Mystery: When the Fool Meets the Masked Fool

Chapter 157 Klein Harvests the Demonic Marionette

"What is this?" Alicia took the cone of light.

"It's something placed in the card pool to trick Xing Qiong." Xing explained.

"As long as some gray-haired fool puts the Starry Sky into the card pool, a large number of useless light cones will pour out."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Serris immediately retorted, "This is clearly a limited five-star item. You have to draw at least 80 times to get it."

"Are you kidding me? I'm the King of Europe!"

"Hey, how did you know I drew A Tong Laya at 30?"

"Who asked you?"

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The cement road was dirty due to the long rain. On both sides of the road, the gas street lamps as tall as an adult man emitted a bright but hazy light due to the moisture of the glass covers.

A horse-drawn carriage was traveling in the night, and pedestrians around it were either wearing hats or holding umbrellas.

Klein leaned against the wall, idly admiring the streets of Backlund at night. Padmeow licked its paws on the seat next to him.

He had a divination today, and the divination told him that he might find an opportunity to act if he went out for a walk. Therefore, he got on the carriage with Padmeow in his hand without even having dinner.

In two days, after collecting all the auxiliary materials, he will be able to be promoted to a magician. Before that, he feels it is necessary to speed up the progress of his Strange Doctor.

Watching the rain sweeping past the window, Klein casually chewed on his dinner. It was a kind of food from Intis, also said to have been invented by Emperor Roselle.

Although many things in this world are named after Emperor Roselle, Klein is certain that this kind of food was definitely invented by Emperor Roselle.

Two slices of bread filled with meat, vegetables, butter, cheese, etc. Yes, it's a hamburger.

He casually handed a smaller cheeseburger to Padmeow.

"You can have a cheeseburger, Kitty."

After dinner, Klein closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair. His extraordinary ability to sense tragedy began to emanate.

After being promoted to the Strange Doctor, he was no longer only able to sense tragedies related to himself, but could also feel some of the tragedies of others.

In a daze, he smelled blood, a very strong smell of blood.

His spirituality continued to extend, and he saw a secluded alley in the sparse light rain.

Near the entrance of the alley, a woman in a gorgeous long dress was lying on the ground.

Klein focused his attention and, using the light from the gas street lamp, saw the woman lying on the ground at the entrance of the alley. Her face was pale and there was a deep gash in her abdomen. Her internal organs seemed to have been hollowed out.

Blood was slowly flowing on the ground around her, red and rich.

The image before him shattered, and Klein opened his eyes again.

Thinking back to the "tragedy" he had just witnessed, Klein knew that his chance to act had come.

The victim got a chance to live, he got acting progress, and they both have a bright future.

He put the fare for the carriage on the back seat, opened the window, picked up Padmeow, flipped over and jumped out of the window.

At this moment, he had a flash of inspiration and remembered the image of the bird-beaked doctor that was popular on the Internet in his previous life.

His body shape changed rapidly. The moment he landed, his head had turned into a crow's head and his clothes had turned into a black leather jacket.

Normally, Doctor Bird's Beak would wear a cross on his chest. However, the inverted cross here was the symbol of the Aurora Order, and even if it was displayed upright, it could easily be misunderstood. Therefore, Klein chose to use the Holy Symbol of the Fool instead.

Finally, Klein placed Padmeow in the inside pocket of his coat, completing the transformation.

Arriving at the impending crime scene, Klein quickly began analyzing the situation. As a qualified former Night Watchman, he quickly thought of many cases with similar modus operandi.

This was probably the work of the devil.

Demons possess an extraordinary ability: they can sense danger, which is somewhat similar to the ability of mourning actors. But Klein must have a countermeasure to some extent.

Turning into the alley, Klein saw the "victim," a streetwalker.

When the streetwalker saw Klein walk into the alley, she didn't care about his strange attire and immediately began to greet him enthusiastically.

It is not a glorious thing to patronize streetwalkers, so it is normal for customers to cover their faces.

Klein ignored the streetwalker's invitation and walked up to her, standing motionless beside her like a strange sculpture.

The streetwalker came to Klein and tried to communicate, but Klein just turned his head like a puppet, tilting his head slightly and staring at her with scarlet eyes.

At the same time, Klein used the extraordinary ability of the strange doctor to subtly instill fear in her, gradually stimulating the fear in her heart.

As her fear continued to grow, the streetwalker finally couldn't bear it anymore, took two steps back, and staggered into the house.

After watching the streetwalker leave, Klein opened his left palm. A wisp of black mist lingered there, the embodiment of tragedy.

The strange doctor can take on a person's tragedy and thus achieve the effect of healing.

Just now, Klein was burdened with the tragedy of this streetwalker being attacked by a demon.

He didn't stay where he was, but walked towards somewhere else in the rain. He needed to find a place where there was no one.

He has already shouldered this "tragedy", so the murderer will definitely find him tonight, unless the murderer is stronger than him and escapes the original "fate", but this is most likely a good thing.

He couldn't deliberately search for it, or he'd be discovered. But it didn't matter; Klein had a guide with him.

Walking in the rain, he tightened his leather jacket, trying his best to prevent the rain from hitting Padomeow.

This is the mascot he brought with him when he went out today. He must not let it get damaged by the rain.

"I think we should go that way..." Padomeow gave Klein directions.

