Chapter 247 Wildfire
Bai Wei's movements were so fast that before Vic could react, the serrated knife had already carved deeply into the wooden door.
"What are you doing..."
Before he could finish his words, Bai Wei kicked the townsman's wooden door down with a decisive kick, and then said to Vic with a smile.
"Preaching."
The door collapsed with a loud bang, and the townspeople behind the door no longer had their previous attitude, and their cloudy eyes were filled with fear.
"You, you, you, what are you doing?!"
The townspeople pointed at Bai Wei's nose, and their bodies seemed to be trembling slightly due to nervousness.
Bai Wei did not pay attention to him immediately, but waited for the dust splashed by the collapse of the wooden door to dissipate before slowly stepping in.
Vic, who was standing behind him, had no choice but to follow him in.
He is Bai Wei's assistant now, so there is no reason for him to stop Bai Wei.
But if Bai Wei really wanted to do something that would anger God and people, he would definitely not just stand there and watch.
After entering the house, Bai Wei leisurely observed the furnishings in the house.
This looks like a pharmacy, and all you see are bottles and jars of medicine.
It seemed like this male townsman was the only one living in the whole house, but there was a tightly closed door inside. When Bai Wei's eyes fell on the door, the tension on the townsman's face became even more intense.
"What on earth do you want to do?" The male townsman yelled at Bai Wei, but compared to when the door was still there, he now seemed a little timid.
Bai Wei naturally knew what he was worried about, but he didn't point it out. Instead, he looked at the male townsman with a smile on his face.
"Just came to buy some medicine."
"Purchasing medicine?" the male townsman said, "You just said you were here to preach!"
"Yes." Bai Wei nodded. "If you believe in our religion, do I still need to make special purchases?"
The male townsman's expression turned ugly: "Do you know where this place is? If you dare to mess around... the hunters will take care of you!"
"Oh?" Bai Wei's smile did not fade. "Will it be the hunters who will deal with me, or will it be the Wildfire Cultists who will deal with me?"
Hearing this, the male townsman's face turned even worse.
Only Vic didn't know what they were talking about, but he vaguely felt that something was wrong, so he tactfully kept silent.
The male townsman was silent for a while, and then asked, "What medicine do you want?"
"Some wound medicine tablets." Bai Wei said, "and... a 'blood coagulation potion' that can help you walk in the dark."
Hearing the word "blood coagulation potion", the male townsman subconsciously took a step back. He seemed to want to say that he didn't have it, but looking at the shiny serrated knife in Bai Wei's hand, he still couldn't say no.
After a while, he said, "Yes, but it's not here, and it's not cheap."
"It's okay." Bai Wei seemed to have guessed that the male townsman would answer like this, and said with a smile, "I'll wait for you here, go and get it quickly... But you'd better not have any other thoughts, otherwise, I will burn your house down."
As he spoke, Bai Wei glanced towards the house in the inner room, which made the male townspeople dare not move any further.
He had no choice but to leave the house quickly with a gloomy face.
Before going out, Vic heard the male townspeople cursing something in a very low voice, which seemed to be related to the hunter.
So after the male townsman left, Vic immediately came up and asked, "Why did you do this?"
Bai Wei glanced at Vic and said calmly, "If we want to go to the sacrificial site, we need these medicines."
"Then can we just rob them?" Vic said, "This is not what hunters do."
"I'm not a hunter." Bai Wei said, "I'm a priest of the Rhine. I don't have the qualities."
Vic: “…”
"It's just a joke." Bai Wei laughed, and then said, "If you come to buy medicine as a hunter, will he sell it to you?"
Vic wanted to protest, but some memories came flooding back.
It was a scene of an old hunter knocking on the door and begging in the middle of the night.
This scene naturally caught Bai Wei's attention.
"It will happen, but it won't be that easy, right?" Bai Wei said. "For example, they might raise the price arbitrarily or take the opportunity to make unreasonable demands. Imagine that when you are injured while hunting at night, you ask for help from these closed doors, but all you get is rejection and abuse, like "Stay away from me, don't bring danger to me" or something like that..."
