Chapter 22: The Mystery of the Holy Blood
Xena let out a long sigh as she took out a porcelain vase from the spatial ring, and then she left her helpless back to the two of them as if she had lost something of the most important thing. γFengyun Reading Network.γ
Niltina didn't stop her, her attention was now on Luo Lan's hand, this bottle was devoid of any carvings and patterns, the style was simple and mediocre, ordinary like a vessel in a commoner's home, and similar things could be found casually in Sedaon.
With her thief's eye, she could naturally recognize that this was a rare porcelain from the East, and it was said that any liquid contained in it, even after a thousand years, would still be poured as if it had been poured out as before.
It's also a valuable treasure.
Luo Lan and Niltina glanced at each other, and they immediately left here, and found a relatively hidden high slope not far away, surrounded by a few trees, the lush branches and foliage blocked the view from the outside, but standing inside, through the pores of the leaves, they could clearly see the passing figures.
Niltina carefully removed all traces that could be detected, and she stepped on the thick fallen leaves to stand in front of Luo Lan, her eyes wandering over the bottle and Luo Lan's face.
Luo Lan raised the bottle in his hand and shook it, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will abide by our previous agreement, one and a half." β
Niltina let out a long sigh of relief, and she blinked, "After all, this is our first time working together, and I don't dare to be careless." The injuries on her body have not yet healed, and she has to beware of Luo Lan turning her face at this moment.
She took out the bottle she had used to defraud Athena and handed it to Luo Lan.
Luo Lan squinted his eyes and smiled, this ordinary bottle inadvertently revealed a clue to him.
Obviously. Niltina was going to give the blood to someone or somewhere, and that person would not be too far from here, no more than a day's journey at most, otherwise the blood would not be kept fresh.
Then, this person may know the function of the Holy Blood, or even more so, the one who needs it.
Luo Lan quietly uncorked the bottle and injected the blood into the two bottles, the golden blood carried a hint of mystery and dazzling, but he couldn't feel any special smell and energy fluctuations from it. It seems that except for the special color, it is no different from clear water in other places.
He couldn't help but think to himself, why did this seemingly useless thing deserve so much attention from the Council of the Dead?
He looked up and handed the vial containing the Holy Blood in his hand to Niltina. As if as a reminder, he said, "As we agreed in advance, you can help me find out the cause of his death and all the clues related to him in the Council of the Dead." β
Niltina smiled coquettishly, and she took it. threw a reassuring look and said, "You can rest assured, as a thief, I will naturally help you do things if you pay the honorarium." That's the rule of the Thieves' Guild. "The honorarial employer, although the latter seems to be very close to the friars. But that doesn't get in the way of their business.
But then her eyes were a little gloomy. "Actually. I'm also trying to figure out what happened, he seems to have suddenly disappeared from this world......"
Luo Lan knew that Rommels liked beautiful women. often staged a one-night romantic scene, so it is very likely that Niltina's words are true, which is one of the reasons why he dares to cooperate with the other party.
He pointed to the bottle and smiled, "I hope the cooperation will always be so pleasant." β
Niltina chuckled, put the bottle into the spatial ring, and said, "I hope so." β
"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot to tell you," Niltina, as if suddenly remembering something, lowered her voice, "I heard that he was rounded up during a mission, and I later learned from a source that it seems to have something to do with the Holy Blood." β
"What did you say?" Luo Lan's heart was shocked, he grabbed Niltina's hand, stared into her eyes and said, "Are you sure?"
Niltina nodded, sighed slightly, "I'm sure." β
Romans' death is actually related to this matter, what is going on?
Niltina frowned slightly, Luo Lan suddenly came to his senses, he slowly let go of the other party's hand, his eyes just swept over the wounds on her shoulders and abdomen that were corroded by necromancy, he stretched out his finger, and with a light finger, a little bit of white light floated there like rain and dew, and the warm light element kept mending the wounds and gaps, just for a short moment, the skin and flesh and blood were restored as smooth as a newborn baby.
