Of course, the hall manager couldn't find the name, and Hobart smiled: "I'll investigate in the reception hall, please give me a cup of tea." ”

Hobert's so-called investigation is to look at the people around him, one by one, and look very carefully.

He saw that the smiles on everyone's faces were somewhat unnatural, or somewhat exaggerated.

Seeing this alone, Hobert felt that there must be something wrong with this villa, but he didn't immediately ask about Selena, and just quietly observed.

As for the Messenger's point of contamination, that was the least of Hobert's concern, for the "Clock of Order" could break all pollution.

The waiter served Hobart tea, but Hobart didn't take a sip.

Finally, Hobert saw a middle-aged man with a normal look, smoking a cigarette in a chair outside, as if thinking about something.

In the midst of a person full of anomalies, if you suddenly find that there is a person who has no signs of abnormality at all, then there must be something wrong with this person.

Hobart got up and went out to talk to the middle-aged man who was smoking, "Hello, sir. ”

The middle-aged man glanced at Hobert: "Hello, is there something wrong?" ”

Hobert sat next to the middle-aged man with a smile and a leisurely expression: "I just saw that you seemed to be thinking something, and I was a little curious." Of course, the more important reason is that I am on vacation alone and want to have someone to talk to. ”

"I'm sorry," the middle-aged man said, standing up, "I don't have the heart to make small talk." ”

"Has something strange happened here lately?" Hobart probed.

The middle-aged man sat down and asked in a surprised whisper, "You also found out?" ”

Hober nodded: "Yes, what should I call you?" ”

"My name is Harold. What about you? ”

"Everybody calls me Jeffrey."

Harold whispered, "Then Mr. Jeffrey, why are you carrying an oil painting on your back?" ”

I said this is not actually an oil painting, but a dynamite bag, do you believe it?

Hobert knew that he had found the right person, because the oil painting was wrapped in a thick cloth, and it was difficult for ordinary people to "guess" that it was an oil painting at once.

"That's my sketchpad," Hobert said, "I'm actually an art college student, and I'm here to collect style." ”

Harold nodded, not continuing the topic: "Do you have any clue about the problem of this mountain villa?" ”

Hobert spread his hands: "I don't have a clue, I can only feel as if something is wrong, but I don't know what to do." ”

Harold's voice was even quieter: "Listen to me, Mr. Jeffrey, while you still have sense, run quickly!" ”

Hobart asked, "Where to run?" ”

"Run outside the villa!"

"Where to run?"

"See that pine forest? Wherever you climb a mountain, there is a small village, and when you get to that village, you are safe. ”

Hobert didn't have any intention of getting up and leaving: "Mr. Harold, let's run away together!" ”

"No, I'm going to find out what's going on here."

Hobert pondered for a moment, "I also want to investigate what is going on, is there anything I can do to help?" ”

Harold looked at Hobert and then smiled, "Few people have the courage of yours, as far as I know, there seems to be a problem in the public hot springs, you can go there and take a look." ”

Hobert let out an "oh" sound, "But, I'm sorry, I'm allergic to hot springs." ”

"Hot spring allergies?"

"Yes." Hobert was sincere, at least he felt sincere.

Harold nodded, "Okay, do you see the woods outside the villa?" Yes, that's it, it's said that there are forest spirits there, you can ask the forest spirits for news. ”

The direction he was pointing in was the same direction that had allowed Hobart to escape.

"I'm sorry, I'm allergic to pine needles, it's full of pine trees!"

"Allergic to pine needles?"

Hobert said sincerely: "When you see pine needles, you feel uncomfortable!" ”

Harold took a serious look at Hobert: "Then you go to the lake outside the villa and take a look, it is said that there is a talking monster there, you go and ask what information the monster knows?"

"There are no hot springs on the shore of the lake, no pine trees, and all the vegetation has been removed to make it easier for tourists to walk, and there is nothing around, just a small lake."

Hobert opened his mouth: "Wait a minute......"

Let me think about it, should I be allergic to the lake? Or should you be allergic to water?

Just as Hobert was in a dilemma, a sudden sound of horses sounded in the direction of the entrance to the villa, and two carriages with the emblem of the night entered the manor.

Hobert smiled, "The people in the carriage are good helpers and can help them get to the lake......"

I don't know when, Mr. Harold has disappeared.

Hobert's eyes froze, he didn't even know when the other party disappeared, this guy really had a big problem!

