Chapter 1 The Battle

Without the stonemason's reminder, everyone else understood that it was time for a desperate struggle, and they all used their own methods to attack the withered head.

E Wu Nian took the lead, a griffon-shaped fiery red crest appearing on the back of his hand. His palms condensed a ball of dark red energy, and he slapped it towards the withered head from a distance.

Forest Cat also gripped his pointer, and with a sharp wave towards the opening in the wall, released a pink giant hand to grab forward.

The intangible energy was like an iron wall, easily blocking all kinds of attacks, and even had the strength to strangle E Wu Nian's limbs from a distance, slowly bending his hands and feet backwards.

In the midst of the chaos, Li Ang silently released [Drowning Assassination Technique] towards the withered head.

"Poof—"

The head suddenly spat out a stream of warm water like a hot spring, and a steady stream of water poured out of the trachea at the severed section of her neck, flooding the table and splashing onto the ground.

The intangible energy paused inexplicably for a moment. Taking advantage of this brief gap, Li Ang activated Ripple Breathing and rushed into the house, swinging his stone arm to smash the withered head.

Even though it had turned into a fountain, the shrunken, gray head still stared at Li Ang with its shriveled eyes.

Li Ang only felt that the resistance in front of him was getting stronger and stronger, and the air was getting heavier and heavier, like amber, trying to melt him into it, solidify and freeze him.

Seeing that he was about to be completely frozen, Li Ang used the [Fragment Scatter] skill, targeting not the withered head, but the drawer under the wooden table that held the head.

He noticed that several twisted and aged electric wires extended from the drawer under the wooden table,

One end of these wires was connected to a row of generators, and the other end was connected to the back of the shriveled head's neck.

Were these wires charging that head?

He had only heard of drinking six walnuts for frequent brain use, but he had never heard of plugging electric wires into a brain.

[Fragment Scatter] ignored the air wall and directly exploded near the wooden table drawer, completely breaking the old wire connecting the head and the generator, blasting the entire section away.

As the wire flew away, the shriveled head seemed to lose power, its eyes slowly closed, and it made no more sound.

At this time, the system prompt also sounded, reminding everyone that the abnormal head had been cleared, and there were still three abnormal organs left.

Several teammates hurriedly ran into the house. The stonemason glanced at the shrunken old woman's head lying quietly on the table, and raised the water-soaked half of the wire with his gloved hand, and asked in confusion, "What is this thing?"

"This is Big Head Son's father, Small Head Dad."

Li Ang said casually.

Ignoring the dumbfounded stonemason, he picked up the head with his stone arm and carefully examined it in front of his eyes for a while. "Hmm... looks a bit like a Shuar shrunken head?

There's a wire socket on the back of the neck, and a very complicated metal cylindrical component behind the socket. This thing seems to be able to convert voltage..."

This was probably why the withered head had paused its attack just now—the water flowing out of the Drowning Assassination Technique had short-circuited the wire below.

Li Ang tossed the shriveled head up and down, and unexpectedly found a deep vertical scar on the back of the skull. Through the scar, he could see that the cranial cavity was empty and there was nothing inside.

"It really doesn't have a brain."

Li Ang praised. At this time, Forest Cat also discovered something, standing in the middle of a pile of generators, and said to his teammates, "There is a pre-set mystics array here!"

The stonemason and E Wu Nian walked over. The former glanced at the complicated magic circle drawn with dry red and white strokes, and looked up at Forest Cat and asked, "Can you understand the specific effect of this array?"

"Um..."

Forest Cat frowned and pondered for a while, and said cautiously: "This magic circle seems to be set to activate once every five years.

At that time, it will open the oil storage equipment valve behind the wall, pour the oil into the generator, and start the generator.

The array time lasts for 2 hours."

The stonemason was stunned when he heard this. He had heard of arrays for summoning demons, arrays for creating landslides, and arrays for calling thunder, but he had never heard of this kind of mystics array similar to a mechanism effect.

"These generators, in addition to turning on the lights in the mansion, also provided power to the withered head."

The stonemason analyzed: "It is possible that the array itself was set up by the head, in order to welcome this moment."

He lowered his head and frowned and said, "But why did it directly attack us, and this abnormal organ doesn't seem to have triggered any hallucinations..."

"Hey."

Li Ang shouted, attracting the attention of his teammates.

At this time, he had already put the head into the backpack bar, and overturned the wooden table, inverting it on the ground.

After his teammates came over, Li Ang pointed to the back of the wooden table, signaling his teammates to come closer and take a look.

On the back of the not-so-wide wooden table, many English words were densely engraved. Everyone scanned them carefully, without actively reading them out loud—

In the field of mystics, reading out an unknown text is itself a very reckless thing, not to mention that this is in a rather strange environment.

"Hello, unknown visitor who has entered the Williams Mansion, you must have seen my head on the table, right?

I am Helen Leslie, the former owner of the Williams Mansion.

I don't know if you are descendants of the Leslie family, or a witch alliance here to kill evil, or ordinary people who have accidentally fallen here, but I hope you can read this text carefully, this will be the key to your survival."

The four players looked at each other, a sense of absurdity surged in their hearts. This head seemed to have foreseen the scene of visitors entering the house?

"The history of this Williams Mansion originated from a mysterious scholar named Williams. He was originally a member of the Far East Dawn Magic Society, and fled to the New World at the beginning of the nineteenth century, settling on Roanoke Island.

He heard about the collective disappearance case in the colony, entered the dense forest to search, and restored the truth - on this island, lived a reindeer god named Croatoan.

It originated from the primitive beliefs of the indigenous people of the eastern American islands, and is a symbol of medicine, longevity, and health. However, due to tribal migration and decline, the reindeer god continued to weaken, becoming twisted, evil, chaotic, and disorderly.

The collective disappearance case in the colony was a conspiracy arranged by the reindeer god - he used plague and famine to attack the colony, forcing the residents of the colony from England to offer him loyalty and follow him into the misty swamp deep in the forest, becoming his servants.

Humans will undergo various changes under the influence of the reindeer god: their shapes will be distorted and become inhuman, and their brains will become dull and bloodthirsty. They are no longer worthy of being called humans. Williams called them 'Children of the Forest' or 'Forest People' in his notes."

Li Ang's eyes lit up. The children of the forest mentioned here are probably the monsters he saw in the forest with their limbs prostrate on the ground.