Edgar is an old man who is very good at telling stories.
"White Lake Town suffered the witch's disaster, but at the same time, it also gained the knowledge of the witch. We have always had very complicated emotions towards the witch. If it weren't for the restriction of death if we leave, maybe we would worship the witch as a god. Also a possibility."
That happened a long time ago. When people finally realized that there was no point in escaping, a few people with foresight blocked the news. Because if people don't know about it, it's not difficult to convince the whole town with prestige, but if people realize that they have become prisoners, it will be very difficult.
In fact, this is also true. For most people, they will never leave this land to live in the outside world. A few people who travel are safe because they have the idea of coming back. This kind of quietness lasted for many years until that year The people making the decisions are all old and they think something must be done to keep this stability going.
Patriarch Herman chose to retain his own brain. The planting of the witch's heart is already a mature technology for Herman, who is proficient in research, and many useful drugs have been developed from this, such as the preparation of amnesia potions. Convenience was a Hermann family invention.
The mayor did not choose to inherit the family, but selected young people from the town who were strong-willed and strong-willed to succeed him. It did not require outstanding talents, but he must be firm and unshakable, enough to resist the temptation of the witch's resonance.
The Turner family kept a book written by the original witch that most people could not understand. Edgar did not know whether the Turner family studied the book or sealed it forever, but judging from the records, That book is undoubtedly the most detailed one that uses "witch text" so far, and it is completely different from the scattered fragments in places like cemeteries.
The patrol captain back then left a piece of the witch's bones and turned it into a badge. This thing has more commemorative significance than practical significance, and so far it is only used as a token inherited by police chiefs from generation to generation.
Hunters have another kind of romance. There are many outstanding painters among them. These people use pen and ink to restore the mistakes as much as possible and draw portraits of each victim. This picture album should still be kept by the hunter leader. If necessary, it can be regarded as a warning from the past.
"The ancestors thought it was meaningful to do this, and Herman is only responsible for the part we preserve. There are only three custodians of the original patriarch's mind now, and we shoulder the responsibility of reawakening him when we think it is necessary."
“I really can’t believe that this small town has such a past.”
"But having said that... Miss Demon." Edgar poured himself a second cup of tea. "I am so polite to you because you represent the witch, the source of supreme wisdom. The Herman family is The family closest to the witch in this town, and I am the person in this family who has studied the witch for the longest time. We also have a plan to escape from the control of the witch, and at the same time we want to get close to that great existence. This is indeed a contradiction. thing."
"I can't answer you on behalf of the witch."
Edgar was slightly disappointed, but he nodded slightly.
"Well, I only know that the witch wants to appear here, so this town cannot be destroyed, so you don't have any ill intentions, do you?"
"That's not necessarily true. At least the witch gave the order to release the executioner. Although I am not the one to execute it, you should pay attention to your personal safety. In addition, I have another purpose, Mr. Edgar, your family Is there a witch’s skeleton?”
Lu Ning took out the small package containing clear particles from his pocket, opened it and placed it on the table.
"Oh... the witch's skeleton was one of the several weapons used to deal with witches back then."
"Weapon?" Lu Ning frowned and looked at the pile of ashes.
"Yes, weapons, of course it is not like this. The production of the Witch's Skeleton is relatively cumbersome, and now we are the only ones who can make such a thing. If you obtained it normally, it should have been sealed in a closed box in."
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"Yes, that is the Witch's Skeleton." Edgar obviously talked about a topic he liked, and his tone was much more high-spirited, "It's incredible... When we place all the raw materials in a fixed position and order, and load the necessary After the machine was assembled, the box was sealed, and no one knew whether it was completed. If the witch hadn't told us that the preparation time was three days, we wouldn't even know the time limit."
"No one knows it's done? Just these ashes?"
"Miss Demon, before that, please answer my question. What should the skeleton of the witch look like in the eyes of the witch?" Edgar asked.
"Life and death." Lu Ning remembered Sera's words and relayed that word.
"So that's it..." Edgar showed a look of sudden realization, "No wonder, no wonder..."
"What made you suddenly enlightened?"
"Miss Demon, after opening the witch's skeleton, it will look like this." Edgar stretched out his hand and gestured to the pile of ashes on the table, "They are so distinct and stable as stones... No, gold and silver. Most known pharmaceutical treatments have no effect on them, which would fit well with the skeleton. But that's not right, it's not right at all - weapons shouldn't be so stable when you open the box , don’t you feel anything strange?”
"Strange feeling?" Lu Ning recalled it, shook her head, "No."
"Where did you find this?"
"The mine, I think you know that place too."
"So those people are actually demons? I see. It seems you were lucky enough to escape... The box has been opened."
Lu Ning also realized that her actions at that time were indeed a bit reckless, but fortunately nothing happened.
"It contains life and death, but what appears to us is only the remains, the remains of death. Miss Majin, the box is the most powerful weapon only before it is opened. After it is opened, it is just the remains. This is a bomb."
"Bomb? You don't mean..."
"I am almost certain that it is a bomb. It belongs to the witch and is a creation of the witch, and the method of detonating it is the simplest - observation."
Edgar clapped his hands and laughed, as if the confusion he had been having for many years had been answered.
"How amazing! We have never thought about such a situation, which contains life and death! But what thing can show life and death at the same time? This is a bomb! It is something that can really touch the witch! But once it explodes , these particles can only be left...because there are no two outcomes in our world."
Lu Ning looked at Edgar quietly and smiled. She could understand a little bit of the old man's mood. In this world where quantum theory and "Schrödinger's Cat Box" have not yet appeared, being able to understand this level is worthy of respect. .
