Chapter 204 Casefile 7: Lich Formation (7)
The scene in Hunhuo's memory changed again. This time, the grown-up children, that is, the young ghost-faced people, were taken into a luxurious mansion.
The person leading the way was still a group of black particles that sometimes dispersed and sometimes gathered into a human shape. It seemed that No. 4 had no clear memory of this person.
They followed the blurry figure into the mansion, descended the long stone steps leading into the deep darkness, and finally arrived at a gloomy basement. Several flames suddenly ignited, illuminating the cylindrical stone platform in the center of the stone chamber.
There was a pile of messy bones on the stone platform, which trembled continuously as they approached. The figure walked forward and bowed deeply to the bones.
"Master, they are here."
The skeletons rose up in response, spinning and jumping, piecing together into a yellow-brown skeleton. Green pupils lit up in the empty eye sockets of the skull, staring dimly at the ghost-faced men.
"What an ugly skeleton." Andrei frowned in disgust, as if he had seen a bad, low-quality, unpalatable meal. "Yellow, old, and covered in dust... This is so disgusting... Ahem, no! This is so unrefined!"
Jiang You: “…” Although you changed your words quickly, did you mean to say that this skeleton is too disgusting?
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"I am Princess Drecy," the eerie skeleton declared. "As I promised you, I have poisoned the culprit who ordered the destruction of your village and the murder of your family. Your blood feud has been avenged. Now, you must serve me as promised and repay my kindness."
"Wow!" Jiang You was incredulous. "No, when that village was destroyed, Dracy must have been behind it, deliberately misleading and testing the Queen, right? She's just putting all the blame on the Queen?"
"Dresi is very good at using these half-truths to win people over," Andre said as he took notes. "She's clearly a selfish person, obsessed with power. As long as it achieves her goals, she can unscrupulously fabricate all kinds of lies. Parents, brothers, lovers, children... perhaps to her, they are nothing more than stepping stones to be discarded and used at will."
"What a horrible person." Jiang You couldn't help but gasp in amazement—even though she had no tongue. "If the Delman royal family was so crazy, their deaths were indeed well deserved. This country needs some monarchs with normal brains."
Andre laughed: "You are indeed worthy of me."
They listened to Dracy's endless talk of her ambitions in their memories, promising those ghost-faced people honor, power, fame and fortune. Those ghost-faced people, who had been isolated and brainwashed since childhood, obviously believed her words, and Jiang You yawned loudly.
Andrei diligently took notes throughout the entire process. "This information isn't necessarily useless. We can use it to analyze Dresi's personality and mindset, and thus infer her next move. The ambitions she revealed might also contain some truth, and we can take targeted measures to screen and prevent them."
Jiang You let him busy himself. She smacked her lips, recalling which color of ice jelly topping was the most delicious, and then took another big bite when the soul fire subsided.
The scene in his memory shifted again. This time, the only NPCs in the scene were the princess and Number Four. The princess wandered around the mansion, while Number Four followed closely behind her skeleton, listening to her constant complaints about how difficult it was to use this body.
"I miss my smooth, delicate skin, not this yellowed skeleton! I used to have bright blonde hair and a beautiful face, but now I'm just a bare skull!" she cursed. "Damn Mebucha, useless Mi Funa! Just a shell! Is it that difficult?!"
Number Four didn't dare to say a word. He hid in the shadows with his neck shrunk, listening to her cursing.
"I need a body of flesh and blood! Mi You is young, beautiful, and has been nurtured and cultivated by Mi Funa with magic potions for many years. She is a sacrifice 'tailor-made' for me! By sacrificing her, I will definitely be able to refine the most perfect lich body that looks exactly like me when I was alive!" Deresi said, "No, I can't waste a few more years waiting for another body. Let Mi Funa die, but I won't let Mi You slip through my fingers like this!
"Why, why should she, born as a sacrifice, be able to freely travel around the world in pursuit of her dreams... No, I won't allow it!"
She took a deep breath. "As long as I'm in hell, I won't allow anyone to be happy! Number Four, go inform Countess Canberra. I need her to go to the Rusman Federation and help me hire Mi You!"
"The Countess of Canberra..." Jiang You repeated the name, "Is it Mrs. Duran? Or is there a second Countess of Canberra in the Duchy of Huntington?"
"It should be the Countess of Durand de Canberra." Andre was also surprised. He knew that the Soul Fire of Number Four would contain a lot of information, but he didn't expect to find a high-level member of the Evil Eye Moon so easily. "That lady is a close friend of Queen Isabella. She also has many connections in the Rusman Federation... This explains why the Evil Eye Moon has so many resources of the Rusman Federation.
"First, there's the legacy left by Queen Isabella, and then there's the Countess of Canberra acting as a middleman. It's very easy for Deresi to utilize the resources there."
The memory continued as they watched Number Four pass a message to Mrs. Duran, and then travel thousands of miles to the Rusman Federation to launch a long-planned hunt for Dresi's favorite prey.
Mi You had no power to fight back, and she didn't even know how terrible things were happening around her. Mrs. Duran tricked Mi You into drawing a portrait of Dre's. Through constant verbal stimulation, inducement, and PUA, Dre's appearance was deeply engraved in Mi You's mind.
Andrei suddenly realized something: "This painting... They not only want Mi You to establish a connection with Dresi and summon Dresi's soul... They also want Mi You to sacrifice herself and build a perfect lich body for Dresi that is no different from her previous body!"
But Deresi's actions went far beyond that. In the wizarding world, manipulating and controlling a girl with such a precarious state of mind was a surprisingly easy task—potions, magic, and shadowy assassins constantly engaged in subtle manipulations. This elaborate scheme quickly led Miu to doubt herself and develop symptoms of mental breakdown.
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