Chapter 262 "Astronomical Observation Meeting"
"The mission, the smell, everything points to this place. It should be correct..."
Colin put his hands in his pockets, raised his legs, and with a lot of flames attached to his legs, he kicked straight towards the door.
boom!
The door exploded instantly as the kick landed.
A stream of brilliant and distorted colors gushed out from it, but was soon swallowed up by even more intense flames. As the flames poured into the studio, the scene inside was clearly visible.
"Where are the people?"
Colin didn't see Qin Chuan and the others, but he did see a lot of easels, each of which had an oil painting that seemed to be unfinished.
But the next second, Colin seemed to realize something and looked at one of the paintings.
The people depicted in that oil painting are Qin Chuan and others. They seem to be being chased by something and are fleeing. The painting looks very realistic, or maybe... there are indeed people trapped in it.
"Were they put into the painting?"
Colin was surprised, but before he could think about it, he suddenly felt something. He turned his head and looked deep into the studio, where he could see a huge oil painting two meters long and wide hanging on the wall.
What is presented in this oil painting seems to be a dazzling starry sky, with countless stars emitting crazy colors, which looks extremely distorted and absurd...
At this moment, under the canvas, a glowing woman's figure slowly stood up.
"You guys, you guys also want to destroy my paintings? You guys..."
"You guys... all deserve to die!"
“All of you, die! Become my paint! Become my...work! Haha, haha... hehehe..."
The woman's voice became increasingly chaotic, and at the end, it turned into a crazy laugh.
When she turned around and looked at Colin, everyone finally saw her appearance clearly. On her pale face, a pair of eyes had been lost, but those eye sockets were not empty, because there was a constant flow of distorted color paint from them...
All Colin could sense from this woman was complete madness.
"There may be no need for treatment..."
Colin could even see that what was flowing in the blood vessels under the woman's skin was no longer blood, but an unknown liquid that radiated brilliant light...
He drew his pistol and was about to perform a quick and fierce draw.
But at this moment, a boy suddenly came up from behind: "Chen Wei, Xiao Wei, is that you?!"
Hearing his words, the woman's body trembled, and she stopped where she was, her twisted and exaggerated smile stopping.
"It's you! I've been looking for you for a long time!"
The frail man showed surprise: "We are here to save you, don't be afraid..."
"Wang Hai...Wang Haiwei?" the woman murmured to herself.
"Yes, yes, it's me! I'm here to save you! I heard you were missing here and have been looking for you for a long time! Let's go back together, I don't care what you look like..."
Tears streamed down the boy's face. He had known something was wrong here for a long time, but he still rushed in anyway just to find his beloved girlfriend and fiancée.
After going through so many hardships, we finally see each other now.
"…Isn't he really going to be influenced by you?"
Colin looked at the scene in front of him with a strange expression. Is this the so-called power of love?
Colin, who had never had any connection with this thing, found it unreal, but he also thought, maybe it was possible?
However, at this moment, he suddenly felt something was wrong...
"Hehehe... Haiwei... Haiwei... my love... you will definitely help me finish this beautiful work, right..."
"Yes! I will do everything for you, so let's go back together first..."
"No, no, I still need some paint..."
"pigment?"
The boy was confused, but before he could figure it out, Colin kicked him aside.
The next moment, the woman who was more than ten meters away just now, with gorgeous twisted colors, pierced through the flames at an extremely fast speed like a meteor, and passed between the two people...
However, just when Colin thought she would pass through directly, the woman's figure stopped in mid-air in an unreasonable way, turned her head, looked at Colin, showed a weird smile, opened her arms, and hugged Colin, as if she wanted to merge him into her body...
However, what puzzled her most was that even in the midst of all the madness, Colin actually smiled...
The next second, Colin disappeared from his sight, and a horrible pain erupted from his abdomen.
The woman with strange colors flowing all over her body looked down and saw a black bone spur with dark cracks that had been inserted into her abdomen at some point.
"ah!!!"
The horrible pain even suppressed her crazy tendencies at this moment, and she fell to the ground and rolled around wildly.
In just a few seconds, the strange color on her body disappeared, and rotten and smelly black water flowed out of her body. Her body continued to swell and swell, and soon there was no movement.
"Xiao Wei! Stop it! Let me go!"
The man who was kicked aside came to his senses at this time and tried to rush over, but this time, another person hugged him.
