Chapter 509: Dead End

Pierre and the bar waiter looked at Lumian and the others, their bloodshot eyes gradually turning from blank to terrified.

They lowered their voices and said the same thing like delirious mutterings:

"You know...

"You know there is madness here..."

Suddenly, Pierre's expression twisted, and he roared hysterically:

"You can't leave either!

"People outside will know, and we will all be finished!"

He slammed his body into the open window of the steam train, trying to climb in and drag Lumian and the others out.

Lugano stood up *swish* and swung his right fist as if swinging a hoe.

With a *bang*, Pierre fell unconscious and hung on the edge of the window. The bar waiter also seemed to have lost his reason, stepping on the soliciting middle-aged man and trying to jump into the carriage.

Lugano threw another punch, knocking the bar waiter, whose whites of his eyes had many bloodshots, unconscious there, stacking him with Pierre.

"They didn't mutate into monsters..." Lumian had thought the two town residents had suddenly erupted with madness.

Lugano turned around and asked in a deep voice:

"What now?"

"What now?" Lumian repeated the "Physician's" question.

The development of this matter up to now not only directly showed the abnormality but also made him feel contradiction and disharmony.

The strange madness that caused people to lose their reason and imitate canine creatures, and the fact that they went crazy one after another, clearly showed the existence of supernatural factors. But since Pierre and other town residents didn't want the outside world, the government, and the church to know about this madness, worrying that it would lead to the disappearance of the entire town, why did they so easily tell Lumian about the madness?

This could be explained by the fact that the pressure on his spirit had already reached its limit, and Lumian's words about him getting sick in the future became the last straw that broke the camel's back. After being awakened, he instinctively tried to stop the secret from leaking.

But just like Lumian asked before:

Why not flee here?

Faced with this kind of groundless, hard-to-guard-against "infectious" madness, shouldn't normal humans hurry to flee Dadel Town and wait for the plague to subside before returning?

Even if they were worried that fleeing would attract the attention of the government, and that after solving the madness, those with potential infection risks would be cleared together, they could also bring dry food and run into the nearby mountains, hiding for a few days.

Unless, some kind of power was preventing the town residents of Dadel from fleeing!

Lumian had also obtained confirmation of this point from other details:

The town residents actually knew that similar madness had appeared in other places and the entire village had been wiped out by the government. Normally, wouldn't they only hear that a certain village had suffered a disaster and everyone had been buried?

And after the initial infected person fell ill, the people who went crazy one after another completely included the church's clergy, the police at the police station, and the officials of the Health Department. Thus, this plague very accurately hit the hub of Dadel Town's connection with the regional government from the beginning.

This was like some dangerous guy with wisdom deliberately spreading the madness and using various methods to prevent the town residents from fleeing.

But if there really was such a mastermind, why did he let Pierre and others tell the doctor on the steam train about the situation?

If such a steam train were left in Dadel Town and couldn't arrive at Gatti Port by tomorrow morning, it would inevitably attract an investigation by official Beyonders.

In addition, Lumian asked himself, if it were him, if he really wanted to experiment with some madness, if he really wanted to do this kind of anti-human thing, he would definitely choose a relatively closed village or small town with little connection to the outside world, rather than a transportation hub where steam trains passed by or even stayed for a night every day—even if Lumian hadn't asked about Pierre's situation just now, those who went to Dadel Town to sleep in warm quilts and taste pretty little frogs would also discover the abnormality. He couldn't keep them all, right? That would be investigated!

There were many contradictions, disharmony, and places hard to explain... both smart and stupid, both cautious and careless... Lumian pondered and looked at Lugano:

"What can we do? Of course, find a way to inform the government. You don't want to investigate the source of the madness yourself and save the town residents here, right? I can't tell, you're actually so noble."

Lugano smiled awkwardly. He hadn't thought about the latter possibility at all.

"How to inform the government?" he asked sincerely.

He rarely did this and had no experience.

"The simplest way is to find the train police and tell him what Pierre said, letting him use the wireless telegraph on the train to contact the relevant departments in the Foss region or the Upper Coastal Province." Lumian said quite casually.

Lugano hesitated and said:

"But, but as witnesses, as observers, we will be invited to assist in the investigation. We, our identities are fake. Even if you use that magical item to change your appearance, it's easy to expose the fact that we are Beyonders under some occult abilities."

Lumian thought about it and revealed a smile:

"Then find an empty room on the platform where no one is, stack dozens of bundles of explosives, and detonate them at once, blowing off the roof and collapsing the house with a *bang*. In this way, not to mention the train captain and train police will definitely report it, the Foss regional government will also notice it directly. This place isn't far from Foss City. Once they investigate deeply, they will discover the hidden problems in Dadel.

