While Tang San's complexion could barely be considered normal, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun's faces were a completely abnormal bluish-white. However, as boys, they forcibly suppressed their urge to vomit and insisted on continuing to watch the footage filmed by Cowen.
As for the three girls, Xiao Wu clung tightly to Tang San's arm; clearly, this girl, transformed from a 100,000-year-old soul beast, was also terrified by witnessing the massacre of the village. At least Xiao Wu could still stand in front of the soul-guided camera, while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing had already left their original positions, their faces pale, and went to the side to dry heave. With
a slight sigh, Oschin, who had reached the top of the watchtower, didn't consider going down to comfort the two. After all, he himself was only using reason to control the psychological trauma, not truly overcoming or escaping its influence. He
inputted soul power, and an invisible ripple spread forward under the constraint of the soul-guided device. Three seconds later, the integrated detection soul-guided device's feedback appeared on the control panel in Oschin's hand.
The image wasn't very clear, but Oschin could glean the information he needed from the blurry picture. The village five kilometers away wasn't considered a large village on the Douluo Continent; it wasn't small, but most of the land was farmland. The village had about forty households, totaling three hundred and ninety people, but now there wasn't a single living soul left.
After confirming that the entire village was indeed dead, Oschin, with a heavy heart, connected his detection soul tool to the drones and detection robots previously deployed to the village via his control tablet. This way, the image Oschin saw on his tablet was a high-definition view captured by the cameras.
After waiting another five seconds, the sound of the drone's propellers spinning and the cawing of crows came through the soul tool microphone in Oschin's ear. Then, a clear image appeared on the tablet in Oschin's hand.
The drone was currently positioned above the threshing ground in the center of the village—the very spot where the villagers had all perished. Despite being mentally prepared, Oschin still couldn't help but tremble at the scene before him. What a sight!
Hundreds of people, hundreds of corpses with bluish-gray skin and no blood, stared blankly at the sky, at the camera of Oschin's drone, their eyes vacant.
It was summer on the Douluo Continent, and the temperature was still very high. Through the drone's camera, Oschin could see that many flies had already swarmed over the corpses. However, after controlling the drone to descend and drive the flies away, he could also see that the corpses were not severely decomposed, or rather, most of them had not yet begun to decompose.
"Was the time of death last night or early this morning?
There were no obvious wounds on the body, and no obvious bloodstains around the corpse. However, the corpses, which hadn't been moved for so long, showed no signs of lividity, meaning there was no blood in them.
Evil Soul Masters, this must have been done by evil Soul Masters. But, did this or that group of evil Soul Masters drain all the villagers' blood to increase their own soul power level, or are they like vampires in Western legends, needing to rely on fresh blood to sustain their lives?
Wait, there seems to be a patch of land in the center of this threshing ground without any corpses. It seems that's where the evil Soul Master who caused this tragedy was standing. When we search the village later, we can take a closer look there. If we're lucky, we should find the killer's complete footprints there."
After controlling the drone to hover over the threshing ground for a while, Oschin switched the camera to the perspective of the tracked soul-guided detection robot. This time, Oschin saw the situation inside the villagers' houses.
"These villagers all left their homes voluntarily." This was the first conclusion Oschin reached after controlling his tracked soul-guided detection robot to check the rooms of more than a dozen villagers.
"In the middle of the night, everyone in the village, including infants, was carried out of their homes by their parents. It seems I need to consider the possibility that evil soul masters possess hypnotic abilities."
"Beep beep beep—" A rhythmic warning sound suddenly emanated from the control tablet in Oschin's hand. Before Oschin could react to what the warning sound was reminding him of, the control tablet went black. After about a second, when the black screen of the control tablet lit up again, the image on it had changed from a clear camera view to a blurry ripple detection image.
"Uh, is the stored soul power used up? I hope my drone doesn't break."
Deliberately using a somewhat frivolous tone to mutter to himself, Oschin shifted his focus to the soul-guided device and ended this long-range detection.
As he descended from the watchtower, Oschin disassembled the integrated detection soul tool. While this type of device was effective, its soul power consumption was terrifying. In just over twenty minutes of detection time, the level-three energy bottle Oschin had prepared for it was almost empty. Even if the soul power stored in the village's soul-guided drones and tracked soul-guided detection robots wasn't completely depleted, Oschin's detection wouldn't last much longer.
Fortunately, the students who had reviewed the data Cowen had filmed had recovered somewhat; it was time to discuss things with them.
As Oschin descended from the watchtower, he was stopped halfway by Tang San, who had come to greet him. Looking at Oschin's still bloodshot eyes (from the suffocation experience), Tang San said softly, "You saw it before the rest period, didn't you?"
"I guessed the training Master had arranged for us wouldn't be easy, but I didn't expect him to be this ruthless.
I really have to thank you for that; if you hadn't pulled me off Cowen's back, I might have really suffocated."
"Heh, I haven't even thanked you for enduring so much without providing everyone with a safe resting environment.
Think about it another way: no rotting, no bloodshed, no disembowelment—the scene we saw wasn't the worst. Be content."
"Is that how you comfort yourself? It's much better than my gamble-based death experience."
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