People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

Just as Jesta was about to lose consciousness, his instinctive desire for flesh and blood and his perception of life began to grow, and then his mind suddenly turned back, 'Right, life... isn't it there?'

The Son of Fuhailin who was wreaking havoc on the earth was, in his eyes, a huge source of life.

Chapter 331 Hehe, that’s right, the mastermind behind this is…

Jesta didn't even have the energy to think about why the "mutated version of the Son of Fuhailin" saved him at the critical moment.

As the saying goes, a cornered rabbit will bite, and a desperate dog will jump over the wall. Humans can do anything in critical moments, but the Dead Apostles... In the same situation, the Dead Apostles will most likely rely on their instincts to explode, and then let their bodies drive the Dead Apostles' power on their own.

Jesta was in this situation. When his body was thirsting for flesh and blood to the extreme, he made a move that no one expected at the time. He stretched out his body, reached out to grab a branch that had fallen from the Son of Fuhailin, and let it pierce his chest. Then, his whole body turned into a ball of blood mist.

Jesta had actually used up all his strength, and he shouldn't have been able to atomize, so this wasn't atomization, but his unique ability "Six-Line Men's Suit".

He kills people to take their bodies, then divides the souls and places them inside to form a similar ceremonial existence, which is placed inside the original body. This is the principle of his ability to use various bodies, and the external manifestation is the six patterns on his chest, which are arranged in a circle like a revolver magazine. His bullets (concept core/heart) are filled inside, and one concept core corresponds to one clone body. In the case of "sufficient ammunition", the patterns should all be red, but now he has no spare body, so the chest is completely black.

But now, he changed his target. Instead of targeting humanoid creatures, he chose the son of Fu Hailin, who was also a "blood-sucking species".

Honestly, if this behavior were to be spread, it would be considered a notorious act among the Dead Apostles. Because Anhans, the 18th "Knight of Vengeance" of the 27th Ancestor, was an ancestor who hunted his own kind. And Jesta tried to do something that would be even more feared by both humans and Dead Apostles - devouring Dead Apostles.

If he can really succeed on his own.

"Rumble--"

The agents were dumbfounded as they fought with the "Son of Fuhailin" - that's right, because they didn't understand Jesta's amazing wisdom. The dead apostles devouring dead apostles was completely beyond their cognition.

It was not until more and more branches disappeared in the blood mist and the blood mist became thicker and thicker that they felt something was wrong.

"Everyone concentrate, be careful not to disperse, the attack power of Fu Hailin's son has weakened!"

"No, it has changed its target and is now fighting against—uh, Jesta's blood mist!"

"Mutually depleting? Should we just stand by and watch, or...?"

The outrageous thing of the dead apostles being devoured had not yet occurred to their brain circuits, or they had similar speculations but did not take them seriously. In the end, they were more inclined to believe that Jesta was self-destructing before his death, and it was this wrong decision that greatly accelerated the arrival of the end of the demise of all members.

"boom!"

When the thick fog and the branches were indistinguishable from each other, at a critical moment, a violent crisp sound came from the depths of the blood-red tide, like a huge playback of the sound of a bullet being loaded. The hot and humid fog began to shrink rapidly, not as if it was guided by the wind or suction, but as if time was played in reverse -

By the same token, the swallowed branches were released in large quantities in an instant, and the agents who had been calm and composed showed looks of surprise - this was their last frozen expression before they died.

No, it should be the last expression before being completely destroyed and absorbed.

Because the next duel was already a foregone conclusion, Jesta and the Son of Fuhailin succeeded - Jesta successfully completed the devouring? Or did the Son of Fuhailin obtain Jesta's body?

This is irrelevant to the outcome of the game. Facing the more powerful vampires, the fate of the agents is already determined.

"Aha ...

After a long time, a human body, a mysterious man stood up. The agents were completely invisible, not even a corpse was left, and he (?) was the only active being on the field.

"Wonderful! It's like a good dream that I haven't had in hundreds of years," the dead apostle who was suspected to be Jesta observed his own body. The conceptual nuclear device in the center of his body had disappeared, and it was replaced by a red beating heart, which somehow reminded people of a bright red fruit.

