Beldin City, inside a bar.

Roy, Biles, Phil, and Pasha sat around a small round table, sipping on Southwell beer.

They didn't talk much, smiling as they listened to the drunkards at the next table discuss supernatural powers and occult events.

"Before, Hiccup, I saw in Berdan that those Fursacks not only looked like bears, but also drove flames and made them throw them like javelins!"

"Won't you...... Is it really superpowering?"

"Haha, that's because you don't know, one day I was drunk and slept near the cemetery, and I saw the people of the Night Church come out with a few ghosts, oh, ghosts! They float in the air, it's very scary!"

......

The drunkards talked about what they had experienced or what they had heard, and their mouths were foaming at the mouth, and their faces were red.

"That's how they are, they only get excited after drinking, they always like to brag, and they are usually very depressed. Biles, a native of Belden, explained, "Since the coal mines began to dry up, and young people gradually left Berdan for Constance and Beckland, the atmosphere here has become more and more oppressive, and the city has become more and more discouraged. ”

The man, who was less than thirty years old, had worked as a miner in his youth, and he was lucky enough not to die in the mine, so his skin was darkened.

His exposed muscles weren't too exaggerated, but they gave the impression that they were made of steel.

As the leader of several people, Roy smiled and said:

"What they say may be true, not bragging, the previous war did expose the extraordinary power to many people, especially the soldiers who were directly involved, as long as they were alive, they had corresponding experiences.

"And it has also brought with it many encounters that have made some people who had no access to supernatural powers and true occultism in the past become extraordinary. ”

He expressed it in a subtle way, as if he was talking about someone else's business, but in fact, it was exactly what the four of them experienced.

Biles and Roy were soldiers who had fought in the Battle of Belden, Phil had been plundered by the Fursaks but was lucky not to die, and Pasha and her former citizen friends had lured a few Intis soldiers into a street fight.

They have all witnessed the deaths of many of their friends and have gained extraordinary powers for various reasons.

Then, due to the chaos brought about by the war, they were either separated from the troops or actively avoided them, and they were not known by the official forces, and slowly, they got to know each other and became friends in the mentality of huddling together for warmth.

This time, they came to Biles' hometown of Berdan in search of possible surviving relatives and friends.

"The world is more real than we can imagine. Pasha, with her long dark blonde hair and dark blue eyes, sighed.

She was only in her twenties, and her facial features were not bad, but there was no extra flesh on her face, so that the bones were clearly outlined, and she looked much older than her actual age.

"In the future, we will have a different life. Roy, who has a typical rune hairline, raised his glass and said, "Cheers to a new future......"

Before he could finish speaking, someone in the bar hall suddenly screamed.

Roy and the others all had a certain amount of experience, so they were busy raising their vigilance and set their eyes on it.

They saw a young man in plain clothes fall to the ground, rolling back and forth, seemingly in great pain.

In the dim light of the gas lamp, everyone noticed that behind the young man's back, his clothes were unfurled, revealing blood-red marks one after another, as if he had been whipped with a leather whip.

However, none of the people around were holding leather whips, and the victim only screamed just now, unless he was whipped countless times in that instant.

But in this way, how can no one notice?

“...... He had a purse in his hand...... Could this have something to do with the anomaly just now?" the skinny Phil said after a few glances, "I'll take it and take a look?"

Roy thought for a moment and said lightly:

"Be careful. ”

Phil let out a "hmm" and walked out of the small round table area, using the cover of the crowd of onlookers to approach the young man who no longer rolled, but only hummed quietly.

He quietly stretched out his left hand, aiming for the ordinary-looking leather wallet.

"Ahh

Phil screamed suddenly, watching his left hand snap off and fall to the ground.

At the fracture, blood gushed and splashed on the faces and bodies of the people around them.

The scene froze in an instant, and the drunken drinkers were stunned at first, then swallowed their saliva, then turned around and ran frantically to the door and corner!

"There are quirky ...... No one attacked me!" Phil nearly fainted in pain, but managed to tell Roy, Biles, and Pasha about his "experience."

Roy's eyes lit up, and he said decisively:

"Let's get out of here first!"

He then turned his head to Biles and said:

"You pick up Phil's hand and keep it, I remember that Weber, the military doctor I knew before, was also from Berdan, and he came back here after being discharged from the army and opened a private practice, he, he can effectively treat this trauma. ”

The Medic named Webb was also an extraordinary man, and as he participated in the Southern War, he progressed through the ranks and became more than realistic, supposedly able to suture severed limbs and make them as flexible as before.

"Good. Biles replied without hesitation.

