Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery.

Chapter 183 Thought Storm
Odysseus was unaware of the conspiracy at the Duke's Mansion. He took a carriage to the Backlund Mechanical Research Society.

Although the evil god's arrival is now imminent, the meeting between Danesi and Coremond cannot be ignored. It is better to go and discuss it with Max.

The carriage moved forward quickly. Odysseus in the carriage was thinking about something. Suddenly, his spiritual sense was touched and he looked out the window.

He saw three homeless people on the street, holding each other's arms and dancing happily, singing at the same time: "...Ah, this beautiful world! Ah, this helpless world!

“Friends, dance, sing, I hear the secrets of the stars, I hear the essence of the universe.

"I heard the teachings of the gods, and they echoed in my ears..."

Odysseus frowned: What is this singing?
When the carriage passed by the three homeless people, Odysseus observed them carefully. They had genuine smiles on their faces, but their eyes seemed lifeless and even looked a little cloudy.

Although Odysseus' spirit sensed something was wrong, he did not stop the carriage. Instead, he planned to report the matter to the "Mechanical Heart" and let them investigate.

Shortly after passing the three homeless men, Odysseus suddenly heard a scream from behind.

He quickly stuck his head out of the window and saw the three homeless men falling to the ground in unison, blood spurting from their mouths.

Their eyes bulged, their faces turned purple, and they soon died.

There were still happy smiles on their faces, but in the reflection of the blood, the smiles looked very strange.

Odysseus was about to ask the driver to stop when his spirit sent a warning of danger: "Quick! Go!"

As he spoke, he sprinkled a handful of transparent powder, and two invisible giant hands appeared behind the carriage, pushing it to speed up.

Not long after the carriage had gone away, the bodies of the three homeless men suddenly sat up, opened their mouths and uttered several strange, drawn-out syllables.

These syllables traveled far enough that Odysseus could vaguely hear them. They sounded like the sound of a fax machine sending a fax that he had heard before he crossed over. Although not very sharp, it was very harsh.

Only when the spiritual sign of danger disappeared did Odysseus stick his head out to look again.

The three pedestrians closest to the homeless man put their arms around each other and started dancing happily, singing: "Ah, this beautiful world..."

But at this time, their faces were full of surprise, as if they didn't understand why they were jumping and singing.

Odysseus hesitated for a moment before saying, "Stop the car!"

He guessed that this was probably the result of the strange power emanating from the ongoing ritual of the "Moss Ascetic Order".

The three homeless people were obviously the original source of pollution, and after their death they contaminated the three people closest to them.

At this time, there were many people around checking on the three homeless people. According to the rate of pollution, by the time they returned from the Mechanical Research Institute, dozens of people would have died.

So he opened his notebook, wrote two sentences, tore off the page, handed it to the driver, paid him double the fare, and asked him to take the note to the Mechanical Research Society as soon as possible.

Then Odysseus quickly returned: "Scatter! They have a strange infectious disease!"

As soon as everyone heard that it was an infectious disease, they immediately hid away, and many people even ran away screaming.

Odysseus looked at the three people who were dancing and singing. Like the three homeless men just now, they were like clockwork music box dolls, with simple movements and a limited range of movement.

After thinking about it for a while, Odysseus came up with a solution.

He first sprinkled white powder, which emitted a pure white light when it came into contact with the air, and billowing thick fog formed around the light.

The thick fog quickly spread around, and after the pure white light disappeared, half of the street was shrouded in thick fog.

For a moment, the onlookers retreated again in surprise. Although the white light that had just appeared was a bit strange, since thick fog often appeared in Backlund, they did not take it too seriously.

Since the "strange disease" of singing and dancing was no longer visible, most of the onlookers left.

Odysseus and the polluted people who were dancing and singing were all in the thick fog. Fearing unknown contamination, Odysseus did not dare to open his spiritual vision and could only use his spiritual sense to sense the other party's position.

Fortunately, they just danced in the same place and didn't run around.

Then Odysseus took out the spiritual materials he carried with him and began to draw a magic circle on the ground.

After receiving Bernadette's reminder, Odysseus brought some extra spiritual materials today, so he had enough materials to complete this complex magic circle.

At this time, the thick fog on the street gradually thinned, and you could probably see the three people who were still singing and dancing.

At this time, the surprise on their faces had disappeared, replaced by happy smiles, as if they were smiles from the heart.

Odysseus put away his pen and the remaining glass bottles and infused spirituality into one of the extraordinary symbols.

Unlike ordinary magic circles, this one was like a whirlpool, sucking away nearly half of his spiritual power in one go.

This was one of the extremely powerful magic arrays he had studied, but because it required too much spiritual energy, he had never used it before Sequence 7.

This spiritual power immediately made the magic circle emit a golden light. At this moment, the sun in the sky suddenly broke through the thick fog and shone on the three dancing people and the three dead homeless people.

Then a golden light shone down, causing the three dancers and the three corpses to burst into flames.

They were like charcoal, and seemed to be flammable in themselves. The three singers even spewed out flames when they opened their mouths.

But they are still singing and dancing: "...I heard the teachings of the gods, and it echoed in my ears..."

The voices gradually became hoarse and disappeared, their necks were burned and their heads fell to the ground.

The fierce flames continued to burn until they were reduced to ashes, leaving not even a bone.

In the ashes, there seemed to be a sound similar to that of a fax machine, but under the strong sunlight, the sound quickly became intermittent and eventually disappeared.

Then the sun hid behind the thick fog again and became dim, like a gas lamp whose gas was about to burn out.

The thick fog dissipated, and Odysseus checked his "results" and found that the results were quite good.