"The number of magazines, all 6 are full... No, it has been improved, and there is still room for improvement! Awesome!" Jesta carefully stroked the red part of his body, as if caressing some rare treasure. "Wonderful adventure! Exquisite (life transformation) technology! Haha, you must be very satisfied with this result!"

Jesta raised his head and said, he seemed to be looking at the distant sky. He recalled everything that happened before, and the appearance of the Son of Fuhailin was just right. "Although I don't know your purpose, I will accept this gift! Hehehehe——so there should be more, there should be similar things in this world! Phew, I can feel it, what will happen if I swallow all of these...?"

So, Jesta walked towards the east.

At this point, the scene of the past ends.

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"Wow, not bad, not bad," Prelati clapped her hands lightly. She saw that the members of the Templar Church had investigated the whole matter as expected. Next, they should start arranging people to track down Jesta and investigate the source of the mutant Sons of Fuhailin.

"——What a pity, there was no development beyond my expectations, minus points! Oh no, that experiment of devouring the Dead Apostles was successful, the audience can look forward to the subsequent developments, um, extra points here!"

Then, Prelati reviewed the details of the entire play skillfully, like a veteran drama fan. She came to the corner of the room, where a huge vessel was placed. The vine-like plants in it were almost identical to the "Fuhailin's Son Alien" in the video.

Obviously, she was the one who released the blood-sucking plant.

"Come to think of it, this work has taken me three years," Prelati said to herself. She found it in the suburbs of London three years ago. At that time, she noticed that the environment in London was abnormal (London Incident) and wanted to rush over, but when she arrived, everything had returned to normal. The only reward was this self-squirming mud mass found in the suburbs, which seemed to be just a small part that fell by chance.

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"Snapped."

A white woman sitting by the lake holding a staff closed the book in her other hand, "--This is the foreshadowing for the development of the story. Next, let me look forward to it, hehe..."

Chapter 332: Academy City's Population Siphoning Effect on Backward Areas

"Not good... I was too careless before. I didn't pay attention to the situation in this area when I came back in previous years. The influence of this so-called science city and the consequences it may cause are greater than I imagined."

These were his inner thoughts after several days when Shishi Jie had gotten rid of the "young official Tachibana Ryumaru" and acted alone for a while, following his visits.

Of course, he has not entered Academy City yet. He does not plan to go in until he is truly prepared. Having sufficient equipment is far from enough, intelligence is also key.

These days, Lion Jie has been visiting the surrounding areas of Academy City. Although this is far less direct than entering the city to gain understanding, it is more covert and will not attract the attention of the "officials" of Science City in advance. This is also the reason why Lion Jie is unwilling to follow the Japanese government's path.

Too conspicuous.

In the southeastern part of Academy City, in the transition zone closer to Tokyo, Lion Jie's car drove along a wide road, and the buildings on both sides quickly retreated.

Judging from the functional attributes of the buildings, it can be seen that there are a large number of residential areas and residential-related service public facilities, such as complex apartment residences, nursing facilities, medical facilities, parks, and commercial complexes. They are also different in terms of style differences and the age of the buildings.

This is the "new city movement" that Japan has been building since the last century. It is mainly spread across three major metropolitan areas and involves a large amount of real estate development. It aims to meet the country's economic development needs and resolve the contradiction between industrial scale effects and limited urban space under the neoliberal economic environment.

But it is clear that these decades-long plans have almost all failed.

Because according to what Shizijie had seen, at least the social environment here was very cold, with very few young and middle-aged people, and mostly elderly people. The population here was decreasing almost every year, and there were huge planning errors from the beginning... The population was overestimated, and these new cities themselves lacked a self-sufficient industrial environment and stability, so a large number of houses were left vacant.

"One more thing is..."

Shizi Jie was in the car's cab, looking far to the northwest, which was the direction of Academy City. "Many people who originally lived here have moved to that place."

