Chapter 487 Investigation Begins
Sitting in the carriage, Duanmu Huai was really speechless.
The maid was in charge of driving, Lorena sat in the passenger seat, and naturally he had to sit in the container.
That's right, this is a container!
It was empty inside, not even a chair! Duanmu Huai could only sit there cross-legged with a blanket, and that was all. There were two windows on both sides of the container, but I don’t know what this thing was originally used for. There were actually black and white inlays on the windows. Thick iron fence!
Damn, is this for people to sit on? Are you transporting lions and tigers to the circus?
Apart from anything else, sitting inside, Duanmuhuai just felt that this was the pure malice that this broken system had given to him...
The background of this world is the year 2000, which happens to be modern times, but unfortunately modern times are limited. Duanmu Huai does have a mobile phone, and he also called the other party, but for some reason, no one answered the phone...< br>
Okay, unfold normally, nothing strange.
In the evening, the maid finally drove a heavy truck to a villa in the suburbs. There were several cars parked at the gate. However, the entire courtyard was empty. If the villa itself was not brightly lit, Duanmuhuai would even think that she was Wrong place.
But according to the address on the envelope, it should be right here.
After parking the car, Duanmu Huai also got out of the container and joined the maid and Lorena.
"Is this where the banquet is held? Sir Knight? Why does it seem like there is no one there?"
"It's normal. I'd still feel weird if someone was there."
Hearing Lorena's curious inquiry, Duanmu Huai answered nonchalantly, then he straightened his clothes and strode towards the main entrance of the villa.
The whole villa was brightly lit, lights were on everywhere, and you could even hear the faint sound of music coming from inside. However, on the contrary, wherever you look, you can't see a single person anywhere. The main door was not closed, but a gap was exposed. Duanmuhuai reached out his hand to push the door open without caring, and then walked into the hall.
“——————”
At the same time, the music suddenly stopped, Duanmuhuai walked into the house with the maid and Lorena, and then closed the door. The villa was completely silent at the moment, with only their footsteps echoing in the corridor.
"What, what's going on? Sir Knight?"
Although Duanmuhuai had vaccinated Lorena on the way here, Lorena was still a little surprised by this scene.
"You don't know, but I think as long as we investigate around, we should know what happened."
As Duanmuhuai spoke, he looked around. In the entire foyer, there is a table placed in the corner with a phone and notes on it, while on the other side hangs a twisted and weird oil painting of a starry sky. Duanmu Huai reached out and picked up the papers on the table, and found that they were invitations. Obviously, they were guests who had come before him, but whether they were still alive now was probably a question.
The drawer under the table was locked and could not be opened at all, but of course this did not stop Duanmu Huai. He stretched out his hand, grabbed the handle and pulled it outward hard. With a "click", the locked drawer opened. In this way, he was pulled out by Duanmu Huai.
"Sir Knight? Wouldn't it be bad for us to rummage through other people's things like this?"
Seeing Duanmuhuai do this, Lorena suddenly asked uneasily, while Duanmuhuai shook his head.
"This is also part of the investigation, provided the owner of this house is still alive to complain to me."
As he spoke, Duanmuhuai flipped through the drawer - but there was nothing particularly noteworthy inside.
“Meow————!!”
At this moment, the black cat transformed by the bell girl suddenly jumped up and jumped onto Duanmu Huai's shoulder. Then it turned to the door on the left side of the door and let out a low roar. After noticing Ling Nu's reaction, Duanmu Huai immediately put down the things in his hands and came to the door. Then he gestured to Lorena and the maid, telling them to follow him, and then Duanmu Huai Huai reached out and opened the door.
What appeared in front of Duanmu Huai was a magnificent restaurant, with a variety of delicious food placed on the long dining table. However, in the corner of the restaurant, a strange, twisted creature was curled up with its back to them. There, it was wearing tattered clothes and its skin looked like dark rubber. An uncomfortable inarticulate sound was made.
The sound of Duanmuhuai opening the door naturally attracted the attention of the monster. It turned its head and revealed its elongated face like a wild dog towards Duanmuhuai. The upper half of its face was similar to that of a human, but its mouth was like a dog. The long stretch stretched from the face, and you could even clearly see the long tongue and sharp, blood-stained teeth inside.
The moment they saw each other, both parties were stunned for a moment. At the same time, a system prompt appeared in front of Duanmu Huai's eyes. 【The ghoul saw you】
[Looking directly at you makes the ghoul lose 9 points of sanity]
【The ghoul is in panic】
[The ghoul falls into a state of madness]
"………………Nima!!!"
