Chapter 158 Trapped in the Fog
However, this is just Li Qi's guess. Whether the way Zhuguanghui makes relics really requires relics, he needs to go and see it himself.
Before that, Li Qi can play with the [Surprise Treasure Chest] left by the survivors.
Li Qi fiddled with the surprise treasure chest, trying to figure out something from it.
The angel beside him couldn't help but wonder:
"With me by your side, you don't seem to need these things?"
"I don't trust you."
Li Qi spoke the truth and did not give the angel any face at all.
“…”
The angel remained silent, and Li Qi continued:
"You have hidden a lot of things from me. I now doubt your real purpose for staying with me. If it weren't for the good things you gave me..." Li Qi raised his left hand: "...I would have chased you away long ago."
Li Qi calls the series of knowledge he is currently pursuing and the power he possesses alchemy.
Whether it is magic or anything else, it is just a derivative of alchemy.
Li Qi himself can be called an alchemist.
The core principle of alchemists is equal exchange, and Li Qi also pays great attention to transactions with others.
You get what you pay for.
Otherwise, one day in the future, what you have gained will be lost in another way.
Li Qi firmly believed this, so after estimating the value of the left hand given to him by the angel, he let the angel stay with him.
But that doesn't mean he trusts angels.
On the contrary, he was extremely wary of angels and never trusted this guy who spoke uncertainly from the beginning.
Although after receiving the inheritance from Freya as the creator to Li Qi, Li Qi has confirmed part of the truth in the angel's words.
For example, the original five relics, for example, the first relics were indeed not made of life or anything.
But there was more that the angel didn't say, or lied about.
For example, the angel never said why she wanted to suck Li Qi into her stomach as soon as they met.
And, according to the information left by Freya, the angels did not give the order for "all mankind to evolve".
At this point the angel lied.
So Li Qi didn't believe her. An artificial creation that could lie could no longer be regarded as an artificial creation, but should be regarded as another special life.
However, it is also possible that the information left by Freya was wrong, and what the angel said was the truth.
But... instead of trying so hard to find the truth, it is easier and more convenient to just doubt everything.
Li Qi doesn't have that much free time to pursue the truth.
"You are very wary..."
After knowing Li Qi's attitude, the angel looked speechless.
Li Qi chuckled: "If not, I would have been swallowed by you a long time ago. You know, this hand is given by you."
Li Qi waved his left hand again.
"…All right."
The angel exhaled softly, walked outside, and said, "I'm going to go check on those survivors who haven't evolved yet."
"Don't swallow them."
“…I won’t.”
The angel responded and left the temporary tent.
Li Qi turned his attention to the surprise treasure chest and began to study how this relic worked.
After this trip to the City of Disorder, Li Qi's Qi improved a little bit. Although it is still far from level three, it can support him to perform analysis techniques many times.
Analysis, an alchemical magic, after performing analysis on an object, as long as it is the information remembered in one's head, analysis will automatically analyze the material composition of the object.
So this is a magic that is very dependent on the caster's knowledge.
Li Qi originally didn't know much about the materials in this world, and his magic level had not yet reached level two, so he couldn't perform analysis techniques. Therefore, he only had a vague understanding of the material composition of many relics.
However, with the knowledge passed down by Freya, Li Qi can now easily analyze the composition of most of the relics in this world.
For example, the surprise treasure chest in front of you.
"Human tissue, some fog zone materials... and a material whose name I don't know? Is this... bone?"
Li Qi analyzed the structure inside the surprise treasure chest, and at the same time began to imitate the surprise treasure chest.
Knowing the materials and structure, Li Qi can try to imitate it.
Regardless of whether it can be copied or not, the process of copying can improve Li Qi's experience in alchemy, allowing him to make other things more smoothly.
Li Qi, who got a new toy, spent his time on the road studying the surprise treasure chest.
More than a month later, Li Qi and his team arrived at the edge of the sea of fog. The outside world was the border city of the current safe zone.
Its name is Green Shade City.
"We're finally here. I wonder if Maru and the others are back."
Looking at the beautiful green city outside through the fog, Carol breathed a sigh of relief and said to herself.
Li Qi looked up at the safe zone in front of him and was about to leave with Carol.
But the angel stopped him: "Wait."
"What's wrong?"
"To be on the safe side, let one of the survivors leave the foggy area first."
Angel gave Li Qi advice.
Li Qi's eyes flashed, and he instantly thought of something, and looked at the hundreds of people behind him.
