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Xia Ren's hand shook and he looked at the thread-bound book in his hand in disbelief: "Is this a magic book?"

Pickman nodded: "You should need this."

It’s so needed!

Xia Ren was extremely excited. If it weren't for the horrible face under Pickman's silver skull mask, he would have wanted to hug him and take a bite.

It's just that, for no reason, why would he go to such lengths to help himself.

Xia Ren touched his face, and his eyes suddenly opened wide, as if he had discovered something terrible.

Just by looking at his expression, Pickman could tell what he was thinking, and he immediately denied with a black line on his head: "No, you are not that charming."

"Why is that?" Xia Ren asked.

Pickman didn't want to say the reason: "If you don't want to read this book, I'll put it back."

"Quite arrogant."

Xia Ren no longer insisted, opened the yellowed page on the spot, and started reading.

As time passed, Xia Ren's eyes focused on the densely packed words crawling like maggots, and his consciousness gradually became immersed in them.

After an unknown amount of time, he rubbed his sour eyes, closed the book, closed his eyes, and recalled the contents.

"Ghoul Codex" mainly tells about the living habits of ghouls and other aspects of information.

Most of them live in the underground world of Dreamland. They will discard the clean bones at the bottom of Nas Valley. Day after day, they create the landscape paved with bones that Xia Ren saw when he came. Horrible spectacle.

Ghouls also have a close relationship with humans. They sometimes come to the human world through special passages. Most of these passages are in desolate places, such as abandoned cemeteries or ancient wells in dilapidated mansions.

Xia Ren couldn't help but think of the wellhead in Pickman's underground studio that he saw in his ancient dream. He wondered if that was one of the passages.

Most of the ghouls believe in the gloomy God of Cold Bones, the King of Ghouls Mordiggian, but in fact he does not exist in the current time and space. In the distant future, countless billions of years have passed, and the sun has become In the red giant state, Mordiggian lives in the last continent on the blue star, the city on the Zoshik continent, in the underground temple in Zul Baha Sal, which is what Xia Ren saw in his ancient dream. The temple we arrived at.

Mordiggian is described in the books as a benevolent and holy god. After the death of all his followers, the souls and corpses will be sacrificed to him, and Mordiggian can prevent the dead from decay and purify the filth of their lives. .

In the ancient dream, Anna should have also become a follower of Mordiggian, so she would only see him after her death.

With the improvement of his strength, Xia Ren is no longer as embarrassed as when he first read "The Underground Digger".

He is now able to understand and accept these horrifying knowledge and the deepest hidden truth of the universe to a certain extent.

In my mind, the unlocking progress of Chapter 2 of Xuanjun's Seven-Chapter Secret Book, the Life-Extension System of Meat Zhi, has reached 50%.

In other words, you only need to find another relevant grimoire to read to completely unlock it.

Xia Ren was in a good mood and was very satisfied with the results of entering the dreamland. Of course, all this came from Pickman's assistance.

"Is there anything else?" He looked at the other person expectantly.

"No more," Pickman said without hesitation.

Xia Ren sighed, feeling a little regretful: "It's really gone? Think about it again, are there any Ghoul Noble Phantasms you haven't given me?"

It seemed that he was unwilling to leave if he didn't scratch anything anymore. Pickman just wanted him to leave quickly, so he said nonsense: "Child urine can cause a little damage to the ghoul, just a little, you can Try it.”

"You are a good person."

If it wasn't a time emergency, Xia Ren would have wanted to take him to sit down and have a drink, but now was obviously not a good opportunity.

He put down the "Ghoul Codex" and stood up to leave.

McClan originally wanted to send him as a gift, but Xia Ren declined.

The painting was at the other end of the passage connecting the dreamland and reality. He didn't want to be eating hot pot and singing at home that day, and suddenly a large group of ghouls would run out of the painting to visit. The scene would be exciting just thinking about it.

Leaving the underground labyrinth according to the route in his memory, Xia Ren set foot on the endless skeletons at the bottom of Nass Valley and left the dreamland along the original path.

After he left, McClan looked at Pickman doubtfully: "Do you know that human?"

"We know each other, of course we know each other, but that was a long time ago."

Pickman sighed, lit a cigarette, and recalled the past.

When he was very young, Pickman realized that he was different when he was still in human form. He almost instinctively longed for corpses and forbidden knowledge that could drive people crazy.

But at the same time, he also cherished the family around him very much. After realizing that he was special, in order not to affect his parents and brother, he chose to leave home alone and reduce contact with his family.

During this period, he experienced the death of his parents, his brother married, and then gave birth to little Theresa. Pickman could only watch their lives from a distance, but did not dare to get close.

As he grew older, his instinctive call became stronger. Finally, he was inspired to find the ancient well in the basement. After hesitating for many days, he chose to go in and face the terrible truth.

In the well is another world, filled with bones and ugly monsters that he has seen countless times in his dreams, but Pickman feels extremely close to them.

He got his wish and learned about his life experience. He was a...ghoul.

After a brief contact with his kind, Pickman returned to reality through the ancient well, only to learn that his brother's family had all died, and his best friend Elliot was also missing.

If I had not entered the ancient well at that time, I could have prevented the tragedy from happening.

Since then, endless regrets and remorse have been with Pickman and become his heartache.

Until half a year ago, a man found him and said:

"Hello, I'm your sister-in-law."

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…

When his consciousness returned to his body, Xia Ren threw the painting aside, looked at the time, and found that it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

He immediately jumped out of bed, put on his slippers and went to find Niu Changshou.

Lily followed behind him, the tail of her white skirt fluttering as she walked, which looked very beautiful.

Seeing Xia Ren coming in such a hurry, Niu Changshou was a little surprised: "What clues did you think of?"

Xia Ren said solemnly: "Where is Ansenberg City? I must get there tonight."

The Dark Festival will begin at night two days later, but the Blue Star is so vast, and there is a time difference between various continents. No one knows which continent the Dark Festival will be held in. If you are unlucky, it will be in the East Continent. Then there is only one and a half days left.

Considering that it still takes time to travel, he must get the tickets for the Dark Festival tonight!