The stronghold of Momiji Town, the Eternal Night Anomaly Investigation Team.

Blanton saw Ian walk out, rubbing his wrist as he went.

Ian had only one sentence in his head:

'It's really troublesome to maintain. ’

Fortunately, he was able to brush up experience points by practicing magic silk threads, which can be regarded as a wholesome gain.

"President, I have something to ask Miss Alice...... Did you see her? ”

Blanton inspected a kilometer near Momiji Town, lifted every leaf to look at it, and went to the hollow of the tree to check for any traces of magic.

I really found him some problems.

Ian looked strange: "I haven't seen it, you can tell me the problem first, and then do other work." ”

Alice? She had fainted, most likely from exhaustion, and couldn't get up.

Brandon then tells Ian some of the findings.

Anomalous discoveries in Momiji Town.

Momiji Town is not normal, there are often disappearances here, and the missing person has never been recovered.

Death does not exist in this world, and the practice of the town of Eternal Sleep is cremation, destroying the body.

And Red Leaf Town, there is no way to deal with it, but there is not even a carrion corpse nearby.

Apparently an anomaly.

"Squeak-"

As the two were talking, an unsettling scream came from outside the window.

Ian was immediately alert, clenched his mandala bow, and walked out the door to observe the dark sky outside.

The Eternal Night environment has an effect on others, but not on Ian, who relies on Eagle Vision to observe danger and hostility.

The seagull feasted and landed on Ian's shoulder, wary of the nearby changes.

"President, do you need me to mobilize people?"

Blanton suspects that there are monsters gathered.

Ian refused: "Don't startle the snake, I'll search the neighborhood first." ”

He has the sequence ability "Agnostic", and his stealth skill is full.

Stealth + information concealment, two double super buffs are superimposed, if there are monsters that can find him first, Ian thinks it must be at least a golden sequence above level 35.

But no matter how mysterious Red Leaf Town is, there is no way to give birth to a monster of this level, and the upper limit of strength is stuck.

'Shadowless Travel'

Ian's presence instantly decreased, and he first pursued the location of the sound, and the figure entered the darkness.

As soon as he left, a thin mist rose nearby, representing another opening of the Twin Moon anomaly.

But this time it was fleeting, sending Ian only into the wrong area of the garbage debris.

[Enter the "Wrong Zone"]

The sequence system prompts Ian.

He looked at it, and didn't care, there were a lot of monsters nearby, and Ian eliminated them one by one.

If he can kill one by one, in case he finishes killing, he can directly order this garbage fragment to self-destruct.

Sou!

Sharp arrows flashed in the moonlight, piercing the wolf's head and quietly slaying.

Ian slipped over in a shadowless ride, touched the wolf, and used extraction to break it down.

A handful of lunar soil appeared in his hand, and Ian frowned slightly.

Lunar soil was extracted......

The monsters in the wrong area could not have been transformed into alien monsters through some means.

Otherwise, I can't tell why there is a "lunar soil" that only moon monsters can find in their loot list.

Ian kills the level 20~30 silver sequence monster and clears his way in the wrong area.

The error area is not large, and after investigation by the Transition Crows, it is only in the vicinity of Momiji Town.

Keep moving forward.

A figure appeared in the moonlight, carrying a sword to fight the monster.

He was dressed in black armor, like a shadow, and his opponent was a giant lump of flesh.

The rotting pile of meat, six meters high and three meters in diameter, squirmed to dodge the armoured man's swing of the sword, and then flicked the attack with his tentacles.

Bang Bang Bang!!

The air was blasted by a Stitch-like attack, and the Armorman was defeated, sent flying with a single blow, and landed in front of Ian.

He forced himself to stand up, and suddenly noticed Ian behind him, and turned his head to look at Ian.

“……”

Neither of them spoke first, and Ian looked at each other's outfits.

Dressed in black armor and armed with a large sword, I have never seen it.

"Adventurer? Hunter? Get out of here, weirdness is dangerous. ”

The man in armor said coldly, fighting the stitching monster again.

