Chapter 221: Chapter 221: Cursed House
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The farmhouse, the dining room in the main house.
Foul, rotten, dirty, and dim.
The round wooden table is laden with food made according to some dark culinary cookbook. The food is hardly three tenths cooked; various fluids still cling to the surface of the food.
Inside the large turkey in the center, there is even some living thing wriggling.
The Victoriano family of four is dining here.
The ‘form’ of the four is all different.
[Farmhouse Master] : Murphy Victoriano is wearing a plaid shirt and a butcher’s apron, and a ragged linen hood. When he eats, he has to stuff the food into his mouth from the lower end of the hood on his chin.
It seemed that he had been cursed in some way, and he had to wear the hood at all times.
[Mother] : Berlin Victoriano is nearly three meters tall, and the ends of her palms and feet have all different lengths and numbers of fingers.
Her fingers move super fast and she eats quickly by pinching and finger-stringing her food.
The mother’s head is full of white hair, her skin is mostly ‘wrinkled’, severely aged … giving the impression of a hundred-year-old person, as if caused by some kind of aging curse.
But such aging does not affect her agile movements in the slightest.
[Eldest Daughter] : Trisi Victoriano is arguably the most normal-looking person in the family. Under her golden hair is the face of a young woman in her early twenties, vibrant and beautiful as noted in the task description, albeit with a few freckles.
Clad in denim dungarees, she eats quietly with a knife and fork, accepts any kind of food, and has an exceptionally good appetite.
[Younger Daughter] : Rosi Victoriano looks like she has just come of age, but her skin is made of cloth, as if it had been transformed this way by a curse.
For some reason, there are many lines sewn across Rosi’s mouth.
When she opens her mouth, these lines are stretched open, the insides are full of scattered teeth, and even her tongue has teeth structure, which is convenient for chewing and eating.
The Cursed House.
Indeed, this family has always lived here. The advent of the Dark Age had given them even more terrifying cursed powers … even though the Great Lord often dispatched men to try to expel them, no one who had been sent into the granary ever came out.
During the meal, eldest sister Trisi, slightly flushed, suddenly stopped eating and said:
“I just saw an intruder in the granary … It doesn’t seem to be the Great Lord’s men, there is a boy wearing glasses who is very charming, just my type.”
Sitting on the other side, the mother, whose head was touching the ceiling because she was too tall, said, “Trisi, do you need mother to catch him for you?”
“No, I’m an adult now, I can handle these things myself … I’d like to get to know the guy first.”
The younger sister Rosi was also getting curious, “sister, sister! What kind of guy is it? Is he good-looking?”
“He’s the type I like … don’t you go getting any ideas, little sister!”
With that, sister Trisi actually jabbed the dinner fork in her hand into her sister’s forehead.
Drip, drip … liquid flowed from the wound.
The younger sister was not angry at all, even making a cheeky smile, “Got it! Didn’t a group of people just arrive? Maybe there’s my type in there too … Sister you’re so stingy.”
Trisi pulled out the fork and continued eating the black spaghetti on her plate.
“Sister, tell me … What other kind of people are there?”
As the sister brought up the topic, the whole family began to chat ‘with laughter’.
The only ones who were indifferent were the father, eating quietly.
In the lush cornfield.
The small group were slowly advancing towards the farm area.
Thanks to Han Dong peeking through the Little Demon Eye, they were able to avoid the scarecrows as much as possible.
However, just after they had walked less than ten meters, the silken threads tied to everyone’s wrists were lightly pulled… it was Mia at the rear who seemed to have something to tell everyone.
“There’s something wrong with this corn too … Some corn carries a curse, if you touch it you will be stained. It’s better to let me lead the way.”
“Oh …”
Winry, who was leading the way, was removed from her position before it had even warmed up. She could only follow behind Han Dong… as for the work in rear was left entirely to the magician Dumps.
As Mia passed Han Dong, she muttered two words in a low voice: “Jerk!”
Han Dong didn’t care about the name-calling, and asked, “Mia … if we want to avoid the cursed plants, we will run into the scarecrows, right? Do you think it’s better to avoid the plants or the scarecrows?”
“Avoid the plants…” Mia answered decisively.
“Then I’ll leave it to you.”
“Humph … jerk! I don’t want to talk to you … I am only responsible for leading you guys out of the cornfield. As for what happens in the farm, I won’t help.”
With Mia leading the way.
After avoiding several places with cursed plants, they happened to bump into a scarecrow.
Different from the traditional scarecrows made of straw weaving.
The scarecrows here were carefully crafted.
First, a four-meter-high wooden crucifix was used as a support frame and firmly inserted into the ground.
Then, the ‘scarecrow’ was fixed to the cross frame.
Han Dong looked at the scarecrow and said in a low voice, “Remember the missing farm servants mentioned in the mission? It seems they have all been caught here and ‘put to work’.”
Indeed.
What’s planted in the cornfield are all ‘Real Straw Men’.
Based on the farm servants, their bodies and the straw were infused … so much so that straw overflowed from all five orifices (eyes normal), and there were many traces of straw stitching on the skin.
Once a Straw Man spots intruders in the cornfield, it will shoot out straw vines from its body, binding and draining the targets as its own nutrients.
Even if the viscera inside these farm employees had almost been replaced by straw, they were still ‘alive’.
This was the effect of the curse.
A curse of the straw man, that imprisoned their souls forever in that body, guarding the cornfield.
At the same time.
The scarecrow immediately fired a large amount of straw from inside its body, quickly entangling Mia and Han Dong, who were the closest.
Just as the two were about to fight back.
‘Blacksmith’s Grip’
Clap!
Winry, who was following closely behind Han Dong, reached out and grabbed!
There was even a gravity compression field formed in the palm of her hand.
Forcing the scattered straw vines to all be compressed together, gripped securely by Winry.
With force, she tugged!
The body of the Scarecrow, despite being bolstered by the curse, could not resist this brute force at all.
With this tug.
It felt like all the organs of the body had been yanked out … However, the target was just the Straw Man, and after the skin was torn open, a lot of straw stained with body fluids was pulled out.
Without any fancy moves, simply relying on brute force to eliminate the target