Chapter 199: Chapter 199: Manufacturing Room
Translator: 549690339
Squeak, squeak!
The decrepit elevator continued its two hundred-year history.
Many strands of dark hair were embedded in the mechanical spindles, causing the elevator’s descent speed to be abnormally slow, sputtering from time to time.
“Why must I come down…. Could you not solve this yourself?” Mia grumbled unwillingly.
“We are alone, no need to ‘pretend’,” Han Dong responded.
“You’ve been aware of the danger all along, deliberately staying at the back of the group and doing everything you could to conserve your energy, hoping to be the first to escape when danger strikes, isn’t that so?”
“Hehe….”
Upon Han Dong’s words, Mia’s expression and gaze instantly changed.
With downcast eyes and a gloomy look, she gazed upwards at Han Dong in a very ’emo’ fashion.
Her words also turned ice-cold, no longer affecting a cutesy demeanour, she asked with a strange expression:
“I just don’t understand, why are you pushing so hard?”
“In this test, the Knight Regiment would give us freshmen ‘special care’… As long as we can pass by a few points, we should receive an ‘excellent’ evaluation, otherwise, at worst, a ‘good’ one.
This can guarantee us more resources and better treatment in the academy.
So what is the point of this desperate struggle?”
Han Dong softly explained:
“I have my own considerations…. If I can touch the essence of the Stuart Family, I stand to gain from it.
If you don’t want to ‘work hard’ like this again, I won’t have any demands on you afterwards, you just need to take care of the potion supply for our squad.”
Mia placed a finger on her lips, curiously asking:
“Let me guess, it has something to do with your ‘Eye’?
Practising such evil techniques, would definitely require all sorts of materials, right? You must be collecting necessary materials and tools from these lives outside of the city to evolve your Eye.”
“About that. Of course, I am also very interested in the secrets of the big manor… Plus there are many treasures hidden outside the city.
If you are willing to continue assisting, and even willing to use all the curses you can control at critical moments, I would consider sharing some benefits with you.”
“What benefits?”
“If there are any treasures in the manor, I can give you some as needed… Also, if there are any issues with the suppression of the ‘Spider Curse’ and you need my help, I can assist you once.”
Mia let out a cold smile:
“No need to worry about the curse, dear Nicholas… I can figure it out myself.
I’m not going to do anything too dangerous. If you keep investigating like this, you might really stumble upon a hidden demon in the manor.
If we really encounter one, I will be the first to escape.”
“First help me deal with the ‘Barber Charlie’ below us…. There should be some secrets about the manor that we can extract from him.
Before the dark descent, this manor was supposedly a place of evil.”
“Could you be a bit nicer to me?”
“That depends on your performance.”
Creak, creak~
They reached the bottom layer in the old elevator.
Unlike the private office they had imagined.
The elevator directly faced a path composed of numerous strands of black hair, and the air was filled with a pungent stench.
Upon seeing this scene, even Mia was slightly scared and instinctively moved closer to Han Dong…..
The left and right walls were filled with thick black hair,
And they spotted numerous human heads submerged within the black hair,
All their eyes, nostrils and mouths were filled — no, were ‘growing’ — black hair.
The wriggling black hair can cause visual pollution, but it had no effect on Han Dong.
After passing through the eerie pathway of black hair,
What appeared before the two of them was a vast and gigantic, altar-like area.
This was Barber Charlie’s crucial office, also known as the ‘Black Hair Manufacturing Area’, an important area within Stuart Manor.
The pollution index was even higher than up above.
At the moment, Charlie the black-and-white Barber was standing on an even larger black-haired giant that was seven meters tall, at the back of its neck.
With scissors between his fingers, he was doing a ‘neural haircut’ to the creature.
A Barber.
Or more precisely, the Stitcher of the black hair in the Stuart Manor, creating various black haired wickedness to guard the manor secretly.
“I’m ‘cutting hair’ right now, I don’t have time for you.”
With a wave of the Barber’s hand,
Ten black-haired women emerged from the walls composed of black hair.
Long black hair was draping down to the ground, their inner skeletons had all been replaced by hair,
As they didn’t have skeletal support, they moved in twisted and deform ways, which looked eerie and terrifying.
However, these black-haired women were all low-ranking wickedness, their abilities were slightly stronger than the average bone wickedness.
“Mia, I’m leaving these little ones to you…. After you deal with them, come and help me with the big ones,” Han Dong instructed.
“Deal with ten wicked beasts, you’re really holding me in high regard.”
“What? You want me to deal with the small ones while you battle the Barber?”
“No, no…please! I will take care of these little ones as soon as I can and come help you…”
As she spoke, Mia took off her mask.
The frantic energy from the bugs enveloped Mia’s entire body together with the curse.
Crackle, crackle!
Four terrifying spider legs protruded from the humps on her back, growing out swiftly.
At the same time,
Under the control of sorcery, a large number of ‘Black Bone Arrows’ floated around Mia’s body and autonomously shot at the incoming black-haired women, attracting their attention.
Whoosh….
Han Dong took a deep breath as he walked step by step towards Charlie the Barber.
One of the black-haired wickedness did not get lured by Mia and was crawling towards Han Dong at lightning speed.
Type, type, type!
The black hair was sticking on the ground….Just as it was about to wrap around Han Dong.
Smack!
Its head was gripped tightly in Han Dong’s hand, lifted steadily mid-air.
He didn’t give it any chance to struggle.
Buzz….
A tentacle drilled into its brain.
In a blink of an eye, the ‘Evil Heart’ was neatly rolled out by the tentacle.
The black-haired wickedness that was polluted in reverse instantly ‘dissolved’, only leaving a puddle of dirty water on the ground.
Its heart only remained for a second, and it was absorbed by Han Dong and stored away after being condensed into a drop of blood at the tip of the tentacle.
Mia was right.
Han Dong was so ‘eager for quick success and instant benefits’, undertaking high difficulty tasks and trying to explore the truth about the manor, he had a purpose.
At present. The cultivation of the ‘Book of Dead Spirit-Eye Manuscript’ had reached a bottleneck.
Han Dong needed to further enrich his ‘Little Demon Eye’ to normally view the content of the next chapter… However, the ‘enrichment process’ requires him to absorb the essence of lives outside the city.
“Such little quantity… These low-ranking wickedness are far from enough.
I have to complete the first chapter of the Eye Book during this training, if there really is a Demon…. It would be like hitting the jackpot.”
Han Dong’s action of killing a black-haired creature in a second immediately drew the attention of the Barber.
For a time, all the hair in the ‘black hair manufacturing room’ started to get restless.