Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 567 Remember to go back to Bloodport to pay off the mortgage
After a while, a slightly familiar voice came from the link.

"You can take Bazel now. His life form has completely changed. As I said before, he should be able to shine in Castel now."

"Gwen, the Bazel thing is easy to handle. Castel doesn't need another star reactor. I'd like to know how you're doing right now?"

"I still have some trouble. There's too much knowledge pollution in the fog; I need to absorb it slowly. After taking Bazel away, don't bother me for a while. I'll contact you once I've succeeded."

"Still can't you tell me the reason?"

"It's not that I don't want to tell you, but I don't know either. As I said before, knowledge and pollution are slowly gained during the White Disaster. I obtained many scattered fragments of knowledge in the fog, and I'm now slowly piecing them together to form the truth. I don't know exactly how long it will take, but I have a feeling it's not far off. Perhaps in a few weeks, you'll be able to obtain the truth from me."

"Okay, so...can you still go back to Castel?"

The mist swirled, and Gwen remained silent for a long time before finally speaking in a muffled tone: "You've already gotten what you wanted, why bother with a little girl at a fish and chips stand? If we're talking about Gwen, isn't the Gwen outside better? She saved countless lives of resistance fighters in the North, while I might not even be able to save myself."

"Bettis recently used up all the points she had accumulated. She helped out with classes in her spare time and gradually earned quite a few points, you know?"

"Varied"

"She used those points to apply for a street-front shop, reinforced concrete, so strong even if the White Bone Gang were to attack Blood Harbor, it wouldn't collapse. It's a 100-year property with a 70-year installment plan, requiring monthly point payments. She put both your and Yami's names on the property deed. You have to come back next month to pay, understand?"

『.』

"If you don't want to default on your payments, come back and work for me as soon as possible. Castells has your friends, your shop, and your 840-month mortgage. You can't escape it."

".good"

Hughes' eyes gradually became empty; his soul had returned, leaving only an empty shell behind.

The mist churned, and suddenly a skeletal claw stepped onto the ice in front of Hughes.

The lower half of the worker Hughes's body was frozen in the ice, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not get out. This was a vast and boundless sea full of floating ice, and Hughes had never seen any living creature here before.

But at that moment, the skeleton suddenly appeared in front of him.

Then, the fog thinned a little, and a white skeletal skull as tall as a mountain appeared vaguely beside him.

The eye sockets of that skull were several times larger than the worker Hughes's body; it was hard to imagine what a massive body it was in the mist.

It stared at Hughes for a long time with its head down, then its claws moved, and a white thread, so thin it was almost invisible compared to its body, was tied to its body.

At the other end, however, it was connected to the worker Hughes's chest, and then split into several segments, stretching far into the distance along the sea.

That was the link from Hughes, and His anchor.

The sound of bones rubbing together arose, as if countless bones were singing a hymn, forming a deep, hoarse voice.

"Castle"

"Going to the North? Now?" Nini was stunned for a moment, then her eyes widened. "What about us? Should we come with you? If you go, all the banshees will start losing their life force!"

"That's why I came to tell you. Now that Alexei has gone to the North to take charge of affairs, you'll be in charge of the Banshee. Remember to handle any trouble that comes your way. I'll be back soon."

"how long?"

"If things go smoothly, it'll be tonight; if not, it'll be a day or two." Nini glanced at Ash. "She's with you?"

"Yes, tell me what you need right away. The train is leaving soon, and I have to go now."

"Don't die in the North."

After Ash threw Nini out the window, Hughes boarded a train and left Bloodharbor. The trip was quite sudden, and only a few people knew his purpose.

The train rattled along the tracks, and a few hours later Hughes arrived at the familiar wasteland. Alexei and Gwen were standing at the station to greet him. They had only just received the news and were coming; Hughes hadn't even said hello before taking the train directly. If the train hadn't announced his arrival with its whistle, they probably wouldn't have known when Hughes knocked on their office door.

"How is it? Is anything unusual?"

“Yes,” Alexei gave his lord a deep look. “We just received important news. Something strange seems to have been thrown out of the fog. It has been controlled by the banshees who came to take their turn. We are preparing to send the information back.”

The one who was just thrown out of the mist was none other than Count Bazel.

Hughes soon found him in the open space in front of the fortress.

Two fully armed banshees were pinning a several-meter-tall skeleton to the ground.

Its body was very twisted, as if a normal human body had been forcibly stretched and enlarged.

The way it was stretched was so simple and crude, like a mediocre doctor performing surgery by stacking blocks, or like a clumsy carpenter's practice piece.

His bones were broken, and other bones were forcibly stuffed into the broken ends, and he was barely pieced together into a human shape in a crooked and haphazard way.

From a distance, it looked like human bones, yet something seemed off; the eerie, twisted feeling was enough to send chills down one's spine.

Fortunately, the seven or eight Gatling guns pointed at its head gave it a lot of peace of mind.

Gun barrels also protruded from the distant fortress, and several companies of expeditionary troops were aiming their weapons in this direction. They could fight even a whole group of skeletal giants, let alone just one.

"what happened?"

Hughes asked the nearby expeditionary force.

"My lord, I am the sentry on duty today, responsible for monitoring the white mist. Earlier, this skeletal giant was suddenly thrown out of the mist, right in front of the two banshees on duty."

“Yes, Una and I were on duty today. We were playing cards when Bazel was suddenly thrown out.”

Hughes looked up and saw Finelle making a card-playing gesture with her six hands.

"How do you know he's from Bazel? Did he say so himself?"

The skeletal giant snorted coldly, and immediately a whole bunch of Gatling guns came rushing in, pressing it down again.

"She can really talk," Hughes exclaimed, then looked up and noticed that Finier's expression was rather strange.

"Well, when it's thrown out, it's called Bazel."

(End of this chapter)