"It's OK. He shows signs of waking up occasionally, but he doesn't look very well. He needs to take a lot of blood-boosting medicine."
"What did Dr. Fermi say?"
"She still couldn't find the cause of the strange disease. She could only take medicine according to the symptoms to replenish blood and qi, and barely keep her body healthy."
"I don't understand." Tucker gritted his teeth, "What's the difference between that and us doing it ourselves? Why do we still have to support this bunch of rubbish!"
"Then you have to ask His Majesty in person. You are also qualified to enter, right? Although your rank is lower than mine..."
"Bang!" Tucker punched the stone table.
"It's useless for you to get angry." Improl said calmly, "No one wants to see that kind of situation. No one wants this world to be ruled by the things in the gray fog again. Everyone, including you and me, is doing our best to do our own things. If you are angry, don't take it out on us."
"What happened to the Blood and Bone Mage Society's actions?" Tucker asked him with gritted teeth, "You have been handling the top-level Body Master secret orders. How much do you know? Tell me everything!"
"You are not of high enough level to say it."
"…Aren't we all comrades fighting together against the mysterious?"
"They are comrades, but many of them were seduced by the mystery and turned against us."
"Bang!" There was a loud noise, and it was the furious Tucker who kicked the whole table over.
Improl was still not angry. He laughed and looked at Tucker: "Why are you in such a hurry? Let me guess... Well, something must have changed on the ground, and this change is very different from what you expected."
"..." Tucker looked at him gloomily and did not answer.
"You came to me first... Doctor Femi could have come to His Majesty, but you came to me instead of her, which means this matter is related to the church."
"..."
"It's related to the church. Does that mean they are starting to mobilize their forces? You're worried that they will sneak into Oujin during the birthday party... but this is not a threat."
"..."
"That's an internal matter, because I am also responsible for delivering the Body Master's secret orders to the Blood and Bone Mage Society. You suspected that some of the blood mages on the ground had betrayed you, and you wanted to come to me for confirmation."
"..."
"Is it what I guessed?"
"..." Tucker looked at him deeply for a while, and then said: "You are more suitable to be the head of intelligence than me."
"Am I not serving as an archbishop now?" the old man retorted. "Look, even a half-buried man like me needs to sit in the cathedral and play the role of archbishop. You young people should work harder..."
"So what's going on?"
"All I can tell you is that no one has rebelled," Improl said sincerely, "There are no problems internally, no one has rebelled, everything is fine, and it's even the best situation I can imagine."
"Can you give me a little hint to put my mind at ease?"
"Then you should keep an eye on the movements of the Governor of Neptune City."
"Governor...Bislow?"
"Yes, if he mobilizes more than 10,000 men to meet us, he is planning a rebellion."
“What if there are less than 10,000 people?”
"Then you should go back to bed early."
……
Six days passed in a flash, and soon even the most obtuse residents of Neptune City could realize what was going to happen next.
There were obviously more pedestrians on the street. Many refugees who had heard the news from somewhere, and some who were not necessarily human, had sneaked into the city in various ways. They looked up to the east from time to time, with endless expectations hidden in their eyes.
Gradually, news of the "holy city" began to spread on the streets. Even the untouchables who were indifferent to it could hear people talking about it when they went out to buy daily necessities.
"It is said that the 'Holy City' is coming here again!"
"Indeed I have heard that, does it come once a year?"
“Sometimes it’s a year, sometimes it’s a few years.”
"why is it like this?"
"I'm not sure, but I heard some big shots talking about it. It seems like they said that the patrol route of the Holy City remains unchanged, but the scenery on the ground changes every year..."
"What does this mean? Doesn't the scenery on earth remain unchanged?"
"I don't know! What those people say is always so hard to understand..."
"Aisun."
In the guest room of the Governor's Mansion, Xia Yibing pushed open the door and saw the girl lying motionless on the table.
She swallowed back what she wanted to say, and walked over carefully to see that Hitzfeld was asleep.
She must be too tired.
Glancing at the notebook in her hand, the woman showed an expression of pity.
