Shadow Apostle

The sound of shattering glass beads still reached my ears clearly through the lid.

Horst pressed the lid and closed his eyes tightly.

However……

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

Could it be that the refining failed, or did I not break it?

Horst carefully opened his eyes a crack.

The next moment, a hot and majestic force burst out from the covered well mouth.

He was thrown several meters away and fell to the ground.

But he forgot to get up, and just stared at the strange scene in front of him.

A flash of incandescent light suddenly appeared.

The heat and light of the morning sun hit my face.

But the light just appeared for a moment, as if it was suddenly covered by something.

The incomprehensible and strange existence cast a distorted color on the incandescent light beam.

The covered light pillar became dim, but also became gorgeous.

Red, yellow, blue...

More and more colors followed.

These colors themselves are beyond the scope of human cognition.

Incomprehensible, indescribable, there is no concept of these colors.

The distorted colors are tightly attached to the sudden light, blending with the light.

Twisting, changing, flickering, trembling.

Like a living thing struggling in pain.

After the colors instantly changed hundreds of colors in the light, they suddenly stood up from the ground.

Rushing out of the well, directly into the night sky.

And the shining light pillar followed closely behind, sticking closely to the color, and rushed into the sky together.

At the beginning, you can still see the colorful colors at the top of the light pillar.

But in an instant, the color blended into the night.

Only a bright beam of light remained, piercing the night sky like a sharp sword.

Plop.

Horst, who was sitting, fell down on the spot.

Spread out in large letters and lie on the ground.

Staring blankly at the beam of light that lingered for a long time.

I just feel exhausted mentally and physically.

This thing is unheard of, but weird beyond imagination.

While he was in a daze, there was a thump next to him.

When I turned around, I found that Jessica had followed him out in the end.

At this time, he also witnessed the vision in front of him, and fell to the ground as helpless as him.

Only then did fear emerge from the bottom of my heart.

That is the mystery that can suck people into powder in a few days.

A higher existence that even the awakened cannot observe.

Surprisingly survived.

The two tilted their heads and glanced at each other. Although they could only see two masks, they still giggled.

"At least I survived." Horst sat up and stretched while looking at the continuous beam of light. "What I want to do most now is to forget all the mysteries and go home and have a good sleep."

"Yeah, me too. Huh?"

Horst's words made both of them stunned at the same time.

"You want to go home?"

"I want to go home?"

"It seems that the impact has been eliminated." Horst jumped up on the spot, grabbed Jessica's arm, but immediately let go, and just said with bright eyes, "Let's take Kent and the others with us. , we’ll leave immediately.”

"Mr. Steed, Mr. Steed, you can come out now and prepare the car. We are leaving soon."

Fearing that something might change, the two of them rushed into the farmhouse like a gust of wind.

The Kent family still looked like they were dying, but whether it was an illusion or not, Horst always felt that he was not getting worse.

Jessica carried the heavy medical kit, and Horst carried the light Kent. The two of them took several trips to transport the five members of Kent's family onto the carriage.

Thanks to Jessica, any carriage is big enough, otherwise it wouldn't fit in it.

The coachman, Mr. Steed, was asked to leave as quickly as possible until the carriage left the area covered by the barren land. The two of them breathed a long sigh of relief, and then carefully took off the beak mask, revealing two faces covered with sweat. .

"Hoo, ho, we're safe, temporarily."

"Yeah, it's safe. I hope I never have to face such a weird existence again." Jessica leaned on the sofa in the car, panting with lingering fear. She looked at the light beam outside the window as it gradually dimmed, illuminating her face. Guangshi said, "Human beings are so fragile when it comes to mystery that we can't even understand what we're facing."

"I'm afraid, your hopes are about to be dashed." Horst looked strange and said with a forced smile, "I thought of a question. I once got a map, and if nothing else, there were those strange corpses. The specific location.”

"Um?"

"The position of the body released by the human-faced rat is at least No. 42."

Jessica tilted her head, a little dazed for a moment, unable to realize what this meant.

