Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 232 Hippies from New York

Some strange things have been happening in the small town of Hawkins lately.

First, a woman named Joyce Byers claimed that her son Will was missing. Sheriff Jim led people to search for a long time but couldn't find him.

This is extremely rare in the small town of Hawkins.

The town is not large, and many of its residents have lifelong relationships as playmates, classmates, colleagues, and relatives. Not to mention major cases like disappearances and homicides, even robberies rarely occur.

That would have been fine, but who would have thought that just a few days later, a sophomore girl from Hawkins High School, Barbara, also disappeared!
Two people disappeared in just half a month! This is simply incredible.

This also caused panic among the residents of Hawkins.

The same was true for Mrs. Morgan, which is why she was extremely cautious when a stranger said he wanted to rent her house.

"You said you were from New York? Humph, you're not kidding me, are you? Would someone like you come to settle in a place like Indiana?"

Old Mrs. Morgan looked up and down at the man in front of her who looked as handsome as the stars on TV and had a noble temperament. Her face was full of suspicion.

Morgan is not a woman who gets crazy when she sees a handsome guy. She is well-informed! This man has dyed his hair silver, and he looks like a hippie who plays rock and roll! It would be fine if he was in a messy place like New York, but the folks in Hawkins are simple and honest, and it is not easy to see such people on a normal day.

Nemesis nodded gently and pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, making him look even more elegant and noble.

"My grandmother is from here. This time, I came back just to see the hometown where she lived when she was young. Don't worry, I won't rent it for a long time. The rent here is two months, a total of 1500 US dollars."

Nemesis spoke clearly, with an accent that was only possible with a good education as a child, without any influence of the Indiana dialect.

This made old Mrs. Morgan feel a little relieved. She was born into a wealthy family. Her parents had both passed away and left behind a large inheritance. The small villa with a courtyard in front of her was an asset that she would not need.

It is absolutely impossible to rent such a large house for $1500 for two months in New York, but it is a very good deal in the small town of Hawkins where there are few outsiders.

The old lady rolled her eyes and took the money. Then she said, "You are responsible for the water and electricity bills. And remember to tidy up the garden in the backyard. If weeds grow there, you will have to pay for it."

Nemesis nodded in agreement, and the old lady happily took the money and left.

After the people left, Nemesis looked around and sat down on the soft sofa.

“Finally, I feel modern life again.”

He sighed, picked up the remote control and turned on the old big-butt TV, which immediately started playing commercials.

"The United States in 1982 is still quite different from the modern era."

Nemesis looked at the TV in front of him, which could be regarded as an antique in modern times, and shook his head. He closed his eyes and began to recall what had happened during this period.

After he left the laboratory that day, he walked in the forest for several days. When he was thirsty, he drank stream water, and when he was hungry, he caught animals and hunted.

Fortunately, it is still summer, and even if we can't catch any prey, there are plenty of berries in the forest to fill our stomachs.

It took him seven full days to finally get out of the forest.

During these seven days, his spiritual energy recovered by nearly a quarter, and he barely had the ability to protect himself.

As for mana, although the magic net had a slight reaction, the recovery speed was extremely slow. It only recovered one tenth of the mana in a week.

After walking out of the forest, he found himself in a small town, and was mocked by several thugs for wearing a tattered hospital gown and having silver hair, looking like someone who had escaped from a mental hospital.

Thanks to the little strength he had recovered, he used [Suggestion] to control them to hand over all their money, which totaled more than two thousand US dollars.

Unfortunately, without the help of the Mind Stone, he could not delete his memory at will. Psionic power does have the ability to delete other people's memories, but it can only delete the most recent five minutes of memory. He was not sure of the specific era at that time. The criminal investigation force in modern society is strong, and random killings might be discovered.

So he deleted most of the memories of several people and left.

"Next, I need to regain my strength and then find number 11, but most importantly."

Nemesis' eyes darkened: "We still have to find the throne that No. 11 lost."

"Dr. Brenner?"

While Nemesis was thinking about his next plan, the laboratory, which was already full of corpses, finally saw the intervention of national power.

Long before the disaster, Dr. Brenner, who was on a temporary business trip, escaped. When he returned with the US military, his face turned grim as he looked at the devastation in the laboratory.

"Doctor, there are no survivors in the laboratory." The soldier walked up to him and reported.

"Have the bodies of No. 11 and No. 17 been found?" Dr. Brenner didn't care about the soldier's words, but questioned the life and death of the two experimental subjects in a trembling voice.

"No, we only found the bodies of No. 15 and No. 16."

Brenner nodded and breathed a sigh of relief. Number 17 held a very important secret that he had not yet figured out, and nothing could go wrong.

And No. 11.
Nothing can happen to her!
Dr. Brenner said very quickly: "Order the communications reconnaissance team to monitor all telephone calls in Hawkins town and search for any information that matches the characteristics of No. 11 and No. 17."

"Also, immediately send someone to the second underground floor to guard the safety of the [Fissure]."

"Yes, Doctor!"

After receiving the order, the soldiers immediately took action and took the hidden elevator to the bottom of the entire laboratory.

This is a place that Nemesis has never discovered.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Rearrange the protective measures!" said a team leader, pointing to a wall surrounded by broken glass in the center of the second underground floor.

In the center of the wall, there is a crack that emits a faint red light. The crack is covered with tentacles that seem to have life, slightly undulating, and looks extremely strange.
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Two days later, in the forest.

With the help of the bright moonlight, Nemesis returned to the forest.

This time, he didn't come here to hunt.

The last time he traveled through the forest, he had spotted traces of the monsters from the laboratory at night.

But at that time his strength was exhausted, and in order to ensure his safety, he could only hide.

Although his strength has not fully recovered now, it is enough to protect himself against those monsters.

He came here this time just to catch one and see what the monster was.

In his memory, in the month before this, the magic network of this world fell into deathly silence.

But that day, the Demon Net suddenly moved unusually, and then the monster appeared. He couldn't help but suspect that the two were related.

As a mage, he was extremely curious about this phenomenon.

(End of this chapter)