"There's no rush, let's settle the matter at hand." Garen looked at the Ninth Golden Ring, who immediately tightened his expression.
Eighth Jinhuan sneered, rushed over, and pointed his index finger.
laugh!
"Well!"
Ninth Golden Ring snorted, and a blood hole appeared in his chest instantly. With a bang, he flew upside down from the handrail and fell into the dark hollow in the middle of the stairs.
"Let's go." Eighth Jinhuan didn't look down, turned around and walked up. "Once we have the things requested by the higher-ups, we will have nothing to do with them after handing them in, and we will talk about the appraisal later."
Garen looked down at the direction where the ninth golden ring fell, it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything. Immediately followed the eighth golden ring to go up.
"By the way, do you have any clues about the tea branch vine fragrance? Why haven't I seen that tea branch vine?" He recalled the strangeness of Yinsha Castle and asked suddenly.
"Tu Zhi Vine? That thing is very effective in causing hallucinations and killing people. We have collected all of them, and the rest is only a little bit on that crazy woman, but not much." Eighth Jinhuan said casually. "Okay, I'll go up and lead people to evacuate first, and you go up again, so as not to be suspicious of Quicksilver in Tali. If you join us to become the Ninth Golden Ring, this identity is also good as a cover."
"Okay." Garen nodded. Standing still, watching the eighth golden ring speed up and quickly disappear into the darkness.
He looked back at the darkness behind his eyes, and the stairs stretched down, as if they could lead all the way to the bottomless abyss. The whole staircase was eerily quiet.
"Why is the Ninth Golden Ring in such a hurry to grab things?" He still had doubts in his heart, but it was a pity that the Ninth Golden Ring was already dead. Falling from such a high place, and being seriously injured, it is almost impossible to survive.
Shaking his head, Garen sped up and ran up.
bottom of stairs
Ninth Golden Ring was lying on his back on the ground, his body was pierced by countless thorns from the mechanism on the ground, his eyes were wide open on his back, and he was completely out of breath. The blood slowly seeped into the black soil below and slowly solidified.
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In the afternoon, the Silver Shade Castle glowed with a subtle red light under the faint sunset light. On the grass of the old castle, a few sparse police officers held guns and inspected the corpses of their teammates. All of them were pale, some cursed in low voices, and some even choked with sobs.
The sheriff's arm was wrapped in white gauze, and he stood with Detective Tower with an ugly face, White Eagle and Black Panther were also there, and Grace stood with Garon Cynthia. Cynthia's complexion was not too bad, and her subordinates did not suffer many casualties, and the losses were within the acceptable range.
Garen stood aside, watching a group of detectives discussing something in a low voice, but he didn't bother to listen. The biggest gain this time is getting on the line with Jinhuan. If it goes well, at least he doesn't have to worry about his family being threatened.
"This time my visit basically didn't help. It's a pity..." Gallon said in a low voice, "I originally planned to come and follow the detective to find out the secrets of Silver Shade Castle, and see if I could get some antiques or something. Now it seems that I am thinking too much."
"Next time you run around, can you please let me know in advance?" Cynthia said angrily. Her face and body were dirty, but miraculously, she was not injured. She was not injured in that kind of fierce gun battle, showing superhuman combat qualities.
"Understood." Garen smiled and said no more, "Okay, we should go back too, this scene is not the time for us to stay."
He walked directly to the Detective Tower team in front of him.
After saying goodbye to a few people, Garen took Grace, Cynthia, and the rest of the people to Kenu Town.
In the evening, returning to Kenu Town before dark, Garen took Grace's car and headed for the city.
Back in the city, life gradually returned to calm. Gallon completely forgot about the Silver Shade Castle. Apart from going to the library to read books every day, he went to the old man to learn identification knowledge. At the same time, he was waiting for the boss of the Manleytown Company to find time to meet him.
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weeks later.
In the library, surrounded by bookshelves, Garen was sitting in a small room, leaning against the red sofa, flipping through a magazine-sized black hardcover book, with a focused expression.
There was a cup of black coffee on the black table in front of him, and the coffee had completely run out of heat.
"The Book of Silence?" On the red sofa on the right side, a beautiful light-blond girl sat crookedly, with a black headband in the middle of her long hair. The black silk skirt on her body tightly highlighted her slender waist. There are dark red flowers on the skirt, and the black and red alternates give people an elegant and peaceful temperament. The length of the skirt just covers the knees, neither long nor short.
"Why do you suddenly want to look up the information of this book?" The girl was Finestine, who just came back from Manroland the day before yesterday, so she contacted Garen for a get-together.
"I heard the name some time ago, and I felt very curious, as if the book was very mysterious." Garen shrugged, it was definitely impossible to tell the truth.