Niltina looked at Luo Lan with wide eyes, and said in a lost voice: "You ......"
"What's wrong?" Luo Lan was stunned, and suddenly he seemed to think of something, and his mind suddenly couldn't sort out the line like a mess
That's why he used a healing technique casually?
The healing technique was not an unusual thing, but he had just used a healing technique that had reached the middle level of effect, but did not have the slightest incantation!
As we all know, when the level of the legal profession reaches a certain level, low-level spells can be instantaneous, but medium-level spells require the use of means such as chanting and chanting, and even those who have reached the high level are not able to use them so easily.
But he did it just now, inadvertently.
What's going on?
Luo Lan carefully recalled the feeling of the scene just now, and he felt that everything seemed to happen naturally, without deliberate decoration and carving, just as simple as the porcelain vase in his hand.
Porcelain vase ...... holy blood?
Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he turned his hand over and saw that there was a trace of pale golden blood remaining on his index finger.
This was the one he had just wiped off the blood stain on the bottle.
Is it because of it?
He frowned, and tried to activate the healing technique in his body again, but it felt like lightning behind a dark cloud, only to light up for a moment and then fall silent, unable to use it no matter how much he tried.
He had to put aside this complicated and difficult puzzle for the time being, raised his head and smiled faintly, "Maybe it's just a coincidence." β
Niltina looked at him with a complicated gaze, and then shook her head noncommittally, perhaps she had vaguely guessed something.
Luo Lan coughed and said, "Their victory and defeat should have been decided." He was hinting at Niltina, and they should be separated by now.
Niltina glanced at him, took out a scroll from the spatial ring and stuffed it to Luo Lan, and said, "You can find me according to the method recorded here, goodbye." She smiled at Luo Lan, made a light somersault in the air, jumped down the high slope, and in an instant fell into the dense shadow of the trees in front of her.
Luo Lan watched her disappear from sight, but did not turn back to the temple, but paced in place a few times, thinking to himself.
Until now, not a single member of the Council of the Dead had been seen catching up, which meant that, as he had planned, each of them had been intercepted.
He sneered, if he was alone, he was destined to not be able to complete the plan of revenge for Rommels, although he now got a fief and could openly form a force of his own, but to confront the Monks with power all over the Apollo continent was just an unpredictable delusion in the short term.
But as a thief, he has a way to accomplish this by other means.
For example, he was given such a golden opportunity now, and after his clever and deliberate arrangement, this squad of the Council of the Dead was destined to have one or more members die at the hands of the members of the Monks.
This will inevitably lead to disputes and friction between the Monks and the Council of the Dead.
He wanted to use the power of the Council of the Dead, which was slowly eroding the power of the Monks' Society, and he himself stood by and watched coldly, inserting the most fatal stab in the most favorable situation.
What is needed now is patience and waiting.
He looks up to the sky, Rommels, and they will be your burial companions.
For a long time, the figure standing behind Luo Lan has always made him feel as if there are countless shackles bound to his body, unable to breathe freely under the sky, in order to get rid of this feeling, he has made countless efforts.
He knew that Rommels didn't like it as much as he did, and that the former had been following his own path.
However, one person is too small after all.
He looked at the mountains in the distance, the hazy shadows hidden in the clouds under the clear sky, and clenched his fists, only by establishing a force that the world feared could he defy all of this.
Before today, he didn't care about the so-called Holy Blood, but just wanted to win trust in Daphne's heart and pave the way for him to get closer to the Monks. But after learning that Rommels might have something to do with it, he was eager to solve the mystery.
He looked at the glowing woods again, but some dark corners were still out of reach, and with Niltina's skill and experience as a thief far above him, he would never be able to track him, so the clues had to be pursued somewhere else.
His eyes flickered, there should be someone else who knew the key to this.
Athena.
Since she stole the Holy Blood, she must know something inside.
Luo Lan returned to the place he had just left, carefully identified the traces left by Athena, and tracked them all the way.