Chapter 663 The visitor
"Huh..."
Duanmuhuai also opened his eyes at this time, and then looked at Mary lying on the ground, stunned for a moment.
"This is?"
"Ah...Miss Mary seems to be a little unwell..."
At this moment, Ann and Gu Leya also hurriedly stepped forward and helped Mary up.
"Did the magic fail? But I think it succeeded?"
Duanmu Huai could now clearly see that there was a pink thread connecting him and Mary.
Well, of course, the location is a bit hard to describe—but considering that this is a spell from the Pink Book, it seems understandable?
"Uh... It's just that Miss Mary isn't used to magic yet. She just needs to rest for a while."
An also spoke hurriedly at this moment.
"Well, I'll go out and take a look first, and you guys will take care of Mary here."
Duanmuhuai didn't think too much, he just nodded and left the room. Watching Duanmu Huai leave, An and Gu Leya both breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at Mary, who was still in a trance. The girl's eyes were blurred, she was breathing slightly, her body was limp, and her face was blank. .
"…………I am very interested in the magic Mr. Knight used just now."
An stared at Mary, and then whispered. When she heard An's words, Gu Leiya was shocked and turned to look at her.
"An?"
"Isn't it interesting?"
"Uh...who are you going to use it for?"
"Hehe..."
Hearing Gu Leya's question, An smiled at her, but seeing An's smile, Gu Leya trembled all over and subconsciously took a step back.
Well, that’s all there is to it.
At the same time, Duanmu Huai was enjoying the power of the Golden Eyes in the small town.
"This is really awesome...Tsk, tsk, tsk, why doesn't anyone get it in the game?"
Looking at the world in front of him, Duanmu Huai couldn't help but sigh.
Of course, if you just look at it, there doesn't seem to be any difference. But when Duanmuhuai focused his will on his right eye, he could see different rays of light. Mary couldn't explain what they were, but Duanmuhuai understood it at a glance.
This is the direction mark.
In the eyes of Mu Huai in front of him, each person has a direction mark, pointing straight into the distance, which means that with just one glance, you can know where these people are coming from and where they are going. For example, the guard planned to go to the pub next to him for a drink, while the man on the other side wanted to go fishing by the river. Even if it was a black cat chasing a mouse, Duanmuhuai could see how it passed through the broken glass window. Get out and then chase the prey into the alley.
And if you focus on a certain goal, you can see everything related to it.
For example, this river right now.
"Is this the problem here?"
Duanmuhuai stood by the river and looked towards the river in front of him. The dark aura in the belly of the pregnant lady was connected to this river. In other words, does the dead baby have something to do with this river?
But no traces of curse or magic were detected...Hmm...
Duanmuhuai stared at the river again, focusing his attention. Soon, his sight began to "go upstream", moving in the direction of the rushing river, and then came to the cave in the mountain. Then Duanmuhuai saw something strange. A dazzling flash, in a huge pond, a stone is emitting a dazzling light, followed by.........
"Woo!"
The next moment, a severe headache occurred, and Duanmu Huai came to his senses, only to realize that the light connecting him and Mary had disappeared.
"Sure enough, it's not my golden eyes, but it's still troublesome to use."
Obviously, the Golden Eye is indeed an artifact. In the game, it is simply a plug-in that automatically guides the way. To put it simply, it is like the player accepts the task and a direction mark appears directly for you. The player only needs to follow the direction mark to complete the task directly. It is simply cheating.
But unfortunately, this thing does not seem to support sharing. Although Duanmuhuai is fine, Mary can no longer support it...
Forget it, no matter what, the clues have been found.
"Sir, this is not good!!"
At this moment, a guard ran over panting. His face was pale and frightened, while Duanmu Huai withdrew his eyes and stared at him.
"What's wrong?"
"Strange, monster! There is a monster in the mine!"
The guard who came back was one of the guards who had been ordered by Duanmu Huai to follow the kid to check the mine. According to his story, the group of people followed the kid to the entrance of the mine halfway up the mountain, and found that the mine that was supposed to be closed was indeed It was smashed open by something. Everyone was shocked at that time. Originally, they should have left immediately to report the news to Duanmu Huai, but several guards with miner backgrounds were stunned by the destructive energy of the mine, and then walked into the dark mine. I want to find out what happened in the mine.
But soon, the guards left outside heard the screams coming from inside. The screams that seemed to tear apart their souls made others tremble. They almost immediately dropped their weapons and ran in a hurry. Come back.
"I know."
Duanmuhuai thought for a moment, then nodded.
"I will go and deal with it. The people called you will block all the entrances and exits of the mines - are there many entrances and exits?"
"Only two, I'll block them completely!"
The guard who came back looked pale and his lips were trembling, but he still mustered up the courage to answer.
"Should I inform your companions?"
"It's not necessary for the time being. It would be better for me to handle this matter alone."
