Chapter 489 Invitation
The four walls of the entertainment room were covered with paintings. Of course, Duanmuhuai didn't know the order, but luckily there were numbers underneath the paintings, which saved him trouble.
After a cursory scan, Duanmu Huai discovered that these paintings basically depicted ghouls. The first painting depicts Arkham City. The upper part shows the citizens of Arkham living on the ground, while in the sewer pipes beneath their feet, groups of ghouls are scurrying around like rats.
In the second painting, several ghouls sneaked into a house silently, stole the baby of that house, and then placed an ugly and evil little ghoul in the cradle.
In the third painting, the human baby seems to have grown up and turned into a child. He is trying to eat the dead under the guidance of the ghouls. At the same time, in the other half of the screen that was split into two, the little ghoul who was replaced by a civet cat and became a prince also grew up. Although he looked no different from humans, he had a ferocious and twisted expression and a smile full of malice. The problem has been explained.
In the next scene, the human baby who was captured into the ghoul group turned into a ghoul, and the ghoul who mixed into the human world stood on a high mountain, reaching out his hand with great momentum. Pointing down to Arkham City, behind him were hundreds of ghouls.
The scene after this is basically how the ghouls attacked Arkham City and killed humans. They emerged from the cracks in the ground and slaughtered all the humans in the subway station. Or maybe they hide in the grass in the park and treat pedestrians as prey. The entire Arkham City was under the attack of ghouls, with smoke billowing and corpses strewn everywhere...
How can I put it... Daydreaming is pretty good.
"Lord Knight? Do these paintings look scary??"
Duanmu Huai glanced at the oil painting in front of him and rolled his eyes speechlessly. Lorena also blinked curiously, although the pictures drawn by this artist were indeed disgusting, especially the human corpses with their internal organs torn apart, devouring flesh and blood, and the army of ghouls crawling on the corpses. , just looking at it makes it seem like everything is alive. It seemed as if the ghoul's wide-open mouth would close the next moment, biting the flesh and blood. Even just looking at the picture, a strong smell of blood rushed towards him.
Even if this thing holds an art exhibition, it won't be possible without a 21+, it's even more disgusting than a B-grade plasma tablet.
It's indeed disgusting to say it's disgusting, but to say it's scary...well, Duanmuhuai said this is normal.
"It's scary enough for people in this world."
"Will...?"
"Of course, you have to know that people in this world don't usually see any monsters. For them, ghosts are just legendary existences."
Duanmu Huai spread his hands helplessly. In fact, this is normal. Lorena was born in the Holy City. As a roving priest, many monsters died under her hands. Not to mention that Lorena followed Duanmuhuai everywhere every day and never saw any monsters. Things like mere ghouls really couldn't scare her.
But it's different for people in this world. Vampires, ghouls, and ghosts are all superstitious and fantasy to them. If you witness this with your own eyes, your three views will naturally be destroyed, so despite the heart-rending words written in the diary, for Duanmu Huai and Lorena... that's all.
Of course, another reason is that this is an entry-level teaching mission after all. For now, their enemies are lower-level races like ghouls. The Baiyaki Star Color Dagon and his like haven't shown up yet, the real threat is yet to come.
Not to mention the great existence...
In an RPG, they are just fighting slimes, and they are still far from the final boss.
"Okay, now we can basically determine what happened. That Cliff should be a ghoul who came to the human world, and his purpose is to lead an army of ghouls to destroy Arkham City? This group of ghouls The zombies really have no brains. This is the year 2000, not 1900..."
It has to be said that after confirming the other party's ambition, Duanmu Huai was speechless. If this were 1900, you ghoul might still be able to succeed with the help of your tough body and weird appearance. But now it’s 2000, how dare you go out and fight tanks? What's wrong with living impatiently?
"Meow————!!"
Just when Duanmuhuai was thinking, Lingnu seemed to have discovered something. She stretched out her front paws and patted Duanmuhuai's face, pointing to the depths of the recreation room. Duanmu Huai turned his head and saw that there was another door there. He opened the door and walked through the corridor to the end. Judging from the location, this should be the study room. At this moment, through the thick door panel, Duanmuhuai could hear intermittent sounds coming from inside, as if someone was roaring.
So Duanmu Huai turned around without hesitation and kicked the door open.
"Bang!"
As Duanmuhuai kicked the door open, he saw a magic circle formed by the condensation of blood in the middle of the floor of the room where blood was flying everywhere. And inside the magic circle was a tied-up middle-aged man wearing a well-dressed suit. His eyes were round, and his face was full of pain and fear.
Outside the magic circle, stood a guy wrapped in a black robe, who looked like a cultist at first glance. At his feet, there were several ghouls kneeling, looking like they were performing some kind of ritual.
They were so focused that when Duanmu Huai suddenly kicked open the door, everyone was startled. Even the middle-aged man who was tied to the chair and located in the center of the magic circle temporarily gave up his struggle. He stared at Duanmu Huai with wide eyes——then rolled his eyes and passed out.
