The dull sound of flesh hitting was endless, accompanied by some curses and excited shouts. A group of Night Blade soldiers surrounded the discovered guy and kept kicking and beating them. These veterans knew how to beat people. It hurts a lot but doesn't hurt my bones.
The "old man" who was being kicked and rolled around on the ground with his joints bound had a miserable look on his face, but he was gritting his teeth and not saying a word. He just grunted when he was kicked.
"Stop." Charles signaled the soldiers to stop beating this guy. He stepped forward, touched the face of the immobile "old man" twice, pressed it to a small slit, and pulled the guy's face. It was torn off.
The translucent skin that was torn off actually squirmed like a living thing, and then quickly shriveled and turned black, turning into a dead thing without any vitality.
The face under the human-skin mask was a young face, about the same age as Edward Ciel, who was staring at Ciel with a face of joking and surprise.
"Hey, Seventan's skills are pretty good. This kind of person. The leather mask is a new thing I've never seen before. Fortunately, you are a kingdom famous for its powerful army. When did you make some achievements in espionage? , It’s a pity that although the technology is good, the person is still a useless person.”
"How on earth did you see that!" After hearing Charles's words, the young man in front of him looked even uglier.
"Which person who looks at the sewers has a physique like yours? I really don't think I've seen it before, right? Even if I'm an exception, I won't carry so many antidotes and healing powders that are extremely precious to them. You See for yourself how much you have brought." Charles knocked on the bottles and cans hanging on this guy's body.
This was what Wang Yu told him behind his back. Once the ripples were swept away, these details that required subtle observation became clear. It was obviously too much. He told Charles, and the two of them quickly reached an agreement, regardless of whether there was really a problem or not. , arrest him and interrogate him for a while.
As for what made Charles most certain, this guy not only did not run away directly after the city guards entered the sewer, but also stayed in the small bush and waited.
All the locals in Arestle know what these city guards are. If you cheat them, you'll be lucky if they don't give you any money.
What's more, if you come to a place with such a harsh environment to investigate, it's basically impossible for people to deal with you, the guy who asked them to come here.
This scam really deceived people directly. It’s not that this guy’s acting skills and disguise ability are too poor. It’s just that sneaking into a place is the most difficult thing to learn for some local rules that are stipulated but not explained in detail. It is easiest to find flaws in it.
"Okay, do you have anything to explain?" Charles clapped his hands and looked into this guy's eyes with a smile. "By the way, what's your name?"
"Ruby, and I won't say anything, ugh!..." Ruby did not refuse to answer his name, but stared at Ciel with a determined look on his face, not intending to answer any questions, but the next moment, this guy suddenly was punched in the chin...
Wang Yu, who seemed to be walking past Ciel to the other side, suddenly turned sideways and accelerated while Ruby was focusing all his attention on Ciel, rushed over and punched Ruby on the chin, "Bang!"
Blood spattered, and several teeth flew into the sky. One of them shone with silver metallic luster, and was thrown away by Wang Yu with a punch...
After smashing several of Lu Lu's teeth with one punch, Wang Yu quickly reached out with his other hand and forcibly threw a small bag of powder into the guy's throat.
Finally, Ciel, who had been talking to divert the man's attention, completed the final blow. With a gentle slap, the small packet of powder on Ruby's throat was swallowed with a "gulp".
"Damn it, what did you feed me?!" Ruby tried to reach out and open his mouth to spit out the bag, but he was unable to do this because he was restrained and could only say "ho ho ho ho" Retching but unable to get anything out.
"It's hopeless. This guy has two kinds of poison. One is chronic, maybe to collect some information before death. The other is acute, which is the tooth I just smashed out." Wang Yu looked at the ground. Ruby, who kept twisting and retching, shook her head.
"Well, you really know a lot..." Charles scratched his head and was a little frightened when he saw Wang Yu looking at Ruby's struggle with an indifferent expression. Wang Yu knew that most things were a bit biased, but he said it calmly. It’s still easy to give people chills in their hearts.
"There is no other way. This guy looks normal. The muscles in his lower body are basically useless. His nerves are dying from bottom to top. His chronic poison is hidden in his throat. It may have started when you started talking to him. It was already swallowed by the time.”
