"You want a real Philosopher's Stone? Although it's a bit troublesome to make, I still have a few on me. If you want one, I can give you one. For more, you'll need to provide the materials."
"That's not necessary... And, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you hated this Philosopher's Stone before, and I asked you to refine so many of them."
Lingyi lowered her eyes apologetically. She was so focused on killing insects at that time that she ignored her friend's feelings.
"It doesn't matter. I'm not that sensitive yet."
"Really?"
"What else? If you really resist, I will just refuse."
"That's good, hehe... Then I'll go continue killing pests. There are still many pests to deal with."
“…”
However, Patchouli did not agree with Lingyi's wishes.
It's very uncomfortable to only listen halfway to what others are saying.
Moreover, the two have just formed a team and are in the running-in period. If there is anything, they should make it clear so that it will be easier for them to get along in the future.
So she said nothing and stared at Lingyi with her calm purple eyes.
82. Utilizing waste from pests, killing nine thousand today, and tomorrow?
"..."
However, Lingyi really turned around and left.
Seeing this, Patchouli had to stop the other person.
"You haven't finished what you were saying yet? Why are you suddenly asking about the Philosopher's Stone?"
"Uh... well..."
Lingyi paused, turned around, and scratched his head helplessly and a little embarrassedly.
"It's nothing, actually... I figured, since these pests are dead anyway, why not recycle them and turn them into Philosopher's Stones?"
"But that was what I thought when I didn't know that Patchy didn't like this kind of thing. Now that I know, I forget it."
"..."
Patchouli fell silent.
She hadn't considered such a thing because she had never done it before.
The Philosopher's Stone that Lingyi had been refining these days was made with the blood of only a few hundred people at most.
What Lingyi meant now was that she should treat hundreds of thousands or millions of people in a modern city as consumables.
She had never imagined such a thing.
So this kind of challenges her common sense.
But Patchouli thought about how she had just destroyed a city under Lingyi's instigation...
Forget it.
"Um....I'm leaving first?"
Seeing that Patchouli didn't respond for a while, Lingyi asked softly.
Patchouli raised her head from her thoughts: "Wait a minute, I can refine those philosopher's stones."
"Hey?"
Lingyi was stunned, surprise flashed in her eyes, then she waved her hands and smiled helplessly.
"No need, Patchy. I'm not telling you this to get your approval, but... you asked, and I don't want to keep it a secret any longer, lest there be any misunderstandings."
Patchouli frowned slightly and said calmly, "I'm serious. I know you're concerned about my feelings, but I also said that I'm not that sensitive."
"this....."
"But do you really need these things?"
Ling Yi shook her head: "It's not really necessary, it's just a way to recycle waste and prepare a backup plan."
Patchouli lowered her eyes and pondered, tapping the magic book with her slender fingers.
"Hmm... Although I don't quite agree with your opinion, I can understand it. Besides, it's definitely beneficial to have some backup plans."
Then, she raised her head and asked, "But what about your karmic fire? To torture those pests, you have to use karmic fire, right? But after the karmic fire burns, nothing will be left."
Lingyi's mouth curled up slightly, this was not a problem.
"I can control the power I exert so that the flames of karma will only burn their souls, while their bodies will remain."
"That's no problem, let's prepare the materials."
Although Patchouli was willing to refine the Philosopher's Stone, in reality, most of the cities were still burned down by Lingyi.
Because Patchouli's speed in refining the Philosopher's Stone is far from comparable to Ling Yi's speed in destroying the city.
In a city with a population of five million, Patchouli said that she would have to refine at full power for at least three days and three nights to use up all the consumables.
As for storing the flesh and blood of these pests and slowly refining them, that wouldn't work either - there were too many of them, and not only Patchouli, but Lingyi herself wouldn't be able to preserve so many corpses.
So, although Patchouli did not think that her speed was slow, in order to narrow the speed gap with Lingyi as much as possible and coordinate with Lingyi's movements, she quickly improved the technique.
It slightly slowed down the refining speed, but the refining technique no longer required her to control it herself.
She can directly set up a magic circle and let the magic circle work on its own to refine the philosopher's stone.
She could even do it: whenever Ling Yi massacred a city, she would set up a magic circle.
As a result, a rather strange scene began to unfold in various places around the world.
The city turned into a ghost town overnight, with only one or two people left out of ten, and then a mountain of corpses appeared next to the city.
