Chapter 196: Underground Barbershop
Chapter 196: Underground Barbershop
Ashore.
Stepping into this stone-built room with a huge pond, the index on the pollution detector is 10.1.
If you let your skin come into direct contact with the air here, you will be 'out of control' and 'mad' within half an hour.
A torch, though hung on the wall, had long since become damp and unusable, and could only be illuminated by a kerosene lamp.
Grrrrr!
Each drank a bottle of holy water and the dark colored lines near the eyes disappeared.
This superficial level of infection hasn't bothered to use the herbs made by Mia.
Captain Abel also removes a light-colored gemstone necklace to wear around his neck, which appears to be a fate device that allows the wearer to "clear his mind and concentrate".
Dempsey pushed up his glasses and commented in a low voice, "The black-haired filth just now was not easy to deal with, it was prepared for our arrival, fully conscious, at least a mid-ranked filth."
Han Dong, however, was already standing at the entrance of the passage where the black-haired mystic had left.
"Even if the other party is prepared, we can only move on, to complete this task, we must remove the mastermind behind this 'cultivating of black hair'.
Along with that, we can also investigate the underground area to a certain extent.
Still the same, I'll take the lead and see which one of you will pad the tail."
"I'll do it! If there's any danger to those of you walking in front, I'll immediately spit out spider silk to pull you back."
This time Mia, instead of actively sticking to Han Dong, asked for a pad, as if her spider senses had detected any danger ahead of time.
"Okay, let's go."
Han Dong had already conducted a detailed inspection of the room where the waterhole was located after landing, and there was nothing too noteworthy, intending to find the dark-haired lord while hurrying.
With that, the squad continued to move deeper into the underground area.
Han Dong stared at the torch holders between the passageways, as well as some of the inner structures that housed vases, and commented.
"Such a massive underground area has been artificially altered and even designed with humane decorations, it must have been invested and built by the Grand Lord Stuart back then, and it existed before the [Dark Age] arrived.
The purpose of constructing the underground area might be related to the large number of corpses down here.
The secrets hidden behind it may be even more terrifying than we all expected."
"Hmm."
Everyone had seen the 'black hair breeding ground' under the water, and the use of corpses to cultivate black hair was truly creepy.
Abel, who was following closely behind, asked curiously, "Friend Nicholas, is this third eye of yours the result of [Suture Science]?"
"Well, it's a special eye gifted to me by Mr. Black and White that can ignore and even suppress pollution to a certain extent.
However, stitching up this eye is also a great burden on myself, after opening it, it requires a large portion of my spirit to be focused on this eye."
"Don't worry! The scouting and pollution control will be yours, and we'll just take care of all the fighting later."
"Okay."
When she heard this explanation, Mia at the end of the team puffed out a smile.
As the pollution index remained the same, the passage was long and folded, and it would take some time to get out.
Taking this free time, Han Dong also threw questions at the team's erudite Dempsey.
"Dempsey, can you popularize the knowledge of evil obscenity?
And the rare vs. common distinction you seemed to have mentioned earlier? I've only learned the most basic low-level life classification in the academy, I don't understand the detailed classification."
"Hmm, [Evil Filth], essentially a dead thing. Commonly found in bones, withered plants, and a wide variety.
But one thing that must be known is that the formation of [Evil Filth]'s consciousness is definitely closely related to 'people', after the information I investigated in the library and received from my teacher.
However, an area that can form evil filth is not only thick with 'fog', there is definitely another characteristic of the area.
It was that this area had many deaths.
One of the necessary factors for the formation of [Evil Filth] is, the extreme emotions of humans.
This Stuart Manor must have had some sort of bad event, or the manor itself must have been evil, to have caused a large amount of Evil Filth to spawn after the arrival of the Dark Age.
Even some evil filth with sound consciousness continued to do the work they had done in their lifetime.
As for the detailed classification of the [Evil Filth] there is a book in the library that is over 2,000 pages thick, so I will briefly describe it here.
They are simply classified according to their rarity: "common" and "rare species".
Evil spirits made from "hair" are very rare, and are classified as "rare". This does not mean that they are stronger or weaker, but their abilities are different from common evil spirits.
As for low, medium and high levels, they are judged by the degree of pollution, the perfection of their consciousness and the degree of danger.
Once they surpassed the highest level, they could become an [Afterlife Evil Demon].
Of course, out of 10,000 evil filth, it is very difficult for one of them to develop into a post-birth devil.
I'm classifying it as a middle-ranked Evil Filth by using the combined values displayed by the "Prism".
If there's only one black-haired Evil Filth down here, the four of us should be able to deal with it, but the situation won't be that simple."
Dempsey lightly tapped his finger on the frame of the mirror, indicating the special nature of this copper wire eyeglass-"prism" of his.
"Thanks."
Han Dong thought that this Dempsey student was very interesting to befriend.
Whether it was Han Dong's future minor in [Library], or if he wanted to go to the library to look up information, having Dempsey help would save him a lot of trouble.
Dempsey continued, "If Vice Captain your 'eyes' can suppress the pollution to a certain extent.
In the battle to come, I would like to ask the Vice-Captain to tractor or suppress the contamination, so that the Captain and I can attack with all our might and finish the target in a short time.
The battle outside the city is different from the Destiny Space, and must be fought quickly.
The longer we delay, the less chance we have of winning."
"Don't worry, leave it to me, Also, Mia's strength is good, so she should be able to assist you in the battle."
Ten minutes.
Finally, out of the circuitous passage.
Arrived at an exquisite room with a black and white theme.
The stones that made up the room were polished more smoothly and a huge candlelight, black and white, is hanging from the roof three meters high.
The walls are surrounded by a large number of glass display cases with real human heads with different hairstyles that reflect the expressions of the heads.
In the center of the room, a unique barber's chair is set up.
Crimson leather and metal.
The long-haired woman who had just met with Han Dong and the others at the mouth of the pond was leaning against the side of the barber chair.
She was not the owner of this place, but a "black-haired creature".
The real owner was sitting with her legs crossed on the barber chair.
The black and white haircut.
White shirt, black tie, black and white checkered trousers and a pair of black leather shoes.
The exposed skin had obvious stitches of black hair.
This was the owner of the [Underground Barber Shop].
"Hello dear customers, I am the Great Lords' barber-Charlie Wilson, welcome to you all."