Chapter 217 185. This is a bet (please subscribe)
Looking at the display cabinet, Li Ming saw a set of exquisite and beautiful tea sets and a strange human-shaped stone inside.
The number of teacups is six.
Li Ming, Minamoto Seiyu, Kurosawa Mitsuka, Hoshino Katsura, and Jiang Wenkan, who doesn’t have a strong sense of presence, total five people.
Then there is another cup, which should be for Shanshi or Mizuno.
Li Ming felt that his brain was a little dizzy, perhaps because of the sequelae of the bloody corpses he had seen before.
Speaking of which, when he saw the tea cup... why would he think that this cup was placed here to provide drinking water for everyone?
Is this tea really clean?
Li Dang looked at the tea cup carefully and found that there was a layer of sticky transparent crystals attached to the cup.
When you run it over with your fingers, the transparent crystal seems to be part of the cup itself, and there is no way to dislodge it.
With a skeptical attitude, Li Ming looked at the strange stone. The gray stone was shaped like a curled-up baby. It was very huge and looked like an alien fossil.
Stones seem to be alive with fluidity. Just looking at them makes you feel bottomless and terrifying.
Besides the stone is a sign with "Meteorite" written on it, which should be an introduction card.
But a meteorite was curled up in the same posture as a baby. Li Dang always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell. After all, meteorites always have strange shapes...
Stones There are many small pieces next to it, which can be easily touched and carried away, and there will be no strange reaction when your hand touches it.
Li Ming subconsciously glanced at Maria and Shanshi beside him just in case, and found that Shanshi still looked calm and disapproving. Although Maria was holding those reasoning books, her eyes were still focused here, tightly The hand holding the suitcase seemed even stiffer.
There is definitely a secret buried in Maria.
It’s just now...hasn’t the time come yet?
Looking at the coffee table, it is a shiny glass coffee table that looks very clean. There is a crystal vase on it, and the bottom of the bottle is filled with about half of the transparent liquid.
In the vase, a large bouquet of blue forget-me-nots is blooming beautifully.
Li Dang frowned and found a small note under the vase -
"Please taste the delicious tea. We have prepared tea for six people. Guests can use it in the display cabinet Try the set of tea set, but it should be noted that you must drink a full cup of tea. You can taste the sweetness in it, and it is strictly forbidden to mix the cups.”
So this note completely blocked Li Ming’s original idea of taking advantage of the loophole, the restriction of drinking a full cup, and the rule of not mixing. Otherwise, it reminds Li Ming that he cannot take advantage of the situation and find a better way.
So the question now...is still about the choice between Shanshi and Maria.
“Hey, the surname is Yuan.”
Jiang Wenkan called Yuan Qingyu in Chinese at this time. His face still had the same crazy look as before, and his cynical look reminded Li Dang of the look he had seen in the office before.
"Don't look at me like that..." Jiang Wenkan raised his eyebrows and patted Yuan Qingyu on the shoulder, "I heard that you have a lot of resurrection coupons with you. Give me the ticket that can save you from death in Bai Meng."
"Why?" Yuan Qingyu responded in a cold tone.
"Look, there are six servings of tea. There are seven of us. My good friend Li Dang is currently in trouble with the distribution, so in order to let his brain rest for a while, this kind of righteous mission is to die. Just leave it to me."
Jiang Wenkan took out the tea sets from the cabinet and distributed them to everyone present one by one, then showed an interested expression and poured all the transparent liquid in the vase. Pass it to everyone in the cup.
"Despite this, how can I believe your words? Jiang Wenkan."
Li Ming replied dully in Chinese. He looked at the transparent crystal in the cup and found that it had already dissolved in the water. middle.
“First you looked like you were trying to drag us into trouble, and now you look like you’re going to die righteously. Which one is your true face? And how can I trust this unknown liquid? Is this completely harmless? Is it possible that it is a poison and you already know about it? "
"I didn't expect...it's just a performance, so you don't believe me so much." Jiang Wenkan pretended to smile helplessly, "We should have a long friendship, you. Do you think I will harm you for no reason?”
