Chapter 3953

Xia De was not surprised that the 【Blood Spirit School】 knew about "Life Fire Seed." In 1853, when he first arrived in this world, he heard the news that the 【Blood Spirit School】 had found a "Creation Maternity Ward" in the New Continent. The other party probably gained a lot in these two years.

However, even the "Distorted Life Fire Seed" that was so vigorous obtained from the aberration, the fire seed could not exist independently away from the carrier.

To prevent it from causing other troubles after escaping, Xia De first apologized to his two companions and told them that he would use a secret method to deal with this thing. After they temporarily avoided it, he took out the Source of Fire with his left hand. After simply activating it, the fire seed held in his right hand turned into a slender stream of light and entered the burning eye.

After dealing with those distorted life fire seeds, Xia De called back his companions and then lifted the time stop on the monster. Losing the huge life force, at the moment Xia De finished casting the spell, the "Life Aberration" lost the power to maintain its own form and scattered into a pool of pale flesh and blood.

Before that flesh and blood merged into the sewage under the feet of the three, Mr. Finch cast a spell to make them float in the air for easy collection. He obviously wanted to go back and analyze what this was.

Although he, like Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt, could see that this was really just a pile of dissolved human tissues, he wanted to explore what kind of permanent changes the "Distorted Life Fire Seed" would cause to normal flesh and blood. If this question could be answered, it might be of great help to the subsequent investigation.

And after searching this reservoir that seemed to be used as a "nest," the three found many corpses that had been soaked in the corner of the deepest part of the reservoir.

Most of these corpses had turned into dry bones, and a few looked like they had only appeared here recently. And there were no fatal wounds on those relatively fresh corpses. Obviously, they all died because their life force was extracted.

Judging by the number of skulls, there were 24 corpses here, and the time of the earliest corpse's appearance could not be judged by simple observation.

So the three of them performed spiritualism on those corpses that could be spiritualized, and asked each corpse about the specific situation one by one.

The good news is that the aberration monster that devoured life force obviously did not have the ability to prevent the soul from being spiritualized; and the bad news is that the corpses that had their life force completely extracted, their bodies themselves were also reversely contaminated by the "Distorted Life Fire Seed," which in turn affected the spiritualism effect based on the corpse.

Therefore, although most souls could appear, it was difficult for them to answer questions in complete sentences. But even so, the three still obtained some intelligence.

The earliest deceased that could be traced died on the last day of 1854, and most of the deceased here were residents and refugees in the outer city.

The description of the cause of death by the deceased was very similar: "As if something precious disappeared from my body out of thin air," but they didn't know much about the aberration, and didn't know where the aberration came from.

But even so, among all the successfully spiritualized souls, one person still provided valuable intelligence. He was one of the first refugees to flee from the front line to Arcadia City. Probably because he was alone without companions, he was attacked after arriving locally.

And his special feature is that his soul did not leave immediately after death, but stayed for three days because of his unwilling obsession before disappearing. During these three days, he saw something amazing here—

"One of these corpses suddenly stood up. I don't know if it was the legendary undead. I could only feel that it was very hungry. The monster you eliminated didn't pay attention to it, but when it stumbled out, it bumped into the monster, so it was extracted some red light spots by the monster."

This soul then thanked the three for helping him take revenge, and verbally blessed the three, before completely dissipating with satisfaction.

"There are only 25 people here, but just one corpse appeared 'Distorted Life Fire Seed' and became the 'Active Corpse' mentioned by Mr. Watson. Is this too coincidental?"

Mr. Bernhardt realized what the soul just said:

"It wouldn't be that people who died from being extracted life force are more likely to be resurrected by 'Distorted Life Fire Seed'?"

Mr. Finch agreed with his guess:

"Precisely because of lack, so they crave, and then attract the calamity that should not appear in this world. Your guess should be correct."

He looked at the bones and flesh and blood salvaged by the three, and said softly again:

"Whether it is a dead person or a living person, once contaminated with fire seeds, they will crave more life, and then create more resurrected corpses that are easy to appear fire seeds, and then these corpses go to continue to extract the fire seeds of other living beings, and then create more corpses."

"And according to the statement of the soul just now, if they don't touch directly, the monsters with 'Distorted Life Fire Seed' will not kill each other."

Mr. Bernhardt imagined this "snowballing" future:

"If there is no intervention, sooner or later in this world, there will only be those corpses wandering unconsciously, craving life."