"Okay." Klein nodded and turned according to Padomeow's instructions.

He hadn't seen any demon-like beings along the way, and Klein even began to doubt whether he had shouldered that "tragedy."

It wasn't until he passed a townhouse that Klein's nose twitched and he smelled the strong smell of blood again.

"Hmm?" Klein looked out the window, puzzled. Something was happening? He saw a middle-aged gentleman lying in the room, blood staining the carpet red.

"This……"

Without giving it much thought, Klein reached out, smashed the glass window, and climbed in.

He jumped out of the car, scared people, climbed through the window, and even patronized a streetwalker. Why do I feel like such a thug today? Klein muttered as he climbed through the window.

The living room was decorated mainly in bright yellow. There was nothing unusual about the coffee table, sofa and other items. Only the carpet was stained with bright red blood, which was slowly seeping out.

I came to the man lying in the living room. I could see that his expression was full of pain, there was a large wound on his abdomen, and it seemed that all his internal organs were gone.

Next to the man, there was a large black dog squatting. Its mouth was half open, revealing sharp white teeth that made people tremble. On each tooth, there was a dark red mark like rust. This seemed to be the result of gnawing on flesh and blood for a long time without regular cleaning.

Upon seeing Klein approach, the black dog immediately opened its mouth, baring its teeth.

At this moment, the large black dog's teeth were still tangled with bloody intestines and surrounded by dots of torn raw meat.

Klein didn't look at the black dog at this moment. Instead, his gaze passed over it and fell on the man behind it.

Frowning, Klein looked at the wound, not knowing how to solve the problem.

If it were just a minor injury, the magician's damage transfer could easily resolve it, but a wound like this...

After thinking about it, Klein sighed.

Such injuries can also be cured by the Strange Doctor, but it may not be easy to accept. After all, the Strange Doctor's ability is mainly weird.

"Hey!" As if realizing that it was being ignored, the large black dog let out a protesting roar from its throat.

Klein still ignored it. With a flick of his hand, several similar paper figures bypassed the black dog and merged into the man's body.

The paper figure quickly transformed into illusory internal organs that shone with golden light, temporarily serving as internal organs.

While Klein was rescuing people, Black Dog was not idle either.

It crawled on the ground, acting harmless, with its head resting on the ground, inching towards Klein little by little, as if frightened by his appearance and wanting to show its submission to him.

When it came less than a meter in front of Klein, it suddenly jumped up.

Suddenly, the black dog's body expanded rapidly and turned into a monster that was two or three meters tall. Behind it, a pair of huge bat wings slowly opened, and next to its ears, there were horns covered with mysterious patterns growing.

Just as Klein expected, there was indeed a demon. However, it wasn't a demon man, but a demon dog.

Red and blue flames leaped out from its wet and shiny fur, and a strong smell of sulfur spread out.

Almost at the same time, Klein also reacted. He kicked on the spot and instead of retreating, threw a punch at the demonic giant dog like a cannonball. His spirituality wrapped around his hand, sparking electric sparks from the friction.

Inch power, chaotic thunder.

The giant black demon dog pounced forward swiftly, first leaning forward to dodge Klein's punch, and then its claws covered with spikes swung out an afterimage and slapped Klein.

Klein took a step back, and the dog's paw brushed a few centimeters in front of Klein, narrowly avoiding it.

But of course he wasn't too late to dodge.

The moment the dog's claws slashed past him, Klein activated his ultimate dodge. This was the ability granted to him by the "Moment" mark.

At the moment the extreme dodge was triggered, a slash that could freeze time and space appeared out of thin air, expanding with Klein as the center of the circle. The flow of time within a five-meter diameter instantly slowed down.

Only he himself was unaffected.

Klein reached out, grabbed the demon dog's head, and slammed it down hard into the wooden floor.

Bang.

Time returns to normal.

The demon dog was very confused. It was attacking one second and was pressed to the ground the next.

But the beast's instinct made it react immediately. Its magma-like eyes suddenly brightened, and there seemed to be flames burning inside.

It opened its mouth and uttered a foul word, a word from the demon language, with a foul smell: "Die!"

puff.

Klein's body suddenly stopped, as if his heart was being tightly grasped by an invisible hand, and patches of corpse spots appeared on his body.

But the next second, a breeze blew by, carrying up a few tender green Bodhi leaves.

"Tianhui", the cycle of cause and effect.

The demon dog's eyes widened instantly, and the corpse spots on Klein's body transferred to its body.

Klein didn't give the demon dog time to fight back. He exerted force with his hands, and pale purple threads emerged from his palms, seeping into the demon dog's eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.

After a few seconds, the demon dog stopped struggling.

It is transformed into a "puppet" of domination.

Maybe it should be called a dog puppet.

Klein stood up and threw the demon dog aside.

Then he came to the dying man and raised his hand, cutting off the man's entire left leg.

Klein picked up the leg from the ground and burned the clothes on it to ashes with flames. Then he stuffed the leg into the man's abdomen.

The left leg began to rapidly melt and deform, turning into a set of twisted, grotesque internal organs.

Then, Klein placed his hand on the man's lower abdomen, and the flesh in the wound quickly began to wriggle and fuse together.

Feeling the man's life gradually stabilize, Klein shook his head.

Although he broke a leg, he at least managed to save his life.

(End of this chapter)