Chapter 766 The Monster in the Fireplace

Gao Fei and his party walked along the steps to the end of the secret passage, and an iron door appeared in front of them.

Mario took out the thief's tools he carried with him, pried open the door lock, and pushed open the door.

A strong and disgusting smell of blood immediately hit his nose.

Gao Fei, Lisa and Claire covered their mouths and noses at the same time, resisting palpitations and nausea, and followed Mario to the room behind the door.

Just as the ogres said, the basement of the workhouse was arranged like a canteen.

There was a long table in the hall, and six large and sturdy chairs, all of which were enough to fit the ogre's fat buttocks.

The broken bones scattered on the table looked like garbage thrown here casually after a meal.

If there were no conspicuous human skull fragments among them, it would be difficult to identify what kind of food was gnawed like this.

There was a moldy wooden staircase against the wall of the hall.

Lisa didn't want to look at the human bones on the table any more, so she held the light ball and climbed the stairs. She tried to hold the door handle, turned around and said to Gao Fei at the bottom of the stairs: "The door above is locked."

There is another door diagonally opposite the stairs, leading to the next room in the basement.

Through the crack in the door, a pungent stench drifted in.

Claire put her ear to the keyhole, held her breath and listened for a moment, then turned to Gao Fei and others and said: "There is a faint movement in the next room, it seems to be a child crying..."

"Maybe our orphan director, the kind Mrs. Freddy, locked the disobedient children in the basement."

Mario tried to use his sense of humor, but found that no one got the joke, so he added rather disappointedly:

"I mean, it's undoubtedly a good thing that the poor little guy can still cry out, at least it shows that he hasn't been eaten yet."

"You don't need to say such obvious things, come and pry the door open!"

Claire scolded the "master of humor" unhappily.

Mario touched his nose and pried the door open angrily.

The next room was filled with a disgusting smell, like a mixture of rotting flesh and feces.

When Lisa walked in holding the glowing silver coin, the darkness that enveloped the entire room was dispelled by the "light magic".

Gao Fei narrowed his eyes slightly and looked around in the room where light and darkness intertwined.

The first thing that caught his eye was two large sinks, the size of a bathtub.

One of the sinks was filled with sewage, which was the source of the foul smell.

The other sink was empty, with only a layer of dried blood coagulated on the bottom.

In the middle of the two sinks, there was a butcher's chopping board that looked like a pig slaughtering board. A large kitchen knife stained with blood was placed flat on the chopping board, and it was obviously used not long ago.

Opposite the sink and the chopping board, there was a meat rack against the wall, with three corpses hanging on the iron hooks.

Two of the corpses were stripped naked and disemboweled, like white pigs, and another corpse was wearing rags.

Gao Fei waved his hand, signaling Lisa, who was already pale with fear, to turn around. He took the glowing silver coin from her hand as a candlestick, walked to the meat rack, and checked the bodies.

The three bodies were very thin, and it was obvious that they had been starving for a long time before they died. Most of them were street vagrants.

At this time, a low roar suddenly came from behind.

Gao Fei hurriedly turned back and looked at the fireplace in the corner where the roar came from.

In the furnace, two dark yellow spots lit up, flashing a ferocious look, clearly the eyes of some beast!

"Be careful!"

Claire was quick and pushed Gao Fei away.

Almost at the same time, the monster hiding in the fireplace rushed out and brushed past Gao Fei.

The monster pounced on nothing, roared in annoyance, turned around quickly, and confronted Gao Fei, Lisa, Mario, and Claire.

This monster looks like a black panther, but its sturdy body is comparable to that of a lion. Its black fur is blue and shiny, shining with a dazzling and strange halo.

If that were all, this guy would be just a large cat, not a monster.

However, a little observation will reveal that it has a strange organ different from ordinary tigers and leopards - a pair of tentacles extend backwards from both sides of the shoulder blades, and the ends of the tentacles swell like cracked pods, with sharp bone spurs on the inside.

As the monster growled, the two tentacles slowly rose up, like a flexible tail, swinging in the air, showing off the barbed bone spurs, as if intimidating the prey.

Gao Fei also noticed that the monster was wearing an iron collar around its neck, and a pendant that looked like an iron plate was hung in the center of the collar.

It seems that Freddy and his wife not only adopted ogres, but also had the habit of raising monsters as pets.

"Simba, go and bite that weird black panther to death!"

Claire gave an order, and the lion Simba pounced on it and started fighting with the monster.

Gao Fei didn't rush to attack, but opened the star map to check the illustrations of the black monster.

It turned out that this guy was called "Translocation Beast", a large magical beast with evil nature.

Except for a pair of long whip-like tentacles on its body, the size, attributes, natural defense and fighting style of the Translocation Beast are similar to those of an adult male lion, except that its health bar is thicker, so it seems not difficult to deal with.

However, when they really started fighting, they found that the Translocation Beast was much more difficult to deal with than the male lion!

This guy has a special ability that matches his identity as a "magic beast". He is constantly surrounded by a halo, and it is difficult to distinguish his exact position.

Because of the interference of this flickering illusion, the enemy's attack on the Translocation Beast will have a 50% chance of missing before the hit check.

This forced avoidance of half of the attack is exactly the same as the third-level spell "Translocation" of the "School of Illusion".

In fact, the Translocation Beast got its name from this.

With the constant "Translocation" special effect on its body, and the Translocation Beast's natural proficiency in "Mastery of Dodge", "Intuitive Dodge" and "Reflex Dodge", the lion Simba's attacks on it repeatedly missed, and he was beaten by the flexible tentacles of the Translocation Beast and was covered in blood.

Claire and Mario saw that the lion was no match for the Translocation Beast, and they quickly attacked.

The long whip drawn by Claire and the crossbow arrows fired by Mario were also interfered by the "Translocation Beast". They seemed to hit the Translocation Beast, but in fact they passed by and did not cause any damage.

"Canwa!"

Fortunately, Lisa was powerful and used the "Command Spell" at the critical moment, successfully breaking through the "Translocation Beast"'s weaker will resistance than physical dodge, and injected a mental command into its mind.

The Displacer had just bit Simba's neck and was about to tear the lion's throat, but was suddenly controlled by an irresistible external will and fell to the ground.

Like a well-trained hound, wagging its tail and sticking out its tongue, trying to please its master, it was beaten up.

In the next round, the Displacer broke free from the control of the "Command Technique" and was about to take revenge on Lisa, when a familiar figure came into view, immediately arousing a hatred in the Displacer's heart that was far stronger than that for Lisa, prompting it to temporarily change its target of attack.