In the middle of the night, in a villa not far from Akiki University, a café is still brightly lit. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

An old man with gray hair slumped into a leather-upholstered easy chair next to the smoking table, a young blond man in a tuxedo slowly put a small stack of books back on the small shelf, and a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard and sunken eyes was lying on a round coffee table studying an obscure book, the coffee beside him long since run out of heat.

Three strangers from the West meet together on this silent night.

There was an eerie atmosphere in the room.

"I say," the blond young man seemed to be the first to be unable to stand the oppression, "I feel that my spirit has almost recovered, and tomorrow I plan to apply to return to China, the association needs me!

No one answered. The young man then muttered to himself.

"I think it was a mistake to come to Japan, because our time is so precious......"

The gray-haired old man finally removed his pipe from his unshaven mouth and said, "Young Dale Clinton, you must know that we are not the same as the Lord! ”

"I know, but I think I'm well enough now. ”

"Then no one will stop you," the easy chair swayed back and forth with a slight crunch, "but don't forget what we're here for." The Society didn't really intend to send us here to live our lives, we came here with the will of the Lord. ”

"I know," the blond young man stressed again, because of the late initiation, he was always tired of these 'seniors' like to play in the middle of the conversation, "I know what we are here for! to investigate Professor Morgan's disappearance! But it has been more than ten years, and the police have not had any clues......

"Police?" the old man scoffed, "Do you think it's possible for the police to get involved at this level?"

"Then hire a private detective!"

"It's useless, Morgan's old stubbornness is gone, clean, nothing left. ”

"How can the professor see that?"

"A ritual. I can't say too much about it. Even if he was killed, I could have found him through that ritual, but no. Whether it is physical or mental, this old stubbornness has completely disappeared from this world. His disappearance did not get the attention of the association back then, and now that they know what they have lost, they can only do it in vain. ”

The young man was silent. By the rules, he knew he couldn't go any deeper, and he knew that his fragile spirit wouldn't want to be ravaged by the mystical knowledge again.

The old professor had no intention of talking any further, and continued to lie down in his easy chair and smoke his pipe.

The young man found a new book from the shelf, walked to the side of the soft leather sofa, and collapsed on it.

"Dear Professor Tom, what are we doing here?" said the young man again, "I think we are well enough to return to the Lord. ”

"The Lord is everywhere, it's all around us," the scruffy middle-aged man who was reading a book on the coffee table next to him finally got up and beckoned to the old professor in the easy chair, "Hey, Tom, come and see what I found!"

"What did you find?...... What can you find?" said the old professor, struggling to get up from his easy chair, "I'm so old that I'm going to be called around, can't you bring the book to me?...... Let me see...... This is an excerpt from the Royal Library of the United Kingdom's original Latin version of the Esoteric Doctrine, which I have only seen in English...... I'm not very proficient in Latin, so tell me what I've discovered?"

"The translated version can't be read at all! The meaning has completely changed! Look here, and here," the sound of flipping through the book, only at this moment, the sloppy middle-aged man showed a capable style, "It is completely coupled with your guess, the book in that guy's hand is the original manuscript! It's the Atlantean "Dekian Collection"!"

Old Professor Tom sighed, "Even so, we knew too late. ”

"Even if that guy dies, make sure to find his book!"

"I ask you, Kotu," Professor Tom Sr., staring into the middle-aged man's eyes, "if you knew you were about to die, would you have revealed to us the original German version of the Black Book of Sacrifice in your possession?"

Cotu was stunned for a moment, then fell silent.

"Just as you don't keep your materials until you die, Morgan will burn his collection before he dies," said the old professor bitterly, after a pause, "so will I." ”

Only the blond young man named Dale was puzzled: "Why? Isn't it all this exciting knowledge that the predecessors have been striving for? Why don't you let it be passed on for the benefit of mankind? Why are you all ......?"

