A dark and twisted aura permeated every nook and cranny of the depths of all people's hearts, fearing the courage of every man who had been left of the Devourer.

Just as the tentacle was about to touch Zhou Duan's body, it stopped abruptly.

The tentacles that had been filled with the aura of chaos and evil softened as if they had been purified, and then turned into charcoal.

Looking at this sudden turn of events, everyone was a little confused.

Siya broke away from Duo'an's hand and ran to Zhou Duan to look at her with concern.

"Are you alright?"

Zhou Duan let go of the gradually shriveled corpse in his hand and smiled at Siya: "It's okay." ”

Siya wanted to speak and stopped.

However, Zhou Duan had already begun to observe the corpses on the ground.

Fez, too, came over.

"This level of evil ......"

Zhou Duan looked at each other: "What did you think of?" ”

"Curse, only a curse triggers this evil." Fez said a little gloomily.

"But according to the Codex, all curses were broken by the Lord of Hope after the True Demon was suppressed."

"Ladies and gentlemen, I must remind you that there is at least one such monster among you, if you consider yourself to be like the Shepherd...... Magical abilities, then I have nothing to say. Fez gave him a mocking look.

Wells walked up scared at this time: "Thank goodness, it really scared me a little out of my mind just now, but I'm glad you're okay." ”

"That's a good thing." Zhou Duan didn't mind, the great horror of life and death was normal, "At least I proved that it was indeed useful, didn't I?" ”

Wells' eyes lit up: "You mean ......"

Zhou Duan made a gesture of silence.

Fez examined the corpse: "I'm afraid the previous two are just test subjects, and this is probably the real carrier...... One. ”

Zhou Duan felt that it might be the opposite.

"Can you be sure what the curse is?" Zhou Duan asked after letting the unrelated guests return to the room.

Since most of these nobles still refused to admit to banishing demons, they had to let them be alone in their rooms.

"Dead birds." Fez peeled off the skin of the deceased and saw a bird-shaped pattern drawn on his chest.

"Is there any moral to it?"

"Wait, we don't seem to find this pattern on March." Siya suddenly spoke, "And the deaths of the three people are not the same. ”

"If it is a curse, the three characteristics of similarity, individuality and heredity are certain, and it is true that the situation of these three people does not meet the general curse." Zhou Duan nodded.

Now it's Siya and Fez's turn, and they don't know what Zhou Duan is talking about.

But if it is the curse of uncertainty, which is only mediated by the "Black Lord", then the uncontrollability, the multi-directionality can be explained. ”

"So......" Fez's first look at Zhou Duan with some humility.

"It's some kind of curse that relies on a special medium to be undirected, and the other party should have set the target in the castle, and I think our previous goal may have been wrong."

"What do you mean?" Siya asked curiously.

"We thought the medium was a demon like the Black Lord. ”

"Isn't it?" Fez frowned, "Aren't these nobles all hearing that there is a Black Lord......"

"Yes, I heard that there is a "Black Lord", so, has anyone said that they have seen the Black Lord with their own eyes? ”

"The ...... in the basement"

"That might have been a rag doll."

"What's that medium?"

"Black Lord."

"You don't mean ......" Fez and Siya are a little around.

However, Fez quickly reacted: "You mean ......"

"Two or more conditions, the cognition of the black lord, the exile of his own demons, there should still be ......"

Zhou Duan thought back to what the three dead people had in common.

Lloyd's is digging out the heart, March is draining the body, and finally this one is the brain exploding to give birth to tentacles.

"No, there's still too little information." Zhou Duan looked at the clock, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening.

"Ahem, don't worry, this is not the most difficult case I received, check it slowly, anyway, those nobles are also self-inflicted." Feth Road.

"Do you know anything else about the Death Bird Curse?" Zhou Duan asked a few people.

Fez was silent for a moment: "The three laws of the curse, one, don't stay away from me. Second, don't find me. 3. Don't look directly at "Him." ”

The first two items are easy to understand, for the person who is cursed, you can't keep the curse object away from you, which means that the person who curses is around.

Not being discovered by someone who has been cursed by themselves is too risky for the curse of uncertainty, so the other party should have a way to block this one......

"Don't look at Him?"

