Chapter 409

When the surgery was completed and he saw the blind sheep get off the examination table, calm and restrained, no longer resisting, the duty doctor suddenly felt as if he were dreaming:

The surgery really succeeded...

The surgical paradigm created for humans actually succeeded on a sheep...

The duty doctor, who had entered a state of dullness and confusion, watched the arsonist demon lead the blind sheep, whose mental illness had been cured, out of the office and disappear into the crimson moonlight outside the door.

Wherever they passed, crimson flames swirled, igniting the white bandages that had just been removed and the hair that was hard to see with the naked eye.

In the rekindled firelight, black flame currents were mixed in, flowing like water, "washing" away the traces of the remaining ice pick and footprints.

The duty doctor didn't feel any danger, watching in a daze, as if he were appreciating a grand fireworks display.

I don't know how much time passed, but all the flames extinguished, and the guard who had been sent out returned to the Delta Asylum with a group of police officers wearing black uniforms.

"Why did you only just arrive?" The duty doctor asked subconsciously.

The leading police officer cursed angrily:

"Son of a bitch, we were shot at from the shadows on the way here, someone was shooting at us!"

…………

Market District, 3 White Coat Street, Apartment 601.

After Lu Mi tied the sheep that "I Have a Friend" had turned into to one of the support legs of the dining table, he didn't pay any more attention to it, lay down on the long sofa in the living room, and assumed a posture of preparing to sleep.

His appearance had been adjusted back to his original look through "Lie," and the "Decency" brooch had long since been removed.

"Not interrogating him now?" Seeing Fu Lan Ka looked at the sheep that was standing quietly and not trying to drag the dining table away to escape.

She didn't look at Lu Mi, because this guy was very annoying right now and she wanted to beat him up; even that sheep, which had become a pacifist, was a bit restless.

Lu Mi answered without any fluctuation in his voice:

"I'll ask after I recover my spirituality."

That's true, this is safer. Anyway, "I Have a Friend" is a sheep now and has had his prefrontal lobe removed, so he can neither use abilities nor lacks the thought of resisting... Seeing Fu Lan Ka, wearing her assassin outfit, withdrew her gaze and walked toward her bedroom, lest she couldn't control her hands, black flames, frost, and spider silk.

She wasn't worried that any accidents would occur during this period before the interrogation, leading to the weird death of "I Have a Friend" or him losing control and becoming a monster, because Lady "Magician" and the other Major Arcana cards had already confirmed the identity of "I Have a Friend" before, and must have also taken the opportunity to grasp the most important information.

Yu Jianna, holding the obsidian broken arrow, came to the long sofa, her expression a bit twisted as she said "Here":

"Your spoils of war."

She handed the obsidian broken arrow to Lu Mi, who hadn't closed his eyes yet.

During this process, her right hand trembled slightly, looking as if she wanted to take the opportunity to insert the arrowhead into the other party's eye.

Lu Mi didn't reach out to take it, saying calmly:

"This is the reward for your good luck.

"Or rather, this is your true good luck."

Why does the way he speaks have the flavor of a circus fortune teller... Yu Jianna didn't refuse, muttered a sentence, turned around quickly, and also entered Seeing Fu Lan Ka's bedroom.

It has to be said that after this companion advanced to "Pleasure Witch," even as a woman, she would feel her cheeks flush and her ears heat up when watching her change clothes.

By the time Seeing Fu Lan Ka changed into light home clothes, she had used "Magic Mirror Divination" to roughly figure out the name, abilities, and negative effects of that obsidian broken arrow:

"Name: Arrow of the Bloodthirsty.

"Ability: After inserting it into the side of the chest where the heart is located and letting it draw your own blood, the user can gain strong self-healing and regenerative abilities and a quite outstanding constitution. Regardless of speed, agility, the ability to communicate with animals, or vision, smell, and hearing, they can all be greatly enhanced, and the person's own charm will also have a certain improvement.

"Besides these, the user will also gain spell-like abilities in the dark domain such as 'Abyssal Shackles,' 'Corrosive Claws,' and 'Wings of Darkness.'

"Negative effects:

"When in a state of use, you will loathe sunlight and crave fresh blood;

"Your own blood will be constantly drawn by the item until you die from excessive blood loss. You must pay attention to your state at all times and pull out the broken arrow in time;

"The more frequently it is used and the more times it is used, the more it will lead to various non-obvious mutations in the body. Once it accumulates beyond the limit, it may also bring about the collapse of the flesh. Note: Try not to exceed three minutes each time it is used, and the interval between uses is best to be more than three days. In this way, the body will get a chance to recover and not accumulate mutations.

"It is best to avoid the full moon when using it. Although that will bring about an improvement in state, it is also easy to lead to the appearance of hallucinations and danger."

"A very good magical artifact." Seeing Fu Lan Ka praised sincerely and returned the "Arrow of the Bloodthirsty" to Yu Jianna. "Just carrying it alone actually has no negative effects. Such a magical artifact can be sold for more than 40,000 gold pounds at various occult gatherings."

