vrcanaries Chapter 495 Nightmare (Part 7)
Chapter 495 Nightmare (Part 7)
[Toy Merchant: Sigh, with new people coming to the manor every year, I feel like it would be really difficult for some of the old members.]
[Philanthropist: It's time to write a letter of complaint to Miss Nightingale.]
[Postman: Ugh, that's too much mail!]
"Ahem, Grandpa Balk." Nightmare cleared his throat and tried to walk forward and talk to Crazy Eyes.
However, Crazy Eyes did not treat Nightmare well: "Master Orpheus! I've told you before that those potions are not reliable at all. Look at what they have turned you into, or what you have become? Our manor is not a mitosis laboratory!"
Then, Crazy Eyes seemed to sniff the air and pinched his nose. "Oh, there's a smell of feathers that have been piled up for a long time and are stinking! Master, did you not take a shower?"
"This is all Pliny's fault. She just splashed my feathers with the mixed reagent!" Nightmare defended himself loudly, pulling at his collar. "I'm very clean!"
Looking at the aggrieved nightmare, Conan pinched his thigh with his hands to force himself not to laugh. There was no way, a master of potions who was ferocious in front of everyone, was like a defeated rooster in front of his family and elders, receiving the love education from his elders.
This scene was so funny that Hattori Heiji covered his mouth and laughed out loud. But Nightmare was extremely grateful to Hattori Heiji for laughing out loud.
"Grandpa Balk, I was wrong. There are outsiders here. Can you wait until we get back to scold me?"
Crazy Eyes snorted, "You'd better learn your lesson and don't lead the young lady astray."
Okay, it’s confirmed. In Crazy Eyes’ eyes, the children in the family should be ranked like this in the favored list: little girl > reporter > novelist > Nightmare, and Hakio is definitely at the bottom.
Seeing that Crazy Eyes seemed to have calmed down, Nightmare asked honestly, "Grandpa Balk, can you introduce this giant machine to them?"
"Go take a shower and don't enter my laboratory until you're clean!" Crazy Eyes waved his sledgehammer and drove Nightmare out.
"No, little memory, please beg for mercy on my behalf!"
"But big Aoife, we have to take a shower before we can play together." The little girl put her hands behind her back and shook her gauze skirt helplessly.
The photographer who had been standing at the basement door came in at some point and gently patted Nightmare on the shoulder: "It's okay, at least Mrs. Pliny's mixed reagent isn't that difficult to clean. If it's Mr. Philip's wax..."
"I understand. I'll go wash it right away." Nightmare lowered his head, with his beak facing the ground, looking dejected.
"Oh, what a coincidence! The bathroom is now occupied by Mr. Campbell, who is meticulously scrubbing every stone on his body to remove the dust he picked up from his recent fight with you. I think he'll need to wash for another hour or so before he can come out."
Nightmare's head instantly raised up: "Bastard Campbell, he did it on purpose! I'm going to settle the score with him!"
The photographer watched Nightmare storm off and sighed, "He still owes them wages, yet he's so brazen about causing trouble. Mr. Orpheus's personality is truly unique."
This is completely sarcastic... Conan looked at this scene with a crescent-shaped eye. However, his idea was the same as Nightmare's. Fool's Gold must have deliberately entered the bathroom immediately after Nightmare left, in order to prevent Nightmare, who had just been stained with the Queen Bee mixed reagent, from combing his feathers.
Seeing that the matter had been resolved, the pilot breathed a sigh of relief: "Mr. Balk, shall I begin now?"
"Go ahead, go ahead. I have some things to discuss with this new gentleman." Crazy Eyes took the new billiard player and the little girl away.
As the little girl and Crazy Eyes left, she stared at the billiard player's tail for a long time: "Wow, this is the first time someone with a cat's tail has come to the manor."
Akai Shuichi's face darkened. He clearly remembered the special costume he wore at Melody Villa, complete with a freely moving cat tail that even felt real. He'd assumed such appearances were simply conferred by fashion. But this billiard player seemed different; he possessed a lion's tail.
Perhaps it's the Cat God's fault, but most of his followers possess feline traits. Aside from the magician, who doesn't display any, the hermit, apostle, and billiard player all have cat-like pupils. It's unknown how the Dark Eye Cult preaches.
Conan looked at the billiard player walking away thoughtfully. He felt that since this "billiard player" was a physicist, his situation should be similar to that of a hermit, and he was also resurrected by the Cat God after his death.
While Conan was still absorbed in his thoughts, Hattori Heiji and Sera Masumi were already listening with great interest as the pilot described the various functions of the Incessant Carrier. Besides being a mobile fortress, this massive machine could also be used as a motorhome!
[Dancer: It's a shame it can only be used for field surveys. Driving this kind of transportation into the city is unthinkable.]
[Crying Clown: So we have to go camping somewhere more primitive?]
[Antique Dealer: The Black Organization still has a large base in the suburbs. We'll use our signal jammers and undying weapons to crush them.]
[Cheerleader: Great, can I reserve a spot?]
[Aviator: Of course.]
Conan decided to ask some key questions. After all, no matter how powerful the machine is, it is just a machine. The most important thing about the inventions that Oritis showed is their energy source.
"Mr. Charles, I remember you said at the beginning that this giant machine was powered by abyssal energy? We haven't even seen what abyssal energy looks like."
Hearing Conan's question, Shuichi Akai nodded. Although the FBI had studied the connection between Oritis and the abyss before, they had not been able to find more useful information about the relatively abstract concept of "abyss".
"The power manifested by the Abyss is actually different. While it can be used as a reactor most of the time, those Abyss products that develop independent consciousness are very troublesome." The pilot scratched his head. "Previously, the things the Abyss has developed were energy cores and the like, but recently..."
"From mycelium to plants, I feel like our research group is about to start cramming botany."
"There's nothing wrong with this. Mr. Chernin has a strong interest in this kind of thing." The photographer pointed at the gem inlaid on the top of his cane.
The Aviator clutched his chest and said, "It's troublesome enough that the Black Organization is causing trouble out there. I don't want to create a new virulent virus just for this reason."
Conan remembered that Jack had an energy core called the "Evil Eye": "Is the core used in this machine the same as Mr. Jack's 'Evil Eye'?"
"No, what's inside is the product of the eighth iteration of the Abyss. We've deliberately amplified its ability to absorb and store energy, reducing its self-awareness and aggressiveness. Leave the attack to the weapons equipped above. Using Abyssal energy as a means of attack would be very troublesome."