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Riley poked him: "The roof here is very strong, and the pumice slime can't be smashed if it falls, what is it for?"

"Ignore me, bother. ”

"Ouch, what's wrong? Brother, why are you so red?"

"Huh?

"What's this?" Riley leaned over to take a look at it, and cried out as if she had discovered a new world, "Lipstick? Oh my God, what's going on with you?

With a bang, Royce slammed open the door and rushed in: "What? I'll see! Sure enough, yes! Hahahahaha! Dark, winter has just come, and your spring is already ...... Wow!"

Before he finished speaking, he was slapped over by Dark's pillow, but before he could breathe, his head was buried under the pillow, one hand trembled nervously, and he spit out the last two words: "...... Here it comes. ”

Then the hand fell and didn't move.

Duck roared, "You two bastards!"

Riley heard that her brother was really angry, so she sat down on the edge of the bed and asked about the situation gently. was ridiculed by the two of them like this, and Dark's mood calmed down a little, and he told the story of the incident one by one.

Royce's eyes flashed: "Could it be such a coincidence? That woman is not simple. ”

Riley shook her head: "Now my brother is not an important person, what's the use of calculating him?" I think it's an accident, since it's a misunderstanding, just wait for me to meet Sister Lala and explain it to her." But, brother, it's okay if you don't explain, do you like Sister Lala? Let me explain first, if she is my sister-in-law, I will be very happy. ”

Duck couldn't help but laugh: "What are you kidding, she's a priest, she can't fall in love and can't get married!"

Royce said: "So what? Say it directly, like it or not!"

Duck muttered, "I'm not ready yet." ”

Royce and Riley exchanged glances.

Duck was furious: "What do you two mean?"

Royce pretended to be stunned: "I didn't say anything!" Seeing that Duck's eyes were about to get angry, he hurriedly said: "Now the key is to look at your attitude, in your heart, what is she? is it a partner, a comrade-in-arms, or something else? ”

"That-I'm afraid, the relationship is stiff, and it will affect the cooperation in the future, and it will be inconvenient. ”

Riley pouted quietly, "It's dishonest. ”

"What did you say?"

"Ah, I said, that's really thoughtful! So, brother, have you ever considered the girl's feelings, why does she wear civilian clothes and makeup?"

"I'm not her, I don't know. ”

Riley shook her head and said, "Brother, I learned a sentence from George, 'Girls dress up beautifully for people who like themselves'." ”

Royce nodded: "I agree, the current Illuminati Cult is about to rot, and it's normal for priests to openly call female branches, but in Isabella's - when have you ever seen her without a priest's robe or a cross? Now for you, she has violated her creed!"

Dark's heart moved: In her heart, am I more important than the Holy Sect that has been with her for more than ten years? Isn't the direction she took the same direction as my home?

It seems that there is a thin warm current flowing in the heart, which makes people feel comfortable.

He rolled over and sat up.

Seeing his breathless look, Royce smiled helplessly: "Don't worry, there is no misunderstanding that is not explained, but after the explanation is clear, what are you going to do?"

Duck was stunned and said, "What should I do? It's still the same as before!"

Royce snorted coldly: "Riley, let's go, let this unconscionable guy think about it for himself." He gave Duck a disdainful look and turned to leave.

Riley sighed, shrugged her shoulders, and walked out after Royce.

"Wait!" Duck shouted.

The two looked back.

"That...... Flower hat, didn't you go back to the Chamber of Commerce to report on your work, ready to go to sea? Why are you back again?"

Royce sighed in disappointment and replied listlessly, "The Cachin had an accident last night, and was about to be dragged back for overhaul, and I have another holiday. I wanted to talk to you, but now it seems that I should let George open a scene for me. ”

"What accident?" Duck was just running out of words right now.

"Hit the rocks. Royce replied briefly.

Duck frowned: "How can there be a reef near the port?"

"I'm also at a loss. The night before, before that, an island came out of the ocean in the early morning, and scraped the side of the ship. ”

"The island that can go up and down? Do you remember the desert island that Isabella rescued us from after we came out of the sewers? Isn't that the one that can go up and down? Is it the same one?"

