Chapter 80 Story
After returning to the law enforcement center from Mrs. Apu, Milo's stomach finally made a rare growling sound.
Nero should have seen Karl's inhuman body and its dissected form with his own eyes, but Milo had experienced Karl's experience firsthand.
The feeling of watching fungi growing from other people’s bodies is completely incomparable to watching fungi growing from one’s own body. Coupled with the immersive sense of oppression and fear, Milo’s real I can deeply feel the despair and struggle of a dying person.
The reason why Milo has been unable to clarify the factors of Carl's death is because Carl's consciousness and memory are disordered, and the pictures and information that Milo reads from the perspective of the undead are inherently inconsistent. whole.
Unlike Robben, although Robben is crazy, his madness belongs to stubbornly sealing himself within a worldview he believes in. Under this worldview, all his actions are supported by clear thinking.
But Karl is not. His memories and thoughts are all chaotic and broken. Even he himself cannot remember where and what he encountered, and when his body began to undergo strange changes.
In some fragmented memory fragments, he even forgot who he was...
This is another, deeper kind of memory that is different from what he saw and heard in that underground cave. fear.
This is also an important reason why Milo needs Nero to provide valuable information.
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According to Nero, the weird rumors in the town of Ikem can be traced back to the last century, but those were just horrifying stories until after the Great Plague, the Solomon Gang took over After the copper mining area in the small town of Ikem, those horrifying stories began to be unearthed from the depths of the earth.
What does Solomon picture?
Unlike the Church, Solomon's nature should be more of an organization driven by profit. Their initial purpose of entering the town of Ikem should have been the copper mine, but during the excavation process Found something more valuable than copper.
This can only be explained.
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Milo really didn’t think this was an easy journey.
Just refer to the circumstances of Carl’s death.
He is the real number one in the law enforcement assessment, not a half-way monk like Milo.
Milo could sense that in Karl’s last moments, his thoughts were entangled with endless fear, which caused him to completely lose all rational thinking abilities, which shows that in the small town of Ikem, Karl He saw something that overturned his worldview.
Even Karl, who Nero said was extremely good, ended up in such a miserable situation, so Milo naturally didn't dare to take it lightly.
What's more, he has to walk on thin ice at all times now, because there is no guarantee when the sequelae will occur, and if he gets sick again at a critical moment, he will be far away in a small town in the deep southern mountainous area like Ikem. There was no one there who could help.
Regarding this hidden danger, Milo has only one solution for the time being, which is to prepare enough ammunition.
As a last resort, he can no longer use excessive strength of his limbs. In other words, he will have to use thermal weapons instead of physical combat.
If something can be solved with bullets, try not to use a knife.
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In the law enforcement officer’s office of the Chengnan Law Enforcement Station.
Rebecca sat on the inside, flipping through the autopsy report in her hand, as well as the box of things that Nero had given to Milo before.
She looked at Milo, who was sitting opposite her, and the six or seven revolver cylinders placed in front of him.
Because it is a weapon with separate ammunition, loading ammunition is a very tedious task. A series of items such as gunpowder, gaskets, lead bullets, etc. must be loaded in order. Compared with pulling the trigger The moment the trigger is fired, the time to reload the ammunition seems extremely long.
However, the revolver gun has much greater advantages than the flintlock musket, because after one round of loading, it can support 6 fires, and because of the open gun body structure, it only takes a few seconds if operated properly. Remove the empty runner nest and replace it with a new one. All that is needed is to fill the spare magazine with ammunition in advance. This is infinitely close to the firearm weapon mode in Milo's memory.
In this operation in the town of Ikem, Milo did not plan to use the knife. He did not want to pass out again for no reason. What if he woke up and found a bunch of mushrooms growing on his body...
So it’s absolutely right to have enough ammunition.
……
“As for it?”
Rebecca looked at Milo who was loading ammunition carefully.
"Fear comes from insufficient firepower." Milo said a wise saying.
Rebecca shook her head: "I told you it was just a preliminary investigation."
Milo glanced at Rebecca.
