Chapter 33: A Bad Plot Progression
When the source of the impact cannot be determined, Ampton chooses the clumsiest and most direct and effective approach, staying away from the source of the impact.
In Howard and Ampton, they ran a long way through the Fog Capital, and only then did they gradually slow down until they approached the edge of the Fog Capital.
At the same time, many suspicious details that had been overlooked before resurfaced from my mind.
The plot also continues to unfold.
“…… Lately I've been feeling like nothing is right. ”
"All kinds of things are like a fog hanging over our heads, so that we can't see the direction clearly."
"There is a 'god' on high above, carrying the string that manipulates the puppets, fiddling with us. And there are obvious things, but we never seem to notice him. ”
In the plot, Ampton said to Howard,
The two were on the edge of the fog, beside a potholed and dirty street, communicating,
“…… Ever since I left you, I had a vague feeling that something wasn't right. ”
"But in everything, there seemed to be enough logic in the thinking at the time."
"The others suspect that you deserve it, after all, it was your two neighbors who died, and every night watchman, who has mastered supernatural powers, is at risk of getting out of control, and we are just looking for a delicate balance among the various forces. When I arrived at you, my first thought was that I was suspicious of you.
It seems that everything is logical, as if everything is full of logic.
But on the way back, I didn't come, and I felt more and more irritable, and I always felt that I had neglected a lot of things, but I couldn't remember, my eyes seemed to be covered, and my ears seemed to be covered, so that I couldn't see or hear, and I became ...... Foolishness. ”
“…… Then, I started to walk away from the city, and there were several accidents along the way, and the mistake of the worker who installed the new light pole in Wudu caused the light pole to fall, and other accidents, almost killed me, the captain of the tungsten filament organization......
And when it came to the edge of the city, it should be out of the sphere of influence of that thing, and some details were recalled.
For example, in recent times, our strange bad luck, unspeakable stupidity, and the traces of your neighbor's death at the scene have clearly shown that this matter basically cannot have anything to do with you.
But everyone still suspected you for the first time, and almost caused an infighting.
And that thing, obviously so obvious in the things we guard, but we can't remember it, unspeakable stupidity......"
"Special Badge"
“…… Special badges! ”
In the progress of the plot,
After escaping to the edge of the fog, Howard and Ampton disappeared under the influence of foolishness.
The two of them successively made the same judgment,
The plot continues to progress,
"Or rather, it's badge of doom and foolishness."
"In our current experience, it will make those who come into contact with him stupid and constantly suffer bad luck. And the impact continues to grow. ”
“…… Recently, the fog has poured into a large number of members of the Mother Tree Church of Life, and it should be for this badge of doom. ”
"With our current level of doom, they're sure they'll be able to find us!"
"There may be a way for this badge to be exploited, but we haven't found it yet."
“…… And also! Old Job! ”
"We guard the transcendents of the transcendental, it's dangerous enough in itself, and old Hubber will surely suffer from the effects of bad luck as well."
"In this kind of bad luck, there may be a large number of otherworldly items that will get out of control."
“…… Originally, transcendent items were at risk of getting out of control, and once the balance of fortune tipped in their favor, transcendent items would inevitably get out of control in large numbers. ”
"No! We need to go back! ”
“…… But when we go back...... We will be affected by stupidity and bad luck again, we may ignore many things again, and we may be unlucky enough to ignore the danger of the badge of bad luck again. ”
"Since it is the emblem that hangs over us foolishness, let us not think of overcoming him with wisdom. Remember the name of the badge of doom, keep one thing in mind, get rid of the badge of doom, do it intuitively, do what we think now, and don't change it later. ”
"Good ......"
After discussing it for a while,
The protagonists, Howard and Ampton, reminded each other and re-entered the sphere of influence of the badge of doom.
At the same time, before, the church headquarters of the church was informed about the badge of doom.
This level of dangerous transcendent items is no longer something that their team can guard and keep.
And after returning to the Night's Watch Residence of the Church of the God of Steam and Machines,
Howard and Ampton are constantly reminding each other and repeating emphasis,
Came to the end of the deep passage where the transcendent items were kept.
But after opening the door, old Hopper did not lose control,
No other other-than-life items have gotten out of control.
This result suddenly made Howard and Ampton self-doubt under the influence of the power of foolishness.
