These were the only clues Baiyi could get from sitting still. The rest of the clues he could get were from the crime scene. Unfortunately, there was no reliable forensic technology in this world, and no one knew how to preserve crime scenes or collect evidence. Baiyi could only hope that there were still some clues left behind.
The gap between the two attacks was about a month. First, it was Mard's village, and now, it was the village mentioned in the dossier. However, the two locations were located in the east and west of each other, so Baiyi decided to go to Mard's village first. After all, he still had a living specimen!
The three of them soon arrived at the nearest town to Mard's village. There were no more shortcuts, so Baiyi gestured for Lady Assassin Walker to change into a more conservative outfit. Then, using a levitation spell, he hoisted the two of them into the air and brought them to the place where Mard had hidden his relatives — a rift valley in the middle of the Gobi Desert.
After a few hours of flying, the three of them landed on the ground, and all they saw was a pile of bones buried under the yellow sand. Where were the living specimens?
Mard wanted to pick up the bones and cry to his heart's content, but Baiyi quickly signaled for the Assassin Walker to hold him back. Then, he cast a wind-proof barrier around the area, preventing the sandstorm from reaching the scene. Baiyi then used magic to slowly clean the sand off the bones.
After Mard had fainted from crying, Baiyi was able to reconstruct a small part of the scene. The bones on the ground formed a humanoid shape, which was almost the same posture as when they had lost their ability to move.
Judging from their postures, they should have lost their mobility and died of natural causes. Judging from the degree of yellowing and blackening of their bones, they should have become like this not long after Ma De left. They probably lived for less than a month.
"Can you give me some advice?" Baiyi asked in the Void.
"Zombies are slow, low-level undead. Aside from distracting their enemies, their main purpose is to wait for them to transform into skeleton soldiers. No lich would use these things as their main army; they're not as useful as skeleton soldiers," the Lich Walker replied. The Lich replied, "And in this situation, what I don't understand the most is the purpose. I can't think of the other party's purpose."
"For a successful Lich, efficiency and ruthlessness are the necessary qualities for a Lich. It is also the temperament of a Master of the Undead. I believe this Lich has the same understanding as me. There must be a reason why he left the corpses in such a secluded place and did not take them with him. The biggest possibility is that he could not take them with him," the Lich explained.
"Is it possible that the conversion process failed and they were abandoned?" Baiyi asked.
"Looks like you've deleted all the memories I shared with you?" The Lich said with a bit of disappointment, "For us who control the Undead, saving is a necessary virtue. Even a bone can be used as a part of a Skeleton Soldier. There is no reason to waste it. You should know that corpses aren't cabbages."
"Alright, back to the topic at hand. Why do you think they can't take these corpses away? Successful Liches like you all have your own Undead Realm where you keep your army. Taking the corpses with you is just like stuffing them into a sack. Why can't you take them with you? "Baiyi asked.
"That's not necessarily the case," the Lich retorted. The Lich retorted, "In fact, not every successful Lich can have their own Dead Soul Plane. They must be as successful as I am! For those who fail, they can only drag their cumbersome army around to avoid being hunted down. In the end, they have no choice but to submit to the law. "
"Now that you have your own Undead Realm, do you really think it's as convenient as a storage pouch? Not only do you need to be proficient in Spatial Magic, but you also need to prepare all those troublesome materials to build a Teleportation Portal, which requires a lot of materials. It's not easy at all. In fact, if it weren't for the Soul Enslaved, I wouldn't be able to deploy and gather my army whenever I want. I would need a lot of time and preparation. But as you know, there's only one Soul Enslaved, so I'm the only one who can do this. "
'That's why you're the most notorious Lich …' Baiyi sighed inwardly, but he said, "Go on."
"The problem is back to square one. Since we can't take them with us, why waste the time and effort to come here? What's the purpose? I've thought about many possibilities, and in the end, I came up with a hypothesis — an experiment, "the Lich said seriously. The Lich said in a serious tone, "Only during an experiment would there be such a wastage. Only during an experiment would there be many actions that others would not understand. This is the only possibility."
Baiyi seemed to have realized something when he heard the Lich's words. He paused his discussion, grabbed Lady Assassin Walker and Mard, and flew to his hometown.
