Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 306: Gardener's Inspection Method

However, she didn't have much time to think. No matter how backward the South District was, it was still a densely populated residential area, and the "horticulturists" stationed there soon arrived at the scene.

The team that arrived was a team of five people, wearing the common loose-fitting uniforms with tight legs in the local area. Their shoulders and waists were much wider than those of ordinary people. They looked more like a group of farmers who had just finished farming than the Extraordinary People.

The extraordinary person in the lead wore a green glove on his right hand, which was a common inspection tool used by the "doctors" of the Mother Goddess Church and also a symbol of identity.

In contrast to the elite "Red Gloves" of the Nighthawks, the elite gardeners of the Church of Mother Earth are called "Green Fingers", which is a reference to Feynapote slang used to praise people with outstanding planting talents. All of its members are above Sequence 7.

During this time, Adele had used silk threads to create a conspicuous white isolation belt around the blown flesh and blood and the gushing black liquid. Seeing the official extraordinary people arriving, she stood up from the collapsed stall and spread her hands flat to indicate that she had no hostility.

"You're a little late. I've already solved it."

Since Adele now has a military identity, she did not leave the scene as quickly as before to avoid getting into trouble.

Moreover, there are many things that she would not be able to investigate on her own. The stall owner was obviously contaminated, and Adele did not dare to communicate with the spirit casually. As for the autopsy, the witch would definitely not be as good as a "doctor" or "corpse collector".

"you are……"

Although Adele had shown her goodwill, the green-fingered Beyonder was still wary and did not relax. He continued to point the revolver in his hand at Adele and began to question her identity.

"The military's newest decorated lieutenant, Adele Searcy."

Adele didn't pay attention to the other party's vigilance. After all, when it comes to supernatural events, one can never be too cautious. Moreover, the other party's attitude was relatively friendly, so she had no reason to dwell on it.

"My appointment letter may not have been notified to the grassroots night watchmen yet, but I don't think you guys care much about the Loen military."

Afraid that the other party would not know about her appointment and cause new trouble, Adele simply explained the whole story in one breath, "If you don't believe it, you can go to the director of the naval base, Mr. Emlyn White, to confirm it."

"We'll confirm that later."

The leading member felt relieved when he heard Adele's clear explanation. He had believed Adele 80% of the time after seeing her protecting the scene, and now he was basically sure that what Adele said was true.

"Let me introduce myself. I am William Morais, a member of the 'Green Fingers' of the Church of Mother Earth."

The tall Beyonder walked up to Adele and extended a palm-leaf-fan-sized, calloused hand to her. Adele hesitated for a moment and shook hands gently.

- After all, in Feynaporte, shaking hands is the universal way of greeting between strangers, and people who are a little close to each other will greet each other with a kiss on the cheek or a kiss on the hand.

In the relatively conservative Loen, the etiquette for physical contact with women requires the woman to express it first before the man can proceed.

However, whether it was Loon or Feynaport, similar etiquette was nothing in front of the Intis people. According to Vinata, who had attended the Intis foreign student dance during college, when the Intis people saluted, "it seemed as if they wanted to bite off half of each other's faces."

While Adele and William Morais were chatting, William's team members were not idle either. They began trying to clean up and investigate as soon as they arrived at the scene.

"Can you describe to me what happened just now?"

While watching the team members investigating the scene, William questioned Adele, the person involved, trying to restore the situation as much as possible.

Adele didn't care. After all, since she joined the official organization, her identity and path were no longer a secret. If the other party wanted to investigate, they could just apply for her information from the military. And the thread she used to protect the scene was still hanging there, so it wasn't difficult to infer that she was at least a Sequence 6 witch.

Of course, this honesty was one of the reasons why William Morais believed her explanation so quickly. Now, in the eyes of this green-fingered man, Adele's words had a high degree of credibility.

So Adele did not refuse. She tidied up her words and briefly described the process of the battle. She did not mention her own abilities, but only talked about the abilities used by the opponent. Anyway, since the opponent knew that she was a witch, there was no need to explain these.

"You mean to say that this guy has shown abilities that clearly belong to a different path?"

William Morais frowned. "And judging from the scene, the power of each ability seems to be quite strong. It doesn't seem like something that can be simulated by illusions or tricks... To be honest, this is a little unbelievable."

"But that's the fact." Adele nodded seriously, "Your subordinates' investigation should also come to similar results."

Seeing that William Morais remained silent, Adele continued to ask, "A Beyonder who can achieve this level should have a high Sequence, and the other party has obviously been setting up a stall here. Didn't you notice it?"

William smiled bitterly and shook his head. “No, actually, it is precisely because we have investigated this person many times that we find it strange. After all, a tribe that still retains the bad habit of considering deformity as beauty is likely to have retained a lot of evil knowledge.”

Through William's description, Adele learned that this guy's name was DiCarlo, a descendant of an ancient tribe living in the jungle. As the rainforest was cut down and cultivated into fields, the family gradually declined.

Perhaps there had been extraordinary people among their ancestors, and there had been magical items left behind, but by DeCarlo's generation, all that was left was a pile of tattered herbal notes that had been passed on several times, and the extraordinary power in their blood had long been diluted.

William paused. "However, we have investigated him several times, whether it was through dream entry or other means. In every regular checkup, he did not show any abnormalities. He has nothing to do with Beyonders. The only connection with the occult is the cigarettes and ayahuasca he sells."

"In Balam, selling ayahuasca is not a crime, and the government encourages indigenous soldiers to drink ayahuasca to eliminate parasites, so it's difficult for us to control it."

At this point, William shook his head in confusion. "Until the routine checkup last month, he hadn't shown any symptoms. How could he have reached the strength of a mid-sequence within a month? And it looks like he's quite powerful at that level?"

