Ch. 334 - The Sealed Soul
The two of them wandered around the white tent as if they were browsing a market, picking and choosing as they went.
At some point, Tricia poked her head out again. Seeing the scene before her, she drew in a sharp breath.
“Above us, Goddess of Radiance, this is way too evil!”
She muttered, utterly shocked by the corpses and severed limbs laid out like merchandise.
“Doesn’t the Holy Radiance Church also like to chop off the heads of sinners and bring them back for judgment? What’s so strange about this?”
Yang Yi retorted.
“That’s different! We do it to uphold justice and order!”
“Is that so?”
Yang Yi thought it was pretty much the same thing, just two sides of the same coin.
“You evil person would never understand!”
Tricia displayed an intense sense of justice.
Nearby, Suna was checking the information on these aberrant demon corpses. She had already taken several relatively intact specimens, including a powerful Deep Diver corpse worth 300,000, the corpse of a Cyclops, and the corpse of a dwarf who was suspected to belong to the same race as Old Dad.
【Name: Damaged Dwarf Corpse (Health: 92%)】
【Description: Dwarves are a special type of human whose bodies have undergone adaptive mutations after living in high-gravity environments for extended periods. Their bodies are short and compact, as though they had been compressed, while possessing intelligence comparable to that of humans.
Due to their environment and mutations, they have extremely high bone density, powerful muscles, and agile movements. Adult individuals have physical attributes 2 to 3 points higher than those of ordinary humans in every attribute except Spirit.
They have no reproductive isolation from humans.】
A corpse like this was worth far more than an ordinary human corpse, with a selling price of 70,000.
“Have you noticed that most of these corpses are missing their heads?”
Suna spoke up.
Yang Yi had noticed it too. It was very likely that the heads had deliberately been cut off and taken away for some other purpose.
He continued forward and entered the third room.
He immediately understood everything.
The heads were all here!
“Suna, you’d better come over here and take a look. I found that player.”
Yang Yi notified Suna through a private message.
She immediately hurried over, only to see Yang Yi holding a human head in his hand—a head that had been completely shaved.
【Name: Sealed Soul (Mars)】
【Description: A head containing a sealed soul, produced through special means. It can be used as a material, sacrifice, food, and for other purposes.
He cannot see, hear, or smell. He cannot perceive anything at all, and he does not even know that he has already died.】
“Is this the player?”
Suna replied through a private message after seeing it.
Yang Yi nodded and handed the head over to Suna.
After reading the information, her eyes widened. She immediately began examining it.
She discovered that the head’s eyes, nose, and mouth had all been sewn shut, while some kind of gel-like substance had been poured into the ear canals, completely cutting off his hearing.
Judging from the description, his sense of touch—including the sensation of pain—should have been blocked as well. It was probably the effect of some kind of drug, and furthermore...
“This is impossible!”
Suna was stunned and exclaimed through a private message.
From the cross-section of the neck, it was obvious that all the blood had already drained out long ago.
Yet Mars was still alive—or rather, he believed that he was alive.
He had no idea how seriously he had been injured, and therefore, he had not died.
“Once we tell him his current situation, he’ll probably die immediately.”
After reading the information and examining the head, Suna came to this conclusion.
Yang Yi had a similar suspicion, and the situation seemed strangely familiar.
Back when he encountered White Island, it was only after realizing that he had nothing left on his face except his mouth that he lost his other senses.
The same principle applies here.
“How incredible.”
If that’s the case, perhaps hypnosis could achieve something similar as well. It’s just unclear how far it could actually go...”
Suna began to consider experimenting with the idea, but there were still many difficulties when it came to actually carrying it out.
Yang Yi glanced at the price of the head. Surprisingly, it was even more expensive than that of an ordinary human individual, with a selling price of 100,000 Seashell Coins.
It seemed that processing it into this state was not easy. It had added a lot of costs—or perhaps... The success rate was not very high.
“Did you find Mars’s body, or his arms and legs?” Yang Yi asked.
“I didn’t pay attention.”
Suna was not particularly concerned about that. She was only interested in the technology behind this head.
Yang Yi had not found Mars’s body or any of his other body parts either. However, there were plenty of parts at the scene. Putting together an entire human body would not be difficult, considering that every kind of part was readily available.
After thinking for a while, he contacted Mars.
“It took some time, but I found you.”
“Oh my God, that’s great! Boss, please save me!”
Mars was still online and immediately replied.
“Are you sure you want to stay alive?” Yang Yi asked.
“What do you mean?”
“Uh... It’s hard to say. I found your body, but the situation is rather special. The Spider-Limb Cult took your arms and legs away. They may have attached your limbs to themselves, so...”
“What?! I knew those cultists had done something to my body! Damn them! Can I still be saved? Am I about to die? Why... why am I so unlucky?!”
“I clearly...”
Mars fell into a state of confusion, speaking extremely quickly. His rationality seemed to be deteriorating along with his panic.
The head in Yang Yi’s hands began trembling as well. Its facial features reacted, as though it were trying to break free from the stitches.
“Calm down. I have a way to save you. It just depends on whether you want to stay alive, and whether you have enough money to pay for the medical expenses.”
Yang Yi immediately sent the message, trying to calm Mars down.
“What?”
“I can attach four limbs to you, but the problem is that those limbs may not originally belong to you. It’s up to you whether you’re willing to accept that.”
“I’m willing!”
Mars replied without the slightest hesitation.
“Fine. Tell me how much money you have. I’ll see how I can save you.”
“I... I don’t have much money.”
“How much?”
“Just a little over 90,000.”
“That’s far too little.”
Yang Yi shook his head and hesitated over whether to spend his own money to save a player he didn't even know.
After all, the head alone would cost him 100,000, and then he would have to piece together an entire body, which would cost quite a bit of money as well.
“Wait! Can information count as payment?”
Mars seemed to have noticed Yang Yi’s hesitation. He immediately thought of a countermeasure and proposed a new deal.
“What information?”
“The headquarters of those cultists! They stole my ship. Since they didn’t sell it, they must have taken it back with them. I can determine their location based on the coordinates of my ship, and I can even pinpoint the location of their headquarters.”
Mars continued, “Can this information make up for the money?”
He anxiously waited for Yang Yi’s response.
“Yes.”
Yang Yi realized that Mars was quite quick-witted. He had immediately thought of exchanging information for money, which meant he was worth investing in.
Moreover, the location of the Spider-Limb Cult would definitely fetch a good price. There was no information about this cult in the available faction intelligence at all. They were extremely secretive, let alone the location of their headquarters.
“Fine. This information is indeed valuable. I can pay 100,000 Seashell Coins for the coordinates. But you can’t give them to me right now, so I can offer you 50,000 Seashell Coins at most. That should be enough to save your life.”
Yang Yi calculated it briefly. If he used human limbs and a human corpse, assembling a complete body actually wouldn’t cost that much.