Lord of the Mysteries v7c15 - Tencent MTL

In the city of Beldan, in a bar.

Roy, Byers, Phil and Pasha sat around a small round table, gulping down Nanwell beer.

They didn't talk much, smiling as the drunks at the next table discussed extraordinary power and occult events.

"before, hiccup, I saw in Beldan that the Fossacks not only looked like bears, but also drove the flames and made them throw like javelins!"

"No way. Is there really extraordinary power? "

", you didn't know anything. One day I got drunk and slept near the graveyard. I saw some ghosts coming out of the Church of the Night with some ghosts. Oh, ghosts! They are floating in the air, and they are very scary! "

…….

The drunkards said that they did not know whether they had experienced it themselves or heard about it, foaming in their mouths and blushing in the face.

"that's what they do. they get excited only after drinking, they always like to brag, and they are usually very depressed." Byers, a local resident of Beldan, explained: "since the coal mine began to dry up and young people gradually left Beldan for Conston and Beckland, the atmosphere here has become more and more depressing, and the city has become more and more gray."

The man, who was under 30, also worked as a miner when he was young, but luckily he didn't die in the mine, so his skin became very black.

His exposed muscles are not too exaggerated, but they give people the feeling of being made of steel.

As the leader of several people, Roy smiled and said:

"they may be telling the truth, not bragging. The previous war has indeed exposed the extraordinary power to many people, especially the soldiers who are directly involved, as long as they are still alive, they all have corresponding experiences.

"moreover, it has brought a lot of opportunities, making some people who had no access to extraordinary power and true occult in the past become extraordinary people."

He expressed it in an implicit way, as if he were talking about other people's things, but in fact, this is the experience of the four of them.

Byers and Roy were soldiers who had taken part in the city of Beldan. Phil had been looted by the Fossacks but was lucky not to die. Pasha and her former fellow citizens lured and attacked several Intis soldiers in street battles.

They all witnessed the death of many friends and gained extraordinary strength for a variety of reasons.

Then, due to the chaos brought by the war, they were either separated from the army or actively avoided, which were not known by the official forces. slowly, they got to know each other and became friends in the mentality of keeping warm together.

This time, they came to Beldan, Byers' hometown, to look for each other's possible surviving relatives and friends.

"the reality of the world is far beyond our imagination." Pasha, with long dark blond hair and dark blue eyes, followed.

She is only in her twenties and has good facial features, but there is no extra meat on her face, so that the outline of her bones is so obvious that she looks much older than her age.

"in the future, we will have different lives." Roy, with a typical Roon feature in the hairline, raised his glass and said, "Cheers to a new future.". "

He was still speaking when suddenly there was a scream in the bar hall.

Roy and others all have some experience and are busy raising their guard and turning their eyes to the past.

They saw a young man in plain clothes fall to the ground, rolling back and forth, as if in great pain.

Under the dim gas wall lamp, everyone found that behind the young man, the clothes bloomed, showing traces of blood red one after another, as if he had been whipped by a whip.

However, no one around was holding a whip, and the victim had just let out a scream, unless he had been whipped countless times at that moment.

But in that case, how could no one notice?

". He had a wallet in his hand. Does this have anything to do with the exception just now? " The skinny Phil glanced a few times and thought about it and said, "shall I take it over and have a look?"

Roy thought for a moment, nodded gently and said:

"be careful."

Phil let out of the little round table and approached the young man who was no longer rolling but humming, with the help of the crowd of onlookers.

He quietly held out his left hand, aiming for the ordinary leather wallet.

"Ah!"

Phil screamed and watched his left hand break his wrist and fall to the ground.

At the break, blood gushed and spattered on the faces and bodies of the people around them.

The scene froze, and the drunken drinkers first dumbfounded, immediately swallowed saliva, then turned around and ran crazily to the door and the corner!

"there is something strange. No one attacked me! " Phil almost fainted in pain, but managed to tell Roy, Byers and Pasha about his "experience."

Roy looked at the light and said decisively:

"Let's get out of here first!"

He immediately turned his head and said to Byers:

"you pick up Phil's hand and keep it. I remember that Weber, a military doctor I knew before, was also from Beldan. He came back here after leaving the army and opened a private clinic. He, he can effectively cure this kind of trauma."

The military doctor named Weber was also an extraordinary person. when he took part in the Southern War, he was promoted step by step, with transcendental medical skills, and was said to be able to stitch up amputated limbs and make them as flexible as they used to be.

