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Chapter 277 276. Memory fragments that are difficult to look directly at

"Ah... how is this possible? Are you involved in the [pain] system?"

The supervisor of the lumberyard was a little confused for a moment when he saw the scholar who suddenly transformed into a muscular monster.

In his eyes, the scholar Kandin was like a small building with several floors. His whole body was covered with solid muscles that could withstand gunfire. He only used an apron full of blood and oil to cover his private parts, and twisted it with one hand. A bloody butcher's knife, and a meat hook with stumps and various internal organs in one hand.

The supervisor felt that he was like a weak little piglet in front of the other party, who would be casually hung on that meat hook...

But even with the ability of the [Pain] system, it’s not so tall and strong, right?

And why are you dressed like this? Looks like a butcher butchering a pig?

The supervisor was stunned for a moment, as if he noticed something.

"So it's the power of [intellect]? You want to interfere with my vision?"

The supervisor felt that he had seen through the other party's trick, and immediately put away the fear and fear on his face.

"But the little tricks of the [Intellect] department are no big deal. For me who has abandoned rationality and embraced madness, these false illusions are just a clown's sideshow. Haha, I will not be easily frightened."

After that, he heard a few low-level murmurs pouring into his ears from nowhere, as if the mountain-like muscular monster in front of him was communicating with him.

Although he couldn't understand what these gibberish meant, he could vaguely feel that the other person was cursing someone.

It doesn’t matter, this is still a little trick of the [Intelligence] department, it is impossible for me...

The supervisor was speaking confidently in his heart, but the murmur lingering in his ears suddenly grew louder, as if something was exploding in his ears.

Then, a buzzing sound began to ring in his ears, followed by a sharp pain that almost made him faint on the spot, as if several red-hot steel needles were repeatedly piercing his eardrums.

But before the supervisor had time to scream, he felt a more intense and clear pain in his brain, as if his Tianling Cap had been pried open, and then a lot of messy stuff was forced into his head. In the brain.

In just such a moment, he lost control of his body and couldn't even scream. He could only stay in place, silently enduring the severe pain, and then watched a lot of messy things appear in front of him. stuff.

Memories of nonsense between husband and wife, inexplicable knowledge of art appraisal, and professional skills of how to draw dust, put out wires, and pull out a measuring tape.

This large pile of messy stuff poured into the supervisor's mind, turning his mind into a mass of mush, completely burying his thoughts and consciousness in these garbage piles.

Then, his figure collapsed to the ground softly, veins began to bulge on his skin, and his limbs and flesh began to twist and roll involuntarily, mutating in the direction of the monster.

This is a classic symptom of out-of-control depravity.

Scholar Kandin also stood there blankly, with streaks of black blood oozing out from the corners of his mouth. He was also staggering and almost unsteady on his feet.

Although the injuries and burdens in his body were heavy, his mind was very clear, but he didn't know what happened?

Just a few seconds ago, scholar Kandin watched as he risked his life to forcibly activate [Conviction] and [Purification], and after the other party took them with only two fingers, he was actually mentally prepared to sacrifice. .

In other words, he re-remembered the mental preparation he had made long ago.

After all, he is a senior investigator with twenty years of experience. If he didn't have the consciousness of sacrifice, he wouldn't have been able to work for so long.

However, he did not die in an abnormal incident, but was brutally murdered by a cult member, and he was somewhat unwilling to do so...

But what Kanding didn't expect was that the plot would suddenly take a turn?

The supervisor who could have easily killed him suddenly froze on the spot. The expression on his face changed drastically, and he started talking about something incomprehensible, such as the "pain system".

Then he heard a voice coming from behind the supervisor:

"In the name of veto!"

Then, I saw this arrogant cultist slowly kneeling to the ground and began to transform towards the monster.

But the expression on his face was fixed in a calm and calm expression. There was no struggle, no pain, no crying. It seemed that he was not aware of the changes in himself at all, and he calmly accepted his ending.

This suddenly made Kanding feel an indescribable strangeness, and his scalp felt numb.

Then, he saw the young Holy Inquisition executioner Lloyd emerging from behind a tree and asked him:

"Are you OK?"

Cantin didn't answer.

Because he didn't know how to answer...

In other words, I don’t know whether I should answer...

Then, he saw Lloyd pull out the gorgeously made and rather flamboyant new pistol from his waist and point it at the supervisor on the ground who was degenerating into a monster.

Bang~bang~bang~

After three gunshots, Kandin looked at the bullets falling at his feet and seemed to understand something...

He immediately collapsed to the ground weakly and said through gritted teeth:

"Unexpectedly...you are actually with them?"

"Ah... no, there's something wrong with the rifling of this gun. It's not calibrated properly, so it's a bit off..."

Lloyd quickly explained awkwardly, put away the revolver helplessly, pulled out the dagger from his waist, and stabbed the supervisor on the ground a few times to help him end the process of alienation and depravity.

[Ding~Insanity value +500]

[Ding~Memory fragment +1]

[Ding~Knowledge Fragments +3]

[Ding~Skill Fragments +3]

What I got was actually 'memory fragments' instead of fragments?

Lloyd felt that there were a lot of things in his mind, but he did not rush to check. Instead, he looked at scholar Kandin and asked:

"How are you? I see you've been vomiting blood..." "Huh... at least you're still alive and conscious."

Kandin probably realized that Lloyd was indeed not hostile, and that the three previous shots had indeed missed, so he also lowered his guard, sat on the ground, took a few deep breaths, and then took out a tube of light blue potion from his arms. , Gudong Gudong poured into the mouth.

Then he cursed and said:

"Bah, bah, bah! Damn, it tastes so bitter! Didn't those bastards in the logistics department tell me it tastes slightly sweet and mint?"

