After running in multithreaded mode for several hours, Ed still didn't have any good ideas.
Even though Ed had already split his mind into thirty-two screens and sped them up simultaneously, the amount of useful information he could access was indeed not much.
Instead, he gradually gained a more comprehensive understanding of Antiya Lisi.
Although the archbishop was a scoundrel, his abilities were undeniable.
He personally organized all the documents in the archives meticulously, and most of the records were written by him. Even if some were not written by him, traces of his review could always be found later.
Even the parts that were covered up were done by his own hand, whether on the orders of Sailesi or someone else, it's unclear...
Such a talent, combining research, combat, and management skills, if he were Pure Ones, could bring countless benefits to the Second Holy See.
But it's pointless to say anything now. All Ed can do is accept the legacy of his defeated foe with a clear conscience and extract some useful parts for the next minor update.
After browsing for a while longer, Ed seemed to have actually found some useful information.
It was a record of a failed experiment, detailing an experiment conducted by Antiya Lisi and his Stained Ones several years prior.
The level of gore and cruelty in the content goes without saying. If we use plants as an analogy, it's like Antiya Lisi trying to apply Grafting to his modified tree people, so that a Treant Hunter can possess the characteristics of multiple different plants at the same time.
The experiment ultimately failed because, during the Grafting process, not only were new abilities transferred, but a portion of the will also migrated, meaning that two wills were simultaneously imprisoned in one body.
Having one body tormented his two wills, and he ultimately committed suicide during the observation period when the guards weren't looking.
After reviewing the experimental records in front of him several times, Ed actually had a new idea in his mind—
The reason this experiment failed is simple: two wills cannot coexist in one body at the same time, otherwise a mental breakdown will occur.
At the same time, in a World of Disorder world where even trees can be uprooted and run away, Grafting is not so easy.
The two plants will immediately start competing if they don't get along even slightly, eroding the host's body into a rotten sponge.
But... is it really impossible?
First, the Grand Duke of Adelaide spoke inside [ Clear Soup Master ]'s head, and then [ Howling Pothos ] asked the Grand Duke of Antos to possess him and help him with the gacha pulls.
Even after they were forcibly deprived of their right to use their bodies, Ed could still use his powers to preserve their souls within their bodies, and even use some functions on the player panel to chat and record messages.
Isn't this a kind of "one body, two souls"?
If that's possible, then isn't it also possible for one body to have three souls, four souls, twelve souls...?
If multiple wills can be housed within a single body, how can multiple bodies be " Grafting " together?
If multiple plants can lead to unhealthy competition, what happens if there's only one symbiotic plant?
What if the hosts' physical health levels are roughly the same?
Thoughts began to rise and fall in Ed's mind like bubbles on the surface of boiling water, and he gradually came up with a good idea...
Following [ Great Wei Boxing Champion's ] deductions, [ Clear Soup Master ] arrived near the south gate of Fir City.
Because the city fell so suddenly, most of the records here have not yet been destroyed.
The medieval city guards indeed had no concept of destroying records; they weren't even interested in keeping them. If Antiya Lisi hadn't forced them to do so, these men wouldn't have wanted to do anything except collect entry and exit fees.
The south gate is now under the control of soldiers from the newly formed Holy Crusaders. After revealing his identity, [ Clear Soup Master ] was able to enter a small archive room and begin searching.
Antiya Lisi's control over Fir City was indeed beyond imagination, and the records of people entering and leaving the city were much clearer than he had expected.
People who entered and exited alone were not recorded, but all the Hoofed Beast wagons were recorded.
As he searched, [ Clear Soup Master ] began to make his own deductions.
If he were Antiya Lisi, what would he do?
As an organized and controlling person, if Antiya Lisi wanted his subordinates to transport corpses or still-living experimental subjects out of the city, he would most likely do so at a fixed frequency.
This feeling is like needing to do laundry when the laundry basket is full. If someone has a regular lifestyle, then they will likely do laundry at a fixed frequency as well.
With this in mind, [ Clear Soup Master ]'s search became somewhat purposeful, focusing on the types of goods carried by the trucks and the frequency of their entry and exit.
He began his thorough search before Fir City was sealed off, and it took him a day and a half to complete.
In that day and a half, he successfully traced back six months of records and actually discovered some discrepancies—
Every two weeks or so, a wagon pulled by six Hoofed Beast would drive out of the south gate of Fir City, and the cargo would be listed as the fruit of a special Aberration plant.
Plant fruits?
The plants in this World of Disorder undoubtedly bear fruit, and some of them are quite popular with players, such as the " Angler Melon," a crop personally developed by Ed.
The problem is, if it's early autumn, transporting some fruit out isn't a big deal.
However, [ Clear Soup Master ] flipped all the way back to last winter and still found plant fruits in the records, which is a bit thought-provoking.
Where do fruits come from in winter?
Such a deliberate attempt to cover up the truth is simply an attempt to conceal the fact.
Having roughly confirmed a possibility, he quickly approached the Holy Crusaders currently guarding the city gates and made his demands.
Soon, a Holy Crusaders leader led [ Clear Soup Master ] to the area where the ordinary Holy Crusaders were being held.
Although the cathedral's underground area served as a prison, it couldn't hold a particularly large number of people. At this point, prisoners without any status couldn't even get a single cell.
As for the ordinary soldiers whose strength was not much different from that of the players, they were placed in an abandoned military camp.
After arriving at the "prisoner of war camp" and conducting some investigation, [ Clear Soup Master ] found two soldiers who had guarded the south gate and began to interrogate them separately.