Volume 3: Artifacts Chapter 148 Virus
As if to fulfill the prophecy, on the second day after Melkan arrived in Deep Well City, another member of the Shadow Clan was assassinated.
The Shadow Assassins responsible for investigating the assassination went crazy.
The situation is different now. The previous assassinations of the Shadow Clan were a disgrace to the family. But now, during the Dragon King's visit to Gruzerei, two consecutive assassinations against the Shadow Clan were carried out so close together that it was simply a humiliation of the Shadow Clan in front of the Dragon King.
The entire Shenjing City was under an iron curtain-like blockade. Shadow assassins walked from the darkness to the light, searching for suspicious persons in a desperate manner.
This caused some trouble for Luke's secret trip.
But in order to get more clues, Luke quietly left the Dragon's Nest and went through the secret passage to find the human-faced servant Sisili.
The shortage of manpower made the Shadow Assassins relax their recruitment requirements. Sisili disguised herself as a velociraptor and successfully passed the assessment to become a member of the Shadow Assassins.
He was then drafted into the army and joined in the hunt for the assassin.
It was still the stone castle. Luke confirmed the secret code left for him by Sisili outside, then opened the stone tablet and entered the castle.
"Congratulations on joining the Shadow Assassins." Luke greeted the velociraptor with a smile when he saw him exercising on the horizontal bar.
Sisili spun a few times on the horizontal bar, then turned gracefully in the air, and finally landed steadily.
The velociraptor transformed into a human woman, picked up the food on the table and ate it in big mouthfuls.
"Have you been followed? The Shadow Assassin Group has recruited many Shadow Clan members and spread them all over Deep Well City, looking for the assassin who preys on the Shadow Clan."
Luke replied: "I don't think I'm being followed. I'm a professional."
"Human, don't be so confident. The Shadow Clan is much more familiar with darkness than you are. Once you are targeted by the Shadow Assassin Group, I will be mistaken for that assassin as well."
"I'll be careful. Did you find any useful information?"
Sisi Li was speechless about 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 access to much information. I only know that all the Shadow Clan who were assassinated almost never put up a decent resistance.
The assassin's hiding and assassination skills are extremely advanced, and he can kill the target quickly with one strike without alerting him.
This is a top-notch assassin, and we may need to use the Phantom Assassin to deal with him."
Luke asked, "Were the brains of the assassinated Shadow Tribe removed?"
"How do you know 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 Parasite can the Shadow Clan be truly killed. The Shadow Parasite lives in the spirit of the brain. The assassin removes the brain in order to kill the Shadow Clan completely.
Damn you! "
Although the assassinated Shadow Clan member had nothing to do with Sisili, the killing of her fellow clan members still aroused her anger.
At this time Luke asked: "Can you get a body out so I can check it out."
Sisili immediately shook her head: "You are kidding! All the bodies of the dead Shadow Clan are under the strict care of the Shadow Assassin Group. How could they be found out!"
"Can you get me in?"
"..." Sisili seriously considered Luke's new proposal, and then answered hesitantly: "The bodies are all in the headquarters of the Shadow Assassins, and the captured suspicious elements are also detained in the headquarters of the Shadow Assassins. I can take you to the headquarters under the pretext that you are a suspicious element, and then find an opportunity to enter the morgue.
But the risks are totally unpredictable, and if you get caught, I can’t save you.”
Luke replied: "If I get caught, I don't need you to save me."
"Okay!" Sisili was also very straightforward. She took out her pocket watch to check the time. "In three hours, the guards inside the Shadow Assassin Group will have a shift changeover. The Assassin Group is just established and has encountered this kind of thing. Many rules have not been fully formulated. We can take advantage of the chaos to sneak in."
Luke also took out his pocket watch and looked at it: "We will leave in three hours."
After Sisili finished eating the food in her hand, her skin turned over again, and the bacteria that made up her body decomposed all the food she had taken in. The energy supplement made Sisili's mental state change drastically, and she seemed a little excited.
"I have to consume the excess energy and let the excited bacteria return to normal. You can move freely in my place, but don't disturb me while I'm exercising, otherwise I might hurt you."
Luke found a chair and sat down, saying, "I'll just sit here. It definitely won't bother you."
