Chapter 107 Chaos, New Partner

In a dilapidated house in Idrisu neighborhood.

Unlike the neat three-story spire buildings around it, this dilapidated house not only has only two floors, but is also separated from other buildings by a kilometer.

inside the house.

Squeak.

A black lantern stretched out from the open door on the ground and gradually rose higher.

Lacey glanced around and whispered: "No one is there, come out."

With that said, she and Carly climbed out of the basement and looked around by the light of the lantern.

Messy and worn-out wooden furniture, layers of yellow spider webs illuminated by lanterns, and dissatisfied rats hiding in the corner with their eyes open.

"Where is this?" Carly asked a little disgraced.

"I don't know, but according to the direction, this should be somewhere in the Idrisu neighborhood, or..."

Lacey waved his ax with both hands and smashed the nailed wooden window in the room. "Well, have you reached the northern tower yet?"

A blush shone in, making the whole room slightly brighter.

Zhizhi...

Several mice that had just woken up from their deep sleep were illuminated by the light of the red moon.

Almost instantly, the mouse's gray eyes were covered with a layer of red light, its body began to shake violently, and one after another tiny tentacles came out of its body.

"Roar--"

"Asriel!"

Lacey was a little impatient by their noise, and swung the ax with both hands, and the cyan light blade passed by, causing these newly deformed mice to die miserably.

Carly covered her mouth and looked at the rat aberrations that were split in two. Their tentacles were squirming and struggling, and the red and green mucus stained the wooden floor...

"Northern sentry tower, is it that far?"

"Well, let's go out and take a look."

Lacey walked ahead with a lantern and walked up and down the house. She returned to the first floor and frowned, "I didn't find anything..."

Carly bit her lip and said, "They disappeared?"

"It should have left through that underground passage in a way we don't know."

"Now what?"

Snapped.

Lacey put the lantern in his hand on the table, put away the ax in his hands, and casually sat on a chair that was still intact, "Wait, wait until dawn."

Carly looked at the messy scene around her, hesitated, took out a hand towel, cleaned up a clean chair, and sat down.

"Sister Lacey, who do you think they are? They don't look like they are contaminated..."

"Who knows?"

Lacey closed her eyes to rest her mind, "In the city-state, it's not just the aberrants who kill people. Those pagans you mentioned in Dawn's mouth, and... well,"

"It is possible for people to be oppressed to the point of collapse by despair, be bewitched, or be parasitized or manipulated."

Carly was stunned for a moment. Except for pagans, everything else was not within the teachings of the teachers. It turned out that she had to face more than just pagans...

"Then, why did they..."

"You don't think this world is like what you saw before, do you?"

Lacey opened her eyes and looked at her, with the corners of her mouth raised, "Seeing you look like this reminds me of how Wayne looked when he went on his first mission."

"Wayne?" Carly reacted, "Is he the same as me?"

"They're all just as innocent, haha."

"Yes, really?"

"Actually, I quite like taking you new investigators on missions." Lacey smiled, "That will make me feel less bad when handling these cases."

Carly lowered her head slightly in embarrassment, "Sorry, I, I will try my best."

"I believe you on this, just like that boy Wei En has become more reliable now. But..."

"But what?"

"But work is work. Don't let the various cases you have seen and heard affect you...remember that you are not anyone else, you are just yourself!"

Carly's golden eyes reflected Lacey's solemn look, and a trace of confusion flashed across her face, was she herself?

After a while, she nodded and said, "I understand, Sister Lacey."

"Well, let's rest and ask for support from the ministry after daybreak. If Tina is here, we will never let those guys run away tonight."

"Ah, sorry."

"This is not your problem..."

When the room quieted down, Carly hugged her knees with her hands and curled up on the chair. The words she just said echoed in her mind, be yourself, be yourself, do...

What they didn't know was that on the roof of a three-story building a few kilometers away, Melbell stood under the red moon, with a faint silvery-white glow appearing on her body, quietly looking at the dilapidated house.

Under the mysterious patterned mask, something strange flashed in his eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Punish the heretics and grow up as soon as possible..."

