Chapter 184: A Messenger from a Corrupt World
Through the manmaid Mark's intermittent description, the two finally figured out the cause and effect. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
A few minutes ago, when the old housekeeper took An Yizhi and Tu Hongyu to the place where the diesel engine was placed, the remaining three servants were checking whether the doors and windows of the old mansion were all locked.
Even though their master is dead, they, like the old butler, intend to continue to enforce the rules that Eugene left behind.
However, because of a lot of things that happened today, they checked the door lock a little later than usual.
Cook Olive inspected the second floor, and after saying hello, returned to the maid's room to rest through the bridge connecting to the new house on the second floor. And Mark and Mary used to check with the old butler because there were many locks on the first floor, but this time it took a little more time to check, just because it took a little more time, so they saw a terrifying scene.
When the mechanical clock of the restaurant reached 12 o'clock, the two people who had not checked the kitchen and the underground storage room for storing ingredients heard that there was movement in the restaurant, and they should not have checked it out of curiosity.
According to Mark's description, it was a kind of ghost dressed in a wide white garment, with their mouths sewn up, their skin pale without a trace of blood, and their eyes cloudy like blind cataracts.
The two were terrified, but they knew that all exits were locked from the outside, and that they could only go through the pantry under the kitchen.
But just as they were about to climb the ladder to get outside, a pair of pale hands dragged back the maid Mary, who was following Mark, and Mark heard a heart-rending scream and was doused with a foul liquid.
He didn't dare to look back, and desperately crawled out of the storage room, using the last bit of sanity to lock the door outside the storage room and prevent those terrible ghosts from escaping.
"Delusion? Why do I sound like zombies? ”
"Coincidentally, I think so too"
It's a little strange that the mouth is sealed, but it sounds more like a zombie than a half-imaginary ghost.
However, he didn't see it with his own eyes, and he was still a little uncertain based on the description alone, and Ann pointed to look through the wide window of the old mansion, trying to see what the ghost Mark was talking about, but the thick curtains were closed behind the window, and nothing could be seen from here.
"Nope! I definitely won't get anywhere closer! ”
The two of them planned to go to the place where Mark encountered the 'ghost', but the person concerned was reluctant to go again.
It's no wonder that an ordinary person with normal three views, who has not experienced the baptism of zombie culture and various horror movies in later generations, sees such an unscientific thing, not to mention that the companions around him have just died tragically, and they are already psychologically strong if they are not scared to pee.
But the two players are determined to study the ugliness.
When he came to the door to enter the underground storage room, Mark still didn't want to go down, but Tu Hongyu insisted on carrying Mark away.
At this juncture, they don't worry about letting Mark leave on his own, since he doesn't want to go down, then let's guard the door outside with Tu Hongyu, An Yizhi is worried that someone will lock them in the old mansion, so he left Tu Hongyu to guard the door.
The locks in the storage room are like bicycle locks, which can be locked without a key, but must be opened with a key.
The old butler had a full set of keys, and he opened the door, and then a rush of blood hit everyone in the face.
It seems that Mark is right, such a serious smell of blood cannot be caused by one or two wounds.
An Yizhi pulled out his pistol with a stern expression, and the old butler had already handed the flashlight to An Yizhi, who took it and went down the stairs first.
The first thing that catches your eye is the boxes of vegetables and fruits, most of which are shelf-stable types.
So far it was normal, but soon it will be abnormal.
He noticed that there were more or less sticky blood stains left on the vegetables and fruits, which made him more or less vigilant.
A few more steps, as a large pool of viscera and blood mixture appeared, An Yizhi and the old butler saw a corpse.
It was the maid Mary.
Her chest was wide open, in the truest sense of the word.
The flesh of the sternum and chest collapsed to one side like a plastic bag that had been torn open, and the contents of the entire chest cavity could be seen clearly.
Fortunately, there is nothing wrong with the system of this copy, and such a disgusting scene is just a mosaic in An Yizhi's eyes.
"Oh, poor Mary"
The old butler's face was pale, and he seemed to want to vomit, but he held back, and he said sadly.
Ann reached out and touched Mary's wound, which was very uneven, not like a chest cavity cut by a sharp weapon, but torn by brute force.
This discovery made him think that there were zombies in the old mansion, because one of the characteristics of zombies is that they are infinitely powerful.
At this time, the old butler found the light switch, and the three orange bulbs lit up, giving an unobstructed view of the storage room.
"Mr. Ann!"
He exclaimed:
"Water, there seems to be something in the tank!"
Of course, there is no running water in such a western-style house, and the water they use is pumped from the nearby river and stored in four large tanks.
