Quadruple split

"Sister Pei Xi..."

Ji Xiaoge, who immediately spread her wings to cover Yaya, smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "You turned on the light too suddenly!"

"Sorry."

Pei Xi apologized to the people who were flashed, and then simply explained: "This is a simple way to prevent accidental touches. It will only be activated if it is triggered continuously in a short period of time. This method was very popular twenty centuries ago. It was not until the Alchemist Association developed [Brick Identification] that it was gradually eliminated. Well... In short, let's check this [Observation Hall] first."

After realizing that everyone was not interested in the topic of the Alchemist Association and [Brick Identification], Pei Xi did not continue to popularize science, but calmly put on a pair of gloves for herself, and took the lead in walking towards the corpses that were more visually impactful after the lighting equipment resumed working.

"Thank you, Sister Yege."

At the same time, Yaya also emerged from under Ji Xiaoge's wings, patted the latter's shoulder with a smile, and ran to the nearest corpse to check. What relieved Mo Tan and others was that the girl did not smell, touch or lick, but sat cross-legged in front of a group of humanoid creatures with her arms folded, muttering: "It should be an elf... uh... human? Or a half-elf... No, it really looks more like an elf..."

Ji Xiaoge breathed a sigh of relief and whispered to Mo Tan: "Yaya is working very hard!"

"Yes, although it seems that the efforts are in the wrong direction."

Mo Tan shrugged, indicating that what Peschi wanted to investigate would probably not be what race these corpses were when they were alive, how old they were when they died, whether they were male or female, but something that would allow everyone to touch the essence of this ancient relic.

To put it bluntly, it's still their identity, affiliation and research project.

"I'm not good at this, let's go to Sister Pei Xi and ask if there's anything I can do for her."

Ji Xiaoge winked at Mo Tan, resisted the urge to get a little intimate with her, gave her an extra sweet smile, and then fluttered her wings to Pei Xi's side.

"I have to watch Pei Xi too, at least I can't let her stew the body or something."

Largo sighed, made a rather scary complaint, then turned to Gu Xiaole and smiled, "It shouldn't be dangerous at this moment. Since you're also in this business, Xiaole, why don't we investigate together? I can protect Pei Xi by myself."

Gu Xiaole, who originally wanted to continue to protect Pei Xi, touched her chin, and after a little consideration, nodded and agreed to Largo's proposal. Although she felt that her identity as a 'college student majoring in archaeology' outside the game might be useless, the talent of the great Onmyoji might be able to help a little.

Moreover...

You can also observe someone's "online boyfriend" by the way, and really help to check!

"Hey, Mo-chan!"

So, Gu Xiaole walked briskly to the back of Mo Tan, who was standing next to a relatively intact corpse and looking down in thought, patted him on the shoulder, and said cheerfully: "I didn't expect that you look like a sports student, but you are quite professional in observing cultural relics!"

Mo Tan was stunned for a moment, and it took him half a second to react before he said with a smile: "The corpse here should not be considered a cultural relic, and I'm just standing here to watch, why do you think I'm professional?"

"I'm just making small talk, now that the topic is open, don't care about those details anymore."

Gu Xiaole smiled. He smiled, then stood beside Mo Tan with his hands behind his back, looked at him with interest and asked: "So, let's put aside the question of professionalism, did Mo-chan see anything?"

"Just some superficial content."

Mo Tan squatted down, carefully looking at the human corpse on the ground that had lost both legs, had a horrified face, and died with his eyes open, and said carefully: "First of all, most of these people died at the hands of humanoid creatures. The other side is not large in number, but has an overwhelming advantage in terms of strength. Although they have no weapons, they can kill these staff members in uniform with their bare hands, and... they don't seem to have much rationality... …”

Gu Xiaole widened his eyes in surprise and asked curiously: "How did you figure it out? Are you a forensic doctor?"

"Of course not."

Mo Tan laughed dumbly and explained: "It's just some experience gained during the game. I only said the conclusion because the process of inference is complicated. It's fine if it's limited to the scope of thinking. It would be a bit difficult to say it in plain words."

Gu Xiaole nodded and said: "I understand, I understand! It's because you are good at fighting, so you can tell how these bodies were beaten like this as soon as you see the scene! Then? Are there any other discoveries?"

"It is also obvious that the researchers here are very strong. The aspects of the corpses were mixed, but without exception, they were killed without any resistance, which shows that the perpetrators were very powerful. "

After a brief analysis from the perspective of combat, Mo Tan reached out and gently poked the back of the corpse's hand, and whispered: "Besides that, I think the reason why these corpses have not decayed is that they took in a lot of toxins that were not targeted at them before they died, but caused their bodies to not decay by accident. "

"Toxins?"

Gu Xiaole became more and more curious and asked: "What toxins?"

"It should be a paralysis toxin refined by petrified poisonous lizards or similar monsters. "

Because the character of ‘Tan Mo’ is quite knowledgeable about alchemy, and even played the role of Haru Kutata, the lizardman pharmacist who was known as the [King of Medicine Poison] and was proficient in the use of various poisons during his time in Academy City, ‘Mo’, who is also Mo Tan, naturally knows the relevant knowledge very well and explained very carefully: “Those petrifying toxins not only have the effect of ‘strong paralysis’, but also have various effects such as analgesia, hypnosis, and hardening. If ingested by a corpse with zero mysterious resistance, its ‘petrification’ characteristics will give the corpse an effect similar to ‘immortality’. If the dosage is large enough, it can even keep the corpse from decaying for a thousand years.”