Developed regions have a population siphoning effect on the surrounding backward areas. If Academy City is really as described in the information provided by the government, then the educational resources and industrial resources it possesses are overwhelming compared to the surrounding areas.

Academy City has investments from both the government and a large number of private enterprises. To those who do not know the inside story of Academy City's top management, this area has diversified industries, with advanced technology parks, various colleges and universities, highly commercialized neighborhoods, sufficient residential hospitals and other infrastructure. The city is full of vitality, and if the internal conditions are good enough, it will not be a problem to attract a large number of people.

"It seems that I have been on the battlefield for too long and I am not sensitive to the changes in my hometown."

Shizijie stopped the car near an old dormitory building. This place was already "desolate" to the extreme. It was not just a matter of population flow on the surface, but it was the largest "black market" nearby. There was a deliberately imposed barrier to keep people away.

The black market on the magic side is where some lone magicians and low-level magicians hang out all year round.

In addition to investigating the social trends of ordinary people, Shizijie has also focused on the magician society. As a result, he found that the situation of the Japanese black market is more terrible than the previous superficial social changes. It seems to have experienced a drastic decline. Shizijie has observed that the area where the Science City is located was severely damaged by an incident three years ago. It is understandable that the environment is not good, but the fact is that there are a large number of black market areas in the entire metropolitan area, and only a few are still open. This is a big problem.

Here is one of them.

After getting off the car, Shizijie did not go directly into the "tube building", but turned to the back and used magic to input a code towards a wall. Then the environment changed, and the disguised scene disappeared in an instant, revealing a dark staircase extending downward. On both sides of the wall were burning eternal lamps made of human or various creatures' skulls. Under each green flame, there was a small pile of various skulls abandoned and broken, which was enough to easily scare off a novice magician who had just entered the magic world.

As an expert in necromancy, Lion Jie feels at home in this kind of environment. He chose this place because the "materials" in this black market are more abundant.

"But... this place has become very deserted." Shizi Jie was quite familiar with this place. At least when he had been traveling through wars for a long time and had just started out as a magician, this was the place he visited most often.

This underground space is unexpectedly large for a first-timer. It seems to have been widened. The roads are smooth and the houses are placed on both sides in an orderly manner. This is natural. The major black markets are originally subordinate to the spiritual land of the local magic family. The managers are the same. For the black market, the magic family is the owner of the property without direct management. They will find someone to operate it on their behalf, or they may select people from the family to become managers. Their main job is to regularly maintain the barrier and collect rent from the black market merchants who rent the shops.

It is the same paradigm as the way magician families manage their own spiritual lands, and it may have remained unchanged for thousands of years.

Under the old-fashioned hues of dusk, it was visibly empty, not only in terms of the vastness of the space, but also in the sparsely populated stalls on both sides of the road. This was the desolation that Shizijie felt. As far as he could see, some stalls displayed several corpses of monsters, while others placed their merchandise in bottles and jars. Judging from the shapes and colors revealed, they should be human organs, blood, and the like. Shizijie could tell at a glance that the quality was inferior, like expired products that had been packaged and taken out of the corpse warehouse. Some people simply put nothing there, and very leisurely put up a sign, which probably meant that it was not suitable for exhibition and that details would be negotiated.

After a careful tour, Shizijie decided to correct his opinion: this place was not deserted, but rather a little "too clean".

It's not that Shizijie has a dark heart, but the reason why the black market is called the black market is that it reveals the cruelest dark side of the magic world. Especially in big cities, there are a large number of missing people every year. Eight out of ten are either caught by criminal groups or magicians, or both.

But what happened to the once largest black market that has become like this? Is it related to the forces behind the Science City?

Chapter 333: Banning Illegal Operations and Promoting the Regularization of the Magic Market

"Dong dong."

After pretending to be a customer and continuing to browse in the black market, Shizijie roughly summarized certain signs in his mind, then skillfully turned a corner and knocked on the door of a shop.

"……who?"

After a long while, a hoarse and eerie voice was heard, like the creaking sound of tree branches scraping against glass, which gave people goose bumps.

"It's me, Shizijie." Shizijie didn't react to the voice. "Mr. Beiyuan, the fallen kid is back."