Hundreds of thousands and millions of corpses were piled up here, their expressions extremely distorted, hideous, painful, and fearful, but what was even more bizarre was that there was not a single wound visible on their bodies.
At most, because there were too many corpses piled up, many of them were crushed by the weight on top.
Unfortunately, because of this, there will still be a lot of blood and bizarre scenes in the mountain of corpses - and this is what Patchouli hates.
Late at night—Zero stopped for a moment.
Mainly because Patchouli needs a rest.
"Killed today..."
Lingyi frowned and recalled for a while, then her brows relaxed happily. If you didn't know her, you would think she had eaten candy.
"About 90 million pests. The efficiency has greatly increased. At this rate, the battle will be over in five days... no, if we hurry up, it will be over in less than three days and three nights."
This is also thanks to the fact that the people in this world are basically ordinary people, making it effortless to kill them, and they have no means or ability to resist.
Otherwise it would take her a lot longer.
At least if they were all cursed children with rich combat experience, the purge would probably last two or three times longer.
"..."
Patchouli glanced at Lingyi and put on her nightcap.
They were in a hotel at the moment. The entire city was basically evacuated, so they just found a room in the hotel and stayed there.
"Sure enough, I can't rest yet!"
I don’t know what Lingyi was thinking about, but Patchouli, who was getting ready for bed, suddenly heard Lingyi getting excited again.
"Patch!"
"I want to rest."
Patchouli interrupted Lingyi immediately.
"I know, don't worry, I won't force my friends to accompany me on my own."
Lingyi waved his hand in amusement.
"I'm going to say, I'm going to continue cleaning up the pests. You can rest here and come back to me when you're rested. How about that?"
"..."
Patchouli was silent for a while, then sighed helplessly.
"Where does your motivation come from?"
She was just expressing her feelings casually, but Lingyi took it seriously.
"Well... let me think about how to tell you..."
Lingyi looked thoughtful, and then one of her hands was covered with blue armor.
She materialized a part of Shizuku Sora, and this Shizuku Sora was an armor specialized for electronic warfare.
Now she no longer needs to touch any computer or terminal, she can hack into the network directly out of thin air.
About ten seconds later, a virtual light screen was projected in front of her and Patchouli.
There are two paintings on the light screen——
In the first painting, a pink anthropomorphic puppy hands out an orange to the outside of the painting. Its cute face shows pure innocence, purity and the beautiful emotion of sharing.
The second painting shows a rotting skeleton lying miserably in the grass, surrounded by rotten oranges and fallen leaves.
From the shape of the skull and the hairstyle, it can be seen that it is the pink puppy from before.
There is a half-cut knife in the corner of the picture, stained with dried blood, which seems to be the murder weapon that killed the puppy.
“That’s my motivation~”
Patchouli was silent for a while.
"Well... I understand your motivation. I think I'm a little motivated now..."
83. The Sky-reaching Corpse Tower, the Sun-covering Demon
Words can never convey emotions better than pictures.
Although Lingyi explained the situation of this world to Patchouli at the beginning, the feeling it gave Patchouli was not as good as the pictures in these two comics.
The cold-blooded magician has no interest in understanding the current situation of those children and unfortunate people, but when the current situation is placed in front of her, she, who is not cold-blooded, will still be shaken.
"According to what you said before, most people in this world are like this?"
Patchouli gently took off her nightcap, and the light cast a soft glow on her purple hair.
"Well, although it's incredible, according to common sense, such people should only be a minority in a society, and a very small minority at that."
Rei cancelled Shizuku Sora's outfit and made the two pictures disappear quickly.
If it wasn't for the purpose of helping Patchouli better understand her thoughts, she wouldn't have drawn this thing specifically.
She couldn't bear to see this.
Patchouli was silent for a moment, placed the nightcap in her hand on the bedside, and took out a bottle of glowing healing potion from the magic space.
Then he raised his head and drank it all.
"Let's go, finish it quickly and get some rest early."
she said calmly.
"—!"
Lingyi's eyes lit up instantly, like fireworks suddenly blooming in the night sky.
She almost jumped up and pounced on Patchouli, hugging her in her arms.
"Patch!"
She shouted excitedly, her voice full of joy.
Patchouli froze slightly at the sudden hug.
She tried to push Lingyi away, but found that he was so excited that he didn't feel her resistance at all.
"You..." She was somewhat used to it and could only sigh helplessly, "Why do you always hug me suddenly..."
Tonight, the hunt continues!
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