"About this information, you really asked the right person." The girl bent her eyes, showing a good mood, "The Book of Silence is an ancient book that records mysterious knowledge in legends. The most mysterious and cruel civilization in ancient times—Guyin A great civilization is the birthplace of the silent book. Well, here are a few occult books that I want to read, so let me take you to look through them." Finnistine stood up and patted her buttocks, "Come with me .”
Garen quickly put down the book and followed her out of the small room.
Finnistine whispered a few words to a maid girl at the door of the room, the latter nodded and started to lead the way.
The three of them walked through several connected study rooms, and soon walked in through a small door on the left. Inside the door is a wooden staircase leading down, which is a little dark. The floor is covered with thick black blankets, and there is no sound when stepping on it.
Garen followed Finnistine and the maid down three flights of stairs, opened several doors in succession, and opened a series of large locks. Finally came to a very spacious and deserted underground library.
The library hall is a rectangular hall, which is very dark. There are more than ten rows of black wooden bookshelves from left to right, but most of them are empty bookshelves. No one was there, it was deserted.
After Finnistine waved the maid girl away, she happily led Garen to the bookshelf on the right.
"The books here are all old books, including mysticism, but you need to find them yourself."
Garen nodded and sniffed, there was a musty smell in the air.
Without further ado, the two rolled up their sleeves and began to search for ancient books.
There are very few books on the bookshelf, and even if there are, they have accumulated a lot of dust. When you take them down, you will bring out a large cloud of white ash, which is very choking. Finnistine really didn't care about it at all, and started looking for books on occult science with Garen with great interest.
Flip through the bookshelf on the right to find the one on the left. The two of them did find a few books on occultism, but at first glance they were just nonsense, and the contents on them were not bad for children to read as storybooks.
"Many of the books here are the property left by my friend's ancestors. He sorted out most of them, and there are still many leftovers that have not been sorted out. Later, because of family reasons, these books were not all sorted out. I have forgotten it here. If you hadn’t asked me today, I might not have remembered this place. Ahem.” Finnistine said in a low voice. While pulling out a gray book, he patted the ash on it vigorously, a puff of white ash burst out immediately, and the girl was choked and coughed again and again.
"Don't worry, just look for it slowly." Garen smiled, showing no sign of impatience.
The flames on the wall danced slowly, and the time passed by in the dim hall.
I don't know how long it took, and suddenly there was a muffled sound coming from the corner at the left end.
A thick cloud of dust rose high.
"Cough cough cough cough cough cough. It's so choking!! Why are they all down?" Finnistine complained and walked out from between the bookshelves, her whole body was dusty, the black silk skirt was no longer pure black, and the surface was completely covered. It was covered with a layer of white ash and looked very embarrassed.
"Huh?" Garen suddenly let out a sigh, "There is actually a book in this place." He was standing not far from the girl. After the bookshelf was knocked down, he suddenly saw a book roll down from the top of the shelf. Book. He hurried over to pick it up.
Gently pat the ash on the book, the whole body of the book is black, the cover is a circle of gold necklace, with the author's name underneath: Philip Jeffers.
Garen opened it gently, and the pages were pale yellow. It could be seen that it should have been white, but it took too long to turn pale yellow.
There is a sentence recorded on the first page.
'Dedicated to the scholar who has spent his life in search of occult knowledge. '
Turn to the second page, the above is a concise table of contents. There are only three sections: Nightmare, White, and Ritual.
There are many detail labels under each small section, followed by page numbers.
"What is this?" Finistine leaned over and asked, "Gold necklace? Why doesn't this book have a title?"
"No title?" Garen was taken aback. "There's really no title."
"There are two such situations. One is that this is a private book, which is not included in the management of the National Bibliography Bureau. Not writing the title of the book is a way of circumvention. Such a book will be considered as a hand-written diary or the like. "Finistine is well-informed, and explained, "And the other kind." Mentioning this kind, her face also became serious.
"The other is the so-called banned books. It contains taboo content, and the title of the book is not written to avoid the Bibliographic Bureau. Because this type of book is designated as a banned book by the Bibliographic Bureau. Most of these books are only signed authors."
"Banned books?" Garen suddenly became interested and flipped through them casually. The entire book is full of incomprehensible precise drawings and strangely shaped words.
"Come on, let's sit over there and read it. This book must be a banned book! I haven't seen a real banned book yet." Finnistine's interest also increased greatly.
The two came to a mahogany table in the library hall, pulled out the chair, wiped it clean, and then sat down. The lamp on the table had been lit by the maid, and the light was dim, but it did not affect reading.
(end of this chapter)