His description is very precise. Adele of the past life mentioned to Xia De that in the era after the end of the world, the most monsters were this kind of thing. And now Xia De knows that this is a monster that appeared because of the "Calamity of Creation."

"The Orthodox Church is suspected of studying mechanical life, and illegal Ring Mages are studying flesh and blood aberrations. Everyone really has things to do."

Xia De sighed. He felt that this sentence was not very humorous. He didn't expect Mr. Finch to laugh:

"Yes, this is the normal state of the world. Civilization is developed on the edge of this danger."

He didn't say more:

"It seems that the clues here end here. Next, we can only continue to hunt this monster in the sewer to determine how much the birth of them has to do with the 【Blood Spirit School】."

Mr. Bernhardt nodded with a serious face:

"Let us do this. My companions and I are best at hunting flesh and blood creatures in this dark environment... I hope they can also endure this smell. Next, let's see, 'Sewer Killer' and us, who is the real hunter in the dark."

"If I get further clues, I will notify you."

Then he saw Xia De looking at him worriedly. The vampire viscount certainly knew that Xia De thought of last Friday again. He went to the lake with confidence to find trouble with two ordinary people, but fainted as soon as he approached.

"I will be careful this time, and Willondale has sent some useful 'equipment' again. Since I knew on Friday that this was something that those 'wild vampires' participated in, I will be doubly careful about the means from the clansmen."

Then the three of them cleaned up the bones here, and Xia De purified the area contaminated by himself, and then left together. The investigation of the sewer for more than two hours this morning ended here.

Mr. Bernhardt wanted to gather the vampires who came with him to announce today's harvest and test whether there was a mole in the team; Mr. Finch wanted to check the source of the corpses, analyze the composition of the pale flesh and blood, and write a report to the Order.

As for Xia De, although the investigation all morning did not find direct traces of the 【Blood Spirit School】, the appearance of the new monster made him perfect his understanding of the "Calamity of Creation."

The life force of high-level vampires contained in the aberration might be a breakthrough for the subsequent investigation of the 【Blood Spirit School】. It's just that this has to wait for Mr. Bernhardt's news. Xia De doesn't need to deal with this kind of monster himself.

And now, he is going back to "Fragrant Mansion" to have lunch with Vigo.

Of course, before going back, Xia De did not forget to clean himself up first. If the smell of the sewer was brought to Vigo's mansion, "Fragrant Mansion" might be renamed "Stinky Mansion."

This is very simple for him. As long as he goes back in time, he can easily restore his clothes and shoes to the appearance when he went out in the morning. And although the "Breath of Years" has no effect on himself, Xia De found that after his clothes were clean, there was no smell on him at all.

He seemed to have possessed the characteristic of "not stained with dust" unknowingly.

It was too far to go back from the outer city, so after saying goodbye to his two friends and asking Mr. Finch to help inquire about the 【Active Metal】 again, Xia De chose to throw the crystal shoes and returned home, and then appeared in the lower city directly from home.

He returned home at 11:30 noon. Winnie probably had something to do so she didn't come. Although Galina might send a maid to see if she needed to take care of the cat at noon, Xia De still asked Little Mia:

"Do you want to go to Arcadia City with me for lunch?"

"Meow~"

As soon as he reached out, the cat jumped directly onto his arm, and then jumped to the shoulder position neatly. Xia De laughed, so he took Little Mia to the Fragrant Mansion. Counting the time, this cat hadn't been out for more than a week. Maybe today was the rare time it was willing to relax.

The heavy fog in the morning had long since dispersed, and the weather in the upper city of Arcadia City at noon was very good. When Xia De arrived at the Fragrant Mansion, Vigo hadn't woken up yet, so Xia De signaled Miss McDonald not to disturb her first:

"Wait a while, if she hasn't woken up at twelve o'clock, you let Miss Rollin call her up, let Vigo rest for a while."

And after the witch woke up at twelve o'clock, hearing that Xia De let her rest for a while, she had been waiting for half an hour, so she hurriedly let the maids help her dress up a little. She then heard that it was her student who was accompanying Xia De, not letting Xia De feel bored, so she immediately felt that Eve was really helping her as promised.

And when Vigo came to the restaurant on the first floor with a huge round table, she saw Xia De holding a paper and discussing it enthusiastically with Eve McDonald. The two were quite involved, and they didn't find that she had gone downstairs until Vigo walked into the restaurant.

?? PS: The picture in this chapter is "Eve McDonald."