"Brother Chenran, come quickly!"
Feng Zhoulong excitedly pulled Zhang Chenran to the front of the Fire Devouring Seed, showing off:
"See? I said my technology is not limited to theory, as long as I have enough resources, I can make the Devouring Seed!"
"Is this the Fire Devouring Seed?" Zhang Chenran observed carefully and couldn't help saying:
"The flame energy is thin, and it doesn't look as mysterious as you said."
"What do you know? The reason why it is called a Devouring Seed is that it relies on devouring other seeds to evolve. Now that it has just been created, of course it has no energy. You can find out if you let Yinyun absorb it!" Feng Zhoulong said unhappily.
"Uncle Feng, I'm here!"
Jiang Yinyun's voice came from behind. Feng Zhoulong realized that in addition to Zhang Chenran, there were also Jiang Yinyun and Jiang Yinyu sisters. He was too excited before and ignored these two people.
"Girl, hurry up, absorb this Fire Devouring Seed." Feng Zhoulong said hurriedly. He couldn't wait to witness the effect of the Devouring Seed.
"Ah?" Jiang Yinyun asked in confusion, as if she didn't understand what he meant.
"This Devouring Seed was specially made for you by Brother Chenran with expensive nanocrystals." Feng Zhoulong explained.
Jiang Yinyun and Jiang Yinyu looked at Zhang Chenran at the same time. The former was overwhelmed with joy, while the latter smiled with relief.
Devouring Seed is one of the magic theories created by Feng Zhoulong. To complete it, rare and precious nanocrystals are needed.
Unfortunately, this treasure is extremely expensive. Even if there is a 100% certainty, no one is willing to invest in Feng Zhoulong's research.
After all, the cost of a Devouring Seed is higher than that of a natural soul seed!
"Uncle Feng, there is an important matter that needs your help." Jiang Yinyu said.
"Important matter?"
While Jiang Yinyun was absorbing the Devouring Seed, Jiang Yinyu recounted what happened in Longhua Town.
"Is there such a strange thing?" Feng Zhoulong frowned, and then took out some necessary things from the laboratory and said:
"Let's go to the Magic Association Hospital first."
... ...
Magic Association Hospital.
The hospital beds were full of patients, who were motionless, like lifeless corpses.
"Old Feng, you're finally here!"
Xiao Anzhi, the strongest healing mage in the association, finally relaxed a little when he saw Feng Zhoulong coming.
In addition to him, there were several medical mages with higher cultivation, who seemed to be waiting for Feng Zhoulong's arrival.
"Old Xiao, even you don't understand what's going on?" Feng Zhoulong asked.
Xiao Anzhi's attainments in the healing system were clearer than anyone else, but even a healing mage like him couldn't find out the source.
"This is too weird. This is the first time I've seen it in the decades since I awakened the healing system." Xiao Anzhi shook his head helplessly. "Are
all the things ready?"
"Everything is ready. Several bodies have been approved by their families and have been placed in the autopsy room."
Feng Zhoulong walked straight to the autopsy room, skillfully took out his tools and started working.
About half an hour later.
"Strange, too weird!" Feng Zhoulong stood beside the body with a frown on his face.
"What's so strange about it?" Zhang Chenran, who had been standing by without saying anything, asked.
Now he is a high-level necromancer, but his attainments in this area are still too shallow.
This time, following here is also an opportunity to learn.
Just the way Feng Zhoulong dissected and examined the corpses before benefited him a lot
. "All the problems are caused by the demon poison. If the deceased died because of the poison, or because of the things contained in the toxins, the medical mage would have removed those things long ago. If the poison is not the key to death, then the problem is not here.
This person's body has hardly suffered any damage, and the death caused by the toxin has been ruled out. If there are some parasitic poisonous insects hidden in the toxins, they cannot still stick to the body without leaving any trace after the human body loses its vitality."
Feng Zhoulong's eyes have been staring at the corpse, and his absent-minded eyes seem to be thinking about something.
"So, the real cause of death is not the corpse, but the soul?" Zhang Chenran said.
"Old Xiao said that the soul of the deceased still has a clear self-awareness before his death, and has a strong desire to survive."
Feng Zhoulong murmured in a low voice, as if he was talking to him, and as if he was talking to himself.
