Maria habitually pulled the front of her white coat, and when she caught the air with her hand, she remembered that she wasn't wearing a white coat for office and experiment, but an ordinary casual dress.
She has spent most of her life in the laboratory. For her, she rarely wears anything other than a white coat. She has devoted almost her entire life to the Truth Society, but today she is going to meet a special person .
Maria touched the fragment of the stone tablet in her pocket, and could feel the strong breath of life in it.
As a mortal, Maria, who had suffered from a bottleneck for a long time, was extremely eager to break through herself, and finally chose to go to the lower city to gain experience, where she finally withstood the pollution, achieved a breakthrough, and obtained the fragment of the witch of life.
This is all her capital and courage, relying on this shard to survive in the deep lower city full of countless pollution.
Maria pushed her glasses, her long black hair fell behind her like a waterfall, and in front of her was Block 23.
With her hands in the pockets of her gray trench coat, she looked at the old bookstore that didn't even have a signboard.
The boss is sitting at the counter talking to a girl. According to information, this girl should be the assistant of the owner of the bookstore... At the same time, she is also another leader of the Sun God Cult.
"Boss Lin, the new store is ready, I can officially go there today."
Mo En said this, Lin Jie nodded, explained a few things to her, and told her to be careful on the road.
Maria stood in the doorway, only to hear the end of such a conversation.
- It sounds normal.
But thinking of what the intelligence said, the branch was occupied by a large number of senior followers of the Sun God Cult on the first day of its opening, which is very bad.
Morn nodded at last and walked out of the bookstore.
The moment she turned around, her calm eyes met Maria, who subconsciously met her gaze.
At that moment, Maria stiffened, as if seeing an ancient dark night sky.
Until Moen completely passed her, she still stood still and didn't dare to move.
The shards in the palm exude a warning-like heat.
"Did you like something? You've come, why don't you come in and see? You seem to have been standing at the door for a long time."
Lin Jie was just here to close the door, but he didn't expect to see a person outside.
Now that it's at the door of my shop, that's my customer.
Adhering to this principle, Lin Jie showed a business smile and opened the door wider.
Maria's stiff body slackened, and her original confidence and momentum were shattered by Moen's warning, making her weaker for no reason.
To be able to use this level of power for one's own use...
This bookstore owner, perhaps, is stronger than she imagined.
But Maria has never been afraid of the powerful and scary. On the contrary, she has the courage to challenge, even when she went to the lower city, and she also came to the bookstore today.
As the president of the Truth Society, and as a relative of Hood, there are some things she must figure out.
Maria stepped forward and walked to the owner of the bookstore.
"Hello ma'am, would you like to buy some books?"
Lin Jie said with a smile.
Maria raised her head slightly and surveyed the bookstore.
"I am a member of the Truth Society. I heard that Boss Lin in this bookstore is knowledgeable and knowledgeable, so he came to visit him specially."
Maria took a deep breath and said with a smile.
Lin Jie couldn't help but lean back tactically. There are more and more members of the truth club coming to the bookstore. I don't know who is promoting him and praising him like this. It's really insightful.
I think it's only Andrew. Oh, he just inspired his research on alchemy. As for... I hope more!
Lin Jie waved his hands again and again and said humbly, "I just read a few more books, how can it be regarded as well-informed and well-informed."
"Boss Lin is humble."
Maria didn't smile, but her eyes turned cold: "It was said by my nephew Hood. He said that he was taught once by you and changed his whole person."
The mutation and power in Hood are too similar to the pollution in Xiacheng... This Lin Jie must be inseparable from Xiacheng.
Lin Jie smiled and said humbly, "It's your nephew who is smart. I just enlighten him. He has already undergone amazing changes, and he is very talented."
He thought, it turned out that this was Hood's aunt, the president of the Truth Society who was in retreat.
I'm afraid it's not because I came to the door to ask for guilt. Let's talk about Hood first. Anyway, Hood is now his own. He didn't care about entering the store and stealing things before. He was tied up and beaten. It's over like this...
He said: "In the past six months, Hood's progress has been obvious. I think it has something to do with him falling in love with reading. Are you also interested in the books he reads? Why don't you buy a copy and see?"
"I didn't come here to buy books."
As Maria spoke, she subconsciously looked up at the bookshelf behind the bookstore owner, which seemed to be an endless vortex, which made Maria feel the tremor from her soul.
This bookstore owner’s trick is probably to send books to the selected person. The book contains huge power. The selected person can’t restrain their desire for power and accepts the book, but the moment they accept the book, they will also be swallowed by the book and become a bookstore. The master's lover.
The trap that a wisher is hooked on is really clever.
