Chapter 487 Investigation Begins

Sitting in the carriage, Duanmu Huai was speechless.

The maid was driving, Lorena was sitting in the passenger seat, and he could only sit in the container.

That's right, this is a container!

It was empty inside, without even a chair! Duanmu Huai could only sit cross-legged on a blanket, which was fine. There were two windows on both sides of the container, but I don't know what this thing was originally used for. There were actually thick black iron fences on the windows!

Is this for people to sit in? You are not transporting lions and tigers in a circus, right?

Apart from anything else, Duanmu Huai felt that this was pure malice from this broken system...

The background of this world is 2000, which happens to be modern, but unfortunately, modernity is limited. Duanmu Huai does have a mobile phone, and he also called the other party, but for some reason, no one answered the phone...

Okay, unfold normally, nothing strange.

In the evening, the maid drove a heavy truck and finally arrived at a villa in the suburbs. There were several cars parked at the gate, but the whole courtyard was empty. If it weren't for the bright lights of the villa itself, Duanmu Huai would even think that he had come to the wrong place.

However, according to the address on the envelope, it should be here.

After parking the car, Duanmu Huai also got out of the container and joined the maid and Lorena.

"Is this the venue for the banquet? Sir Knight? Why does it seem like there is no one?"

"It's normal. If there were someone, I would find it strange."

Hearing Lorena's curious question, Duanmu Huai answered nonchalantly, then he tidied his clothes and strode to the main door of the villa.

The whole villa was brightly lit, with lights on everywhere, and even faint music could be heard coming from inside. However, on the contrary, looking around, there was no one to be seen anywhere. The main door was not closed, but a gap was revealed. Duanmu Huai reached out his hand to push the door open and then walked into the hall.

"———————"

At the same time, the music suddenly stopped, Duanmu Huai led the maid and Lorena into the house, and then closed the door. At this moment, the villa was dead silent, with only their footsteps echoing in the corridor.

"What's going on? Sir Knight?"

Although Duanmu Huai had given Lorena a shot of prevention on the way here, this scene still surprised Lorena.

"Who knows, but I think we just need to investigate everywhere and we should know what happened."

Duanmu Huai said while looking around. In the entire hall, there was a table in the corner with a phone and notes on it, and on the other side was a twisted, weird starry sky oil painting. Duanmu Huai reached out and picked up the paper on the table, and found that they were all invitations. Obviously, they were guests who came here before him, but now whether they are still alive is probably a question.

The drawer under the table was locked and could not be opened at all, but this certainly did not bother Duanmu Huai. He stretched out his hand to grab the handle and pulled it outwards. With a "click", the locked drawer was pulled out by Duanmu Huai.

"Sir Knight? Is it not good for us to rummage through other people's things like this?"

Seeing Duanmu Huai do this, Lorena asked with some uneasiness, and Duanmu Huai shook his head.

"This is also part of the investigation, provided that the owner of this house can still complain to me alive."

As he spoke, Duanmu Huai flipped through the drawer - but there was indeed nothing particularly noteworthy in it.

"Meow————-!!"

At this moment, the black cat transformed by the bell girl suddenly jumped up and jumped onto Duanmu Huai's shoulder, then it turned to the door on the left side of the gate and let out a low roar. Sensing the reaction of the bell girl, Duanmu Huai immediately put down the sundries in his hand and came to the door. Then he gestured to Lorena and the maid, indicating that they should follow him. Then Duanmu Huai stretched out his hand and opened the door.

In front of Duanmu Huai, there appeared a magnificent restaurant. On the long dining table, there were all kinds of delicious food. However, in a corner of the restaurant, a strange, twisted creature was curled up with its back to them. It was wearing tattered clothes and its skin looked like dark rubber. It made an uncomfortable and unclear sound.

The sound of Duanmu Huai opening the door naturally attracted the attention of the monster. It turned its head and showed Duanmu Huai a face that was as long as a wild dog. Its upper half of the face was similar to that of a human, but its mouth was stretched long like a dog, stretching from the face, and you could even clearly see the long tongue and sharp, bloody teeth inside.

At the moment they saw each other, both sides were stunned. At the same time, a line of system prompts appeared in front of Duanmu Huai.

