My summons are weird

"You dare to go deep into the flame sand alone, where is your companion?"

The briquettes were stunned. Amidst the chatter of the caravan, they heard a common language family in the Collet continent. Although it was very jerky and mixed with local accents, they did hear correctly.

"Where do you come from?"

The briquettes who tried to communicate in the Collet language got feedback, and the old man who gave Lu Yu's water bag replied: "Ser Carlo, where are you?"

Lulu and Sera are sure the place name is not in their knowledge base.

Regarding the "Meera" that Lu Yu answered, everyone in the caravan looked at each other, and an elderly person said with emotion: "The Yansha trade road of death can still see adventurers from unknown countries to this day. A land of countless mysteries."

After realizing that Lu Yu was traveling through the flames alone, everyone in the caravan widened their eyes, and the originally mixed discussions gradually subsided. Their eyes were filled with emotions between admiration and fear.

"Dear Your Excellency Lu Yu, are you saying that you have walked through the vast flaming sands for nearly ten days without any preparations?"

Lu Yu wanted to answer "yes" lightly, but he understood the shock on the faces of these businessmen, it was a look of looking at monsters.

Realizing that his operation has an unusual "strength beauty" for ordinary people, he didn't explain too much, but just nodded while manipulating this fake body.

The old man's attitude became more and more respectful: "Your Excellency Lu Yu, you have not encountered giant spiders running across the sand, terrifying yellow sand sky, burning sand dunes, sand whirlpools, or those extremely vicious Monster?"

"The Burning Sand Dunes... I did encounter a strange kind of red sand that would catch fire if I stepped on it. It was caused by the fire elemental crystal sand enriched under the sand dunes. Because of its extremely high purity, it is indeed enough for ordinary magicians to burn without any damage. I lost my legs on guard."

"I haven't encountered the yellow sand sky and the sand vortex, but I have encountered a lot of giant spiders and sand monsters. They are very well-behaved. Unfortunately, the sand whale digs the sand too fast, so our taming and riding plan failed."

The old man in the caravan was dumbfounded, and then swallowed hard.

"I also have a question I want to ask you."

Everyone in the caravan nodded hurriedly.

"The language I speak now is a common language or dialect in your Celcaro? From my understanding, this is a common language family of a trade continent. Do you have close contacts with Collet? "

Everyone in the caravan stared at Lu Yu with weird eyes, they looked at each other, and then began to communicate in a language that Lu Yu could not understand at all.

The old man coughed lightly, interrupting everyone's whispering. He stared at Lu Yu and said softly, "You seem to know where the language of the healer comes from. Are you from the hometown of the healer?"

"Healer..." Briquette noticed something, "The healer you mentioned is an elf?"

The old man trembled slightly: "You really come from the hometown of the sage healer!"

The gradually dimming sky makes communication impossible. After nightfall, the temperature of Yansha will drop extremely, which is inversely proportional to the heat of the day. If measures are not taken to keep warm in time, it is very likely to lose temperature due to the sudden drop in temperature.

The people in the caravan were busy building a temperature-maintaining area through magic crystals and magic cores. After everything was busy and bonfires were lit, the old man explained to Lu Yu.

About six hundred years ago, a strange elf sage appeared on the streets of Sercaro. She rescued a hunter who lost a lot of blood due to a wild beast attack, and replaced him with a brand new arm.

This astonishing magical skill shocked Celcaro, who is generally less than six magicians. Every magician here can't believe that someone can replace limbs for a living person, and the prosthetic body perfectly fits the flesh.

They couldn't help but not believe it, because the hunter recovered quickly after replacing his arm, and went out to hunt again without any accidents.

The female elf sage did not disclose her name, and readily accepted the title of "Healer" from the Selkaluo people.

The healer stayed in Serkalo for about half a year. Here, while treating patients and teaching knowledge, she also learned the local language, and also taught the local people several languages ​​that she commonly used in other regions. Among them is the Kelai language family, which is simple and easy to learn in the eyes of the Serkalo people.

It was also during the half-year stay here that the healers enlightened the local puppet craftsmanship, making them realize that puppet making can also be developed by replacing body parts, and limbs are the most basic entry-level skills.

After the healer left, Sercaro gradually became a well-known country of puppet masters. They kept chasing the "miracle" they had seen in the hands of the healer, persevering, and even crazily exploring The limit of this path.

Lu Yu found that when it came to this point, everyone in the caravan had an unnatural expression, and some people looked up at the sky full of stars and sighed softly.

"It seems that you don't like healers very much?"

The old man shook his head: "To this day, there are still rumors among ordinary people that the healer almost responds to the request and saves people without asking for anything in return. She is powerful, noble, and beautiful, and she is so approachable, regardless of whether the seeker is rich or poor. She guaranteed medicines for the poor by charging the rich... how can we not like such a great sage."

After a pause, the old man casually picked up a bone stick from the death of an unknown monster in the sand and poked the bonfire.

"To be honest, we are going through the Yansha to settle in another known country this time. You can also understand that we are fleeing."

"what happened?"

The old man looked down at his aging body with a complicated expression, then raised his head and asked, "Your Excellency Lu Yu, if you are getting old, would you be willing to 'replace' this old and decayed body to obtain a youthful body?" , to welcome a new life."

Lu Yu hesitated and said: "It depends on your definition of aging. In my opinion, physical aging is not as good as spiritual decay. But if it is an ordinary person, he can still enjoy the body of his youth at the end of his life through simple means. , which also seems acceptable."

"I used to think so too..." the old man sighed.

Following the old man's description, Lu Yu gradually realized why this caravan was willing to risk his life to cross the Yansha to a distant country and join his acquaintances.

