I upgraded and added points in the Holy Inquisition

As these collections became "vivid" one by one, the previously silent and lifeless museum suddenly became lively, with smashing and destruction everywhere, creating a somewhat weird... atmosphere of urban life?

Hiss~ You guys are acting like cotton pickers entering a free supermarket. Aren't you a little too liberal and democratic?

Lloyd took the former dean to a secluded spot in the corner and watched the monsters perform quietly without rushing to kill them.

These monsters are all tightly controlled by the [Distorted Realm]. If you want to deal with them, you only need to think about it and physically twist them.

However, this was the first time Lloyd encountered such a "lifelike" monster, and it was not even recorded in textbooks, so he was still somewhat interested in this new species and wanted to observe its characteristics and habits more.

Anyway, these monsters can't hurt him.

Just to be on the safe side, Lloyd pulled the [Projection] to his side to protect himself, and then he released his inspiration with peace of mind and conducted a detailed "physical examination" on these monsters.

Well... the mental pollution is not strong, the structural strength is also quite average, lacking effective killing organs, and it can't even chew a glass display cabinet...

According to the classification in the textbook, it should belong to the category of "mysterious creations", which is the type with the lowest cost-effectiveness. It lacks core organs and has extremely low recycling value, but often has some weird and strange characteristics.

The characteristic of this species should be that it can disguise itself as various works of art?

Then he became extremely irritable and aggressive, to the point of being abnormal...

As an outstanding executioner, Lloyd naturally knew what the monsters controlled by the [Distorted Realm] should do.

Generally speaking, without special control over the direction of [Twist], the affected monster will soon calm down after a few tentative attacks, and then stand still and remain motionless, becoming a state of being at the mercy of others.

But now, this group of monsters were acting unusually active and ferocious, still attacking the "enemies" in their eyes, as if tirelessly.

However, even though their bodies have undergone a certain degree of alienation, they still lack the sharp claws and strong physique of demons; nor do they have the turbulent mental pollution of the out-of-control ones; not to mention being compared with karma demons and thought monsters; they even lack a sense of mystery compared to the weird derivatives.

But he behaves very violently, with a sense of humor of "the worse you are, the more violent you become".

So the biggest feature of this monster is...

Is the artistic component higher?

Lloyd couldn't help but smile, feeling that his conclusion was a bit humorous...

However, he turned his head to look at other areas not covered by the protective shield and found that the artworks in those places were beginning to stir, but their disguise had not been completely torn off, and they still retained the form of artworks for the time being.

It just seemed like it had grown legs and was moving around, as if searching for something.

The statues moving around are acceptable, but the bottles and jars and picture frames also jumping around are a bit too two-dimensional.

So it is this protective shield that limits their performance? And they don't have eyesight, it seems they can't see anything, maybe they use something like inspiration to perceive and search for enemies?

Hmm... this seems to explain why they are so green and jumpy.

Lloyd thought he might have discovered the reason why these monsters were so humorous.

It should be that the interference of the [Distorted Realm] on this kind of things is relatively limited, and some unique "inspiration" that escapes from them makes them aware that they are surrounded by protective shields and various barriers, and they can realize that they are in a very unfavorable situation.

That's why he keeps banging his head against the wall and the display cabinet, trying to break through this invisible shackle.

Well... let's stop here for the preliminary analysis. Next, let's kill one to test its quality.

Lloyd pondered silently, and used his inspiration to lock onto the 'peasant woman' who first discovered him, and then performed a physical distortion.

With his current attribute level and strength level, he didn't have to exert much effort to turn the "peasant woman" into a pile of twisted debris.

Then the panel gave another prompt, confirming that the monster had been successfully killed:

[Ding~Insanity value +500]

Danger level 5? Are you kidding me? Why is something this funny supposed to be this dangerous?

Lloyd was a little dissatisfied with the panel's judgment, but the next second, he felt something drilling into his brain.

