Will reached out and pressed the switch on the bedside, and turned on the chandelier. The warm yellow light brought a sense of warmth. He grabbed Muke's coat beside the bed and put it on. When he saw the carpet beside the bed , Will froze for a while before putting on his shoes and going out.While walking, he turned on the lights in the corridor and the living room, and found that Mu Ke was not at home, so he walked into the kitchen to get a glass of water.At this moment, Mu Ke opened the door of the house.

Will carried the cup into the living room and saw Muke put the paper bag in his hand on the table. The steam made the bottom two corners of the paper bag soft, and the clock on the bookshelf showed quarter to seven.

"Are you awake?" Mu Ke lifted the paper bag to the dining table again, and took out the two plastic boxes inside the paper bag.

"Takeout?" Will lifted the lid, and the hot steam of the pasta came out along with the aroma, rushing towards Will's face.

"In order to prevent you from dumping me because I'm a bad cook." Mu Ke smiled, went into the kitchen and took two silver forks and two porcelain plates, and poured two boxes of pasta into the porcelain plates respectively, "I think Italian Noodles are a food that most people can accept."

"I'm not picky." Will was amused, and took a plate of spaghetti bolognese from Muke, which was a bad street but classic taste. "Our cooking skills are probably about the same."

"Are you trying to comfort me?"

"If you will."

Mu Ke asked, "Would you like some wine?"

"No need," Will shook his head, "I'll go back to work tomorrow." He didn't dare to look at Mu Ke's face.

"Okay, be safe." After Mu Ke finished speaking, he paused, "Would you like to stay here at night?"

"my dog..."

"I asked the dog sitter to take care of them, don't worry."

"I don't think I have any reason to refuse," Will looked at Muke's staring eyes, and added, "I don't want to refuse that much either."

After eating dinner quietly, Will borrowed Muke's computer to make courseware for his lectures. Working as a consultant for BSU allowed him to have a lot of real cases to tell the students, without having to go through those green books all the time. The old accounts of the River Killer or the Zodiac, although they haven't even finished the old accounts.

Mu Ke flipped through a few tomes from his study, and Will looked at Mu Ke's speed of flipping through the books, guessing that he was looking for information.The Latin book has hand-painted illustrations, the cover and back cover are all leather, so old that it looks like something that should be put in a museum, and there is another book that he has turned over a few pages and put it at hand. Seems to be runes.Will is completely confused about what Mu Ke learned in college.

When Will was processing the totem pole picture sent to him by Beverly, a pop-up window popped up on the computer. The instruction words were all in Chinese. He handed the computer directly to Mu Ke, "Your program?"

Mu Ke glanced at the document output verification window sent by the Ministry of Repair and Security, "Well, wait a minute, a message from a colleague."

Mu Ke enters the password, logs in to the internal news window of the Ministry of Education, and a piece of music plays before the text is loaded.

——Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations~

Mu Ke immediately turned the computer to the silent state, and when Will looked over suspiciously, he explained, "Hey, the Chinese New Year is coming, and a New Year message from a colleague."

By the way, I would like to remind Nian Beasts who have activated their intelligence not to go out casually. Owners of Nian Beasts who have not activated their intelligence should take good care of their pets, lest Nian Beasts be frightened by fireworks outside and turn back to their original form in public places.Other than that there is no special news.

Muke closes the message window and hands the computer back to Will. Will sees the corpse totem pole picture after closing the message window, and realizes that he forgot to close this picture temporarily. From experience, it is speculated that Mu Ke should have seen a lot of broken arms and stumps in anatomy class, but this totem pole is too much, and not everyone can calm down after seeing it.

Will looked at Muke's eyes and expression, trying to find something out of it, but only found a calm.Mu Ke noticed Will's visit, raised his head to look at him first, and then smiled.This made Will lean his head over and kiss the corner of Muke's mouth. Will's mouth was a little dry but soft, and he did it like a young animal seeking comfort.

"What are you looking at?" Will asked the question he wanted to ask most tonight. Will couldn't read most of the text in these books that Mu Ke had turned, but he could see some illustrations, which seemed to be A magic circle or a strange fantasy creature.

""Records and Conjectures about Magic Circles and Spells in Roman Period"" Mu Ke read the Latin and then translated it into English.

"...magic book?" Will didn't expect Muke to read such a thing.

"Written by a traveler in the [-]th century. It is impossible to distinguish the authenticity. It is just a reference."

"Wo...w?" Will made sure that his eyebrows were raised into a strange arch, and at the same time let his tone match to describe his current mixed emotions of surprise, doubt, helplessness, and not knowing what to say, He said what he thought at the beginning, "It didn't go into the museum?"

