Creator's Steam Fairy

The only answer to Loria was a low 'hiss' sound.

These worms, sheep, and human monsters don't seem to understand human language, and they don't respond to the threats in her words and deeds. Only the one that tried to attack Forrest at first turned its attention to her hands. above the fireball.

"What the hell is this?"

Forrest, who had seen many disasters, had a constipated expression on his face. He only felt that these monsters were more terrifying than disasters. Perhaps it was because they had the characteristics of humans, sheep and insects at the same time, which made him vaguely uneasy.

"do not know."

Luria shook her head and said her conjecture: "It's nothing more than a new species, a man-made monster, an unknown low-level evil creature...or a fallen human being."

"What should I do?" Hearing that it might have been a human being, Forrest became more and more uncomfortable. He asked, "Do you want to deal with it?"

Don't ask why a middle-aged warrant officer would ask a pink-haired girl for advice.

The question is that Miss Investigator is the leader.

Besides, it is always the most appropriate to hand over the occult problems to occult experts.

"Why do you have to deal with them? They might be human beings, but they just have some strange disease."

Miss Loria observed these monsters in circles with great interest. She had never seen a real evil creature (killed to endangered or even extinct by the gods long ago), let alone the legendary fall of human beings.

The black samurai picked up a handful of monster wool for her very discerningly.

Loria squinted her eyes to observe the wool in her hand—it was not hard and dirty like natural wool, but had few impurities and its fibers were soft and white.

More like high-grade rabbit down.

The price of wool is 15 pence per pound, and the first grade wool is higher, and these "sheep" wools may reach more than 2 shillings per pound.

Loria, who copied documents all day long, quickly determined that the total price of the hairs on these monsters was between 15 and 18 pounds.

This is far superior to ordinary sheep. If they can grow two stubbles a year, then raising a few sheep in the cellar can make a small fortune.

If this monster really came from humans, and it has good economic benefits, once it spreads out, many people may suffer... Thinking of this, Loria shook her head. She extinguished the fireball in her hand and said to Forrest. Te said: "Report to the society, I will guard here, you go to the telegraph office."

Old Freyben was worried about Loria's safety. The three men with guns in the small sheep pen were still searching for him. Then he thought that this little pink-haired girl was very mysterious. Since she dared to stay here, she must have no Don't care about the few armed shepherds in that area.

Saying you be careful yourself, he left in another drizzle.

Loria pinched her nose to observe the monsters for a while, and then left. She left the cellar and returned to the ground, clapped her hands to find Gu Gu Projecting an umbrella, and stood in a small forest in the distance, hiding her figure.

In the middle of the night, when Forrest turned back to this small sheep pen, he saw a colorful ball of light floating in the sky, under which the pink-haired girl sitting on the fence was restlessly holding her chin in her hands and shaking her hands. with calves.

There were three men lying in front of her, and outdated muzzleloaders and clubs were scattered on the ground.

One of them had a livid face and passed out as if he had experienced some great horror; the root of the other severed arm was simply bandaged to stop bleeding, and he was lying in the mud and swinging.

The last one was on his back, rolling his eyes and foaming at the mouth.When he got closer, he saw the clear small shoe prints about size 34 on the man's face and between his legs.

Especially the imprint at the back, which looked like it was crushed hard.

You don't need to guess to know who did it.

"The telegram has been sent." Old Forrest Rabbit died and the fox grieved, and asked with his neck and legs crossed: "Miss Investigator, did you get any information?"

Loria was stunned for a moment, and replied: "Do you think I look like the kind of girl who can interrogate? I can't do such a rude thing."

really?

Forrest opened his mouth to say something but swallowed it back after all, and sighed for a while: "I'll come, wait a moment."

He ignored the two who had seen the ghost and the two who were about to ascend to heaven, and stepped forward to drag away the bloody broken arm, and then there were bursts of screams from afar.

He was an officer of Naval Intelligence after all.

After a quarter of an hour, Mr. Forrester came back alone. He carefully wiped the bloody pliers in his hand, frowned and said, "I suggest contacting the rifle regiment of the county government immediately. There is a big problem in this small town." .”

Chapter 143

"What's the big deal?"

Miss Loria asked absent-mindedly, resting her chin on her cheeks. From the very beginning, she noticed that the unknown magical resonance hidden in the small town began to expand in scope and frequency.

"These people were employed by the Bihu Town Wool Mill, and those monsters were sent to them by the factory, and they received an order to get rid of me and catch you by the way... It seems that because of my probing around, they Said Mayor Bors and the manager who controlled the woolen mills never liked strangers."

Forrest put his pincers back into the pocket of his navy coat, and continued: "It is a betrayal of the Queen and the country to attack me knowing that I am an officer of the Royal Navy! Loria, the residents of Bihu Town may They're all employed by Boers, and we should get out of here and wait for the Rifles."

"Where's Wallace?"

Loria had not forgotten her poor client.

"The man said he didn't know, but it seems that the outsiders in the town always leave quickly."

