"There are tens of thousands of fanatics in the city, most of them walking corpses, how do you find Higgs's high-ranking followers from among the many fanatics?" Roland asked Colossa.

"Use this thing to find." Grofa took out a palm-sized bronze mirror from the storage bag, and gently wiped it, the mirror glowed with psionic brilliance, and red spots appeared, "This mirror is a weapon from Holmonx to me, and each red dot displayed in the mirror represents a fanatic badge, so that you can find the location of all high-level fanatics wearing copper bells, and hunt them in a targeted manner." ”

Roland looked at the number of red spots in the mirror, and said with surprise: "If this mirror shows all the high-level fanatics in the city, then the number of high-level fanatics is far less than I expected, and it doesn't seem to be as many as the number of sober people." ”

"That's what it is, it's said that Higgs is very strict with his followers, and not even one out of a hundred fanatics will be chosen by him to join the church."

"Since the target of hunting is only a few elites, it is not difficult for Hallmonx's commission to be completed." Lyudmila was relieved.

Grofa shook his head slightly, his face solemn: "The fanatics are not all crazy people who have lost their minds, especially the leader of the fanatic sect, Higgs, seems to be aware that the high-level cultists are being hunted in an organized and planned manner, and has given the order to retreat, according to the magic mirror, the red light spots can no longer be seen in other parts of the city, and a large group of high-level fanatics are concentrated in a building in the center of the city, if nothing else, it is the headquarters of the madman church." ”

"It's a problem for the enemy to concentrate on shrinking their defenses, and we have too few men to storm the strongholds of the fanatics." Anthony's face was ugly, "Then again, those 'sober people' in the vault, since they are the sworn enemies of the 'fanatics', why don't they join you in fighting the fanatics?" And that Holmonx, as the leader of the sober must have two brushes, why not take action against the fanatics himself? Wouldn't it be too selfish to expect adventurers from the outside world to hunt down the fanatics and enjoy the fruits themselves? ”

Grofa only sighed in the face of his barrage of questions.

"Master Holmonks and the 'sobers' in the Vault can't deal with the fanatics themselves, as for their troubles...... When you get to Vault 13, you'll see for yourself. ”

With a full stomach full of questions, Roland and his party hit the road again. On the way, he was not attacked by any more fanatics, and he arrived at "Vault 13" without incident.

A ring of bronze lampposts was erected around the Vault, and the glow of the "Lamp of Reason" completely enveloped the rather massive structure, leaving no blind spots from the sky to the ground for the fanatics to sneak into, worthy of being the last and strongest fortress of the "sober".

"We walked around the city for the past two days, checking the shelters one by one, and the results were not optimistic, except for Vault 13, the other shelters have been abandoned, the original residents either died of hunger and disease, or were killed by fanatics on the way out to find food, or gave up reason and degenerated into fanatics, and the last survivors were also transferred to Vault 13, and there is no other place to live in the city except here." "If we refuse to help the surviving sober against the overwhelming majority of the city's fanatics, it won't be long before Akron will be left with no more sober people and will be reduced to a purgatory ruled by fanatics." ”

Roland nodded thoughtfully, and followed him up the staircase illuminated by the "lamp of reason" to the closed door.

Gropha knocked on the door, and light footsteps were heard inside, and a fist-sized hole opened in the door, revealing a wary eye.

Roland peeked through the doorway and noticed that the eye was slightly bulging, and there was a faint blood-colored thread in the pupil, similar to the symptoms he had seen when he first met Jessica.

The man on the other side seemed to confirm that there were no enemies outside, and unlocked the door, which slowly opened.

"Mr. Gropha, are you all alright?" The door was opened by a girl of about seventeen or eighteen years old, so thin that she looked like a skeleton, her hair was yellow and unkempt like a weed in early winter, and her appearance was not very good-looking, and a pair of unusually bright eyes bulged out of the sunken eye sockets, which was a little scary!

"We're all fine, Maria, and I've found my lost friend." Grofa touched the girl's head, and her expression was extraordinarily gentle.

Mary listened to him introduce Roland and the others, bowed respectfully one by one, and appeared very polite.

Roland noticed that she was not using Akron, but the slightly jerky Vares lingua franca, and couldn't help but look at her with curiosity.

Sensing his strange gaze, Maria smiled shyly, "I'm from Vares, too. ”

"It turns out that Varess also has the dependents of the evil gods." Roland said subconsciously.

"Sister Maria is not a family member, she is an adventurer from the outside world like your big brother." Jessica corrected seriously.

Roland looked at Maria in surprise, this living skeleton-like girl was actually an adventurer? Quietly opened the "Pupil of Fate", and sure enough, don't look at Maria's appearance, but she is a level 7 priest, and she is the priest of the "Queen of Cause and Effect" Timosi!

"Praise the Sisters of Destiny." Roland greeted Maria in a more solemn manner, raising his hand to draw a clockwise circle on his chest.

"Praise the Sisters of Destiny." Mary returned the salute solemnly and drew a circle counterclockwise on her chest.

Sindra and Timosi, the devotees of the two goddess sisters, generally have a good relationship and share many similarities in their religious rituals. For example, the gesture of the Church of Timos in praise of the goddess is to draw a circle counterclockwise on the chest with the left hand; The prayer gesture of the Sindra church is the opposite, with the right hand on the chest and drawing a clockwise circle.

"Miss Maria, how long have you been in Akron?" On the way through the courtyard, Roland inquired casually.

"It's been almost three years." "I was born in Wilnoa, the New World, to parents who were members of the Church of Timoth, and my father stumbled upon a book in the library of the Church, in which the author recounted his adventures in a dream, and suggested that in the shallow sea of Wilnoa there was an altar to the ancient city, where the people were hospitable and full of gold and silver...... My father listened to this story and took my mother and I on a treasure hunt according to the book......"

The young priest smiled bitterly, "You can guess what happened without me telling you, our family of three came to Akron, my father and mother were killed by the fanatics, and I was the only one who escaped, thanks to the protection of Master Holmonx, who allowed me to take shelter in Vault 13. ”