Chapter 1221: 387. Rumors and Gossip_2

But when he arrived here, he found that the group of Metal Series Wizards were floating cautiously in the air, shuttling between the buildings.

Below the Metal Series Wizards, a small squad of Death Steel Soldiers was stationed near the subway entrance, not daring to venture into the urban area nor to move with the Metal Series Wizards, showing extreme caution.

The Wizards flew in the sky, while the Death Steel Soldiers stood still, one moving and one static.

Noland Lee sensed something odd:

“If this urban area is a forbidden place for Death Steel Soldiers, they should be following the Metal Series Wizards and monitoring their every move. But now they dare not step into the buildings, behaving as if they are somewhat afraid of this area—what’s going on?”

Noland Lee crossed his arms, feeling troubled again by the absence of the Assassin Angel.

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If the Assassin Angel were here, he would probably already know the correct answer.

Noland Lee watched the Metal Series Wizards’ every move and cast Deconstruction at them.

An unknown temporary state appeared on the panel information of the group of Metal Series Wizards:

“Full Metal Body and Mind”.

Individuals with this condition would be deeply transformed by Metal Magic, having no trace of flesh in their entirety, and their souls would be completely sealed by Metal Magic, unable to be extracted.

Noland Lee’s pupils constricted as his thoughts raced open!

He was eager to know what was going on with this Root Server Urban Area!

From the Metal Series Wizards’ cautious behavior, if any life creature that entered this place had flesh and blood and was unprotected, it was highly likely that an accident would occur.

As for what exactly the accident was, Noland Lee soon found out the answer.

The group of Metal Series Wizards arrived at the rooftop of a building and took out materials from their Magic Pouch to set up a temporary experimental site.

They constructed a dissection table equipped with heavy Magic Lock Chains, and then brought out a human body encased in a metal container and placed it on the dissection table.

The moment the metal container was opened, the flesh body inside ignited with a bang.

The burning was extremely brief, the sparks blazing one second and retracting into the flesh the next.

The surface of the body in the metal container showed no signs of burn marks, but its eyes, like those of human torches in the building, emitted a green light.

“This is amazing…”

“I thought the flames just now would destroy this puppet, but it turned out to be completely intact…”

“Don’t touch it, idiot, do you want to be turned into a torch as well?”

The Metal Series Wizards exchanged a few words with the puppet inside the metal box, quickly closed the lid, and isolated the puppet from the outside air.

The metal box placed on the dissection table was specially made, with several sets of dissection tools inside and a dedicated place for placing specimens.

The Metal Series Wizards used their ability to control metal to “pick up” the dissection table inside the metal box without touching it and began to attempt dissection.

The first cut along the puppet’s abdomen created a slender wound several inches deep in the skin, without any blood flowing from the wound, but a green luminescence scattered from it.

“Bang.”

The sudden explosion startled the surrounding Metal Series Wizards.

Before their cries of shock subsided, the originally silent puppet had already turned into black ash in the explosion, covering the entire metal box.

“Can’t you move any faster!”

“You cut too deep, fool.”

“Let me do it!”

The Metal Series Wizards argued for a while, took out another metal box, repeated the process, and obtained another puppet that had been transformed into a human torch.

“Bang.”

The explosion struck again, and while the Metal Series managed to block the impact of the explosion, the puppet followed the fate of the previous one, turning into pitch-black powder.

After several attempts in succession, the experiments of the Metal Series Wizards all ended in failure.

Meditating with the Metal System Method tends to make people impulsive and irritable.

Now, the continuous failures had exhausted the Wizards’ frustrations, and a group of them were yelling at each other in the dead silence of the urban area.

Perhaps the Metal Ancestor Dragon, hiding behind the scenes and disapproving of the commotion, intervened—the noisy wizards suddenly stiffened, humbly bowing down as if listening to a voice in their minds.

Noland Lee pondered thoughtfully.

Hadn’t the Assassin Angel said that if Tarsali were to cooperate with the Death Steel Legion, it must offer sufficient sincerity?

The Death Steel Legion gives Anti-Demon Metal Materials to Tarsali, which should provide equivalent repayment.

