Xia Ren remembered a bird named Cuckoo.

The cuckoo will lay its own eggs in the nests of other birds, and push all the remaining eggs out of the nest and break them, forcing the original owner of the nest to lay eggs again, and the new eggs will certainly not hatch as long as the baby cuckoo.

When the baby cuckoo hatches, it inherits the habit in its genes and pushes the other eggs out of the nest again, so that it can be raised by its righteous relatives for the exclusive rest.

Zhang Xiang must be like this, he is not the biological son of Zhang Hong and his wife, their real child, I am afraid that something bad has already happened.

Sure enough, Liu Xiuxiu's next answer also verified his idea.

"Most ghoul cubs are brought into human families by contracted wizards, who quietly replace the original babies in the family and discard them or sacrifice them, and the Foundation still doesn't know why they perform frequent sacrifice rituals, perhaps just to be able to communicate more with the Abyss. There are also rumors that the human children who were taken away would be raised by ghouls and become ghouls when they grow up, but there is no evidence to prove whether this is true or false. ”

"Sometimes, wizards or witches don't do it themselves, they sell ghoul cubs to families in need through human traffickers, and occasionally buy human babies from human traffickers for some use."

"Traffickers ......"

Xia Ren suddenly thought of something and looked at Liu Xiuxiu.

Liu Xiuxiu also nodded at him and said, "I also just thought that Chen Qiwei might know more news." ”

"It's useless."

Xia Ren rubbed his temples, his expression was a little distressed, and said: "Zhang Xiang called his companion before he died, and the news of his death must have been known by the Seventh Witch, maybe all the clues will be cut off before tonight." But...... Just to be on the safe side, let's take a trip tomorrow. ”

This was the closest he'd ever had done hunting a ghoul, but unfortunately a cub.

After this time, it will be even more difficult to meet another ghoul. Again, this will be a distant task.

Just that ticket...... I always feel that there is some conspiracy in the system, otherwise it is too strange, just like a leave of absence, and I can't understand what it is used for until I have time.

"By the way, do you know about the Dark Rite?"

"Dark Rite?"

Liu Xiuxiu tilted her head and looked puzzled, "I haven't heard of it." But I can check it out for you, and if it's related to ghouls, I should have that clearance. ”

"We'll talk about that later."

Xia Ren didn't insist, and instead asked, "What's the matter with wizards and witches, I remember that those who can still maintain their human form after being polluted are not only apostles?" Could it be that all the members of the Wizarding League are apostles? ”

That's a little too scary.

"Xia Ren, I think you have a misunderstanding about pollution."

Liu Xiuxiu said seriously: "Not all human beings are necessarily distorted by pollution, if you think about it carefully, if pollution is a poison that kills at the touch of death, then all investigators have become disposable consumables, and the Foundation will long since cease to exist." ”

"But aren't you resistant to pollution......

Speaking of this, Xia Ren suddenly paused.

He vaguely felt that something was wrong, but for a moment he couldn't remember what went wrong.

The truth about pollution is about it, and hearing this question, Qin Yun also mentioned all the spirit.

Liu Xiuxiu lowered his head and thought for a while, as if he was thinking about the wording, and after a full minute, he decided to tell the secret: "Pollution is not something contagious such as a virus, although it sounds unbelievable, but the fact is that at the beginning of the foundation's establishment, one of the founders mentioned that pollution is knowledge,

It is beyond human comprehension, far beyond the computing power of the brain, knowledge! ”

"Knowledge ......"

Xia Ren chewed on this word repeatedly in his heart, and felt a crack open in a certain door in his mind, and a light leaked out.

Liu Xiuxiu continued: "This is actually not very difficult to understand, just like in the early days of the establishment of the Supreme Alliance government, astronomy gradually developed and grew, and a large number of astronomers who firmly believed in geocentrism were desperate to suicide after learning that the earth was just a drop in the ocean in the universe, human beings are very fragile, and once some knowledge beyond imagination is displayed in front of us, it will cause us to collapse, not to mention, according to the founder, pollution actually represents the most fundamental knowledge of this universe." I can only understand it superficially here, and as for why there are infections and aberrations, it is a more complicated process. ”

"We investigators can be somewhat unaffected by pollution, and the essence is not to fight pollution, but that we can accept some of it."

After listening to it in a daze, Xia Ren was still immersed in Liu Xiuxiu's words just now, unable to extricate himself.

Pollution is knowledge.

He seemed to understand something, but he didn't seem to understand anything.

The ancient race crossed the vast universe and descended from a very distant place to the blue star, and they created Shogoth, and part of Shogoth gave birth to today's earth creatures, so for human beings, the ancient race can be regarded as the creator?

There is no way to understand, there is no way to look directly at the Creator.

Real ...... God!

When you see it, you break down because you can't understand it, but what if humans can understand it?

This bold idea popped into his head.

Then, when he contained the rootless water, in that endless black space, a glimpse of the green river appeared in front of his eyes.

Instead of water, the river was made up of countless small fluorescent insects that seemed to have flowed since ancient times, and until now, I don't know where it is going.

According to the description of the rootless water, that river is most likely the River Styx.

The water used by the Foundation to decontaminate is called Stygian Water.

Zhao Mingyue sat by the River Styx.

There is a great shadow of terror in the River Styx.

The system let itself look for Zhao Mingyue.

Rootless water has the Styx induction.

Zhu Youqian asked him what happened to Zhao Mingyue.

Several seemingly unconnected clues converged, like bubbles in boiling water, appearing one after another, and then disappearing quickly, making him elusive.

Suddenly, the memory that he had missed came back, and Zhang Xiang's shout before he died exploded in his ears like thunder:

"You are the son of the one in the depths!"

Deep

tentacle

tidal sound,

Rising megacities,

And when I first came out of the hospital, the tentacle creature that coiled between the buildings, like looking for something!

"The world is going to end!"

Is it threatening me, or reminding me, or trying to stop me.

There was a crack in the memory, and the events of that afternoon were blurred.

He couldn't remember Zhao Mingyue's helpless tone when she said this, or she was full of resentment.

He didn't know if the system was his help, or the shackles that limited him.

The parents were infertile, and how did they come to be adopted in the summer, autumn and winter?

Is it Zhang Xiang? Is it a cub?

Why don't you have a memory of Zhao Mingyue?

I can't figure it out, it's so uncomfortable!

Suddenly, as if something had interrupted his thoughts, the door that had opened a crack closed suddenly!

In front of Xia Ren's eyes, the River Styx appeared again.

In the living room, Liu Xiuxiu and Qin Yun didn't dare to come out, and looked at Xia Ren with frightened eyes.

Above his head, tentacles twisted painfully, as if they were fighting against something, exuding terrifying power.

Lily tilted her head, a hint of familiarity felt from the tentacle.

Where has she seen it.

However, it was a long, long time ago, so long that no memory remained in her mind.

Xia Ren's eyes were deep, his head was lowered, and a green light was reflected in his eyes.

"Humans are all bugs......