Chapter 348: Nightmare City
On the way home, Cheng Shen repaired all the damage on his body a little, he didn't need to buy miserable to win Marge's sympathy, but if he showed that the injury was too serious, it would probably affect his actions in the next few days.
He can't hide in this house all the time, and the system won't always give him survival missions.
The tasks that follow will only get more demanding.
He still doesn't know why the system brought him here.
When she got home, Marge had recovered, she still had bruises on her neck, her hair was messy, and she had a gloomy look when she saw Cheng Shen, but she didn't ask a word about what happened after he left home.
"Mom......"
Cheng Shen tried to speak.
"Let's go back to our room." Margo interrupted in a cold tone, and then she picked up the oil lamp and went back to the bedroom and closed the door.
Cheng Shen stood in place for a moment and then returned to his room with his head down, before he dodged past, a huge crack on the ground that was cut by Coyin was gradually returning to its original state under the thick darkness.
"Characteristics ...... Nightmare World"
Thoughts flashed.
Cheng Shen was thinking more about another thing: I may have been exposed......
Marge's reaction unnerved him, the family had been together for so long, even if he pretended to be like Carl, but when faced with some critical choices, he would subconsciously make decisions that followed his heart.
For example, tonight's accident is Carl, and it may not dare to stand up......
No, if it had been Carl, tonight's events wouldn't have happened.
Closing the door, Cheng Shen fumbled to the corner of the wall and picked up a few broken puppet limbs and stuffed them into the closet.
It wasn't long before I heard a creaking and gnawing sound from the closet.
He lay quietly on the bed.
Rumble......
There was a faint roar in the street outside the house, but the thick darkness seemed to block out the sound, making the sound extremely faint.
Coyne must have had a good fight with the spider......
Cheng Shen thought to himself.
He was worried that Coyne would not be able to defeat the spider and wanted the Faceless Angel to stay and secretly assist, but after thinking about it carefully, the few bodies controlled by that spider were only at the level of a third-order and fourth-order professional.
And Coyin definitely has the strength of the top of the fourth order.
The only thing he had to worry about was that the people of the Redemption would take the opportunity to do something to Coyne when they heard that the battle was coming......
It's just that he can't stop this kind of thing just by thinking about it.
Pondering.
Cheng Shen's consciousness gradually fell silent.
……
Call.
The cold wind whirled the trench coat, and the loose garment bulged and looked very bloated, and the blowing open collar revealed a terrible mask with a long, pointed beak and a purple glow from the holes in the eyes.
After using the crow doctor's license, Cheng Shen directly obtained such a mask.
Similarly, he automatically became a working crow doctor without going through an interview or other process.
He can see more detailed stats in the panel unlocked by the system.
[Cheng Shen (disguised name: faceless)]
[Occupation: Raven Doctor]
【Position:Grey Raven】
[Resume: None]
[Performance: None]
[Rating: 0 (Who would want a new doctor with no name to treat themselves?) Unless absolutely necessary. )】
……
Grey Raven,
crow,
Blood Raven.
From low to high, this is the division of the position of the crow doctor, and it also symbolizes the status of each crow doctor.
The only way to improve the rating of a position is to get a performance reward by treating patients. However, it is not that he can be cured if he wants to help people after becoming a crow doctor, this needs the recommendation of the clinic and the approval of the patient.
Plainly.
That is, before he became famous, he wanted to take over the job only through the arrangement of the clinic.
Otherwise, he would have to go from house to house looking for patients on his own.
Not only can they not make any profits, but they are also easily reported to the city guards and arrested as black-hearted quacks who practice medicine illegally.
- Because blood therapy was once very popular and the threshold for use was very low, the old city had a strong guard against illegal medical practice.
At least on the surface......
But the good news is that there are a total of eighteen Raven clinics in Midtown and Outer Cities.
Cheng Shen can choose a position at will and does not have to worry about exposure.
Sick people,
It's a lot too.
"There are a total of six crow clinics in Midtown, but most of the people who can work here are already senior doctors.
There were not 180 patients who died, but dozens of them......
I can't get out here. ”
Cheng Shen said in his heart.
Dr. Raven's performance is understood literally, which is equivalent to the amount of money he can earn.