This time, though, the Stitch Monster glowed all over, and with a wave of its tentacle on the armored man's abdomen, it knocked him flying again, landing in front of Ian.

He stood up again, not feeling hurt at all.

Boy...... It's so wrinkle-resistant.

Ian was a little stunned, and at this moment, he also relied on releasing the hunting mark again and again, and analyzed the attributes of the stitching monster.

【Name:Meat pile】

[Source: Birth of the Moon]

[Level: 35]

[Sequence: Gold]

[HP: 4213/5500, Mana: 1900/2000]

[Possession Skills: Flesh Fusion, Rampage, Devouring, Assimilation ......]

[Description: An anomalous fusion monster that simply pours out malice on living creatures, belonging to the category of Moon Monsters.] 】

Behemoth, the embodiment of the Necromantic Scourge, has the ability to fuse necromantic monsters.

The thing in front of me is a monster who has been transformed into a race after I don't know how many monsters have fused.

It's weird......

There's nothing strange around Momiji Town, but it's all weird in the wrong area, and it's a bit like a garbage dump in Momiji Town.

The level 35 golden sequence is difficult to play, and Ian summons the Phantasmal Star Drone.

He reached out to the man in armor.

"Can you stand up?"

The other party looked at the phantom drone in a daze.

After a moment, the armored man let out a long sigh, "It's an outsider...... No wonder I haven't seen you. ”

He slowly became transparent in Ian's surprised gaze.

"Next time we meet, let's talk a few more words, you should be able to handle this yourself, right?"

He asked, pointing to the Meat Heap Monster, "If you can't beat it, run away, and leave when the time comes." ”

The armoured man turned into a faint light and vanished completely.

It's a bit like magic like a phantom clone, a scene that appears when a doppelganger dies.

The monster began to get angry, and Ian didn't have time to think about the armor man's question, and his eyes locked on the pile of meat.

But at this moment, his pupils constricted.

Countless corpses were stitched into a pile of flesh, and on its chest, a black steel helmet was clearly visible.

"Roar!!"

The pile of flesh let out a terrible roar and waved its tentacles at Ian, who didn't want to touch the vicious flesh tentacles, who didn't know how many viruses there were.

He dodged it, and the seagull flew high into the air after Ian summoned it, shooting out some black death feathers, causing a massive explosion.

The Phantasmal Drone kept fire as well, and the scorching beams of energy pierced through the pile of flesh, roasting the flesh into char.

The body on one side of the pile of flesh was cut by the phantom beam, and he fell to the ground diagonally, but his health did not drop much.

It regenerates health quickly, glowing green +500, +500 in Ian's eyes.

This kind of health regeneration speed can't be killed by normal attacks.

Ian rolls to dodge the attack of the meat pile, which is 9 levels higher than him, and also has a special health sequence ability.

He looked at the pile of flesh carefully, and found all kinds of relics of the dead from it, whether it was iron swords or armor, all of which had been integrated into the body of the meat pile.

'Hunting Marker'

【Name:Meat pile】

[HP: 3280/5500]

It's outrageous.

If your health doesn't return to zero, and you can't find the vital parts, how can you fight this?

Ian took the World Crown from his backpack, put it on his head, and snapped his fingers at the pile of meat.

A shadow of destruction flew out of his fingers, exploding blood in the flesh of the pile, hollowing out the belly of the pile.

Inside the disgusting flesh, a red hedron glistened.

Ian switches his bow and shoots three alloy arrows, severing the connection between the hedron and the body of the pile.

The sharp arrows easily separated the flesh, and the movement of the pile of flesh slowed suddenly.

It wants to lean down and protect the spar in its body, and it looks like there are no silver three hundred taels here, which must be a weakness.

Ian took out his wand and flicked it:

"The hedron is flying!"

The red hedron that was protected by the meat pile in his arms immediately broke away from the control of the meat pile and flew into Ian's hands.

With this action, the meat pile stiffly lifted his upper body and stared at Ian's face with the eyeballs in the flesh hole.

It petrified, shattering into a slag in a matter of seconds.

Ian only felt stingy:

"Don't you even let you take it?"

