Rebel Demon King

Chapter 880 Asgard and the Book of Wisdom (26)

There is no snow near the bonfire in the square, and the wet slate is full of rubbish, ribbons, feathers, rags, and dripping wax from the torch. Two sleepy-eyed wild dogs are licking the remains of food, and they are dressed in tatters. A few bearded men curled up next to the fire, snoring, exuding a suffocating stench.

At this time, Cheng Mo had to thank the cold weather and the heavy snow. He could imagine how dirty the environment would be if the weather was good.Cheng Mo speeded up and crossed the square, chasing towards the alley where Doctor Niaozui disappeared.

The dark night and the snowflakes all over the sky could not stop Cheng Mo's sight. When he entered the alley, Cheng Mo saw the man in the clothes of Dr. Bird's Beak staggering forward while leaning on the stone wall. His embarrassing movements made Cheng Mo feel suspicious. .Because he heard the voice of the Kamikaze Chosen One, Cheng Mo didn't catch up immediately, but from a long distance, relying on listening to the other party's messy footsteps, he quietly fell behind Dr. Bird's Beak.

At the beginning, Dr. Niaozui ran wildly in the dark and gloomy alleyway in a panic. He didn't see Cheng Mo behind him, so he gradually slowed down, panting and started to walk slowly. Obviously, he was very familiar with this place, and he couldn't do without a torch. Can find the way forward without hesitation.Soon Cheng Mo found that he was walking towards an ancient half-Gothic and half-Romansque tower on the east corner of the town, because only the window at the top of this tower in the whole town still had a dim yellow light. At night, it is like a beacon to guide the direction.

Cheng Mo followed Dr. Niaozui through the winding and narrow alleys, and finally arrived near the tower. The other person's breathing had calmed down at this time, and his footsteps became lighter.Cheng Mo jumped onto the roof of the stone house next to him, stood on the snow-covered ridge overlooking Dr. Bird's Beak hovering cautiously near the stone tower. He took out a bunch of keys from his robe and walked to the doorway of the tower.

Sure enough, the destination of the other party was this pointed cuboid stone building. Cheng Mo stared and noticed that there were no windows on the first floor of the building. It should be that the windows were all shrines, and there were stone sculptures in the shrines. Not angels or gods, but some unknown characters in the style of ancient Greece.There are windows on the second and third floors, but the windows are not big, and there are iron fences nailed. It doesn't look like a house, but like a prison.

This reminds Cheng Mo of Disney's cartoon "Rapunzel", but in Grimm's fairy tales, this story is called "Rapunzel". Compared with Disney animation, Grimm's fairy tales are out-and-out dark stories.The lesbian witch imprisoned the beautiful Rapunzel, and every day she yelled a secret signal under the tower, and Rapunzel would hang down her long hair, and then the witch would climb up the tower along her hair to help Rapunzel check her body.This incident was discovered by the prince, so the prince also learned the witch's code, and climbed up the tower along Rapunzel's hair, so that Rapunzel was pregnant out of wedlock. let the long blond hair of Rapunzel be blinded by the thorns at the foot of the tower.
In modern times, this is an extremely avant-garde story, and a large number of ambiguous descriptions in it can be regarded as small yellow texts today.Of course, if you just regard the dark Grimm's fairy tales as pornographic stories, it is impossible to understand that they deeply reflect the indulgence of ordinary people in the Middle Ages and their hatred and fear of witches from the bottom of their bones under the threat of the Black Death.

The sound of "squeak" interrupted Cheng Mo's thoughts. Seeing that Dr. Bird's Beak had opened the iron door, Cheng Mo determined that Doctor's Bird's Beak was not a big threat to him, so he calmly used teleportation and entered the second floor of the tower.It was a cramped room, filled with the smell of spices, which was much better than the smell on the street.

Cheng Mo couldn't help but took a deep breath. He turned his head and looked at the cabinet against the wall. There were countless bottles and jars in the open cabinet, some made of metal and some made of glass. There is a liquid or powder, and a note in Latin is attached to it.There is also a chapter wooden table next to the window. On the wooden table is a book. The book is mimeographed and exudes the fragrance of ink.Cheng Mo walked over to take a look, and it turned out to be a medical book with human body paintings. To Cheng Mo's surprise, the design of the pages was very similar to the manuscript.