However, Hobert did not take any further action, and based on the hand he had encountered with a cane, Hobert guessed that the Night Watch team had done at least one round of investigation in the Lodge.

But the investigation had apparently failed, and the night watchmen must have been so emboldened to break in because they were confident enough to solve the problem here.

Hobart prepares to observe how the Night Watch team investigates, so he looks for Selena.

So far, Hobart has found no trace of Selena. He guessed that Selena might have escaped, but of course, this was unlikely. Or maybe Selena was trapped in one of the three places Harold had just mentioned, and was already heavily contaminated at this point.

Hobert plans to wait for the Nightwatcher to investigate those three places, and he saves Selena by the way.

If the night watchman doesn't know this information yet, find an opportunity to tell them about it.

As he spoke, the carriage with the emblem of the night came closer, the door opened, and a woman with a bewitching beauty and eyes like emeralds came first.

Hobart smiled: I met an acquaintance, it turned out to be Ms. Dalie!

Next, he saw the red glove on Ms. Daly's left hand.

Hobert, who is more familiar with the extraordinary system of the Night Watchman, understands that it should be the "Red Glove" who took over the case from the Night Watchman.

Dali didn't notice Hobert, and surrounded by his subordinates, began to check his surroundings.

At this moment the door of the second carriage opened, and Hobert felt that the first person who came down was the raunchy, poet-romantic Leonard.

And Leonard, after getting out of the carriage, looked directly at Hobert.

Hobart was a little helpless: Grandpa's nose is smart enough, I don't know if he "smelled" me? Or did you "smell" the smell of oil painting?

This was an opportunity, and Hobert thought that Leonard could test himself later and tell the "Red Glove" what he had learned.

Watching eight or nine "red glove" members enter the reception hall, Hobart sat for a while, and then came to the hall and said to the hall manager: "After preliminary investigation, I already have some clues, but I'm a little tired now, arrange a room for me, I'll rest first, and continue the investigation later." ”

"No problem, sir." The hall manager whispered, "Have you already locked up the fraudster?" ”

"Yes, I've found quite a few clues!" Hobert glanced out of his eyes at the two redglove members on the other side of the couch area.

Hobert followed the waiter to a small room with a stove, beds, tables, and other common furnishings in hotels.

The view from the window is snowy, the view is not bad, and the room is quite warm.

Hobert locked the door, took off the painting, prayed to himself briefly, and then entered the "Land of Disorder".

Upon entering the "Land of Disorder", a small white mist emerged from Hobert's spirit, and this mist immediately dissipated in the "Land of Disorder".

I don't know at what point Hobart has been secretly polluted!

Then Hobart frowned, he remembered that he had been polluted by the "Fallen Mother Goddess" before, and there seemed to be an extra personality in his spirit. The "bell of order" rings to eliminate pollution.

This time, however, the pollution was only a small puff of white mist, which did not seem to be as serious as the "Fallen Mother Goddess", and what puzzled Hobart was why the "Disordered Nation" did not react at all. The white fog of pollution dissipated on its own in the "land of disorder"?

Is the source of pollution weak this time? Or is the source of the pollution more special?

But now was not the time to think about it, and Hobert began to think about when he had been contaminated.

Was it when I was talking to Harold? Or was it polluted as soon as you entered the lodge?

While thinking, he covered his own stars with spirituality, using his "true vision" to see his environment.

Hobert noticed a faint white mist in the direction of the door.

He was sure that there was no such white fog before he came to the "Land of Disorder".

The white mist rolled as if it were alive, and it seemed to wrap a tentacle in the white mist.

Although the tentacle did not reach itself, the pollution was supposed to be what it spread.

After promoting Sequence 5, the scope of the "True Vision" was already very large, and Hoberta raised his vision and found that the entire mountain villa was shrouded in a thin white mist, and there were tentacles emitting white mist everywhere.

When entering the villa, Hobert had also seen a lot of fog around the villa, but it was normal water mist, which was clearly different from these white fogs.

What is it? Can't even see it with spiritual vision?

Hobert looked in the direction of the tentacle depths into the woods outside the lodge.

The white fog there is getting worse and worse, but unfortunately the "True Vision" has a limited range of sight and cannot see the situation there clearly.

Sitting on the "Iron Throne", Hobert realizes that the pollution here is more complex than he had previously imagined.

Hobert didn't plan to continue exploring, he planned to find Selena from the three places that Harold had prompted, and leave it to the official extraordinaire to settle the rest.