"Did he leave soon, or was he killed? Or..." Loria finally turned her gaze back to Forrest, and said, "Or was turned into a wool monster."

Her guess made Forrest frowned deeply. There are magic and incomprehensible steam devices in this world, as well as strange and deadly disasters in the wilderness, but it turns people into monsters...

More disturbing than the cholera doctor and the serial killer who preyed on the unfortunate girl.

"The mayor of Bihu Town has clearly committed treason, we must leave here immediately."

"It's too late, Mr. Assistant."

Loria jumped down from the fence, feeling disgusted by the muddy road, so she tiptoed to the place where there was a hay bedding, and said, "Maybe the telegram wasn't sent at all, we'll have to survive until dawn on our own."

why?

Before Forrest asked, everything in his eyes gradually changed color... Even the space illuminated by Luria's many light spheres was also stained with a hint of red, and the edge of light and darkness was different. His restless dark red was mixed in.

The dozen or so sheep in the sheepfold all woke up, turned around in the corral uneasily, and kept bleating.

"Super-large range illusion? How did you get it?"

Loria looked around while talking to herself, and then closed her eyes to feel it quietly for a moment. It didn't look like a magic tool, and it didn't look like magic directly cast by a magician.

Has the ability to block light, but not completely.The weirdest thing was that she couldn't perceive where the source of magic was - it was the first time she encountered an illusion that could deceive her perception.

It doesn't seem like magic in the traditional sense.

The sheep in the sheepfold began to slam into the fence of the corral, and the bleating became restless. Loria looked again at Forrest's hand holding the gun. He was so hard that his knuckles turned white.After a little thought, it became clear that this illusion might have the power to affect the minds of creatures.

Even if it doesn't work for her.

"Let's go that way."

Luo Liya pointed to the direction of the distant green lake and said, but after walking for a long time, she found that the small lake was still out of reach.

She was indeed not mentally bewitched, but this weird large-scale magic obviously had the ability to confuse directions, and this ability worked on her.

Just like Alice's little trick that disrupts the five senses, she can't avoid it every time, and it takes a while to get used to it after being tricked.

After a while, there was a rustling sound from the ground, which was very familiar to both Luria and Forrest, who often walked through the wilderness.

Disaster.

Luo Liya frowned and asked: "Didn't the newspaper say that the disaster has basically been eliminated in Britannia?"

Forrest replied: "If those stinky things stay in the ground, God knows how many there are."

Luo Liya shook her head, thinking that the ghost just told her, and it didn't know.

Googoo, ready the flamethrower.

While she was calling for the dog thief magic tool in her heart, she froze a large piece of mud under her and her assistant's feet. Although she didn't know if it could stop the disaster from coming out from under her feet, at least it could provide a little protection, right?

【Preparation for projection completed】

Before the first one crawled out of the mud, there was a cooing sound, and the increasingly proficient Miss Fenmao clapped her hands together, without calling the magic name, and handed the small jar and nozzle to the whole face Forrest with a hellish expression.

"A magician is so versatile? What do you want with a slap of your little hand?"

Where did you come from, Fenmao Shinobi... Forget it, it's an emergency moment, Mr. Forrest, with a red light shining on his forehead, quickly adjusted the switch on the small jar, and pointed the nozzle at the place where the nearest abnormal noise came from. place.

Burning disaster, he is very familiar with it.

Luria held up a shiny fireball, stepped back half a step, and stood behind Forrest to guard the other direction.

Fire and lightning are the only way to restrain disaster.

The criss-crossing fire snakes and magic flames complement each other, and those scattered wriggling and crawling squeezed out of the ground are like mice blocked in the way out, and they will die when they emerge.

The drizzle of rain fell again, wetting the ends of Luria's hair, and falling on the ground that had been scorched by the flames, stirring up waves of mist.

There is no more sound of calamity.

But Luo Liya couldn't be happy at all, she didn't believe that the low-level disaster that suddenly struck had nothing to do with the large-scale magic that shrouded this land.

Someone can control the disaster.

This news is countless times more difficult than Mr. Wallace's death.

"Let's go to town, at least find a place where we can shelter from the rain." Loria held up an umbrella and said to Forrest, who was slapping the small pot with curiosity, "Since this magic won't let us leave, then we Just kill the caster."

"You are so fierce, Miss Investigator."

Forrest stared wide-eyed at the small jar in his hand and disappeared as a speck of light. After a while, he said, "But it's also very reliable."

"You too, Mr. Assistant."

Loria replied with a commercial exchange, looked at the red dot on the warrant officer's forehead, and added in her heart that at least the rifleman would subconsciously hit you first.

When they walked towards the dimly lit town, the magic that dyed the world a bit red was no longer obstructed, and when the two went back to the little sheepfold that was mostly torn down by Loria , Forrest saw a scene that he will never forget and that will cause him a long-term nightmare in the future-the few goats that broke free from the chains pressed on the sheep's still breathing body, and the mouthparts of the worms in the abdomen kept opening Together, it tore apart the flesh and blood, and dripped out a yellow-green viscous liquid to corrupt them, so that the barbed sucker could suck the minced meat and blood away together.