"How about it? This method doesn't require us to come forward personally, right?"

Lugano thought for a moment and said:

"Once the government investigates deeply, they will discover that we have been in contact with the town residents of Dadel and will worry that we also have the risk of being infected with madness. By then, we won't pass the test."

Lumian felt a bit irritable, as if he had recalled the situation where he and his sister appeared abnormal in Cordu Village, trapped there, and everything they did had problems.

He laughed and said:

"Then go investigate the source of the madness yourself and blow it into pieces!

"This can solve the problem thoroughly without being noticed by the government!"

At this moment, the little boy Ludwig, who didn't know how many midnight snacks he had eaten, swallowed the fried potato cake in his mouth and said unhurriedly:

"After informing the government about the madness, why do you still have to stay here and wait for them to investigate?"

"Can't you just leave directly, change your identity, and take another steam train to another port?"

*Uh*... Lumian was stunned for a moment.

Why didn't I think of such a simple train of thought?

Just now, Lugano and I discussed it more and more, completely finding reasons and excuses for ourselves to enter Dadel Town to investigate the source of the madness...

Thinking of this, Lumian was shocked in his heart.

He looked at Lugano as if nothing had happened and observed the fortune of this "Physician."

The fortune of the other party in the near future was also stained with a few miserable green traces!

Lumian smiled and said to Lugano:

"You also have the possibility of getting madness."

Lugano was stunned first, then asked with a pale face:

"Really?"

"You can take it as me joking." Lumian turned his head quite relaxed and said to Ludwig, "Look, reading more and learning more still has many benefits. You couldn't think of this method before, only knowing how to eat, eat, eat."

Ludwig didn't pay attention to this "Hunter" and used a fork to get a piece of lamb into his mouth.

"What to do, what to do..." Lugano muttered to himself while trying to use his "Physician" ability on himself to see if he could save himself.

Lumian interrupted him:

"No need to rush, it's just a risk of getting sick. We'll leave here before we are truly infected."

As he spoke, he stood up and walked toward the outside of the compartment.

"Y-you, where are you going?" Lugano blurted out.

Lumian put his hands in his pockets and returned a smile:

"Go tell the government about the madness."

Lugano didn't know what language and expression to use to respond for a while and could only watch Lumian leave the compartment like a stroll.

After Lumian arrived at the washroom of this train carriage, he locked the door and directly activated the black mark representing "Spirit World traversal."

His figure disappeared quickly and appeared in Apartment 702 at 9 Orosay Street, Memorial Hall District, Trier.

At this time, neither Franca nor Jenna had gone to sleep. One was reading a novel, and the other was thinking about what knowledge to feed the Xazo Rabbit.

"You, why are you back?" Franca was startled.

She had the illusion that she had just sent this kid to school in the morning and found him eating snacks and watching TV at home in the afternoon.

Lumian glanced at Franca and said with a smile:

"Encountered an extraordinary event and wanted to tell the government through your channels so they could solve it."

"A-another extraordinary event? What kind of occult disaster detector are you!" Franca exclaimed, both surprised and amused.

Jenna looked at Lumian and suddenly felt that it was a good thing for this guy to leave Trier.

"I don't want to either." Lumian spread his hands very sincerely.

Franca exhaled and said:

"Where is it, what kind of event?"

"In Dadel Town, Foss region, Upper Coastal Province..." Lumian roughly explained the situation.

The infectious madness made both Franca and Jenna a bit surprised and terrified.

At the same time, Franca muttered in her heart:

"I don't know what reaction '007' will have when he receives this 'surprise'..."

"He always tells me to get out of the Market District. Now that I've really gotten out of the Market District, he will find that not only will extraordinary cases in other districts of Trier pile up on his hands, but occult disasters in other provinces of Intis will also rush toward him..."

"Ah right, what does it have to do with me? It's all Lumian's problem!"

"Fortunately, this guy is going to the Feynapotter Kingdom later. Any extraordinary events won't trouble '007' anymore. It's not like there can be cross-border cooperation..."

After finishing the situation in Dadel Town, Lumian didn't stay and directly "teleported" back to the washroom of the steam train business carriage.

He turned on the faucet and washed his hands without any panic, then walked out of the washroom, returned to the small compartment, and said to Lugano:

"The government will react soon. We are preparing to leave."

Lugano stood up suddenly.

At this moment, the unconscious Pierre woke up slowly and shook the bar waiter who was pressing on him onto the platform.

Lumian looked at him and said with a smile:

"We will stay, we will investigate the source of the madness. Can you tell me who the initial patient was?"

"Who..." Pierre didn't attack Lumian and the others like he had lost his reason before, but fell into a strange contemplation.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 510 =====