Although Golden Eyes did not see the end, Duanmu Huai already had some guesses. Perhaps this can also explain why neither the priest nor the paladin noticed the problem. Because this is beyond their knowledge and common sense. Just like to people in other worlds, so-called magic or magic is more like a trick, some things are also strange to people in this world.
The entrance to the mine is located halfway up the mountain behind the town. There are still railroad tracks here, and you can see empty mine carts all around. It is obvious that they once had a glorious time, but the dust and cobwebs all over the mine carts now indicate that Those days are gone forever.
"Stay away from here, don't come near, don't let anyone come in."
Before Duanmuhuai walked into the cave, he turned around again and said to the mayor and defense officer.
"If you come in, you do so at your own risk."
"Is it dangerous inside?"
"You don't need to know this."
Duanmuhuai's cold gaze stopped the mayor's stupid and curious inquiry.
"If you want to come in please feel free, after all I have warned you."
After saying this, Duanmuhuai turned and left, while the others swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at each other for a moment, and then backed away.
They're not stupid. The mine is dark and dark.
Duanmu Huai clenched his hands into fists and strode in. This narrow space is not suitable for him to wield a thunder hammer or a power sword, but it doesn't matter. For Duanmu Huai, these fists alone are enough to turn all creatures that dare to stand in front of him into a pile of meat.
Even more effective than Warhammer.
"Click...click click click click...!"
As Duanmuhuai went deep into the mine, a strange noise appeared in his helmet, but Duanmuhuai was not surprised by the noise. It could even be said that he had guessed it a long time ago!
"Sure enough, damn radiation!"
Duanmuhuai clenched his fists when he saw the radiation warning coming from his helmet.
This is what he guessed when he saw the last scene through the golden eyes, although in the magical world, it is not surprising that stones can glow, and it can even be said that many gems can also glow. But Duanmuhuai soon thought of what Priest Tai had said before, that their investigation found nothing.
If that stone was the work of some kind of magic, there was no way they wouldn't be able to detect it. But what if that's not magic?
Can radioactive materials be detected using Detect Toxin or Detect Curse?
Duanmuhuai didn't know what the basis for detecting this magic was, but now it seemed that these magics obviously had no effect on the radiation produced in nature.
So, this was just an accident?
Duanmuhuai doesn't think so. The reason is very simple. This is an iron mine. If there had been a radiation mine here for a long time, then the miners in Locke Town would probably have died long ago. But you are wrong to say that it was dug out recently. It can be seen from the previous mine cart that because the mineral deposits have been exhausted, mining has not been opened in Locke Town for a long time. There is no such thing.
In other words, someone deliberately placed a piece of radioactive ore here in order to poison people downstream of the river - it is no longer news that radiation pollution causes fetal malformation and miscarriage, so the shape of the dead babies in Rock Town is also distorted. Understandably, the only thing to say is that this process is a bit too fast, and it doesn't seem to be happening elsewhere.
Perhaps because Locke Town is the closest, it's been the most affected?
This is also the reason why Duanmu Huai doesn't let An, Mary and others come with him. The Inquisitor's power armor can resist all radiation and extreme cold and high temperatures, and can move freely in a vacuum. But he didn't believe that An's magic could protect him from radiation contamination.
Radiation ore, but unlike ordinary radiation ore, Faerûn does not seem to produce this stuff. Could it be from another world? That would be even more interesting. Who brought it here, for what purpose, and from what world?
You must know that this area is deserted except for Locke Town, and it is not a densely populated place like Waterdeep City or Neverwinter City. Generally speaking, if you use radiation to cause pollution, you can choose those big cities to launch attacks instead of small places like this. ………
"Hoo————!"
Just when Duanmuhuai was thinking, suddenly, a sharp spear-like thing emerged from the dark shadows, stabbed Duanmuhuai's head, and then hit Duanmuhuai's helmet hard and bounced away. Feeling the impact of the battle, Duanmu Huai also roared, gathered his mind, stretched out his hand to grab the spear, and pulled it hard, and then with a scream, a black shadow fell from the sky. Down, it hit the ground.
At this moment, under the illumination of the searchlight, Duanmuhuai clearly saw the monster that attacked him - its body looked like an adult human, but it was only a body. His limbs are very slender, especially the forearms and legs, which are as long as spider legs. Moreover, this monster has no neck at all. Its twisted face is "embedded" in the middle of the shoulders and chin. It opened and closed with painful screams, and turbid and dirty blood spurted out from the break of one of the legs, spreading all over the cave.
What the hell is this? Spider-human?
Looking at the ghost thing in front of him, Duanmu Huai was also confused. He had never seen similar mutated monsters, but he was sure that these things should be the monsters that came out of the belly of the woman in Rock Town before, because Duan Muhuai remembered It is clear that the mayor and the garrison captain once said that the victim's body seemed to have been penetrated and torn apart by something similar to a spear...
Duanmuhuai looked at the section on his hand. It looked like a slender human calf that had been stretched, but the place where the sole of the foot should have been stood up high, forming a sharp top.