In addition, since the pollution is all over the mountain village, it is necessary to enter the "country of disorder" for "disinfection" in an hour.

After making up his mind, Hobert returned to the real world, he looked in the direction of the door, and indeed saw nothing.

Knock knock~

The knock on the door startled Hobert: "Who?" ”

"Peer!" Leonard's relaxed voice rang out outside.

Hobart opened the door: "What peers?" ”

Outside the door is a fellow poet who likes to wear trench coats like Hobert.

"I think we should go in and talk." Leonard smiled.

Hobert invited the other party into the room, and Leonard took out the ID issued by the police: "Look, I said it's a companion." ”

Hobart smiled, "Please be seated." ”

After sitting down, Leonard asked, "I heard from the hall manager that you're investigating a fraudster?" ”

"yes, what are you investigating?"

"We're investigating a murderer!"

Hobert laughed: "The hall manager should be surprised!" ”

What's going on with these guests? One moment there are fraudsters, the next there are murderers!

Leonard asked in a relaxed tone, "Any clues?" ”

"Yes, I think Mr. Harold has ......"

"Harold? Does he like to smoke? ”

Hobart thought about it, and it seemed that he had a cigarette in his hand all the time: "You know him?" ”

"That's one of my companions." Leonard clenched his cane and leaned back in his chair, the smile on his face fading away: "And he's in Mount York now!" ”

Hobert was stunned: "York Hill? ”

Leonard's answer exceeded his expectations, as far as he knew, the "Deep Heaven", once the kingdom of the goddess of the night, was in the Amanda Mountains on Mount York, where the headquarters of the Church of the Goddess of the Night was also located.

The poet spread his hands: "Okay, let's stop this pointless temptation!" We know you have a problem, and you should know who we are! ”

Hobart nodded and thought to himself: Leonard mistook what I just said for a test of him!

He didn't intend to explain, the two of them were testing each other.

Leonard asked, "Do you have anything to say?" ”

"One of my students is trapped here, and I'm here to rescue her." "In addition, I learned that there are problems with the public hot springs, the pine forest outside the mountain resort, and the lake outside. ”

"What else?"

"I've just arrived, too." Hobert also learned from Leonard and spread his hands: "That's it." ”

Leonard suddenly asked, "What's that on the table?" ”

"An oil painting."

"Just an oil painting?"

"You can understand it that way."

"So." Leonard got up and said, "Two of my colleagues will send you to ...... first"

Hobert waved his hand, "You should solve the problem of the mountain villa first." ”

Leonard: "Perhaps, you're the root of the problem!" ”

Only then did Hobart realize: this was a reminder from the "old man"!

"Looks like we're going to work together in a different way." Hobert held the painting in one hand and said, "When it's over, you'll find out how wrong you are." ”

Although Leonard made some preparations, he could only watch Hobart disappear in front of his eyes: "Old man, didn't you say that he was not very strong?" ”

"Is it good to have the ability to 'travel'?" A voice that only Leonard could hear: "That painting is disturbing me. ”

Leonard pouted ungentlemanly: "So, he's gone, is the source of pollution still there?" ”

"It's still there!" The voice said, "I advise you to evacuate the villa quickly, this is a very advanced pollution. ”

"How advanced is it?"

"So advanced that if you are too polluted, your goddess of the night may not be able to save you."

Leonard frowned unconsciously, thinking about how to remind Dali, the commander of this operation.

……

On the top of the hill opposite Boklon Villa, Hobert smiled helplessly: "With the help of the old man, it didn't work this time." ”

He picked up the painting and changed his face, preparing to enter the lodge again to observe the movements of the night watchman.

Just as he was about to leave, Hobert's spirituality was felt as he saw a procession of a dozen people on the mountainside.

It was not so much a team of a dozen people as a dozen monsters, and Hobert saw that there was a lady in the group who was more than two meters tall, and that it was not how tall she was, but her head that took up a third of her body.

There was also a young man in the group who was shiny black, his eyes turned orange-red and flowed like flames.

Some were covered with cracked and hard skin, some were covered with the spikes of thistles, and two young men, a man and a woman, were covered in scales, and spit out snake letters every time they spoke.

Hobert realized: the group was badly contaminated.

