"You look very energetic today," Lani said with some surprise, "You don't look as...gloomy as you did the past two days."
Agnes blinked, "Is that what you said?"
Her face gradually turned lifeless pale, and the skin of her hand holding the door handle completely lost its color, clearly revealing the cyan veins underneath, and the dark red spots under the skin that could not be clearly distinguished, as if blood had coagulated. The purple spots are looming, and the boundaries cannot be seen clearly, forming a strange network pattern.
She looked at Lani steadily, an aura of decadence and fatigue emanating from her body, her eyes were filled with extreme hatred and anger, and her tone of voice gradually took on a cold air.
"I don't think... this is gloomy." She said with a slightly hoarse voice.
Lani's expression froze slightly for a moment, and it took a long time for her to return to normal, forcing herself to smile.
"You seem to be in a good mood today." She said as if nothing had happened.
"On the last day of the year, always make yourself and others happy." Agnes shrugged, the obvious strangeness quickly disappeared from her body, and she said softly with an obvious smile between her eyebrows.
The muscles on Lani's face twitched slightly and she nodded.
"You..." She looked at Agnes and said hesitantly.
"What's wrong?" Agnes asked, raising her eyebrows.
"It's nothing," Lani calmed down the look on her face, "Two gentlemen just left a message and hope to visit you in the afternoon."
Rani said, couldn't help but hesitate for a moment, and then said, "Kapas attacked them when they came, but was easily suppressed by one of the tall gentlemen. After the other gentlemen said it was... Your living corpse was released later.”
The only person who knew she had a new living corpse was Stitch. Agnes almost instantly understood the identity of one of them. The person who would come to visit her with Stitch was most likely someone from the Church of the Mother Earth. Considering that she chose to leave a greeting card, which was more of a formal visit, she probably didn't recognize this person before, and it was very likely that this person knew her original noble status.
Agnes nodded and smiled.
"I see."
Lani nodded, didn't speak anymore, and just left the room quietly.
Agnes withdrew her gaze from Lani, closed the door, and turned her gaze to the mirror in the corner. The pale-skinned woman looked lifeless. The skin of her right hand, which was not covered by the fabric of her nightgown, was wrapped with dark red and purple markings that looked like blood had coagulated, and eventually disappeared under the light brown fabric of her nightgown.
What was not reflected in the mirror, Agnes looked down at her hand. The dark seeds with a cold luster pulled out branches one after another and wrapped them around her right arm. The new branches on the inside tried to pierce her arm. But it withered quickly as it sank into her skin. The false hatred and anger aroused the emotions shown in her eyes, hiding her calm thoughts.
Agnes casually stopped immersing herself in spirituality, put away the seeds in her hands, and looked at the woman in the mirror who only had a cold look in her eyes, with a somewhat complicated meaning in her eyes.
"True hatred, confused desire," she looked at the disappearing markings on her arms in the mirror and whispered to herself, "It's a pity that you will either lose your soul or your life."
Ever since she subconsciously bound Karpas's spirit into the corpse with the help of the seeds of desire in the last ritual, and Karpas was born with the trait of extreme vigilance, she almost instantly developed the ability to deceive herself through the seeds of desire in her hands. The mind thus helps itself to act.
Mr. Chester had previously taught her the motto summarized by the Temperance Party regarding the "living corpse" stage: "Living corpses" are not bloodthirsty people who have no sense and only know how to thirst for flesh and blood, but are cursed and different from living beings. A hater of man, thus a "living corpse" addicted to darkness, full of resentment and malice, unwilling to return to a peaceful sleep.
Agnes agreed very much with these words said by Mr. Chester. The Rose School's thousands of years of exploration of the "prisoner" approach has indeed summarized a sufficiently effective motto.
But alas, she encountered a problem in her performance - her disguised malice had no effect on her performance as a "living corpse".
Interaction with others seems less important to the "Prisoner" sequence, focusing instead on the differences within oneself. When she first took the "living corpse" potion, she suddenly realized in her heart that she was completely inhuman, and she had already digested some of the potion, even though Nightingale was the only one next to her.
Agnes doesn't know if other "living zombies" have encountered such a situation when acting, but it is obvious that for her, deceiving her own mind may be the only effective solution.
For her, there are not many other types of seeds of desire, but there are many seeds that can give birth to hatred. After all, the indulgence sect caused trouble in Bayam before, which aroused the hatred of the residents there. Many of them, after the incident in Bayam, no longer require her to consume spiritual energy to silence these seeds. Judging from the descriptions about them, a very small part of them are because their owners have completely given up these desires, but more Mostly because they lost their lives in that incident and after that. After all, they hated Loen and the Church of Storms. Agnes couldn't help but wonder whether several massacres had occurred in Bayam during this period.
During this period, the waters near Bayam became a restricted area for pirate activities, and even Olavi Island was affected. Various gossips were flying around, but exact information was extremely difficult to obtain. After all, the situation had not calmed down yet.
But no matter what, these desires are extremely useful to her. These ownerless desires cannot be planted in her own heart, and will wither quickly as long as they really come into contact with her heart. But just by catalyzing them and forcing them to re-emerge, she can actively cooperate and be affected by them, and then show them externally.
She looked back at the full-length mirror, took out her clothes from the closet, quickly changed them, and walked downstairs.
The living corpse Kapas huddled quietly in the corner of the living room, staring at Rani's figure warily.
The upside-down greeting card on the coffee table was extremely conspicuous, but Agnes did not pay attention to it immediately. Instead, she looked at the new wounds and damaged clothes on Capas' body with a headache, and pressed the button with a headache. He pressed his temples.
"Go and change your clothes." She said to Capas who was huddled in the corner.
Then she sighed, picked up the greeting card, skimmed over the clichés on it, and looked at the final signature.
"Father Utravsky..." Agnes whispered thoughtfully.
