The Master of the Strange Realm

He was now extremely miserable, with his right arm tilted at an abnormal angle and his left arm barely supporting his body from falling. The pants on his legs seemed to have been cut with a sharp blade, and warm blood flowed from the pulpy wound. When Jenkins arrived, a pool of blood was almost forming.

He was already a little unconscious and his face was covered in blood. But judging from the smell, this should be the blood of those ghouls, and it tastes very bad.

"Mr. Hood? Oh, God, what's wrong with you?"

Jenkins rushed over and found that Mr. Hood was subconsciously resisting, so he hurriedly said:

"It's me, Mr. Candle without a cat, what's wrong with you?"

He put his hand against Mr. Hood's chest, a faint green light flickering in his palm, and Mr. Hood's weak breathing gradually calmed down.

"How do you feel? Can you hear me?"

He asked in a low voice, just now Mr. Hood's life was like a candle in a heavy rain, now it is like a candle in a storm, and the treatment still cannot stop.

"I heard... Mr. Candle, you saved me again this time... What time is it now?"

Mr. Hood asked weakly, trying to sit up straight but having no control over his arms.

"If you want to thank me, it's not too late to wait until you get better. Don't talk now and carefully feel the flow of the spirit of life... It's ten o'clock on Sunday night. Thirteen hours ago, you and the white cat Sir and I met, do you remember? We met at the cafe, and you were discussing the tip amount with Mr. White Cat when I entered."

"Yes, it is indeed you...Is it still Sunday? That's okay, it's not too late. Mr. White Cat, Mr. White Cat, he...he..."

"What's up with him?"

Jenkins asked nervously, his heart skipping a beat. He didn't have many friends.

"He's missing!"

"Missing? Just missing? Oh, it's okay, no, I mean, that's really bad. Don't talk now. I'll treat you. You are seriously injured. If you hadn't met me, you would have It’s time to think about writing your last words.”

Today, Mr. White Cat summoned everyone for an action, and in the end only he and Mr. Hood participated. Miss Silver Flute could not enter the city, Jenkins went to search for the mad poet, Hathaway went to accompany Britney, and Miss Magic did not know what she was doing, so theoretically, if she had not "happened" to meet Mr. Hood, Jenkins One will never know exactly what happened during the day this weekend.

A remote alley is not a good place for treatment. After barely saving Mr. Hood's life, Jenkins helped him to Mr. Hood's residence in the city. Mr. Hood was a successful businessman, and although Jenkins didn't know exactly what he was selling, the man did own a lot of real estate in Nolan.

"I feel alive again."

After everything was settled, Mr. Hood was naked and his left arm was hung by a bandage. He directly picked up the wine glass with his right hand and drank it in one gulp. The bottle was on the small round table nearby, which contained brandy. It's not that Jenkins can't heal his right hand, but the curse on it is very strange and cannot be restrained by the purification candle and life force. For the time being, Mr. Hood can only rely on himself to recover.

"It's best not to drink in your current state... So what exactly happened? You also know that I have something to do today and am not in Nolan. Why did it end up like this when I came back?"

Jenkins asked, sitting in an armchair on the other side of the coffee table.

"If we tell you what happened in detail, I'm afraid we won't have to wait until tomorrow."

Mr. Hood said while enduring the pain and putting down the wine glass in his hand:

"To describe it simply, those aliens were looking for a treasure instead of a treasure. They were looking for a suitable place to hold a ceremony to open a portal to the outside of the material world. Unfortunately, Mr. White Cat and I were caught in the ambush while we were on the side. When I got into this incident, I couldn’t remember what happened at that time. When I woke up, Mr. White Cat had disappeared, and I was surrounded by a large number of crazy demons..."

The more he talked, the more frustrated he became. He refilled his glass with wine and drank it all in one gulp. He drank so hard that he choked and coughed.

"You mean the ceremony will be held at the bank construction site? That's impossible. Before I found you, I went there to check the situation, but except for some suspicious blood stains, no trace of the portal was found. From According to common sense, the portal should not move at will, right?"

Jenkins said with a frown. He wanted to touch his cat, but then he remembered that the cat was still guarding the door of Luen's church room.

"Opening a portal to the outside world is not that simple. If it really relies on rituals, even ten years of preparation will not be enough. Those evil aliens have terrible knowledge from other worlds, and they adopted a compromise method The method is to first connect to the auxiliary space outside the material world, and then use that space to connect to the outside world... Well, actually, I don't know much about the principle. Mr. Magic is best at this kind of thing."

"The auxiliary space outside the material world? You mean..."

Jenkins understood immediately.

