In fact, when it opened yesterday, I read this book in a hurry.

But at that time, for the sake of passing time, I didn't look closely at the cover illustration on it.

Now that I'm picking up the Count of Monte Cristo again, I've finally noticed the weird cover illustration on the book.

This cover illustration depicts a colorful woman.

Why are the women in the painting colorful?

Because she had long blood-colored hair, and under the blood-colored long hair was a pure black face.

The lower part of her face and neck are green, like the green skin of a frog.

Not only that, but she was also wrapped in a long blue dress, but the blue on the long skirt was not the blue of the clear sky, but the blue of melancholy and godlessness.

Perhaps because the blue color was too melancholy, this dress gave me an eerie feeling, as if there were countless ghosts lurking inside.

After only a few glances, I felt that there were endless negative emotions in my heart, which tried to teach me to commit suicide and do many evils.

I quickly looked away and looked at the hands and feet of the woman in the painting.

Staring at the hands and feet of the woman in the painting, I was stunned for a while, because the woman's hands and feet were not ordinary white flesh color, but purple and red!

But what struck me even more was not the color of the woman's hands and feet, but her heart.

In her heart, there is a square book!

The book was white, shaped like a flat little square, with not a word on it, and at first glance, it didn't look like a book at all, but I thought it was a book!

"What does it mean when a book is drawn on a woman's heart?" Puzzled, I had to look at the head of the woman in the painting, where five large white characters were engraved.

These five big white characters are the title of the book - The Count of Monte Cristo.

At the purple feet of the woman in the painting are the name of the book's author, Alexandre Dums, known simply as Alexandre Dumas.

"The cover illustration of this book is so weird, it provokes my nerves at every moment, and gives people an indescribable sense of fear." "The Count of Monte Cristo" is a well-known literary masterpiece at home and abroad, and the cover illustration it publishes is usually the image of the protagonist Edmond Dantès, because Edmond Dantès is very masculine and has conquered many officials and readers.

Therefore, in order to increase the sales of the published works, and to highlight the central characters in the book, many editions of "The Count of Monte Cristo" use the rigorous and profound image of Edmond Dantès as the cover illustration of the book.

But "The Count of Monte Cristo" in the horror bookstore is uncharacteristically incomprehensible in using an eerie picture of a woman as the cover illustration of this monumental book.

But it's incomprehensible, the book "The Count of Monte Cristo" in front of me tells a story about revenge, which just meets the requirements of the items needed for the horror trial.

"Although there are many books about revenge, I still like this one, so I chose to take it with me." With a mutter, I tossed the book into my black backpack.

After choosing a book about revenge, I moved to the inside of the milk tea counter.

On the inside hem of the milk tea counter, there are several paper baskets.

Inside these paper baskets, there are all kinds of miscellaneous items, including plastic cups used to hold milk tea, plastic straws and plastic spoons that are convenient for guests to drink milk tea, and a few silver fruit knives.

Of course, those plastic cups, plastic straws and plastic spoons are sealed in vacuum plastic bags, which is very hygienic and safe.

The other silver fruit knives were also wrapped in plastic scabbards to prevent the blades from being exposed.

I picked up a fruit knife and pulled out its scabbard: "One of the items needed for the Horrific Trial is a knife stained with my own blood, and then in the Terrible Trial, I will use this knife stained with my own blood to mark the pages of The Count of Monte Cristo." ”

A dignified man of one meter and eight men, how can I be afraid of bloodshed?

I immediately took the handle of the knife, aimed the blade at my palm, and gently cut it off.

The blade cut the hand, the skin on the palm of the hand retreated from side to side, and a thick stream of blood overflowed.

I immediately clenched my fingers, causing blood to drip onto the blade.

Once the blood had solidified on the blade, I inserted it back into its scabbard and tossed the fruit knife into my black backpack.

Seeing that the knife stained with my own blood had been made, I immediately turned around and rushed to the bathroom to clean the wound on my hand.

I cut my hand very lightly, so the wound on my hand was not very deep.

After I put a piece of tape on my hand, the wound had already begun to scab over.

"This terrifying trial is really strange, and it actually wants me to bleed, but it's just a little bit of blood, and it's not in the way." After a little complaining, I left the bathroom and headed back to the horror bookstore.

There are five items needed for the Horror Trial, which are forty-four sleeping pills, a bottle of warm water, a book on revenge, a knife stained with your own blood, and three incense sticks.

The book on revenge and the knife stained with my own blood, I have ready, and I am missing the other three items.

