After walking for some distance, Wen Wen couldn't stop frowning. The artistic style of this city was incredibly bizarre.
Some areas were highly modernized, with clean streets and complete facilities, where the residents appeared wealthier than those in other cities. Other areas were even more rudimentary than the poorest villages, and Wen Wen couldn't understand how the people here endured it. The Sudan Novel Network.
This peculiar social structure was due to tradition and the disparity in wealth.
It was currently very difficult to change the city's current situation. However, once the New Human Plan was fully implemented, the original social order would be broken, and at least the scenes within this city should no longer appear.
At the Hunter Association in Duoxinlidi City, Moyadi was fiercely debating with a woman wearing unconventional clothing.
Moyadi wore a headscarf and had a motorcycle parked behind him. The woman wore colorful burlap clothing, with large rings piercing her earlobes, eyelids, nose, and lips. She was the Dream Talker, Meifu Na.
The two argued, one believing that illusions caused the mass昏迷 (hūnmí - coma/unconsciousness) incident, while the other insisted the problem lay within the dreams of these individuals.
They each held their ground, unable to convince the other. However, both admitted that the matter was difficult to resolve with their respective abilities, and their theories also had some flaws.
When Wen Wen arrived, the two were still debating. Wen Wen didn't disturb them; they were the experts on this matter. Although his own strength was considerable, in terms of understanding this issue, he might not be their match.
They debated until late at night without reaching any conclusion, and then they separated to conduct their own research.
Wen Wen was not tired initially, but after listening to these two babble all day, he actually felt a little sleepy and wanted to find a place nearby to take a nap.
However, just as he was about to close his eyes, he suddenly sensed a mysterious aura.
Wen Wen flew out of the window and flew a distance towards the city center, where he discovered a masked figure hovering in mid-air.
Upon seeing Wen Wen, the man nodded at him and then continued with his own task.
After watching for a while, Wen Wen noticed that the man was manipulating fine sand. This fine sand, carried by a gentle breeze, swept across the entire city, eventually gathering in the man's hands.
After searching the entire city without finding what he was looking for, the man sighed heavily, his entire form turning into yellow sand and disappearing into the night sky.
Wen Wen gazed at the spot where the man had vanished, falling into deep thought. He knew who this sudden figure was.
This was a Punisher from the Efei Great Region, codenamed 'Sand Sea Priest.' It was said that he was once a high priest of a nation in the Efei Great Region several hundred years ago, possessing the ability to control sand.
Wen Wen did not expose his Black Cross clone, so the Sand Sea Priest took Wen Wen for a common True Sequence Demon Hunter.
"He is a Punisher from the Efei Great Region. Why isn't he staying in the Efei Great Region and instead came to the Meijia Great Region? What is he looking for?"
"Whatever a Punisher personally seeks must be no small matter. The biggest recent event in the Efei Great Region should be only one: a pyramid exploded a few months ago, and a sealed, suspected Cataclysm-level existence escaped from within!"
"That mysterious Cataclysm-level being has unknown abilities and unknown appearance; everything is a mystery. And the昏迷 incident I'm investigating also has many mysteries. Could this matter be related to that Cataclysm-level being?"
Wen Wen rubbed his hair and once again asked the Dark Night Knight for the information on the mysterious Cataclysm, hoping to find some clues.
He had investigated many cases, but most had traceable leads, allowing him to follow the clues to find the answers. However, this particular昏迷 case truly left him without any direction.
The information the Dark Night Knight provided Wen Wen consisted only of some murals.
The content of these murals was somewhat obscure and difficult to understand; Wen Wen couldn't decipher them at all.
Fortunately, there was a translation provided by the Hunter Association, which allowed him to understand the content of the murals.
The murals generally depicted a king in ancient Efei Great Region who revered punishment. This king made the entire nation worship a cruel deity.
This deity's greatest pleasure was to throw innocent people into the 'hell' it created, where people endured endless torment.
Those who emerged from 'hell' were completely transformed, appearing as entirely different people.
The entire nation lived in fear. Eventually, they could no longer bear it, united to overthrow the king's rule, and collaborated with other deities to seal the cruel deity. All those in 'hell' were released, and everyone lived happily ever after...
This content was merely a simplified translation and could not fully convey the meaning of the murals.
After all, the murals were very ancient, so ancient that some of the languages on them had completely vanished into the river of history.
Wen Wen pondered for a long time but couldn't connect the murals to the昏迷 incident, so he dejectedly returned to the Hunter Association's base.
After returning, Wen Wen waited for a few more days.
During these days, no clues were obtained. Every day, new people fell into a昏迷 state. These comatose individuals were evenly distributed across every province in the Meijia Great Region, making it impossible for Wen Wen to analyze based on population distribution.
Furthermore, Wen Wen had searched the entire city but had not found the mysterious young man mentioned by Tao Qingqing.
Wen Wen suspected that the fellow had long since left this city. If it weren't for the fact that the two individuals who knew the most about the昏迷 case were in Duoxinlidi, Wen Wen would have already gone to other cities to search for clues.
The only gain of sorts was that Wen Wen discovered that all the comatose individuals were not exactly 'good people.'
This was not to say that the perpetrator specifically targeted bad people, but rather that the comatose individuals had character flaws.
Some were gamblers, some were gluttonous, some were pathologically devoted to environmental protection, some spoke nonsense, and others were insatiably greedy. Therefore, ordinary people with no obvious strengths or weaknesses were basically spared from this mysterious昏迷.
No wonder even the Dark Night Knight couldn't find any clues. This case was truly vexing.
The turning point came on the seventh day. On this day, Wen Wen, tired of Moyadi's curry rice, went out to find some good food.
The food provided by the local Hunter Association consisted only of curry mush and flatbread. Moyadi, while researching the case, also enjoyed cooking curry himself. Although his curry was superb, Wen Wen was tired of eating it after several days.
Unfortunately, although this city was in the Meijia Great Region, it had more characteristics of the Yingu Great Region than cities in the Yingu Great Region. Therefore, it was difficult to find food that was not related to curry mush.
Persistence paid off, and Wen Wen finally found an authentic Efei Great Region specialty restaurant. The owner was an Efei man with dark skin.
Wen Wen ordered two servings of hummus, three roasted pigeons, and a roasted lamb shank.
As he bit into the lamb shank, the juice flowed out, and Wen Wen's face was filled with bliss. He hadn't eaten properly for days due to worrying about the troublesome昏迷 case.
While eating, Wen Wen noticed that the owner's condition seemed to be somewhat off.
His forehead was dark, and his eye sockets were dark. Even though he was originally of a darker complexion, this state was truly abnormal.