Chapter 489 Invitation

The walls of the entertainment room were covered with paintings. Of course, Duanmu Huai didn't know the order, but fortunately, these paintings were numbered, which saved trouble.

After a rough scan, Duanmu Huai found that these paintings were basically all about ghouls. The first painting was about Arkham City. The upper part was about the citizens of Arkham living on the ground, and in the sewer pipes under their feet, groups of ghouls were scurrying around like mice.

In the second painting, several ghouls quietly sneaked into a family, stole the baby of that family, and then put an ugly and evil little ghoul in the cradle.

In the third painting, the human baby seemed to have grown up and become a child. He was trying to eat the dead under the guidance of those ghouls. At the same time, in the other half of the picture, the little ghoul who was replaced by a cat also grew up. Although he looked no different from a human, his hideous and twisted expression and malicious smile explained the problem.

In the next scene, the human baby who was caught in the ghoul tribe turned into a ghoul, and the ghoul who mixed into the human world stood on a high mountain, stretched out his hand and pointed at Arkham City below with great momentum. Behind him were hundreds of ghouls.

The scenes after this were basically how the ghouls attacked Arkham City and killed humans. They crawled out from the cracks in the ground and slaughtered all the humans in the subway station. Or they hid in the grass in the park and took the pedestrians as prey. The whole Arkham City was filled with smoke and corpses under the attack of the ghouls...

How to say... Daydreaming is good.

"Sir Knight? Do these paintings look scary?"

Duanmu Huai glanced at the oil painting in front of him and rolled his eyes speechlessly. Lorena also blinked curiously. Although the pictures drawn by this painter are indeed disgusting, especially those human corpses with torn internal organs and devoured flesh and blood, and the army of ghouls crawling on the corpses, just looking at them seems as if everything is alive. It seems that the ghoul's mouth will close in the next moment and bite the flesh and blood. Even just looking at the picture, a strong bloody smell rushes towards you.

Even if this thing is held in an art exhibition, it is impossible not to get 21+. It is more disgusting than a B-level plasma film.

It is indeed disgusting enough to say disgusting, but to say horror... well, Duanmu Huai said that this is also normal.

"It is scary enough for the people of this world."

"Will it...?"

"Of course, you have to know that the people in this world don't see any monsters and ghosts on weekdays. For them, ghosts are legendary existences."

Duanmu Huai spread his hands helplessly. In fact, this is also normal. Lorena was born in the Holy City. As a pilgrim priest, many monsters died at her hands. Not to mention that Lorena follows Duanmu Huai everywhere every day, and has seen all kinds of monsters. A mere ghoul can't scare her.

But it's different for people in this world. Vampires, ghouls, and ghosts are all superstitions and fairy tales to them. If they see it with their own eyes, their worldview will be completely destroyed. Therefore, no matter how heartbreaking the diary is, for Duanmu Huai and Lorena... that's it.

Of course, another reason is that this is an entry-level teaching task after all. At present, their enemies are just lower-level races such as ghouls. The likes of the Byager Star Color Dagon have not yet appeared, and the real threat is still behind.

Not to mention the great existence...

In RPG, they are now just fighting slimes, and they are still far from the final BOSS.

"Okay, now we can basically confirm what's going on. That Cliff should be a ghoul who has switched to the human world, and his goal is to lead the ghoul army to destroy Arkham City? These ghouls are really brainless. This is 2000, not 1900..."

It has to be said that after confirming the other party's ambition, Duanmu Huai was speechless. If this was 1900, you ghouls might be able to succeed with your tough body and weird appearance. But now it's 2000, you dare to go out and fight tanks? What if you are tired of living?

"Meow---!"

Just as Duanmu Huai was thinking, the bell girl seemed to have discovered something. She stretched out her front paws and patted Duanmu Huai's face, pointing to the depths of the entertainment room. Duanmu Huai turned his head and saw that there was another door there. He opened the door, walked through the corridor, and came to the end. Judging from the location, this should be the study. At this moment, through the heavy door, Duanmu Huai could hear intermittent sounds coming from inside, as if someone was growling.

So Duanmu Huai turned around without hesitation and kicked the door open.

"Bang!"

As Duanmu Huai kicked the door open, he saw a magic circle formed by blood coagulation in the middle of the floor of the room where blood was flying. In the magic circle was a tied middle-aged man in a well-dressed suit. His eyes were round and his face was full of pain and fear.

Outside the magic circle stood a guy wrapped in a black robe, who looked like a cultist at first glance. At his feet, there were several ghouls kneeling, looking like they were performing some kind of ritual.

They were so focused that when Duanmu Huai suddenly kicked the door open, everyone was startled. Even the middle-aged man who was tied to the chair and located in the center of the magic circle temporarily gave up struggling. He stared at Duanmu Huai with wide eyes—then rolled his eyes and fainted.

"……………………"

Duanmu Huai knew what the result was without looking at the system prompt.

