It is obvious that there is someone or something on the second floor.
Drizzt became alert, took out his commonly used revolver, and checked the bullets.
Lu Jian materialized [Last Words] and was ready to find a way to shoot it at any time.
Shia looked at the two of them, a little confused.
"What are you doing?"
she asked softly.
"We need to be careful when approaching each other..."
Before Drizzt could finish speaking, he saw Shia raising her left hand.
Her small stature suddenly burst out with great strength. She jumped up and hit the ceiling with her left hand at lightning speed.
Dong dong dong——
Along with the sound of something penetrating the ceiling and reaching the floor of the second floor, Lu Tiao clearly saw that several small holes as thick as a finger appeared on the wooden ceiling.
Bang bang bang bang——
The next moment, a series of explosions sounded, shaking down a lot of dust.
"Bah, bah, bah...what are you doing?"
Drizzt spat out the ash in his mouth and looked up at the second floor.
There is no movement above.
"When encountering an unidentified thing, if there is a wall blocking it, you can directly use the Penetrating Explosion Technique to conduct a tentative attack to detect the enemy's situation. This is what the Gray Tower's agent manual says."
Shia replied immediately.
"Probing attack?"
Lu Tan felt that this temptation seemed a bit exaggerated.
"...What if it's the ancient capital up there?"
Drizzt asked hesitantly.
"Don't worry, I prayed for healing this time. As long as I still have breath, I can save you directly!"
Xia patted her chest, making a sound of metal colliding, and looked at Lu Tiao specifically.
"Shall we go upstairs and take a look?"
Lu Tan felt that it was definitely not the ancient capital. He went straight up the creaking stairs and saw the second floor in a mess.
This is the bedroom. You can see the cotton wool flying on the bed. The explosion technique directly turned the wooden bed into pieces. At the same time, there was also a creature turned into pieces.
It looked like a hound or an octopus, lying on the ground, dying.
Lu Tiao looked carefully and saw that it was a four-legged creature, the size of a large dog, with a body as smooth as an eel, with reverse-jointed limbs and sharp claws at the end.
What is concerning is its head, with several tentacles extending from the neck. There are no eyes or ears. Only in the center of the tentacles is a mouthpart surrounded by countless fangs.
Just seeing this creature is enough to make people wonder what the gods of this world have done. The greasy tentacles are still curling up and stretching slightly, but the monster seems to be unable to move anymore.
"Look, this is not the ancient capital."
Shia pointed at the monster and said.
"Is this a monster special to the abandoned capital?"
Lu Tan was curious. After all, he was not from the abandoned capital. He had only seen rat people and flying fish in the abandoned capital. He didn't know what other strange creatures existed here.
"I've never heard of such a monster in the ruined capital."
Drizzt put away the revolver and took out his gloves. He was about to put them on subconsciously, but after thinking about it, he handed them to Lu Tian.
"Come and check it out."
Lu Tan took the glove and quickly came to the monster's side. He poked the monster's body with his fingers. What he felt was a slightly hard touch, like a balloon with stones inside.
Lu Tian pinched the tentacles on his face with his fingers and pulled them away. Lu Tian completely exposed the monster's mouthparts in Drizzt's livid expression.
The moment he saw that scene, Drizzt felt an instinctive shudder. He took two steps back and held on to the wall. The dizziness made him almost fall to his knees, but fortunately Shia supported him.
[You witnessed an unspeakable evil monster]
【Sanity-3】
Drizzt couldn't even pay attention to the reminder of his reduced sanity.
He gasped for breath, took a moment to calm down, and finally stood up straight.
"Fortunately, I didn't go check it out myself..."
Drizzt was still frightened. If this thing was still alive and he had to fight it and examine the corpse with his own hands, he might lose his sanity even more.
"Are you okay?"
Shia was not affected much, she just felt a little disgusted when she saw this scene. In the black forest and on the path of the agent, there are many more bizarre beasts, and this monster can only be regarded as one of the uglier ones.
When Lu Jian saw this, he looked thoughtful.
It seems that if we evaluate the pollution level, the pollution level of the Kingdom of Darkness must be deeper than that of Wasteland. The same monster can have a strong impact on Drizzt, but it has no effect on Shia.
As for Lu Jian, he no longer has any reason to lose his mind and does not need to discuss it.
Therefore, Lu Tiao felt that perhaps the level of pollution in the world could indeed improve human beings' resistance to these alien monsters and indescribable existences to some extent.
At this time, Lu Tian noticed that the monster's abdomen seemed to be a little bulging, a little more bloated than before.
"Strange, is it a little bulging here?"
He poked it with his finger.
Immediately, Lu Jian saw that something seemed to be squirming in the monster's abdomen, undulating under the skin like insects. At the same time, the abdomen swelled like a sick person, and gradually became unbearable.
"Leave quickly."
Lu Tan said something, and Shia immediately picked up Drizzt, who was still a little weak in the legs, and left the bedroom.
The moment Lu Tiao closed the door, the monster's body exploded.
The explosion only lasted for a moment and then stopped. Lu Jian opened the door and saw an even more chaotic scene.
There are countless wriggling tentacles in the monster's belly, just like its face. There seem to be cysts one after another at the ends of those tentacles. You can almost imagine that such a creature has grown from these small octopuses the size of fingernails step by step.
Those ferocious and strange monsters, and there are hundreds of these monsters, still squirming in this room, covering every corner.
Even Shia was a little dizzy this time. She saw that her sanity had diminished a little, and then she raised her hand and cast a spell.
Buzz——
All the squirming bugs in the room were dragged, sucked, and rolled into balls by some force.
snap——
The bugs were compressed into a piece and fell to the ground.
"Is this the magic of the Kingdom of Darkness..."
Drizzt had been to the Kingdom of Night before, but had never had direct contact with the wizards of the Gray Tower. When he saw Shia's series of spells, he couldn't help but feel incredible.
This is an extraordinary power far beyond the imagination of the people in the abandoned capital.
"It's quite convenient, but it's a pity that I can't learn it."
Lu Tan sighed.
At this time, he discovered that after Xia had cleaned up the messy garbage and bugs, there was a pile of scattered manuscript papers on the floor in the corner of the bedroom.
The manuscript paper was stained by unknown dirt, but the text on it was basically still legible.
Lu Tan bent down and picked up the stack of manuscript paper. He saw that it was a fragment of the novel.
"...Before heading to Beihan Town, the detectives decided to go to the novelist's residence to see if they could gain anything..."