Chapter 24: Dropping SAN Value
"Vomit vomit!"
Bison chick knelt in the corner on the spot, vomited, and vomited out the lunch and even breakfast that she hadn't eaten much without manners. For a little flower who has never seen the [Evil] and has grown up in a greenhouse, the successive horrors are too exciting.
Seriously, Mark was scared too.
After meeting the Guilty Demon and the Chaos Monster, Garion's horror threshold for inhuman existence has increased considerably.
Holding his right hand, which was trembling slightly, with his left hand, Mark making sure that there were no other [anomalies] around him for the time being, he began to take a closer look at the corpse.
The corpses left behind were eaten quite cleanly, as if there were hundreds or thousands of reptiles of small size, eating all the meat at once.
In addition to the scarlet blood marks left on the bones, there were also many marks of cutting with sharp mouthparts. Even the relatively hard humerus (the bone of the upper arm) has a large number of chips.
The discovery that made Mark's scalp tingle the most was that a large number of human footprints were found at the scene.
It felt like dozens of primitive people without shoes suddenly appeared around the two victims in a dense group, and then ate the victims with some kind of inhuman mouthparts.
These footprints appear around the victim but do not come of it.
The messy footprints only exist within a two-meter radius around them, and are not visible outside of the ground, whether on the floor or on the ceiling.
You must know that even if the entire Occult Academy is covered with mist, the ground is covered with debris and dead leaves, and it is impossible not to find so many footprints.
After lighting the kerosene lamp and reaffirming his judgment, Mark extinguished the lamp again.
Such a strange scene made the light in Bison's eyes beat like her ECG curve.
Her voice was full of trills: "We...... Did you run into any terrible [anomalies]? ”
"Hmm." Mark replied lightly.
For some reason, Mark's understatement gave Bison an unexpected sense of reassurance.
Not because he is handsome, but because he is not surprised.
As soon as Mark's answer fell, there was a strange chewing sound in the bathroom.
For a moment, Bison chick wanted to run in the opposite direction, but was pulled by Mark.
"Wait!"
The Bison chick, who had no idea, endured the horror in her heart, and waited with Mark for dozens of seconds.
Soon, the strange sound disappeared.
Mark did not hesitate, did not hide his footsteps, and strode over.
As soon as he entered the bathroom, his eyes were half-narrowed.
I guessed correctly, and it was a mess.
Once a future Guardian Knight, he was transferred to a Headless Horseman halfway through, and now he has become a Legless Knight.
Even if everyone is leg controlled.
Leg control is different from leg control!
"Senior, let's go." Every muscle in Bison's body trembled slightly with fear.
"How to get there? Outside the window there are all kinds of ghost things of unknown origin. It is estimated that he will die as soon as he leaves the school building. ”
"We ...... Can we take the cable car? ”
When a stupid girl says something or something, you wonder if she is following her words (crow's mouth).
"Crunch—"
A wonderful, deep voice came from afar.
Mark doesn't forget the voice.
Cable car!
The main entrance of the college is for teachers and students who come by horse-drawn carriage.
If you look at the cable car from the main entrance, you can't see the cable car. The cable car connects to the west side of the Mistry University complex, and in that huge cable car house, the school has a special side door.
The cable car operates during non-school hours, with the most frequent departures in the morning and evening, and at noon.
One of the biggest reasons is that when the cable car is running, it is really noisy.
The lack of industrial technology makes the winch that agitates the cable car to make a screeching sound when it is in operation. In a quiet environment, the sound can easily be heard far away.
Mark and Bison glanced at each other and immediately rushed to the corridor near the west façade, where through the open window, they could clearly see that a cable car was descending the ropeway.
The three carriages moved quickly along the cable, and from a distance, the flickering lights of several kerosene lanterns shining through the windows of the cable car resembled the flashing signal lights of a night ship.
Unlike on normal days, the surface of the cable car at this time is covered with a little black smoke that is visible to the naked eye.
These black flames corrode the metal that fell into the transparent beaker like sulfuric acid, constantly eroding the cable car shell, making an unpleasant "beep" sound.
Mark suddenly sighed, "They're finished." ”
"What? No way! "Stupid girl's eyes widened, less than three minutes ago, she was the one who proposed to take the cable car!
To put it another way, what happened to these fugitives at this moment is what happened to them in the first place.
As if sensing something was wrong, the screams of the fugitives above could be heard from afar.
Soon, a golden illusory eye lit up above the carriage of one of the cable cars.
"Can you actually use the [Bright Eye]? The strength is okay! Mark commented.
"That's ......," the stupid girl said with joy on her face.
