Chapter 186.
Chapter 186: To Each His Own
Undead birds coalesced from illusory flesh and blood and crystalline skeletons, shrill and piercing strange female voices, rising and burning green flames – and strange sentences that no one could understand.
Shirley had been a bit muddled consciousness suddenly awake, she was shocked to look at the sudden intrusion of the strange bird in front of her, watching the other side in the air and circled, and the surrounding figures of those who are the end of the preachers in the bird circled one by one stagnation into a strange gesture, as if the screens in the …… movie theater”. Cinema” in the screen people suddenly because of the cassette tape and stop moving.
One of these monsters was even frozen in the process of stepping forward, so that his body was almost floating in mid-air, looking strange, frightening, and somewhat ridiculous.
The undead bird circled again, and this time there were doorways and vortices formed by green flames that opened up in the air, followed by a tall figure stepping out of them and into Shirley’s presence.
“I remember reminding you that you can ask for help when you are in trouble,” Duncan lowered his head and gazed quietly at the girl who was collapsing on the ground, covered in blood, “Why didn’t you come to me?”
“I …… I forgot,” Shirley blinked, the moment Duncan appeared she realized that the contamination and curse she had suffered from the Endbringer Preacher was fading fast, and along with the piercing noises in her head and the frenzied consciousness quickly subsiding, her mind was also gradually regained her clarity, and an odd and tangled look emerged on her face, “I just had a very messed up brain …… Yes, these guys ghostly screamed and screamed and made me dizzy ……”
Duncan slowly turned his head and glanced at the attackers who had been immobilized in midair by Ai’s high ping strikes.
He is still the first time to see this kind of strange …… stuff, looks a bit like a human, still cloaked in the tattered clothes of a human, but all the body is mutated almost no human appearance, the limbs are twisted in blood and flesh, the bone spurs extend out from every joint in the whole body, and the face still carries a frenzied and comical look, almost a little bit uglier than a dog.
Duncan frowned and turned back to Shirley, “They’re the ones who beat you? Where did this all come from?”
“They’re the ones who hit me!” Sherry immediately blurted out, the moment the words came out of her mouth she felt as if something was wrong, but she quickly shook that strange feeling aside, “I don’t know where these guys came from, Dog says they’re the Terminal Preachers, the gang of crazies that follow subspace …… “
“Terminal preachers …… following the set of subspace?!” Duncan was still a bit careless, but after hearing the latter part of Shirley’s words, his expression suddenly changed slightly, and immediately afterward, he seemed to have thought of something, and immediately looked at Ai, “Don’t pigeonhole them yet!”
While he was speaking, those few End Preachers whose figures were stagnated by Ai had already shown signs of their figures flickering, but Ai quickly flapped her wings, and these three assailants who were about to be isolated outside of reality snapped back into the reality dimension, while Ai’s shrill shrieks resounded through the room, “The network is connected, the network is connected! ”
“Get them to the ship,” Duncan nodded to the pigeonholer, “I’ll meet them on the deck over there.”
“The mission will be accomplished! The mission will be accomplished!”
With two screams, Aye quickly cut a fiery swirl in the air, and the three final preachers’ figures disappeared in the blink of an eye in the rising psychic fire.
All that remained in the dimly lit room was Duncan, Dog and Shirley, and the bodies of the three who had been smashed into Terminal Preacher Cakes by the Meteor Dogs not far away.
Shirley stared in disbelief at what was happening in front of her, at the subspace believers who had almost killed her and Dog disappearing into the room in the blink of an eye – the “battle” had ended so strangely and easily that it wasn’t even a battle at all.
Mr. Duncan did not take any action at all, from the beginning to the end, he did not care about those final preachers have any means or special curses, he just appeared here, and then seemed to be a little interested in those guys, so they casually captured them away, as if picking up a few stones on the side of the road.
He probably didn’t even realize that the cultists were “fighting”.
Just then, Duncan’s voice suddenly came, interrupting Sherry’s rambling thoughts, “How are you hurt?”
Shirley immediately snapped out of her thoughts of “Mr. Duncan is so scary”, her first reaction was to show off, pretending to be indifferent to her own injuries, but just as she was about to open her mouth, she grimaced and let out an “ouch”, the pain in her back and pain in her arm came at the same time, making her feel a lot of pain, which made her feel a lot of pain. The pain in her back and the pain in her arm came at the same time, so that she did not hold back and cursed: “Damn it hurts …….”
Duncan looked at her with concern: “Do you want to send you to the hospital?”
