mechanical court

"Yes, yes, it's wonderful!"

"Especially in the part of running in the corridor, the panic of a helpless girl is vividly interpreted!"

Researcher A and Researcher B, who were covered in blood, also praised them profusely.

"The success of the plan depends entirely on your outstanding performance. I am convinced." The seal also praised and bowed his head to show respect.

In fact, they had discussed it in advance, because Rarity's performance was too embarrassing, almost like a bewitched man.In order to keep the other party from being too embarrassed, I had no choice but to pretend to be ignorant and praise the acting skills.

"Ha... ha ha ha... small, small meaning... small meaning!"

After laughing dryly with lingering fear in her heart, Rarity observed everyone carefully, and asked with some uncertainty: "Is that monster dead? Are you hallucinating? Where's that handsome guy with superpowers?"

"Dead, we are not an illusion."

Bai Xiong nodded with certainty, and replied carefully: "The monster was killed by the captain's surprise attack from behind while chasing you. He is now disposing of the body."

"That's fine."

After Rarity calmed down, she quickly sorted out her thoughts.

After she entered the toilet, she encountered a series of changes that should have been hallucinations, and the wall blocking her was two colleagues.The blood that splashed at the end should be the blood of the monster. After it was killed by the superpower user, the illusion disappeared.

"call……"

After thinking of this, Rarity heaved a sigh of relief, and then suddenly realized something, and her whole body tensed up: "Don't dispose of the corpse indiscriminately! The corpse of that monster is very valuable for research! Don't destroy it!"

Chapter 1: Gluttony

Desolate ghost domain, one o'clock in the morning.

The sky was gloomy, and the night wind swept through layers of clouds, making the rolling green belt make a rushing sound, like waves.

On the right side of the endless road, there stands a dusty glass phone booth.

At this time, the surface of the phone booth was covered with dirt, and only the upper left side was wiped clean.It seems to be a skylight on the roof, revealing two figures curled up inside.

Erica sat in the phone booth, staring worriedly at the dark sky, her hair ruffled by the wind.She grabbed her teammate's hand with one hand and told him in the most confident tone:

"It's okay, Ivan and the others have already given us a solution! As long as we go back to the past, we will definitely be able to save the knight!"

"You don't have to worry about me, really. When we were together, we expected a similar ending. And we agreed that no matter who dies, the other party will live with his share." The beholder Looking at the gray-white lighthouse on the mountain peak in the distance, he replied seemingly calmly.

"This is not the end! And you can't be absolutely sure that the corpse is the knight, he's rotted like that!" Erica corrected her mistakes in words and logic.

"I can be sure because I am familiar with every part of his body."

The beholder smiled slightly as she spoke, a bit sadly; leaning against the stained glass of the phone booth, she curled up and sat on the ground.Like a wounded man sitting in a trench facing a hail of bullets, his face was weak and pale, and he murmured in a sleepy tone:

"Two days have passed now. If the lighthouse still doesn't light up tonight, then you and I will both collapse from hunger. It was agreed in advance that if I can't hold on first, you can eat me."

Hearing her words like a walking dead, Erica couldn't help but feel sad for a while; she wanted to refute, but she was so sad that she couldn't say anything, she could only shake her head to show her resistance.

……

An hour later, everything was the same, the only thing that changed was their physical and mental strength.

Because they consumed too much energy and couldn't get it replenished, Erica and the beholder were both in a drowsy posture at this time.I just opened my eyes from time to time to see if the lighthouse in the distance lit up.

It didn't take long for them to take turns to rest because they couldn't bear the sleepiness.

one by one

After Erica closed her eyes, she fell into a sweet dream almost immediately. It didn't feel like it was too long before she was awakened by a deliberately lowered anxious voice:

"Wake up! Wake up!"

"Well!?"

She just opened her eyes and was about to speak when someone covered her mouth.Then I felt a burst of strong light hitting the eyelids, and the whole person was immediately refreshed.

"Could it be that the lighthouse is shining!?"

Erica thought ecstatically, as her eyes adjusted to the light, she realized it was the beholder reaching out to cover her mouth.At the same time, she raised her index finger nervously and made a silent movement.

