It took a total of two and a half days for the exorcist team to enter the Maia Forest until they found clues to the witch's hut. However, because the team did not move toward the center of the forest from the outside to the inside, but circled the outside, it did not take another two and a half days for them to withdraw from the forest.
After Qin Lun returned to the camp, the long night had just passed, and dawn had appeared in the sky. The team had no intention of resting in the camp, and the carriages that originally stored supplies were emptied to transport the seriously wounded and corpses.
An exorcist would not bury his companion's corpse casually in the forest. For witches, the exorcist's corpse was the best research material. In order to avoid defilement of the corpse, whenever possible, the exorcist will bring the corpse back to the human world for burial, or directly cremate it.
Qin Lun was covered with a blanket, leaning against the wall of the car, his face was so pale that there was no blood. It wasn't that the doctor was pretending to be mysterious. He was already seriously injured, and he had been struggling through self-hypnosis all night. Now that he relaxed, his bones almost fell apart.
Unlike when he first entered the forest, on the way back, no exorcist came to talk to him, and his expressions were a little distant.
Think about it, this is also easy to understand. It's like a new colleague came to a certain business department of a modern company. He was originally enthusiastic, diligent, polite and thoughtful, and everyone liked him very much. But in a blink of an eye, he reported the department leader's work mistakes to the company, but this department leader is usually quite respected. Although what the department leader did this time is indeed not very authentic, but the popularity of the betrayer is gone, and everyone will definitely respect him at a distance.
Qin Lun doesn't care what others think of him, he is not from this world. After thinking about it, he reached into his bosom, took out a tube of golden reagent and checked it.
"Holy Spirit Potion: The Holy Medicine of Longevity (false). This is the healing potion imitated by the Exorcist Organization. The first time you take it, it can permanently increase a small amount of blood and mana, depending on the individual's physical constitution. The main purpose is to heal injuries Renew life, get rid of negative status, offset continuous damage, cannot be used for undead creatures. It can be brought into Broken Starry Sky, selling price: 1000 Broken Crystals."
One thousand broken crystals! Qin Lun slightly raised his eyebrows. He only had two thousand broken crystals after completing the "Secret Exploration" mission. You must know that the selling price was one-fifth of the exchange price. In other words, the actual value of this thing should be five thousand broken crystals.
Sure enough, the effort is directly proportional to the harvest. Although Qin Lun narrowly escaped death in the battle with the witch, the harvest is also extremely rich! Even the two tubes of holy medicine that he drank and cheated, in fact, it was because of the battle with the witch that he won the respect of the lay healer, so they took out such precious medicines.
Leaving aside the quest clues obtained during this trip to the Maya Forest, they are only items that can be brought into the Shattered Starry Sky. He got a total of ten moonlight grasses, a pair of magic eyes, a portion of golden silkworm dust, and a tube of holy spirit potion, not counting the golden summoning scroll and the drunk holy potion.
Of course, there are some unidentified items among them. In terms of the price sold to Broken Starry Sky, the total is 1900 broken crystals. In terms of actual exchange value, it is a total of 9500 broken crystals, which is equivalent to the broken crystals of five satellite-level plot missions. Crystal rewards.
Putting the holy spirit potion into the storage space, Qin Lun flipped his hand, and the sinful dagger fell into his palm. In the battle with the witch, the sinful dagger pierced the heart of the witch Mesa. Unexpectedly, Witch Meisha did not die on the spot, but the evil dagger slowly absorbed the undead power in her core.
In fact, Witch Meisha didn't die from being devoured by the evil dagger. After Qin Lun cleaned up the witch's hut and absorbed Frank's soul with the Maier crystal ball, he found that the witch who was stripped into a skeleton angel by Joey had turned into a pile Ashes seemed to have died of serious injuries.
As for the sinful dagger that absorbed most of the witch's power, there was also a slight change.
Sin (short dagger)
Alignment Type: Killing Relics (Chaos Evil)
Soul quality: 34 (beheaded by ten people)
Weight: 215 grams
Length: 230 mm
Equipment ability: Soul Eater (special skill for killing relics). Can absorb the soul power of the victim, as well as the attribute power of the same camp. The targets of autonomous soul devouring are lower-level creatures, and the highest level cannot exceed the third level. Under certain conditions, if the enemy loses the ability to resist, it can swallow part of the soul power of mid-level creatures.
The Guilty Dagger's original spirit quality was 12, but now it has absorbed the witch's undead power, it has risen to 34, a total of 22 more spirits. It can be seen that the Meisha witch usually killed many creatures, and she carried a lot of soul energy.
After the quality of the dead soul has been greatly improved, the black edge of the dagger is even more graceful and flowing, and the whole dagger is like a living thing. Qin Lun held the evil in his hand, only felt that every inch of the edge from the handle to the tip of the blade seemed to be his own flesh and blood.
