《fall into darkness》Chapter 25: Alchemy's Notes
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While groping, Du Di'an touched the rickety old man's body again, which was wet and sticky, like thighs and arms, wrapped in crumpled and torn robes. This time, although he was still a little scared in his heart, he wasn't as nervous as before. Resisting the trembling in his heart, he touched his robe, and suddenly, from the tightly wrinkled fabric, he felt two hard protruding objects.
He squeezed it, it was extremely hard, and he thought that it was mostly the items that the other party brought with him. He immediately opened the cloth and took out the few things.
Feeling cold to the touch, he held it up and lit by the starlight, barely able to see clearly, it was actually a scythe.
Surprised in his heart, he immediately rubbed the fire sickle to light the tinder. Soon, a faint fire light illuminated the darkness. With the light of the fire, he immediately saw what was in front of him. His face turned pale when he saw it, and he saw that the part he had been groping before was the shoulder of the hunched old man. At this moment, the arm was broken from the elbow, and the rib of the inner chest was also blown black and blurred.
Du Di'an's heart was beating wildly, and he was a little nervous, for fear that the other party would rush forward in vain. After repeatedly confirming that the other party's chest did not rise and fall, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then found scattered paper on the ground and set it on fire. Throw it on it and burn it.
As the fire became bigger, Du Dian immediately saw the appearance of the secret room after the explosion. The previous experimental workbench and various purification equipment all fell to the ground, almost all of them were damaged, and many things were submerged by the collapsed sand and dust. , he took a closer look and immediately found the previous crossbow, but the string of this crossbow was broken and the bow body was also broken, obviously it could no longer be used.
Du Di'an felt a little distressed and could only give up. He was preparing to burn the place completely with a fire. Suddenly, he saw several books beside the fire. The top one had "Alchemy Life Theory" on the cover.
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Du Di's heart moved and went forward to pick it up. In addition to the "Alchemy Life Theory" at the top, there are several books below, all of which are books of the "Life" alchemy school, and one of them is a small manual. , There is no name, he opened it and looked, it was actually handwritten with a quill pen.
"Alchemy diary?" Du Dian was a little surprised, and after looking at the content, it was actually the alchemy diary of the rickety old man.
"287 years of the giant wall calendar, the black snow season."
"Today's experiment is going well. Sure enough, to create life, we still have to use human beings as experimental objects. What a perfect material..."
Du Dian flipped through it, and there were some records of the experimental process and other events on it. He didn't read it in detail. After thinking about it, he put the alchemy handbook into his chest. As for the "Alchemy Life Theory" and other books, he simply flipped through it. Next, although the name is very high, it feels similar to primary biology. Although he has never studied biology, at least it is the thinking of modern people, and the common sense that has penetrated into the heart since childhood can roughly judge.
He didn't bring them. These books were too thick to hide and were easily exposed. Judging from the behavior of this rickety old man, alchemy probably won't have a good reputation in this world, otherwise he wouldn't hide in this deserted desert to secretly experiment.
Du Di'an tore the book open and threw it on the flame, and the fire started to burn. He threw the rest of the books on the rickety old man's body, then found the oil pot that fell on the ground, and poured the kerosene inside the rickety old man's body. On the corpse, and everywhere in the secret room, he has calmed down a lot at this moment, and the first thing that comes to mind is to destroy the corpse!
When the fire spread, Du Di'an climbed up the wooden ladder that had rolled down earlier. The wooden ladder was far away and was not broken. He pushed the top plank hard, climbed out, and looked back. At a glance, from the collapsed gap, he vaguely saw the reflection of the fire, and suddenly there was a trace of melancholy in his heart, he sighed, turned around, and ran along the same path.
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When he returned to the previous place, there was only a little bit of sparks in the burning fire pit, but no three of Macon were seen around.
Du Di was startled, didn't care to sit down and rest, dragged his tired body to search everywhere on the ground, and soon saw the traces of dragging, and immediately chased after the sand marks, but saw a dark shadow moving in the distance, His heart tightened, and he quietly touched it.
After getting close, Du Dian saw that it was Zach who was dragging Macon and Sham.
"He's not in a coma?" Du Di'an was startled, and then he thought that Zach had always been cautious, and most of the time he played dead like himself, but he played dead to escape, but he almost lost his life.
Seeing Zach dragging Sham and Macon with difficulty, Du Di was slightly warm, rolled the Alchemy Notes around his trouser legs, tied it with a cloth belt, and walked out.
"Who!" Zach was startled when he heard the movement, let go of Sham and Macon, and bent down nervously to grab two handfuls of sand.
"It's me." Du Dian appeared.
When Zach heard Du Di'an's voice, he was shocked, and couldn't help but say in surprise: "You're back? Are you all right? Did that monster treat you well?"
Hearing this, Du Dian immediately knew that most of him had secretly seen his fight with the ricketed old man before, and saw the other party's mutated shoulder, and said: "It's okay, I ran away by luck, let's get out of here, so as not to be chased again. Come." After speaking, he grabbed Macon's arm, saw that he was still breathing, and immediately knew that the green mist was not a lethal poison, and he was relieved.
Zach's face turned pale, and he couldn't help but look behind Du Dian, as if there were monsters staring in the dark. He shivered, grabbed Sham, and hurriedly said: "Run quickly, don't be caught." Said After that, he quickly dragged Sham and ran forward.
Du Dian dragged Sham and followed behind. This place with abundant water obviously couldn't stay longer. Although the rickety old man was dead, it was hard to guarantee that no other alchemists would come over. He sighed in his heart and had to continue. Looking for a water source, I hope that the next water source will not encounter these alchemists who refuse to be bound by the law.
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After half an hour.
Above the rickety old man's secret room, several shadows appeared. One of the short shadows took out a scythe, lit a hooded oil lamp, and looked down from the collapsed gap by the firelight, and immediately saw the burning mess inside the secret room.
"It has been killed." One of the graceful figures seemed to see something, and the silver bell-like voice was full of gloomy cold, and said: "Destroy the corpse and destroy the traces, burn down the den, it seems that we do not want us to trace any clues."
"Such ruthless means are mostly done by other devil apostles. These beasts are not spared by me!" Another burly figure said gloomily.
The former short shadow said: "These alchemists have already sold their souls to the devil, and they will do everything to gain the power of the devil, killing each other is nothing, but they should not fight for no reason, I think, very Maybe it's for something! Damn, if only we'd come here sooner."
"Look, it seems that this place was instantly destroyed by some force." The previous graceful figure pointed to the burned secret room and the collapsed gap, and said, "It seems that these alchemists have obtained terrifying devil power again."
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