Old Jock was tied tightly to the chair. His whole body was constantly shaking and exerting force. His hands and feet were bruised by the rope. He was still struggling. His eyes turned from red to dark red, and blood flowed from his eyes to his cheeks. On top, the teeth kept making sizzling sounds.
"Why...you have everything...a woman...a family...a child..."
"I... I have nothing... I, nothing... I don't want... to be a tombkeeper..."
"I'm so hungry, so hungry, I want to eat you... I want to eat..."
Old Jock's eyes were out of focus, and he was talking unconsciously. These words may have been hidden in his heart, but he didn't dare to say them out because he was timid and cowardly. After the consciousness disappeared at this moment, only memories were left. and the instinct to be affected.
Tucker bandaged the wound and pointed at Old Jock in horror and panic and said, "What happened to him? Is he crazy? What on earth is going on?"
Edward checked Old Jock's body, lifted up Old Jock's trouser legs, and immediately found traces of bites on his calf. Where he was bitten, there were clear traces of a row of teeth, and the surrounding area was black and turned outwards. Open, it makes people feel very sick.
Edward answered Tucker's question without looking back: "He's dead!"
Tucker pointed blankly at Old Jock, who was still moving, and said to everyone around him who was drooling: "How is it possible, he... isn't he still alive?"
Edward shook his head: "This is just an illusion. He is dead. Although there is nothing wrong with it on the surface, his body is in a weird state between death and life. His breathing and heartbeat can still be maintained, but he should not continue He's alive, I can feel it, he's dead."
"Why is there such a strange situation? What kind of witchcraft is this? I have never heard of it or seen it before. Is it a new witchcraft?"
Edward is extremely confused. He is a student of the Wizarding Tower. He is an official student of Bol, the second-generation controller of the Tower and the founder of blood wizards. In the Tower, he has the largest library and knowledge base in the entire Maria world. , has the most comprehensive witchcraft inheritance in the entire Alan Continent, but he can't even figure out the origin and inheritance of this witchcraft. I'm afraid there are not many people in the whole world who can figure it out.
Edward grabbed Tucker's palm: "The bandage is useless, the toxin has been spread to your body through the wound."
Tucker jumped up suddenly: "What?"
He looked at Edward with a pair of panicked eyes: "You... you mean... I've been poisoned?"
Edward nodded and spread his hands: "Isn't this obvious?"
Tucker swallowed and looked at Edward: "What will happen?"
Edward pursed his lips at Old Jock. Everyone immediately looked at Old Jock who had turned into a ghoul. Tucker immediately saw his Adam's apple trembling, and everyone could clearly hear the sound of swallowing. .
Tucker immediately knelt down in front of Edward: "No, Mr. Edward, I don't want to become like this, I don't want to become such a monster, please save me, save me, I will do whatever you want me to do." OK."
Edward frowned and glanced at Old Jock: "Although I haven't figured out what kind of monster this is yet, judging from the wound and what he said before, Old Jock was bitten about six or seven days ago. That means we have less than a week left.”
"This toxin should not mainly target living people. You can see that after Old Jock's death, the toxin became more active and spread rapidly throughout the body. There was no abnormality in Old Jock before. "
Tucker immediately said: "Then how, how did old Jock die!"
"Although it is not completely aimed at living people, it is still highly poisonous and is still irresistible to ordinary people. I need to draw the blood of Old Jock, and you also need to help me investigate some things, including sending the body here. His identity, place of death and various information, how many bodies have been missing... "
Edward just took advantage of this opportunity to put the city guards at his service, mobilizing all their strength to serve his own requirements and arrangements. He had nothing to rely on in Babs City, and the Wizard Tower had nothing to rely on here. The base of power and the gathering point of wizards in the Kingdom of Mara are also very far away from here. Currently, they can only rely on themselves.
At night in Edward's temporary residence, Edward used the wizard's experimental equipment to analyze Old Jock's blood. Viruses are different from cells. For wizards, this is also a very novel subject that has been discovered recently. It is an organic species that lives by parasitism between living things and non-living things. It is neither a living thing nor a non-living thing.
Through the mechanism of infection, these simple organisms can use the host's cellular system to replicate themselves, but they cannot grow and replicate independently. Viruses can infect almost any living organism with cellular structure.
Edward could observe that Old Jock's blood was infected with a certain virus. Its infection mechanism only corresponded to the deceased and spread very quickly. If the host had not died, the infection mechanism would not be activated. However, even if this virus was not activated, This is an infection mechanism. The toxins after being bitten invade the blood and can easily lead to death.
Moreover, the shape of this virus cell is somewhat close to the shape of mythical cells. This allows Edward to conclude that the source of this virus must come from wizards, and there are not many wizards who can transplant extraordinary blood on the Alan continent. You see, most of them are registered in the tower.
