Is it really normal to contain these anomalies?

"Hmm...Kamii, K Company, damn, we're not going to get dragged into some religious gang."

Moses walked on the arch bridge of the so-called Crescent Lake with a frown on his face, smoking his pipe.

She considered all the possibilities.

There are many gangs in the South, but the only one she can name that is related to religion is probably the Gear Church...

"It doesn't necessarily have to be a religious gang. I'm just worried they're worshipping something as a god."

Bai Yu walking beside her provided another possibility.

If there are people offering sacrifices in the bloody land, why not in the corrupt land?

What's more, in the city, where none of them had ever come into contact with these two types of beings...

It’s a pity that these two existences in the Terraria world are not good things.

What's more, a truly corrupted landscape really appeared here...

When he gets back, he might really have to ask the guide for clarification.

And now.

The choice before Bai Yu is actually very simple.

If two hours later.

The convoy of the Second Association arrived as scheduled...

Then he would not choose to stay here for too long and leave the rest of the work to other people who would finish it.

but if……

Bai Yu sighed.

Looking down from the bridge, the clear water reflected his own reflection clearly...

……

2 hour and 14 minutes later.

"Your people haven't arrived yet."

It was almost 11 o'clock in the morning. Bai Yu checked his watch and forced a smile to the uncle from the Second Association behind him.

"Yeah, young people are just unreliable."

The uncle helplessly threw his old phone aside.

The operator on the other end of the line still replied in a panic, "Chief Liu, the convoy has set off and should have arrived..."

"Old man, what should we do now? Sleep here?"

The other ladies were gathered into a room, and Aika raised her hand half-seriously to suggest something.

"Hey, Miss Aika, you can sleep in this situation? That's too rough."

Ezra expressed disdain for Aika.

“…I was just joking.”

"Well, I'll listen to you, senior."

"I?"

Bai Yu didn't expect that Komini would bring the topic back to him.

But he reacted and shrugged.

"Then maybe there's no choice... prepare to go through all of Ola!"

"Don't investigate anymore?!"

Moses frowned at Bai Yu's decision.

"Of course, but before that, since we already know there's something unusual here, we must also be prepared for conflict."

"Aijia, please restrain yourself and don't kill most of the people here."

Bai Yu took out two EGOs from the void bag.

The bloody butcher knife was given to Komini, and the lever-action rifle and the matching EGO were thrown to Aika.

Bai Yu doesn't like useless bloodshed, especially when it involves civilians... But given the current situation, he has a feeling that the convoy sent by the Second Association to pick them up has been completely wiped out.

"I may not be able to stop."

The uncle crossed his arms and reminded Bai Yu in advance.

"Really? It's okay. I'm not sure if I can control it myself, but I'll just try my best."

Bai Yu twisted his neck and stroked the bandaged hilt of the sword at his waist.

……

"Bang bang bang!"

Before the attack route was arranged, there was a knock on the door.

"Everyone, it's time for lunch. Do you want us to bring it to your room?"

"Um……"

"Are you guys cosplaying?"

Bai Yu opened the door and was surprised to find that the mayor seemed quite knowledgeable.

"Yeah, going to a masquerade ball down south."

"Heading to the masquerade in an armored transport?"

"...What can I do for you, Lord Mayor?"

Bai Yu smiled with obvious embarrassment.

He didn't expect that the mayor could actually jump back and forth on the line between intelligence and lack of intelligence.

"Hey, I've told you so many times, just call me Lao Wang."

The mayor seemed to have seen through Bai Yu and the others' cover-up, so he returned to their previous topic.

"It's about lunch..."

"Let's go."

But it was beyond the expectations of everyone behind him.

Bai Yu changed his mind the first time he saw the mayor.

He agreed decisively, and the mayor in front of him was even more delighted.

"Really?! That's great! Everyone, please follow me!"

284

Chapter 284: Distortion? Isn’t this too easy…

"Aren't you going to take action?"

"I don't know!"

A few minutes later.

In the corridor, Aijia and Ezra, who were huddled at the back, were talking in low voices, one after the other.

It was not until Moses and the uncle pinched them separately that they finally seemed to learn to shut up out of grievance or dissatisfaction.

But even so...

Bai Yu still has his own reasons for doing this.

Moses looked at the mayor who was leading the way for them and had to admit it.

Only a few hours had passed, and the mayor in her eyes had changed...

"Now, what do you think of the things you see?"

Bai Yu slowed down his pace in the first row and came to Moses' side to ask.

"The group of demons dances wildly."

Moses kept looking at everything around him in the hotel corridor, and gradually tightened his grip on his pipe.

"Really? What does he look like?"

"Unusual... strange eyes sprouted directly from the back of his head. Only the lower half of his body is intact. The upper half is emitting lavender smoke like a honeycomb..."

"Is it purple jealousy?"

After hearing this, Bai Yu understood it simply.

In "The Hell Bus" in the Lobotomy Trilogy, there is a resource called sin. They are the emotions possessed by urban people and are also the key to allowing ordinary people without training to drive the use of EGO.

Just as the manifestation of human melancholy is water, jealousy is more like purple thorns spreading from the inside out.

"Bai Yu, what are you going to do now?"

Moses glanced again at the man beside him.

She didn't expect Bai Yu to understand what he saw - the unaware mayor twisted his upper body, as disgusting as a worm.

And the other townspeople around here...are pretty much the same.

But Bai Yu did not answer her. He just smiled and followed the mayor back to the luxurious lobby.

He pushed open the door from the corridor and entered.

"welcome!"

“Everyone must leave a good impression here~”

"..."

Compared to 7am.

There were obviously more staff at noon.

However, the dishes in front of me are still as exquisite and even more sumptuous than breakfast.

"Let's toast to the travelers for the future of this town!"

The mayor first raised his glass and saluted Bai Yu and others.

Bai Yu and Moses obeyed, but did not swallow the drink-like liquid inside.

But the mayor should have noticed.

After all, his and the other people around him had never left her eyes since the moment they stepped into this beautiful hall.

“Let’s keep the travelers fed for the future of our town!”

But the mayor smiled and said a similar line.

All the turntables in the lobby started spinning, and the aroma of the dishes seemed to fill everyone's nostrils.

"Bai Yu..."

Something is not right with the way things are going.

Moses wasn't referring to the sound of Ezra swallowing, but rather the deepening distortion in the hearts of all the townspeople present.

For the future of the town...

Every time such words are conveyed, they seem to evoke a distorted resonance among the villagers.

"Everyone, we're leaving soon."

Bai Yu agreed with her idea, stood up, raised his hand with a smile, and finally began to try to interrupt this strange scene that seemed like some unknown cult ritual.

"..."

"is it?"

But I could see a hint of discord in my own conversation.

The mayor sighed, as if expressing only regret.