Chapter 796: The Price of Sticky Fingers

Behind Lu Mian, the gloomy Vijepan was still asking Heraberg, the Church of Knowledge clergyman,

"In a legal duel, can I do anything to the other party without being punished?"

"Yes." Heraberg confirmed Vijepan's guess.

Vijepan's eyes lit up instantly, feeling that this was heaven.

He swallowed his saliva excitedly.

Gulp... He heard a similar sound of swallowing saliva next to him.

He turned his head and looked over, finding that the sound came from the woman with long brown hair scattered, Julie.

This "collector" was equally excited, and the human meat cook Lies licked his lips.

He was already hungry.

Lu Mian didn't go to appreciate the performance of these serious criminals, walked out of the library-style church, and examined the situation around him.

The architectural style of this area was very ancient, like the style of the early Fifth Era, represented by columns and arches, heavy and condensed, atmospheric and simple.

Behind the church was a boundless cemetery. Among the trees, a large number of tombstones stood, and many graves protruded from the ground.

This reminded Lu Mian of a sentence mentioned in the "0-01" seal data:

"Placed in the underground mausoleum, placed with a large number of soldier puppets, and a cemetery with more than a million corpses built above..."

Is the underground mausoleum sealing "0-01" below this? Lu Mian just withdrew his gaze when he felt the originally sunny sky become dark, dark clouds gathered high up, and the dull roar of thunder echoed.

"It changes just like that... No wonder the data says Morora often encounters extreme weather..." Lu Mian sighed while looking into the distance, seeing the continuous mountains like giant beasts lying on the edge in the dim environment, blocking everyone who wanted to leave here secretly.

Of course, this was just a metaphor, because the residents of Morora would not have the idea of leaving this city at any time.

Lu Mian was also a bit reluctant.

The underground was summoning him.

"Need to find a place to settle down quickly, otherwise I'll get rained on." Gei's voice sounded in Lu Mian's ear.

He also walked out of the church whose name he didn't know, and as a local of Aissala, his wording was quite formal.

"Yes." Lu Mian smiled and walked into the large square in front of the church.

Gei followed while looking at the scene behind, quite surprised,

"There is actually such a large cemetery here?"

"A cemetery with more than a million, even tens of millions of corpses." Lu Mian answered casually.

Gei nodded thoughtfully,

"Historical books record that in the early Fifth Era, the Lenburg region had a large-scale tomb relocation action to deal with the problems left by the 'Pale Disaster.' Was it relocated here?"

"Maybe." While passing through the square, Lu Mian quietly activated the black mark representing the "Abscessed Hand," but didn't really use it.

He was sensing the approximate location of the other two parts of the "Abscessed Hand."

With this induction, Lu Mian was startled, because it wasn't just two parts; there were subtle feedbacks in different directions of the "City of Exiles."

"Did brother Abscessed Hand's two parts of the body get dismembered?" Lu Mian muttered silently.

He chose to move in the direction with the strongest feedback.

After walking for about a street, he heard the clanging sound of metal collision and saw two men doing intense fighting with sharp straight swords under the watch of many people.

Duels with casualties happen every day... Lu Mian reviewed the content of the "0-01" seal data and didn't rush forward, stopping to watch.

Gei did the same, as if evaluating the strength level of the residents of Morora.

This fight lasted for two or three minutes and ended with the man in the black thick jacket being slashed open in the chest and abdomen, his blood-stained intestines flowing out, and dying while twitching.

Beside them, a team of people wearing black robes came at some point, men and women, all with indifferent expressions.

They silently dragged away the stripped corpse and silently cleaned the blood on the street, just like machines acting according to a fixed process.

The onlookers dispersed one after another, among whom a short man wearing a brown-green duck-billed cap and a kind smile passed by Lu Mian and Gei and looked at them a few times.

"Are you new here?" This short man asked enthusiastically.

"How did you see it?" Gei asked back curiously.

The short man laughed,

"Your temperament hasn't changed yet, you haven't truly integrated into Morora!"

When he said the second half of the sentence, his voice suddenly became sharp, as if his body had been occupied by an unknown object.

Lu Mian watched the short man silently, observing the state change of his body.

The short man then waved his hand,

"Haha, my name is Worms, let's drink together later."

During the process of watching Worms walk toward another street, Gei suddenly said to Lu Mian,

"Didn't you notice that you are missing something?"

"I noticed." Lu Mian nodded indifferently, "His hands are fast."

He only realized that the "Traveler's Bag" was about to leave his body at the moment Worms retracted his hand.

This should be a Beyonder, a real "Thief." The sudden state change just now was most likely performed by him specifically to attract attention.

