Chapter 486: The Investigation Begins

Sitting in the carriage, Duanmu Huai was really speechless.

The maid is in charge of driving, Lorena sits in the passenger seat, and naturally he can only ride in the container.

That's right, this is a container!

It was empty inside, not even a chair! Duanmuhuai could only sit there cross-legged with a blanket, that’s all. There are two windows on both sides of this container, but I don’t know what this thing is for. Thick iron fence!

Damn, is this a human seat? You are not a circus transporting lions and tigers, are you?

Apart from other things, Duanmuhuai just felt that this was pure malice for him by this broken system...

The background of this world is the year 2000, which happens to be modern times, but it is a pity that modern times are limited. Duanmuhuai has a mobile phone, and he also called the other party, but for some reason, no one answered the phone...

Well, unfold normally, nothing surprising.

In the evening, the maid finally arrived at a villa in the suburbs with a heavy truck. There were several cars parked at the gate, but the entire courtyard was empty. If the villa itself was not brightly lit, Duanmuhuai would even think she was Came to the wrong place.

But according to the address on the envelope, it should be right here.

After parking the car, Duanmuhuai also got out of the container and joined the maid and Lorena.

"Is this the place where the banquet will be held? Sir Knight? Why does it look like there is no one there?"

"It's normal, I still feel strange if there are people."

Hearing Lorena's curious inquiry, Duanmu Huai answered indifferently, then he tidied up his clothes, and then strode towards the main entrance of the villa.

The entire villa was brightly lit, with lights everywhere, and even the faint sound of music coming from inside could be heard. However, on the contrary, if you look around, you can't see a single person everywhere. The main door was not closed, but a gap was exposed. Duanmu Huai stretched out his hand to push the door open without hesitation, and then walked into the hall.

"——————"

At the same time, the sound of the music stopped suddenly, Duan Muhuai led the maid and Lorena into the house, and then closed the door smoothly. At this moment, there was a dead silence in the villa, only the sound of their footsteps echoed in the corridor.

"Hey, what's going on here? Sir Knight?"

Although Duanmuhuai had vaccinated Lorena on the way here, this scene still made Lorena a little surprised.

"God knows, but I think we'll just have to look around and find out what's going on."

While talking, Duanmuhuai looked around. In the entire foyer, there is a table near the corner with a phone and notes on it, and a distorted and weird starry sky oil painting hangs on the other side. Duanmu Huai stretched out his hand, picked up the papers on the table, and found that they were all invitation letters. Obviously, they were the guests who came here before him, but whether they are still alive now is probably a problem.

The drawer under the table was locked and couldn't be opened at all, but of course it couldn't help Duan Muhuai. He stretched out his hand to grab the handle and pulled it out forcefully. With a "click", the locked drawer was released. In this way, Duanmuhuai was pulled out abruptly.

"Master Knight? Is it not good for us to rummage through other people's things like this?"

Seeing Duanmuhuai doing this, Lorena suddenly asked a little uneasy, while Duanmuhuai shook his head.

"This is also part of the investigation, provided the owner of this house is alive to complain to me."

While talking, Duanmuhuai flipped through the drawer—but there was really nothing worth noting in it.

"Meow-----!!"

At this moment, the black cat transformed from Bell Girl suddenly jumped up and landed on Duanmuhuai's shoulder, then it turned to the door on the left side of the gate and let out a low growl. Sensing Bell Girl's reaction, Duanmuhuai immediately put down the things in his hands and came to the door, then he gestured to Lorena and the maid, signaling them to follow behind him, and then Duanmu Huai stretched out his hand and opened the door.

What appeared in front of Duanmuhuai was a magnificent restaurant, with all kinds of delicious food on the long dining table, but in a corner of the restaurant, a strange, twisted creature was curled up with its back facing them. There, it wore tattered clothes and skin that looked like dark rubber. There was an uncomfortable muffled sound.

The sound of Duanmuhuai opening the door naturally caught the monster's attention. It turned its head and showed Duanmuhuai an elongated face like a wild dog. The upper half of its face was similar to that of a human, but its mouth was like a dog's. The long stretch stretched from the face, and even the long tongue and sharp, blood-stained teeth could be clearly seen inside.

The moment they saw each other, both of them froze for a moment. At the same time, a system prompt appeared in front of Duanmu Huai.

【The ghoul saw you】

[Looking directly at you makes the ghoul lose 9 sanity points]

[The ghoul is in a panic]

[The ghoul fell into a state of madness]

"...Nimma!!!"

