Li Xiu saw the wine bottle that the woman mentioned. It was a black wine bottle with a label on the outside of the bottle. The label had a black picture on a white background and a black skull painted on it.
As for those words, Li Xiu didn't recognize any of them, but looking at the black skull icon, he knew that this thing was probably not a good thing.
"What if I don't drink?" Li Xiu asked.
"It's okay if you don't want to drink. Then stay here as a bartender until the next person who is willing to replace you as bartender appears." The woman said slowly.
Li Xiu knew that he certainly couldn't stay and be a bartender. Who knew when people would come to this place again? It could be ten or eight years. He couldn't wait for ten or eight years.
Summon the most powerful Jedi Knight present, and have the Jedi Knight slash at the door with a bloody slash.
The bloody crescent-shaped knife light hit the door, and with a clang, the knife light shattered, and there was no trace on the door.
He summoned several other demons and tried every possible way, but still failed to open the door.
The woman let Li Xiu torture her in any way he wanted and neither came down from the second floor nor made a sound to stop him.
Li Xiu strongly suspected that the woman might be trapped on the second floor and couldn't come down at all.
But even if the woman couldn't come down, he couldn't get out either, and sooner or later he would be trapped here and die.
Li Xiu gave up the idea of opening the door and went to the wine cabinet and took the bottle of wine that the woman mentioned.
"What is the name of this wine?" Li Xiu asked.
"The Black Death," the woman replied calmly.
"Black Death, judging from the name, if you drink this wine, I'm afraid your life will be taken away by the Death, right?" Li Xiu said.
"You broke in on your own and drank my blood rose. It's unreasonable to think you can leave without paying a price, right?" said the woman.
"That makes sense. It was indeed my fault." Li Xiu nodded.
"You are a sensible person. So drink it." The woman said with a smile.
Li Xiu put the bottle back into the wine cabinet, then picked up another bottle and said, "Wouldn't it be a pity if so much wine was broken?"
The woman laughed, her voice a little hoarse, but with an indescribable charm: "Do you want to threaten me with these wines? That's great, if you can smash them all, then I will thank you."
Bang!
Li Xiu smashed the wine in his hand directly against the opposite wall. The bottle was smashed into pieces and the liquid inside splashed out.
But the next second, the smashed bottle and wine automatically condensed together, restored their original appearance, and returned to the wine cabinet.
Li Xiu was a little surprised. He picked up a few more bottles of wine and threw them out. The result was the same. No matter how he threw them, the wine would return to its original position on the wine rack in a blink of an eye.
"This stone house is really weird!" Li Xiu stopped helplessly.
"Why don't you smash it?" the woman asked mockingly.
"Can we discuss this? Apart from drinking, are there any other ways to express my apologies for intruding into your home?" Li Xiu asked.
"You don't need to apologize. This is not my home," said the woman.
"It's not your house?" Li Xiu was stunned.
"You don't have to be happy too soon. This is not my home, so I naturally have no right to let you leave. Once you enter here, you must drink a bottle of wine before you can leave. It's the same for anyone who comes here." The woman said lightly.
"So, I have to drink this bottle of wine?" Li Xiu sighed.
"You don't have to drink and stay here as a bartender. It would be great to have someone to chat with me." The woman said with a smile.
"Then I'd better drink the wine. Can I not drink the Black Death and choose a bottle by myself?" Li Xiu remembered that the evil spirit just now chose a bottle by himself.
"Sure." The woman answered straightforwardly.
Li Xiu looked at the wine on the wine cabinet. The wine cabinet occupied the entire wall. There were six layers in total. There were hundreds of bottles of wine on each layer. It was estimated that the total number was over a thousand bottles.
It seemed that none of the thousands of bottles of wine were the same. Li Xiu did not recognize the words on the bottles, so it was naturally impossible for him to tell which bottle would not kill someone if drunk.
Li Xiu remembered that the blood rose that the evil spirit had taken out just now was from the fourth layer of the cabinet. He looked towards the fourth layer. Next to the place where the blood rose was originally placed, the labels on the bottles of wine were completely different from those on the blood rose.
Theoretically, taking the wine from the Blood Rose might reduce some risks.
However, Li Xiu did not make a choice. He thought about it and started from the first bottle of wine on the first layer, taking down each bottle of wine and examining them carefully.
He wanted to try and see if he could find some pattern from it, so that maybe he wouldn't have to rely on luck.
Although Li Xiu couldn't understand those words, he was not completely unable to decipher them.
As he looked at them, he wrote down the text symbols and icons on each bottle. If the same text symbols and icons appeared on the labels of different bottles, he could compare and screen them.
The woman told him that the previous bottle was called the Black Death, and the corresponding words on the black skull were probably the Black Death.
However, this kind of text is very strange. There are four words "Black Death" but only two text symbols.
One symbol directly represents the color black, and one symbol represents death.
Li Xiu had seen these two symbols several times on other wine bottles. By comparing them with the icons on the labels, he could deduce a lot of things.
For example, if the icon on the bottle is a red flower, there is a high probability that the name of the wine is related to flowers. If you find other wine bottles with flower icons, you can infer some text information.
