Mysteries: Arcana Wars

"Have you seen Fors?" Klein asked.

"No. I was alone when I fell."

Leonard frowned.

"This place is very strange. I can't call upon the spirit that resides in my teeth, and I can't use other extraordinary abilities. The old man also said that he has lost contact with his main body at home... But this chair is an extraordinary item that can work..."

Leonard asked back.

"What about you? What's your situation now? Why are you still living with a table leg?"

"Me? I must have been hallucinating in the tunnel just now. So I picked up a stick. If I hallucinate again later, I will have something to support myself."

"Your hallucinations are becoming more and more frequent..." Leonard sighed.

Klein leaned on the table leg and tried his best to overcome the incoordination of his limbs and show a normal pace and posture. As long as he could hold on, he didn't want to tell Leonard about the sequelae of the hallucination. This was not the place to discuss such sensitive matters. If he had to discuss it, he had to do it in a safe house, such as his own small apartment. That way, Klein would be assured that he would not be involved in some unnecessary accidents.

The two chatted while observing the surrounding environment.

This seems to be a large furniture store, but it has been abandoned for a long time and the entire building has collapsed, as if it has suffered a huge destruction. The broken building structure and collapsed shelves block people's vision, dividing the huge factory into rugged and strange small spaces. It is impossible to tell that this was once a bright and happy furniture store.

Walking from the place where he woke up to where Leonard was, Klein was surrounded by collapsed concrete slabs and scattered furniture debris. It was not until he met Leonard that he saw the first complete chair.

Leonard picked up the sign. The welcome message on it looked a little abnormal and distorted, so he turned it over to take a closer look.

【娲诲姩镞互乜485夂47廿78厄亓勬78芏7杲65卅4】

At first glance, these words appear to be Rune letters, but a closer look reveals that they have completely collapsed. All the letters have been twisted, and some are even stuck together with the next letter, forming a new strange letter. The letters then split in unexpected places, breaking into multiple new letters. There is not a single repeated letter in the entire line of text.

This is like a grand mutation of words, like a wriggling tumor growing in a bush, or a rotten intestine spitting out from a flower. An unknown force vulgarly poured all these words into a blender and shredded them, then imitated the original way and jokingly arranged the corpses of the words into the style they had in life. It is difficult to call them words or letters anymore, you can only reluctantly call them "symbols".

What is certain is that the original message of these symbols has long been lost in the confusion and distortion.

"It looks like the situation is worse than we thought."

Leonard quickly threw away the promotional notice in his hand, fearing that it might be contaminated.

"This should have been a building on the ground before, and it 'sunk' here after an accident.

"Judging from this chair, this furniture city should have been built within the last one or two hundred years. It is impossible for the entire house to sink to this depth in such a short period of time just by the natural action of the land. It is very likely that this is an extraordinary disaster. You see, the words on this sign have been polluted and distorted.

"It seems that this furniture city should have serious extraordinary pollution. Including that chair, there should be more things that have been contaminated in the extraordinary 'sedimentation' and even turned into extraordinary items."

Leonard said, holding a flashlight and shining it on another sign. It was stuck in the ruins of the building, with only half of the torn paper showing.

【x????s?????F??????H???????K??????L???F??? ??N????????k????????f????????h?????u????????w???? ???1???????2?????5????????8??????]

It is still a symbol that has been distorted to the point of being meaningless, and it no longer looks like a symbol.

Klein remembered that Evernight Harbor was 669 meters underground in Backlund, and Cotton Alley was even lower than that. This place was even deeper underground than Cotton Alley.

What kind of horrific and extraordinary disaster could turn such a vibrant furniture city into a ruin buried deep underground?

Leonard was silent for a moment, then continued.

"The old man just said that he remembered this furniture store."

Although Pales's real body cannot be contacted now, Pales' clone is still parasitic in Leonard's body. Just what he has seen and heard during this three hundred years of hiatus can provide considerable help to the two of them.

"He said he remembered that the McConnell Furniture City was opened around 1086 and had been advertised in various media. It was not until more than a decade later, around 1106, that a huge explosion occurred in the McConnell Furniture City, and the furniture city disappeared completely. It is worth noting that although the furniture city explosion did not attract much social attention, after the explosion, the church and the police closed the surrounding roads for several days. It is said that the Church of the Night even proposed a curfew, which was of course rejected by the government.

"As for what happened at the time, as well as the subsequent investigation report and the cause of the accident, the old man has no idea. Under surveillance at night, he didn't have that much curiosity to peek at other people's reports, and there was no need to challenge the patience of their surveillance at that sensitive time."

It seems that it was indeed a serious and extraordinary disaster at that time.

Klein thought for a moment, then took the table leg in one hand and knocked against the lantern in the other hand. The two objects that had been severely damaged by time immediately became damaged. The crispy crust and rust fell down, and the table leg was almost broken by this small impact.

Okay, it seems that these two things are not extraordinary items, but just old and broken objects, and they don’t have the feeling of being in mint condition like the plastic chair.

But on the other hand, at least they won't have to worry about any potential contamination on the two sticks.

"What are you doing?" Leonard asked puzzledly.

"Check to see if we have picked up any extraordinary items without warning." Klein said calmly, "If they break after being hit, they are just ordinary junk. If they are like the Thinker's Chair, which can be kicked and rolled a few times but remain intact, then they are extraordinary items that have mutated due to contamination. We can use them in this space, but there is also the risk of contamination."

"... a very simple and practical identification method..." Leonard was convinced, "But what is the [Thinker's Chair]? Is it the plastic chair just now?"

"Yeah, that's the name I just came up with."

"……Fine."

At this time, some slight unusual sounds came into Leonard's ears, and his hearing, which was enhanced by his Beyonder characteristics, was immediately distinguished.

"There are two more people approaching over there."

The residual sequelae of the illusion were still affecting Klein's senses. Although he was unable to catch these sounds, he still believed in Leonard's judgment. After looking around, Klein's eyes immediately locked onto the [Thinker's Chair] on the ground.

"Maybe we can set a little trap."