The carriage moved slowly through the gray and fog-shrouded streets, and the two lanterns hanging from the front of the carriage emitted a condensed halo.

Su Xian and Professor Buck sat side by side in the front of the car, talking in a low voice.

After a few simple polite words, Su Xian asked, "Professor, what do you see from this fog?" ”

Professor Buck reached out and let the fog wet his fingers: "It's panic. ”

Su Xian was a little surprised: "Panic? ”

Professor Buck said, "Yes. I've felt the panic in this fog since this morning. But that breath was still very weak at the time, and I can't be sure. Until now, the panic has gradually thickened, and I feel very uncomfortable...... That's why I'm going to go out and talk to you. ”

Su Xian twisted his eyebrows and perceived carefully, but sure enough, he still couldn't feel the so-called "panic" from the fog.

Is it true that there is a specialization in the art industry?

He whispered, "Professor, how did you feel panic from this fog...... The breath? ”

Professor Buck pointed to his brain and chuckled, "Human emotions are contagious to each other, like germs. And some of my receptors for receiving emotional infections are stronger than the average person. ”

Su Xian said unexpectedly: "Then Professor, can you feel my emotions now?" ”

Professor Buck deliberately lowered his voice and looked serious: "You are very confused and curious right now. ”

Su Xian was stunned for a while, but then shook his head and said, "It's so dangerous, it's just a little bit, I'll believe it." ”

Professor Barker also refutes: "Human beings are emotional creatures, and no one escapes the domination of emotions. If this fog continues, the panic contained in it will gradually intensify, even if there is no change in one or two days, but after three or four days, or even five or six days, the panic will cover all other emotions, cross-infection, and intensify layer by layer. ”

Su Xian: "If everyone is dominated by panic, order will get out of control, the city's functions will be lost, and the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

Professor Buck nodded, "Yes." I don't think this fog was a natural occurrence, there must have been someone behind it. In fact, I don't have much interest in why they do it. But if they are allowed to continue doing so, the city will be completely out of control. It's not a city to love, but I've been here for 60 years. ”

All right.

Since you say so, I will believe it.

Su Xian "empathized": "That's right, we must stop them!" ”

……

As the carriage drove some way further, Professor Buck asked, "By the way, where are you going?" ”

Su Xian said: "Business Center." ”

The company buildings of Gladstone Energy and Carl Toys were built in the commercial center.

Professor Barker: "Do you know where they are?" ”

Su Xian: "No, I just got some hints by chance. ”

As he spoke, he took the map he had copied from his pocket.

The approximate extent is marked on this map.

Professor Buck took the map and looked at it carefully before he said, "Are you sure?" ”

Su Xian briefly described what he had witnessed, the confrontation between the clown's "bystander's eye" and the gray substance.

The professor was suddenly surprised: "So, the clown's masquerade will also interfere in this matter?" ”

Su Xian said: "At least the clown will intervene, he is not like a person who will swallow his anger." ”

Professor Barker: "You're trying to find out who he really is?" ”

Su Xian shrugged: "I have this idea." ”

……

The road from the Rose Garden to the center of commerce was quite long, and the two whispered in their carriages, sharing information and discussing what to do next.

But both Su Xian and Professor Buck have other thoughts on this matter.

The heroic idea of dispelling the fog and saving the city of Brut is still not suitable for them.

After driving for a long time, the horses pulling the cart began to gasp and become agitated.

It's not that it's tired, it's that it can't adapt to the foggy weather, and it inhales too much water vapor and impurities mixed in the fog.

Coupled with the fact that the animal is more sensitive to some breaths than the average human, it seems that it is really affected by the "panic" in the fog......

This sign made Su Xian believe in Professor Buck's words even more, and at the same time, he also had doubts about how he could feel this "panic" aura.

He began to seriously think again, what exactly is Professor Barker's extraordinary ability? How did it come about?

……

While I was thinking about it, the "Explorer's Eye" flying around the carriage suddenly received information.

