Chapter 11: Love brain continent? Love brain continent!
Aolai City is a small city that barely holds the status of a Level 3 city in the Federation. This place is barren, lacking many resources for Soul Masters. But because of that, some civilians prefer to live here over larger cities.
Of course, this city still has many security issues, and there will be some delinquents who think being a criminal is cool but still lack the courage to do so.
Some of them escape reality by pretending to be villains, possibly due to their lack of soul power. Overall, the disunity here mirrors that of a primitive civilization.
"Interestingly, the crime rate is suppressed by the existence of Soul Masters. So the morale on this planet is still good." Elysium walked leisurely and stopped on top of a deserted third-story building.
He could see many things in Aolai City from here. A small city with a tranquil atmosphere that seemed so calm, without the slightest disturbance, and even the people here did not commit any crimes.
This place is too good to be true.
"What an interesting place. A place with almost no crime, with blue silver grass growing so abundantly here because of their belief in an entity called Tang San. He calls himself a god and wields a harpoon and controls the sea."
Again, this place itself could be considered a good place, with a suitable environment for raising their children. Elysium didn't deny such a place existed, but he could see something was wrong here.
Elysium opened the Douluo Temp-Pad he had created. There, the history of the past 10 years of this city was completely different from the present. In the past, security in this city was so lax that there was some unrest due to human trafficking that the soul masters didn't care about.
Because the one who does this kind of business is, of course, a soul master.
Elysium wasn't interested in information about this evil soul master. He might be interested in the future, but not now. He preferred to discover unique information about his experimental subjects and wanted to delve deeper into it.
"There was once a report of a missing child, the silver-haired girl with amethyst eyes, but strangely, this report never reached or spread to the various cities in the federation. On that same day, Lang Yue decided to adopt Na'er and make her part of their family."
The girl, Na'er, appeared a year and a half ago, the day after Awakening Day. She was somewhat teased by children who pretended to be criminals, scaring them by claiming to kidnap them in broad daylight, when there were so many people passing by.
Those nearby recognized it as play. While most would intervene, the locals were familiar and only watched, ready to act if needed.
That marked the beginning of Na'er's encounter with Tang Wulin. A soul beast transformed into a human, a gene-modified child who appeared innocent and sunny on the outside.
"Let's see why this is happening," Elysium muttered, and a beautiful yet strange soul ring manifested behind him.
First soul ring, second skill: The Whisperer.
Elysium closed his eyes and focused on the strange whispers that began to appear in his ears. Slowly, the whispers became faint and tiny. Hundreds and thousands of whispers from everyone in the city converged into one.
Everything said was the truth, and there were no secrets within. The Whisperer of the Void was an emotional essence formed from the Zroni clan's thirst for knowledge. His very concept of existence was to pursue knowledge and uncover the truth of all things.
He was an entity whispering something from the darkness. A secret they didn't want to hear, knowledge that was truly poisonous, lies from his friends and family, and even lies and truths about himself.
After some time, Elysium gritted his teeth as his head filled with useless information. About how a man lost his wife and still grieves and regrets being unable to protect her.
A woman worries she has no children, despite being a healing Title Douluo.
There's also a woman who continues to dream of meeting her ex-lover, who rejected her for another woman, the best woman on the continent. She's still deeply in love with him, despite the Sky Lifting Douluo having been married for decades.
A woman is also deeply in love and can't forget her lover, who was stolen by her sister, and she can only watch from a distance as her lover and sister are alone together. This turns into an evil soul master and one of the four kings.
There are also some secrets whispered in her ear, and they're all about romance and love triangles, quadrangles, and pentagons that are strange yet happen on this planet.
"Holy fuck, why is half of this shit a shitty love story? Do people on this continent have nothing else to hide besides their love stories? Is there something wrong with their brains that they only think about love all the time?"
Elysium frowned and gritted his teeth, ignoring all the junk information and unimportant gossip, but he still retained some important information, such as the identity of the woman who became the evil soul master.
Elysium continued to hear various things from the whisperer of the void. His vision had been distorted, and the world he saw now took the form of a geometric spiral that appeared to be forcibly twisted.
The sky was bleeding, and screams of torment and various human suffering rang in his ears.
Even a woman with a birdman martial spirit, seemingly surrounded by light, screamed in his ear, cursing Tang San incessantly. She was quite annoying in his ears right now, and the one who cursed endlessly.
But, he soon got what he wanted.
"The co-leader of soul beast masters disappeared from the Xingdou Great Forest. All the fierce beasts are in a panic and searching for her all over the continent. Di Tian never stops blaming himself for the disappearance of their leader disappeared right after she decided to blend in with humans."
"Oh, now I have some interesting information." He thought and finally stopped his first soul ring. His mind seemed calm despite the chaos everywhere.
Elysium smiled and laughed like a madman. His eyes shed tears of blood, and his ears seemed to have been destroyed by a blazing fire, as they were now blackened as if they had been burned.
He wanted to smash his head to the ground, but stopped in the moment. The madness in his eyes slowly faded, replaced by the clarity of a normal person.
Elysium clicked his tongue and lay down on the cold concrete, letting the breeze hit his face and dry the blood flowing from his eyes. "This is why I hate using this kind of skill. The output isn't worth the effort."
"Kikik… isn't it a miracle you can connect with me with that weak body of yours? If it's your real body, he can get what he wants to know in just a second." A whisper sounded right beside him.
Elysium didn't bother to check if anyone was there, and didn't care either.
He took out a bottle of water and washed his bloody face. He replaced his lab coat with a new one and burned and scorched all his clothes.
'Why do you even bother playing this kind of game? If you want to uplift the entire planet, you can just show yourself and push them toward the truth.'