Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 456 Death Stranding Incident
This way of "adjusting surveillance" at the slightest disagreement is even more powerful than the "Skynet Intelligent Monitoring System" in the other world.

Just like selling tickets to people for viewing during surgical operations, even during the trial of a case in this era, outsiders are not prohibited from viewing.

Soon, the vivid figure of the victim, Viscount Owen, a member of the royal party, appeared in front of everyone.

"Huchi. Huchi"

The sinister noble with blood all over his head and face was running for his life in front, but the moment he opened the door, he was dragged back by the other pursuers behind him.

"what--!"

Before he could even utter a short scream, his head was bitten off.

However, the thing that was dragging him was moving so fast that it was difficult to see clearly. One could only vaguely make out that it was a slender pink figure.

Sherlock waved his hand, and the replayed scene immediately began to replay.

Until the scene moves to the conversation between the other party and the woman when he just arrived.

"Monster party, spore mantis, run away quickly after the action, because they have a unique habit of eating males after the wedding night."

A series of words appeared in everyone's ears.

"Oh~"

The group of onlookers who were watching the excitement all suddenly realized what was happening and subconsciously took a step back, as if there was something dirty hidden in the building.

There is no need to guess too much, the other party was probably eaten by the female mantis because he did not run fast enough.

Even if it's a pink praying mantis, it's still a praying mantis.

Most people are normal humans and cannot accept the special habits of these nobles.

Salant touched a rib on his chest, which was also the part where the level-0 holy relic [Trident of Poseidon] was integrated into his body, and suddenly felt a little guilty.

He could basically conclude that the spore mantis, which should have been tamed, suddenly had problems, most likely because it was affected by his holy relic.

Within the influence range of [Trident], monsters in estrus will be particularly violent and may not wait until the estrus is over before starting to hunt down their groom as they usually would.

Instead, they eat while they are newly married and eat while they are newly married.

Anyway, creatures like mantises are accustomed to eating from scratch, so it doesn't interfere with the functions of other parts at all.

Even if a transcendent is attacked unexpectedly, it is possible that half of his head will be bitten off on the spot.

The young man had some self-blame on his face:
“I thought this was the capital of the kingdom of the Old World, and there shouldn’t be any dangerous monsters here, but I didn’t expect there would be such a weird entertainment venue just across the street.

I thought the side effects of 'Sea King' were already quite unusual, until I saw you here, I realized that humans are creatures with no limits! "

Byron next to him felt that things should not be that simple.

He had been sitting in the cafe the whole time. Although he was afraid of getting stye in his eyes and deliberately avoided this direction, if there was really a fierce fight, he would not be able to hide it from him.

So besides the monster going berserk, something else must have happened.

At the same time, [Crime Buster] Sherlock raised his hand to quiet the onlookers, indicating that it was not yet time to completely close the case:
“Friends who often kill people know that it is easy to kill someone but difficult to dispose of the body.

Especially in a big city like Kingston, how to deal with corpses is a big deal.

Because any details on the body may tell us part of the truth of the murder. It is the dead person speaking."

His friend and partner, Doctor John Watson, had already put on a bird-beak mask and a pair of deerskin gloves and walked into the building and began to examine the corpse lying on the ground.

But when he saw the full picture of "Viscount Owen", he couldn't help but exclaimed:

"No, Sherlock, this body is not in the right state."

Byron didn't need to go in, [Divine Vision] could easily see everything.

There was something wrong with the body at John Watson's feet.

It is normal to have half of the head bitten off, which is consistent with the initial inference that the death was caused by being bitten by a spore mantis.

However, only a few minutes passed between the incident and the death, which should have still been warm, had already decayed beyond recognition.

Some people even believed that it was an ancient corpse dug out from the ground.

Moreover, his entire body was wet and soaked with water stains, as if he had just been fished out of the deep sea, which made him look even more abnormal.

Then I heard John Watson, the "Crow Doctor" from the hospital sequence, explaining as he examined the patient:

“Normally, as a body ages, the various organic substances that make up the bone structure are lost.

When it reaches a certain level, the color will become extremely pale, the texture will be dry like chalk, and it will appear extremely brittle.

If you press your fingernail against very old bone, it can easily cut into it and slightly chip it, leaving a dent or scrape mark.”

Click!

He did not treat the Viscount, who worked in the same functional department, as an outsider at all, and picked up a finger bone and broke it.

“Only when fresh bones are broken will there be cracks like breaking twigs, while dead bones will break straight along the long axis of the bone, and the fracture line will break into pieces and leave some powder.

Unless it is in a very dry desert area, it would take at least 50 years for bones to become so brittle."

Sherlock had already walked to the assistant's side, observed the state of the body, and made a similar judgment:
“Judging from the brittleness of the bones, the Viscount’s body has been dead for at least fifty years!
But this is obviously not the case. I saw him in person in the Tribunal three days ago, and a few minutes ago he was happily having a monster party.

Now he looks as if something has sucked all the vitality out of his body in a very short period of time.