"Leaving in three hours!"
After saying that, Sisili ignored Luke, did a backflip and jumped into the training ground, using high-intensity exercise to accelerate the energy metabolism of the body's flora and calm the over-excited flora.
Luke sat there, his eyes seemingly focusing on Sisili's training, but his consciousness was with Qingkong.
The Qingkong experiment has already shown some results.
Genetic weapons targeting specific ethnic groups are not unfamiliar to Luke.
If we trace back the reproduction of an ethnic group, they may all be descendants of a few ancestors, which results in fragments in the genetic chain of this ethnic group that are completely identical but different from those of other ethnic groups.
Weapons targeting this genetic chain can accurately kill this ethnic group.
The Shadow Clan has an extremely fatal flaw.
That is, all the shadow parasites are split from the original shadow parasite, the Dark Chief.
Shadow parasites are spiritual supernatural creatures. Each shadow parasite appears to be an independent individual, but their essence is exactly the same.
If a mental "virus" could be developed against the Shadow parasites, this "virus" could destroy the entire Shadow Clan.
According to the information Luke has now, it is incredible that the Shadow Clan has been assassinated so many times. How can the assassin succeed so many times when the Shadow Clan already knows about the assassin's existence?
It's as easy as killing a chicken.
It can be said that the assassin has driven the entire Shadow Clan to the point where they are no longer following the Assassin's Code, but there are still Shadow Clan members being assassinated.
The assassin definitely did not use conventional assassination methods.
The assassination of Chief Romanchenko and her experience gave Luke a guess, and Qingkong's investigation and experiments in Saint Lun City were to confirm this guess.
In the Imperial Extraordinary Biology Research Institute, Qingkong found the theoretical basis of the mental "virus" from clues by reading the research materials of the Shadow Parasite Meta-Iterative Body. However, the subsequent materials were all in the lost data.
All Qingkong can do is try to find more information and infer whether the mental "virus" exists.
During the experiment, the Shadow Parasite Iterative Sheriff was constantly tortured by various mental invasions.
In a simulated experiment of a mental "virus", the sheriff's mental body was briefly disconnected. According to the sheriff's later account, at that moment he lost control of his body, as if... he was separated from the black cat's mental body.
The shadow parasite cannot survive for a long time without the host's mental power. The sheriff was frightened by the feeling at that moment and refused to participate in the experiment no matter how Ren Qingkong threatened or tempted him.
Qingkong sorted out his experimental materials and passed them to Luke.
The mental "virus" targeting the Shadow Parasite really exists. Although Qingkong has not been able to produce it yet, it does not mean that others have no way to do it.
Is the assassination of the Shadow Clan in Deep Well City related to the mental "virus"?
During the conscious communication with Qingkong, Luke noticed a person's name.
Dr. Friedrich Bruckner, a senior researcher at the Imperial Extraordinary Biology Research Institute, is responsible for the development of a number of extraordinary biological weapons, including the Shadow Parasitic Meta-Iterative Body, and has achieved many remarkable results.
However, during the purge before Queen Christina ascended the throne, Dr. Bruckner became one of the missing persons. He and his family all disappeared overnight, along with many of the materials he had participated in the research project.
According to the graphic materials provided by the Imperial Institute of Extraordinary Biology, combined with Chief Romanchenko's description of the Lost Person's appearance, the Lost Person is most likely the missing Dr. Bruckner.
The truth seems to be coming out, but it's all speculation.
So Luke wanted to look at other dead Shadow Clan members, hoping to get some useful clues from them.
Luke read the message from the clear sky.
Sisili exercises non-stop.
Time flies by so fast.
When three hours were up, Luke regained consciousness and Sisli stopped training, and they looked at each other.
"It's time to go!" Luke stood up and held out his hands.
Sisili didn't bother to be polite with him. She transformed into a velociraptor, took out a magic-proof rope and tied Luke's hands tightly.
Holding the other end of the rope in one hand, Sisili said, "Let's go, suspicious guy!"
Luke was dragged by Sisili out of the stone fortress and walked towards the city where the Shadow Assassin Corps headquarters was located.