"It has been circulating in the hands of various collectors. I got it more than ten years ago. There are many unique viewpoints in it."

"For example? These words make me dizzy."

"He recorded a passage about the encounter between Artemis and Calypso, and believed that Artemis bestowed on Calypso the ability to control the tides, and also brought her unpredictable character. I found this article in the official records, but this statement is very interesting.” Mu Ke’s fingers slid across the illustration added to this chapter, on the picture is a magic circle, the main body of the magic circle is a circle, outlining the complex Lines with a rhombus pattern on each side and a central axis passing through the center of the circle.It's like a striped version of the totem pole Muk saw on Grafton Beach.

The next page of this drawing was torn out.

"It's like a metaphor for the gravity of the moon."

"Maybe." Muke said. Newton, who proved the relationship between tides and gravity, was born in the seventeenth century.

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A little boy and a little girl are chasing and fighting on a country road. There are tall walnut trees growing on both sides of the road. It has just rained and the soil has become soft and sticky. Both children's shoes and pants are stained. mud.

"Oh." The little boy stepped into a puddle and fell down in front of Mu Ke. A few drops of mud splashed on Mu Ke's trousers. Can't see it either.The little boy's chest and chin were covered with mud, but when he saw the stranger in front of him, he immediately stood up and took a few steps back.

"Yes, sorry."

"fine."

"Sir, I've never seen you before. Where are you going?" The little girl ran up and held her brother's hand, looking at Mu Ke carefully.

"I'm here to find Arthur and Merlin, do you know them?"

"Mr. Arthur and Merlin Pendragon? Of course, do you want me to take you there? They live on the hillside over there."

"it is good."

The two children took Mu Ke to a hillside a little far from the residential area of ​​the town. There was a house backed by a beech forest. Grazing, a man on horseback watched the flock, his blond hair shining like gold in the sun.

The little girl knocked on the door for Mu Ke, and soon the master opened the door for them. Merlin looked at Mu Ke standing behind the two children, a little surprised.

"Uncle Merlin, this gentleman wants to find you and Uncle Arthur." The boy said, and Merlin nodded, looking at his muddy face, he found a piece of paper and wiped it off for him.

"Go home quickly, don't fall down again." Merlin said.

The two children turned around and ran away with a smile. When they met the blond man who came back leading the horse, they said hello, "Uncle Arthur!"

Arthur bent down and patted their shoulders with a smile, walked over and said hello to Mu Ke with a smile: "Hello, Mr. Mu." Merlin let both of them enter the room.

Mu Ke asked Arthur: "Did you tell them your last name?"

The name of the Eternal King can be said to be a household name in the land now known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, not to mention that his partner's name is also named Merlin, the great magician who served the Eternal King back then.

"Just the kids," Arthur said, "they'll just grow up and think of it as a childhood story."

Yan Qing and Mei Lin are old acquaintances, that was the story before King Arthur died, Mu Ke also got to know Merlin because of this, but the last time Mei Lin and Yan Qing met was in 70, while King Arthur started in the [-]s* After returning from Lake Avalon, Mu Ke came to see Merlin several times after that.

Mu Ke glanced at the TV broadcasting international news in the living room and Merlin's notebook spread out on the table. He never thought of going back to the wizarding world where he ate Merlin's socks and Merlin's beard all day long. He used to live alone. There was no need for more than 1000 years, almost wandering in Europe, but now that there is such a big former king to support, Merlin has been working as a reclusive and knowledgeable historian for decades, specializing in ancient British history.

"Is there anything I can do for you?" Merlin asked, still looking young.

"Do you still remember the book "Records and Conjectures about Magic Circles and Spells in Roman Period"?" Mu Ke asked.

"Remember, I passed it on to you 50 years ago."

"I want to know who was its previous owner?" Mu Ke took the book out of the Qiankun bag, turned to the page of the spell, and showed Merlin the tear marks on the page, "This page was torn .”

"This page is about..." Merlin's fingers slid across the brownish-yellow page, and the ink was already a little whitish. "A summoning spell, used to summon Calypso."

Merlin frowned, but quickly relaxed, "The goddess of the sea has long left with the Greek gods. Even if she casts a spell, she can't be summoned. And the real gods only accept sacrifices, not summons."

"This magic circle seems to be effective. It can't summon a real god, but it is enough to summon a monster." Mu Ke said, "The real god has left, and what is left is a false god."

Some of the remaining power of the gods in the world led to the birth of false gods, but they are not gods after all. They have power, but they are not strong enough. They have a part of memory, but they do not have the mind to control. Today, when faith is gradually thinning, they gradually become gods dressed in gods. A monster that devours flesh and blood.True gods do not rely on human beliefs, and humans do not rely on the protection of gods.

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