Chapter 448: The Tainted Soothsayer Sage
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While paying attention to the movements around him, Hobert swung his knife to cut open two cocoons, and sure enough, two unconscious members of the "Red Glove" fell out of them.
Hobert put on his gloves and observed the two members, who were not seriously contaminated, and Hobert carried them back to the hunting party one by one.
The gray moth had all flown away, and the team members seemed to suddenly wake up, unaware of what they had just experienced, and some people said that they seemed to have seen the grizzly bear again.
Hobert glanced at the leader at the front of the line, who gave people a furry feeling, and was a little speechless for a while.
He didn't do anything, and lied that he had found two unconscious people in the snow just now, and everyone carried them back to the villa.
"The hunting party is back!"
Amid the shouts of a few guests playing in the snow, Hobert and the others returned.
Mr. and Mrs. Wood rushed out and said to Chris, "Selena is gone!" We searched the whole lodge and couldn't find her. ”
Hobart listened to Mr. Wood's description with his ears stretched out, and quickly came to a judgment: Selena had disappeared not long before I came.
At this time, Leonard, who was in the hall, saw a young man in the hunting party carrying an oil painting, and without the old man's reminder, his intuition told him that the oil painting was the oil painting that had disappeared before his eyes.
And the person carrying the oil painting on his back must be the original person, but his appearance is different.
The other "red gloves" saw the two members of the team who were being carried, and after learning that it was the young man with the "easel" on his back who saved the two companions, Dali stepped forward to express her gratitude.
When the "Red Gloves" got together again, Dai Li whispered: "The young man who saved our team just now has a problem with his 'easel'. ”
Leonard hesitated for a second or two before he said, "That's the person who told me three suspicious locations before, he, he has changed his appearance, but I can recognize the oil painting he is carrying." ”
Everyone was stunned, and then looked at Dai Li together.
Dai Li pondered: "The situation here is obviously more complicated than in Harold's report, since the other party has enough kindness to us to cooperate."
"Leonard, you invited him over, at this time we should put aside our preconceptions and make saving the tourists here the highest priority."
……
When Hobert saw Leonard greet him and sit down beside him, he knew that Dali had made the most rational choice.
"I'm sorry!" Leonard smiled, "We should always look for the most obvious suspicions." ”
Hobart asked, "And now?" ”
"Now we would like to ask you to discuss with us a solution to the problem."
"I'm sorry," Hobert said with a smile in Leonard's tone, "I've provided you with such important information, but in return I was almost captured. ”
Leonard was slightly stunned before he understood what Hobart meant, and he immediately went back to report to Dali.
Soon Leonard returned: "The condition we can give is that the extraordinary income in this mission has the right to choose first, even if there is no extraordinary income, it will not be disadvantageous to you." ”
Hobert nodded: "It seems that some official extraordinaries are also very reasonable. ”
He then sat down in the "red gloves" and listened to the investigation of the "red gloves" before saying: "Everyone, I have a question, why don't you evacuate these tourists quickly and then try to solve the problem?" ”
"A group of colleagues before did that." Dai Li replied, "But after leaving the villa for some distance, the tourists will come back here on their own."
"Evacuating tourists doesn't do anything at all, and it's easy to disturb the source of pollution here."
Harold was one of the first captains of the Nightwatch, but their operation failed, and the team died here.
Only Harold escaped with serious injuries and boarded the eastbound train at the previous stop at Boklon Hills, reminding the people who came on the train not to go to Boklon Hills for the time being.
Therefore, the Church of the Night Goddess sent Dai Li and others, who were reporting the Beckland Great Smog incident at the headquarters, to identify and eliminate the pollution here.
Hobert nodded: "My suggestion is to investigate from those three suspicious locations, but it seems that they are all quite dangerous, so I suggest investigating them one by one."
"How about me and this Mr. Leonard go for another hot spring dip? You just wait outside the hot springs, and whatever happens inside, you can only come back after the whistle is blown. ”
He found that the "Red Gloves" didn't know more information than himself, and their investigation was progressing too slowly, and Selena would be lucky if he waited any longer, so Hobart planned to take action himself.
