The Sabbath

Since Ronggui will send Dahuang to send Hana's father "back" later, Xiaomei went out by herself.

Ronggui was a little worried, at first he insisted that Xiaomei let Dahuang carry him there first, and then go back by himself, but Xiaomei refused decisively.

He called an ambulance on the side of the road.

Uh... That's right, no one stipulates that only those who are missing an arm or a broken leg can take an ambulance~

Seeing the small yellow-green car with its red siren whistling away, Ronggui was finally relieved.

"Guest, what kind of medicine do you want? I'll take you to the most suitable store~" As soon as we got in the car, the ambulance driver began to introduce it with experience. If Ronggui was here, he would be so surprised that he couldn't blink his eyes : The ambulance driver is such a beauty!

Even though the movements are full of the feeling of a small businessman, and the tone of voice is full of the oily feeling of an old driver, but the ambulance driver has delicate features, his skin is unique to the Sicilians, and his eyebrows and eyes are full of amorous feelings.

It's a pity that Xiaomei's style is thrown into the water.

Sitting upright on the back seat, Xiaomei said directly: "Go to the library."

Then he fell silent.

At first glance, this kind of customer is the kind of iron cock who can't get in. There is no way, the ambulance driver can only touch his nose and drive hard.

However, he still turned on the radio, and all kinds of drug advertisements were played, which became the only sound in the car.

This time, Xiaomei didn't say anything else. For him, he was used to listening to the radio and watching TV. With Ronggui by his side, it was like having a [-]/[-] radio, allowing all kinds of small advertisements to be heard. While chattering, Xiaomei sat upright, looking ahead.

Because he is too quiet, not only quiet, but also motionless for a long time. In fact, he often does this. If it wasn't for Ronggui who often begged him to do it, when there is nothing to do, Xiaomei can maintain a motion for a day, and he will think. Something, or, nothing at all.

To be honest, people who stand still for too long... are scary to watch!

At this moment, the old driver in the ambulance was undoubtedly facing this deathly fear!

Through the rear mirror, he kept observing Xiaomei. The car had been driving for more than half an hour, and during this half hour, he swore that the guest behind him really didn't move at all!

The cloak that covered his body and face didn't even tremble, how suspicious this guest looked!

Could it be... those undead people?

But when he came in, he obviously said something, those undead people can't speak.

etc--

Has it evolved to the undead who can talk?

At the earliest time, they just came out of the grave, and it took a while before they could walk, and after a while, they began to walk into the city instinctively based on the last feeling. Now they can flexibly climb over the city wall and run into the city. From the very beginning when they appeared, people found them to be undead, and now they have successfully blended in among the crowd. Only by looking closely can they find out that something is wrong...

It is said that the undead attacked the living finally happened a while ago!

The person who was attacked was a patient who came from another place to buy medicine. Because he was too frightened, he accidentally attacked the undead. As a result, the undead, who usually hardly responded to the outside world, actually fought back against him. It is said that the person is still lying in the pharmacy now!

Fortunately, he was attacked in the city of Sisiro. If he was changed to other places, how could there be so many good medicines that could be used in time for him~

but--

It seems that only in the city of Sisiro can people suffer this kind of attack, right?

One messy thought after another turned in his mind, and the ambulance driver's brain went blank.

As ambulance drivers, this profession allows them to run around in and out of the city, in the streets and alleys. Since they want to sell pharmacies to customers, they naturally have frequent contacts with those pharmacies, so let’s talk about the news from Sisiro City The group of people who are the most well-informed and know the most gossip, the ambulance driver can undoubtedly be ranked first, even if it is not No.1, there is also No.3.

After hearing the gossip a few days ago, the ambulance driver became more and more frightened.

He quickly raised the protective net between the front row and the rear row.

Usually, for the convenience of sales, he would not fall into this thing easily, but now he completely ignores it!

Fortunately, the life-saving library is just ahead.

Parked the car in front of the main entrance of the library, the ambulance driver was about to step on the accelerator and run away. At this moment, the guest knocked on the window glass next to him with his hand.

"I haven't paid yet." Listen carefully, this man's voice is also very suspicious!Metal texture, cold, flat and stiff tone, basically no ups and downs...

Mom!This person is not dead!

