Chapter 620: The Moon-Worshipping Sect

"Yes, there are many Kassenrik people doing business here, and they brought the traditional beliefs from the south of the Rommel Mountains. This is very complex, and I can't explain it clearly. If you need to, you can go to the Chamber of Commerce of Kassenrik merchants to understand the situation."

"Ask hotel owner Tels about fire worship, ask the Chamber of Commerce about southern beliefs..."

Xia De recorded these things, and the poet was not surprised that he took out a notebook to record:

"In addition, although the sect of the legendary Old God 【Twin Gods】 is gone, there should be some experts in this area locally. You can go to the local folklore professors to ask; Midhillburg also has a university."

Xia De nodded:

"Then is there anything else? For example, worshipping death?"

The poet seemed to be reminded, and he punched his left fist into his right palm:

"Yes, yes, but saying worship is not accurate; it should be said to respect death. Our city is particularly concerned about death. I have always believed that death is the beginning of another great adventure, perhaps the world after death will be very exciting."

It's a pity that the world after death is just a body of water, and the soul can only continue to walk.

"So, there is no group worshipping death locally?"

"If there were, they would have been banned by the Orthodox Churches long ago. Isn't the Nature Church always preaching? The great 【Lord of Nature】 controls the power of death."

The poet drew a holy emblem on his chest, and Xia De also understood that he was a believer of the Nature God. The holy emblem of the Nature God is two leaves placed together. The undertaker who transported Mr. Sparrow's body was also his believer.

Xia De nodded and continued to record. He originally thought that in a city located above the largest 【Boundary of Life and Death】 in the material world, at least similar groups could be born...

"Wait, the group worshipping death, wouldn't it be the 【Ring Mage Order】?"

The two waiters who were called upstairs for questioning just now walked back, and the people who stayed on the first floor and didn't leave immediately surrounded them, wanting to know what happened here. Seeing that the poet was also very concerned, Xia De let him go and find out the situation.

After a while, the poet walked back, looking dejected:

"Someone really died, a southerner was beaten to death."

"Southerner" in Midhillburg generally refers to Kassenrik people, which is a slightly discriminatory term.

"Was it killed by the first gunshot just now?"

Xia De asked curiously.

"Yes, they said a white sheet has already been covered upstairs."

"Who fired the gun? We heard two gunshots just now."

"The first gunshot was fired by the murderer, and the second was also fired by him. When the two officers went upstairs, he fired a shot at the stairs and then hid on the fourth floor. The police believe that the other party didn't escape, so they are now trying to find the guy who fired the gun from the tenants and servants on the fourth floor."

The poet said the news he heard, but Xia De clearly heard that the second gunshot was different from the first:

"Does the murderer have two guns? What kind of person would carry two guns when going out?"

【You.】

Xia De really couldn't refute this sentence.

The bard sitting opposite the table took another sip of ale, and continued the topic just now under the gas lamp:

"Finally, the local faith worth mentioning should also include the tradition of moon worship."

A smile appeared on Xia De's face, which aroused his greater interest. Not long ago, Granny Cassandra said that there were vampire groups locally, but they were all hidden as ordinary citizens; perhaps moon worship refers to that group of creatures:

"This sounds very interesting. The emergence of localized worship should be related to the local history and natural environment. But as far as I know, there are no very good moon-viewing venues in Midhillburg and Sikar Mountain, and there are not many legends related to the moon here, so how can there be a tradition of moon worship?"

"No, no, no, this is just that outsiders don't understand. In fact, there is a moon-viewing spot on Sikar Mountain, but even some locals don't know it."

"Where?"

"By the lake at the top of the mountain."

"Sikar Mountain has a mountain-top lake?"

Xia De was slightly surprised, but thinking that this is an extinct volcano, it seems very normal.

"The ancient tradition of moon worship has long been lost, so it can only be glimpsed from those poems and stories."

Saying that, the poet hummed a short paragraph, and after singing, he patted his head again:

"However, there were rumors a few years ago that someone saw a group of women wearing gauze skirts like female ghosts in the mountains on the night of the full moon in March, wearing silver eye masks and veils on their faces, walking towards the top of the mountain."

This sounds like the 【Ring Mage Order】 no matter how you listen to it, but they might not be worshipping the moon, but taking advantage of the special time of the full moon in March to hold some ceremony in the mountains.

However, after the poet's reminder, Xia De thought of another thing. Priest Ao Gu Si mentioned that there are actually three channels directly leading to true death in the 【Boundary of Life and Death】, located at the top of the mountain, the mountainside, and inside Midhillburg city at the foot of the mountain.

The one at the top of the mountain, Priest Ao Gu Si said, was sealed by an ancient existence. Combined with the possibility that the "volcanic eruption" thought by the Diviner Society might not erupt magma, Xia De speculated that the location of the channel at the top of the mountain was around the mountain-top lake in the 【Boundary of Life and Death】.

"In other words, Midhillburg still has localized faiths in the contemporary era, and the only ones left are twin worship, the faith brought by southerners, and the tradition of fire worship."

Xia De made a summary, and the poet nodded:

"At least that's how I see it. Oh, can I have another ale? This batch of wine is much better than the one in summer."

Xia De beckoned the waiter to come over and buy another ale for this bard who provided a lot of information. He drank the apple wine or apple juice in front of him in one gulp, then stood up and said goodbye to the poet.

He intended to understand the local traditional faith, but the southern faith formed too late and could be ignored for the time being. It is now two o'clock in the afternoon, and there are only two hours left before meeting Priest Ao Gu Si. It is definitely too late to go to the university to ask about twin worship.

So, he wanted to talk to the hotel owner.

But now the hotel owner is involved in the murder case on the fourth floor, so Xia De has to find a way to make the investigation of this murder case resolve faster.

For example, help the police find the gunman hiding on the fourth floor.

Dorothy once gave Xia De a pendant with the royal family emblem, which could allow Xia De to get help at the Police Department of Midhillburg. But the object of seeking help is the local deputy director, and ordinary police officers, sergeants, and even inspectors will not recognize the pendant, so this time he still has to use the identity of MI6.

After saying goodbye to the poet, Xia De tidied up his clothes, walked to the police guarding the hotel entrance, and shook his ID:

"There are some things I want to find the sergeant to talk about."

The ID has the surname "Hamilton," but fortunately, Hamilton is not a rare surname.

And in Delarion, only a lunatic would dare to impersonate someone from MI6. The police officer recognized that it was an MI6 ID, stood at attention and greeted him, and immediately led Xia De upstairs to find the sergeant on the fourth floor.

The bard holding the ale looked curiously at Xia De's figure disappearing at the stairs:

"Could it be that I met the kind of very powerful person in stories and legends?"

He put one arm on the table, took a sip of wine, and continued to look at the people on the first floor of Sikar Hotel in boredom:

"How is that possible..." ===== CHAPTER 621 =====