Chapter 9: Spoils of War
In the dark night in the town of Vaukan, in the woods to the west.
The smell of blood filled the woods. The ambushed hunters were shot to the ground one after another. The only surviving leader among them was shot several times. Before he could fight back, he was intercepted by the hunter captain Gregor, and the short blade in Gregor's hand was already inserted into his mouth.
“Ahh…”
With bloodshot eyes and a hideous face, the unwilling man wanted to counterattack Gregor beside him, but Gregor was one step faster. He pulled out his hand and slashed the sharp blade in the man's mouth, cutting off the man's jaw. A huge amount of blood spurted out from his exposed neck, and the man staggered and fell down with a strange sound.
Watching the man fall to the ground in front of him, Gregor shook off the blood on the blade and glanced contemptuously at the man who was still twitching at his feet. Just as he was about to sheath the sword, a slight movement in the bushes not far away attracted his attention.
"Who is there?!"
Without saying a word, Gregor threw the bloody dagger in his hand towards the movement in the bushes. The dagger flew into the bushes and disappeared without any screams coming from it.
'Missed? Or did I overreact and there was no one there?'
Seeing this, Gregor began to think, and just as his attention was diverted, the man lying at his feet actually began to stand up slowly and raised his terrifying face towards Gregor.
The lower jaw was missing, and the long tongue hung down from the end of the upper jaw. The trimmed phallus was clearly visible, and the blood vessels in the front of the neck were still gushing blood.
This... seemed to be a bloody scene that could only be seen in zombie movies. Even with such injuries, the man still hadn't lost his life. Instead, he made an indistinct whimpering sound and reached out to grab Greg's head.
"What……"
At the critical moment, Gregor finally came to his senses. Facing the man's sudden attack, he quickly dodged sideways, but the man's hand still grabbed Gregor's face, and the iron mask Gregor was wearing was knocked away.
“Gahhhh!!”
The inexpressible organ made a horrifying strange sound, and the man continued to raise another hand and attacked Gregor's face, which was no longer protected by the mask. At this moment, a loud noise was heard.
"Bang!"
As the gunshot rang out, a huge hole suddenly burst open on the man's broken head, and the contents splattered everywhere, even splashing a lot of it on Gregor.
After being shot in the head, the man's broken body finally lost its vitality and fell directly on the ground on its back, completely motionless. Not far away, a hunter team member who was obviously a female figure was pointing a rifle at this side, and smoke was still coming out of the muzzle of the rifle.
"You were so careless, Greg. If you don't hit the vital point, the Cup of Thirst will not die easily..."
"Um... I'm sorry, Elena. I originally wanted to bring him back alive, but my attention was a little distracted just now, which gave him a little opportunity..."
Gregor breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the things splashed on his body with disgust and responded to Elena beside him. Listening to Gregor's words, Elena tilted her head slightly and then said.
"Are you distracted?"
"Yeah..." As he spoke, Gregor walked towards the bushes that had moved strangely. After pulling them apart, he found that there was nothing there except the dagger stuck in the soil.
"Is it an illusion?"
As he thought this, Gregor pulled out the dagger that was stuck in his body. The blade was still stained with blood.
After sheathing the dagger, Gregor turned around and looked at the team members in the woods, then gave orders.
"Handle the scene and prepare to return to Igwinter..."
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On the outskirts of the town of Wokkan, at the edge of a grove to the west, a girl with long brown hair was sitting on a stone, her eyes closed with a focused expression on her face, as if she was in serious meditation.
Suddenly, there was a noise in the woods behind the girl, and a large black dog with a dark body and scars all over its body emerged from the dense bushes, holding a suitcase in its mouth.
The black dog came to the stone and squatted down. Dorothy, who was sitting on the stone, opened her eyes and jumped down from the stone.
"Thank you for your hard work, good boy..." With a smile, Dorothy touched the head of the black dog in front of her, and the black dog loosened his mouth and put the suitcase in front of Dorothy.
"Well, rest in peace now..."
Looking at the wounded black dog in front of her, Dorothy stroked the ring on her hand and whispered. Then, the black dog completely lost its life and fell directly to the ground.
That’s right, this dog corpse is a corpse puppet controlled by Dorothy, and its origin is the residence of Edric Vaucan in the town.
On the 15th day, Dorothy found Edrick's house in the town of Vaucan, and successfully broke into it with the key found on him. She found a large number of various animals and even human corpses inside.
It can be seen that as the previous owner of the Corpse Doll Ring, Edric did a lot of experiments on the ring. Not only did his house store a large number of spare corpses of various types, but Dorothy also found his research notes among them, all about the efficacy of the Corpse Doll Ring.
According to the notes, he found the ring at a flea market, discovered its function by chance, and has been using it to conduct various experiments to test its performance.
From Edric's notes, Dorothy learned that the maximum number of corpses that the corpse ring can control at the same time is two, and the control radius is about three kilometers. If the sensory organs of the corpse are roughly intact, the controller can share the senses of the corpse doll, that is, he can see through the corpse doll's eyes and hear through its ears.
In addition, the corpse puppet ring has a certain preservative effect on the corpse it controls. As long as the corpse puppet ring exerts influence on a corpse from time to time, the corpse can be kept from decaying for a long time.
The black dog in front of Dorothy is one of Edrick's "collections". Dorothy uses it to gain benefits from the dispute between the mysterious organization and the Security Bureau just now...
Yes, since Dorothy directed this drama herself, she would naturally not be satisfied with just being a spectator. She had already set her eyes on what she wanted.
That was the "reward" that the mysterious organization promised to Edric after the incident.
According to the letter, this reward can help Edric officially enter the so-called "extraordinary realm" and thus be qualified to become one of them.
And now, this reward has arrived before Dorothy's eyes.
However... this time, Dorothy gained more than that.
Picking up the suitcase, Dorothy stared at the lifeless body of the black dog in front of her. Her eyes were focused on a wound on the black dog's lower back.
Unlike the other wounds on the black dog's body, this wound was freshly licked, and it was licked just now. This wound was caused by a dagger, a dagger that flew in from outside the bushes when the black dog was escaping in the bushes.
"Huh...it seems like you've been doing really well in the city these past few years, Brother Greg..."
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