Mystery: The New Dark Emperor Arrives

Chapter 449 Daly and Leonard Enter
Of course the hall manager couldn't find the name, Hobert smiled and said, "I will investigate in the reception hall, please give me a cup of tea."

Hobert's so-called investigation is to look at the people around him, one by one, very carefully.

He saw that the smiles on everyone's faces were somewhat unnatural or exaggerated.

Just seeing this, Hobert felt that there must be something wrong with this villa, but he didn't immediately ask about Selena's relevant news, and just observed quietly.

As for the pollution mentioned by the messenger, that was the least of Hobart's worries, because the "Bell of Order" could break all pollution.

The waiter brought Hobert some tea, but Hobert didn't take a sip.

Finally, Hobert saw a middle-aged man with a normal expression. He was smoking a cigarette on a chair outside, as if he was thinking about something.

Among the people full of abnormalities, if one suddenly finds that there is no sign of abnormality at all, then there must be something wrong with this person.

Hobert got up and went out to chat with the smoking middle-aged man: "Hello, sir."

The middle-aged man glanced at Hobert: "Hello, what can I do?"

Hobert smiled and sat beside the middle-aged man leisurely: "I just saw that you seemed to be thinking about something, and I was a little curious. Of course, the more important reason is that I am here alone for vacation, and I want to chat with someone one time."

"Sorry," the middle-aged man stood up and said, "I'm not in the mood for small talk."

"Have some strange things happened here recently?" Hobert tentatively asked.

Sure enough, the middle-aged man sat down, and asked in a low voice with surprise on his face, "You also found out?"

Hobert nodded: "Yes, what should I call you?"

"My name is Harold. What about you?"

"Everyone calls me Jeffrey."

Harold asked in a low voice: "Then Mr. Jeffrey, why are you carrying an oil painting on your back?"

I said this is actually not an oil painting, but a dynamite bag, would you believe me?

Hobert knew he had found the right person, because the oil painting was wrapped in a thick layer of cloth, and it was difficult for ordinary people to "guess" it was an oil painting at once.

"That's my drawing board," Hobert said, "Actually, I'm a student of an art academy, and I'm here to collect folk songs."

Harold nodded and did not continue the topic: "Do you have any idea about the issue of this villa?"

Hobert spread his hands: "I have no clue, I can only feel that something is wrong, but I don't know what to do."

Harold's voice became even softer: "Listen to me, Mr. Jeffrey, run while you still have reason!"

Hobert asked, "Where are you going?"

"Run out of the villa!"

"Where did you go?"

"Did you see that pine forest? There is a small village over a mountain. Once you reach that village, you will be safe."

Hobert didn't have any intention of getting up and leaving: "Mr. Harold, let's run away together!"

"No, I still have to investigate what's going on here."

Hobert pondered for a while: "I also want to investigate what's going on. Is there anything I can do to help?"

Harold looked at Hobert, then smiled and said, "Few people have the courage of you. As far as I know, there seems to be something wrong in the public hot spring. You can go there and take a look."

Hobert said "Oh", "But, I'm sorry, I'm allergic to hot springs."

"Allergy to hot springs?"

"Yes." Hobart said sincerely, at least he thought it was sincere.

Harold nodded: "Well, have you seen the woods outside the villa? Yes, it is there. It is said that there are forest elves there. You can ask the forest elves for information."

The direction he was pointing at was the direction that made Hobart escape just now.

"Sorry, I'm allergic to pine needles, it's full of pine trees!"

"Allergic to pine needles?"

Hobert said sincerely: "Seeing pine needles makes me feel uncomfortable!"

Harold took a serious look at Hobert: "Then you go to the lake outside the villa to have a look, it is said that there is a talking monster there, you go and ask that monster if it knows any information?
"There are no hot springs and no pine trees on the shore of the lake. In order to facilitate tourists to walk, all the vegetation has been cleared away. There is nothing around, only a small lake."

Hobert opened his mouth: "Wait a minute..."

Let me think about it, am I allergic to lakes?Or should I be allergic to water?

Just when Hobert was in a dilemma, there was a sound of horse crowing from the direction of the entrance of the villa, and two carriages with the holy emblem of the night entered the manor.

Hobert smiled and said, "The people in the carriage are very good helpers, you can ask them to help you go to the lake..."

At some point, Mr. Harold had disappeared.

Hobert's eyes were fixed, he didn't even know when the other party disappeared, this guy really has a big problem!