Unfortunately, the appearance of the Eye of Light drove away some evil force that corroded the carriage, but it also disturbed a terrifying being that lurked in the dark fog.
The fog around the cable car suddenly became thicker, and the cable car was wrapped in the filling of the rice dumpling leaves from the faint appearance of a moment ago.
Not to mention the outline of the cable car, even the golden light of the Eye of Light became extremely hazy in the thick fog.
Time flies.
Bison chick's heart also hung in her throat.
Only a few seconds had passed, perhaps a little longer, when suddenly a cable car shuddered violently, making a tooth-aching sound of metal tearing. The Eye of Light above the carriage also flickered rapidly, and then "snapped" and was completely extinguished.
Barely visible, the kerosene lamp in the carriage was withdrawn into the second compartment.
With an inhuman, strange roar coming from the fog, the light in the second carriage went out, and finally the third......
At the same time, there was a faint scream.
Once again, the stupid girl covered her mouth and leaned almost instinctively against Mark's chest, begging for a little more warmth from her companion's body called 'hope'.
In less than three seconds, a large section of steel wire cable flew out of the dense fog, and under the action of gravity, it whipped on the moss-covered cliff, and there was a crisp sound of "popping".
It's also a slap in the hearts of the survivors.
After a while, a faint pop was heard at the foot of the mountain.
It is entirely conceivable that the cable car has been scattered and completely destroyed.
From this moment on, all communication and transportation between the school and the outside world was completely cut off.
Looking out of the window, the fog in the distance spreads at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into black-gray smoke in patches, engulfing everything beyond the horizon
The moonlight, which had barely provided light in the sky before, had long since disappeared.
"What are we going to do?" Bison chick's teeth chattered.
"Find the core of [Anomaly]! Kill it......"
"What if we fail?"
"Then let it kill you!"
Mark shrugged and picked up the lantern and turned to walk deeper into the academy.
Byson glanced out the window, stomped his foot, bit his lip, and hurried to follow.
She didn't dare to tug on Mark's sleeve, for fear of affecting his movements, so she only dared to gently tug at the back of Mark's student uniform shirt like a kindergarten child.
"......" Mark stopped and looked at her, still giving up on the intention of 'telling her to let go'.
He knew that this girl would probably not be useful, and she was almost equal to her pig teammates. It's just that his conscience doesn't allow him to sell his teammates casually.
"Miss Haruka, what fighting skills do you know?"
"I ...... I fought poorly...... I'm from the formation system. ”
Mark's eyes darkened.
In normal times, it's really hard to offend those who engage in formations.
In squad-level battles, most of the time there is nothing to do with the formation mage. Formation mages are often used in war, or in situations such as long explorations.
They can amplify the power of the spells of mages such as the Elemental, or use divine power to create a relatively safe enchantment space for teammates to rest, and they are even better at navigating the maze.
But in this weird, ever-ready encounter, the role of the formation mage is definitely the worst.
Without trampling on Miss Bison's little self-confidence, Mark said in a mocking tone: "I'm mystical. ”
The [Scholar] of the Mystery Department can barely be regarded as a combat profession, but unfortunately in the adventure team, it is also an absolute back-row profession.
If you say it well, it's called decathlon, and if you don't say it well, you don't know everything.
A good [scholar] can be a world behind him in terms of combat power compared to someone who doesn't learn and has no skills, such as a horse.
After Mark finished speaking, perhaps because his jaw was rescued, this stupid girl was convinced that Mark was obsessed: "It's okay, I believe that the senior is the strongest." ”
Don't say that, little fool. You believe in me so much, if the time comes to the critical time, I will feel guilty for betraying you.
Just after a short introduction to each other, the two people who came to the atrium of the academy immediately heard new movements.
"Monster! Come out! Come out for me, and we'll fight to the death—" The hysterical roar and the constant glow of the fire made the male elementalist in a lounge stand out from the academy.
He had no companions by his side, and he was like a madman, constantly drumming up the mysterious power in his body, releasing small elemental magic.
The light and shadow flickered so intensely that even the two of them who were still fifty meters away could be clearly seen.
"He ......" Byson chick seemed to lean over, but was stopped by Mark and quickly turned off the kerosene lamp.
"Wait! Can you see his eyes? ”
Byson was stunned for a moment, took out a gadget that resembled a telescope from his pocket and looked at it, and was surprised to find that the elementalist's left eye was blood-red, and he was dripping blood and tears.
Recalling that she was chased and killed by three out-of-control Guardian Knight apprentices just now, Stupid Niu was silent for a while before saying, "Your eyes are so good. ”
Mark didn't answer, he was worried about another thing: the fog in the academy, shouldn't it make people lose their minds?