"So, what do you think of his performance?"

Seeing that there was no way to trace the source directly, Adele settled for the next best thing and asked the other party for their guess instead.

"I only know of two people with similar abilities... no, three." William thought for a moment and answered Adele, "The first one is the pirate general who has been killed, 'Vice Admiral Hurricane' Qilingos. He has a magical item that allows him to simulate other people's abilities. It is suspected to be related to 'Shepherd'."

"After Qilingos was killed, the next time this magical item appeared was in the hands of the crazy adventurer Gehrman Sparrow. He also had similar abilities, so he was the second one."

"What about the third one?" Adele felt guilty when she suddenly heard someone mention a colleague she had never met. She pretended not to be interested and changed the subject.

"The third one is also a pirate general. It is said that Vice Admiral Iceberg Edwina has similar abilities. People from the Church of Knowledge can also simulate the skills of Beyonders from other paths."

Knowing that the lady opposite him was from the military, William Morales no longer concealed it, "Sequence 6 of the Reader Pathway is called 'Scholar'. At that time, you can simulate other people's extraordinary abilities."

Unlike the "Recorders", the "Scholars" imitated the principles of Beyonder abilities by learning and analyzing them, and there was no limit on the number of times they could use them. The more comprehensive their knowledge and the deeper their mastery, the better the "analysis" effect, the higher the probability of "simulation" success, and the stronger the power. However, at the same sequence, the Beyonder abilities they simulated were always inferior to the originals.

"But even if we know which way can give people multiple abilities, we can't explain why this guy suddenly had such a change."

William Morales scratched his hair in distress, which made people worry about his already sparse hair.

At this time, the team members over there had almost handled the scene and ran over to whisper a few words to Morais.

After listening to the team members' report, Morais' expression was a little stiff. He then walked towards DiCarlo's body lying on the side and motioned Adele to follow.

The black liquid on the surface of DiCarlo's body had been absorbed by the plants grown by the gardeners, and those plants that absorbed the pollution and mutation were destroyed by the extraordinary people. Only DiCarlo's incomplete body was left, which had become shriveled because the body fluids were also absorbed by the plants.

“No Beyonder characteristics have been released…” Morais said with a heavy expression, “In other words, his Beyonder ability is not granted by Beyonder characteristics or potions, but is simply caused by the mutation.”

"Can ayahuasca cause such changes in ordinary people?" Adele asked doubtfully.

"To be honest, I think it's unlikely, but now I can't help but believe it."

Morais was a little upset. "The plants created by the Harvest Priest can quickly decompose corpses and accelerate the emergence of extraordinary properties. Logically, they should have been completely precipitated by now. But now there is no extraordinary property, which means that the problem must be with the mutation."

Adele pursed her lips, not quite believing this statement.

If Ayahuasca could really make an ordinary person lose their mind in exchange for this level of power, then the continental countries would have been scrambling to buy it. Although countries like Loen are self-righteous, if they really knew that there was such a drug that could allow ordinary people to exert powerful mid-sequence abilities, they would definitely monopolize it as a strategic material.

"The most urgent task now is to report this matter. Before the specific situation is investigated, no one is allowed to continue buying and selling ayahuasca, and the soldiers are not allowed to take it."

Morais scratched his head again and pulled out two more hairs. However, this time, he did not throw them away as he did before. Instead, he carefully opened DeCarlo's mouth and stuffed the two hairs into his mouth.

Adele was still wondering what he was doing when she saw DeCarlo's body dissolving and collapsing at an extremely fast speed, turning into a pool of sticky paste.

Morais waved his hand, and more plants emerged from the ground. They had exaggerated root systems, like countless tiny pumps, quickly sucking the pile of things into the inside of the plants.

After absorbing DiCarlo's nutrients, the plants began to grow rapidly, spreading leaves and blooming, and finally produced several strange-shaped fruits that looked like human organs.

Morais carefully picked the fruits and put them into the wicker basket behind him. The basket looked ordinary, but it was shining with bright spiritual light in his spiritual vision.

After the fruit was produced, the branches and leaves of the plant quickly turned grayish white. After Morales picked the fruit, it immediately collapsed and scattered to the ground like burnt charcoal.

"Miss Searcy, I'm afraid you'll have to come with us. After all, as a key witness, your words are also very important."

Morais smiled naively, a smile Adele had seen on the first mate of the "Queen of Stars". People on this path seemed to lack the ability to correctly understand the impact of their actions, and always did shocking things with naive expressions.

"Ah, are you curious about the fruit just now?"

Noticing Adele's gaze, with the high charm bonus provided by the Witch of Pleasure, Morais had no intention of hiding anything and explained his abilities clearly.

"This is a necessary process for Green Fingers to deal with the scene. After making the target harmless and ensuring that the other party is no longer contaminated, the poison can be used to decompose the other party's body, and then the plants can absorb it. This will produce such a fruit, and it can also prevent the pollution from spreading to the natural environment."

Morais paused. "There is a certain correspondence between the fruit produced in this way and the remains, and druids can sense this relationship through taste. When we return to the base, I will taste the fruit and directly obtain the damage to the other party's body. This is Green Finger's unique autopsy method."

“After we die, our bodies will be transformed into fruits in this way after the extraordinary characteristics are removed, and then eaten by our comrades.”

Morais said lightly, "This is a ritual that has been passed down by the Mother Goddess Church for thousands of years. It allows us to fully return to nature while continuing to exist as the flesh and blood of the people we cherish."

Adele didn't reply because she was thinking about something else at the moment.

If the Mother God Church is like this, how terrible would Frank be if he was regarded as a heretic by the entire Mother God Church?
(End of this chapter)