On the other side of the dilapidated house is the northernmost sentry tower of the Custer city-state, which stands on a 30-meter-high city wall made of huge stones.

At this time, dozens of city guards wearing thick armor in the sentry tower were divided into two teams, one facing outwards and the other facing inward to guard the safety of the surroundings.

As many as twelve wall lamps were hung on the wall outside the guard tower, shrouded in the light of dawn, so that they did not have to worry about being contaminated by the red moon.

"Captain, it's quite peaceful tonight. Why don't you take a rest first?"

"Yes, Captain, you have to prepare a birthday present for little Sally tomorrow morning. We'll see that there will be no problem with you here."

The tall city guard captain glanced at the clock, shook his head and said: "It will be dawn in two hours, forget it, I will rest after my shift."

The vice-captain laughed and said, "Don't blame me for not reminding you, little Sally has been coveting that doll for a long time."

"In your words...huh?"

The guard captain's expression condensed, and he looked at the black figure that appeared in the sentry tower. A trace of panic flashed in his eyes, "Be alert!!"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, then took two steps back at the same time and looked around cautiously. It was only then that they discovered that there was an extra person in the corner.

The shadow raised a finger to his mouth and said, "Shh, you guys are too loud and you've disturbed my little baby."

"Damn it, Luo An!" The captain didn't dare to relax at all. He shouted before pulling out his sword, "No matter who you are, if you dare to break into the sentry tower without permission, you will die!"

As he said that, he rushed towards the black shadow first, followed closely by the city guards behind him.

The deputy captain named Luo An ran towards the alarm on the wall. As long as he pressed the alarm here, it would be transmitted to the city guard headquarters in the center of the city-state. As long as...

Tear!

The black shadow passed through the crowd and instantly passed the vice-captain, blocking him in front of him.

"What?!"

"This is not okay. If you warn those noble gentlemen, my mission will fail."

The black shadow held an ancient thin sword, made a sword flower, and said with a chuckle: "Little darlings, they are yours."

He saw countless gray insects the size of silkworm chrysalis emerging from under him and rushing toward the city guards.

When the captain saw these little bugs, his eyes were filled with tears and he said, "Be careful!!"

"ah--"

After a while, everything calmed down, and the city guards were still on duty diligently, but their eyes had a layer of bloodshot eyes...

…

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When, when...

The bells of Krims Cathedral rang. Wayne put down his quill and looked at the completed design drawings on the parchment with a smile.

Since the secret weapon's standard musket is too weak, let's make two more powerful guns.

With the experience of making a mechanical puppet last night and the knowledge of firearms gained through gunmanship, he was very confident in creating a gun that was far more powerful than the current one.

These two design drawings are respectively a sniper rifle and a revolver for long-distance sniping.

Compared with standard muskets, revolvers have much greater power and effective range.

In order to facilitate loading, Wei En specially designed the revolver to be a few sizes larger, with fifteen bullets in a circle.

According to the trigger value of the death characteristic, one shot is enough for an ordinary captain to trigger the instant death characteristic.

The sniper rifle also had an increased magazine like the revolver.

Wei En was not stupid enough to install a scope. With a sensing range of nearly two kilometers and extremely strong physical fitness, seeing distant targets was no less effective than a scope.

Therefore, he put more energy into the design of the rune array.

That's right,

Wei En got inspiration from the mechanical puppet. He wanted to add a rune array to the sniper rifle to increase the performance of the sniper rifle.

At the same time, using the rune array as the core can also provide the sniper rifle with more powerful kinetic energy.

Of course, he didn't choose runes like Strong Heart. He specifically found two runes from Jerry's handwriting.

One is a haste rune that increases the speed of bullets, and the other rune mainly increases the power of bullets - the burst rune.

According to Wei En's idea, as long as he uses the powerful power of the sniper rifle to cause damage to the enemy, he can use other firearms to trigger the death characteristic.

Especially monsters like the Dark Dog.

If the call of the Undead Claws hadn't frightened the Dark Dog last night, it's hard to say whether the spell would have hit the target due to its long lead time.

