Chapter 122-121- Hunting
After buying many necessary daily necessities and some food that could be stored for a long time, Yvette and the other two walked through the narrow path full of garbage, crossed several "single-plank bridges" between illegally built buildings, bought some freshly baked bread, and then returned to the rental house on the first floor.
Firefly has cleaned up the remaining space and remains connected to the internet at all times, monitoring every move around the hive and keeping an eye on the various police and military movements in Fos River.
This is indeed the advantage area of the Mechanical Clan. Rune hacking is even easier for them than for Yvette, and Firefly is more tireless and can monitor the entire process 24 hours a day, greatly reducing the probability of being discovered.
At the kitchen table, Zero and Liana sat on stools and began to eat. Since the bread was filled with different jams, they would share it with each other during the meal, letting each other taste their own bread.
After feeling Yvette's gaze, Liana asked, "Sister, do you want to taste my bread?"
Yvette glanced at Zero's dangerous eyes and said, "No."
Then she thought for a moment and asked, "Which places did you pass through after escaping from the Black Tower?"
She had never asked these questions before because her trust was not high enough.
"After we left Ish Island, we stayed in Agashe for a while. Later, the armed forces of the Black Tower kept chasing us, so we took a few detours and went to Renoir, White Maple City... and finally to the border... I basically did nothing, it was Yvette who was doing all the work... At the border, we saw human traffickers smuggling people across the border, so we followed them, took their car to the human traffickers' park, and then left..." Liana tilted her head and said while thinking.
Yvette noticed that among the cities she reported, except for Agashe, she had not explored any of the other cities after the apocalypse. Moreover, in the cities she had explored, such as Kux and other small towns, she had not discovered the existence of dream fog.
Could this lead to the hypothesis that the dream fog is likely to appear in reality only in the cities that Zero passes through?
She pondered for a moment, then asked, "Have you ever seen a 'divine transformation'? What does it look like?"
Liana shook her head. "We were all injected with strange potions and gained special abilities. I haven't seen it myself. You'd have to ask the 'doctor' in charge of the experiment."
"PhD?"
"I think his name is 'Dillon Demps', an old man. I heard from Firefly that before Yvette gained her powers, he used 'Divine Transmutation' to create many deformed creatures, both animals and humans, and buried them in the forest behind the mountain."
Hearing this, Yvette's heart moved.
In the Corrupted Forest of the Ish Mountains, the strength of the distortion forces far exceeds that of Gray Harbor City and Luya City. She had never thought about the reason before and just thought it was a coincidence, but now thinking about it, it might be related to the fact that the place was a distortion landfill.
Then she looked at Yinghuo: "Yinghuo, do you know anything about 'Dillon Demps'? What kind of person is he?"
Before Zero mastered the ability of mutation infection, Dr. Dillon was able to create mutants, which made her feel that the source of the doomsday might not be Zero.
Although she seems to be the most suspicious at the moment.
"Dr. Dillon's information, like the Divine Transfiguration, has the highest level of access in the base database. For a long time, I was afraid of being discovered, so I didn't dare touch this information," Yinghuo said. "But from what I understand, before the Eternal Life Project, Dr. Dillon was a well-regarded senior scholar in the academic community. He even issued a statement firmly opposing human experimentation and other experiments that violated ethical taboos, and he also made many condemnations of the Holy Spirit Sect."
"And then he started doing human experiments himself?" Yvette asked.
"Yes." said Firefly.
Yvette shook her head, not wanting to comment, as she felt this kind of thing was quite common.
Then she thought, since Dr. Dillon could get the ability to create deformed creatures from the "Divine Molt", then the "Erosion Seed" of the Lin Molt creatures, and other large companies that mastered this mysterious substance, must be able to do it as well.
Moreover, even if Doomsday was really created by Zero, Black Tower Pharmaceuticals cannot be separated from the responsibility. In any case, it is not as pure as "Estherin Omega" said in her suicide note.
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At night, on the Internet, Yvette tried to spread the fact that the Reincarnation High Priest "Linde Benedict" was the "General" of the Ghost Hand Society.
She did not try to contact the requiem priest Hoyle, because who knew if he was in a state of being possessed at any time.
Later, it turned out that the effect was not ideal.
