Chapter 1221 (1/2)
Chapter 1221: 387. Rumors and Gossip_2
But when he arrived here, he found that the group of Metal Series Wizards were floating cautiously in the air, shuttling between the buildings.
Below the Metal Series Wizards, a small squad of Death Steel Soldiers was stationed near the subway entrance, not daring to venture into the urban area nor to move with the Metal Series Wizards, showing extreme caution.
The Wizards flew in the sky, while the Death Steel Soldiers stood still, one moving and one static.
Noland Lee sensed something odd:
“If this urban area is a forbidden place for Death Steel Soldiers, they should be following the Metal Series Wizards and monitoring their every move. But now they dare not step into the buildings, behaving as if they are somewhat afraid of this area—what’s going on?”
Noland Lee crossed his arms, feeling troubled again by the absence of the Assassin Angel.
If the Assassin Angel were here, he would probably already know the correct answer.
Noland Lee watched the Metal Series Wizards’ every move and cast Deconstruction at them.
An unknown temporary state appeared on the panel information of the group of Metal Series Wizards:
“Full Metal Body and Mind”.
Individuals with this condition would be deeply transformed by Metal Magic, having no trace of flesh in their entirety, and their souls would be completely sealed by Metal Magic, unable to be extracted.
Noland Lee’s pupils constricted as his thoughts raced open!
He was eager to know what was going on with this Root Server Urban Area!
From the Metal Series Wizards’ cautious behavior, if any life creature that entered this place had flesh and blood and was unprotected, it was highly likely that an accident would occur.
As for what exactly the accident was, Noland Lee soon found out the answer.
The group of Metal Series Wizards arrived at the rooftop of a building and took out materials from their Magic Pouch to set up a temporary experimental site.
They constructed a dissection table equipped with heavy Magic Lock Chains, and then brought out a human body encased in a metal container and placed it on the dissection table.
The moment the metal container was opened, the flesh body inside ignited with a bang.
The burning was extremely brief, the sparks blazing one second and retracting into the flesh the next.
The surface of the body in the metal container showed no signs of burn marks, but its eyes, like those of human torches in the building, emitted a green light.
“This is amazing…”
“I thought the flames just now would destroy this puppet, but it turned out to be completely intact…”
“Don’t touch it, idiot, do you want to be turned into a torch as well?”
The Metal Series Wizards exchanged a few words with the puppet inside the metal box, quickly closed the lid, and isolated the puppet from the outside air.
The metal box placed on the dissection table was specially made, with several sets of dissection tools inside and a dedicated place for placing specimens.
The Metal Series Wizards used their ability to control metal to “pick up” the dissection table inside the metal box without touching it and began to attempt dissection.
The first cut along the puppet’s abdomen created a slender wound several inches deep in the skin, without any blood flowing from the wound, but a green luminescence scattered from it.
“Bang.”
The sudden explosion startled the surrounding Metal Series Wizards.
Before their cries of shock subsided, the originally silent puppet had already turned into black ash in the explosion, covering the entire metal box.
“Can’t you move any faster!”
“You cut too deep, fool.”
“Let me do it!”
The Metal Series Wizards argued for a while, took out another metal box, repeated the process, and obtained another puppet that had been transformed into a human torch.
“Bang.”
The explosion struck again, and while the Metal Series managed to block the impact of the explosion, the puppet followed the fate of the previous one, turning into pitch-black powder.
After several attempts in succession, the experiments of the Metal Series Wizards all ended in failure.
Meditating with the Metal System Method tends to make people impulsive and irritable.
Now, the continuous failures had exhausted the Wizards’ frustrations, and a group of them were yelling at each other in the dead silence of the urban area.
Perhaps the Metal Ancestor Dragon, hiding behind the scenes and disapproving of the commotion, intervened—the noisy wizards suddenly stiffened, humbly bowing down as if listening to a voice in their minds.
Noland Lee pondered thoughtfully.
Hadn’t the Assassin Angel said that if Tarsali were to cooperate with the Death Steel Legion, it must offer sufficient sincerity?
The Death Steel Legion gives Anti-Demon Metal Materials to Tarsali, which should provide equivalent repayment.
So this repayment couldn’t be helping the Death Steel Legion to study the strange phenomenon of human torches, could it?
If that was the case, then the Metal Ancestor Dragon’s elaborate effort to pollute the metal objects throughout the urban area was not completely geared toward finding the thief but also aimed at accomplishing a Research Task.