Chapter 43, Transformation
8,000. When the bodies of the climbers began to be sold, Smith was the first to bid. Smith has attended many auctions before and is familiar with the auction process. So he took out half of the money, just to give his competitors a deterrent momentum.
Unfortunately, this all-or-nothing approach didn't work at the auction, and the competitors smirked, and the price soon reached $12,000. 12,100!12,500!12,900!Smith's plan to scare his opponents did not succeed, and the price is still rising. There are specific rules for determining the value of an item. In general, the price of the first corpse can be as low as £100. Second-class tickets cost between $500 and $1,000.
Last time, in a secret auction, a hunter's corpse without flesh and blood set a price for a hunter's corpse. Kill an elite and you can get at least 3000 gold coins. Now compare the body of this mountain dragon with that of a hunter. The mountain dragon is larger and has more room for alchemical alteration.
The mountain dragon was made by the elves and would not cause any trouble afterwards, and the man who sold the hunter's corpse did everything in his power to free himself from the suspicion of the guild. The security supervisor, who was tracking the buyer at the time, concluded that the mystery buyer had been dealt with at least eight times before he was out of danger. One hundred percent of the time, when the modified body appears, there will be a storm from the guild. What really makes this gargoyle corpse valuable is its blood power.
The rise of alchemy 800 years ago, thanks to the legendary alchemist, invented the first rune heart, which allowed the dead to harness the power of living blood, completely changing one of the most difficult problems in the transformation of matter, the degradation of power.
This legendary alchemist, continues to spread the core rune of cardiovascular technology, the rhythm of blood. Of course, this kind of "puppet king" behavior was also carried out by the two empires and the Church of Light. After more than 800 years of continuous development, with the rise of "blood heart technology", the human body transformation technology is now relatively mature, even if it is not the blood of the human body, it can also give full play to its combat effectiveness before birth.
But the presence of blood is still the greatest value of every body.
Combining these factors, Smith misjudged that the 8,000 gold coins of the gargoyle on the mountain were not enough to end the auction. The price spike was enough to make Smith sweat. He took 16,000 gold coins from the company for auction, and 10 minutes after the auction began, the price of the dragon was steadily approaching 15,000. Many people are still bidding, so 15,000 is still far from the psychological bottom line. Smith had just joined the auction and slowly lowered his runes, and the ensuing price war was out of his control. As Smith had predicted, sixteen thousand, seventeen thousand, eighteen thousand bodies were not snatched.
The body was eventually sold for 23,000 gold coins by a mysterious female auctioneer. Before the auction began, Ouyang Dao was in a good mood, but when the price skyrocketed, he sat in his seat, frowned, and said nothing. After the auction failed, Ouyang Dao decided to take the risk of stealing a corpse with the ability to turn into blood. The auction continued to be very exciting, and the record was soon broken for the highest auction price for a dead man on earth.
The Church of Light bought a four-tiered scepter, and the new bishop, Augustus, quietly handed over 30,000 gold coins. This fourth-order scepter was named the Lightbringer, Augustus, by the new bishop. At the same time, the new bishop directly broke the momentum of his first master, adding a scepter to his hand to announce his arrival to the many rulers of the Lion City. In terms of deterrence, armed fourth-order masters are very different from ordinary masters.
With a weapon that could fully exert his power, Metropolitan Augustus could possess the power of a master with a single blow, and the average master would need to consume runes to achieve the same effect. The emergence of the "Lightbringer" will surely change the way the benefits of the many forces in the Lion City are distributed. After the auction, Smith unexpectedly stopped Ouyang Dao and pulled Ouyang Dao into the carriage in a serious manner, so that he could see what he had learned. ”
The corpse of the Nocturnal Dragon!What is this? Ouyang Dao looked at the big guy in the carriage, his body was flattened by Mrs. Smith's tentacles, and the iron carriage kept creaking. Looking serious, Smith explained to Ouyang Dao that the body came from the mysterious lady, and in exchange for the corpse, he hoped to reach an agreement with the new owner Smith to ask Mrs. Smith for all help if necessary. Smith himself was hesitant about the proposal and planned to discuss it with Ouyang Dao before making a decision, but Smith, usually the mascot, suddenly agreed. After signing a contract with a mysterious power, Mrs. Smith's body was placed in the Wishful Manner.
It was Mrs. Smith's sudden change that worried Smith. Ever since Ouyang Dao woke up Smith, the new master had been staring blankly, although he still had Smith's memories in his head, and he could even see the traitors in the gang. But it doesn't have its own real will, all its actions are to obey Ouyang Dao's orders, just like an intelligent robot, although it behaves normally in daily life, it is basically obeying Ouyang Dao's orders, without the most basic human desires, and without making choices. Today, without clear instructions from Ouyang Dao, Mrs. Smith decided to make an agreement with someone you know.
This not only violated the order that Ouyang Dao had given him before: cooperate with Smith's actions and obey Smith's orders in case of emergency. This made Smith think of a possibility that made him shudder... Did Ouyang Dao make a puppet out of his memory, or did he really resurrect his wife Vivien?After listening to Smith's account, Ouyang Dao was serious about this strange situation, because it involved his control over her, and he remembered the evil and terrible way in which Smith was rescued.
Once Mrs. Smith is likely to get out of control, Ouyang Dao must be prepared. After getting into the carriage, Ouyang Dao didn't care about the corpse at all, after all, if there were any signs of a master's loss of control, then the blood test of the teramorphous dragon would require a lot of thought. At the most intense moment, Ouyang Dao conducted a series of tests on Smith in the carriage.