Vic opened his mouth, but for a moment no words came out.
Because this was what he was thinking at the moment, and Bai Wei described it so vividly, it was as if he had read his mind directly.
Of course, Vic didn't think about mind reading. He just asked, "Why do you know so clearly?"
Of course, because I have experienced it too.
Bai Wei smiled in his heart.
This map in the game is definitely one of the most hellish maps. Not only are there countless monsters chasing you at night, but the town is also full of unruly people. When the player is injured and wants to buy medicine, he will find that the price of medicine at night is ten times that of during the day.
The person selling medicine was naturally the guy who was kicked out by Bai Wei just now.
This is truly retribution in this life.
But Bai Wei naturally wouldn't tell Vic about this. He just shrugged and said, "Don't forget who I am. Rhine is Wildfire's mortal enemy. We know you as well as your locals do. And we know more than just the surface. We also know the underlying reasons."
As Bai Wei spoke, he walked to the medicine cabinet and picked up a blood-stained medicine bottle.
"The fundamental reason is that the God of Senluo died, the former order collapsed, and the hunters' skills dropped significantly, but the danger you face has not decreased." Bai Wei said leisurely, "So the people here rely on hunters, but they don't trust them, fearing that their investment in hunters will go to waste, and it becomes an increasingly vicious cycle."
Vic said helplessly, "There's nothing we can do about it. It's difficult for the townspeople to buy medicine."
"Really?" Bai Wei pointed at the medicine cabinet in front of him. "If it's really that difficult, then where did this huge box of medicine come from? He can't just eat it for fun, right?"
Vic fell silent.
He naturally knew who these drugs were provided to.
Wildfire Cultist.
"So," Bai Wei said with a smile, "I'm an Orthodox priest. Is there any problem with me stealing things from a cult?"
Vic was speechless.
"By the way, the reason why you are in such chaos here is because the Wildfire Cultists have not yet become the true rulers of this land." Bai Wei said, "The God of Senluo has been dead for a hundred years. If it were us in the Rhine, within ten years every household here would be praising the great glory of the Lord of the Rhine, but the Wildfire Cultists..."
Yes, Bai Wei pointed out the most fundamental problem of this land - no new order has been formed.
Although the outside world has regarded Wildfire as one of the four major esoteric religions, compared with the former Senluo Church, the Wildfire believers are more like a mob and a group of cruel mercenaries.
The main reason for this is that... there is no new god in this land.
The Wildfire Sect does not have a Wildfire God.
Therefore, after the death of the God of Senluo, the people of this land did not develop a new belief, and the Wildfire Cultists did not work in this direction, so until now they have not been able to completely replace the functions of the former Senluo hunters. This has led to the spectacle that the God of Senluo has been dead for a hundred years, but his hunters are still working.
The job, of course, is... to fight the darkness.
Bai Wei's words really made Vic feel that he understood Sen Luo better than he did, so he did not dwell on this topic and asked instead: "Why do you want the 'blood coagulation potion'? Even if you have that thing, it is still very dangerous to go into the dark night."
"What if your little dog just got lost in the night?"
Vic's pupils narrowed slightly, and just as he was about to speak, he saw Bai Wei smiling.
"I'm just guessing."
Vic: “…”
"But it's possible." Bai Wei put the blood-stained medicine bottle back into the cabinet. "If you really want to find it, you can't ignore the night."
Before Vic could answer, the male townsman came back with two dirty blood test tubes in his hands.
"There are only these two." The male townsman said with a dark face.
"Very good." Bai Wei took the test tube with a smile, "That's enough. As for the injury pills, I've already taken them. I won't bother you anymore."
The male townsman's face darkened even more, and he gritted his teeth and said, "You haven't paid yet."
"Ah, I almost forgot if you hadn't mentioned it." Bai Wei patted his head and smiled at the male townsman as if he had realized something belatedly, "My name is Uru, and I come from the Rhine."