Walking out of the autopsy room, Xiao Anzhi and his friends were already waiting outside.
"How is the situation? Have you found the cause?" Xiao Anzhi asked.
Feng Zhoulong shook his head slightly.
At this time, he also understood why a healing mage of Xiao Anzhi's level could not find out the source.
The situation is very tricky!
Jiang Yinyu and everyone present frowned.
They thought that Feng Zhoulong, who had profound attainments in the undead and poison systems, could find some clues, but they didn't expect that the situation was more serious than they thought.
The situation was at a stalemate.
Feng Zhoulong carefully observed the unconscious patients, trying to find some clues.
"By the way, are all the dead ordinary people?" Zhang Chenran asked inexplicably.
Feng Zhoulong did not respond to him, nor was he distracted, his eyes were still on the unconscious patients.
"Not only ordinary people, but even some low-level mages with low cultivation have been infected with the demon poison." Jiang Yinyu responded to him.
"So, those who are infected with the demon poison are not very strong, and can even be said to be very weak." Zhang Chenran said.
"Is this question important?" Jiang Yinyu asked him back with no expression on his face.
Zhang Chenran shook his head slightly and said nothing. He called out in his mind:
"Xiao Jiu, can you tell what's going on?"
"Wang~ You are so bad, you actually call me like that!" Jiuyouhou first complained delicately, and then said:
"The causes of death of these people are very normal, Xiao Jiu can't tell!"
The causes of death are all normal. Zhang Chenran's mouth twitched. What is he talking about?
"Wang, can't you see? They died very normally, but they died at the wrong time!"
"If you have something to say, just say it!"
"Wang, I can't say it either. Anyway, the phenomenon of their death is very normal, but something hastened their death!"
"Death is normal. In your opinion, lying still and then dying for no apparent reason is normal?" "Of course it can't be counted as the body. The old wizard said that their souls have a clear self-awareness. How long do you think ordinary people's souls can stay in the world after leaving their bodies?"
Hearing this, Zhang Chenran was stunned:
"You mean their souls were taken out by something?"
"Just a guess. After all, if there is something wrong with their souls, it is impossible for several necromancers here not to notice it. However, with your means, do you need to go through so much trouble to find out the ins and outs of the matter?"
"I just don't want to use this method on my compatriots."
"I remember you said that strictly speaking you are not a human!"
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...…
In the ward, it was probably night, and Zhang Chenran finally waited for the first "dead person". The "
dead person" did not move during the whole process, but his soul strangely left his body and floated towards the wider world.
Sorry, Zhang Chenran said silently in his heart, and a black tentacle stretched out from the shadow behind him, grabbing the soul that was about to fly away and dragging it into the shadow.
Under normal circumstances, the shadow will directly assimilate the soul, let the soul be stained with darkness and sign a contract to become a shadow soldier.
But this time, the shadow world forcibly pulled the soul into two.
One of them disappeared strangely in the shadow world, and the other was assimilated by the shadow world and became a soldier!
"What's going on?" Zhang Chenran's consciousness probed into the shadow world.
The soul that had just been assimilated by the dark power was just an ordinary person's soul, and even if it became a shadow soldier, it would not have much combat power.
Zhang Chenran forcefully probed into his soul.
As long as he wanted to forcefully explore everything about the shadow soldier, no one would refuse.
In the memory of this new soldier, Zhang Chenran saw his struggle before death. When his soul had not yet left his body, his soul consciousness seemed to be occupied by something.
Fear made his soul consciousness gradually quiet down, and his memory was also cut off.
"His soul seemed to be suppressed by something, so he couldn't control his body. That thing would make the soul feel afraid, and eventually seize the control of the soul and take the soul out of the body."
Zhang Chenran narrated everything he saw.
The Queen of Nine Netherworld floated over from a distance and said,
"Ordinary people's souls have very weak endurance. If there are any ghosts parasitizing their souls, they have no means of resistance and can only wait for death!"
"Old Feng is a highly skilled necromancer. If there are ghosts parasitizing the soul, there is no reason why he can't detect it."
Zhang Chenran recalled the scene when the shadow pulled out the things hidden in the soul just now, and frowned.