Seeing this line of system prompts, Duanmu Huai's complexion turned dark immediately, and at the same time, the weird, twisted, terrifying monster screamed, then turned around and rushed towards Duanmu Huai. It opened its mouth and let out a There was a piercing scream, and at the same time stretched out his hands with sharp claws.

Facing the attack of the ghoul, Duanmuhuai rushed over with a roar, grabbed its head, and pulled it hard——the next moment the ghoul's rubber-like skin was torn apart, pitch black Smelly blood spurted out from it, and the ghoul's head was torn off from the neck by Duanmuhuai, and then thrown aside.

Then Duanmu Huai snorted coldly and threw the ghoul's body on the ground.

"Damn, is this fucking kidding me?!"

Looking at the system prompt in front of him, Duanmuhuai was very upset, what do you mean? What do ghouls see me lose my mind? Could it be that Lao Tzu has become an indescribable existence in their eyes? Damn, this is a slander against me! This is a blatant insult!

Duanmuhuai calmed down the anger in his heart, and then walked to the corner, wanting to see what that ghoul was doing here just now. When Duanmuhuai came to the corner, what he saw was a bloody corpse, his entire belly had been ripped open, and the place was directly pulled all over the ground. Obviously, the food just now The ghoul is enjoying its meal.

And judging from the clothes the victim was wearing, he seemed to be the chef here—but now he himself has become food.

There is also a bunch of keys hanging around the chef's neck. Logically speaking, this should be used to open the door, but Duanmuhuai doesn't need to be so troublesome. Just smash the locked door open, if you can't open the door, you can smash the wall, that's how willful you are! Who are you afraid of?

"Look around and see if you can find anything."

Duanmuhuai turned his head and said to the maid and Lorena, who also nodded, and then began to search the entire restaurant. At the same time, the black cat squatting on Duanmu Huai's shoulder seemed to have discovered something, and his eyes lit up. Then it jumped down from Duanmuhuai's body, came to the side of the ghoul that was killed by Duanmuhuai before, and then turned over a few times, then the black cat turned around and ran back to Duanmuhuai's side , put a pocket watch in front of him.

"Pocket watch??"

Duanmuhuai picked up the pocket watch suspiciously, opened it, and then closed it, but no matter how he looked at it, it was just an ordinary pocket watch, except for the two letters "M.H" engraved on it, there seemed to be nothing special here.

Of course, if it’s just an ordinary event, then Duanmuhuai wouldn’t bother to care about it, just go in and see people and Buddhas, and that’s it. However, the requirements of this joint activity mission are very clear—players not only have to solve problems, but even It is also necessary to find enough clues and evidence to convict in the process. The more clues and evidence, the higher the task evaluation.

On the contrary, if you rush over to kill the devil without thinking, most of the farts will not give you one.

So Duanmuhuai thought for a while with his pocket watch, and then came to the table in the foyer again, compared with the invitations there one by one, and as expected, he found a clue—there was a person named Mullis White on the invitation An art dealer, his abbreviation is M.H, so if he is right, then the ghoul he killed was him.

Well, that is to say, some of the guests who came here before me have been transformed into ghouls... Well, I don't know if this is some kind of curse or part of the ceremony.

All in all, definitely not a good thing.

At this moment, Lorena and the maid came back one after another, saying that they didn't find anything particularly noteworthy in the dining room and kitchen. It's just that when the maid opened the refrigerator, she found some strange things that looked like biological specimens... Obviously, they were not things that should be placed in the kitchen.

"Oh? Show me?"

Hearing the maid's answer, Duanmuhuai curiously came to the refrigerator in the kitchen next to the dining room, then opened the refrigerator, and immediately saw several glass bottles that looked about the size of cans in the fresh-keeping layer of the refrigerator , the liquid inside looked a little cloudy, and those soaked in the liquid were some disgusting looking weird things. Their appearance looked like dead babies, curled up into a ball and soaked in the liquid. But what I want to say is that these "babies" are only about the size of cicadas, and they look quite miniature.

Well, what is this thing doing in the kitchen refrigerator? Could it be that the chef is planning to use this stuff to make ginseng fruit?

Duanmuhuai fiddled with this thing, but even the system did not give him an answer, so he put the thing back into the refrigerator.

"Okay, let's go to other rooms to have a look, maybe there will be other gains."