Gao Fei and his party walked along the steps to the end of the secret passage, and an iron gate appeared in front of them.
Mario took out the thieves' tools he carried with him, picked the door lock, and pushed the door open.
A nauseatingly strong smell of blood immediately hit his nose.
Goofy, Lisa and Claire all covered their mouths and noses, suppressing their heart palpitations and nausea, and followed Mario to the room behind the door.
It was just as the ogres said, the basement of the workhouse was arranged like a canteen.
There is a long table and six large and sturdy chairs in the middle of the hall, which are enough to fit the ogre's fat butt.
The broken bones scattered on the table looked like garbage discarded here after the meal.
If it weren't for some conspicuous human skull fragments, it would be difficult to identify what kind of food was chewed into this shape.
There is a moldy wooden staircase against the wall of the hall.
Lisa didn't want to look at the human bones on the table anymore, so she climbed up the stairs with the ball of light in her hands, tried to hold the door handle, and turned back to Gao Fei at the bottom of the stairs and said, "The door above is locked."
There is also a door diagonally opposite the stairs, leading to the next room in the basement.
Through the crack in the door, a pungent rotten smell wafted.
Claire put her ear to the keyhole, held her breath and listened for a moment, then turned to Gao Fei and others and said: "There is vague movement in the next room, it seems to be the cry of a child..."
"Perhaps our orphanage director, the kind Mrs. Freddy, locked the disobedient children in solitary confinement in the basement."
Mario tried to use his sense of humor, but found that no one got the laugh, so he added rather disappointedly:
"I mean, it's definitely a good thing that the poor little guy can still cry. At least it shows that he hasn't been eaten yet."
"You don't need to say such obvious things. Come over here and pry the door open!"
Claire scolded the "humor master" angrily.
Mario touched his nose and angrily pried open the door.
The room next door was filled with a disgusting smell, like a mixture of rotting flesh and feces.
When Lisa walked in holding the glowing silver coins, the darkness that shrouded the entire room was dispelled by the "light spell".
Gao Fei narrowed his eyes slightly and looked around in the light and dark room.
The first thing that catches the eye are two large sinks, which are as big as a bathtub.
One of the sinks contained sewage, which was the source of the stench.
The other tank was empty, with only a layer of dried blood congealed at the bottom.
In the middle of the two sinks, there was a butchering chopping board that looked like it was used for killing pigs. A large kitchen knife stained with blood was placed flat on the chopping board. It was obviously still in use not long ago.
Opposite the sink and chopping board, there is a meat rack placed against the wall, with three corpses hanging on iron hooks.
Two of the corpses were stripped naked and disemboweled like white-striped pigs, and one corpse was dressed in rags.
Gao Fei waved his hand, signaling Lisa, who was already pale with fright, to turn around, took the glowing silver coin from her hand to use as a candlestick, walked to the meat hanging rack, and inspected the body.
The three corpses were all very thin. They had obviously suffered from hunger for a long time before their death, and they were probably homeless people on the streets.
At this time, a deep roar suddenly came from behind.
Gao Fei hurriedly turned back and looked at the fireplace in the corner where the roar came from.
In the furnace, two dark yellow spots lit up, flashing with a ferocious look, clearly the eyes of some kind of beast!
"Watch out!"
Claire, with quick eyesight and quick hands, pushed Gao Fei away.
Almost at the same time, the monster hiding in the fireplace burst out and passed by Goofy.
The monster jumped into the air, roared in annoyance, quickly turned around, and faced Goofy, Lisa, Mario, and Claire.
This monster looks like a black panther, but its body is as strong as a lion. It is black and blue, with oily and smooth fur, shining with a strange and dizzying halo.
If that's all, this guy is just a large cat, not a monster.
However, if you look closely, you will find that it has strange organs that are different from ordinary tigers and leopards - a pair of tentacles extend backwards from both sides of the shoulder blades, and the ends of the tentacles swell like split pea pods, and the inside is covered with sharp bone spurs.
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As the monster roared, these two tentacles slowly raised up, like flexible tails, swinging in the air, showing off the bone spurs with barbs, as if to intimidate the prey.
Gao Fei also noticed that the monster was wearing an iron collar around its neck, and there was a pendant that looked like an iron plate hanging in the center of the collar.
It seems that Freddy and his wife not only adopted ogres, but also had a habit of keeping monsters as pets.
"Simba, go kill that weird black panther!"
Claire gave an order, and the lion Simba pounced forward and started fighting with the monster.
Gao Fei didn't rush to take action yet. He opened the astrolabe and looked at the black monster's illustrated book.
It turns out that this guy is called "Shifter Beast", and he is a large magical beast with evil nature.
Except for the extra pair of whip-like tentacles on its body, the shape, attributes, natural defense and fighting methods of the Displacer Beast are similar to those of an adult male lion. However, the health bar is thicker, and it seems that it is not difficult to deal with.
However, when the fight started, I realized that the Displacer Beast was much more difficult to deal with than the Lion!
This guy has a special ability commensurate with his status as a "magical beast". He is constantly surrounded by a halo of light, making it difficult to tell his exact location.
Disturbed by this circle of flickering illusions, the enemy's attack on the shifter beast will have a 50% chance of missing before the hit roll is made.
This effect of forcing evasion of half of the attacks is exactly the same as the third-level spell "Transposition" of the "School of Illusion".
In fact, this is how the Shifter Beast got its name.
Relying on the constant "displacement" special effects on its body, and the shifter beast's natural ability to "master dodge", "intuitive dodge" and "reflex dodge", Simba the lion's attacks on it repeatedly failed, but was defeated by the shifter beast's flexibility.
The tentacles whipped him until blood dripped all over his body.
Claire and Mario realized that the lion was no match for the Shifter Beast, so they quickly attacked.
The whip drawn by Claire and the crossbow arrow fired by Mario were also interfered by the "displacement spell". They seemed to hit the shift beast, but in fact they missed them and failed to cause any damage.
"canwa!"
Thanks to Lisa's strength, she used the "Command Technique" at the critical moment, successfully breaking through the "Shifter Beast's" will resistance, which is weaker than physical dodge, and injecting a spiritual command into its mind.
The Shifter Beast had just bitten Simba's neck and was about to use its force to tear the lion's throat apart. Suddenly, an irresistible foreign will took control of his brain and he lay down involuntarily.
Like a well-trained hound, wagging its tail and sticking out its tongue, trying to please its master, only to be beaten severely.
In the next round, the shifter beast got rid of the control of the "Command Technique" and was about to take revenge on Lisa. A familiar figure broke into the field of vision, which immediately aroused a far stronger hatred in the shifter beast's heart than for Lisa, prompting it to
