Chapter 5: Charlotte's Robbery
Bai Taiyang saw all the visions in front of him, and he was stunned and took a few steps back, and sat back on the bed.
"W-What's going on?"
His hand gripping the dagger began to tremble. Less than half a day ago, Bai Taiyang felt that he was carrying a plug-in and broke into a different world that looked like a magical Middle Ages, which was nothing more than a thrilling happy journey.
If he really can't return to his own world, it will be nothing more than a good day to fight a goblin (or something like that), win the hearts of beautiful women, earn some money, and go to heroism or lead the farming.
I didn't think that the excitement and pleasure of killing fat orcs with bare hands had not passed, and in the blink of an eye, it had reached the scene that made the back of his head tingle.
β... Go find Luca and them first. β
Baek Tae-yang's hand tugged at his legs hard, trying to retreat the fear that made him unable to move. With all his strength, he jumped up from the bed and reached the door with his sword.
Outside the door, the kerosene wall lamp in the tavern was not lit, except for a lantern at the staircase leading downstairs, and the light inside the lantern was lit to a minimum. The light of the bean dot was far less than that of the moonlight, but it made the spacious walkway dark.
"Hiss......" Bai Taiyang squinted at the aisle for a long time, and what he saw made him gasp. There were quite a few people standing in the aisle, and they stood stunned in place, without any movement, and did not react to Bai Taiyang's swishing sound of opening the wooden door.
Hide back to your room, hide back to your room, hide back to your room......!
Fear was like a cold, prickly fishhook that hooked into the back of Baek Taeyang's head, trying to pull him back into his room.
But what's the use of hiding? Waiting for death and struggling to die, then it is better to try the latter and see if you can break out of life. Besides, I still have a source qi to protect my body.
Bai Taiyang couldn't settle down, but he still tried to concentrate and wrap himself tightly around the scattered source qi again. Although the source power in his body no longer seems to be surging during the adaptation period when he captures other people's source energy and turns it into his own, this feeling of enrichment and protection has given him a lot of courage.
He took a deep breath and fumbled his way to the lantern. Until Bai Taiyang picked up the lantern, these people who were still did not move. He shifted his steps again and headed for Charlotte's room.
Charlotte's door seemed to be ajar, and the moonlight spilled into the dark hallway from the room, and the color was all the more paradoxical.
"Niang Xipi, I won't just scare myself!?" Bai Taiyang smiled and whispered to himself, "The situation seems to be very mysterious and terrifying, but no one has come to me at all." I'm still waiting for a heavy punch. β
Putting aside his mental burden, he boldly swirled the lantern to the maximum, and most of the aisle was illuminated when he boarded. The guys who were quietly stunned in place were less than ten people, and they only looked sluggish and stunned at this time, as if they were in some kind of hypnotized state, which did not make Bai Taiyang feel terrible at all.
"Whew!" Bai Taiyang shook his head with a smile and strode towards Charlotte's room.
The black shadow flashed, and suddenly struck.
Bai Taiyang, who couldn't see it, felt that several forces were hugging him, as if he wanted to take him hostage and take him away somewhere.
He hurriedly shoved, only to find himself surrounded by people in the aisle. The men repeatedly rushed at him with extremely strange and completely inhuman movements.
The indiscriminate swinging of the hammer hit several people in the jaw and knocked them out as if they were stunned. Realizing that he could knock people unconscious, Bai Taiyang was a little relieved, and punched the other guys who were still rushing towards him.
"Why hasn't there been any movement just now, and I have to enter the door to come out like this. The injury didn't hurt me, and I won't be scared to death by doing it twice. β
Bai Taiyang was shocked, he couldn't bear the status quo anymore, and hurriedly stepped into Charlotte's room.
Man, giant, a giant covered in pitch black, was bowing with his back to Bai Taiyang. After discovering that someone had trespassed into the room, it turned its body as thin as a piece of paper, and its pure black and faceless head turned around, looking at Bai Taiyang without knowing what it was looking at.
