Chapter 113: The Devoted
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The four of them held their breath and watched quietly at the people walking around under the cave. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info The clothes of those people are the same as the gardener's clothes in the white orphanage except for the different colors. Everyone is busy working. Avi could notice that there were some instruments and tools he had seen in the mercenary hospital in the City of Honor, and that George had fiddled with them, and it looked like a place to heal people or study medicine underneath.
"Attention!" Felistie nudged Avi behind her, and it turned out that a man had come out of a hole in the upper level of the cave, holding a wad of paper and walking down the path built along the cave wall. Avi looked up at where he was, which was also one of the openings that connected the upper and lower passages.
"Alas, Master Wen Lin must be blaming me again, this time the candidate sent doesn't look like he can succeed..."The young man holding a pile of paper with short gray-black hair and the same clothes as everyone else, the four people hiding next to the cave entrance could hear each other's words as they walked by.
Avi doesn't know who Wen Lin is, but he has begun to suspect that Wen Lin is the manager of this underground cavern. Michelle and Van also whispered to each other if they knew Wen Lin, but neither of them had ever heard of the name.
When the young man was gone, Felistie turned around and said, "I know who Wen Lin is, Wen Lin is one of the apprentices of the legendary blacksmith Sivel. Felisti said she knew so much, but Avi had begun to tie things together that might be related.
Wen Lin was Sivel's apprentice, and Sivel was the legendary blacksmith who made life weapons, which means that his apprentice came to Mallot to study artificial life weapons. The black blade on Felistie's body should have come from Wen Lin's hand, because of a coincidence, it fell into the hands of "Bear Sparrow", and was later taken by himself.
"Are those orphans?" Fan held out his finger and pointed to a child beneath the cave. It was a girl, and from this distance it appeared that the girl was not physically disabled, but she was being examined by two or three gardeners, and she was being examined naked.
Felisti frowned, and Michelle whispered, "I seem to have seen this girl, she should have brought her here from the ground, and Adie and Cynthia too... I'm going to get her out too!"
In order to avoid Michelle's impulsive actions, the other three immediately pulled Xiaomi and walked back, and there were no details to be seen here anyway.
"What do we do now?" the tiptoeers retreated to the stone trough corpse on the second floor, where there was still no one there.
"I suggest you evacuate first!" Fan said, looking at the corpse behind him, "We may be able to tell the Grand Prince Bradley, or someone else who can be trusted, and ask them to bring troops to hunt for us, after all, we already know that there is a big secret hidden here, and the rest of the matter should not be handled by us, and we can't handle it." ”
"But I haven't found Adie's whereabouts yet... I know I don't have that much power, but I still want to rescue the other orphans who have been captured, even if not today, even if to tell others about the situation here!" Michelle's knife had been lost, and the nine-year-old girl had empty hands.
Avi said, "If you withdraw now, then the body of the big corpse keeper will be found, maybe this place will be more vigilant, and it will be very difficult to find out the secrets here!"
"Then how can we find out now! There are so many people there, maybe there are other guards, are we going to rush down and kill them all? Maybe we will be killed. Although Fan showed an unwilling expression, his head was still controlled by reason.
Felistie thought for a moment and proposed, "Why don't we try to open those locked rooms first, and maybe we'll find some useful clues and evidence." You must remember that this is Mallot, the capital of the Kingdom of Salins, and it will definitely not end well if we fight hard, and you two are still Lord Stitch's guards, so let's be cautious!"
They reached the first room near the staircase, and Felisti repeated her old trick, pulling a thin wire from her hair, and quickly opened the door. It was full of glass bottles containing human internal organs, and the glass bottles were filled with potions, presumably the transparent potions that kept the internal organs from rotting.
In the other room, there were glass bottles containing human brains, about the same number as in the previous room. Those human brains made Avi feel deeply disgusted, and it was not only as simple as studying weapons, but also taking the bodies of those orphans to cooperate with the research. He remembered what "Bearsparrow" and Ben Nicott had said, that the black blade needed to "eat people" to maintain its power, and that perhaps the owner of the brains in front of him was the one who was eaten by the artificial life weapon of the black blade.
After Filisty and Van realized that no one was patrolling here, they began to pick the locks separately and open the other rooms. And Avi was about to follow the two to investigate, but Ben Nickot's voice suddenly appeared in his head.
"The smell here is the smell of life weapons... Although it is a bit impurity, it is already close to the real weapon of life... Get close to the weapons that have life even if they are not divided by Sivel!!"
