Miss Gudazi, who almost became a walker, is saving humanity

■Rumor·【Great Strangulation Panic】·Occurrence place

According to the address given by the client, Lixiang and Mash came to the alley that was the stage for the rumor of the "Great Strangulation Panic".

As far as the theory of consequences is concerned, the client lady is right.

No matter how you look at it, this road is just an ordinary road.Although it is rare, people walk past here from time to time.

[There is no magic residue, in fact, the concentration of magic power in the atmosphere of this singularity is exactly the level that London in 1888 should have. ]

Roman looked at the scan results on Chaldea and said so.

[Although the [details] such as the radio for unknown reasons and the faucet for unknown reasons are indeed strange. ]

"There are no dead disciples left either."

Li Xiang responded, but she immediately thought of the strange thing that happened last night.

Even though the trigger barrier against the Dead Apostles was activated, Li Xiang really felt that something had been purified.However, there were no traces left at the scene.

"...However, the fact that there is no residue does not prove that there is no problem... In short, let's try to rule out the possibility of [copycats] first."

There are no traces of magic or dead Apostles, so maybe the imitator is an ordinary person...or a superhuman?

In short, if there is such a person, that person's stronghold should be near here.

So Lixiang and Matthew took the time to visit all the houses around - to be honest, this is not the practice of [detective], but the practice of [police detective].

But no one here is a detective.

As a result of the interview, there are a few things that can be confirmed.

The street does have problems, but not often before, and previous missing people were not necessarily hanged.

Although I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or what, after the late-night rumors that the radio station gave the [Great Strangulation Panic], this street began to have problems from time to time, and the cause of death of the missing person was fixed as hanging.

"...What a coincidence, if there is no problem with this station, then there is something wrong with it."

Li Xiang said so to himself.

That's what he said, but Lixiang couldn't figure out what's wrong with this radio station.And, on top of all that right now is the holocaust scare.

"By the way, why is it called that name?"

[I checked the historical data of London, and it seems that similar urban legends appeared in London in the past.If you want to say it, maybe it means the same as "Lu Bu is reborn" in Chinese martial arts novels, right? ]

"Roman... I'm a little curious about what other books you've read. Is the scope too broad?"

[After all, I don't know what book to read. ]

"Because similar incidents happened in the past, are you naming this similar incident with the same name now...?"

Although it made sense in theory, Lixiang always felt that something was wrong.

But now was not the time to think about it, so she turned her attention back to current events.

"It's not a copycat crime, it's not self-directed and self-acted. So, is there any special request? Special request..."

Li Xiang thought of it, there is indeed such a phenomenon unique to this singularity.

"—[Shadow Time]!"

8.【Great Strangulation Panic】

■Time · 11:59 p.m.

Lixiang put forward a hypothesis that is not a reasoning.

Rumor · [Great Strangulation Panic], this rumor happened, and the [location] of this case may not exist in the normal time and in the normal world.

[Shadow Time], the first [rumor] that Lixiang and Mash encountered after they came to this singularity.If the condition for [die in this path] is to [step into this path in the shadow time], then everything can be explained.

"However, what are the conditions for entering the shadow time?"

[After all, the location of the transfer last time was inside the world of Shadow Time, and we can't even guarantee that we can successfully enter it. ]

While Lixiang was still talking with Roman, the time came to midnight.

Then, the world fell silent for an instant.

Once again all the clocks in London stopped, and the city became that deserted city again.

[... All biological reactions disappeared at the same time, and the Shadow Time breakthrough was successful. ]

"Then, it's time to confirm the conjecture."

Before entering the movie time, Lixiang and Matthew stopped at a coffee shop near the trail.

... There are really a lot of coffee shops in this singularity in London, and every coffee shop sells black tea, which is really weird.

In short, because the landing point was very close to the road where the crime happened, the two rushed to the entrance of that street in a short time.

"There's no need to investigate at all."

After seeing the entrance of the street in Shadow Time, Lixiang blurted out.

Streets that look ordinary in normal time are covered with cobwebs in shadow time.Those spider webs hung the entire street like some kind of wicked decorations, and what was even worse... was that those huge spider webs were covered with [corpses].

There are rotting corpses, fresh corpses, and corpses with only skeletons left.Every corpse was dry, and the sheer number of corpses made the street look like a corpse museum.

"Little eggplant?"

"I can still hold on, senior."

"That's good."

Saying so, Lixiang popped up the black key in an instant.Although she looks calm, the tense muscles in her hands speak volumes of her anger.

"The shriveled corpse... the [rumor] of a vampire?"

Based on the current situation, Lixiang can probably draw such an inference.

The city is full of dead apostles, and these dead apostles are hidden in the space of shadow time.The Dead Apostles have different predation actions, forming [rumors] all over the city.

"That is... the city of vampires?"

--wrong.

The girl's intuition said so.

Something was wrong, some gear wasn't engaged.

However, before thinking about where this incongruity comes from, Lixiang has more important things to do.

"Although I have resigned, let's just treat it as a free volunteer - it's time for street cleaning."

□Rumors·【Great Strangulation Panic】Street

The moment Lixiang and Mash stepped into the entrance of this street, the whole street came to life.

The corpses that were exhibits in the corpse museum instantly became the guards of the exhibition hall, one after another crawled down from the spider web and killed Lixiang and Matthew.