Seeing this line of system prompts, Duanmu Huai's face turned dark. At the same time, the weird, twisted, and terrifying monster screamed, then turned around and rushed towards Duanmu Huai. It opened its mouth and let out a He let out a piercing scream, and at the same time stretched out his hands with sharp claws.
Faced with the ghoul's attack, Duanmuhuai roared and rushed towards it, grabbed its head, and then pulled hard - the next moment, the ghoul's rubber-like hard skin was torn apart, and it was dark. Stinky blood spurted out, and the ghoul's head was torn off from its neck by Duanmu Huai, and then thrown aside.
Then Duanmuhuai snorted coldly and threw the ghoul's body directly to the ground.
"Damn, are you kidding me?!"
Looking at the system prompt in front of him, Duanmu Huai felt a hundred unhappy. What does it mean? What do you mean when the ghouls lose their minds when they see me? Could it be that I have become an indescribable existence in their eyes? Damn it, this is a slander against me! This is a naked insult!
Duanmuhuai calmed down his inner anger, and then walked to the corner, wanting to see what the ghoul was doing here just now. When Duanmuhuai came to the corner, what he saw was a bloody corpse. His entire belly had been broken open, and the place was spread all over the floor. It was obvious that the corpse just now was The wight is enjoying its meal.
Judging from the clothes the victim was wearing, he seemed to be the chef here - but now he himself has become food.
There is a bunch of keys hanging around the chef's neck. Logically speaking, these should be used to open the door, but Duanmuhuai doesn't need to go to such trouble. Just break the locked door open. If you can't open the door, you can still hit the wall. I'm so willful! Who are you afraid of?
"You guys look around and see if you can find anything."
Duanmu Huai turned his head and said to the maid and Lorena, who also nodded and began to search the entire restaurant. At the same time, the black cat squatting on Duanmuhuai's shoulder seemed to have discovered something, and his eyes lit up. Then it jumped down from Duanmuhuai's body and came to the side of the ghoul that Duanmuhuai had killed before. Then it rolled over a few times, and then the black cat turned around and ran back to Duanmuhuai's side. , placing a pocket watch in front of him.
"Pocket watch??"
Duanmu Huai doubtfully picked up the pocket watch and opened it, then closed it, but no matter how he looked at it, it was an ordinary pocket watch. Except for the two letters "M.H" engraved on it, there seemed to be nothing special here.
Of course, if it were just an ordinary incident, Duanmuhuai would not bother to care about it. He would just go in and see people and kill people and Buddhas and kill Buddhas. Unfortunately, the requirements of this linkage event task are very clear - players must not only solve problems, but also It is also necessary to find enough clues and evidence in the process to convict. The more clues and evidence, the higher the task evaluation will be.
On the contrary, if you just rush in and kill the Demon King without thinking, then most of them won't even give you a damn.
So Duanmu Huai took his pocket watch and thought for a while, then came to the table in the foyer again, and compared it with the invitations there one by one. Sure enough, he found a clue - there was a man named Mullis White on the invitation. An art dealer, his abbreviation is M.H, so if that's correct, then the ghoul he killed was him.
Well, that is to say, some of the guests who came here before me have been transformed into ghouls... Well, I don't know if this is some kind of curse or part of the ritual.
All in all, it's definitely not a good thing.
At this time, Lorena and the maid also came back, saying that they did not find anything particularly worthy of attention in the dining room and kitchen. But when the maid opened the refrigerator, she found some strange things that looked like biological specimens inside... Obviously, those were not things that should be placed in the kitchen.
"Oh? Show me?"
Hearing the maid's answer, Duanmu Huai curiously went to the kitchen refrigerator next to the restaurant, and then opened the refrigerator. Then he immediately saw several glass bottles that looked about the same size as cans placed in the fresh-keeping layer of the refrigerator. , the liquid inside seemed a bit turbid, and soaked in the liquid were some weird and disgusting-looking things. They looked like dead babies, curled up in a ball and soaked in the liquid. But what I want to say is that these "babies" are only about the size of cicadas, and they look quite miniscule.
Well, what's the purpose of putting this thing in the kitchen refrigerator? Could it be that the chef is planning to use this thing to make personal ginseng fruit?
Duanmuhuai fiddled with the thing for a while, but even the system didn't give him an answer, so he stuffed the thing back into the refrigerator.
"Okay, let's go check out other rooms. Maybe we'll get something else."
(End of chapter)