"According to this world's mercenary customs, no third party should interfere before we're wiped out or abandon the mission."
The Long-Hand Tribe mercenary before him, Li Yong, took the initiative to greet Lu Mouren when he saw him approaching.
"We're a professional mercenary team from nearby Kaiwei City. This time, six major mercenary regiments have dispatched their core forces specifically to investigate the incident here."
After Lu PingAn presented the holy emblem and credentials from the church's upper ranks, he received some respect. At the very least, the mercenary, whose face had initially screamed You're here to steal our business, adopted a better attitude.
As more time passed after the "major incident," more and more means of communication were restored. Naturally, contact between nearby cities became increasingly frequent.
When something happened in one city, neighboring cities naturally took it seriously. It was not merely because of trade and the relationships between neighboring residents; more importantly, this world's usual pattern was that when one place ran into trouble, the place next door would basically suffer the same fate before long.
Whether it was a natural disaster, an Otherworld invasion, the spread of a virus, or even just a Professional going mad, such things rarely harmed only one family or one city. Foresight and the spread of warnings were the most important means of survival.
When the neighboring city first heard that there had been "murders" here, they had treated it as a sacrificial case involving an evil god or Otherworld Outer God—a common occurrence.
Based on past experience, if it was not dealt with in time, a whole bunch of dimensional gates would often appear before long, followed by a dozen Otherworld Invaders. Naturally, nearby Kaiwei City acted proactively and sent combat forces over in advance.
Whether for prevention, firefighting, or