OBS Chapter 3457 The "Night of the False Man" at the Yodel Palace
Chapter 3457 The "Night of the False Man" at the Yodel Palace
Chapter 3457 The "Night of the False Man" at the Yodel Palace
"But."
The "girl" outside the door wanted to defend herself, but Xia De inside had already taken a deep breath, then, exerting force from his abdomen, shouted loudly with great energy:
"Someone is lost and needs help! Is there anyone else in the hallway who could help this girl with two stars on her head?"
Even without using techniques like "Dragon Roar," when the impetuous young Shad shouted like that, the sound could be heard in at least the rooms in the nearby corridor.
The "girl" outside the door changed her expression again, stared at Xia De for a few seconds, then turned around, lifted her skirt, and ran away quickly in her high heels.
Shad put the cover back on the small glass window, glanced at the blonde girl next to Lacey, but quickly looked away:
"Alright, everyone go back now. Xiaomia and I will stay here and watch the door for you ladies."
So everyone seemed to forget about the people who had just been "chased away" outside the door, and began to praise Xia De and Xiaomia.
In the next five minutes, two more people came knocking. This time, however, they weren't lingering in the restroom; instead, they claimed, "After leaving the restroom, the hallway becomes like a maze. What's going on here?"
Of the two, Shad let the second person in, and she sat with Miss Helos, unable to move around freely. As for the first one, it had four ears and a pair of black wings growing from its back.
"How many imposters actually appeared at the Yodel Palace tonight?"
Fortunately, after those four knocks, no one appeared outside the door again. Otherwise, Xia De would have suspected that the plan against the "House of Resurrection" had been exposed and that those fakes were launching a preemptive strike.
As the "silence" at the Yodel Palace grew longer, the girls in the room began to feel anxious. So, Lacey organized them to move from sitting on chairs to sitting on cushions placed on the floor:
"Such opportunities are rare. How about we play a story relay game? Each person writes a story, which must be logically consistent."
Of course, the girls' activities were none of Shad's concern; he needed to keep an eye on the two noble ladies and occasionally peek outside through the windows and doors. The good news was that the environment of the Yodel Palace hadn't changed, suggesting that while there might have been high-ranking imposters present tonight, their numbers weren't particularly large.
Half an hour passed quickly, and as expected, Lacey's story relay turned into a horror story relay. However, the girls, frightened by the scary scenes, were no longer worried about what was happening outside.
During the intermission, the maids poured tea for everyone, and of course, they didn't forget to prepare tea for the three people on the other side of the room near the door. Just as Miss Weiss Doyle was pouring tea for Shad, a loud bang suddenly came from the direction of the door.
The maid nearly dropped the teapot from her hand. Xia De stood up abruptly, watching as the door trembled slightly from the impact.
As everyone's eyes turned in that direction, a heart-wrenching cry for help came from outside the door:
"Save me! Save me! Don't eat me! Oh, Father! Mother! God, save me!"
It was the voice of a young woman. The girls in the room all looked unwell, clearly thinking of the rather tragic events unfolding outside.
Frowning, Xia De hurried to the door again. After opening the small window's cover, he found that a layer of blood had completely stained the clear glass red. Although he could still see the corridor, the blood obscured the view, making the outside appear as if someone with 800 degrees of myopia had taken off their glasses.
Not to mention distinguishing fake people, he couldn't even tell how many people were actually outside.
[The presence of whispering elements suggests that, regardless of whether the person calling for help is human, there are indeed pseudo-humans outside.]
She said softly, but offered no advice on whether Shad should go out to rescue people.
"None of you come any closer."
Shad spoke to the girls by the fireplace, then remained pressed against the small window, while the cries for help outside continued. For a fleeting moment, a red butterfly seemed to fly past his eyes, then the illusion of Shad and Mia remained where they were, while the real Shad appeared in the corridor with the cat.
The good news is that there are no girls being eaten here. The bad news is that a dummy dressed as a male servant, with six spider-like eyes and six arms, and another human face embedded in the chest of his open shirt, is standing right outside the door.
Of course, this "bad news" wasn't directed at Shad, but at this strange-looking thing.
The moonlight cleaved it in two along its midline, yet it did so perfectly without damaging the door it was pressed against.
After the body split open, it revealed clumps of scarlet flesh. As this flesh attempted to heal the body quickly, the brilliant silver moonlight ignited it.
