Chapter 3615: Black-Scaled Snake-Man

"The medium for that woman to transmit this curse plague might be intimate contact, or it might be a kiss. Completely polluting a corpse through such a symbolic act is a very simple thing for the followers of the 'Mermaid'. Now we are concerned about whether only those who died from mental exhaustion have such infectivity, or whether there will definitely be problems as long as mental power is extracted by her."

"But fortunately, this extraordinary plague does not work on Ring Warlocks. But even so, it is hard for me to imagine the scene of hundreds or thousands of Infinite Snakes appearing on this island."

Although Fatumunster Island is a small place, the City of Time is a "city" level unit after all. The number of outsiders and locals combined is still not small. Although the total population of the island cannot be compared to the densely populated and wealthy areas like Tobesk or Moon Bay, the population here will not be smaller than the City of Thousand Trees - Vesta City.

Mr. Mortis left in a hurry after sharing the information. The 【Clown Troupe】 had already taken full action to track the woman's whereabouts. They suspected that "Desire" was cooperating with Mr. Snake.

However, Xia De also informed Mr. Mortis that to participate in the final act of the Fate Chosen One battle, he still needed a Ring of Fate that matched himself.

And shortly after, the Ring Warlocks sent by the Church to the town to explain the situation also brought similar news, and their news was more than the 【Clown Troupe】—

"Earlier this afternoon, Romari City also discovered cases of 'Snake-Man Disease'. Although the other party left Fatumunster Island just before this blizzard, it is currently uncertain whether the specific time of infection was before or after leaving the island."

Clearly, the story of the fourth act of fate only ended last Friday. After just a weekend of rest, bigger trouble appeared in front of everyone.

The elders hurried to check door-to-door whether anyone had concealed their physical changes, while Xia De personally went to the city with Claire and Vanessa to see the situation of "Snake-Man Disease."

Currently, all cases are concentrated together for unified research and treatment. The Church knew of the arrival of the "God-Caller" and his party, so they arranged for special personnel to lead them to check the patients.

"Although there are only 39 cases contained at present, this is only patients with more serious mutation situations. There must be more people in the city concealing their situation."

The physical mutations of those "Snake-Man Disease" patients were indeed different. And after Xia De personally contacted several patients, he only sensed that this was indeed some kind of extraordinary plague.

His "Moon Fire" could not even treat the patients, because this plague essentially permanently changed the life form. Once hit, the whole process was irreversible, and Moon Fire had no object to burn at all.

And the most serious mutation object at present was a young police officer who had been in contact with a corpse. When Xia De saw him, except for his eyes still being human eyes, he was not much different from an alien snake-man.

All his hair had fallen out, and his face was covered with black snake scales. Because his spirit had serious problems and showed a certain degree of "reality distortion" ability, the Ring Warlocks of the Church cast a spell to make him fall into a deep sleep.

"The shape of the snake scales is indeed very similar to the Infinite Snake."

The preliminary research conclusion obtained by the Prophet Association at noon was not wrong. From discovery to now, this disaster had almost turned into the highest-level accident in just over ten hours.

Xia De, who returned from the city, knew very well the danger of this matter, so after returning, he found the witches:

"Do you have any results from your discussion? Is it possible for me to obtain the protection or blessing of chaos? Even if it is a one-time thing."

Although they were not very clear about what Xia De wanted to do, the witches still gave suggestions:

"Are you sure you don't need us to contact the Great Witch of Chaos?"

"That is an action taken when there is no other way. Is there any other way?"

Xi Wei put forward a new suggestion:

"In addition to the Great Witch of Chaos, there is indeed one more person in the Parliament who has the ability to give others the blessing of chaos—the Speaker can also do it. Don't rush to object, I mean we can let the Speaker bless our jewelry, and then you wear our jewelry, which is equivalent to temporarily having the protection of chaos.

But there is a time limit for this, and we don't know exactly how much effect it can exert."

Xia De nodded immediately. Xi Wei's method was very good:

"That's good, please contact Speaker Isabella as soon as possible. I need two pieces of blessed witch jewelry."

"Two pieces? What are you going to do?"

"I am going to see 'Desire'. In fact, it sent someone to find me in Tobesk last night. It seems it anticipated this matter in advance."

He usually wouldn't directly involve the witches in matters related to that mermaid. To prevent everyone from worrying, he didn't even mention that "Desire" sent someone to find him in Tobesk last night before this.

And when the ladies heard him say this, they all didn't speak. Obviously, they didn't quite agree with Xia De doing this, but they also knew he indeed had a reason to do so.

"Then who will wear the other piece of jewelry? Who do you want to accompany you?"

Finally, Xi Wei asked.

