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Chapter 33 Unfavorable plot development

When the source of the influence cannot be determined, Umpton chooses the most clumsy and most direct and effective way to stay away from the source of the influence.

In Howard and Ampton, they ran a long way in the foggy city all the way, and they gradually slowed down until they approached the edge of the foggy city.

At the same time, many suspicious details that had been ignored before came to mind again.

The plot also continued to unfold.

"...Recently, I have been feeling that nothing seems right."

"All kinds of things are like a fog hanging over our heads, making us unable to see the direction."

"There is a high 'god', holding a puppet string, playing with us. And there are some things that are obvious, but we still don't seem to notice him."

In the plot, Upton said to Howard like this,
The two were communicating at the edge of the foggy city, beside a potholed and dirty street,

"...Ever since I left from you, I have a vague feeling that something is wrong."

"But everything seems to have enough logic in the thinking at the time."

"Others suspect that you should. After all, it was your two neighbors who died, and every night watchman, who has mastered extraordinary power, has the risk of losing control. We are just trying to find a delicate balance among various forces. .When I arrived at your place, my first thought was to doubt you.
It seems that everything is logical, as if everything is full of logic.

But when I was on the way back, no one came, and I felt more and more irritable. I always felt that I had overlooked many things, but I couldn’t remember. My eyes seemed to be covered, and my ears seemed to be covered, making me unable to see. Until I can't hear, I become... stupid. "

"...Then, I started to walk away from the city. There were several accidents on the way. The worker who installed the new light pole in Wudu made a mistake and caused the light pole to fall down. Coupled with other accidents, I was almost killed. The captain of this tungsten organization was crushed to death...

And at the edge of the city, it should be out of the range of influence of that thing, some details were recalled,
For example, recently, we have been unlucky and stupid, and the traces of your neighbor's death clearly show that it is basically impossible to have anything to do with you.

But everyone still suspected you the first time, and almost created an internal strife.

And that kind of thing is so obvious in the things we guard, but we can't remember it at all, it's indescribably stupid..."

"Special Badge"

"...a special badge!"

in progress,
After fleeing to the edge of the foggy city, Howard and Umpton disappeared under the influence of ignorance.

The two made the same judgment one after another,
The plot continues to progress,
"Or, it should be called the Badge of Doom and Foolishness."

"According to our current experience, it will make people who come into contact with him stupid and continue to encounter bad luck. And the impact is still increasing."

"...Recently, the fog has poured into a large number of believers of the Church of the Mother of Life, and they should be rushing to this badge of doom."

"According to our current level of misfortune, they will definitely find us!"

"Maybe there is a way to use this badge, but we haven't found it yet."

"... And! Old Hopper!"

"Our Transcendent who guards Transcendent items is dangerous enough in itself, and Old Hopper will definitely be affected by bad luck."

"Under this kind of bad luck, there may be a large number of extraordinary items out of control."

"...Supernatural items are at risk of getting out of control, but once the balance of luck turns to them, a large number of supernatural items will inevitably go out of control."

"No! We have to go back quickly!"

"...But after we go back...we will be affected by ignorance and bad luck again. We may ignore many things again, and we may unfortunately ignore the danger of the bad luck badge again."

"Since it is the badge that covers our foolishness, we should not try to use wisdom to defeat him. Remember the name of the badge of doom, keep in mind only one thing, get rid of the influence of the badge of doom, and just do it by intuition , do what we think now, and don’t change it later.”

"it is good……"

After discussing for a while,
The protagonist Howard and Umpton reminded each other and re-entered the area of ​​influence of the badge of doom.

At the same time, before, the church headquarters, the Holy Church, was notified of the news about the badge of doom.

This level of dangerous supernatural items is no longer something their team can guard and keep.

And after returning to the night watchman station of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery,
Howard and Umpton are constantly reminding each other and repeating the emphasis,
Came to the end of the deep corridor where supernatural items are kept.

But after opening the door, Old Hopper did not lose control,
Other supernatural items have not been out of control.

This kind of result caused Howard and Ampton to have self-doubt under the influence of stupid power.
But through self-suggestion along the way, and repeated reminders to each other,

At this time, the two of them did not act according to the thoughts under the influence of stupid power,
Just in accordance with ideas formulated outside the previous sphere of influence,

Operations are still being carried out.