Although many people in the city are not afraid of those undead people, but he is one of the few people who are afraid of them~

A hand wearing a white glove passed over from the car window, revealing a pass, and touched the other party's with his pass in horror. After the ambulance driver finished collecting the money, he didn't even dare to say a word of greeting. Immediately rolled up the window and ran away.

Since then, the city of Sisiro probably has another legend of "the undead riding an ambulance".

= - =

The instigator of the misunderstanding, Xiaomei, held her pass and was stunned for a rare moment: the driver only charged him one point.

Is the fare so cheap here?

Dazed for a moment, he didn't think much about it, and looked up at the tall building in front of him—in the city of Sisiro, where wooden materials are commonly used, this tall building, which rarely uses tile and stone structures, is the library.

Drops of water fell from the sky.

It is raining again.

There are too many plants in this city, and the frequency of automatic water spraying in the city is naturally higher than other cities.If it is divided according to the climate type, it should be a rainy city, right?The climate is hot and humid all year round... Of course, some parts of the city are used to grow herbs, so it may be dry...

Xiaomei thought, and took out an umbrella from under the cloak.

He made the umbrella himself, but it was Ronggui who asked him to do it.

The material of his current body is not afraid of water, and umbrellas are meaningless to him, but Ronggui's reason is right: "The umbrella is not to prevent the body from getting wet, but also to prevent the clothes on the body from getting wet." ".

After all, in this city, it is difficult to dry clothes once they are washed.

By the way, the dryer at Mrs. Zora's place is broken, and I have to fix it later. After all, Ronggui is a guy who needs to wash his clothes every two days.

There's nothing wrong with that, it's better to live with a clean person than a dirty slob...

Unaware of the slight change in her current thinking, Xiaomei walked up the steps at a constant speed while holding an umbrella.

Pushing open the heavy library door, he put away the umbrella, and saw that there was an umbrella next to him, and there was an umbrella there. After staring at the umbrella for a while, Xiaomei also put the umbrella on it.

The roof of the library is unusually high, and the corridor is unusually wide. There is no one in it. When Xiaomei walks, only his footsteps echo in the entire corridor.

However, all the lights in the corridor were complete, and none of the light bulbs went out, which should be the result of special maintenance.

From this point of view, there should still be people here.

The floors are also very clean.

……

Walking all the way and observing the surroundings without any trace, Xiaomei finally walked the long corridor and came to the place where the library officially stores books.

This is a huge room, five stories high!In the middle are neatly placed reading tables and chairs, surrounded by books on five floors!

Every floor is densely packed with bookshelves, and more densely packed books are placed on them!There are stairs on both sides to go upstairs. In addition, there are air stairs in the middle of each floor. People can easily go from the bookshelf on the fourth floor to the fifth floor, or directly take the air stairs from the bookshelf on the fifth floor to the third floor. building……

In Xiaomei's memory, this is not the largest library he has ever seen, but without a doubt, it is the most unique library!

As a person who has the habit of reading, Xiaomei was rarely taken aback.

Then he started looking for the reception desk.

He found the librarian in the corner of the hall on the first floor. It was an elderly man in traditional Ciciro costume. He looked very old, with a pair of huge glasses on the bridge of his nose and a book in his hand. The old man is reading.

Hearing Xiaomei's footsteps, the old man froze for a moment, until Xiaomei walked up to him and explained why he came, then he put down the book in his hand, turned on the computer, which had been unused for a long time, and waited for it to turn on, the old man hesitated for a while, and said softly Xiaomei said:

"A living person?"

Xiaomei:?

The uncle pushed his glasses and whispered again: "I mean you are alive?"

Xiaomei: =-=

"My current body is made of machinery, strictly speaking..." Xiaomei was about to continue, but the uncle interrupted him.

"Mechanical is good, I know, you are alive."

Probably because I haven't turned on the machine for a long time, the machine in front of the uncle is really slow to start up, finally the management interface appeared, the uncle logged in Xiaomei's pass, and then said to him very easily:

"Okay, now you can go in and read books. Books are not borrowed, you can only read them here. There is no place you can't go in. You can just find them yourself."

As the uncle said, he handed the pass and a library map to Xiaomei. Just as Xiaomei put away the pass and was about to go inside, the uncle stopped him again:

"That... there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to come to the library to read books, and there are fewer living people, so..."

