Chapter 797: Old Friend

The leader of the law enforcement team was about forty years old, his beard was shaved very clean, and his eyes were dark brown.

He answered Lu Mian's question with no expression on his face:

"There is no such rule."

He meant there was no rule that after a thief dies, all items on him belong to the same victim.

Lu Mian asked back with a smile,

"But there is also no special law prohibiting such things, right?"

"Correct." The leader of the law enforcers nodded slowly.

The smile on Lu Mian's face became more obvious,

"Coming to Morora means completely cutting off contact with the past, right?"

This was inferred from the words of Heraberg, the clergyman in the church.

"Yes." The law enforcer did not deny it.

Lu Mian asked further,

"And this thief has no other heirs in Morora, right?"

Before entering Morora, serious criminals would be sterilized. Unless it was family-style crime or they found a spouse with a common criminal philosophy here, no one in Morora had legal heirs.

That law enforcer didn't answer Lu Mian's question immediately, took out a thick book from under his black robe, and looked for corresponding records.

"You know this thief and know his name?" Lu Mian asked thoughtfully.

The law enforcer nodded,

"He is Worms."

Soon, the corresponding record was found, and the law enforcer said in a tone without any ripples,

"His parents and siblings are not in Morora, and he hasn't married in Morora, at least he hasn't registered."

"Therefore, according to the law of our place, the items on the thief belong to the victim who caught him in the absence of heirs and other victims claiming them." Lu Mian began to make up reasons, "This is the same as killing an opponent in a legal duel and being able to take away the corresponding spoils."

That law enforcer looked at Lu Mian for several seconds,

"Sure."

He and his team members stood there patiently, waiting until Worms' Beyonder characteristics precipitated and combined with one of the fingers, breaking off and becoming stained with translucent black.

After Lu Mian put away the Beyonder characteristics, he didn't leave immediately, but stayed in place, bored enough to watch the law enforcers drag away the corpse and clean up the blood and scorch marks inside the alley.

The dark clouds high up became thicker, and the flashes of lightning and dull explosions became more frequent.

Finally, the alley returned to cleanliness and quiet, leaving only Lu Mian alone.

Lu Mian nodded thoughtfully and muttered to himself silently,

"The law enforcers seem to be able to remember the appearance and name of every resident of Morora...

"After becoming law enforcers, these are still humans, but they don't look like humans anymore..."

He felt that those who were called law enforcers, but were actually experimental personnel, seemed to be puppets acting according to fixed procedures, as if they had lost their self-consciousness and ability for deep thinking.

The reason he asked the law enforcers whether all the belongings of Worms belonged to him just now was not because he was greedy for the upcoming Beyonder characteristics—of course, there was a little influence from greed, after all, Beyonder characteristics are quite valuable—but Lu Mian had long seen that Worms definitely hadn't reached Sequence 7 of the "Thief" pathway, because the corresponding Sequence 7 is called "Cryptologist," which must be able to interpret some secrets of the "Traveler's Bag" and roughly understand the danger level of those items, not to the point of dying on the spot after looking at only three things.

Lu Mian even suspected that Worms hadn't reached Sequence 8 "Swindler," because this thief didn't show enough brains.

The reason Lu Mian asked the law enforcers those questions just now was not to show that he had the talent of a "Lawyer" and the expertise to use loopholes, but to test the state of the law enforcers, that is, the experimental personnel, through the way of asking and answering!

Then, he had a conclusion.

He felt that after those serious criminals became experimental personnel, they became a bit like the wax figures in the Red Swan Castle of the Sauron family and the collection of "Supervisor" Olsen of the "Iron and Blood Cross Order," but they didn't have the violent and crazy feeling, but were gentle and indifferent to the point of distortion.

"Is this brought about by the pollution of '0-01' and the influence of Morora's seal on it?" Lu Mian was not sure if he would be able to maintain his self-consciousness if he joined the ranks of experimental personnel, or if he would only act according to the various regulations of Morora, becoming a puppet of this "City of Exiles" or "0-01."

This made him waver in his original plan to get close to "0-01" as an experimental person.

He laughed and asked in a low voice,

"Termiboros, are you willing to be a puppet of Morora?"

Termiboros ignored him.

Clatter!

The heavy rain finally fell, completely shrouding the entire Morora in the splashed water mist and the doomsday-like dim environment.

Lu Mian followed the shelter extended by the heavy houses, avoiding the heavy rain, and walked toward the place where the feedback of the "Abscessed Hand"'s mutilated body was strongest, which was also the closest to him.

When he arrived at his destination, his clothes were already half-wet in the wind and rain, and the accumulated water on the road was about to reach the steps.

