Chapter 27 Scoring
Qin Shaofu was puzzled by why Hudros asked himself to perform the Brooke mission. With this old man's nature, it should have a purpose.
Hudros smiled slightly, without answering, but asked, "If this task is the examination room and you are the examiner, how many points will you give yourself based on the full score of ten thousand?"
Qin Shaofu thought for a moment and replied, "Five points!"
"It's very Eastern-minded!" Hudros said: "Orients like meanness and will not belittle themselves too much, but they will not praise themselves too much. They usually like to choose a moderate degree...but this is not my answer."
"If you are a knight to perform this mission, you will score at most three points. If you are a witcher, you will perform this mission with zero points, which is equivalent to failure. You will be punished when you come back."
"Why?"
Qin Shaofu asked immediately, although he was not really concerned about this answer, he felt that it was handled properly.
"It took you four and a half months to do this mission. If I send another qualified witch hunter over there, how long do you think it will take to complete the mission?"
Hudros looked at Qin Shaofu's eyes and stretched out a finger: "One month! And most of it is on the road, and the time to actually perform the mission is at most three days, because they will not look for the truth as naive as you."
"For the witch hunter, tasks are tasks, and there are not so many things to bargain. Complete tasks as soon as possible is not only responsible for the Dark Arbitration Office, but also for yourself. Are you in danger in it?"
Qin Shaofu was silent. He had no need to shake his head and lie. This old dog from the Holy See must have had insight into everything that happened.
Hudros lay back, leaned on the back of the chair, and slowly said, "I know you have a deep affection for the so-called knight, but I must remind you again that although you have retained your title of Lord Knight, you are no longer a real knight. As witch hunters, it is difficult for us to get support when something happens outside. If you don't want to die, don't do such stupid things again in the future."
"I admit that this is stupid!" Qin Shaofu nodded and said, "But I don't regret it. I was assigned here by you just because of the angel of sin. I can be a law enforcement officer, but I am not a murderer. Not to mention four months, even forty months, I need to know the truth."
Hadros looked at Qin Shaofu's eyes, and Qin Shaofu was also stubbornly looking at him. Those eyes were like ancient wells, and he really couldn't tell what he was thinking.
After a while, I heard the old man say, "Yes, you are a little different from other witch hunters, but you are definitely not the reason for your failure in the mission."
"After Brooke died, you left directly, and did not deal with the scene. You simply covered the hole with stones. Why?"
"He saved me!" Qin Shaofu said: "This is my mistake, but if it weren't for him, I might have died on the first day. I don't want to change everything inside, just treat it as giving him a grave."
"Emotional, stupid thing!" Hudros sneered: "I'll tell you again, how many things you have ignored."
"First, Brooke's weak strength has not even been introduced in the practice of dark undead magic. Do you think he can make his daughter zombie characteristics appear?"
Qin Shaofu was stunned and blurted out: "You mean, there is someone behind him!"
Then he thought of something again: "Yes, he doesn't know dark magic at all. He uses magic weapons and those resentful spirits... By the way, he said a name: Melia."
When I think about it carefully, I find that many things are unreasonable. With Brook's ability, it is impossible to complete them at all, especially the vengeful spirits in that room, which must be done by a powerful dark magician... And he also said that there was a man named Melia.
"That's right, that Melia is the real dark magician, and she is powerful, and she is at the seventh level of the earth level. Before sending you out, our people surrounded her, but unfortunately she failed. Brooke was just a piece of her. There was no real resurrection in the undead magic, and there was no magic."
Hudros said slowly: "Melia needs a resentful spirit to practice dark magic. Knowing that Brook misses the dead girl, this one is to tempt him to kill children. The same person has several places in the Holy Empire. What will happen if you are the first person to come into contact with this mission and complete it in your way?"
"I'll tell you that the investigation of this clue will end here. With your help, Melia successfully escaped the search of the Holy See. Then, the second, the third, and the fourth Brooke will appear. How many people will die, do you know?"
Qin Shaofu was ashamed and dared not answer.
"Secondly, there is a secret room on one side of the cave, which contains three bookshelfs. It is full of books about practicing the magic of dark undead. Melia left it for Brooke. But you left without searching. What if there were ordinary people who were dissatisfied with society or their current situation went in?"
Hudros looked at Qin Shaofu and said, "There will be another dark mage outside our investigation, which may cause greater harm than Brooke, because that person may be very suitable for practicing dark magic."
"Third, it is also your stupidest thing. Of course, this mistake is based on the first point. You never thought about Melia's existence. You just let Brooke's daughter's body be placed there."
He knocked on the table casually, and a door opened on one side of the study room, and several men in black walked in with a bed. A little girl was tied to the bed, struggling hard, and a sound like a hungry wolf was made from his mouth.
"Nia!"
After seeing the girl's face clearly, Qin Shaofu exclaimed and widened his eyes. The little girl tied up was Brooke's daughter Niya.
At this time, she was not a corpse, but a zombie who could move, full of resentment.
"The power to maintain her becoming a zombie is not Brooke's, but Melia's. So after Brooke's death, that power did not disappear. The greatness of fatherly love, the heart gave her the power of change, or the power of life beyond expectations. When you left, did she have no vital signs?"
Faced with Hadros' questioning, Qin Shaofu could only nod, which he saw with his own eyes.
"She has been lying in that place for more than 30 years, absorbing the energy of children's life and the power of resentful spirits, and possessing intelligence that is smarter than ordinary zombies."
"She may not have the same IQ as we did, but in that case, her instinct made her fake death move because that was the only choice she could survive... Unfortunately, she succeeded, you were fooled by a zombie."
"If I hadn't sent someone to help you clean up the mess, this zombie has now begun to massacre nearby villages and swallow flesh and blood to gain more power."
"With her intelligence, just give her a month, that is, the time you go back and forth, she may create an army of tens of thousands of undead people."
"As a witch hunter, or even if you ask yourself according to the principles of a knight, look in my eyes now, and tell me..."
Hudroth punched the table.
"How many points can you score for this mission?"
Chapter completed!