Lin Renmei looked puzzled. She glanced at Nameless before turning to Long Xiu. "Dragonization Disease? Aren't you Dragonkin?"
"Dragonkin is just what we call ourselves. We actually have nothing to do with the dragons buried beneath Dragonblood City," Long Xiu explained.
Nameless asked thoughtfully, "Can any Dragonkin develop Dragonization Disease?"
"We're not sure. The disease only appeared recently. We don't know what causes it or where it started. We're still investigating," Long Xiu said with a wry smile.
Nameless said nothing more. Long Xiu was clearly lying!
Half an hour later, Long Xiu had a great deal of business to handle and could not show them around Dragonblood City that day. He arranged a female guide for Nameless and the others before taking his leave.
The guide was Long Yuer, a lively, warmhearted seventeen-year-old girl.
Her mouth scarcely stopped moving along the way. She knew Dragonblood City's history like the treasures in her own home.
"Captain Nameless?"
Halfway through the tour, Lin Renmei suddenly felt hollow inside and called out to him in her mind.
As expected, Nameless did not answer her this time.
Without letting anything show, she glanced at the humanoid figure of Nether Mist beside her, then put on a practiced social smile.
Elsewhere, Nameless split his attention. While controlling the Nether Mist figure, he directed a separate wisp of Nether Mist beneath the City Lord's Manor.
Long Xiu's claim that they did not know the source was clearly meant to fool him and Lin Renmei.
Dragonization Disease had to stem from the Dragon Bones and Marrow buried underground. Those dragons were not entirely dead, and they dreamed of being reborn through the Dragonkin.
But Long Xiu and the others seemed to have another objective, so they had concealed the matter from Nameless and Lin Renmei.
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