She turned her head quickly, lest her will be tempted... It seems that the verbal confrontation can no longer be maintained, and Maria subconsciously tightened her pockets - it's time to let him know who he is. Sheltered.
"Is there something else?" Lin Jie asked suspiciously.
Maria raised the corner of her mouth and slowly took out the fragment from her pocket.
"You... probably know this thing?"
Maria's eyes flickered.
In her mind, she had already foreseen Lin Jie's loss of composure and shock after seeing the beacon belonging to the witch of life.
After all, the witch of life is his natural enemy no matter what. If he really came from the lower city, the flame ignited in the darkness is the light that can dispel pollution—
Maria slowly awakened the shard, injected power, and the heartbeat-like resonance of power gradually agitated, making her more and more excited.
Lin Jie blinked and saw the very familiar fragment, his smile froze.
Maria snorted coldly, seeing Lin Jie's broken mask-like smirk, she felt very happy.
"It's actually this..."
Lin Jie was stunned for a while, then twitched the corners of his mouth: "What a coincidence, I was still telling the guests yesterday, like a miracle of fate, this third shard will come to me one day."
Maria opened her eyes wide and watched in disbelief as Lin Jie reached out and took out two boxes from under the counter and opened them.
So, just like mass production, two fragments appeared in front of Maria's eyes.
"You... how could you?!" Have a treasure that I almost paid for with my life? Besides, this is the mortal enemy of pollution. If it is the existence of the lower city, it should be feared!
Maria felt that the world was spinning in front of her, but the fragments in front of her were indeed the real thing, containing the vigorous power of the witch of life.
The agitation that was like a heartbeat was getting faster and faster, which made Maria's heartbeat speed up, and even felt a little uncomfortable.
"It was all given by the guests." Lin Jie played with the two fragments and said, "Speaking of which, I have been studying these two fragments for the past few days, and I have indeed achieved some results."
"It seems that you are also here to discuss things about the fragments. It seems that you are both a scholar and an archaeology enthusiast?" Lin Jie smiled: "Look, this one was sent by the people of the Plague Church."
"Oh, by the way, do you know the Plague Church?" Lin Jie seemed to remember something, "They are a church in Xiacheng, and they also came to ask me about these fragments, and hoped that I would teach them in the past, and also Say what to do with the whole church to find this last shard."
"But look, this last one came as soon as you said it. So, it's a wonderful fate... Hey, what's wrong with you, guest?"
Lin Jie watched in amazement as Maria's pupils shrank and covered her mouth, as if thinking of something frightening.
"I... I'm fine."
Maria shook her head with difficulty and said calmly.
Even though it had been several months since she left the lower city, the cruelty and gloom of the Church of the Plague and the lives of those who lived in the lower city still made her nauseous just thinking about it.
Those people live underground where the sun never sees the light of day. The muddy water in the quagmire never reaches the calf. What flows is not muddy water, but viscera and minced meat. The dead cannot be buried in the loose and slippery soil. The hoes are smashed together and become part of the underground ecology.
Those people... Maybe they can no longer be called human. The infinitely degenerated eyes are small and full of malice, the skin on the whole body is hard and rough, even with scales, and most of the heads have become tentacles. She can't see their completeness. appearance, or perhaps because each of them has its own deformity.
But one thing is the same, they always look up at the soil above, as if waiting for something...
She once guessed that the plague church, which worships this mutation, may be waiting for the return of the source of the mutation. Their wish to return to the earth has never disappeared.
And now, the owner of the bookstore said he was going to give lectures to the members of the Church of the Plague
The monsters from the Church of Plague have to wait for the owner of the bookstore to go to the lower city... Could it be that... this man in front of me is what the Church of Plague is waiting for? !
Maria felt like her heart was being clenched, and she felt suffocation.
The passage overseen by the Truth Society was destroyed, and at the same time, the Ash Tree Chamber of Commerce claimed to have dug up a second passage. Now, the ambitions of the Plague Church are clearly revealed. Everything is not a coincidence, but a long-planned conspiracy!
"It's fine."
Lin Jie said, and then prepared to take the third fragment.
Maria's eyes widened, fear spread like a tide, and she grabbed the shard tightly in her hand as if she had grabbed a straw when she was drowning, and at the same time quickly wanted to withdraw her hand.
However, she suddenly found that she couldn't move!
"Um... don't... no, no..."
Maria was in a cold sweat, and saw the shadow reflected on the wall moving slowly, and her hand seemed to be controlled by the shadow, as if offering a treasure, she slowly sent the fragments from the box to Lin Jie.
No - Maria shouted in her heart in horror.