Chapter 1067: Secondary Source Body

To undead and alchemists, the phrase "the body is empty" is easy to understand, such as a corpse without a soul, a zombie without a heart, a construct without a core, etc.

But the "empty" that Naigelis was talking about here was not these concepts, but truly empty—the abdominal cavity, thoracic cavity, and other places where certain things should have existed were now empty, with nothing at all.

"Magic patterns, divine seals, arrays, energy circuits—the interior is so complex," Du Luo Ken fumbled for a while and actually opened the abdominal cavity, revealing the situation inside.

He tapped the surface shell again, making a very strange sound. After listening for a few times, Ang suddenly tilted his head and took out a fragment of a secondary source.

Putting the secondary source fragment and this body together, everyone instantly saw that the two were clearly of the same material, except that the secondary source fragment had a devouring force, while this body did not.

"Hiss—" Anthony turned to He Mo Er and asked: "Where did you find it?"

He Mo Er pointed to a cave in the Underground City.

Everyone flew toward that cave in a rush.

It was a very small cave, piled with various goods. In the Underground City, independent caves were very precious. Most people just set up a tent or slept on the ground, as the Underground City was already indoors, so there was no need to worry about natural disasters like rain, snow, or strong winds.

As for those independent caves, only teams with large storage needs, such as merchant caravans or mercenary groups, would rent one or two to use as headquarters.

Under normal circumstances, the subordinates would distribute in a fan shape centered on the cave, extending outward to guard the cave, forming small spheres of influence.

Although the Violet Mercenary Group was the actual controller of the Underground City, before Yinbi arrived, their control over the Underground City was not very tight. For a mercenary group, the requirements were simply too high.

They were more like a violent gang that controlled key nodes and collected fees. They rented out the place, and how to operate it was the business of each small group. As long as they controlled the teleportation array, the entry and exit passages, and several key commanding heights, they wouldn't fear others causing trouble.

The invasion of the Black Lock Mercenary Group this time proved this point. The insiders were separated in various places, the coalition forces outside were blocked at the entrance passage, and they were deadlocked until Ang pushed them over in one wave.

Admittedly, there were several forces in this void that could forcibly push over the Underground City, such as the Crystal Dragon Legion of the North Crown, or even the Death Undead Soldiers of Clarata.

But this level of combat power was not something the Violet Mercenary Group needed to consider. The only thing they could do was not offend these forces.

"Whose place is this?" Anthony turned to Roland and asked.

Roland looked at Yinbi, who took out a notebook, searched for a while, and said: "A merchant caravan called Stonehenge."

"Stonehenge? Do you know them?"

"Don't know them, never even heard of them." Roland and several mercenaries muttered, all saying they hadn't heard of them. Either they were unknown, or the name was just made up.

An unknown merchant caravan hiding a secondary source body?

Soon, several members of the Stonehenge merchant caravan were found. Several rough-handed old men with calloused hands and feet and dark skin looked more like farmers who planted crops than merchants.

Because of Ang, everyone felt close to those who looked like farmers. After careful inquiry, they were indeed not professional merchants.

"We are farmers. We planted some grain and wanted to come out to sell it for some money, but the landlord wouldn't allow us to sell grain privately. We asked the witch, and the witch said we could come here, so we came," several Stonehenge farmers answered truthfully.

Anthony was very skillful, questioning several people separately. Unless they colluded in advance, it was difficult to escape Anthony's observation.

In fact, unless they were like Anthony who could directly modify memories, these people couldn't lie under Anthony's gaze.

After some questioning, Anthony summarized: "They come from a grassland settlement and planted some grain to sell, but because of the Light Plague, the Holy Light Alliance prohibited grain exports and only allowed internal purchase and sales. But the lord of their place was quite ruthless and suppressed the price very hard, so they asked the witch what to do."

"According to their description, this should be a settlement of primitive worship, semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural. The witch is a combination of a doctor, shaman, and priest for the settlement. The witch communicated with ancient gods through some rituals, obtained a solution, and then they came here according to the guidance."

Naigelis couldn't help but interject: "Why do I feel it's weird? Communicating with ancient gods, but the solution is to come to the Underground City to sell grain? Isn't this like me getting sick and begging the main god to save my life, and he tells me to believe in science and go back to take medicine?"

Anthony spread his hands and continued: "So they brought this body and teleported to the Underground City. On the surface, when this body didn't move, it looked like a statue, and Roland's people didn't investigate further."

"Then they rented a cave and started selling grain and various skins. It wasn't until Yinbi's people started registering them that they gave themselves a name. Because their settlement had a Stonehenge, they named themselves the Stonehenge merchant caravan."

Naigelis couldn't help but ask: "How did they transport their grain in?"

"No need to transport it in. After agreeing on the teleportation coordinates and time, they teleported directly from home. This is just their liaison office." Anthony said.

"Just a liaison office, why rent a cave and move a body in?" Naigelis asked, puzzled.

"Because this body can act as a projection beacon. They will project a portion of the grain and skins directly."

"How is that possible? Roland, don't you check? Others use projection beacons to transmit things, and you didn't notice?" Naigelis was shocked.

The most important thing to guard against in the Underground City was projection. In addition to more checks, there would be mages detecting projection fluctuations. It was impossible for anything to be projected in silently.

Roland said with a bitter face: "We do, but we didn't detect any projection fluctuations at all. The projection fluctuations are so strong that I could sense them even if I were buried in a grave."

Just then, Naigelis suddenly caught a glimpse of Ang poking his finger at a position slightly below the throat of the body.

Others also noticed, and everyone turned their heads to look immediately. Don't look at Ang as usually quiet, but he was the core of the entire team. Everyone ignored him when he was dazed, but once he moved, everyone's attention turned to him.

Then, Ang's whole body went limp, and he fell to the ground.

Everyone's eyeballs almost popped out. Ang could actually faint? How is that possible? Because this was a clone, if he fainted, the most likely possibility was that he was bounced back to his main body.

Just when everyone's hearts were about to jump out, the secondary source body on the ground moved, propped up its upper body, and tilted its head blankly. ===== CHAPTER 1068 =====