Chapter 762 Phantom

"To be honest, I just can't stand British food."

Duanmuhuai sat in the car and kept complaining.

"I used to think that people were joking when they said that the worst nightmare was having an Englishman as a cook. But now I realize that this is simply a sad fact."

Looking at the scenery outside the car, Duanmuhuai sighed. To be honest, he did think so at the beginning. After all, this is a modern civilized city and a place where various cultures gather. Maybe it’s just that local British food is more unpalatable, but foreign food can still be eaten, and it’s still possible to go there at last. Eat fast food......

Well, Duanmuhuai admitted that he made a mistake.

There's nothing fucking edible in Britain.

Take fruits for example. Obviously there are many varieties of fresh and juicy fruits in the world, but in supermarkets you can only buy sour fruits. Obviously, given the location of this country, it is not difficult to import delicious fruits, but in any supermarket you can only buy unpalatable fruits.

This is not just the fruit, but also the ingredients themselves. In this way, you can understand why the British cannot make delicious meals - the ingredients themselves are like rotten dead meat, and it is impossible to cook them no matter what. It makes delicious barbecue steak, right?

For more than a year, Duanmu Huai has eaten most fast food such as hamburgers. It is sad to say that it is the British dinner that makes him unable to eat.

For example, you actually put the soup on a plate and drink it. Why don't you have a bowl at home? ?

And the plate looks like a UFO, with its extremely long edges, so why use this thing to hold soup? Wouldn't it be more convenient for you to get a basin?

are you crazy!

Duanmu Huai felt that people in this country had a distorted concept of food. He still remembered that in order to please Medea, there was a magician who spent time and used completely traditional techniques to create a Colchis delicacy. To this end, he even hired farmers, found ancient plant seeds, cultivated and planted them in ancient ways, picked them in ancient ways, and even transported them using horse-drawn carriages and boats based on ancient methods.

As a result, Medea, who received the food, told him with a complicated face that she still thought the fruit cake in the street cake shop was more delicious... This is normal. Can the food from thousands of years ago be compared with now?

Back then, the heroes probably didn't even want to remove the fishy smell from wild boar meat.

It's like an ancient person traveled to modern times and was eating sweet steamed buns steamed with fine flour, and then you made a bran cake to remind him of the past...

The other party is probably ready to scold her.

In fact, Duanmu Huai is not the kind of person who pays much attention to food. Most of the time, eating is all he needs, so for him to complain like this, you can imagine how bad the food in this country is.

"This past is really better to be destroyed."

"MASTER?"

"Just kidding, okay, it's almost time for us to get there."

As Duanmuhuai spoke, the shadow of a small town appeared at the end of the road.

Technically, it's not even a road.

That's right, there is no asphalt and no flatness. It looks like the dirt road that was naturally formed by horse-drawn carriages in ancient times. For this car, it is almost a torment. Duanmu Huai can even hear every time The chassis groans over bumps.

"boom-----!"

However, at this moment, something collapsed before the chassis. With an explosion, Duanmuhuai felt the car body tilt, then slid on the ground for a moment, and stopped at a tilt.

"Hey? What happened?"

Irisviel, who was sitting in the driver's seat, held the steering wheel and looked left and right curiously.

"Puncture."

Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes silently.

"Okay, let's get out of the car first."

It was obvious that the car in front of him was just as Duanmuhuai said, with the front wheel on the left completely exploded. To be honest, looking at the dilapidated appearance of this car, the fact that it can persist until now must be attributed to magic, otherwise it might have fallen apart halfway.

The evidence is...

"Woo————!!"

Matthew staggered out of the passenger seat, knelt on the ground and turned his back to everyone, and then there was an indescribable sound of "blah blah blah".

"Oops, it seems that this journey is really painful for Matthew."

Irisviel looked at Matthew sympathetically, while Duanmuhuai looked at her sympathetically.

"I think it would be better if you were more self-aware about your driving skills."

To be honest, if Duanmuhuai wasn't in a suitable state to drive, and Medea and Matthew were easily regarded as minors when driving, Irisviel wouldn't be able to show off her driving skills here.

Frankly speaking, as far as driving itself is concerned, Irisviel's skills are actually pretty good. At least she can get people from here to there.

But other than that... just look at Mashu.

Fortunately, Medea is a heroic spirit and has already transformed into a spirit.

But as a pseudo-server, Mashu was not so lucky and had to suffer.

Fortunately, Fiore didn't come with her.

Originally, as the owner of this spiritual vein, Fiore should have come with her, but her legs and feet were really inconvenient, so Duanmu Huai didn't bring her.

"What to do with this car?"

"We can only throw it here. What else can we do? Let the Fulwege family send people to recover it."

Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders and walked towards the town in front of him, while Medea and Irisviel disappeared in spirit form, and only Mashu followed Duanmu Huai with shaky steps.

There was still some distance from the accident site to the town, but fortunately when the two arrived at the entrance of the town, Mashu finally came back to his senses from the painful motion sickness because he had walked all the way.

"Is this the town that Miss Fiore said? It does look quite different."

"Yeah, yes."

Hearing Mashu's sigh, Duanmu Huai nodded. Generally speaking, some remote mountainous areas are not very developed because they have been isolated from the world for a long time. It is not uncommon to maintain the same appearance for hundreds of years, but the town in front of him was a little beyond Duanmu Huai's expectations. Although it is indeed located in a remote area, there are many people in the town, and people can be seen coming and going from time to time, which is quite lively.