However, Hobert didn't take any further action. Based on the hand with the cane he met before, Hobert guessed that the Nighthawks team had already done at least one round of investigation in the villa.

But that investigation obviously failed, so now the Nighthawks barge in so confidently, it must be because they have enough confidence to solve the problem here.

Hobert was about to observe how the Nighthawks team would investigate, so he looked for Selena.

So far, Hobert has not found any trace of Selena.He speculated that Selena might have escaped, but of course, this possibility was unlikely.Or Selena was trapped in one of the three places Harold just mentioned, which was already severely polluted at this time.

Hobert planned to wait for the night man to investigate those three places, and he saved Selina by the way.

If the Nighthawks don't know this information yet, find an opportunity to tell them this information.

While speaking, the carriage with the holy emblem of the night came closer, the door opened, and a woman with a coquettish beauty and eyes like emeralds stepped down first.

Hobert smiled: I met an acquaintance, and it turned out to be Ms. Daly!

Then he saw the red glove on Ms Daly's left hand.

Hobart, who is quite familiar with the Extraordinary System of the Nighthawks, understood that the "Red Gloves" should have taken over the case from the Nighthawks.

Daly didn't notice Hobert, surrounded by his subordinates, began to check the surrounding environment.

At this time, the door of the second carriage opened, and Hobert seemed to sense it. The first person to get off was Leonard, who was unkempt and had a romantic atmosphere of a poet.

After Leonard got off the carriage, he looked directly at Hobert.

Hobert was a little helpless: Grandpa's nose is good enough, maybe he "smelled" me?Or "smell" the oil painting?
This is an opportunity, Hobert thinks that Leonard can test himself later, and tell the "Red Gloves" the information he has learned.

Seeing eight or nine members of the "Red Gloves" enter the reception hall, Hobert sat for a while, and then came to the hall and said to the hall manager: "After preliminary investigation, I have some clues, but I am a little tired now. Alright, arrange a room for me, I'll take a rest first, and continue my investigation later."

"No problem, sir." The lobby manager asked in a low voice, "Have you locked down the scammer?"

"Yes, I found a lot of clues!" Hobart glanced at the two red-gloved members over the sofa area from the corner of his eye.

Hobert followed the waiter to a small room with a fireplace, beds and tables and other usual hotel furnishings.

The snow scene outside the window is not bad, and the room is still warm.

Hobert locked the door, took off the oil painting, prayed briefly to himself, and then entered the "Nation of Disorder".

As soon as he entered the "Kingdom of Disorder", a small puff of white mist emerged from Hobert's spiritual body, and the mist dissipated immediately in the "Kingdom of Disorder".

I don't know when, Hobart has been secretly polluted!
Then Hobert frowned. He remembered being polluted by the "Fallen Mother Goddess" before, and there seemed to be an extra personality in his spirit body. The "bell of order" rang and the pollution was eliminated.

But this time the pollution was just a small puff of white mist, which seemed less serious than the "Fallen Mother Goddess". What puzzled Hobert was why "Nation of Disorder" didn't respond at all?The white mist as pollution actually dissipated in the "land of disorder"?

Is the pollution source very weak this time?Or is the source of pollution this time more special?

But now is not the time to think about this question, Hobert began to think about when he was polluted.

Is it time to talk to Harold?Or is it polluted as soon as you enter the villa?

While thinking, he covered his own stars with spirituality, and used the "true vision" to take a look at the environment he was in.

Hobert noticed that there was a faint white mist in the direction of the door.

He can be sure that this cloud of white mist did not exist before coming to the "Nation of Disorder".

The white mist rolled like it was alive, and a tentacle seemed to be wrapped in the white mist.

Although the tentacle didn't reach out to him, the pollution should be spread by it.

After being promoted to Sequence 5, the scope of "true vision" is already very large. Hobart raised his vision and found that the entire mountain village was shrouded in a thin white mist, and there were tentacles emitting white mist everywhere.

When entering the villa, Hobert also saw a lot of fog around the villa, but it was normal water mist, which was obviously different from these white mist.

What's this?Can't even see it with Spirit Vision?
Hobart followed the direction deep in the tentacles and looked towards the woods outside the villa.

The white fog there is getting worse and worse, but unfortunately the "true vision" has a limited range of sight and can't see the situation there clearly.

Sitting on the "Iron Throne", Hobert realized that the pollution here was more complicated than he had imagined before.

