OBS Chapter 287 I am deaf and dumb
Chapter 287 I am deaf and dumb
The moment Jacques walked out of the door, he suddenly felt a gust of biting cold wind blowing on the back of his neck. He subconsciously covered his neck and looked back, only to find that the interior of the entire house had suddenly changed from brightly lit to dark. Even the moonlight and firelight could not dispel the darkness inside.
"Hey, what's going on in there? Say something!"
Jacques shouted into the room several times, but there was no response. He realized that something unexpected had happened in the room.
However, just as he told the others to retreat, a strange voice came from the house. This voice did not distinguish between men and women, and had no emotions, just like the chanting of a priest in a church. However, this voice did not have the sacred feeling of the church, but was only weird and headache-inducing.
Everyone who heard this sound immediately felt a deep pain in the head, as if a sharp knife was twisting back and forth in their head.
The moment the voice sounded, Jacques almost fainted from the sudden headache, but his strong desire to survive made him stand up immediately and run towards the forest in the distance.
Along the way, he saw many team members who had fallen to the ground. Jacques didn't know whether they were still alive, but he had a headache and didn't have time to save them. In this critical moment, it was better to consider his own safety first.
As he got further away from the house, the curse-like voice became quieter and quieter, and when he returned to the forest, the pain in his head slowly disappeared. Jacques sat slumped in the bushes and touched his forehead, only to find that his head was as if it had just been washed by water, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.
Jacques took a deep breath of fresh air and lay in the grass to see what was in the house, but he found a mummy-like monster walking out of the house.
It was dressed in black clothing and a crown like the Pope, and held a black scepter in its hand, but its exposed body was like a skinless mummy, with red and black muscles attached to its bones, and the same was true for its head. However, unlike a normal corpse, it had no nose, and its eyes were closed, and it seemed as if it walked entirely on its intuition.
However, just as Jacques wanted to observe its next move, he found that the mummy turned its head. For a moment, the closed eyes met Jacques' eyes, followed by the headache-inducing chant.
Jacques had no time to observe at this moment. As soon as the sound came, he immediately returned in the direction he came from.
While running in the woods, Jacques used his still clear mind to think about the next countermeasures. The most urgent thing now was to return to Mont-de-Marsan for help, or go directly south to report the matter to the governor and ask him to send troops to burn down the forest...
Suddenly, Jacques noticed a fire on the road ahead, as if a group of people were walking towards him.
"Could it be that the team members outside have come to support me?" Thinking of this, Jacques was very moved. He didn't expect that the team members outside said they would not go, but came immediately after seeing that there was no news from his side.
But when he thought of the monster chasing him, he ran towards the fire on the other side with all his strength to warn the other side of the danger.
When he ran to the other side, he found that these people were not his teammates, but knights wearing white armor, bucket helmets, and taller than him. When Jacques looked up at the flag of their team, the white flag with the red cross made him immediately know the identity of these people: the Red Cross Knights, one of the two major knightly orders under Governor John, and also a knightly order certified by the French King's Office specifically responsible for capturing cultists.
"Who are you and what's your name?"
At this time, the knight's question interrupted Jacques's thinking, and he quickly responded:
"Greetings from Jacques, Captain of the Wartime Patrol under Governor John!"
After learning about Jacques' identity, the leading knight continued:
"We are here under the order of Governor John to clean up the monster that appeared here. Have you seen any trace of it?"
Upon hearing this, Jacques was stunned. It was obviously he who discovered it first and had not told John yet, so why did he send someone first?
However, Jacques knew that this was not the time to dwell on this issue, so he told the knight the whole story. After Jacques finished speaking, the knight asked:
"So that monster can only attack through sound, right?"
"That's what it looks like so far."
The Knight Commander thought for a while, then said to another knight:
"Call the recorder."
After a while, a knight came running from behind. Unlike the other knights, this knight had a large bookshelf behind him, which was piled high with books and parchments.
The Knight Commander did not speak directly to the recorder, but gestured to him for a long time. The recorder on the opposite side nodded, put down the bookshelf, drew his sword from the scabbard, and after taking the shield handed over by his companion that could protect his entire body, he strode in the opposite direction of Jacques, and the knights behind followed closely behind, leaving Jacques alone standing there, watching them disappear from his sight.
"This, this, this..."
Looking at the deserted forest, Jacques thought for a while and decided to run out of the forest. He couldn't help anyway and he didn't want to be accidentally hurt by his own people.
Soon, the recorder who rushed to the front found the monster that Jacques mentioned on the opposite side, and the monster quickly launched a sound attack after seeing the clerk. For a moment, the cursed voice sounded in the forest again.
However, the recorder at this time seemed to be unaffected. He raised his shield and rushed to the opposite side.
As if sensing the oncoming threat, the monster had its eyes closed, but a blue fireball was gradually forming on its scepter and shooting straight towards the recorder opposite.
The fireball collided with the metal shield, and the clerk could feel the scorching heat through the shield, so he immediately threw the shield at the monster. Facing the sudden long-range attack, the monster had to use the fireball again to melt it.
While the monster was distracted, the recorder continued to run towards the monster. When the monster completely melted its shield, it was greeted by a sharp sword glowing white.
The long sword cut along the side of the monster and cut off the monster's arm holding the scepter. When the monster lost one arm and could not keep its balance, the recorder immediately turned around, swung the long sword horizontally, and directly cut off the monster's head. His strange voice also stopped abruptly at the moment the head flew out.
At this moment, the knights behind also rushed over. A knight holding a heavy musket shot at the monster's head. A knight next to him poured oil on the monster's body and threw a burning match at the monster's body. In an instant, flames enveloped the monster's entire body.
Looking at the burning corpse of the monster in front of him, the Knight Commander left two people to clean up the mess and continued to lead his men to the open space where the house was.
Without caring whether the person on the ground was still alive, the Knight Commander immediately entered the room and found the black Behelet in the darkness.
The Knight Commander placed it in a small wooden box he carried with him and handed it to a knight.
"Take it and give it to Lord John."
The Knight Commander walked out of the house and looked at the gradually whitening sky outside, and couldn't help but sigh:
"There are so many demons in this world..."
After seeing the recorder next to him recording this, the Knight Commander patted him and said:
“I never thought that the deaf and mute could be useful in war.”