Monsters Will Die if They Are Killed

"...This only proves that you can tell, Professor, that I am serious."

Stuck by Su Zhou's direct answer, Yelena's voice sounded like she was gritting her teeth.

But then, she relaxed her frown and said sincerely: "There must be something weird about the Light Chasing Order this time. In my mission plan, I had no intention of inviting them over. Otherwise, I wouldn't have called you, Professor." ——But Master Suiguang is like a prophet, he traveled with me under some pretext, and after learning about my mission, he said that he could help with the repairs, and then took the initiative to join the exploration team."

"It is impossible for a normal person to refuse such a generous offer. Rejecting it forcefully would be suspicious. What's more, having an alchemist master is indeed a good thing. But now that I think about it, Master Suiguang must have known about our plan a long time ago and prepared Enter the ruins with us in good faith."

At this point, the female knight's expression turned cold.

She stretched out her hand, pointed her thumb backward, and pointed at the camp—to be precise, at the iron coffin in the center of the camp—and sneered sarcastically: "And his target is the ancestor girl in the iron coffin— —even deeper than we thought!"

"And you probably figured it out, right? There was something wrong with the demonic tranquilizer he injected into Adama. No tranquilizer can take effect so quickly. Your apprentice is also a patient with demonic disease, and you are also an alchemist. A magician knows best."

Yelena's words were sincere and urgent, and she did not lie.

When Gaza first entered the orphanage, he needed to take medicine to stabilize the spread of demonization.

Taking care of a young demonizer was a time that Svetre remembered deeply, even if the memory was missing.

Su Zhou knew very well that the tranquilizer to resist the demonic madness needed to be integrated with the body, and it would take at least an hour before it could gradually feed back to the 'soul'.

Master Suiguang's medicine almost instantly calmed Adama down, or it was an epoch-making new type of tranquilizer - one that works instantly, has no side effects, and can restore demonized patients to normalcy in a crazy animal state.

Otherwise, it is the liquefied 'soul essence'. To put it simply, it is a large amount of pure soul condensation.

The former is of course impossible. With that thing, the Light-Chasing Order has long since become the supreme leader of all demonized people. The Asmodai Empire is simply a piece of shit: there are so many people, they are wandering around the entire empire, and everyone is extraordinary. The patients with the demonized disease could join forces to defeat the emperor's twelve armored guards regiments and twenty-eight armies within three days.

The latter is just drinking poison to quench thirst. Instantly injecting a large amount of soul essence can indeed temporarily restore the filthy demonized soul to normal, but after a period of time, when these soul essences are also contaminated, the demonized person will die due to excessive burning.

And... before death, the demonized person will burst out with incredible power that far exceeds his current level.

This completely conflicts with Master Suiguang's statement that he will send Adama to the Chasing Light Order for recuperation in the future.

"We need to join forces, professor. Master Suiguang repeatedly stopped Harder from killing Adama. Obviously, he wanted to use him as a knife and use the demonizer's last crazy time to kill us."

After seeing Su Zhou's thoughtful expression, Yelena felt that the chips were enough and the reasons were very sufficient.

She smiled and stretched out her hand to the white-haired old man: "He has ulterior motives, is powerful, and has malicious intentions - the Light-Chasing Order is most keen on exploring the ruins of its ancestors, not to mention that they are no longer the Chasers four hundred years ago. The Holy One of Light and his followers have formed a group."

"In order to ensure technological superiority and monopoly on secrets, these alchemists will do anything."

Su Zhou narrowed his eyes. He did not extend his hand, but nodded slightly, then shook his head, and then said softly: "Okay - but Ms. Yelena, even if Master Suiguang really intends to catch us all, will you allow me again?" Are you alive?"

"Let's not mention that I am just a small professor of ancient civilization and a third-rate alchemist. Now that I know the secret of this ruins and have seen the living ancestral girl, I really don't think I can stay out of it, but I can't. Didn’t think it would survive.”

"What's more, joining forces with you? I don't think I have the qualifications to deal with a high-level cult master of Xinguang."

"A little professor of ancient civilization? The best relic scholar in the south is so humble, so there are not many big ones in the empire."

Shaking her head exaggeratedly, Yelena raised her index finger meaningfully and pointed at it: "'We' need you. Now that you know about the Ancestor Girl, you must also understand our purpose. Do you think your value is important to us?" How big is the word? Will we waste the most precious knowledge like this?"