He took a few steps forward, took out a wooden box, picked up Phil's severed hand, and placed it inside.

At the same time, Pasha used the magic ointment she had bought earlier to preliminarily stop the bleeding from Phil's wound and did a certain amount of bandaging.

Immediately afterward, a group of four people left the bar.

After many inquiries, they finally found Weber's Clinic with the help of passers-by.

The clinic was not closed yet, and the glow of the gas street lamps inside spread out, sprinkling a dim glow.

Roy politely pulled the doorbell, hearing a ding-dong sound echoing inside.

However, several minutes passed, and no one came to greet them.

"Drunk?" Pasha looked at the aching Phil and guessed in confusion.

Roy shook his head:

"I remember that Weber was not an alcoholic, he had no bad habits except for being more amorous, and maybe, he was ......"

As he spoke, the man of medium stature with many traces of wind and frost on his face tentatively pushed the door, and found that it was not locked, but only hidden.

As the door opened, Roy, Biles, and the others saw two figures.

The two figures hung in the center of the clinic, swaying gently as the wind blew in from outside the door.

One was a man in his thirties in a white coat, and the other was a young woman in a nurse's outfit, their lower bodies naked, their eyes bulging, their mouths half open, their tongues squeezed out, and they were hanged from the ceiling by invisible ropes, their expressions were both fearful, desperate, and dazed.

"Webb......" Roy recognized the hanged man.

He, along with Pasha, Phil, and Biles, felt a chill behind him at the same time, wondering why this was happening, and he didn't know what kind of horror such an unknown would bring.

Bang!

The sound of the chair falling to the ground came from the side, waking up Roy and the others, who were a little frightened.

They followed the sound and saw a lady with a baby in her arms standing up in a panic, and whispered in horror and confusion:

"They're cheating......"

What is the necessary connection between this and what happened to them? Roy sucked a sigh to himself, feeling that it was not appropriate to stay here for long.

He hurriedly commanded:

"Let's go!"

He didn't ask Pasha to appease the woman, nor did he try to get the clinic's sanitizer and straps.

Biles and the others swallowed their saliva with difficulty, quickly turned around, and left the clinic with great caution.

For Phil, the horror of the unknown completely overwhelmed the pain in his left hand.

"What the hell is going on?" asked Phil as he turned the corner into another street, his face twitching with muscles.

"How do I know?" Biles blurted out, slightly out of control.

Roy glanced left and right, exhaled and said:

"Calm down.

"It should be a terrible thing beyond our imagination. ”

"Yes, it's all too weird, it could only be for this reason. Pasha nodded in agreement.

"So what are we going to do?" asked Phil in a panic.

Roy thought for a moment and said:

"Try to leave Beldan.

Also, analyze the previous encounters and summarize the laws contained in them.

"None of us can guarantee that we won't encounter that anomaly again, and only by mastering the rules can we keep ourselves safe. ”

"Yes. Biles calmed down and agreed with Roy's statement.

As they walked, they discussed, and gradually came up with ideas.

"Webb was cheating before he was hanged, and Phil was trying to take that purse before his hand was cut off, which was a ......theft," Pasha summed up what the two things had in common.

...... Roy was inspired:

"Could it be that they did something illegal to have such an experience?"

"How is that possible?" Biles and Phil replied in unison.

As soon as the words fell, they suddenly had a corresponding guess, and their expressions gradually became solemn.

"Perhaps, there is an invisible enforcer, and this is the essence of this extraordinary event......" Biles mused.

Roy said "um":

"This one could be big.

"Next, we pay attention to our behavior. ”

Pasha and the others nodded, and walked more and more vigilantly along the street towards the outside of the city,

It wasn't long before they arrived at the town hall and saw a lot of people standing around the night billboard.

"Notice?" Roy and the others glanced at each other, suspecting that it was a hint from the official forces about this extraordinary event.

So they leaned over and, by the light of the gas lamp, looked at the announcement on the wooden sign.

There is a white piece of paper taped to the center there, and there is a yellow piece of paper underneath the white paper, which seems to be making a supplementary explanation.

During a quick glance at the announcement, the eyes of Roy, Pasha and the others gradually became horrified, and they seemed to understand the root of the matter.

After reading the blank paper, their eyes fell on the yellow paper:

"All citizens are invited to arrest the strangers by all means. ”

Arrest the Outlander...... Roy and the others felt a tightening in their hearts, and instinctively glanced at the citizens around the billboard.

As if sensing their gaze, the citizens turned around and turned their gaze at them.

In the dim glow of the gas lamp, those eyes seemed to shine with a strange brilliance.

PS: Ask for a monthly pass and a recommended ticket on Monday~