……

Then, the plot progressed to Ji Zhuo's big chapter updated today - 'The Last Crazy'.

Ye Linhan recalled the plot updated by the author of the dog in the past few days,

Thinking about the reactions of the readers in the previous comment area,

Knowing the plot of this big chapter,

Under the influence of the bad luck badge in this article, it seems that the night watchman team where the protagonist is in may suffer heavy losses, and even important supporting roles will be sacrificed.

"...but we are now under the influence of the badge of doom, unlucky and stupid enough, the balance of good luck is no longer in our favor. We must not be able to have people from the temple come before those evil spirits from the Mother of Life tree attack us .At the same time, we also sent a message for help to several other churches, but we were unlucky enough..."

"So, we can only stick to it."

In the text, the plot continues to progress downwards,
The captain of the night watchman team summoned all the night watchmen and explained the situation to all the night watchmen.

"You mean that badge can influence us to doom and folly?"

However, under the influence of ignorance and the power of doom, the night watchmen showed very different reactions from normal times.

"...Give up your thinking, the current thinking will only allow the influence of ignorance to find an opportunity."

"Believe me!"

The captain of the night watchman team, Ampton, with one eye red, said this to the night watchmen.

In the end, relying on their trust in Ampton, the night watchmen temporarily gave up thinking about the problems and started various actions.

The first is to increase some personnel to guard the supernatural items kept by the night watchman station,

Keep these things from going out of control en masse under the influence of the badge of doom.

At the same time, temporarily let some night watchmen, including Howard, learn some extraordinary rituals and knowledge recorded on extraordinary items.

to increase their strength as much as possible,

Howard learned an ability with a certain detection ability, and an ability to increase close combat effectiveness,

At the same time, some of the supernatural items that are stored will be taken out with higher levels and relatively stable supernatural items, and provided to the night watchmen for use.

The higher the level of items, the lower the impact of other extraordinary items will be. Even though these extraordinary items have their own side effects, they are still much better than badges of doom.

And when all members of the night watchman team were preparing for the battle,
An unexpected guest has arrived,

Apparently, their bad luck was relative good luck to their enemies.

By bad luck, their enemies could not come after they were all ready.

First came a young woman,
She looked agitated,

The Tungsten Filament Organization is located next to the Church of the God of Steam and Mechanism,
It exists in the name of a detective agency on weekdays,
But very few people know about it.

And when the young woman arrived, she said impatiently that she was looking for something,

Even if someone among the night watchmen told her that she would not take any business today,

She didn't leave, just walked back and forth in the house,

His eyes were bloodshot, and his face was extremely anxious.

No matter how much she was persuaded not to leave, someone was already preparing to throw her out, and at the same time asked what she was looking for.

then,

The young woman's face turned wild,
"...I'm looking for bad luck! I'm looking for foolishness!"

"... Bad luck! Stupidity!"

The sudden madness of the young woman surprised all the nervous people.
Then, the young woman stared at the bottom here as if she had been induced by something,

That's where the badge of doom is kept.

"...I found it! I found it!"

The young woman laughed with madness in her eyes.

"...I will return to the Mother Tree of Life, your most loyal lamb!"

Laughing crazily, the woman yelled again in a frenzy,
In a very short period of time, a strange pattern was drawn in the flow, and there was no way to stop it.
This scene made all the night watchmen sink in their hearts.

And sure enough,
Not long after the pattern drawn by the blood appeared on the ground,
Immediately afterwards, there was another heart-pounding feeling,
Howard seemed to be roaring in his mind.

The raving that existed in his mind sounded again at this time,

It seemed to counteract a lot of the influence of the mysterious badge, and let his mind get out of the muddle again, sobering up a lot.

But at the same time,

The palpitating thing in the distance has also approached.

Here are two figures in hooded smocks,

The hood covered the faces of the two figures,
There are basically not too many ups and downs when moving, and the moving action is very fast.

It was only when we got closer that we could see the greasy tentacles protruding from the smocks worn by these two figures.

