"Doctor, this..."
"It's a self-protection mechanism. We have entered a secret area in his heart that he is unwilling to reveal, so he forbids us to leave. Well, this is not surprising."
The doctor made the judgment quite skillfully.
The raging flames licked the faces and arms of the two men. They did not continue to move inside for the time being, but stood at the door and looked inside the accounting office.
It was still a fire scene. The room was quite large, with collapsed filing cabinets and archive cabinets on top of each other. All the cabinet doors were open, and burning paper documents were scattered all over the floor, desks, and archive cabinets, as if someone had looted the place before the fire.
"Over there."
The doctor pointed to the imposing desk at the back of the accounting office.
Ignoring the black wisps in the air, the two men walked around the filing cabinets and found a man huddled next to a safe behind a desk. Bills were scattered around him, but strangely, they were not on fire.
The man didn't react at all to the footsteps behind him. The doctor raised his eyebrows and motioned for Xia De to speak, so Xia De cleared his throat:
"Luther King Weiss?"
As soon as the words fell, the trembling figure finally moved. He turned his head and saw the face of a man crying. Because there were no signs of burns, the face could even be considered handsome. Shade was not sure if they had found the right target.
That's it.
"That's it."
The doctor said, then frowned slightly, because the crying man actually lay on the ground and slowly crawled towards the two of them, as if he wanted to hug Xia De's legs. His speed was not fast, so Xia De took a step back and avoided it.
He had a very bad feeling.
Kingweisi lay on the one-pound notes, tears streaming down her face. She raised her head and asked him with a trembling body:
"Sir, will you forgive me?"
The sound did not come from his mouth, but from all directions, as if the whole house was speaking.
Xia De immediately looked at the doctor, and Dr. Schneider shook his head and made a speech gesture:
"He's asking you a question."
This was probably what the doctor meant by his lip movements, but Xia De didn't understand lip reading, so he couldn't rule out the possibility that Dr. Schneider was asking him if he wanted to have a midnight snack today.
"I... have no obligation to forgive you on behalf of others."
Although he knew that saying "forgiveness" might prevent the dream master from losing control, Xia De didn't want to do anything against his will. In particular, he didn't believe that the other party could beat the two of them.
The doctor laughed and gestured to Shadbi to continue.
"You, don't forgive?"
The crouching figure asked tremblingly, looking at Xia De in surprise with his tear-swollen eyes.
The dancing flames around suddenly stopped for a moment, but immediately returned to normal.
The wind started to blow. The wind actually started to blow in the closed fire scene. The inexplicable wind did not shake the flames that were leaping again, but swept the black silk in the air, quickly gathering towards the body of the man on the banknote, dyeing his normal skin and clothes black. At the same time, thick black liquid quickly gushed out from the floor under the banknote.
Almost instantly, the black liquid formed a circular black quagmire under the prone Luther Kingweiss's body. The fluid in the quagmire continued to rise around him like a whirlpool.
But the crying man did not fall into the quagmire. Instead, the pus clung to his body and gathered towards the right side of his body.
"Detective, something's not right."
Dr. Schneider stood behind Shade and frowned.
A moonlight sword appeared in Shade's hand:
"Doctor, would it have been better if I had lied just now?"
But Dr. Schneider's answer was completely suppressed by the sounds coming from all directions of the sea of fire.
The malice conveyed by the resentful voice was even more disgusting than the black pus oozing from the floor at this moment:
"You won't forgive me!"
The black Jinweisi supported himself on the ground with his hands and suddenly raised his head in the sea of fire.
In front of Shade's eyes, the left half of his body just turned black, while the right half was completely covered by black pus. When the pus covered his eyes, a scarlet light spot appeared from where the right eye had been.
Not only was the pus from the outside gathering on his body, but Luther Kingweiss's own body also seemed to be gushing out that disgusting black liquid.
As he slowly stood up, the black pus covering the right half of his body expanded and grew rapidly like a small tree. As Shade drew his sword, the expanded right half of his body exploded in an instant, and the surging pus made the highest part of the right side of his body even touch the ceiling.
The black giant hand looked like a strange tumor lodged in a normal body, or like a giant tree growing on a human body. The normal left eye, filled with hatred, and the scarlet right eye light spot looked at Shade at the same time:
"You! You won't forgive me!"
"Moonlight Slash!"
The giant black hand slapped the floor of the accounting office with a violent airflow, and the silver moonlight was completely blocked by the giant hand.
