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Chapter 1388: Sinking (sleepy and tired, want to sleep)

When the food detective woke up and opened his eyes, the first thing that caught his eye was a large bed that looked luxurious and ancient. The sheets that were supposed to be white are now made of bright red velvet, making them soft and comfortable to the touch.

"What the **** is this...?"

The food detective sat up and looked around in confusion. He clearly remembered that he fell asleep in a hotel room, but the room in front of him was completely different from his own. The room lacked decoration and was shabby and decayed, with a long sword and a tapestry hanging on the wall. There are strange patterns embroidered on the tapestry. Perhaps because of the embroidery, the food detective cannot see clearly what is depicted on this tapestry.

Where is this? This is not your room!

The food detective sat up from the bed and then walked down to the floor. What he felt on the soles of his feet was not the soft carpet of the guest room, but the cold stone slabs. The hard stones even made the Gourmet Detective feel pain in his feet. He took a breath subconsciously and raised his feet to avoid the stone. Then the Gourmet Detective opened the door, walked out of the room, and looked around.

Then, his eyes widened in surprise.

What the food detective faced was not the hotel he was familiar with, and there were no busy roads or high-rise buildings in front of him. All he saw were rows of low stone buildings that didn't look like the stone buildings of this era. The towers and palaces in the distance were clearly visible. The food detective looked up and saw two pink moons clearly visible above the night.

Wait, where is this place?

The food detective continued to look up, and saw countless stars twinkling under the dark night, even converging into a Milky Way flowing forward - No! That's not starlight!

Above his head is the city hanging upside down! Food Detectives can see the tall buildings emerging under the night sky, and even the traffic rushing on the road!

The moment he realized this, the food detective felt that his body suddenly began to float, and even his center of gravity shifted at this moment. Then, he watched helplessly as he fell towards the March City hanging upside down in the sky. And down!

"————!"

The food detective stood up suddenly and jumped out of bed. He couldn't help breathing and looked around. What appeared in the eyes of the food detective this time was the usual standard hotel room, and the thing lying under him was not a velvet bed, but an ordinary hotel Simmons.

"call………"

The food detective stretched out his hand and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

What a strange dream... Speaking of which, I'm a little hungry.

The food detective looked at his watch, then picked up the phone and ordered a midnight snack. After all, one must be full before he has the strength to continue fighting.

Not long after, there was a knock on the door, and the food detective walked to the door and asked.

"Who is it?"

"Room service, your late night snack."

"oh."

Upon hearing the greeting, the food detective also walked to the door, opened the door, and then looked at the waiter in front of him...

"Whoa!"

The next moment, the food detective was startled suddenly and backed away.

What appeared in front of the food detective was not the waiters in hotel uniforms he remembered. On the contrary, the waiter in front of him was wearing an exaggerated costume that looked like something he would wear on stage, and his face was also covered in white. The powder was smeared pale and pale. I saw him carrying a gun in one hand and a dinner plate in the other, staring at the food detective.

"What's wrong with you? Guest?"

"Ah, no..."

The food detective shook his head, closed his eyes, and then opened them again - but the waiter in front of him was still dressed in this strange way. He swallowed, then stretched out his hand to take the plate.

"I just had a nightmare and was a little drowsy."

"Okay, have a good night."

The other party didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with his dress. He just nodded and handed the plate to the food detective, then turned and left. Watching the waiter leave, the food detective hurriedly closed the door and quickly locked it. Then he put the dinner plate aside and leaned behind the door to take a breath.

Is this... something wrong with me? Or is there something wrong with the world?

The food detectives are completely confused.

Forget it, let’s eat first.

While thinking about it, the food detective opened the dinner plate, took out the burger placed inside, and then took a casual bite and ate it. I have to say, the delicious fried meatloaf exploded in your mouth, coupled with the fresh and tender sauce, it felt really good.

"Uh-huh-huh-huh...huh?"

While the food detective was enjoying the food, with the help of the outside light, he seemed to see something strange about the burger in his hand, so the food detective reached out and turned on the light. Soon, the dim bedroom was illuminated by light, and at this moment the food detective also saw that in the burger he was holding, snow-white maggots were twisting and crawling through the meat patties. He could even see the squirming remains of the half-bitten meatloaf that was also only half-left!

"Woo...wow!!"

At this moment, the food detective couldn't bear it anymore, threw down the burger in his hand, ran to the bathroom and vomited desperately while holding the toilet. He even felt that his throat was numb, as if maggots were crawling down his throat!

He didn't know how long he had been holding the toilet and vomited. The food detective, who was almost exhausted, finally recovered. He reluctantly rinsed his mouth with water, and then angrily walked to the burger he had thrown down again, trying to get it. Ask the hotel for an explanation. However, when the food detective picked up the burger, he found that everything was normal.

"Why?"

