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The room seemed to be very damp. Xia Ren felt a tightness in his chest and difficulty breathing. He wanted to find out where the window was, but he saw a high-backed bench facing the window on the left. The curtain completely blocks the faint snow light outside.

Looking at the high back of the chair, he always felt that someone was sitting on it, but when he recalled the many dark shadows he vaguely saw outside the door just now, he killed the thought of going to check it in the cradle.

Everything in this room made people feel extremely gloomy, and the fear that Xia Ren had suppressed just now began to spread uncontrollably in his heart.

But Yu Chen was not affected at all, he was still looking around the furnishings in the house with curious eyes, not knowing that his father-in-law had already been fighting with each other, and almost left first.

"that……"

Just as Yu Chen opened his mouth to speak, he suddenly realized that the old man beside him was dumb.

Fortunately, the other party's ears are still easy to use, so he took out a pen and paper and wrote: "Dear young master, do you have any doubts that need to be answered?"

Yu Chen smiled apologetically, and said hesitantly: "I received an invitation to attend a family ceremony, but there doesn't seem to be any ceremony about to be held here."

The old man remained expressionless, and wrote: "The ceremony is about to begin, and you will witness everything tonight."

"Cough, cough—"

Xia Ren didn't dare to talk to the old man directly, and reminded Yu Chen with his eyes.

The latter understood immediately and said, "I forgot to introduce, this is my father-in-law, he came with me, can I bring him to the ceremony?"

The old man turned his head and glanced at Xia Ren, and wrote: "Please understand, respected young master, this ceremony is very important and can only be attended by members of the clan. It is best for your father-in-law to stay in this room and wait for the ceremony to end. This is also For the good of your father-in-law."

Yu Chen looked at Xia Ren with a troubled expression on his face.

"fine."

Xia Ren shook his head.

Yu Chen then asked: "Can you prepare some food for us? And water."

"Please wait a moment."

After writing this sentence in the notebook, the old man turned around and walked out of the room. Only the father and son and the old lady who was silently busy in front of the old spinning wheel were left in the room.

Yu Chen didn't expect that the planned family reunion turned into what it is now. There was no warm hospitality, no lively crowd, no wave after wave of clansmen who came to recognize their relatives, and there was only this old house and dumb servants.

Xia Ren pulled him aside and said, "I will attend the ceremony with you later."

"what?"

Yu Chen was a little surprised: "But that person just said that only clan members can participate."

Xia Ren imitated Bill Corleone's expression, stared at him, and said, "The legs grow on my body, who can control me?"

Yu Chen lowered his head and hesitated for a while: "But..."

Xia Ren sighed, and said, "From here until now, I haven't even seen the appearance of your other clansmen. If I don't know, how can I trust my daughter to you?"

As soon as these words came out, Yu Chen could only remain silent.

After a while: "Then... well, I will communicate with him later."

"Need not."

Xia Ren shook his head: "He will definitely not agree, so I will go secretly by myself."

He then thought about it again, after all, he is his son-in-law, although he is only the identity in the ancient dream, but this young man is not bad, he can help if he can, so he said: "I don't think your people are good people. "

Speaking of this, Xia Ren glanced at the old lady in front of the spinning wheel, and after seeing no response from the other party, he continued: "If I feel wrong tonight, I will call you, and we will leave here if we say anything. My daughter lost her lover at a young age."

Yu Chen was moved for a while, thinking that his father-in-law could still recognize him so much even though he was poor and white, his nose suddenly turned sour.

Xia Ren pondered for a few seconds, and then said: "It may be troublesome to call you to run away, so let's set a code, and when you hear the code, just respond, so that I can know your location."

"Ok!"

Yu Chen nodded heavily: "But what kind of code do you want to use, the king of heaven and the tiger of heaven?"

Xia Ren stroked the beard on his chin, thought and thought, and suddenly came up with an idea: "Well, if I say Wai Bi Wai Bi, you can go back to Wai Bi Babu."

"Waibi Waibi, Waibi Babu..."

Yu Chen repeated it, keeping it firmly in his heart.

Although this code is a bit awkward and its meaning is unclear, I don't know how my father-in-law came up with it, but he doesn't care about it.

After nearly half an hour, the old man braved the wind and snow, brought some food from outside and returned to the house, and handed it to Yu Chen.

Yu Chen took the food and brought it to Xia Ren, asking him to eat first.

Xia Ren looked at the food on the plate in front of him. It was obviously meat from birds or other beasts, which was simply roasted over fire. There was still smoke and dust on the surface of the food, which looked very suspicious.

But they hadn't eaten since noon, and after walking so far on the rugged road, they were already starving. The food smelled like meat, at least it was something that could be eaten.

Xia Ren took a few pieces, put them in his mouth and chewed them twice, they were dry.

He thought that it might take a lot of energy at night, so he forced himself to swallow it.

After struggling to finish a meal, the old man pointed to the other corner of the room, motioning for them to sit on that chair.

There was a table in front of the chair, and a lot of books were piled up on the table. After that, the old man wrote "please wait patiently for a few hours" in his notebook, and then went out of the room.

Xia Ren walked to the table, picked up a book and looked at the cover.

It reads: Corpse-eating Canon Rites

Chapter 285 The Sabbat: The Temptation of Knowledge

Xia Ren's hands trembled, and he almost threw the book away in fright.

"Isn't this the alien book I've seen in Zhang Xiang's home? How come there are books here?"

Could it be... Yu Chen's family is a sect that believes in ghouls?

"No, not quite."

He still clearly remembers the phantom he saw when he opened the secret passage leading to the sixth floor in the Dawn Center.

In that dark cave, humanoid creatures wrapped in black robes kept walking past him. From under their black robes, dirty mucus with a pungent smell flowed out, and the cry was like a baby crying, which made people feel it from the bottom of their hearts. to their wickedness.

But the old man who just escorted him, and the old lady sitting in front of the spinning wheel didn't emit any weird and unpleasant smells, and their faces looked relatively clean, so they shouldn't be ghouls.

Xia Ren stabilized his mind, feeling very tangled.

On the one hand, he really wanted to read the contents of this evil book, but on the other hand, he was afraid that he would lose his mind and become crazy after reading it. After all, the sanity and pollution resistance of this body are really terrible.