Ann pointed to hear the old butler's call, and he walked around Mary, whose intestines were scattered, and walked to the uncovered water tank.
There was a corpse soaked in the tank, and it was a headless corpse, but his identity was easy to guess.
"Eugene?"
Although he has no head and cannot make out his face, his outfit and body shape are exactly the corpse of Eugene, who once disappeared.
It's weird.
After Eugene's body disappeared, An Yizhi and others carefully explored the entire old mansion, like the large water tank that could hide several people in the storage room, of course, they did not let it go, and when they checked it, there was nothing else in the water tank except clean water.
Who is it and what is the purpose?
He first removed Eugene's body, then cut off Eugene's head and put the rest of the body in the water tank?
"Master?"
"Do you think it's Eugene's corpse too?"
"Uh...... Look at the costumes are very similar."
Coupled with the affirmation of the old housekeeper, he must not admit his mistake.
Ann rummaged through the corpse's pocket for a while, and took out a key that was attached to the key ring, presumably the key to Eugene's safe.
He pocketed what he had found and beckoned the old butler to return it.
Mary's tragic situation had confirmed the manservant's words, that it was impossible to inflict such a wound on human power alone, at least one or two people could not do it at all.
There are still an unknown number of 'zombies' wandering around the old house, and An Yizhi only has a small pistol in his hand, and with his marksmanship, it is too difficult to shoot a gun head.
Only if he entered the exploration with an old and frail housekeeper, it would not end well, so he decided to leave here as soon as possible.
Generally speaking, there will be any accidents at this time, so An Yizhi has never dared to relax his vigilance, but this time the system implemented the routine of playing cards out of common sense, and there were no accidents on the way back, and the two returned to the ground smoothly.
"How?"
Seeing An Yi pointing out the two of them, Tu Hongyu stepped forward and asked.
"Found something, and Mark wasn't lying, that wound must not have been caused by humans, I didn't dare go further, so I didn't see the ghost he said"
"It's a curse! It must be a curse! ”
Mark is still in shock, and his muttering is heard by both players.
"What curse?"
"Mr. An, you don't know anything"
The old butler took over the conversation: "It is said that the master's ancestors used to be sorcerers who served the royal family, but then all the things related to witchcraft were burned in the witch trial, and it is said that since then, the master's family has been cursed by the ancestors, and every family member has not survived to be 50 years old, including the servants who serve each generation of masters have also died, and it is said that the souls of those people will be controlled by witchcraft, and they will wander the old mansion after midnight." Of course, I don't believe in witchcraft or anything, everyone thought it was just a legend."
"Died unexpectedly? Does the legend mention how they died? ”
"Uh, I remember it was a fire"
Fire......
As mentioned earlier, there was a fire here when all the servants except Eugene were burned to death, and Eugene did not escape this time.
But, if everything was a curse, why did Eugene die differently if his elders all died in the fire?
Zombies, fires, cursed people, these seem to have some inexplicable connection to the current case.
"Ahh That! Be there! It's a ghost! ”
Just as Ann was puzzled, Mark suddenly screamed loudly and pointed to the window on the second floor of the old mansion, only there were no curtains, so this time the two players really saw the whole picture of the zombies.
It was a messenger who could only exist outside of common sense, from a nightmare. The undead who should have been sleeping forever looked at the people downstairs with its bloodshot and chaotic eyes.
He was draped in a wide suit that resembled a hospital gown, his bloodless blue-white skin, and disgusting saliva dripping from his mouth that had been stitched together, full of the most primitive horror and amazement.
It roared, its throat coming through the glass, and even the downpour of rain could not completely hide the unpleasant sound, like the muffled noise played in the night.
This is like a creature that touches the bottom line of common sense, which greatly stimulates the nerves of normal people, like a whisper from a corrupt and cruel world.
- Bang! Bang!
It's so scary, it's actually a zombie, or something that looks like a zombie.
The two NPCs were frightened, but An Yizhi and Tu Hongyu were not.
There are too many horrible monsters than it, and for a simple example, the ghouls on the first floor of the Endless Dungeon are 10 times more disgusting than this one.
As the most photographed zombie in the monster world, two players are almost immune to the mental impact of this thing, and compared to other monsters that are enough to scare adults into crying, this zombie is really too young, too simple.
So the first reaction of the two when they saw the zombie was not to be stunned, but to pull out their pistols and fire calmly.
The zombie didn't seem to be hurt too much, it just didn't jump off the stairs to fight back, and it didn't stay still as a target.
Instead, he quickly escaped into the darkness of the old mansion with agility disproportionate to his rotten body......