The Grim Reaper Can't Be Tricked

When Cen Jin and Wu Yujie were observing the iron statue, they suddenly heard a loud noise outside the study, rushed out without saying a word, and saw the mess everywhere like a tornado passing by, and all the portraits that were originally embedded in the walls and iron pillars were cut to pieces It fell, and countless sheets of white paper were scattered on the ground.

Wu Yujie caught the paper that fell in front of her eyes, turned it over, and found a line of words written in runes on the front, but her attention was not on the incomprehensible content, but on the paper itself: "This is Daolin paper."

Shocked, Cen Jin used the tip of his knife to remove the dense Daolin paper on the ground. There were several lines of writing written on each paper, and it could be seen that each paper had different content written on it.

"There are not so many coincidences. If you guessed correctly, these Daolin papers have the same function as the Daolin papers that appeared in mental hospital buildings and hotel fires in Northern Europe."

"For example?" Wu Yujie stared at the paper in her hand and said in a low voice: "The content of each Daolin paper will be realized in various ways, and everyone who gets this paper will become the protagonist in the story, so do I have any questions?" May become the protagonist of this Dorian paper?"

Cen Jin suggested: "Why don't you try throwing it away?"

Wu Yujie threw the paper out first, the weightless paper floated crookedly, and finally fell back to her shoulders in a strange arc, then crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it into the abyss, a hot wind from bottom to top The ball of paper was sent back to her arms.

"Try tearing it up." Cen Jin said.

Wu Yujie took his suggestion, tore the paper into pieces and threw it into the air. She didn't recover for a long time, but her tense nerves did not relax: "The paper is torn up, but it doesn't mean that I am free from the entanglement of the protagonist in the story."

Cen Jin: "About Daolin papers, story characters and setting arrangements are just our guesses, they may not come true, but just in case, pay more attention to these Daolin papers, don't touch them for now, wait for Ding Yiqing to crack the absolute Most of the runic texts."

Wu Yujie responded, feeling a little relaxed.

Cen Jin talked about comforting Wu Yujie, but in fact he didn't relax. An ominous premonition hovered in his heart, and it hasn't subsided since he stepped into the thick fog. Entering this palace, the premonition was so strong that it made him panic.

"Go back to the library, be careful not to touch Daolin Zhi."

The two returned to the study carefully, and when they were about to step into the room, an iron statue on the oblique right side suddenly fell from a height of seven meters, revealing a cracked body under the fragments, and black viscous liquid flowed out.

Immediately, a smell of rancid sea fish permeated the air, and Cen Jin and Wu Yujie understood where the fishy smell they had been smelling since they stepped into the kingdom of death came from.

Wu Yujie's white side face was stained with a few drops of splashed black liquid, which quickly evaporated, leaving traces that could not be wiped off.

She looked at Cen Jin with an ugly face, spread her hands, and in the palm was a piece of neatly folded Daolin paper. The words squeezed out between her teeth: "The torn paper has returned to its original form, and it appeared on the in my pocket."

As soon as the words fell, Wu Yujie's pupils constricted as if seeing something terrifying, her face showed fear, she grabbed Cen Jin and pushed him in, only had time to close the door, and the next moment, she was wrapped in Daolin paper flying over.

The process was short-lived, and Cen Jin didn't have time to react. When he came back to his senses, he angrily opened the closed door. The door was clean and empty. There was no piece of Daolin paper, and there was no mess everywhere, except for a part of the disappeared iron statue and Wu Yujie. Everything is as it was before.

He searched the entire palace but couldn't find Wu Yujie, so he began to identify the iron statues one by one, but couldn't find any familiar faces, so he returned to the study in frustration.

At this time, a day and a night have passed since they came to the palace, but the time in the Kingdom of the Dead has still stopped forever, the light of the sun and the moon cannot shine here, only the gray sky, if you don’t pay attention, you will not be able to perceive the time elapsed.

Ding Yiqing looked up from the vast number of books, saw Cen Jin who looked strange, and got up worriedly: "What's wrong?" He found that Wu Yujie was not there, so he asked.

Cen Jin gripped the long knife tightly, with a gloomy and slightly depressed face, and recounted their experience completely.

Ding Yiqing frowned tightly: "Can you still remember the content on the old witch's piece of paper?"

Cen Jin: "I can trace it." He doesn't know the runes, but these words appear around him from time to time recently, causing him to subconsciously force his brain to remember the runes he sees. "Can you crack it?"

Ding Yiqing: "I can only recognize a dozen more characters at most, and there are still a few words whose original meaning cannot be determined."

There are no ancient and modern documents to refer to, and it is easier said than done to learn complex characters that have been lost for a long time from a large number of ancient documents based on the dozens of runes that have been learned.

Cen Jin lowered his head: "I searched all over the palace and couldn't find the old witch. I have no clue. I haven't even seen the face of the mastermind who dealt with us. I don't even feel any spiritual pollution or danger. , only the calm, dead silence, and unwavering death is the real and terrible danger."

He was a little skeptical about whether the decision to enter the Nordic World Tree was correct, whether he was too reckless, whether he was coerced by the so-called adventurous spirit of young people?Is it bravery or self-righteousness to drive them into the indescribable unknown place under all unknown circumstances?

