Chapter 132 Chapter 132
After two consecutive pulls, Qingtong pressed the seal that was burning with red flames without any hope.
The chain opened with a clatter, and the sealed door opened with a burst of strong white light. After the light, there was darkness.
The singing began, a very soft and pleasant chant, accompanied by the sound of waves, which made the listeners feel relaxed and happy.
The darkness faded away, and the woman with long light blue hair was immersed in the sea from the waist down. She looked at the sky with her clear eyes and sang a high note.
The sound gradually became louder, but the next second, the clear sound began to become sharp and piercing, as sharp as a needle, piercing straight into the eardrum.
The sound of waves disappeared, the clear sea disappeared, and turned into dry rocks. Dark red lines appeared on the beautiful woman's skin, and her soft long hair became dry and rough, revealing a pair of pointed ears under the frizzy hair. The woman howled with a piercing sound from her fanged mouth and disappeared.
Qingtong's head was left buzzing.
He was almost knocked unconscious by the sound in the CG.
Before Qingtong could recover from the shock, the CG of the next card came right after.
It was a very deep cave, eerie and damp. Water droplets slid down the hanging stalactites, dripped onto the ground, and then flowed into the water through the cracks in the stones.
The scene is so quiet that the only sound you can hear is the sound of water drops falling.
But suddenly, something dark flashed by, bounced a few times in the cave, and then stuck to a stalactite. The black substance, as soft as mud, slid down the stalactite, fell to the ground with a plop, and spread out in a mess.
Soon, the thing began to wriggle as if it were alive, like an upright cylinder. The cylinder gradually twisted, and the pitch-black body began to change.
Sometimes it turned into a beast, sometimes it turned into a flying bird. After several changes, this piece of wriggling black mud finally chose a good image. It turned into a man.
A handsome man with brown skin, short light hair, and a pair of black eyes. The man was wearing a black robe, with his hood pulled down, covering most of his face. The hand raised in his long sleeves gradually turned into squirming black mud.
The darkness faded away, and Qingtong looked at the two new cards on the system interface. There was no doubt that they were strange cards.
The only question left is...
"Why is there a female character?" Qingtong was confused. "Didn't they say that the cards I draw will be based on my own characteristics? I'm a man."
Savior System: "It's a matter of probability. The vast majority of the cards drawn will fit the host's characteristics, such as gender. But there is still a small chance that a different card will appear. This probability is very small. Host, look, you have drawn so many cards, and this is only the second female card."
Qingtong frowned: "Then why doesn't this small probability fall on the hero card?"
Is his incompatibility with hero cards even greater than the gender difference between men and women?
The Savior System was unable to explain and immediately changed the subject: "Host, look, it's a mind control card!!"
Qingtong glanced at the information on the female card.
【Character: Screaming Banshee
Rarity: S
Personality: sensitive, pessimistic, likes to sing, hates fire
Ability: To be unlocked]
"Um... Host, would you like to hear the background story?"
"Let go." Qingtong said coldly, holding his chin with his hand.
Salvation System: ...
It feels like the host has become increasingly unfriendly to it recently.
"She lived in the sea and had the most beautiful singing voice in the world. Sitting on the rocks and singing beautiful songs was her daily homework. She praised the sea god, the strong wind, and everything in this world, because she was the darling of the sea, and her singing was full of happiness. Until one day, a disaster struck, the earth shook, fire fell from the sky, and the sea dried up. She lost her home, her beautiful singing voice, and everything she could have. Her happiness was taken away, and she could only feel pain. She screamed with the remaining voice and cursed everything in the world. Later, she found that what was more painful was not the loss of her home and singing voice, but that she wanted to die but could not die. She could only accuse the change over and over again with the saddest appearance."
Qingtong listened expressionlessly, and only after the salvation system finished speaking did he say, "Oh."
Savior System: "Host? Don't you have anything to ask?"
Qing Tong lowered her eyes: "...So that world is destroyed?"
"Yes," said the Savior System, "a very terrible disaster."
Qingtong: "Are all the weird cards I drew from the same world?"
The salvation system was silent for a moment: "Host, we have obtained the spiritual card, we can go save the world! Time is life, one second late means the death of a life!"
Qingtong: ...
Changing the subject again.
But the salvation system is right, we should go as soon as possible.
"Is the live broadcast room over there open?" Qingtong asked.
Salvation System: "It has already been opened."
Qing Tong: "Make the logo of the live broadcast room bigger. The weirdness of the psychic system is rare. I hope more people can see it." He opened the system interface and clicked on role-playing.
The slender woman appeared in the living room. The next second after she appeared, the Screaming Banshee staggered forward and frowned: "It's so heavy."
Salvation System: “?”
