Ring of Fate

Chapter 798 "Old Friend"

The leader of the lawmen was a clean-shaven man of about forty, with dark brown eyes.

He answered Lumian's question with a blank expression on his face:
“There is no such rule.”

What he meant was that there was no rule that after a thief died, all of his belongings would return to the same owner.

Lumian smiled and asked back:
"But there's no specific law against this, right?"

"Yes." The leading law enforcer nodded slowly.

The smile on Lumian's face became more obvious:
"Having arrived in Morola, does that mean that we have completely severed our connection with the past?"

This was inferred from the words of the clergyman Heraberg in the church.

"Yes." The law enforcer did not deny it.

Lumian further asked:
"And the thief has no other heir in Morola, does he?"

Before entering Morola, all serious criminals will be sterilized. Unless it is a family crime or they find a spouse with the same criminal philosophy here, no one in Morola will have a legal heir.

The law enforcer did not answer Lumian's question immediately. He took out a thick book from under his black robe and looked for the relevant records.

"Do you know this thief? Do you know his name?" Lumian asked thoughtfully.

The law enforcer nodded:
"He is Worms."

Soon, the relevant records were found, and the law enforcer said calmly:

"His parents and siblings are not in Morola, and he didn't get married in Morola, at least not registered."

"So, according to the laws of our place, if the items on a thief are not claimed by the heirs or other owners, they will all belong to the owner who caught him." Lumian began to make up a reason, "It's just like killing an opponent in a legal duel and taking the corresponding spoils."

The law enforcer looked at Lumian for several seconds and said:

"can."

He and his team stood there patiently, waiting until Worms's extraordinary characteristics were released, combined with one of the fingers, broke off, and turned translucent black.

After Lumian put away his extraordinary characteristics, he did not leave immediately. Instead, he stayed where he was, watching the law enforcers dragging away the bodies and cleaning up the blood and scorch marks in the alley with boredom.

The dark clouds in the sky grew thicker, and flashes of thunder and dull explosions became more frequent.

Finally, the alley returned to being clean and quiet, with Lumian being the only one left.

Lumian nodded thoughtfully and said silently to himself:

"Law enforcement officers seem to remember the appearance and name of every Morola resident...

"After becoming law enforcers, they are still human, but they no longer look like human..."

He felt that these people, who were called law enforcers but were actually experimenters, were just puppets who followed fixed procedures, as if they had lost self-awareness and the ability to think deeply.

He had just deliberately asked if all of Worms's relics belonged to him, not because he was greedy for the Beyonder characteristics that were about to be extracted. Of course, greed did have some influence, after all, Beyonder characteristics were still quite valuable, but Lumian had long seen that Worms was definitely not at Sequence 7 of the "Thief" path, because the corresponding Sequence 7 was called "Decryption Scholar", and he must be able to decipher some of the secrets of the items in the "Traveler's Bag" and roughly understand their degree of danger, so he would not die tragically on the spot after just looking through three things.

Lumian even suspected that Worms had not yet reached Sequence 8 "Swindler" because the thief did not show enough brains.

Lumian asked the law enforcers those questions just now, not to show his talent as a "lawyer" or his expertise in exploiting loopholes, but to use this incident to test the law enforcers, that is, the state of the experimenters, in a question-and-answer method!
Then he came to a conclusion.

He felt that after those serious criminals became experimental subjects, they became a bit like the wax figures in the Red Swan Castle of the Sauron family and the "Supervisor" Olson of the "Iron Cross", but without the feeling of violence and madness. Instead, they were gentle, indifferent and distorted.

"Is this caused by the pollution of '0-01' and the influence of Morola's seal on it?" Lumian was not sure whether he could still maintain his self-awareness if he joined the ranks of experimenters, whether he would only follow Morola's various regulations and become a puppet of this "Exile City" or "0-01".

This made him waver in his original plan to approach "0-01" as an experimenter.

He laughed and asked in a low voice:

"Thermopolos, are you willing to be Morora's puppet?"

Thermopylae ignored him.

Wow!
The rainstorm finally fell, completely shrouding the entire Morola in splashing mist and a doomsday-like gloom.

Lumian followed the shelter extended from the heavy house, avoiding the heavy rain, and walked towards the place closest to him where the feedback of the mutilated body of "abscessed hand" was the strongest.

When he arrived at his destination, his clothes were already half wet due to the strong wind and heavy rain, and the water on the road was almost reaching the steps.

