Monster Collector [Unlimited]

The so-called giving a sweet date with a stick, the king still gave them enough courtesy after the harsh words.

The two magicians and their entourage were arranged in two corners of the palace, each served by a large number of guards and maids.

According to the king's original words: "You can ask me for anything, as long as you can show a performance worthy of the status of a great oriental magician."

Not to mention the requirements related to magic, what materials you want, such as 99 catties of gold, 108 cut diamonds, three carts of silk, and a cup of moonlight.

Even if you just want to use some gourmet delicacies in your daily life, there are everything you need to swim in the water flying in the sky.

However, it is not certain whether the people who have received such excellent treatment are in the mood to enjoy these delicacies. As for the maids who have nothing to do to chat, some artists who come here to perform are thinner during the seven days waiting for the performance. It weighed more than ten catties.

On the surface, Su Mu quickly got along with the entourage sent by the king, and got a lot of news while playing casually, but secretly he was also very nervous, eager to inquire about the magic show brought out by the NPC named Dongfang Xiao on the other side. .

"Hey, I don't know what he wants to do. Looking at his appearance, he might have some real skills." Su Mu sighed and sat at the table, pouring himself a glass of wine, He looked at Xie Changhe on the other side of the table.

Xie Changli took a feather that he had never used, dabbed it with ink from time to time, and slowly practiced calligraphy on the paper.

What the king said was not purely a threat. At this time, the tip of his left finger had completely turned into wood. The woody honey color complemented the original jade-like whiteness of his skin, creating a strange beauty.

After getting along these few days, Su Mu also gradually felt that the rescued child was not as well-behaved as he seemed on the surface, but unexpectedly, he was not disgusted, and instead had a little bit of pride.

Hmm, maybe my family has a feeling of growing up?Su Mu thought to himself.

Xie Changli felt a subtle coolness in his normal state, and put away the paper after practice: "I don't know how Uncle Gao's preparations are going."

"He, he is still at the level of being able to turn into a pigeon." Su Mu sighed, "But he is quite good at talking, he can turn into a rabbit for this noble lady today, and send a rose for that lady tomorrow. I'll find a mistress for me in the next day."

Or complete the task by eating soft rice?

Su Mu couldn't help shivering, and quickly crossed out this imaginary scene.

He was making arrangements secretly, saying that Cao Cao arrived, Gao Shang was wearing a handsome tuxedo, strode into the room, sat next to Su Mu, facing Xie Changli: "I have a new discovery here."

"What?" Su Mu cheered up. This is much more interesting than the slipknot used to tie up when practicing escape from the secret room in order to accompany Master to perform magic tricks.

Gao Shang: "Today, when I went out with a lady to perform magic tricks for the children in the orphanage during the celebration, I once again met an NPC who died like that clown."

Xie Changli didn't have much reaction to the word NPC. When talking with Su Mu in the past few days, he also had a little understanding of his current situation through the information that the other party revealed intentionally or unintentionally.

They should be in a horror game now, and they need to keep cracking copies to survive.

Naturally, there is nothing wrong with calling other people NPCs.

"Same?" Xie Changli frowned and looked over, "Are they also dismembered?"

"There is a little difference," Gao Shang did not question his thinking, on the contrary, it would be too stupid to believe that His Majesty's younger brother would be a complete idiot, "Let's put it this way, you still remember what the king said he has Do you have a collection of dolls?"

Su Mu nodded. Of course, his frantic socializing in the past two days was to inquire about this news: "I just got the photos they took last night. The collection shelf almost reached the ceiling, and it was full of all kinds of dolls."

"I've studied the photos carefully," Gao Shang spread out a stack of photos on the table, two of which were circled with a red pen, "Look here."

Xie Changli's eyes fell on it, the photo was not very clear, but with his excellent memory, he quickly compared and confirmed it just by the outline, and the one highlighted was exactly the clown doll.

only……

Xie Changli reached out his hand and tapped the corner of the red circle: "The joints of this doll seem to be broken?"

"The joints of the doll were broken, and the limbs of the doll's owner were cut off." Gao Shang said lightly, "There are two possibilities, one is that after the owner's limbs are cut, the injury will be reflected on the doll, and the other is that A situation where cause and effect are reversed."

Su Mu replied: "Because the limbs of the doll were broken, the owner of the doll was also punished."

"I also came to these two inferences at the time, and I have been looking for opportunities to verify it. It just so happened that during this visit to the orphanage, I saw an extremely grumpy employee." Gao Shang frowned, "He was definitely insulting and even Child abuse, during the interval between performances, when I went to the small warehouse to remove my makeup, I heard him smoking and cursing."

