chooses to write anonymously.
Gallo hurriedly asked for the belongings of these missing persons to be found, and hurriedly took the sheriffs back to Miya Church, asking the old bishop for help in divination.
With the belongings of the divination target, the accuracy of divination will be greatly increased.
The old bishop also got busy immediately.
However, divination is still disturbed...
"It seems that this case is really unusual. I used my belongings to help with divination, but it still got disturbed..."
"However, the scope of the final determination has been slightly narrowed..."
The old bishop looked at the slightly shrunken circle of petals on the map, and then began to divine the whereabouts of the next missing person.
He divined more than a dozen times in one breath, and finally narrowed the circle of petals to a barely acceptable range.
It is a forest located in the northwest direction outside the city. It is a little far away from the village of the original destination. It is already close to a mountain range called 'Serpentine'. Over this mountain range is the 'God's Abandoned Ruins'. The mysterious and dangerous huge wasteland.
And the road from the city of innocence to those villages basically spread along the outer edge of this forest...
"From this point of view, it should be some dangerous monster in the ruins wasteland, came to this forest, lurked down, and attacked passers-by?"
"But its appetite is not too big, and the number of people attacked each time is very small, so it has not attracted attention..."
"As for Lieutenant Wendini, he must have noticed something was wrong, so he took his people and ran to kill him..."
Gallo roughly guessed the whole story, and then said:
"Anyway, just go and have a look."
He was immediately ready to go.
The old bishop hastily exhorted:
"Although I don't know what method was used, but it can even interfere with my divination, it must be very dangerous, you must be careful!"
"Besides, this trip is mainly to find and save people. More people are needed to help you. Don't act alone. Take those sheriffs with you."
"If you need to do it, be as low-key and secretive as possible."
Gallo naturally nodded repeatedly, agreed, and quickly called the sheriffs to set off again.
At this time, it was almost dusk, and everyone had been tossing around all day since early morning. Gallo was fine, but the others were already very tired, and now they had to venture into a dangerous forest at night...
But in order to save the lives of colleagues, no one complained, and no one was afraid to refuse.
The security officer of Section Nine is really different from other security officers.
So it took several hours for everyone to arrive at the area marked by the old bishop near the early morning. This place is already deep in the woods. Except for Gallo's little donkey, no one else's horses can enter at all. Come,
There was a dead silence around, and even the slightest insect chirping could not be heard, and the weather was not very good tonight, there was no moon in the sky, and only relying on torches to provide some weak lighting, it looked eerie...
If ordinary people came to this kind of place, they would be too scared to walk.
But these security officers are not afraid at all, they are still looking forward to some powerful monsters coming out and fighting with them for 300 rounds!
At the same time, I didn't feel tired, but felt full of energy, wishing to run wildly in the woods...
They even had the energy to call Wentini's name loudly:
"Lieutenant! Are you there, Lieutenant?"
"Lieutenant, come out quickly! We will never laugh at you for not having a boyfriend anymore!"
"Marry me, lieutenant! If you don't agree, it will be your default!"
Of course, this is all due to the magic, the third-level magic of the protection system, durability, and fanaticism.
In fact, Gallo wanted to use those prayers of heroism and hymns of courage that could not be used without authorization, but the old bishop said to keep a low profile, so he had to choose these simple magic spells regrettably.