Chapter 057: Evil Blood
After the miscellaneous soldiers and ghosts were easily solved, there were no obstacles to the rescue work at all, and everything went according to plan.
Roy opened a portal, and then watched as Atalanta directed everyone to move, and arranged for the people from the Vault to come and start looting the Golden Pond for supplies.
Before food can be self-sufficient, it is important to have ready-made supplies.
When James Latori founded the town of Golden Pond, he also left a passage to the human world.
However, after his brother discovered it, the passage had been abandoned.
However, since Roy hadn't used the farm's passage before, this passage was even more impossible.
Judging from the original book, the ability of "Garbled Characters" seems to be relatively limited to his own space, and if he does not pass through this space, the probability of being affected is very low, so Roy does not touch this kind of channel at all.
Although he rescued the people here and achieved his goal, he didn't get a sample of "evil blood", which is a bit regrettable.
The ghosts of this world are a class of creatures with very unstable genetic properties.
The earliest "ghosts" were just such cells, but they were somewhat similar to the chimeric ants in "The Hunter", which would absorb the genetic material and characteristics of the food they ate.
When a creature is eaten, the oni will have some of the creature's properties, but if they are no longer eaten, these properties will gradually degrade, but they will not disappear completely.
If you want to maintain similar properties, you need to consume them continuously for a certain period of time.
Of course, no matter how much you eat it, it won't completely become that animal, and the ghost will still be a ghost in the end, and it will change according to the recipe.
For example, if a ghost eats a fish, then he may grow something like gills or fins, the more fish he eats, the more obvious this trait becomes, and if he does not eat for a long time, the gills or fins will gradually shrink, but they will still retain small traces.
A ghost who looks like a fish will always eat fish, and a ghost who looks like a bird will always eat a bird.
Animal-type ghosts, whose recipes can be seen by their posture.
And it is only after eating humans that humanoid ghosts acquire human form, begin to develop excellent brains, and have thoughts.
If they can't eat human flesh regularly, they will find it difficult to maintain their form and intelligence, and one day they will degenerate into "wild seeds", that is, wild ghosts, and deviate more and more from human form.
This is also why the ghosts of this world are constantly eating people, high-end goods like Norman can only be afforded by the aristocracy, and the common people eat human flesh produced on mass-produced farms.
The people there are imprisoned and fed like cramming machines, never have the opportunity to think and learn, and are raised like pigs.
This characteristic makes ghosts and humans physiologically inherently opposed.
However, there is an exception, and that is the "Evil Blood".
Nearly 800 years ago, a female ghost named "Mujica" was born.
She has changed the changeable nature of ghosts, and has extremely stable genetic characteristics, and her genes and appearance will not change due to food.
So she has never eaten a human since she was born, and she will never need to eat a human being.
Eating any other normal animal also does not affect her humanoid form and ability to think.
What's even more amazing is that this trait of hers can also be transmitted to other ghosts through blood.
Just like retroviruses, as long as a ghost drinks her blood, she will get the same trait, her body will change to a human form, she no longer needs to eat people, and she can become a carrier of this trait.
This trait is known as the "Evil Blood", and theoretically the "Evil Blood" can be expanded as long as there is only one Evil Blood.
And that was exactly the case back then.
By sharing the blood, the Evil Blood Clan expanded rapidly.
In this way, it is possible to see that all the demons no longer need to eat the hard-to-obtain humans, and please worry about the days of fear and degradation, but the people in power are not satisfied.
The royal family and the five nobles are in control of the human flesh farm, and the commoners must obtain human flesh from them if they want to avoid degradation.
By mastering the production of human flesh, they can easily control the population.
The Evil Blood Clan, on the other hand, has broken the foundation of their power, and allowing them to expand will increase the cost of management.
Therefore, the five nobles and the royal family joined forces to destroy all the evil blood except Mujica in one fell swoop, and ate them all.
Only Mujica survived, and later met the queen's younger brother Song Jie, who was dissatisfied with the royal style and defected, and the two ghosts fled together for 700 years.
The feudal ruling class, which only cares about its own interests, has no sympathy for the people.
In other words, the only evil blood that exists is the royal family, the five royal families, and Mujica.
Roy now has samples of ordinary ghosts, whether they are animal ghosts, "wild seed" ghosts that used to have human forms outside and are now degenerate, or management class and soldier ghosts captured on the farm, their samples have been collected.
This kind of creature that absorbs the properties of food is useful for Roy's research.
This time, he had thought of dealing with Baion and Leuvis by the way, and get a stable sample of the evil blood, but neither of them was there.
After the evacuation of this place, it is even less likely that Leuves and his ilk will come here, and even Baion himself is unlikely to come to investigate.
One of the five royal families, this little thing must be done by his subordinates.
The task now was mainly to liberate the few remaining farms, and he didn't have time to stare at Baion, who didn't know where.
"Looks like we're going to have to go to Mujica......"