Su Mu is at the age of exuberant curiosity, and at the same time has a strong sense of justice. He immediately urged: "What happens next? What happened to him was found out and he was beaten up and thrown out?"

"If you want to read a script that acts on behalf of the heavens, then in a sense that's the case." Gao Shang closed his eyes and poured himself a glass of red wine.

Turning the cup, he said in a low voice: "I heard a crackling sound, followed by a bang."

"When I got there, the orphanage's cleaning robot had already arrived and was cleaning the blood on the ground. This time, what I saw was not the severed limbs, but the opened abdominal cavity." Gao Shang was not the first Faced with a bloody scene for the first time, the words used in the description were extremely calm and precise, "It should be a wound cut by a sharp weapon, about 30 cm long, and the intestines, stomach, liver, kidneys and other organs are all exposed."

"Those children..." Su Mu lowered his voice, "Did they see it?"

Gao Shang smiled wryly: "I saw it, maybe I saw it."

There was silence in the room. They had seen the scene when the first person died. Perhaps those children also watched a person die tragically but remained indifferent, or maybe this was a well-planned revenge?

Even blank paper has already been assimilated in this cold atmosphere.

Xie Changli was the first to break the silence: "Then how did you analyze it?"

"I heard two sounds clearly. At that time, I judged that the first sound should be the sound of a wooden doll falling, and the second sound was the sound of a human body falling to the ground. At this time, I was more inclined to believe that the first sound was The doll fell and the belly was damaged, which triggered the death condition."

"However, when I came to the scene, the doll was intact." Gao Shang took a sip of wine, "It can even be said that it is as clean as new, without any traces of use."

"Then we only have one verification method." Xie Changli nodded.

"Very smart," Gao Shang got up after drinking the last bit of wine, and put on the coat that he took off when he came in again. "Let's go, let's go tell those people outside that we want to visit the king's great collection again."

Different from Su Mu, the little assistant of the magician in their eyes, the higher requirements will naturally be met. They soon came to the collection hall that Su Mu visited last time. There were a variety of dolls on the shelves. Some are dressed in aristocratic costumes, some are dressed like ordinary people, some are holding magic wands and wearing top hats, and some are stepping on balls and drawing clown smiling faces.

Seeing it in person, even through glass, captures more detail than a photo.

Not all of these dolls are perfect, some of them are covered with dirt, some have nicks on their bodies, and some even have lost some joints.

"It seems to be man-made," Gao Shang put away the special prop magnifying glass, and said in a tone like a seasoned detective, "It was carved with a knife, and there are some dents from a strong fall from a high place, and some are probably children's hands. Pulled hard."

During the analysis, they heard some noises coming from the door, and a man and a woman dressed in black were entering the room carrying two small boxes.

When they saw the two, they just nodded slightly, then opened the box silently, and put the two dolls covered by glass into the two storage compartments that had been vacated at some time.

Following their movements, Xie Changli saw clearly the doll under the glass cover. It was a young man dressed as a nurse, with a strong figure, and his thick and short eyebrows were not easy to provoke. Deep nicks.

It is speculated that the harm that people do to dolls is more and more inclined, and it will be fed back to people.

Gao Shang took out his notebook and ticked off this conjecture, and by the way, speculated on the background story of this part according to his usual dungeon theme deduction thinking.

If the dungeon will punish everyone who treats the dolls badly, then the king who has the most power here and is suspected to be the boss of the end of the game may also deeply hate this behavior.

"There's another door there." Xie Chang left the mouth, and stretched out his finger to the direction where the two left.

Gao Shang followed immediately, and the two people in front still maintained their previous indifferent attitude, allowing them to follow him through the collection cabinets, all the way into the darkness where the lights above their heads couldn't reach.

The lights of the candles were lit, and an oil painting was reflected in the orange light.

"The Last Supper"?

Could it be about betrayal? Xie Changli always felt that something was about to come out, but he still couldn't grasp the clue.

At this time, the two of them, who completely regarded the three of them as air, stretched out their hands and pressed the wall under the oil painting.

Gao Shang took a step forward vigilantly, but the action was a bit late after all, almost the moment the two of them put their hands on the wall, a gap opened in the wall in front of them and sucked them in!

"It can't be opened." Gao Shang strode forward excitedly and tried for a while, but still failed to find the corresponding mechanism. Even the candles on both sides flickered for a while and then went out suddenly!

He took a deep breath, and told the scene he happened to glimpse the moment the door opened—

"I saw a doll with a broken crown."