After Li Xiu's research, it was found that the two symbols representing the black god of death are not read and written in the normal mode from left to right. The symbol on the left represents the god of death, and the symbol on the right represents the color black.
Li Xiu continued to compare and deduce, and he was able to roughly deduce the names of some of the wines. Although it was impossible to get it all right, it was not too far off. This was not much different from recognizing words by looking at pictures, and it was not a complicated matter.
Unfortunately, there were only names on the bottles of wine, and the number of characters was limited. Li Xiu still couldn't understand the names of most of the wines. He could only decipher the names of some symbols that appeared more frequently.
"Gentle Lover, this name sounds gentle, it shouldn't be too poisonous." Li Xiu looked at all the wine, a total of one thousand and thirty-four bottles, and he took out a bottle from the fourth floor.
This is a transparent crystal bottle filled with pink **, which looks more like sparkling water than wine.
"If I were you, I wouldn't choose any bottle of Gentle Lover." The woman's voice came again.
"Why?" Li Xiu asked.
"Tenderness is like a knife, and lover is like a sword. After drinking such wine, can you still walk out?" said the woman with a smile.
"That's true." Li Xiu listened to the advice and released his gentle lover.
"You are very obedient. Aren't you afraid that I will lie to you?" The woman was a little surprised. She didn't expect that Li Xiu would listen to her advice so readily.
"There's an old saying in my hometown: listen to others' advice and you'll have a full meal." Li Xiu continued to choose wine from the wine cabinet, and took down another bottle of wine with a black priest icon, and continued: "What do you think of this bottle of wine?"
"Black Bishop, if you want to see God earlier, it would be right to choose him." The woman enjoyed it and really enjoyed the feeling of hitting Li Xiu.
"Forget it. I don't think he wants to see me." Li Xiu put the bottle back.
Li Xiu selected many bottles of wine, but they were all rejected by the woman. However, from the names the woman said, Li Xiu obtained a lot of text information, which enabled him to guess the names of more wines.
The reason why Li Xiu listened to the advice was actually to get more information, not because he really listened to the woman's advice.
The wines he selected also had a purpose and he got a lot of key words.
The woman thought she was attacking Li Xiu, but Li Xiu already had a general idea of what these words meant.
"It's really hard to be illiterate." Li Xiu sighed in his heart. He had already obtained the information he wanted.
Li Xiu basically knew what the words on the bottle of wine meant.
Then he put down the bottle, walked to the bookshelf, and began to look at the titles of the books.
Using his current literacy knowledge, Li Xiu found some books whose names he could understand, picked up one of them, and studied it carefully.
Although there are many written symbols that I don’t recognize, I can start with some of the words I know and then make inferences based on the context to get more information.
"What are you pretending to be looking at? Can you read magic runes?" The woman mocked, "If you really could read magic runes, you wouldn't have walked in here."
"Why?" Li Xiu asked in confusion.
"You don't even recognize the sign outside the door saying no strangers, yet you're still pretending to read a book. You'd better just go and have a drink." The woman teased.
Li Xiu recalled that there were indeed two symbols carved next to the door. So this was what they meant. His knowledge increased again.
"How do you know I don't know him? I just didn't pay attention when I came in just now." Li Xiu closed the book in his hand and said, "Isn't this book called Black Rose? I can still understand it."
The woman giggled. "My lovely illiterate boy, do you think that because there is a black rose on the cover, the book is called Black Rose? This is not a book about learning words by looking at pictures. You are too naive and cute. The name of the book is "The Withered Flower of Talking."
"Oh, sorry, I didn't see it clearly." Li Xiu put the book back on the bookshelf and picked up another one. This time he sat directly on the sofa and read it page by page.
Li Xiu slowly flipped through the pages without saying anything. After a while, the woman couldn't help herself and said, "Since you like drinking and reading, why don't you stay here as a bartender and drink as much as you want and read as you like?"
"I'm alone. If I stay here without food or water, I'm afraid I'll starve to death in a few days." Li Xiu said casually while still flipping through the book in his hand.
“When you become a bartender, you won’t need those things,” the woman said.
"What you mean is that after I become a bartender, I am no longer a human being, right?" Li Xiu said without raising his head.
"That's about right." The woman continued, "What's so good about being a human? You're weak and fragile, and your life is so short. When you become a bartender, you'll be immortal, which is so much better than being a human."
"It sounds good, but that's not what the book says," Li Xiu said seriously.
"My little cutie, are you trying to make me die of laughter? The book is called 'The Lost Sunday' and it tells a sad love story. You can read about the bartender from it. You are really a genius." The woman laughed so hard that she seemed to be dying.
"So I must have read it wrong." Li Xiu stood up and put the book back on the bookshelf, picked up another one, sat back on the sofa and continued reading.
He flipped through the pages very quickly, basically reading ten lines at a glance, but he memorized all the text symbols intact.
"Little cutie, stop pretending. The book is "Songs of Innocence", a children's fairy tale book." The woman teased.
"Then recommend me some books for adults." Li Xiu said as he flipped through the book.
