Chapter 89: Hunting Mission, Discovery
In the center of the stone formation, an alien wearing a white men's hat and a white suit kept his cool posture of holding a hat with one hand and a waist with the other. I was more than ten meters away from it, and because of the incident, I had to hide behind a strange stone that looked like a big head on Easter Island, and I didn't dare to act rashly.
On the side of the anomaly were two young men who looked like travelers, sitting on the rocks and clasping their knees. Every now and then, one of the bronzed-skinned, handsome-looking young men glanced at the stranger, then glanced to the side, presumably planning to turn around and flee while it was distracted. Another cowardly-looking young man realized his companion's intentions, looked frightened, and shook his head again and again, signaling the other party not to act rashly.
The bronzed youth raised his index to signal his companion not to make a sound, and then he secretly leaned over and took a step after confirming for the fifth time that the alien was motionless.
The caretaker remained unresponsive.
The smiling young man immediately got up and ran towards freedom. His companion tried to stop him, but his outstretched hand did not grasp the heart of the man who longed to escape.
Seeing the young man fleeing, I quickly shifted my attention and focused on the alien.
"When?" the alien's hands have been swapped.
With a scream, the fleeing young man fell to the ground and clutched his bleeding ankles, in pain. His companion looked flustered but did not dare to move easily, so he knelt on the ground, sweating profusely, his eyes moving back and forth between the attacker and the victim.
I was at a loss, racking my brains, and I couldn't come to the conclusion of how the alien had used to hurt the youth. One thing I'm 100% sure of is that even though the anomaly's head is slightly on the ground, it can undoubtedly sense the movement of things around it.
"Help me ......" the tearful young man found out about my presence as he lay on the ground. When he couldn't get help from his companions, he reached out to me and pleaded.
It seems to be the move of an idiot youth, and the alien raises its head. I hurriedly turned my back against the boulder, but I had a hunch that something strange had discovered me.
Breaking out in a cold sweat, I uttered a mantra I hadn't said for a long time: "Damn ......"
Ask me why I'm in this dangerous situation, and I don't have a clue - there are clues, but my brain is still in a state of confusion. One possibility is that the black shadow shuttling between the trees used a bizarre magic to separate me from Xiao Hui and Ma Chao.
At that moment, I felt something behind me. As soon as I turned around, I came to a place completely different from the previous scenery, and my companion was nowhere to be seen. Panicking, I looked around and stayed where I was for a minute or so, but I didn't notice anything suspicious. Not daring to slack off, I was alert and moved slowly. After about five minutes of walking, I didn't even see a magical creature of the things that had moved me here.
It's not my style to worry all the time. In the past, I used to worry about a little thing for a long time, but under the impact of life and years, I became an alternative to paralysis, or my thinking could not fit in with normal people's thinking. So, I don't feel what others will worry about, and I don't pay attention to what others won't worry about.
I tried to swagger through the forest, and it occurred to me that God would not be able to see me a little arrogant, so a magical creature fell from the sky to scare me, so I immediately held my head high. Am I not surprised? The old man said that when people are watching the sky, the gods will always "surprise" me when I am at ease.
Thinking about it, I happened to see a large rock among the trees. Running over excitedly, I recalled what Park Ji-woo said about the stone demon. There are magical creatures disguised as rocks in the Stone Forest, so I need to be careful.
Finding a strange stone in the forest is like picking up a pearl in the sand. So, when I saw two or three stones stretching out into the forest like bait that someone had deliberately cast, I didn't hesitate. Of course I knew it might be a trap, but I just couldn't help myself running down the rocks until I was into Strange Stone Tepe, when I stopped gasping for air.
The discovery of the outliers in the stone henge was when I pretended to be a mineralogist looking at strange stones. At first I wasn't aware of it, nor did I notice the two people trapped by it. If it weren't for the fact that I walked straight up to the big head stone that covered my body, I guess I would have been a third person, or a revenant under the hands of an alien.
Anyway, this guy is the Silent Puppeteer? No, I have the impression that the villagers describe it as "Black Cloak...... If I'm not mistaken, the monster in front of me isn't the Silent Puppeteer. Rather, the dark shadow I saw among the trees was similar to what the villagers called the "Silent Puppeteers".
