OBS Chapter 3463 Old John in the Night
Chapter 3463 Old John in the Night
Chapter 3463 Old John in the Night
Tifa manipulated the flames to eliminate the enemies, while Shad closed his eyes to determine the spatial structure of the third floor. He then took another step forward and appeared in a new room with Tifa.
Before the spatial fluctuations had even subsided, the gaping maw in front of them snapped at Shad's head. Then, the head with the enormous maw separated from the body, and after death, it was reduced to dust in mid-air by the Black Moon Mark.
In the room that looked like a study, five fake figures stood out.
The neck of the one that Xia De had just dealt with was half a meter long. Among the other four, one had wings and a bird's head, one had six bone spurs growing outward from the back of its head, one had seven or eight mouths on its exposed upper body, and the last one had its eyes covered with black gauze, with its eyeballs hanging directly on the gauze.
"Two phase two and two phase three!"
The manor's courtyard was now a sea of fire, and the front line of the battle between the dummy figures rushing out of the building and the girls rushing in from outside the manor was near the shattered courtyard fountain.
Iluna charged ahead, and as she stomped her foot on the ground, six or seven pillars of fire rose up ten meters in front of her, imprisoning the two stage three pseudo-humans who had just been defeated, like stakes of execution.
The fireball swept past her as she continued to deal with those who scattered and fled, their identities unclear, or those who were imposters.
Taking this opportunity, Iluna looked up at the right side of the third floor of the mansion. Amidst the burst of golden light, the roof and outer walls were blasted away. Then, in the smoke and dust of the explosion, strange winged things tried to fly into the sky, but were pulled back by black chains that shot out from the smoke and dust.
Knowing Shad's location put her at ease. Seeing Dorothy's Red Butterfly moving the fake people and corpses together, she was about to throw out flames when Dr. Schneider beat her to it and threw out black fire.
That flame was more dangerous than any other flame used by anyone else; burning a corpse was almost instantaneous, and even Iluna felt that she probably couldn't come into direct contact with it.
"Pay attention, the enemy is coming!"
Luvia's voice came from behind her. Iluna looked ahead and saw a girl who looked exactly like Tifa Servette walking out of the gate of the mansion, which had been engulfed in flames.
Luvia cast a spell on everyone beforehand, so everyone heard her voice:
"This is the fourth-stage pseudo-human. Everyone, don't hold back. This thing has a very strong regenerative ability. Don't worry about damaging it and being unable to read its memories. Iluna, Miss Martha McLaugh, you two go up and meet it. The rest of you continue to eliminate the other enemies."
Iluna and the tenth-ring witch apprentice then approached Tifa together, whose once proud figure gradually melted in the blazing fire behind her. Six spider legs emerged from her spine, her long black hair spiraled on top of her head, and then her entire head rotated 180 degrees.
When the hands and feet touch the ground, and the head tears at its neck to look forward, the face changes so that the eyes are down and the mouth is up.
As the spider legs reaching towards the sky continued to grow like tentacles, Iluna silently prayed that no fake human resembling her would appear next—anyone would be furious if Shad saw something with his face on it transformed into this.
She rang the sacred bell, and the "Sunlight Gun" fell straight down from the sea of fire. Golden chains of order sealed off the space within the ruins before the manor gates. As Iluna and the witch apprentice faced the monster, Priest Augustus, holding the *Eternal Slumber Scripture*, chanted an obscure incantation:
Rest in peace.
Everyone had a good relationship with Tifa, so when Shad jumped down from the third floor fire, which had been mostly destroyed, carrying the real head maid, the fourth-stage pseudo-human, who was basically equivalent to an eleventh-circle warlock, had been burned to ashes by the doctor's black fire, leaving only a charred head in the hands of Priest Augustus.
The head had shed its "Tifa" disguise; although it now had a human face, it possessed a bizarre and incongruous quality, revealing the true appearance of the imposter.
Everyone gathered in the sea of fire in the courtyard. Because many people were still hunting down other escaped fakes outside the manor, Shad couldn't tell exactly how many people had come. But he immediately spotted Luvia and Sirius, who hadn't participated in the battle, as well as Old John, who had a look of amazement on his face.
Good evening, Old Man John.
"Good evening, Detective. I'm truly ashamed to say that I never expected to find something like this near our base."
The reason Shad is familiar with this location is because the spire building not far away is the sanatorium where Bill Schneider brought Shad to retrieve the relics that killed Detective Sparrow in the summer of 1853 (Chapter 13).
The doctor had mentioned a nearby earl's manor, and Shad never imagined he'd actually have the chance to visit. The abandoned sanatorium had been purchased last year by the Order of the Lightbearers as a base to stockpile supplies for the apocalypse and to store the cultural relics they had collected.