Cheng Mo closed this folio print that looked like a publication. The cover was printed with "Fasciculus Medicinae", which probably means a medical guide. In this age, someone who can understand Latin can be said to be knowledgeable and able to read books. Probably equivalent to a top scholar.Cheng Mo flipped through the medical book curiously, and the illustrations in it even drew the viscera in great detail, and the viscera corresponded to the twelve signs of the zodiac.
At this time, Cheng Mo heard the sound of stairs and heavy footsteps, followed by a low voice reprimand: "Anna, you ran out again? God bless, nothing happened to you." It was a soft but stern female voice , Reminding Cheng Mo of the profession of a doctor, they often speak in such a tone when giving injections to patients.

Cheng Mo walked to the door, and he could hear the noises and voices downstairs without having to listen. From the voices, he could tell that Dr. Niaozui who just came in was taking off his clothes, and her name "Anna" must be a woman.

"Mom, what can happen? I just quietly went to the square to have a look." Immediately, Anna's soft and timid answer verified Cheng Mo's speculation.

"My God, who told you to wear this dress out! Are you dying?"

"Didn't you say that wearing this dress can not only avoid the plague, but also see the god of death?" Anna became excited, "Mom, do you know what I saw? I didn't see the god of death, but I saw the angel, but he and The picture in the book is different, it has no wings and is black."

"Slap" a loud slap echoed in the room, "Shut up! Do you know how dangerous it is outside now? If you are found wearing this outfit, you will definitely be hanged at the gate of the city. My God, you really Don't die."

"Mom, no one dares to come out at night." The girl didn't cry after being slapped, but just defended herself stubbornly in a low voice.

"How do you know there is no one? I stood on the tower and saw the crusaders and monks captured Katharina's family."

"Aunt Katharina? Will there be anything for them?"

Before the long sigh was over, someone knocked hard on the door suddenly, and the sound of "bang bang" exploded the entire tower. Anna's mother immediately whispered eagerly: "Hurry up! Hide your clothes!"

Cheng Mo hesitated for a moment, opened the door carefully and walked out. The corridor is very short, and the stairs are on the side of the door. There are candles placed on the revolving stone wall. Cheng Mo walked along the stone stairs that were hardly polished and looked extraordinarily rough. Downstairs, there was dim light in the foyer downstairs, a dignified blond woman in a blue coarse cloth opened the secret door on the floor, squatted and threw a waxed leather robe inside.

Anna, who was standing aside, handed the beak mask she was holding in her arms to the blond woman, and said softly, "Mom, be careful."

Cheng Mo focused and looked at the girl named Anna who was wearing a doctor's coat with a beak just now. She was not tall, but she was slender and tall, and she looked slender. Delicate, not like the barbaric appearance of the Germans at all, but with a kind of Andalusian sweetness, a bit like a girly version of Miranda Kerr.

The blond woman ignored Anna, and the knocking on the door sounded like a spell to urge her to die, which was also mixed with a loud shout: "Those who lifted Delorme, open the door quickly."

The blond woman quickly threw the beak mask into the floor, and at the same time replied loudly: "It's coming!" She quickly closed the secret door, and then motioned to lift the brown wooden table to the secret door with Anna.

After the two of them pressed the heavy wooden table against the hidden door, the blond woman straightened her clothes and hair, reached out and picked up the three-legged bronze oil lamp on the table and asked loudly, "Who is it?"

"It's me, Priest Frank, the lifter of Delorme."

Cheng Mo walked down the stairs, and slowly walked in front of Anna who was standing by the table. Anna, who had taken off Dr. Beak's clothes, couldn't see him at all at the moment. She wiped the sweat from her forehead through his body and stared at him. the door.Cheng Mo felt that he seemed to have found an interesting thread, so he turned his head and looked at the door.

The blond woman opened the door and asked, "Dear Mr. Frank, it's so late, what can I do for you?"

"God bless, Delorme Lifter!" The chubby kappa standing at the door, dressed in a dark gray squirrel fur and tightly wrapped, made the sign of the cross on his chest, and said hurriedly, "You have to hurry up!" , Lord Leohard's wife is about to give birth, and now I need you to deliver it quickly."

Hearing Priest Frank's words, the blond woman's tense body relaxed, her hand holding the doorknob stopped trembling, and her tone became normal: "Okay, Your Excellency Frank, wait a minute, I'll go get the box!" The blond woman turned around and immediately asked, "Would you like to come in and sit down?"

"No, just hurry up, this damn weather is about to freeze me to death."

"Immediately." The blond woman ran upstairs with her skirt in her hands. After a while, she put on a white linen cloak and went downstairs with a rattan box.Before leaving the tower, she said sternly in Anna's ear: "Close the door tightly, don't run around, and stay at home obediently."

