Xueyi lost her patience, her tone turning cold.
"Enough, Guinaifen. You two have seen what you came to see. The Judges still have important matters to handle. Huohuo, see the guests out."
"Un-understood." Huohuo acknowledged.
Hanya: "Sister, don't be angry. You rarely go out on missions and have little experience in dealing with people."
"The current abnormal situation in Fyxestroll Garden will inevitably attract attention. It is impossible to guard against everything."
"Today we roughly sent away these two who didn't understand the situation. If they feel unwilling and choose to come again another day, we may not necessarily have the good luck of encountering us again."
"Why not leave this matter to me to handle? As long as I can explain the reason, they will naturally leave."
Xueyi nodded.
Hanya slightly raised her chin, indicating for Stelle and the other to follow, speaking as they walked.
"Miss Stelle, you must also know about the damage to the Creation Furnace of the Artisanship Commission."
"But you probably don't know that the Heliobi monsters sealed within have taken up residence in Fyxestroll Garden. The Ten Lords Commission has been ordered to capture them. Advising you to leave quickly is also for the sake of safety."
Stelle blinked blankly.
She had encountered creatures like Heliobi before, namely Phantylia.
She just didn't expect that there were more on the Luofu.
Hanya: "If you two still have doubts, you may ask questions. Hanya will do her best to satisfy your curiosity."
"But after asking, I hope the two of you will keep it secret and obediently leave Fyxestroll Garden without returning."
Sensing the goodwill released by Hanya, Guinaifen was no longer so nervous.
"This Judge is truly reasonable. Thank you. I swear, I'll leave after asking."
"So, what exactly are Heliobi? And how dangerous are they?"
Hanya: "According to the Divination Commission's classification, they are energy parasites from beyond the heavens, starfire essences appearing in the form of eerie flames."
"If using a metaphor, they are like moths that like to chase heat sources. It's just that this heat source is not anything else, but the thoughts of sentient beings."
"Heliobi like to parasitize intelligent life forms, drawing on their experiences and savoring their emotions."
"Gradually, Heliobi will take root in the host's nervous system."
"Using the host's inner desires and weaknesses, they cause layers of inverted delusions, manipulating the host like a puppet on strings."
"The host will then obey the Heliobus completely. We call this—possession."
"At this step, what is in the possessed person's head is no longer their former self, but a Heliobus that is similar to yet completely different from themselves."
"The host's body will soon be drained dry by the Heliobus, just like firewood burned to ash."
Stelle: "So, if there were no Judges like you watching, Tail would also be dangerous?"
"How is this little girl speaking! What do you mean 'also dangerous'? This Lord is the most dangerous one!" Tail said proudly.
Huohuo considerately tore down the stage again to prevent Stelle and Guinaifen from feeling afraid.
"Please rest assured, the two of you. Tail… has already been suppressed by Lady Hanya on my tail. It will not harm others."
Hanya: "What is headache-inducing is that Heliobi are not flesh-and-blood mortals and are difficult to extinguish."
"Before repairing the Creation Furnace, the Ten Lords Commission plans to set up the Binding Form Evil-Repelling Array in this abandoned garden to imprison these monsters."
Stelle fell into thought.
She didn't think Leon had lied to her. Since he said he had been to Fyxestroll Garden before, he definitely had.
But Leon didn't mention the threat of Heliobi in Fyxestroll Garden. Either Heliobi posed no threat to him at all.
Or when Leon came to Fyxestroll Garden, the Heliobi had not yet taken up residence here.
And there was one final possibility—
The Heliobi were afraid even upon seeing Leon, hiding far away, not daring to approach or even reveal half a bit of their presence.
The content of Stelle's thoughts was the player perspective's inner monologue.
While supplementing the small foreshadowing buried in previous versions, it also made players who chose to report to Leon feel anticipation.
If an accident happened in Fyxestroll Garden, Leon should come, right?
Stelle gathered her thoughts: "Thank you, Judge Hanya, for clearing up the doubts. I have no more questions."
Guinaifen: "…I have none either. By the way, can I publish information related to Heliobi online as a warning?"
"As you wish. But even if you post it, it won't have much effect." Hanya said indifferently.
The Xianzhou Alliance has sailed the sea of stars for thousands of years. The period of coexisting with Heliobi has been a full three to four thousand years.
If saying it out loud was useful, how could methods to prevent Heliobi not have spread among the civilians?
Wasn't it precisely because ordinary people fundamentally could not prevent it? The process of Heliobi entering a target's body was so easy that it defied reason.
Hanya did not waste more words on this topic and changed it.
"As the two of you have seen, the Binding Form Evil-Repelling Array is not yet complete. The escaped Heliobi have not all been recaptured yet. Fyxestroll Garden is still dangerous. I will have Judge Huohuo escort you out."
"Huohuo, see the guests off."
With that, Hanya turned and walked back.
Huohuo: "Um, the two of you, we should go now."
Stelle and the other exchanged a glance, then followed.
What could they do? The supernatural exploration could only end here.
Staring at Huohuo's back, Stelle secretly muttered to herself.
Good news: There are no ghosts running around wildly in Fyxestroll Garden.
Bad news: There are Heliobi of the same species as Phantylia running around wildly.
Although these Heliobi had no comparability with Phantylia, who was a Lord Ravager.
But according to what Hanya said earlier, once encountering Heliobi possession, the trouble could not be underestimated.
Oh right, there were also terrifying existences that looked easy to scare ordinary people: the Ten Lords Commission Judges.
Huohuo looked cute, but was parasitized by a Heliobus… or rather coexisting with a Heliobus?
Hard to say, and hard to ask.
There was also the tall and sturdy Hanya Judge with white hair covering her face and a ghostly, ethereal voice.
The only one who still looked relatively normal was Xueyi, whom she had met once at the Palace of Astrum, but Xueyi was a mechanical puppet.
Could it be that among the Judges in the Ten Lords Commission, there were hardly any ordinary humans?
Guinaifen couldn't stand the silent atmosphere.
"Haunting, Heliobi, possession… I feel like my head has been stabbed with a stick and stirred forcefully."
"But thinking about it carefully, it's no different from ghosts causing trouble in urban legends."
"Energy parasites or whatever, it sounds just like some kind of pest, not mysterious at all, not scary anymore."
"Family, do you think if I edit this experience into a video with the title 'Supernatural Ghost Fire Appears in Fyxestroll Garden, Possessing Innocent Foxian Girl', would it be quite eye-catching?"
Stelle's troll attribute gradually emerged. She suddenly revealed a sly smile: "If someone gets possessed, wouldn't the effect be even better?"