Finally, Hobert said to Daley: "I don't think it's going to be easy to solve the problem here with our strength. ”
Dai Li nodded: "I have already sent someone to ask for help just now." ”
Hobert got up with an "um" and went to the public hot spring with Leonard.
At this time, outside the reception hall, two team members who were sent out to ask for help, took the two team members who had just been rescued and had been unconscious, and prepared to take a carriage to the nearest church to ask for help from the headquarters.
When the two unconscious team members were carried to the car, a tiny cut in their foreheads.
It's just that the two team members who were responsible for calling for help didn't find out in time.
……
In the public hot spring, Hobert inquired about the whole process of the monster's appearance just now.
Leonard also spoke in detail, and finally he said, "...... As soon as you come out of the hot spring, the paralyzing feeling will disappear quickly, and the tourists in the hot spring will not notice that they are as motionless as a stone statue just now. ”
By this time, the "Red Glove" had sealed off the place, and there was not a single tourist in the hot springs.
Hobert sat down in the pool with a handful of "cutlery" in his hand: "You also come down, since we want to lure the other party out, we must do something to weaken ourselves." ”
Leonard hesitated, but sat down in the pool.
Hobert chattered, "You should see that too, right?" The people in the villa are more or less polluted and have become a little abnormal.
"But the problem is, if they were heavily polluted, they would have become monsters, but they didn't! Strange, you say, isn't it strange? ”
Leonard is not as confident as he was in the last conversation: "What do you guess about this?" ”
"I heard Harold say that there was a village over that mountain." Hobert said: "You say, the people who are seriously polluted, will they all be in that village?" ”
"Quite possibly."
"And I've found out," said Hobert, "that the hunting squads are generally more polluted than the tourists in the lodge!" ”
Leonard was not stupid either, and immediately guessed: "The hunting squad is closer to the source of the pollution?" ”
He added, "Then we should investigate the ...... of the hunting team."
Halfway through his speech, he denied himself: "It's dangerous to act rashly until you get enough information!" ”
Hobber nodded, "That's right. ”
In the small talk between the two of them, half an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and the monster came out of the depths of the hot spring again.
If there were ordinary people here, they would stand there motionless again, as if they had fainted.
Extraordinary people like Hobert and Leonard, on the other hand, are just paralyzed and have difficulty moving.
Hobert frowned and asked the monster in the hot spring, "I'm curious, why are you wrapped in kelp?" Is it because you can't afford to buy clothes? ”
"Idiot! This is not kelp! The monster said.
"Well, if you say no, it's not." Hobert is as good as a stream: "It's something that happened here that made you like this, right?" ”
"Yes, it all started with that evil mist!" Monster Road.
Hobert asked, "Evil mist?" ”
"You have so many questions!" The monster was already very close to Hobert: "But your body looks very strong!"
"That fog makes me have to keep looking for a new body, and you're a good choice."
At this time, a milky white light fell, "Healing Technique!" ”
Hobert immediately regained his combat strength, he jumped ashore and drew the knife from his cane not far away.
The monster turned and was about to run, but Hobert stepped forward quickly and picked the other man to shore with the back of his knife.
The kelp on the monster's body is like a snake, and it is about to burrow into the hot spring in a blink of an eye, and without the "kelp" package, only a badly decomposed corpse is left on the shore.
Hobert was in a hurry, nailed the "head" of "kelp" to the shore with a knife, and stretched out another foot to step on the tail of "kelp".
A closer look at Hobert probably determined that this should be a strip of human skin!
Hobart said to it, "Answer me a few questions!" ”
A small slit opened in the front of the human skin: "Let me go after answering the question!" ”
"Well, good!" Hobert agreed, "What is the mist of evil you just mentioned?" ”
"I don't know, but that night, there was a strange fog blowing, and then a lot of people became weird, and I became what I am now."
"What's in the fog?"
"I don't know, I just know that some people around me disappeared and reappeared, and they became completely different from before, and they said that they went to the village on the other side of the mountain!"
"What's in the village on the other side of the mountain?"
"I don't know."
Hobart asked a few more questions, and when he couldn't get any more information, he pulled out the knife that was stuck in the ground.
