The Master of the Strange Realm

Jenkins wrote down this important information, sold the wine to the other party, and then left the store with his small cloth bag.

140-40+5=105

Continue to roll the dice. Perhaps the last time he threw out 1, he used up his bad luck. Then he threw out a 20. But Jenkins still wanted to find the special merchant in the blood-red robe on the street, so throwing such a big number could not be said to be a completely good thing.

This time the journey was longer, and after stopping, it turned out to be not an ordinary building. There was no door panel either, so Jenkins broke in directly.

There was only one candle in the house. Jenkins followed the light and walked in. He saw a child wrapped in a torn quilt, curled up in the corner of the floor in front of the candle. Hearing the footsteps, the child looked up at Jenkins. At that moment, Jenkins seemed to see a blood-red beast in the other's turbid pupils.

But just when Jenkins wanted to see clearly in surprise, the boy immediately lowered his eyes and grabbed the cardboard and threw it to Jenkins.

The boy's role is probably a beggar in the town, so according to his identity, the value of the traded items is not very high, but there are many strange things.

In terms of price, the two most expensive shoes are part of the "townsman's dress". And further down, there is a special prop worth 10 dice, which is a special stone cup that can turn the urine of any creature into clear pure water.

Jenkins' mouth trembled, and he didn't consider buying it. Continuing to scan down, he saw more strange things that he didn't need.

He gave up shopping at the beggar, and took out a dice and put it in front of the boy:

"Have you seen a person wearing a blood-red robe?"

Chapter 2139 A shortcut to leave

The role of the little beggar can probably provide information. And just as Jenkins expected, the boy raised his palm to him, so Jenkins added four more dice.

"It's here."

The little beggar in the town whispered, his voice was very hoarse.

"Huh? Is it you?"

Jenkins asked again.

"Of course not."

It was not a lie, so Jenkins took out the compass, thinking about the image of the target he was looking for, and looked down at the rotating needle. This compass is very accurate for finding ordinary objects, but for finding any object containing spirits, the compass direction will be distorted to a certain extent depending on the strength of the object being found.

And this time, the needle spun wildly and did not stop.

He summoned the monocle in the spirit and scanned the dark corners of the house. This house has only one floor and the area is not large. Even if the candlelight cannot illuminate every corner, after wearing the monocle, with the real eye, even if the black spiritual light of the weird world has an impact, such a close distance is enough for him to see every detail.

It's just that there is no spirit of the third person in the empty house.

"Where is it exactly?"

Jenkins asked the little beggar who was fiddling with the five blood-colored dice, but the other party just shook his head and did not intend to further trade information.

"That's strange."

He stood up and scanned the house again:

"At present, I can see that there are only two people here, and the third person is indeed in the house. Since I can't see him, it means that the other party has a way to hide himself, both in size and spirit. But no matter how hidden, he can't escape my eyes at such a close distance, so it's definitely not that my eyes didn't see it, but that I didn't observe it carefully..."

He looked down at the candle in front of the little beggar, his eyes looking at the light of the candle wick:

"Normal people will definitely not look directly at the candle wick, so come out."

He said to the candle, and then the black spot at the center of the candle flame and the candle head almost overlapped expanded a little bit. The black shadow jumped out of the flame, fell to the ground, and turned into a person wearing a blood-red robe.

His head was covered in a hood, so it was difficult to tell his gender and age. After jumping out, he stood in front of Jenkins, and without Jenkins saying anything, he directly handed out a piece of cardboard to explain the content of his transaction.

Among them, there happened to be a map of the town that Jenkins was thinking about.

The trading items of this special merchant are not only rare, but not expensive. The prices of a few common items in the trading catalog are also lower than what Jenkins has seen in various places in the town just now. I think the prices here are all discounted. The price of the map here is only 95 dice, so Jenkins immediately chose to buy it.

It was an old parchment, and the edges of the parchment were obviously not cut neatly. The traces of pencil on it carefully depicted the whole picture of the town. The lighthouse of the bell ringer was indeed in the center of the town, and after finding the location of the church, Jenkins could easily determine his current location:

"This is bad, why is it still so far?"

Although the price is very low, the content of this map is very detailed. From the current position, even if he takes the most dangerous and shortest distance, and Jenkins can throw the number 20 every time, he will have to throw at least 23 times.

Of course, he has enough dice, but he can't just move forward without touching the surrounding buildings to reach the outside of the town smoothly. There are more than one or two areas along the way, such as wooden fences, other people's private streets, etc., that require extra dice to pass through.

After all, even if Jenkins could defeat all the monsters on this road and solve all the puzzles, he would have to prepare at least about 150 dice to barely pay the toll.

