Wizard: Become stronger by drawing cards from the potions variety show

Chapter 631 Reduction of Personnel

Her mood swings were completely hidden from the bearded man.

At least in the bearded man's eyes, Theresa was still that stupid and naive girl.

He urged Theresa to get up quickly and, as she had said before, go into the residence and look for any clues from the children.

Theresa got up reluctantly and, according to the bearded man's idea and under the subtle coercion of several people, walked towards a residence on the side of the street.

When they approached the room, several people stopped.

Because only then did they realize that not only in this room, but also in several surrounding houses, there were children looking at them through the windows.

Compared to the number of children who showed up at the celebration, there were obviously more children locked up at home.

This phenomenon is not normal. This is a celebration, and it is more reasonable for families to bring their children out together.

The bearded man felt something was wrong, so he urged Theresa, "Hurry up and continue. Don't dawdle."

Theresa said, "I'm wondering which one I should choose..."

The bearded man pushed her and said, "Don't try to play tricks. Just pick this one. This is the one you asked me to choose at the beginning."

Theresa had no choice but to do as she was told.

She came to the nearest room and, relying on the bonfire rising into the sky in the square, could clearly see the child looking at them through the window.

Theresa knocked on the door, but there was no answer and the child did not respond.

"Just try to open the door." The bearded man said half in an order, half in a threat.

Theresa had no choice but to do as she was told.

She grasped the door handle and twisted it gently. There was no resistance at all and she could feel the door lock pop open.

The door of the room slid inwards naturally.

Through the gap in the room, you can see that it is pitch black inside.

There was no sound or light inside.

Theresa was forced to walk to the front, enter the room, and look around. The furnishings were all very ordinary, nothing special.

Theresa took a few steps, crossed the wall blocking the porch, and looked towards the window. The child who had been standing there before had disappeared.

Theresa asked, "Can you still see the child from outside the window?"

Theresa turned pale, and the bearded man turned around and sent the last guy out to take a look. He soon got the feedback:

"The child is still there."

The bearded man looked at the empty living room. Firelight shone in through the window, and the blurry light swayed on the wall.

"How can it be."

The bearded man didn't believe it and took a few steps back. He found that the child at the window was still staring at them, but once they entered the residence, the child disappeared again.

"Shit, is this guy a window sticker?"

The bearded man was a little annoyed.

Someone behind us whispered, "Not really, because when we moved, the child's eyes followed us..."

The bearded man slapped him in the face and said, "Nonsense, why do you have to say that? Can't you tell I'm joking? Come in and search together, quickly."

The house doesn't look big, but it has two floors, so it should take quite a while to search it.

However, despite this, the five people do not plan to search separately in order to prevent any accidents. At most, when searching a room, several people can search different locations.

First the living room, then the kitchen, the bedroom...

I searched room by room, but didn't find anything special, and of course, no one was found.

The shadow of the child seen outside the room seemed to have evaporated into thin air.

After a tiring round with nothing gained, everyone, starving, rummaged through the refrigerator in the kitchen, took out some food and prepared to fill their stomachs.

There is bread and grilled meat in the refrigerator. These things are no different from those outside, except that they taste cold and hard, and a little worse than those grilled outside.

But no one said anything at this time.

Before eating, they carefully looked at the plates containing the food. They were all blue, and there was nothing wrong with them.

Theresa took the bread and was about to take a bite when she suddenly remembered that Miles had suddenly screamed while eating the bread, as if he had discovered something.

Is there something on the bread?

Theresa thought about it and looked at the bread, but found nothing. Then she broke the bread again and found nothing special inside.

"Is this my illusion? I feel like I can discover something..."

Theresa was thinking, and suddenly her eyes fell on the mirror standing next to the living room. Through the mirror, she could see a pair of small feet in the corner of the sofa, near the window.

Those are the child's feet.

There was clearly nothing at that location, but the mirror reflected the presence of someone.

Theresa stared at the mirror, then slowly stood up and put down the bread in her hand...

"Where are you going?" The bearded man also noticed Theresa's strange behavior and asked.

But Theresa did not answer, she just put her index finger to her lips: "Shh..."

The bearded man was a little annoyed by this action and wanted to curse, but after seeing Theresa's empty eyes, he swallowed the words.

Then he signaled Horn to follow with his eyes.

Horn had no choice but to stand up and follow Theresa.

Theresa approached little by little, her eyes looking at the mirror, she turned sideways, looked at herself in the mirror, adjusted the position of her hands according to the image in the mirror, and walked towards the child's position in the mirror.

Soon, she felt her hand touching something.

It was a pair of cold hands holding her hands.

Theresa's tense body subconsciously triggered a conditioned reflex, and she wanted to pull her hands back, but the hands that held her did not move at all, freezing her in place.

Not only that, after a brief pause, Theresa felt the hands inside increase their pulling force, as if they wanted to pull her over...

But where exactly are we going?

Before Theresa could figure it out, Horn, who was following her, exclaimed: "This..."

In just a few breaths, the area below Theresa's right elbow disappeared, just like paint being erased, gradually fading and then disappearing.

The bearded man who heard the noise came over and turned around immediately after seeing this scene. He went to the kitchen to get a knife and said bluntly, "There is no other way. Losing an arm is better than dying."

The bearded man raised his chef's knife and chopped it down hard.

Everyone else turned their heads away, not wanting to watch this scene.

laugh.

The tip of the knife sank into the floor, but the imagined bloody scene did not occur.

At the critical moment, Theresa pulled back her hand, causing the bearded man's knife to miss.

The bearded man looked at Theresa and said, "It seems that at this critical moment of life and death, your potential is stimulated..."

