In a simple room in the Ice City, Anna Luofang inserted her fingers into her messy hair and rubbed her scalp vigorously, trying to soothe her head that was numb due to overexertion. When she took her hand back, she found that the straps on her fingers had fallen off.
A few hairs, which made her mood even worse.
"If this continues, all my hair will fall out, ahhhhh!!" Anna said frantically: "I'm just a princess, why do I have to do these things!!"
"Because your brother ran away." In the shadow of the corner, a thin black figure crossed his arms and responded slowly.
"Damn Luther, he was supposed to do these things, he was the first in line!" Anna was even more maddened. Her bullshit brother who was in the first place quietly ran away and threw all these things to her.
There is no benefit if it is handled well. One day when her brother comes back, the position of city lord will still be his. If it is not handled well, she will be the one to take the blame. It is simply a matter of harming herself and benefiting others, which makes her psychologically unbalanced.
"You don't have to deal with it." The black figure in the corner said.
Anna shook her head and her expression became serious: "No, that hateful devil is still hiding in Tibet during the winter and raided our poorly defended planting areas. If we don't find him, we will be in a serious food shortage next year.
"
The black shadow was silent for a while, and sighed helplessly: "It is indeed too vicious. Our planting areas are too scattered, and some are connected by caves, extending in all directions. As long as a demon sneaks in quietly and sets fire to the fields everywhere, our food harvest will be cut off. And
We have no other option but to scatter our soldiers to every grain-producing area to contain him in vain."
"It doesn't matter, I will definitely catch them. When I catch them, I will tie him up and throw him to Lich City, and let the lichs tear him to pieces with his soul." Anna said viciously.
"You may have some misunderstanding about the lich. They have stopped tearing out souls a long time ago, but it's not important. How can you catch the demon with the information on the table?" Black Shadow asked in confusion.
Anna's lips curved into a confident smile: "Every time an incident occurs, a lot of information will be revealed. For example, incidents No. 1 to No. 3 all occurred continuously, but there was an interval between Incident No. 3 and Incident No. 4.
Three days, but the two places are only one day's journey away. Where did he go during the two days in between?"
Black Shadow thought for a while and said hesitantly: "Tired?"
"Yes, that's right. Centering on the planting area where these two incidents occurred, are there any places where you can rest within a two-day journey? The person who set the fire was probably the lava demon. He likes magma the most." Anna pulled out a map.
, spread it on the table.
The black shadow couldn't help but step out of the shadows in the corner, revealing a wrinkled face and a thin figure. The exposed face and arm skin were covered with rune-like tattoos.
If anyone who knows this kind of tattoos is present, they will definitely exclaim - Holy Light Corpse Witch! Moreover, they are corpse witches who have been purified by the church. Those tattoos are the traces of purification magic patterns branded on the skin.
In the human world, undead creatures are classified as heretics by the church and will be purified if caught. The church believes that the ordinary method is to kill undead lichs. Only purification can destroy their bodies and souls together. Otherwise, even if their heads are chopped off, their
The soul can turn into the undead and escape.
The holy shroud was rolled up and burned in flames until body and soul were reduced to ashes.
This is actually reasonable, because some lichs cannot be killed by ordinary methods because they can refine phylacteries.
Refine your heart into a phylactery, put it in a special container, and hide it in a safe place. The heart is replaced by the fire of the soul. In this way, even if you are killed, you can be reborn through the phylactery.
For this kind of lich, the church has also invented a corresponding method. It is first wrapped in a holy shroud, and then burned in flames, including the body and soul. In this way, the lich reborn with the help of the phylactery will lose everything.
memory, and there will be a mark on the body that cannot be erased even after rebirth.
Black Shadow is a lich who was purified and reborn, but she has lost the memory before her rebirth. She does not remember who she is or how she died. She only sees one word from the badge engraved on the life box -
—Lan, so her name is Lan now.
Lan came to the table and took a look, and quickly found a name on the map: "Here, Molten River."
"Yes, it's in the molten river. This is the only place where there is magma. It's the demon's favorite environment." Anna said.
Lan nodded: "It makes sense, but these are all speculations. You have no evidence to prove that your speculations are true."
