Chapter 206: Chapter 206: Wheat Field District
Translator: 549690339
“Open Eyes”
When the Little Demon Eye was fully activated, it penetrated the darkness of the tree hole and spotted an evil entity nestled within it.
Simultaneously.
The thing in the hole seemed to sense that someone was watching it.
Clang, clang!
A pair of red shoes stepped out of the tree hole first.
Followed by a golden-haired little girl in a flower-printed dress, slowly climbing out of the tree hole with a red apple in her hands.
A rusty chain was tightly wound around her neck.
Her adorable big eyes stared at Han Dong as she let out a loli voice hard for even a straight man to resist:
“Big brother, save me… I’ve been chained here for a long time.”
But Han Dong was cold, “Why were you chained down there?”
“Because mom always worried that I’d cause her trouble, she made a treehouse for me under the apple tree. She then chained me in there with this long iron chain because she was worried I’d roam around.”
“Where is your mother?”
“I don’t know… She used to visit me and make me really delicious apple pies. But one day, she never came back.”
Han Dong counter-asked: “Oh? Is that so… Then who are all those bodies piled up in your treehouse? One of them must be your mom, right?”
As Han Dong asked this question.
The pitiful little girl immediately changed her face and revealed an evil smile.
The apple she held in her hand rotted instantly, and a bunch of maggots crawled out from the inside… It quickly turned into a pool of smelly sewage and scattered all over the ground.
“Big brother, your eyes seem to be quite special, I don’t want to play with you anymore, it’s so boring.” The little girl crawled back into the tree hole to hide.
At the same time, all the apples on the apple tree turned into sewage.
Not a single intact apple was left to complete the task… This means they had to venture into the tree hole.
The real apple might be inside this evil creature.
It might even be the evil creature’s heart.
Actually, they could have used Togu’s lava ability to burn down the entire tree and force the little girl out.
But considering this place is the home of Cass and others, Han Dong planned to use a slightly more ‘peaceful’ way to solve the problem.
Hence, Han Dong voluntarily bent down and crawled into the tree hole.
The tree hole extended downwards, connecting to an underground space of about twenty square meters.
The unique bedroom of this little girl.
On top of the fundamentals of a children’s room, it also had a dark and bizarre style.
As Han Dong mentioned, there were a lot of ‘nourishing corpses’ hanging on the walls of the room.
The apple tree roots spreading down from the top connected directly with these corpses, absorbing their protein nutrients… allowing this apple tree to continue surviving in this dead manor.
“Welcome to my room.”
The girl residing in the treehouse revealed her true form.
She transformed into a tall Western woman, but her limbs were twice as long as normal people’s, and her fingertips had many twisted roots… Through a coiling action, she could impale the sharp spikes of the plant surface into the skin of living beings, draining their nutrients.
“Entering someone else’s territory without any guard, ‘big brother’, you are really interesting…”
Having said that, the woman waved her hand.
Swish!!
The robust tree roots grown from the apple tree were pulled by her and abruptly entwined Han Dong’s body.
Within an instant, Han Dong’s limbs were tightly bound, and he was suspended in the shape of a ‘big character’ in mid-air.
Caught by surprise.
An item in Han Dong’s pocket fell onto the ground.
“What?”
The woman, out of curiosity, picked up the fallen item with the elongated tree roots grown from her fingertips.
A lock of black hair.
Yes, when completing the task of [Hair in the Well], the hair from the barber had not been used up… There was a small tuft of hair left in Han Dong’s pocket.
Seeing this hair, the evil woman exclaimed loudly:
“What is your relationship with Lord Barber-Charlie? Why do you have his hair on you?”
Han Dong, who was hanging in the air, answered leisurely:
“Lord? Is Charlie highly regarded here?”
“Of course, Lord Charlie Wilson is the private barber of the Great Lord and has been listed as an important member of the family! Hurry up and tell, what is your relationship with Lord Charlie?”
“Well… what do you think?”
“Let’s make you into a ‘nutrient donor’ first and then ask slowly.”
The woman seemed rather impatient.
She quickly stretched out her ten fingers, with twisted spike-tree roots pointing directly at Han Dong’s body.
Just as the spikes were about to touch his skin.
Whoosh!
There was a flash of silver.
These soft finger-tree vines were cut off by some sharp weapon.
An aura of darkness continuously oozed out from behind Han Dong.
Han Dong said leisurely: “I didn’t expect Charlie to hold such a high position in your manor.
I had assumed he was just an ordinary barber.
What a pity that it happened so suddenly that I could only deal with him swiftly… Otherwise, I could have tried to pry some secrets about the manor out of him.”
“You!! You killed Lord Charlie!”
“Yep…”
As Han Dong nodded, a hand holding a kitchen knife ‘unfolded out’ from his back.
Right after.
A woman in red climbed out fully.
Barefooted and standing on the ground, she stared at the woman with a terrifying gaze… With terror levels comparing, Miss Chen Li seemed to be slightly scarier, completely reversing the host-guest relationship.
“Miss Chen Li, try to leave her alive.”
“Oh…”
As Chen Li marched forward for a fight with the kitchen knife.
The plague inside Han Dong spread, quickly corroding the tree roots wrapped around him.
Not paying the slightest attention to the fight.
Han Dong started to search for some potentially useful clues in the treehouse on his own.
About twenty minutes passed.
The wooden door of the dwelling was opened again.
Han Dong, holding a red apple, walked out from the inside, quietly asking the woman in red hiding in the shadows behind him, “Are you satisfied?”
“…A bit disappointing, I want more next time.”
“Alright, when the time is right, I’ll let you out… you go back and rest first, don’t let the others discover you.”
Like that, Han Dong sent a message for the two ladies on his team to assemble, and they all returned to the wheatfield region to complete the task.
Winry the blacksmith in the team wore a guilt-stricken expression. She couldn’t help at all in both tasks… This time, she didn’t even see the apple tree and the task was already completed.
On the other hand.
Team leader Abe and his group of three had also just finished resolving the Scarecrow issue.
With this.
All the clues for the ‘wheatfield area’ have been collected. Bring them back to the dwelling and slowly compare the clues, they should be able to discover one ‘path’ to venture deeper into the Stuart Mansion.
In addition, Han Dong also obtained a piece of secret information that can be shared with the team members.
There was some interesting information written in a diary from the apple tree girl.
