Dream Travel

Chapter 220 Are you sure you don't have any enemies over there?
"You are dead. This is your body."

"..." Looking at the frozen corpse, Atresia's expression was indescribable. She had done many bad things in order to study alchemy.

But she never imagined that one day she would end up like this.

"Am I a ghost now?" Beatrice quickly accepted her situation. Although she was dead, she felt like she was still 'alive'.

It simply means there will be one more ruler.

"A fragment of the mind, perhaps?" Bai Mu wasn't quite sure about Beatrice's state of being.

Her situation was the same as Luciela's. The White Curtain had been tested on Luciela, and although she was a bit cold, she seemed no different from a human in other aspects.

Someone like Nie Xiaoqian?

"How could mere fragments of the spirit be so complete?" Beatrice was incredulous. She had studied the soul, and this was the next step in her research on immortality.

Although the body can plunder life force to prolong life, the soul will still decay and decay over time if it does not find a way to strengthen itself.

Even if the soul's 'lifespan' is longer than that of the flesh and blood, the soul cannot be replenished or strengthened, and will still 'die of old age' over time.

So after resolving her physical problems, Beatrice began to shift the focus of her research to the soul.

Just as the body can replenish its vitality to maintain youth, the soul can also replenish its spiritual power to maintain itself.

"Complete isn't good enough? I need an alchemist as an assistant, so I came to you."

"...Am I just unlucky?" Beatrice's expression became even more distressed.

There are many alchemists, so why her of all people? How unlucky must she be for people from Rota City to travel all the way to Coal Forest City to kill her?
"Not really, right? After all, you can still live if I kill you, but if someone else finds you, you might not survive."

Beatrice stared at the white screen through gritted teeth, her emotions running high: "Impossible! Everyone who comes to me has an ulterior motive! It's just a nine million bounty, I can generate ten times or even more in revenue, and I can also make people live much longer!"

Based on these facts, the people looking for her wouldn't just kill her directly. The authorities didn't increase the bounty, but they also considered capturing her alive. Otherwise, if the bounty were too high, someone might impulsively take her head back.

But she just happened to run into Bai Mu, who not only forcibly entered her temporary territory, but also slaughtered a large number of the monsters she had modified, and finally took her away with a clean backstab... her body was frozen solid.

"That's a real shame. You're the only bounty information I have access to in Rota City."

“I don’t remember having any enemies over there.” Beatrice couldn’t help but rub her forehead. It was normal for her bounty to appear in Rota City. The problem was that the intelligence providers associated with bounties were usually regional.

How could someone in Rota City have information about her? The distance is too great; information transmission would easily become outdated.

Therefore, the intelligence agents who are paying attention to her are basically only in the vicinity of Meilin City.

There might not be any in more distant places, and even in Meilin City, not many people know about her.

She kept a low profile here, after all, it was a lawless area outside the border zone. Although there were victims, in a no-man's-land, even if she caught someone, the news wouldn't get out.

Besides, it's perfectly normal for a few people to go missing in lawless zones...

So, is it reasonable for Bai Mu to encounter an intelligence agent watching her in Rota City? This must mean she's being maliciously targeted!
"Are you sure you haven't?"

“Uh…” Beatrice fell into deep thought, recalling her past enemies. There seemed to be quite a few, and perhaps there really were some.

In her forbidden research into life, she killed many demons and many humans, initially mostly humans.

A demon's life force differs somewhat from a human's. Since she is human, the life force she draws from is primarily derived from humans. A demon's life force is like another form of fuel; it can be used, but it must be converted and adjusted before it can be applied. This applies not only to demons and humans, but also to vampires.

However, vampires are limited by sunlight or other things, and she had no intention of becoming that kind of being.

"Maybe."

"Then you're unlucky to have met me. I heard you're over ninety?"

"..." Beatrice didn't really want to answer the question. Her age didn't match her appearance, and she didn't really care about it.

After all, she started studying the taboos of life early and did not experience aging, but there is still a difference in the numbers. She was only a little over a hundred years old, and ordinary people can also live to that age.

When people talk about her, she inevitably risks being labeled an old woman, but once she's over two hundred or five hundred years old, she's just a number.

When others ask, it's her turn to feel smug. Would anyone else have lived this long?
She not only survives, but she also lives a young life.

However, she encountered a white curtain, and her lifespan ended at 107 years old...

"107."

“That’s quite a long time.” Bai Mu nodded and looked at Atreus’s corpse: “Do you think this corpse is still useful? For example, can it be eaten to make you stronger, or can it be refined using your alchemy?”

“I’m already dead, how could this change happen… Wait, have you experienced this before?” Beatrice’s curiosity was piqued.

The white curtain looked at Luciela.

Beatrice understood; this sexy and alluring woman was most likely a victim as well, but the other party was probably neither human nor demon, but something else entirely.

Beatrice remembered the image of that monster with a human body and a cat's face very clearly.

"Let me see first." Beatrice wasn't sure if she could use her own corpse.

However, when she came into contact with the corpse, she couldn't help but feel sad. What she had fought for her whole life had been ended so hastily.

She was frozen to death; the overwhelming freezing power rendered all the life force accumulated in her body ineffective.

Her body had been modified by alchemy, allowing her to feign death for a period of time even after her head was cut off, but she just happened to encounter someone like Bai Mu who could restrain her.

Some of the protective gear carried on the corpse was not triggered at all, while others were damaged due to overloading.

The portion that is not triggered has a better protection effect, so the trigger threshold will be higher.

The problem is that if you can instantly kill her freezing power, it's impossible not to trigger those protective items, unless the accompanying attack affects the item's trigger threshold.

Some life-saving items were also triggered, but they were completely useless. She was instantly killed; those items could only save her life, not bring her back to life.

In summary, she has a low-health trigger shield and healing, but when faced with a full-health execute mechanic, she is also in a desperate situation.

Because she died so quickly, the life force contained within her corpse did not dissipate. In addition, her body was frozen perfectly, so, just as Bai Mu said, the corpse could actually play a role.

Why is he so unhappy about simply using alchemy to dispose of his own corpse?

Beatrice's mood worsened, but then she had a new idea...

(End of this chapter)