Sequence game, starting from drawing props

Chapter 189 Ancestors
Taking advantage of the night, Ian returned to the stronghold. He settled Alice first, and then studied puppetry.

"President."

Brandon's voice sounded from outside the door. He heard that Ian had a secret operation, and immediately thought of what Ian had done.

Ian opened the door for him.

"Is there a way to deal with the puppeteer Du Jia? We found a lot of marbles near Hongye Town, and they...have a frightening and hideous shape."

The investigation team had a large number of people, and they also brought living crystal puppets capable of physical labor. These puppets held shovels and dug potholes around Hongye Town within a few hours.

However, only marbles have been unearthed so far. They are either incomplete parts of humanoid creatures, or pure flesh and blood.

From every point of view, Ms. Du Jia, who knows puppet art, is the real culprit who made these weird puppets.

Ian shook his head: "Ms. Du Jia has doubts about her, but that's all. I haven't found any proof that she committed murder against the residents."

The nine human-made puppets in the secret room are indeed morally questionable, other than that, they are ordinary.

What they really need is conclusive evidence that Ms. Du Jia killed the residents, so that Ms. Du Jia can be convicted.

The stealth mission brought benefits to Ian. He learned the puppet control thread and strengthened the thread into a "blade".

Moreover, he also gained knowledge about puppetry, so he could try to make dolls. Unfortunately, due to the restriction of puppetry, Ian's progress was a bit slow.

Brandon was pacing the house. He had put in his best effort on the bimonthly incident, but progress was very slow due to the unknown cause of the anomaly.

"The double-moon anomaly only surrounds Hongye Town. This cannot be a coincidence, but caused by some kind of ritual."

"That may be the source of the artificial soul, if this information can be obtained..."

Brandon is very enthusiastic at work.

Fortunately, Ian had already thought up an idea, and it was impossible for him to return empty-handed from one of his stealth jobs.

He created the puppet-controlling silk thread, felt the power in the thread, and gradually gained enlightenment.

Silk thread is the essence of puppetry, whether it is a puppeteer or a puppet, the best thing is definitely silk thread.

Ian learned "Blade Line", and he felt the malice contained in this skill. Alice also said that the puppet control thread is different from the magic thread, and it has a certain amount of malice.

"interesting……"

Ian looked at the night sky outside the window, and there was a bright full moon hanging in the sky, which sealed the disaster of the undead.

There is no real connection between the double moon anomaly and the undead disaster, at least he hasn't discovered it yet.

This is just a fragment of a layered universe, which has merged with reality, and any location just covers Hongye Town.

Suddenly, a flash of light flashed in Ian's heart.

He turned around and said, "Assemble the team."

"Where are we going?" Brandon asked: "The mages are studying puppetry, and they haven't made much progress."

Ian replied: "Then ask me."

Take a group of level 40 Gold Sequence mages and ask Ms. Du Jia face to face.

But this time was different from last time. What Ian wanted to ask, he thought that Ms. Du Jia would definitely not be able to answer it.

"Get ready for battle."

……

……

Alice's mansion.

The puppet pigeon stood on the outer wall, monitoring the environment five meters outside.

When guests from afar came into its eyes, those ruby ​​eyes locked on the doll immediately, and shared the picture with Ms. Du Jia.

Ms. Du Jia pushed the door and left.

"The gatekeeper. And...the mages of the Mages Association."

She asked, "Is there something wrong?"

Ian raised his hand, and the mages handed him the information. These were marbles found near Hongye Town through investigation.

"I hope you can tell me why these dolls died?"

As soon as the words fell, Ms. Du Jia's expression suddenly became solemn.

She looked at the marble shards on the documents, the traces of puppetry were hard to erase, and she couldn't justify herself.

"I didn't make these dolls, they're old."

Ms. Du Jia replied.

"About how long ago?" Ian asked.

"300 years ago." Du Jia replied.

Hongye Town has been built for a long time. In Alice's mansion 300 years ago, there were no such useful dolls as Grizzly.

Alice's family needs to find a way, they choose to hire some powerful knights.

At the same time, they also created low-efficiency combat dolls to help kill the monsters near Hongye Town and protect the safety of the residents.

That's all history.

Ms. Du Jia led everyone into Alice's mansion.

Everything went well. This was the second time Ian entered the mansion that day. Compared with the last time, this time he was properly invited.

All the organs in the mansion are hidden, and there is no slightest problem. From the eerie mansion, it has been transformed into a warm home.

Inside the second door on the left side of the corridor is a warehouse that has existed for a long time. Some black armor is stored in it. The moment they saw the armor, the pupils of everyone involved in the investigation shrunk.

Ian nodded lightly, and it was exactly what he had imagined.

When the double moon anomaly occurred, he was pulled into the wrong area and saw a black knight. At this moment, the armor that was roughly the same as the black knight's armor was placed impressively in Alice's mansion.

"We call it a 'chess piece', a prop that can be easily manipulated by us to achieve incredible miracles."

