Age of Arcane

Chapter 596 Virus
As if confirming the prophecy, on the second day after Malken came to Deep Well City, another Shadow Clan was assassinated.

The Shadow Assassins, responsible for investigating the assassination, were in a frenzy.

Today is different from the past. The Shadow Clan was assassinated a few times ago, which is a shame at home.Now, during the visit of the King of the Dragon Kingdom to Gruzelei, the two consecutive assassinations against the Shadow Clan are so close together that they are humiliating the Shadow Clan in front of the King of the Dragon Kingdom.

The entire city of Shenjing was sealed off like an iron curtain, and the shadow assassins walked from the dark to the bright, looking for suspicious people everywhere almost in a state of desperation.

This somewhat caused some trouble for Luke's secret travel.

But in order to get more clues, Luke still quietly left the Dragon's Nest, and went to interview Sisli through a secret passage.

The lack of manpower has allowed the Shadow Assassin Group to relax a lot in terms of recruitment requirements.Sisli disguised herself as a Rapid, and successfully passed the assessment to become a member of the Shadow Assassins.

Then he was arrested and joined the hunt for assassins.

Still in that stone castle, Luke confirmed the code that Sisli had left for him outside, then opened the stone tablet and entered the stone castle.

"Congratulations on joining the Shadow Assassins." Luke greeted with a smile when he saw the Rapids exercising on the horizontal bar.

Sisli spun a few times on the horizontal bar, then turned gracefully in the air, and finally landed steadily.

The Speedlizard turned into a human woman, picked up the food on the table and ate it with big mouthfuls.

"Have you been followed? The Shadow Assassin Group recruited a lot of Shadow Clans, and scattered them all over Shenjing City, looking for the assassin who preyed on the Shadow Clans."

Luke replied: "Shouldn't be followed, I'm a professional."

"Humans, don't be so confident. The Shadow Race is far more familiar with the darkness than you. Once you are targeted by the Shadow Assassin Group, it will cause me to be mistaken for that assassin."

"I'll be careful. Find any useful news?"

Sisli was very speechless to the masked human partner in front of her: "I really don't know where your confidence comes from. My current position is very low, and I don't have much access to news. I only know that all the shadow tribes who have been assassinated are There was almost no decent resistance.

The assassin's hiding and assassination methods are extremely superb, and he can quickly kill him with one blow without disturbing the assassination target.

This is a top-notch assassin, and you may need to use Phantom Assassin to deal with it. "

Luke asked: "Have the brains of the assassinated Shadow Clan been removed?"

"How do you know that their brains have been removed? Yes, the death of the body is not the real death of the Shadow Clan. Only by destroying the Shadow Clan is the real death of the Shadow Clan. The Shadow Clan parasitizes in the spirit of the brain , the assassin removed the brain in order to completely kill the Shadow Clan.

Damn guy! "

Although the assassinated Shadow Clan had nothing to do with Sisli, the killing of the same Clan still aroused her anger.

At this time Luke asked: "Can you get a corpse and let me look at it."

Sisli immediately shook her head: "Are you kidding me! All the corpses of the dead Shadow Race are under the strict guard of the Shadow Assassin Group, how could it be possible to get them out!"

"Can you get me in?"

"..." Sisli seriously considered Luke's new proposal, and then replied with some hesitation: "The corpses are all in the headquarters of the Shadow Assassins, and the suspects captured are also held in the headquarters of the Shadow Assassins. I can borrow You are a suspicious person who takes you to the regiment headquarters, and then finds an opportunity to enter the morgue.

But the risks involved are completely unpredictable. If you get caught, I can't save you. "

Luke replied: "If I get caught, I don't need you to save me."

"Okay!" Sisli was also very straightforward, she took out her pocket watch to check the time: "In three hours, the internal guards of the Shadow Assassin regiment headquarters will undergo a handover. The rules are not well established, we can take advantage of the chaos to get in."

Luke also took out his pocket watch to check: "We're leaving in three hours."

After Sisili finished eating the food in her hands, she turned her skin over and over again, and the bacteria that made up her body decomposed all the food she ingested.The supplement of energy greatly changed Sisili's mental state, she seemed a little excited.

"I have to consume the excess energy and let the excited flora return to normal. You can move around freely in my place, but don't disturb my exercise, or I may hurt you."