There were other possibilities, one of which made me shudder: there were two silent puppeteers in the Stone Forest, one in a black cloak and the other in front of me.
"It can't be the Golden Boy and the Jade Girl, right?" I thought to myself, since they were magical creatures, they were also flesh and blood, at least they had to have a gender.
But if they are "creatures", why are they called "puppeteers"? and not a fairy tale, could it be that the characters with proboscis really came to the wizarding world?
By the time I realized it, there was already the guy pretending to be around me. Nervous, I leaned against the stone and held my breath.
Time passed by second, and I couldn't hold on anymore with a little lung capacity, but it still maintained a posture of putting the brim of the hat with my hand slightly lowered, which made me want to kick it in the faceβ
Is it a mask? Is there any mistake about it, if you're a Silent puppeteer, why do you wear a suit and a white mask, and does the puppet need a mask? The alien wears white gloves on its hands and white leather shoes on its feet, and I feel more and more that it's not a Silent Puppeteer, but a human, or a magical creature made of wood.
Oh no, it's turning towards me. If this continues, I will definitely become a slave to it as if I had confirmed my eyes in the vast sea of people. The heavens, the gods, the travelers, the Buddha...... Whoever you are, help me survive this catastrophe. When we meet in the future, I will invite you to dinner.
The face that turned at a turtle speed stopped, and the alien who still kept the tired posture that I was looking at instantly turned back, and then a gust of wind disappeared without a trace, leaving me almost crazy in surprise.
As I thought, the aliens are back where they are.
If it goes on like this, I'll be scared to death by it, if not killed by it. Instead of sitting and waiting, it is better to take the initiative and how to come and how to go back. The question is whether I should turn a blind eye or do my best to help, as a hostage or as a slave, and my conscience tells me that for the sake of everyone's lives, I should go back to find helpers.
"It's not that I don't want to save you, but there's really nothing I can do......"
Closing my eyes and mourning for them, I intend to return cautiouslyβ
The alien stood in front of me, as if what had just happened was a prank on me.
I don't move, he doesn't move. Well, that's allβ
I used to stay at home and get scolded by my family. The reason for becoming an otaku is simple, the outside world is too dangerous. It's not a joke, it's my real thoughts. In the past, my teacher always said that home is a warm harbor, so I anchored here to feel the warmth of home. Unexpectedly, I was not welcome here, and my boat went into the water and sank. Providence is hard to disobey.
Saying all this, I am just saying that if I knew this, I would stay at three times out of ten and not accept this task.
"Pain" is the first word I utter when I am conscious. If anyone were caught by an alien of infinite force and smashed into a stone in the wind, they would probably be crippled. I felt like I was crippled, and sadly, I happened to hit the stone where the two young men were leaning.
Now, they look at me with horrified expressions. As soon as they looked away, I knew the monster was coming towards me.
Unable to move. What should I do? Igniting the flame to repair the wound is more than enough to fight back. The flame can destroy the evil and destroy the ghost. I haven't tried to kill a magical creature with Pyantom, but my instincts tell me that as long as this monster has ill will towards me, I can use Pyroflame to banish it.
There was no movement.
I reluctantly shifted my position to search for the monster, and it stood in its position again, striking in a direction that I couldn't understand.
"Are you alright?" asked the cowardly young man who was about to cry kindly.
"I'm dying. Turn your face away, I don't want you to see me die miserably. β
Supposedly, they would have encouraged me to say things like "Don't be discouraged, we will be saved," but the young man who asked me turned his head obediently, and the young man who fell to the ground and seemed to have hurt his veins did not look at me at all.
The flame burns, and the body recovers. Although the flame I ignited was relatively weak, and it was burning internally that was not easy for people to detect, the two of them never glanced at me. As for the monster, it is mostly a magical creature, and even if it were to know that I would use dark blue flames, it would not be believed by the magician.
"Friend, may you ascend to the kingdom of heaven. If you have a spirit in heaven, please bless us from the fate. β
I sat up, and the monster didn't turn around.
When I leaned against the stone, the young man's face was as if he had seen a ghost: "You, you, you......"
"I, I, me. "Is there such a song?
"You're not dead?" ......said the young man, looking at me in amazement, and rejoicing, "are you healthy again?"