Su Xian hurriedly controlled the carriage and asked it to stop.

After driving in this fog for so long, I finally encountered a blockade from pedestrians.

There are people in front, and there are a lot of them.

They walked in the fog without a lamp, but a long rope hung in the air, and each of them had a buckle around his waist that fastened to the long rope.

The "Eye of the Explorer" takes a closer look, and you can see that each person is carrying a sack, and the sack is also printed with a black skull with smoking features.

Su Xian pulled the reins and stopped the horse.

Professor Buck asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" ”

Su Xian: "Someone is taking advantage of the cover of this fog to carry things. ”

Professor Barker: "Could it be that you're carrying some forbidden objects?" ”

Even in a lawless place like Brut City, there are many forbidden things that cannot be put on the surface.

Su Xian: "Who knows." However, the bags they were carrying had the marks of the Skull Gang on them. ”

Professor Barker: "The Skull Gang again?" This gang seems to have been active lately. ”

Su Xian: "Do you want to help them?" ”

Professor Barker: "Since you've met them all, let's help them, it won't take much time." ”

Su Xian: "It is said that the moon is dark and the wind is high and the night kills, but tonight is not just dark." ”

The two lanterns on the carriage seemed to attract each other's attention.

A few people pulled the ropes, stopping the people who were carrying them in front and behind.

When they turned their heads, they saw that the two lanterns were hidden in the thick fog, like the eyes of a ghostly beast, and there was a faint sense of terror.

Suddenly, the sack on a person's shoulder inexplicably shattered, and a large amount of white powder poured down from the bag, and a strong fishy smell emanated.

"Fishmeal?"

Su Xian frowned, touched the fishmeal with his fingers and sniffed, and then restrained the urge to taste it with his tongue.

If he hadn't been in contact with the Skeletons beforehand, he wouldn't have been suspicious of the fishmeal, but now it's different.

"Could it really be the powder of the forked seabream?"

The hallucinogenic effects of the forktooth bream actually come from some of the plankton that it often preys on.

But few people know this.

Grinding whole fish into flour and processing it with some methods unique to this world is a general method to achieve its effect.

Just eating a little bit of this fishmeal can make people sink into a dream for a long time.

The more high-pressure an area is, the more dependent it is on this kind of thing.

This is the most direct means of depravity.

In comparison, Captain Kenny, who uses psychic inducements to lead people into depravity, is simply a good man!

But regardless of the method, the purpose of both acts is the same.

It's all about depravity!

"To bring people down, to make them worthy sacrifices, and to offer them to the things that are in the whirlpool of the sea. Is this Skeleton Gang really related to masquerade? ”

At this thought, the porter who had broken the sack by him had pulled out a long, thick cylindrical object and smashed it at his head.

When he heard the wind, he stood up.

The stick smashed into the back of his hand and shattered into two pieces.

As if sensing that something was wrong, the man immediately shouted, and then the next moment he was kicked out of the air.

He still had a rope buckle around his waist, and when he stepped down, he pulled the whole long rope with him.

The man carrying the sack on his back lost his balance and fell to the ground in large pieces.

"Professor, borrow a fire."

Professor Buck glanced at him, pulled out a fire stick, and lit the long rope.

The flames spread rapidly along the long rope to both sides.

People hurriedly unbuckled their ropes, fluffed the flames that burned on their bodies, sacks of fishmeal were thrown to the ground, and screams were everywhere in the thick fog.

There was no room for resistance, and the men were all thrown to the ground, and they didn't even see each other's faces.

Su Xian and Professor Buck burned all the fishmeal and followed the direction of the long rope.

Although the fog and darkness severely obstruct their vision, the people in it are all on the same level, and they are more adaptable.

"Professor, it's a warehouse."

"It's still three whole warehouses."

"I don't know what their real purpose was when they made these things, but it can't be wrong to burn them, right?"

"Or do you want to eliminate harm for the people?"

"Does it feel like a hero walking in the dark?"

