Pirate Kingship

This method of "adjusting surveillance" whenever there is a disagreement is simply more powerful than the "Skynet Intelligent Surveillance System" from another world.

Just like tickets are sold for people to visit during an operation, in this era, even when a case is settled, outsiders are not prohibited from visiting.

Soon, the living figure of the victim, the royalist Viscount Owen, appeared in front of everyone.

"Huchi. Huchi"

The sinister nobleman with blood on his head and face was running away in front, but the moment he opened the door, he was dragged back by other pursuers behind him.

"ah--!"

The short scream did not escape his throat, but his head was bitten off.

It's just that the thing dragging him was moving too fast, so he couldn't see clearly. He could only vaguely see a slender pink figure.

Sherlock waved his hand, and the replayed scene immediately began to play back.

Until the scene advances to the conversation with the woman when the other party just arrived.

"Monsters, spore mantises, run away as soon as you're done, because they have a unique habit of eating the male after the wedding night."

A series of words appeared in everyone's ears.

"Oh~"

The group of onlookers who were watching the excitement suddenly realized and subconsciously took a step back, as if there was something dirty hidden in that building.

No need to guess too much, most likely the opponent was eaten by the female mantis because he didn't run fast enough.

Even if it's a pink mantis, it's still a mantis.

Most people are normal humans and cannot accept the special quirks of these nobles.

Salant touched a certain rib on his chest, where the zero-level holy relic [Sea King's Trident] was integrated into his body, and suddenly felt a little guilty.

He could basically conclude that the spore mantis, which was supposed to have been domesticated, suddenly had problems, most likely due to the influence of his holy relic.

Within the range of influence of [Trident], monsters in estrus will be particularly violent and may not wait until it is over before starting to chase their grooms as usual.

Instead, eat while getting married, and eat while getting married.

Anyway, creatures like mantis are accustomed to eating from scratch, which does not hinder the realization of functions in other places at all.

Even if an extraordinary person is caught off guard and is attacked unexpectedly, half of his head may be eaten off on the spot.

There was some self-blame on the young man's face:

"I thought this was the capital of a kingdom in the Old World, and there should be no dangerous monsters. I didn't expect that there was such a weird entertainment venue just across the street.

I thought the side effects of 'Neptune' were unusual enough. It wasn't until I saw you here that I realized that human beings have no limits! "

Byron next to him felt that things were not that simple.

He had been sitting in the cafe. Although he deliberately avoided this direction for fear of getting needle holes in his eyes, if there was really a fierce fight, he could not hide it from himself.

So besides the monster going berserk, something else must have happened.

At the same time, [Crime Buster] Sherlock raised his hand to silence the onlookers, indicating that it was not yet time to completely close the case:

"Friends who often kill people know that it is easy to leave the body behind.

Especially in a big city like Kingston, how to deal with corpses is a big question.

Because any detail on the body may tell us part of the truth about the murder. It is the deceased who is talking. "

His friend and partner [Doctor] John Watson had already put on a beak mask and a pair of deerskin gloves and walked into the building and began to examine the bones lying on the ground.

But when he saw the whole picture of "Viscount Owen" clearly, he couldn't help but exclaimed:

"No, Sherlock, this body is in the wrong state."

Byron didn't need to walk in, [God's Vision] could easily see everything clearly.

There was something wrong with the body at John Watson's feet.

It is normal for half of the head to be bitten off, which is consistent with the preliminary inference that it was caused by the spore mantis eating it.

However, it only took a few minutes before and after the incident occurred, and the fresh corpse that should have still been warm was already in a state of decay.

Some people believe it when they say it is an ancient corpse dug out of the ground.

Moreover, the whole body was wet and soaked with water, as if it had just been fished out of the deep sea, which made it look even more abnormal.

Then I listened to [Dr. Crow] John Watson from the hospital sequence explain while inspecting:

“Normally, as a corpse’s bones age, various organic substances that make up the bone structure are lost.

When it reaches a certain level, the color will become extremely pale, the texture will be dry and chalk-like, and it will appear extremely crispy.

If you press your fingernail against very old bone, it can easily cut into it and cause a slight chip, leaving a dent or scrape mark. "

Click!

He didn't regard Mr. Viscount, who was in the same functional department, as an outsider at all. He picked up a finger bone and broke it easily.

"Only when fresh bones break will cracks like broken twigs appear, while dry bones break straight along the long axis of the bone, and the fracture line will break into pieces and leave some powder.

Unless they were in a very dry desert area, it would have taken at least fifty years for the bones to become this crispy. "

Sherlock had already walked to his assistant, observed the state of the body, and made a similar judgment:

"Based on how crispy the bones are, Mr. Viscount's body has been dead for at least fifty years!

But this is obviously not the case. I saw him in the Tribunal three days ago, and a few minutes ago he was happily driving monsters.

It looked like something had sucked the life force out of his body in a very short period of time.