It's hard to kill a monster, and the monster also has its own death animation, right? The problem is that if you want to get loot in a sequence game, you have to use extraction!

He snorted, checking the red crystal he had snatched.

[Name: Filthy Spirit Gem]

[Description: The original spiritual power in the gem has been polluted, and absorbing its power will cause the soul to turn black. 】

This thing is actually a spirit gem?

Ian opened the backpack suspiciously, and found the maintenance bag inside, which was neatly placed with golden needles and threads, a spiritual gem used to maintain Alice.

Normal spirit gemstones are golden, while dirty spirit gemstones are red.

One more question...... Why does the meat pile need spirit gems to exist, and if you lose it, you will immediately turn into a stone statue, is it...

Ian is a little brainy, saying that this can't be the same origin as friend and foe, puppetry is actually an evil monster knowledge, and it will make people blacken the taboo or something after learning......

He examined the broken stone statue, pinched a piece of white gravel with his hand, and looked at it carefully, it looked a bit like marble......

However, when Alice's body loses its magical powers, it will take on a similar color.

Oops pinch.

Now I have to wonder what kind of monster refining is being done in Red Leaf Town.

With mixed emotions, Ian examines the corpses of this place, which used to be all kinds of garbage and rotten meat, but now all turned into marble.

How to say, the material of the broken meat is indeed marble.

There are many uses for this kind of stone, and only Ian knows about the building of houses with floor tiles and the carving of rows of statues.

Maybe it can be used for puppetry, too?

As the meat pile was killed, the white mist nearby slowly dissipated, and the speed was very fast, and in the blink of an eye, Ian came to reality.

He straightened up and looked nearby.

Some of the investigators in the town of Eternal Sleep happened to be here to investigate, and Ian's sudden appearance startled them.

"President." Arya spoke first, "Have you found a way to trigger the Bilunar Anomaly?" ”

"No, I was just accidentally pulled in."

Ian shook his head, he was about to leave, but the moment he turned his head, he saw something familiar.

It was a black helmet, but it was rusty at the moment, and it had been dug out of the ground by the exploration team.

There are also some marble fragments next to the helmet.

"How strange...... There are a lot of this marble near Momiji Town, as well as warrior armor. ”

Arya complained to Ian, "Maybe there's a war here?" ”

Ian had been shocked by what he had discovered.

"The owner of the black helmet, I saw him once in the wrong area, and he's still alive."

"For some reason, though, he turned into light and disappeared."

Ian said.

The investigator froze in place, and the mage tried to guess: "Doppelganger? ”

The mages inspect the black helmets and talk to each other.

"The doppelganger technique is not lethal, it is just research magic."

"That's the doppelganger with the ability to attack."

"Why can't it be the other party who ran away? For example, he was seriously injured and slipped away with a special ability, leaving behind a helmet. ”

Ian watched as the mages communicated.

He knew in his heart that the man in black armor had not taken off his helmet.

The scratches and lines left by the attack from the monsters on the helmet, and the armor fused with the flesh of the armor man are exactly the same.

What exactly is the situation?

With doubts in his heart, Ian found Alice, who was still in a state of shame.

After seeing Ian, Alice gritted her silver teeth and wanted to give him a mouthful.

She deliberately turned off the lights before Ian arrived, put on her clothes in the moonlight, and looked back at Ian:

"Gatekeeper...... What's the point? ”

Angry belongs to yes.

"I'll have to go to Ms. Duggard, can you take me down?" You don't have to walk. ”

Ian summons the Wolf King.

In any case, it was a good idea to take Alice, the most human-like doll at the moment, to question Ms. Duggard.

He really suspected that Ms. Duggard had bad intentions and did not understand the source of artificial souls, and Ms. Duggard would never be able to get rid of suspicion.

"Whew~"

The Wolf King appears, and the obedient acts as a mount, and Lady Duggard is currently located near the town of Changmian, and finding her is simple.

"Huh?"

Lady Durga sees Ian and Alice.

It's to find yourself.

Realizing this, she put down her work and took out a cloth to wipe the blood off her hands.