Wang Yu's ripples exposed all the details of Lupi. This guy could still move his lower body at first, but now he can't move even if his whole body struggles hard.
Some kind of neurotoxin he didn't recognize. As an amateur pharmacist, his own abilities were not enough, and there was no such thing as an alchemy workshop. Wang Yu judged that the matter was hopeless.
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It's not that it's really hopeless. If Aviya uses her secret power, as long as she's still alive and breathing, there's a chance to save her. But... just like Aviya herself, they don't want this ability. Exposed.
"Hakus Truth Powder is a three times concentrated version. After taking it, you will basically be a fool for life. But this guy is already dying, so just use the maximum amount of medicine... Wait for about ten seconds and ask quickly. The powder will speed up this process. Guy’s death process.”
Wang Yu glanced at Ruby, whose lower body was obviously completely paralyzed, and said to Charles, "You have about one minute. Don't ask too complicated questions, try to answer with yes or no or other relatively simple ones."
"Okay." Charles nodded solemnly and remained silent for tens of seconds. After Ruby stopped struggling, her eyes became distracted, and she obviously entered a state of unconsciousness, she immediately started asking questions.
"What's on those bodies?"
"Vampire...the blood descendant of ghost."
His eyebrows twitched, and Charles suppressed the disbelief in his heart before asking.
"Are there any of your people in the sewers?"
"have"
"how many."
"I don't know the exact number, I just know there are about a dozen."
"As long as it's for what?"
"Disrupt the order of King Aleister City and create opportunities."
As Ciel asked, Ruby's death began to come closer. His speaking speed slowed down significantly, and the muscles on his face began to stiffen. Ciel did not have much time.
"Are you setting an ambush for us investigators?"
"…yes."
"What means are prepared..."
"Bless...low-level vampires, mimetic monsters..."
"The highest combat effectiveness of your team."
"High-ranking...formal knight."
"What is the ultimate goal?"
"Ahem, vomit...no...don't know."
With a mouthful of filthy liquid mixed with unknown things coming out of Ruby's mouth, Ciel's interrogation of this guy came to an end. He asked a lot of things, but there were still many questions.
Pressing his eyebrows hard, Charles felt a little dizzy. "Vampire?" He couldn't connect these ancient creatures with those rotten and twisted corpses. However, these truly ancient beings known as the nobles of the night could. Challenge the less powerful dragon.
"It would be great if the professor was still here." Edward, who was standing next to him, felt helpless. Sieg went out to deal with Wang Yu after he was attacked before, and told Wang Yu a few days later that he had warned those restless forces. After that, he and Fang went out on a mission. There was a serious disaster related to the void gods on the border, and they rushed to support.
"Well, if the professor is still here, he should at least know a lot more than us with his knowledge." Wang Yu agreed with Edward's statement, but Wang Yu still planned to study and study what this so-called vampire blood is. Are they those light gray things?
"Aiweiya, help me control that thing. I want to see what it is." Wang Yu asked Aviya to restrain and control the monster, and he leaned over.
The monster was still not dead, and its exposed head was still struggling and twisting. It noticed Wang Yu approaching and started struggling and roaring crazily.
Without pausing, Wang Yu used a witchcraft barrier to protect himself, then took a dagger from the soldier and began to cut the monster's body.
The feeling of the blade cutting into the flesh is like cutting tofu with a knife. It is incredibly soft, just like cutting open a perfectly cooked poached egg. It is both simple and disgusting at the same time.
Ignoring the viscous unknown stinking liquid flowing out of the monster's body, Wang Yu concentrated on cutting open the monster's body, looking for the gray matter he had seen on the monster's bones before. The ripples were open all the time, and although he could not detect it, it was still "alive" "It's inside the monster's body, but it's enough to keep an eye on it at all times.
Soon, the cut was close to the monster's bones. The position Wang Yu chose to cut was the monster's exposed neck. After a little bit of penetration, the white bones were exposed.
Although the muscles on the neck have basically been broken and fallen off, the monster can still twist its neck forcefully, and the source of power can only be... bones.
The hand with the arm armor reached out and grabbed the monster's neck. After a circle of muscles was peeled off, the bones were completely exposed, and the less obvious light gray substance on it finally appeared.