At this moment, Edgar's body suddenly began to twitch. He covered his heart with a painful expression, rolled off the chair, and fell to the ground gasping for air. Lu Ning was startled and quickly went over to help Edgar up. She found that his eyes had begun to become bloodshot and his face was ashen. It seemed that he was suffering from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases due to excessive excitement.
"Edgar! Edgar!" Lu Ning felt a little troubled for a moment. Although she was a doctor, her treatment type did not include such sudden diseases.
"No...need...Miss Majin." Edgar breathed intermittently, but the words he spoke were very calm, "I have been...confused...unraveled...it's just what we...see... …remains. Tell people…that was a…time bomb…tell…Kadrina.”
Then, the old man's expression suddenly became peaceful--the peaceful of death.
Lu Ning laid Edgar's body flat, stood up slowly, and turned to look at the door. Cadrina, dressed in white, stood there. She had just arrived, with a hint of sadness in her eyes, and her clothes had now become a mourning dress.
"Did you hear that?"
"Yes."
"Then I think you should also know why your grandfather told you this."
Kaderina nodded, then took off a key from her waist and stretched out her hand to Lu Ning.
"In my room, there is a copy of the witch's skeleton, placed in a black box on the table. Take that away. Grandpa has studied everything about witches for his whole life. No, it should be a way to escape from the witch... Now I can die without regrets.”
"Okay." Lu Ning took the key and only said this one word.
"Does the witch treat us with good intentions or malice?" Cadrina asked when Lu Ning left.
Lu Ning smiled and shook her head.
"You are such a smart person, how can you not think of it? Can a river have any good or evil intentions towards the plankton in a drop of water in it?"
Pointless.
She obtained the witch's skeleton, left the Herman family's mansion, and headed outside the town.
In the woods near the cemetery, Qiu Yiyun and Zhu You have been waiting for a long time.
Zhu You is very patient. It is not difficult for her to squat all day and night, but Qiu Yiyun's temper is getting more and more irritable. There is no need to continue to pretend to be delicate, now her bad temper is completely undisguised, but fortunately it is just a bad temper, her brain can still move.
When Lu Ning appeared holding the box, Qiu Yiyun almost asked her why it took so long, but the box accompanied by Lu Ning's "bomb, pick it up" made her subconsciously swallow all the words, and even He hugged the box in confusion. After realizing what the bomb meant, he immediately turned around, only to find that Zhu You had already hid ten meters away.
"Lu Ning! What is this? A bomb?"
"Bomb, special attack on demons, the kind that can blow us up to nothing." Lu Ning reached out and took the box back from Qiu Yiyun's hand, while Zhu You stepped back after hearing this. step.
"What on earth did you do? Zhu You told me that my identity had been exposed, so I ran out while it was dark. When I got here, he told me to wait for you. I waited for most of the day. My time is not used A fisherman!"
"Otherwise? What else do you, a demon, want to do during the day?"
Qiu Yiyun was speechless.
"I don't care whether falling down the stairs on the first day was intentional or an accident. Then don't recover all your wounds when you go back after your failed sneak attack on Fujii at night. Everyone in the restaurant could hear you falling down the stairs, and there are no injuries on your body at all. Nothing can be justified.”
"Okay, it was my negligence." Qiu Yiyun did not shirk the mistake she had made, "Zhu You said you had a plan to help me cover up this mistake. What exactly was it?"
Lu Ning turned to look at Zhu You: "You told her that I wanted to help her cover up her mistakes?"
Zhu You quickly shook his head: "I told her the exact words to make up for it."
"It seems that it is not unreasonable for Carl's plan to destroy the sun to send wrong information. The meaning changed after two people said it." Lu Ning muttered.
"What did you say?" Qiu Yiyun asked with her ears pricked up.
"I can't help you cover it up. I said Fujii is my friend, and I won't silence her for you, a stranger. So I just made up for it... Now Fujii knows the identity of the three of us. .”
"What?"
"Yes, I told her."
Now Qiu Yi Yunsheng has torn Lu Ning's heart apart.
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In the afternoon, White Lake Town still couldn't escape from the tense atmosphere. Edgar's death almost ignited people's suppressed panic. Fortunately, Fisher came forward and announced that Edgar only died of a sudden illness, which calmed people down a little. .
And the coffin the old man ordered before his death finally became his last resting place.
The funeral was held in a hurry and in a manner that was unbecoming of a noble. Not many guests were even present. In other words, those who came to the funeral were all necessary figures.
Daniel and Levin naturally participated, and important figures from the Turner family had also arrived. Sivis also showed up after recuperating for a few days. No one knew what these people were talking about. Some people who peeked outside Hermann's house found that these people were discussing something in a low voice. It seemed that the argument was very heated.
But as evening approached, something big happened. No one who went out to farm today came back, and several farmers living in the south of the town ran to the town together, stopped those who had just attended the funeral, and said in panic that they All the animals they raised died.
Someone poisoned.
This is something that almost doesn’t require much investigation to figure out. Daniel and Levin immediately led people to the outside of the town. The water area in White Lake Town is semi-enclosed. The water the town draws is basically well water and river water. If someone poisons it, it will be an extremely serious problem.
All this chaos was caught by Mi Nan who was hiding at the observation deck. He spread out his luggage on a small platform. Some of the glass jars contained human internal organs, which were lined up like an exhibition. , and at the end of this column is a man who is tied up in a coma.
Mi Nan's expression showed no emotion. He just paid attention to the condition of the unconscious person from time to time. He held a dagger in one hand and slowly cut off strips of meat from a piece of hard beef and put it into his mouth.