But now that he has a sniper rifle, he doesn't have to go through so much trouble.

In addition, due to the size of the revolver, Wei En did not choose to engrave the rune array on it.

I only plan to modify the Secret Adjustment Department's standard musket to try to retain its ability to use magic potions.

After completing the production of these two firearms, he also plans to make another Gatling-like machine gun to give full play to the characteristics of the death characteristic trigger.

Well, the picture is a bit abrupt... He is a wizard.

If you really want to make a Gatling, use it for the Type Zero. I believe it can handle that style with its size.

However, this is not without problems. The biggest problem is the ammunition...the round bullets issued by the Secret Adjustment Department are obviously not suitable for new firearms.

Therefore, Wei En also specially designed bullets.

At the same time, in order to avoid trouble, he decided to use bullets of the same caliber for both new guns, and he only needed to take a certain amount of time to replenish the ammunition consumption.

"Tsk, I hope Zero can grow faster, so that it can do all this kind of work in the future."

Really, he belongs to the black-hearted master...

[You successfully drew the haste rune. Special rewards: +3 survival points, +1 spiritual level. 】

[You successfully drew the burst rune...]

【……】

[Congratulations on obtaining a full-level rune knowledge. Your rune proficiency promotion progress is: 12/100. Special reward: Spirit level +1. 】

After spending 20 survival points to increase both runes to full level, he combined the cornerstone (reaper) rune and the spiritual transformation rune to form a rune array suitable for a sniper rifle.

Looking at the newly designed sniper rifle drawings, Wei En nodded with satisfaction.

The gun is 1.5 meters long, the barrel is 50 centimeters, and the gun body is nearly 80 centimeters long without the handle.

And in order not to attract attention, Wei En deliberately designed the shape of the sniper rifle to be less refined and more in line with the style of this world.

The gun body is covered with some gears, pipes and decorative rivets, and the entire gun looks much more rugged.

And on the gun body near the trigger, at the core of the rune array, he also reserved a node for transmitting the source.

In this way, he can use the rune power through the driver in subsequent battles. This is also an early attempt to add weapons to the Zero.

If this method is feasible, then the external weapons of the mechanical puppet can be integrated into the whole, and it will be more convenient for the driver to operate it.

After doing this, Wayne checked the remaining materials for making the mechanical puppet.

"Well, the materials are a bit different."

Especially the Thral metal used to engrave the rune array, he needed to repurchase it.

"Including the 10 gold pounds that Claire received from the transaction, there are still 14 gold pounds and 5 shillings left."

A pound of sal metal costs 18 shillings, and it is expected to consume about 5 pounds, plus other metals and some auxiliary materials...

The cost of making this sniper rifle is 15 gold pounds, which is equivalent to a quarter of the price of a mechanical puppet.

Thinking of this, Wei En took out the blue and white box and used all the gold pounds to exchange for the materials for making the enlightenment potion.

Although only eighteen enlightenment potions can be made, if they are all made into perfect potions, you can get nearly 60 gold pounds, which is enough to last for a while.

"Make money, make money!"

Wei En didn't stop for a moment and started brewing the enlightenment potion, all for the sake of the new sniper rifle.

"Oh, you are so diligent so early in the morning, you are so boring~"

The sudden sound made Wayne's hands tremble, and he looked at the slightly deviated characteristic fusion in the crucible, "Ms. Claire, please don't show up suddenly while I'm working."

"Sorry sorry,"

Claire crossed her legs and sat on the work table watching his movements with interest, "I have to say, you look very charming when making potions~"

"In your words..."

Wei En pouted, secretly feeling sorry for the loss of two gold pounds. The quality of this bottle of potion could only reach excellent level at best.

"You seem to be feeling much better?"

Claire's smile faltered, obviously thinking of the injury last night, and she said with a slightly dissatisfied tone: "You are really not cute at all."

"It seems you still remember the injury last night."

"Of course, that hateful old guy, I must let him know the consequences of provoking me. I have..."

In the middle of speaking angrily, Claire stopped suddenly, stared at him with bright eyes, and asked charmingly: "Are you concerned about me?"