Lu Mian cast his gaze to the front side and saw a sign embedded next to the door, on which a knife and fork and a wine glass were drawn, and it was written in Lenburgian:

"Carnivore"

A bar that provides meals? Carnivore... Lu Mian chewed on the name of the bar and suddenly had a strange guess:

"The induction result just now was that brother Abscessed Hand's body is distributed in many places in Morora, but originally there were clearly only two pieces...

"The goat-faced devil in the Netherworld cuts brother Abscessed Hand's rotten meat to eat every day, and that rotten meat will recover on its own...

"This bar is called 'Carnivore'...

"Could it be that the owner of this bar got one of brother Abscessed Hand's corpses, and from then on saved the cost of buying meat ingredients, using this as a substitute?

"Bar owners in other cities might not be able to do such things, but in Morora, it is highly likely. The owners here were all exiled for committing serious crimes. Maybe the owner of this bar was originally a perverted butcher who killed and sold meat...

"If this is true, things will be troublesome. I don't know how many people have eaten and fused with brother Abscessed Hand's rotten meat, and I don't know what impact this will bring...

"After finding the original two mutilated bodies and letting brother Abscessed Hand initially recover, can I directly aggregate the rest?"

Lu Mian muttered silently for a while, ran through the rain curtain quickly, and pushed open the heavy wooden door of the "Carnivore" bar.

—Coming to Morora, and about to let the "Abscessed Hand"'s corpse recover completely, he began to call the other party brother Abscessed Hand. This was half-teasing and half-showing "closeness," hoping that the other party would not really attack him in the end, after all, there might be other dangers at that time.

Just as he walked into the bar with the rain, Lu Mian saw a familiar figure.

That figure was sitting on a high stool in front of the bar, his hair seemed to be dyed with a layer of red, his eyebrows and eyes were more brown, and his appearance was clearly handsome, but because his facial features were too aggressive and sharp, it made people unable to like him no matter what.

Albus!

Albus Medici!

Lu Mian's spirit tensed up instantly, but he remained calm on the surface, smiling as he walked toward the bar.

Before, he just felt that Albus Medici was relatively mysterious, not knowing what conspiracy he was plotting in secret, but later he learned of the existence of the "Red Angel" Medici and knew that this former King of Angels had plotted a huge conspiracy and successfully obtained the Beyonder characteristics of Sequence 1 of the "Hunter" pathway from Vermonda Sauron in Trier in the Fourth Era.

This made him think of the "Red Angel" as soon as he saw Albus Medici, suspecting that Albus was the agent of this King of Angels, replacing the other party to enter Morora and looking for opportunities to get close to "0-01."

For Lu Mian, this was not a good thing, because Medici was the big shot closest to the "Red Priest" godhood!

Albus Medici noticed Lu Mian's gaze, turned his body, and looked back at Lu Mian, who had not made any disguise but had let his hair color return to a normal state.

"Why are you here?" Lu Mian showed a smile of meeting an old friend.

Albus returned the same smile,

"Why are you here too?"

"Of course, I was caught in." Lu Mian smiled and sat next to Albus, knocked on the bar table, and said to the bartender whose face looked like his parents had died, "Give me a steak, loin part, medium-rare."

"Are you imitating me? Also inexplicably caught in this city, also ordered a steak of the loin part." Albus stepped on the foot pedal of the high stool with one foot and lifted the other, placing it on the knee of the other.

Without waiting for Lu Mian to respond, he asked with a relaxed smile,

"What crime did you commit?"

"Murder, blasphemy, arson, causing explosions, kidnapping..." Lu Mian reported the crimes he had told Gei and others before, but not in the original order.

He also asked back in a very relaxed state,

"What about you?"

"Me." Albus shook the foot placed on his knee, "Murder, arson, inciting riots, attempting to overthrow the government."

"Which government?" Lu Mian asked in a tone of old friends reuniting after a long time.

"Intis." Albus spread his hands, "Don't ask me why I tried to overthrow the Intis government but was exiled to this strange city in Lenburg. I don't know either."

Your answer is too perfunctory... Lu Mian nodded in deep agreement,

"Yes, I didn't commit any crimes in Lenburg either."

As the two former members of the "Iron and Blood Cross Order" "chatted," two steaks were served.

Looking at the steak placed on the white porcelain plate, showing a bit of blood color, and the meat quality looking quite good, Lu Mian remained silent and didn't pick up the knife and fork.

He sensed that kind of connection.

This was indeed the rotten meat of the "Abscessed Hand," the rotten meat that had been cut off!

After a few seconds, Lu Mian looked to the side and found that Albus Medici was also staring at the "steak" without doing anything.

Lu Mian raised the corners of his mouth and asked with a smile,

"Why don't you eat?"

Albus returned a brilliant smile,

"Why don't you eat either?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 798 =====