He used his "travel" to come to the path of these people, and after a while, he waited for them: "Are you guests at the lodge?" ”

At the front of the team was a grizzly bear, Hobert originally thought it was a domesticated pet of Boklon Villa, but who knew that this grizzly bear said: "We are the hunting team of the villa, may I ask who you are?" ”

"I'm a tourist at the lodge." Hobert pointed to the oil painting behind him: "I went too deep into the woods during the framing and ended up getting lost. ”

He immediately understood that the group had not noticed that he or his teammates had become monsters!

"Then you can come with us." "We're looking for a grizzly bear, and if we can't find it by 11 o'clock, we're going to go back to the lodge," Grizzly said. ”

Hobert was stunned: Are you looking for yourself? Or are you looking for a she-bear?

Hobert joins the team of monsters, and soon notices the "Snake Man" and "Snake Woman" talking behind him.

The "snake man" said: "Honey, it was just a dream, why didn't I talk to you?" ”

"Snake Girl": "But that dream was so realistic, I chased after it, chased it into a forest, and then I saw you, but you didn't speak, just hinted that I should see the traces on the snow." ”

"Snake Man" spitted out the snake letter and smiled: "Didn't Selena also have a dream, dreaming that she was chased into the forest......

Hobert listened to their conversation for a while, but unfortunately they did not continue to discuss Selena, so he turned back and smiled: "You are talking about Selena, is it Miss Selena from Tingen?" ”

The "snake man" asked with some surprise, "Do you know her?" ”

"Yes." Hobert smiled, "I met her yesterday when I was painting in the backyard, and she was a very beautiful, lively girl. ”

After talking, Hobert learned that the "snake man" was called Chris, who was Selena's brother, and the "snake girl" was called Vina.

Then Hobert asked about Selena and Veena's dream, and Hobart could basically assume that Vena and Selena were chasing each other at that time.

Their spirits must have been aware of the danger, so they fled here in a half-asleep state, but unfortunately, they were still captured by some force.

……

In the villa, after learning about Leonard's clues, Dali decided to split up to investigate.

Leonard goes to a public hot spring with a male colleague.

The two of them tried to make themselves like ordinary tourists, changed their clothes and came to the hot springs, looking at them vigilantly.

It is an indoor hot spring the size of a large conference room, and it is tiled all around, and waiters shuttle through it, serving drinks, snacks, and fruits.

There were quite a few guests in the hot springs, and they were talking and laughing freely, and everything seemed to be normal.

Half an hour later, just as Leonard and his colleagues were about to leave the hot spring to rest, all of a sudden, the hot spring became quiet.

Only then did the two "Red Gloves" notice that everyone's movements were still, standing there motionless like stone statues.

There was a person wrapped in something like kelp, and he walked out of the depths of the hot spring.

I can't see the appearance of the monster, and I can't see the gender clearly.

Leonard and his colleagues tried to react, only to find themselves paralyzed, and every movement was difficult.

Fortunately, Leonard put the whistle for help in his hand, and he immediately blew the whistle, then calmed down and looked at the strange man who suddenly appeared in the hot spring: "Who are you?" ”

"Of course I'm a guest in the hot springs!"

Can communicate!

Leonard asked, "Why did you become the way you are?" What did you do to us and our other guests? ”

"That's the toxin in my body, I drained it into the hot springs, and you couldn't move, and you all became my prey......"

At this time, two "red gloves" who were ready to support in the hall rushed in, and when they saw the monster approaching Leonard and the others, they raised their guns and pulled the trigger repeatedly.

Hula~

The strange man disappeared into the hot springs.

The Red Gloves regroup in the hall, and Daly and another team member go to explore the lake, only to find nothing, and another group of Red Gloves that do not return.

Just then, someone shouted: "The hunting party is back!" ”

……

Hobert clenched the black knife and watched the scene in front of him quietly.

On the members of the hunting team, there was a layer of gray moths lying on their stomachs, and if he hadn't been chatting with them just now, Hobert would have thought that these gray moths were lying on some humanoid stakes.

The reason why Hobart was just observing, but not repelling, the gray moths were because they seemed to be sucking the pollution from the members of the hunting team.

Previously, the team members who had become monsters gradually regained their human form.

It's just that the girl with the long face still has a long face, and the dark young man's skin is still a little dark.

Honk~

Hobart heard a shrill whistle, the whistle of a night watchman calling for help.

He immediately followed the whistle and found nothing, only two large cocoons on the pine trees!

Wait, pines!

Hobert suddenly found that he had entered the woods where "Harold" said, with forest spirits!

(End of chapter)