He quickly reached out his hand and pinched the strip of gray material coiled around the bones with two fingers. It was elastic and a little slippery. He clamped the two fingers tightly and pulled with all his strength. Wang Yu tried to pull the gray thing. come out.
This gray thing was unexpectedly strong. It was wrapped around the bones and refused to be pulled off. The blood-burning drive was turned on, and its power surged. The sudden pull directly forced the gray thing off.
As this thing was pulled off, the monster, whose muscles were already damaged, completely softened. The body stopped moving and collapsed. After Aviya released the shackles of the giant rock hand, the guy became paralyzed. He fell to the ground like a piece of rotten flesh that was barely humanoid.
And Wang Yu squeezed the long gray translucent thing like a long snake in his hand, and observed it carefully. This thing was translucent, light gray, and generally long in shape, with branches extending from all parts of the thing. There are forks of different lengths, like the forks of roots.
It was this thing that clung to the bones of the corpse and forced the body to move, but... Wang Yu had a hard time connecting this thing with a vampire.
"What does this thing have to do with vampires..." Charles looked at this thing and couldn't quite understand the connection between it and what Ruby said. Edward was equally confused and frowned, unable to connect this thing with vampires.
"To be precise, it should be a vampire blood descendant. This is different from a vampire. Vampires themselves are an independent race, and vampires who are manipulated by vampires are the so-called vampires."
"This thing may be used to control vampires? But don't vampires use blood? How could it be this kind of thing?"
Aviya corrected a mistake made by Charles and Edward, but the girl was also puzzled. How could this long slime-like thing be the blood of a vampire?
"No, it's not impossible. Do you still remember the derivatives of Erfen, the source of life, that we faced that time?"
"Although he was extremely weak and was hacked to death by the captain in one fell swoop, those derivatives were forcibly given even inanimate substances. It wouldn't be difficult to change the way vampires control vampires..." Ciel thought of something.
"Hmm." Wang Yu also thought of the same thing. Looking at the thing twisting and squirming in his hand, Wang Yu thought for a moment, reinforced it with a glass bottle and stuffed it in. Anyway, this thing also has research value.
"Don't you think it's disgusting? Charles asked Wang Yu with a strange expression."
"But this thing is very special. Have you ever seen a similar creature? Although it may be a by-product of Erfen, the fact that it can exist without him shows that this thing conforms to the biological structure."
"And the particularity of this thing may have the same potential as a semi-living agent like the acid-soluble regeneration agent." Wang Yu answered Charles' question seriously. He had never seen this special creature in the records. , his keenness as a pharmacist allowed him to discover the value.
"Okay, are you alchemists and pharmacists like this?" Charles was speechless.
Wang Yu didn't say anything, Aviya smiled and said nothing.
"Is this what they prepared? It seems that it is not a big threat to you." Edward evaluated the combat effectiveness of this manipulated vampire. Apart from being fearless and extremely strong in vitality, it does not seem to cause much damage. force.
"I'm afraid it's hard to say. Although those guys from the City Guard are just losers, they can't go into the sewers for no reason. There are also inferior and superior vampires. Assuming that the inferior ones are such twisted and deformed existences that are problematic at first sight, what about the superior ones? Is it right? Can you completely imitate or even control a person?" Charles was very solemn. He not only saw the monster-like thing in front of him, but also imagined worse possibilities.
"It is indeed possible." Aviya thought about it based on the distinction between vampires and confirmed Ciel's hypothesis, which made several people look unhappy.
The impact of such a simple monster-like thing on the powerful royal city must be extremely limited, but if there is something that can imitate or even replace people, it will be very troublesome.
"We have to go in and take a look, but the other party has clearly set up an ambush for us. What should we do?" Charles emphasized the problem.
After lowering his head and thinking for a while, Wang Yu's thoughts spread out. Some works from his previous life and the contents in them came to mind again. After turning around twice, he returned to the original words "Kick the door."
He snapped his fingers and said, "Technology and hard work!"
Wang Yu shouted.
The others fell into a brief confusion among the nouns that only Aviya understood.
"Get a lot of salt, seal the sewer exits nearby, and call in some magicians who can use thunder spells. Damn it, chlorine gas. Fill it with fucking gas!"
