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Chapter 213 Poison Fog Street

Collecting supplies actually doesn't have much significance in advancing the plot. At most, it just gives Kress a chance to buy a few more magic spells or sacred artifacts.

Sacred artifacts have side effects and cannot be bought casually, and sorcerers need to pay a price before they can be cast. Buying them may not be useful... Besides, most of the battles can be solved by Tirat. In the final analysis, it is more cost-effective to buy some medicines.

Use cigarettes to complete the supplies you can use.

Zhou Ze manipulated Kles to look around the entire Lost City, and found a grocery store in a corner in the west of the city where he searched for all kinds of obsolete sundries, spare parts, ammunition, cans, tents, ropes, old clothes... everything was sold.

The most important thing is that he even sells cultists’ robes here!

It seems that even if Kress didn't go to the south of the city to meet Rhodes, he could still sneak into the pilgrim area by buying cultist robes from the grocery store.

They bought another set of cultist robes, and the four of them put on these robes. As expected, the residents on the street avoided them and regarded them as crazy cultists.

Zhou Ze didn't waste any time, and directly let Kleis sneak into the pilgrim area.

In the pilgrim area, among the ruined towns filled with wailing sounds, you can see rotten human corpses and monster corpses randomly thrown on the streets from time to time. All the cultists coming and going turn a blind eye, and no one treats them.

In the center of the pilgrim area is a clearing surrounded by a scarecrow-shaped bonfire.

A large number of cross stakes were planted in the open space.

But these cross stakes have nothing to do with Jesus... There is a person tied to each stake, who is beaten repeatedly with whips by the cultists, leaving indelible marks on the body with a branding iron, and is issued or issued under inhumane torture. A strange sound of wailing or screaming.

It is impossible to tell how many of these people tied to the cross are still sane.

There is also a huge wooden throne built inside the open space. Two pillars of fire are burning in front of the throne. Above the throne is a familiar figure. The statue of Cthulhu is built of straw and wood. There are also a lot of golden lights in front of the statue. gold and silver jewelry as a tribute.

Zhou Ze was too lazy to complain.

He didn't let Kress stay here any longer, and followed Akka's instructions to head directly to Poison Fog Street, located behind the Pilgrim District.

Wearing red robes that covered their whole bodies, no one could recognize who they were. The cultists on the road also thought that Kress and others were one of them, so they allowed them to pass through the shallow area of ​​the pilgrim area without any trouble. .

Arrive at Poison Street.

A visible light green mist surrounded the neighborhood.

Through the mist, you can vaguely see the white bones scattered on the ground, as well as some weird monsters with weird limbs and twisted figures crawling on the ground.

At the entrance of the poisonous miasma street, there is a strangely dressed corpse, with a gas mask on his face and some rubber protective clothing on his body, it seems that he is trying his best to prevent the poisonous fog on this street ...But obviously, he failed in the end.

There is a small book next to the body pocket, which seems to be a diary.

Kress asked the demon Tirat to help get the gas mask and diary from the corpse.

Gas masks need no introduction.

Mainly the diary. When opened, it records the past experiences of the deceased.

: What an idiot I am!I should have stayed in Providence!Why do you have to take the whole family to this damn place for a trip?
What 'Essex Hotel' what 'National Treasure Azca', fuck it!Damn travel!Now I can travel as much as I want with fairy tale monsters!
Even more hateful than monsters are those damn gangsters!They are the real devils!This gang of sons of a bitch threw me and my family straight from the hotel onto the street!Not to mention how hard it took me to get my wife back from their dirty hands.

The city has gone mad, gone mad, and I'm holding my banknotes like scrap paper, huddled with my wife and children in the bloody Derby Street slum.

I rummaged through all the garbage, I went to every alley, I rummaged everywhere I could, I couldn't find any food, I couldn't find a single cigarette...everything was looted.

Mickey is getting weaker and weaker day by day, the poor boy is only six years old, he won't last long if this goes on, I must do something, I must do something, save my family!

Today I went to that cursed place they call 'Poisonous Fog Street'.

The area doesn't seem to have been plundered yet, though I don't know what evil or curse is hidden there.