I have to study flesh and blood magic and alchemy, coordinate infiltration plans, and go back to the Blood Temple from time to time to do the most basic disguise. Just thinking about this kind of life is unbearable.
After all, she no longer suffers from insomnia, but she can still feel sleepy and tired.
He took off his coat and placed it on the girl's back, but this action woke her up.
"summer?"
Hitzfeld straightened up immediately and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was her.
While rubbing her eyes, she tried to recall what she was doing before. She felt her mind was a little confused and wondered if it was due to overusing her eyes.
Xia Yibing came to inform her that Bisiluo had given her the news that Oujin City had crossed the eastern wilderness and would arrive in two days at most.
This was good news. The days of waiting were the most tiring. Hitzfeld breathed a sigh of relief and asked her, "What else did the Governor say?"
"He also told you to prepare a substitute." Xia Yibing said, while reaching out to touch her hair, "Don't let anything go wrong at the last minute."
"I'll arrange it." Hitzfeld nodded.
"I have already told Hasim about this and she promised me that she will continue to play the role well."
Hashem is very useful.
She can use her identity to sneak into the temple, but she will naturally have to abandon this identity when she goes to Oujin City.
At this time, Hasim could be put in the position of the bishop's sister again - yes, she didn't plan to take Hasim up this time.
Hasim herself might not be happy about this. Her ambition for revenge has been almost worn away by reality, otherwise she would not have been so obedient after being controlled by them.
In addition to this incident, Xia Yibing also sent her a research document, which contained a series of research she conducted on blood species through Imar's "talent".
This is probably only for reference, because Hitzfeld has tried it before, and some things - such as inheriting memories, can only be done by a guy named Imaar.
She also left behind a new set of clothes, which were also sent by Bislo. She said that it was woven with blood silk. If she wanted to go to Oujin City, she had to change to this kind of fabric.
"Take a look at the styles." Xia Yibing rubbed her head.
"If you don't like it, tell me and I'll change it."
After she left, Hitzfeld didn't want to read the article for the time being, so he simply picked up the clothes on the bed and compared them. He frowned and found that they were not much different from the nun's robe she was wearing.
Although... her original dressing style is quite similar to that of a nun, but at least she doesn't wear a waistcoat, right?
And this black cape, it seems like she really likes the way I dress...
Hitzfeld was not particularly emotionally sensitive, but even so, she understood one thing: the clothes a girl wears may not necessarily be the ones she likes.
"The socks are black too..."
Putting down his things with a red face, Hitzfeld decided to take a shower with cold water to avoid having unnecessary thoughts.
Coming out of the bathroom, she planned to change into new clothes right away.
Blood silk?
Well, it does feel cool, yet warm like jade.
It's very different from ordinary clothes.
"The next step is to notify Hashem to go to the church..."
"Oh, I almost forgot about this guy."
He opened the drawer and took out a pile of black cloth. After peeling off the layers, he revealed a familiar glass test tube.
"Good morning, Sister."
The little water man said to her sarcastically.
"When are you going to ask me the fourth and fifth questions?"
"Right now." Hitzfeld curled his lips.
"Why don't you tell me now whether there is a flesh pillar tree in the memory of the Blood River."
Chapter 170 Arrival
Ou Jincheng is here.
Anyone could feel the earth shaking. Some people climbed up the city wall and looked east in the early morning and evening when visibility was best, and found that a long gray curtain was rolling up at the end of the lake in the distance.
It was like the sound of thousands of beasts galloping, and in fact it was. Hitzfeld was still wondering in the morning how these people would deal with the blood beasts that were driven over, and at noon he saw a large shadow slowly floating over his head.
That is the floating city of flesh and blood owned by the Sea King City. They look much more disgusting than normal floating cities... The top layer is mostly composed of solidified biomass that looks like rock. The more you go down the layer, the more cysts and blood bubbles there are. Some of the blood bubbles will shrink and expand from time to time with their own breathing. There are also some flesh tubes dragging on the edge or hanging, and occasionally they may sprinkle something down.
