It was as if black ink was gradually spreading on white paper.
The moment Gu Xinghe turned to the next page of the book, the characters on the page suddenly began to distort in a strange way.
The originally neatly arranged regular characters are now undergoing bizarre and extreme deformations.
The originally flat font seemed to become three-dimensional in Gu Xinghe's eyes at this moment.
Then, these distorted characters began to rearrange and recombine.
The contents described in the book also began to appear strange.
[Blood worship] [Sacrifice] [Array diagram] [Fresh blood] [Limbs] [Reorganization]
What reappeared before Gu Xinghe's eyes were not complete sentences, but fragmented words.
At the same time, large clumps of blood flowed onto the pages of the book, obscuring the text.
This makes understanding these statements even more obscure and difficult.
But at this time, accompanied by these incomplete and eerie textual contents.
One fragmented image after another simultaneously appeared in Gu Xinghe's mind—
Bloodstained pieces of limbs were scattered across the red ground.
The buried, blood-red flesh, pulsating like a heart, was finally exposed to the earth.
On this land, crimson lines are drawn, forming a strange yet beautiful pattern.
Large clumps of black mist piled up on this red area.
Before Gu Xinghe's eyes, it seemed that only black and red remained.
At this moment, Gu Xinghe held the open book in his hand with only the five fingers of his left hand.
Then he tried to touch the black characters that seemed to be floating in mid-air with his right hand.
However, he discovered that his fingers were simply passing right through the lettering and he couldn't touch anything.
Immediately, Gu Xinghe quickly looked at the other parts of the page that had undergone the strange change—
Apart from the fact that these distorted and bizarre characters only appear in the middle of the left-hand page, the rest of the content is perfectly normal.
At those irregular, blurry edges, Gu Xinghe could even vaguely see half of a normal printed character that looked like it had been cut in half.
At this moment, the original textual description of the Shatak bird seemed to have been forcibly ripped out of the original pages.
All that remains are irregular edges, like ashes left after being burned by fireworks.
Just as Gu Xinghe was looking at the array diagram on this strange record, which seemed somewhat familiar...
Just like the abruptness and strangeness of its appearance.
He then saw these twisted and bizarre characters disappearing at an extremely fast speed.
It's like worms hiding inside the body, constantly surging and crawling under the skin.
The strangely appearing black characters, after standing out on the page, quickly disappeared back under the "skin".
No matter how much a human presses on their body parts, they can no longer find any trace of their existence or appearance.
Like the embers of fireworks, they completely burned away the last remaining words.
At this moment, the contents recorded in the book in front of Gu Xinghe returned to normal.
The written records that had previously appeared and disappeared like illusions have been completely erased, leaving no trace of their existence.
The filthy blood obscured the true core of the strange, suddenly formed script.
All that remains are fragmented phrases and scattered symbols and patterns.
Even now, if Gu Xinghe were to recall it again...
He could only roughly deduce from the fragmented account and the images that appeared in his mind—
It appears to contain information about a bloody sacrifice.
[The Seven Mysteries: Forbidden Books in Libraries] have been discovered.
Side quest completed (5/7)
But before Gu Xinghe could figure out the cause and effect of this strange event,
A voice that he never expected rang in his ears.
Compared to other more directly dangerous "unbelievable" items, this "forbidden book of the library" seems utterly harmless.
Even before Gu Xinghe could react to the fact that he was experiencing something "unbelievable".
All the strange texts and images that had appeared before his eyes had vanished completely.
Sacrifice.
This seems to be the main content recorded in those strange written accounts and images.
But if Gu Xinghe were to recall his recent interactions with this word,
That must be something that appeared in the play he and Teresa had seen at the Golden Apple Theater—
That sacrifice was deliberately instigated by the Thorn Cult, which subsequently triggered a miracle.
The gods of old have fallen into a deep slumber.
The way believers awaken the gods is to instigate wars and offer blood and sacrifice.
Thus, the misty town, which lost all its residents overnight, was formed.
At this point, Gu Xinghe began to try to read the "inner voice" of the book, and even to empathize with it.
But after a moment of silence, he found that he could not perceive anything.
It was as if this were an perfectly normal book.
Turning his head, Gu Xinghe looked at Zhong Zhenkai and Tao Changyi, who were still reading books in front of the bookshelf next to him.
Neither of them noticed anything unusual about what Gu Xinghe had just experienced.
At this moment, he handed them the book "Illustrated Guide to Bird Biology".
"This book seems to be well-written; it should be useful to us."
Upon hearing this, the two of them also became quite curious and began reading the content that Gu Xinghe had deliberately flipped back to the previous page for.
Then, without even needing his special prompting, Zhong Zhenkai and Tao Changyi naturally turned to the next page.
Gu Xinghe held his breath, focusing intently on the two people in front of him, not missing any changes in their facial expressions.
But the result was not unexpected.
After reading the book about the Shatak bird.
The two thanked Gu Xinghe for sharing and then handed the book back to him.
Based on their facial expressions and what he heard in their hearts...
The two of them did not experience the "unbelievable" thing that had just appeared before him.
Seven Mysteries: Forbidden Books in Libraries?
But the book he opened was clearly a normal book.
The book, titled "Illustrations of Bird Life," was neither preserved as a valuable item nor stored separately.
But at this moment, Gu Xinghe vaguely understood something—
The "forbidden book" mentioned here may not refer to a real book.
Instead, it's taboo knowledge that randomly appears in a book.
It's as if these texts recording forbidden knowledge actually exist in another dimension.
Books are merely one of the mediums they choose to exist in when they appear.
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