If you choose a road without tolls, you will have to make a long detour to get out of the town. There are only five exits in the town, and they happen to correspond to the direction of the five streets when leaving the lighthouse. I don't know if this is a coincidence.

Taking the shortest route, including the time to earn dice, Jenkins thought it would take about 3 hours, which was not unexpected. The most convenient way is about 6 hours, and this is assuming that the average number of dice thrown is above 10 every time.

"Isn't there a better way?"

He said confidently to himself.

"Of course."

Unexpectedly, the child lying in front of the candle actually spoke. Jenkins lowered his head and looked at him, and the other person held out three fingers. Three dice are certainly not too many, but after buying the map, 104-5-95=4, Jenkins only had four dice left. He suspected that the other party had just peeked at the number of dice in the small bag.

"Can."

He threw three dice. The beggar glanced at the businessman in red robe, and the latter left the house knowingly.

"Look at the street that turns left at the next intersection."

Jenkins followed the little beggar's reminder and looked down at the map, and then he was surprised to find that on the street that turned left, the entire left side of the street belonged to the small town hospital. In other words, every time the dice was thrown on that street, As long as he didn't leave the street, there was a half chance of being able to enter the hospital.

"The hospital is one of the most important buildings in this town. After all, hematology... The hospital has more than one exit, not just on this street. There is one in the hospital that is not marked on the map you are holding. The door leads to the street diagonally upward."

Jenkins followed the beggar's words and looked at the diagonally upward street. If he could really walk like this, it would be equivalent to being blocked by a dead-end wall in front of the maze exit and digging directly through the wall to reach the straight path in front of the maze. .

The street diagonally upward is the street leaving the town.

"Three dice, are you willing to tell me this kind of information?"

Because the information was so cheap, Jenkins doubted its authenticity.

"The charging rules for this kind of information are that outsiders must hold the map, and the charging requirement is to leave only one dice for the outsiders to leave."

In this way, Jenkins still takes advantage.

The beggar did not tell Jenkins the location of the other door in the hospital, so Jenkins had to go to the hospital to find it by himself. So he said goodbye to the beggar and set out again. When throwing the dice, he was still thinking that the next time it must be a building that can earn dice, otherwise he would not have a single dice and would really stay forever.

But I was really lucky. Before leaving this street, except for the last time, the other three times were ordinary buildings. First let the old woman curse "despicable foreigner", and then inject blood through a rusty metal syringe to get 4 dice. Before leaving this street, the last stop was the blacksmith shop. At this time, he had 9 bloody dice in his hand.

Chapter 2140 Ghost and Truth

Because of the presence of the fire, not only was the blacksmith shop not dark at all, but the blood-red flickering flames were even a bit dazzling. The bearded blacksmith with bare upper body was wearing a leather apron and standing in front of the anvil, swinging a sledgehammer to hit the iron. Every dull impact seemed to suppress the sound of Jenkins' heartbeat.

After hearing the footsteps, he glanced at Jenkins sideways, shook his muscles, and then motioned for him to look at the cardboard hanging on the wall, which contained the transaction content. Not only does the blacksmith offer peddling business, he, like the nun in the church, also has tasks that allow Jenkins to earn dice.

But Jenkins did not look at the cardboard carefully, but looked at the iron muscles all over the blacksmith's body, which was the unique brass color of the alloy of the differential machine. The blacksmith was really made of iron. This cannot be the original blacksmith. According to the characteristics of this strange environment, there cannot be non-flesh and blood creatures here:

"It's a good workout."

As he spoke, he walked backwards and left the blacksmith shop. He would not easily set foot in any area related to the Difference Engine, so even if the blacksmith could sell a weapon that could directly kill the Difference Engine, or even sell it for just 1 dice, he would never buy it.

He breathed a sigh of relief after completely leaving the blacksmith shop. After confirming that the blacksmith was not chasing him, he threw out a dice in his hand again, and the number 8 was displayed after it landed. Although it is less than average, it has still passed the intersection ahead.

Jenkins chose to turn towards the street where the Guzhen Hospital was located. After passing eight stone slabs, he bet a 1/2 probability and happened to stop in front of one of the hospital doors.

The buildings on this side of the entire street are part of the hospital, and the hospital is three stories high and is one of the few high-rise buildings in the town. It looked equally dilapidated here. The steps were covered with green moss and blood stains, and the dust made it impossible to judge the original color of the steps.

There are pillars on the narrow platform parallel to the street on the steps, and the patterns of the pillars have long been obliterated by time. Further inside is the door of the hospital. Most of the door frames have no doors, and a few door frames have only half a door or even less than half a door.

