You call this the mastermind?

"What a strange development."

After carefully questioning the young noble, Melen crushed his throat regardless of his pleas for mercy, then turned his head to look at the white jade skull standing behind him, narrowed his eyes, and fell into a state of contemplation.

After a series of interrogations, the information obtained was not much, basically some "common sense" of this era.

For example, the Church of the Sun God, which should have been lingering in reality, has destroyed the Church of the Night of the Northern Empire and become the largest religious organization in the known world.

And he, Melen, is the creator of all this.

For example, the extraordinary world and the secular world are not as closely connected as in reality, but are closely integrated.

The Inquisition hunts down all heretics and strange evil things that bring disaster to the world. Most ordinary people also know about wizards and magic, but they only know a rough idea and don't know the details.

For another example, a world-class melee took place in this world not long ago. The army of the Northern Empire looked down on everyone and beat all countries to the ground. They had to unite to deal with it together, and even suffered tens of millions of casualties.

As for why this war happened and what secrets it contained, the young noble had no idea at all.

This kind of secret was not something he could understand in a remote colony.

Melen therefore prepared to find the old mayor of the town.

He felt that although he was also from a remote place, he should know more than the young noble.

However, it was strange that he seemed unable to leave the vicinity of the municipal square. However, after walking a few steps towards the town, the surrounding environment changed again.

Then Melen found that he had returned to the hall where the rough sarcophagus was placed!

The light was dim at night, but the empty hall was not quiet.

In addition to Melen and the skeleton who was always holding the corner of his clothes, there was a middle-aged man dressed as a soldier, who was sneakily pushing open the lid of the sarcophagus, as if he wanted to do something.

Melen, who was in the shadow of the corner, frowned at this, but did not run over to stop him.

He didn't want to see this happen before, but now, after two consecutive changes in the environment, he no longer believed that the person in the sarcophagus had no power to fight back.

As expected, after pushing open the lid, the middle-aged soldier in his sight reached in and seemed to want to fish out some gold jewelry inside, but it was as if he encountered an invisible barrier and couldn't reach in at all.

At first, he tried to break through carefully, and then he increased his strength and cursed, but there was no progress at all.

So in the end, this guy left the hall with a gloomy face.

"Is this intentional or subconscious?"

Stepping in front of the sarcophagus, looking at the silver-haired female corpse under the half-open coffin lid, which was shrouded in the candlelight, Melen was a little puzzled.

The female corpse was slender, wearing a luxurious black robe with gold edges, lying quietly inside, with her hands folded on her abdomen, and her posture was extremely beautiful.

With perfect facial features and an elegant golden crown, it really looks like an extremely exquisite work of art.

The reason why it is called a work of art is that Melen did not detect any breath of life from the corpse. It was motionless and no different from a dead object.

However, the skeleton beside him seemed to be more and more energetic as time passed.

As Melen turned his head to look at it, its mouth opened and closed, as if it was wondering and asking something, looking very innocent.

However, if there was no one controlling the two environmental changes before, how could it be possible to coincidentally encounter someone approaching with bad intentions?

Although the two bad-intentioned people in front and behind could not really do anything, this only proves that the "person" who controlled the change did not know that there were protective measures in the sarcophagus.

And since the female corpse did not have a trace of activity, Melen could only suspect that it was done by the skeleton.

But now it seems that its innocence cannot be faked...    While thinking, Melen had already reached out to touch the inside of the sarcophagus. He wanted to find out what kind of protective measures this was.

As a result, to his surprise, his hand could actually reach into it without any hindrance!

"Is it really controllable..."

He tried to touch the female corpse's forehead, and a cool and delicate feeling came over him. He stretched out his fingers to feel the pulse on her neck, but there was no response.

He rolled his eyelids and looked at her. Her eyes were blank but not muddy, and she didn't look like a corpse at all.

The purple eyes were so clear and transparent that it seemed as if his heart was also unblocked. He felt a sense of comfort and satisfaction.

She was more beautiful than the two female savages Mellen had seen before.

He was a little puzzled.

He pinched the female corpse's mouth hard, but there was no foreign object inside. Instead, her tongue was rosy and delicate, and her white and neat teeth looked very delicate. Like other parts, there was no dead air at all.

He just stretched out his index finger to fiddle with her rosy and small lips a few times, and pinched her face to make all kinds of funny expressions, but there was still no reaction.

On the contrary, the skeleton next to him looked at Mellen shyly, and when he saw him looking over, he even turned his head away, as if he was shy.

Unfortunately, if a female corpse made this expression, it would definitely be very tempting. A skeleton posing like this would only give people a very absurd feeling.

"How did you become like this?"

Merlen couldn't help but ask.

The corpse in the sarcophagus was lifelike, like a living doll, but the skeleton in front of him didn't even have a piece of rotten meat on his body.

It looked like it had already rotted away.

But if this skeleton was really the "mother" mentioned by the Holy Spirit, how could her body really rot and disappear?

Apart from anything else, Melen felt that if he died one day, with his breathing method cultivated to the limit, he could keep his body from rotting.

Not to mention this "mother" who was much more powerful and mysterious than him.

Unfortunately, the skeleton didn't seem to know the answer to this question, and "looked confused" when he heard it.

He fiddled with the corpse for a while again, and saw that the skeleton had no other reaction except shyness, so Melen gave up this boring behavior.

He tried to leave the vicinity of the municipal square again and find someone to get information, but it didn't work. It might be that the skeleton was worried that her body would be defiled once he left, or it might be for other reasons.

Melen then showed up and beat up the soldiers guarding nearby, making no disguised noise in order to attract the target group.

The result surprised him.

Because after doing this, the surrounding environment changed again.

The night sky turned into a dim afternoon daylight, and the area around the city hall, which was originally full of traces of life, suddenly became dead and there was no sign of life.

And the sarcophagus in the hall no longer had any traces of being brought back, and the "living doll" in it was replaced by a skeleton.

Everything was basically the same as when Melen first came here!

The only difference was that the skeleton in the sarcophagus had no vitality at all.

And behind him, there was another identical one, looking around curiously...