"No..." Maria struggled, but her body was controlled by the shadow. She tried to break free, but found that her body was uncontrollably separated from her soul.
She could feel that her soul was being completely torn out of her body, and she couldn't help but let out a terrified scream.
Maria didn't dare to struggle anymore, she knew that she was shaking, and she would usher in real death. This shadow controlled not her body, but her soul.
"Are you all right, Ms. Maria?" Lin Jie came out from behind the counter, trying to support Maria, who seemed to have a seizure.
"what!!"
The moment Maria saw Lin Jie, she let out a hoarse scream, her pale blue pupils shrank, and she showed a terrified expression as if she had seen a ghost.
"Help! Help, help!!" Maria was completely grabbed by fear, she threw off Lin Jie's hand and opened her eyes. She could clearly see that the shadow that had controlled her just now was standing at the moment. Behind Lin Jie.
Quietly, silently, just staring at her like that.
"Ah, lady, calm down."
Lin Jie saw Maria gasping for breath, and there seemed to be something extremely frightening in front of her eyes, and the object of her fear was just behind her.
Lin Jie turned around suddenly, but saw Xiao Hei.
The little black who will help repair the light bulb and turn on the switch, harmless to humans and animals.
"Little Hei." Lin Jie was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously whispered.
The shadow tilted his head and disappeared in an instant, and Maria seemed to have lost the object of her game, and fell to the ground like a rag sack.
What Maria was terrified of... was Xiao Hei who was standing behind him at some point.
Lin Jie's opinion of Xiao Hei is actually thanks to the Lord. After all, it has given him the library of the entire human world and realized his greatest dream.
Moreover, Xiao Hei was very friendly and never hurt his friends, including Morn Joseph, and never affected other guests of the bookstore, so Lin Jie regarded Xiao Hei as the spirit-like creature behind the anime he had watched before. .
As for Xiao Hei's purpose, Xiao Hei's identity, Lin Jie doesn't care. After all, everyone has their own secrets, and he has never felt Xiao Hei's malice, and it doesn't appear often.
But today is different.
Xiao Hei appeared in other people's field of vision for the first time, and it seemed that the other party had fear.
This is the first time Xiao Hei has shot at a bookstore customer, and from a certain point of view, Xiao Hei has done nothing wrong.
Even though Lin Jie was very friendly, he could clearly feel that Maria was looking for trouble, after all, Hood's affairs were there.
Moreover, Xiao Hei's appearance is somewhat like a ghost, and it is normal for ordinary people like Maria to be frightened.
"Ma'am!" Lin Jie grabbed Maria's shoulders, forced her to calm down, then smiled and reassured: "There's nothing here, what happened to you just now?"
After Maria heard this, her pale and dazed face came back to her senses and seemed to calm down a little. She stared blankly at Lin Jie's warm smile and released a friendly atmosphere. Lin Jie squinted and smiled and said: " You see, our bookstore is very clean and has nothing."
As he said, a huge black shadow gradually swelled behind him. The black shadow existed behind his smile. Even his whole body was shrouded in shadows. Those shadows stretched out countless dark tentacles, like the head of a gorgon. Publicly.
Lin Jie's gentle words of comfort turned into some kind of terrifying threat.
"You you you you..." Maria stammered in horror, and before Lin Jie could react, she had already taken a few steps back, almost crawling open the door of the bookstore to escape from the bookstore, as if there was some kind of terrifying creature behind her. Existence - no matter how Lin Jie stays behind her.
Lin Jie: "…"
Is it worth running like this? everything fell off...
Lin Jie frowned, picked up an old notebook that Maria had dropped from the ground, looked at Maria who was running away, sighed, and turned around. The moment he turned around, the little boy with his teeth and claws turned. Hei instantly shrank into a black shadow about the same size as him.
"What's the matter with you today? What do you want to do?" Lin Jie's tone was a little unhappy and confused, and he whispered: "You want me to spread the book, why do you want to scare people away? You didn't give it to me yourself. mission?"
Xiao Hei didn't move, as if the child who failed the prank was obediently listening to Lin Jie's scolding.
"But that's all... It looks like you probably want to keep that shard, right?" Lin Jie walked back to the counter and looked at the three shards on the table.
Lin Jie looked at Xiao Hei, pointed at the fragments, and said, "Do you want to eat this?"
Xiao Hei didn't react, just quietly confronted Lin Jie.
If Xiao Hei wants to eat this stone tablet fragment from life, does it mean that Xiao Hei is an enemy of the witch of life
It brought Lin Jie here, and now it doesn't seem to be a coincidence, but because it came from here.
It knows it, it needs it.
So what kind of existence does Little Black... play in the history of Azir Continent
Lin Jie thought, staring at the shadow in front of him.
After a while, Lin Jie took a deep breath, slowly raised his hand, and reached out to the shadow.
Lin Jie didn't know why he did this? Probably want to touch the little black, right? This is the first time he has tried to do this in the years since he met Xiao Hei.
In that shadow, what is there, will it be an entity, or a piece of ice cold like water
Unexpectedly, Lin Jie's pupils tightened suddenly, and suddenly saw Xiao Hei making the same action!
It seemed to imitate him, the two reached out at the same time, and for a split second their fingertips touched.
Lin Jie's fingertips clearly sent a temperature that he had not expected before. This temperature seemed to be similar to the temperature on his own hands. Lin Jie was stunned for a moment, and wanted to touch Xiao Hei further.
But He disappeared in the next instant, like a flickering TV signal, suddenly blurred, and then erased.
Lin Jie's fingertips stopped in mid-air, as if no one had ever appeared before.
Lin Jie withdrew his hand and looked at the palm of his own that had nothing, and seemed to be able to feel a touch of real touch.
Blackie... is it a human
Lin Jie shook his head. Humans can't be in this form. Maybe it just uses a human shape to simulate a temperature similar to his.
And... Little Black should not want to eat the fragments of the witch of life.
After all, like the last golden apple incident, if Xiao Hei wanted it, he would take it on the spot.
Lin Jie moved his thoughts away from Xiao Hei and looked down at the three fragments on the table again.
Lin Jie frowned, and with a serious expression, he slowly put the three fragments together, carefully overlapping them. As Lin Jie expected, the three fragments were perfectly spliced together, as if they had never been broken.
Lin Jie took out a magnifying glass from the drawer, and the inscription on the round stone tablet was clearly visible, and there was no defect.
"Life does not stop, the flame does not go out... what?" Lin Jie read, this ancient script is different from the elf script of the second era. It seems to come from an older script variant, although he can recognize But just like people who learn simplified Chinese characters recognize traditional Chinese characters, there will always be some places they don't know.
The light in the bookstore was gradually running out. Lin Jie raised his head and found that it was getting dark before he knew it.
So he walked to the door and looked at the Depressed Block 23, and suddenly thought in his heart that Maria was so frightened today that the president of the Dignitary Truth Society wouldn't call the police, right
It's no use calling the police... The first combat force of the police station is in my shop.
It doesn't seem to work if you want to exorcise ghosts... Lin Jie is mostly credited with establishing the largest church in Nuojin.
Well... nothing to worry about anymore.
I just hope that Maria's sanity as a scholar will remain stable.
"Shu." He closed the shutters of the bookstore, the bookstore fell into darkness, and then suddenly lighted up, Lin Jie turned his head and saw that the stone tablet on the table was actually emitting a faint dark red light.