He knew that Rebecca was similar to Old Theon. Their understanding and selection of weapon systems were more traditional. This may have something to do with the training they received. After all, in this world Here, the revolver gun is a new type of weapon that has only appeared recently. In the absence of sufficient usage data as a basis, law enforcement officers will definitely prefer to use traditional weapons that have withstood the test and polished for a long time. This is understandable.
To some extent, law enforcement officers trust the knives in their hands more.
Rebecca is a typical example. ...
Milo placed the loaded revolver cartridges one by one on the table, then took off the heavy heavy revolver gun from his waist and started Remove and install the runner cartridge over and over again until you are completely familiar with the process.
Rebecca looked at the increasingly skillful movements in Milo's hands, and listened to the clicking sounds becoming more and more coherent, with a strange look on her face:
"Were you really just a city guard before?"
"Before the city guard, I worked in the alchemy workshop." Milo knew what Rebecca was suspicious of.
After all, the duty tool of the prison guards is a short metal stick. How could any guard be so familiar with a cutting-edge weapon like a revolver.
But the reason for the alchemy workshop is obviously untenable.
But when Rebecca saw that Milo didn't want to talk and was too lazy to continue asking, she said lightly: "Then when recruiting new members for the law enforcement team, you can go directly to the alchemy workshop to find them."
"Let's talk about the next trip." Milo changed the topic.
Rebecca pushed the information about Ikem Town to Milo’s side:
“Since the last century, there have been continuous incidents in Ikem Town. Missing persons incident, but because of its remote location, there are no opportunities for information exchange with the outside world Very rarely, which leads to many incidents being ignored.”
“I know that the more famous story is the case of the disappearance of a young noble hunter. I forgot the specific last name. It seems. Is it Russell? It was last century anyway. Qing, this surname is no longer on the list of nobles in the kingdom. There are rumors that a young son of the Russell family disappeared while hunting in the Ikem area. The Russell family later sent someone to take Ikem away. Every inch of land in the nearby mountains is plowed After searching all over, their youngest son was not found in the end. Not long after that, people and animals in the Russell family manor died mysteriously, and the nobleman became extinct from then on.”
This is the same story. Obtained from Carl's undead perspective.
But Karl himself learned about this story from some casual reading.
Later, Milo took the time to check and found that such a book did exist. The author used some very tricky angles and rich imagination to vividly describe some traditional folklore stories and present them. There are many strange world views and a chilling world of haze.
The Russell Family Secrets is one of his collection of stories.
But readers don’t actually know that Ikem is a real town. Most people think that this town is fictitious like other place names in the book.
“A very cliche story.”
Rebecca is not interested in the past events of the Russell family. It is an outrageous act to connect a real case with a ghost story.
Her attitude is somewhat similar to Milo.
From Rebecca's perspective, the truth behind the town of Ikem should be the human experiments led by the Solomon Gang. This is the most rational and intuitive view, and it is also the most realistic. of.
Milo caught Rebecca's inner thoughts from her tone.
In fact, if Milo had not peeked into Carl's undead perspective, he would most likely have the same attitude and views as Rebecca.
But now he couldn't think so firmly.
Because everything he saw from Karl's perspective was too real and could not be explained by common sense.
Otherwise, he would not discuss the contents of the strange novel.
Ikem has a history of people disappearing, and it has never stopped for a long time. Maybe the strange novel is just using the theme, but the record of people disappearing for no reason must not be a fabricated story.
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"I feel a little hungry."
Milo suddenly changed the subject.
He loaded the loaded revolver cartridges one by one into the pocket on his waist, put away the revolver, and began to rummage in Rebecca's office closet.
Milo found some cans and dry slices of bread.
"Would you like some?" He turned to look at Rebecca.
The latter shook his head firmly.
It can be seen that Carl's death has left a big shadow on Rebecca, and this symptom of loss of appetite is expected to continue for a short period of time.
Anyway, Milo was really hungry and couldn’t care less. He just opened the can and showed off on his desk.
Rebecca, on the other hand, was stunned as she looked at the broken body in the autopsy report photo.
Milo noticed the subtle depression on Rebecca's face, but he wisely kept quiet, said nothing, and just went about filling his stomach.
(End of this chapter)