In the shocking tremor, the floor in the sea of fire completely collapsed. Shade and the doctor, who were standing unsteadily, and the dream master who was infected by the devil's power, fell from the third floor at the same time, passing over the disappeared second floor floor, smashing through the fragile first floor floor, and fell heavily into the basement surrounded by flames along with wood chips, stones, furniture and garbage.
Even though Shade was prepared, he still fell hard. Fortunately, with the magical blessing of Dr. Schneider, he immediately peeled off the wooden boards and stones on his body and stood up from the sea of fire.
The black giant hand slapped the ground, causing stones and garbage to scatter everywhere. Amid the roar and the shaking of the earth, Jinweisi also stood up.
Above their heads, the holes extending from the third floor allowed them to clearly see the cross-sections of each floor, and around them, except for the empty space under their feet where there was no burning material, flames completely surrounded them as they looked at each other.
"Um... where is the doctor?"
“Roar~”
Like a wild beast that had completely lost its mind, Jinweisi rushed towards Shade. The black giant hand was raised high, but the imbalance of the left and right sides of the body made the movement seem a little slow.
Xia De did not try to compete with the opponent in strength, but rolled to the left, avoiding the attack just in time before the giant hand fell.
He jumped up nimbly with his left hand on the ground, and while Jinweisi tried to raise his right hand again, he swung the moonlight greatsword in his right hand at the opponent's swollen black right side.
Black pus immediately poured out, but when Shade pulled out his Moonlight Greatsword, he could not see any scars left by the attack.
"Why are there no wounds?"
The tree-like hand had been raised again, this time sweeping across the ground. The heat wave hit, and in order to avoid jumping too high and staying in the air for too long, and being slapped on the ground like a mosquito by the opponent, Xia De chose to retreat this time.
Fortunately, the basement was large, and Shade dodged it again. The black giant hand that swept across destroyed the wooden boards and stone garbage in the fire, making the red flames even more fierce.
"He is the master of dreams, and he will never die in your hands!"
The doctor's voice finally came from above. During the interval between the battles, Shad looked up and saw the doctor standing at the crack of the first floor. He was lucky that he did not fall directly into the basement like Shad and Kingweiss.
"Shad, can you delay and trap the other party for three minutes? Don't let the other party leave the basement. Give me three minutes to set up the ceremony!"
The doctor meant that if Shade couldn't do it, he would join the battlefield, but that would waste more time.
"No problem, after all, they are just ordinary people... But what are those black pus?"
Xia De asked the question even though he knew the answer, but in fact he wanted to test the doctor.
"Negative emotions, very strong negative emotions, but they don't seem to be contagious, so you just have to be careful."
The doctor replied, and quickly left the top of the head.
"It seems the doctor can't figure out what it is."
Shade held the sword and looked at Jinweisi. The black pus on his body was undoubtedly the power of the "Human Pus Demon". But compared to what he saw on Darkness, this power was pitifully weak.
Considering that the demon in Darkness has the ability to strengthen himself by absorbing negative emotions, it is very likely that Darkness has come to Tobesk and after meeting Luther Kingvis by chance, he saw his resentment and distortion, and therefore left his power on him.
"Human pus should be considered a kind of body fluid similar to blood. If you drip this into my eyes..."
Shade was also frightened by his own bold idea, but no matter what, defeating the enemy in front of him was the key at the moment. The opponent was completely equivalent to an extremely weakened version of the out-of-control and mentally retarded Ivan Darkness, so this kind of combat experience was very useful.
"But why did the doctor happen to meet... Oh!"
Jin Weiss, who still failed to hit Shade after sweeping across, actually raised his right hand and jumped high from the sea of fire. His body was almost higher than the ground on the first floor. His giant black limbs smashed towards Shade who was thinking from the air. The momentum was quite amazing.
Xia De rolled forward again, and after feeling the flames coming from behind and the ground shaking, he turned around and swung out a moonlight blade with his left hand, then continued to retreat.
The Moonlight Slash left a wound on Jinweisi, but the wound healed almost immediately. While Jinweisi was trying to stand up, Shade took the opportunity to swing out three more Moonlight Slashes.
Although it is impossible for Shad to kill the owner of the dream in the dream, this kind of damage can make Jinweis weaker to a certain extent.
“Roar~”
His sanity seemed to be getting weaker and weaker, and the color of intelligent creatures could no longer be seen in his normal left eye. Jinweisi turned around, waving his giant right hand, and Shade was ready to respond with a sword. He hoped that the confrontation between the two sides could last longer, so that the three minutes would pass quickly. (To be continued)