Soon she noticed something was wrong—the white light shining into the phone booth was deflecting, as if trying to drown them, and was gradually rising as the light source moved.

Between the time Erica opened her eyes and regained her sanity, the white light that shone into the phone booth intensified.It was a blindingly cloying light, like gasoline sprinkled on the curved road and refracted by the sun.

"..."

She held her breath cautiously, as if infected by her companion's terrified eyes, a trace of panic welled up in her heart for no reason.The originally pitch-black night was acceptable, but the addition of a slowly wandering, pale and dazzling light made people fearful.

Immediately afterwards, the ground even the phone booth where the two of them lived began to vibrate slightly.It seems that the ground is being crushed by some kind of heavy object, and the magnitude is still increasing.

Since Erica's back was facing the light, she couldn't see anything, so she had to tiptoe around and raised her head to look in the direction of the vibration.

At the end of the abandoned villa and the road, a beam of white light shines from the outside to the inside.It seems to be a strong light projected from the head of the well to the bottom of the well. Because the contrast between light and dark is too obvious, people can't see things near the light source clearly.

The beholder and Erica stared at the light source for a long time. Seeing it gradually approaching and the white light flooding the entire phone booth, they realized that it was an old kerosene lamp hanging in midair.

That's right, it was the kind of lighting tool before electric lights became popular.The light bulb is shaped like a glass with a thin waist and a big belly, with a rusty wire handle attached to it, and an oil-stained copper lamp holder at the bottom.

Erica didn't know this thing at all, but the beholder was a person who lived in that era. It can be said that this lamp accompanied her throughout her childhood.But the kerosene lamp in the distance is also too big, with a height of more than three meters, about the size of a small glowing house.

The light of the kerosene lamp in the darkness was pale and strong, and the light bulb seemed to be covered by an old yellow tulle, which was indescribably dirty and old.It just shook slightly, making weird creaking noises, floating in the air and getting closer.

The beholder watched the scene silently, sitting there cautiously, not planning to take any action until she was sure of the threat level of the kerosene lamp.Erica was a little disgusted by the light, and had the urge to take out the hand cannon and blast the broken lamp with an air cannon.

At this time, the beholder seemed to sense the turmoil in his teammate's heart, and quickly pushed her back, shaking his head to signal her not to mess around.Erica nodded silently, expressing that she has a sense of proportion and will not do bad things because of impulsiveness.

one-one-one-one

The pale light of the kerosene lamp slowly swept across the road. At this moment, a thin figure appeared behind the dim light bulb——judging from the attire, it looked like an old lady.

It wore a tattered long skirt, its straw-yellow hair hung over its shoulders, and its drooping head was buried on its chest.Shaking his head from side to side, he looked at the villas on both sides with a pair of dark eyes sunk deep in his eye sockets.Just like that, hunched over, staggering forward on the dimly lit road, the vibrations on the ground became closer and clearer.

The height of the kerosene lamp is more than three meters, so the owner who is carrying it is obviously bigger. Compared with it, the road and the villa are like small children's toys.

The kerosene lamp in its hand emitted a pale glare, but its body was shrouded in a faint green light that came from nowhere.The body under the rotten cloth strips was shriveled and thin, without a trace of muscle, like a mummy that had been dusty for a long time.

As it staggered forward, it lifted the lantern from time to time, shining through the window into the depths of the villa.In an instant, the entire villa will be enveloped in white light, and a thin layer of ice will soon appear on the ground, walls, and ceiling, spreading rapidly in all directions, completely freezing the entire space.If there is a corpse or some unknown ghost hidden in it, it will be taken out and swallowed whole. The clear chewing sound is extremely terrifying in the dark night.

It seemed to be moving extremely slowly, but in the course of the action, the long road seemed to be constantly shortening the distance, and it could climb to the next villa in a blink of an eye.

Peering at this scene from a distance, both the beholder and Erica felt like they had fallen into an ice cellar—they had seen all kinds of monsters in the past few days, but this was the first time they encountered such a strange and huge monster.

"..."