"Possibly!" Royce turned, "that island is indeed weird. ”

Riley said: "Generally speaking, most of these small islands are constantly rising and falling due to earthquakes or volcanic eruptions on the bottom of the sea. Recently, however, no significant earthquakes or volcanic eruptions have been felt at the bottom of the sea near the port. ”

Duck frowned, "Could it be that someone is manipulating?"

"What's the point of manipulating it? Besides, it's submerged most of the time and can't do anything!"

George's voice came from the door: "Not necessarily. ”

"George, can anyone breathe underwater?"

George said to Royce, "You should know this, as a veteran sailor, you must have participated in the rescue of the wreck, right?"

Royce said: "Yes, if the ship suddenly buckles instead of sinking slowly, there will be a lot of air in the cabin, similar to a bowl upside down in a basin of water, there will still be air in it." This kind of shipwreck search and rescue, if you move quickly, still has a great chance of rescuing people. Of course, if it's the deep sea, it's hopeless. ”

Duck muttered: "If it is an island, then it must have a lot of crevices and caves, and there must be a lot of air when it rises and sinks up and down, and this kind of floating island is not something that ordinary people dare to go up...... There's definitely something in there. ”

"Of course, I came to you to talk about it. Ladies and gentlemen, after countless experiences, your nerves have become much thicker than those of ordinary people, so the next story, no matter how unbelievable what you hear, please be sure to wait for me to finish. Don't worry, Dak, you and Isabella are in this story. ”

Duck was embarrassed, but George didn't care about his expression, and made a "please" gesture to the three of them, motioning for them to sit down, and he began to speak.

"The Three Sages of Alchemy, Rodriguez, Nicholas, and West, you must know each other. About 50 years ago, they were close partners. Rodriguez specializes in lifeform research and magical energy development, my father specializes in mechanical engineering and alchemical process control, and Vest specializes in pharmacy and materials science.

"As a young man, they broke the ban of the church and the king, and on a secret desert island, they began the study of forbidden lifeforms, hoping to develop a way to make human beings immortal. ”

Riley couldn't help but open her mouth, but she didn't say it.

Of course, immortality is impossible, and they also know that the immortality they study is to prolong the life of mankind, to eliminate all diseases and pestilences, and to create a heavenly kingdom on earth, which is a very grand ideal, but the study of life is forbidden, and if discovered, it is to be burned at the stake. So, they chose that desert island and spent a whole year transforming it into a hollow, free secret fortress that could rise and fall. ”

Duck couldn't help but ask, "Isn't it good to sink directly underwater?" ”

"Air is needed, and the island can't make its own air, so every twenty days, it has to come up and change it. It is usually chosen during storms or fog. ”

Royce said, "Similar to a whale coming out of the water?"

"It can be understood this way. ”

Riley said: "How much magic energy does it take to push an island to float?

"Slime, pumice slime. ”

Duck jumped up all of a sudden: "What smashed my roof?"

"Yes, Riley, do you know why Master West gave you the Pumice Slime to study? ”

"What truth?"

"The three sages of alchemy back then were not saints, they were a group of crazy demons who only pursued success, vivisection, blood exchange of species, and even the combination of human body and machinery, and the refining of life materials...... In the research institute at the bottom of the floating island, this kind of drama is staged almost every day! That is the real hell on earth!"

The three of them were so shocked that they couldn't speak.

"Although there was a lifting island as a cover, in order to avoid detection, they set up a second cover, and designed a ruined monastery in the depths of the desert island, and installed various mechanisms, so that if anyone found it, they would follow the path of the monastery all the way to the back of the island, a beach with nothing. In this way, even experienced adventurer squads will not discover the real mystery. ”

Royce asked, "I remember that the three masters were all genius alchemists, and they rose to fame at a young age, and it was impossible for them to disappear from the public eye for a long time at the same time. ”

"Yes, so they took turns to go to the Lifting Island Research Institute, sometimes two people together, sometimes one person, and very rarely three people together, and every time they would write their thoughts on the walls, floors, and ceilings of the Institute, and write down those crazy, absurd, and most deviant ideas! Day after day, for ten years, finally—"

Riley couldn't help but exclaim, "They succeeded?"

"They failed, and they were ridiculously wrong, but it was this mistake that made them realize that the realm they touched was a forbidden place that humans could not touch now!"

