"......"
Cheng Shi scratched his toes, coughed lightly and continued:
"These pages describe how the court staff dealt with a certain evil baby. After they found the citizen who was pregnant with the evil baby, they used a palace saw to cut open her belly, splitting both the person and the evil baby in half, and then burned them all."
"So... simple and crude? There wasn't any purification ceremony or begging for His forgiveness?"
Cheng Shi shook his head stiffly: "It's not written on it."
Zhang Jizu narrowed his eyes slightly and asked in confusion, "I saw you flipped through four or five pages, and that's all you recorded?"
"Well... work reports, you know, are always long and boring, and they use a lot of weird rhetoric to increase the word count. There's nothing interesting about them."
"That makes sense, but what year did this happen?"
"......"
Why are you so persistent?
You ask me, who should I ask?
Cheng Shi's face darkened and he put the book back.
"This is old news from decades ago. I don't see any recent records here. Let's look for clues somewhere else."
Cheng Shi started walking away, squinting his eyes and glancing at the bookshelf in confusion. Although he was a little confused, he still followed.
The two continued walking along the inner hall and soon saw a long spiral staircase. The steps were covered with dust like other places, but there were a few fresh footprints on them.
Judging from the outline of this footprint, it should be...
"Gou Feng." Zhang Jizu recognized the footprint immediately, and then frowned and said, "The edge of the footprint is fuzzy, the sole is solid under the heel, and he went upstairs in a hurry, like..."
"Someone is chasing him."
Cheng Shi's eyes fixed, and a scalpel slipped out from his sleeve.
At the same time, Zhang Jizu also took out a scalpel from his sleeve.
The two of them looked at the scalpel in each other's hands in surprise, and then smiled meaningfully at the same time.
"Why, wood elves also like to use scalpels?"
"It's used to cut hair when it's long, but I want to ask, why do gravekeepers also like to use scalpels?"
"There are always homeless people who come to the cemetery to steal food. They can be braver if they have a knife in their hand."
Cheng Shi raised his eyebrows: "The cemetery manager, it turns out to be you."
"What about you, Cheng Shi? Should I continue to call you a wood elf, or should I call you a trickster? Or... a fate weaver?"
?
Cheng Shi was stunned for a moment, thinking what the hell is this master of tricks?
Does he think I'm really a wizard?
Interesting, who is this guy's friend?
Cheng Shi had many questions in his mind, but he did not hesitate and quickly responded: "I don't know what you are talking about. After all, I am just a wood elf who joined the Plant Protection Association."
"......"
"Forget it. I feel like you're a good person. No matter who you knew me through, a friend of a friend is still a friend. I'll be honest.
Yes, I am indeed a master of tricks. For the sake of that lord, can I trust you?"
"......"
Zhang Jizu originally thought that Cheng Shi in front of him was a master of trickery, but the other party's confession made him lose confidence. He looked at the liar in front of him for a moment and said unhappily: "Shouldn't I be the one asking you this question? Believer of [Fraud]."
"Of course you can trust me, because I never lie."
Zhang Jizu's eye twitched, and he thought to himself, if I hadn't seen you cheat the whole time, I would have almost believed it.
Just as the two were still arguing over the issue of identity, a horrifying scream suddenly came from upstairs.
"ah!!!"
The sound was too loud and the surrounding area was too empty, so a creepy echo soon spread between the two floors.
The two of them looked gloomy at the same time after hearing the scream, and they looked at each other and made a decisive choice...
Backed out.
At this moment, Cheng Wenjie finally met another cautious player who could share the same frequency with him, Zhang Wenjie.
"It's Gou Feng's voice!"
"I heard it. Let's move away and wait until he calms down before finding a chance to go in and take a look. After all, we are all teammates, so we can't just leave him there. I... oh no, you should be better at collecting the bodies than me."
Zhang Wenjie glanced at Cheng Junjie, squinted his eyes and nodded in approval.
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