(Friends who have passed by ask for collections and recommendations, and your support is my biggest motivation.) ps,Thank you to the reader "天之の屠" for pointing out the typographical error of Chapter 43, so that I can correct it in time, thank you)

When I entered the door, my eyes suddenly opened up. There is a living room of nearly 200 square meters. On the left side of the living room is a row of standing cabinets that lead to the roof, and all kinds of finely carved artworks are placed in the cabinets, elves, goblins, orcs, dwarves, and artworks of all races can be found in the cabinets. In the corner on the right side of the living room, a natural spar shaped like a coffee table is placed in the center, and more than ten soft chairs lined with lizard tail gum are placed around the spar coffee table to form a semicircle. Beyond the chairs is a row of waist-high wine cabinets, separating the coffee table and the chairs into a relatively separate space. On the other side of the living room is a large round table with only a soft chair in front of it.

Unfortunately, the living room, which was originally far more luxurious than the other living rooms, is now like a slaughterhouse, with a large number of dried and black blood stains clinging to the walls and floors, a large number of stumps and broken arms that have only dry bones scattered in every corner of the room, and many valuable handicrafts have been knocked to the ground and shattered.

There are only two relatively intact corpses in the room, both of which are mummified and entangled with each other. The dry hair on the top of one of the heads was faintly recognizable as gray, while the other had pure black hair. The head of the white-haired corpse was pressed against the neck of the black-haired corpse, its teeth biting through the throat of the black-haired corpse, and its hands were claw-like and deeply embedded in the muscles of the black-haired corpse's chest. And the black-haired corpse's withered face still retained the appearance before death, and it grew up with the most painful scream in the sky, but the long sword in his hand pierced through the heart of the white-haired corpse, completely penetrating the chest of the white-haired corpse.

"It's tragic. Lina carefully avoided the human body parts in different parts on the ground, walked to a row of cabinets, picked up a handicraft and looked at it: "Catherine, these decorations are worth a lot of money, even if the mission fails this time, these things will not come in vain." ”

"Twenty or thirty thousand gold coins. Catherine casually glanced at the well-preserved artefacts in the cabinet and quoted a number.

"Wouldn't it?" Lina's eyes widened, and she asked in disbelief: "So few? There are at least forty well-preserved pieces here, and they are all hundreds of years old antiques, and they add up to only twenty or thirty thousand gold coins? ”

Catherine shook her head, walked to a beautiful wood carving and pinched it, and the wood carving immediately exploded into a cloud of sawdust: "For example, this is the specialty of the elves in the Lost Forest, carved from the fallen thick branches of the Wood of Life, and placed at home to purify the environment and get rid of diseases, the normal price can reach 50,000 gold coins, and if it is changed to seven or eight hundred years ago, it can even be sold for a high price of 200,000 to 300,000 gold coins." But when the vitality in the wood slowly dissipates over time, it becomes so crispy that it cannot be sold for a single copper coin. ”

"Another example is this. Catherine pointed to another large metal wall ornament and said, "The work of the Cullen dwarves was minted about nine hundred years ago. That's right, it's the casting style of King Kulenkaotto nine hundred years ago. If it was seven or eight hundred years ago, this one alone would have sold for 80,000 gold coins, but now it is 50 gold coins. Forty gold coins should be enough to suppress the price. There is also that, the coral tree, a specialty of Casa in the land of the sea, which was originally priceless, and now it is the most valuable here, four thousand gold coins. ”

"Well, that's too big a gap. Lina held the ornament she had just picked up in her hand, listened to Catherine's evaluation, and put it down regrettably.

"There's no way, the racial war caused by the sale of elves thousands of years ago completely broke the relationship between humans and other races, which was not harmonious, and it has only gradually improved in the last four hundred years. During that time, there were no foreigners willing to come into contact with the Terrans, let alone trade. Therefore, the prices of all foreign specialties in that period were frighteningly high. In the last 400 years, the relationship has improved, and the price has gradually dropped, and of course it has become cheaper because it is not made by a famous craft. ”

"I'm really disappointed, what about these things, and it's not easy to carry, just throw them here?"

"How is it possible, of course it was taken away. Catherine changed her indifference when she was appraising the handicrafts just now, and her eyes glowed with enthusiasm: "When it's time to leave, pick the most valuable ones, take everything you can take away, and sell them outside and divide them equally." ”

Lina had a "I know" expression and sighed. The newly joined Gasteen seemed to be still angry about the two thousand gold coins just now, and finally found an opportunity at this time, and said sarcastically: "Didn't you just say that you can't take the money you shouldn't take, why are you showing greed again?"

"The money just now is the reward of the commission, and we are not eligible to take it if we do not complete the commission. And the things here are truly ownerless, and anyone is eligible to obtain them, you don't understand such a simple truth?" Catherine glanced at Gasteen lightly, ignored his provocation, and raised her voice and asked, "Pennis, have you finished examining the body?"