Since the Rustbone Free State is a local area network, all information will be strictly controlled. Information that is unfavorable to the general will be blocked as soon as it is sent out and will not be able to spread at all. It will also be refuted by the media.
In the world outside the wall, it is somewhat useful, but there is no hope of reaching the level of being able to put pressure on the general.
So, after trying for a few days, Yvette turned her attention back to finding the general's real body.
Although the necromancer's methods are strange, he is still a regular mage. As long as she catches his true self, she can kill him quickly with a huge advantage to eliminate the current trouble.
But how to find him is another problem. If she really checks all the surveillance cameras, she will be exhausted. At most, she can outsource it to Yinghuo and let it find him, but that will take time. Moreover, it is not certain whether the general's real body will appear in the surveillance and whether he can be recognized if he appears.
Thinking of this, Yvette glanced at the remaining 1.5 million digital coins in her account and suddenly had an idea. She sent a message to the Fire Bearer: "Do you have a way to find a hidden necromancer?"
"Miss Wuming, are you talking about the High Priest of Reincarnation, Lind Benedict?" After a while, the Fire Bearer replied.
"It seems you know my current situation."
"With such a big commotion, it's hard not to pay attention," the Fire Bearer said, "but in line with my principle of not selling knowledge, I won't tell you any relevant soul magic knowledge."
"So what do you have in mind?"
"I can tell you his exact location directly." The Fire Bearer said shockingly.
"......?" Yvette was a little confused. As a top rune hacker and an intelligent AI like Firefly, she couldn't find the general's specific location. How did the Fire Bearer get it?
Is there a traitor in the Holy Spirit Sect who will sell out information?
Or did the Fire Bearer himself master some mysterious soul magic, and could use the mental power used by the general to control the undead to trace back?
"This will take a little time, but not too long. Do you need to place an order, Miss Wuming?" asked the fire bearer.
"How much?" Yvette suspected that this order must be very expensive.
"No charge, Miss Nameless," the Fire Bearer explained. "Money, or rather—this little amount, is not important to us. The reason we charge you, besides the value it deserves, is to deepen our understanding of you and assess your sincerity during our interactions. Now, we believe we can begin some deeper cooperation with you."
"cooperate?"
"Yes, we will continue to provide you with assistance in the future. In return, I hope you will lend us a hand when we need help and participate in some of our missions," the Fire Bearer said. "Of course, the core starting point of all missions is only one, and that is to ensure the continuation of the flame of civilization."
Yvette was silent for a moment, then replied, "I agree."
"Excellent! Thank you for your recognition, Comrade Wuming." The Fire Bearer sent a smiling emoji. "It will take approximately two weeks to a month to locate Lind Benedict's location. During this time, please be patient."
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Curious about how the Fire Bearer was able to locate the general's exact location, Yvette paid close attention to the latest information related to the Holy Spirit Sect in the days that followed, and also learned about the movements of all parties.
First of all, the information that Yvette spread outside the firewall was gradually gaining popularity. The boss behind the fraud park turned out to be the reincarnation priest of the Holy Spirit Sect. This was considered explosive news in New Eden. Coupled with the large-scale martial law now imposed by Fusjiang, the siege of the hero "Wuming" who exposed all this aroused fierce confrontation among netizens. Many netizens climbed over the firewall to curse, which also added a lot of pressure to Rusty Bone's speech control.
Then, Federal President John Tito Rocky Wilder also noticed this matter. In diplomatic occasions, he exerted pressure on the Rustbone Free State remotely, demanding the lifting of the large-scale martial law in the Fos River with a tough attitude.
Furthermore, in Fosjiang, the well-liked and popular requiem priest Hoyle expressed strong dissatisfaction with the martial law, so he took sick leave and handed over all the work to his deputy.
It is not difficult to feel from these things that the martial law has caused considerable pressure on the Holy Spirit Sect itself. There is even dissatisfaction within the official and military forces, but they dare not openly disobey the church's wishes.
Then, I spent a month quietly observing and waiting like this.
One evening, Yvette finally got the specific location information of the Reincarnation High Priest Lind from the Fire Bearer. He was in a mansion on a wealthy street not far from the Soul Fire Church.
After holding back for so long, her hunt can finally begin.
(End of this chapter)
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