"In the bottom row of the bookshelf, in the rightmost compartment, there is a children's book. It is suitable for an innocent little cutie like you." The woman smiled happily.
Li Xiu was not angry. He actually walked to the bookshelf and took out the book that the woman mentioned.
When I opened it, I saw that it was full of pictures and only a few text symbols.
Li Xiu sat back on the sofa and read with great interest. This woman really helped him a lot. Although there were few words in this book, the pictures made Li Xiu's magic text framework more and more complete.
Li Xiu already had a general understanding of the books on the bookshelf. These books were all story books, that is, some novels.
I don’t know whether the content is fictional or not, but Li Xiu doesn’t care and is still watching it with great concentration.
The woman simply could not imagine that a human being, without knowing a single word, could learn a written language through continuous analysis and deduction based on the little information and pictures she revealed. This was beyond her comprehension.
Although Li Xiu did not know the pronunciation of these magic words, he was able to gradually understand some simple sentences. By half guessing, he was able to understand some of the content.
Li Xiu was reading a book while chatting with the woman, and his knowledge was increasing rapidly.
The woman obviously did not realize the seriousness of the problem until Li Xiu pulled out a book from the bottom of the bookshelf.
"That book is not suitable for you. You should read something you can understand," said the woman.
"I think this book is pretty good." Li Xiu opened the black cover with gold edges. There were only a few characters written on the cover, and no patterns.
Li Xiu can now understand the name of this book. It is called "Ben Ming Ji Shi". Li Xiu had noticed this book before because it was the only one that did not look like a storybook, but he had never picked it up.
He had been in this place for more than ten hours. After reading a large number of books, he had acquired basic reading ability, so he took out "Benming Chronicles".
After opening the "Ben Ming Notes", Li Xiu carefully read the contents inside and was immediately overjoyed.
This book is indeed an extraordinary storybook. The content inside is actually related to this stone building.
Li Xiu finally learned that the name of this stone building was "Underworld House". Some of the things about the Underworld House written in the book made people feel incredible.
"Doesn't the Demon Kingdom have the famous saying that knowledge is power? These demons don't even know the importance of knowledge." Li Xiu was more and more surprised the more he looked.
After being trapped for so long, he finally saw the hope of getting out alive.
These devil wines are not for humans to drink, but for devil spirits to drink. The book does not record what the consequences are for humans drinking them.
The Underworld House is indeed as the woman said. Every living creature that comes in must drink a bottle of wine, otherwise they cannot leave the Underworld House.
The only way to get out without drinking is the two rules mentioned by the Great King.
After entering, you cannot speak or touch anything. Only in this way can you push open the door of the underworld when you leave.
Li Xiu broke both of these rules, so naturally he couldn't get out.
But the book doesn't say that after going out, you should curse "bitch" three times at the door of the dark house. I don't know why that idiot King Gai Shi added this rule, but it must have other purposes.
Li Xiu guessed that King Gai Shi had some grudge against the woman in the dark house, and he just wanted to use Li Xiu's mouth to curse her and vent his anger. He had no intention of killing Li Xiu, otherwise he would not have let him go out and continue to curse.
"What's so interesting about those books? Why don't you come to the second floor and I'll show you something interesting." said the woman.
Li Xiu smiled slightly and ignored her. She knew that the woman was afraid that he would understand the book, but it was too late now.
According to the records in Ben Ming's notes, Li Xiu already knew what was going on with this woman.
The woman had indeed not lied before, the dark house was not her home, because she was also trapped in this dark house.
But Li Xiu’s situation is different. Li Xiu is just a passer-by in the Underworld House, while that woman can be regarded as the soul of this Underworld House.
She was trapped here, immortal along with the Hades House, and could only be freed after all the magic wine on the wine cabinet was drunk.
As for how the woman was trapped and how she became the soul of the underworld house, the book does not record it.
When the person who wrote this book arrived at the underworld house, the woman was already trapped in the underworld, and he didn't even know whether she was a human or a spirit.
As for the bartender mentioned by the woman, it is also recorded in the book. His situation is basically the same as the woman's. Once you become a bartender, you will be trapped here and die together with the Underworld House, immortal forever until all the magic wine is drunk up, and then you can be freed.
In Ben Ming's notes, Li Xiu also learned an important piece of information. Every creature can only drink one kind of the magic wine here. If they drink two kinds, they will definitely die, and even the magic spirits are no exception.
The previous bottle of blood rose was opened by the evil spirit, and he was supposed to finish it. He deliberately let Li Xiu drink some of it, and he didn't have any good intentions.
He must have known that there were two types of Demon Wine that could not be drunk. So he let Li Xiu drink it just to kill him. Since he had the intention to kill him, he probably would not have let Li Xiu go even if Li Xiu didn't drink it himself.
Li Xiu read Ben Ming Diary carefully, trying to find a way to crack it. The woman cared so much about this book even though she knew that Li Xiu couldn't understand it. Maybe there was a way in the book.
Li Xiu read patiently, and when he turned to the last few pages, his eyes suddenly lit up.