Luvia left alone to go to the sanatorium, and Shad just didn't expect that Old John would be here tonight.
"Old John, the traitors are causing this kind of trouble near your base, and you really didn't notice at all?"
After nodding to the others, Xia De asked, and the gray-haired old man looked embarrassed:
"We didn't expect this to cause such a commotion. The church will definitely search the nearby sanatorium afterwards."
He held his hat:
"Alright, where is the [House of the Pseudo-Humans]? Although the Secret Order has rules, our duty is to collect the heritage of civilizations and prepare for the apocalypse, and we cannot act arbitrarily. But this time I'm making an exception and participating in the operation. It's not that I don't want to send people, it's just that we really don't have many people, and there's no one available at the base either."
Shad nodded; he wasn't blaming Old John, just teasing him a little. The rest of the group looked at Old John curiously; none of them had ever seen the old man do anything himself.
"Shad, wait a moment, we need to check if you are a fake human."
At this moment, Sirius walked over with a smile, carrying Mia, who was not very willing to stay with her. The cat was then targeted by Shad, so it immediately darted towards him. The cat displayed an amazing jumping ability, covering a distance of two meters in one leap, which was quite exaggerated for a small animal of its size, especially since Mia launched herself from a stationary position without any running start.
"Looks like there's no problem."
Luvia said with a smile, and everyone laughed.
Even Priest Augustus smiled, but he didn't forget the important matter:
"This fourth-stage pseudo-human head is still very active, or rather, if I don't control it, this thing could be reborn at any time, and its memories can be extracted."
The priest was using the power of death to firmly suppress the regenerative ability of the fake human head, so Sirius, who hadn't participated in the direct combat, took out his small silver pistol, [Faded Memories], and aimed it at the head.
Xia De said:
"There are also some documents in the study on the third floor, one of which marks a location that the puppets seem to always send carriages to. Let's check the memory first. If the two locations overlap, then the information is correct."
The blonde then whispered a prayer to the Old God, the Forgotten One, and pulled the trigger.
Memories that were originally only available through voluntary donation were now forcibly extracted by her. Wisps of silver-black light entered the gun, and then she fired again at the ground beneath everyone's feet. After the bullets hit the ground, the map of Tobesk slowly unfolded on the ground.
If anyone else were to use this relic, they would need to sift through a vast and dangerous collection of memories to find the most crucial piece, but this was not a problem for Sirius. At the very center of the map was marked an address on the edge of the western district of Tobesk, which was commonly known locally as the "factory district."
After confirming, Xia De nodded:
"That's right, the information I found on the third floor was also marked as being located here."
According to the Church of Creation, the false people possess a certain degree of nesting consciousness. Although they may not be able to directly transmit information across space, the deaths of so many false people here will surely put the False People's Home on alert. Therefore, we should not delay and must set off immediately.
I'm worried that the spies scattered throughout the city are already spying on the situation in the north. We won't enter the city; we'll go around it from the outside.
Since Old John had agreed to help, he asked seriously:
"Do you know how to expel the real [House of Pseudo-Humans]? It's a building. Theoretically, damaging the building itself to a certain extent can make the [House of Pseudo-Humans] disappear, but the danger isn't just that there will be a constant stream of pseudo-humans rushing out of the doors and windows during this time."
Shad nodded, then turned to watch the girls carrying out the final cleanup work in the sea of fire:
"I obtained the most detailed information about this relic from the [Church of Creation]. I know that when a building is damaged to a certain extent, flesh and blood tissue will grow from inside the building in an attempt to maintain its integrity. During this period, the [House of the Pseudo-Humans] itself becomes active, and its danger level will increase, but it is still very afraid of fire. Only after burning away that flesh and blood tissue can it continue to destroy the building."
Old John breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the man actually knew. It seemed that he had only gone to help out tonight.
"Furthermore, our [Light-Guiding Hermitage] also possesses some intelligence regarding the [House of False Humans], though the exact era from which this intelligence originated is now unverifiable. We were originally going to sell it to you at a high price, but since we are also involved in the operation, then..."
"free?"
Dorothy, standing nearby, asked with a smile, and old John immediately shook his head:
"Of course it's not free. I need information about this place in exchange. Although the fortune teller didn't explain in great detail just now, the information she revealed is already quite significant."
He pointed to the still-burning building, and Shad, of course, wouldn't refuse. Information about the House of Resurrection could be used for exchange, or rather, Shad wanted more people to know about the "false man's" scheme; this relic had shown too many incredible things this time.
(End of this chapter)