This is not an ability that an ordinary monster should possess. Instead, it is more like the work of an undead creature, an evil spirit, or some kind of cursed spirit.

And" he raised his nose and activated his [Crime Sense] to sniff:

“There are no living people in this building, nor any living monsters, and the smell of blood is not strong, but rather a strange stench that I have never smelled before.

Strange, if it was just a simple case of the monster getting out of control, then who did the rest?"

Byron did nothing but listened to their analysis quietly. The decoding density of [Secret: Death Stranding incident under the dispute between the two parties, historical influence 28] quickly jumped to 26%.

Decryption has never been so easy and enjoyable before.

But after analyzing this, they seem to have run into trouble, as the "murderer" that goes beyond the norm is not within their scope of expertise.

However, after seeing the corpse clearly, Salant's heart skipped a beat:
"Is this a 'Death Stranding Incident' that also happened in the Old World?
This shouldn't happen. Even if the material world has entered the intertidal zone, how could a chain reaction occur so quickly? "

Salant apparently recognized the traces from the crime scene.

Byron immediately noticed the abnormality in his expression and asked in the internal network of his own Golden Rule:

"Mr. Salant, do you know what this is?"

The latter had no time to acknowledge his relatives. He assessed the risks of the news in his mind and then said to Byron:

"For the entire material world, it is certain that the Radian Era is approaching.

Maybe it will take decades, maybe hundreds of years, but that day will eventually come.

Everything that the Southern Continent [Beast Paradise] and the Old Continent [Dragon King's Court] are experiencing now are what we in the Eastern Continent have already experienced dozens or hundreds of years ago.

The 'Death Stranding Event' is one of them.

We all know that after a human dies, unless he or she turns into an undead creature, an evil spirit, a natural spirit, a totem god, or a monster combined with other creatures, the destination of the soul should be the sea of ​​collective subconsciousness.

If you die at sea, you will be at risk of being snatched away by the Sea of ​​Essence and must be transported by a ghost ship;
If one dies on land, they will be drawn to the netherworld of their respective tribe and will be forced to leave the material world."

When he said this, there was a hint of fear in his eyes:
“But when we enter the intertidal zone and the tide rises to a certain level, this distinction between sea and land is completely broken down.

Because the intertidal zone is half water and half land.

The dead undead will be in a state of being neither here nor there, causing them to be stranded in the real world, unable to go to the edge of the world, and cannot be considered truly alive.

Become a special kind of [Evil Spirit·Lost Homelander].

All their anchors to the entire world are completely severed, and not even clairvoyance can see this strange existence that exists between life and death.

Only special extraordinary people and treasures who can also touch this intermediate state can see and touch them.

However, the pulling force of the underworld still exists, and it is even possible to pull the ancient souls floating up from the rising water at the edge of the world back to the material world.

It causes great chaos and destruction in a short period of time, which will not end until the source tide recedes.

This phenomenon is called 'Death Stranding'.

With the help of some kind of treasure, I once witnessed with my own eyes that after a mass death incident, not only were there countless "Lost Homelanders" stranded in the material world and wailing incessantly, but there were even ghost ships being pulled out from the edge of the world in reverse.

Together, they wantonly slaughtered all the living, taking away their vitality to maintain their own existence or increase their strength, leaving behind wet, mummified corpses all over the ground after the revelry. "

After hearing Salant's explanation, Byron couldn't help but feel a little tricky.

Now his mother, "The Little Mermaid" Hathaway, is still sleeping soundly in the Bay People's [Hall of Valor Valhalla].

If you accidentally encounter a death stranding event one day and are accidentally killed in the material world, you will be in big trouble.

He immediately asked:
"Is this a common and extraordinary natural phenomenon once you enter the intertidal zone? Is it completely inevitable?"

But Salant shook his head vigorously:
“No, probably not entirely.

Because this abnormal phenomenon happened too quickly.

Even the Southern Continent has just entered the 'intertidal zone', and the Old Continent with the highest terrain should not experience the death stranding phenomenon so quickly.

The monsters here went berserk, causing numerous casualties, which might be an accident that no one wanted to see, but the "death stranding" caused by the deaths of a large number of people at one time is unlikely to be a natural factor.

I am more inclined to believe that someone deliberately arranged some kind of taboo ritual to do something big, but it was exposed in advance because of this unexpected large-scale death."

At this moment, he suddenly saw [Crime Slayer] Sherlock fulfilling his duty and going deeper into the building for further inspection, and he quickly stopped him:

"Don't go in, the real murderer is still here."

The voice just fell.

pat!

A bloody handprint appeared on the ground not far in front of Sherlock.

If you compare Viscount Owen's hand with his, you will find that the fingerprints on both are an exact match.

next moment.

Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! .
The sounds of countless bloody handprints slapping on the ground, walls, and glass of the building merged into one, as if countless invisible and intangible creatures with human hands were crawling rapidly in the building.

At one point, it even forcibly suppressed the sound of rain around.

"what--!"

The biting cold wind blew across the backs of everyone present, and the onlookers who had come to watch the fun immediately screamed and fled in all directions.

(End of this chapter)