Chapter 510

Lugano, who was listening, looked at Lu Mian in confusion, not understanding why he, who had just said he was preparing to leave, was chatting with Pierre leisurely again.

Wait a little longer, and the official Beyonders will come!

Moreover, the more you know, the greater the intensity of the subsequent investigation, and it might even stimulate the source of the madness disease, making it deal with them now!

After recalling for more than ten seconds, Pierre said with some uncertainty:

"The initial patient seemed to be a guest who rented a room in our bar..."

"An outsider?" Lu Mian asked quite calmly.

Having already told the official Beyonders about the madness disease through Franca and having decided to find an opportunity to "teleport" away later, his spirit was no longer as urgent as before. Thus, he wanted to understand the situation of the madness disease more before leaving and find a reasonable explanation for those contradictions.

This behavior of collecting intelligence, analyzing problems, and finding clues and answers belonged to one of the ways of acting as a "Conspirator." Lu Mian was idle anyway, so he took this opportunity to digest some potion.

As for the pollution that might be caused by understanding this matter, Lu Mian wasn't that worried:

Could the intelligence of the madness disease compare to the sealed data of "0-01"?

Moreover, as long as he didn't go crazy on the spot, he could find his superior afterward to see if there was a way to solve it!

Pierre thought for a few seconds in a daze:

"Should be... I don't remember what her name was, nor do I know where she came from. I only know she suddenly went crazy, ran from the hotel upstairs to the bar, tried to bite people, and barked wildly like a dog."

The infected outsider spread the madness disease to Dadel Town? Then why did the abnormal phenomenon of the town residents not thinking of fleeing here appear? Does this also belong to a manifestation of the madness disease? Lu Mian asked thoughtfully:

"Did she bite anyone, and what happened later?"

"She didn't have time to bite anyone else before we solved it, caught her, and sent her to the health department." Pierre recalled.

Sent to the health department? Lu Mian nodded slowly:

"Was the next person to go crazy someone from the health department?"

"Yes, yes!" Pierre was very sure this time.

Lu Mian thought for a moment and turned to ask:

"What did that guest look like?"

"A young woman, her face was a bit white, she had no spirit, and there was no light in her eyes. What exactly she looked like, I, I don't remember..." Pierre couldn't help but raise his palm and rub his head.

Hearing this, Lu Mian suddenly felt a stir in his heart:

If the source of all the abnormalities in Dadel Town was a real crazy person, then many contradictions could be explained!

The initial source was crazy herself and would instinctively spread the madness disease involving the supernatural level to the surroundings, so she wouldn't consider whether this was a closed village or a prosperous town serving as a transportation hub.

At the same time, "she" would also use this ability to spread supernatural madness disease under the drive of her subconscious to imply that the town residents couldn't leave and control all channels that might spread this matter. However, because she was in a state of madness herself, she didn't consider it thoroughly enough and didn't give the town residents an order not to talk about the madness disease with passengers on the steam train.

Of course, it might not be that she didn't consider it thoroughly enough. Lu Mian felt that it was more likely that the instinct of a crazy person would hope to involve more people and let them also be infected with the madness disease. Thus, there appeared a contradictory phenomenon where, on the one hand, those who knew about the matter were not allowed to leave or seek help from the authorities, but on the other hand, town residents were not forbidden from discussing the madness disease with passing travelers.

This was a limited, relatively safe way of spreading. Those who knew about the madness disease were equivalent to approaching the source of the plague. Like Lugano, who had a change in fortune and increased the possibility of contracting the madness disease, like him and Lu Mian, who had forgotten the choice to flee before, the more they communicated, the more they got into a dead end, and they became determined to enter Dadel Town to investigate.

This belonged to the precursor of being infected with the madness disease and belonged to being given hints unknowingly.

Thinking of this, Lu Mian suspected that the young woman might be a survivor of the village that had been wiped out before, a potential infected person who had escaped the official cleanup operation.

She fused the memory of this aspect with the madness disease and spread it out, so the town residents of Dadel could know that such a village had appeared with a similar plague and suffered the overall cleanup by the government.

Normally, they wouldn't have the qualifications to know about such things, nor would they have the channels to know!

With a preliminary speculation, Lu Mian looked at Pierre and the bar waiter and asked with a smile:

"Where is the village you mentioned that was destroyed by the authorities because of the madness disease?"

"Seems, seems to be somewhere in the Upper Hornacis Province..." Pierre recalled the rumors he had heard.

Upper Hornacis Province... This is a bit far from the Upper Coastal Province, and there is no direct steam train. You have to go to several provinces on the west bank of the Inter-Sea or Trier to transfer... How did you guys, who have almost never left Dadel Town, hear about that rumor? Did some bard or passenger from the Upper Hornacis Province pass through this transportation hub? The more Lu Mian pondered, the more he leaned toward the speculation just now.

He didn't ask anymore and said to Pierre tentatively:

"This madness disease has research value. We will enter Dadel to investigate the source and try to cure you guys.