After a few months of neglect, the village had turned into a pile of rubble. Baiyi left Mard, who was still crying, and began to examine the village with his psychic energy. Unfortunately, he found nothing. After all, it had been too long, and the magical fluctuations had long since dissipated.
Due to the fact that it was a time-consuming task, by the time Baiyi had finished examining the village, the sky was already dark, and the stars were shining brightly in the night sky. The three of them stood in the middle of the wasteland, and they felt their hair stand on end. Mard was so frightened that he did not even dare to breathe. Baiyi had no choice but to call it a day.
However, just as he was about to leave, he glanced at the Gobi Desert in the distance. Just as Mard had said, even in the dark night, he could still make out some vague shapes.
"Wait a minute! I almost forgot about this place!" Baiyi suddenly remembered the second suspicious point, and he motioned for the two to follow him. He walked towards the Gobi Desert, his psychic energy scanning the area as he walked.
However, when he was almost out of the village, he suddenly stopped. As if he had found something, he crouched down and began to dig up the dirt on the ground.
"Idiot! Idiot! Are you looking for something? Do you need my help? My eyesight is great even at night! "Lady Assassin Walker said enthusiastically as she caught up to him.
"No need. I think I've found it," Baiyi said, standing up with a pile of dirt in his hand.
"Did you find a clue to the murderer?" Mard asked anxiously. "Master Hope, I beg of you! You must avenge the innocent lives of our villagers!"
After losing his goal and spiritual support, the only meaning left in his life was revenge. However, putting aside what he could do with his strength, the problem at hand was that he didn't even know where his enemy was …
"You can try joining the Church," Baiyi said. Baiyi cast a Hypnosis on him, calming him down. "Tell the Church everything you've been through. Maybe they'll give you a way to avenge yourself?"
Baiyi was just trying to comfort Mard. Baiyi did not have the time to avenge a passer-by, so he was already being kind enough to point Mard in the right direction.
After that, Baiyi brought the three of them back to the nearest town. As soon as they landed, Mard, under the influence of Hypnosis, went to the Church in a daze. Baiyi, on the other hand, rented a small hotel and checked in with Lady Assassin Walker.
At the wooden table in the hotel, Baiyi studied the pile of dirt in his hand and said, "Let's go to the second location. We should be able to find something there."
The next morning, Baiyi brought Lady Assassin Walker to the nearby Sorcerer's Association. As they walked through the crowded streets, Baiyi could not help but admit that bringing Lady Assassin Walker along had its benefits. She was not as eye-catching as the Warrior, and no one would bother her. In fact, no one would notice her at all.
The Shadow Assassin had been engraved into her every move, so it was not without reason that she was so cute and adorable, yet she ended up single like the Scholar until her death.
However, that was exactly what Baiyi needed right now. The two of them moved quickly, and before noon, they arrived at the second location.
As expected, the scene was completely destroyed. Fortunately, Baiyi did not need to look for the debris anymore. He walked around the village and picked a spot to dig up a handful of dirt.
"I knew it," Baiyi said in a low voice. "This is the reason why the undead could appear and disappear so mysteriously, yet they could not bring any zombies with them."
"Oh? Did you discover something? I thought about the question you asked, but I couldn't figure it out, "the Lich Walker said in the Void.
"That's because they never came here. They just moved the village to where they were!" Baiyi's answer was shocking.
"How is that possible?!" The Lich Walker exclaimed in disbelief. "From the perspective of spatial science, this is impossible! If the dimension of this village was moved, then what are we looking at? "
"Don't think about it with common sense anymore. Even creatures like us can exist, so what can't go against common sense?" Baiyi retorted, "Let's look at reality. In this handful of soil, there's something different. This is it." He spread his hand and pointed at the deathly gray soil that was obviously different from the other soil.
"Yesterday, when I was around Mard's village, I found this gray soil only in the outermost part of the village. The other areas were normal, and it was the same here. You don't think someone would be so bored as to buy a ring of dirt around a remote village, do you?"
"Also, don't you think this gray color is similar to the color of Duat in the video?" Baiyi asked.
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