Lord of Mysterious Wizard-Chapter 545 - 503
Rage and malevolence were about to seize control of the man’s mind.
He tried to prevent the prey from leaving, but before he could act, Noah stepped forward, presenting three tickets and smiling, "Hello, we are getting on the train."
"You!"
The curly-haired man under the glasses was almost spewing fire, but upon confronting the three tickets, he instinctively took them.
Immediately, his face twisted even more grotesquely, his parched skin splitting inch by inch to reveal even drier flesh beneath. He said to Noah and the others, "You have brought this upon yourselves, I can hardly wait to hear your screams of fear...."
Before he could finish, Noah had already ignored him, leading the Hannahs and Peggy into "MH-R9."
Dragon Heart Castle, inside the Gray Lighthouse.
Tang Qi, having already braced himself, saw the image in the mirror merely flicker once before ceasing to be disturbed, and he felt a slight relief.
"Can it only interfere with ordinary devices and not block the witch’s magical spying?"
...
The interior of the train car was unexpectedly tidy.
Noah and his group noticed the dark red vine chairs, the hanging handrails dangling down, and above their heads, besides the incandescent lights, there were also black ceiling fans. Compared to a normal subway car, the car they were in seemed a bit shorter, making it feel somewhat oppressive.
Like a "mummified corpse," the man walked up, and the moment he stepped into the car, his body began undergoing bizarre transformations.
His head seemed to have been fiercely smashed by an invisible sledgehammer, but without any sound, it was just abruptly flattened; his upper body and lower body also suddenly broke apart, sticky intestines and shattered organs spilling out.
In an instant, half of the train car was "polluted" by him, presenting an extremely nauseating sight.
On the retro seats made from dark red vines, his flattened head was placed, staring at Noah and the group.
He thought he would see three wildly screaming children, but unfortunately.
Noah scanned him with an inquisitive look, the Hannahs glared at him discontentedly, while Peggy, with her mechanical eyes, stared at him, seemingly analyzing what state he was currently in.
Even the most foolish could realize at this moment.
These three children were not ordinary humans.
The curly-haired man, having turned into an "Evil Spirit" and his intelligence contaminated, had very abnormal thoughts, but as his "true form" appeared, the human side of him resurfaced even more, he opened his mouth wide, in surprise asking, "Who exactly are you?"
Noah did not answer his question, instead, he looked towards the glass windows on either side.
Unknown to them, "MH-R9" had already started moving, enormous noise bombarding the eardrums of the passengers inside.
And what was reflected in the windows was not the swiftly changing scenery but scenes of horror and bloodshed.
The first scene:
In a withered, patchy image, the brightly lit underground showed large groups of workers gathered, a familiar train seemed to be undergoing a test run, the lively and harmonious scene was quickly shattered by a terrifying accident, the train that should have been stationary suddenly derailed, directly smashing a dozen workers into pulp.
No sound was emitted, only the images occasionally freezing and fast-forwarding, like a poor-quality "silent film," but the expressions and movements of the "actors" vividly portrayed utter despair.
The scene ended, paused for a second, and the second scene jumped out:
In an instant, the timespan moved into the modern era, in the brightly lit underground tunnel, several passengers sweaty and with panic-stricken faces were running away, occasionally looking back as if fearing some monster, they soon reached the dead end.
Ahead was a blocked wall.
Just as the group burst into despairing tears, behind them, the lights suddenly flickered, a familiar train was enveloped by terrifying force, heading straight towards them.
A dreadful, horrifying scene appeared, and the image jumped again.
The third, fourth, fifth...
"This is...?"
Noah’s gaze sharply shifted, then focused on the "corpse" of the curly-haired man, the confusion in his eyes dissipating, but new confusions began to emerge.
At this moment, the humanity in the curly-haired man’s eyes grew, and Noah even saw a radiance called "hope." He seemed to have realized, he saw, and even fell into another side of the world, becoming an evil Evil Spirit.
Correspondingly, there are naturally those who eradicate Evil Spirits or deal with similar incidents.
He was just a bit surprised, why would those people be several adolescents?
However, the man did not ponder these trivial details. He reached out his blurred, fleshy hands, straightened his head somewhat, and quickly said to Noah and the others, "As you can see, the mastermind behind all this is it, Secret Phoenix City’s subway ’MH-R9’ during its test run."
"That year, it killed fourteen workers but was not destroyed. Instead, it mysteriously disappeared. Unexpectedly, it has now turned into this. It has built a terrifying tunnel underground, and anyone who boards will ultimately be smashed to death by it."
"After death, they become like me, accomplices leading other passengers onto the train..."
While the man was speaking, his voice suddenly became hollow.
His body began to blur, and the blood stains on the floor also quickly disappeared; at the same time, the already chaotic noise intensified several times, bombarding the eardrums of Noah and the others.
"It’s speeding up!"
When Peggy spoke, the horrifying, bloody scenes on the glass on both sides also accelerated, showing one innocent passenger after another dying unnatural deaths.
The way of death was the same, smashed brutally by the cold, terrifying front of the train, which included the curly-haired man himself; in one fleeting scene, he was seen desperately staring as MH-R9 rolled over towards him.
The man also knew that it was about to take action.
Completely ignoring his vanishing body, he said as quickly as possible: "At the end station, it will throw you into the tunnel; remember, before that, destroy it... After I disappear, I will reappear, become an evil spirit, and attack you along with other dead."
"But, that’s not me, my name is Jim, please..."
"Kill me!"
"Bang!"
The last three words, the man roared out.
Immediately, his head exploded, blood light swept through the interior of the compartment, and the doors and front of the compartment suddenly vanished, a powerful force descending, wrapping around the bodies of the three, throwing them into the dark tunnel.
A sporadic, ancient mechanical voice pierced into the ears of the three.
"End~ End station arrived... I wish you a pleasant... life."
"Boom!"
Before the cold mechanical voice finished, a fierce azure radiance burst forth.
The source was Peggy.
Her mechanical body, surfaced with dense lines and symbols, the energy from the "Titanic Stone" released along the mechanical circuit.
In an instant, the interior of the carriage was as if a blue sun had appeared.
The force trying to throw the three out just struggled momentarily, then silently dispersed.
The bombarding noise and fleeting scenes vanished simultaneously.
The train stopped.
Noah and the others stood in the center, looking at a peaceful, clean carriage, seats and armrests, and retro actress stickers, as if everything they had just experienced was just a bizarre dream or a fantasy.
Before any of the three could speak, the stable incandescent lights above their heads suddenly flickered.
"Click."
A light sound, the lights went out, everything enveloped in darkness.
But it was only for a second before the lights came back on.
Inside the carriage, unimaginable horror scenes appeared; all the seats, ceiling, even at the feet of the three, were completely filled with various mutilated corpses and sticky flesh, the nauseating smell, and the bone-chilling moans of severely injured yet not immediately dead people... Everything was so real it could be touched.
Noah and the others even saw "Jim", lying at the end of the carriage, his head flattened, inhuman, his eyeballs rolling down, staring at them, unable to find a trace of "humanity" in them, only fierce, surging malice.
A gentle sigh emanated from Noah.
He realized at that moment, looking at the "victims" who were slowly crawling towards them, speed increasing, malice growing more formidable, that the second requirement of the mission, "rescue," was impossible to fulfill.
All the missing passengers had become evil spirits attached to "MH-R9".
"Letting you be liberated is also another form of rescue."
"Act now!"
Noah’s expression suddenly turned solemn, and as he uttered the last two words, Hannah and Peggy, both with angry expressions, went forward to meet them.