"Childlike innocence."

……

Unexpectedly, there were no transcendents, and the guards outside these three warehouses were all ordinary gangsters, a group of unworthy of sympathy.

And such a person, no matter how numerous they are, is unlikely to pose a threat to these two people.

As the black substance that spread out was detonated, the three warehouses collapsed, and the stench mixed with the smell of fish erupted, and the members of the Skeleton Gang felt as if they were experiencing a nightmare.

The two villains who emerged from the fog burned all their inventory and flew away, not even knowing who their enemies were.

The "panic" lurking in the fog invaded their brains, and the unspeakable fear left a shadow in the depths of their brains that would never fade.

……

The carriage passed through the incident area and continued as if nothing had happened.

……

After a long drive, the carriage finally approached the target range.

Su Xian compared the map, confirmed the direction of Carl Toy Company, and drove the carriage to turn around.

Along the way, he happened to meet a carriage dealership, so Su Xian deposited the carriage in it and asked the groom to take care of the horse.

Then, he and Professor Buck each carried a lantern and sank into the fog again.

According to the plan, the first thing was to visit Karl Assas.

The obese businessman, who is over 60 years old, lives in a fantasyland near his company.

The so-called "Fantasyland" is a huge toy park built by Carl for his grandson, which carries the dreams and beauty of childhood.

People are always like this, even if they are greedy and stingy with outsiders, they can always show unexpected generosity to their loved ones.

Carl is undoubtedly a greedy and stingy person, no matter how big or small the business is, he can't tolerate any loss or profit, and always carefully calculates his property.

But it was this personality that made him successful in his business and became the owner of the largest toy company in Brut City.

And after becoming famous, Carl is left with only two pursuits, one is to make himself younger, and the other is to make his grandson live a happier life.

To this end, he built the famous Brut Dreamland, which was the event that made the headlines of the newspapers.

But time is indeed unforgiving.

By the time Su Xian and Professor Buck came to the door, Karl had already gone to bed early, his energy was no longer enough to support his midnight party, and what he had experienced in the past month had made him mentally exhausted and unable to continue.

In the middle of the night, every time he thought that he still owed debts to five office buildings, his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys were throbbing.

Even if he knows that the debtor saved him twice, does this have anything to do with distress?

And he tossed and turned in his sleep, but he didn't know that Su Xian had come to the door of the dream park.

……

Fantasyland is only open to the public on weekends and two days, and the rest of the time is the private domain of the Carl family, where the porter lives in the communication room at the door, and the small building not far away is the residence of the doorman.

At this moment, the lights are still on in the communication room.

The porter is playing pai gow with two doormen.

On weekdays, they would not be so slack, but tonight's fog was too thick, and they couldn't see in the dark, even if they stood outside the door, it was like being blind, and the two guards were really fine, so they relaxed.

When Su Xian and Professor Buck entered Dreamland through the side door, they didn't even notice.

"Do you know where Mr. Assas lives?"

"Where do you live?"

You may not believe it, but he lives in the castle in the middle of this paradise. Do you know the story of the Black Girl? ”

"The black girl in red shoes?"

"That's right, it's the fairy tale of the black girl who turns into a white girl at the ball and becomes a princess after being taken by the king, and the castle is built around this story, and there is a giant red dancing shoe hanging from the door of the castle. Humans have always loved to fantasize, especially as children, when they only saw the black girl become a white girl after trying to learn how to make up, but they did not think that she was originally the daughter of an earl. ”

"Huh."

Su Xian grinned, a little embarrassed.

Why does this story sound so awkward?

But soon after entering the park, he quickly restrained his expression and quickly extinguished the lantern!

Professor Buck did the same thing as him at about the same time.

The two dodged into the hole under the elephant slide, each sticking to one side, and peeking out carefully.

Two figures carrying lamps quietly floated in front of them.

The figure, draped in white robes, loomed in the gray mist-shrouded night.

A gust of wind blew, and the leaves on the ground trembled slightly.

……