Chapter 20: The Ceremony Begins
The Corpse Rental Company, a new organization with a short history, is a special division of the Soul Eradication Society.
As its name suggests, it serves as a backup department to provide magicians with an excellent combat companion - the corpse queen.
At this moment, Zhou Yao and You, under the leadership of department manager Li Mengde, were heading to the location where the corpse ceremony was held.
Tonight is the time of Lei Ruxue's resurrection.
The disappearance of the bearer was completely resolved in the first two days, and all victims were treated, although most of their arms were severed, but fortunately no one died.
And Fuxue and Shenxue are probably the two luckiest among them, if it wasn't Zhou Yao who Gaoge attacked that night, and the stronghold was not found by Zhou Yao, then the two of them are likely to be treated badly.
With the disappearance of the holder resolved, the Hydra, the secret organization, suddenly surfaced, but unfortunately could not find any information related to it, as if it appeared out of thin air.
What can be guessed is that there is an unknown plan hidden behind the nine-headed bird.
"These rooms are full of corpses waiting for a contract?"
Walking down the long corridor, Zhou Yao looked at the rooms on both sides and said curiously.
Each room is of a similar style, with a varying number of standard coffins inside, and the frost-soaked air-conditioning environment is clearly visible.
"That's right, they're all corpses who don't have a contract or are waiting for a contract."
Mondstad walked ahead and said without looking back.
He was the only one who came to greet Zhou Yao today, and the three women did not gather around him. On the other hand, Zhou Yao only brought Yu alone, and Sakuya and Eryu all stayed at home.
"That's a lot. Is the number of people who come to the contract very small? Zhou Yao roughly calculated, how to say that there are three or five hundred along the way.
"It's not too much, it's not too much, it's still quite impressive overall."
"But I haven't seen any other corpses in the past few days I've been in Central Province?"
"Hawkers, because most of the corpses and holders are in first-line universities, you should know something about first-line universities, there is the front line of the undead in the old continent, and the corpse queen can be more useful."
Lemon spread his hands and explained with a sigh in his tone.
"Is this also a compulsory? Just like the holder must take the joint entrance examination, if you want to sign a contract with the corpse her, you must join a first-tier university? β
Zhou Yao asked with a frown, to be honest, he didn't have a good impression of this kind of mandatory regulation. However, considering the current situation of human beings, there are already dead apostles who have enough headaches, and now that the undead and monsters have been added, it is helpless to formulate this kind of rule to maintain the maximum combat power of the human side.
"No, no, you got the premise wrong, it's not that you have to go to the first-line university if you contract the corpse queen, but the members of the first-line university contract the corpse queen without too many restrictions. If the people in the survival area want to contract the corpse, the conditions will be strict. Mondstadt waved his hand and said.
"Then you'll let me come directly to the contract ceremony now, okay?"
"Because you are the holder, for the holder, the conditions for the contract corpse are still very simple. You'll all leave the survival zone sooner or later anyway. β
"Oh, I see." Zhou Yao nodded and said nothing else.
After a few more moments, the three of them came to the end of the corridor and finally reached their destination.
"This is one of the special rooms for the ceremony, I am in charge of today's ceremony, Lei Ruxue's side is ready, just wait for the official contract."
Pushing open the door at the end, Li Mengde led Zhou Yao and the two into the room and spoke.
As he said, the contract ceremony of the corpse was held here, and the room was large and empty, decorated with a cool blue light, making the octagonal altar in the center look unusually eye-catching.
Zhou Yao saw Lei Ruxue's body lying on the altar, and immediately nodded towards Li Mengde.
"Understood."
The general process of corpse queen transformation is to make preliminary preparations through specialized sΓ©ance rituals, and then use special contract magic as a channel to connect the contractor and corpse queen, and provide magic power to officially "resurrect" the corpse queen.
The contract is about to begin, and of course Zhou Yao understands this, but the most critical step is another......
"Well, is it okay to let Yu watch while I'm making a contract? She was curious about this. β
Before lifting his feet to the altar, Zhou Yao scratched his cheek and asked Li Mengde about it.
Of course, he made it up casually, because he didn't want Leemond to know the real reason, which was the reason why he had brought Yu here today.
- Necromancy and Contracts at the same time!
"Being able to solve the biggest shortcoming of the corpse girl", if this information was known to others, Zhou Yao could already expect that there would be countless troubles coming over.
In the spirit that more things are better than less, he simply didn't tell Li Mengde.
"Curious?"
Li Mengde was stunned for a moment and looked at You.
"You're curious, so you want to see the process of contracting the corpse."
Seeing that You didn't move, as if she was outside the spirit, Zhou Yao "reminded" her depressedly.
"I'm curious."
You tilted his head to look at Zhou Yao, and then raised the notepad with both hands and turned the page that had been prepared.
"Oh, well, it's okay to just watch. I'm in charge, but I've already done all the preparations, and I'm just here to deal with the unexpected. β
Mondstad nodded, and walked to the stone platform on the side of the altar, which was supposed to be what he said was the means of dealing with the unexpected.
"Thank you. Let's go. Zhou Yao thanked him and walked slowly onto the altar
In the center of the altar was a rectangular stone platform, on which Lei Ruxue was dressed in white and lying on it with a peaceful face, waiting...... Zhou Yao's ......
"Don't tell me it's you who changed Ru Xue's clothes......"
Zhou Yao had a "bright" smile on his face and squinted his eyes at Li Mengde.
Den Sha Na quietly appeared in his hand, igniting a true red flame.
If you get an affirmative answer, should you cut him or cut him...... Someone thought to himself, but fortunately, Mondstadt didn't give him this opportunity.
"How is it possible, of course I let the women change it."
The pinprick-like breath irritated his skin, and Leemond explained as he wiped the slight sweat oozing from his cheeks.
"Well, I just asked casually, so I didn't suspect you."
Zhou Yao's smile softened a little, and he naturally took back the Zhendian Zhanna.
"Why didn't I feel at all that you were asking casually......"
Li Mengde said a word in his heart.
Everything is ready, and the contract ceremony officially begins.