Chapter 732: The Wheel of Fortune's Artificial Mutation Experiment

After looking around, Lan Qingyou locked her gaze onto Vivian.

"What's wrong, what's wrong? Don't look at me with such a formal look."

Being stared at, Vivian felt uncomfortable all over.

She had a feeling of her hair standing on end.

In the past, when everyone was together, they would either be joking around or seriously discussing things.

This was the first time she was stared at silently by those scarlet Demon Eyes like this.

To be honest.

It felt as if everything about her was being seen through.

It was extremely unpleasant.

That feeling of one plus one definitely not equaling two made her even more uncomfortable.

One had to know that the crime of 'artificial mutation' could be considered great or small.

Although it might not mean much to the people in the group.

But if word spread, by then she...

She trusted the group members, but she didn't trust the sailors under Nemo.

God knows if someone would spread it?

When the time came, and the rumors spread further and became more distorted, she wouldn't be able to explain herself even with a hundred mouths.

Even if she didn't care.

But the entire race might be labeled by those trolls on the world channel.

After all, on Blue Star, the vampire race had such a negative image.

At that time, perhaps a racial war even more terrifying than the Forsaken War would be triggered.

When that time came, it wouldn't just be one or two places being affected.

Especially right now, after dealing with the giant magic beasts, when everyone needed an outlet to vent.

Whoever stuck their head out was likely to draw focused fire.

This wasn't just about them vampires; even the witches would probably be the same.

The only difference was that witches could flee the continent and live in the sky at any time, while vampires could not.

However...

"Don't flatter yourself..."

"I wasn't looking at you, I was looking behind you."

Lan Qingyou rolled her eyes at the other party, then waved her hand, signaling Vivian to move aside.

Upon hearing that it wasn't about her, Vivian felt much more at ease.

But as she moved her position and curiously looked back, she was surprised to find that there was actually another person behind her.

No...

She wasn't surprised by the fact that there was someone behind her.

But rather surprised by the person herself.

And it wasn't just her.

The rest of the members of Tarot Manor were also looking at this person in surprise.

"To be honest, you hid it very well. If it weren't for the fact that the magic power on the mutated Leviathan carried a tiny trace of your magic power attribute, I really wouldn't have been able to tell."

"May I ask if I've guessed anything wrong, Wheel of Fortune... Esmeralda?"

Lan Qingyou, still sitting on the ship's rail, looked at the Wheel of Fortune, Esmeralda, with a smile.

"Oh? Why ask me?"

Esmeralda, who was called out, looked at Lan Qingyou strangely.

"When a person is hit by an illusion or mental attack, the magic power inside their body will briefly fall into disorder. Rather, what mental-type attacks target are the brain and the internal magic power."

"Just now when everyone was hit, only your magic power had a tiny bit of disorder."

"Including those meaningless movements you made following others when you saw them flailing about."

"It looked exactly as if you were pretending, so I was a bit suspicious, but now I'm certain."

...

Although Lan Qingyou brought up the matter of the illusion again this time.

But no one complained like they did earlier.

Instead, they were all quiet.

With an expression of watching the drama, they waited for Esmeralda's response.

"Sure enough, the risk of exposure increases exponentially when doing this kind of thing right in front of you..."

Esmeralda also smiled and shrugged her shoulders.

"Sigh, Fortune?"

"It really is you..."

"Rather, what the hell are you doing?"

"Don't tell me you're doing research."

When a bunch of scholars who 'knew a bit of martial arts' got together, this was the first thing they could think of.

After all, quite a few people were researching this kind of mutation technology.

Just the related organizations they knew of numbered no less than a hundred.

That was why everyone was so surprised upon hearing that Esmeralda knew this kind of technology.

However...

"Researching whether high-end players' attack power is still effective against a suddenly mutated magic beast?"

Star, Ruan Qingyi, guessed.

"Or it could be the reverse, testing whether a magic beast in the extreme state of mutation can withstand the attacks of a bunch of high-end players."

The Magician, David, beside her shook his head and stated his own hypothesis.

But compared to these people.

There was one person who could even more clearly understand the necessity of Esmeralda doing this kind of research.

"I think it's even simpler, like researching the magic that causes magic beasts to mutate and such?"

The Lovers, Freya, who was engaged in animal husbandry, first associated it with things related to herself.

Rather, she really wanted to have a private chat with Esmeralda about the related technology right now.

If the technology wasn't mature yet, she could provide funds, materials, and time for joint research.

If the technology could become mature, then her ranch might become a unique existence in the world.

She could even mass-produce mutated magic beast mounts.

One had to know that mounts were currently best-selling goods across the entire continent.

Although it was a bit hellish.

But even if the population had decreased by a billion or so, there was still a massive market.

In that case, it wouldn't be a question of making money or not.

It would be a question of whether she could spend all the money she earned.

However, things did not develop in the direction Freya hoped.

Or perhaps she was looking at this matter too simply.

At least that was how it looked in Lan Qingyou's eyes.

And it wasn't just Freya. Even Ruan Qingyi and David, who had spoken earlier, and even the rest of them had thought of this matter too simply.

They saw Lan Qingyou float up from the ship's rail and then float towards Esmeralda.

"Fortune... I have a question I can't figure out."

"What is it?"

"Although you said the risk increases when doing it in front of me, you must have had a reason why you had to do it."

Lan Qingyou floated in front of Esmeralda and then sat on the deck.

"Reason... wasn't it for the experiment?"

Gu Xiaobei on the side was a bit confused.

"How could that be? If it was an experiment, she could have completely used some other magic beast. There was absolutely no need to target the Leviathan, which was already difficult to deal with even with everyone attacking together."

"Uh..."

Gu Xiaobei was stunned.

Lan Qingyou's words immediately woke everyone up.

You don't say, it really made sense.

Even if she wanted to do some extreme test, there was absolutely no need to act at this time.

But Esmeralda just had to do it.

Thinking about it now, there really was a huge behavioral loophole.

Why?

The crowd looked at Lan Qingyou with this question in mind, hoping she could clear up their confusion.

"Don't look at me, I still have a bunch of questions to ask myself."

"Hoho, a bunch of questions?"

Esmeralda raised an eyebrow, the corners of her mouth curling up slightly as she looked at Lan Qingyou with a provocative gaze.

"See, your current expression. The past you would never make this kind of expression."