So this repayment couldn’t be helping the Death Steel Legion to study the strange phenomenon of human torches, could it?

If that was the case, then the Metal Ancestor Dragon’s elaborate effort to pollute the metal objects throughout the urban area was not completely geared toward finding the thief but also aimed at accomplishing a Research Task.

Noland Lee narrowed his eyes slightly.

After much contemplation, a plan that could strike at the heart of the matter emerged in his mind.

He summoned the Systems Interface in his mind and selected the “Tracking Mark” on Selena, sending out “Mind Induction”.

At that time, Selena was dealing with the tasks at hand.

Upon detecting Noland Lee’s psychic call, she waved her hand to let the pen and paper floating in the air drop onto the tabletop, and then asked in her mind,

“What’s the matter, Jarvis?”

Noland Lee asked directly,

“If I want to spread rumors among the wizard groups exploring the Pollution Zone, do you have any good suggestions?”

Selena was taken aback,

“Spread rumors?”

“Yes.”

Selena thought for a moment, twirling her finger under her chin, and said,

“Then I need to ask, are you talking about spreading rumors anonymously, or on behalf of someone?”

“Anonymously,” Noland Lee responded.

Selena considered and then said,

“If it’s anonymously, then I suggest using the Grey Wizards to spread the rumors. Those guys only care about money, not about who employs them, and they have no interest in investigating the identity of their employers. As long as you pay them promptly, their work efficiency will be relatively reliable.”

Selena asked,

“What kind of rumors do you want to spread? It’s best not to damage the reputation of any wizard forces, or else it may easily bring an investigation by the Enforcement Wizards. Also, the price varies depending on the rumor. Rumors about personal private lives are more expensive. Conversely, if the rumor involves more people, the price is actually lower.”

This was the first time Noland Lee heard that the more people involved in a rumor, the cheaper it was.

However, now was not the time to delve into it.

He said straightforwardly,

“I’ve found the road leading to the core area of the Pollution Zone, but there are lots of Metal Ancestral Dragon bastards blocking the way. I need a group of wizards to help me clear the path, distracting the Metal Ancestral Dragons’ attention so that I can take away the Anti-Demon Materials.”

Selena became interested, noveldrama

“Tell me more?”

Noland Lee weighed his words and said,

“Well.. to put it simply..”

Noland Lee took 10 minutes to explain the whole situation.

At the end, he emphasized one point: if the Root Server Urban Area was destroyed, then the Annihilation Field would disappear.

This point was merely a conjecture by Noland Lee, but it was enough to lure the wizards to attack the Root Server Urban Area.

Selena was confused by terms like “human torch” and “Root Server”, unable to imagine the things Noland Lee described.

She could only stick to the facts and put forth her ideas,

“I think spreading the letter’s message won’t be difficult. I happened to meet a few Grey Wizards last time I helped you arrange the Energy Conversion Array. I can go ask them about the price.”

“Sure, no problem,” Noland Lee added,

“Safety comes first, and we mustn’t let anyone trace this back to us.”

“Don’t worry, I have an idea. I even have a feeling that spreading such rumors might not cost us a penny.”

The two disconnected contact.

Grey Wizards generally didn’t have Magic Messengers.

To communicate with them, Selena needed to use unconventional methods.

She wrote an anonymous letter with a Magic Pen, put it into a drift bottle, and then summoned a Magic Seahorse using Deep Sea Magic to deliver it to a certain Sea Area west of the Suman Archipelago.

After throwing the drift bottle onto the Sea Surface, it wouldn’t be long before a Sea Eagle, which constantly circled in the sky, would pick up the bottle.

Selena’s Magic Seahorse lingered in the Sea Water, waiting for a Reply.

Meanwhile, Noland Lee, who was on the outskirts of the Root Server, discovered a large group of Grey Wizards flying toward the urban area like a flock of birds leaving their nest…

Noland Lee cast Deconstruction at one of the Grey Wizards.

After a glance at the Deconstruction Results, Noland Lee couldn’t help but laugh.

Selena’s guess had been right.

The Grey Wizards who first learned of the rumor became “tap water”; they didn’t even take Selena’s money before spreading the rumor throughout the Grey Wizard Group.