"..." Wei En glanced at her helplessly, "Pretend I didn't say anything."

Is this concern? I'm just worried.

He was worried that after her sudden death, no one would be willing to spend 5 pounds to buy a case file.

Yes, it is like that.

"I'm sure, you are not cute at all." Claire snorted: "Have you read that relic?"

"See..."

Wei En thought about what happened last night and said angrily: "Where did your relic come from? There are few Gonzalez words in it that I recognize."

Not only could the proficient-level Gonzalez language not be translated, but the content actually attracted the attention of the demon clown.

Not only did he waste his survival points, but he also had to worry about the sudden visit of the demon clown... No, it was a sudden attack.

"Can you understand something?"

"It can only be seen that it is a period of history in the early third era. It was a huge empire called the Turing Empire."

"Turing Empire..."

When Claire heard the name, she murmured to herself and her eyes became brighter, "I knew this relic was not simple!"

"You know this empire?"

"have no idea."

Wayne: "..."

Damn it, you didn’t know and you still said it so confidently?

"I only know that the relics related to the early third era are not simple things. There must be a huge treasure hidden on them."

"Treasure?"

"Well, some lost knowledge, or a few pieces of equipment that only exist in legends, etc."

Wayne was somewhat interested in this, but not that interested. No matter how much knowledge there is, is it as comprehensive as the inherited knowledge gained after upgrading Runes and Potions?

As for the equipment...well, it should be inferior to those forbidden items with unpredictable power.

"You haven't told me yet, where did you get this relic?"

Claire was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect Wayne's reaction to be so dull.

"Don't worry about it. In short, I guarantee that after you finish the translation, the harvest you will get will definitely be far beyond your imagination, not even much less than me."

"In today's era, many extraordinary people have grown up through this. You don't think that other people can improve their strength through learning like wizards, do you?"

The words sounded familiar.

Oh, I remembered, Marco said something similar before.

Wei En asked suspiciously: "You also need to eat some flesh and blood food with special pollution properties?"

He also thought that the Eternal Life Church would be similar to the Dawn Church, which followed a supernatural system of belief.

"...Don't mention that," a look of disgust flashed across Claire's face, "Those extraordinary bloodline inheritors are really disgusting in order to improve their strength."

"Oh, it seems you have seen it before."

"Many of the Eternal Life Society are top leaders from various extraordinary families. They are all... huh? Are you trying to get information from me?"

"You like to talk but don't talk." Wei En kept moving his hands and poured this bottle of excellent enlightenment potion into the glass bottle.

Seeing his indifferent attitude, Claire licked her lips and said, "You will know it sooner or later anyway, so I'll tell you some common sense in advance. Do you know how extraordinary bloodline comes from?"

how come?

This Wei En really knows that there are many records about the family in the memory of his predecessor.

According to what was said above, the extraordinary bloodline of the Loft family was obtained by its founder through a strange ritual circle after he accidentally entered a ruins.

"Sacrifice ceremony?"

"That is just the process of obtaining extraordinary bloodline, not the source of power. The real situation is that they all obtained extraordinary bloodline by merging flesh and blood with contaminated characteristics."

Wei En's eyes flickered, "It's really..."

He had made such speculation before.

The more obvious one is Captain Ariana from Investigation Part 2. His appearance when using extraordinary powers is completely abnormal.

Well, the transformation effect of Marco's blood of chaos is the same.

"But most of the extraordinary bloodlines now were obtained in the old calendar. At that time, many people obtained the bloodline abilities inherited from the previous era."

"Old calendar? Last era?"

There was a rare serious expression on Claire's face, "After the beginning of this era of the old calendar, there was a period of chaos and disorder before the beginning of the new calendar, and the last era was the fourth era."

"In fact, the duration of the Old Calendar is not short, it lasted nearly a thousand years..."

Wei En's eyes narrowed slightly, "A thousand years?"

Remember what the clown said last night, 3383 years have passed since the beginning of this era, right?

A simple calculation can show that the old calendar lasted even longer than the new calendar. The exact number is 1805...

