Chapter 31: The Yuss Community
In a high-end apartment in Ciudad Vinis, in the Cannareggio district.
When Tiberius returned to his apartment after the hunt, he found his brother Gaio lying on the couch watching TV.
"How many people have you eaten?" Gaiyo asked casually.
"Three." Tibel wiped the corners of his mouth, "I made more than two dozen mice, and I brought you one back by the way." β
The Devouring Method, extracted from the flesh sequence, can be used to absorb spirituality more efficiently by devouring living creatures. In the case of the anti-magic magnetic field that caused the spirit to be unable to return to itself, devouring the human being was the fastest way for the two demigod brothers to recover their spirituality.
Once you have enough spirituality, you can use the Flesh Sequence's tainted abilities to feed your own flesh to the surrounding rats, contaminating them into your own flesh golems, and then manipulate them to monitor the main roads of Venisia City in search of Agrippina's whereabouts.
"You say, the poison of belladonna, could she have spread a lot of puppets around the city as well?" Geyot's eyes were fixed on the TV screen and he casually said, "I remember she was more fond of polluting pigeons." β
"Maybe." Tiberius said, "But under the anti-magic magnetic field, she consumes her spirit as long as she uses her power. β
"Without the laws related to devouring, she can only use the 'life stealing' ability in her bloodline, which is quite inefficient to obtain spirituality."
"Maybe we can cut in from this angle." "Have there been a lot of murders in the city lately?" Maybe it's the hand of belladonnaβexcept for what you and I do, of course. β
"Don't be stupid." Tiberius said, "Do you remember where you ate bread?" And drinking blood itself is not fatal, and even a few of her companions are needed to take turns to provide her with the small amount of blood she needs every day. β
"In this way, the existence of the anti-magic magnetic field itself restricts her more than ours." Gaiyo's tone became relaxed, "What's lunch today?" That old woman yesterday was so stuffy. β
Tiberius clapped his hands, and through the door came a young girl of Yus, her eyes terrified and her expression almost desperate, but her body tainted by her abilities was completely uncontrollable, and she trembled and tied a napkin for her demigod brother, put away her knife and fork, and lay down silently on the table.
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"The other party has the law of devouring, and will inevitably use this ability to restore spirituality and create puppets, so where a large number of murders occur, there is a high probability that the target will lurk." In Peggy's journal, Agrippina's handwriting appeared.
"Okay." Asker wrote down a word and closed the journal.
This time, it was Eleanor's team of girls who cooperated with him. Since they hadn't met with the demigods before, the risk of revealing their identities throughout the process was relatively low.
Asker himself was still wearing the robe, his hood lowered to hide his appearance.
The contamination of flesh and blood abilities allows these demigods to pollute small animals to monitor the city for them, and even pollute humans to create blood slaves, so that they can also gain a certain strength under the suppression of the anti-magic magnetic field.
This kind of pollution will make the polluter have the extraordinary trait of mutilated "Flesh I", just like the transformed Peggy, who has a certain explosive power and self-healing ability.
However, due to the mutilation of the trait, it is not possible to continue to level up unless you re-drink the potion, or digest the full "flesh" trait.
Of course, there are people everywhere who are just ignorant of the transcendent, so there are probably not a few ignorant people who are tempted by this power and thus voluntarily become blood slaves.
Although Asker is not unable to deal with these miscellaneous fish, if he alarms the Venis officials because of this, it will definitely cause unnecessary trouble.
Therefore, everyone decided not to use an aggressive strategy to lure the snake out of the hole, but to try to find each other without startling the snake first.
"So what do we do?" Nora asked, "Let's go to the hospital first, are there a large number of victims' bodies?" β
"That's not right." "Given the nature of the devouring ability, the victim may not be left with a corpse. We should go to the nearest militia security station. β
"You mean, report a disappearance." Eleanor asked.
"That's right." Sheila said.
So they went to the nearest security station, where several Venisians were stationed.
"Report of a missing person?" Hearing Asker's question, the guards immediately became alert, "Who are you?" Why should you ask about this? β
Asker was about to speak, when Nora came out from behind, stroked his palm and smiled:
"We came here from Solomon City, but the tour guide told us not to go out recently, and it is said that there are many reports of disappearances, so I want to inquire if this is the case?"
Seeing that it was a beautiful chestnut-haired young lady who spoke this time, the guard's tone immediately soothed:
"Disappearances are reported every week, but most of the actual findings are either debt evasion or drunkenness and drowning."
"To be honest, I would advise you out-of-town visitors to try to visit the bustling city center. Although the price of goods in remote neighborhoods is cheap, there are also many people who steal petty. If you have to visit, at least don't go far from the security station. Well, there is a map on the wall next to it, so you can pay attention to the distribution of our security guards, so that you can ask our militia for help in the future. β
Miel came to the map by the wall. As a sniper, she had a keen instinct for the map, and soon noticed that the militia guards on the map covered almost most of the island.
The bustling city center in the south is the most dense, followed by the central blocks, and the most sparse are the slums in the north.
However, there is not a single militia post on the island, in the far north of the central part of the Canareggio district.
"Where is this?" She asked in a crisp voice, pointing to the area north of the map.
"Little children don't go there." When the guards saw that she was young and cute, they frightened her and said, "It's a community of Yus, full of fraudsters and traffickers who love to kidnap little girls like you. β
"Your toy gun won't protect you." Another guard looked at the rifle she was carrying and said with a smile, "They will cover you from behind with a drugged handkerchief, so that you don't even have time to call for help." β
"Thank you." Mi'er said seriously.
The Yus people are one of the more mysterious people in the game world of "A Song of Iron and Fire". They first inhabited Jerusalem, which was later conquered by the Solomonic Empire, leading to the forced scattering of these Yuses around the world.
In a world where Solomonic Christianity rules almost all continents, the Yuss still cling to their religion. Because Yusism itself advocates mysticism and believes that becoming a transcendent being is the only way to approach the Messiah (savior), it has long been rejected by technological civilization, and even the Yuss people are regarded as an "inferior people".
The city-state of Venis, while accepting foreign Yus, restricted them to a small area of the northern district of Cannareggio, which became known as the Yus community, the slum within the slum, and all sorts of strange rumors followed.
For example, the inhabitants of this area will communicate with devils or demons, use rats or bats to make medicines, and catch children to perform witchcraft, etc., not only the citizens of Venis, but also the militia are reluctant to patrol the "cursed area".
"In other words, if you consider it from the perspective of not being officially discovered, the target is most suspicious of the Yuss autonomous community." After leaving the militia guard, Asker explained to the others, "After all, there are no vigilante patrols there. β
"Okay, let's go there first." The girls said we listened to the head of the group.