The survivors have never left the fog area since they entered it.
They have been reincarnated countless times, and the "fog" accumulated in their bodies is beyond imagination.
It's just because they haven't experienced the 'fog backlash' yet that they are unable to master the 'qi'.
And now, they are about to leave the fog area.
If they also have the saying of fog backlash, then when the thick fog accumulates in their bodies, this backlash will be fatal to them once they leave the fog area.
Therefore, in order to confirm whether they would suffer the backlash of the fog, Li Qi needed to find someone to conduct the experiment.
After staring at the group of survivors for a long time, Li Qi called out the female guard's name:
"Ellie."
"king……"
The female guard in a robe knelt on one knee beside Li Qi, waiting for orders.
Li Qi said: "Find someone... to test whether they can leave the foggy area."
"Anyone will do?"
"Try to volunteer. After all... according to our speculation, you might die if you leave the fog area."
Li Qi said without hiding anything.
The female guard Ai Lei was silent for a while, turned to look at the survivors, and repeated Li Qi's words to them.
What was a little surprising, but not too surprising was that after the survivors learned about this, nearly half of them raised their hands, wanting to become the "experimental subjects" to leave the fog area.
Ai Lei observed them carefully and finally selected an elderly person who looked very old and seemed like he would not live long.
At the same time, for comparison, Ai Lei selected a pair of young people, a man and a woman, who were in their prime, to test whether the survivors could survive outside the fog area.
After the selection was completed, Ai Lei prayed for the three people, watched them leave the foggy area, and prayed for their safety in her heart.
Ai Lei watched all this with great anticipation, but unfortunately... the result was not as expected.
At first, after the old man left the foggy area, he didn't have any special reaction. It was as if he was just walking from the foggy area into the sunshine.
He was bathed in the sunlight and squinted his eyes in enjoyment.
But soon after, an accident occurred.
“Ah…Ahhh!!!”
The old man who was enjoying the sunshine suddenly let out a howl of pain.
Under the gazes of everyone, his body was deforming, the relics around him suddenly merged and transformed with him, and gradually, some features of the relics he held appeared on his body, and green blood like paint flowed out of his body.
The elderly are not an exception.
The same thing happened to the young man and woman behind him.
Their bodies also mutated as the relics around them merged with them, making them look even more bizarre.
Because of their youth, the roars of young men and women are louder than those of the elderly, but they also look more painful, and the tragic screams are unbearable to watch.
In just one minute, the three people who left the fog area had all turned into strange fog beasts with green bodies! "......!!"
Looking at the three people who turned into monsters outside the fog area, Ailei widened her eyes, and her eyes became dark and desperate.
The reason why Ailei showed such an expression was very simple, because she knew that the survivors had lost hope of living in the safe zone.
Li Qi watched this scene silently, and finally sighed. He raised his left hand and used a silk thread to end the life of the survivor who had turned into a monster.
"It seems that the survivors cannot leave the fog area..."
Li Qi made a judgment.
If it was just the backlash of the fog, it would be fine, but after the survivors left the fog area, they had to endure more than just the backlash of the fog.
The companion creature in their bodies, the relic that represents their emotions and will, will corrode their bodies and turn them into monsters.
The higher the level of the relic you possess, the greater the threat it poses when it turns into a monster.
If all the survivors are like this, then they must never leave the fog area.
Because once we leave the fog area, it means that more than 700 monsters will enter the safe zone.
You have to know that some of them are holding first and second level relics. If they all turned into monsters, they would probably be more difficult to deal with than the fog beasts in the fourth level area.
"Aunt Carol, I'm afraid we can't leave."
When he realized this, Li Qi turned to Carol and said, "I will stay here and help them build a new safe zone in the fog area. As for the Kingdom... I'll leave it to you."
"You're going to stay here with them?"
Carol asked, frowning.
Li Qi nodded: "This is the deal between Freya and I. Before the deal is completed, I will be their king and will be responsible for their safety."
Since the survivors cannot leave the fog area, Li Qi tries to build a safe zone for them in a layer of fog.
Compared to the third floor, the fog area on the first floor is relatively safe. As long as trade can be established with the kingdom, there should be no problem in building a small gathering place on the first floor.
After that, it depends on the reaction of the kingdom.
And this requires Carol's help.
After all, Carol is also a member of the exploration team and a mist explorer who is close to the black fog. If she says it, the kingdom should seriously consider it.
(End of this chapter)
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