This isn't a souls-like game at all.

But the problem is...

"I say, Si Luo...are all the guards who came here to look for Lord Ars complete this time?" Ye Yiyi asked.

"Yes, because the Knights of the Law can't get in."

"Have all the guards come in?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Have you been to the Tectonic Field before?"

“I have been here, but I was escorting a convoy of materials being delivered to the factory under the leadership of Master Eddie.

"The construction field itself is a very sacred place, blessed by the light of law. No one is allowed to enter unless there is a special reason - such as escorting an item."

"Is that so..." Ye Yiyi frowned slightly.

"What's wrong?" Si Luo looked at him, his expression seemed a little confused.

"Don't you think it's a little weird?"

Ye Yiyi stared at Si Luo's forehead, then pointed around.

"Why would such a monster exist in a tectonic field blessed by the light of law?"

"what……?"

Si Luo's expression froze for a moment, then he suddenly reacted.

"This... uh, seems... to be what you said?"

"So you've never seen a monster like this before?"

"No...never."

Si Luo looked dazed and his eyes were dull.

Ye Yiyi's eyes narrowed slightly, and she saw a faint purple light flickering behind Si Luo's head.

"Sure enough, he has hypnosis skills..." he thought to himself.

"But there's nothing wrong with that, right?"

Si Luo's eyes suddenly became clear, and his expression returned to normal. He then looked at Ye Yiyi with a strange expression and said:

"They're just some monsters. Isn't it normal to have monsters in a construction field?"

"...That's true."

Ye Yiyi was silent for a moment and didn't say anything more.

The hypnosis that Si Luo was subjected to was more serious than he had imagined, which was almost equivalent to the level of modifying common sense.

"Let's keep going and look for Lord Ars."

Hang the weapon with new combat skills on your waist and continue moving forward beyond this point.

The door of the factory building next to it was locked tightly. Si Luo said that according to Lord Eti, if Lord Yars was in the factory, the door should not be locked.

In other words, Lord Ars is not here.

As usual, he checked the location of the air defense catalyst, which was located in the red factory building at the northernmost part of the map.

Ye Yiyi felt a little regretful that he couldn't go into the factory to take a look.

Fortunately, there will be opportunities to come back later, so there is no need to rush now.

Across the factory, a pile of metal carriages wrapped in cloth appeared in the eyes of the two.

"This is where our convoy escorting the transport materials is parked." Si Luo raised his hand and pointed at the carriages.

"Really? Uh? Why does it smell bad?"

Ye Yiyi frowned and suddenly smelled an unusually familiar smell from those carriages.

If he remembered correctly, this should be... the smell of human feces.

Wait, could those materials be manure?

He glanced at the unaware Si Luo with a dark face, and suddenly walked towards a carriage beside him.

"Hey! Sullivan! Wait!"

Ye Yiyi raised his hand and suddenly pulled back the cloth covering the rear of the carriage. He looked down and his pupils suddenly constricted.

"This is... the so-called material?"

Chapter 420 [Ego Stone] and the Meat Man

When the cloth covering the back of the carriage was lifted, a foul odor immediately flooded into the senses along with the extremely shocking image.

"This is... the so-called material?"

Ye Yiyi's pupils constricted, and he felt inexplicably terrified.

"Salivan! We can't touch those things..."

Si Luo hurriedly shouted and followed, but his eyes inadvertently swept across the car and his words stopped abruptly.

"I said Si Luo..."

Ye Yiyi turned around and swept his deep gaze across Si Luo's confused face.

"...How many times have you delivered materials before? "

"This……"

Si Luo was silent and looked up at Ye Yiyi woodenly.

"This... I, I, I can't count...

"And it's just a group of people, what's the problem?"

Looking at Si Luo's expression, which showed that he hadn't noticed anything unusual, Ye Yiyi silently turned around and scanned the car body.

Two rows of naked people were lying neatly on the carriage's trailer.

These people include both men and women, covering a wide age range, from children aged four or five to elderly people with gray hair.

But what made Ye Yiyi's heart palpitate was that these people were not corpses, but living people with heartbeats and breathing.

But unlike ordinary people, these people have dull expressions, lifeless eyes, and are dirty and smelly.

It was as if the soul had been sucked away, leaving only the flesh and blood of the body.

"Hey! Wake up! Are you still conscious? Wake up!!"