It turned out to be as boring as ever, and Mrs. Smith, although intelligent and thoughtful, was an emotionally closed robot with no questions and no answers. If Ouyang Dao hadn't contacted her, Smith would have remained silent forever instead of actively seeking change. Ouyang Dao also did a basic test, holding an apple and an orange in front of Smith, and asked her which kind of fruit she liked?
The question went far beyond Mrs. Smith's normal conversation, in which she received a standard set of answers. Just like a robot with the answers to all the questions in the world, Mrs. Smith can answer them from memory and mind, but it all comes down to one command from Ouyang Dao: pretend to be normal. When the owner, Ouyang Dao, asked Smith to think about which fruit she preferred, Mrs. Smith froze and could not answer. From a more worldview, the soul and the will are separated, and Ouyang Dao can awaken the soul sleeping in the body, but there is no will to make decisions. Both Ouyang Dao and Smith were confused by the test results, and Smith was obviously unable to make a choice on her own, but she obviously disobeyed Ouyang Dao's orders.
It's not that Ouyang Dao never suspected Smith of lying, but the signing of the secret contract was on Smith's wrist, and it was pointless for Smith to make up such a ridiculous lie. In the end, Ouyang Dao and Smith came up with a foolproof way to interrogate Mrs. Smith in person.
Ouyang Dao was surprised by Mrs. Smith's reaction. At the afternoon auction, Ouyang Dao saw the corpse of a mountain dragon, and he was so excited that he gave a new order to Mrs. Smith in his heart: Go and get the corpse of the mountain walker. When the mysterious woman came to ask for her cooperation, Smith decided that it was more important to get orders from the Nocturnal Dragon than to follow Smith's orders, so she did whatever it took to get the Nocturnal Dragon.
Knowing what was going on, Ouyang Dao assured Smith, but it was not clear whether what happened today had an impact on this emotionless Smith. Unhurried, Ouyang Dao immediately transformed the blood of the Earth Walker, recited a series of strange spells mysteriously with the blacksmith on his back, and then pretended to twist the talisman into powder, and when he was done, he pretended to be broken, which seemed to have taken a lot of effort. Unfortunately, this decision was not good news for the two people in the carriage. The dead walking corpse is just a piece of wood that can be wheeled into a carriage. But the earth-threaded dragon of life cannot meet the conditions of this grievance, like putting two hectares in a small cage, but what is even more terrifying is that two hectares are as big as you.
The carriage began to shake on the road, swaying from side to side in amazement in the eyes of passers-by, and from time to time there were terrible screams, and passers-by looked into the eyes of the carriage ... It's weird. After a cruel test, the iron carriage drove into Smith's manor, and Ouyang Dao, who had had enough, was the first to jump in. In this case, he was able to solve the problem, but the situation of not being able to let go for various reasons caused him to suffer mental and physical torture. The last to get out of the car was Mrs. Smith, and the first thing she did was to tie up the mountain dragon according to Ouyang Dao's orders.
While the new owner has the ability to subdue the dragons on the mountain, it would be unwise to confront the behemoths in a small space. Found an empty room in Smith's manor, and under Ouyang Dao's orders, Smith whipped the new nocturnal dragon fiercely. After teaching her restless brother a lesson, Mrs. Smith forced it to turn into blood, and returned to Ouyang Dao's eyes, the reappeared mountain dragon was much better, or... More sluggish.
At this moment, Ouyang Dao had the opportunity to see this giant beast, the auctioneer described it as 7.8 meters long before the remodeling, Ouyang Dao observed it with his eyes, and a tail that was at least 10 meters long. Ouyang Dao looked around at the Earth Dragon and found that it had not changed much except that it was getting bigger and stronger.
The bad news for Ouyang Dao was that when he first transformed a fish with blood, he was able to transform an ordinary fish into a first-class xenomorph. When the Winged Rabbit is later modified, it just goes from the beginning of the second stage to the top of the second stage. As for the improvement of several elite corpses in recent times, it is even more modest, and to transform the combat power of the master level, it is necessary that the material itself has reached the peak of three levels. The first and second order time will also cause some mutagenesis in the matter itself, greatly enhancing its lethality, such as the back spur of the kiwi fish and the fangs of the winged tiger rabbit. These few lines of text about elite corpses only make them bigger, without evolving more threatening organs.
This means that as the power level increases, the blood modifier gradually loses its powerful effect, true legends and epics, and this ability is likely to disappear from the crowd. A worried Ouyang Dao left the hidden room, unaware that he had made any major changes to it. Where he stood, there were two deep shoe prints left on the steel floor, and his own boots were undamaged. When Ouyang Dao left the room, he realized the terrible fact that he was about to lose his advantage in the face of transformation, Ouyang Dao was even more anxious to absorb the egg, and Ouyang Dao, who was eager to find Smith, failed to find it, and he left footprints on the steel floor with every step he took.
After chatting with Smith for a few words, Ouyang Dao returned to the room with the dragon egg in his arms, and in the face of the strong hunger in his body, he brandished a long knife and smashed the dragon eggshell in one go, several tons, several tons, several tons, several tons. After drinking the whole egg, hunger disappeared from his blood, but Ouyang Dao's body did not change.
Ouyang Dao was not intimidated, and launched a detailed investigation of himself, trying to find out where the missing few kilograms of egg liquid were?