Yu Jianna held the "Arrow of the Bloodthirsty" and said thoughtfully:

"If I give it to you, does that mean I've paid off the money I owe you?"

She considered herself to owe Seeing Fu Lan Ka 30,000 gold pounds.

Seeing Fu Lan Ka let out a "haha":

"No need to rush. This 'Arrow of the Bloodthirsty' can greatly improve your strength to a large extent, allowing you to truly possess the power of self-protection. It won't be too late to sell it after your sequence has increased to the point where you don't need it anymore.

"As for the money you owe me, pay it back slowly, no need to rush."

Yu Jianna was silent for a few seconds and nodded gently.

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Lu Mi slept until six in the morning, his spirit becoming full again, only his head still had a faint throbbing pain.

He rolled over and sat up, looked around, and found that the sheep that "I Have a Friend" had turned into was standing quietly beside the dining table, its empty eye sockets full of blood scabs.

Lu Mi laughed:

"Not a bad constitution. Such heavy injuries and such perfunctory treatment didn't let you die."

He led the sheep into the living room and poured all the remaining "Truth Serum" into its mouth.

After finishing this matter, Lu Mi then chanted the unlocking spell in Hermes:

"Your Excellency Archbishop."

A dim light flashed, and the gray-white sheepskin split open, exposing the body of "I Have a Friend" wearing the blue and white striped hospital gown.

Lu Mi helped him, who was incomparably calm, to sit on a chair, looked at his empty, bloody eye sockets, and sighed with a smile:

"I said yesterday that we can finally have a good chat now."

The calm "I Have a Friend" did not respond to him.

He retreated to the side of the sofa, sat down, and waited silently for the "Truth Serum" to take effect before asking:

"What is your name, what did you originally do, and why did you live in the Delta Asylum?"

Lu Mi was testing the effect of the "Truth Serum" starting from the simplest questions, guiding the other party to form an instinctive, subconscious answer.

The voice of "I Have a Friend" had no special characteristics, but it had a convincing flavor:

"My name is Pierre Triot, and I was originally one of the associate editors of 'Basic Medicine.'

"I once told you that I had a friend who, because of negligence and being too confident, ended up in an asylum. That was talking about myself. I was addicted to manipulating the minds of others and didn't pay enough attention to my own problems. One day, I suddenly went crazy.

"By the time I woke up, I had already been sent to the Delta Asylum. Fortunately, I was only mentally deranged at the time and didn't lose control in the true sense. I still had the instinct for self-protection and didn't display Beyonder abilities while lacking reason. If that were the case, I would have been sent to the Inquisition."

The friend you mentioned was indeed yourself... After discovering that "I Have a Friend" was hiding in the asylum, Lu Mi had a new understanding of that sentence from back then.

He followed up:

"Since you have already regained your sobriety and recovered your thinking ability, why did you still stay in the Delta Asylum?"

"I Have a Friend" didn't mock, nor did he smile, answering calmly:

"I found the asylum very interesting. The thinking patterns, brain states, and mind islands of those patients are significantly different from normal people, worthy of observation, research, and dissection.

"Moreover, among them, there are those who went crazy due to illness, and there are also those who became mentally ill due to other factors. Hidden among the latter are some who have come into contact with the mysterious and have come into contact with the abnormal."

"Including the one you disguised as yourself?" Lu Mi asked as if confirming.

"I Have a Friend" nodded slowly:

"Yes, he is very special. I noticed him very early on. He is like a philosopher, always asking all kinds of strange questions, and the patients close to him, the nurses taking care of him, and the doctors treating him are all slowly moving toward his state. Hidden around him are also some protectors who seem to possess Beyonder abilities.

"We solved those protectors and tried to gain his trust. Everything went very smoothly. We learned that they belong to an organization called 'Initiates,' practicing a type of mystical ritual called 'Mithra's Worship,' which can allow the human star spirit to ascend to the various heavens, see the greatest sights, touch the edge of immortality, and obtain knowledge and corresponding abilities from behind the 'Formless Gate' that can allow one's own qualitative change."

"Initiates"... "Formless Gate"... Lu Mi noted down this content and continued to ask:

"After 'Loki' was resurrected and gave you a warning, why didn't you hurry to escape Trier?"

"I Have a Friend" answered without the slightest emotion in his voice:

"That wouldn't be interesting at all. One has to kill a few pursuers before escaping."

It was actually this reason... Lu Mi had thought there was some important matter that made "I Have a Friend" linger in Trier:

"Then why didn't you hide in another place?"

"I Have a Friend" said calmly and without waves:

"I want to see the despair and pain of the pursuers."

Seeking fun with one's life, huh... Lu Mi laughed:

"Don't you know the strength of the 'Tarot Club'?"

"I Have a Friend" recalled and said:

"That secret organization that uses Tarot cards as codenames? What relationship do they have with you?"

Hearing this, Lu Mi laughed out loud, laughing until he was leaning back and forth, extraordinarily exaggerated.

PS: Thanks to livy37 for the Silver Alliance donation again and again.

PS2: Tomorrow there will be two updates, with an extra chapter.

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