"Yes, it's a mystery. I think the missing Mr. White Cat was probably involved in the mystery. Originally, there was an entrance to the mystery on the second floor of the bank construction site because too many outsiders were released at once. The entrance to the alien creature has collapsed, but according to my experience, the unnatural collapse of the entrance will not cause problems to the enchantment itself, so there will definitely be a new one connected to the enchantment in Nolan's area. Entrance. The alien creatures are probably looking for it too. Once found, they can bring the third wave of companions to our city. Yes, there have been two waves of monsters now. I am afraid that the third wave of monsters will be even more than the first two waves. , and because they passed through a strange place and came to the material world abnormally, I think they may be infected with more strange characteristics... No, this is too dangerous, I want to report this matter to the church!"

As he spoke, he struggled to sit up, but because he was too injured, he was pushed back by Jenkins.

Chapter 1372 Chapter 1349 Bad Luck

"Mr. Hood, you'd better rest peacefully. I will pass this matter on to the church. I also have friends in the church. Leave the matter of finding Mr. White Cat to me as well. If he is trapped in a strange situation, I think I can Entering the treacherous realm through the entrance is indeed a bit dangerous, but someone has to solve the problem, and the church may move faster than me."

Jenkins stopped Mr. Hood, stood up and was about to leave as he spoke, but Mr. Hood stopped him, and then staggered to the second floor. After a while, he came down from the second floor and handed over a workman. Give him the fine wooden box.

"I can't be of much help in my current situation. You can take this with you. I think it will be useful."

"What's this?"

Jenkins said as he opened the box and saw a somewhat familiar ticket.

"B-11-5-2305 [Ticket to go home], this is one of the few items that can take people out of a strange situation. Compared with the equally famous [Mr. Prankster's Toy Ticket], this ticket is completely It’s harmless. Although it’s only one piece, I think it might be helpful in rescuing Mr. White Cat.”

"It definitely helps."

Jenkins said in surprise that he did not expect Mr. Hood to have such an item, which was very rare.

"If you can find Mr. White Cat, remember to confirm whether he still has the [Magic Conch] on him. He brought the conch with him for emergencies, so I think he should be able to hold on now. When you find him If he still has that thing, then with this ticket, the possibility of you all being able to come back smoothly will be greatly increased. I will be here waiting for you to come back, Mr. Candle, what happened today..."

He sighed and raised his glass to Jenkins:

"We were too careless. We didn't expect it to turn out like this. I wish everything goes well!"

After leaving Mr. Hood's house, he immediately returned to Loen, and then contacted Nolan from Loen. Using his divination as an excuse, he truthfully reported the news he heard from Mr. Hood to Miss Bevanna.

Although Miss Bevanna was surprised that Jenkins' "divination" could be so accurate, because Miss Audrey had vouched for Jenkins throughout the process, she was only surprised that Jenkins had such a high talent in divination.

Although the church is taking action, Jenkins isn't waiting for news. After he finished handling the church affairs, he returned to Dolores's manor in the church's carriage. He roughly told the girls who were waiting for him what had happened and asked them to rest. Then he came again with the cat. Nolan.

Now that he had obtained the ticket from Mr. Hood, there would be no danger even if he entered a strange situation to rescue Mr. White Cat. Jenkins decided to do his part.

Alexia was not allowed to come to Nolan to help for safety reasons, but the short woman gave Jenkins a small blue glowing square before he returned to Nolan. This is a device used to find the entrance to the treacherous realm, specially made by Alexia.

Although there may be some problems in using it, it is better than Jenkins wandering around town trying his luck.

It was almost early in the morning, and the city was silent, except for the lights on the streets that were still flickering. The number of patrol teams in the city has increased compared with that in the evening. Probably because of the information provided by Jenkins, every ordinary person team will now be paired with a benefactor. After all, ordinary people will have difficulty even if they encounter the entrance to the treacherous realm. See.

Jenkins rode a unicorn and flew in the sky with a cat and decided to search from east to west. However, he was unlucky. When the clock struck zero, he accidentally entered the doomsday illusion. .

Sometimes people's luck is so bad. Jenkins mistakenly entered the doomsday illusion at such an emergency moment, which is the best example.

The unicorn was originally carrying him in a low-altitude flight just now. After entering this decaying apocalyptic world, due to the world's own air restrictions, they could only slowly descend and land on the roof of someone else's house.

Looking at the huge yellow moon in the distance, it seemed that it had fallen on the horizon. Jenkins glanced at it and looked away to prevent him from turning into a madman after looking at it for too long.

He let the unicorn leave first, holding the cat for a while and looking at the doomsday scenery to think about his next plan. He can actually use [Real Phantom] to get out immediately, but the problem is that cats can't. It was absolutely impossible for Jenkins to leave Chocolate alone in this dangerous place, so after waiting for a while without any sign of returning to reality, he climbed into the building through the window and walked towards the clock tower in the city center.

