Chapter 79

After Su Bai finished speaking, his finger pointed toward the room where Vacher was located.

It seemed as if he were asking Wriothesley and Clorinde about the question he had just posed.

"Hmm."

"This Vacher, after being arrested, insisted on seeing the Traveler and Navia."

"It seems he was asking the Traveler where he had learned the name Vacher."

"Later, under his strong insistence, our people took him and the Traveler to the Fountain of Lucine; after that, he seemed to have gone mad."

Wriothesley explained, then added, "I did not use torture on him."

"Understood, open the door; I happen to have something to ask him as well."

"Your Holiness, you are looking for Vacher?" Clorinde and Wriothesley exchanged glances.

What business does Your Holiness have with Vacher?

Besides, this fellow's mind is not quite right now.

"No, Your Holiness, this is too dangerous." Clorinde immediately stopped him.

"If you have something to ask him, I will go in and inquire on your behalf."

"Ah!" Su Bai wore a look of difficulty.

After all, he wanted to access Vacher's research results; such matters absolutely could not be known by outsiders.

"It's fine; he cannot harm me."

After Su Bai spoke, he was just about to step forward when Clorinde blocked him.

"At least let me stay by my lord's side; if that fellow does something dangerous, I..."

But before Clorinde could finish, Su Bai's gentle hand had already rested on her shoulder.

"I understand your intention; rest assured, it will be fine."

Seeing Clorinde's face turn red with shame, Wriothesley immediately shifted his gaze elsewhere.

After Su Bai entered Vacher's cell.

Wriothesley then chuckled, "Hey, are Duel Champions these days so powerful that they can handle dangers Your Holiness cannot?"

Clorinde's slender body shivered; she widened her eyes and glared at Wriothesley: "None of your business; just take care of yourself."

Inside the cell.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

"Vernier, everything I did was only to find a way to bring you back."

"I didn't want to kill you either; I really didn't..."

Vacher crouched in the corner of the wall, clutching his head and weeping bitterly.

Judging from the trembling of his body, he had indeed experienced something terrible.

"Vacher?"

Su Bai called out softly.

But Vacher gave no response, as if he could not see him at all.

"Has his mental state completely collapsed?"

"If this continues, he probably won't live much longer."

Su Bai stared expressionlessly at the shivering Vacher.

"Fortunately, I came a step ahead."

He walked toward Vacher.

Even after reaching Vacher's side, Vacher kept muttering Vernier's name.

He paid no attention at all to Su Bai having arrived beside him.

Su Bai did not pay attention to Vacher; instead, he extended his hand and grasped Vacher's head.

In an instant.

All of Vacher's memories flooded into Su Bai's mind at once.

The acquaintance and mutual understanding between the other party and Vernier, all their adventures.

And so on; all these memories began pouring into Su Bai's mind.

Until Vernier disappeared, the broken Vacher began dealing in Os, all the way until he started the experiments.

The tragic state of the missing girls made Su Bai frown slightly.

All of Vacher's experimental records were memorized by Su Bai in his mind; unfortunately, none of them were useful.

Suddenly, the appearance of the Oceanid startled Su Bai.

"Is this the last scene Vacher saw?"

Strange.

Why would it be an Oceanid?

"We, the girls who were harmed, had our consciousnesses return to the Primordial Sea along with the dissipation of our bodies."

"Our consciousnesses circled endlessly within the Primordial Sea, constantly dispersing, and finally merged together like flowing water."

"Vernier's true consciousness does not wish to see you, because she knows that as long as you come here, we will not let you go."

"Vacher!"

"Vacher!"

"Vacher!"

"....."

The figure of the once-missing girl kept appearing before Vacher.

A dozen chilling stares fixed dead on Wavie, as if to swallow him alive.

"Wavie!"

"Die..."

Thud!

Wavie crashed heavily to the ground.

Su Bai remained utterly indifferent.

"Mental collapse, scared to death?"

Su Bai silently closed his eyes.

If he had stopped Wavie earlier, perhaps those girls...

But soon, Su Bai's gaze hardened once more.

The scene Wavie saw at the end held great progress.

The consciousness of the girls dissolved by Primordial Water had actually fused into Oceanids.

This differed greatly from Su Bai's understanding of death.

Unless the consciousness of those girls dissolved by Primordial Water had been extracted by Wavie beforehand and deliberately fused, just like the experiments of Jacob and Lei Nei.

Yet the gap between the two was vast; the consciousness of this group of girls...

"Returning to Primordial Water?" Su Bai was stunned: "Why did the consciousness of all these girls after death return to Primordial Water to form Oceanids..."

He murmured a few words.

Su Bai's expression changed abruptly.

"It seems you have already guessed."

Neuvillette sighed.

After striving for so long, he finally found himself powerless to change anything.

That feeling must have been utterly despairing.

Tartaglia: "Uh, what did Mr. Su Bai do? He..."

Paimon: "He seems to have extracted all of Wavie's memories, intending to retrieve the other's experimental results to seek a solution for the Fontainians being dissolved."

Arataki Itto: "Extract memories? What kind of terrifying technique is this?"

Scaramouche: "This must be one of Mr. Su Bai's abilities; before him, as long as he wishes, no one can hide any secret."

Navia: "In that case..."

Yae Miko: "He cares so much about Furina; do you think he would be willing to use this method to obtain the truth he wants?"

Alhaitham: "What happened to cause Mr. Su Bai's expression to change so abruptly at the end?"