"What's more, aren't you maintaining an orphanage? The reward for exploring the ruins is far from enough to sustain your good deeds, but believe me, as long as you join us, you can expand your orphanage ten times without any problem."

"..."

Su Zhou originally wanted to sneer and ridicule why the other party didn't open ten orphanages before.

But soon, he remembered something.

——The tax collector who was too coincidental, the remuneration just right, Yelena who just happened to appear, and the mysterious mission that fit his apparent professionalism.

Also, the power behind this woman.

Su Zhou is self-aware. He knows that he is not smart and wise, but he is certainly not stupid.

Xiguang Orphanage... If Yelena did not lie, the forces behind her valued the knowledge of 'Professor Sweetley' from the beginning.

Then they are now. It is impossible that no one was sent to monitor the orphanage.

So after being silent for a while, Su Zhou said, "What do you need me to do?"

"Smart man, Professor. You don't need to do a lot, and it's not dangerous. You just need to interfere with the operation of Master Suiguang's armor at the critical moment. It'll be fine in just a moment. As long as he is also an alchemist and is also in the Zhuguang Cult. You can do it only if you have gone through group training - we know you can do it.”

The smile on Yelena's face became even wider. She stretched out her hand again, and this time Su Zhou also extended his hand.

After the two shook hands, the female knight turned around and left, while Su Zhou said in a deep voice: "Your boss..."

"Smart people don't ask that question. Professor, you shouldn't ask it, and I won't tell it."

Stopping slightly, she interrupted Su Zhou's inquiry: "Also, remember to ask little Gaza and little Luoya to stay away from the camp later - that is not a place they should be close to."

Yelena's footsteps then sounded again, the knight disappeared around the corner of the corridor, and the wind barrier used to block the sound at the entrance of the passage slowly dissipated.

Su Zhou stood there with a solemn expression, while Gasha and Luo Ya stood behind Su Zhou with confused expressions.

No, it should be said that Luo Ya-Gasha seemed to vaguely understand something. His face turned pale and he asked softly: "Professor...everyone in the courtyard..."

"fine."

After coming back to his senses, Su Zhou smiled and shook his head. He put his hands behind his back, his red eyes glowing faintly in the darkness of the ruins: "I won't let anything happen to everyone.

"Dean...what exactly did Aunt Yelena say just now?"

Luo Ya's face was full of confusion. He was indeed a genius. He could assemble alchemy equipment at a young age and successfully condensed souls. However, in terms of worldliness and communication, Luo Ya was still well protected. Gasha and the former Si Professor Vitre did not involve him in any of this stuff.

"Um."

Su Zhou heard this doubt, thought for a while, and said seriously: "To put it bluntly, it is a person with ulterior motives who wants to recruit me into the gang. To deal with another person with ulterior motives.

"Then again, don't these people know how to talk without telling riddles?"

Sighing, he turned his head and seriously warned the two children: "I say it again, Gaza, Loya, when you grow up, you must not be this kind of Riddler!"

"Yes! Remember it!"

The two children's voices were very fast and powerful, and they obviously hated this behavior.

The second day ended quickly. Except for sharing the exploration results during the meal before the break, the members of the exploration team did not have any communication.

Of course, this is on the surface. No one knows how many times private exchanges like the one between Su Zhou and Yelena occurred.

Master Suiguang has never left his armor. After all, the alchemist's body is very fragile. As long as he is not in a safe place, the alchemist of the Chasing Light Order will not leave it.

Adama was also stunned beside her luggage, saliva dripping from the corner of her mouth. Since being injected with sedatives, he has barely regained some of his consciousness as a human being, but the damage caused by the demonic disease to the soul is irreversible. It is no longer possible for him to be like the original earth spell caster who often said things that could reduce the pain. The temperature is a joke.

The bonfire burned quietly, and another night passed.

On the third day, this day was still just an ordinary exploration. Su Zhou and his party did not find any clues to leave the ruins.

However, after they returned to the camp, they received two rather unexpected news.

[Everyone, I have found a passage leading outside the ruins. 】

Master Suiguang's mechanical voice also contained a rare joy. Su Zhou could even imagine the expression of a white-haired old scholar smiling inside the armor: [The passage is located on the ceiling at the top of the northeastern part. The mountain there collapsed, revealing There is a crack, which is relatively narrow. I am afraid only children can climb out. 】

[But according to our power, it is not difficult to expand it. 】

"She's going to wake up."