The target of the enemy's calculation was him and Ding Yiqing, but Wu Yujie was the first to encounter an accident, and in the final analysis it was his problem.

The Daolin paper that was scattered all over the sky just now might be aimed at him, but Wu Yujie blocked it for him. There are also the falling iron statue and the Daolin paper that rushed over. It was Wu Yujie who pushed him away and stood in front of him. Misfortune happened.

How did he implicate his partner?

"You're not right." Ding Yiqing said suddenly.

Cen Jin raised his eyes blankly: "What?"

Ding Yi Qinghu held Cen Jin's chin in his mouth, looked at him carefully, and said patiently: "You have always been optimistic and confident, and you will not be easily defeated. Now Wu Yujie's whereabouts are only unknown, and you feel sorry for yourself and pessimistic. How many times have you been on missions, Wu Yujie, Lao Long, Li Daoyi and even me, we are facing a more dangerous situation, life and death, you can cheer up, thinking of desperately saving us, no matter how bad it is, you can avenge us——

The old witch just disappeared suddenly, why did something unexpected happen?

She must still be alive, if she picks up the Daolin paper, she will become the protagonist of the story. "

There was a flash of struggle in Cen Jin's eyes: "She did it to save me—"

"Don't be stupid." Ding Yiqing mercilessly broke Cen Jin's sticky glass heart at the moment: "The school motto teaches us that everything is aimed at eradicating weirdness and survival is the premise. Any extraordinary person needs to achieve results at critical moments. The most reasonable choice that maximizes the benefits, Wu Yujie is an outstanding student representative, will she make the choice to pull you to die together or push you to die?"

"What's more, she is your friend."

And friends will never cheat friends who have lived together and died together.

"Wait, let me clear up my mind."

Cen Jin meditated quietly, and after a while he cleared his mind, an expression of disbelief flashed across his face, and then he frowned and concluded: "There is something wrong with me."

Slowed down.Ding Yiqing sat beside him, grabbed a lock of yellow hair and played with his fingers: "I guess it's not that World Tree has no spiritual pollution, but that we are in the source of pollution, and our brains have been blinded, and we are polluted without knowing it."

Cen Jin: "The detector didn't give an early warning."

Every time their transcendents travel, they will carry a simple mental pollution detector with them. Since stepping into the dense fog, the detector has not sounded an alarm.

Ding Yiqing took out the detector he was carrying, and the value stayed at the normal 80, but he quickly removed the back cover of the detector, fiddled with a small part inside, and saw the value of the detector soared to a terrifying value in the next second.

The detector emits a beep warning sound and is scrapped after a few seconds.

Cen Jin: "...Fuck."

Just say something is wrong, and the mood is inexplicably low.

"Such a high level of mental pollution didn't make us mutate into monsters, but just made me depressed?"

Unbelievable how to survive in such high pollution.

"Perhaps we have been polluted and mutated without knowing it. The brain is the most easily deceived place." Ding Yiqing coolly made a terrifying guess, and then returned to the topic: "The old witch pushes you away and faces dangerous choices alone. It is probably because she knows that she is being targeted, and instead of hiding in the house and trembling, it is better to go deep into the ghost's lair to find out."

Cen Jin: "It's indeed what Wu Yujie did." He tried his best to shake off the uncontrollable depression, feeling very sick.

Ding Yiqing: "Help me record and teach you to recognize runes."

It's better to have something to do than to hang your head down.Cen Jin had no objection, and followed Ding Yiqing, helping to record while learning to read.

Time passed minute by minute, without hunger or exhaustion, without feeling the passage of time, and when the two finally walked out of the sea of ​​books, they could already recognize the prophecy left by the blind girl in the Hall of Valor.

"It's not so much a prophecy as it is an autobiography of a blind girl. She left the Hall of Valor and came to the Kingdom of the Dead, went to the Sanctuary to seek the three goddesses of fate, and met Hela, the god of death who came to steal the spring water.

She had a premonition that everything she saw and heard was closely related to the dusk of the gods. The three goddesses of destiny were sitting under the roots of the tree and gradually getting old. The theft of Hela, the god of death, was not only a preparation for war, but also a threat to the undead in the kingdom of the dead.

The undead in the Kingdom of the Dead will become victims of war... There is not much difference from the literature records, but this sentence is a bit weird, and it can be translated as, all the results of destruction are in the applause of fate-not very smooth, destruction is The ultimate fate? "

Ding Yiqing was a little hesitant, not sure of the true meaning of this sentence.

"The translation of the next sentence is... rebirth at the end of death?" Cen Jin also mastered a lot of runes, combining the meaning of the previous sentence: "Destruction is the ultimate destiny, rebirth at the end of death?"

"The so-called prophecy always likes to guess crossword puzzles. Anyway, it literally means that the world tree is doomed to destruction, but there will be new gods, new life and new hope reborn, reborn from the ashes, if understood in this way, it is also in line with the Norse mythology developmental context."

"The word for death also has a meaning of time."

"Reborn at the end of time?"

Cen Jin frowned, feeling like they were players who had just arrived at Novice Village and ended up picking up the last level guidebook, using this extremely difficult final level guidebook to beat Novice Village.

Ding Yiqing: "All fates that are destined to perish reunite at the end of time...or reborn at the end of death?"