As Yi Chen waved to Barry, who was struggling to retrieve the bodies,
Director Dis gently patted his shoulder.
“I was just kidding with you. The difficulty of this incident has already far exceeded the limit of man.
The death root in the riverbed below is far beyond what you can handle. If you really encounter an Open Source or even higher-level existence, I may not have time to care for you, and you might even become a bargaining chip for them.
Stay above with your friend, or go to the Sunlight Hospital to assist Mr. Helvoye.
If something happens, you can evacuate at a moment’s notice. Talents like you must not lose their lives here; the continuation of human civilization needs young people like you to act.”
As he spoke, Director Dis took out a syringe that shone with the brilliance of the sun from his sleeve.
“My trip down there may likely bring me into direct contact with the death root, and I might die from it. This secret medicine, personally selected by me, might just save your life at a critical moment. If Zion issues an evacuation order, leave this place immediately.”
Yi Chen took the syringe, which contained the famous “Sun Secret Medicine.”
As Yi Chen opened his briefcase to store the syringe inside, Dis caught an unexpected glimpse of a disturbing silver flash.
“Hmm? Do you have another kind of secret medicine in your bag?”
Yi Chen took out another silver syringe.
This caused the director to widen his eyes, hardly believing that a young man like Yi Chen could possess something like that.
“That’s ‘Dusk thin silver liquid’!”
After the despicable acts of the Twilight Clinic were exposed, Doctor Macaul was executed, and this thing has become impossible to find on the market… Some time ago, I heard that a few young people unearthed the secrets of the Twilight Clinic and even had a direct encounter with the mastermind behind the False Moon event.
“Haha, yes! The organization directly gave me an entire bottle, and I carry a syringe with me for each mission, just in case.”
“No wonder… A genius like you really can’t die here. However, the medicinal properties of the Dusk thin silver liquid completely contradict those of the Sun Secret Medicine. If you can use the former, I do not recommend using the latter.
You can give the Sun Secret Medicine to your teammates, or you can sell it for money.”
After patting Yi Chen’s shoulder once more, Director Dis immediately called upon all members of the Sun Church to head underground and start the search in the sewers near the river channels.
Yi Chen was not idle either, starting to help everyone retrieve the bodies.
Knowing the “Symbol of Death” that transmitted death, these bodies that had been bloated for over two hours were basically useless, and without a surplus of morgue space to store them,
they were stacked on the riverbank into a sizable mound and doused with kerosene for direct cremation.
Not just in the riverbank area,
all temporary morgue sites, including hospitals, began the burning process as originally planned.
After all, keeping these bodies unburned would only lead to more accumulation and unease.
Sunlight Hospital’s Plantation, which is also the workshop for the “Sun Potion” ingredients.
The apprentice supposed to be guarding it was nowhere to be seen,
with the slightly ajar door,
Autopsy Doctor – Helvoye grasped the head of an apprentice, lifting them into midair, with bright red lines visibly being inhaled into his arm, rapidly draining the apprentice to the point of becoming a mummy.
The elderly, weakened body rejuvenated during this process, turning from an octogenarian into just over sixty years old.
He was not yet satisfied, continuing to search the Plantation for any possible Sun Secret Medicine, but in the end was unable to locate the secret medicine source liquid, only managing to scrape together a few barrels of inadequate waste liquid.
“So cautious, not a single bottle of the secret medicine left here, eh?”
With no alternative, he directly grasped the waste liquid and gulped it down. Although it was waste, it still possessed a small effect of the Sun Secret Medicine, revitalizing him until he looked as if he were just over fifty years old.
However, something strange happened.
From within this borrowed skin, two starkly different voices emerged, engaging in conversation with each other.
Mature male voice: “I’m getting more and more accustomed… never thought this old man’s body would be so great!”
Youthful voice: “Since this body is already quite good, why are we so insistent on obtaining William Behrens’s physical form, just because of ‘Gentleman’s Skin’s’ wishes? I just want to leave this place of death as quickly as possible.”
Inside ‘Helvoye’s’ body, two voices were having a dialogue,
One was the Blood Baron who had dwelt on Holy Grail Mountain, and the other was surprisingly Lotson in white robe.
The Baron explained: “A body that transcends its limit might seem serviceable but will soon feel the constraint of its ‘ceiling’. We have already experienced William’s body, and it’s incomparable, and we have also made an agreement with ‘Gentlemen’s Skin’, we cannot breach the contract now.”
Lotson didn’t wish for Yi Chen’s body because of reluctance. “No, I’m just worried that the death here might affect us.”
The Baron reassured: “Don’t worry, if it’s just a matter of escaping, we can still manage it.”
Lotson, leading a squad among the Holy Grail Mountain, felt a sense of ‘finding a kindred spirit in a foreign land’ when he first met the Baron.
He was not ‘possessed through a blood exchange’ by the Baron but had willingly accepted him and coexisted in consciousness.
This deep integration allowed the blood manipulation to reach a higher level and simultaneously gave him the identity of a patient.
Lotson was very clear that the spread of the Grey Zone was unstoppable and even Zion would eventually be overwhelmed. By bonding with someone like the Baron, a true compatriot, the potential survival issues of the future could be directly addressed.
After the two merged, they immediately destroyed the manor, simulating the aftermath of a fierce battle.
They then led the squad members further up the mountain and, during a night’s bivouac, drained his teammates dry with blood secret techniques.
At that moment, a yellow robe floated down from the sky.
This object, of unknown origin, suppressed ‘Gentleman’s Skin’ between garments and could effectively block its self-monitoring mechanism and even avoid detection from Zion’s exterior.
The consciousness within the yellow robe came to a secret agreement with the two men, specifically naming “William Behrens”.
As ‘Helvoye’ finished drinking all the waste liquid, his skin even showed some signs of radiance, and his bones cracked loudly, signifying the perfect adaptation of the body.
When he stepped out from the Sun Plantation, his gaze was quickly drawn to the rising black smoke from behind the hospital.
Looking at the dense black smoke ascending to the sky, even the face of the Blood Baron turned sour.
“Burning corpses, really not the wisest choice~”
Nevertheless, leaving the corpses unburned and piling up is just as bad, and might even result in a massive outbreak of reanimated corpses. According to the traits of the ‘Death Plague’, it might even link tens of thousands of corpses together.
Either scenario would accelerate the invasion of death. It always feels like something is approaching—the true dead from the Old World seem to be coming here.
I hope William arrives soon~”
Just as Yi Chen had surmised.
With a large number of dead, including many gentlemen having perished near the Dom River,
The ‘last breaths’ they exhaled at the time of suicide all settled beneath the riverbed, accumulating at an underground chamber that wasn’t marked on any map.
The Sun Church traversing the sewers had detected anomalies,
The accumulated filth in the sewers had vastly decreased, various dead fish, animal corpses, insects, and even rats had all vanished, seemingly taken to construct the [Dead].
Director Dis was also well-prepared, releasing dozens of dead rats injected with trace amounts of ‘Black Liquid’. These rats immediately followed a certain Death Aura to lead the way for everyone.
Until they stopped in front of a dead-end alley, furiously scratching at the wall with their claws, not caring even if their claws broke off.
Director Dis delivered a direct palm strike, shattering the wall and revealing a secret passageway.
He took out a city map for comparison; there was no record of it whatsoever.
“What? I’ve lived in Levinhome for so many years, and I never knew there was a chamber here. When did it appear?”
As Director Dis stepped in, the glow from his garment was immediately restricted. Waves of terrible Death Aura were continually spilling forth from the depths, even turning the stones on the ground into grains of sand, utterly dead.