How to say it… This reminds Duanmu Huai of the film and television city he visited in China before. Because they were going to shoot a costume film, all the buildings were ancient, and most of the pedestrians were wearing ancient costumes. At first glance, it was like going back to ancient times. This town now gives Duanmu Huai this feeling.

They seemed to have accidentally entered a large costume film shooting set. The people around them looked like actors in costume films, and only the two of them were completely out of place, like tourists who accidentally broke in from outside.

The reason is that after Duanmu Huai walked into the town, almost no one looked at him and Mashu. They acted as if there was nothing special about the two of them. They just ignored them like ordinary people, and no one was even curious to look at them more, so that Mashu suspected that these people couldn't see him at all.

Fortunately, these people still knew how to make way for Duanmu Huai and Mashu, which means they are not blind.

"Where are we going next? MASTER?"

Mashu came to Duanmu Huai and asked in a low voice, while Duanmu Huai glanced around.

"Anyway, let's follow Fiore and the others and go to the hotel."

The town itself was built very simply. A cross-shaped main road divided the east, south, west and north, and the houses on both sides were built along these four main roads. The hotel was located at the intersection in the middle. Duanmu Huai and Mashu found it without much effort, and then Duanmu Huai opened the door and walked in.

The doorbell rang, but the waiter sitting behind the counter had no service spirit at all, just lying there sleeping. Duanmu Huai walked to the counter, stretched out his hand and pressed the bell, which woke the waiter up.

"Welcome..."

The woken waiter yawned, stretched his waist, and then looked at Duanmu Huai and Mashu. This was an old man, who looked about sixty or seventy years old. His eyelids were half drooped, and he looked like he was half asleep, as if he had no expression for Duanmu Huai's appearance.

"Excuse me, what can I do for you?"

"Stay in the hotel."

"How many rooms?"

"Two."

"Okay, please register, the accommodation fee is ten pence."

Hearing the old man's words, Duanmu Huai raised his eyebrows, then took out a banknote from his pocket and handed it over. The old man took the banknote and put it in the drawer without even looking at it. Then he grabbed a handful of coins and handed it to Duanmu Huai along with the key next to it.

"The rooms are on the second floor, 201 and 202, don't go wrong."

After saying this, the old man seemed to be exhausted and fell asleep on the counter again.

"Is it really okay to do business like this?"

Mashu looked at the sleeping old man worriedly, and complained helplessly, while Duanmu Huai picked up the key.

"Let's go."

Coming to the room on the second floor, Duanmu Huai opened the door. The decoration inside was as old and shabby as the town, and it was hardly a good place to live.

"This place is really... Miss Fiore said so, but it's still unexpected."

Looking at the oil lamp, the worn-out chairs and beds in front of her, Mashu couldn't help but sigh, and at this moment, she turned her head and saw a little boy standing at the door, so Mashu hurriedly greeted him.

"Hello, are you the child of the innkeeper?"

"……………………"

Faced with Mashu's greeting, the boy shrank back in silence, then quickly turned and left. Seeing this scene, Mashu was somewhat disappointed, but at the same time, Duanmu Huai also looked at her.

"What's wrong, Mashu?"

"Ah, nothing..."

"Well, close the door, let's have a small meeting first."

"Okay."

After Mashu closed the door, Alice and Medea also appeared out of thin air and landed on the ground.

"What have you found?"

Duanmu Huai's observation ability is average. In the Cthulhu world, he relied on the bell girl to investigate clues. Now he can only rely on Irisviel and Medea.

"Irisviel?"

"To be honest, I can't see that these small town residents are puppets or androids controlled by others."

Irisviel, who comes from an authoritative family of androids, quickly gave an answer.

"In my opinion, their souls are very stable and highly compatible with their bodies. They can be regarded as simple ordinary people... At least from my point of view."

According to Irisviel, the Einzbern family's androids themselves have very weak personalities. This may be because they are androids. Only through years of cultivation can a few androids form a certain fixed personality. Einzbern recognizes them as the defects brought by a blank body without a soul. This is also the reason why they pursue the third cup of the law of heaven - the embodiment of the soul. With this ability, there is no need to create androids, which are just for show.

So from this point of view, the souls in the bodies of the people in this town are consistent with their bodies, which at least avoids the possibility that they are androids or some magicians have captured souls and stuffed them into the bodies of dolls.

At least that's what Irisviel thinks.

"I don't feel the breath of magic, but the people here seem to have very devout beliefs."

Medea looked out the window. In this town, the only two tall buildings are a hotel and a church. The bell tower and cross on it are also tall. Not only that, along the way, Duanmu Huai and Mashu also noticed that each of them carried a cross - well, at least it means that they are believers.

Being pious or not is another matter.

"So, from your perspective, this is just an ordinary town?"

"Yes, no wonder Miss Fiore didn't see it at first."

Medea nodded.

"But I do feel something is wrong, but I still need to investigate the specific reason."

"Then let's do it."

Duanmu Huai said as he sat down on the bed.

"Next, let's replicate Fiore's actions that night. According to Fiore, she was attacked by villagers the night she checked into the hotel. I want to see if that's the case."