Pennington Street in the afternoon
The sky is full of white clouds, without a ray of sunlight, it is faintly dark.
In the Dolphin Antique Shop, the old man Ge Guo sat lazily behind the desk in front of the bookshelf, tilting his head, half dreaming and half awake, as if he was dozing off.
Suddenly there was a familiar sound of footsteps outside the door.
"Garon?" the old man opened one eye and asked weakly. "What time is it now, I thought you weren't coming." He pointed to a white amphorae beside the table, "This is your task this afternoon, take it and have a closer look. When it's done, give it to me Just verify the content."
Garen walked in in a red sportswear, looked at the old man's tired look, and shook his head speechlessly. He didn't speak, just walked over silently, holding the amphora on the table.
Suddenly, he flicked his finger and shot a black line.
laugh!
The black line drew an arc like a flying insect, piercing the middle of the old man's brow like lightning.
Well!
The old man didn't have time to dodge it, he just tilted his head slightly, unexpectedly, the black thread went down, pierced his left shoulder, and stopped immediately. It was a thin black needle.
"Garon, what are you doing?!" The old man stood up from the chair, took two steps back, and pulled out the thin needle with a snort, with a mixture of surprise and anger on his face.
Garen was stunned, and suddenly his face hurt, he staggered two steps back, spewed out a mouthful of blood with a wow, his face was pale.
"How are you!?" The old man Ge Guo was taken aback, and hurried out of the table and rushed to support Garen, his movements did not look like a frail old man at all.
"My head hurts...!" Garen cried out in a low voice with a face full of pain.
"Damn it! It must be those guys! How dare they sneer!"
Ge Guo's voice stopped abruptly, and he stood beside Garen trembling slightly. He lowered his head and looked at the black dagger pierced into his abdomen.
"you!"
With a sneer on his face, Garen pulled out his dagger with a snort, twirled it in his hand and backed away, but stood still and did not continue to attack.
"If I hadn't pretended to be that kid, I probably wouldn't have been able to fool you."
He pinched the skin on the left side of his cheek, and gently tore off a layer of human skin mask, revealing a handsome and cold man's face underneath.
"Gego. Long time no see"
"It's you, Zanfran!"
The old man Ge Guo took two steps back, covering his lower abdomen with his hands, with a complicated look on his face.
"Tell me where is the thing?" Xian Fran said coldly.
"Things? Hehe" Old Man Geguo showed a smile on his face, "You haven't given up yet?"
Saffron smiled. "I know you are strong, but it is impossible for you to escape from my penis needle. Come on, give me the things." He walked slowly towards Ge Guo.
The old man Ge Guo suddenly chuckled.
"You forgot again. No matter how many times, you will never be my opponent."
"Then give it a try." Sinfran sneered.
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call.
After Garen took a shower, he threw his wet hair on his single bed, took a deep breath, and felt the smell he was most familiar with on the quilt.
"So tired." He murmured softly. "I went to the martial arts gym in the afternoon, and I was caught by my master and beat me violently. When I came back from the lesson, my parents stopped me and complained about the education. Fortunately, Yinger came back in time to make a rescue, otherwise it would have been even worse."
The light in the bedroom was a quiet orange, which dyed Garen's white pajamas light yellow. The sky outside the window gradually dimmed, and it was almost night.
Parents and Ying'er just went out for a stroll, as if they had to digest after eating, while Garen was too tired, so he stayed at home to rest.
He lay on the bed, and took out the small black jade plate, and stroked the rough surface on it carefully.
click.
Suddenly the door was pushed open.
"Brother, what are you doing with the door locked? You're sneaky." Ying Er walked in with a glass of boiled water.
Garen hurriedly put away the black jade plate.
"Excuse me, can you knock on the door when you come in?" He turned over and sat up and said angrily.
"Why are you knocking on the door? Knocking on the door can catch you doing bad things?" Ying'er also looked like she just got out of the shower, and her skin was pink all over. Wearing white short-sleeved shorts, revealing a pair of slender and fair thighs. Standing at the door, his legs were exactly parallel to Garen's line of sight.
"Didn't you go out for a walk with your parents? Why are you back?" Garen unconsciously avoided seeing his sister's lap.
"I didn't go out at all, I just pretended to say this, trying to scam you, but I didn't expect there to be a problem!" Ying'er sneered a few times, "If you don't want your parents to know your bad things, you have to promise me one condition! "
"Conditions? What do I have to be afraid of?" Garen put on a stiff face. He had nothing to hide in the first place, and now he just wanted to tease his sister. "What conditions are you talking about?"
Ying'er came over and stood in front of Garen, condescendingly with one hand on her hip.
"The condition is actually very simple!" She snorted and sneered twice, "That's it"
Boom! !
Suddenly there was a muffled sound, followed by a violent shock.
The whole building began to vibrate violently, a thin and low humming sound came from far to near, and it reached Garen's ears, which also felt faintly numb.