But at present, he has no identity and no status, and the highest social class he can contact is the commoners of Midtown.
This is where his ideal place to make a profit should be.
However, reality reminded him that if he stayed in the clinic in Midtown, he was afraid that he would only be able to assign a patient in the year of the monkey. In the old city, where the class management system was clearly divided, there were not many people who could afford to get sick.
Only to go downtown.
The lower city is poor, and although he earns little, he can quickly make a name for himself as long as he has access to patients.
- The doctors in the old city basically still retain the same style of medieval medicine, bloodletting, opening holes, and cutting where it hurts...... If he couldn't get out of such a group of quacks, he wouldn't have to live......
At that time.
He made more money when he returned to Midtown.
Da,
Da ......
The crisp sound of the hard heel stepping on the floor tiles could not be heard far in the thick fog. Cheng Shen looked up, and a golden-red halo surged in his eyes, covering the purple in his eyes.
The line of sight breaks through the thick fog.
Cheng Shen saw buildings standing in the darkness, silent like tombs.
"Nightmare town has horror nightmares at night, what will be in this city?
Margo told me to come home in the evening because Daddy was going to get to work......
Coyne's job as a butcher in a slaughterhouse means his job is to slaughter people who wander the night?
But who would wander in such a dark night......"
Crash......
A faint sound suddenly came into Cheng Shen's ears, and he slowed down his steps and approached the street where the sound came from.
Perceptual creep.
He saw an extremely terrifying scene through his radiating soul power.
The neatly tiled street cracked, gushing out countless veins, the ground bulging, fountain crimson red, and a dense body of blood-red insects crawling out of the ground.
Blood poison!
Or rather, a contaminated body that has been heavily infected with blood toxin!
In Carl's memory, doesn't it mean that all the blood poison patients have been burned and buried along with the old city?
How did it end up here!?
Cheng Shen couldn't figure it out.
This pollutant was much more terrifying than the aura that He-Man was emitting.
The blood poison in He-Man's body has been suppressed by it, and this corpse has completely become a carrier for the reproduction and spread of blood poison, and the degree of threat directly makes Cheng Shen's heart alarmed.
"Is this the threat of the night......
Cheng Shen slowly retreated.
Click......
There was a sudden sound of shattering under his feet, and Cheng Shen flashed to the side without thinking.
Boom!
The sturdy floor tiles shattered suddenly, and a blood-red condensed tentacle chased after his body, wrapping around his arm at lightning speed!
"Shattered!"
Cheng Shen's eyes were shocked.
Syllable!
The tentacles suddenly shattered into countless tiny flying insects and pounced on his face, but before he could get closer, layers of ripples rose around Cheng Shen's body, reflecting the space around him like a broken mirror.
One by one, the red flying insects immediately lost their strength and fell to the ground.
Cheng Shen didn't dare to stay.
The place where he had been standing was still collapsing downward, blood gushing out of the pit, dragging up a blurred figure of flesh with only the upper half of his body.
"...... of Faith"
"Kami ......"
"Eternal ......"
Indescribable chaotic whispers came out of its mouth, like heavy hammers, bombarding Cheng Shen's solid soul barrier. Fortunately, he attached great importance to this identity, and separated and integrated half of his soul power.
Half of his soul power.
It's almost equivalent to an ordinary third-order professional!
Moreover, the most important point is that the Faceless Angel is an experimental subject transformed from the third generation of deified metal, and there is not a single bit of flesh and blood on his body! The most terrible infectiousness of the blood poison parasite has no effect on him!
Cheng Shen ran wildly on the street with constant mental impact.
Tear and pull!
Wide metal wings, tearing his trench coat grow out of the back. Make Cheng Shen's speed skyrocket in an instant like divine help!
Call!
The sharp beak mask broke through the air currents and screeched, like a crow's warning when it was in danger.
"These contaminants are very strong...... And it seems to be a reincarnation monster derived from nightmares...... You can't go with them! ”
Cheng Shen thought quickly.
In the blink of an eye, he shook off the blood poison pollutant that attacked him, but as the night deepened, the terror of the city gradually woke up.
The ground shattered, crawling blood-red and twisted corpses; Empty alleys turn into guts of flesh and blood; Eyeballs are drilled into the stone carvings of the buildings on the streets; Darkness is like weeds in the corners of the city!