Luke found a chair and sat down, and said, "I'll just sit here, and it will never affect you."

"Leave in three hours!"

After finishing speaking, Sisli ignored Luke, jumped back into the training ground, and accelerated the energy metabolism of the body's flora with high-intensity exercise, calming the over-excited flora.

Luke sat there, his eyes seemed to be paying attention to Sisli's training, and his consciousness was directed to Qingkong.

The clear sky experiment has already taken shape.

Genetic weapons targeting specific ethnic groups are... no strangers to Luke.

The reproduction of an ethnic group can be traced upwards, and they may all be descendants of certain ancestors, which causes the gene chain of this ethnic group to have segments that are completely identical but different from other ethnic groups.

Weapons targeting this gene chain can accurately kill and injure this group.

The Shadow Clan has an extremely fatal flaw.

That is, all the shadow parasites are split from the original shadow parasite, the chief of the darkest.

Shadow parasites are spiritual extraordinary creatures. Each shadow parasite seems to be an independent individual, but the essence is exactly the same.

If a spiritual "virus" can be developed for the shadow parasitic element, this "virus" can destroy the entire shadow clan.

According to the information Luke now has, it is unbelievable that the Shadow Clan has been assassinated many times.How could the assassin succeed repeatedly when the Shadow Clan already knew of the existence of the assassin?

It was as easy as killing a chicken.

It can be said that the assassins have forced the entire Shadow Clan to jump their feet, and even did not abide by the Assassin Rules, but there are still Shadow Clans assassinated.

What the assassins used was definitely not a conventional assassination method.

The assassination of Chief Romanchenko and her experience gave Luke a guess, and Qingkong's investigation and experiments in St. Lun City were to confirm this guess.

In the Institute of Extraordinary Biology of the Empire, Clear Sky found the theoretical basis of the spiritual "virus" from clues by reading the research materials of the shadow parasitic iterative body.It's just that the follow-up materials are all in the lost materials.

What Qingkong can do is to find as much information as possible to deduce whether the mental "virus" exists or not.

During the experiment, the superintendent of the shadow parasitic iteration was constantly tortured by various spiritual intrusions.

In a simulation experiment of a mental "virus", the sheriff lost contact with his mental body for an extremely short period of time.According to what the sheriff said afterwards, he lost control of his body at that moment, as if... he was stripped from the black cat's spiritual body.

The shadow parasitic element cannot survive for a long time without the spiritual power of the host. The sheriff was terrified by the feeling at that moment, and Ren Qingkong refused to participate in the experiment no matter how intimidating and lure he was.

Qingkong sorted out her experimental materials and passed them on to Luke.

The spiritual "virus" targeting the shadow parasitic element really exists. Although Qingkong has not been able to make it, it does not mean that other people have no way.

Is the assassination of the Shadow Clan in Shenjing City related to the spiritual "virus"?
During an exchange of consciousness with Clear Sky, Luke notices a person's name.

Dr. Friedrich Bruckner, a senior researcher at the Imperial Institute of Extraordinary Biology, is responsible for the development of several extraordinary biological weapons.Among them is the shadow parasitic element iterative body, and has achieved many remarkable results.

It was just that Dr. Bruckner became one of the missing persons during the purge before Empress Christina ascended the throne.He and his family disappeared overnight, along with many materials about his research projects.

According to the graphic information provided by the Institute of Extraordinary Biology of the Empire, combined with Chief Romanchenko's description of the lost man's appearance, the lost man is most likely the disappeared Dr. Bruckner.

The truth seems to be unraveling, but it's all speculation.

So Luke wanted to look at the other dead Shadow people, hoping to get some useful clues from them.

Luke read the message from Clear Sky.

Sisli practiced non-stop.

Time passed very quickly.

When three hours came, Luke withdrew his consciousness, Sisli stopped training, and looked at each other.

"It's time to go!" Luke stood up and held out his hands.

Sisli was not polite to him, she turned into a Rapid lizard, took out the magic rope and tied Luke's hands tightly.

Holding the other end of the rope with one hand, Sisli said, "Let's go, suspicious guy!"

Luke was dragged away from the stone castle by Sisi Li, and walked towards the urban area where the Shadow Assassin regiment headquarters was located.

Now Luke has adapted to the changing direction of gravity in Deep Well City, and is used to deflecting at any time.On the contrary, those panicked dungeon residents sometimes stumbled in fright from the shadow assassins.

