Chapter 0351 - Human Skin Book and Diary
The road back to Cambridge City was uneventful, and Ling Xiao did not notice any suspicious vehicles following him. However, he didn't dare to be careless, wandering around in Cambridge City, and the odometer walked dozens of kilometers before he drove the car to Tomorrow City and returned to Huang Shuya's home. And at this time, it was already dusk.
Huang Shuya and her three classmates hadn't returned home yet, so Ling Xiao took a shower, changed her clothes, and then locked herself in the room to look through the things he had brought back from Father John Borg's grave.
Everything was spread out on the bed, a leather book, a notebook, and three letters.
The first thing Ling Xiao read was the leather book of himself, in the graveyard of Father John Borg, he only looked through it briefly, and he didn't have time to look at it carefully. Now that he had time, he wanted to read this mysterious book for the rest of his life.
The book is 308 pages long, all handwritten, and the illustrations are hand-drawn. The word count is roughly between 250,000, and the illustrations are about 80, and there is basically an illustration every three pages.
Unable to understand the text on it, Ling Xiao looked at the illustrations in the book, one after another.
The illustrations include people, animals, and plants, which he found in the cemetery, but at the end, he found an illustration of a map. However, the hand-drawn map from hundreds of years ago, coupled with the inability to decipher the text on it, made him have no idea what kind of map the book was. However, it looks like it's an island, and that's about it.
What kind of book is this? Look at the illustrations of the characters in the book, it seems to be a biography or a history book. Looking at the plant illustrations in the book, it seems to be a medical book. Looking at the animal illustrations in the book, it looks like a travelogue or a biology book. But how does it have a map? Where are the seas and islands on the map? The more I looked, the more Ling Xiao didn't understand, and there were a lot of questions for no reason.
However, as long as he can unravel the mysterious text, unlock the secrets of the immortal clan and the mysterious pill, no matter how difficult this book is, he will still interpret it.
After pondering for a while, Ling Xiao picked up Father John Borg's notebook.
When I opened the notebook, on the first page was a paragraph written in English: Where does human life originate, where does it end, and where does it end? In just a few hundred years, many people never think about this problem, and they have completed their life journey in a daze. And this, should it be my life? My grandfather got his hands on it by chance in India, and met a medieval man in India, who was more than 400 years old! The man claimed to be an Immortal. Is there really an immortal person in this world? I'm going to have to unlock this secret!
This passage was written by Father John Borg, and Ling Xiao recognized his handwriting.
"John Borg's grandfather actually saw the surviving Immortals in India? And it's an ageless tribe who has lived for more than 400 years! In this way, the killer of Indian origin must have something to do with the Ageless. In this way, it is no accident that the killer found Father John Borg, a hunt that began in the days of Father John Borg's grandfather! Ling Xiao thought to himself.
There is a cause and effect in everything, and an Indian would not come to the United States to assassinate a priest for no reason.
"Now that the human skin book is in my hands, I must have become the target of that killer. Moreover, if the other party is a killer sent by a certain organization, it is even more troublesome. This time, I can't let the other party know my identity anyway, if I have the opportunity to ......" Ling Xiao's eyes flashed a cold glint of coldness, this time he really moved his heart to kill people.
There is no mercy to talk about a killer, and there is only one way to solve the problem, and that is to make the other party shut up forever!
Turning the first page, Ling Xiao looked at the text in his notebook.
Page 1: I remember that day was my tenth birthday, and my grandfather called me to his bedside and gave me a very old book, and he told me that the cover of the book was human skin. I was not at all afraid, and I asked my grandfather why someone would use human skin for the cover of a book. My grandfather told me that it was a tribal tradition that anyone who strayed into their territory would be killed and skinned, and the human skin would be made into a book cover. Later, my grandfather told me that the tribe was called the Immortal Clan.
Once, my grandfather met an ageless woman in an old temple in Mumbai, and when she was dying for unknown reasons, my grandfather took her to a village where he could buy a house and take care of her for three years. In order to thank her grandfather for his kindness, she gave him a leather book after she recovered. The woman left the night after giving the book to her, and was never heard from again. Unable to decipher the words on the human skin book, my grandfather began to search for clues in the local area......
This section is written for three pages.
After reading this diary, which is similar to a memoir, Ling Xiao couldn't help but say in his heart: "It turns out that this is the origin of the human skin book, Father John Borg's grandfather took care of the woman of the immortal clan for three years, and that woman gave him a leather book, but he didn't interpret it, and he didn't even tell him what was recorded in the book, what a strange woman." What was her purpose in doing this? ”
Such a thing is really incomprehensible, people took care of her for three years, and she left a book that she could not decipher. If it's to repay the favor, she can use it in another way, such as spending a good time together, giving a souvenir or something, what is it to do so?
