Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 8 The Compromise of the Public Security Bureau
Chapter 8

At Redstone City Police Department, detectives from various precincts were already extremely busy shortly after dawn.

In just one night, more than a dozen murders involving the supernatural have occurred in the outer city.

These people died in all sorts of bizarre ways.

Some were burned to death...

Some died from bleeding wounds all over their bodies...

Some died from falling to their deaths from high places inside buildings...

Various methods of death were found, yet no trace of the killer could be found at the scene.

In the end, it was only when criminal hunters from the Public Security Bureau personally intervened that they discovered the presence of spiritual traces at the scene.

At the same time, tens of thousands of static paintings with faint spiritual connotations were discovered in the outer city.

These static paintings show no abnormalities when held by extraordinary individuals, but when held by ordinary people, they immediately merge into their bodies and disappear. Through a portion of the collected static paintings, it can be seen that the manner of death of last night is very similar to that depicted in these paintings.

The next day, another hundred people died suddenly in the outer city.

Chief Inspector Jonathan of the Police Department put down the phone, his face unusually grim.

He had just consulted a nobleman of the painter class he knew in another city, and the conclusion was that all still paintings are keys to entering the spirit realm. Without finding the spirit realm behind it and its controller, all ordinary people who have come into contact with still paintings will constantly enter the spirit realm in their dreams.

He has already arranged for a series of doctors to carefully examine the brains of the deceased.

Hopefully, there will be good news, otherwise Redstone City will be in chaos.

Conservative estimates suggest that the number of still images exceeds 100,000.

Although the death rate is low at present, once the news spreads, the chaos caused by fear among 100,000 people is no small matter. What he is more worried about is how far the mastermind behind the murder is going to go.
If the spiritual realm behind it is a painting created by a painter, then the painter must be at least Sequence 6.

He was just a Sequence 8 criminal hunter. When a Sequence 8 encounters a Sequence 6, whether he wants to die depends on the other party's mood.

Bang bang bang!
"Please come in!"

Jonathan's heart skipped a beat when he heard the knock, and he got up and went to open the door.

He hoped this time it would be good news; he had heard far too much bad news.

"how's it going?"

Jonathan stood directly in the doorway and stared at Bentham as he asked.

Bensom is the only forensic pathologist in the Security Bureau with a Doctor Sequence 8 rank. If even he can't find the information he wants, then he can only report to higher levels of the Security Bureau. However, this also represents his incompetence, and the chances of him advancing further will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.

"Here is the report you requested."

Bentham handed the folder he was holding to Jonathan.

Jonathan took the report and opened it immediately. The report contained memories extracted from the deceased's brain. Although some were incomplete, there were more than one hundred reports. After quickly comparing and reading them, he summarized some key points.

First of all, that spiritual realm is very special; it is very small in scope but not limited to a single scene.

Secondly, the spirit realm scene is very flexible and can be changed to a certain extent depending on the ordinary people who enter it.

Then, that spiritual realm was harmless to the vast majority of people.

All the dead met the special condition of being unrepentant even in death.

Every scene within the Spirit Realm tests the survival will of those who enter.

This also meant that the painter behind the scenes didn't intend to go on a killing spree; at most, he would use the spiritual realm to eliminate some of the remnants that the painter deemed scum. Jonathan breathed a sigh of relief; he really didn't want to face a painter who was suspected to be Sequence 6 unless absolutely necessary.

This is good now. We just need to keep an eye on the remnants of the outer city and collect the bodies in time at night. The unrest in the outer city will not be too great. After all, the outer city has hundreds of thousands of people. On average, several hundred people will die every day.

The number of dead has only doubled, and as long as ordinary people don't see the horrific state of the deceased, it won't cause any unrest.

……

At this time, Rosen was unaware that his spiritual paintings had already caused a Sequence 8 criminal hunter to lose sleep over them.

What they didn't know was that this criminal hunter, for his own future and to avoid facing him, had voluntarily helped him cover up the changes in the outer city, and even the still-life painting keys that were originally collected by the police department were secretly delivered to those honest and law-abiding ordinary people.

However, a few days later, it was discovered that the static images had all been activated, and Rosen guessed that the police department had secretly helped them a lot.

As time went by, the virtual realm of Saw 1 began to gradually collect more and more spiritual energy.

Only one percent of these spiritual resources are reserved for Rosen to use at will; the rest become nourishment for the virtual spiritual realm.

In addition, the virtual realm also executed thousands of ordinary people like the drunkard John.

Because these people were executed by the virtual spiritual realm, their complete spirituality was drained by the virtual spiritual realm in one go. The direct result was that the virtual spiritual realm gradually nurtured a special extraordinary ability. If Rosen hadn't checked his personal attributes through the main god's computer, he would have had difficulty discovering this change.

On this day, Rosen honed his painting skills as usual, typically creating spiritual paintings from two points of spirituality.

He wasn't in a hurry to create a new virtual spiritual realm, since Redstone City only had these ordinary people.

It's lucky that nothing serious happened this time; if you don't know when to stop, you'll only bring trouble upon yourself.

Rosen didn't believe that no one could solve the problem of the static painting key in the virtual spirit realm. In the past few days, he had read all the books passed down in Rosen's family and found some knowledge about the extraordinary world that only spiritual beings could read, which Rosen had never known before.

One sentence that Rosen kept in mind was that spirituality is the core of everything in the extraordinary world.

The strength of one's spirituality determines the strength of one's extraordinary abilities.

Although the spiritual still images he mass-printed were able to be imbued with spirituality thanks to the God's computer, he didn't actually put much spirituality into them in total, and the amount distributed among each still image was pitifully small.

Dealing with ordinary people is fine if no one takes it seriously, but if someone really takes it seriously, any Sequence 8 painter can easily take them down.

Without the key, it's as if the virtual spiritual realm is dying halfway through and can no longer receive replenishment from external spiritual energy. In that case, the painter himself will have to inject his own spiritual energy into the virtual spiritual realm, but the result will only be a drop in the ocean.

Therefore, Rosen did not intend to cause any more trouble in Redstone City; he simply planned to quietly wait for the virtual spiritual realm to materialize.

Then he would leave Redstone City and head to a more prosperous city to start a new life openly and honestly.

To leave Redstone City, one obviously needs sufficient strength to protect oneself.

Therefore, these days, Rosen only draws two kinds of static paintings: the first is a shield, and the second is a bullet in flight. The former can materialize a shield out of thin air to defend against damage, while the latter can make the bullet flying rapidly in the painting appear in reality and shoot at the enemy.

Such spiritual paintings that can provide combat abilities are naturally the more the better.

This also led Rosen to discover a hidden benefit of the mysterious study: the spirituality contained in the spiritual paintings is not immortal. No spiritual painting can exist forever. Even if it can exist for 100,000 years, it will still disappear into nothingness in the 100,001st year.

The duration of a spiritual painting depends on the artist's rank and the quality of the brushes, paints, and paper.

Rosen didn't have any of these. Logically, his spiritual paintings should only last for a maximum of twelve days, but the result was that the spiritual paintings he painted twelve days ago still showed no signs of losing their spirituality. This confirmed to him that the mysterious study had a hidden function to prevent the loss of spirituality.

Therefore, while other painters have a limited number of spiritual paintings to accumulate, Rosen is able to accumulate an unlimited number of spiritual paintings through his mysterious study.

While this doesn't increase his combat power ceiling, it can significantly extend his combat endurance.

(End of this chapter)