In the workshop inside the house was a demon wolf, which was tied to a dissecting table and cut down from the cervical vertebrae of its head, separating the bones from the flesh.

Lady Duggard opened the door and asked Ian with a smile:

"Gatekeeper, what's the matter? It's that Alice isn't very obedient, or that she doesn't know how to use the maintenance kit. ”

"It's really difficult to maintain a puppet, it's normal that you don't understand it, if you want me to maintain Alice, I can take a break from work to help you."

Ian got straight to the point: "I wonder if there is a connection between puppetry and necromantic monsters?" ”

Alice was also beside her, she couldn't have imagined that Ian was asking this kind of question, and she was stunned.

She looked at her mother, waiting for a response.

"Puppetry and ...... Necromantic monsters? ”

Ms. Dujia covered her mouth and looked surprised: "Gatekeeper, are you suspicious of the origin of puppetry?" ”

"It's a real science! By no means an evil force of God, I can guarantee that. ”

Ian took out the marble from the pile of dead flesh and handed it to Lady Duja.

Beautiful marble fragments, the appearance of flesh and blood can be vaguely seen.

But there wouldn't be that normal craftsman carving a flesh statue out of marble, right? It's not a Cthulhu ritual.

"Fragments of the Death Doll......

Ms. Durga recognized what Ian had given her.

Look at the shards in the form of a chilling, twisted piece of flesh that happens to have an eye on it.

The eyeballs have been petrified, and its ferocity and hideousness in the flesh state can be vaguely seen, and it is fully visible to the three people present.

"I believe Ms. Duggard also saw that the material of the doll is marble, and it shatters into pieces after death."

"This kind of marble fragment with a twisted shape of flesh and blood also comes from a puppet called 'Meat Heap', or a puppet or golem."

"Whatever it is, they're similar, I want to know Momiji's previous work, maybe in addition to making the perfect doll Alice, you also made ...... Other 'dangerous' things? ”

After Ian finished speaking, he stared silently at the noble lady Duja.

Alice next to him froze, and a wave of fear involuntarily appeared in her heart.

Momiji Town has always relied on the grizzly bears made by Alice to fight against those monsters.

But when Ian arrives today, he actually suspects that she, the grizzly bear, and those necromantic monsters are actually the same kind?

What's even more terrifying is that Du Jia, who knew everything, did not choose to answer at this juncture, but frowned and looked at Ian.

"I can guarantee that Momiji has never studied dolls like meat piles."

"But...... I don't really know what the puppeteers did before, so I can't be sure ......."

"If the gatekeepers suspect me, maybe the mages will be able to check the puppet books to determine whether I'm guilty or not."

"But puppetry is a secret of Alice's family...... I also hope you remember this thing. ”

Her tone was eerie, and she looked a little angry.

Ian himself has read the doll books, and there is an Alice next to him, and the other party's race is "dolls", and there is nothing wrong with it.

Whether it was Alice or Grizzly, it was a far cry from the pile of meat he had seen.

"In that case, I have one more question."

Ian asked again, "The question of the artificial soul realm, the need to make a puppet requires a soul, and Alice doesn't understand this. ”

"I think Ms. Dujia, who has studied puppetry, should be able to answer this question."

"Where do the puppet's souls come from?"

Outside the workshop, a group of mages gathered.

They have been there for a long time, and in the event of any conflict, they will protect Ian as soon as possible.

With the protection of this group of 40+ level, golden sequence powerhouses, Ian dared to ask Du Jia in person, not afraid of the other party rioting and killing.

"Is there any doubt about that? I can also understand that when it comes to the soul, some people tend to think crookedly. ”

Ms. Dujat smiled kindly:

"I mainly use some special methods to obtain the souls that the puppet needs, and I can guarantee that the source of these souls is legitimate and legitimate."

"After all, the puppet industry has been in business for a long time, and if there is any problem with it, Alice's family will be arrested and imprisoned a long time ago."

Ian listened quietly to the other party's answer.

At a glance, the answer is: the answer is not the question.

As for "how to obtain souls", Ms. Du Jia didn't say a word.

(End of chapter)