A vague whimper echoed through the room. The voice was so slight that Chen Qiang pricked up his ears and only heard a half-star.

【SC0/1】

[Chen Qiang's sanity test failed 54/43, and the current sanity 42]

"Stand back."

Chen Qiang pulled out his pistol and stared at the dusty door on the side. The room fell silent, but the ghostly whimpering sound was gone.

"Lily, stay here and don't move."

Chen Qiang walked to the rotten door. Lily also realized that something was wrong and tiptoed back to the window.

"Stay vigilant," Chen said, "the 'owner' of this room will come back at any time." ”

Lily nodded.

“…… Good. ”

Chen Qiang stood on the side of the door. Maybe there was a suffering victim imprisoned in this room, but maybe ......

Chen Qiang took a deep breath and pushed the door open.

The rotten door let out a creaking and opened.

"Oh God." Lily covered her mouth.

It was one person – "probably" one and "probably" two. A rusty iron chain tied "his" neck. His skin was shriveled and shattered, revealing his bones, and his flesh was already rotting, lying motionless on the ground.

On the shoulders of the corpse grew another neck and head, equally rotten and broken, the eyes in the sockets were long gone, and the mouth made a strange "hissing" sound, twitching, writhing, trying to break free from the other body that bound him, and as if to vent his own crazy hatred, he kept biting at the still head of another person with his only remaining teeth.

Chen Qiang couldn't help but feel a cramp in his stomach - he had seen a lot of disgusting things, but he wasn't Leon Kennedy after all.

【SC1/1D8+1】

[Chen Qiang's sanity test failed 54/43]

[Burning Luck 43/43 Success, Current Sanity 42, Current Luck 46]

[Lily Coolidge sanity test 33/65 successful, current sanity 64]

The crazy monster made Lily dizzy and nearly fell, but she eventually restrained her nausea. Even Chen Qiang couldn't help but take two steps back. The head seemed to be aware of Chen Qiang's presence, and desperately probed in the direction of the door, but it couldn't move half a minute.

[Chen Qiang's investigation and verification 70/72 success]

Chen Qiang noticed that a bullet had split the head of an intact human being.

So Chen Qiang understood......

"I see. A 'conjoined zombie' that has been shot through a head. ”

will make this kind of thing, and Bigby's aesthetic is enough to see. But it's true that this thing is enough to scare the heads of 99 percent of normal humans in this era.

At this time, Chen Qiang did not know that before Bigby released the zombie as a "watchdog" yesterday, this painful creature had been wandering in the storage room of the big house for more than half a century. Bigby and a few of his disciples created it out of a purely "experimental" mentality, and allowed it to perpetuate its endless suffering.

[Chen Qiang's shooting verification 82/79 failed]

[Chen Qiang's shooting verification 6/79 is successful, damage 1D10+2=5]

[Chen Qiang's shooting verification 55/79 is successful, damage 1D10+2=3]

[Chen Qiang's shooting verification 9/79 was successful, damage 1D10+2=4]

Chen Qiang poured four "old seal bullets" into the howling head in a row from a safe distance, and the thing finally stopped moving.

Lily breathed a sigh of relief.

She remembered her biological father, the fearless Captain Johansen. As long as it's something that can be killed by bullets and impacts, there's nothing to worry about......

But Chen Qiang didn't dare to take it lightly. It's not surprising that this zombie-like thing might suddenly "come back from the dead".

He made a gesture to keep Lily outside, and he cautiously walked towards the motionless "conjoined corpse".

This is clearly the study of the big house. The books on the shelves are rotten; In the corner of the room is a granite altar enshrined in a gold necklace encrusted with blood-red pebbles.

[Chen Qiang's investigation and verification 50/72 success]

Chen Qiang noticed that the candle on his desk had obviously been used not long ago, and there was a magnifying glass and a few messy pieces of parchment next to it. A large bookstall with a green leather cover and yellowed pages was open on the lectern on the side of the study, with words written on it that Chen Qiang did not recognize.

"Mr. Chen?" Lily's worried voice could be heard outside the room. She lit her lantern and stood outside looking in worriedly.

"It's okay," Chen Qiang said, "there's no danger, come in." No, wait......"

He stomped on the zombie's shoulder's head.

[Chen Qiang's strength test 5/65 was a great success]

The zombie was cut in two. Lily swallowed and foamed, thankfully without causing any further loss of sanity.

"Be careful not to touch anything in the house."

God knows if the old fox in Bigby set a trap in the house, Chen Qiang thought.

【Lily Greek Test 14/30 Success】

"It's Greek." Lily recognized the words on the big book at a glance. When Chen Qiang sold the Greek "Great Cosmic Order", she was able to identify the words on it. And the book in front of him has a skull-shaped buckle, and the ominous aura is even more on the books sold by Chen Qiang.

……

The underground of the mountains.

Edmund Bigby slowly crawled through the secret passage. After completing his revenge on Mr. Foster, he discovers with his dismay that the barrier he left on the window frame of the big house has been touched. Maybe his home was under enemy surveillance, he thought.

Hopefully just an intruder who doesn't know anything about magic, he said to himself. The two-headed corpse in the study was enough to scare off the uninvited guests, and by the time the Arkham Police Department freed up its police forces to deal with these "strange stories", he would have long since flown away.

But the two-headed corpse could not scare the well-informed mages and agents. For them, Bigby left other traps. He cast a powerful curse on the altar's pendant, and he had no doubt that those who coveted his magical powers would touch the pendant with their greedy palms and fall into the curse.

After spending a long time underground, and being imprisoned in an insane asylum by Gu Shun, now Bigby has long since worn off the edges and corners of the year. Even with an invulnerable body, he still doesn't dare to take potential danger lightly.

Even under the cover of night, Bigby still chose to enter and exit through the underground passages.

……

In the decaying study.

Lily read the words in the big book.

The book was full of weird stories, but Lily didn't relate the book to real spells.

【…… It was known to the ancient Witch and was known as Kwache Utautaus......] Lily read the words of the book in her mind.

At least a third of the words in the book were unknown to Lily, and she could only surmise through the context that it was about a monster named Quache Utaus. And Lily had never heard of such a myth.

【…… It is rarely present, because its dwelling place is located outside the boundless cycle of reincarnation, in the void of time and space, and is a bleak and lightless frontier. 】

If Gu Shun had been here, he would have explained that the entity of Quache Utaus might have wandered far away on the outskirts of the city of Kalksa, on the shores of Lake Harry, where Hasta the Unspeakable lived. However, even these followers of Hasta have never seen the true essence beneath the mummified shell of Quache Utaus.

[Although hidden in the heart and unspoken, the words evoked are also chilling, because Quache Utaus is the ultimate decay. When it is approaching, it is like an eternity passes. Under the foot, the flesh and blood are unbearable, and everything is dust. Therefore, it may be called "dust-treading people"]

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