It turns out that I shouldn't have too many fantasies about love... Colin didn't know whether he was really stupid or pretending to be stupid. After dealing with the woman, he stepped forward to pick up the bone spur and looked at the huge painting deep in the studio.
At present, the anomaly has not been resolved, which means that this woman is most likely not the direct source of pollution...
Without much hesitation, he raised his foot and walked straight over there.
As I got closer to the painting, an inexplicable sense of crisis grew stronger...
When he was less than five meters away from it, Colin suddenly realized something. He sniffed the air, paused, turned his head and looked at a corner of the studio. He noticed a painting composed of a large number of bright colors standing in the middle.
Compared to other paintings, it looks like a bunch of random graffiti, nothing special.
but……
"This paint is not right..."
Colin sensed something wrong through his sense of smell.
However, just as he was about to go over there to take a look, a picture suddenly popped up in his mind -
In the giant painting of the distorted starry sky not far from him, a sickeningly gorgeous halo suddenly erupted. A woman's figure could be vaguely seen in the halo. In a very short time, it completely enveloped him, and then...
With a clang.
A new oil painting fell to the ground, and the person painted in the painting was Colin.
"This big painting is indeed a trap, and the woman is not dead."
The corresponding thought flashed through Colin's mind, and the flames on his body exploded, completely covering him. Then, he raised his palm and aimed it at the gorgeous halo that had just gushed out from the starry sky canvas...
"roll."
As soon as the words fell, a terrifying repulsive force erupted, crushing the colorful halo with a devastating force.
After upgrading "Force·Repulsion", Colin took it to the next level and could control the range and strength of the repulsion relatively freely.
After repelling the attack in the painting, Colin quickly rushed to the corner.
It was at this moment that the colors in the painting in the corner began to wriggle and twist, converging into a colorful and cold eye.
Countless colors that could be called optical pollution gathered in front of its eyes, as if preparing to launch an attack.
Seeing this, Colin not only did not try to avoid it, but instead sped up again and came close to his eyes in a very short time.
Facing the brilliant light gathered in its eyes, Colin stretched out his hand, grasped the bone spur, and stabbed it mercilessly into the eye, piercing the eye in the canvas.
clang!
Bone spurs are blocked.
These seemingly fragile eyes are surprisingly hard.
"No wonder they say that you need a strong enough offensive item. Otherwise, even if an average person finds it, they may not be able to break through its defense. If they continue to stalemate with it, they might be worn down to death."
Colin suddenly exerted force with his arms.
Boo.
With a crisp sound, the bone spur pierced the eyeball...
Almost instantly, the eyes exploded, and then the colorful paint on the canvas melted and flowed down like pus.
There was also a crackling sound of something falling outside the studio...
Gravity seemed to return to normal.
At the same time, a line of subtitles appeared on Colin's retina.
Mission accomplished.
"This... was accomplished so easily?"
Colin was a little bit incredulous. He took out the parchment and took a look. It was indeed completed.
A transparent vortex appeared before my eyes, sucking the strange paint and the canvas in front of me into it...
[In this incident, your evaluation is: A. ]
【You completed this event at an unparalleled speed. 】
[The following is the settlement you received after this event mission: "Campfire Points × 1200" and "Silver Mission Certificate × 2". ]
[Do you choose to return (return to the starting point)? ]
"It's OK, two mission certificates, but if I return, it seems that I won't be able to use them for this mission. Well, this is the good thing about having a public identity. I don't have to hide when doing things."
Colin put away the parchment and refused to return. Then he turned around and just happened to see Qin Chuan and others escaping from the painting.
They were obviously in a weak state, but the problem was not serious.
At the same time, transparent vortices appeared on other canvases, and more people were trying to escape. Only when there was no one left did the canvas begin to melt...
The originally huge painting of the starry sky also melted, but what fell out was not a person, but a colorful female skeleton.
“Is this the company’s assistance?”
Colin seemed to be thinking about something. He raised his hand and let the flames spread out to cover more people so that they would not faint on the spot.
Then he took a look at the skeleton and felt that this should be the woman's real body, but because the source of pollution was contained, it had lost its activity.
At this moment, as if sensing something, Colin turned his head and saw the man who was pinned to the ground by the official Beyonder on the other side, staring at him intently, his eyes filled with undisguised resentment.
"This...your girlfriend died a long time ago, and I didn't kill her. There's no point in hating me. Besides, the company may not be able to save someone who is that crazy."
Colin secretly shook his head, feeling speechless about this kind of venting anger on others.