Theresa shouted angrily: "You tried to cut off my hand."

The bearded man looked at Theresa and grinned: "That's better than death."

Theresa didn't say anything. The others could only comfort Theresa. In an emergency, it is better to save lives. Although the bearded man's way of handling the situation looked a little scary, it was the best way in that situation.

The bearded man didn't say anything. He looked at the three guys surrounding Theresa and sneered in his heart: What a bunch of idiots. If it weren't for him, they would probably have been sold and would have helped count the money.

The dumber they are, though, the better.

Among this group of people, only I can survive.

He took the knife just to test it.

Because he found that the whole process was a bit strange.

In the situation just now, Theresa's behavior was not right. A normal person would shout for help at the first moment if they encountered such a situation, even he would, but Theresa did not...

Isn't she afraid of danger?

So, the bearded man tried with a knife, and sure enough, something went wrong.

The bearded man asked, "How did you do it? What did you discover? What did you gain?"

The bearded man asked a series of questions, but Theresa ignored them.

Theresa was a little dazed. She raised her hand and looked at the marks on it, still immersed in the information she had just received.

On her hand, there was a mark like a handprint. Through the handprint, the flesh and blood seemed to be blurred, and even her bones could be vaguely seen.

Theresa looked up and asked, "Did you see it?"

Another team member said angrily: "What did you see? Why don't you answer the question quickly!?"

Several people looked at Theresa.

Theresa also realized at this time that these people seemed unable to see the abnormality on her wrist. If they could see it, their eyes would not be fixed on her face like now, but on her abnormal arm.

"nothing……"

Theresa lowered her arms. "I saw the shadow of a child in the mirror, so I guessed that maybe only by seeing the shadow of the child through the mirror can I touch them..."

She pointed to the mirror placed diagonally in the corner of the side wall. They looked into the mirror and could vaguely see a child next to them.

This made them involuntarily move aside, feeling a little creepy.

However, this also made them suddenly realize.

Indeed, the difference between them being outside the room and inside the room is the mirror.

It is possible that it was because of the mirror that they were unable to see the children.

The situation just now also proved that Theresa's idea was correct.

The bearded man looked at the remaining three people and pointed at one of them: "You, look at the mirror too and try to touch it."

"Ah? Me?" One of the team members pointed at himself. He didn't expect that he would be pointed at. "Why not let Horn go?"

"Horn is still useful. I believe the captain thinks so too. What, do you have any objection to my decision?"

The nameless team member lowered his head in disappointment.

The others stepped aside, leaving enough space for him to try.

Theresa knew that the bearded man was cautious, even extremely fearful of his life. She would never touch such a guy.

Theresa stroked the mark on her hand, looked at the team members who were trying to grope, lowered her head, and a hint of coldness flashed in her eyes.

Suddenly, a trace of fear flashed in the team member's eyes, and then his palm suddenly disappeared and spread upwards at an extremely fast speed.

But with Theresa's experience, no one stopped her this time.

Only the bearded man was a little alert: No, it seems a little strange, this is not the same as what Theresa did before.

But he couldn't tell which part was different.

The disappeared arm of the unknown team member reappeared, and on it turned into a strange piece of clothing made up of diamonds of various colors.

On the tight cuffs, there are triangular pieces of fabric that bloom like petals, wrinkled and spread out, with a small bell hanging on the top.

"Something's wrong. This is so weird."

Without a second thought, the bearded man raised his chef's knife, intending to repeat his old trick and interrupt the situation.

When he raised his hand, he found that his arm had become the same as before.

The lower half of his thick arms became slender and were covered with a ridiculous diamond-shaped sleeve, which looked extremely funny, but there was nothing unusual about their movements.

He picked up the chef's knife and chopped it down suddenly. The moment the knife touched the clothing, it turned into a long white balloon. Wherever it touched, it burst into colorful ribbons and made a beeping sound.

It sounds cute and even funny, but when it happens in front of you, it's just scary.

Because the bearded man saw with his own eyes that the person in front of him was covered with this strange clothing, and then a clown's head squeezed out from the neck.

You can vaguely see her original appearance, but the grinning mouth and the extremely exaggerated makeup and hat all look very creepy.

The next moment, the bearded man's eyes went dark, and he only felt all kinds of colorful colors flowing in front of his eyes, and then he lost consciousness.

He saw with his own eyes that the three people turned into weird clowns right in front of his eyes, giggling, and then disappeared, taking off their hats to salute him before leaving.

Horn collapsed on the ground in horror, with a puddle of water underneath him.

Theresa helped Horn up: "It's okay, it's over."

Horn was horrified and couldn't help asking, "What happened? Did you kill them?"

Theresa sighed, "Not me, but... almost."

She raised her hand.

The mark on the wrist, the place that was touched, is the mark left by the "child" on oneself, called: the same kind.

The effect is that the sacrifice quota can be transferred.

Just now, the mark was triggered, telling her that she was chosen as a sacrifice because she did not participate in the celebration process and triggered the sacrifice. However, under the effect of the "same kind" mark, Theresa can choose to transfer the sacrifice quota to other people within one meter.

She tried a beard, but the beard had already been sacrificed.

After trying a few more times, they found that only Horn and the team member who was trying to touch the child were lucky enough not to be chosen as sacrifices.

Between the two, Theresa hesitated and did not give it to Horn. After all, Horn was quite caring towards her.

Thanks to this special mark, Theresa survived.

Horn fell to the ground and couldn't calm down for a long time.

Theresa extended her hand, pulled Horn up, and said, "The most urgent thing is to meet up with Nick and the others as soon as possible. Even if we can't find them, we have to participate in the subsequent celebration process as soon as possible."