This is the Nolan City that is a mixture of various past apocalypses. Among them, the weakest and most numerous monsters are those weird-looking creatures that are good at melee combat and will turn into soot and dissipate after death. The strength of this monster is extremely great, and the defense of the skin fused with clothing is stronger than the special steel plates used by the army to make weapons.

The best way to fight against this kind of creature is to use long-range magic attacks. Unfortunately, in a crisis-ridden apocalyptic world, this kind of magic often attracts more monsters.

Therefore, Jenkins can only compete with these monsters in close combat, specifically, they use weapons to attack each other ping-ping-pong-pong. Jenkins believes that his swordsmanship will definitely improve greatly after this incident. If he continues Miss Bevanna's fighting lessons after returning to Nolan, she will definitely be impressed by him.

Jenkins also thought about looking for traces of the mad poet in this world, but not long ago he guessed that the brave man who killed the mad poet was likely to succeed in becoming a god. This meant that that era did not end with the end, so this The world couldn't find any clues about the fifteenth era.

As for the reason why this world is always in darkness, we learned about it before the final duel with the Titans. This represents the final end of the era when the ancient Titans disappeared, that fireless era when the sun disappeared below the horizon.

As for other apocalyptic visions besides the soot monster and the disappearing sun, Jenkins could only reluctantly guess that the yellow moon represented the original moon of the material world that had long since disappeared. According to legend, the moon was eaten by a moon-swallowing civet. The moon-swallowing civet, like the Ouroboros and the Scarlet Float, is a beast of disaster that appears at the end of each era and is the incarnation of all the sins of that era. .

Of course something similar will appear at the end of the eighteenth century, but Jenkins can't guess what it will be yet.

Fighting monsters along the way, occasionally having to take detours to avoid them. When I arrived at the clock tower in the city center, it was already half an hour later. I climbed up panting, but the old man was still in his original position. He opened his palms to Jenkins and asked a question that surprised Jenkins:

"What did you do to this world the day before yesterday?"

Chapter 1373 Chapter 1350 Mistake

"Um...what do you mean? What have I done to the world? No, I haven't done anything."

Jenkins was very confused when he heard this question.

"There is no normal sunset or sunrise in this world, so I can't tell the specific time, but about two days ago, you suddenly appeared and took away most of the bones in this city. You won't forget this, right? ?”

the old man asked from the mouth in his palm.

"In this matter... you are not asking me to return those useless bones, are you? If I remember correctly, you are not the owner of this place."

He said hesitantly.

"Of course I won't do such boring things. I just want to warn you because you carry too much material from this world to the material world, which accelerates the connection between the two cities, so the speed of the doomsday fusion of reality becomes faster. Soon. If my feeling is correct, more people have been inadvertently pulled into this world since two days ago. You must speed up if you want to save this."

"If I return those bones now, can I stop this accelerated process?"

Jenkins asked a stupid question.

"The frequent exchange of materials will only make the fusion process faster, and will cause more serious changes in this doomsday city. Remember, this is a city pieced together from multiple past doomsdays, and it can only barely survive. Fragile balance, any changes in matter and energy will cause unknown consequences. If you want to continue our cooperation, you must be careful when entering and leaving here recently..."

The old man only said this, and then told Jenkins the location, method and location of the next ritual and the location of the monster materials he needed. He seemed to know everything about this world very well, and the location of the monster he told Jenkins every time was extremely accurate, as if standing in this clock tower, he could know everything in the apocalyptic city.

"One thing I want to ask is, how many of those people who entered the treacherous realm successfully came out?"

Jenkins asked before leaving. The old man didn't speak for a while. Jenkins thought he didn't want to answer so he turned around and prepared to leave. Unexpectedly, he actually told Jenkins the answer:

"A total of six people entered the treacherous realm, and three died here."

Miss Yindi told Jenkins that a total of six people entered the treacherous realm at the beginning, so apart from her, two people actually escaped from the treacherous realm, which surprised Jenkins. At the same time, when he climbed up the clock tower for the first time, he found a corpse on the stairs, which meant that there should be corpses from the real world lying in some corners of the city.

But these things have nothing to do with him for the time being. Taking advantage of Nolan who has entered the end of the world this time, he seizes the time to kill the monsters that need to be hunted. The timing was very good. When the scales were cut off from the front paw of the lizard, which had a translucent body and could move freely within thirty feet, the bright yellow moonlight disappeared above the head.

Looking around again, it was already a quiet night for Nolan.

"Very good. I wonder if the church has found the entrance to that strange place in these two hours."