"No problem, come here, there are no other monsters here, the only ......" Pannis looked at the corpse on the ground, "It's also a good monster." ”

"Heh, are only dead monsters good monsters?" Catherine smiled and walked over, "What's the matter with these bones on the ground, shouldn't they be mummified?"

"I don't think you would want to know. Pannis handed over a mutilated bone at hand.

"It was actually eaten. Catherine found that the bones were covered with human tooth marks, and frowned in disgust: "Is this extremely hungry? Or did you start eating corpses after being completely demonized?"

"It should have started after being demonized, I just looked at it, there is still a lot of wine in the low cabinet, ale wine and wine are very hungry things, people with wine should not eat corpses or eat living people, presumably after being demonized and losing their minds, at that time it no longer knows how to drink. Pannis pointed to the white-haired corpse on the ground and said: "That's it, it seems that this person should be the director of the institute, and it is estimated that he was also a legend during his lifetime, but I don't know why, maybe it's because I'm too old, and the support time is not as long as the support of the two gold levels of Bell and them." Judging by the number of corpses that were gnawed, combined with the information in the diary and engrams, it should have been close to demonization before the rescue arrived, and it had been hiding in the room and not coming out. ”

"Then came the rescue team. Vivien stood up from the corpse with a spar in her left hand, took out a pen with her other hand, and continued as she drew on the ground: "After the rescue team came, they rescued a dozen or so people who were still alive, but apparently this one was not included in it, because it was located further inside. See, this is the living quarters of ordinary researchers, and in this area, they rescued a dozen or so survivors, including Susanna, and then Bell and Suzanne stayed there, and the others moved on. This is the route they are heading, and there may have been many battles along the way, all the way to this point, this is the point. Here they encountered this Legendary-level monster, and it was a well-fed monster. ”

"No, the timing is not right. Pannith interrupted Vivien's thoughts, took the pen from Vivien's hand, and said, "I just observed, and about three corpses have been eaten. According to the amount of food eaten by humans after being transformed into monsters, it takes at least four days for three corpses to eat. But in terms of time, when they sent out the helpers, it was still sober. Bell and the others came in two days after sending out the helpers, that is, when the rescue team advanced here, it was no more than three days before it was transformed into a monster, and it was impossible for it to eat three corpses in its entirety in those three days. Therefore, the rescue team should have advanced to this place and did not encounter it, or that it was still eating inside and did not come out to attack. The rescue team then continued to advance, either to the test site or to the core. Wherever they went, they must have been exhausted, and most of them were so contaminated that they had to go back the way they came, hoping to escape or give away what they had got. When they retreated here, they had just eaten three corpses, and there was no other food, and they came out to hunt under the stimulus of appetite, and the two sides met at the door. ”

"No wonder there are stumps and severed arms all over the ground. Catherine nodded to indicate that she had fully understood the whole process: "Presumably, it is the legendary rank in the rescue team who died with this monster, and the aftermath of the battle between the two legendary ranks is not something that a group of exhausted remnants of combat power who do not even have a tenth of their combat power left can withstand it." After they met, the Legendary Rank of the rescue team had a slight advantage, or they had an advantage in numbers, and forced the monster back into the room, and they followed in. However, even if they had the upper hand, they would not have much of an advantage, because they could not stop the monsters from killing their comrades continuously. In the end, all the people he brought in were dead, well, when they came in there were two hundred men, and when they returned, there were only twelve left, which was a terrible casualty. Well, the other eleven people he brought in were all dead, and only he and this monster were left, so he and the monster died in desperation. ”

"You guys are saying one sentence after another, and your analysis is very reasonable. Lina squinted her eyes and protested against the behavior of several people singing and excluding herself, and said in a mocking tone: "But no one wants to rummage over the corpses? ”

"This is it. Vivien held up the hedron in her hand, "This is the only one found on the black-haired corpse, except for some personal belongings." ”

"What is this? Lina looked at the hedron in Vivien's hand. The spar is cylindrical, the thickness of the child's arm, and the pale red spar faintly flows with silver light: "Is it my illusion? ”

"It's not an illusion, it's really faint and messy. Vivien nodded, "Because this was originally just a blank crystal, and the crystal energy inside was forcibly infused into it." This is a key, and the crystal energy that feels cluttered inside is the ciphertext, and only with the correct ciphertext key can some special locks be opened. ”

"It's weird. Lina took the hedron from Vivien's hand, "I've never seen a key like this. ”

"It's normal, this kind of lock and key is very expensive, just a key costs 100,000 gold coins, and the lock is even more expensive. So unless you are very rich, you will use it in the most secret places. Most people may not see each other in their lifetime. It's also the first time I've seen it, and I've only heard about it before. Vivien snatched the hedron back and put it in her backpack: "This kind of key is very fragile, don't play with it." ”。