Chapter 487: Invitation
The four walls of the recreation room are covered with paintings, of course, Duanmu Huai doesn't know the order, but luckily these paintings are numbered underneath, which saves trouble.
After a cursory scan, Duanmu Huai found that these paintings were basically depicted ghouls. The first painting depicts Arkham City, with the upper part of Arkham citizens living on the ground, and groups of ghouls scurrying around like rats in the sewers beneath their feet.
In the second painting, several ghouls silently enter a house, steal the family's baby, and then put an ugly and evil little ghoul in the cradle.
In the third painting, the human baby appears to have grown into a child, trying to eat the dead under the guidance of the ghouls. At the same time, the other half of the picture is split in two, and the little ghoul who has changed the tanuki for the prince also grows up, and although he does not look different from a human, his hideous and twisted expression and malicious smile speak for themselves.
In the next scene, the human baby captured in the ghoul group turns into a ghoul, and the ghoul who has blended into the human world stands on a high mountain, and reaches out to the city of Arkham below, and behind him, hundreds of ghouls.
After that, the picture is basically how the ghouls attacked Arkham City and killed humans. They emerge from cracks in the ground and slaughter the humans in the subway stations. Or hide in the grass of the park and prey on passers-by. The entire city of Arkham was covered in smoke and corpses under the onslaught of ghouls...............
How so......... Daydreaming is good.
"Knight? Do these paintings look scary? ”
Duanmu Huai glanced at the oil painting in front of him and rolled his eyes speechlessly. Lorena blinked curiously, though the painter's images were disgusting, especially the human corpses that had been entrailed and devoured by flesh, and the army of ghouls crawling on the corpses, as if they were all alive. It was as if the ghoul's gaping mouth would close the next moment, biting at the flesh, and even just looking at the picture, a strong smell of blood rushed towards him.
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Even if this thing is an art exhibition, it is impossible not to have a 21+, and it is more disgusting than a B-grade plasma tablet.
It's disgusting to say it's disgusting, but it's terrifying......... Well, Duanmu Huai said that this is also normal.
"It's scary enough for the people of this world."
"Yes......... Is it? ”
"Of course, you must know that people in this world don't see any demons and monsters on weekdays, and for them, ghosts can be regarded as legendary existences."
Duanmu Huai spread his hands helplessly, in fact, this is also normal, Lorena was born in the Holy City, as a visiting priest, there are more monsters that have died under her hands. Not to mention that Lorena also runs around with Duanmu Huai every day, and she has never seen any demons and monsters. It's just a ghoul, and it really can't scare her.
But for the people of this world, it is different, what vampires, ghouls, ghosts are already superstitions and fantasies for them. If you see this with your own eyes, you will naturally be completely ruined, so don't look at how heartbreaking it is written in the diary, for Duanmu Huai and Lorena......... That's all.
Of course, another reason is that this is an entry-level teaching task after all, and for now, their enemy is a low-level race like ghouls. The likes of Baiaki and Dagon haven't shown up yet, and the real threat is still to come.
Not to mention the greatness.........
In the RPG, they are now equivalent to fighting Slime, and they are far from the final boss.
"Well, now we're pretty much sure what's going on, that Cliff should be the ghoul who was transferred to the human world, and his purpose is to lead the army of ghouls to destroy Arkham City? These ghouls really don't have a brain, this is 2000, not 1900........."
I have to say that after confirming the other party's ambitions, Duanmu Huai was speechless, if it were in 1900, you ghouls could still succeed with the help of that tough body and weird appearance. But now it's 2000, and you dare to go out and scare tanks? What's wrong with living impatiently?
"Meow—————!
”
Just as Duanmu Huai was thinking, she saw that Suzume seemed to have discovered something, and she stretched out her front paws and patted Duanmu Huai's face, pointing to the depths of the recreation room. Duanmu Huai turned his head and saw that there was another door there, he opened the door, walked through the corridor, and came to the end, judging from the location, this should be the study. And at this moment, through the heavy door panel, Duanmu Huai could hear intermittent coming from inside, as if someone was roaring.
So Duanmu Huai turned around without hesitation, and then kicked open the door.
"Bang!"
With Duanmu Huai kicking the door open, he saw that in the middle of the room floor where blood was flying, a magic array formed by blood condensation was impressive. In the magic array, there was a middle-aged man who was tied up and dressed in a sophisticated suit. His eyes were round, and his face was full of pain and fear.
Outside the magic array, there stood a guy wrapped in a black robe, who looked like a cultist. And at his feet, there were several ghouls kneeling, as if they were performing some kind of ritual.
They were so focused that when Duanmu Huai suddenly kicked open the door, everyone was startled, even the middle-aged man who was tied to a chair and in the center of the magic array gave up struggling for a while, he stared at Duanmu Huai with wide eyes——— then rolled his eyes, and passed out directly.
“…………………”
Duanmu Huai doesn't need to look at the system prompt to know what the result is.
"Who are you?"
