Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 566 Research
Mr. Adler was taken aback by Liang En's sudden request for a room for quiet research, but he quickly cleared a room for his use.

After all, in their eyes, it is completely understandable that a well-known scholar like Liang En who has shown his talent in some places has a little quirk of his own.

Not to mention that what they were going to study now was the birthday gift his daughter received, and as a father, he naturally didn't want his daughter to receive something that might be dangerous.

After all, there are so many toxic and harmful substances in this world that even professionals may not be able to recognize them all.So after Liang En discovered that the situation was wrong, Mr. Adler could naturally hope to eliminate hidden dangers.

To be honest, at the beginning, Liang En really didn't expect such a strange thing to be seen at such a little girl's birthday party, so he really didn't pay much attention to it before.

But now it seems that the situation is obviously different from what I imagined, because it is rare to see a book full of strange pictures anyway, let alone the word "Heaven's Gate" written on the cover of the book.

"Did you find anything?" Liang En asked when he saw Joan staring at the book with an increasingly serious face when he repeatedly looked at the book.

"Human skin, the cover of this book is human skin." Joan of Arc touched the cover of the book and said with certainty, "I have seen many human skins, so this must look good."

After hearing what Joan of Arc said, the faces of the surrounding people showed surprise expressions, especially Mr. Adler's face was even more angry, because this thing is obviously not suitable as a gift for a 12-year-old girl .

"That's right, it's a human skin book." After being reminded like this, Liang En carefully looked at the book and made a judgment, then raised his head to look at Mr. Adler. "Don't worry though, this stuff wasn't made for nefarious purposes.

"The period when the most human skin books were produced was mainly during the European Middle Ages. At that time, the overall cultural quality of Europeans was not high, the ethical concepts were weak, and their thinking was relatively conservative and primitive.

In addition to human skin books, it was not uncommon at that time to use human remains to make various items. The large-scale ones included the famous Bone Church, and the smaller ones had the legendary Hand of Glory.

Yes, this thing is the one in the Harry Potter novels, the dry, pickled hand of a hanged man, usually designated as the left hand if the person was hanged for murder , then take the murdering hand.

Old European beliefs held that a hand of honor and a candle - made from fat from the corpse of a criminal who should have died on the gallows - had great power.

A candle made in this way, lit and held in the Hand of Glory as a candlestick, will immobilize all who face it, or open any door it encounters.

Typically, thieves use it in total darkness to see otherwise, open locked doors, and immobilize guards.In some dark magic rituals, the Hand of Glory is hailed as a source of illumination.

As a occult research organization, the Golden Dawn has records in this regard, and even a certain member has one, but even if they repel this kind of black magic, they have never actually operated it, but just looking at these records is enough to make one's hair stand on end.

As for the production of human skin books, it is related to the European tradition of using the skins of murderers to bind criminal files. Therefore, many human skin books were produced in the Middle Ages, and the "human skin book binding" still existed until the 18th and 19th centuries.

There are two main functions of the human skin book, punishment and commemoration.Another rare thing is to satisfy the abnormal psychology.And these things basically come from the following three sources:
Doctor: Human skin comes from amputated limbs of patients and unclaimed corpses.Collectors: Human skin comes from executed prisoners and the poor, usually at a high price.Deceased's request: The will asked for the skin to be cut from the body to make a book cover.

But in any case, the human skin book is a very rare existence, so such a book now is certainly not as simple as it appears on the surface.

It was also for this reason that Liang En began to flip through the book page by page in an attempt to find the secrets that might be hidden inside, but in the process of flipping through the book, he smelled a faint smell of rust.

"The smell of blood?" Although the smell was very slight, Liang En, whose body had been strengthened, could still catch this extremely faint smell.

And after using the skill of the [Blood Detection (R)] card, he found that the frame that he thought was a pattern before was not as simple as it looked. Some of the black patterns were painted with blood .

It's just that after a long time, the blood oxidizes and becomes darker and darker, so it is completely integrated into the pictures around the book as it is now.

If it wasn't for Liang En's ability to have cards that are particularly obvious for blood, it is very likely that he would have ignored these points and lines like everyone else.

While Liang En and the others were researching the book, Mr. Adler also found out who sent the book and asked a series of things related to sending the book.

This book was given to Ms. Adler, the host of today's birthday party, by a friend who bought it for $15 in a used bookstore more than two weeks ago.

Because at that time his friend thought that Miss Adler was about to celebrate her birthday, so she planned to give this old-looking thing to Miss Adler who loved adventures and pursuit of cultural relics as a birthday present.

However, the clues were completely broken, because from this second-hand bookstore, it was impossible to find where the book came from. Fortunately, after careful inspection, Liang En found that the blood and the book were not from the same era.

In other words, this book is a book from the 17th century, but the blood time will not exceed 150 years.It's just that the person who used blood to paint on the book cleverly used the original pattern on the book to write what he wanted to write on it with blood.

To be honest, this is a very strange thing, after all, the human skin book is not a very common thing, and the person who is willing to send a message through this method is either a genius, a lunatic, or both.

Liang En disclosed the news after hiding the fact that the book cover was made of human skin. As expected, Miss Adler was most interested in the news.

"That is to say, we are going on an adventure now, aren't we?" Miss Adler looked at Liang En excitedly and asked, her whole face flushed red.

For her, it was the first time that the adventures she had seen in movies, novels or games appeared in reality, so she seemed so excited.

"Yes, this can indeed be regarded as the beginning of an adventure." Liang En said with a smile, "It's just that we need to continue to study to find out what's going on here."

The reason for saying this is that what Liang En has found now are points and line segments, so it will take more time and energy to find out what the patterns drawn by the blood are.

(End of this chapter)