In the few days after getting married, no matter how you say it, no one will bother you with no interest.

Harvey almost sank into the relaxed routine that ordinary people should have, reading books, drinking tea, summoning messengers to come out and tease the black cat when he was bored, and sleeping in bed instead of meditating like ordinary people. If I want to talk about the experience of a few days of leisure, it is that Harvey once again feels that there is a lack of entertainment elements in this world, and one cannot find any way to have a pastime.

Now that he has moved to the Adrian family's old home, it should be time for Harvey to investigate the Adrian family's affairs.

"Is this it?"

Harvey used [Spell Vision] to inspect the entire mansion, his eyes were covered with a thin light blue light, and the sight he observed was transformed into information to convey to his consciousness, and the study was surrounded by towering bookshelves, filled with all kinds of classical books, exactly the same as when he moved out of here, and it seemed that the owner who bought this room had no intention of flipping through these books.

The light blue vision quickly found the incongruity in the study, and only the sixth book of the sequence in the middle of the three bookshelves had been taken out too frequently.

Harvey took out the hardcover book, and the leather cover showed the name of the book, "The Chronicles of Alston", which is a historical biography. Rummaging through the pages one by one, when I turned to the middle, I found the anomaly of this book, there was a page with a square drawn on it, and a spell was written in simple star script in the square, which had no special meaning from the astral language.

It should be a simple combination of syllabic characters, so that ordinary people can't figure out the meaning of this sentence when they see this book, and only spellcasters who know the stars can understand it, or record it by word of mouth. This practice is not uncommon among spellcasters, and is usually a spell that activates a magic circle or some special mechanism. ”

Harvey closed the book and put it back in its place, reciting the astral spell displayed in the book just now, and under the [Spell Vision], he could observe the surrounding aether elements converging towards the bookshelf, which was equivalent to the fluctuation of casting a first-order spell.

"It worked!"

"Click~"

There was the sound of the mechanism turning behind the bookshelf, all kinds of gears were running at high speed, and the bookshelf leaned forward slightly to open an opening, but before Harvey could get excited, the sound of the mechanism suddenly stopped, and then there was a chaotic sound of metal impact, and the bookshelf completely stopped functioning.

"Unexpectedly, after all, it can't be like in the game, where complex mechanisms are not maintained and function normally for hundreds of years." Harvey shrugged his shoulders and stretched out his right hand to chant a spell, an invisible ball of negative energy formed in his hand, and threw it onto the bookshelf, and a large number of books disappeared silently along with the wooden bookshelves, revealing a hole leading to the interior, and through the light of the chandelier in the study, a staircase leading to the bottom of the hole.

"Ka~Ka~"

Harvey pressed a mechanism on the wall inside the passage, but nothing changed.

"The lighting is useless, and it smells... It should smell like a rotting corpse. Harvey frowned and covered his nose, having a bad premonition in his heart, chanting a spell to cast a first-order general spell [Magic Light Technique].

Several balls of light lit up on Harvey's shoulders, and Harvey carefully guarded the surroundings with [Spell Vision], and the balls of light on his shoulders automatically shot in all directions, sticking to the walls to illuminate the entire underground space.

Harvey stopped when the basement was fully illuminated, his face solemn.

The spacious basement was as simple as he thought, but Harvey didn't expect that this basement was full of dried corpses, with strange torture props hanging on the walls, four or five corpses piled up in a large cage next to it, and two outside the cage, and not far from the corpses there was still a strange magic circle drawn with blood.

"The clothes worn by these two corpses... Sure enough, it was his missing parents. Harvey squatted down to inspect the body that had fallen to the ground, and directly recognized that it was the clothes that his parents often wore, and there was no special feeling about it so far.

Harvey pinched his nose and turned the corpse: "There are no obvious external injuries to the body, and the cause of death cannot be determined for the time being." ”

Then he came to the cage and examined the corpses inside: "The corpses showed signs of gnawing, the wounds were neat and flat, and the cause of death of these people was most likely starvation, and then they were imprisoned together to eat the corpses of their companions in order to survive." ”

"It can be judged that his parents died first, and the people in the cage were starved to death without being fed."

Looking at the marks of human teeth on the corpse, Harvey couldn't help but wonder what kind of despair the people in the cage had experienced.

This basement is more like a dark mage's invisible laboratory, and after patrolling, Harvey found research notes and recording crystals, a book recording the method of summoning demons by the founder of the Adrian family, and a notebook recording the experimental records of Harvey's parents, and the first page of the note reads: "The only way to restore the status of the Adrian family..."

"On July 3rd, I used the blood of a girl to draw a summoning array, and the material died due to excessive blood loss..."

"On the Fourth of July, fill the core with the blood of the tortured, and the material is dying..."

"On the 5th of July, the desperate man was sacrificed..."

"Buying a woman rumored to have elven blood for a big price can finally come in handy, if you can replace her bloodline! House Adrian will become a noble caster bloodline! ”

"On July 6th, all preparations will be completed, if there is no accident, the Adrian family will..."

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After reading the two notebooks, Harvey thought with mixed feelings and came to a heavy conclusion: "My ancestors should have become spellcasters by summoning demons and paying some price." ”

"But the descendants did not continue this ability, so their parents found the notes of their ancestors and wanted to copy what he did..."

"The plot is really old-fashioned."

"The note was stopped the day before the experiment, which means that there must have been some accident that caused the tragic death of his parents, and the person in the cage had no chance to escape and starved to death." After reading the notes, Harvey's last regret about the death of his parents was gone, although he was not a decent man, he was at least a modern education, and he was both disgusted and angry at his parents' experiments.

"It's probably an accident in the experiment."

Harvey began to carefully check the illusion crystal that recorded the information, and the content displayed in the illusion crystal was basically that Harvey's parents were abusing some people and using torture instruments to torture them, using blood to talk about the magic array, looking very uncomfortable, and checking the last crystal, Harvey's spirit probed into the illusion crystal to replenish its magic power, and activated the projection screen stored inside, and a very familiar figure appeared in the picture, Shirley in her girlhood.

"Shirley?"

"Sure enough, the note mentions that the woman with elven blood is her, and she has been to this basement but has not told herself." Harvey's heart sank.

In the projection of the illusion crystal, Harvey's parents brought her here, her body was also scarred, and the snow-white lining oozing blood, Shirley obediently stood in the center of the so-called demon summoning array, as Harvey's parents chanted the spell, the illusion crystal seemed to have been disturbed by some kind of interference and failed.

Harvey stood up with a gloomy face, Harvey didn't care what happened in the basement, what his ancestors and parents did had nothing to do with him, but Harvey was more concerned about why Shirley, who knew everything, didn't tell him the truth, how Shirley escaped from here, why she didn't die like the people here, and then what made Harvey feel the most creepy was why Shirley was able to escape but watched the people in the cage starve to death.

There are plenty of reasons to assume that Harvey has never been an optimist, and that there is a better chance that something will go wrong with Shirley.

"The biggest possibility is that there was an accident in the experiment, isn't it quite common in games or movies, such as the development of people who are treated as sacrifices and become the host of demons, otherwise it is difficult to explain why Shirley is the only one who survived."

"But why did I survive, why didn't Shirley kill Harvey at that time, for so many years, Harvey didn't feel anything abnormal about Shirley."