Well, it looks like this is the murder weapon.
It's just that this thing is obviously bigger than Duanmuhuai imagined. You must know that this thing was originally hiding in a woman's belly. It was only as big as a baby, but now the monster's body is as big as a strong adult. Men are pretty much the same.
What does it eat...well, it can't be radiation.
Duanmu Huai's face darkened, and now he felt more and more that this was a conspiracy.
Twisted corpses of dead babies, mutated monsters that feed on radiation, and a stone that emits radiation energy.
Putting these three things together, it always gives Duanmu Huai a strong sense of a standard plot plot at the beginning of some mission.
"Hmph!"
Duanmuhuai stepped on the twisted monster, trampling its body into a bloody mess. Then he clenched his fists and continued walking inside - the mines extend in all directions, but for Duanmuhuai It no longer mattered, he just needed to follow the radiation detector and find the place with the highest radiation concentration.
The deeper they went into the mine, the more weird monsters there were. Duanmuhuai also saw the corpses of the soldiers who had entered the mine before. Their bodies were pierced, their abdomens were cut open, and their internal organs were scattered all over the ground. It was obvious that the monsters that ate them didn't seem to be very familiar with how to eat. However, Duanmuhuai has no doubt that these monsters will understand after a few experiments.
But unfortunately, they have no chance.
"Zhizhizhi————!!"
This twisted monster screamed like a mouse and rushed towards Duanmuhuai. Their attack method is very simple, that is, they use their spear-like limbs to pierce the enemy's body, and then pierce the enemy's body. They tore apart. However, this move was completely useless to Duanmu Huai. He didn't even try to hide, but let the opponent hit him.
"Clang————!"
Duanmuhuai stood as still as a rock. Instead, the monster screamed and backed away. However, Duanmuhuai had already stretched out his fist and punched the monster's body, directly breaking it in half. Then he grabbed the monster's stump and swung it, breaking the other monster's slender leg. The moment it fell to the ground, a big steel foot suddenly stepped down.
"Bang!"
The monster's stump trembled for a moment, and then became unresponsive.
"Waste."
Duanmuhuai clapped his hands, stood up and continued to move forward. He had already heard the sound of running water, which meant that he was getting closer to his destination. If he is right, when he walks through this corner, he will see an underground lake, and there will be a glowing stone in the center of the underground lake.
But all Duanmuhuai saw was darkness.
Even Duanmuhuai's searchlight couldn't penetrate the sudden darkness. It wasn't until a moment later, when Duanmuhuai saw through the light the crimson flesh and sharp teeth that couldn't help but squirm in front of him, that he realized what had happened. .
"Damn, what the hell!"
Duanmu Huai roared angrily, stretched out his hand, grabbed the other person's mouth that was biting his head, and then pulled hard. I saw that the rubber-like skin and muscles were torn apart by Duanmuhuai. Soon, a gap was torn open in the originally dark space. Then Duanmuhuai roared and used his hands again to expand the gap. gap, and then he threw the idiot who attacked him to the ground.
That's a snake.
It just looks like it's not just a snake, but more like a fusion of some kind of strange animal. It has a wolf-like head, a snake-like body, and even gecko-like feet and tail. This looks extremely weird and twisted. But unfortunately, in front of Duanmuhuai, this twisted, mutated and deformed monster had no effect. Its head had been torn in half by Duanmuhuai, turning it into a pile of flesh and blood lying on the ground.
Then, Duanmuhuai saw the shining stone.
"Didi-di-di-di-di--!"
At the same time, the radiation alarm also increased rapidly. It was obvious that the radiation brought by this stone had exceeded the critical value. Fortunately, Duanmu Huai's power armor could completely resist this level of radiation. He walked into the underground lake, came to the stone, and stared at it.
"Where are you from?"
Duanmu Huai didn't believe that this stone was produced locally. It was about one meter tall, looked like a semicircular stone, and emitted a light as bright as an incandescent lamp. Duanmu Huai remembered that there was this kind of ore in the game, which was used by certain races to create power systems, but it was a relatively backward power source.
Soon, Duanmuhuai found the answer. He found a corpse not far from the ore - a corpse that did not belong to this world.
The reason why Duanmuhuai was so sure was obvious. No one in this world would walk around wearing a space suit or space armor.
Except myself.
And this man also fell into the lake at this moment. The cause of his death was obvious. From his missing lower body, it can be seen that the deceased was probably attacked by some kind of local monster here, and then was torn in half, and then He was so unlucky that he died, so the stone he brought can be easily explained.
The person who brought it here is dead, so it can't run away on its own, right?
But when Duanmuhuai turned the body over and saw its swollen, sore-covered face and the profane, ugly marks on its chest, Duanmuhuai got far more than he imagined.
"Disciples of the Corruption..."
Staring fiercely at the corpse in front of him, Duanmuhuai gritted his teeth.
"You really ran to a very far place..."
(End of chapter)