"You noticed, why didn't you expose him? Afraid of retaliation?" Gei didn't understand Lu Mian's reaction.

"I want to see what he can do?" Lu Mian's smile remained unchanged, his hands in his pockets, following the route Worms left, slowly tracking the thief.

Gei looked at his back, thought for ten seconds, and decided to find a place to stay first.

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Once out of the sight of Lu Mian and Gei, Worms suddenly quickened his pace, passing through multiple alleys continuously, circling around.

Confirming that he had shaken off possible trackers, he stopped in the depths of an unmanned alley and took out a deep black coin bag from the inside of his clothes.

That was Lu Mian's "Traveler's Bag."

"Haha, the new idiots are indeed not vigilant enough. Let me see what's inside..." Worms reached his hand into the "Traveler's Bag."

His expression changed slightly, and strong surprise surged.

He could "see" the preciousness of this coin bag and felt that it contained many things with spirituality, but he didn't expect it to be a very rare spatial item, as if it contained a not-so-small room inside.

"This is truly an unexpected joy..." Worms grasped one of the items in the "Traveler's Bag" and pulled it out.

What came into his view was a mutilated, half-body of a blue-black swollen corpse, and it had rotted to the point of dripping yellow-red pus.

Slap!

Worms retracted his hand violently, letting the half-body fall to the ground.

"This..." His expression became extremely terrified.

How could someone carry half a corpse with them?

And a highly rotten corpse!

Even in Morora, where there are so many murderers that they can't be counted, this is the most perverted kind!

No wonder he was exiled here!

Worms calmed down and reached his hand into the "Traveler's Bag" again, taking out a piece of pure white and delicate leather.

After seeing this leather, he couldn't move his eyes away at all, just like looking at the skin of his dream lover.

He then discovered some black words on the leather that he didn't recognize.

"Like those languages that can pry into extraordinary power, this leather must be very precious. I must copy it down and find someone to interpret it, but I can't be suspected." Worms rubbed the pure white and delicate leather very happily, completely reluctant to let go.

Suddenly, he felt his throat itching.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

He coughed, and the more he coughed, the more intense it became.

In just ten or twenty seconds, he coughed until his heart felt like it was being torn apart.

Pfft!

Worms coughed up a pool of blood.

"This is not right! How could I suddenly get so sick?" Worms vaguely understood something and threw the pure white and delicate leather to the ground violently.

But his coughing continued, still intense.

While coughing, he thought about how to save himself:

That person put such dangerous leather in his pocket, he must have prepared potions that can treat corresponding diseases...

Yes, there must be!

Worms reached his hand into the "Traveler's Bag" again.

The first thing he touched was a gray-white lightning-shaped brooch.

A thick silver-white lightning bolt suddenly fell from the dark clouds piled up high in the sky and struck him.

Boom!

Amidst the thunder echoing in the air, Worms fell down, his whole body charred and twitching constantly.

He, who was already seriously ill, was struck to a near-death state by the lightning.

"How, how could I suddenly be struck by lightning... I, I..." Worms' eyes went black, and he closed his eyes in a state of confusion, doubt, fear, and regret.

He stopped breathing soon.

After just ten seconds, Lu Mian turned into this alley, walked to the front of his corpse, looked down at his body, and shook his head with a smile,

"Rummaging through other people's things is a very dangerous thing."

After a pause, Lu Mian sighed regretfully,

"I still wanted to follow you to contact the Beyonders of Morora. You are too disappointing, aren't you?"

"This hasn't even touched the more dangerous ones."

As he spoke, Lu Mian picked up the "Traveler's Bag," used the bag opening to directly contact, and pressed it inward to put the "Fury of the Sea" brooch, the "Despair Witch" human skin, and the half-piece of the "Abscessed Hand" corpse back in.

"Can only let you be a good person once." Lu Mian muttered while taking 537 Sassen gold from Worms' body.

This is equivalent to about 2863 Felkin.

After putting away the gift from the good person, Lu Mian waited for the precipitation of Worms' Beyonder characteristics.

About two minutes later, a team of law enforcers wearing black robes with indifferent expressions entered this alley, and the leader looked at Lu Mian expressionlessly,

"Did you kill this?"

"No, he was struck to death by lightning. Maybe he did too many bad things." Lu Mian laughed and explained seriously, "He was a thief who stole my things, so I chased him here."

The law enforcers stared at Lu Mian, as if confirming whether he was lying.

After a moment, the leader nodded,

"You can go."

Lu Mian didn't move half a step and laughed,

"The things on him should belong to me, right?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 797 =====