The male townsman didn't care what Bai Wei's name was, he only cared about money. But after waiting for a long time, he found that Bai Wei did not take any further action.
"What do you mean?"
"Pay the money." Bai Wei said, "Didn't I say my name is Ulu?"
"…What does this have to do with money?" the male townsman said, "This is not the Rhine, what use is your name?"
“Not now, but there will be soon.”
"…Are you kidding me?!"
"I'm not kidding you. I'm telling the truth." Bai Wei said, "Someone will come here to find me soon. You can tell them my news and you will get your reward."
"…Are they your subordinates?"
"No." Bai Wei said lightly, "He is my enemy."
…
"We're almost there, Bishop Figg." A Rhine priest said, "Going forward is the Wildfire's territory."
Fig stopped and looked at the dense jungle in front of him. It was like an open claw, and a savage breath was blowing in his face.
"What a disgusting smell." Fig wrinkled his nose and turned his head. "How are the preparations going?"
Behind him was a group of knights disguised as a caravan, their thick muscles almost popping out from their plain clothes.
This is the most elite knight group in Fig's hands.
But they are not the focus of this trip.
The highlight is the unique wooden box on the carriage.
At Fig's instruction, one of the wooden boxes was opened.
A pungent stench and a gurgling sound like chewing bones emanated from it, giving people a strong sense of unease.
"The Devourer's reaction is more intense than before." Fig said, "It seems that it has sensed something."
"Yes." The knight at the side answered, "The Devourer has always been very sensitive to Visas' power. If we let it go now, it will directly follow the smell to find the holder of the corpse and will not give up until it achieves its goal. It's just..."
"Um?"
"Our control over it is only effective within a certain range. Once it exceeds this range, it will become ineffective," the knight said. "At that time, it will go berserk and attack all creatures around it. If we want to control it again, we can only return to the range and ring this bell."
The knight picked up the bell at his waist and shook it gently.
The bell rang slightly, and the Devourer in the box trembled slightly.
Fig smiled and said, "Isn't this great?"
Then he walked forward and looked at the ugly thing in the box.
"Just let it make a big fuss."
Then he untied the chains.
…
Therefore, Bai Wei successfully bought the medicine and left the townsman's house satisfied.
It was that the townspeople were not very satisfied.
After walking out of the house, Vic immediately caught up with Bai Wei, and then lowered his voice and said: "Uru..."
"Call me Father Uru."
"...Father Uru." Vic asked, "The man just now was very concerned about the innermost room, and you seem to know what is in it."
"Oh? So you noticed it."
“It’s hard not to notice.”
"You are indeed very sensitive." Bai Wei reached out and rubbed Vic's head. "Then you didn't smell anything?"
"...a bad smell." Vic said.
“Like those things in the night?”
Vic nodded.
"Haha, that's normal." Bai Wei looked at Vic and said meaningfully, "Hunters have declined, but people still have to live in the dark. They have to use some tricks, and most of these tricks are not allowed to be seen in public."
Vic frowned tightly, and after thinking for a moment, he still couldn't come up with an answer, so he said, "Can't you explain it more clearly?"
"I'm just helping you find a dog. I didn't say I'm going to answer any questions for you."
Vic was about to get angry when he saw Bai Wei speaking slowly again.
"But since you're so well-behaved, it's not impossible to give you a reward." Bai Wei took out the blood coagulation potion he had "bought" earlier, "The answer lies in this."
Vic was originally a little unhappy with Bai Wei's statement, but after hearing what Bai Wei said, his attention was immediately diverted.
"What's the meaning?"
"The blood coagulation potion is a method used by hunters to hide in the dark." Bai Wei handed the potion to Vic, "Take another look."
Vic took the potion.
He had never used it before, so he smelled it immediately after taking it.
Bai Wei just watched quietly from the side.
When he saw Vic lick the edge of the test tube with his tongue unconsciously while smelling it, the smile on his face grew even wider.
I was out of town this weekend and wrote this on my phone, so there may be a lot of typos, so please bear with me...
(End of this chapter)
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