However, the quantity is meaningless to the former walker girl.

Even if there is enough mass of the dead to cover a city, as long as the quality is not enough, it is just dust that cannot be turned into a sandstorm for the girl.And for a girl who can instantly purify a vampire servant by relying on her compatibility as long as she can touch it, the requirement of [sufficient quality] may be a little difficult.

The skeleton picks up the broken limbs around it and turns it into an overly classic skeleton soldier. The rotting corpse crawls in a distorted posture, and the shriveled corpse keeps making teeth collide with each other. It looks like an old zombie that will appear in the game CG.

The girl swung the holy blade and passed through the crowd of the dead as if walking.Matthew didn't make a move at all during this process, but seemed to be the one being protected.

It's almost as if the identities of the master and the servant have been swapped.

"...something is not quite right."

Stomping on the head of the blond-haired zombie lady, Li Xiang muttered in a low voice.

"Senior, is there something wrong?"

"This is-"

Before Lixiang had time to explain the meaning of "something wrong" in his mouth, several white threads flew out from the corpses.After the silk threads flew out, the group of the dead fell to the ground almost at the same time. It seemed that it was these spider threads that brought them back to life.

Lixiang immediately stood in front of Matthew, so all the spider threads were entangled on her body.

"Hahahaha, it worked!"

The Dead Apostle hiding in the pile of corpses laughed... After all, it will disappear from this world in a short time, so let's call it [Strangling No. [-]] here.

"All humans caught by my thread will be manipulated by me, and I can even make these humans strangle themselves. You are finished, hunter!"

"hunter?"

"A guy who wears a nun's costume and claims to be a vampire hunter. When I heard that there was such a person hunting vampires in Shadow Time, I thought it was a powerful character, but it was solved so easily! Hahahaha!"

"Who did you say you solved?"

Saying this, Li Xiang stretched out his hand and waved at these spider threads as if flicking off the dust on his clothes.So these spider threads turned into dust as a matter of course, like an illusion that didn't exist from the beginning.

Matthew at the side let out a long breath.

She really thought that something was going to happen to her important senior just now, but luckily it was just a false alarm.

"How, how is it possible! The hardness of my silk thread can even cut through steel!"

"No matter how strong it is, it is only the ability of the dead disciples. If you just use the hemp rope, it will be more difficult to handle, but it is only a little bit."

Saying so, Lixiang smiled and looked at Mash.

"Anyway, don't worry, little eggplant. It's just a dead fish... But you still don't want to take a good look at the next picture, after all, it's a little bit inappropriate for children."

"Eh?"

"You, you monster!!"

Strangled No. [-] yelled, throwing out the spider silk to connect the corpses on the ground to manipulate them to stand up again.

But before that, its limbs were pierced and burned by four black keys.

"Although it's not the first time to be called a monster by a monster. But how should I say it? This time it's really just your own food."

Without limbs, Strangler No. [-] could no longer use the spider silk to manipulate these corpses, so the corpses fell down again.

"What I think is wrong is this... You are in a hurry? Don't you know how to do that? Make [dead people] or something. Are you not tired of playing puppet shows with your abilities? Forget it, this part also includes you calling yourself a vampire Take these two things as your interests."

The girl walked across the ground full of dead bodies, and walked in front of Strangler No. [-].

"I don't know what the principle is, maybe it's the same as the holy man's corpse is wrapped in a holy shroud? In short, if my purification ability is separated by something, it will take longer to work—probably like this Do you feel it?"

The next moment, the sole of the girl's boot landed on the chest of Hangman No. [-].

As a result, the vampire let out a miserable scream that was even a bit desperate.

"It's so noisy." The girl kicked it in the face, "The bad influence of this scene is already big enough, you are still making noise here, and our little eggplant is behind."

Seeing the limbless vampire shut his mouth tightly in fear, the girl nodded in satisfaction.

"Before I start, I'm not interested in torture. After all, I'm not a pervert—in short, this is torture. If you're not the kind of dead man who can get excited when being stepped on by a super cute big Lolita nun , please cooperate, and be a question-and-answer star before I go through the program."

To use an old stalk to illustrate - the next thing is the paid VIP content.

■After a few minutes

"...What a waste of time."

Li Xiang who came back couldn't help muttering.

Why didn't they leave [traces] even though they were Dead Apostles, why they could build nests in the Shadow Time, why they stayed in the Shadow Time—why such a weak Dead Apostle was not caught by passing agents or magicians kill.

Lixiang asked all the questions he wanted to ask, but none of them got an answer.

At first the girl thought it was this guy with a strict mouth, but in the end it was this guy who really didn't know anything, and Li Xiang felt at that moment what a meaningless time he had spent.

"……senior."

Matthew's voice caused the girl to switch back from agent mode, and she blushed and coughed a few times.

"I'm sorry to let you see something dirty, [torture] I haven't researched this thing, so I can only do it roughly... And, to be honest, I have a little personal prejudice against this type of dead... In short, we Go ahead and explore."

"senior."

"……What's wrong?"

"Seniors like that are part of seniors. I don't dislike Mash. Rather, it makes me feel a little happy to see a senior I haven't seen before."

"This...that's it..."

The girl's face turned even redder, and she lowered her head.