Mystery: The arrival of the new Black Emperor

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While paying attention to the movements around him, Hobert cut open two cocoons with a knife, and sure enough, two unconscious members of the "Red Gloves" fell out of them.

Hobert put on gloves and observed the two members. They were not seriously contaminated, and then Hobert carried them back to the hunting team one by one.

All the gray moths had flown away, and the team members seemed to suddenly wake up, unaware of what they had just experienced. Some people said they seemed to have seen a grizzly bear again just now.

Hobert glanced at the leader, who looked like a furry man at the front of the team, and was speechless for a moment.

He pretended that nothing had happened, and lied that he had found two unconscious people in the snow. Everyone carried the two people back to the villa in a hurry.

"The hunting team is back!"

Amidst the shouts of several guests playing in the snow, Hobert and the others came back.

Mr. and Mrs. Wood rushed out and said to Chris: "Selena is missing! We searched the entire villa and couldn't find her."

Hobert stretched his ears to listen to Mr. Wood's description, and quickly made a judgment: Selena disappeared not long before I came.

Leonard, who was in the hall at this time, saw a young man in the hunting team carrying an oil painting. Without the old man reminding him, his intuition told him that the oil painting was the one that disappeared before his eyes.

And the man carrying the oil painting is definitely the same person as before, but his appearance is different.

Other "Red Gloves" saw the two team members being carried. After learning that it was the young man carrying the "easel" who saved the two companions, Dai Li came forward to express his gratitude.

When the "Red Gloves" reunited, Dai Li whispered: "The young man who just saved our team members has a problem with his 'easel'."

Leonard hesitated for a second or two before saying: "That's the person who told me three suspicious location information before. He, he changed his appearance, but I can recognize the oil painting he is carrying."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Dai Li together.

Dai Li considered it: "The situation here is obviously more complicated than in Harold's report, since the other party has enough goodwill towards us to cooperate.

"Leonard, please invite him over. At this time, we should put aside our prejudices and make saving the tourists here our top priority."

…

When Hobert saw Leonard saying hello to him and sitting next to him, he knew that Daley had made the most rational choice.

"Sorry!" Leonard smiled: "We should always investigate the most obvious doubts."

Hobert asked, "What now?"

"Now we would like to ask you to discuss a solution to the problem with us."

"Sorry," Hobert said with a smile, imitating Leonard's tone: "I have provided you with such important information, but in return I was almost arrested."

Leonard was stunned for a moment before he understood what Hobert meant, and he immediately went back to report to Daly.

Soon Leonard came back: "The condition we can give is that you have the right to prioritize the extraordinary gains in this mission. Even if there is no extraordinary income, you will not be treated badly."

Only then did Hobert nod: "It seems that some official Beyonders are also very reasonable."

He then sat among the "Red Gloves" and listened to the "Red Gloves"' investigation first, and then said: "Everyone, I have a question, why don't you evacuate these tourists quickly and try to solve the problem? "

"A group of previous colleagues have done this." Dai Li replied: "But after tourists leave the villa for a certain distance, they will come back here on their own.

"The method of evacuating tourists is ineffective at all and can easily disturb the pollution sources here."

Harold was the first Nighthawks captain to arrive here, but their operation failed and all the team members died here.

Only Harold was seriously injured and escaped, and got on the train bound for the east at the last stop of Bocklon Villa. While reminding the people on vacation on the train not to go to Bocklon Villa for the time being, he went to York Mountain.

So the Church of the Goddess of Night sent Dai Li and others who were reporting on the Backlund smog incident at the headquarters to identify and eliminate the pollution here.

Hobert nodded: "My suggestion is to investigate from those three suspicious locations, but they all seem to be quite dangerous, so I suggest investigating them one by one.

"How about Mr. Leonard and I take a dip in the hot spring? Just wait outside the hot spring. No matter what happens inside, we will only come back after blowing the whistle."

He found that the "Red Gloves" didn't know more information than he did, and their investigation progress was too slow. Selina would be in danger if she waited any longer, so Hobert planned to take action himself.

Finally, Hobert said to Daley: "I think it will be difficult to solve the problem here with our strength."