“Never!” Shirley reacted with a jolt, continuing to show her teeth while trying to hold up her body, “I don’t have any money ……”
Duncan was dumbfounded, “Is this about money? You’re like this!”
“I’m not finished,” Shirley finally sat up, “I have an unusual constitution, I’m sure I’ll be found out if I go to the hospital, I can’t explain it in case I draw the attention of the church, and look- “
She raised her arm as she spoke, letting Duncan look at her wound.
The wound was healing – her ability to heal herself had returned after the curse and contamination from the Final Preacher had subsided, and now that the hideous tear was no longer bleeding, the contaminants in the depths of the wound had been squeezed out by the writhing flesh and blood, and the growth of new flesh was visible to the naked eye.
And the heaviest wound in her back was also gradually recovering, although it still hurt, Sherry knew she had survived this time.
“As long as that group of Final Preachers don’t keep pushing, I’m not afraid of them,” Shirley tilted her head with a stiff upper lip, “Putting it in the usual this injury which can make me lie down on the ground ah …… Hissing Pain… …”
A slight clicking sound suddenly came from not far away, interrupting Sherry’s muttering. She and Duncan looked at the same time, but saw that the sound was coming from a broken Final Preacher, and the other party’s deformed and mutated body had turned into a grayish mass that resembled a weathered rock at some point, and began to break apart inch by inch, with the residue peeling off, and then weathered into ash before it hit the ground and quickly dissipated.
And at the same time that the bodies of the preachers kept on weathering and peeling off, the room that was shrouded by the curtain also changed – the shadows that were previously perched outside the window began to quickly recede, and the light of the street lamps that came from the direction of the street also returned to normal, and the abnormal shadows and the cold malice that were perched everywhere in the room also dispersed with it.
“…… The Final Preacher has dedicated himself to subspace, and now it is time to pay the price,” Dog’s voice muffled, answering Duncan’s confusion, “These dregs will be swallowed up by subspace, and not even a speck of dust will will not remain in the real world.”
“…… That’s a pretty environmentally friendly way for such cultists to die,” Duncan mused, “It saves the trouble of cleaning up the scene.”
He then turned to Shirley, “Better? If better, then come with me.”
At the same time as the words fell, a cluster of ghostly green fire emerged in the air at the same time, and Aey flew out of the flames, hovering in a circle before landing on his shoulder.
“Go with you?” Sherry didn’t react for a moment, “Go where ……”
“You’re not still planning on spending the night here today, are you?” Duncan raised his hand and pointed to the mess in the room, “Do you think this place is even livable?”
Shirley slowly stood up holding onto the wall, her eyes sweeping over this old house she and Dog had been living in for years.
There was smashed furniture everywhere, corroded remnants everywhere, the valuable and the worthless had all been destroyed cleanly.
In fact, there wasn’t much in the first place.
Shirley lowered her eyelids and didn’t say anything for a while.
“The patrolling guardsmen don’t seem to have noticed the commotion here, and we can still pack up our things,” Duncan sighed, knowing how Shirley was feeling right now but having no way of comforting anything, “but this place is definitely uninhabitable anyway- -Even if you don’t think about all the smashed stuff, you have to think about whether there will be more attackers in the future. It’s not clear why those Endbringer preachers are after you just yet, but you’re already on their radar ……”
Duncan didn’t say any more.
He knew that Shirley was a far more mature child than she appeared; the girl had grown up in a harsh environment so far and should know the priorities.
“I’m …… packing up.” Shirley said in a muffled voice.
“Do you need any help?” Duncan asked.
“No,” Shirley shook her head, “stuff …… is scarce.”
She really had very little stuff.
Duncan waited only a short while before Shirley had packed up what she was taking with her from a few nooks and crannies, just a few unremarkable old things, including even a small rag doll that was all but on the verge of being tattered to the point of disintegration, in addition to a couple of old, unspoiled dresses, and two slightly deformed small metal boxes that seemed to hold jingling bits and pieces.
After placing all of this in a small, outdated box, she carried it over to Duncan and bowed her head honestly, “It’s all packed.”
Dog craned his head to look at the small box in Shirley’s hands and muttered sullenly, “You took all this …… so we won’t be coming back in the future?”
Shirley didn’t say anything.
Duncan gave the girl in front of him a quiet look, a gentle smile slowly appearing on his face.
He stepped forward and pressed the girl’s hair.
“Come on, it’s time to go home.”
Ghostly green flames rose into the air, and the undead bird spread its wings in the flames, blocking Shirley’s view as she looked back at the cabin one last time.
(End of chapter)