The human skin breathed a sigh of relief and was about to slip away, when Hobert suddenly said, "Wait a minute." ”
Human Skin: "Do you have any questions?" ”
"I want to solemnly apologize to you, I just lied!" As he spoke, Hobert slashed the other party in half, and then slashed horizontally and vertically in half.
The human skin didn't even leave a last word, and twitched on the ground a few times, and soon stopped moving.
Hobart had no intention of sparing the human skin from the beginning, and for whatever reason, it was no longer a human being, but a monster that was constantly devouring life!
At this time, Leonard, who was in the public hot spring, stretched out his hand weakly: "Pull me." ”
Hobart pulled him up and draped him over a bath towel.
Leonard asked, "You had a way to save yourself from the beginning, right?" ”
"Of course!" Hobart smiled: "I've only said half of what I said before: since we want to lure the other party out, we must do something to weaken ourselves; But you must be sure enough to get out of danger, otherwise you are looking for death. ”
He said as he put his "cutlery" back into the buttons reserved for his clothes.
Leonard sat on the shore, feeling cheated.
After meeting up with the other members of the "Red Gloves" and recounting the information they had just received, the group headed to the second target, the lake outside the lodge.
Hobert and Leonard were at the front, and the two men whispered about the new information they had obtained.
Leonard said suddenly, "Could it be ...... Could it be that this pollution comes from a sage or angel in the path of a 'soothsayer'?
"He or he didn't know what was polluted, so he hid outside the lodge and used the 'spiritual thread' to pass on his pollution to other people or other creatures!"
Hobart could be sure that it must have been a reminder from the old grandfather.
Then he thought of the messenger's reminder that it was entirely possible, because the "Ancient Scholar's" spiritual line seemed to have a range of several hundred meters of operation, and the distance of influence reached 5 kilometers!
There is enough space for him to hide in the shadows and quietly transfer his pollution.
Hobert hadn't thought of this before, because he had seen many tentacles wrapped in white mist with his "True Vision", and he naturally thought that the source of the pollution was a monster.
But now Hobart wondered, was that a spiritual thread under the "true vision"?
The "country of disorder" does not have the corresponding characteristics of the "soothsayer" approach, so the spiritual thread is somewhat abstract from the perspective of the "country of disorder"?
Thinking of this, Hobert smiled helplessly: "I can only wait for your support to come, and then completely solve the problem." Until then, we try to gather as much intelligence as possible. ”
The key: don't come into direct conflict with the source of the pollution!
When you come to the lake, it is an ordinary semi-natural formation and semi-artificial transformation of the lake.
Because the water in the lake comes from hot springs and mountain springs, the fog on the lake is so thick that even though it's noon, you can only see the center of the lake.
The roads along the lake are paved with stone slabs, making it a great place to walk.
The only thing that was a little abrupt was that there was a warning sign on the shore that said: Don't throw stones into the water! It's dangerous!
Dai Li said: "When we came just now, there was no such sign. ”
"That's easy!" As he spoke, Hobert picked up a pebble and threw it into the lake, but there was no response.
So he found a fist-sized stone and threw it into the lake, but there was still no response.
Hobert found another head-sized stone, threw it into the lake, and watched as the stone disappeared into the fog.
Puff~
After waiting for two or three seconds, there was still no response.
While Hobert was looking for a bigger stone, a child's voice suddenly came to mind in the fog: "Help! I, I can't swim! ”
It sounds as if it can be flooded at any moment, and you can hear the sound of hula hula paddling, and you can see the figure of a child in the fog.
But no one went to save people, because the voice appeared too abruptly.
Even the ordinary members of the "Red Glove" have experienced many extraordinary cases, and of course they know that sometimes they call for help, but they don't really call for help.
Hobert pondered for a moment and asked, "How are we going to save you?" ”
"Of course you swam over to save me!" It was the voice of a little boy.
"Can you fly over?"
"Fly, fly......? No, no, no! ”
Before everyone could react, Hobert had already flown low into the fog, and he saw that there was indeed a little boy struggling in the water.
But there was a huge figure at the feet of the little boy!
After going around the little boy, Hobert finally saw clearly that there was a strange fish under the water, and on the head of the strange fish, a little boy had grown!
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