The cold wind blew away the wails. The woman dragged the little girl with her as they escaped into the fog.
At that moment, behind them came the rattling of a carriage. Gu Jun's group saw it was the carriage that carried the few birdbeak doctors. It appeared to be chasing after the mother and daughter. The mother's voice turned even more terrified, "Go, go faster …"
Suddenly, a noose was tossed over. It quickly and accurately wrapped around the woman's body. She collapsed to the ground and was immobilized.
"Ellie, go, go!" The woman screamed. The little girl turned back to look at her mother before running away.
Just as Gu Jun's group was about to do something, a thicker fog washed over them. The scene before them disappeared like it was just an illusion.
"What the hell …" Lou Xiaoning was annoyed at the thought of the brutal scene just now. "Aren't those people doctors?"
"Historically, the birdbeak doctors were hated and feared by the people." Gu Jun had some medical knowledge about this. "Because the birdbeak doctors failed to cure the Black Plague, if anything, they brought the plague and disaster upon the world. Therefore, no one was willing to see the birdbeak doctors."
"That woman is a patient?" Lou Xiaoning understood. Combining the mother and daughter's words …
They weren't hiding from evil creatures, but from plague doctors. Was that so?
"What do you think those people are?" Gu Jun asked the Zoog, "Do you smell anything?"
"Mr. Nightmare Man, this is the strange part." The Zoog could not say for sure. "I can smell them clearly, they belong to the same race as you." He sniffed at Gu Jun. "Yes, it is the scent of this world. It feels like they are real, they are not just illusions. "
Gu Jun frowned as he tried to figure out the meaning of this. He turned to Peacock and the rest with a questioning look.
Peacock and the rest shook their heads. In Dreamlands, it was hard to tell what was real and what was fake.
Even the City of Kindle and themselves could not come to a conclusion.
"Don't worry about it for now." Gu Jun could only say that as he continued to walk towards the manor that was less than a hundred meters away.
The architectural style of the manor was something they had never seen before. It was not particularly grand, but it had an indescribable strangeness to it. Was it because it was built of black stone, or because of the sharp vaults, or because of the withered vines that hung from the walls?
The first thing they passed through was a stone arch door. There were some strange patterns carved on the stone. It looked like a mark …
Gu Jun took a closer look. There was a dot at each of the five corners of the mark. If they were connected, it would form an 'X'. However, the five dots were not dots but gaping mouths … Gu Jun believed he had seen them before, they were the mouths inside the limbs of the new strain of legionella bacteria …
It seemed like this epidemic was indeed related to the House of Worm.
"Is anyone there?" The Zoog patted himself with a shudder. "We were just passing by. We thought this place was pretty, so we came to take a look and then we left …"
"Shush." Gu Jun said as he scanned his surroundings. The place was dark and gloomy, and there was no sign of a shadow in sight.
Based on the Zoog's explanation and the legendary status of the House of Worm in Dreamlands, the people from the Afterlife Cult could not have taken control of this place. This place was like a temple, so they probably came here to do something. Worship? Sacrifice? Summoning?
Gu Jun felt like everything was possible …
"The owner of the House of Worm." Gu Jun did not act rashly. Instead, he slowly walked toward the main house. As he walked, he said to the people around him, "We are here because our world has been struck by a coughing plague. We wish to understand the situation."
His words were polite but Lou Xiaoning had her pistol raised, ready to fire at any moment. Peacock and the rest were ready to chant their spells.
Even though they were pressed for time, every step they took was like treading on thin ice. They paid close attention to their surroundings and the sky as they approached the main house.
The main house was the largest of the buildings in the manor. The others looked like storage rooms, stables, and the like. However, the main house was five or six stories high. It was so big that they could barely see it, and they could not see how long the back of the house was.
However, the door to the main house was left open, allowing them to walk in.
There was no hall, the door led them down a long corridor that led deeper into the darkness. There were no decorations on the walls, only some wriggling patterns. There were no lights on the ceiling, only the patterns.
'So, this is the House of Worm … '
"Hmm." Gu Jun stared at the patterns and his mind seemed to be affected …
It was the same for Lou Xiaoning and the rest.
Suddenly, they seemed to see a different scene, causing their hearts to tighten. Was this house really made of stone? At this moment, they were surrounded by corpses! There were countless bodies of different shapes and sizes, some were intact and some were incomplete.
Some of the bodies were wearing different clothes, some were naked and some were rotten.
They were piled on top of one another, forming the walls on both sides and the ceiling above. They were all corpses.
Some of the heads faced outwards, the empty eyes stared at them.
"Rawr, rawr …" The Zoog screamed, "God damn it, we need to go back now."
'Is this the real face of the House of Worm? ' Everyone's heart chilled. Adventurers from different worlds and races had become a part of this place.
A different scene flashed before Gu Jun's eyes. Those were not corpses, they were all kinds of worms …
There were long tapeworms, lumpy trematodes, transparent nematodes … and protozoa. Countless fleas were crawling around, and flies were flying around. They were everywhere.
Gu Jun's head started to crack with pain. The little girl's words echoed in his mind, "We will all die, we will all die …"
At the same time, Peacock heard something. She took a few steps back and turned to look at a human body stuck inside the wall of dead bodies. The body was still intact, it looked like a human. The bloody face was facing outwards and the eyes appeared to be glowing … Kathlyn recognized it and gasped, "One of us!"
"What?!" Lou Xiaoning rushed over and her expression shifted, "Ma Feng, it's Ma Feng!"
Gu Jun recovered. He gritted his teeth and walked to the side. The person trapped inside the wall of dead bodies was indeed … Ma Feng.
Feng Wei was an elite from the Investigation Department. He was in his thirties and had a buzz cut. He was supposed to contribute his investigative skills to the team.
He was supposed to contribute his investigative skills to the team but due to his lack of mental power, he stayed behind at the border and disappeared.
Now that Ma Feng was here, Uncle Dan and the others …
"Help … help me …" Ma Feng mumbled weakly. It was unclear whether it was a conscious cry for help or a survival instinct.
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