Ch. 349 - The Secret of the Light Fairy

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Inside the captain's cabin.

Yang Yi managed to calm Tricia down.

After her intelligence had dropped, this girl was also very easy to pacify. In a sense, that could be considered another kind of advantage.

“...Tomorrow, I’ll build you a safe house. Two bedrooms and one living room. I guarantee that only you will be able to get inside. Suna, Xiao Ji, and I won’t be able to enter either!” Yang Yi told Tricia.

“Really?”

“Of course it’s true!”

Yang Yi answered honestly, finally managing to stabilize Tricia’s emotions.

After all, if she insisted on escaping, it would still be very troublesome. Once she got away, finding her again would be incredibly difficult.

Fortunately, she no longer had any intention of running away. She was completely satisfied with the promises Yang Yi had made to her and decided to remain aboard the Nightmare Star.

Yang Yi stared at Tricia.

She was currently sitting on the table, wearing crude cloth clothes that looked like they had been made from a burlap sack. Beside her was a makeshift tent hastily assembled from yarn, fabric, and wooden sticks. She was planning to make do with it for one night.

Tomorrow, Yang Yi planned to use some wood to handcraft a small house and fix it onto the wall for Tricia to live in.

He had also given her a miniature money pouch. However, to Tricia, the money pouch looked more like a backpack, and she simply carried it on her back.

“She really looks more and more like a figurine the longer I look at her.”

“What is a figurine?”

Tricia had never heard the word before and suddenly raised her head.

“Nothing.” Yang Yi changed the subject. “By the way, where did you hear the term ‘Blasphemer’? You kept shouting that name earlier.”

“The Blasphemer...?”

Tricia was confused at first. She fell into thought, then her eyes widened as though she had remembered something.

“I remember that dream!

“In the dream, I paid homage to the Blasphemer and heard a divine oracle. He was the one who pulled me back from the brink of death.”

A fanatical expression appeared on Tricia’s face, and her voice rose accordingly.

“The Blasphemer has a majestic body as enormous as a mountain, a huge mouth, and four eyeballs. He’s especially friendly toward believers and grants whatever they ask for. He’s much more reliable than the Goddess of Radiance!”

Tricia praised him enthusiastically.

Yang Yi’s face stiffened.

It seemed that when he had treated Tricia earlier, she had not been completely unconscious and had retained a faint awareness of her surroundings.

Influenced by that awareness, she had dreamed up something utterly outrageous.

But this still could not explain how she knew about the Blasphemer.

After all, only he himself, Suna, and a certain Collector knew of this title. The trigger had been a statue Yang Yi had casually created. Apart from them, no one else should have known about it— except for the system itself.

Could she really have sensed it through some kind of sixth sense?

That would be far too absurd!

Yang Yi thought of many possibilities in an instant.

Meanwhile, Tricia continued praising the Blasphemer, but because her memories were blurry, her words came out in fragments.

“He... He... also has a majestic wolf face. His skin... seems to be black...”

“That’s enough.”

Yang Yi interrupted Tricia.

“Do you want to believe in the Blasphemer too? He’s really effective!” Tricia’s true nature as a religious fanatic was exposed, and she tried to preach to Yang Yi.

“Uh... I’ll pass. Also, stop bringing up matters related to faith. If Suna becomes interested, you’ll be in danger.”

Yang Yi warned her, essentially giving her a precautionary warning.

Tricia immediately covered her mouth and nodded. Apparently, her fear of the witch was in no way inferior to her fear of the Blasphemer.

Ten-odd minutes later...

Yang Yi left the captain’s cabin, while Xiao Ji the robot was waiting outside the door.

“Keep an eye on Tricia. If she tries to escape, catch her,” Yang Yi ordered Xiao Ji, still somewhat uneasy. “Make sure you complete the mission.”

Xiao Ji put on a reliable-looking expression and spoke in a very quiet voice to avoid being heard by Tricia inside the room.