Ye Yiyi tried to wake one of them up, but the other person's dim eyes were dull and he did not respond to his shouts.

"This……"

Ye Yiyi's expression was solemn, and he went to call other people.

But unfortunately, these people are like empty shells. They will not respond to any external stimuli and have lost control of their bodies.

The stench that Ye Yiyi smelled just now came from the filth they excreted unconsciously.

"Is this the effect of hypnosis? Or... have their souls really been sucked away?"

Ye Yiyi swallowed quietly, glanced back at Si Luo who was at a loss, and quietly took out a stone with mysterious patterns engraved on its surface from behind him.

Back in Amblett, Alice gave Aidan a stone engraved with the spell to break hypnosis. As long as he placed it close to the forehead of the hypnotized person, the hypnosis would be broken directly.

After this, Aidan realized the power of hypnosis, so he specially commissioned Alice to make more similar props through Ye Yiyi.

The one in Ye Yiyi's hand was the one he took from Alice.

Self-Stone

Item Description: A strange stone engraved with chaos magic.

It can restore the affected self-layer to its original point of balance.

This will break the hypnosis.

The Chaos Impermanent divides the will hierarchy of sentient beings into five levels from bottom to top.

The ego layer is in the middle.

It is an important origin for connecting and balancing the will hierarchy.

"According to Alice, hypnosis is difficult to perform, and for some beings with extremely strong wills, the hypnosis effect may even be negated.

“But once hypnosis is successful, the effect is immediate and almost unnoticeable by the individual.

"In contrast, the technique for removing hypnosis is extremely simple, so simple that even a monkey can learn it.

"So even with just a stone engraved with a dispelling spell, I can easily break these people's hypnosis..."

Ye Yiyi muttered to himself and brought the stone close to the forehead of a young man with a dull look in his eyes.

The pitch-black stone did not emit the faint purple light as Ye Yiyi had imagined. The young man's eyes were still dull and blank, and there was nothing unusual on his forehead.

Ye Yiyi picked up the stone in his hand in silence, his expression terribly dark.

"...So if the stone shows no reaction, it means these people are not actually affected by hypnosis."

If it's not hypnosis, then what else could it be?

Ye Yiyi turned his head to look at Si Luo, suddenly reached out and grabbed his collar, and the stone in his hand swept across his forehead at an extremely fast speed.

"what!!!"

Si Luo immediately let out a miserable howl.

As the purple light emerged from the Stone of Self, a large number of strange purple symbols also appeared one by one on Slo's forehead.

The number of symbols was so large and the coverage was so wide that it even turned into a purple helmet covering the round forehead, which made Ye Yiyi stunned.

"so much?!"

You have to know that at that time, Aidan only had a purple light cone appearing above his head.

Kosro this...

Ye Yiyi couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

"Has he been hypnotized since he was a child?"

After the initial howl, Si Luo's eyes rolled back and he fainted.

The purple spots of various shapes on his head gradually disintegrated under the influence of the Self-Stone, and finally disappeared completely.

“That’s outrageous…”

After laying the unconscious Si Luo flat on the ground, Ye Yiyi swallowed his saliva and looked at the other carriages.

"It seems that Si Luo will not wake up for a while..."

He took out the summoning bell and shook it, summoning Lupel, who had already reached +1, to guard Slo, while he continued to survey the other carriages.

"They're all human... but there are also subhumans and nonhumans, and even various animals..."

After surveying the area, Ye Yiyi's expression became extremely ugly.

The many carriages parked here are almost all filled with intelligent creatures of various races.

Among them, humans are the largest, followed by animals, among which dogs and domestic animals are the largest, while subhumans and non-humans are the least.

"dog……"

He looked at the wolfdog that was still alive but had completely lost its soul like the human, and subconsciously looked in the direction from which he came.

"That puppet hound I defeated earlier, could it really have a dog's soul inside its body?"

Judging from the current survey results, this possibility is very high.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for Ye Yiyi to understand how to design a puppet to be exactly like a real dog in every tiny angle such as movements and expressions.

Apart from the so-called "soul-eater", he could not think of any other possibility.

In other words, what is the use of these people, or "materials"?

Considering the actions of the curse masters who control the life and death of others and try to create an army of puppets, the answer is self-evident.

"Damn it, these beasts..."