Alien world

Chapter 817 48. Weird re-employment

As Skeleton King collects weird things everywhere and brings them back to the laboratory for research, Annan's understanding of weird things gradually deepens.

The weirdness is not as "harmless" as it appears. To describe it, they are like undead creatures, carrying with them a halo of withering.

Previously, it was not obvious that the Burnt Girl and the others were running around with Annan. But as Annan stayed in Liberty City and they did not set off with the Fourth Army, the "Withering Halo" began to take shape.

Weird House - the place where Annan placed them.

According to nearby neighbors, the greenery on the street and their potted plants have stopped growing and withered to varying degrees. The closer to the rear weird house, the more serious the withering.

And the weird withering aura is far more difficult to deal with than the necromancy magic. The removal efficiency of Da De's natural magic is half the result with half the effort.

So Annan had to move them to a new home, a single-family house next to an industrial area in the suburbs.

In addition, Skeleton King also analyzed what "human nature" is - it is more like "vitality" stripped of natural elements, a concept deeper than the soul.

According to Skeleton King's experiments, weirdos can plunder this substance called "humanity" from all living creatures. Animals are the least, followed by goblins and kobolds who are less intelligent, followed by humans, elves, and dragons. This kind of immortality is the most common, which makes Skeleton King start to go astray, believing that human nature represents lifespan, and treating weirdness as an ecological niche similar to vampires in other worlds.

"So what is human nature?" Annan asked Skeleton King at that time.

"Based on the current experimental results, this is the case." "I need to catch a weirdo that can separate human nature."

"Me?" Annan didn't know how to get involved with him again.

"Why do warlocks have such a natural charm that makes people approachable?"

The Skeleton King learned the truth. A mistake caused the two experimental subjects to fight, and the vampire was strangely swallowed. The Skeleton King was surprised to find that vampires have less humanity than humans... This almost rules out that humanity equals vitality.

"Since you said that weirdness robs humanity and carries the aura of withering, sorcerers are also highly humane... but the plants around me won't wither?"

"Humanity is humanity. Just like soul and magic, they both represent an independent source, and that happens to be the most you have."

For example, those weirdos who took refuge in Annan had different abilities.

"Yeah, so I plan to capture a warlock to participate in the experiment."

"They are independent of each other, but they are related to each other. If we are a ship sailing in the sea of ​​fog, the soul is the ship itself, the vitality is the helmsman, and human nature, I regard it as a light that dispels the fog and illuminates the surroundings. ”

"It depends on luck, right?"

Annan didn't know what Broken Tooth thought about watching them hunt ratmen and cut off their ears, but now he was really feeling a bit sad...

"That's the problem." The Skeleton King doesn't have flesh and blood wrapped in skin, otherwise it would be suitable for wearing a pair of glasses. "This is the model I built based on the current progress:
"Life is not the soul as the carrier and the vitality as the body as we knew before, but has three origins: soul, vitality, and human nature."

"You're saying that warlocks all have a high level of humanity."

"The vampire that absorbs life force is equivalent to making the ship lose its helmsman, and the monster that eats away at human nature is like breaking the lamp. Without a helmsman, the ship will sail aimlessly on the sea. If the ship is destroyed, it will begin to sink. If the lamp is broken, even the best helmsman will get lost in the sea of ​​fog..."

"As for your last question...why does weirdness make plants wither?" Skeleton King's soul fire jumped, "I think the strange lamp has been broken, and the fuel called humanity is constantly flowing out. In order not to let myself be in the fog. The sea has lost its direction, and they can only hunt other sailors and steal their fuel.”

"This delayed the time for the lights to go out, but it also allowed the burning embers to vent..." The Skeleton King tried his best to use descriptions that Annan could understand to describe the three sources of soul, vitality, and humanity.

"Have we never noticed it before?"

"Because human nature is like air, it 'doesn't exist' until we are aware of it."

If it hadn't been for the chance encounter with a human-eating creature like Weird, Allen Continent would still have been kept in the dark.

Annan suddenly thought of a possibility: as a warlock, he obviously had no talent in magic, so he relied entirely on the gods above to reward him with bread. So now that I have discovered a new origin, can I get anything from it?

Annan asked. “What would happen if humanity got better and better?”

"It's going to get higher and higher."

"Uh."

But Annan understood what the Skeleton King meant: for any changes in high humanity, just refer to those epic and legendary warlocks.

They casually fall in love with elves, demons, and dragons, spreading stereotypes across countless worlds, and there is even such a thing as the Association for the Protection of Fanatic Warlocks!
Hmm...but I should be different from them, right?

The Skeleton King talked about human nature in detail, which involved the rules of another world. Annan couldn't understand it... Fortunately, he didn't need to understand it.

Curiosity belongs to the mage, and the warlock only needs to rely on his face.

"Should we publish it?" Annan asked.

"Publish?" Finally there was something that Skeleton King didn't understand.

"Well, it was published in "The Voice of Freedom", and the title said... Skeleton King Leonefah discovered the third origin besides soul and life force, human nature."

Annan became more and more excited as he spoke: "I don't think other newspapers can sit still with such big news, and the entire Allen Continent will follow suit, so everyone knows that you were the first to discover the third origin, and maybe even Able to attract like-minded companions.”

"I have no opinion."

Before telling Evelyn that "Voice of Freedom" will be so rich and powerful, Annan must first arrange the weirdos...

Being raised by Annan, they can't starve to death, but they still want to live a normal life, make money and spend money normally... For example, Annan knows that Candlehead always hangs around the tavern, but he once said that he never drinks.

In view of the limited impact of their "withering aura", which would at most make flowers and plants wither and not even kill a fish, Annan agreed to them and even took the initiative to arrange jobs for them.

The Burnt Girl most wanted to run a flower shop, but it was obviously impossible. However, she could wear a gray robe and sell plastic flowers on the street.

The Painter is the least likely to starve to death. It has gained a lot of popularity by painting portraits on the street.

The lanky dancing shadow went to the New World and the New World to work as a sex actor, bringing anthropomorphism with him.

The Invisible Man wanted to go to the orphanage to play with the children, but Annan was worried that it would affect the children's health, so he asked him to perform magic on the streets with slugs and candles that had no special abilities.

(End of this chapter)