Chapter 503 A wolf in sheep's clothing
The idea of the plan is right.
When discussing the disguise plan, Pete speculated like this:
"Since they are a large-scale organization, there must be corresponding processes or conditions to recruit new members."
"Don't forget, these guys are doing the most dangerous things with the highest mortality rate, and even if they succeed, they may all die."
"If they don't recruit new people, they would have died long ago."
Miranda also agreed with Pete's idea and added a few more sentences.
"Many cult organizations and gangs that the Crusaders have attacked and eliminated are like this."
"The top and core cultists who have been infused with the power of the evil gods have the lowest accidental mortality rate."
"The death of those lunatics is either falling into monsters, or being killed or burned by the Crusaders."
"The high mortality rate is basically the middle and lower levels of the organization."
"Using power as a reward, tempting a large number of middle and lower members to make some dangerous attempts, such as - sacrifice."
Rena understood the meaning.
The cultists can even give up their own lives, let alone take other people's lives seriously.
To put it bluntly, the middle and lower levels of this kind of organization are consumables, that is, consumables that are easily damaged.
Send them to go to the mines.
If they are lucky, they will not fall into madness or become monsters after the sacrifice, then they will be promoted to the middle level or even the upper level;
If they are unlucky, those people will not have any objections to this.
They have not spoken until now, of course they have no objections.
According to this theory.
Reina is already a warlock, so she can skip the two important steps of accepting the test of hell knowledge and signing a contract with the devil.
She is a "talent" who comes to join the initiative, and the other party should have no reason to refuse.
Sure enough.
After Reina showed her identity as a warlock, the dwarf's attitude immediately improved, and he was not as stubborn and rigid as other stone fort dwarves.
He was even worried that Reina would not understand, and he deliberately repeated it in the common language.
The other party's level of common language is not to say that he has mastered it, but at least it can be said that he is incoherent.
Thanks to Reina's "translator" who can directly understand the dwarf language.
Otherwise, there would be too many ambiguities with just these few words.
The problem now is that the other party has made a request.
"Three lambs", Reina's first reaction is really the kind of lambs that have not grown up yet.
She remembers very clearly the tuft of wool she found in the secret room.
Maybe bringing a few lambs is a special tradition? Or a ritual requirement?
But Reina always feels that something is wrong.
The word "lamb" actually has another meaning in the eyes of the warlocks who have signed a contract with the devil.
The devils in hell like to call mortals "poor lambs".
They call themselves shepherds, and the so-called signing of a contract is just to find a sheep that looks good from the flock and raise it to be fat and white, but in the end it still has to be slaughtered for meat.
Reina thought.
She can't ask the other party directly, that doesn't match her character.
She is now playing a solitary and eccentric warlock, and she is experienced.
Judging from what the other party said, Reina is not the first warlock to find them!
They obviously have a mature set of coping methods, how to attract and absorb new people. Otherwise, the dwarf should have asked Reina "what she was going to do" or "where and from whom did she hear the news".
Instead of directly giving "code words" as conditions and tests.
Reina tried to put herself into the identity of a true evil god believer and a devil's contract.
She had to think with the mindset of a cultist.
"What kind of performance can show that you are a qualified and excellent cultist?"
The characteristics of cultists are very complex.
They are crazy and greedy, and they choose to pray to the evil god for power. This is a road of no return;
They are fanatical and cautious, and they will hide themselves well while making trouble in secret, and it is difficult to catch their exposed feet.
In order to achieve their goals, they will get enough power at all costs.
If they can get 10 points of power, they will never choose 8 points, and they will even think about the possibility of 20 points.
"In this case... just try a big one!"
Reina made a decision in her heart.
She squeezed out a cold "hmm" from her nose and turned away from the Hope Carpet.
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After walking around outside and finding a hidden corner, Lena turned on [Stealth] to make sure no one was paying attention to her, and then went to meet up with Pete and the others.
Pete and his friends were in another second-hand sundry shop not far from the entrance of the Hope Carpet Shop, pretending to be customers who came to shop, wandering around the shop and picking and choosing.
From this location, once they received a message from Lena, they could rush into the tapestry shop as quickly as possible to provide support, or launch a strong attack.
Lena found Pete, grabbed the corner of his clothes, and gently pulled it three times.
This code meant that there was something to discuss, and she would follow in a safe and secret place.
Pete received the signal, put down the dwarf-style second-hand chamber pot he was playing with and observing, and turned his head to greet others:
"Let's go, come and see next time!"
After going out of the commercial district, they found another dwarf-run hotel in the craftsman district.
The original hotel was no longer available.
The floor of the room was broken, and the fire burned everything that could be lit. The ceiling and walls were still full of black marks from smoke. The whole room was filled with a pungent smell. It would definitely be uninhabitable in the short term.
All these things directly made the innkeeper furious, and he kept cursing "Gokoke".
Even though Pete and his friends took the initiative to put out the fire and paid the money, the other party still said on the spot that they would never receive them again in the future.
Pete and his friends knew that they were in the wrong, so they didn't argue.
The stone fortress was large enough, and there were many hotels, so they could just change to another one.
After having a sufficiently private environment, Reina finally lifted [Stealth] and showed up.
Reina first shared the code request of "Three Lambs".
Then she proposed her idea:
"I suspect that buying three lambs and bringing them over is the worst solution."
"The so-called lambs may refer to those mortals who are not strong enough, do not have enough knowledge, and are in confusion!"
"So the conditions they proposed are probably - I have to extract the souls of three mortals into [Soul Fragments] to prove my identity and strength!"
Reina looked at the four companions in the room, and a creepy sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth:
"I have a plan."
"How about you acting as my 'lambs'?"
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