But through self-suggestion along the way, and repeating reminders to each other,
At this time, the two of them did not act according to the ideas under the influence of the power of foolishness,
just following the idea that was formulated outside the previous sphere of influence,
The implementation of the actions continued.
……
Then, the plot progressed to the big chapter of Ji Zhuo's update today - 'The Last Madness'.
Ye Linhan recalled the plot updated by the dog author in the past few days,
Thinking about the reactions of the readers in the comment area before,
Knowing the plot of this big chapter,
Under the influence of the badge of doom in this article, it seems that the protagonist's night watch team may suffer heavy losses, and even important supporting character sacrifices.
“…… But we are now unlucky and foolish enough under the influence of the badge of bad luck that the scales of good fortune no longer fall in our favor. We will not be able to have the Templars come before the attacks of the cultists of the Mother Tree of Life on us. We also sent out a message to several other churches for help, but we were unlucky enough......"
"So, we can only hold on."
In the text, the plot continues to progress downward,
The leader of the Night's Watch team gathers all the Night's Watch and explains the situation to all the Night's Watch.
"You're saying that the badge can influence us, make us suffer doom and foolishness?"
However, the night watchmen, under the influence of the forces of foolishness and doom, showed very different reactions than usual.
“…… Abandoning your thinking, thinking now will only allow the influence of foolishness to take advantage of it. ”
"Trust me!"
The leader of the Night's Watch, Lampton, had one eye red and spoke to the Night's Watch.
Eventually, with their trust in Ampton, the Night's Watch temporarily gave up thinking about the issues and began to take action.
The first is the addition of a number of personnel to guard the transcendent items kept at the Night's Watch station,
Prevent these things from getting out of control en masse under the influence of the badge of doom.
At the same time, some of the night watchmen, including Howard, were temporarily allowed to learn some more transcendent rituals and knowledge recorded on the transcendent items.
Enhance their strength as much as possible,
Howard learns an ability with a certain reconnaissance ability, and an ability to increase combat effectiveness at close range.
At the same time, some of the supernatural items that are preserved are of higher grade and relatively stable, and they are taken out and provided to the night watchmen for use.
The higher the level of the item, the less affected it will be by other otherworldly items, and even though these otherworldly items have their own side effects, they are still much better than the badge of doom.
And while all the members of the Night's Watch team were preparing for battle,
An uninvited guest has arrived,
Obviously, the bad luck they suffered was relative good luck for their enemies.
Under the influence of doom, their enemies could not have come only after they had everything ready.
The first one came a young woman,
She looked agitated,
The Tungsten Filament Order's home is next to the Church of the God of Steam and Machines.
On weekdays, it exists in the name of a detective agency,
But few people know about it.
And when the young woman arrived, she said anxiously that she was looking for something,
Even if one of the night watchmen told her that she would not take any business today,
She didn't leave, she just walked up and down the house,
His eyes were bloodshot, and his face was unusually agitated.
Until she was persuaded to leave, someone was already ready to throw her out, and at the same time asked what she was looking for.
And then
And the young woman's face became fanatical.
“…… I'm looking for bad luck! I'm looking for foolishness! ”
“…… Doom! Foolishness! ”
The young woman's sudden madness shocked all the already nervous people.
Then, as if she had been sensed by something, the young woman stared at the bottom of the place,
That's where the badge of doom is kept.
“…… I found it! I found it! ”
The young woman laughed, her eyes filled with madness.
“…… I will return to the Mother Tree of Life, your most faithful lamb! ”
Laughing maniacally, the woman shouted again frantically,
In a very short time, a strange pattern was drawn by the flow, and there was no way to stop it.
This scene made the hearts of all the night watchmen sink in their hearts.
And sure enough,
Not long after the pattern drawn by this blood appeared on the ground,
Immediately after, there was another palpitating sensation,
In Howard's mind, it seemed to be roaring.
The whisper that existed in his head rang out again,
It seemed to cancel out a lot of the influence of the mysterious badge, and his mind was a little more out of the confusion and cleared up a lot.
But at the same time,
The thing that made the heart palpitate in the distance was already close.
These are two figures in hooded robes,
The hood obscured the faces of the two figures,
There are hardly many ups and downs that are visible when moving, and the movement of the movement is fast.