The voice was lowered again, and the uncle said all the words:

"People who are not alive may seem a bit much."

"Don't be afraid to see them. They are quite quiet. They never eat or drink in the library. They know to put the books back where they are after reading. They are actually good readers."

"Hey, if you are afraid, go back as soon as possible..."

The uncle's words finally turned into a long sigh.

Glancing at the other party, Xiaomei turned around, and followed the direction indicated by the map, he went up the stairs and walked straight to the highest floor of the library.

There is only one general pharmacopoeia in the entire city of Sisiro. In this city, this large pharmacopoeia is a treasure-level existence. Other things can be destroyed, but the pharmacopoeia of this library will not be destroyed. I want to find out. The real and complete prescription of the elixir made by Na's father back then is only here.

Of course, for Xiaomei, inquiring about the prescription of the elixir is not the main purpose of his visit: it is Ronggui's wish to find out Hana's father's last wish. For Xiaomei, the more important reason for him to come is to add more Knowledge about herbs.

His brain is the most complete library in the world. He can memorize all the books he has read, which is his innate ability. In a later experience, he was completely mechanized and realized immortality in a virtual form. , His brain is even connected to all the libraries in this world. All the records that can be "informatized" in this world are all stored in his brain. There is no knowledge in this world that he does not know.

That is, some records disappeared before he started to connect to the system. The books, cultures in those places... disappeared long before he could store them, and the relevant records were naturally lost in his system.

It is true that other places also have related knowledge of herbs, so Xiaomei can tell the names and effects of many herbs, but Sisiro City has to be said to be one of the top cities in research in this area.

After a long period of development, this city has developed a unique herbal medicine civilization. In many ways, they have places that other cities cannot replace.

And he is now in the central library of Sisiro City, the gathering place of civilizations and cultures that have disappeared in history.

After two and a half months, this place will disappear, and this unique library, and the studies of the Sicilian people in it will also be destroyed, and will completely disappear in the long river of human civilization.

There is a strange feeling, but there is also a sense of necessity.

Xiaomei walked from floor to floor.

It is quiet and quiet here, completely a sea of ​​books.

Occasionally, he crossed the steps and looked down at the librarian, and saw that the old man was reading a book with a peaceful face. The happiness that reading brought him was obvious. Holding a book in his hand was like holding the whole world. The old man was quietly immersed in his own world inside.

Xiaomei looked away. Now, he finally climbed up to the fifth floor. In the center of the entire fifth floor is a huge shelf. On the shelf is a thick book, which is the legendary Great Pharmacopoeia of Cicero.

The books displayed on all the surrounding bookshelves are related to the pharmacopoeia. In order to create this prescription, how many experiments did the pharmacists do, and what is the theoretical basis... In short, it is a thesis.

Xiaomei stood in front of the shelf where the Pharmacopoeia was displayed.

He was too short, so the shelf automatically adjusted down a little according to his height.

After staring at the cover of the Great Pharmacopoeia for a while, Xiaomei opened the book.

He directly searched for the record of the undead medicine in the directory.

The catalog of the entire Pharmacopoeia is composed of drug names one after another, and they are arranged in the order of creation time. In the penultimate record, Xiaomei saw the line "Pharmaceuticals for Immortality".

He paused for a moment, then followed the instructions on the catalog and turned straight to the designated location.

Page two thousand four hundred and thirty eight.

The prescription that records Hana's father's greatest glory and biggest failure as a pharmacist is on this page.

On that page, the words "Pharmaceuticals of Eternity" were printed in cursive script.

Xiaomei paused again.

There was a reason for his pause, because when he actually saw the writing of this legendary medicine name, he finally realized that something was wrong.

This is the true meaning of the drug name!

In Common Language, "immortality" and "immortality" are pronounced exactly the same and written very similarly, with only one letter different.

In fact, this letter will naturally lead to a slight difference in the pronunciation of the whole word. Unfortunately, the difference is so small that most people do not pronounce this difference when they pronounce this word.

In addition, because of the zombies that Ronggui talked about later, the records about this medicine that Xiaomei found in the existing records are actually written as "undead medicine".

Only when Hana mentions this phrase, the pronunciation will be a little different from others.

The scene that happened in the early morning of this morning flashed through his mind like lightning:

"Do you have a prescription for the elixir at home?" Xiaomei asked quietly in the darkness.

