58. Spooky heart
"Now I'm solely responsible for this incident, so please explain the situation in detail. ”
It stands to reason that this kind of thing doesn't need to be done by Sarys himself, but given that some scenes inside the association are a bit blind, Saris can only get out of the association with a weird atmosphere in order to keep his stomach stable.
A group of old men had a frenzied glint in their eyes, and then they did this and that against a black heart that was curiously twisted...... Although Salis thought that he was still innocent at heart, he still felt a little uncomfortable in his stomach when he saw that someone excitedly found two sharp knives to use for dissection, and Salis decisively chose to leave.
Leave the research to the professionals, and you only need to be responsible for the part that you should manage......
"What's wrong? Is there anything strange on my face?"
Salis, who picked up his pen and prepared to record, waited for a long time and did not hear the following, and looked up at the other party suspiciously. Then, she saw that the other person was staring at her with a look of surprise.
"No, no, no, I'm just a little surprised...... Your appearance is somewhat familiar......"
"Now the success rate of using this sentence to pick up a conversation is not high. ”
"No, that's not the case!" the young man on the other side of the city guard blushed at a teaser from Saris, "I mean, sir, you are very similar to the girl who subdued the necromancer before. ”
Do you look like a girl? Saris paused for a moment, and then realized that most of what the other party was talking about was Yan Yu, right?
"That's my sister. ”
"Huh, is that really the case?"
"Do you still think I'm a sister and she's a sister? That's bad in every sense of the word...... Let's start with it. Don't think anything strange about my sister - she's going to die. ”
Salis looked at the other party as if he was very impressed with Yan Yu, and reminded the other party to be on the safe side—no matter what. Yan Yu's identity is really a little special, if the other party really has that kind of mind. It's better to break it early, if you are involved with Yan Yu, not only will it be impossible to have a result, but the danger is definitely full~
However, Saris himself thought so, but in fact, the words that came out of his mouth sounded like a threat...... And it's also a threat to the sister who controls the sister.
"Forget it, that's okay anyway...... Let's explain the details first. ”
Originally, although Salis attached great importance to this matter, he didn't care very much, but now he heard from the other party that it was related to Yan Yu. Saris also secretly kept an eye on it.
[I don't know what Lu Dao Yanyu is doing now...... But it seems that I will definitely break my promise today, I guess, I don't have time to go back today......, right?
The girl is in the record......
That is to say. There are some more dangerous evidence in their hands, and we need to go to them in person, right?"
Hearing this, Saris secretly breathed a sigh of relief—it didn't look like he would have to face Yan Yu's sad eyes tomorrow.
"That...... Does the chief know where they are?"
"Please, one of the troublemakers is my sister, and I know the other, do you think I won't be able to find them?
As for the girl named "Rin", Sariss also conducted some investigations - none of her past before she became Aisha's disciple was unknown. Although it is a mysterious character that is worth paying attention to, it is even more difficult to understand with common sense considering her master...... In fact, as long as you don't dig into the horns of the bull. Still a nice guy.
The most important thing is that compared to her master, she is still not so bad and has a bad taste......
"I'll investigate the details myself, and what you should do after that is just as usual...... If you can do it for these two days. Be careful. ”
Without giving the other party a specific explanation, Salis got up and left.
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As soon as he pushed the door open, Salis was immediately struck by the strange stench that permeated the hall.
"Ugh. What the hell happened? It wasn't like that when I left......"
Thanks to the many defensive measures taken by the association, the stench did not spread. Otherwise, it will definitely cause an uproar - although many of the measures are not really to defend against external attacks, but to prevent internal explosions from spreading to the surrounding residents......
Sarith endured bouts of discomfort in her nose. Forced myself to calm down.
"What's going on? what's going on...... Is it really okay?" asked the mage at the welcome counter.
"Don't worry! There is absolutely no problem! Compared with the previous situation of exploding at every turn, the current situation is not so serious......" The mage's answer made the "unseen" Salis entangled for a while, "And the reason why there is such a stench this time is actually for disinfection, a normal phenomenon." ”
"Disinfection?"
"yes, who told those guys to mess around? I dissected that black heart like that, only to find out that it was also spraying highly toxic substances into the air around it...... Because this thing is really dangerous, we just went straight to some more ruthless methods. ”
This is really a vigorous method......