"Well, if our guess is correct, there are at least forty-two such corpses, and the thing they released is probably no less than forty-two."

Jessica's face became quite ugly.

"In other words, there are probably a large group of these things lurking inside and outside Mingyue City. They are distributed in various locations in the city and exist beyond people's awareness." Horst's eyes twitched and his throat went dry. , "This one is probably because Kent's wife was unlucky enough to see it, so she established a connection with it and began to absorb its power. What if she didn't?"

Jessica also sighed: "If you don't see it, then it will always be lurking in the well, silently absorbing the vitality of animals and plants, causing them to die like a plague. Who can think of such a method? .”

"Our old friend, the dark shadow that caused trouble in your house." Horst sneered, "I can't believe anything else, but I can confirm that he and the Man-Faced Rat Priest jointly created those corpses. . He also chose the location to put it in. As for what role Minsheng Company and Mick Dunn played in it, don't worry, we can investigate slowly."

"Not in a hurry?" The light pillar in the night sky had disappeared, but Jessica seemed to still be able to see the weird color.

"The corpses started to appear more than half a year ago, and now, the effects are slowly starting to show. I guess they are waiting for those things to grow."

Thinking of the circles she had just drawn at Kent's house, Jessica nodded.

"And until the past two days, new corpses were still being released. It will probably take a long time for them to grow up."

"Is this Mr. William you mentioned?"

"Yes, poor Mr. William. Unless the other party is simply bored and wasting his efforts, the plan will not be launched until at least those things have grown up. We still have at least a few months to figure everything out. And that It’s all the work of the watchmen, and I believe they will be very interested in this news. As for us...at least we can have a good rest tonight."

"That's right." Jessica looked at Horst's face, slightly lost in thought, "When we get to my house, I'll ask Mr. Steed to take Mr. Kent to the hospital. You can come in with me and sit down. Tonight Let me stay here for one night."

"Let's forget about staying overnight." Horst touched the beef soup hidden on his wrist and shook his head. "It's okay to come and sit down. The free entertainment you promised me last time has not been fulfilled yet."

"Pfft, I wonder if you still remember it. Don't worry, although the Burnt family has declined, it has not fallen to the point where it can't even entertain friends."

"Huh? That's right." Horst suddenly remembered the news he heard in the afternoon, "I heard someone say that it was your family's choice to leave the Kingdom and move to Mingyue City?"

"It should be said that we moved back. This is the ancestral home after all." Jessica hesitated for a moment and then explained, "At that time, it was said that there were some differences with the royal family due to some issues with Newland Continent. What exactly was it? No one remembers it, but the main body of the family still moved back to Mingyue City at that time."

Horst nodded thoughtfully.

"What? How do you know something so long ago?"

"I……"

Before Horst could explain, the carriage had begun to slow down.

Although both districts are large, the distance between Iris District and Qingmai District is not far.

In just over twenty minutes, the carriage had already passed the junction of the two districts.

Driving into the most stylish iris area.

Iris District and Qingmai District are somewhat similar. They are both large manors with buildings far apart. However, the luxury of the buildings cannot be compared at all.

However, looking at the familiar wealthy compound of the Bernt Mansion, both of them were in a daze.

What's happening here?

It was brightly lit inside.

Since the death of the old count, this mansion has not been so bright for a long time.

Moreover, there were figures coming and going inside, all of whom seemed to be servants of the Burnt family.

The two couldn't help but look at each other.

Miss Burnt looked even more confused.

What's going on at my house?

However, as soon as he entered the door, he saw the old butler Louis in formal attire coming out.

Once she saw the familiar person, Jessica felt relieved and got out of the carriage with Horst.

"Miss." The old housekeeper ran over with a strange expression and said softly, "The chief of staff of the Lord's Mansion is visiting."

After thinking for a while, he added another sentence.

"Visiting on behalf of the royal family."

How should I put it? I have been thinking about it for a long time, about the plot where the protagonist saves someone but the whole family dies. Although this is the taste of Cthulhu, after careful consideration, adjustments were made, and they were temporarily alive again.