Dai Li nodded: "I just sent someone to ask for help."

Hobert got up with a "hmm" and went to the public hot spring with Leonard.

At this time, outside the reception hall, the two team members who were sent out to ask for help took the two team members who had just been rescued and had been unconscious, and prepared to take a carriage to the nearest church to ask for help from the headquarters.

When the two unconscious team members were carried to the car, a small gash was opened on their foreheads.

It's just that the two team members responsible for calling for help did not discover this in time.

…

In the public hot spring, Hobert asked about the entire process of the monster's appearance.

Leonard also spoke in detail, and finally he said: "...As soon as you come out of the hot spring, the numb feeling will disappear quickly, but the tourists in the hot spring did not realize that they just seemed like As motionless as a stone statue."

At this time, "Red Gloves" has sealed off the place, and there is not a single tourist in the hot spring.

Hobert sat down in the pool holding a "cutlery" and said, "You come down too. Since we want to lure the other party out, we must do something to weaken ourselves."

Leonard hesitated for a moment, then followed him and sat in the pool.

Hobert chatted: "You should have noticed, right? The people in the villa are more or less contaminated and have become a little abnormal.

"But the problem is, if they were seriously contaminated, they would have turned into monsters long ago, but they didn't! Do you think it's strange?"

Leonard no longer had the confidence he had during the last conversation: "What are your guesses about this?"

"I heard from Harold that there is a village over that mountain." Hobert said: "Do you think all the people who were seriously polluted are in that village?"

"Probably."

"In addition, I also found," Hobert added, "the hunting team is generally more seriously polluted than the tourists in the villa!"

Leonard was not stupid and immediately guessed: "The hunting team is closer to the source of pollution?"

He added: "Then we should investigate the hunting team..."

Just in the middle of speaking, he denied himself: "Before getting enough information, it is dangerous to act rashly!"

Hobert nodded: "That's right."

Half an hour later while the two were chatting, the monster came out of the depths of the hot spring again.

If there were ordinary people here, they would stand there motionless again, as if they had fainted.

However, extraordinary people like Hobert and Leonard were just paralyzed and had difficulty moving.

Hobert frowned and asked the monster in the hot spring: "I'm curious, why are you wrapped in kelp? Is it because you can't afford clothes?"

"Idiot! This is not kelp!" said the monster.

"Well, if you say no, then it's not." Hobert said calmly: "Some changes happened here that made you like this, right?"

"Yes, everything started from that evil mist!" said the monster.

Hobert asked: "Evil mist?"

"You have so many problems!" The monster was already very close to Hobert: "But your body looks very strong!

"That fog makes me have to keep looking for a new body. You are a good choice."

At this time, a milky white light fell, "Healing!"

Hobert immediately regained his fighting strength. He jumped ashore and drew the knife from his cane not far away.

The monster turned around and was about to run away. Hobert stepped forward quickly and carried the monster to the shore with the back of his knife.

The kelp on the monster's body was like a snake, and it was about to dive into the hot spring in a blink of an eye. Without the "kelp" package, only a severely decomposed corpse was left on the shore.

Hobert, with his quick eyes and quick hands, nailed the "head" of the "kelp" to the shore with a knife, and then stretched out a foot to step on the tail of the "kelp".

After looking carefully, Hobert can probably confirm that this should be a strip of human skin!

Hobert said to it: "Answer me a few questions!"

A small slit opened in the front part of the human skin: "Let me go after you answer the question!"

"Well, okay!" Hobert agreed happily: "What is the evil mist you just mentioned?"

"I don't know either. Anyway, that night, there was a strange mist blowing in, and then many people turned into strange shapes. I also turned into what I am now."

"What's in the mist?"

"I don't know. I only know that some people around me disappeared and then reappeared. They became completely different from before. They also said that they went to the village on the other side of the mountain!"

"What's the village over the mountain?"

"have no idea."

Hobert asked a few more questions, and when he saw that he couldn't get any more information, he pulled out the knife stuck in the ground.

Human Skin breathed a sigh of relief and was about to slip away when Hobert suddenly said: "Wait a minute."

Human Skin: "Do you have any more questions?"

