Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 818 One hundred and nine. You can regret it, but you can't look back

   Villagers believe in the poison of knowledge.

   This belief is one-sided wishful thinking—the poison of knowledge does not exist in thinking, nor does it care about belief.

   Although it didn't kill the villagers and seemed to shelter them, the root of everything was simple - these villagers had no "knowledge".

  The poison of knowledge will turn knowledge into brains for it to suck, but when it has not become brains, it will just wait by the side.

   When Lu Li, who pretended to be unconscious, was carried away, he noticed that the village had been established for more than ten years.

   Unthinkable Knowledge Poison is obviously patient.

   and the "principles" that belong to evil spirits.

  In order to survive, the villagers inherit the dogma of "don't master knowledge", and only retain, or in other words, the most primitive instinct: worship the powerful existence.

  As knowledgeable villagers die and pollutants overwhelm their minds, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to realize the truth. Even if there are a few alien minds, the poison of knowledge that roams here regards them as a delicious drink.

   This forms a kind of deformed symbiosis: villagers abandon knowledge in order to survive, evil spirits wander around for food to scare away the approaching weirdness, and the villagers are protected.

  What makes people laugh is that becoming a devout believer will inevitably increase "knowledge", leading to being killed by evil spirit rituals, and the villagers think this is a gift from the gods——

  The ignorant person and the poison of knowledge form a harmonious logic at this moment.

   Therefore, the villagers Lu Li and others encountered behaved stupidly, slow, and their language function deteriorated.

   This is one of the costs of throwing away knowledge.

   After listening to the story, everyone fell silent.

  Without the protection of gods, the human gathering places scattered across the earth will survive in their own way.

   This silence has nothing to do with sympathy, presented for the reason the villagers grabbed them: to dedicate the outsiders to the gods.

   Lu Li finally cut the rope of the merchant. It wasn't in a coma, but it wasn't resisting either.

   Merchants are rarely active in anything but transactions.

   "Fortunately you stay awake." Katerina said fearfully.

   "It's okay to be in a coma, the eldest sister is here." Lu Li replied.

  The button eyes of the big sister's head popped out in the hood.

   "Return the dagger to me." Katerina asked for the dagger her mother had left her, and looked at Purseus, who was shaking like a newborn lamb.

"are you ready?"

   At this moment, there was the sound of approaching footsteps outside the door.

   There is only one.

   After a brief exchange of opinions, everyone who got out of trouble returned to the stake and hid their hands.

  Purseus could no longer be tied to the stake, so he stood upright and pretended to be still bound.

   Villagers are not too smart to notice changes in location.

  Squeak-

   The guard who left soon returned to the cell.

   He found everyone who woke up, but he was indifferent, standing and watching.

   "Do you know the news of the resurrection of the dead?" Katerina asked suddenly.

   The guard's rolling eyes indicated that he could still think. After waiting for a while, the guard replied in a muffled voice, "I don't know..."

   "You tell us that we will offer sacrifices voluntarily, and your gods will be more satisfied."

   After a long wait, the guard told them intermittently what he knew.

  Guard's poor expressiveness and language skills make the content look like a puzzle without plates, but can still barely discern the outline of the puzzle.

   Waiting for him to finish talking, Katarina stepped forward, the dagger turned into an afterimage and pierced into his chest.

   Killing without resistance is simply like practicing with a dummy.

   "If you have 'knowledge', you can tell my lies."

   Looking at the blood-gushing body, Katarina whispered in pity, wiped the blood from the dagger, and withdrew her gaze.

   "We've got the clues you want, it's time for us to leave."

"That's too late!"

   A terrifying scream suddenly sounded beside him.

   "The Evil Spirit is Coming!!!"

   Katarina's smile vanished from her cleverness.

   "I tried to hold it, as far as you can escape."

   "Can you stop it?" Katerina asked hastily.

"cannot."

  Evil Falls answered briefly, cursing and driving away everyone who didn't leave: "...Get out!"

   Leaving the cell and going outside, the sky actually started to get dark.

  Night is coming.

   There was a chaotic shout in the distance from the street, where the evil spirit was approaching.

   But the situation is not what they thought.

   Bloated and fat, the outlines of sarcomas on the surface of hundreds of eyeballs squirm through the streets. Villagers resist its invasion with weapons, but neither sticks nor rusted tools can harm it.

   Every time it splits, a siege villager is swallowed.

   "It's the suffering crowd."

   "The suffering crowd."

   Lu Li and Xie Luo said at the same time.

   "Let's go before it finds us."

   Katarina whispered, turned in the opposite direction, and her body froze.

   A slender black shadow like a snake appeared at the end of the street, floating as if swimming in water.

   Evil spirit, poison of knowledge.

  Two evil spirits appeared at the same time.

   Although to the villagers, one of them is a "god".

   "Attack the afflicted."

   Lu Li whispered in the ears of the startled crowd.

   Katarina and the others came back to their senses and followed Lu Li to the villagers and the suffering people.

   Before the evil spirits approached, according to Lu Li's instructions, he picked up the stones and smashed them hard at the suffering people.

"and then?"

   Her scalp was tingling, and Katarina could hardly resist the urge to pull out the black thorn.

"do nothing."

   Lu Li's calm voice fell, but nothing happened.

  The poison of knowledge was suspended more than a dozen meters away, receiving the villagers' kneeling, but they didn't approach, and their heads didn't turn into brains.

   The two evil spirits are in a strange confrontation, temporarily.

   When they found that they would not be swallowed up if they did not attack the miserable people, the villagers stopped, retreated to the poison of knowledge, and surrounded it.

   "God... watching us... offering sacrifices..." an old man whispered obscurely.

  Old people, young people, children. Dozens of villagers approached the "sacrifice" with torches and weapons.

   To make matters worse, the sense of powerlessness that disappeared reappeared deep within the body.

   "Whatever you can do, hurry up. I don't want to faint again at this time."

   Katarina gritted her teeth and whispered.

   Lu Li, who was always sensible at all times, suddenly said, "The poison of knowledge, its ritual is to make knowledge gain weight..."

  The villagers passively listened to Lu Li's words, and some people hugged their heads in pain.

   "What are you doing...? Stop... Stop!!!"

  The torchlight shone on Lu Li's mysterious and peaceful face.

  Lu Li didn't stop: "The ritual of the suffering crowd is to fight back against those who caused him harm..."

   Words have knowledge, and knowledge brings death. The villagers stumbled and fell, but never got up again.

   claimed that the middle-aged man who sacrificed Lu Li and the others stumbled towards them. The weapon in his hand had already slipped, and only ridiculous beliefs were left to support him.

   The next moment, thick and cloudy brain fluid poured out of his nose, and the sad man fell forward without making a sound.

   Burning torches on the ground illuminate the darkened streets.

   There is no flame to purify the filth, only the poison of knowledge of joy lies on the heads of the villagers and drinks freely.

   This is a sumptuous feast of the poison of knowledge.

   This is the revenge of knowledge.

   (end of this chapter)