…

‘In the tributaries of the Amazon, there is a boiling river. It is the largest hot river on earth. Because it is close to geothermal magma, it has a water temperature of nearly 100 degrees. Although this temperature makes it almost lifeless, it is the sacred river of the Ashanikan people. They often worship this river…’

[? ! 】

Suddenly realizing that this was not the toy room of Yi Dong's family, nor was it more than a decade ago, and it was not even the real one at all, Gu Xiaole subconsciously clenched his hands and rubbed his eyes hard several times before he saw clearly that the half-dragon boy in front of him was a half-dragon boy, not the little boy who had recited some science program in a childish voice to comfort himself who was afraid of strangers.

"Sister Xiaole?"

Noticing that the other party was a little absent-minded, Mo Tan immediately stood up and asked with concern: "How is the situation? Is there any negative state? Do you need me to remind everyone to pay attention?"

"Ah? No, no."

Subconsciously taking two steps back, Gu Xiaole desperately waved to Mo Tan to indicate that she was fine, and then said with a guilty conscience: "It's just... I was a little distracted. What happened to the Ashaninka people you just mentioned?"

"Ashaninka people?"

Mo Tan was stunned for a moment and hesitated: "Are you talking about the Indian tribe in the tropical rainforest in eastern Amazon?"

"No, I mean the petrified poison!"

Gu Xiaole immediately changed her words and asked loudly: "So these corpses are poisoned?"

Perhaps because her voice was a little too loud, so everyone turned their heads to look over here, curiously waiting for Mo Tan to explain the relationship between corpses and poisoning.

"Well... Actually, what I mean is that these toxins may be special measures taken by these staff members when they are attacked, in order to suppress those killers with particularly strong power."

Mo Tan scratched his cheek awkwardly, and said under the gaze of everyone: "The result is that at least in this [Observation Hall], there is no paralyzed killer, and these corpses have no signs of corruption after a long time, so I think... it is possible that they tried every means to resist but still failed, and finally lost the mysterious resistance at the node of death and were eroded by the toxins originally used to suppress the murderer, which turned into what they are now."

"So handsome——"

Ji Xiaoge first A pair of beautiful almond eyes stared at his beloved: "Although I don't understand it very well, it's so handsome!"

"Mo, help me look at this thing in front of me!"

Ya Ya, who was already sitting on the ground and playing with his tail, waved lazily and said, "Come on, come on."

Jadeka was very proud, but he smacked his lips very reservedly, shaking his head and sighing: "This kid, I don't know where he learned it from..."

"Really amazing, brother Mo."

In the base station behind Wang Badan, Klaus's somewhat resentful voice came: "Why didn't I think of it, I have also read the information about petrified toxins!"

Largo laughed and gave Mo Tan a thumbs up.

"Are you interested in joining the Archaeologists Association?"

Peshi briefly invited Mo Tan, and it was unclear whether he was joking or serious when he said, "I can be your recommender."

"Thank you for your praise."

Mo Tan smiled bitterly and shook his head, raising his hands in surrender, "I just knew about this kind of toxin by chance, and I just tried to come up with an idea, but it's not true."

"A very good idea."

Peshi nodded slightly and affirmed, "Because I think so too."

Largo poked her shoulder lightly and complained, "Be more reserved."

"My reserve does not conflict with my excellence."

Peshi slapped Largo's hand away without looking back, and then motioned everyone to gather around him, saying briefly, "Although there are still time, but I'm afraid we have to withdraw temporarily. "

Ya Ya shook his ears and asked casually: "Why?"

"Because the situation has become a little dangerous."

Pexi glanced at Ya Ya and said lightly: "As Mo just said, the reason why the bodies of these researchers have not decayed is probably because they tried to protect themselves and suppress the enemy... or some unexpected toxins did not have much effect, and eventually turned them into this appearance. What is worth noting is that we did not find any traces of those slaughterers here. "

Ji Xiaoge hugged his arms and shivered, and said in panic: "Wait! Sister Pei Xi, you don't mean... those super cruel murderers are still alive? ! "

"The possibility is not high, but it is not zero. "

Pexi gave a slightly ambiguous answer, looking up at the black crystals full of cracks on the walls around the [Observation Hall]: "Combining these long-obsolete media with the name [Observation Hall], it is not difficult for us to guess the purpose of this place. If we are bolder and assume that the observed beings are slaughterers... the purpose of this facility is probably not difficult to imagine."

For a moment, everyone's face became a little ugly.

Obviously, as long as Pexi's assumption just now is combined with the fact that this relic has no trace of affiliation, this is undoubtedly a very shady place. In addition, Mo Tan's previous speculation that "the slaughterer is likely to be a humanoid creature" -

This is most likely a place for some kind of taboo research, and since there is the word "taboo", it means that the research project is mostly unrelated to words such as "human relations" and "morality", and is even completely the opposite.

It must be admitted that in the worldview of [The Realm of Innocence], this situation is not uncommon. For example, all the followers of the evil god, almost every one of their living sacrifices can be described as unscrupulous. In addition, there is also knowledge such as "human body transformation" and "necromancy knowledge" that are inhumane in most cases. These chaotic and evil behaviors are often staged all over the world.

And this place is likely to be the site of a large-scale inhumane experiment in the past. As for the relatively mild possibility of medical structures... It cannot be said that there is no possibility, but it is somewhat self-deception.

"But even if that's the case, it should have been a long time ago."

Jadeka stroked his beard and asked, "Is there really any serious threat here today?"

"Why do you think it's impossible?"

Peshi pushed his glasses and whispered, "Don't forget why we are here."

"Reason?"

Jadeka stroked his self-destruct stick and suddenly reacted: "So that's it-"

"Yes, the reason we came here is because this relic did not exist here before, but was suddenly detected before I settled here, and this means..."

"Something changed inside the relic, so it was suddenly discovered today, right?"

"That's right, so before we are sure what the "change" is, we must be careful, so-please listen to my command, leave a beacon, and evacuate in an orderly manner."

Chapter 2401: The End