"Iluna. Miss Jia Lin Na experimented before. After she activates the power of the Balanced Chosen One, she can also use part of the power of your jewelry. Let her go with me, and you can rest assured."

Except for Sister Dac Nisi, Iluna was the person Xia De thought was most suitable to accompany him to see that mermaid.

Claire and Xi Wei took the initiative to contribute their gold rings, and the blessing of the Speaker of the Witch Parliament required a vote by the Parliament. Vanessa and the others thought this was absolutely no problem:

"We have enough people, and the Speaker has no reason to vote against it, so this matter will definitely go very smoothly."

But even if it was a process, it was unlikely that Xia De would get those two rings tonight. Therefore, on the one hand, he let the witches prepare, and on the other hand, he wrote a letter to Iluna according to the method she left, asking her to come over tomorrow morning.

After arranging these things, the time came to the dusk of this Monday. Miss Yi Le Se said that since Miss Jia Lin Na was not going to Xia De's place tonight, let Xia De call Dorothy over and everyone eat together on the ship.

After Xia De returned home and waited for Dorothy to change clothes, he remembered the "Snake-Man" experiment conducted by her mother mentioned by Miss Gelder when he said goodbye to everyone by the campfire under the stars after the story of the Ringed Shushi ended (Chapter 3641).

At that time, Miss Gelder told Xia De that her mother discovered that those snake-men were not subspecies of orcs, but mutated from humans. And because these strange snake-men had too dangerous mutation tendencies, her mother directly wiped out an entire community:

"Could that be..."

Xia De, who originally intended to call Winnie along, asked the Ice Maid this question after returning to the ship:

"After I left, did Miss Gelder investigate those human subspecies that were exterminated by her mother?"

Winnie had lived with Miss Gelder for many years until Miss Gelder advanced to the eleventh level and returned to the northern end of the world. She had already heard about what happened in the city today, so she understood what Xia De wanted to ask.

"Yes, later the Zhalas Academy also investigated that matter. Because Miss Gelder's mother did not leave any survivors, the investigation did not go smoothly at the beginning. Later, the 'Empress' who was imprisoned in the kingdom took the initiative to speak and told Miss Gelder that those human subspecies that looked like snake-men were not things that the Zhalas Academy should study.

At that time, the witch warned Miss Gelder that the birth of those 'snake-men' involved quite ancient secrets. Their existence itself was a mistake. They should not have been born then, but should have been born in the future, born in the twilight era when all things were silent."

She paused slightly as she spoke, giving Xia De time to think:

"Those human subspecies were more adaptable to harsh environments than normal humans, and could remain normal in extremely chaotic elemental environments, and could even go without water or food for a long time. If it weren't for the extreme indifference of emotions and almost no emotions, and the extremely dangerous mutation tendencies themselves, this human subspecies would actually be very powerful."

Xia De felt he knew what this was. When Adele of the doomsday era talked to him about that terrifying era last time, she mentioned some monsters that still wandered under that dim yellow sky even in the last era before the world fell.

In addition to those well-known powerful doomsday evil things, there were also monsters like living corpses that were not very strong. And "Black-Scaled Snake-Men" also belonged to this kind of monster. Adele even thought that they could be seen in every corner of that era.

Adele's way of dealing with such things was to destroy them directly, but what Xia De wanted was not this:

"When Miss Gelder's mother was researching, did she study how to reverse this change? Or what was the specific reason for this change?"

"The change cannot be reversed."

Winnie said very firmly:

"As for the reason for the change, it is similar to the saying of this era, it is some kind of extraordinary plague. But as long as the people who have changed are driven to the uninhabited wilderness, there is no need to worry about the spread of the plague.

That witch actually didn't care about the plague, she just wanted to figure out why these human subspecies were so powerful."

And now the era of the Sixth Era no longer has people who study forbidden knowledge and human alchemy like this. Preventing humans from contacting and conducting such research can indeed make the world more stable, but once a similar situation occurs, it will also lack professionals to deal with trouble.

"Laplace Howard did study forbidden knowledge and human alchemy. Although he shouldn't have been in contact with this kind of strange human subspecies, he might have his own views on this... It's a pity he is dead."

At the dinner table, Audrey evaluated her ancestor like this.

Flora looked at Xia De:

"Death is not the end, especially for those of us who know the secrets of death. Death is just a process before moving toward the end."

So Claire said with interest:

"So, is Xia De going to see that traitor of the Prophet Association who died? I heard you mention that last autumn in Vesta Woodland, Xia De once brought the Radiant Messenger to the edge of death in order to send an immortal dragon beast into death.

You have all seen that world, but I haven't seen it." ===== CHAPTER 3616 =====