[The ghoul saw you]

[Looking directly at you caused the ghoul to lose 9 points of sanity]

[The ghoul went into a panic]

[The ghoul went into a state of madness]

“………………………………………………!!!”

Seeing this system prompt, Duanmu Huai's face suddenly turned black, and at the same time, the weird, twisted, and terrifying monster screamed, then turned around and pounced on Duanmu Huai, it opened its mouth, let out a piercing scream, and stretched out its hands with sharp claws.

Facing the attack of the ghoul, Duanmu Huai roared and pounced directly, grabbed its head, and pulled it hard. The next moment, the ghoul's rubber-like hard skin was torn, and the black and smelly blood spurted out, and the ghoul's head was torn off from the neck by Duanmu Huai and thrown aside.

Then Duanmu Huai snorted coldly and threw the ghoul's body directly to the ground.

"Damn, are you kidding me?!"

Looking at the system prompt in front of him, Duanmu Huai was very unhappy. What does it mean? What do you mean that the ghouls lose their rationality when they see me? Have I become an indescribable existence in their eyes? Damn, this is slander against me! This is a naked insult!

Duanmu Huai calmed down his anger and walked to the corner to see what the ghoul was doing here. When Duanmu Huai came to the corner, he saw a bloody corpse. His whole belly had been broken open, and the ground was directly pulled all over the floor. It was obvious that the ghoul was enjoying its meal.

Judging from the clothes worn by the victim, he seemed to be the chef here—but now he himself has become food.

There was a bunch of keys hanging around the chef's neck. Logically, this should be used to open the door, but Duanmu Huai didn't need to be so troublesome. Just knock the locked door open directly. If you can't knock the door open, you can hit the wall. I am so willful! Who are you afraid of?

"Look around and see if you can find anything."

Duanmu Huai turned his head and said to the maid and Lorena, who also nodded and began to search the entire restaurant. At the same time, the black cat squatting on Duanmu Huai's shoulder seemed to have discovered something, and its eyes lit up. Then it jumped down from Duanmu Huai's body and came to the side of the ghoul that Duanmu Huai had killed before, then flipped over it a few times, then the black cat turned around and ran back to Duanmu Huai, and put a pocket watch in front of him.

"Pocket watch?"

Duanmu Huai picked up the pocket watch in confusion, opened it, and then closed it, but no matter how he looked at it, it was just an ordinary pocket watch. Except for the two letters "M.H" engraved on it, there seemed to be nothing special here.

Of course, if it was just an ordinary incident, Duanmu Huai would not bother to care about it, and would just kill anyone he saw and kill the Buddha. Unfortunately, the requirements of this joint activity task are very clear-the player must not only solve the problem, but also find enough clues and evidence to convict in the process. The more clues and evidence there are, the higher the task evaluation will be.

On the contrary, if you rush over to kill the demon king without thinking, you will probably not get a fart.

So Duanmu Huai took the pocket watch and thought for a while, then came to the table in the hall again, and compared it with the invitations there one by one. As expected, he found a clue—the invitation had a dealer named Mullis White, whose abbreviation was M.H., so if it was correct, then the ghoul he killed was him.

Well, that means that some of the guests who came here before him have been transformed into ghouls... Well, now I don’t know if this is some kind of curse or part of the ritual.

In short, it’s definitely not a good thing.

At this time, Lorena and the maid also came back, saying that they didn’t find anything particularly noteworthy in the restaurant and kitchen. But when the maid opened the refrigerator, she found some strange things in it, which looked like biological specimens... Obviously, that was not something that should be placed in the kitchen.

"Oh? Let me see?"

Hearing the maid's answer, Duanmu Huai curiously came to the kitchen refrigerator next to the restaurant, and then opened the refrigerator. Then he immediately saw that in the refrigerator's fresh-keeping layer, there were several glass bottles that looked about the same size as cans. The liquid inside seemed a little turbid, and soaked in the liquid were some weird things that looked very disgusting. They looked like dead babies, curled up and soaked in liquid. It's just that these "babies" are only about the size of cicada insects, and look quite mini.

Well, what is this thing for in the kitchen refrigerator? Could it be that the chef is going to use this thing to make a ginseng fruit?

Duanmu Huai fiddled with this thing, but even the system didn't give him an answer, so he stuffed it back into the refrigerator.

"Okay, let's go to other rooms next, maybe there will be other gains."