"A Shadow Clan has been assassinated!"

A shout came suddenly, and the shadow assassins who heard the sound immediately flew towards the direction of the sound source, scaring the residents of the dungeon again.

Hearing that the Shadow Clan was assassinated again, Sisili paused for a moment: "The interval between the two assassinations was less than two days, did the assassin speed up the assassination?"

"This is not a good sign." Luke whispered from behind: "The other party's experiment should have come to an end, and we haven't even found his tail.

move……

At this time, the headquarters of the Shadow Assassin regiment should be in chaos. "

"Then follow me closely."

Sisli quickened her pace.

At this time, Shenjing City is full of runaway shadow assassins.It stands to reason that assassins should be patient, but their patience has been worn out after a long period of searching and finding nothing.The Shadow Clan was assassinated one after another under their noses, enough to drive the Shadow Assassins crazy.

After passing through strange urban areas, Sisli took Luke to the headquarters of the Shadow Assassins.

The headquarters of the Shadow Assassins is near the center of the city, built within a large hollowed-out rock.

Unexpected circumstances caused some Shadow Assassins to leave the regiment headquarters, and when it was time for the handover of guards, a large unguarded area appeared in the Shadow Assassin's regiment headquarters.

Sisli escorted Luke into the headquarters of the Shadow Assassins, and she was not questioned during the walk.

Luke couldn't help feeling that the military equipment of the Shadow Clan was almost completely abandoned after a thousand years.The Shadow Clan, like the Giant Dragon Clan, bears the titles of the five ancient civilizations, but the interior is already utterly empty.

Sisli and Luke seemed to have entered no man's land.

They simply didn't go to the prison to act, and ran directly to the morgue.

The closely guarded morgue that Sisili mentioned had no guards inside or outside.In the middle of the morgue, the corpses of the dead Shadow Race were frozen and placed together.

Looking at the appearance of the dead Shadow Clan, almost all the mainstream races in the Gruzerei Dungeon were included.They died in the same way, the fatal wound was a puncture through the chest, the head was opened and the brain was removed.

"I need some time." Luke took out a knife and cut off the rope of his wrist, and then said to Sisli: "Go outside and look out for me. If there is an emergency, you can give me a signal and hide by yourself." Can."

"Listen to you." Sisli looked around the morgue, confirmed that there were no hidden guards, then retreated outside the door, and changed into the appearance of a guard again.

Luke first chose a caveman shadow tribe, and used magic to melt the ice for storage.

The corpse had long been cut into eight pieces by the shadow assassins, and then stitched together and sealed.So when the ice melted, the caveman's body was scattered into several large pieces.Luke didn't expect the Shadow Clan to work so unprofessionally. Looking at the scattered limbs, he froze for a moment before starting to assemble them.

Then he recalled the anatomical inspection process that Malcolm taught himself, and finally took out a scalpel to cut open the chest of the caveman.

The internal organs of the deceased, like Chief Romanchenko, did not respond to the puncture with a sharp weapon.It can be concluded that the deceased lost control of his body before being assassinated.

Therefore, so many assassinations did not require the assassin to be so powerful, and the opponent might even be a guy with low strength.It's no wonder that the shadow assassins couldn't find anything. When they were staring at the mountains, they naturally couldn't see the small hills around them.

Then Luke began to examine the dead man's head.

Examination of a dead body, a dead body.

Finally, Luke found a piece of brain tissue that hadn't been removed.

But when Luke carefully took out the piece of brain tissue and put it in a preservation bag, a group of Shadow Clan broke in suddenly.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

Luke didn't expect to be stuck in the morgue, and he saw Sisli among the shadow clan.The face servant pretended to rush in together, and was even more furious than the other shadow clans, as if he was about to rush forward and kill the intruder.

That was Sisli telling Luke in coded body language: I warned the police, why didn't you hear it!

I am too focused!

Luke immediately put down the scalpel, raised his hands, and said to the shadow clans surrounding him: "I am the extraordinary biotechnology consultant of His Majesty the King of the Dragon Kingdom. My name is Malcon, a human being, come here It is to find clues to the assassination of the Shadow Clan.

I ask you not to impose any actions on me, and I demand that I be taken to King Taotie immediately, I have something important to tell him! "

(End of this chapter)