Hobert didn't plan to continue exploring. He planned to find Selena from the three places Harold had prompted, and then left immediately, leaving the rest to the official Extraordinary.

In addition, since the pollution spreads all over the villa, after an hour, they have to enter the "land of disorder" for "disinfection".

After making up his mind, Hobert returned to the real world. He looked in the direction of the door, but he did not see anything.

dong dong dong~
The knock on the door startled Hobert: "Who?"

"Coming together!" Leonard's relaxed voice sounded from outside.

Hobert opened the door: "What colleagues?"

Outside the door is a poet classmate who likes to wear trench coats like Hobert.

"I think we should go in and talk." Leonard smiled.

Hobert invited the other party into the house, and Leonard took out the ID issued by the police: "Look, I said they are traveling together."

Hobert smiled: "Please sit down."

After sitting down, Leonard asked: "I heard from the lobby manager that you are investigating a fraudster?"

"Yes, what are you investigating?"

"We're investigating a murderer!"

Hobert laughed and said, "The lobby manager should be shocked!"

What happened to these guests?There will be scammers for a while, and murderers for a while!
Leonard asked relaxedly, "Any clues?"

"Yes, I think Mr. Harold has--"

"Harold? Does he like to smoke?"

Hobert thought about it, and he seemed to have a cigarette in his hand all the time: "Do you know him?"

"That's one of my companions." Leonard clenched his cane tightly, leaning against the back of the chair, the smile on his face gradually disappeared: "And he is now at York Hill!"

Hobert was taken aback: "Mount York?"

Leonard's answer exceeded his expectations. As far as he knew, the Evernight Goddess' kingdom of God, "Deep Dark Heaven", was located on Mount York in the Amanda Mountains, and the headquarters of the Evernight Goddess Church was also there.

The poet classmate spread his hands: "Okay, let's stop making such meaningless temptations! We know you have problems, and you should also see our identities!"

Hobert nodded while thinking to himself: Leonard mistook what I said just now as a temptation to him!
He didn't intend to explain, the two were testing each other.

Leonard asked, "Do you have anything to say?"

"One of my students is trapped here, and I'm here to rescue her." Hobert said "frankly": "In addition, I learned that there are problems with the public hot springs, the pine forest outside the villa, and the lake outside. .”

"anything else?"

"I just arrived too." Hobert imitated Leonard and spread his hands: "That's all I know."

Leonard suddenly asked, "What's that on the table?"

"A painting."

"Just oil paintings?"

"You can understand that."

"Then." Leonard stood up and said, "My two colleagues will send you to..."

Hobert waved his hand: "You should solve the problem of the villa first."

Leonard: "Perhaps, you are the root of the problem!"

It was only then that Hobert realized: This is a reminder from "Grandpa"!

"It looks like we're going to cooperate in a different way." Hobert held the oil painting with one hand and said, "You won't find out until the matter is over how wrong you were."

Although Leonard made some preparations, he still could only watch Hobert disappear in front of his eyes: "Old man, didn't you say that he is not very strong?"

"Is the ability to 'travel' so strong?" A voice that only Leonard could hear said: "That oil painting disturbed me."

Leonard curled his lips in an ungentlemanlike way: "Then, since he's gone, is the source of pollution still there?"

"It's still there!" The voice said: "I advise you to evacuate the villa as soon as possible, this is a very high level of pollution."

"How advanced is it?"

"It's so advanced that even your Evernight Goddess may not be able to save you if the pollution is too serious."

Leonard frowned unconsciously, thinking about how to remind Daly, the commander of this operation.

……

On the top of the mountain opposite Bokron Mountain Villa, Hobert smiled helplessly: "With the help of the old man, it won't work this time."

He picked up the oil painting, changed his face, and prepared to enter the villa again to observe the actions of the Nighthawks.

Just as he was about to leave, Hobert felt something in his spirituality. He saw a team of more than a dozen people on the mountainside.

It is not so much a team composed of a dozen people, but a dozen monsters. Hobert saw that there was a lady who was more than two meters tall in the team. It was not because of her height, but because she The head occupies one-third of the body.

There was also a shiny black young man in the team, his eyes turned orange-red, flowing like flames.

Some were covered with cracked and hard skin, some were covered with thorns like thistles, and two young men, a man and a woman, were covered with scales, and every time they spoke, they spit out snake letters.

Hobert realized something: this group of people was seriously polluted.

He used "travel" to come to the only way these people must pass, and he waited for them in a short while: "Are you guests of the villa?"

