Chapter 976: Not a Daughter
Muric saw that the furious Agu had begun to release the same violent witchcraft, but his emotions did not change at all. He gently threw the bleeding head into Agu's arms with the hand holding Fiona's head.
"There's no need to be so angry, Mr. Agu, this woman is not your daughter."
Agu was hit by Fiona's head, and the magic power that was half-brewed was immediately dispersed. He staggered and almost fell, but he still held his daughter's head tightly, unable to bear to let her fall to the ground and get dirty.
Muritch's calm words made his anger stagnate, and it got stuck in his chest, making him feel suffocated and want to vomit blood, as if it would explode at any time.
"You... huh... what do you mean?" Agu's chest heaved violently.
"That's what it means on the surface." Muritch bent down and picked up the limp body on the ground, holding it horizontally as if he was hugging a lover.
"She is not your daughter. Your Fiona was killed when she was fifteen years old. This Fiona now is actually the same as you..."
"...It's a faceless man."
Agu's legs went limp and he fell to his knees. He stared at the calm Muritch with his eyes wide open, his mind in a mess.
Murridge raised his chin and said, "Take a closer look at the head in your hand."
Agu slowly lowered his head, only to find that the head in his hand had lost its facial features at some point.
The head was flat without any bumps, and even the hair had fallen off naturally. In the end, what Agu was holding was just a ball of flesh that still had the warmth of a body part.
If the wound on the neck had not changed at all, no one would have imagined what the ball of meat had to do with the human head.
But Agu knew very well that this was what the Faceless Man looked like after he died or lost his identity.
No features, no characteristics, no identity.
I can only wander in the world, looking for the meaning of my existence.
"If she is not Nana, why does she know what happened between Nana and me? What did you do to Nana?" Agu's voice became louder and louder. His daughter's true whereabouts made him a little clearer.
Murrich shrugged. "We didn't know you would become Thor's servant at the time. In order to hunt down an evil faceless man, we naturally had to do everything we could to find information about you. So we searched the soul of poor Fiona. But don't worry, when we found her, she had been dead for a long time. The soul search didn't cause her much pain, but instead helped her get relief."
No one will believe this kind of bullshit.
But at this moment, Agu didn't even have the ability to get angry.
He had been happy that his daughter was still alive and had successfully been promoted to a second-level wizard, but he had never expected that Nana had never lived past the age of fifteen.
The huge gap made him feel like there was a void in his chest.
It was as if my heart had withered and died at some point.
The funny thing is, he is a dead man.
Where does a dead person get a heart? Muric didn't seem to notice the blow that Agu had suffered, and continued to explain "kindly".
"In order to lure you back, we deliberately blurred the memory of a Faceless Man captive and turned her into the new Fiona. Unfortunately, you have never appeared since then, and our painstaking efforts were in vain. But to our surprise, the new Fiona actually has a good talent for magic. Moreover, after she came to hate the Faceless Man, she always achieved good results in every experiment related to the Faceless Man. Maybe this is because you are born to understand yourselves very well?"
"I thought that maybe one day she could be useful, so I kept her and trained her until she became an excellent second-level wizard who is very good at conducting experiments with faceless men."
At this point, Muritch sighed, "Ah, I don't want to kill her now. After all, I have raised her for so many years and I am still very satisfied with this serious little girl. But I didn't expect that the breeding nest where the red worms were cultivated was suddenly damaged not long ago. At least one unit of faceless people is needed as materials to repair the breeding nest."
"We originally wanted to use you to find other faceless men to repair the culture tank, but we didn't expect that you really didn't know the whereabouts of the other faceless men. Then I will have to use Fiona to save the emergency."
As he spoke, Murridge lowered his head and kissed Fiona on the neck, then said with his bright red lips: "So you don't have to be angry, she is really not your daughter."
Agu did not let go of the head in his arms, and even held it tighter. "Who killed Nana in the first place?"
"We can't be sure about that. It should be the person who was chasing you. After he lost track of you, he immediately found Fiona and tortured her to death. But I heard from the wizard who was on the mission at that time that the murderer should be a half-elf."
Agu looked up suddenly. "What did you say? Half-elf? Where did the half-elf go later?"
He just happened to know a half-elf!
"Yes, the half-elf, he went to the State Continent after killing Fiona. But Stargate didn't have enough spies there, so they lost track of him. If you want revenge, it may not be easy. After all, it's hard to be sure whether a half-elf still exists or has not yet transformed."
Murridge weighed the corpse in his hand and said, "Oh, I can't waste time chatting with you. After all, the materials will be stale in a while. I'll have someone take you out. I'm going to the lab."
Murich randomly found a wizard apprentice and asked Agu to follow him out.
Agu was obviously unwilling, but he did not have the power to resist Murich, and he also wanted to figure out what was going on with the half-elves.
He looked back at Muritch, hugged his head tightly in his arms, felt sad, but no longer had the strength to fight, so he could only follow the wizard apprentice and leave.
Murich carried the still bleeding body and walked to the laboratory near the white warehouse.
This is where the queen of red worms is studied.
At this time, in the large pool in the center of the room, a girl just floated up from the bottom of the water. Immediately, a wizard apprentice rushed over and wiped the girl's body with a towel full of insects.
The girl glanced at Murridge who had walked in, and the headless body in his arms, and silently said, "What a shameless guy."
Muric was not angry. He handed the body to the girl and said, "Whatever you say. Please be as quick as possible when developing the materials for the culture nest, Wizard Corey."
The turbid liquid on Corey's body had been sucked away by the insects, but her face still showed an expression of indifference.
"I will. I just hope you don't come to me and suddenly take my head off while the experiment is completed."
Murridge gave a short laugh, as if Corey had just made a joke.
"I also want to avoid unnecessary conflicts. After all, the other party is Thor's soul. If I lose it, Thor might come with his horrible witchcraft curse to deal with me."
Corey ignored him and just glanced at his back when Murich left.
That look was like looking at a dead person.
(End of this chapter)
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