Seeing Duanmu Huai, the black-robed man who presided over the ceremony was also startled, and his eyes widened in horror, looking at this strong man who broke through the door and looked vicious. His body trembled uncontrollably, but soon, as if he had thought of something, he hurriedly took out a twisted, strange statue from his bosom and held it high.
"No matter who you are, you can't stop the ritual, as long as you ..............."
However, the black-robed man did not finish his words, because at this moment, the strange statue in his hand suddenly exploded, and then, a foul-smelling mist emerged from it and spread out in all directions. The stench was so bad that even Duanmu Huai and Lorena hurriedly exited the room.
At the same time, a terrible scream came from the mist, and then Duanmu Huai saw a black shadow suddenly rushing out of it, opening its bloody mouth, and rushing towards him!
It was a weird, twisted, pitch-black monster. It is about ten meters long, with bat-like wings on its body, and its head is not like a snake, on the contrary, it is a huge, rotten and blackened Italian hollow powder, its body is completely a huge hollow, its head looks more like a monster like a worm, when it opens its bloody mouth, Duanmu Huai can even clearly see the 180 degrees covered in the entire mouth, constantly rotating and moving fangs.
"What!"
If you were an ordinary person, in the face of such a terrifying and huge monster, I am afraid that you would have panicked a long time ago. But Duanmu Huai was not afraid at all, he roared angrily, stretched out his arms, and grabbed the monster's body. At the same time, Duanmu Huai also glanced at Lorena and the maid and gave them an order.
"Go get the guy in there!"
Hearing Duanmu Huai's order, Lorena nodded and rushed into the room with the maid.
At the same time, the huge monster snake in Duanmu Huai's hand, which was almost as thick as a human, shook its head desperately, opened its bloody mouth, and tried to swallow Duanmu Huai whole.
"I think you're tired of it!"
At this moment, Duanmu Huai was also angered by the monster snake's struggle, he burst into a shout, and the ten fingers of his hands suddenly tore deeply apart the body of the monster snake, directly into its body. An almost suffocating stench erupted from the wound, with sticky, dark green blood splattering everywhere. The attacked monster snake twisted its body desperately, trying to break free from Duanmu Huai's hands.
But at this moment, it was too late, its constantly changing, as if its plasticine-like body was directly penetrated by Duanmu Huai's hands, and then Duanmu Huai grabbed its flesh and blood——— he could even feel the flesh and blood squirming, countless tentacle-like touches, as if there were hundreds of cockroaches crawling over his hands.
"Die!"
Duanmu Huai reluctantly opened his arms, and in this way, he forcibly tore the huge strange snake in half from the middle, and the completely torn away strange snake let out a miserable scream, and then collapsed to the ground softly, and then gradually melted, turning into a foul of fishy liquid.
"Cut, that's a nuisance."
Looking at the foul-smelling liquid on his body, Duanmu Huai patted his chest in disgust. It's inconvenient to have no weapons, but it's a pity that there are no Thunder Warhammers and Chainsaw Swords to use in this world, and it's obviously a bit unsuitable to fight with just two hands, plus his shooting skills are basically negative......... Well, it seems that after going back this time, I also need to find myself a suitable weapon.
At this point, everything is basically over. The middle-aged man who was sacrificed was saved, and in fact he was his distant relative in the setting, the hapless art dealer. And the black-robed cultist was Cliff, but unfortunately, he didn't seem to be sure when he summoned the strange snake through the statue, and as a result, the summoned monster snake directly bit off half of his body.
As for the remaining ghouls, they were directly slapped to death by Lorena holding up the holy scriptures.
After that, Duanmu Huai took the phone to call the police——— as for why he didn't call the police at the beginning, the reason is also very simple, it was said before that where this kind of unspeakable monster haunts, the boundary between reality and nightmares will become unstable. In this case, it is basically impossible to communicate with the outside world whether it is a mobile phone or a telephone. Unless you can only call the police after you have eliminated the trouble here, everything is back to normal, and the space is stable.
The police soon came to the scene, investigated and searched here, and Duanmu Huai also handed over the clues and evidence he collected to the detectives——— which is a very necessary one, clues and evidence can not only give a rating on the system task, but even affect the police in this world to view you.
If the evidence is sufficient, then the police will be confident that there is nothing wrong with your behavior.
But on the contrary, if the evidence is insufficient, then you run to someone's house to smash and loot and burn———— then wait to go to jail.
Since this is only an entry-level level, it is naturally extremely simple for an old fritter like Duanmu Huai, so soon, a police detective appeared in front of him.
"Hello, sir."
Looking at Duanmu Huai, who was several heads taller than himself, the detective was also a little nervous.
"We have checked the clues and evidence you provided, and everything is confirmed........."
"So, can I leave?"
"Of course, but ......... We have a small request. ”
"Oh?"
Hearing this, Duanmu Huai, who had long known what would happen next, raised his eyebrows.
"What request?"
"I wonder if you're interested in assisting the police and becoming an investigator?"