Riley shuddered a little, "What?"

George was silent for a moment and said, "Do you remember the living corpses under the Drake Chamber of Commerce?"

Duck said, "You don't want to say that those things were made by the three sages of alchemy, do you?"

"Yes. Rodriguez came up with the idea, and my father and West provided technical support. What Rodriguez did underground at the Drake Chamber of Commerce was to replicate the process. ”

"Sure enough, alchemists are all crazy, what's the use of studying those things?"

"Aren't the muscles and bones as strong as steel, the speed of self-renewal and repair like a flight, and the perfect resistance to disease and plague?"

"But those things don't seem to have brains. ”

"This is the only and fatal flaw," George unfolded the magic image, "You see, this is the secret to making living corpses." ”

In the image, a light gray mass is constantly expanding and splitting, eating away at the surrounding green substance, and in the blink of an eye, the green is eaten away, and the eyes are full of gray. Strangely, the gray color only lasted for a short time, then quickly burst and decompose like a soap bubble, and finally retracted into a small clump and did not move. There is neither green nor gray in view, only a black background.

Riley asked, "What is this?"

George replied, "Those greens are healthy muscle tissue. The little light gray guy has a name: the Demon Seed. ”

Royce screamed nervously, he had been possessed by such a thing during the Drake Chamber of Commerce raid and almost turned into a living corpse, and he could be said to have reached the point of nervousness about the name.

George continued, "But it has another name: the Living Slime. It is very small, only the size of a needle tip. It has the most exuberant and insane metabolic demands of any slime, and will break down all healthy bodies and tissues into its own form. ”

Royce thought thoughtfully: "It turns out that people turn into living corpses and living corpses bite people, it's all the ghosts it does!"

"That's right, it's a little guy who is hungry all day long, and he eats whatever he wants, whether it's animals, plants, insects. ”

Riley asked, "What if they eat it all?"

"It will devour its own kind, even devouring itself. Eventually, he decomposes himself into the primordial form where he can't do anything, until he encounters the next decomposable object. ”

Royce asked, "So, most of them don't form a swarm mentality, do they?

Without waiting for George to speak, Duck said, "Yes." Think about the Drake Chamber of Commerce raid, the Double Shield Fortress has always been an ordinary living corpse, but we encountered a variety of special living corpses near the living corpse's lair, and they will also match the troops according to the characteristics of the four of us. ”

"And why are the people who rule Port Snell now still human?"

"At that time, the number of living corpses below was too small, which hindered the further formation of the swarm mentality, and in addition, our struggle made the living corpses never get enough magical energy replenishment, and could only decompose themselves, once they embarked on this path, the human advantage became bigger and bigger like a snowball - that is, it was not difficult to deal with these guys, as long as they survived the critical point of their full explosion, and left it alone, it would die out on its own. ”

George's applause rang out: "Wonderful reasoning, isolation is indeed an effective means to deal with it, in addition, it is afraid of high temperatures and is not tolerant of salt." Fire and light damage are effective at clearing it, and it's surrounded by seawater, so it's been staying on the island for years. ”

"But," Riley frowned, "according to this property, wherever it has been destroyed, it will be completely destroyed, and there will be no life. If there is a person in a big city who is controlled by this slime......"

"Either take control of the situation at the beginning of the outbreak, or destroy the city with a forbidden spell and make it a forbidden area. There are more than 10,000 inhabitants in a city, and if the living corpse slime's swarm thinking is developed enough, a group of 'new humans' may appear. ”

As he spoke, George stood up: "The question now is, does anyone go to the island to die!"

As soon as George's words fell, Nicholas's voice sounded in the call circle: "Joe, there is a letter from Hamilton at the door, it is Dark's. ”

Duck was inexplicable: "Hamilton sent me a letter?"

Riley smiled: "That Olivia, isn't it from the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce?"

Duck waved his hand: "Don't look." Let him. ”

Riley sneered at George, "My brother doesn't want that letter anymore." I'm going to. ”

George also smiled and ordered the messenger to come in and deliver the letter.

Riley read the letter and shouted, "Brother, Sister Lala went to the island to die, do you want to go?"

"What?"