"I've been lucky recently." He chuckled softly. Gathering his mind, he got up and sat down at the desk, and began to review the identification knowledge he had learned.
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On the edge of a forest on the outskirts of Huaishan City.
The old man Ge Guo stood in front of the burning forest, clutching his belly, quietly watching the scarlet flames inside. The red flames illuminated his face flushed.
"If that book is still there, maybe I'll still be a little apprehensive. But now." A red figure slowly walked out from the edge of the woods, it was Xen Fran who appeared earlier. There was a bloody cut on his left face, which was slowly oozing blood.
"Geguo...you have become a mortal and can only rely on these foreign objects."
"Even if I don't need anything, I'll cough cough." Ge Guo suddenly coughed, and the hand covering his abdomen began to ooze blood slowly between his fingers.
"Without power, even the book is lost. The former genius has now fallen into such a miserable state!" Xen Fran said loudly with his hands wide open, "It's really... so sad." He used a tone similar to singing Whispered.
"You extract your power, who do you want to give it to? Give it to the kid next to you? It's useless, he doesn't have this talent, he is destined to be a mortal, just time can kill him easily."
"Whoever I give it to, that's my business. As for that book, I've sent it far, far away. A place you'll never find it." Old Man Gego breathed out in a low voice laugh it out.
"We've lived together for so many years, brother, do you really think I don't know that you gave it to that old woman?" Sinfran smiled.
Ge Guo's face changed slightly, and he suddenly reacted, but it was too late.
"Sure enough! Haha!" Xen Fran laughed loudly, "I was just testing it out, but I didn't expect you to be so unresponsive after so many years!"
He looked at Ge Guo in front of him, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.
"You put all your life and strength on others, and you will still be like this even when you die. You think I can't see that you don't have many days to live? Put everything in yourself into the ceremony, this kind of Only you can do it."
"I'm a useless person, I just want to leave some traces of myself in this world at last." Ge Guo showed a smile that was uglier than bitter.
Boom!
He suddenly seemed to be hit by something invisible, and his whole body flew out, rolled on the ground and hit a tree stump.
"Well..." the old man Ge Guo covered his mouth tightly, and a big mouthful of blood seeped out from between his fingers and dripped on the muddy floor.
"Why are you always so stupid!! Why! Ah!??" Xen Fran rushed over quickly and kicked the old man Ge Guo hard in the stomach.
bang bang bang.
Xen Fran kicked hard, each time getting heavier.
The sound of thumping was like hitting a leather sack, and it was very clear beside the burning woods.
"Traces!?" He finally stopped, "A trash like you still wants to leave traces in this world? Dream on you!" He didn't know when his face became extremely ferocious.
"I've decided, I'm going to kill all the traces you left behind! All!!" He growled, as if hysterical. His complexion was distorted and full of veins.
Snapped.
Suddenly, one hand firmly grasped his boots, the old man Ge Guo raised his head desperately, his face was covered with blood, he was completely speechless, and mouthfuls of sticky blood kept gushing out from his mouth. He just stared at him, opened his mouth, but made no sound.
"You want me to stop, don't you?" Xen Fran stopped, his face regained his composure in an instant, and he slowly revealed a strange smile. "You're begging me? You're begging me, right?"
The old man Ge Guo's pupils were a little dizzy, his vision was already blurred, and he couldn't see clearly at all. Just grabbing Zanfran's boots tightly.
"Are you really begging me?" Sanfran laughed wildly. "If you're really begging me, lick my boots clean"
Snapped!
He stepped on the old man's face.
"Lick it...the former genius...my dear brother lick it!!"
His face became grim again.
The boots trampled hard on the old man's face, again and again.
Suddenly his face froze.
The old man Ge Guo under his feet was actually slowly sticking out his tongue and licking the bottom of his boots.
An inexplicable emotion suddenly filled Xen Fran's chest. He raised his head and suddenly felt sour.
"It was my fault. Back then..." The old man's voice came intermittently from under his feet. "forgive me."
The old man tilted his head, and the last color in his eyes completely disappeared.
Zanfran didn't answer, but looked down at the corpse on the ground. The cold wind blew through the trees on one side, and the fire gradually became smaller.
"elder brother."
He knelt down and stayed beside the corpse, and didn't speak again.
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At the same time, Garen was sitting at his desk at home and suddenly felt a heat in his chest.
He pulled out a necklace from his collar suspiciously, and it was hanging on the book necklace that old man Ge Guo gave him back then.
"What's going on?" He looked left and right, but found no signs, and the necklace was still warm with body temperature.
Without thinking about it, he tucked the necklace into his chest again and continued to study the identification cases on the table.
The moment he tucked his collar back, a line of words slowly appeared on the surface of the necklace book.
'Enggolia, The Third Ritual of Life—Asylum. '
(end of this chapter)