Four Split Personalities

Once upon a time, Mo Tan visited a place called Pato City, where he tricked a group of naive cultists, reaped a pair of naive lackeys, and stabbed an innocent young man to death.

The name of that young man was Cordova...

In front of an abandoned warehouse in the southern district, after being alternately stimulated by the lunatic in the bell tower, the hero baptized in tragedy, and the cultists going on a rampage, Cordova, who had just been beaten to death by a group of orc brutes shortly before, had finally had enough. He began to flee in panic, feeling certain that something must have gone wrong; otherwise, a player as ordinary as himself shouldn’t have suffered such misfortune.

But the fact was the fact: the tailor that his quest had instructed him to find was already lying dead in the central square, and the whole city of Pato was thrown into chaos. The eerie and powerful believers fought back and forth with the Temple Warriors, the bar owner and his employees flirted with each other, the affable chief steward Lange broke two necks, and the mentally disturbed bell tower strange man put on a perfect split. In a nutshell, a bunch of immortals were having a blast, leaving Cordova, dressed only in a set of linen clothes, absolutely terrified.

Haunted by a profound fear of death, he immediately fled, and was fortunately able to avoid every rampaging heretic wandering the city, safely making his way to an abandoned warehouse in the southern district.

After short contemplation, Cordova decided to lay low for a bit... like a quail, just observing, and resolved that if the chaos didn’t settle by nightfall, he would log off and go skewer something.

However, as fortune has it, within the next second, Cordova saw a blood-stained elf male walking out of the warehouse, bumping right into him.

It was that madman who had been showing off at the bell tower, striking a split and bullying the chief steward into killing hostages!

In the moment their eyes met, Cordova nearly wet himself.

Then he saw the madman smile gently, put his index finger to his lips, and "shushed" him.

This was absolutely an act to silence him for good!!

Cordova spun around and broke into a full sprint back the way he came, crying out as he ran, "Help meeeeee!!"

Then he died again.

Even now, with his relatively modest player combat abilities, Cordova still remembered that day, the villains who had killed his NPC for the quest, and that despicable person who had killed him!

As it happened, that despicable person, ah, that would be Mo Tan of Chaotic Neutral alignment, also remembered that day. Of course, he had no recollection of some random NPC K whom he had carelessly stabbed to death; what he had vividly in memory were the "small discoveries" he made in the warehouse.

Pleasant information about the Whisper Sect~

Mo Tan was particularly interested in this content because he had discovered that this Evil God Sect wasn’t just an ordinary urban-rural organization, but a big, well-structured gang with deep roots, and the Pato City stronghold he had obliterated was just the tip of the iceberg.

So an enthusiastic Mo Tan decided to dig into this iceberg.

He was interested in the abilities of the Whispering God and in the thriving heretical organization as well.

However, Pato City was after all just a small outpost; it couldn’t possibly contain too much important information. Even though Lange was seen as a somewhat promising figure in the Northwest Diocese, a small-time figure was still a small-time figure, and the clues that could be dug up were not that numerous. Most of the information in the warehouse consisted of trivial details, like plans to use the power of the Whisper to solve problems with sow deliveries and such trivial matters to lure in believers.

Of course, aside from the "vast majority" of junk, Mo Tan also found some useful clues, including a piece of information that caught his particular attention—written in the annex of [Ritual Records]. It casually listed a channel used by a higher-tier stronghold to send "sacrifices" this way. After simple validation, Mo Tan was surprised to find that its source was the Violet Empire, where another character of his was currently located.

[Holy Calendar 9570/year of the Star/month of Melody/day 5, beastman slaves 3, via intermediate node ’Black Mercury’, minor node ’White Ghost’, minor node ’Brown Berth’, delivered in 7 days.]

Just half a page of hastily scribbled footnotes, and an unclear trail emerged.

Afterward, Mo Tan briefly shared the key information about ’slave trafficking’ with Double Leaf, who was abundant in online time and intelligence. Then he set off on his search alone...

But just as he had not formally begun his action, he, as Hei Fan, along with Double Leaf, experienced that unforgettable human disaster, and directly grasped the decisive link between the Marshall Family and the slave trade.

Thus, the Bard, Tan Mo, began his purposeful journey south with Little Ai and Cole.

In Kalan City, he gained two collaborators and a box...

In Black Tower City, he used that very box to make a quick six hundred thousand Gold Coins...

But he found no trace of the Whisper Sect whatsoever.

It wasn’t until Mo Tan reached the city of Lakeview that he finally found some clues in that small city on the edge of the Southwest of the Housaiyin Territory. He stayed there for a short while and after a thorough investigation, he found a medium-sized outpost of the Whisper Sect. To avoid any complications, he tricked a group of seemingly powerful individuals chasing someone, setting off a minor misunderstanding that sufficiently distracted the outpost. Disguised as a hunter, who was the apparent head of the place, he infiltrated it boldly and discovered further clues, which was actually just a simple sentence...