"No, it's not the elixir, but the elixir." The little girl corrected it stubbornly, then shook her head: "No, all of Dad's notes have been destroyed..."

By the way, the reminder is actually very obvious. Although the name of the medicine that Hana said is very similar to the name of the medicine in other people's mouth, it is not a kind of medicine.

But what difference does it make?Whether it is not old or not dead, the result of the two is the same.

Tilting her head slightly, Xiaomei opened the piece of paper with the name of the medicine printed on it, and saw the complete record about the "elixir of youth".

Written at the top is a detailed list of ingredients: what kind of medicinal materials were used, how many years were used for these medicinal materials, what extraction method was used, and how long was the extraction time...

Very detailed.

A total of five pages were recorded eloquently!

Compared with the compositional analysis that is no more than three pages long, there is no doubt that the "elixir of youth" is more difficult than other drugs in terms of difficulty in making and research.

Not deliberately, Xiaomei memorized all the content on the five pages.

Then, on page six, he came across a passage from the pharmacist:

"The original intention of inventing this drug...is for my beautiful wife. I hope she can stay young and happy forever."

Completely different from the sentimental feelings written at the end of other medicines such as "cure the disease and save the patient", the creator of "Young Medicine" is very straightforward and frankly said that the original intention of his medicine is to keep his wife youthful.

Xiaomei knew this.

If the drug does work, the speech would probably be a romantic one.

Yet the drug failed.

Hana's father was brought to trial, and the court sentenced him to death.

And Hana's mom is also considered an "evil woman" as the reason Hana's dad created this "evil drug".

On the way to torture, Hana's father was attacked by a patient, and Hana's mother died under the attack of a certain patient in order to protect her husband.

Xiaomei thought of the wound on the neck of the female zombie——

The sad scene didn't stop the execution, and Hana's dad was eventually executed.

However, Hana did not know all this.

As a minor, the law protected her growing up, and she was told that her parents had died in a car accident.

The little girl really thought so, when Ronggui asked her about it, the little girl answered like this.

Then there were the days when Hana's parents kept coming home...

It sounds logical, nothing unusual, but——

Why do you care so much about the drug name?

After staring at the name of the medicine for a while, Xiaomei's eyes slid to the last page, the only place where the name of the creator of the medicine was printed.

"Cobney Hanarens"

A sliver of haze flashed across the sky-like blue eyes. Although Xiaomei's expression did not change, there was a huge wave in his heart at this moment.

He thought he might know why the city would be extinct in two and a half months.

Exactly this "Hanarens"!

Since all the information has been destroyed, Xiaomei naturally does not know the reason for the destruction of Sisiro City, but——

But he knew about Hanarens!

Committed the world's top crime - the crime of massacre, Hanarens was imprisoned in Joshua's black prison for 300 years, and was sentenced to death after serving his sentence!

If the place where Hanarens committed crimes is the city of Sisiro, then——

Xiaomei dialed the phone.

He dialed Ronggui's number.

The call was connected not long after, and Ronggui's cheerful voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Xiaomei~ What's the matter, have you arrived at the library yet? It's starting to rain here, how about you? But luckily you brought an umbrella, so you don't have to worry about the rain..."

As always, Ronggui said a lot.

Calmly, Xiaomei waited for Ronggui to finish speaking, and then asked his own question: "You, ask Hana for me, are there many people with the surname Hanarens in this city?"

Then he heard Ronggui go to ask Hana, the little girl's tender voice was not far away, not loud, but Xiaomei could hear it clearly through the microphone.

He heard Ronggui ask: "Hana, Xiaomei asks you, are there many people with the surname Hanarens in Sisiro?"

"Strange, why did he ask you this?" This was Ronggui who didn't understand the situation.

"Ha! It's because Hana's surname is Hanarens!" The little girl didn't dislike it, and answered Ronggui's question very cheerfully.

"Dad said, our family name is the only one in the whole city! So everyone calls us Hana! But Hana is a girl, so the way of writing it will be cute..."

The rest... Xiaomei doesn't need to listen anymore.

Listening to Ronggui repeating Hana's words, Xiaomei calmly said goodbye and hung up the phone.

Standing in front of the bookshelf with the pharmacopoeia, Xiaomei looked out the window.

Outside the dark window, the rain is getting heavier and heavier.