"Is he the person he met before?" Edward immediately thought of the two mysterious figures who were suspected of being wizards he met during the day.
Edward has no way to kill this virus, but when it does not spread, there is still a way to remove this virus from the bodies of living people. Edward is currently certain that there are not just one or two people in the entire Babs City. Or two or three people have been infected with this virus. If you are not fast enough, I am afraid that what you will see next will be that everyone in the city of Babs will turn into like Old Jock. monster.
Edward was very anxious and conducted various experiments on the ghoul virus overnight. Finally, he found some targeted methods and developed a drug to clean up the virus from infected people who had not yet spread the virus.
This kind of highly concentrated work continued all night long. Edward felt his head was a little dazed. He stood up, only to find that the test tube of the detoxification agent he had just prepared was pulled from the long shelf on the table by a slender palm. Take it down.
"A very good job. A very talented wizard. It took such a short time to develop a detoxifying potion. Although it is still a bit rough, it is enough for use."
Edward on the side was stunned for a moment. This person actually invaded his side for who knows how long. He didn't find any trace of him, and it seemed that he had been staying by his side for a long time. As long as he took action before, he might not even be able to do it. He didn't know how he died. Thinking of this, Edward suddenly felt a cold sweat on his back.
The moment Edward discovered the opponent, he fell to the ground and slapped his hand on the ground. He saw the stone bricks carved out of the stone. They all immediately decomposed like sand, reassembled into stone spears, and fired at the opponent. And left, but Edward turned over and ran towards the door without even looking at the result.
Lu Zhiyu wiped the air with his fingers and saw stone spears being wiped out in the air. Then from the surrounding walls and the walls of the house, all the stone structures quickly decomposed, condensing into huge palms. He quickly grabbed Edward, and slapped Edward against the wall with his palms made of layers of stone.
"I surrender, I surrender, I surrender."
Edward screamed in fright, and Lu Zhiyu, who was about to give him some punishment, immediately stopped: "You can do it, you can move your hands as fast as lightning, and you can run away like a rabbit, so begging for his mercy is not enough. Not bad."
Edward was pinned to the wall by the palms of several layers of stone. He said with a sneer, "Didn't I recognize you? I must have been shocked when you suddenly appeared in front of me like this."
Lu Zhiyu looked at Edward jokingly: "Do you know who I am?"
Edward immediately said: "What I transplanted is the bloodline of the Earth Bear, which can control the transformation between soil, rocks, and sand. This transplantation of bloodline power has just been developed. Currently, I am the only one who can do it. Even if It is impossible for my mentor Pol Cremo to use it. There is only one person who can use extraordinary witchcraft at will and is so powerful. The founder of the Wizard Tower, the great sage Antony, my teacher Pol is yours. Student, I heard him talk about your appearance, but I didn’t recognize it before.”
Edward never thought that he would meet this legendary sage here, whose whereabouts are mysterious and uncertain, the origin of wizards, and a powerful man whose power is close to that of a god. Although he looked very calm, Edward still had a headache on his forehead. You can see the sweat flowing down.
Lu Zhiyu took a chair and sat in front of Edward. Edward was slapped against the wall like a prisoner, unable to move. He looked at Lu Zhiyu awkwardly and did not dare to beg him to let him down. .
"Because I am passing through the Kingdom of Mara, your teacher Bol asked me to take care of you. However, I didn't expect that you accepted your teacher's task and set out a month ago, but you arrived so late."
Edward immediately said: "That's because I heard the news about my senior Adnos on the way, so I was delayed for a long time when I went to trace it."
Lu Zhiyu's eyes flickered: "Adnos? Another student that Bol expelled from the tower before. Are you familiar with him?"
Edward nodded: "I found out that he appeared in the Principality of Kver, and traced it all the way, but in the end no trace of him was found. Although he was expelled from the tower by the teacher, who was very angry with his behavior, but Bol The teacher still cares about him very much, and I hope to persuade him to return to the tower."
Lu Zhiyu laughed: "In the forbidden area of the Principality of Kver, the underground layer of the Northland Wasteland was once the headquarters of Levi's, and the Night Owl Knights were also born there. In a sense, the existence of the Night Owl Knights is not the same as before you. The ghouls I’ve seen are similar.”
Edward frowned: "Ghoul? Is that the name of the monster before? It's really appropriate! Mr. Anthony, what happened in Babs City? Do you know about this?"
When Edward talked about this matter, he looked at Lu Zhiyu hesitantly, worried that the mastermind behind this matter was Lu Zhiyu. Lu Zhiyu looked at Edward: "I know a little, but this is given to you by your mentor. The mission is also a trial. I am not prepared to help you, and I will leave the Kingdom of Mara immediately after dawn, so you can give up the idea of wanting my help."
Edward immediately became frustrated. A smile appeared in Lu Zhiyu's eyes, and he continued, "But it's not impossible to provide you with some information."