Chapter 90: The Unravelling(2) - Who is its killer? (1/2)
Everyone in the room listened to Sierra as she gave a lengthy explanation.
”Facts, you say?” queried Klara.
As a medical person, she was interested in what Sierra had to say. Also, she had tried to analyze the corpse but was too scared of anything happening.
”Wel--”
”Sierra, before you continue, take this!” interrupted Caspian.
He brought out a whitish blue crystal and gave it to his daughter.
Holding the warm crystal in her hand, Sierra commented, ”The Azure Halldumene, thank you!”
She picked up a glove and gave a pair to Jaya while she wore one herself.
Showcasing her medical experience, Sierra neatly cut the skin of the corpse and revealed the insides, ”Black Blood. I believe we all know what it is!”
Of course, no one replied to her rhetorical question.
Black blood was a general knowledge available to all citizens of Aztec, whether they had encountered a zombie before or not.
”Black blood is present in Netherans and a few demon beast species. However, we can rule out the option of demon beasts due to the corpse's appearance.”
She got an idea and held the Azure Halldumene closer to the corpse.
As soon as the flesh of the corpse began to squirm irregularly, she got her answers, ”The state of its body or rather its flesh in particular. What does it remind you of?”
Having seen a lot of creatures, Caspian was well cursed in their appearance and occasional habit, ”Zombies. Even when killed, part of their body still move for a moment or two, sometimes half an hour, and sometimes a full hour, before they stop.”
”Yes, using the facts presented. We know that the blood, which is a part of any creature's physiology, is just like Zombies. The habits or movements it makes, after death, is the same as zombies.”
She brushed the surface of her crystals and sprinkles the crystal dust on the corpse.
*Shrill!*
A bizarre scene occurred.
The flesh reacted strongly to the ”holy dust” and began to revert transformation for a while before it went back to normal.
”Its body has an exceedingly high reaction to the holy crystal, which is proof of its Netheran's origin,” murmured Sierra loud enough for anyone to hear her.
Amidst her deep reflection, she heard her friend frown upon hearing her words, ”What is it?”
Jaya replied, ”I don't think it's a zombie. We can see it doesn't fully look like it. It has all the normal features, but they aren't as intense or highlighted as an average zombie. Also, at every counting minute, the corpse is becoming more and more like a zombie...….its like its..---”
Sierra completed her words, ”---correcting itself.”
Caspian nodded, ”I am starting to understand. However, it seems that the real question we should be asking is not, ”What is the corpse?”, but, ”What was Ray, the real owner of the corpse?”.”
”I can confirm that Ray was human. We fought to death once, so I would have noticed if he was otherwise,” swore Jaya and she squeezed her eyebrows at the stinky corpse.
”So, he was human?” Sierra asked out loud.
Klara, Caspian, Conan, and Jaya nodded as they had both seen or met him before.
Sierra asked another question, ”And he changed?”
”Seems so.”
”How?” tasked Sierra.
Using her facts, Caspian worked his math and spoke to Klara, ”Can you trace the origin of the alteration by checking what particular part of the corpse is more advanced in the transformation process?”
Klara moved closer to the corpse and displayed her skills.
She manipulated [Spirit Essence] around the corpse and softly penetrated its skin.
Using her energy as a sensor, she mapped out the body just in time before her energy depleted.
Afterward, she dipped her hand into her cloth and brought out a pen and paper. Two minutes later, she had finished scribbling on it and shown an extremely accurate diagram of the interior of the corpse!
Her ability shocked the people present and they were once again reminded of the skills of medical personnel.
The so-called ”Medical Personnel” wasn't a profession. Instead, it was a general term used to tag all those that delve into the world of medicines, both natural medicines like herbs and artificial medicines like pills.
Most of those in this certain specific group took years to master their skills.
It had to be known that what Klara just did was mapping a body with just her energy. This was extremely similar to what [Realm-1] cultivators had to achieve and she just did it in two minutes.