Lumian looked to the side and saw a sign next to the door. It showed a knife and fork and a wine glass, and it was written in Lemburg:
"Carnivore"

A bar that provides meals? Carnivore... Lumian chewed on the name of the bar and suddenly had a strange guess:
"The result of the induction just now is that the body of the man with the broken hand is distributed in many places in Morola, but originally there were only two pieces...

"The goat-faced devil in the underworld cuts off the rotten flesh of the man with the broken hand and eats it every day, and the rotten flesh will heal itself...

"This bar is called 'Carnivore'...

"Could it be that one of the pieces of the Broken Hand's body was obtained by the owner of this bar, so that he could save the expense of buying meat ingredients and use this as a substitute?
"Bar owners in other cities may not do such things, but Morola is likely to do so. They were all exiled because of serious crimes. The owner of this bar might have been a perverted butcher who killed people and sold their meat...

"If this is true, then things will be troublesome. I don't know how many people have eaten and fused with the rotten flesh of the man with the broken hand, and I don't know what impact this will bring...

"After we find the two original pieces of the body and allow the man with the broken hand to recover initially, can we just gather the rest together?"

Lumian muttered silently for a while, ran quickly through the rain, and pushed open the heavy wooden door of the "Carnivore" bar.

——After arriving in Morola and about to restore the body of "abscessed hand", he began to call the other party "bro with broken hand". This was partly a teasing and partly a display of "closeness". He hoped that the other party would not really attack him in the end. After all, there might be other dangers by then.

As soon as he walked into the bar in the rain, Lumian saw a familiar figure.

The figure was sitting on a high stool in front of the bar. His hair seemed to be dyed red, and his eyebrows and eyes were more brown. He was handsome, but his facial features were too aggressive and sharp, making it impossible to like him.

Albus!
Albus Medici!
Lumian's spirits tensed up, but he remained calm on the surface and walked towards the bar with a smile.

In the past, he just thought that Albus Medici was rather mysterious and he didn't know what conspiracy he was secretly plotting. But later he learned about the existence of the "Red Angel" Medici, and knew that this former King of Angels had planned a huge conspiracy and successfully obtained the extraordinary characteristics of the "Hunter" Path Sequence 1 from Fomonda Soran in Trier in the Fourth Epoch.

This made him think of the "Red Angel" as soon as he saw Albus Medici. He suspected that Albus was the agent of the Angel King, entering Morola on his behalf and looking for an opportunity to get close to "0-01".

This was not a good thing for Lumian, because Medici was the biggest figure closest to the throne of "Red Priest"!
Albus Medici noticed Lumian's gaze, turned his body sideways, and looked back at Lumian, who was not wearing any disguise but had just restored his hair color to normal.

"Why are you here?" Lumian smiled as if he had met an old friend.

Albus smiled back:

"Why are you here too?"

"Of course he was captured." Lumian smiled and sat next to Albus. He knocked on the bar counter and said to the bartender who looked unhappy as if his parents had died, "Give me a steak, tenderloin, medium rare."

"Are you imitating me? Being brought to this city for the same unknown reason and ordering a tenderloin steak as well." Albus put one foot on the footrest of the high stool and lifted one foot up, resting it on the knee of the other.

Without waiting for Lumian’s response, he asked with a relaxed smile:

"What crime have you committed?"

"Murder, blasphemy, arson, explosion, kidnapping..." Lumian repeated the crimes he had told Guy and the others before, but not in the original order.

He asked in a relaxed state:
"What about you?"

"I." Albus shook his feet on his knees. "Murder, arson, incitement to riots, and attempted to overthrow the government."

"Which government?" Lumian asked in the tone of a long-lost friend meeting again.

"Intis." Albus spread his hands. "Don't ask me why I was exiled to a strange city in Lenburg after trying to overthrow the Intis government. I don't know either."

Your answer is too perfunctory... Lumian nodded in agreement:

"Yeah, I didn't commit any crime in Lenburg either."

While the two former members of the Iron Cross were "chatting", two steaks were served.

Looking at the steak on the white porcelain plate, which had a hint of blood and looked quite good, Lumian remained silent and did not pick up the knife and fork.

He felt the connection.

This is indeed the rotten flesh of the "abscessed hand", the rotten flesh that has been cut off!
After a few seconds, Lumian looked to the side and found that Albus Medici was also staring at the "steak" without making any move.

Lumian raised the corner of his mouth and asked with a smile:
"Why don't you eat?"

Albus smiled brightly in response:

"Why don't you eat either?"

(End of this chapter)