Chapter 305 The Game Begins
This strange flesh and blood totem pole is made up of countless deformed trunks twisted and entangled with each other.
The flesh and blood of some trunks are still intact, with dry and wrinkled dull skin, but the flesh and blood of some other trunks seem to have been eaten and hollowed out by some terrifying beasts, with intricate ribs exposed, connecting the broken trunks like bone rivets, nailing them into this deformed and swollen flesh and blood totem pole.
The arms and legs of the trunks are also extending outwards crazily, like crazy flesh and blood branches.
The soles of the feet or palms are together, and the ten fingers or toes bloom like blooming rotten flowers.
The heads are dotted on the branches like condensed fruits, some are shriveled like malnutrition, and some are plump like full fruits.
Some heads are still intact, but their eyes are closed as if they are in a deep sleep, but the corners of their mouths are cut behind their ears as if they are laughing crazily.
Some of the heads were in tatters, with all the facial muscles removed, leaving only the skulls. However, the skulls, which looked like they had been removed by a butcher, were staring at the people in front of them fiercely. The dark eye sockets seemed to move with the glow... They seemed to be still alive.
The wild blood, the weirdness of the incompleteness, the horrifying madness, all entangled and combined into such a twisted ancient flesh and blood totem tree pillar!
The corpses that made up the tree body had no idea what kind of twisted madness they had endured, but even after they died, the weird and crazy emotions seemed to remain in their bones, silently affecting the minds of anyone who saw this tree and this pillar, twisting the mind and thinking of any witness... It seemed that they could also resonate with the madness and confusion of the corpses before death!
Some kind of inexplicable fear began to rage in the hearts of the people in the Anti-Suppression Bureau.
A logistics operator of the Anti-Suppression Bureau, who was already deeply affected by the dark green star light and confused his mind, was the first to be unable to bear this inexplicable fear. He suddenly began to tremble violently. Because of extreme fear, his calf muscles seemed to spasm, and his sympathetic nerves were abnormally excited, causing the bladder sphincter to relax, and the fishy heat flowed slowly from the trembling calf.
Then, with his spirit completely collapsed, he burst into a series of creepy and terrifying laughter, mixed with choking sobs, as if he was in pain and out of control.
This piercing laughter seemed to blow some kind of out-of-control horn, startling some kind of chain reaction that was difficult to interrupt. Several logistics operators who were already mentally unbalanced could not control themselves and began to laugh strangely.
"Hehehe, hehehe, hahaha!"
"Hehe, haha, hahahahaha!!!"
"Wahahahahahaha——"
The third person's laughter had just come out when his colleague next to him covered it up. At the same time, a tube of sedative had been inserted into his neck. The cold liquid was mixed with a calming and depressing effect. The out-of-control person who was about to laugh wildly suddenly became drowsy like an idiot.
Charlotte's eyebrows were deeply folded. She resisted the nausea and approached the weird and crazy flesh totem tree surrounded by the crowd. She looked into the eyes of the deformed skull that was crackling... Under the light of the lantern, she clearly saw the dark brain tissue still wriggling in the other's skull.
And the living skull with scaly cracks on the surface also turned its head to look at the female upright ape in front of it. The mandible that was obviously not connected to any flesh and nerves began to open and close with a click, uttering authentic London accent English!
"You are Charlotte Holmes, the famous detective in London, a special investigator of the Suppression Bureau, and the destroyer of the Shining Blade and Crossroads?!"
The female detective just nodded slightly, "Yes, that's right."
"Hehehe, that's right, are you wondering why the emerald tree has disappeared, are you wondering whether your assistant John Watson has defected, and whether a third party has intervened in tonight's eradication operation?"
"That's right." The female detective nodded seriously. She vaguely felt that the deformed skull in front of her might be the messenger left by the mysterious third party... Is it trying to convey some message to me?
She gestured quietly behind her, and the seven mysterious consultants understood and silently dispersed to surround the flesh and blood totem tree in front of them. The light beast in the mirror was already hungry and thirsty.
The deformed skull obviously noticed her intention, and the mandible continued to open and close, "Haha, when two armies are fighting, they don't kill the messengers. I'm just an envoy delivering a letter. There's no need to be so vigilant, right?"
"Really? But I've never received any formal declaration of war?" The female detective smiled and said, "Since you don't even want to reveal your name, why should we follow the etiquette of the battlefield?"
The deformed skull tilted its head, "Miss Charlotte is really eloquent, haha, but it's not too much for us to be cautious when dealing with you who is as cunning as Odysseus."
"As cunning as Odysseus... I don't know whether I should be happy or sad about your evaluation."
A trace of cold and wise light flashed in the depths of the female detective's pupils... This third-party force seems to think that Watson's undercover Trojan Horse plan was proposed by me, and Watson was the one who took the initiative to propose to infiltrate the Crossroads Cult. Does that mean that this third-party force has no connection with Watson, or is it just a lie to cover up Watson's suspicious nature?
"Hehehe, Miss Charlotte, please don't be so modest. Excessive modesty is excessive pride... Why don't you let me, an old man, fulfill my duties as an envoy first?"
"You can say whatever you want."
"Ahem--" The deformed skull cleared its non-existent throat, and then switched to another mysterious and low voice--but this serious attitude only made the female detective feel extremely funny.
"Here are the words the professor asked me to bring to you--"
"Ah! Dear Miss Charlotte Holmes, your beauty and wisdom are fascinating!"
"Your hair shines like the extinguished sun!"
"Your eyes are as pure as the cloudy sky!"
"Your mind is as tall as a flat grassland!"
"Your waist is as slender as a dead old tree!"
"Your beautiful legs are as plump as new branches!"
"Your nose, cough cough--" The deformed skull sensed the seven round mirrors that were ready to move. Although the light beast in the mirror was just its prey in the past, at least it is now living in a weak corpse and cannot match the simultaneous attack of the seven light beasts... and the task that Brother Black Moth asked me to do has not been completed yet, so I can't just go back rashly.
"Ahem, let's skip the compliments for now and get straight to the point. The professor ordered me to tell you--"
"The game has just begun!"
The deformed skull laughed wildly and said the real message, and then the dark brain inside the skull swelled and exploded, and the rotten and smelly tissues splashed everywhere, but they were intercepted by X211 who was prepared in advance, and those filthy things did not splash on the noble commander lady.
"The game has just begun..."
Charlotte Holmes murmured the last message, "Is this 'professor' the mastermind behind the third-party force?"
"What is his or her purpose?"
"What is the content of this so-called 'game'?"
The female detective who had just destroyed a large cult organization was not happy at all. She only felt as if she was caught in a bigger conspiracy.
But at the same time, she was secretly looking forward to it and excited, and was eager to find a truly equal opponent.
"Professor...then let's see who is the real winner of this game between you and me!"