Yelena's message was even simpler. She pointed directly at the iron coffin, with a hint of anger in her tone: "After the ancestors' stasis stance was turned on, we couldn't restart it. Now that she's about to wake up, what should we do? ? A living, moving ancestor, in such a dangerous environment - if she gets a little injured, we all die and it’s not enough to compensate!"

At this point, she glared at Master Suiguang and Hader: "If you hadn't insisted on opening it, things wouldn't have been so troublesome!"

"What?"

The news from both sides was quite sudden. Even if Hader was glared at by Yelena, he did not react and even became anxious: "Then what should we do now?"

Serve cold.

Su Zhou turned directly to look at the sarcophagus. Indeed, he could sense that the soul in the coffin had begun to stir.

The soul of an average person is like tinted glass with ripples: the transparent essence, the color of the source energy, and the fluctuation of emotions. Just by looking at the soul, you can understand the general situation of a person.

But the girl in the coffin, or the local term "ancestors" in the Aian world, her soul is very strange, showing an opaque, impurity-free pure silver, and releasing a very dazzling light.

At this moment, this untainted silver light is making waves, releasing holy, pure, peaceful and joyful waves.

——It’s beautiful.

Nodding slightly, Su Zhou had never seen such a soul before. Even he himself was not considered 'purely kind', so it was impossible to have such a clean soul.

Because I don’t have it myself, I admire it.

But there are other people who can detect the beauty of this 'soul' just like Su Zhou, and their reaction is far greater than Su Zhou's.

Because I don’t have it, I am greedy.

There was a cracking sound, and the sound of bones rubbing against each other was heard, and the giant who had been sitting aside stood up.

Demonized people will long for pure souls because they are too dirty. The souls eroded by high-density source energy are as rotten and fragile as an apple eaten by ants, so they need something to fill it.

"hungry."

Simple vocabulary. In the past two days of exploration, Adama had not eaten. He had been sitting next to his luggage, staring blankly at the ground, muttering some giant language that was only spoken in his hometown.

Not to mention whether he could eat in this state, he had already finished his own dry food a few days ago.

No one can give him their own food, not even Master Suiguang.

Rather, keeping the beast alive and hungry is his purpose.

Adama, who stood up, immediately became the center of everyone's attention, while he himself was staring directly at the iron coffin in front of him. His throat was squirming violently, making a grunting beast sound, and his tall The body also looked a little rickety, making him no longer look like a human being, but a giant beast walking upright.

"Gasha, take Luoya and retreat, stay away."

Sighing, Su Zhou signaled his apprentice to stay away. What was going to happen next was obviously not suitable for children and was extremely dangerous.

Adama will undoubtedly die. Whether it is simply a complete madness at the end of the demonic disease, or as Yelena said, being saved by Master Suiguang and used as a weapon against others, the result will not be much different—— He will undoubtedly die, and he will definitely die at the hands of his former teammates.

"You madman, what else are you planning to do!"

Hader stood up immediately and stood in front of Adama.

He had already drawn his long sword, and the cold air formed a halo around his body. The swordsman said in a loud voice: "Looking at you like this, even the master's tranquilizer is completely useless, right? Even if I do something good today, , send you home!"

While Hader was blocking the demonized giant, a green light flashed deep in Adama's eyes. He roared, revealing his lion-like fangs, and then punched with extraordinary swiftness. It struck out, bringing up bursts of thunderous wind and shock waves, and blasted towards Hader's head.

"Varied……?!"

The frost swordsmanship in the north can indeed slow down the enemy, but faced with such speed, the swordsman was obviously unable to do what he wanted. He exclaimed before he could finish his sentence, and he received the punch. Harder could only subconsciously raise his long sword. The sword is held in front of the head.

But it was meaningless - with the blood of the giant and the demonization disease, Adama's attack had exceeded the speed of sound, and it was not something that Harder, who was only at the spiritual level, could withstand.

There was just a crisp sound, and the frost-patterned steel sword was immediately broken from it. The shocked swordsman flew backwards, and then hit the wall of the ruins heavily. When it was embedded in the wall, it also shook down. A patch of gravel and gravel.

I was ganked by reality today. I was busy with many things until 8:30. I didn’t want to write just to rush the manuscript, so I sent 4000 first. I hope it will be fine tomorrow and I can finish the initial plot.