It was only when I got close that I could see slippery tentacles sticking out of the overalls worn by these two figures.
These two figures are not people at all,
There are no feet under the body, completely supported by a few tentacles, and the original position of the hand is also replaced by tentacles, agitating from time to time,
Only half of the upper body still has some traces of humanity.
This is characteristic of cultists, most of whom do not maintain their human form, and even deliberately pursue distortion, believing that this is closer to the evil god they believe in.
And the mind is often full of crazy thoughts,
There is no normal morality, just fanatical belief in their gods,
He will even slaughter the city in order to sacrifice to the evil god.
After the appearance of these two cultists,
The Night's Watch surrounded the two figures, watching them warily.
And these two cultists of the evil god stood in place with the support of their tentacles,
Looking down at the ground where the young woman's head was still facing,
"Hah...... Ha ......"
“…… You're really unlucky. ”
The cultist stared and laughed maniacally.
Ampton stared at the two cultists and made a move,
He used his power to briefly drag the two cultists into a nightmare!
The two disciples paused for a moment,
The rest of the team, who had enough cooperation, naturally pounced on him at this time,
The main character, Howard, also uses two of his abilities,
Using the ability to investigate, he found the vulnerable places of the two cultists,
At the same time, it exerts the ability to release flames,
Various attacks from the other members of the Night's Watch also fell on the two cultists.
But it seems that the many people under the influence of the badge of doom are unlucky enough, and these two disciples are also strong,
Ampton's ability turned out to be a very brief pause for the two of them,
Before the means of the Night's Watch fell on these two men,
The two of them broke free from a very brief period of sluggishness,
The tentacles under him moved, as if they were abruptly panning,
Dodge the Night's Watch's attack on the two of them.
At the same time, one of the cultists seemed to unleash his abilities,
This time, it was Howard's turn and the others to stop in place,
Howard felt as if his heart was being slammed into a slam slam.
The blood in the body seems to become somewhat uncontrolled, and then it flows rapidly,
The sudden palpitations made Howard's entire body seem to lose his strength in an instant, and he staggered in place.
The other night watchmen did the same, and then paused abruptly,
At this time, another cultist stretched out his tentacles, and the tentacles spread out, directly knocking away several surrounding night watchmen.
At the same time as Howard encountered this influence, he began to operate the ability to restore the body, and this ability also resisted the influence of the supernatural ability on the body.
Barely relieving himself, Howard unleashed his flames at the two cultists.
At the same time, Ampton and the others also broke free from the influence again, and at the same time pounced on the two disciples,
Battles broke out violently,
In the text,
Howard, Ampton and the others fought very aggrieved by the battle between these two cultists,
Because of the influence of the badge of doom,
They tend to have all kinds of accidents when attacking or defending.
And these two cultists of the evil god are obviously also in a high position and very strong in the evil god change organization.
Also visibly unaffected by the badge of bad luck.
The Night's Watch, including Howard and Ampton, did everything in their power to keep the two from wearing the badge of Doom,
The badge of doom has now shown its danger,
The Night's Watch must not allow such a thing to be taken away by the cultists who wrote the cult,
I really don't know what's going to happen again.
Time passes.
In fact, from the appearance of the young woman to the outbreak of the battle with these two believers,
It's just that a short time has passed,
The night watchmen from the other churches in the same city did not arrive, and the people from the Church of the God of Steam and Machines did not arrive either.
A group of members of the Night's Watch began to suffer frequent injuries, and even with their ability to recover, some of them could not recover.
“…… Boom! ”
Mindton and Howard were once again knocked away by a cultist's flak and slammed into the ground.
Scraped and bleeding from his mouth, Ampton stared at the two cultists and rose from the ground as the other Night's Watch attacked them.
Howard's situation is slightly better,
It seems to have the effect of babbling in his head, and he is not so badly affected by the badge of doom,
But the hard power of these two cultists was higher than him, and he was still a little injured.
“…… What are you struggling with? You're bad enough that you can't win. Do you understand? ”
One of the cultists waved his tentacles and said.
And at this time, there seemed to be some fierce collision sounds from the underground of the night watchman's station.
“…… Looks like you're guarding something out of control, night watchmen? ”
In times of crisis, the guards get out of control.
It's really unlucky.
In the text,
Lampton and Howard and the other Night's Watch were at odds.