Chapter 304 Shallow hunting
"Whisperer's House", which is a manor where the Purgatory Beast lives, is also the destination for the trip of the three.
"Black Stone Bay is the mining location for rune obsidian. If there is trouble here, it will also affect Nightmare Town, so the action to clean up the Purgatory Beast is imperative..."
Cheng An also explained to Luo Yue their actions.
"The time limit for the Blood Hourglass is about three days, so we don't have to worry. Playing a mission in the Nightmare World is much larger than using the direction of using brute force. Judging from the information I have collected before, this manor is actually a gathering place for secret worshippers..."
The three of them stepped into the "Whisper House" and their actions became more cautious. They saw that the ancient manor was surprisingly large, so they did not act dispersed.
As soon as I entered the gate of the manor, I saw a rose garden facing me. Unfortunately, all the roses have withered.
The clouds in the sky hang low on the earth, and the blood-red moonlight shrouded over this gloomy mansion... The gray walls, withered rose gardens, headless statues, and pools of mud all show the once glory of this manor.
"The secret worshiper is called the 'Skin-Hatee'. According to the records in the library of the town office in Nightmare Town, their teachings believe that the inner self of a person is perfect and full of real beauty, and the skin of a person makes this 'beauty' blocked. People focus on their own external skin and do not value their own inner self, which is a mistake..."
"Because external things are false, no matter how beautiful a woman has, the beauty of her appearance does not mean that her inner beauty is equally beautiful. Inner things are covered up because of human skin, and people will only value the outside but ignore the beautiful inner self."
"Skin haters believe that only by peeling off their own skin can they release their true self. The creatures that peel off their skin look extremely ugly, but ugliness is not distinguished from top to bottom. This is also an inner beauty. Therefore, the main doctrine and ritual method of this cult is to peel off their own skin and release their true self-intrinsic. Of course, they often "help" others do this..."
Listening to Cheng An's words, even the calm Luo Yue felt that the temperature around him was getting colder and colder. The cold air coming to his face invaded his body like a foreign object, taking away his body temperature.
She wrapped her windbreaker tightly to resist the low temperature at night. At the same time, she secretly suspected that such a real feeling would really be a dream? Because all this is too real, there is a kind of unreality everywhere.
Luo Yue naturally also heard of "clear dream", which is when dreaming in a certain state of sleep, when dreaming, it is possible to realize that you are dreaming, and the dream is also extremely clear and intuitive.
But in this situation, it seems that I am not experiencing a dream, but that I have indeed experienced everything in front of me in another world.
She and the three walked through the shaded road and arrived at the hall of the mansion. The baroque doorposts were carved with unrecognizable statues. When the three opened the door, they faced a tall and spacious hall.
The floor under the feet is made of mahogany wood, and the feet are very solid when stepped on, and the heels will make a "click" sound on it. The furniture, structure and decoration seem to be in the mid-to-late 18th century style, and tend to be the architectural style of King George's era.
"It's so heavy dust and a lot of spider webs. How long hasn't anyone been here?"
Luke covered his mouth with an embroidered handkerchief and waved his leather gloves to pull out the spider web.
"The House of Whisperers has been seized in the past. Because of the cult ceremony here, and the 'Skin-Hatee Cult' has plundered the population nearby and created the skinless, it has caused public outrage. People including the original owner of the manor were arrested and sentenced to lynching by nearby leaders and burned to death with fire..."
Cheng An held a lantern in one hand and found a candlestick from the fireplace with the other. He lit the two candlesticks and handed them to the two.
"After nightfall, some troublesome creatures will inevitably appear in such places. Although the fire is useless to the purgatory beast, it is still more useful for ordinary 'noon creatures'?"
"A normal nocturnal creature? What does this mean?"
"It refers to ghosts, ghosts and other things, which occasionally appear, but there is no big danger except scaring people..."
Luke shrugged and said that he would not make a fuss later. This situation is normal in the nightmare world.
"I see."
She had always seen Cheng An and Luke's behavior, but Luo Yue did not fully believe what they said, and at most about 50% of them believed. She had to observe carefully whether they had ulterior motives next.
She moved in the living room and reached out to look for touch on the wall. This was Cheng An's instructions. He said that such plot tasks are inevitably filled with puzzle solving elements and require brain power to analyze the situation, so collecting clues and intelligence is the most important thing.
"This is... a mirror."
There was a mirror on the wall. She reached out to wipe the dusty mirror. In an instant, her own face appeared on the mirror. However, it was an inexplicable face. Luo Yue saw with his own eyes that the skin on the face was melting, and the face turned into a skeleton face covered with blood-colored muscle fibers. "It" grinned miserably, revealing a thrilling smile.
Luo Yue took a step back nervously, and his expression changed rapidly. No one could keep calm in this sudden scene.
"Miss Luo Yue, what happened..."
The two of them ran over quickly when they heard the movement.
"Mirror...the mirror is weird."
She emphasized, pointed her hand at the mirror, and explained what happened just now, and Cheng An and Luke also took it seriously.
"There is no movement on the surface, let me enter the 'Shallow Hunting' mode to check it out."
Luke frowned, he took a deep breath, his eyes closed tightly. For a moment, Luo Yue saw Luke's body gradually fading, but in just a moment, he returned to his original state.
Just in the moment, something changed in Luke.
“There is something…there is something behind the mirror.
Luke opened his eyes, reached out and took off the mirror. He tinkered and took out a note from the dark wall behind the mirror.
"Strange, what was Luke doing just now?"
"You can indeed feel that it is a skill that all hunters can share, that is, 'shallow hunting'."
Chapter completed!