Salis could only endure the stench and walked towards the group of mages who were still in trouble at an old age.
"How's the study of this heart going?"
"It went well!" replied a mage with two blood-stained scalpels in his hands, excitedly adding, "...... Except for the need to disinfect the dirt......"
"You still say, it's your guy who is faster than your hand that makes such a farce! Aren't you a mage, how can you handle the knife so skillfully, we don't even have time to shout to stop you and cut each other......"
"I've honed this technique!"
The original mage was clearly proud of his prowess skills.
"People who don't know the way still think that you are a pig killing technique!"
"You're jealous!"
......
"Alright, alright. Seniors, don't quarrel at this time......"
This is what these mages usually do. In this case, no one is convinced, and they keep fighting each other - these are all things that Skarsa told Sarise in advance. And he also told Saris. To stop these meaningless quarrels, the most powerful candidates are actually juniors, preferably girls. These old men are usually very concerned about their image in front of their juniors, and usually both sides do not give in to each other, once a young and intelligent junior is present, these people will often give each other a step to show the generosity of their seniors......
Sure enough, as soon as Saris spoke, both sides stopped.
"After our research, we've pretty much dug up the secrets of this thing - to be fair, a bad guy. But the guy who made this thing up was a genius...... It's just that no matter how talented he is, he can't play tricks with the combined efforts of us mediocre talents!"
"Excuse me, senior, you will talk about the main point first......
"That's the point!"
The remarks of the old mage who spoke were echoed by many mages around him. In this regard, Saris can only think that it is a problem of the generation gap between the two parties.
"We're already working on compiling the detailed content, don't worry, we've done a lot of this, and we'll definitely write it in a language that normal people can understand, after all, it's for people who don't know how to read......"
Fortunately, these people actually have common sense.
"To put it simply, this weird-shaped thing, even though it looks like a heart. But in reality, it should be classified as something like a 'parasite'. Through a special ritual, the recipient is stripped of his heart on the spot and implanted while he is still conscious. You will be able to retain your original thoughts and consciousness and continue to live as the center of your life. We've examined the body, except for the brain. Almost all internal organs have lost their vitality prematurely, in other words. When he still had this heart, he was already half dead. ”
"Necromancy? No. It seems like there's a difference, right?"
Although Saris's had never dabbled in necromancy, the genre was notorious for learning something about it even if he hated it.
At least in the information that Salis has learned, there is no such strange sorcery - even the so-called half-dead necromancers who have reformed themselves will never be able to keep their bodies active while retaining only the activity of their brains.
"Strictly speaking, this method does have some differences from traditional necromancy...... Because the necrosis of these organs is not the purpose of this technique, but only a small effect under its effect. The old mage who was explaining picked up a sealed test tube containing some black substances, "This is the strange substance we extracted from that heart, because it has been artificially destroyed by the power of the underworld, and we can only extract the only little black substance left from that heart." ”
"Don't underestimate these things, just a small drop can make the bodies of three sturdy adults lose all their vitality...... After experiments, we also found that the necrosis of the organs of the corpse was the result of the erosion of this substance. ”
"So...... Evil?"
When Saris heard this, he couldn't help but be moved—no substantive process or conditions are needed, just contact is needed to achieve the result of "taking away the vitality", and the existence of this substance is inherently the natural enemy of all life, right?
"What's the point, then, of putting so much effort into implanting such a thing? If it's just such a terrible property, why wouldn't it be used for anything else?"
"Do you think there is such a substance in nature?"
Instead of answering Saris's question directly, the other party asked her a question that seemed unrelated.
"It should ...... Didn't you?"
Nor did Salis understand why the other party had to ask himself such a question. Does the purpose of these strange substances have anything to do with the purpose of implanting them in the human body?
Are these substances natural, or are they from other worlds, or are they synthetic...... Is there a connection?
"We had a different perspective at first...... But in the end, we unanimously agreed that this substance came from one person, an extremely evil necromancer. ”
From one person?
Salis looked at each other stunned for a moment, and suddenly thought of the category of this heart mentioned at the beginning......
Parasites?(To be continued......)