“Maybe.”
Li Dang did not continue to respond. He looked at the transparent liquid in the tea set and chose to drink it all in one gulp.
Kurosawa Mika actually wanted to come up and stop her, but it was too late. When she took that step, Li Ming had already drank the liquid in the cup.
The moment he drank it, Li Ming found that the dizzy feeling caused by a certain stench and the fishy smell of blood no longer existed, and was replaced by sobriety and relaxation.
After looking at each other and nodding in acquiescence, everyone picked up the tea set and drank the transparent liquid in it.
“It’s a gamble.”
Li Ming looked at Jiang Wenkan in front of him, asked for the resurrection ticket from Yuan Qingyu, and then handed it to Fa Xiao.
"I lost the bet, so this is what I lost to you."
"Then I'm welcome." Jiang Wenkan smiled and took the ticket and handed it to He looked at it carefully under the light, as if checking the authenticity of the ticket, and then put it into his pocket, looking like he had made a lot of money.
There must be a secret buried in this guy.
It means... the secret in Bai Meng, not himself.
The further they advanced into the corridor, the stronger the stench that made everyone dizzy and suffocating their strength became stronger. Fortunately, they had just drank those transparent liquids, so the situation eased a little.
The blasphemous rotten stench was also mixed with countless horrible fishy odors that were caused by rotting animal internal organs.
At the end of the corridor, blood formed into small puddles and slowly swayed in the corridor. In the last quarter of the corridor, strange black handprints were printed on the floor and ceiling.
The traces that first appeared on the ground looked like human hands, and then became larger and larger and deformed, like frog webs and bear claws, dripping with sticky, sour and smelly asphalt. .
What is even more chilling are the traces of handprints, which from time to time show the appearance of frantically scratching the door handle.
Following routes that are impossible for ordinary creatures to reach, the handprints climbed along the walls and to the ceiling, crawling around like a gecko in a frying pan.
The place where Li Mang's fingerprints disappeared was the door of the conference room, and other doors in the conference room were also locked with electronic locks.
Although the door of the conference room is equipped with an electronic lock, it is not locked. If you quietly approach the door, you can hear the sound of something crunching and eating something wet behind the door, and the door of the conference room , the stench was so strong that it was unbearable.
Because Jiang Wenkan didn't drink the transparent liquid, he felt nauseated when he smelled the smell, and he couldn't help but retching.
Then, the creature behind the door stopped eating as if it heard something. Its claws were first exposed by the door, and then its entire body was fully exposed to everyone's view. Everyone can discover that this is the monster that killed Shanshi in the first place.
“Ghoul?!”
Kurosawa Mika’s face changed drastically and she muttered to herself.
In fact, you can find the rules. As long as the cheongsam girl's face changes, you can know the creatures in front of you. These creatures basically do not exist in the world. They are all from the science fiction horror novel writer Lovecraft. Among the works, and it is certain that someone must be comparing these articles to create similar creatures.
It feels like some bigger conspiracy has been dug out...
But now the first topic is Kuranosuke Shirai’s question...
“Ghouls are a type of creature in the Cthulhu mythology created by American novelist Howard Philip Lovecraft. First appeared in "Pickman's Model". br>
They are evil humanoid creatures with canine-like faces and sharp claws. They feed on rotting corpses. Forbidden legends say that humans can transform into carnivores over a long period of time. Ghost.”
Rotting corpse.
In other words, the thing it was eating behind the door must also be a corpse that was already decaying.
"I should have thought of it... But what I encountered this time seems to be a little different from the description. Of course, it is also possible that I did not read all those books."
Wherever the ghoul walks, there will be Leaving behind black handprints, it can walk freely on any flat surface with its sticky soles.
In the conference room, the bloated black monster was gnawing on the broken human body, and the sound of bones being broken could be heard everywhere, as if children were around.
Human corpses.
Compared with this, what scares everyone more is the fact that their own hearts have gradually become numb.
"Bang!"
Mr. Shanshi fired first, looking calm and calm.