This is not an ability that ordinary monsters should have, but more like the work of undead creatures, evil spirits, or some kind of cursed spirit.

and"

He raised his nose and activated his [criminal smell] and smelled:

"There are no living people in this building, and there are no living monsters, and the smell of blood is not strong, but there is a weird smell that I have never smelled before.

Strange, if it was just a simple incident of a monster going out of control, who did what happened next? "

Byron didn't do anything, he just listened quietly to their analysis. [Secret: The Death Stranding incident under the dispute between the two parties, historical influence 28] The decryption density quickly jumped to 26%.

Decrypting has never been so easy and enjoyable before.

But after analyzing this, they seem to be in trouble. Going beyond the conventional "murderers" is not within their professional scope.

However, after seeing the appearance of the corpse, Salant's heart skipped a beat:

"This is actually a 'Death Stranding Incident' that also happened in the Old World?

It shouldn’t be. Even if the material world has entered the intertidal zone, how could a chain reaction occur so quickly? "

Salant apparently recognized the marks at the murder scene.

Byron immediately noticed the abnormality in his expression and asked on his Golden Law internal network:

"Mr. Salant, do you know what this is?"

The latter did not bother to acknowledge his relatives, and assessed the risk of this news in his mind, and then said to Byron:

“For the entire material world, it is certain that the Snail Annihilation Period is getting closer.

Maybe decades, maybe centuries, but that day will come.

Everything that the Southern Continent [Hundred Beasts Paradise] and the Old Continent [Dragon King's Court] are experiencing now is what we in the Eastern Continent have experienced dozens or hundreds of years ago.

‘Death Stranding Incident’ is one of them.

We all know that after death, unless a human being turns into an undead creature, an evil spirit, a natural spirit, a totem god, or a monstrous creature combined with other creatures, the destination of the soul should be the collective subconscious sea.

If you die on the sea, you run the risk of being snatched away by the Sea of ​​Sesame, and must be transported by ghost ship;

If they die on land, they will be attracted to the underworld of their respective ethnic groups and involuntarily leave the material world. "

When he said this, there was a hint of fear in his eyes:

“But when we enter the intertidal zone and the tide rises to a certain level, this distinction between ocean and land is completely broken down.

Because the intertidal zone is half water and half land.

The dead souls will be in a state of neglect, causing the souls to be stranded in the real world, unable to go to the edge of the world, and cannot be considered truly alive.

Become a special kind of [evil spirit·homeless person].

They are completely cut off from all anchors to the entire world, and even spiritual vision cannot see this strange existence that exists in the interlayer of life and death.

Only special transcendent beings and treasures who can also touch this intermediate state can see and touch them.

The pull of Hades still exists, and it may even pull the ancient souls floating on the rising water at the edge of the world back to the material world.

It causes huge chaos and destruction in a short period of time, and it will not end until the tide of the source material recedes.

This phenomenon is called ‘Death Stranding’.

With the help of some kind of treasure, I witnessed with my own eyes that after a certain mass death event, not only were countless "homeless people" stranded in the material world wailing, there were even ghost ships being pulled out from the edge of the world in reverse.

Together, they wantonly slaughter all the living, taking away their vitality to maintain their own existence or enhance their strength, leaving behind wet mummies all over the ground after the carnival. "

After hearing Salant's explanation, Byron couldn't help but feel a little troubled.

Now his mother, "The Little Mermaid" Hathaway, is still sleeping soundly in the Bay People's [Hall of Valhalla].

If one day we accidentally encountered this kind of death stranding incident, we would be in big trouble if we came to the material world and were killed accidentally.

He immediately asked:

"Is this a common supernatural phenomenon that occurs in intertidal zones? Is it completely inevitable?"

But Salant shook his head vigorously:

"No, probably not exactly.

Because this abnormal phenomenon happened too quickly.

Even the Southern Continent has just entered the ‘intertidal zone’, and the Old Continent with the highest terrain should not have experienced death strandings so quickly.

The rampage of monsters here, causing many casualties may be an accident that no one wants to see, but the 'death stranding' caused by a large number of people being killed at one time is not likely to be a natural factor.

I am more inclined to believe that someone deliberately arranged some kind of taboo ritual and was going to do something big, but it was exposed in advance because of this unexpected large-scale death."

At this time, he suddenly saw [Crime Nemesis] Sherlock fulfilling his duties and going to the depths of the building for further inspection, and quickly stopped him:

"Don't go in, the real murderer is still here."

The words just fell.

Snap!

A bloody handprint appeared on the ground not far from Sherlock.

If you pick up Viscount Owen's hand and compare it, you will find that the fingerprints on the two match perfectly.

The next moment.

Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! .

The sound of countless bloody handprints hitting the floor, walls, and glass of the building was like one, as if countless invisible things with human hands were crawling quickly in the building.

He even suppressed the sound of rain all around him for a time.

"ah--!"

The biting cold wind blew across the backs of everyone present, and the onlookers who joined in the fun immediately screamed and fled.