If I can figure out how to get a piece of hazmat suit to protect myself, maybe I can find some unlooted items in there and trade them in for some necessities.

I thought that nagging Haynes might be of some use, but that bastard disappeared!

He's been telling me how good his broken patent is for weeks, and I was too stupid to pay attention to it. If I could get my hands on that suit, it would be better than the current one. Ragged clothes are much better.

Oh, God!Please save me from this disgusting quagmire and give me a chance to save my family...

The diary ends here.

It is not difficult to see from the content that this is a tourist who brought his family to travel in Azka. He was unlucky and was involved in the catastrophe. Because he was not a local, he did not have any supplies and connections. A story of a family struggling to survive.

The reality is very cruel.

In the end, he failed to walk out of Poisonous Fog Street alive.

I wonder if the family members mentioned in his diary are still alive?

It is not difficult to see from the diary that they have no food, this diary should have been written four years ago.

Because the gangsters began to distribute unknown meat to the residents of the town in the second year after the catastrophe, and few residents have starved to death since then. If his wife and children can survive until then, it is said Maybe there is still the possibility of being alive.

The diary also mentions a man named Haynes and his patented protective suit.

If you infer according to the popular game plot, it is estimated that the protective suit is one of the key props that can resist the aging fog on the Poisonous Mist Street... However, there is no need for Aka to use the night movement technique to directly take them to avoid the poisonous fog. I went to look for that protective suit specifically.

But having said that, there are really many ways in which "Old Exile" advances the main line.

Even if he doesn't choose Aka as a temporary teammate, he can still find the patented protective suit to get through the poisonous fog street. The progression of the plot does not tie him to choosing Aka as a teammate, but gives him a variety of choices.

"Are you going to use night walking to enter Poison Fog Street now?"

A-Ka looked at Kles, and a prompt box appeared above his head.

"Well, let's go."

There is no point in continuing to stay, it is better to drive straight in, follow the main line, and see what information can be obtained by pushing this line to the end.

"Hallows as a medium?"

"Here." Under Zhou Ze's gesture, Kles threw the coin of truth to A-Ka.

Aka took a deep look at the coin of truth in his hand and said nothing. He firmly grasped the gold coin in his palm, closed his eyes and began to chant a strange and profound spell. A lingering shadow trickled from his palm. flow out.

These shadows are not affected by gravity, contrary to common sense, they do not flow towards the ground, but surge towards the sky.

In a few seconds, the shadows gathered into a full moon in the sky above Kress and others.

This full moon is also particularly weird. It actually has a pair of eyes!
Man Yue's squinted eyes opened in vain, looking at the four of Kleis, and their bodies became intertwined with virtual and real in the next moment, as if they might flicker and disappear at any time.

The full moon dissipated, and the bodies of the four of Kress gradually approached to flicker at a high frequency, and finally the flicker frequency reached a level that was hard to see with the naked eye.

Their current state is that they are both here and not here.

When the coin of truth dissipated on the full moon, it also turned into a crushed and cracked gold coin. It no longer had mysterious properties, and it was completely reduced from a holy artifact to an ordinary gold nugget.

[Enter the state of Night Walk, ignoring most of the damage. 】

Manipulating Kles into the street shrouded in pale green poisonous mist, they were not affected by any accelerated aging curse, and they were in normal condition, walking through half a street with ease.

In Poisonous Mist Street, apart from those poisonous smogs, there are also many twisted monsters wandering in the middle of the street.

These monsters are gray and covered with abscesses. There are some small colorful spots on the surface of the body. They have four arms, four legs and two ends. They are like two human beings that have been dissolved and then fused together. From time to time, they make shrill wails. When they see Ke Rice and the others quickly crawled over and launched an attack.

In the state of night walk, Kles and others will not suffer any attacks, and they can completely ignore these monsters.

Zhou Ze suspects that these monsters may be humans who have adapted to the curse of Poisonous Mist Street to some extent. However, this adaptation is too cruel, and it may be more appropriate to use it as a forced mutation.

I don't know if these monsters are still rational, but obviously, they have no intention of communicating with Kles and others.

Cross the straight streets.

