"Minaret ......"

Xia Ren's mind instantly popped up the whispered murmur of Patient Three, and he had mentioned the word minaret.

His heart couldn't help but beat a little.

The corpses of worms washed ashore by the sea, and a few spire-shaped buildings not far away, what he was looking for on this trip should be close at hand, if nothing else.

Grabbing Lily's legs and lifting her up, Xia Ren carried the little one on his back and walked over with a quicker pace.

With a slightly salty and damp smell on his face, and with the sound of the tide surging, Natsuhito approached the building.

The minaret-shaped building was more popular in Xizhou thousands of years ago, but with the establishment of the Supreme Alliance government, all aspects have developed rapidly, this kind of space utilization rate is low, and the relatively difficult architectural form has gradually faded out of the mainstream history, and now only some ancient families of Xizhou are still in use, Xia Ren had an ancient dream, and there are many similar buildings in the town full of maggots.

At this time, the building presented in front of Xia Ren's eyes looked quite old, its walls were made of cyan stone bricks, after years of weathering, coupled with the erosion of the sea breeze, the surface of the building was full of potholes, making it look extremely fragile, as if it could fall over at any time.

At the top of the building is the iconic red conical minaret, there are five minarets, the main body is a cylindrical cylinder, connected by a long staircase, the most against the rock wall is the tallest, and the others are two or three meters shorter. Two of the minarets originally had skylights, but by this time the wooden window frames had already corroded, leaving only two rectangular frames that looked like hollowed-out eyes.

Natsuhito came to the gate of the building—if the pile of rusty iron sheets in front of him could be called a door.

Everything in front of me is full of the texture of time, the main body of this gate is still made of wood, nailed together by iron sheets, and it can be vaguely seen that it should be very magnificent when it is still intact, but now it is just a pile of rotten wood.

The door was hidden, I don't know if anyone had entered, Xia Ren wanted to pass through the crack in the open door, but he overestimated the strength of this door, he just walked over, and without even touching it, the door "clicked" and collapsed outward.

Gravel fell on the door frame, and Xia Ren was afraid of hitting Lily, so he took her in his arms again and bent over to pass.

After walking a few steps, he entered a somewhat narrow courtyard, in the center of which was enclosed by a low wall, a small square pond, which Xia Ren guessed should have been used to raise fish, but at the moment there was not even a drop of fresh water left.

"Who would live in a place like this?"

Xia Ren turned his head and glanced around, reflecting the direction of the gate, there was a dimly lit living room, and at the door of the living room, a long corridor extended, connecting the rooms on both sides.

Without looking at the rooms on either side, Xia Ren went directly to the living room.

At the door of the living room, a layer of corroded bamboo debris is scattered, and from the shape of the debris, it is clear that this should have been a chaise longue.

Xia Ren became more and more incomprehensible, and from the analysis of the current situation, he couldn't connect the hive with this abandoned building.

He then searched the living room and the entire building, panting from exhaustion, but like the outside door and the chaise longue, the building had been so old that almost all traces of human life inside had been erased by the years, and he could not get any useful information at all.

Just as he was about to sit down and rest for a while, Lily quietly woke up.

Xia Ren lowered his head and saw her in his arms, looking up at him with his head up, looking at him with a pair of big eyes.

"Are you alright?"

He asked.

Lily blocked that for herself before, and he remembered it very clearly.

"Huh?"

Lily didn't seem to understand what he was asking, and tilted her head, her face full of confusion.

Looking at it like this, it should be fine.

A stone in Xia Ren's heart finally fell, and then he put her back on the ground and held her fleshy little hand.

In order to be able to cooperate with Xia Ren to complete this action and not be lifted up and her feet dangling in the air, Lily took the initiative to grow taller and become about four years old.

"Lily, do you know where the bugs are?"

Xia Ren searched around by himself and couldn't find it, so he simply asked Lily to help.

"Worm...... Child? ”

Lily looked up and thought for a moment, then lowered her head and pointed to the ground, "Here." ”

"You mean, underground?"

Xia Ren looked at the floor tiles she pointed to.

If you want to dig the ground, you will be in trouble.

Lily seemed to understand Natsuhito's thoughts, spread his hand, walked on his short legs, and ran into the depths of the living room.

"Here, here."

Her childish voice called out to Xia Ren, who hurried to follow.

Lily didn't know if she was following the smell, or if she was familiar with the building, so she circled around it a few times and came to a place that Xia Ren hadn't searched before.

"This is ......"

If the direction was correct, he remembered the location, which should have been below the tallest minaret.

He didn't find the way to this tower just now, so he gave up for the time being, but he didn't expect to be found by Lily.

Lily ran ahead, Natsuhito followed her, and down the spiral staircase, they didn't walk long before they came to the room at the top of the tower.

As soon as he arrived here, Xia Ren couldn't help but be a little surprised.

It's so clean.

The walls are intact, with no signs of weathering, not even a single cobweb, as if people often live here.

The door to the room at the top of the tower is wooden, and unlike the doors downstairs, it is still intact, and it does not show that it has been worn down by many years.

In the middle of the door, there is also a brown wooden sign nailed to the door, on which a string of symbols is written with a black brush, the first three symbols look like some kind of lost text, and the back is the letter "Eibon", but whether it is a symbol or a letter, the meaning of it Xia Ren can not understand any of them.

"Ebon."

Lily said suddenly.

“？”

Xia Ren looked in the direction her eyes were looking and realized that she was looking at the wooden sign and said it.

"This is Ebon's room, our good friend."

Lily suddenly grinned, revealing a mouth full of white teeth, and smiled happily.

Xia Ren looked at her smile, but he was inexplicably a little sentimental.

Even he couldn't tell what was going on with this sudden emotion.

Lily took the initiative to push open the door, and Xia Ren followed in.

Inside is a study, brown floor, stepping on it to make a "creaking" sound, very comfortable, the surrounding walls are also decorated with wooden boards, against the wall, there is a large bookshelf, the bookshelf is placed with all kinds of books, large and small, roughly looking, there are thousands of books, among which there are many manuscripts that are not bound into volumes, the visual effect is extremely shocking.

On the other side of the bookshelf is a metal test bench with a sophisticated mechanical instrument on it, as well as an exaggerated glass flask and gooseneck flask, but the inside is empty, and the laboratory bench is as clean as the neat environment of the room.

Directly in front of the study room are wooden chairs and desks.

At this time, on that chair, a figure in a white coat was sitting, with his back to Xia Ren.

In front of the desk is a window from which you can see the blue ocean, and the faint sea breeze blows in and lifts the manuscript paper on the desk.

The man seemed to be asleep, his upper body lying on the table, motionless.

Xia Ren looked at his back, not half undulating.

There was a sudden unbearable throbbing pain in my heart, and sad thoughts burst out.

"Ebonn is dead."