Luke had already adapted to the ever-changing gravity direction in the Deep Well City and was used to the deflection at any time. On the contrary, the panicked underground city residents were sometimes frightened by the shadow assassins and fell.
"Someone from the Shadow Clan was assassinated! "
Suddenly a shout was heard, and the shadow assassins who heard the sound immediately rushed towards the source of the sound, scaring the residents of the dungeon again.
Hearing that another Shadow Clan member had been assassinated, Sisili paused for a moment and said, "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.
Let’s go…
The Shadow Assassin Group headquarters should be in chaos at this time."
"Then follow me closely."
Sisili quickened her pace.
At this time, Deep Well City was full of rampaging shadow assassins. As assassins, they should be patient, but the long period of fruitless investigation had worn out their patience. The Shadow Clan was assassinated one after another under their noses, which was enough to drive the shadow assassins crazy.
Passing through a series of strange urban areas, Sisili took Luke to the headquarters of the Shadow Assassins.
The headquarters of the Shadow Assassins is located close to the center of the city, built within a large piece of hollowed-out rock.
An unexpected situation caused some shadow assassins to leave the headquarters, and it was time for the guard handover. Unexpectedly, a large area without guards appeared in the shadow assassins' headquarters.
Sisili escorted Luke into the headquarters of the Shadow Assassins and was not questioned at all along the way.
Luke couldn't help but sigh. In the past thousand years, the Shadow Clan's weapons have been almost completely abandoned. Like the Dragon Clan, the Shadow Clan was one of the five ancient civilizations, but its interior was empty.
Sisili and Luke seemed to have entered a deserted place.
They simply didn't go to the prison to act and went straight to the morgue.
The morgue that Sisili mentioned was strictly guarded, but there was no guard inside or outside. In the middle of the morgue, the bodies of the dead Shadow Clan were frozen and placed together.
Judging from the appearance of the dead Shadow Clan, they included almost all the mainstream races in the Gruzerei Dungeon. Their deaths were also exactly the same, with fatal injuries being punctured through the chest, and their heads were opened to remove the brains.
"I need some time." Luke took out a knife and cut the rope on his wrist, then said to Sisili, "Go outside and keep watch for me. If there is an emergency, give me a signal and hide on your own."
"I'll do as you say." Sisili looked around the morgue and confirmed that there were no hidden guards. She then stepped out of the door and transformed herself into a guard.
Luke first chose a caveman, the Shadow Clan, and used magic to melt the ice used to seal it.
The body had long been cut into eight pieces by the shadow assassins, and then pieced together and sealed. So when the ice melted, the caveman's body was scattered into several large pieces. Luke didn't expect the shadow tribe to work so unprofessionally. Looking at the scattered limbs, he was stunned for a moment before he began to assemble them.
Then he recalled the anatomical examination process that Melken had taught him, and finally took out a scalpel and cut open the caveman's chest.
The deceased's internal organs, like Chief Romanchenko's, did not show any subtle reaction to the piercing of the sharp weapon. It can be concluded that the deceased had lost control of his body before being stabbed.
Therefore, so many assassinations do not require the assassin to be very strong, and the opponent may even be a weak guy. It is no wonder that the shadow assassins can't find anything. When they stare at the mountains, they naturally can't see the small hills around them.
Luke then began to examine the dead man's head.
Examination of one body after another.
Finally, Luke found a piece of brain tissue that had not been removed completely.
But when Luke carefully took out the brain tissue and put it into the preservation bag, a group of Shadow Clan suddenly broke in.
"Who are you? What are you doing here?"
Luke didn't expect to be blocked in the morgue. He saw Sisili among the Shadow Clan. This humanoid servant pretended to rush in with them, and was even more angry than the other Shadow Clan members, as if she was about to pounce on the intruder and kill him.
That was Sisili using body language to tell Luke: I warned you, why didn't you hear it!
I was too focused!
Luke immediately put down the scalpel, raised his hands, and said to the Shadow Tribe who surrounded him: "I am the extraordinary biotechnology consultant of His Majesty Taotie, the King of Dragon Country. My name is Melken, a human, and I came here to find clues about the assassination of the Shadow Tribe.
I ask you not to impose any actions on me and ask you to take me to see King Taotie immediately. I have an important discovery to tell him!"