"But this requires a period of preparation, and, it is night now.

"Wait until dawn, we will enter Dadel and won't leave until the problem is solved."

Lu Mian repeatedly emphasized "will enter Dadel" and "won't leave for the time being" to test the reactions of Pierre and the bar waiter.

The expressions of the two changed a few times and didn't become as hysterical as before.

After a few seconds, Pierre said with a look of pleading:

"You guys must come to the town tomorrow!"

"No problem." Lu Mian returned a smile.

He was now more certain that this was a kind of instinctive infection and influence, without a mechanism to respond to changes. As long as he didn't touch the key points and even actively provided cooperative information, he could effectively deceive the source of the madness disease.

Seeing Pierre and the bar waiter walking toward other windows of the steam train, Lu Mian called them back:

"Wait a moment."

After the two turned their heads in astonishment, Lu Mian pointed to the table between the two sofas:

"You guys can take the tableware away now."

Pierre and the bar waiter looked at the dining table blankly and found that it was a pile of empty plates, with only bones and other residues left.

Finished eating already? The person who delivered the meal hasn't left yet!

Pierre and the bar waiter, although knowing that the two of them had stayed here for a period of time because of the madness disease, still felt that this was unrealistic.

This was eaten too fast, right?

Is this raising three lions?

*Hiccup*... The little boy Ludwig picked up a napkin and wiped his mouth, his expression very satisfied.

After these two town residents took the tableware, picked up the food box, and left the platform, Lu Mian smiled at Lugano, who was standing:

"Take another look, no need to be so urgent."

I am very urgent. How can I run after the official Beyonders come? Lugano's heart felt like it was being burned by fire.

Lu Mian observed his reaction and muttered silently:

He really behaves like a wild Beyonder with a low sequence and little knowledge... doesn't reflect the specialness similar to Ludwig... Is he really an ordinary wild Beyonder, just accepting a task to follow me?

At the same time, Lu Mian concentrated his attention and looked at Lugano's fortune again, finding that the pale green traces had disappeared, and there was no sign of a bloody disaster.

This meant that the "Physician" no longer had the possibility of being infected with the madness disease, and he shouldn't be involved in the official action of handling the abnormality in Dadel Town later.

After a while, Lu Mian heard a huge noise and saw the night outside suddenly become bright.

That was a light shining down from mid-air.

Lu Mian looked up and found two behemoths floating in the dark night.

Those were two airships painted in dark gray, with propellers spinning crazily.

This was much smaller than the one Lu Mian had seen when he was in Trier. The condensed light shone down from the lower front side of them, concentrating on the edge of Dadel Town.

At the same time, the sound of a large number of dogs barking rang out in the town again, and there seemed to be movement everywhere.

The official authorities in the Foss region have arrived? Lu Mian withdrew his gaze, waiting for the result.

Shouting, barking, gunfire, and various lights represented by sunlight appeared intermittently, lasting for nearly an hour before completely subsiding.

Not long after, a team of police entered the compartment and asked Lu Mian and the others, who had changed their appearance and held fake identity documents, about the details of their contact with the town residents of Dadel.

Lu Mian didn't mention the madness disease, and everything else was told truthfully.

He was ready at any time to take Ludwig and Lugano to "teleport" and flee.

After the police recorded and compared the train tickets and identity documents, they left this carriage.

Lu Mian waited patiently until dawn before those police returned and provided three contracts, requiring them to sign.

The content of the contract was that the movement last night came from a special military operation, and everyone had the duty of confidentiality and could not leak it.

Does it count if I leaked it before signing? Lu Mian laughed secretly and calmly wrote down a fake name.

This fake identity of his had just been activated and didn't have much occult connection yet.

After the police walked out of the carriage, Lu Mian, who had deliberately experienced the official handling process once, intended to grab Ludwig and Lugano's shoulders and "teleport" away.

He wasn't sure if the contract signed with a fake name would be discovered, so he had to avoid corresponding risks.

Just then, Lu Mian saw a tall figure emerge behind Lugano.

That was his messenger, the charred-corpse-like "penitent" Bayinfeier, who was burning with some black flames and wearing dark clerical robes.

Bayinfeier let a folded letter float toward Lu Mian.

Lugano was astonished to find paper appearing and looked behind him instinctively, while Lu Mian opened the letter and scanned the content:

"According to the feedback I received, this should be a sealed artifact escape event.

"That sealed artifact has the appearance of a young woman. She is in a normal state most of the time, just appearing spiritless, pale, and muddled. But once she enters a state of madness, she will make the people around her gradually infected with the same madness disease, with no determined transmission law.

"Her state when she goes crazy each time is not necessarily the same, and the manifestations of the madness disease are the same.

"Although she is muddled like a spirit without wisdom in a normal state and acts on instinct, she possesses power like a word of power. Whoever she says will die will die..."

(End of chapter)