"Mr. Colin!" Qin Chuan and others' eyes lit up when they saw Colin, who was furious, and they immediately walked over.
Without any polite greetings, Colin talked about what happened just now, and then asked: "How do you usually deal with things like this?"
"You don't have to worry about that. We have people who specialize in handling their memories. If it's someone close to them like their parents, it may not be easy to handle, but if it's a girlfriend or someone they don't have a close relationship with, it will be much easier."
"That's fine."
Colin didn't think much about it. He put away the parchment and said, "Also, let's investigate why the abnormality here happened and what happened to that woman...
"Finally, conduct a thorough investigation of this school."
Although the mission was accomplished, there were still many puzzles, such as where did the paints come from and why some people were trapped here for much longer than just three or two days, with the results only being reported recently.
Colin always felt that what happened here didn't seem like an accident.
"Okay, I'll let you know when there's news." Qin Chuan nodded.
"Um."
Colin nodded, and after making sure that nothing else happened at the scene, he drove back to his residence in his wheelchair.
This time, in order to avoid attracting attention, Colin used the "Badge of Humble Knight" and held his breath all the way home.
"I'm not sure if this thing is useful in actual combat, but it is certainly useful in daily life."
Colin put the badge away, took a deep breath, and then lay back on the bed, taking a short rest while thinking about other things to do next.
"Mr. Wu hasn't replied yet. So the next Monday, after I return from World No. 13, I will inject the third dose of medicine and start the next round of promotion tasks..."
"I already have a D-level potion, and it shouldn't be difficult to exchange for the remaining two. With official help, it will be easier to advance. If everything goes well, I will probably have a chance to advance to C-level in a month..."
"With Ms. Rabbit's protection, it shouldn't be a big problem..."
Thoughts flashed through his mind one after another, and just as Colin sorted out the situation and was about to take a break, a cell phone rang.
He took out his cell phone and opened it to take a look. It was a message from Qin Chuan.
To be more precise, it is a more detailed report document about the incident behind the scenes.
About ten minutes later, after reading the above content, Colin resolved a lot of doubts - this school is indeed not very serious.
When the incident happened, all the school leaders "happened" to be abroad, but subsequent investigations found that they were related to a foreign force called the "Astronomical Observation Society."
It seems that something has been secretly cultivated for many years, but the method is so secretive that no one has noticed it.
But recently, some unexpected things happened...
According to the investigation, not long ago, a girl under surveillance seemed to have accidentally come into contact with some strange paints that "ran out" from the principal's office, and then she went crazy and turned into a slave, wanting desperately to depict some kind of starry sky scene.
By the time the school leadership discovered what had happened, it was no longer possible to cover it up; the authorities had already taken notice, so their choice was straightforward - run away.
"This... is really an unexpected disaster."
Colin sighed. Ordinary people are really fragile and powerless in the face of abnormalities.
Then, he looked up the "Astronomical Observation Society" and found that these people... seemed to be listed as targets to be expelled or even eliminated in most countries.
At the beginning, it was just an ordinary civilian organization, but everything changed from some unknown day when some of them gained a transcendent but easily irrational power from the starry sky.
They increasingly performed bloody rituals, praying to the stars for twisted power.
But to say they are a complete cult...
Not entirely, because these people also deal with unusual events, and even have an inexplicable sense of mission, thinking that they are the savior of the world.
"Savior, huh? These people really should be summoned to another world by the Human Stitching Monster to be taught a lesson..."
Colin shook his head and didn't think too much about these things. Since the local issues had been resolved and the other party had run away, it was highly likely that they would not have much interaction in the short term.
Not long after, Colin closed his eyes and began to rest.
For the next two days, the city was peaceful. He experienced two rare days of leisurely life. Then, after preparing relief supplies for the victims for tomorrow, which was Monday, he began to wait silently.
…
At the same time, Wang Haiwei returned home. He was extremely depressed at the moment because he received news that his girlfriend Chen Wei died in a car accident.
"Why, why did you leave me..."
Thinking of his girlfriend's voice, appearance and smile, he became more and more desperate and couldn't help but want to go to the rooftop.
But at this moment...
In the shadow that he didn't notice, a strange rat shadow flashed by and drilled into his shadow.
Then, a voice suddenly popped up in his mind.
【bite.】
【The system has been activated. 】
[Are you sure you want to start accepting the system's gift and start a new life? ]
[Note: You will learn the true secret of your girlfriend's death, and you will also be able to revive her! ]
