Who hid my body?

At first glance, Bai Wei's condition doesn't sound anything special, and it doesn't require him to pay anything specific, which seems quite "conscientious" and meets the standard of "just opening it casually".

But he knew what Bai Wei wanted.

This is a completely unequal transaction.

He subconsciously wanted to refuse.

But he also knew that he no longer had the capital to refuse.

After a long silence, he opened his eyes and made a decision.

"it is good."

……

"Lord Yongxin." The old man pushed open the door of the office and bowed to the shadow in the corner. "It has been done."

It was the darkest time of the day, but there were no lights on in the office. A young man called "Yongxin" was sitting in the corner, looking like an indescribable black shadow.

"Where is Ocott's body?" the young man asked slowly, his voice so hoarse that it sounded completely different from the daytime. "Where was it thrown?"

"It sank to the bottom of the lake." The old man replied, "We have no way to bring it back and destroy it. Being able to drive that size of pollutant away from the contaminated area and drag the body to the bottom of the lake is already the limit of what we can do."

The young man was silent for a while, then chuckled and said, "Yes, it's because the [Domination] we have is only incomplete."

The old man did not dare to express his opinion on this topic, and the young man asked again after a short silence.

"So how much does Gerard know?"

"Not much," the old man said, "but he knows Okot's identity."

"There's nothing we can do about it." The young man said calmly, "After all, Okot's identity is no secret in the tower. As long as he dies, it will be revealed."

"But Gerard has already informed the Skeleton Force of everything, including the illegal transformation and plant pollution." The old man said, "He also wants to open a case for investigation, using the Skeleton Force's identity as law enforcers. He also used this identity to temporarily clear himself of the suspicion pushed on him by Okot."

Hearing the old man say this, the young man said "Oh" softly, and then laughed: "To be honest, this surprised me. I remembered that he hasn't used his official identity for a long time. After returning from the Rhine, he has really changed a lot."

The old man asked: "Should we make some preparations in advance?"

"Prepare?"

"Yes, I heard that the Skeleton has already opened a case." The old man said, "They will definitely come to investigate Okot."

"Let them investigate." The young man said calmly, "On the surface, there is nothing wrong with Okot. As long as the people from 'Skeleton' can't find his body, then all investigations will be meaningless."

"What about Gerard?" the old man asked. "He must be targeting Bishop Holman now, right? Does this matter?"

"It doesn't matter for now. He can't see the bishop." The young man said, "Whatever Gerard wants to do, it's too late. In the final analysis, he is already ten years late."

The young man paused, then chuckled.

"He has been trapped in the same place for ten years, but in these ten years we have never reached the place he has been to. Aren't we also trapped by him for ten years?"

"Let the 'devil' troops speed up the progress."

"We need to bring back what Eve Star failed to bring back ten years ago, completely and completely."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 87 Eighteen Gerald, Kill Him Now (6K Chapter)

Get back completely the things that "Xiaoxing" failed to get back ten years ago.

After hearing this, the old man thought for a while and whispered, "The 'Devil' troops have been searching for it on that road for ten years and have paid a huge price, but they still haven't found it, not even a clue. 'Lord Yongxin', is it possible that it has already..."

"Took away by Gerard?"

The old man lowered his head: "This is just my guess."

"Oh, don't worry, it's still in the contaminated area." The young man said calmly, "Gerald failed to bring it out back then."

"Why are you so sure?"

The young man fell silent, and the whole room suddenly became so quiet that not a single sound could be heard.

This made the old man feel a little uneasy. He wondered if his previous question had crossed the line.

Fortunately, he soon heard the young man say faintly: "Ah, yes, these tasks were previously handled by Okot, and you don't know everything. Then I should tell you something... Do you know who took this incomplete [Domination] in our hands from the polluted land?"

"This...I really don't know."

"It's me."

The old man was stunned.

Then he heard the young man laugh, and the sound was like a beggar playing a broken accordion with a different melody, and the sound was chilling.

"Jellal wasn't the only one who returned from the deepest part of that polluted land."

The old man's body froze immediately. He stared blankly at the young man in the darkness and asked subconsciously: "You also entered the deepest part of the contaminated area? And successfully brought back a part of [Domination]? In that case, why don't you..."

"Why don't you lead the team to get the complete part back?" The young man interrupted the old man with a faint smile, "It's simple, I can't do it... You know whose power [Domination] is, right?"

“… Visas.”

"Yes, Visas." In the corner, the figure of the young man began to move slowly in the darkness. He approached the old man little by little. Soon, his face appeared in the moonlight coming in from the window. "Then do you think Visas' power does not require a price?"

When he saw the young man's face, the old man felt that his heart and lungs stopped at this moment.

What kind of face is this?

His entire face was full of pits and pits, like a dissolved clay sculpture, similar to most of the pollutants in the polluted land, but it was indeed a human face. Maggots were constantly wriggling deep in the missing parts, and his eyes were sagging, as if they might fall out of their sockets at any time.

The old man had long known that Yongxin was not in good health and could not see anyone at night, but he never imagined that his health had deteriorated to this extent.

Is this still considered living?

Until the young man shrank back into the darkness, the old man's mind was still in great shock and panic, and he did not come to his senses for a long time.

Until the young man's voice sounded again: "This is the price I paid."

After hearing the young man's words, the old man's body seemed to have a natural reaction and he crawled on the ground, trembling slightly, not daring to look inside again.

"Don't be nervous." The young man said calmly, "I haven't become a monster yet."

The old man took several deep breaths before gradually calming down.

"You and Xixing both returned from the deepest part of the pollution, so why is he..."

