Chapter 333 – The Stalking Duo

Chapter 333 – Stalking Duo

In the entire house, other than the room where Brown Scott was last seen, nothing unusual was found.

In fact, even the room that had been “contaminated” by the gray and black mud did not have any residual transcendent shadows – apart from the visual shock of those strange mud substances, there was not the slightest trace of transcendent power in this building.

All that is not of this world has left with the disappearance of Brown Scott.

On the first floor of the house, Galoni was still asleep, the tall, stone-skinned Sanguine leaning back against the corner of a couch, her sleep calm and serene, her face wearing a look of relaxation.

In her sleep, she was still a student under her teacher’s door, still living a peaceful and normal life, and her learned and kind teacher had just finished his years of traveling, and had recently returned home to tell her many, many things that happened in faraway places.

“If only Heidi were here, she’d be mixing up some potions that would at least make the girl feel better once she comes to her senses,” Morris looked down at Galoney on the couch with a slightly mixed expression, “I can tell that she and Brown are on good terms with each other. ”

“…… The gloom always passes,” Duncan said, silent for a moment, fumbling in his pocket for a small crystal pendant, which he held to his lips and whispered something before slipping it into Galoni’s hand. “Sweet dreams, everything will be fine.”

Maurice watched Duncan’s actions in silence, and after a long time, he finally managed to speak, “And you brought these pendants over here?”

“…… last time into more, left half a box really can not sell, send all no one want,” Duncan expressionless (mainly bandages blocked), tone flat, “I just think of after the trip to find an opportunity to give all out …… Do you want one?”

“No thanks,” Maurice waved his hand hurriedly, “I’m not much for that kind of women’s jewelry.”

“Oh, that’s right too.”

……

A cold night wind blew through the dim, dead alley, and in the slight glow swept over by the gas lamps at the intersection, Vanna’s eyes were alert to the movement around her.

Alice, on the other hand, stood at her side and took a modeled look around – but it was clear that she had no idea what Vanna was paying attention to.

“The street’s quiet, there’s no one there,” presumably uncomfortable with the overly silent and depressing environment, Miss Doll finally couldn’t help but speak up, “Miss Vanna, what have you been looking at?”

Vanna spoke in a calm tone, “Certain Transcendents that may appear, or the suspicious shadows that wrap around that building, if there are any.”

“Huh?” Alice froze, “Would there be?”

“…… What do you think Mr. Duncan is doing keeping us out here on standby?”

Alice thought for a moment, “Isn’t it because he thinks I’m making a mess?”

Vanna: “…… You’re right.”

She found it hard to explain herself clearly to this solid head, so she simply stopped explaining.

But she herself understood very well the significance of staking out this place.

There was a “replica” that had returned from the Deep that had been operating in the city-state for many days, and that replica lived in the building not far from here – it was unlikely that the Annihilationists who followed the Lord of the Profound would be unresponsive to this.

They could even be behind it.

Mr. Duncan and Mr. Morris went to investigate the inside of that house, and they did so both to investigate and to lure – would there be cultists watching this place? Will the forces that brought back Brown Scott make a move this night? Will there be shadows lurking in the streets? Will the Shadow sit still in the presence of an uninvited guest?

Vanna controlled her breathing and heartbeat, gathered her breath and power, and after confirming that there was still no movement on the street, she once again hid herself in the shadows of the buildings.

Then she saw Alice next to her, who suddenly remembered something and peeked forward – then the doll raised her hand, held her head in it, pulled it off, and then held it against the wall with one hand, holding it up with the other, and shaking it in the corner at the outside. outside.

Even the battle-hardened Inquisitor couldn’t control his eyeballs from trembling at the sight, and Vanna glared and lowered her voice, “What are you doing?!”

Alice finished shaking her head in the corner, after hearing Vanna’s voice she hurriedly took her head back and settled it back with a “Boo’er” sound, with an innocent face, “I’m looking at the opposite side of the movement ……” “Next time there is this kind of plan you advance ……” Vanna glared at the opposite side of the mannequin, but just halfway through the words and then swallowed back, a face of fatigue waved his hand, “Forget it, do not have to care.”

Alice had a face of uncertainty, but just as she was about to open her mouth, she seemed to feel something again and couldn’t help but look outside, “Miss Vanna, I always feel …… as if someone is nearby, but I can’t see anyone.”