Clays found a lot of supplies in the old-fashioned jeep that was crashed on the road, and some shops also displayed cigarettes and cans. Compared with the ruins controlled by the cultists outside, this place is like a paradise rich in supplies!
If there weren't these poisonous fogs.

But it was precisely because of the poisonous fog that the supplies in this street were not swept away.

Zhou Ze tried his best to put the most valuable supplies on the street into his backpack, which might be used later. Unfortunately, the backpacks of the four Kleiss also have an upper limit and cannot hold too many things. If Zhou Ze himself went in, he would definitely use Xumi. Stone emptied the entire street.

Hey, did you say that before?
Forget it, there's no need to worry about the details.

Go along the street towards the deepest part of Poisonous Fog Street.

The light green poisonous fog became more and more dense, and it was also accompanied by unknown mental pollution from time to time. The colorful and intense light would sprinkle from the sky every few minutes to occupy the line of sight, causing the mental value of the entire Kleis team to drop.

According to the degree of spiritual pollution of this vision, the spiritual value of Kleis and others will drop to a dangerous level after four or five encounters.

I thought I could pass through this street unimpeded by shielding the influence of the poisonous mist curse, but I didn't expect that there would be mental damage. This street really deserves to be a place that even cultists dare not approach.

In order to avoid the vision in the sky, Zhou Ze had to take time to hide in the building and wait for the light to fade before coming out and continuing to move forward. Otherwise, Kleis and the others would not be able to go far while staring at the filthy light.

I don't know how many times Kless got into a dilapidated hut, and Zhou Ze found traces of people living inside.

In the corner of the hut is a creature that looks like the monster outside.

The difference is that the skin color of the creature in front of him is darker, there are no small colorful light spots on his body, and there are no two heads, but are inseparably intertwined, and dozens of melted pimples grow on his face. Turquoise eyes…

What makes people feel even more uncomfortable is that it is a weird androgyny, as if human males and females are fused with each other, which looks ugly and grotesque, like a crazy concretization, which is unbearable mentally and physically.

"From beyond the garden, the apostles came here."

The two mouths of the creature's head opened as one, and in perfect harmony the two mouths spoke: "As prophesied, he, just as he was."

The weird sound of the male and female chorus makes people feel a little sick.

What this guy said is a bit mysterious, some apostle, some prophecy... a bit like Amishus, which makes people uncomfortable.

However, after encountering a monster that could communicate with him in Poisonous Fog Street, it was obvious that Kress should be able to obtain some valuable information or props from it, so he had to communicate with it.

[Option ①: What kind of creature are you? 】

[Option [-]: Do you retain a certain degree of consciousness even in this form? 】

[Option ③: Kill it. 】

Zhou Ze chose the first option.

"I was broken and now I am new. I was conflicted and now I am at peace. I was separated and now I am whole. I am both in one."

The one who combines the two into one?I can tell.

Zhou Ze didn't bother to complain about the same words in these poetry recitations, and continued to read what it said.

The countless eyes on the creature's head blinked: "I am Edmarva, God's creation, who obeyed the old days, who was reborn from the ashes of those who were forsaken by the gods... Welcome to my garden, Apostle, I have been waiting for you."

"Why do you call me an apostle?"

Kress frowned and asked, "What do you mean by the prophecy?"

"The voice of the kingdom of heaven has long predicted that you will come before me. You are an apostle, and your death is inevitable. However, before that, you will serve God's will for the last time to redeem the sins committed by the old people, The drama is over."

Death is inevitable?Bullshit!
If the protagonist dies, the game cannot be completed.

If you can't beat the game, you can't upload the save file.

Can't upload archives and the protagonist won't see you.

This is an endless cycle, okay?Do you understand the paradox?Anyway, there is always something wrong with this prophecy... If Zhou Ze doesn't let Cress into this room in the next save, then the prophecy in his mouth must be wrong.

Therefore, it is not difficult to determine that the prophecy spoken by this creature is probably similar to Ametheus's precognitive ability.

And the world game is above their so-called prophetic foreknowledge!

As long as Zhou Ze intervenes in the future through games in advance, these so-called prophecies will be self-defeating due to unknown variables from the past.

(End of this chapter)