Volume 1 Crime and Punishment in Fog City Chapter 11 Beheading Ceremony
"Oh, it's better than I thought."
"As long as you are happy."
It was just like a scene from a movie. Li Lin looked at the carriage specially prepared for him with some surprise, feeling a little overwhelmed by this luxurious scene.
It seemed that considering that it would take five hours to get to the underground city of Sodom - mainly because of various religious reasons that caused the movement to be unusually slow - the entire carriage was beautifully decorated. Brass and silver ornaments were decorated in the carriage in the most pleasing way. Books to kill time, incense to calm the mind, and steamy drinks, a specialty of the Fog City, were neatly placed, and there was also a special bar where he could mix the flavor he wanted.
"I hope you are satisfied. The car will leave in ten minutes. Is there anything you need? It is okay to delay the departure."
Rubbing his hands, the police chief put on a weak smile and said awkwardly.
Maybe in the eyes of these people, these things are already a very rough life, but for Li Lin, it is good enough. So he also shook his head and signaled the police chief to leave.
The fat director was immediately amnestied and thanked him repeatedly. Under Li Lin's slightly strange gaze, he ran out of the car like he was escaping from a devil's cave. The back figure inexplicably reminded Li Lin of the text that he had memorized by heart but now only had the name of it left.
"Back view..."
What story is it about?
Li Lin picked up a jar at random and shook it, then took off his mask, breathed a sigh of relief, and sat on the soft chair to think.
But soon, I was interrupted by the sound of a car whistle outside the window. It seemed that the 10 minutes the police chief had mentioned was just an optimistic estimate. He must be driving as soon as he left the house.
Although the entire carriage has been decorated and strengthened in various ways, the unpleasant vibrations brought by the old locomotive cannot be concealed. Moreover, there are hundreds of years of history accumulated there. Rather than expecting this ancient holy object to work normally, it is better to hope for something that falls from the sky.
In fact, it broke down less than a hundred meters before it ran. Li Lin clearly saw from behind the car window a group of religious people in robes and masks rushing over, carrying corpses and fuel, chanting something, and sending various things into the machine, as if they really believed that it would be useful. But what was strange was that after this series of unscientific prayers, the scrap iron really began to spray mist on the rails, galloping laboriously but firmly.
This has to be said to be a miracle in the history of machinery.
Even though it's just a game.
Sitting in a fixed chair and flipping through the basic steam science he got at the beginning, Li Lin soon fell into the joy of increasing knowledge.
But before the entire car rushed to the underground pipeline, the door of the carriage was politely knocked. Without waiting for Li Lin to respond, two waiters who looked normal in their dress and behavior walked into the carriage and saluted Li Lin with a smile.
“You are…?”
"Serving as the servants you have arranged along the way."
The leading servant bowed, a humble smile showing on his pale powdered face without a mask, and took a bottle of steamy drink from the drinks rack.
"Please trust our mixing ability. We will provide you with the best service along the way. Whether it is common sense or mixing this kind of drink, we have no problem. Now please let us mix the first one for you-"
“…Isn’t that right?”
With a crisp sound, the two waiters' outstretched hands were immediately pinched.
The waiter, whose nerves were paralyzed, couldn't even utter a word. He just looked at the smiling archaeologist sitting on the chair in confusion and shock.
"As far as I can see, you are not waiters at all."
There are no waiters like you.
Looking at the two people who seemed to be well-trained, Li Lin, who was not wearing a mask, could more clearly show his twisted and slightly excited morbid smile in front of them.
His breath seemed to carry a burning breath like sulfur, and a faint black-red light flashed in his black pupils. The knowledge from the paganism was gradually twisting and wriggling in his body like a living thing, and the blood vessels in his palms were throbbing, making strange sounds like sulfuric acid, and finally seeping out strands of blood and condensing into a disgusting symbol that made people feel their stomachs twitch.
The faces of the two waiters suddenly turned pale. It was not known whether it was the dazzling runes on the back of their hands or the terrible mechanical force that gradually crushed them that made them completely lose their ability to speak. The two waiters were still sweating and looking at Li Lin with a pleading look. It was as if two real waiters were captured by a rude and rude master who wanted to humiliate them and even beat them to death. If Li Lin was not sure that there was something wrong with these two people, he might really believe it.
...No, even if you were considering practicing new skills, you probably wouldn't believe that these two people are okay, right?
There are only two NPCs anyway.
But it’s still great to have a legitimate reason.
Holding the wrists of the two assassins, Li Lin's smile became more and more cold and twisted. The device full of electricity continued to release the smell of ozone around, making the bodies of the two assassins more and more numb.
"Look at you... Any proper waiter wouldn't have such grime on his hands... And any waiter shouldn't have such a greasy feeling... The smell of the hemp smoke on you is really pungent... Most importantly, when did you decide what I drink without me saying anything? Who are you? Huh?"
Will the waiter make decisions for the host?
The sickening and maddening mark on the back of his hand emitted an ominous red light. Li Lin's palms were like two iron clamps gripping the tendons of the two waiters. Countless electric currents leaping out from around him were like poisonous snakes devouring their relatively good nerves, making their nerves, which had already been diseased by the smoke, completely disordered.
The pinched wrist gradually emitted strange muffled sounds as if something was being crushed. Drops of blood gradually flowed along the nails onto the skin, and finally touched the red mark covering the palm.
“But there’s still a lot of time .”
As Li Lin finished speaking, the mark instantly lost its original evil and twisted power and turned into a pool of pus and blood that splashed onto the ground.
"In five hours, my knowledge will give me enough means to torture you. After all, if things don't work out, I can always go offline and search Baidu, don't you agree? The electronic age is a wonderful thing. How many times can you withstand torture? I'm really curious about the continuous trouble you've caused me."
The train was running faster and faster. The spray of steam and the carriageway gradually moving underground made the scenery outside the window more and more hazy and fantastic, and Li Lin's face was increasingly shrouded in a layer of distorted illusion.
"Besides... I should practice my proficiency in beheading swordsmanship... I can't practice it in the fog because the activation words of this ritual are too long. It's really troublesome."
It was like a magic trick in a nightmare. A black hole appeared out of thin air around the archaeologist's palm. After reaching in, he immediately grabbed a silver-colored, serrated two-handed sword that exuded an extremely ominous aura. The sword body full of gaps and scars and the sword spine engraved with light golden runes all proved that this thing was born in a certain religion and had experienced an extremely miserable battlefield.
The devil in everyone's mind grabbed the two-handed sword and pressed it against his forehead, covering half of his face and revealing one eye. When the vehicle drove underground and light and darkness intertwined, the mark on the back of his hand and his eyes glowed bright red.
"I swear that I will wipe out all the enemies before me and cut off their heads to pay tribute to the ancient blood of madness..."
The moment the carriage fell into darkness, the captives' world was filled with only dark red.