"I want to solemnly apologize to you. I just lied!" As he spoke, Hobert cut the other person in half with a knife, then cut him in half horizontally and vertically.

Human Skin didn't even leave any last words. He twitched a few times on the ground and soon stopped moving.

Hobert had no intention of letting go of the human skin from the beginning. For whatever reason, it was no longer a person, but a monster that kept devouring life!

At this time, Leonard in the public hot spring stretched out his hand feebly: "Pull me up."

Holbert pulled him up and put a towel on him.

Leonard asked: "You had a way to save yourself from the beginning, right?"

"Of course!" Hobert smiled and said, "What I said before is only half of what I said before: since we want to lure the other party out, we must do some actions to weaken ourselves; but we must be confident enough to escape, otherwise we are looking for death."

As he spoke, he put his "tableware" back into the cloth buttons reserved for his clothes.

Leonard sat on the shore, feeling cheated.

After meeting up with other members of the "Red Gloves" and recounting the information they had just received, the group headed for the second target, the lake outside the villa.

Hobert and Leonard were at the front, discussing in low voices the new information they had obtained.

Leonard suddenly said: "Could it be...could this pollution come from a saint or angel in the 'divineer' path?

"Maybe he didn't know what kind of pollution he had received, so he hid outside the villa and used the 'spiritual thread' to pass on his pollution to other people or other creatures!"

Hobert was certain that this must be a reminder from his grandfather.

Then he thought of the messenger's reminder and thought that it was entirely possible, because the operating range of the "ancient scholar's" spiritual thread seemed to reach several hundred meters, and the distance it could influence reached 5 kilometers!

There is enough space for him to hide in the dark and quietly pass on his pollution.

Hobert had not thought of this before because he saw many tentacles wrapped in white mist using his "real vision", and he naturally thought that the source of the pollution was a monster.

But now Hobert wondered, was that the spiritual thread under the "real vision"?

The "State of Disorder" does not have the corresponding characteristics of the "Soothsayer" path, so the spiritual thread is somewhat abstract from the perspective of the "State of Disorder"?

Thinking of this, Hobert smiled helplessly: "We can only wait for your support to arrive before we can completely solve the problem. Before that, we try to collect as much intelligence as possible."

The key is: don’t come into direct conflict with the source of pollution!

When we came to the lake, it was unremarkable. It was just an ordinary semi-naturally formed, semi-artificially modified lake.

Because the water in the lake comes from hot springs and mountain springs, the fog on the lake is very thick. Even if it is noon, you can only see the center of the lake.

The roads along the lake are paved with stone, making it a great place to walk.

The only thing that was a little bit unexpected was that there was a warning sign on the shore that read: Don’t throw stones into the water! very dangerous!

Dai Li said: "When we came here just now, there was no such sign."

"That's easy!" Hobert said, picking up a pebble and throwing it into the lake, but there was no reaction.

So he found a fist-sized stone and threw it into the lake, but there was still no reaction.

Hobert found another stone the size of his head and threw it into the lake. Everyone watched the stone disappear into the mist.

Plop~

After waiting for two or three seconds, there was still no response.

While Hobert was looking for a bigger stone, he suddenly remembered a child's voice in the fog: "Help! I, I can't swim!"

It sounded as if it could be flooded at any time. Everyone could hear the sound of hula hula paddling, and could also see the figure of a child in the mist.

But no one went to save anyone because the sound came too suddenly.

Even ordinary members of the "Red Gloves" have experienced many extraordinary cases, and of course they know that sometimes asking for help is not really asking for help.

Hobert thought for a moment and asked, "How should we save you?"

"Of course, come and save me!" It was a little boy's voice.

"Is it okay to fly there?"

"Fly, fly...? No, no, no!"

Before anyone could react, Hobert had already flown low and entered the mist. He saw a little boy struggling in the water.

But there is a huge figure at the little boy's feet!

After circling around the little boy, Hobert finally saw clearly that there was a strange fish under the water, and on the head of the strange fish, there was a little boy!

Thank you for your continued support. It is expected that the number of orders will reach 2000 today. I will add another chapter to express my gratitude (*^▽^*)