"Oh……"

The next development should have been "So it's you", but "Kitahara" scratched his head and thought for a while, and gave a dumbfounded response, "Shishi Jie... who is that?"

"Humph," Shizijie pulled out a double-barreled shotgun and swung the butt of the gun against the door handle. "Do you see this? The guy who bought this thing was me."

After all this tug of war, the old man finally let Lion Robbery in. After entering the door, as expected, it was a small gun shop. The room was not large so it looked full of things.

A glance around revealed pistols, shotguns, rifles and even machine guns, but they were not advanced military gadgets. They were simply refitted from old stock. They were essentially a bunch of magic gifts with different ranges. They were not equipped to fire bullets, but the magician's own magic bullets.

"Oh, it's you. I heard you're doing well in the West. How come you're here to bother me? Or are you here to buy some goods?"

After Beiyuan led Shizijie in, he did not entertain any guests but just poured himself some tobacco and started smoking his pipe.

"Me? When did I not come back? But you, after all these years, are still using antique smoking utensils." Shizijie didn't mind Beiyuan's attitude. He also took out a cigar, lit it and started smoking. The two heavy smokers started chatting, and the small house was suddenly filled with smoke.

"——Hehe, me? Forget it. I'm just an old man with one foot about to step into the coffin. I don't even want to move. I guess I'm going to die here in this life. Forget about the new stuff. Just let me have a good time with my 'partner' before I die."

Kitahara said so, he called his pipe "Old Companion". In fact, it was the pipe he had been using all his life, and it was also the magic ceremonial he had used for half his life.

"...Okay, I can't persuade you anymore." The cigar in Lion Jie's hand had been slightly smoked. "Oh, by the way, I'm not here to purchase goods today. I just wanted to ask you something - I want to know, what happened 'here'?"

Shizijie stretched out his finger, pointed down at the ground, and then turned around. He wanted to ask about the entire area.

"Eh... you mean you don't even understand the situation here...? Oh, right, you've been staying in the west and just came back now, so you probably don't know the situation here at all. After all, the changes have only happened in the past two years." Kitahara stopped smoking his pipe, "Well, to put it simply, this place needs to be rectified."

Rectification?

Shizijie barely reacted. Was it the owner of the spiritual land who wanted to do this? But the word "rectification" had almost nothing to do with the magic family. Or the science city? Those were two completely different things.

Without waiting for Shizijie's inner thoughts, Beiyuan continued to explain: "There were various signs and rumors about two years ago. It was said that those local families, the landlords above us, would be integrated and managed. I don't know the details, but it seemed to be called the Land Vein Management Bureau - 'to integrate the management of spiritual land resources', that was the official language at the time."

"...The Earth Leyline Administration...?"

Shizijie frowned, wondering where the name came from. "Is it a new trick of the clock tower?"

"......?" Beiyuan looked at Shizijie with a strange expression, "Why did you think of the one in the west? The one in charge of this place is of course a subsidiary of the East Union Association."

"Eastern Union? No, no, it's not that I don't know. I've heard about its dealings with the Clock Tower in the West over the past few years, but they were all outdated and trivial news... I haven't been back to the magician circle for many years. I didn't expect that the Eastern Union would take action against Lingda."

"Yeah, things have changed so fast in the past few years. Anyway, it's called the Earth Vein Management Bureau. Oh, it seems to be the Earth Vein Spiritual Road Management Bureau? I'm an old man, but my memory is not very good..."

Beiyuan shook his head. "Anyway, they are a group of people in charge of spiritual veins. They said they would also build spiritual roads... I don't understand. Then they reached an agreement with the magicians, and then all the spiritual land here is under the control of those people. It seems that the magicians are now at most getting a large amount of land compensation or something..."

"...Have the spiritual lands been expropriated?" Shi Zijie was incredulous. This was not a question of how much compensation to pay, nor was it some idle farmland. The spiritual land was the lifeblood of the family's inheritance and a great environment for building workshops. How could it be transferred away just like that?