"good." Byers replied without hesitation.

He took a few steps ahead, took out a wooden box, picked up Phil's broken hand and put it in.

At the same time, Pasha used the magic ointment she bought before to initially stop the bleeding of Phil's wound and bandaged it.

Then four of them left the bar.

After many inquiries, they finally found the Weber Clinic with the help of passers-by.

The clinic was not closed yet, and the glow of the gas street lamp spread out and was sprinkled with dim yellow.

Roy politely rang the doorbell and heard a dingdong sound reverberating inside.

However, several minutes later, no one came to meet them.

"are you drunk?" Pasha looked at Phil, who was in pain, and guessed suspiciously.

Roy shook his head:

"I remember that Weber is not an alcoholic. He has no bad habits except for being flirtatious. Maybe he is."

As he spoke, the man of medium height and with many signs of wind and frost on his face tried to push the door and found that it was not locked but concealed.

With the opening of the door, Roy, Byers and others saw two figures.

The two figures hung in the center of the clinic and shook gently as the wind blew in outside the door.

That was a man in his thirties in a white coat and a young girl in a nurse costume. They were naked, their eyes protruded, their mouths half open, their tongues squeezed out, hanged from the ceiling by invisible ropes, their expressions of fear, despair and bewilderment.

"Weber." Roy recognized the hanged man.

At the same time, he and Pasha, Phil and Byers felt a chill behind him. I don't know why this happened, or what kind of horror such an unknown would bring.

Bang!

The sound of the chair falling to the ground came from the side, awakening Roy and others who were a little petrified.

They followed the sound and saw a lady with a baby in her arms standing up in a panic, whispering in horror and bewilderment:

"they are having an affair."

What does this have to do with what happened to them? Roy took a breath to himself and thought it was not suitable to stay here for a long time.

He hurriedly ordered:

"go!"

He didn't ask Pasha to appease the lady, nor did he try to get disinfectant or bandages from the clinic.

Byers and others struggled to swallow saliva, turned quickly, and left the clinic with great caution.

For Phil, the unknown horror completely outweighed the pain in his left hand.

"what on earth happened?" Phil's face twitched as he turned into another street.

"how do I know?" Byers blurted out, a little out of control.

Roy looked left and right, exhaled and said:

"calm down.

"this should be a terrible, extraordinary thing beyond our imagination."

"Yes, it's all so weird, it can only be this reason." Pasha nodded in agreement.

"what should we do then?" Phil asked hurriedly.

Roy thought about it and said:

"try to leave Beldan.

"also, analyze the previous experience and sum up the rules contained in it.

"none of us can guarantee that we will not encounter that kind of anomaly again, and only by mastering the rules can we ensure our own safety."

"Yes." Byers calmed down and agreed with Roy.

As they walked, they discussed and gradually came up with some ideas.

"Weber was having an affair before he was hanged, and before Phil's hand was cut off, he tried to take the wallet. It was a kind of theft." Pasha sums up what the two things have in common.

……. Roy had an inspiration:

"is it because they have done something illegal that they suffer like this?"

"how is that possible?" Byers and Phil responded in unison.

As soon as the words fell, they suddenly had a corresponding guess, and their expressions became more and more serious.

"perhaps, there is an invisible law enforcer, this is the essence of this extraordinary event." Byers said thoughtfully.

Roy said, "mm-hmm."

"this is likely to be very big.

"next, we pay attention to our behavior."

Pasha and others nodded and walked more and more warily down the street to the outside of the city.

Before long, they arrived at the city square and saw many people standing around the bulletin board at night.

"notice?" Roy and others looked at each other and suspected that it was a hint made by official forces on this extraordinary event.

So they approached and looked at the notice on the wooden board with the help of the light of the gas street lamp.

There is a piece of white paper affixed to the center, and there is a piece of yellow paper at the bottom of the white paper, which seems to be making a supplementary explanation.

In the process of skimming through the announcement, Roy, Pasha and others gradually became appalled and seemed to understand where the root of the matter was.

After looking at the white paper, their eyes fell on the yellow paper:

"all citizens are invited to arrest outsiders together, and all means can be used."

Arrest strangers. Roy and others felt anxious and instinctively glanced at the citizens around the bulletin board.

As if aware of their gaze, the citizens turned around and turned to them at the same time.

Under the dim yellow light of the gas street lamp, the eyes seemed to twinkle with strange brilliance.