Ms. Du Jia said with a smile: "Armor is a kind of magic item. Anyone who wears it can gain certain combat power."

"Even if it is injured, it will heal quickly, not to mention that the armor itself has a very strong defensive performance."

"But there is a flaw... It is made by puppetry. Once it is bound to a human being, it cannot be taken off by conventional means."

That is the concept of "mandatory binding equipment".

Puppetry is a large category, not only referring to making puppets, but also transforming humans into puppets, enslaving them forcibly, or manipulating puppets through silk threads.

This mysterious side genre is better at crowd tactics, and it is similar to the mechanics on the technology side.

After checking the armor, Brandon nodded to Ian.

There's nothing wrong with the puppet armor, they work exactly as Ms. Duja said.

But there is a problem.

The puppet knights in the abnormal area have nothing to do with Alice's mansion, but they have equipment similar to Alice's mansion.

Ian asked: "Do other families also have the ability of puppetry, silk thread, and chess pieces?"

Everyone was taken aback and looked at Ian, not quite understanding the meaning of his question.

The investigation in Hongye Town is ongoing, and it's not just the Alice family who have problems, could it be that there are others...

"Have."

Ms. Du Jia nodded, her eyebrows frowned slightly, and her tone was low:

"There was once a patriarch who wanted to take in apprentices to make the puppet art flourish. She took in three apprentices."

"It didn't work out as expected... 2 apprentices all died due to mistakes in puppetry, and the last one..."

"betrayed."

betray?Ian took this information down, and Ms. Du Jia continued.

"I don't know if that guy is dead or not, but she claims to be an 'undead', haha."

Ms. Du Jia has strong malice towards that betrayer.

"Alice's family wants to make dolls comparable to humans, but that guy is different. She wants to bring the dead back to life."

"It's really wishful thinking... People don't cremate after death, and they want to save them after they become undead monsters. They really don't take the lessons of history seriously."

Of the three apprentices who studied puppetry in Alice's family, only one survived.

But in the end, this apprentice also betrayed the Alice family because of his disagreement.

The undead, the resurrection of the dead...

Ian then recalled the phantom he saw in the double-moon vision, and gradually grasped part of the truth.

He stopped asking too much. Before Ms. Du Jia's crime was proved, the town of Long Sleeping and Alice's mansion needed peaceful contact.

Wait until you leave the mansion.

Ian took out the "Desire Compass" from his backpack and meditated on the undead in his heart.

The next moment, the pointer on the compass turned as he expected.

"President? Is Ms. Du Jia's information accurate? Do we need to change the research direction and look for the undead?"

Brandon asked Ian that the investigation team's operation was considered complete. They even turned Hongye Town inside and out, but they didn't find a way to actively trigger the abnormal noise of the double moon.

As soon as the news of the undead came out, it immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Ian pointed to the location of the clues of the undead: "There may be traces here, not far away."

A goal that is too far away cannot be captured by the compass of desire.

He used the compass of desire as a guidance system along the way, but unfortunately it was similar to the guidance in popular games, setting vague goals as markers, and the compass of desire was directly stupid.

And a clear goal like "undead" is the state where the compass of desire really contributes the most.

The goal is... deep in the forest outside Hongye Town.

This place is not in the eternal night environment, but they still haven't left the forest, and everyone is very vigilant.

The moment they arrived near here, the mages stopped immediately, their expressions became strange.

【Ding!Entering the "Wrong Area"]

A hint appeared in Ian's eyes, which meant that this place also belonged to the scope of the double moon anomaly.

But the problem is... this place was not affected by the double moon anomaly.

"President, a malicious source of magic power has been detected."

A mage came to Ian, holding a magic instrument in his hand, which looked like a black tablet.

"The location of the source is...under our feet."

Ian lowered his head, looking at the dark place under the lamp.

They got it wrong in the first place.

The double-moon anomaly was first defined by them as the "eternal night area", but who would have thought that the things related to the double-moon anomaly were not in the eternal night?

The source of malicious magic power refers to things like monsters. It is not unusual, but because Ian's destination is here, the mages became vigilant.

They sent living crystal puppets to dig, and after a while, a large pit tens of meters deep was dug out.

The center was just vacated, and a square marble coffin was quietly placed there.

"coffin?"

After seeing it, Brandon said in a stern tone: "I actually chose to be buried in the ground, what is the rule?!"

Burial in Changmian Town means evil, people will turn into monsters after death and attack the living again.

Anyone who finds that someone has buried a whole body is obliged to stop it, or even destroy the body.

In this world, the living are always more important than the dead.

The living crystal puppet pushed open the coffin, and inside was a skeleton that had long decayed beyond human appearance, and the clothes worn by the deceased had also rotted into a layer of white.

A fist-sized black square is placed on its abdomen.

"Bring it here and have a look."

Ian ordered, and the living crystal puppet picked up the black cube and handed it to Ian.

Ian checks the block information.