The rotten meatloaf that was infested with maggots had completely disappeared, replaced by a steaming piece of delicious meatloaf that looked completely normal, without any abnormalities, and was wrapped in bread, lettuce and sauce.

"…………"

The food detective stared at the burger in his hand silently, thought for a while, then gritted his teeth and threw it into the trash can.

In fact, after what happened just now, he is now completely psychologically affected by it.

In the next few days, the three of them were still running.

Duanmu Huai has already decided on the plan, since the people here hope to break the seal and summon the King in Yellow to this city. Then he would just wait for the other party to summon the King in Yellow, and then kill him. Of course, this does not mean that Duanmu Huai will just sit there and wait. On the one hand, he still needs to devour a large amount of information as a trump card in his fight against the King in Yellow. On the other hand, Duanmuhuai also wanted to force the other party to act as soon as possible. After all, after the other party knows that someone is pursuing them, they will naturally speed up the progress in order to complete the plan. In the past two days, Duanmuhuai and two other detectives went to trace the whereabouts of the mayor.

Fortunately, the mayor was very ambitious and was never caught by them. If Duanmuhuai and the others really caught the mayor, it would be even more troublesome.

It’s okay if you can’t catch it.

Now, Duanmu Huai and others gathered in the restaurant for dinner after a busy day. Duanmu Huai drank coffee and read the newspaper in front of him. The gourmet detective next to him was eating with his head covered, which made the idol detective a little bit unbearable.

"I said you must have eaten too much. This is one, two, three, four, five, six... this is your seventh plate! I feel full just by looking at it!"

"Hey, there's nothing we can do about it."

After finishing the dinner in front of him in a hurry, the food detective also sighed.

"After all, the city is like this. I can only eat normal food when I'm with you... By the way, we eat normal food, right?"

No wonder the food detective is so depressed, as he said, as time goes by, the situation in March City becomes more and more weird. Not only food detectives, but also idol detectives can see the changes taking place in the city. Many times they will see skyscrapers transformed into eccentric palaces and castles, and tall chimneys transformed into towers.

Even the people walking on the street looked like actors performing on stage, smeared with makeup and wearing exaggerated and weird costumes. Not only people, but also cars and subways. Sometimes they see horseless carriages running on the street, and they also see huge underground monsters with huge mouths like earthworms in subway stations...

Not to mention the food.

That is to say, everything will return to normal around Duanmuhuai. Otherwise, they may have problems eating and drinking in the past few days.

"I said, Mr. Duanmu, is there really nothing you can do?"

The idol detective asked Duanmuhuai a bit coquettishly, but Duanmuhuai just shrugged his shoulders.

"I told you, the city's message is gradually integrating with Carcosa, so it has this change."

"But the others didn't respond at all."

The idol detective watched a maid walking by - the latter had pale powder on her face, wore funny clothes like a clown, and jumped on the ground like a frog. Although the cutlery on the plate in her hand fell to the ground and was smashed to pieces, neither she nor the people around her turned a blind eye to it.

"This is normal."

Duanmuhuai turned over the newspaper again.

"You look at the lunatics in the mental hospital and you know they are lunatics. But do you think lunatics know they are lunatics?"

"…………"

The idol detective was completely speechless.

"If you want to be like them, just take off the pendant, and then you can go back to the normal world."

"Then what will I look like in your eyes?"

As he spoke, the idol detective looked at the man on the other side who was wearing only a fur coat and trembled.

"Forget it, I think this is good. No matter what others say, at least I won't go to the point of collaborating with these guys."

"It's like that famous joke."

As the food detective started to destroy the next plate of food, he couldn't help but joke.

"When everyone in the world becomes crazy, are you crazy? Or are they crazy?"

"Anyway, at least I'm awake now."

The idol detective was not fooled and shook his head vigorously.

While listening to the quarrel between the idol detective and the gourmet detective, Duanmu Huai read the newspaper and secretly sensed the spread of the shadow network in his heart. After the Shadow and the Shoggoth fought several times, the Shoggoth changed direction and placed the infected area in the city center. Duanmuhuai did the opposite and asked the shadow people to block all entrances and exits of the entire city. All people were only allowed in but not out. All those who wanted to leave were replaced with shadows.

And relying on the information from the shadow people who penetrated inside, the progress there is also very fast. It seems that it is only a matter of time before the ceremony actually begins...

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

At this moment, suddenly, there was a burst of thunder outside, which shocked everyone slightly. They turned their heads and looked out of the floor-to-ceiling windows. Then the idol detective opened his eyes in surprise and pointed to the sky.

"Look there!"

There is no need for the idol detective to remind everyone. At this moment, everyone has already seen that the phantom city, which was originally as blurry as a mirage, is gradually becoming clear. It maintains an upside-down posture and is slowly falling towards March City. .

"Okay, it seems that the other party can't wait any longer."

Duanmuhuai stood up.

"Then let's take action."

(End of chapter)