This powerful magic circle is considered his strategic "weapon". Before this, Odysseus had only drawn a few similar magic circles, and none of them were used.

The attack of this magic circle is already a bit like extraordinary attack, rather than being used as a supplement or seal. However, these magic circles can only obtain power from nature, such as creating lightning, summoning scorching sunlight, etc.

However, some strange abilities cannot be displayed using the corresponding magic array.

For example, the "Master of Secret Dolls" has the ability to turn others into secret dolls, and the "Monk" has the ability to enter the shadows, etc.

The principle behind these magic arrays is actually to quickly mobilize and concentrate the power of the surrounding nature.

This is also the reason why Odysseus wants to study the "recorder" and "recording" abilities. As long as there is a breakthrough in this research, these powerful magic arrays will be able to truly create attacks that are similar to extraordinary abilities.

After all, extraordinary power is also one of the forces of nature, and theoretically it can be borrowed briefly using spiritual materials.

For example, if he had made a breakthrough in his research, he would have been able to send down a huge beam of pure white light, which would have completed the purification within 2 seconds and burned them to ashes.

At present, there has been no breakthrough in the research of "recording". It can only be done like today, where the irradiation and combustion take about 5 seconds to complete.

If there was a normal Beyonder in the magic circle, he would have run away long ago.

In order to deal with extraordinary people, Odysseus does have certain countermeasures. He just needs to add a "tracking magic circle" in the magic circle and then select a "tracking" target.

At this moment, Odysseus wiped away the magic circle and built a "spiritual wall" to prevent the ashes from being blown everywhere by the winter breeze.

At the same time, this is also a simple seal to prevent them from being contaminated.

About twenty minutes later, a carriage with the "Mechanical Holy Emblem" came galloping. Max jumped off and glanced at the ashes on the ground: "Is it solved?"

"It's solved," Odysseus explained. "They've all been contaminated. Although three of the passersby are still singing and dancing, there's no way to save them. To prevent more people from being contaminated, we can only burn them to ashes."

Max nodded in understanding.

He had two team members clean up the ashes, then said to Odysseus, "Come with me to Backlund University. There's a difficult problem there. Let's see if we can help."

Odysseus didn't refuse this time: "Okay."

After arriving in the carriage, Max said, "Even before we received your intelligence, we received news from headquarters that someone was performing an evil ritual in Backlund."

Max said frankly, "Including the case you just reported, the Mechanical Heart has received three extraordinary cases related to the Advent Ritual today.

"Some of the church's mobile forces have been deployed to Backlund, but so far, they haven't found the other side's altar."

Odysseus breathed a sigh of relief. "As long as the official Beyonders pay enough attention, we should be able to catch those bastards soon."

Max said "hmm" lightly.

In fact, before coming here to provide support, Max's mission was to escort a group of important scholars, scientists of the church, and the families of members of the "Mechanical Heart" out of Backlund.

But of course this kind of thing cannot be told to Odysseus.

The carriage ran very fast and soon arrived at Backlund University.

A teaching building has now been blocked by the "Mechanical Heart" and the police. Captain Ikanser is leading two "Mechanical Heart" captains on the second floor, trying to solve the problem.

There are three more members of the "Mechanical Heart" on standby outside.

Max and Odysseus got off the carriage, and Max immediately asked the "Mechanical Heart" member on standby: "What's going on?"

"According to students, when Professor Stanford was giving a lecture today, several students closest to him suddenly stood up and began imitating his speech," one member described:

"The Stanford professor thought it was a prank by the students and got furious. Then a few other students stood up and started imitating him and got just as furious.

"In the next minute, the professor confronted his students and then told them to stop the prank.

"When half the students in the classroom were mimicking his words and actions in unison, the professor realized something was wrong and quickly asked the remaining students to leave and told them to call the police.

"The first two police officers to arrive, the one who entered the classroom first, spoke the same words to the professor and made the same expressions as the students.

“When we arrived, we first sealed off the teaching building, and then Captain Ikanser used a seal to put everyone in the classroom to sleep.

"And began using the seal to investigate the environment of that classroom, as well as examining the spirits and spiritual bodies of the teachers and students."

Odysseus sighed in his heart: "The Mechanical Heart" is completely using sealed objects to solve cases!

But this seems to be the characteristic of this approach.

A few minutes later, a Mechanical Heart captain returned from the second floor and told the senior superintendent outside, "This classroom has been contaminated and must be decontaminated immediately. Everyone inside is beyond saving."

The senior police superintendent who was assisting in the investigation turned pale. “Oh my God! A professor, more than 20 students, and a policeman!”

In this era, every college student is either rich or noble, especially at top universities in the country like Backlund University. The students here are either wealthy people or children of high-ranking officials.

The captain of the Mechanical Heart said, "Even if we release them, it will only lead to more contamination."

The senior superintendent sighed, "Okay, okay."

The captain did not come to ask for instructions from the senior superintendent, but just to inform him and then went to the carriage to get the purified weapons.

Max chased after them and asked while helping, "Is there no hope for those students to wake up?"

"This is a 'Thought Storm'..." the captain explained, "That's the name Captain Ikanser just gave it. Professor Stanford's thinking and memory have covered the students' thinking and memory, and established a certain connection.

“That’s why the students will say whatever the Stanford professors say.

"You can think of it as... as if those students have lost their minds..."

Odysseus, who was listening to all this, couldn't help but frown: Thoughts and memories were overwritten! What a strange ability...

Thinking of this, he suddenly glanced at the teaching building: This sounds like an enhanced version of the "smart helmet"!
Before this technology was even put into use, Odysseus saw the consequences of "technological out of control."

(End of this chapter)