Avi immediately focused his attention and tried to talk to the mage heir who hadn't appeared for a long time, "Mr. Bennicott, why do you need so many orphans to make artificial life weapons here?"
"What kind of people are needed for orphans that cannot be said to be important, nor can they be said to be unimportant. Because life weapons need people's spiritual power to exert their strength, and those real life weapons need two people to activate it, and they must resonate with each other, but these two people are ordinary people, princes and ministers, they are all the same. ”
"Resonate with each other?"
That's a general concept, and you can understand it as two people who love each other deeply, or understand each other deeply. In short, the spirit body injected into the weapon of life was originally a living person, but he was willing to sacrifice himself and became a weapon in the hands of another resonator. It's like the necklace I want you to retrieve for me, and the gem on the necklace is infused with the spirit of one of the wearer's closest people, so that the weapon of life will perfectly protect the wearer, even if the wearer is dead..."
"So that's the case, which means that the rumors about life weapons on the mainland are true?"
"Isn't it very reasonable to use human life as a whetstone for life weapons? Hahaha, so some people on the continent still do nothing even after they have life weapons, just because those selfish and greedy guys will never find people who are willing to sacrifice their lives for them..."
Avi was stunned when he heard this, would those poor orphans be willing to give up their lives and become the magic in their weapons? Who are they for? Who are they resonating with?
"The weapon of life created here may not need a resonator, my young friend Avi," Bennicot always spies on everything as Avi thinks, "that black blade is not a little bit more powerful than the real weapon of life, but like a pool and the sea, so ah, the blacksmith in charge here is already very remarkable, that smell... It's just the taste... It's a pity that this is not something that can be done by man, and I have already learned from the countless corpses that this blacksmith is not only trying to create a man-made life weapon, but has other purposes..."
Ben Nicot's words made Avi immediately raise his guard, he picked up one of the glass bottles containing the brain and the potion, and looked at it carefully, "Mr. Ben Nicot, can you tell them what else they have for purpose?"
"He maybe..."
Just as Avi was listening intently to the whispers in his head, Fan pushed Avi, who was standing there motionless, "Why are you stunned? Come with me, there's a discovery over there!"
Avi was disturbed by Fan and lost his connection to Ben Nicot's spirit body, so he had to follow Fan to a room.
Felistie and Michelle were rummaging through some materials in that room, and Avi picked up a copy to read. This document records an orphan named "Orange Hair": "Orange Hair" is a sixteen-year-old boy who was sent to a white orphanage for the previous year and was taken underground at the beginning of this year. He was brought down as a match for another orphan named "Rabbit Lips". The information does not introduce the situation of "Rabbit Lips", but it is said that "Orange Hair" and "Rabbit Lips" have a good relationship, and both of them may become "devotees". There is not much to be said about the "devotees" here, but Avi has remembered what Ben Nicott said - the "resonators" must be two, one of whom becomes the power of the weapon in the hands of the other.
But the user of the black blade of the artificial life weapon can be any person, and it does not need to have any connection with the spiritual power in it, is the so-called "devotee" here the person who is dedicated to the artificial life weapon?
The profile ends with just a statement that both "Orange Hair" and "Rabbit Lips" have failed, and they found out at the last minute that they had been deceived, so neither of them succeeded in dedicating themselves.
"It turns out that this is a research place for life weapons, what a group of crazy guys, they want to borrow the human body for research!" Fan flipped through several documents, and Avi's information about "orange hair" did not mention artificial life weapons, but Fan should have mentioned it.
Felisti already knew from Avi's tone, and this time it was just a confirmation. Here, Michelle was holding a document and shed a tear of disappointment, "Cynthia... Die's best friend Cynthia is dead. ”
Avi picked up the document that Millet had let go of, and the person on it was thirteen-year-old Cynthia. Cynthia didn't use a code name, she was brought down as a friend of an orphaned female named "Ear Mole". The situation between the two is similar to that of "Orange Hair" and "Rabbit Lips", and the final record also ends with a failure, but Cynthia has a difference with "Orange Hair", and Cynthia marks the word "death" here.
Just as everyone was flipping through the materials, suddenly a voice came from the corridor outside the door.
"Master Wen Lin asked us to retrieve Cynthia's information, the little girl who looks like an angel from the front and a demon from the back, I'm very impressed!"
"Less nonsense, work hard!"