But according to Claire, there is only one thousand years, so what about the remaining eight hundred years?

"Then how does the new calendar start?"

"New Calendar..."

Claire's eyes flickered and she changed the subject: "It's a bit far-fetched. In short, the extraordinary family is not as glamorous as they show. It is just a helpless move to survive."

"..."

Here it is again, only half of the speech is spoken.

The same thing happened with Kali's Beloved last time.

Wei En cursed, "Looking at it this way, they are really pitiful."

"Pity? Do you think so?"

"Um?"

"Including our Eternal Life Society, there are differences in power, but they are just a means to survive and pass on."

"I guess what you said is right." Wei En didn't want to dwell on this issue with her.

Claire looked at him deeply, "I'm looking forward to the day when you join the Eternal Life Society! Don't eat at night, I will bring you some food."

After saying that, she jumped into the shadows and disappeared.

"Join the Eternal Life Society..."

Forget it, it doesn't sound like a good choice.

Wayne shrugged, put the question behind him, and continued busy making the enlightenment potion.

As for what Claire said about bringing food back...just listen to it. Didn't she just do it last night?

After working until after nine o'clock, Wei En finished making all the potions. Looking at the perfect enlightenment potion shining on the table, "It seems that there is no time in the morning to make a sniper rifle..."

With that said, he put all the potions into the space ring, packed up the workbench, and left the studio.

Wayne still remembered Franta's invitation last time. He also went to the Nightmare World to attend the small party in the evening. It would not be too late to sell the potions then.

The transformation of the sniper rifle and revolver will be done after returning from the party.

Not long after, he made some breakfast and went to the attic to wake up Tina, who was still sleeping soundly.

"Tina, get up."

The white-haired girl didn't seem to notice that she had changed to another room. After getting up, she honestly washed up and then ate breakfast quietly while carrying the clown doll.

Wayne also called out the zombie lady who had been hiding in the bedroom and sat at the dining table.

According to his idea, since we live under one roof, we must be neat and tidy.

Looking at the people sitting around the dining table, Wei En was eating butter braised snow mushrooms while thinking about this strange configuration with a smile to himself.

A scary disaster species that looks cute but is actually lonely, and a demonic clown doll that looks harmless but is a terrifying taboo.

And he, the ghost wizard with four original sub-bodies.

Relatively speaking, among the people present, the zombie lady who is an undead creature looks the most normal...

If you include the elusive Claire, this residence will probably scare most people.

"Let's go, Sharapova."

Miss Zombie withdrew her gaze from the white-haired girl and bowed slightly: "Goodbye."

Does it turn out that he likes that...

Wei En took Tina out. As soon as he locked the door of his residence, he heard an anxious voice behind him.

"Wayne!"

"Uncle Euan, are you back?"

The person who stopped him was Dr. Euan, who had been away for two days. At this time, he asked anxiously: "Don't talk about this yet, let me ask you, where is Carly?"

When he returned to the clinic in the morning, he found that Carly hadn't returned home all night, and even the bed was cold.

Wayne thought about how he noticed Carly didn't come back before nightfall last night, and comforted him casually: "She went on a mission with Captain Lacey yesterday, maybe she didn't come back in time."

"Going on a mission?"

Youan's face calmed down slightly, and then he said dissatisfiedly: "She is just a child, how can we let her live outside? I will go talk to Yegor later."

"Don't worry, Captain Lacey is very strong and everything will be fine."

What's more, the guardian knight has been following her. Sister Carly is really going to be in danger. With Melbell's temperament, I'm afraid there will be a lot of noise last night.

"That won't work either. What if my Carly... there is no such thing as a chance."

Yoan sighed, and then he noticed Tina who was following Wei En, and a smile appeared on his face: "We meet again, is your name Tina?"

"She's a little scared of strangers."

Seeing that Tina didn't speak, Wei En explained on her behalf, "When I get to the secret blending department later, I'll see if Sister Carly is there."

"Then it's up to you."

"Well, it's almost time. I should go to the Secret Mixing Department."

"goodbye."

