221. Reason-3

It's obvious that there's someone or something on the second floor.

Trist became alert, pulled out his usual revolver, and checked the bullets.

Lu Ban then materialized his "Last Words," ready to find a way to deliver a blow at any moment.

Xiya looked at the two of them, somewhat confused.

What are you doing?

She asked softly.

We need to be careful when approaching them.

Before Trist could finish speaking, he saw Xiya raise her left hand.

Suddenly, her small frame unleashed tremendous strength as she leaped into the air, slamming her left hand against the ceiling with lightning speed.

Thump thump thump—

With the sound of something penetrating the ceiling and reaching the second-floor floor, Lu Ban clearly saw several small holes, about the thickness of a finger, appear in the wooden ceiling.

Thump thump thump thump—

The next moment, a series of explosions rang out, shaking off a large amount of dust.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey! What are you doing?"

Trist spat out the ash from his mouth and looked up at the second floor.

There was no movement from above.

"When encountering unidentified objects, if there are walls in the way, you can use the Penetrating Burst Art to launch a probing attack and investigate the enemy's situation. That's what the Gray Tower's Agent's Manual says."

Xiya replied immediately.

"A probing attack?"

Lu Ban felt that this test seemed a bit exaggerated.

"What if it's Gudu?"

Trist asked hesitantly.

"Don't worry, I've prayed for Healing Art this time. As long as he has a breath left, he can be brought back to life!"

Xiya patted her chest, making a metallic clanging sound, and then glanced at Lu Ban.

"Shall we go upstairs and take a look?"

Lu Ban felt that it definitely wasn't the Gudu. He went up the creaking stairs and saw a mess on the second floor.

This is the bedroom. You can see the cotton wool from the bed flying everywhere. The Explosion spell turned the wooden bed into pieces, along with a creature.

It looked like Hound, or an octopus, lying on the ground, barely alive.

Lu Ban observed carefully and saw that it was a four-legged creature, about the size of a large dog, with a smooth body like an eel, and its limbs had reverse joints and sharp claws at the ends.

What's striking is its head, with several tentacles extending from its neck. There are no eyes or ears, only a mouth surrounded by countless sharp teeth in the center of the tentacles.

Just seeing this creature is enough to make one wonder what the gods of this world have done. Its slippery tentacles are still slightly curling and stretching, but the monster seems to have stopped moving.

"Look, this isn't Gudu."

Xiya pointed at the monster and said.

"Is this a monster unique to the Ruined City?"

Lu Ban was curious. After all, he wasn't from the Ruined City. He had Ruined City and didn't know what other strange creatures existed here.

"I have never heard of such a monster in the Ruined City."

Trist put away his revolver, took out his gloves, and was about to put them on, but after thinking about it, he handed them to Lu Ban instead.

"Come and take a look."

Lu Ban took the gloves and quickly went to the monster's side. He poked the monster's body with his finger and felt a slightly hard texture, like a balloon filled with Stone.

He pinched the tentacles on the monster's face with his fingers, pulled them Lu Ban, and revealed the monster's mouthparts to Trist's ashen expression.

The moment he saw that scene, Trist felt an instinctive shiver. He took two steps back and grabbed the wall for support. The dizziness almost made him kneel down, but thankfully Xiya caught him.

You have witnessed an indescribable, evil monster.

[Rationality - 3]

Trist couldn't even pay attention to the warnings that his sanity was decreasing.

He gasped for breath and, after a while, finally stood up straight.

"Luckily, I didn't go to check it out myself."

Trist was still shaken. If that thing were still alive, he would have to fight it and examine the corpse himself, which would probably have further diminished his sanity.

Are you alright?

Xiya wasn't affected much; she was just a little disgusted by the scene. In the Black Forest, on the Path of the Agents, there were many more bizarre beasts, and this monster was just one of the ugliest.

Seeing this, Lu Ban seemed to be deep in thought.

It seems that, in terms of pollution levels, the Night Country is definitely more polluted than the Ruined City. The same monster could cause a strong impact on Trist, but had little effect on Xiya.

As for Lu Ban, he has already lost his mind and can be discarded, so he is not worth discussing.

Therefore, Lu Ban felt that perhaps the level of pollution in the world could indeed, to some extent, increase humanity's resistance to these alien monsters and indescribable existences.

At this moment, Lu Ban noticed that the monster's abdomen seemed to be swollen, and it was a little larger than before.

"That's strange, isn't it bulging a little here?"

He poked it with his finger.

Immediately, Lu Ban saw that something seemed to be wriggling inside the monster's abdomen, rising and falling under its skin like an insect. At the same time, the abdomen swelled up like a sick person, gradually becoming unbearable.

"Leave now."

Lu Ban said something, Xiya then picked up the still somewhat weak-legged Trist and left the bedroom.

The moment Lu Ban closed the door, the monster's corpse exploded.

The explosion lasted only a moment before ceasing. Lu Ban Door Opening and saw an even more chaotic scene.

The monster's belly was filled with countless wriggling tentacles, just like its face. The ends of those tentacles seemed to have cysts. One could almost imagine that such a creature had gradually transformed from tiny octopuses the size of fingernails into that hideous and grotesque monster. And there were hundreds and thousands of such monsters still wriggling in this room, spreading to every corner.

Even Xiya felt a little dizzy this time. She noticed that her rationality had decreased a bit, so she raised her hand and cast a spell.

Buzz—

All the wriggling insects in the room were dragged, sucked up, and kneaded into a ball by some force.

Snap—

The insects were compressed into a single mass and fell to the ground.

"Is this the magic of the Night Country?"

Trist had been to the Night Country before, but had never directly encountered the mages of the Grey Tower. Seeing Xiya's series of spells, he couldn't help but feel incredulous.

This is an extraordinary power far beyond what the people of the Ruined City could imagine.

"It's quite convenient, but unfortunately I can't learn how to use it."

Lu Ban sighed.

Then he noticed that after Xiya had cleaned up the mess of trash and bugs, there was a stack of scattered manuscript papers on the floor in a corner of the bedroom.

The paper was stained with some unknown dirt, but the writing was still mostly legible.

Lu Ban bent down and picked up the stack of manuscript papers. He saw that they contained excerpts from a novel.

Before heading to North Cold Town, the detectives decided to visit the novelist's residence to see if they could find anything.

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