"The Old City of Day and Night is the ...... of two worlds"
Cheng Shen suddenly woke up.
The city is able to maintain the line between reality and nightmares during the day, allowing everything to go about as usual.
But at night, you will fall into a nightmare, and all the horrors that have happened in the city will be awakened!
Cheng Shen suspected that the old city during the day and the night were two completely different spaces!
"Spatial ......"
He had one more chance to remove the props from his backpack.
The first two times, he gave the Faceless Angel and the Raven Doctor licenses respectively, if he takes out the spatial compass now, but still can't return to the normal space, he will completely waste this important opportunity to choose!
"Night, it's just begun, and my main quest two will end in more than nine hours......"
This means that a deadly threat could come at any moment!
Cheng Shen was entangled.
Awakening the Faceless Angel would give him an extra way out.
But it turns out that even if he has two lives now, the city can still easily wipe him out!
At this point, he has to face a choice, whether to protect the identity of Dr. Raven or protect Karl's identity. Because he was very suspicious that there was still a horror in that house that could threaten him!
Marg and Coyne, the two dangerous people, he has dealt with them safely, who else in the family can pose a danger to him?
Cheng Shen could only think of one answer.
Younger sister!
To deal with his sister, Cheng Shen must leave the last permission for Carl's identity to prepare a curse.
Otherwise.
With his body, he will definitely die if he faces the weirdness!
Bang Chang ......
Cheng Shen was running away when he suddenly heard some different sounds, his perception spread outward, his heart moved, and he immediately turned around and ran towards another street apart.
Rumble!
The deafening loud noise made him know that he had found the right place, and in the streets, blood was red and poisonous insects were flying. One by one, awakened blood poison contaminants are besieging a burly monster in a black trench coat.
The trench coat it wore had torn off its long sleeves, and it looked like a modified waistcoat with a very high neckline, and the muscles on its exposed strong arms were piled up like a fist-sized tree, and it was as strong as a bull!
Rumble!!
With a giant axe, it smashed a blood-poisoned body into mud, and the splattered juice fell on it, but it could not penetrate its blue-gray stiff flesh.
Butcher?
Hunter?
Executioners?
Cheng Shen thought of a series of words Margo used to describe Coyne.
He finally knew who the slaughterhouse Coyne was working for, and what it was meant to clean up!
These hunters, who only go out at night, are actually there to clean up the horrors that have awakened from nightmares?!
Cheng Shen didn't have time to think too much, so he immediately rushed in the direction of the hunter, and with him, he also pulled the group of blood poison pollutants he attracted towards the street where the hunter was!
"These things are bothering you!"
Cheng Shen is grateful.
He could see that this hunter was already a corpse-like existence like Coyne, and the corpses were not afraid of blood poison infection, and they were probably a batch of tools specially made by the managers of this city.
And so it goes.
It's not hard to understand what Marg said when he cursed Coyne......
Rumble!
The air flow from the giant axe was hundreds of meters away, which made Cheng Shen feel the threat of death.
The metal wings behind him clanged, and with a swift thud, he dragged his body to the side.
These hunters clean up all creatures that move in the night, including him!
But compared to those blood poison contaminants, he could move much faster.
As the saying goes, when facing danger, you don't need to run fast yourself, just run faster than the people around you!
Sou!
Cheng Shen shuttled through the street like a dark shadow, leaving the hunter behind in an instant, it seemed to feel Cheng Shen's provocation and wanted to chase after it, but it was immediately overwhelmed by the blood poison parasite that was also indistinguishable from the enemy!
Rumble......!
Cheng Shen ran a long way away and heard the roar coming from that street.
After silently praying for the hunter who had helped him carry the pot, he continued to flee.
Cheng Shen is ready to flee to Xiacheng in one go, look for a clinic, and wait until dawn when the city returns to normal.
He had strayed into the nightmare side of the Old City, and now even if he hid in the house, he could no longer avoid these terrible monsters.
The only thing you can do is escape.
But.
Cheng Shen's escape route also has a target at this moment.
He unleashed his senses, and almost every few minutes he found a hunter battling the blood poison contaminant, a city that awakens in the night with an enormous number of horrors, but also a number of hunters.