Shadow Apostle

The moment he saw the mouse, Horst felt an unreasonable throbbing in his heart.

Panic, nausea, irritability.

Several emotions were mixed together, making Horst's thinking more and more confusing.

I want to smash everything around me to vent my emotions.

But this sudden throbbing soon subsided.

All that's left is the anger burning in his heart.

With blue eyes, delicate facial features, and delicate skin, the little girl is quite beautiful.

If it doesn't grow on the body of a mouse.

The human-faced mouse huddled in a corner filled with clutter.

Two large, crystal-clear sapphire eyes were full of fear and suspicion.

Her whole body was trembling slightly. When she saw Horst's body moving slightly, she immediately shrank back, her expression even more frightened.

"Well……"

Jessica's voice came from beside her.

At this time, Miss Berndt was covering her mouth with her hands, her teeth clenching her palms tightly.

His body was shaking, whether it was anger or fear.

Under the firelight, the corners of his eyes glowed with crystal water.

"M, Minnie..."

No matter how hard Jessica tried, her voice still trembled slightly.

"Sister Jessica..." The big mouse worked harder and shrank toward the corner, his voice was small and timid, "Are you and big brother here to catch me too?"

"We..." Jessica choked and said, "We are not you, how did you become...father, do you know?"

"Snapped."

Before he finished speaking, Horst grabbed his wrist.

Jessica saw Horst shake his head vigorously at her.

"Don't ask anything now, and don't get close to her. You stay here with her and keep this distance. In addition, you also pay attention to safety. Don't let your guard down and pay attention to the danger no matter where it comes from, okay?"

"Yeah, okay." Jessica, who didn't know why, nodded lightly.

"I'll be back soon, don't be afraid."

Horst thought for a moment, pushed the will-o'-the-wisp on top of his head onto Jessica's head, then turned around and groped, crawling towards the bedroom below as quickly as possible.

"M...Minnie, don't be afraid, my brother and sister don't mean any harm."

Seeing Horst's sudden departure, the look of horror on the girl's face became even stronger, and Jessica's heart was indescribable.

The image makes people extremely uncomfortable, and the disgust is even greater than the fear.

But the beautiful and weak image and frightened movements made her really disgusted.

The dark attic, the strangely changing body.

Thinking about the life the little girl might have lived these days, Jessica felt a dull pain in her heart.

The softest part of her heart was touched, allowing her protectiveness and compassion to take over.

Pity welled up in my heart.

poor child.

The sound of footsteps behind me.

Mr. Horst is indeed a reliable person, and he came back very quickly.

Jessica was thinking this in her heart, and when she turned around...

I saw a brown bear.

Horst picked up the brown bear below, and the big one was blocked in front of him, making him almost invisible.

"Yeah, Mr. Bieber..."

The big mouse made a small whimpering sound.

The little girl raised her head from the corner, her fearful eyes showed anticipation, staring straight at the huge teddy bear.

"She accidentally made the noise after she saw me touching the teddy bear." Horst explained in a muffled voice, "I suspect that she had been staring at the bear and wanted to get it, but this thing is now It’s a little too big for her.”

Jessica felt sour after hearing this and nodded.

Horst knelt on the ground, huddled behind the teddy bear, grasped the brown bear's arms with both hands, and controlled the brown bear to twist and walk towards the little girl. He said in a low voice: "Ah, Miss Minnie~ I finally found it. You~"

The big mouse shrank back at first, but kept staring at the teddy bear, its frightened eyes gradually filled with water.

"Mr. Bieber, I'm so scared...wow~~~"

The choking sound turned into a heart-piercing howl, and the big mouse suddenly rushed out from the corner and ran into the arms of the stuffed brown bear.

"Wow wow wow, Mr. Bieber, I have become so strange. Sister Susan is also missing. There are so many strange things trying to catch me. I am so scared."

The impact almost knocked Horst away from behind the bear. The mouse's four short legs grabbed the stuffed bear's body tightly, and its tear-filled face was buried deeply in the stuffed bear's chest. The little girl The voices could no longer be distinguished at all, and all one could hear was howling one after another, like a desperate roar coming from the soul.

Horst's face was gloomy and silent.

After kneeling on the spot and supporting the bear for a moment, he slowly controlled the bear's two arms and gently hugged the mouse's body.

The big mouse's body tensed suddenly, and then slowly softened. It squirmed and buried its head deeper, and its cry became louder.

Next to her, Jessica slowed down and walked over, holding two dust-proof cloths covered with debris in her hands.

One piece was spread on the ground, and he knelt on it. The other piece was slowly placed on the big mouse, wrapping her weird and permeable body.

Only the little girl's head was exposed.

The little girl's body trembled again, but the gentle movement made her let down her guard, and her voice was sobbed as if she was about to die.

"well."

Jessica sighed softly and hugged Minnie's deformed body through the white cloth.

Minnie hesitated for a moment while holding the stuffed bear, then clasped the stuffed bear firmly with her four little paws, but then her body lay in Jessica's arms.

Horst took a breath and winked at Jessica with wide eyes. In doing so, she was like hugging the mysterious alien into her arms.

But Jessica shook her head slightly at him and gently stroked the little girl's messy, dusty hair with her hand.

"It's okay, it's okay. Little Minnie is the bravest. With Mr. Bieber's protection, you don't have to be afraid of anything, right?"