Knowing the importance of this hospital, Jenkins sorted his luggage again, checked the items in his backpack, then put the magic sword on his back, held the backpack in his hand, and finally stepped onto the stairs. The town itself was very cold, and the closer to the hospital entrance, the faster the temperature dropped. When Jenkins stood in front of the door, the temperature here had dropped to about minus ten degrees.

He exhaled and watched the breath turn into white mist in the air. Even if there is no door, it is still impossible to peek into any building from the street. But what he felt was that his blood was agitated and that his body was about to melt.

This is almost impossible for him now. This can only mean that the hospital is either the place where the power of [Scarlet Mayfly] is placed, or there is something more terrible besides the beast of disaster.

The background of this strange place is extremely strange. If the secrets hidden in the town itself are deeply excavated, the benefits that can be brought are definitely not just trading items from the townspeople. But Jenkins believes in the warnings of the bell ringer and the friendly reminders of the nuns in the church.

Maybe after he truly becomes a god, he will come to explore the truth here, but at least not now.

"What's going on inside has nothing to do with me. I just want to find another door."

He said to himself in his heart, and then finally stepped over the threshold and entered the town hospital.

Although the town looks shabby and backward, in fact, judging from the streets and the interior of a few buildings, the approximate level of industrial development here should be the early stage of the beginning of steam civilization, which is about the same as a hundred years ago at the current time of the Eighteenth Century.

Although backward, there are still steam pipes. Therefore, when Jenkins entered the hospital and saw the faint light of gas lamps on the walls around him, he was not too surprised.

"Other places are lighting candles, only the gas lamps here are on. It is indeed a special building."

After entering the hospital, the first place he came to was the lobby. Like an ordinary hospital, there was a simple service desk and waiting chairs. Because Jenkins entered from one end of the hospital building, there was only a corridor extending to the right, but the height of the corridor was a little shorter than that of the lobby, and the walls actually had a tendency to tilt. It didn't look like a corridor but rather like a man-made passage like a mine.

He stood there and looked around, and was about to go to the corridor to take a look, but unexpectedly, a person suddenly stood up behind the rotten wooden service desk.

It’s not right to say that it’s a person, it should be considered a ghost. The color of the ghost is normal, and it seems that it still has rationality. It is the image of a young woman wearing a heavy nurse’s uniform:

"What are you standing there for? Stranger, are you here to see a doctor?"

She greeted Jenkins familiarly.

"I injected the blood provided by the townspeople, and I feel that I am more susceptible to the body deformation curse. Is there any way to treat it?"

Jenkins thought for a while and asked.

"It can be treated before. The townspeople provided inferior blood. Using high-quality blood for blood therapy is enough to suppress those effects."

"No, I not only injected the blood of those old women, but also the blood of nuns."

"That doesn't matter, but the process required is more complicated. But it can't be treated now, that's all in the past."

The ghost nurse said a little lonely, which is quite humane. If her body is not in the form of a ghost, she is no different from a normal human. This is almost impossible. The reason of the soul is different from that of humans. Jenkins has never heard of such a ghost:

"You mean it could be cured before?"

"Yes, it could be cured before. Now the hospital is abandoned. Can't you even see this?"

The ghost pointed at the dilapidated environment around it in a strange way. There were glowing mosses on the walls, dust piled on the ground, chairs piled in the corner, and the racks for hanging bottles stretched across the corridor. The oil paintings on the walls were gone, and instead, blood was used to draw patterns that no one could understand but made people feel creepy:

"Stranger, can't you really see all this?"

Jenkins could see it, of course, but the townspeople just now were used to it. He thought it was the norm in the town.

"I... forget it. I don't care what happened in the hospital, but why are you still here?"

He didn't ask directly about the hidden door in the hospital, worried that it would cause other reactions.

"Me?"

The ghost thought for a moment:

"I have no other place to live in the town, so I have to stay here and tell everyone that the hospital is completely abandoned. Look, am I not telling you now?"

The ghost of the nurse seemed rational, but Jenkins always felt that the other party was probably not normal:

"Well, I am a stranger."

"I know."

"..."

Jenkins looked at the ghost who interrupted him, and made sure that the other party didn't want to say anything else, and then continued:

"I want to leave here."

"Every stranger thinks so."

"So, do you know where the other door in the hospital is, the door leading to another street?"

"Ah! You actually know this, did the beggars in the town tell you?"

"Yes, then do you know about the door?"

Jenkins felt the conversation was boring.

"Of course I know."

Jenkins did not continue to ask, but stared at the ghost, who also stared at him, and after dozens of seconds, he seemed to have just reacted:

"Oh, you want me to tell you the location of that door?"

Then blinked at Jenkins, expecting his answer.

"Yes."

"Well, I can tell you, but you have to do me a favor."

Then he winked at Jenkins again, not as if he was expecting Jenkins to agree, but more as if he was expecting Jenkins to speak.