"He is different from me. He brought nothing back. But the fact that he was able to return safely has already caused him to lose all his memories of the depths of the contaminated area." The young man said calmly, "And I did not lose my memories. I even brought back some power, but the price was... a part of my life was taken away, and I can never set foot in that place again for the rest of my life."

The calm old man was silent for a long time before he sighed softly: "It's really... shocking power."

"That is Visas." The young man said, "and it is only a small part of Visas's power."

There was another long silence, as if both of them were immersed in the shock brought by the legendary existence.

"Well, Master Yongxin." The old man looked at the young man again, "You can't return to that place, then Gerard..."

"Theoretically, he can return." The young man said calmly, "This is one of the reasons why we have tried to get rid of him more than once in the past ten years."

"……one?"

The young man looked at the old man quietly. Although he could not see anything clearly in the darkness, the old man could not help but think of the image that the young man had just revealed, and his heart trembled again.

“We still don’t know whether Jellal really didn’t retrieve anything from that polluted land.” The young man said, “Did he use that memory to exchange for his safe return, or… the things he retrieved were also sealed in that memory.”

The old man understood what the young man meant, and his eyes widened little by little: "If it is the latter, then doesn't it mean that once he regains his memory..."

"I have regained that part of my power." The young man said calmly, "That is - [Domination], and it is very likely that it is a more perfect [Domination] than mine."

The old man's expression changed again.

If the former Knight of Vesperia also possessed [Domination]... it would be unimaginable.

"So, in the past ten years, we have never relaxed our surveillance on Gerald."

In the darkness, the young man's body began to move again, as if he was looking for something. An old pocket watch was thrown in front of the old man. The old man picked up the pocket watch and found that it had stopped. The hour hand and minute hand were both at the twelve position. The clock was motionless, but the minute hand was shaking slightly, as if something was affecting it.

"This is……"

“The Clock of Desolate Time,” the young man said, “was originally used to detect the concentration of pollution in the polluted land. But after I brought it back from the polluted land ten years ago, it no longer detects the concentration of pollution, but instead detects something… more special.”

There was a rustling sound.

The young man stretched out his hand from the darkness. This hand was also rotten. The old man's eyelids twitched, but he forced himself not to show any abnormality.

Then, the bony hand fell on the pocket watch.

The old man saw that the hour hand, which had originally stopped at twelve, jumped forward two spaces.

But when the young man withdrew his hand, it jumped to one again, and finally returned to zero (twelve).

"This is……"

"It can sense [Domination]... No, to be precise, it can sense the power of Visas." The young man said, "Although I don't know the principle, the power of Visas is like those legendary corpses that can sense each other."

The old man understood: "In other words, if Jellal also obtains [Domination], then he will be detected by this watch?"

"Yes." The young man said calmly, "In the past ten years, I usually find an opportunity to test him every six months to avoid alerting the enemy. And until his last trip to the Rhine, nothing was detected. Logically, it's still a long time before the next test, but..."

The young man paused.

"His recent changes are indeed a little disturbing, and it might be better to get tested in advance."

"Okay." The old man nodded, and then solemnly put away the pocket watch. "I will go to see him in the next two days."

"No need." The young man said calmly, "He will come to you soon. Don't forget, you are also the affairs assistant of District 4."

The old man understood.

It was almost dawn, and a ray of light appeared in the distant sky.

The old man knew it was time for him to leave.

But before he left, he thought of something and looked at the young man again: "Just now the clock on this watch stopped at two. Does this have any special meaning?"

At this moment, the rising sun has cast its rays of light into the dim room and onto the young man.

His dark and rotten flesh quickly recovered under the sunlight, the maggots disappeared, and the holes were filled.

He was transforming back into the elegant Lord Yongxin and looked like he was reborn.

However, this "rebirth" scene made the old man feel extremely weird.

“It’s easy,” he chuckled, “because I can only turn it to two.”

……

"What are you doing?"

After Gerard woke up in the middle of the night and completed a new deal with Bai Wei, he did not go back to sleep. Instead, he went to his old desk, took out a basket of parts that looked like scrap metal at first glance, and started hammering at them. Bai Wei then had the above questions.

Before the transaction, Gerard would not have to answer Bai Wei, but now it was different. After a brief silence, Gerard still answered while tapping: "These are things to fight pollution. They used to be the standard equipment required to enter polluted areas."

"Oh?" Bai Wei's interest was piqued. "Is it the equipment of your Xiaoxing team?"

"Yes."

“This looks a bit old.”

“Because they are all things from ten years ago.”

"Can't you just buy a new one?"

"No, I don't have the qualifications." Gerald replied, "I am now affiliated with the Skeleton Corps, and the Skeleton Corps does not need such equipment."

"Interesting." Bai Wei said, "That is to say, these equipments were once military equipments, and ordinary people or even ordinary troops could not use them. Then after you came back from the contaminated area, they did not recycle these equipments?"

"No." Gerald said, "Most of them are broken and outdated, and, strictly speaking, they are not equipment."

"If it's not equipment, then what is it?"

“It’s a relic.”

Gerard lined up the "scrap metal" he was tinkering with.

Some of these scraps of metal include a pocket watch that no longer works, a broken monocle, a pipe, a folding knife, and even a long and narrow screw. What they have in common is that they all have names engraved on them.

Ian, Helmer, Eric, Huon...

"This is the rule of the Evening Star... no, it's the rule of the entire pioneer army, or the polluted land." Gerald calmly explained to Bai Wei, "When a comrade in the polluted land cannot be rescued, the one who can return will use some of his own parts or equipment to replace the parts or equipment of the one who can't return. This shows that the one who returns will also live with a part of them, and the one who stays there is not alone, there are people who will die with him."

“So these equipments…”

"They were all hung on me when I came out of the contaminated land ten years ago."