Kotu interrupted with a wave of his hand: "Your youthful ignorance is a double-edged sword, and being too curious and careful to hurt yourself." Not all knowledge will benefit humanity, and the results of our research will only bring fear and calamity to humanity, and nothing else. Unlike you, we do not pursue this knowledge for the sake of all mankind, we only seek to satisfy our own intellectual curiosity. As we make these choices, we are ready to sacrifice our lives at any time. What about you, young Mr. Dale, are you ready to meet with the Lord at any time?"

"But...... But what you say is different from the doctrine......"

"Doctrine?" Cotu pouted, "how long has the Knights of the Round Table been in existence? ”

"It's a bit too much, Kotu," said the old professor kindly, waving his hand, "and the doctrine is not entirely wrong, for humanity has never been able to match the old gods, and no one has ever doubted that even the sight of their minions will lose their minds. ”

"However, it turns out that even if humans are extremely weak, they have never intended to rule the earth, and they seem to have no interest in life on this asteroid at all, and even if they come here, they are only temporary. This is a real slap in the face for you 'Adventists', who have been busy for centuries and are indeed hot in the end. ”

"You ......" Dale blushed and couldn't speak.

Old Tom hurriedly walked over, patted the young man on the shoulder, glared at Cotu, and slowed down his tone: "Although I have not personally participated in the summoning of the evil god, I have indeed heard of real events. The incidents caused by the heretics and Adventist scientists are recorded in the association, and there have indeed been several times when the evil gods summoned devoured all the worshipping summoners, and then left peacefully, and they really didn't seem to have any intention of 'coming'. ”

"But we can't be considered 'Adventists', but we don't have anything to do with those 'deliverers', we just want to know more, and our desire for these forbidden knowledge is like a spirit**, or an apple tree in the Garden of Eden. ”

Cotu raised his eyebrows: "Salvationists, why are you mentioning those people now? Only stupid explorers with very little knowledge can save themselves for humanity, but in fact we have already established that this is just nonsense." ”

Old Tom was silent about this.

"What's the matter?"

"In fact," said Tom Sr., as he considered his words, "there is still much you have not heard of, although you joined the Association a few years before Dale. You may not know that the man we just discussed, Professor Morgan Pearce, was a core member of the early salvationists. ”

"Oh?" Cotu was a little shocked at this point," Professor Morgan ...... How is that possible? I am afraid that he doesn't have to teach you much less 'knowledge' that Tom has to teach you, right?"

"If Morgan had been correct and had been in possession of the De Keen's book, I can be sure that his research would have been far superior to mine......"

"Do such people also think that human beings have enough ways to save themselves?"

"Who knows? If we can't find that book, we'll always be left guessing. ”

"Perhaps, it's not like we're out of chance," Kotu walked over to the bookshelf and pulled out a folder from it, "If the professor dies a natural death, we're probably going to be powerless...... But all the clues now prove that there may be another reason behind the professor's sudden disappearance. ”

"Could it be the work of a heretic? After all, before Professor Morgan disappeared, there were rumors that Professor Morgan had obtained the book......

Old Tom shook his head: "Now there is no way to prove all this, more than ten years is too long. Besides, even if it was a pagan act, why was there no trace of Morgan's body and spirit? Could it be that they sacrificed him alive?"

Hearing this, the blonde young man next to him couldn't help but shudder.

Cotu shook his head: "For the infidels, a living Morgan is definitely more useful than a dead one...... After all, there are many humans who can be used as sacrifices all over the streets, but there is only one person in the world who has studied Dekianji. ”

As he spoke, he pulled out a newspaper clipping from a mess of materials.

On the yellowed paper, which is a little old, there is the news of the disappearance of Morgan, a professor emeritus who was famous at the time, in Akiki City.

"The last place he lived before his disappearance seems to be an apartment on the outskirts of the ...... called 'Hejiazhuang', which is damn hard in Japanese, so if so, we might as well go there and find it." ”

"I don't think I'll find anything after decades," said Tom Sr., "and this is probably the last clue, so let's go to sleep now, and we'll all come and visit after dawn tomorrow." ”

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