The Screaming Banshee raised her hand and pointed at the two lumps on her chest: "It's a bit heavy."
Compared to the fins on the longer legs and the webbed feet between the toes, this part that is normal for women is more difficult to get used to.
"Host, this is at most C." The Savior System said, "It's far inferior to those super plump women."
"But it feels like it's falling very heavily in front..."
"Host, please get used to it as soon as possible."
"I don't think there's any need to get used to this kind of thing!" The Banshee took a long breath, stood up straight and didn't hunch over, then opened the map and teleported over.
*
In a small town in Sifan country.
Gerard and his two companions had already found the mayor, and they told him the whole story. The mayor was a man in his forties, and he listened to them very calmly. If it was in the past, he would have chased them away, saying that they were confused because of sleep. But now, strange things have come, especially the dark clouds above his head have lasted for three days, and the mayor has long been worried.
Before Gerard and his two companions arrived, the mayor had already begun to suspect that it was a strange incident, but he had not noticed what was wrong and was unable to investigate.
The mayor took the report of Gerard and his two friends very seriously. He immediately checked his home. Who doesn't have a basement or utility room that is not often used? Fortunately, there was no suspicious place after the mayor's inspection. No one was missing in his home. Then the mayor seriously summoned the people of the whole town, told everyone what Gerard and his two friends had found, and strictly ordered everyone to check every corner of their homes, especially the rooms and warehouses that were not often visited, to see if they had forgotten their relatives.
In order to avoid omissions or accidents, neighbors helped each other to check together. Because of their trust in the mayor, although some people did not believe it, they still took action to check their own houses.
The results came out very quickly. Some families found nothing unusual, but some people opened the door and saw objects or photo albums that did not exist in their memory. Their blocked memories were immediately awakened, and they remembered their missing relatives.
One mother's reaction was the most intense. She cried while holding her daughter's photo: "I should have found out... There was clearly one photo missing from the living room wall, leaving a white mark on the wall. Why didn't I notice it or think of it..."
The mother's cries were transmitted to other residents who had lost their loved ones, and their faces also turned grim.
Gerard then remembered something and said, "You said that the photo was originally hung on the wall of your living room, but it disappeared?"
The mother looked up at Gerard and nodded: "Yes."
Gerard said gloomily, "Someone took the photo down. No wonder. Obviously, as long as you see the photo or item of the missing person, the memory can be awakened, but no one noticed it because someone cleared everything related to the missing person that we could see and blocked them off."
This behavior is not a mental influence, but a real physical action.
"So what you're saying is that the guy who took my child away had been in my room?" the mother screamed.
"Where did you find the photo of your daughter that was supposed to be hanging in the living room?" Gerard asked.
The mother hesitated and said, "The basement."
Gerard: "Basements are usually locked. The guy who hid the photos knew where the key was. Was it locked when you went there?"
The mother's face turned even paler. She nodded, "It's locked up properly."
The conversation between the two was heard by everyone, and everyone was talking about it, and some people even started cursing.
"Has anyone seen any strangers in these three days?" the mayor asked.
Everyone recalled for a moment and shook their heads.
Gerard: "Since the weird can affect our memories, even if we see it, we may treat it as a familiar person and not take it seriously."
"It would be nice if there was surveillance." Someone whispered.
But in a small town like theirs where people make their living by growing grapes, why would they need to install such a thing?
Of course, there is surveillance not completely absent. There is a small supermarket in the town with surveillance cameras installed inside the store and at the entrance, but you can only see the section of road in front of the entrance and nothing else.
No one had high hopes for this surveillance, but everyone went to watch it anyway. While watching the surveillance video, Anaïs exclaimed, "It's Sylvia."
The people watching the surveillance remembered Sylvia's disappearance and immediately became excited, crowding over to take a look.
"The boy behind her..."
The middle-aged man squeezed over and said, "That's my son Gabriel! Wait, there's a girl behind him."
The mother came over and said, "It's my daughter!!"
There was a young man behind the three men, who was recognized by a man as his son.
Four people walked through the camera in a line with expressionless faces, then the video fast-forwarded, and about twenty minutes later, they walked back in the opposite direction with expressionless faces.
Gerard suddenly understood: "I know who hid those things and photos. They hid them themselves. They went back home, locked up everything that had to do with themselves, and then left home."
And at this time, they should be covered with something like an illusion. The surveillance video showed people passing by the four of them, but they completely ignored the four of them walking in a line with expressionless faces.
Judging from the way they walked and their expressions, they looked like they were hypnotized.
At the same time, Gerard discovered something else: "Are all the missing people teenagers?"
Everyone looked at each other, and then after a count, they found that the missing people were all teenagers over the age of twelve and under the age of eighteen.
A total of thirteen people disappeared.