Looking at Wei En and Tina walking away, thinking about what happened next, Yoan sighed.

I just hope Carly can stay safely in the Secret Adjustment Department...

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"Good morning, Brother Marco."

Wayne took Tina into the office and saw Marco with his legs on the desk and reading the newspaper in his hand.

"morning."

"Aren't Lacey and Carly here yet?"

"We should have to wait," Marco revealed half of his face from under the newspaper and said resentfully: "Wayne, you really shouldn't have abandoned me yesterday..."

Pfft.

Wei En couldn't help laughing when he saw the bruises on his face and the swollen eyes.

"Still laughing..."

"Sorry, sorry, I didn't expect Lacey to arrive so soon, let alone that you would be there at that time."

Marco put down the newspaper depressedly, looked at Tina who was following Wayne, and said: "If I had known, I would have been nicer to Tina. With the contract, I don't have to go out with this face."

"Huh? How about now..."

"No, no, no,"

Marco quickly interrupted: "I'm just saying that although I have a very strong recovery ability, I can't use my extraordinary bloodline, which makes me worried all day long."

Wayne was a little disappointed, thinking he could get rid of the evil clown...

Squeak.

At this time, the office door was pushed open.

Wei En and Marco looked at the visitor and saluted: "Minister Yegor."

"Is it true that Lacey didn't come back? It seems that the situation over there is indeed not optimistic." Yegor glanced around with his cigar in his mouth, and his eyes stopped on Wei En, "Wei En."

"Minister, do you need us to do anything?" Wei En asked with a look on his face.

"Take Tina to support Lacey and the others. The location is in the north of Idrisu neighborhood. They should still be there."

"OK."

"Also Marco..."

"Um?"

"Your new partner is here, please cooperate with her well." Yegor showed Marco a smile that everyone knew, and stepped aside to reveal the person behind him.

Marco saw the person clearly and the corners of his mouth twitched, "...Lydia, are you really here?"

"You said I would come to the Secret Adjustment Department, so of course I will abide by the agreement."

Lydia stuck out her tongue playfully, then looked at Wayne and Tina, bowed slightly and performed an elegant aristocratic greeting ceremony, "Nice to meet you, I am Lydia Ernst."

"Wayne, Wayne Loft, her name is Tina."

After Wayne introduced the two of them, he smelled a familiar scent of perfume on her body and couldn't help but look at Marco behind him and smiled narrowly.

It turned out to be the lady in the parliament hall...an acquaintance.

"Okay, that's it for now. We'll make other arrangements after Lacey comes back."

After saying that, Yegor lazily left the office.

It's really good. There is a new person in the logistics department, and the strength has become much stronger... Well, there should be no need to replace people for a long time.

"Marco, why were you beaten like this?"

Lydia put the thing on the spot next to Marco and couldn't help but smile when she looked at his face.

"that……"

"Did you provoke another young lady and get beaten up by their suitor?"

"Of course not," Marco looked at Wei En for help, brother.

"Um?"

Seeing him like this, Wayne had no choice but to interrupt: "Marco made a little mistake yesterday, and that's why he ended up like this after fighting with Captain Lacey."

He didn't mention the city that never sleeps, nor did he make up a random case.

If you really say that, the secret will be exposed when Lacey comes back.

It is better to attribute the injury to the wrestling than to say that Lacey beat Marco with violence...

"Sister Lacey? No wonder it's like this." Lidia rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "Marco, would you like to take me to the Natoli neighborhood at noon?"

"Huh? I look like this?"

"Hehe, do you think you welcome me to the Secret Brewing Department?"

"don't want!"

"Then I'll tell my brother, you..."

Regardless of the quarrel between the two, Wei En packed up his things and took Tina out of the office.

I don’t know what kind of trouble Lacey and the others encountered, but they didn’t come back even after a night...

PS: Eight hundred years is just a beautiful misunderstanding, it does not mean anything else, don’t think of it...

Well, I will continue writing in the evening, but I may not be able to publish it. It depends on the number of words, so don’t wait any longer.

But I can be sure that the remaining three chapters will be completed this week.