It turned out to be a beautiful oil painting? The subject was a farm woman picking fresh tomatoes in the vegetable field.

The painting has a high artistic value, and the characters are vivid and lifelike in a literal sense, but they do not really come alive, which allows Lloyd to appreciate the artistic value of the painting with peace of mind.

But Lloyd actually didn't know what the painting looked like when it was still a work of art. When he first saw it, it was already in GIF format.

So this painting should be... a [beacon] that can attract forbidden knowledge?

The second after Lloyd came to this conclusion, he felt a forbidden knowledge rushing into his mind.

[Ding~Knowledge fragment +1, Madness value +5000]

Wow, so this is where the strength lies. No wonder its weak combat power can be quite dangerous.

Lloyd finally understood the true danger of this monster.

It's not surprising that this situation has evolved. Lloyd still clearly remembers that the first time he came into contact with the [Beacon] was when the street painter gave him the posthumous work...

Artworks can indeed easily be transformed into this kind of dangerous [beacon]

Although this forbidden knowledge poses no threat to Lloyd, it would still be quite troublesome if other extraordinary people encountered it.

5000 mental pollution can drive a third-level extraordinary person into madness instantly...

What's more, those investigators who are responsible for dealing with forbidden knowledge have to be very careful when dealing with the immobile [Beacon]. If they are not careful, they will lose their lives. It will definitely be even more troublesome to deal with this kind of thing that can move, jump and attack.

More importantly, after attracting the first wave of forbidden knowledge, the [beacon] in Lloyd's brain did not fail like it did last time, but continued to exist, and the image of the peasant woman picking tomatoes was still clearly visible.

Soon there came a second wave of forbidden knowledge.

[Ding~Knowledge fragment +1, Madness value +2000]

This made Lloyd rub his chin.

It seems that the acquisition of this forbidden knowledge is still random, and the madness value it carries is naturally high or low. If you are unlucky and encounter a level of 15000, even a fifth-level strongman will suffer, right?

Moreover, this frequency and the characteristic of not disappearing are just as terrifying and deadly as paraquat, which will cause people to suffer continuously until they finally fall into madness...

So the panel, or the judgment of the "Book of Madness" was not wrong, it was just that I was much more diligent and hardworking than others...

Lloyd had to revise his previous conclusion, and then he mobilized the "recycle bin" in his mind and actively swept the dangerous painting into it.

This will instantly calm me down, and no more forbidden knowledge will enter my mind.

He did not covet that bit of madness value. Now was not a good time to brush up the attributes. Instead, he needed to spend more energy thinking about how to deal with the pile of "artworks" in front of him. It would be best not to be disturbed by inexplicable knowledge.

The main thing is that the two fragments obtained earlier, although they don’t give much madness value, are also useless in terms of content. They are directly judged as useless knowledge. They just enter the brain and then go into the recycle bin.

So what should we do next?

Lloyd was a little confused as he looked at the hundreds of lively "artworks" in front of him.

It is easy to kill them all, just a thought will do.

But that would cause hundreds of [Beacons] to flood into my mind, followed by an overwhelming amount of forbidden knowledge and mental pollution...

Lloyd wasn't sure if he could bear it, so he wasn't willing to take the risk.

But if you clean it little by little, a few times each time, it will not only seem tedious, but also a bit wasteful.

After all, this thing is equivalent to a stable channel for obtaining taboo knowledge, and it is fully automatic. This is a very rare feature. If used properly, perhaps it can produce some wonderful chemical reactions? It is a bit of a waste to dismantle it all roughly.

The most ideal idea that Lloyd could think of at the moment was to lock them all up and control them in the form of motionless works of art. Then, when he needed to brush up on attributes or forbidden knowledge, he could just grab one out, like a snack.

But it is obviously a bit troublesome to do this. With the power and skills that Lloyd currently possesses, the only thing that can help is...

[Seed of Distortion]?