At the front of the team was a grizzly bear. Hobert originally thought it was a domesticated pet of Bokron Mountain Villa, but he didn't know that the grizzly bear said, "We are the hunting team of the mountain villa. May I ask who you are?"

"I'm a tourist at the villa." Hobert pointed to the oil painting on the back: "I went too deep into the woods when I was shooting the scene, and I got lost in the end."

He immediately understood that this group of people didn't realize that they or their teammates had turned into monsters!

"Then come with us." Grizzly said, "We are looking for a grizzly. If we can't find it by 11 o'clock, we plan to go back to the villa."

Hobert was taken aback: Are you looking for yourself?Still looking for a she-bear?
Hobert joined the team of monsters, and soon he noticed the conversation between the "snake man" and "snake woman" behind him.

"Snake Man" said: "Honey, that was just a dream, why didn't I talk to you?"

"Snake Girl": "But that dream was so realistic. I chased after her until I reached a forest, and then I saw you, but you didn't speak, just hinted that I should see the traces on the snow."

"Snake Man" spat out a snake letter and said with a smile: "Didn't Selena also have a dream, dreaming that she was chased into the forest..."

Hobert listened to their conversation for a while, but unfortunately they didn't continue to discuss Selena, so he turned around and smiled and said, "The Selena you are talking about is Miss Selena from Tingen City?"

"Snake Man" asked in surprise, "Do you know her?"

"Yes." Hobert smiled. "I met her yesterday when I was painting in the backyard. She was a very beautiful and lively girl."

After talking, Hobert knew that the "snake man" was named Chris, who was Selena's brother, and the "snake woman" was called Wei Na.

Then Hobert asked about the dreams of Selena and Wei Na, and Hobert could basically believe that it was Wei Na and Selena who were chasing each other.

Their spirituality should be aware of the danger, so they fled here while half asleep and half awake, but unfortunately, they were still captured by some force.

……

In the villa, Daly decided to investigate separately after learning the clues Leonard had obtained.

Leonard went to a public hot spring with a male colleague.

The two tried their best to look like ordinary tourists, put on their clothes and came to the hot spring, looking around warily.

This is an indoor hot spring as big as a large conference room, surrounded by tiles, and there are waiters shuttled through it, providing guests with fine wine or snacks, and fruits.

There were quite a few guests in the hot spring, they talked and laughed wantonly, and everything seemed normal.

After half an hour, just as Leonard and his colleagues were about to leave the hot spring for a rest, suddenly, the whole hot spring became quiet.

Only then did the two "red gloves" notice that everyone's movements were still, standing there motionless like a stone statue.

There was a person wrapped in something like kelp, who came out step by step from the depths of the hot spring.

I can't see the monster's appearance, nor can I see the gender.

Leonard and his colleagues were just about to react, but found that they were paralyzed and every movement was very difficult.

Fortunately, Leonard kept the whistle for help at hand, he blew the whistle immediately, then calmed down, looking at the strange man who suddenly appeared in the hot spring: "Who are you?"

"Of course I'm a guest of the hot spring!"

Can communicate!
Leonard asked again: "Why did you become like this? What did you do to us and other guests?"

"That's the toxin on my body. I drained it into the hot spring, and you can't move at all. You all became my prey..."

At this time, two "red gloves" who were ready to support at any time in the lobby rushed in. Seeing the monster approaching Leonard and the others, they raised their guns and pulled the trigger repeatedly.

hula~
The weirdo disappeared into the hot spring.

The red gloves regrouped in the lobby. Daly and another team member went to explore the lake, but found nothing, and another group of red gloves did not come back.

At this moment, someone shouted: "The hunting team is back!"

……

Hobert held the black knife tightly, quietly watching the scene in front of him.

The members of the hunting team were covered with a layer of gray moths. If he hadn't been chatting with them just now, Hobert would have thought that these gray moths were lying on some human-shaped wooden stakes.

The reason why Hobert just observed but didn't drive away these gray moths was because these gray moths seemed to be sucking the pollution from the members of the hunting team.

Before, those team members who had become like monsters gradually returned to their human form.

It's just that the girl with the long face still has a long face, and the dark boy's skin is still a little dark.

beep~
Hobart heard a sharp whistle, it was the whistle of the Nighthawks calling for help.

He immediately followed the whistle and found nothing, only saw two big cocoons on the pine tree!

Wait, pine!
Hobert suddenly found that he had entered the woods that "Harold" said had forest elves!

(End of this chapter)