If it weren't for the Shadow's original consciousness to detect the things hidden in the soul, he would really be like Feng Zhoulong, thinking that this was just the soul of an ordinary person, and he couldn't see anything unusual at all! The Queen of
Nine Netherworld lay behind him and exhaled faintly:
"King, the ghosts you define are all very powerful and can annihilate the existence of ordinary people's souls at any time, but what if they are also as weak as ordinary people's souls?"
"So the ghosts lurking in the soul need several days to completely occupy the soul, otherwise the soul cannot be separated from the body and the soul will be scattered?" Zhang Chenran understood what she meant.
The Queen of the Netherworld continued to add:
"More than that, if it is just an ordinary ghost lurking, any high-level necromancer can catch the soul and study it to find out.
But if the ghost has special abilities, it will be different. You didn't notice the existence of the ghost when you sensed the soul before!"
Zhang Chenran nodded and did not deny it.
"King, this can't be blamed on you. After all, the ghost caught from the soul is exactly the same as the soul of this ordinary person!
If I'm not mistaken, this evil ghost has the means of assimilation, which you are very familiar with."
After the Queen of the Netherworld said this in a meaningful tone, she stared at his profile.
Zhang Chenran can be said to know the means of assimilation very well. Isn't that why his summoning system is so powerful?
But his means of assimilation are different from those of outright ghosts. He assimilates souls into his own soldiers, not into the targets he is targeting!
"Are they the work of a tribe, or is it the work of a big demon?" Zhang Chenran asked.
"King, you are making it difficult for me. The ghost that was pulled out by your shadow before had a weak soul. It died as soon as I sensed its breath." Jiuyouhou put his arms around his neck and said slowly.
The souls of ghosts are weak and cannot be forced out by force. The souls of ordinary people cannot withstand soul attacks.
If the soul dies, the ghost will also die.
Zhang Chenran left the shadow world consciously.
"Did you find anything?"
Feng Zhoulong walked into the ward. He looked surprised. He didn't expect Zhang Chenran to be more crazy than him. He had observed from afternoon to night.
"I suspect it is probably some kind of ghost."
Zhang Chenran said what he had detected in the shadow in the form of speculation.
After listening, Feng Zhoulong shook his head slightly:
"I have never heard of this kind of ghost. If there is such a thing, ordinary humans are afraid that no one will be spared."
This is also something that cannot be explained. It is difficult for you to accept. Zhang Chenran is also quite a headache.
...…
Just as he walked out of the ward, Jiang Yinyun, who had been waiting outside, came up to him, took his hand, and whispered:
"Take a break!"
Zhang Chenran nodded and sighed helplessly.
"Three more comatose patients died. How come this demon poison is so evil? Even super-class mages can't cure it?"
"Alas~ It's only been a short time and thousands of people have fallen into coma, and dozens have died. If it goes on like this, I'm afraid everyone will be like this?" "
Senior Xiao Anzhi has tested the poison on himself, but this demon poison has no effect on mages with high cultivation. Senior Xiao Anzhi didn't even use magic, and the demon poison disappeared by itself. Don't you think this is strange?"
"Only ordinary people and low-level mages with low cultivation will fall into coma and eventually die. It's too weird."
Several medical mages who passed by whispered, and their solemn expressions never relaxed.
The last time such a tricky phenomenon happened was two years ago, when the sea monster toxin was transmitted.
That time Feng Zhoulong extracted poison antibodies from the sea monster to resolve the crisis.
But I have no idea what's causing this trouble!
The Inquisition, the Magic Association and other official forces were helpless, and even sought help from outsiders. The folk pharmacists and masters did not find even a trace!
This incident caused a sensation in the medical community. The last time this happened was during the plague incident in HZ, and the final result of that incident was hidden.
"The coma only occurs in ordinary people and junior magicians, or rather, only in people with weak souls."
Zhang Chenran thought about it carefully, and then found Jiang Yinyu and asked directly:
"The Inquisition should have collected the strange demon poison, right?"
"Yes, several pharmacists and medical practitioners are studying the demon poison, trying to find key clues from it." Jiang Yinyu said.
"Can you get me some demon poison?"
"Sure!" Jiang Yinyu agreed directly, and then asked puzzledly:
"But what do you want the demon poison for?"
"To test the poison."