The girl Anna nodded, watching her mother and Priest Frank walk into the wind and snow, and closed the heavy wooden door covered with iron.She fastened the latch and cheered loudly, then ran to the table and pushed the table aside with great effort.

Cheng Mo leaned against the wall, watching the girl Anna opened the secret door, grabbed the oil lamp, turned and climbed down, and he also walked down the dark room. The stone-built fully enclosed room downstairs wafts a strong scent of aromatherapy. The smell is very familiar to Cheng Mo, he had smelled it in the Porte de Vanves second-hand book market in Paris, probably a mixture of hazel wood and musk, Cheng Mo sniffed and glanced at the dark room, feeling that this is not a room, It's more like a tomb.

The girl Anna picked up the black leather robe and beak mask that fell on the ground, muttered a few words heartbroken, and took the leather robe and beak mask to the side of the stone workbench and put them away, then she held up the oil lamp and lit them. He picked up the two oil lamps mounted on the wall, and found a piece of blue cloth to carefully wipe the black leather robe and beak mask.

Cheng Mo looked around carefully by the candlelight, only to see the details that he hadn't seen in the dark just now. On the workbench, apart from the attire of Dr. Bird's Beak, there were also seven system magic talismans, personal magic talismans, black candles, Gold candlesticks, and a book in a black cover, with a crystal ball and a portrait of Baphomet.

There is no doubt that this is a prop for holding a satanic ceremony, Cheng Mo's heart shudders, a little surprised that the witch is not purely a false accusation, but actually exists.He walked to the workbench. The girl Anna was still wiping the beak mask seriously. He moved to the bookcase next to the workbench and searched for a while. Most of them were medical books and books on astrology. nothing special.

When Cheng Mo was thinking about what to do next, he discovered that there was a book that surprised him on the bottom floor of the bookcase. It was one of the three books he brought back from the Wangfumen second-hand book market that he couldn't read at all. Understand the brown parchment scroll.Although he didn't know what was written in the book, he was impressed by the Roman letters written on the cover.Cheng Mo stared down at the parchment book and frowned, thinking that even if he picked it up, he still couldn't understand it, but since this book is here, it means that someone here can understand it.He had to find a way to figure out what was written in this book, which might be the key to solving the Asgard puzzle.

Of course, it is also possible that it is just an ordinary book that records black magic.

In short, anything is possible. After all, it seems that everything at present seems to be a clue. In fact, it is just a coincidence that will happen with a high probability. After all, he knew that the ruins of Asgard had something to do with "occultism" before he went to Vanves. There are not many classic works on occultism, and there are only a few limited ones handed down from ancient times. It is not surprising to see them in a witch's house in a medieval town.

However, all of this was related to the "Black Death" and "Doctor Bird's Beak", which was beyond Cheng Mo's expectation. Cheng Mo walked around the stone house again, but found nothing more.Cheng Mo was slightly disappointed, and walked back to the workbench. This time he did not walk around the house, but crossed the middle of the house. When he passed the middle, he stepped on an obvious groove. He looked down and saw the stone An inverse pentagram is engraved on the ground.

Below the inverse pentagram are inscribed two words in bold Roman letters: You, Prayer.

The oil lamps on the wall were jumping, and Cheng Mo noticed his own black shadow reflected on the floor, it seemed to be imprisoned in a neat inverted pentagram, swaying slightly inside.He couldn't be seen by the people in the ruins, but there was a shadow. This strange phenomenon caused Cheng Mo to think.He vaguely felt that even if there was nothing special recorded in that book, he had uncovered a corner of history hidden deep in the fog.

Just as Cheng Mo was meditating, piercing and dull screams rang out. Cheng Mo raised his head, and Anna, a girl wearing a beak mask, was looking at him through the red crystal lens while holding the sharp and narrow silver beak.

The flickering flame of the oil lamp was burning on the crystal lens, struggling not to extinguish it as if it was about to run out of the last drop of oil.The girl Anna's legs were trembling, and Cheng tacitly thought that if she hadn't been leaning on the workbench, she might have been unable to support herself and collapsed on the ground
"You, who are you?" The girl Anna mustered up her courage, forced her dry throat to open, and asked in a trembling voice.

"Me?" Cheng Mo stood in the middle of the inverted pentagram with his hands behind his back. He looked at the girl Anna and said with a smile, "Of course it's Satan."

(End of this chapter)