Back then, with goodwill, Vanessa opened a new door to the puppeteers here—prosthetic body manufacturing.

In that era, puppeteers were generally regarded as the key to the pursuit of eternal life, so the production of dolls was aimed at the "living", which also made some puppeteers realize that they have the ability to change their bodies when they cannot realize the spirit body. A low-profile version of life extension method, that is, body replacement.

Replace the replaceable parts of the body separately, and finally piece together a brand new self, which in a sense also achieves a new life.

The idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. There is a major flaw in body replacement that has not been solved so far—the phenomenon of rejection.

When replacing parts for the body to a certain extent, the original body and doll parts will be seriously mutually exclusive.

The reaction that happens to ordinary people is not too severe, but it is fatal to a magician. As a pioneer in a risky attempt to replace, the first puppeteer who replaces body parts takes less than a day after replacing limbs He watched with his own eyes that the prosthetic body he was proud of broke, bleeding from the wound, and finally died in severe pain.

Afterwards, those who risked their lives to challenge for life extension and immortality at most replaced internal organs, and this bravery did not allow him to linger for too long, but died after a certain magic power was used, which was extremely miserable.

So far, no puppeteer has successfully replaced every part except the brain with pure puppet parts, existing in a half-doll body.

The people of Sercaro have been running on this road since Vanessa inspired them. Although they hit the wall repeatedly, they are still willing to believe that the upgrading of their skills will eventually bring them to the other side of life extension and immortality, in order to wait for this moment. , Magicians will continue to gradually replace their bodies with dolls to strengthen their adaptability.

Under this kind of fanaticism, almost every magician in Sercaro, which has become the country of dolls, has transformed his body. Some have transformed their arms, some have transformed their legs, and some simply extend their spine Multifunctional prosthesis for greater convenience.

They call this change "backdooring."

Borrowing the body of a puppet, he escapes the shackles of flesh and blood, and finally approaches immortality through adaptation and trial after trial, becoming a perfect life that can adapt to all environments and is not afraid of pain.

This kind of fanaticism has affected countless magicians and ordinary people, and it is out of control, but not everyone is willing to walk on this "bangzhuang road", and the old man in front of Lu Yu is one of them.

"The skills are very mature. At least you can make your hands and feet stronger. If you replace some aging organs, you can relax a lot, but you are very resistant. Why?"

The old man chuckled and said, "It is true that changing the body of a puppet can enjoy a new life for a short time, but...everything comes at a price."

In Sercaro, the replacement of puppet parts is not once and for all. Depending on the materials used by the puppeteer, some puppet parts are far from reliable, and most of them have aged before the scheduled deadline.

It’s okay if you’re replacing limbs, but if it’s an organ that’s life-threatening if it stops, the replacement parts have no right to bargain at all, and can only accept the price of the puppeteer.

In Sercaro, puppet masters have the supreme right. This is not even a country, but a huge association composed of many puppet masters. Achieve a monopoly and spread it to all surrounding areas.

With the expansion of influence, those who could not resist the temptation of prolonging life and becoming stronger accepted the transformation of puppeteers, and the people of one country after another became their money-making tools.

Here, you can offend princes and nobles, you can offend magicians of all schools, but you can't blaspheme puppet masters, because they hold the fate of all the transformed people in their hands, and they are veritable man-eating monsters.

The old man's face was full of bitterness: "I clearly know that once I accept that gift, I will never be able to escape their control for the rest of my life, so I have resisted transformation since I was young, set an example, and warned everyone around me not to touch the puppeteer. "

"But it's just in vain. The temptation to gain an advantage through transformation is too great. An ordinary person who has replaced his limbs will be much more efficient in doing things than a person without transformation. The former will naturally get more opportunities, while the latter will be disgusted , Elimination, in this deformed environment, most people do not have the right to choose, and can only be forced to accept."

"It is also thanks to my family's wealth that I have been able to persist until now, but it has come to an end...Not long ago, I was reported by someone because I talked about the puppeteer making money in private, and I was reprimanded by the puppeteer from Ser Carlo Threat, if I hadn't escaped in time...hehe."

"For a long time, there have been rumors that puppet masters turned the opponent's body into other body modification parts. I believe they can do this kind of thing."

Lu Yu was a little sluggish when he heard this different world version of the cyber story.

Lulu and Sera did not expect that in this remote corner, there would be a puppeteer in a dead end, developing a degraded version of the body-changing technique that Meila and other mainland puppeteers didn't think much of. An extremely deformed organization was also bred.

According to the old man's description, there are no slaves in Sercaro at all, or in other words, except for puppeteers and some people with status, they are all slaves.

Lu Yu called it amazing again, he can now be 100% sure that the puppet masters of Ser Carlo have walked out of another system other than slavery in this world in a different way... This is too black and humorous up.

"I want to know, did the healer leave anything in Ser Carlo?" Lu Yu asked about the most important purpose of his trip, "For example, magic creation."

The old man thought for a moment, shook his head, but suddenly seemed to think of something, and suddenly said: "It seems that there is a treasure."

"Although it is just a rumor, I think there is a high probability that it is true. When the healer was teaching the puppet skills in Ser Carlo, it seems that he left an object for the puppeteers to observe. We have no way of knowing what it is. But if there is, it must exist in the puppeteer association."

"Are there any related rumors?"

"I have to say... Folks have always believed that what the healer leaves behind is a puppet that is superbly skilled, but the puppet masters cannot drive it, because the healer probably does not want the puppet masters to go astray one day. , manipulate this puppet to do things she hates."

It really fits Vanessa's character very well.