"Screening for 'Corpse Hearts' is extremely difficult."
The Archbishop's voice carried a trace of weariness. "They can't be detected by conventional means. The only way to identify them is to use the holy emblem bestowed by the Mother Goddess and sense, at close range, the heart inside them that no longer has any life in it."
"But there are too many townspeople, and the Chaos Rain affected a wide area... We're far too short-handed, and progress has been slow. New victims appear almost every day, especially in the slums, where information is scarce and defenses are weak..."
He didn't continue, but his grief and the weight on his shoulders were already plain to see.
The church had clearly been stretched thin in its response to this sudden disaster. Constrained by the times and all manner of conflicts, its ability to organize was truly backward.
"As far as I know, a lot of investigators aren't afraid of the supernatural and love going straight to the heart of an incident, so there have been a lot of casualties over the past two days." Yu Xing stated calmly, then smiled at the Archbishop. "Every person you lose right now makes this even harder to handle, doesn't it?"
He'd put it very tactfully. Never mind the investigators: the deducers who had volunteered for this deduction were willing to take any risk for the mission, their ranking, and the benefits awaiting them back home.
The people on the Fallen Path in particular were hard to understand by the standards of normal people.
So, of the fifty who'd entered, only nineteen remained. That was hardly surprising.
The Archbishop nodded heavily. "Yes. The chaos brought by the Chaos Rain has severely hampered our efforts and cost the investigators their lives."
However, compared to the other clergy and