Fez nodded: "It's the source of the curse, the source of the curse of the Death Bird is the Death Bird itself, and the person who is cursed can't look directly at the other party, otherwise he will curse himself." ”

"Then this pattern ......"

"Patterns are just symbols, they can't be filtered."

"Is it possible to only let them look at each other in pairs?" Siya proposed.

"I don't think so." Festo chined, "The second one is actually very harsh, you have to be sure that the other side is the murderer to take effect, obviously, suspicion is useless." ”

"So what do we do now?"

"We can sort out the clues, according to the time, the general curse has strict requirements for time."

Zhou Duan agreed with Fez's proposal.

"Okay, let's start with Lloyd."

"Based on the testimony of eyewitnesses:

9:40 The deceased asked the suspect waiter to provide services.

Between 9:42 and 9:48, the deceased and suspect Hughes walked into room 208.

9:56-9:58 The deceased exits room 208.

10:00-10:02 The suspect waiter arrives in room 208.

10:00-10:02 The deceased collides with suspect DoTERRA

10:02-10:06 Death of the deceased.

At 10:07, the deceased was found by March, and at the same time there was a bizarre bloodshed on March.

Here's Lloybes' approximate timeline.

10:12 March is placed to 403

10:36 Brought to the hall as a suspect.

10:42Mysterious death.

This is March's timeline.

10:12 Dorent is placed to 408

10:56 was taken to the lobby.

11:02 Died.

This is the timeline of the third deceased Dorant.

”

Zhou Duan looked at the time of death of the three people, around ten o'clock, ten forty-two, and eleven o'clock.

But the third deceased was a little strange, he was not cursed to die normally, or he died suddenly after being stimulated by Zhou Duan, and the source of the curse still remained in his body.

"Butler, is there anything strange about the time device in the castle?" Fez asked what Zhou Duan was thinking.

The butler thought for a moment, "In the past few weeks, a new batch of clocks and watches that were previously customized from Sunset City have been purchased, because Sunset City has been ...... So the lord took it very seriously, and just changed it before the banquet started, but ......"

"But what?" Fez's eyes lit up.

"But these clocks are mechanical watches, and they seem to have been damaged over long distances, so the time may be a little different."

"How do you know there's a discrepancy?" Zhou Duan was a little strange, the time of the clock on the wall should be correct, and he had referred to the ground tune.

"Because mechanical watches usually tell the clock once every half an hour, but this watch seems to be every 40 minutes."

Hearing this, Zhou Duan recalled seriously, and at about ten o'clock, he didn't pay attention to the sound of the bell due to the sound of music.

10:42...... They were attracted by March's horrific manner of death, and were some distance from the hall at the time, and did not pay attention.

But now it seems.

"Remove the clock."

Zhou Duan nodded to the butler, Wells, this bastard, now makes himself the master of this castle.

The huge mechanical watch was dismantled, and Zhou Duan and Fez didn't have too many worries, and directly removed the back case of the clock.

"It's ......"

Fez's mouth opened wide, making Zhou Duan a little curious.

Behind the clock were several delicate gears, and now the gears had been taken out by the two of them, and behind the scale of the clock, the mechanism that triggered the report was filled with tiny disgusting creatures that looked like hair, but identical to the tentacles that Zhou Duan had seen before.

Taking a few steps back, several people looked at Zhou Duan.

Zhou Duan twitched his face, walked to the clock, stretched out his hand, and the power of the seed of hope stretched out.

An ending with the tentacles in Doronte's body.

"Tsk, it seems that this kind of mechanical watch is also one of the conditions, but I don't know if I have to hear it or ......"

"Butler, go and bring in all the mechanical watches you have purchased, and keep a close eye on the guests' every move." The circumferential end is opened.

"It's better to bring in the guy who bought the clocks and watches."

"Okay, though...... Yes, there it is. The butler's calm face suddenly flashed a hideous and terrifying look, and his neck suddenly stretched out like a giant python, and the target was Zhou Duan.

Side Quest: Find the Dead Bird.

The shadow of death looms over you, and the collapse of your true name accelerates your madness, raising the seed of hope in your hand to find the source of vulnerability.

Reward: 1,000 Points, Flower of Nightmares (Teal Archive Skill)

Completion: 22/100

Twisted souls are born out of humility, but it is clear that because of twisting, there is emptiness.