Yang Yi nodded and gave it both the spatial storage backpack and waist pouch that had been reinforced with low-grade Artisan’s Inscription Stones, securing them to its barrel-shaped body.

The backpack had a capacity of eight cubic meters, which was just enough to store the land operation components.

Xiao Ji’s waist pouch only had a capacity of five cubic meters. It could hold things like fuel, food, seasonings, cooking utensils, and the like, making it convenient for preparing meals.

Afterward, he headed to the cabin, intending to discuss the matter concerning Tricia.

It seemed Suna had made a discovery.

............

Inside the Witch’s laboratory.

Suna was reading the book she had bought. Its title was The Root of Calamity—Witches and Warlocks.

Yang Yi had roughly flipped through this book before. It was published by the Holy Radiance  Church, and the entire book described how evil and terrifying witches and warlocks were.

The book also contained hand-drawn illustrations, such as evil containers filled with the organs of Other Demons, living people used as human test subjects with faces full of pain and despair, and the sinister smiles of witches and warlocks.....

According to the book, the reason this world was so chaotic was entirely because of witches and warlocks.

At this time of great crisis, the Goddess of Radiance appeared, burned countless witches and warlocks to death, created the Sea of Miracles, and saved countless lives.

“Witches and warlocks are forbidden existences, the most evil heretics! They invoke the name of truth as they recklessly desecrate the dead, toy with life, and destroy the order and peace that this world should have! They are the greatest sinners, the embodiments of calamity!

“Once one is discovered, immediately contact the Holy Radiance Church. We will ensure that these sinners receive the punishment they deserve!

“The Holy Light will never let them escape…”

The book also contained descriptions of the physical appearances of warlocks and witches. Only their heads were depicted, painted in a bloody and gruesome manner that looked almost like real severed heads.

Witches had red eyes, while warlocks had blue eyes. This was their most obvious and distinctive characteristic. Once one was discovered, people could contact the Holy Radiance Church simply by praying to a divine statue..... The Holy Crusade Army would arrive before long!

Informants would receive generous rewards and might even be allowed to live in the Holy City.......

“Suna.”

Yang Yi knocked on the door of the Witch’s Laboratory, interrupting Suna’s immersive reading.

“You’ve taken care of your little believer, Great Blasphemer… Sir?”

Suna looked over, and her opening remark immediately left Yang Yi unable to save face.

“I’m not! I didn’t! Don’t make things up!”

Yang Yi hurriedly fired off a triple denial.

“I’m not making anything up. You did, in fact, brainwash a Light Fairy without even realizing it.”

Suna stood up, her expression becoming serious as she got down to business.

“Let me start with the conclusion. Compared to a living creature, a Light Fairy is more like an artificially created construct, similar to this stone man.”

She pointed toward the remains of the stone man, which had been dismantled into pieces of stone, and picked up one of them.

“However, the technology contained within the Light Fairy is far beyond that of this stone man. It even has a fixed soul. But the two are still technological iterations of the same type, so similarities can still be found between them, such as the control magic array above.”

Suna showed him the magic array on the stone. Under the illumination of the light, a reflective formation could be seen. It was a trace left behind during the array’s inscription.

“Does Tricia have one inside her too?” Yang Yi asked.

“She does, and it’s much more complicated. It can even repair itself.”

Suna nodded and sent Yang Yi a photo. Sure enough, there was a similar magic array inside Tricia’s body. Its level of intricacy and complexity was far beyond that of the stone man.

“This magic array not only allows a Light Fairy to move and think, but also interferes with its thoughts and beliefs, much like a restriction program.

“However, Tricia is special. The magic array inside her has become distorted, with some extremely incompatible areas. It seems that during the process of you treating her, those areas were repaired, and her beliefs were altered in the process.”

Suna explained her findings, including some difficult-to-prove conjectures. However, the possibility was extremely high.

The conclusion was… Yang Yi’s Limb Regeneration Technique can even repair constructs!