The burning flesh tried to lunge at Shad, but Moonfire gave it no further chance. The fleshy tentacles were burned to ashes by the pure silver flames before they could touch Shad's nose, and the ashes dissipated completely before they even hit the carpet.
So he used Lagrave's Leap to return indoors again, and after maintaining the position of leaning against the door for a few seconds, he said to the girls:
"There's no sound outside. I think it's better if we don't open the door."
Of course, no one would think that Xia De's actions were wrong. Even if there were really victims outside just now, it is hard to say whether the "murderer" has already left.
"The pseudo-human that has undergone the second stage of mutation cannot withstand the Moonlight Slash in a head-on battle."
Xia De concluded in his mind that he had never encountered a pseudo-human in the third or fourth stage, but he figured that the third stage was no match for him either.
As for the fourth-stage pseudo-human, it can freely transform between pseudo-human form and imitation form, and even high-ring sorcerers cannot easily detect it when it maintains a human appearance.
If the true nature of the "House of Pseudo-Humans" is a cockroach nest, then these four-stage "mature pseudo-humans" are the cockroaches with the strongest reproductive capacity in the nest. The key point of Shad's plan for the "House of Resurrection" is to find a four-stage pseudo-human.
However, the conditions for the emergence of mature pseudo-humans are generally extremely demanding. Given the current proportion of "infected" people in Tobesk, it is impossible for too many stage four pseudo-humans to appear.
For the remaining half hour, everything was calm inside and outside the room. Even when Shad looked out the window, everything seemed normal in the night.
When the three ring mages from the Church of Dawn arrived, they said it would only take an hour, but when the hour actually came to an end, no one came to inform the people in the room that they could leave at will.
Lacey wouldn't say anything about opening the door, so everyone else waited patiently.
They waited until 10:10 p.m., by which time even the two noble ladies who had entered the room later were already sitting with everyone. Xia De stood alone at the door, still holding the fire poker, but for some reason, everyone thought he was holding a sword.
The girls had stopped playing storytelling games; they were whispering about Shad or asking Lacia about her relationship with him. Lacia, of course, couldn't tell them the truth, so she could only share the story of Shad and Galina, which greatly annoyed the eldest princess present.
It was 10:15 PM. A commotion arose outside, not from the doorway but from the window. Shad went to the window, used a fire poker to pull back a corner of the curtain, and then let out a long sigh.
“People are starting to move around in that building on the northwest side. It seems that things are over. Someone should come to let us know soon that we can leave the room.”
Everyone was delighted, and just as Shad had said, more and more sounds came from the Yodel Palace, and the palace was returning to its former liveliness.
The girls, who had long been tired of sitting, all came to the doorway. They chatted and laughed about this unusual night, as if all their worries had been swept away.
Of course, the girls didn't forget to praise the only "knight" present for displaying impeccable chivalry tonight, protecting everyone here. Laceya, however, was somewhat disapproving of some of the girls' overly enthusiastic advances towards Shad, but seeing Shad's expression of not caring much about them, and instead worrying that their closeness might disturb Mia, she felt relieved.
"I'm actually worried about Shad?"
She found her earlier thought somewhat amusing.
As if hearing Lacey's thoughts, Mia, who had been dozing with her eyes half-closed, opened them and saw so many people surrounding Shad, so she meowed.
Lacey didn't understand the cat's meow, while Shad scanned everyone standing around again and patted Mia's head to reassure her.
Footsteps and voices could be heard from the surrounding rooms, indicating that this room was about to be allowed to open its door. But just then, Shad's fire poker shot out, blocking the hand that reached out from behind Lacey and tried to put it on her shoulder.
"Ok?"
Lacey turned around and saw Charlotte Davis standing behind her, the woman who had been very proactive in interacting with her all evening. This noblewoman shared the same surname as the Grand Elder of the Hermits of the Forest, but the two were unrelated. She came from a local marquisate and was a friend of Lacey's who wasn't particularly close.
Miss Davis, with her blonde hair, was clearly taken aback when her hand was blocked by Shad's fire poker.
"Sir Hamilton, you..."
Xia De gave his reasons with a stern face:
"If a bad guy really breaks into this room, his first target will definitely be Princess Lacia Cavendish, so it's best if no one has any direct contact with her tonight."
Lacey read the true meaning in Shad's expression, but she was more bothered by how unfamiliar it felt for him to call her "Your Highness." She then thought she could continue using that title later that day, since it was their date and the night was still long.