Chapter 205: Poor Xia Rong

Tips before reading: There are no European countries in the world view of this book. There is only one [United States of Europe], which was established by a painter who does not want to reveal his name.
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As the administrator of the [Upgraded Network·Europa Subnet], the distinguished Lord Marquis Van Dyke is not an Upgrader.

He is a granter who relies on some strange products like five-way copper coins to indirectly utilize the power of rules. This is the tradition of the Dyke family.

The Dyke family believed that only lowly barbarians would harm their own bodies in order to control ghosts. Their children were all worth a fortune and would only use the relatively safe and strange rules selected by the family from generation to generation to complete the “conferring” so as to avoid the influence of the strangeness on themselves as much as possible.

Not only the Dyke family thinks so, most other ancient nobles also hold the same view.

There is nothing new under the sun. Europe did not experience the millennium massacre of Kyushu. The ancient families rooted in that land have never broken off their inheritance. After integrating into the modern era, these ancient families have become one of the behind-the-scenes rulers of the United States of Europe today, and their legacy continues uninterrupted.

Lan Shiwen opened his eyes and wrapped the rag with the name written on it around the doll, making it look like a swaddling cloth.

As the Marquis of the Dyke family, Lord Marquis Van Dyke, who possesses an ancient and glorious surname, carries with him a rag doll that looks like a little girl, which is a strange product similar to a copper coin.

The Dyke family calls it the “Spirit-Calling Doll”, which is just a name, not a title.

[1. The ghost-calling doll cannot have a name. Once someone gives it a name, the doll will come to life and become a strange ghost that hates the living.]

[2. The first person who names the doll will be regarded as its ‘mother’ and can control the doll to a certain extent to complete certain instructions]

[3. The fewer people who know the doll’s name, the better. Once other people know the doll’s name, the original ‘mother’s’ control over the doll will be diluted by other mothers.]

[4. The person who is recognized as the ‘mother’ by the doll can give the doll a new name to overwrite the old name, thereby reinstalling the doll’s system and returning it to a state where only the person is the mother, and taking over all the permissions of the spirit-calling doll]

[5. A doll can only have one name. If the doll with a changed name meets its “former mother” or is called out by other people by its “former name”, the doll will fall into confusion and will not be able to tell which is its real name.

The solution is to kill all those who know the doll’s other names, leaving only the only name. Otherwise, the doll, which does not know who it is, will become ferocious and kill all the “mothers” who know its name.

The doll that Van Dyke carried with him was named “Poor Little One”.

The “poor little thing” driven by Van Dyke originally wanted to kill Lan Shiwen, but neither Van Dyke nor the poor little thing expected that Lan Shiwen would know her name.

“Okay, it seems the name ‘Xia Rong’ is not repeated.”

Lan Shiwen breathed a sigh of relief and held the poor little rag doll, whom he renamed Xia Rong, in his arms.

[6. There is one thing to note when naming a spirit-calling doll – the new name cannot be the same as the previous name, otherwise the doll will become violent and kill people.]

Lan Shiwen has been killed several times by this poor little thing, always during the naming stage.

The above information was all the information he had obtained through his repeated deaths and comebacks. Fortunately, this time, the name was not wrong, and the name “Xia Rong” had not been used before.

Otherwise you have to type it again.

Marquis Van Dyke is a senior granter of authority, and he has much more than just the mysterious prop of the spirit-calling doll ‘Poor Little One’ on him. However, facing the extreme pressure of Lan Shiwen’s Dengfeng Lu Blade, he was forced into a desperate situation.

He only had one chance to use his empowerment ability, while Lan Shiwen had many, many chances. So Van Dyke lost and died in a foreign country.

“I’ll take this doll away. She has been given too many names and the risk of losing control is already very high.” Lan Shiwen raised his hand, and the cute rag doll with a new name ‘Xia Rong’ lay obediently on his shoulder and disappeared.

The spirit-calling doll is the symbol of the Dyke family. Every Dyke family member who leaves home has such a strange rag doll lying on his shoulder. Now there is one more person, Lan Shiwen, whose surname is not Dyke.

Carrying the soul-calling doll, Lan Shiwen prepared to leave the Genting Tower where the airship was docked. He did not take away the other enchanting props on Van Dyke, but left them there for the Yunzhou government to deal with.

They could choose to send Van Dyke’s body back along with all the enfranchisement items on him and continue to maintain friendly relations with the United States of Europe.

After all, it was Lan Shiwen who killed the man. He disobeyed orders and acted on impulse, so this matter can be completely covered up.

You can also choose to return only the body, forcibly keep Van Dyke’s empowerment tool for research, and obtain a lot of information about an ancient foreign family at the cost of making enemies with the United States of Europe.

Based on Lan Shiwen’s understanding of Kyushu officials, they would probably choose the latter. The relationship between this land and Europe is already bad enough.

At the same time, Ning Zhe was sleeping soundly on his bed in the hotel.

“Oh, right…Ye Yao.” Lan Shiwen was about to leave the murder scene, but stopped again.

“Yeyao has previously demonstrated to me the ability to transform into different animals. According to the information I collected later, he may also be able to transform into other people…”

Once this idea came to mind, it could no longer be suppressed. Lan Shiwen returned to Van Dyke’s body and made a decision.

Ning Zhe, who had just left the hotel and was having brunch in a restaurant, opened his notebook as usual and saw this line of words:

[A guy named Lan Shiwen contacted me and asked me to ask you something]

【Are you interested in being a spy? 】

“Ah?” Ning Zhe chewed the noodle soup in his mouth and swallowed it, wiped the table with a napkin, and wrote his reply in his notebook:
[What exactly happened? ]

After a few minutes, Xia Yubing’s reply appeared stroke by stroke:
[I don’t know either, he just said this]

[The guy named Lan Shiwen also said that if you are interested, go to Genting Highlands to find him as soon as possible]

[…Okay, I’ll go see what’s going on.]

Ning Zhe wrote down his reply, closed his notebook and ate his noodles in peace.

Judging from Xia Yubing’s description, Lan Shiwen’s tone seemed a little anxious, but no matter how big the matter was, it was not as important as eating.

(End of this chapter)