After Josh finished eating the barbecue that Ciri made, he sat down with Ciri under the shade of the World Tree, a little tired.
"I remember that the label of Beauty and the Devil has romance on it, so horror movies mean movies that make people feel scary?"
Ciri looked up at the silver-white leaves falling from above, and chatted with Joshua about some irrelevant topics while passing the time.
"Um... Speaking of... "
Joshua turned his head to look at the lady spellcaster sitting beside him, maybe it was the reason why Ciri had recently read the "Nolan Fashion Magazine" written by the dark elves.
Her attire gradually changed from the "combat school" kind of leather armor and spellcaster robes, to a girl-oriented type.
Today's attire is shorts and white knee socks... Joshua was busy with the high elves who didn't notice Ciri's outfit.
It wasn't until now that Joshua noticed that Ciri's outfit might make a certain type of person commit a crime.
"What... what's wrong?"
The moment Ciri felt Joshua's gaze, she subconsciously covered the part of her skin that was exposed between her knee-high socks and shorts with her hands.
She doesn't look like she's used to this girly look.
"What does Ciri mean to you as a horror movie?"
Qiao Xiu cleared his throat and asked a more serious topic.
Unlike ghosts on the earth, ghosts and other creatures only exist in the reverie of human beings. The undead in this world are real, and human beings even have the profession of necromancer.
Most horror movies Joshua knows use ghosts and ghosts to create a terrifying atmosphere.
"my words… "
"Imagine a scene that scares you," Joshua continued.
"When I got home at night, I found that the last bit of food in the kitchen was eaten by a mouse! The mouse even ran away!" Ciri replied immediately.
In a sense... this is indeed a very scary scene for Ciri.
"What about the undead? Are you afraid of ghosts or skeletons, Ciri?"
"It's not that scary, it just feels a little tricky, but apart from the necrophilias of the necromancer, there are still many people who are afraid of the dead, just like my sister, when she was a child, she would be unable to walk when she met a wandering spirit. She brought it home."
Ciri mercilessly revealed the weakness of her sister Hirlan to Joshua.
"Tricky..."
This is not a word that Joe Xiu wants to hear. After the undead exist in this world, there are more ways to deal with them. Some high-level spellcasters may only feel fear of the same "powerful" undead.
"It seems that we can only go the psychological horror route."
"Psychological? Have you thought about the script?"
There was a strange light in Ciri's eyes, and Joshua looked at Ciri's expression, if she had a tail, she would be wagging very happily.
"Not yet, I'm going back to check something today."
Qiao Xiu looked back at the World Tree behind him. While eating lunch, Qiao Xiu once again entered the consciousness space of the World Tree.
Before she stayed there for long, Qiao Xiu was dragged into the consciousness space of "Hachiko Faithful Dog" again. She seemed to know when Qiao Xiu would enter the consciousness space.
If Qiao Xiu wanted to build a server with peace of mind, he had to drive that guy out first.
…
Nolan, the mage tower of the gray one.
"You haven't moved out yet?"
Joshua walked into the interior of the Tower of Sages and saw the two nun writer duo Cheryl and Denisa.
Now they've been reduced to a maid and birder duo.
If Joshua remembered correctly, since the last time the copyright of the novel written by the two of them was officially sold, they have become Nolan's hottest writers.
The money that can be earned in one month is enough to achieve the goal set by Cheryl, which is to buy a manor in Nolan.
"Denessa said it's nice to live here."
After the former judge Cheryl saw Joshua, there was still no respect in her attitude.
"Ah... Mr. Joshua and Miss Ciri need me to make you a cup of tea?"
On the other hand, Sister Denisa respected Joshua a lot for her attitude. She hurriedly ran in front of Joshua, while Ciri, who was standing behind Joshua, kept her eyes on the swaying nun in front of the nun's chest. Those two pieces of meat.
"It's just fat."
Joshua could vaguely hear Ciri muttering in a low voice.
"No need, keep busy, I'm just here to find the man in gray to check some things."
Joshua glanced silently in front of Sister Denissa, this nun might be too impatient, when she stood up to greet Joshua, she hadn't had time to close her magic web interface.
The translucent magic web interface clearly presented the content written by Denisa in front of Qiao Xiu's eyes. Although the words were reversed, Qiao Xiu could still vaguely read some content that made people blush.
"Well!"
Denissa also seemed to realize how shameful what she wrote, and she silently stepped aside with a blushing face.
"The old man happened to be upstairs today, you just have to go up and find him." Cheryl immediately said in front of Denisa.
Under her guidance, Joshua took Joshua to the mage tower of the man in gray.
It took about ten minutes to greet the countless owls living in the mage tower, and Qiao Xiu finally came to the top of the tower.
A powerful magical barrier was set up on the top of the mage tower of the gray-clothed man, but Joshua, who was a guest, easily walked into it.
"I heard the man in yellow say that the city of high elves is about to fall?"
The man in gray was holding a heavy book in his hand. It was rare that he did not go to the Hearthstone Tavern to play Go today.
"Arthur Crowe? The situation over there is still relatively stable, at least it is impossible to fall." Joshua said.
"The world tree of the elves is related to the lifeblood of this world. Is there anything I can do to help?"
"Uh... get those high elves to let go of their prejudice against humans? Well... I'm here to ask one thing."
Joshua took out a piece of drawing paper, and the little girl's arm was drawn on the drawing paper, and Joshua directly wrote down the strange symbols on her arm.
"Do you have any impression of these symbols, man in gray?"
Qiao Xiu asked about the World Tree of the High Elves before he came, and it directly confessed that "it is very familiar, but there is no relevant memory".
In desperation, Qiao Xiu could only come to these sages for help.
"this is… "
The man in gray took the drawing paper that Qiao Xiu was holding, and then came to the bookshelf and pulled out a heavy ancient book and opened one of the pages.
The book was spread out on the desk by the man in gray, and Qiao Xiu went straight up to look at the content on it. Although the text on it was very similar to English, there were some differences.
This is a manuscript, the dense text on it is all handwritten.
"This is?"
"Books found in the underground ruins of Nolan."
The man in gray took the drawing paper in Qiao Xiu's hand and compared it with some of the patterns recorded in the book.
"Why do I feel like this is a manufacturing drawing of something?"
Ciri didn't understand the above content at all, but some things could be understood just by looking at the drawings.
"The description above... is a method of making a magic doll," said the man in gray.
"Magic doll?"
Joshua sounded the distorted tone of the little girl again, and it didn't look like a human voice should come out.
"I only parsed part of the content of this book, and the author's preface is 'the only way to save oneself in the last days'."
"I feel like the amount of information has gotten bigger again."
Qiao Xiu flipped through the book. It was obvious that the book was not finished. After half of the book was written, the words written by the author became more and more distorted. In the end, he couldn't even read the content clearly, and on the last page... A single line was written in huge font on a whole page.
This line of text actually revealed a sad and desperate feeling.
"What does this mean?" Qiao Xiu looked at the man in gray and asked.
"'We failed'."
The man in grey gave Joshua an answer.
"Failed... Let's put this topic with a lot of information for a while."
Joshua didn't come here to get "clues to save the world", Joshua came here to confirm whether horror movies would be useful in expelling that little girl.
"Do you know the place where the consciousness of all living beings in the world is gathered?"
When Qiao Xiu said this word, the expression of the man in gray became solemn, and it seemed that the sage had heard of that strange place.