Super Righteous Player
Chapter 632 - 173 Blood Butterfly Valley_1

Chapter 632: Chapter 173 Blood Butterfly Valley_1

"Let’s not worry about things we can’t prove and investigate for now. Based on the records in the newspapers before, I calculated their sailing speed... Even if they travel the shortest distance, which is a straight line, it would still take ten days to successfully arrive,"

Dragon Well Tea calmly responded, "If you guys take the subway directly there, that route would be damn circuitous—you’d first have to take the subway to Noah, where you must cross a body of water; then you switch trains from the southernmost point of Noah to the Royal Capital.

"One thing to note is that the time it takes for you to get to The Holy Nation isn’t just the total travel time of each subway ride. Because the subway in this era doesn’t operate continuously... Even if you use ’Silver Baron’ to cut in line and buy scalped tickets, allowing you to switch trains at the fastest intervals, you’d still have to wait for two days.

"Then you need to change trains again to Winter, and if you’re lucky, you can complete that transfer within half a day. After that, you’ve got to switch trains two more times to get to the underground of The Holy Nation."

"...That’s, like, so complicated."

Lin Yiyi suddenly felt a strong "I don’t want to move" sentiment welling up inside her.

"Complicated, isn’t it? And there’s more complications. The Underworld of the Dirge Principality buried too many corpses, maybe due to the heavy yin energy or something, so no city was built underground there.

"So you’d first have to go up to the top of The Holy Nation, then hire an airship to fly south... As for how to persuade the captain to head in the direction of Dirge Principality and how to land when you get there, all I can say is I have no idea.

"Assuming you don’t miss any trains and manage to find an airship to rent within a day, it would still be ten days gone."

At this point, Dragon Well Tea showed a kind smile, "Do you still plan to rush over?"

"No thanks, please allow me to decline."

Lin Yiyi replied indifferently, "This is just too unbearable. I’d rather teleport directly to The Holy Nation... just lose some experience, I don’t want to dream about business trips..."

"You do indeed have to teleport."

Dragon Well Tea couldn’t help but laugh, "I was just calculating it for you to listen to, to confirm your determination."

"...What do you mean?"

"Don’t forget, our ultimate goal is to intercept Selicia, not to go to Dirge Principality.

"Although that little girl also seems suspicious, and it feels like a long side quest could be pulled from her, our final goal is still to stop Selicia. She left about two or three days ago, counting as three, so she has seven more days to reach..."

"...I understand."

Lin Yiyi got it.

If they took the subway, there was a hundred percent chance of not catching up.

They could only hope that Selicia would stay in the same place for more than three days after her arrival. Otherwise, they could only bite the dust, not even a sip of the soup.

"Then I might as well teleport there."

"Good, as long as you understand that you can only get there by teleporting..."

Dragon Well Tea coughed lightly, "Then there’s only one problem left."

"What?"

"The Holy Nation’s teleportation point isn’t open yet, old Goose got to The Holy Nation just yesterday, so the purification efficiency with him there isn’t a concern. However, you’ll have to wait in place for five days—or you could also teleport to Sporogenesis Mill, and then take a car from our place to The Holy Nation, which takes less than two days. That’s the more conservative approach."

Dragon Well Tea responded with a smile, "My suggestion is... since you were already there for a day yesterday, why not just stay for a full week, and while you are at it, open the teleportation point of Saltpeter Ranch?

"When the time comes, you could let old Goose and the others rent out an airship for you in advance. After you open the local teleportation point, you can teleport directly to The Holy Nation. Once you’re in The Holy Nation, board the airship and leave... If all goes well, you should be able to reach there before the captain of the Ship in Stone arrives at Dirge Principality, landing there first."

"...That works."

Lin Yiyi calmly replied, "Rather than being jostled around on the road, I’d rather stay put and grind out some nightmare levels."

"But to tell it like it is, I think the biggest problem at your place isn’t the nightmares."

"What is it?"

"It’s the cultural environment there, the cultural environment."

Dragon Well Tea glanced at the newspaper on the table that reported about the "Bloodhand Brothers."

The brothers known as "Barney" and "Jacob" were cursed with the nickname "Bloodhand".

——Their surname was not "Bloodhand".

Instead, after their first crime, the police of the Miles precinct in the Noah Kingdom began referring to them by the moniker "Bloodhand".

"Noah has a place of strange phenomena called ’Blood Butterfly Valley’. There, butterflies made of blood flutter about at all times... if a butterfly lands on one’s skin, it will leave a mark resembling the ’infinity’ symbol."

"Infinity? As in... the mathematical symbol?"

"Correct."

Longjing Tea looked at the newspapers and notebooks in front of him, frowning slightly: "And those marked by the blood butterflies develop a disease similar to hemophilia; they bleed uncontrollably from even minor injuries, and their wounds gradually fester. Once their blood leaves their body, it begins to become active and slowly transforms into new butterflies."

"Sounds a bit like a biochemical crisis."

"Indeed. And the most dangerous part is that besides ’humans’, other warm-blooded animals like cattle, sheep, dogs, cats, birds, and even mice, can spread this curse. It is the legacy of a very powerful fallen being who died... in the same vein as the endless storms near the Storm Tower.

"... And this ’fallen being’ is the mother of the Bloodhand brothers. Both of them were exceptionally strong as fallen beings. Six years ago during the last update, they were just one step away from a full demonic transformation."

Upon hearing Longjing Tea’s explanation, Lin Yiyi’s expression became somewhat nuanced:

"This doesn’t turn into some classic Conan-style revenge drama, does it? Seeking vengeance because their mother was killed or something..."

"It’s not that... I would more aptly describe it as a ’genetic evil’."

Longjing Tea answered calmly: "You can also tell that the blood butterflies are very dangerous. However, they continually regenerate in the valley... No matter how many fly away or are destroyed, the number of blood butterflies always returns to exactly one hundred and seventy-eight.

"So eventually, Heath Tower of Black blew up a mountain, creating an ingenious landslide that sealed off both ends of Blood Butterfly Valley. They also constructed a large magical barrier to close off any remaining gaps.

"Later, there was a massacre in Nata County... it happened about sixteen years ago. Even though it was known as the land of the damned, the savagery of that incident was too extreme — over half of the town’s residents disappeared, and the insides of windows and walls were smeared with Bloodhand prints, as if someone drenched in blood had been smacking against them."

"... It’s like a scene from a horror movie."

"Exactly. It is said that the current ’Demonic Blood’ formula in Nata County was left by those two brothers... Their methods remain uncertain to this day, but it’s presumed to involve blood. As for the original purpose, it was to create ’Demonic Blood’.

"Since they were staying in the Underworld, that means..."

"That means the first batch of Demonic Blood was brought into the Underworld by them."

Lin Yiyi continued.

Her expression grew serious: "So, within the Saltpeter Ranch... there could be numerous fallen beings hidden. Is that what you mean?"

"It’s more than that."

Longjing Tea replied: "There might even be real demons showing up.

"That’s why I said it would be best if we could open a teleportation point. But it’s fine if we can’t... You could also respawn at Sporogenesis Mill and we can form a team to fight our way back once we level up — though if everything goes well, setting up a teleportation point would be best.

"Also, remember to protect yourself."

"... It might be a bit late for that."

Lin Yiyi spoke in a quiet, steady voice: "Next time, remember to put that advice at the beginning."

Having said that, she quietly turned off the voice chat.

Her perceptual ability had been warning her for the past half-minute already.

Yet there appeared to be nothing around her.

Which meant...

——An invisible threat was slowly approaching her within her room.

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