Yes! Use the [Distortion Seed] to control their actions, keep them in a certain quiet state, and then imprison them in the center of the Storm School District, using the space storm as their cage!

Lloyd thought of a solution and suddenly became excited.

So he activated his ability first, selecting a bronze statue with a weird and bizarre shape and slow and sluggish movements as his target, then randomly picked up a piece of garbage from the 'recycling bin', transformed it into a [Seed of Distortion], and then planted it on the bronze statue.

Then, Lloyd tried to adjust the direction and strength of [Distortion], with quietness as the theme.

After several attempts, he successfully found a reasonable method to make the bronze statue gradually calm down and turn back into a normal work of art, entering the ideal state that Lloyd wanted, where it could be used at any time.

At the same time, he also felt that a new sprout had appeared in his [Thinking Field], just like the ones in the consultant and Jenkins, which could be easily controlled remotely.

Finally, Lloyd slightly adjusted the space channel that had been built earlier, set the other end at the center of the space storm, and then threw the bronze statue into the channel.

Given the weakness of these monsters, they are definitely unable to break through the blockade of the space storm.

But for the sake of safety and to prevent waste, Lloyd went back first, and used the equipment he had obtained in exchange for credits to set up several sets of suppression rituals on the ground, and connected them in series to form an array.

In this case, let alone imprisoning such weak monsters here, even if the demons of karma are caught, they will have to be killed.

Once you find the solution to the problem, the next thing is easy.

Lloyd first selected about fifty monsters that looked pleasing to the eye and were relatively small in size from the group of monsters, restored them into works of art, and imprisoned them.

These should be enough for now.

If that’s not enough, there are still hundreds outside the barrier and you can grab more at any time.

The rest were either too artistic to appreciate or too large in size to be carried. Lloyd planned to execute them on the spot so that he could continue to brush up on his madness points and see if he could get some useful knowledge.

However, he did not take action directly. Instead, he first made use of the residual heat of these defective products and then conducted another test.

Lloyd directed the [Projection], and a few clean and sharp cold lights flashed, directly breaking the two large sculptures into pieces.

[Ding~Insanity value +500]

[Ding~Insanity value +500]

Then he waited patiently for a while and found that nothing strange came into his brain.

From this we can see that the [beacon] left by this monster, or should be called [revenge beacon], is not as "intelligent" as their mental pollution.

Lloyd still felt it was not enough, so he picked up two more monsters transformed from ugly and ferocious masks and threw them directly into the space storm.

[Ding~Insanity value +500]

[Ding~Insanity value +500]

I still haven’t generated a [beacon] in my brain…

These two rounds of testing undoubtedly provided Lloyd with another backup solution. If he was not afraid of waste, he could just use [Projection] or a more efficient space storm to clean up these things.

"Well, the problem here has been solved, so let's leave it at that for now. Shall we go up to the second floor?"

Lloyd tried to talk to the former dean again, but received a slight shudder from the other party, which seemed to indicate that he was not dead yet.

I feel like his condition is getting worse and worse. I can't waste too much time here. I have to speed up.

Lloyd thought about it and then casually executed the five monsters, leaving five pieces of art in his mind as [beacons]. Then, while enduring the forbidden knowledge and mental pollution that came at him, he controlled the [projection] to go to the second floor.

Of course, before setting off, [Projection] also "conveniently" dealt with other monsters in the field.

As all the monsters inside the protective shield were cleared out, the eager creatures outside gradually quieted down, returning the museum to its original dead silence.

It can be seen that there is indeed some connection between these things, and they can even communicate with each other.

However, what is somewhat magical is that these works of art do not just lie down on the ground and pretend to be dead. Instead, they jump back to their original positions and go into their original display cases. They do not finally calm down until the museum is completely restored.

It was as if he was setting an elaborate trap, fearing that the prey would discover the flaw.

But how could any prey come to us if we stay in such a haunted place?

The sense of humor of these monsters can't help but add a bit more to the story.

Lloyd was also amused watching from the side.