"Who are you?"

Seeing Duanmu Huai, the black-robed man who presided over the ceremony was also startled. He stared at the fierce and ferocious man who broke into the room with his eyes wide open. His body trembled constantly, but soon, as if he had thought of something, he hurriedly took out a twisted, weird statue from his arms and held it high.

"No matter who you are, you can't stop the ceremony, as long as... ..."

However, the black-robed man didn't finish his words, because at this moment the weird statue in his hand suddenly exploded, and then a mist full of stench emerged from it and spread to the surroundings. The stench was so bad that even Duanmu Huai and Lorena hurriedly left the room.

At the same time, a shrill scream came from the fog, and then Duanmu Huai saw a black shadow suddenly rushing out of it, opening its bloody mouth and rushing towards him!

It was a weird, twisted, dark monster. It was about ten meters long, with a bat-like wing on its body, and its head was not like a snake. On the contrary, it was a huge, rotten and black Italian hollow pasta. There was a huge hole in the middle of its body. Its head looked more like a monster like a worm. When it opened its bloody mouth, Duanmu Huai could even clearly see the sharp teeth that were constantly rotating and moving in the whole mouth at 180 degrees.

"What a broken thing!"

If it were an ordinary person, facing such a terrifying and huge monster, I'm afraid he would have panicked a long time ago. But Duanmu Huai was not afraid at all. He roared, stretched out his arms suddenly, and grabbed the monster's body tightly. At the same time, Duanmu Huai glanced at Lorena and the maid and gave them an order.

"Go and catch the person in there!"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's order, Lorena nodded and rushed into the room with the maid.

At the same time, the huge monster snake in Duanmu Huai's hand, which was almost as thick as a human, was still shaking its head desperately, opening its bloody mouth and trying to swallow Duanmu Huai whole.

"I think you are tired of living!"

At this moment, Duanmu Huai was also angered by the monster snake's struggle. He shouted, and his ten fingers on both hands suddenly tore the body of the monster snake deeply and penetrated directly into its body. The almost suffocating stench gushed out of the wound, with sticky, dark green blood splashing everywhere. The attacked monster snake twisted its body desperately, trying to break free from Duanmu Huai's hands.

But it was too late. Its constantly changing, clay-like body was directly penetrated by Duanmu Huai's hands, and then Duanmu Huai grabbed its flesh and blood tightly. He could even feel the countless tentacles that kept wriggling in the flesh and blood, as if hundreds of cockroaches were crawling on his hands.

"Go to hell!"

Duanmu Huai suddenly opened his arms and tore the huge monster snake in half from the middle. The completely torn monster snake screamed, then collapsed to the ground, and then gradually melted and turned into a pool of stinking thick liquid.

"Tsk, what a trouble."

Looking at the stinking thick liquid on his body, Duanmu Huai patted his chest in disdain. It's inconvenient to have no weapons. Unfortunately, there are no thunder hammers and chainsaw swords in this world. It's obviously not suitable to fight with just two hands. In addition, his shooting skills are basically negative... Well, it seems that after returning this time, I need to find a suitable weapon for myself.

At this point, everything has basically come to an end. The middle-aged man who was used as a sacrifice was rescued. In fact, he was his distant relative in the setting, the unlucky art dealer. And the black-robed cultist was Cliff. Unfortunately, he didn't seem to have a good grasp of the summoning of the monster snake through the statue, and the summoned monster snake bit off half of his body.

As for the remaining ghouls, they were killed by Lorena holding up the Holy Book.

After that, Duanmu Huai took the phone and called the police. As for why he didn't call the police at the beginning, the reason was very simple. It was said before that the boundary between reality and nightmare would become unstable in places where such indescribable monsters appeared. In this case, it is basically impossible to contact the outside world by mobile phone or telephone. Unless the troubles here are solved, everything returns to normal, and the space is stable, then you can call the police.

The police soon arrived at the scene and conducted an investigation and search. Duanmu Huai also handed over the clues and evidence he had collected to the detective. This was a very necessary part. Clues and evidence could not only give a rating on the system task, but also affect the police's view of you in this world.

If there is sufficient evidence, the police will be sure that there is nothing wrong with your behavior.

But on the contrary, if there is insufficient evidence, then you go to someone else's house to smash, loot and burn. Then you can wait to go to jail.

Since this was only an entry-level level, it was naturally extremely simple for a veteran like Duanmu Huai, so soon, a police detective appeared in front of him.

"Hello, sir."

Looking at Duanmu Huai, who was several heads taller than him, the police detective was somewhat nervous.

"We have compared the clues and evidence you provided, and everything is confirmed to be correct..."

"So, can I leave?"

"Of course, but...we have a small request."

"oh?"

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai, who already knew what would happen next, raised his eyebrows.

"What request?"

"I wonder if you are interested in assisting the police and becoming an investigator?"