Half a day later, the team of exorcists finally left the Maya Forest and appeared by the Jiguan River. All the exorcists felt a sigh of relief. In the second half of the journey home, some exorcists with keen intuition had already sensed that a huge danger was approaching the team, which made people feel anxious.
Everyone understood that this might be the arrival of the backup sent by the Maya Witch. If the time dragged on for another half a day, they might have to accept a major test.
After leaving the forest, the exorcist team dispersed again. Some of the seriously wounded needed a good rest. They could no longer bump all the way to Albert Castle, and had to go to a nearby town for treatment.
Totti, the only lay healer in the team, also wanted to leave, but his attitude was still very firm. Although he was not injured, he used the excuse of taking care of other wounded people, and others had nothing to say.
In fact, Ms. Nova and Maier did not want Lay Healer Totti to leave. Although Totti was not a combatant, every Lay Healer had a high status in the Exorcist organization. If he coordinates, as long as the Albert family does not deviate from the fundamental principles of the exorcist, they believe that things can still be resolved smoothly.
Looking at Totti's leaving back, Qin Lun's eyes flickered and he didn't know what he was thinking. The Lay Healer finally agreed to his plan, just like Ms. Nova and Maier, powerful exorcists, unable to realize the great harm of infectious diseases. Totti, a non-combatant, also didn't realize how big a storm was brewing in Qin Lun's seemingly simple plan.
"Doctor Stan, you are also seriously injured, do you want to go with Totti!" Ms. Nova walked to Qin Lun and said lightly.
Overlord Flower had lost all of her goodwill towards Qin Lun at first, and she had a premonition that if the doctor went with them to Albert Castle, things might get out of hand, and it would be better to send him away now.
"Ms. Nova, the weather is a bit muggy, and there may be heavy rain at night!" Qin Lun raised his head and said irrelevantly.
"Isn't it normal to have storms this season?" Nova frowned, glanced at Qin Lun, and said lightly, "If you insist on going to Albert Castle, I hope you can shut up and let me Negotiate with Maier and Baron Albert!"
"Ms. Nova, the storm will not be diverted by human will!" Qin Lun gently closed his eyes and stopped talking.
Qin Lun understands the psychology of Bawanghua, Maier and others very well. These exorcists and Albert Castle have been fighting side by side, and have a friendship that is thicker than water. As long as there is a chance, they all want to excuse the Albert family.
What's more, this era is different from a thousand years ago, witches are no longer the number one threat to the human world. In the eyes of Nova and others, as long as the Albert family does not violate the fundamental principles of the exorcist, other mistakes can still be forgiven.
However, Qin Lun knew very well that if his guess was correct, then these exorcists and the Albert family might not be able to reach an understanding.
Qin Lun's alien mission is actually a secret that the Albert family cannot explain to outsiders, and the fundamental positions of the two sides are opposing. All along, he has been using various conditions and clues to investigate the privacy of the Albert family.
The witch's note is the best weapon Qin Lun found. It can be seen from the inside of the tube. From Boni, he can fully imagine how powerful the Albert family is. Coupled with the contacts they have, it is simply not something Qin Lun can fight against. Therefore, he can only use the exorcist to get the desired result.
In fact, the information shown in the witch information is indeed not a big deal, even if Stephen really married a witch, so what, you must know that Stephen did not join the exorcist organization. So what if the Albert family is developing magical creatures, there is no evidence that they have harmed other ordinary humans.
This is also the main reason why Nova and the others want to talk to Baron Albert first instead of immediately using force against the Albert family. If there was no outbreak of the epidemic and Qin Lun, Nova and the others would not even come to the door just like this, but would remind Baron Albert in a more subtle way.
The reason why this urgent situation of confrontation is formed is entirely caused by Qin Lun. However, at this point, although the killer used all the people and information available, he did nothing wrong, or his position itself was not wrong.
The alien mission given by Broken Starry Sky is not just a random reference, even if it is just a novice apostle's guidance mission, there must be a historical and regional nature behind it, nothing more than the size of the affected geographical area and the length of the time span.
What Qin Lun is doing now, apart from his own mission, is indeed to prevent the spread of the epidemic in the Odia region.
Is the outbreak in Odia a plague of undeath? Is there any intrinsic connection between this epidemic and the Albert family? What impact will the epidemic have on Odia, the Principality of Meyser, and the whole world
These issues are currently unknown. The most direct purpose of Qin Lun to trigger the confrontation between the exorcist and the Albert family is to complete the "secret exploration" task related to Stephen Albert. Of course, in the process, the answers to these questions will also be revealed.
As for the fate of the Albert family, it is actually not in Qin Lun's hands, but in their own hands. Qin Lun just winded up the carriage of fate, waiting for the final moment.