These two figures are not human at all,

There are no feet under the body, and it is completely supported by a few tentacles. The original position of the hand is also replaced by the tentacles, agitating from time to time,

Only half of the upper body still has traces of humanity.

This is a characteristic of the cultists. Most of them do not maintain their human form, and even deliberately pursue distortion, thinking that this is closer to the evil god they believe in.

And my mind is often filled with crazy thoughts,
No normal morality, just fanatical belief in their gods,

Even in order to sacrifice to the evil god, they will make a move to massacre the city.

After the appearance of these two cultists,
A group of night watchmen surrounded the two figures, watching them vigilantly.

But the two cultists stood in place relying on their tentacles to support them,
Looking down at the ground where the young woman's head was still facing,
"Ha ha……"

"...you are really unlucky."

The cultist stared at him and laughed wildly.

Umpton stared at the two cultists and made a move.
He used his ability to briefly drag these two believers into a nightmare!

The two believers paused for a moment,
The other members of the team who had enough cooperation naturally followed suit at this time,
The protagonist Howard also used his two abilities,

Using the reconnaissance ability to find the vulnerable place of the two believers,
At the same time, he exerted the ability to release flames,

Various attacks by members of the other Night Watch team also fell towards the two believers one after another.

But it seems that everyone is unlucky enough under the effect of the bad luck badge, and these two believers are also very strong,
Ampton's ability actually only stopped the two of them for a very short time,

Before the means of the night watchman fell on these two people,

The two of them broke free from the extremely brief sluggishness,
The tentacles under the body moved, as if suddenly panning,
Dodged the night watchman's attack on the two of them.

At the same time, one of the cultists seems to have released his ability,

This time, it was the turn of Howard and the others to stagnate in place,

Howard felt that his heart seemed to be squeezed suddenly,
The blood in the body seems to become a little uncontrolled, no matter how fast it flows,

The sudden heart palpitations made Howard's whole body seem to lose strength in an instant, stagnating in place,

The same was true for the other night watchmen, and then they stopped abruptly on the spot,

At this time, another believer stretched out his tentacles, and the tentacles spread out, directly knocking away several night watchmen around him,

When Howard encountered this influence, he began to operate the ability to restore the body, and this ability also has a certain resistance to the influence of the extraordinary ability on the body.
Barely recovering, Howard released flames towards the two believers again.

At the same time, Upton and the others also broke free from the influence, and rushed towards the two believers at the same time,
The battle broke out violently,

In the text,

Howard, Umpton and others were very aggrieved by the battle between the two cultists,
Due to the effect of the badge of doom,
They tend to have various accidents when attacking or defending,

And these two evil god believers are obviously also in a relatively high position in the reform evil god organization, and their strength is very strong.
Also notably unaffected by Emblems of Doom.

A group of night watchmen, including Howard and Umpton, just tried their best to prevent these two people from wearing the badge of doom,

The badge of doom has now shown how dangerous it is,
The night watchman must not let such a thing be taken away by the cultists,

Then really don't know what's going to happen again.

time lapse.

In fact, from the appearance of the young woman to the outbreak of fighting with these two believers,

It's just been a short time,
The night watchmen from other churches in the same city hadn't arrived yet, and naturally the people from the church of the God of Steam and Machinery hadn't arrived either.

A group of people in the night watchman team began to suffer from frequent injuries, and even with their recovery ability, some of them couldn't recover.

"...Boom!"

Ampton and Howard were once again knocked into the air by a cultist's tentacles and hit the ground heavily.

Ampton grazed the wound on his mouth and was bleeding, staring at the two cultists. While the other night watchmen were attacking the two cultists, he got up from the ground again.

Howard's situation is slightly better,
It seems to have the effect of raving in the brain, he was not seriously affected by the badge of doom,

But these two evil spirits were more powerful than him, so he still suffered some injuries.

"...What are you still struggling with? You are unlucky enough that you can't win. Understand?"

A cultist waved his tentacles and said.

At this time, there seemed to be some fierce collision sounds coming from the underground of the night watchman's station.
"...It seems that what you guard is out of control, night watchmen?"

In times of crisis, the guarded items got out of control,

Really unlucky.

In the text,

The night watchmen such as Upton and Howard are facing enemies.

(End of this chapter)