"………………"
Duanmuhuai knew what the result was without looking at the system prompts.
"Who is you?"
Seeing Duanmu Huai, the man in black robe who presided over the ceremony was also startled. He widened his eyes in horror and looked at the strong man with a fierce look who broke in through the door. His body couldn't help but tremble, but soon, he seemed to have thought of something, and hurriedly took out a twisted, weird statue from his arms, and held it high.
"No matter who you are, you can't stop the ceremony, as long as..." However, the man in black robe did not finish his words, because at this moment, the strange statue in his hand suddenly exploded, and then a mist full of stench came from it. Emerged and spread to all directions. The stench was so unpleasant that even Duanmuhuai and Lorena hurriedly exited the room.
At the same time, a shrill scream came from the fog, and then Duanmu Huai saw a black shadow suddenly jump out of it, open its bloody mouth, and rush towards him!
It was a weird, twisted, dark monster. It is about ten meters long, with bat-like wings on its body, and its head is not like a snake. On the contrary, it is a huge, rotten black spaghetti, and the middle of its body is completely A huge hole, its head looked more like a monster like a worm. When it opened its bloody mouth, Duanmu Huai could even clearly see the 180-degree inside that filled the entire mouth. Rotating and moving fangs.
"What a piece of shit!"
An ordinary person would probably have panicked when faced with such a terrifying and huge monster. But Duanmu Huai was not afraid at all. He roared, suddenly stretched out his arms, and grabbed the monster's body tightly. At the same time, Duanmuhuai glanced at Lorena and the maid and gave them orders.
"Go and catch the people inside!"
After hearing Duanmuhuai's order, Lorena nodded and rushed into the room with the maid.
At the same time, the huge strange snake in Duanmu Huai's hand, which was about as thick as a human, was still shaking its head desperately, opening its bloody mouth, trying to swallow Duanmu Huai whole.
"I think you are tired of living!"
At this moment, Duanmu Huai was also angered by the strange snake's struggle. He shouted loudly, and his fingers immediately tore open the strange snake's body deeply and penetrated directly into its body. An almost suffocating stench spurted out from the wound, with thick, dark green blood splashing everywhere. The strange snake under attack twisted its body desperately, trying to break free from Duanmu Huai's hands.
But it was too late at this moment. Its ever-changing, plasticine-like body was directly penetrated by Duanmuhuai's hands, and then Duanmuhuai grabbed its flesh and blood - he could even feel it. The flesh and blood could not help but squirm, and there were countless tentacle-like touches, as if there were hundreds of cockroaches crawling across his hands.
"Go to hell!"
Duanmu Huai suddenly opened his arms and tore the huge strange snake in half from the middle. The strange snake that was completely torn apart let out a scream, then collapsed to the ground softly, and then gradually It melted and turned into a thick, smelly liquid.
"Tsk, that's really troublesome."
Looking at the foul-smelling liquid on his body, Duanmuhuai patted his chest in disgust. It is inconvenient to have no weapons. Unfortunately, there are no thunder hammers and chain swords in this world. It is obviously not suitable to fight with just two hands. In addition, his shooting skills are basically negative... Well, It seems that after returning this time, I also need to find a suitable weapon for myself.
At this point, everything is basically over. The middle-aged man who was used as a sacrifice was saved. In fact, he was his distant relative in the setting, the unlucky art dealer. The black-robed cultist was Cliff. Unfortunately, he seemed not to be sure when he summoned the strange snake through the statue. As a result, half of his body was bitten off by the summoned strange snake.
As for the remaining ghouls, Lorena held the holy book high and beat them to death.
After that, Duanmuhuai took the phone and called the police. As for why he didn't call the police at the beginning, the reason was very simple. I have said before that where this kind of indescribable monster haunts, the boundary between reality and nightmare will become Not very stable. In this case, it is basically impossible to contact the outside world whether by mobile phone or telephone. Unless the trouble here is eliminated, everything is back to normal, and the space is stabilized, then the police can be called.
The police quickly arrived at the scene and conducted an investigation and search. Duanmuhuai also handed over the clues and evidence he had collected to the police detectives - this is a very necessary part. The clues and evidence can not only improve the system tasks. Giving a rating may even affect how the police in this world view you.
If the evidence is sufficient, the police will be convinced that your behavior was okay.
But on the contrary, if there is insufficient evidence, then if you go to someone's house and smash, smash, loot and burn it - then just wait to go to jail.
Since this was only an entry-level level, it was naturally extremely simple for a veteran like Duanmu Huai, so soon, a police detective appeared in front of him.
"Hello, sir."
Looking at Duanmu Huai, who was several heads taller than him, the police detective was somewhat nervous.
"We have compared the clues and evidence you provided, and everything is confirmed..."
"So, can I leave?"
"Of course, but...we have a small request."
"Oh?"
Hearing this, Duanmu Huai, who already knew what would happen next, raised his eyebrows.
"What request?"
"I wonder if you are interested in assisting the police and becoming an investigator?"
(End of chapter)