Sobbing, sobbing, the girl arched in Jessica's arms and changed to a more comfortable position.

"Don't be afraid, sister Jessica will just stay with you, okay?"

He nodded, sobbing vigorously.

"How about chatting with your brother and sister."

Horst also climbed onto the white cloth next to Jessica and sat down, joining Jessica to coax the little girl.

He shook his head, but paused and nodded slowly.

This child is really sensible. Children from noble families mature precociously.

Horst sighed inwardly, and just as he was about to speak, he suddenly stared at Minnie's figure wrapped in white cloth and froze.

"What's wrong with you, Mr. Horst?"

Seeing that Horst didn't respond for a long time, Jessica couldn't help but ask softly.

Horst smiled strangely: "The foreman just said that those strange...those strange cloaked men have special images under their cloaks."

Jessica looked down at the little girl, gritted her teeth and nodded.

"Little Minnie." Horst asked in a gentle voice, "I know you are the bravest. Can you help me remember how you became like this?"

"I don't remember either." A muffled voice came from behind the stuffed bear. "A while ago, my father was very busy, and I often couldn't see him for many days. Everyone in the family also became very strange, and they lost their temper at every turn. , I was scared, but fortunately Susan and Mr. Bieber were with me. Later, later..."

The little girl didn't know what she thought of, and her body suddenly trembled. Jessica quickly hugged her and comforted her softly. After a while, the deformed body calmed down.

"Then one day, Sister Susan suddenly disappeared. I searched for her for a long time and couldn't find her, so I went to ask my father. This time, my father was not angry and said he would take me to find Sister Susan in a while, and asked Aunt Jenny to prepare I bought my favorite snack and drank afternoon tea with me. It turned out that I was probably too tired and fell asleep in the middle of eating."

At this moment, both Horst and Jessica showed angry expressions, but they looked at Minnie and held it back.

"When I woke up, it turned out like this. There were several weird men in cloaks staring at me around me. I was so scared that I ran as fast as I could, and finally I ran back here." The little girl said faintly. , "This is the safest place. I have been hiding here since I was scared since I was a child. Those scary weirdos are looking for me everywhere every night, but I have not been discovered by them once."

"Didn't you go find dad?" Horst gritted his teeth and asked anyway.

"Ah~~~" The little girl suddenly screamed like crazy, shook her head desperately and shouted, "No, no, I didn't see my father, no~~~"

"Okay, okay, I didn't see it, I didn't see it."

Jessica hugged the girl tightly and comforted her softly for a long time before she calmed down a little.

Only then did she and Horst look at each other. The little girl's behavior had already made them vaguely guess that the little girl might have seen that Viscount Star was among the people searching for her with the monster.

"Miss Jessica." Horst said thoughtfully, "Based on your knowledge, do you have any guesses about this?"

"I have never seen it, but from her description, it sounds like a cult is at work." Jessica explained, "Those lunatics who believe in the illusory world master are monsters who have been assimilated by the master, but they I also got some weird methods from the master of the fantasy world, many of which can twist normal people into their own kind."

"Cultists...the masters of the fantasy world..."

Horst chewed on these epithets.

"Mr. Horst..." Jessica bit her lip and whispered, "otherwise, let's call the police first."

"I also want to call the police, but what can we do if we call the police now?" Horst asked with a wry smile, "Except for proving that the youngest daughter of Viscount Star's family was suspected of being turned into... by a cultist, we have nothing to prove. No. With Viscount Sta’s status, maybe the police will send her back to the Viscount’s Mansion as soon as we report it to the police. After all, judging from the current situation, they are all victims.”

Jessica was silent, knowing that what Horst said was the most likely outcome.

"If we want to call the police, we must at least find traces of those cultists or find some tangible evidence. Otherwise, no matter how much we call the police, it will be in vain." Horst sighed, "Unfortunately, now we are all the same I haven’t found it yet, and I have to keep looking.”

"Time is running out. The reception is about to start." Jessica looked at the clock. "You are right. If you want to call the police, you must at least find traces of those cloaked men. I just don't know where they are hiding."

"Ah~~" The little girl who had been sobbing in her arms suddenly let out a low cry.

"Huh? What's wrong, Minnie." Jessica and Horst's eyes lit up at the same time. They remembered that the child had just escaped back to his home not long ago, "Do you know where they are?"

"Yeah." The little mouse nodded timidly, "They come out of the ground every night."

"underground?"

"It was dark, big, and had a lot of pipes, and it was very smelly. I ran up from below. From there I could go directly into the basement of my home."

"It is indeed the sewer." Horst sighed, "They... come here every day?"

"Yes." The little mouse nodded vigorously.

"What about today? When will they come?"

"They are already here." The little mouse showed a scared expression again, "That's why I hid back here. Every time they come, I hide back."

Horst and Jessica looked at each other and saw the shock in each other's eyes.

There was a drinking party above, and a group of cultists and monsters gathered below.

real or fake?

If true, what exactly are these things trying to do?

"Go and take a look first, at least find out their purpose." Horst took a deep breath, "Maybe... this is what K is really worried about."

"Yes." Jessica held the folding fan tightly and pulled the gun bolt, "I'll be with you."

I found some problems, adjusted it, and then shortened the two chapters into one and posted it. I'm a few minutes late, so I'm sorry.