It seemed that the potion was indeed very unpleasant to drink, so much so that it even made a scholar who looked like a gentle man curse.

But the medicine seemed to be very effective. His originally pale face quickly regained its color, and he got up from the ground without any help from Lloyd.

Seeing that he had recovered, Lloyd quickly asked:

"Why did this guy attack you? Where are your two companions? And! I just found it over there at the lumber mill..."

He originally had a lot to say, but Kandin made a hand-down gesture to signal him to take it easy.

"Don't be so impatient, young man. I don't know the questions you mentioned. Now let me seize the time and do some channeling."

After that, he walked over to the supervisor's corpse that still retained most of his human form. He muttered some words, and mobilized the little spiritual power left in his body to try to check this guy's memory.

This kind of operation is actually very dangerous, and it is a bit of a gamble. If you use channeling on a cult member who is obviously stronger than yourself, you are likely to encounter various unpredictable dangers, and it is easy to get yourself involved.

But the current situation is urgent, and Kandin can't take care of that much anymore. He can only rely on the high mental resistance unique to the [Redemption] system to fight.

Lloyd couldn't be dissuaded, so he leaned against a nearby tree and checked the extra information in his mind.

Although what I got this time were memory fragments rather than fragments, they were also intermittent and not completely coherent, and the supervisor's life experience was not visible.

But it is enough to understand the cause and effect of this incident.

As expected, he comes from a group of evil forces called "Chasing Madness".

The strength of this group is not the illegal associations before, but a real sect!

They believe in a mysterious being codenamed "Enjoy the Feast of Madness", and they are not followers of the formal religious sects outside. Instead, they practice religious beliefs, have fixed worship rituals, and must pray every day. Offer regular sacrifices.

And the sacrifices they are currently preparing are three extraordinary beings who are no lower than the third level...

It is necessary to use rituals to destroy their rationality, shatter their cognition, and make them struggle painfully in madness and despair, in order to please the mysterious existence.

Lloyd now knew why the supervisor attacked the members of the investigation team...

As for this mysterious existence, there is no clear image in the supervisor's memory. It is only described as 'incomprehensible, intouchable, unable to look up, not to look directly at, and not to be spied upon', plus 'incomparably mysterious, incomparably noble, and incomparably great' Use these words to describe.

To sum it up simply, it's probably 'like a god', right?

So much so that the cult didn't dare to call the guy by his name, but chose the extremely weird-sounding name of 'Enjoy the Feast of Madness'.

Lloyd didn't quite understand. This name had no clear direction at all. It was just a description of a behavior. Could it also be regarded as a code name?

Is this another form of disrespect?

Or... they simply don't dare to call this mysterious existence by his name, or a more orthodox title and code name?

With doubts in mind, Lloyd continued to check the supervisor's memory, and soon discovered the secrets in the storage area of ​​the lumberyard.

There is actually a small alien space there?

It is similar in nature to a 'Dream Theater', but its scale is countless times larger. The overall size is only as big as a normal warehouse.

The director himself did not know the specific origin of the place, but he had only heard other believers speculate that it might be a remnant of ancient civilization and was accidentally discovered by the sect.

He doesn't know much about or control the place. He didn't even discover it, but the cult entrusted him to manage it and let him use it as a base for activities, where he carried out various evil and bizarre rituals and insidious activities. Cult conspiracy.

The supervisor currently doesn’t know what kind of conspiracy it is. He only knows that the upper echelons of the cult asked him to become a raw material supplier for the Great Development and be responsible for supplying wood there.

So he spent some time and used the help of various cult forces to successfully convince the boss behind the lumberyard to invest in the construction here, and then smoothly got into the process of great development.

Next, he is planning to further involve the investor and develop him into a member of the sect, and believes that his financial resources and social status will be of great help to the development of the sect.

And his attack on the investigation team was also part of the plan. He used the scale, reputation and influence of the 'Anju and Live' investigation team to implicate the investors behind the scenes, which was equivalent to forcing others onto the pirate ship.

When Lloyd saw this, he felt a chill in his heart. These cult members were too insidious and vicious, weren't they?

As a righteous young man who hates evil as much as his enemy, even if I have a taboo system, I still have no sworn relationship with these evil forces!

He was filled with righteous indignation, and then searched for clues about the father in the supervisor's memory.

As a result, when I saw it, I felt even colder——

The more than 400 people in the village have all been brutally murdered. Under the brutal rituals of the cult, they have become the kind of walking dead...

They do still have breathing and heartbeats, and can move like normal people, but their self-awareness and rational thinking have been completely erased and destroyed, turning them into vegetative people who can only perform mechanical tasks. Order given.

Their memories, emotions, perceptions, pain, and even their human physiological instincts have all been erased. They are just like so-called 'biological robots' that can execute any instructions tirelessly and without fear of life or death.

In addition to using them to cut trees, help the cult make money and advance its plans, the supervisor also uses these villagers to absorb and filter forbidden knowledge through a kind of evil magic.

It is equivalent to making these hundreds of people into a human flesh filter, allowing them to share the mental pollution in the forbidden knowledge, so that they can safely enjoy the forbidden knowledge bestowed by the mysterious existence.

This is why Lloyd [explored] the villagers in the lumberyard and found that their [Inspiration] was extremely high, and they all fell into [Moderate Madness], but they were able to work normally.

They are already dead...

Such cruel and bloody methods made Lloyd feel sick and he didn't want to continue reading...

But he still couldn't find the father who loved to dig graves. He could only frown and force himself to continue looking down.

Unfortunately, no clues about the father were found in the end. The last memory fragment I saw was when the supervisor was discussing and communicating with one of his associates a few hours ago.

The content of the contact was exactly how to deal with Lloyd and the four of them.

(End of this chapter)