Unless the so-called Earth Vein and Spiritual Road Management Bureau can provide the magic families with a better spiritual environment or other opportunities to better inherit the family, this thing will be difficult to exchange.

"Yes," Beiyuan confirmed, "They are using that thing, you know the Void Terminal? It's very popular recently, and they are said to be the operator, probably promising some benefits in that regard - but the real management seems to be another department, called... the Void Commerce Bureau! I'm sure I remember this correctly!"

"Void terminal, I have indeed seen some young guys using it," Shizijie recalled his experiences on the battlefield, "It doesn't seem to be that special, it looks like it's just a convenient communication device?"

"That's because you got it from some other magician, right?" Beiyuan was quite knowledgeable about the void, and perhaps it was related to his business that made him pay more attention to it. "That thing must be bound to the person before it can be used. If you use someone else's without authorization, you will be blocked by the operator and cannot connect to the platform. You can only use it for communication."

"Oh, I haven't used it. Then what? What does this have to do with your business?"

"Oh, what else could it be?" Beiyuan put his pipe aside. "It was from this series of events that the Earth Spiritual Road Administration got the spiritual land, the Void Commerce Bureau promoted the terminals and monitored our business, and now... they have begun to prohibit the trade of living people, including the trafficking of human organs."

Chapter 334 Pufferfish Memory Downtime Version

"...That's right, kid, you figured it out, right?"

Mr. Kitahara's tone became grim. "Why is the black market so deserted? Because most of the businesses have been banned. Look at what kind of crappy things are sold outside. The buying and selling of a lot of living resources is not allowed. What many people can get now are expired goods from corpses in corners to make products...However, how many professional necromancy masters like you can there be? Many guys' processing level is very low, and they can't be expected to use the 'grudge' of the dead to process into curses like you, but the problem is that there is not much magic power left in the organs after the processing, and it is basically useless."

"——For people like me, I can make a living by modifying obsolete weapons and selling them."

"Honestly, the world is changing so fast that it's beyond my understanding..." Shizi Jie burned down the cigar in his hand and lit another one. "Then, what should we do with those banned businesses? Some 'things'...are the most 'cost-effective' magic resources in the eyes of low-level magic servants."

That's right, not everyone is a noble magician with a long history, and not everyone has the courage to enter the spirit tomb and become a miner who can't get out for the rest of their lives. Most people become magicians who go with the flow, or magicians who still want to try their hand at magic. They need to consider the source of magic resources. After all, there is no spiritual land to squander the energy of the earth veins, and there is no capital channel to buy high-level materials. They can only find them by themselves. For example, they can target ordinary people with certain talents, or simply regard competitors as rivals.

Although not as good as magicians in terms of quality and quantity, it is undoubtedly possible for ordinary people to extract magic power. This was proposed in the era of Paracelsus. But that was the development of alchemy. In modern times, there are also related technologies. Atram (a Middle Eastern oilman) has developed a "living magic battery" made of young children. There are also other places, but the efficiency and form vary.

But efficiency doesn't matter. As long as there is a demand for magic power and there are people who have mastered the technology, then living people can naturally be regarded as a material that can be used in the magic world and a circulating commodity.

However, in order to prevent the mystery from being exposed, they cannot just hypnotize a target from the street and use it as their magic material. Instead, they need a more roundabout way, such as many ordinary people who have been targeted by the underworld and criminal groups are their targets. In this way, they can cooperate with the murderer, one side provides power cover, the other side provides identity cover, and solves the possibility that the mystery may spread.

Not only that, Lion Jie knows that many magician families have connections with the surface society, such as the underworld. Gangs that can thrive for a long time can at least be related to magicians, and magician families usually have a status as upper-class wealthy families in the surface society where spiritual places are located.

Now the East Union Association replaced the magic trading market with the void system, and then cut off the black market business of magicians from the bottom up, which meant that those gangster forces with superficial social influence lost their strength support, and the magic family's spiritual land management rights were also taken away, which was equivalent to opening up all the links on the magic side, and the entire process had to go through it at least once.

The abolition of the human trafficking is to weaken the connection with the superficial society.