And the one he shot and wounded earlier was already tattered and only half of its body was left. Judging from the wounds and marks on its body, it was obvious that its companion had eaten it.

How could this be human.

Chapter 144 Is there a difference between man and sheep?

Hearing the movement of the two, the human-faced sheep who were busy eating turned their distorted faces to them, and there was no reason in the cloudy eyes illuminated by Luria's light ball.

After being affected by the large-scale illusion, they no longer looked listless as when they were locked up before, showing a ferocious and stupid side... Hesitating for a moment between the food under them and the two fresh prey, they moved towards them Come on.

The sound of rifle firing was heard, followed by the continuous shooting of revolvers. Forrest, who hid many guns in his coat, seemed restless, even though the two human-faced sheep that rushed towards him had been knocked down to the ground, constantly Struggling to hiss and howl, he still didn't stop shooting.

Until the bullets were used up, until the corpses of the two monsters lay on the ground like rotten meat and could no longer move.

Loria looked at Forrest, who was panting heavily and his eyes were tearing open, and seriously considered whether to knock him out first... The interference he received from the illusion became more and more serious, and he seemed to have lost his composure.

On the other side, Luria noticed that the two people who fainted before were gone, and there was no blood on the mud.The black air emerging from her shadow condensed into a pitch-black ancient warrior, throwing a spear and easily nailing a sheep with a human face to the ground.The other pounced on him, biting his body with its mouthparts, but in exchange for the dark and terrifying smile of the ancient warrior.

Madness, pain, hatred and malice towards everything in this world, which one of them can compare with him?

The visible warrior turned into icy darkness again, and burrowed into its body along the mouthparts of the human-faced sheep. Immediately afterwards, the sound of bones breaking came from all over the monster, and the distorted human face became more and more distorted due to pain. In seconds, black blood gushed out from its five sense organs, and it fell to the ground, unable to move any more.

The icy darkness returned to the girl's shadow, but his master, the destination of his faith, the only girl who could suppress him from slaughtering living things curled her lips in disgust and said, "Next time, don't go into dirty things like that!" ,vomit."

This somewhat made the Black Samurai somewhat aggrieved.

I hate the way he kills monsters... If you have the skills, go find a beautiful and elegant thug!

Understood, Bastet.

The black samurai said this with his mind, it's no wonder that he's being inconsistent, it's all a manifestation of his firm belief.

The cat-eared and cat-tailed goddess is the patron saint of kingdoms and families, and loyal warriors will never question any of her decisions.

……

Fabiana survived cholera and successfully graduated from a missionary school. Although her previous life was often a little bit difficult, she is finally about to usher in a bright new life.

Either limited by money, or just purely playful, many of her companions failed to complete their full education, and most of them got married and had children halfway, and a few yearned for the outside world, and crossed the sea to Gallia to find opportunities.

She has not been in contact with her for a long time, and she doesn't know how those companions are doing. In her opinion, everything in a foreign country is only worse than in Brittany. After completing all her education, she can now control her own destiny and choose a job. Decent work out.

After spending a carefree holiday full of expectations for the future at the seaside in Kent, she found a job as a tutor from her teacher, bid farewell to her parents and brother with joy, and embarked on a journey to the west train.

Different from her hometown full of factories and private farms, she yearns for a rural place like Gloucester with a large green space. After several twists and turns, she came to the "countryside of the country", Bihu, a small and remote village. town.

Her student was the mayor's son, a gloomy boy not a few years younger than she was—it was said that he always locked himself in his room without knowing what he was doing, and occasionally went out at night.His mayor's father, old Boers, didn't teach him either. He always said that he was busy with work, but he always spent the night alone in the tavern.

There are always difficulties in a family without a mother, but these have nothing to do with Miss Fabiana, she just needs to do her job.

The mayor's son is indeed as the townspeople said, a gloomy young man with hair sticking to his scalp that hasn't been taken care of for a long time. It's hard to imagine that this is a child from a middle-class family... Maybe it's a bit too much to describe him as a child Not quite right, thirteen or fourteen years old but has almost the height of an adult.

"You're from Kent? Do you know Darwin?"

Her students asked her such a question when they first met, but Fabiana didn't know a person named Darwin, and the light in the boy's eyes dimmed a bit, but perhaps because she came from the same county as the idol, she didn't understand her. The attitude is still good... He dug out one manuscript after another from the bookshelf in the dark room, and introduced her to the HMS Beagle, Animal History, and the species that made his eyes light up when he mentioned the name and swept away the gloomy image origin.

"Do you know, Miss Fabiana, the ancestors of humans are humans, and the ancestors of sheep are sheep, but in a long time ago, there may be no difference between humans and sheep, and they all have a common ancestor."

After her classes, her students love to discuss with her the books and published discourses of Mr. Darwin, and carefully cut every report about him from the newspaper, even the obituary of his daughter's death. .