Anna smiled and took out a piece of paper and handed it to Lan: "I have sent people to investigate. The devil's footprints were indeed found on the road leading to the molten river. There were indeed devils passing nearby during that time.
Lan was silent for a while and couldn't help but sigh: "You are so awesome, you really caught his traces."
"That's right." Anna raised her eyebrows proudly and said, "That's how I deduced that he is a lava demon, and thus judged that he needs lava to restore his strength. As long as you know his rest intervals, and pay attention to places with lava.
, there is always a chance to block him."
"We have to do it as soon as possible. If he sets a few more fires, we will have a big gap in food next year and many people will starve to death." Lan said.
"Don't worry, I have contacted the human world through the teleportation array. They have a good harvest of food there. As long as they can afford the price, they can use a large teleportation array to deliver one-way delivery and send dozens of tons of food at a time."
Lan shook his head: "The cost is too great. Just opening a large transfer station requires more than a dozen magic crystals. We don't have a corresponding large-scale teleportation array here. The world transfer station here has long been unable to be opened. Otherwise, more than a dozen magic crystals are needed."
That's enough, but one-way delivery requires hundreds of magic crystals. Even if we loot all the valuable things in our dungeon, we can't get so many magic crystals.
Anna scratched her scalp frantically and said irritably: "What can I do? Are you waiting to starve to death? Lich City is also short of food. Some time ago, they sent people to buy food, but I refused.
If they have a lot of food, it would be great if they could support us."
Just when Anna was scratching her head in annoyance, the soldier came to announce: "Reporting to Her Royal Highness, Lisa Augustus of Lich City is requesting an audience."
"Lisa Augustus? Who is it? Wasn't it always Eske who came here before? Why is there a new person this time?" Anna murmured in confusion.
Lan's eyes sparkled: "This is not a newcomer. This is the real master of Lich City. This old witch hasn't appeared for hundreds of years. I thought she was dead. Go and meet her.
This old lich is not simple."
"The real owner of Lich City? Isn't the city owner Mr. Feilin?" Anna's curiosity was piqued, and she quickly packed up her makeup and clothes and prepared to go to the meeting.
"Feilin is afraid of his wife. This is his wife."
When they arrived at the reception room, there was only a plump, fair-skinned young woman in a black gauze skirt sitting there. There was no "old witch" as Lan described.
Lan's attention did not fall on the young woman in the black gauze skirt. Instead, she looked towards the door of the reception room and asked unceremoniously: "Where is your old witch named August?"
The young woman in the black gauze skirt turned her head, with a careless smile on her lips, and said lazily: "Are you talking about me, the old witch named Augustus?"
Listening to this familiar voice, Lan turned his gaze to the face of the young woman in the black gauze skirt in shock, and frowned.
She and Lisa met in the lich state. The Lisa she knew was a corpse witch who was as shriveled, thin, gray, and withered as she was. Why did the plump and moist woman in front of her have similar features?
That old witch? Her voice sounds so similar? What's going on?
The young woman in the black gauze skirt slowly opened her mouth and said: "Lan, from now on, it seems that only you can enjoy the title of old witch."
Lan's expression changed dramatically, and he said angrily: "It turns out it's really you! August, you're so abominable, you actually invaded the body of a living person?! I'll beat you to death!"
"What?! No, no, no, you misunderstood, this is my body, hey, stop, oh, don't slap me in the face, stop, you slap me again."
Seeing Lisa and Lan fighting in a ping-pong-pong ball, Anna, who still wanted to help, suddenly came to her senses and stopped.
The two thousand-year-old lichs did not use magic, but fought with bare hands like children. If they really fought, Anna would dare to eat the chair.
Sure enough, after fighting for a while, the two lichs stopped with disheveled hair. However, the shriveled and thin Lan had disheveled hair and was extremely embarrassed, while the plump and moist Lisa had disheveled hair, but had a different kind of charm.
Lan asked with anger and jealousy: "How did you become like this? Are you really not occupying the body of a living person?"
Powerful lich and undead have the ability to invade the body of a living person, but the living person will die and the body will lose its activity. It can only remain active for two or three days before starting to decay. If it were not for the occupation, Lan could not think of any way.
It can make a lich become so alive.
Lisa smiled slightly and asked lightly: "If you have the opportunity to restore your body's activity and become like me, what price are you willing to pay?"