The next three entries in the diary are still Father John's recollections of the time he spent with his grandfather as a child, all related to the skin book and the ageless woman. The first two articles are mostly Father John Borg's description of his grandfather's memories of the ageless woman. There are some descriptions of the Indian village, as well as some descriptions of the condition of the ageless woman, but the description in this part is vague, and there is little mention of the exact illness and cause, and the word "weakness" is mentioned the most.
"Could it be that the ageless woman is suffering from a debilitating disease? There are many causes of weakness and it is difficult to guess without being diagnosed in person. Ling Xiao thought in his heart.
At the end of the third diary, Ling Xiao suddenly found a familiar name, Hannah.
The name was like a fist struck him in the face. It was so sudden that he wasn't even mentally prepared for it.
Hannah's name appears in the passage: On the day she left, she finally told me her name, and she said her name was Hannah. Afterwards, I searched all over India and couldn't find her, she seemed to have disappeared from this world. I've asked a lot of people about Hannah's name, but no one knows......
This passage was narrated by Father John Borg in the voice of his grandfather.
"Hannah? How could she be that sick ageless woman? Ling Xiao's heart was in turmoil, "Hannah is the pirate queen of Madagascar, but John Borg's grandfather is looking for clues about her in India, which must not be found." Oh my God, I always thought that the Immortal was just the name of a tribe, and there was no one in this world who was immortal, but Hannah was such a person, she was the living Immortal! ”
Such a magical woman, not to mention that John Borg's grandfather, who had been with her for three years, wanted to find her, even Ling Xiao wanted to find her!
However, John Borg's grandfather has died of old age, and he has never been able to see Hannah again in his life, if Ling Xiao also comes to take over his class and spend a hundred years looking for her, will he be able to find her? What is certain is that after a hundred years, Ling Xiao is no longer in this world, but Hannah is in this world. There is no doubt about it, because she has lived from the Middle Ages to the present.
Looking for Hannah was just an idea, although Ling Xiao really wanted to meet this woman who had lived for hundreds of years, and asked her a lot of things that he had never understood, but now was not the time to do it.
Ling Xiao continued to watch.
The back of the notebook is Father John Borg's study of the mystical text. His method is also not very effective, he uses mystical scripts to compare Mayan scripts, ancient Egyptian scripts, and even Chinese oracle bone inscriptions, and other ancient texts, and tries to find similarities or similarities between them, but unfortunately, he does not do this.
Ling Xiao was a little disappointed in his heart, "I thought there would be annotations of mysterious words in this notebook, like a cipher table or something, but obviously not, Father John Borg didn't crack it at all." ”
Thinking about this matter, Ling Xiao was actually not surprised, the reason was very simple, if Father John Borg had already deciphered the mysterious text, then why did he send him those photos for him to decipher?
Ling Xiao continued to look at it.
The rest of the notebook is a little more meaningful than the previous text, and it is some of the clues that Father John Borg himself has found, and some of the investigations he has done based on those clues.
One of the passages goes like this: I came across an article in an archaeological magazine about a stone tablet found in an ancient temple in India, and the inscription on it was a kind of writing that had never been seen before. I looked at the picture of the stele, but it was not clear, so I decided to go to the ancient temple in India to see if the stele was engraved with mysterious words. When I went to India, I also found the ancient temple, but I was disappointed to find that the words on the stele were not the words on the human skin book at all. What made me even more unsettling was that I felt that someone was following me secretly, I didn't know who that person was, he was like a shadow......
Ling Xiao glanced again at the date of the diary, which had been written three months ago.
"Could it be that the killer followed Father John Borg three months ago? And then chased from India to the United States, and finally killed Father John Borg in the church in the Holy Land of Poca? Ling Xiao had an inference in his heart that was closer to the truth.
Next, Ling Xiao saw a diary written more recently: I met a girl in the library of Harvard University, and she was actually looking for materials to decipher the mysterious text. I talked to her, and then she mentioned a person......
The diary did not mention the names of girls and men, but Ling Xiao was very sure that it was Huang Shuya and himself.
At this point, there are only a few entries left in Father John's Borg's diary.
Just then, there was a sound of the door opening, and someone entered the house.
Ling Xiao then stuffed the leather book, notebook, and a few letters that he didn't have time to read into the quilt, and then quietly approached the door.
The visitor had walked through the living room and was coming this way.
Ling Xiao gently pulled the door open a crack, and then dodged to the side of the door, while looking through the crack in the door to see the situation outside the door.
The killer is wounded, but who can guarantee that he has no companions? It's always good to be careful during these extraordinary times.
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