Unconsciously, the short sword was thrown out by Bai Taiyang in a panic, crashing into the black shadow giant without a sound, and falling to the wooden floor with a thud.
"Run! O-film, run!"
A scream of despair came from inside the room, and Bai Taiyang recognized it from Ofeicher's memory as coming from Charlotte's personal maid, Casey.
Before the shouts fell, one of the giant's arms had swept through the room, destroying the swept wooden walls and dressing tables, and slamming towards Bai Taiyang.
Bai Taiyang turned sideways and punched the giant arm, striking out a muffled thud. The Shadow Giant was hit by the aftershocks all over his body, and he took a few steps backwards into the room.
This blow, which was completely left to the action of his body, once again gave Bai Taiyang enough courage. He rushed into the feet of the black shadow giant, picked up his sword and barely wrapped it in the source qi, and slashed at the giant, but also slashed the black shadow giant, gradually retreating into a liquid shadow, dissolving into the darkness.
Bai Taiyang had palpitations and thought secretly: "What, I cut it pretty well." β
"Ou, O-film, you, how are you ...... Woo......"
He looked into the room, where a girl with her jet-black hair was hanging on the ground, and Violet eyes were suddenly weeping with relief.
This young girl is none other than Casey, the valet maid. At her feet, another slightly older maid had been cut off at the waist, and the flesh and blood of the lower half of her body were so clear that it was impossible to look directly at the wreckage under the reflection of Shuangyue.
On the dining table in the room, there is still a small half of the cheap grape wine that supports sleeping. According to Ophi Yiche's knowledge, Bai Taiyang poured all of these into a metal cup and let Casey drink it to maintain his spirit and calm a little.
It was only after Casey had eased up a little that he asked, "Why is Miss Charlotte missing?"
This room had a single bed covered with cotton cushions, which was a little larger than the small room that Bai Taiyang and his butler crowded together. Charlotte and two maids stayed here for the time beingβthe master sleeping in the bed, and the two resting on benches covered with tattered leather and hay.
At this time, one of the two maids in the room was dead, and the other was sitting on the ground, but the master was nowhere to be found.
"We went to bed early, and the lady said she would read a little at night before going to sleep. As a result, we were suddenly woken up, and the young lady told us to hold on to the church talisman at once, and never look out the window or leave the room. β
Casey recounted the situation in fits and starts:
"It seems that the young lady noticed that something was wrong outside the window, so that we could avoid being polluted or touched by various evil gods. But Miss herself seemed to be unable to control herself, and wanted to go out every once in a while, and Anna and I took turns dragging Miss to prevent her from leaving. Unexpectedly, then that... Several of those things broke in to take Miss. We were all stupefied, and Anna was in charge of keeping Miss from letting her go, probably because she was standing closer to her. The result is ......"
As Casey spoke, her eyes swept over the remains of her colleagues who had spent years together, and tears fell back into her eyes.
β... If you can cut that thing away, maybe there's a way. Just stay indoors, stay away from the moonlight that you think is problematic. β
Bai Taiyang took the spare old big sheet in the corner of the room, spread it on the ground, and then took a deep breath again and walked out of the room.
Although he promised Casey that there was still a chance to save Charlotte, Bai Taiyang's heart became more and more confused.
If this moonlight has the effect of confusing and controlling people, why does he seem to be fine? Why can he capture the seemingly powerful power at once, but from whom?
What's more, what is the situation now? Whether it's these little monsters in front of you, or the people who are confused, you can't hurt yourself with 20 source power for the time being, but what if you turn the corner and run into a guy who can't be beaten, then what?
Damn it...... It would be nice to be able to get in touch with the guy who gave me the Old God Bloodline system and seemed to be a system administrator......
Just as he was thinking this, suddenly the female voice appeared again in his senses.