Chapter 1872: Consciousness Restored, Negotiations Concluded

Xia Duo carefully recalled the scene where he controlled these mutants at the time, and from it, he found the appearance of this young mutant's family.

He casually tore a blank page from his notebook, cast a spell to imprint that appearance onto the paper, and prepared to hand it to Lakelaisi to handle after daybreak.

Xia Duo decided to make this young mutant a key subject of observation; if everything went smoothly, he even wanted to pull the other party into his Arcane Infusion experimental project to become the first subject of Arcane Infusion.

……

Time soon arrived at the next day.

During the noon break, Lakelaisi brought a nervous Wood Elf woman before Xia Duo, "Lord Asuosi, she is the Elf you were looking for."

After finishing, he turned his head to look at the Wood Elf and said sternly, "Kelisi, do whatever the Lord tells you to do!"

"……"

Xia Duo was speechless for a moment, waved his hand to let Lakelaisi leave first, and then said kindly to Kelisi, "Do you have a young child?"

"Yes, my Lord, my child is named Mila, that day—"

Kelisi hesitated at the subsequent words and did not dare to continue speaking. Xia Duo did not mind and said it for her, "That day she suddenly changed her appearance, and then she was taken away by me."

"My Lord, Mila she—"

"Her situation is not very optimistic, but it is not without hope of a cure. I hope that during the time I am treating her, you can accompany her. Are you willing?"

"Willing, I am willing!" Kelisi was overjoyed and nodded repeatedly.

"By the way, what about the child's father? If possible, call him over as well!"

"Mila's father he—"

Kelisi, who had previously shown a happy expression, immediately fell into great sorrow upon hearing this. She lowered her head and replied with sobs, "Mila's father passed away in an accident the year before last; I only have Mila now."

"Passed away in an accident?"

Xia Duo could see that the Kelisi before him was not acting; she truly had deep feelings for her husband and was truly grieving, but the explanation of an accident was still not very convincing.

In order to make the residents of Evereska support independence, the Council of Elders' governance almost took care of every aspect and every class, and even if Elves did not understand Magic, they were a powerful race in themselves.

In such a city with a very limited range of activities, how could there be so many accidents?

"What kind of accident was it?" Xia Duo asked again.

"Last year he went into the mountains to gather herbs and was bitten by a venomous snake; he was already beyond saving when he returned."

"Wait, he went into the mountains to gather herbs? To sell to Sailuo?"

"Yes, the herbalist Sailuo has his own sources of herbs, but he also buys herbs sent over by residents of this community," Kelisi said in a low voice with her head lowered.

"Were you there that day regarding Sailuo's situation? What was Mila's father's original job? Did you never suspect Sailuo?"

"Mila's father was a Druid who worked at Xirui Farm in Yeman Valley, but his wages were not high. During that time, he wanted to prepare a birthday gift for Mila, so he—"

As she spoke, Kelisi began to sob in a low voice again.

Seeing this, Xia Duo did not ask anything more. Upon hearing that the other party's husband was a Druid, he roughly deduced the truth of the incident. Although Druids did not have a high status in Elf society, they were still much better off than ordinary Commoners and could be considered a decent job.

Most importantly, Druids also possessed extraordinary power and were very sensitive to life; Sailuo would likely not let a living Druid wander around his experimental area.

Even if he hadn't gone out to gather herbs, it might have been some other accident.

If the investigations of Ougesi and the Eye of Fear were correct, Sailuo appeared in the Golden Rose Community around the year before last.

And a community certainly has more than one Druid; if he let Lakelaisi check on the situation of other Druids, he could almost reach a conclusion.

If nothing went wrong, I am afraid other Druids also died due to various accidents.

……

After finishing his questions, Xia Duo sent a message to notify the private guard given to him by the Council of Elders to take Kelisi back to the manor, while he himself continued to survey the Old Mythallar Node with Saijisi.

That evening, Xia Duo let Kelisi see the still-living Mila, and perhaps because of her mother's appearance, Mila's consciousness also became a bit clearer and she was no longer as irritable as before.

Xia Duo simply did not lock her in the Lattice Cage again, but left her in the Laboratory and gave Kelisi Permission Level to enter and exit at any time.

In any case, it was just a simple Laboratory that had been newly established, so there was no need to worry about any losses; the Council of Elders would pay for it anyway.

……

Just like this, Xia Duo surveyed the Old Mythallar Node and discussed demolition plans with Saijisi during the day, and occasionally went to Yeman Valley to inspect the progress of the preliminary feasibility work for the New Mythallar project.

Because Xilin's avatar did not need to rest, the time at night was completely at Xia Duo's own disposal. During this period, he had initially determined the precise attributes of Sailuo's Magic Energy and began to try to analyze the specific process of Magic Energy Infection.

As for those mutants, except for Mila, the rest were all imprisoned by him.

And as for the research on Mila, although it had only been a few days, there had been quite a harvest. Xia Duo had now basically determined that the key to wanting Magic Energy Infection to change a biological essence lay in consciousness.

Although Mila had not fully recovered these days, under her mother's care, she could already occasionally say some meaningful words.

On Mila, Xia Duo tried a variety of conservative Purification Plans, but the results were not very ideal. The only thing worth mentioning was probably that the mutation on Mila's body had stopped.

But as a single isolated case, Xia Duo was not sure if it was the effect of his Purification Plan or the role of Mila's mother.

He decided to select a mutant in the near future to use Mila's Purification Plan to see if it could also stop the mutation.

But before Xia Duo could take action, a piece of truly good news arrived—

The negotiations between Evereska and the countries of the Northland had ended!

Including Siluwende, all countries unanimously supported Evereska's independence. When Xia Duo received the message from Ougesi, he could hardly believe his ears.

Although he had done some things in secret to try to speed up the negotiation process, he could not guarantee what the effect would be. The negotiations should have been completed ahead of schedule if there were no accidents, but the time he originally predicted was at least a year.

And this was also roughly synchronized with the current progress of the New Mythallar Design. In other words, once the negotiations ended, the construction of the New Mythallar could begin.

But now, the negotiations were completed ahead of schedule, while the New Mythallar had not yet finished its design.

Of course, this was entirely a good thing for Xia Duo; he had been looking forward to this day for a long time!

The end of the negotiations meant the handover of the Old Mythallar Permission, which would greatly improve the survey efficiency of the Old Mythallar Node, thereby saving more time for Xia Duo and Saijisi to devote more energy to the New Mythallar Design.

According to the current situation, it would not take a year to complete the New Mythallar Design.