【Name: Soul Projector】

[Source: Occultism (Second Stage)]

[Effect: The scene where the soul is saved is projected in reality, which will generate some garbage. 】

[Description: Partial reality distortion technology, in a world where death does not exist, has the ability to retain the soul;

But even so, long periods of time rot the soul, eventually reducing it to ashes. 】

Black squares are artifacts of pre-civilizations.

And the person buried with the cube is the so-called "undead".

Ian wanted to understand this, and gradually sorted out a general idea in his mind.

He rubbed his eyebrows:

"The good news is...the junk doesn't come from the Hierarchical Universe, but similar technology."

"The bad news is ... it still has to be cleaned up."

The fist-sized black square in his hand is the culprit of the local eternal night. It created projections and left garbage.

Just like unclean energy will leave pollution, after the "soul projector" distorts reality, it also leaves a part of false reality.

It is the "error zone".

"I'm afraid this thing can be used as a virtual training ground, creating copies of countless monsters, so that adventurers can quickly upgrade!"

Ian figured out the real usage of the soul projector.

To put it bluntly, this projector is to use magic to turn false things into reality.

There is a rule in the world on the mysterious side—magic power is omnipotent, and civilization on the relatively mysterious side is omnipotent.

It is very reasonable for pre-civilizations to achieve magical distortion of reality by relying on their second-stage technology.

Even if he is himself, he can pinch a few monsters to level up when he has excess mana.

The existing "magic power coordinator" in Changmian town happens to belong to the magic power storage, which is really good news.

Ian activated the soul projector in his hand.

Accompanied by the familiar white mist, everyone came to the wrong area.

In the forest, knights in black armor are fighting monsters.

The mage released the wind blade, the strength of the 40-level gold sequence, and killed the "meat pile" in one blow.

"Huh? Who is it?"

The black knight turned his head and saw Ian. They had already met each other last time.

"Outsiders... and... you."

He could realize that Ian and the others were from outside, and he also knew that this was inside the soul projector.

"Welcome to the 'Two Moons Forest', outsiders... Do you need me to welcome you?"

The black knight patted the stain on his body and came to Ian's side.

He showed some expectation:

"Have you found a way to resurrect the dead? We have been waiting here for a long time."

"It's so long that... I can't remember it. The soul is a little worn out, and many memories are lost."

Ian was slightly stunned, and asked, "You...?"

The black knight nodded: "Yes!"

He turned his head and looked at the body of the forest: "Come out!"

A group of residents poked their heads out of the forest. They seemed to have emerged from the grass. There were adults and children, but everyone had no expression on their faces.

"Uh...Unfortunately...the emotional loss is serious, we really don't understand the current time."

The Black Knight himself appears active, but removes his helmet at Ian's urging.

When the members of the investigation team saw the lineup of the Black Knights, everyone's expression suddenly froze.

"what happened?"

The black knight touched his face, but he couldn't feel the pain due to various problems caused by the broken soul.

"My appearance should be terrible... It can't be helped. After all, we need to fight monsters every day. After they die, they will turn into magic power. We need magic power very much."

"Thanks to the soul armor technology brought by the 'Undead', I like this armor very much... It's a pity that I am already dead now. The armor can protect my body at most, but cannot protect my soul."

In fact, there is no such thing as a body in the Black Knight.

Ian looked at the knight quietly.

There is only one human bone inside the armor, and whenever it speaks, it opens its upper and lower jaws, and the teeth collide with each other to make a dull sound.

The wrong area in the soul projector, forcibly retaining the ability with the soul, bound the soul of the deceased in the body.

This is a technique of "making zombies", which is exactly the same as that of undead monsters, except that compared with being transformed into undead monsters, the soul retains at least humanity.

The fly in the ointment is that the soul preserved by this technology will slowly wear out, which is probably a flaw that no amount of magic power can suppress.

Ian didn't quite know what era the black knight came from, so he asked:

"What era do you live in?"

He thought he would hear the answer.

But when this question reached the ears of the black knight, the black knight was stunned.

He was silent for a moment, and answered Ian with a shake of his head:

"Sorry...friends of outsiders, I too...forgot."

"Ah! There is a way."

He led Ian to the resident in the spirit state.

First, he found an old man and asked, "Master, do you remember when we came in?"

The old man heard it as if he didn't hear it, he just glanced at the two of them, his body was translucent.

"The soul is exhausted... get another one!"

The black knight finds young people and children again.

Every time I ask, a slightly more complete soul will shake her head and say "I don't know".

However, the souls of the subjects whose souls are so incomplete that they are about to die can't even answer, and they don't respond to external stimuli.

The Black Knight's voice sounded like that of a determined warrior, speaking with a sense of humor.

He should know that he is already a skeleton, but in armor he is still a great knight protecting the people.

"This is really bad!"

Under the complicated eyes of everyone in the investigation team, the black knight patted his gray skull.

His tone was helpless, with a trace of bitterness hidden in it:
"I'm sorry... everyone outside, our souls are too severely damaged... I can't remember many things."

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