"Shhh......hhhh
The monster didn't respond. Is this guy really going to attack us only when we want to escape from its control?
"Help me......" The bronzed-skinned young man was not happy, and pleaded with tears to beg me to be kind to him.
"I'm using a disposable magic tool, and I don't have it anymore. "I can't sleep comfortably to deceive people, so I decided to reduce the amount of Elysium I can eat to a maximum of five a day as soon as I finish the quest by solving the monsters.
The young men of the earth wept bitterly.
"You look young, but you're about the same age as me. Men who are all thirty years old, it is time to marry a wife and have children, and they are still crying. β
"I just can't bear my wife and children to cry, what do you know as an underage child. β
Reality is more bizarre than imagination, and I have nothing to say.
Although my conscience was almost wiped out by jealousy, as one of the few scarce Buddhist otaku, I suppressed my resentment towards a peer who was married and had children, and got up and walked towards this nested father.
"Let me see...... Well, the bleeding has stopped. As long as you don't get infected with germs, it's not a big problem. β
"How do you know?" The young man behind him forgot about the monster that might be coming, and his eyes were filled with the light of hope.
"I've seen this happen. In order not to grieve the youth of the earth, I added, "Rest assured, if you die, I will take care of your wife and children for you." "My intention was to give him insurance to give him more confidence, but it turned out that he was even more sad.
Join me in helping John up, and the young man, who had cowered not long ago, now introduced with a smile on his face: "My name is Mark, and John and I are travelers. Hearing that there was a Silent Puppeteer, a magical creature of star 6 in the strange stone forest next to Moya Village, John and I came to find out, but we were attacked by this monster halfway through and fainted. We woke up to us already here with our luggage gone. β
"Damn, if someone had told us that the Silent Puppeteers were such terrible magical creatures, we would have turned to the Mountain of Mispathy. β
"If you knew this was the case, why bother in the first place. Gloating, I turned my head and snickered, then turned around and asked the two of them as indifferently as possible, "Are you sure this is the Silent Puppeteer, a dark attribute magical creature of Star Six?"
"Seeing that you use magic equipment, you should be a student of the Academy, right? from the Academy of Elemental Magic, the Academy of Magical Technology, or the Knights of Glory Sanctuary?
I'm sorry, I'm amnesiac and I'm a lazy person, and I think it's a hassle to read books without a goal, so I won't flip through books aimlessly.
"I've just transferred to the Rhett Academy of Elemental Magic, and I haven't learned anything about the Silent Puppeteers yet. β
"Yes," Mark said with a smile down, "I've only heard about the Silent Puppeteers. Some say it's a puppet made by an evil sorcerer and has a thirst for murder, others say it dwells in cold and dark places and lures travelers to Hades when they get lost, and some say it's a flesh-and-blood human being who was cursed to do so because of love and hatred for murdering others. β
"Is there a way to defeat it?" I remember the quest notice suggesting that the Silent Puppeteers' weakness was only light.
"I'm sorry......" Mark's face represented his answer.
I looked at the unknown magical creature that didn't get tired and asked Mark, "You say, is this the Silent Puppeteer?"
"How is it possible," said John, "that a doll could be dressed so formally." β
I went on to ask Mark, "What is the purpose of it trapping us here?"
"How do I know. Perhaps, it is trying to figure out how to obliterate us so that it does not attract attention. β
John wouldn't be Josh's real father, would hehe, Josh not be a child. So, they are relatives?
"Waiting is not the way to go. By the way, do you know which area of the Stone Forest this is?"
This time Mark finally said in front of John, "It seems to be the center." You see, there are so many strange stones here, so it is very likely that we are in the strange stone henge of the strange stone forest. β
The sense of foreboding instantly strengthened.
Yu Jingjing said that the Silent Puppeteers were active in the center of the Strange Stone Forest. Wait, if it's just taking off the black cloak......
"No, this is the Silent Puppeteer?"
My self-talk was heard by two people, and they were both dumbfounded.
"Is it really that terrifying magical creature?"
I nodded, "If my classmate is right, this weird guy in front of you is the culprit of the disappearance." "Don't forget the latest chapter of the "Don't Forget the Blessing and Claw Book House of the Past in the Past" is free to read for the first time.