“Someone is nearby?” Vanna was instantly alert, she didn’t relax and be careless at this time just because of Alice’s usual unreliable behavior, but immediately tensed her nerves, sensing the surrounding breath while asking in a low voice, “What location?”

“Just diagonally across the street, under that streetlight,” Alice followed suit and whispered, even crouching down to show her caution while raising her hand and pointing out of the alleyway entrance, “But I only see the line, I don’t see anyone.”

Vanna didn’t react at first, only looking in the direction of Alice’s finger, and it took a couple seconds before she suddenly froze and looked back at Ms. Doll, “Threads? What strings?”

“Just the strings on people, the ones everyone has, the ones that float from their body to the sky,” Alice gestured, with a matter-of-fact look on her face, “Behind their heads, and on their arms and legs …… “

At this she paused suddenly and added, “Oh yeah, not on Mr. Duncan – but he’s Mr. Duncan, so it’s normal ……”

Alice’s voice finally dwindled to a hesitant halt as she spoke.

Slow as she was, she also finally noticed the strange expression on Vanna’s face.

“Can’t …… you see?” The mannequin hesitated for a moment, thinking of the only explanation, “Uh, I won’t laugh at you then, the Captain said that people have different eyes ……”

“…… I can’t see, but this isn’t the time to talk about it,” Vanna jolted to her senses while forcing herself to focus on the streetlight not too far away, “Are those wires still there? ”

She was aware of priorities.

Alice could see invisible “threads” floating around on human bodies, and she had always taken it for granted that it was normal, and that other people could see it as well, and because she had taken it for granted so much, it hadn’t even come to light until now because of her offhand comment… -This may be her special power as Abnormal 099, or there may be a more complex and bizarre explanation behind it, but in any case, these things should not be examined now.

Someone was hiding nearby, and now that he or they were exposed to the dolls – that matter was what mattered.

“It’s still there, and wobbling slightly from side to side,” Alice reported in a whisper as she glanced up near the streetlight diagonally across the street, but then she frowned immediately afterward, “ah, there seems to be a few missing?”

“A few missing?” Vanna’s mind instantly snapped, and in the next instant, alarm flooded through her, her battle instincts honed over the years as well as her Goddess-given premonition of a crisis simultaneously exploding in her perceptions, causing her to look furiously to a location deep in the street.

Dark, writhing shadows suddenly emerged in a strange shadow that the streetlights could not illuminate!
Almost instantly, a skeletal, jagged silhouette emerged there, and what emerged immediately afterward was a monstrous monstrosity connected to that skeletal silhouette by chains –

That is a person, or at least the outline is still a person, however, his body has long been twisted and swollen into a shocking state, its skin as if by the fire baked generally black and curly, its bones chaotic proliferation, in the surface of the body formed a piece of discontinuous bone plate, sharp bone spurs in his back, extend, like some kind of deep-sea monsters of the remains of the face, but in the place that should have been the face, is only able to A hollow depression could be seen, with a dark red halo flickering inside.

In just one look, Vanna realized what it was – an Annihilation Magus who had already achieved deep symbiosis with the Profound Demon, and had “purified” his body to a very high degree.

Annihilationists regard their own flesh and blood as a cage created by the gods, and the way they pledge their allegiance to the Holy Lord of the Profound is to continuously use demonic power to transform their bodies and “purify” their own forms, a process that will cause more and more demonic traits to develop on their bodies, making them less and less like humans! This process will cause them to develop more and more demonic traits, making them less and less humanoid — The Annihilationists who have been purified to a certain extent will have their limbs mutated to the extent that they cannot return to their human form even by using temporary shape-shifting spells, and will no longer be able to move around in the human society, and will therefore have to rely on the subordinateists to support them. Contacts.

This group of cultists were really eyeing this place!

This thought flashed through Vanna’s mind, and in the same instant, her body had leapt high into the air.

In order to move around the city-state, she didn’t carry the blessed steel giant sword.

But for a loyal cleric of the Storm Goddess, a sword was not such an inconvenience.

The air compressed, the vapor condensed, the breath of the sea and the wind instantly compressed into a blade of ice in her hands – and it was ready.

“Heretic!”

(End of chapter)