The highest warning was issued in both the inner and outer city areas. The untouchables were forced to take shelter at home, and all blood slaughterers received compulsory conscription missions, requiring them to cooperate with the Sea King City army to fight against the blood beasts and clean up the battlefield after the battle.
The blood-slayers were happy to do this kind of thing. Many of them came to the Sea King City just for this moment, knowing how exaggerated the benefits of sharing the profits in the last link were. Therefore, the conscription did not encounter any obstacles - who doesn't like to fight a battle that is destined to be won?
In the afternoon, Hitzfeld also climbed the city wall at the invitation of Bislo.
In any case, this is a rare grand scene to see in reality. What are the differences between the battles after a hundred years of bloody war and those at that time? This experience can also be used as a reference template.
She was willing to come here with this idea in mind, but after actually climbing up the city wall, she realized that among all the people who came, Madeline was the only one who could really see some things clearly.
It’s nothing, it’s just too dark.
Normally during the day, there would be just a lot of fog, and the sky would be overcast and gray, looking like it was going to rain. But now the sky was completely dark, a dark sky, a dark plain, and the floating city of flesh and blood above the plain was left with only a circle of white outline formed by reflections, and the inside was also dark, and nothing could be seen clearly.
She was a little disappointed, because the divine eye didn't improve her vision much, and it even damaged her basic vision at the beginning. Besides, even if there was a bonus, she didn't intend to waste her energy on such a thing, so she could just let Madeline see it and report back.
He walked over and whispered a few words in the female detective's ear, then patted her on the shoulder. Hitzfeld said, "I'll leave it to you," and walked down the city wall almost without anyone noticing.
"Aisun?" But someone still noticed her movements. Xia Yibing approached her like a sticky candy or a follower, and grabbed her hand with some worry, "What's wrong with you... don't you want to finish reading it?"
It was too dark and she couldn't see clearly, but since most things on the battlefield don't go as planned, she didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
And she has had a feeling in recent days - strictly speaking, this feeling started from the day of the turmoil in the temple. She felt that Hitzfeld seemed to have investigated something very terrible, and the most important thing here was that she didn't say it.
That's why Aisuen worked like crazy during this final period of time.
Whether it is the research on blood and bone magic or reading the secret history left by the Posu family every day, he even went to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep. This is abnormal no matter how you look at it.
And her spirit.
Xia Yibing's talent is reflected in the path of blood magician, in other words, in the body. Her understanding of spirits mostly comes from extremely violent emotional fluctuations, and she does a poor job in the detailed field of sensing other people's spirits.
But even so, she could vaguely feel that... as time went by, the tension and pressure in the girl's soul were doubling.
What did she discover?
Is there any secret more terrifying than "half of Elwin's soul may be imprisoned in the body of the King of the Corrupted Blood God"?
She was willing to discuss such a discovery with me directly. What other discovery could make her so worried? Why did she even avoid talking to me...
Unable to figure out the problem, Xia Yibing's solution was to use violence. Seeing that Hitzfeld was just distracted and about to move forward again, she gritted her teeth and took advantage of the fact that there was no one around to go up to her and pick her up horizontally.
"Huh?" Hitzfeld finally came back to his senses, and was shocked by his own situation, "Xia? What are you doing..."
She wasn't used to being held like this.
It suppressed her physical strength advantage and magnified her weakness, and she felt powerless every time she was hugged like this.
Only this woman could make her cooperate like this, but even so she still instinctively felt embarrassed and ashamed.
"I think what Gu said makes sense. Sometimes you can't be too independent."
Without saying a word, Xia Yibing leaned over and tasted it carefully... the long-awaited smoothness and sweetness, then carried her back to the city wall, acting as if she was going to bully her in front of everyone.
This frightened Hitzfeld. She could accept some things in private, but that was the result of her great courage. She could not bear being publicly executed. She twisted and struggled in the woman's arms, trying to hit Xia's shoulder.
All I can say is that with her strength, she can only play with balance to make someone trip and fall, or use inertia to throw someone away, but thinking of hitting someone with a real knife or gun is just a joke... Xia Yibing had a smile on her face and was not moved by the attack at all.