The bullets ejected from the hot barrel and instantly passed through the ghoul creature's arms and soles, making it unable to walk around the corridor and disrupting its line of sight.
The ghoul looked a little angry. It opened its bloody mouth full of mucus and rushed towards Li Ming not far away.
“Be careful.”
Jiang Wenkan roared angrily at this time, knocked away the ghoul with his shoulders and elbows, blocked everyone behind him, and looked like he was fighting side by side with Shanshi.
Li Dang didn't react for a moment. When he regained consciousness, Shanshi had already emptied the magazine. After confirming that the creatures on the ground were completely dead, he took a step back and breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiang Wenkan touched the place where he had been bitten by the ghoul, smiled disapprovingly, and then walked straight towards the conference room bearing the brunt of the attack.
There were about twenty tattered corpses that had been eaten by ghouls in the conference room. They were all wearing strange black robes, showing frightened and curious expressions. The black robes looked like some kind of uniform, yes. It looked very eerie. Comparing the robes in the reception room, Li Ming found that they were of the same style.
The entire conference room was empty, as if it had been vacated specifically for a certain event.
But there was only a large bookcase placed unexpectedly near the south wall, and a Bible stained with snow fell to the ground near the south wall.
Remembering the previous Bible and turning to page 10:30 of Hebrews, Li Ming found someone hastily turned the page with bloody hands.
"The door is right next to you."
As if it was a hint, everyone looked around in unison, groping for the mechanisms in the conference room, and suddenly seemed to have triggered some special restrictions. , the outline of a door suddenly appeared on the south wall.
Along with the unpleasant smell of earthy dust, the door made a slight noise and opened.
Behind the secret door is a huge space of dozens of languages exhibition hall, which probably covers the entire length of the corridor, a huge artificial cave extending deep into the depths.
A damp smell hit everyone. There was a dead silence inside, no wind flowing, and it seemed that there was no exit here. There were only the strange whispers that became clear and the huge magic circle that appeared in front of them. Gone everyone's attention.
Everyone discovered that the origin of the vague whisper they had been recalling on the south wall was that on the wall next to them, a person was panting violently, mumbling something they did not understand.
The man was wearing the same black robe and uniform as before. He was seriously injured. His whole body was covered with bloody tooth marks. He was obviously dead.
What’s even weirder is that half of his body is strangely bulging, and his skin is swollen, filled with transparent black-green liquid, and a faint rotten smell emanates from his body.
He looked up and seemed to be struggling.
"Great... you are still alive. As long as someone is still alive, there is hope!"
The man in black robe laughed painfully and wantonly, staring at him with blurred eyes. The direction of everyone.
"It didn't work, it must have something to do with the magic circle. I kept chanting the spell, but there was no response-"
"The damn old woman and the thief named Mizuno were plotted. ! ”
"You have to complete your mission, even if you give up your life, you must complete it! The glory belongs to the ancients, and our goal will be achieved-"
After the man in black robe said the last part, he His eyes lost their brightness.
He collapsed to the ground, and the murmurings disappeared.
The broken and rotten part of the black-green pustule instantly swallowed his entire body. In the end, all that was left was a white bone wrapped in a black gelatinous substance.
Obviously, the vague words the man in black robe said were to the undercover among the crowd. It seemed that he had to find out this person now.
Li Ming glanced at the people around him, and while thinking deeply, he continued to look at the huge magic circle in front of him.
This is a magic circle in an artificial cave.
The gray magic circle is huge and almost fills the entire cave space. It has a weird shape. If you look closely, you can find that there seems to be an empty space in the middle pattern.
After a little comparison with the documents of the magic circle in the Administrative Office, we can find that what is missing is a pattern in the center.
The material used to draw the magic circle seems to be a special kind of gray powder, like some kind of broken stone. The center of the magic circle seems to be wet. Li Hao observed that water was leaking from the top of the cave due to continuous heavy rain.
The rain-like liquid dripped right on the center of the array, diluting and sweeping away the gray powder that formed the pattern.
(End of this chapter)