So he thought, and then a few minutes later came to the conclusion that the Church apparently hadn't found it yet. Because when he struggled to climb to the roof of the nearby building with the cat, he could clearly see two streets away, where two Gifters were fighting a huge frantic demon.

Ordinary soldiers blocked the intersection with guns. In the battle with this monster that can easily disturb the minds of ordinary people, the soldiers will only become the objects of manipulation.

"A new alien creature has appeared again? It seems I have to hurry up, otherwise there will only be more and more monsters running into the city."

As the most important port metropolis on the west coast, Nolan City's urban area is not smaller than any other city of the same era in Jenkin's world. So even with the guideposts given by Alexia, it is not a simple problem to quickly find the entrance to the treacherous realm that may be hidden in any corner.

Considering that his cats have always been very lucky, Jenkins even wanted to try Chocolate's luck. But Chocolate refused to cooperate this time. It probably saw that Jenkins didn't plan to rest tonight, so it got into the inner pocket of Jenkins' jacket and refused to come out even after saying anything.

"If I find a strange place, I will definitely go on an adventure, and I won't be able to take you with me then. Chocolate, why don't you go back to Loen and sleep first?"

Of course the cat would not agree.

Alexia's little cube is very sensitive, but not very precise. When standing on the top of the city clock tower, it marked the location that might be the entrance to the Strange Land. When Jenkins arrived at the barn near the outskirts of the city, he found it empty.

Careful inspection revealed a dark room under a pile of straw, but nothing in the dark room contained aura. Out of curiosity, Jenkins looked through the letter hidden in the cracks of the bookshelf and found that although it was full of letters, the letters were all made up of meaningless words. Only then did he realize that the letter was encrypted with a password.

"While there are secrets here, it's obviously not here."

He thought with some disappointment, and then returned all the letters to their original places. When I extinguished the candle in my hand and tried to crawl back to the ground, I heard someone pushing open the barn door.

"Damn it!"

Cursing secretly in his mind, he turned around and looked behind him. There was no place to hide in the small dark room. He blinked again to make sure that the person who was about to step down was an ordinary person, so he carefully stood next to the ladder close to the wall. When the visitor opened the trap door and climbed the ladder to carefully step onto the ground, Jenkins pinched the cat on his chest. The sleeping chocolate immediately let out a cry of dissatisfaction.

The meowing of a cat in this closed environment startled the strange man. He hurriedly searched for the source of the sound in the darkness, and then happened to look into Jenkins' wide-open eyes:

"There is nothing here. The cat meowing just now and the man now are all hallucinations!"

Jenkins said quickly, the power of lies flowing to the outside world through words. The man who looked at him felt his head dizzy for a moment, and then as if he had forgotten something important, he looked back and forth in the dark room, and then walked towards The bookshelf opposite the ladder.

While the power of lies was still blurring the man's perception, Jenkins took the time to climb the ladder to the ground. I took out the small square in my pocket and took a look. This time, there were actually 3 different locations marked on it at the same time.

Chapter 1374 Chapter 1351 Well and Ice Flowers

"Oh, Alexia's prop is really too inaccurate."

He couldn't help but sigh, but considering that it was impossible to divine in a strange environment, being able to invent such an inaccurate prop was a miracle in itself.

As he wandered around the city at night, he bumped into young men and women having an affair in a carriage on the side of the road. He discovered that two benefactors were trading tobacco that had been banned, and then discovered fresh food on the ground at the last location. of blood.

This meant that Alexia's digital divination had completely failed. Before the small square suggested the next batch of suspected locations, Jenkins didn't have any clues, so he decided to follow the blood stains on the ground to see what was going on here.

The bloodstain extended from the side of the trash can deeper into the alley, then deflected to the right at the intersection before disappearing in front of a low wall. Jenkins climbed over the wall but found no further traces. Later, he climbed up from the low wall to the roof of the one-story bungalow on the left, and sure enough he found blood stains on the tiles.

The injured man advanced along the roofs of the alley, and as he neared the street jumped into the alley on the other side. After repeating this three times, we have arrived at the so-called slum in the lower city east of the city.

The residential density and quality of life here can be regarded as the worst in Nolan, and it happens to be in a low-lying area of ​​the entire city. Jenkins rarely came here, so he didn't know much about the alleys extending in all directions. After some tracking, he lost the traces of blood again, and now he didn't know where to look.

"I'm wasting my time again."

He patted his head and took out his pocket watch. It was already past midnight. It was now 1:30.

So he thought about flying into the sky again. If he still couldn't find the entrance to the strange land, he would have to go back to Loen to rest and come back tomorrow.

He looked around and couldn't tell where he was. But the surrounding buildings were very low. Instead of walking in the alleys, he walked on other people's roofs. As long as he aimed in one direction, he would be able to leave here sooner or later.