The other three items were three incense sticks, a bottle of warm water, and forty-four sleeping pills.

If you want to get incense, you need to go to the grocery store on the street to buy it, but I'm still open for business, and I can't leave the horror bookstore at will, so I can only wait until the bookstore closes at 8 p.m. before I go to buy it, and I hope the grocery store that sells incense doesn't close so early.

But by the time the bookstore closes at 8 p.m., there are still four hours before the horrific trial, and within those four hours, I should be able to find a grocery store that hasn't closed yet, so I can buy the right three sticks of incense.

Although the shortest and most flammable incense takes about ten minutes to burn out, in order to shorten the time of the terrifying trial as much as possible, I have to choose this type of incense.

Ten minutes is ten minutes, it's better than the kind of sandalwood that can burn for an hour or two, that's what really kills.

I still have a chance to live if I buy incense that burns out in ten minutes, and if I buy sandalwood that burns out in an hour or two, I will definitely die.

As for the bottle of warm water, I plan to get it again near 12 o'clock at midnight, and if I am in a hurry to fill it now, it will definitely cool down and become cooler.

I didn't dare to go against the requirements of the trial and take sleeping pills with cold water, after all, it says that when taking sleeping pills, warm water should be used, and it is a bottle of warm water.

Anyway, there is a water heater in the miniature bubble tea shop, and I can fill it with warm water whenever I want, so I don't have to rush to get that bottle of warm water.

But those forty-four sleeping pills are hard to do, and as far as I know, sleeping pills are not available online or in pharmacies.

The only way to get the sleeping pills you need for the horrific trial is to go through a qualified local hospital.

And you may not get it when you go to the hospital, and you need to buy it with a doctor's prescription.

What makes me even more troubled is that I can't buy more than 15 days at a time.

Most people only need to use one or two pills a day, which means that even if I can get a doctor's prescription, I can only buy fifteen to thirty sleeping pills at most, and it is impossible to get forty-four sleeping pills.

Thinking of this stubble, even if I am anxious in my heart, there is no solution.

I can't get a doctor's prescription alone, so how can I overbuy sleeping pills?

In order to get a prescription from a doctor, you must prove that you have insomnia, and then the doctor will decide whether to prescribe it based on your status.

Moreover, the amount of drugs prescribed is not necessarily the amount used in fifteen days, and it is very likely that it is only two for three or four days.

Because sleeping pills belong to the second class of psychotropic drugs in the country, patients who take too much will die, and once the patient dies due to taking too many sleeping pills, the corresponding doctor will be investigated for legal responsibility afterwards.

Therefore, most doctors will only try to prescribe the minimum amount to avoid getting into legal disputes themselves.

After all, too many people are committing suicide with sleeping pills now, and doctors have to prevent it.

But what was more urgent was that I didn't have time to rush to the hospital until I closed the bookstore at 8 p.m., but the hospital was closed for outpatient treatment by then.

If the hospital doesn't accept outpatient clinics, it means that I can't get a doctor's prescription.

Without a doctor's prescription, the hospital pharmacy wouldn't have sold me sleeping pills at all.

"It's only five o'clock in the afternoon, why don't you call Li Fansen back to see the store, and I immediately rush to the hospital and try my best to get enough of the forty-four sleeping pills?" An effective solution came to my mind, but I quickly rejected it: "Even if I rush to the hospital now, I won't be able to get the outpatient number, and the doctors will probably leave work at 6 o'clock on time." ”

And more importantly, even if I get the clinic number and get the doctor's prescription, I can't get 44 sleeping pills at once.

Buying sleeping pills through the hospital didn't work, so I had to settle my mind on a private clinic.

Private clinics, independent of qualified hospitals, can get some sleeping pills even if they don't have a doctor's prescription if they are willing to spend more than the market price.

However, it is impossible to get 44 sleeping pills at a time in a single private clinic.

A few sleeping pills is simply a matter of money, and the clinic owner is happy to make this money, but forty-four sleeping pills is not a matter of money, but a matter of human life, and the clinic owner does not dare to sell so many sleeping pills at one time, after all, this is to be held responsible.

Therefore, if you want to get enough 44 sleeping pills, you have to buy them separately from several or even a dozen private clinics, so as not to attract the attention of others, let alone the worries of the clinic owner.

With a specific plan in mind, I waited for eight o'clock in the evening.

The working hours of the private clinic are flexible, so I don't have to worry about them closing all together.

Even if the private clinics are closed, I can get in touch with the owners of the private clinics with just a phone call.

After all, most of the stores of those private clinics will be marked with the number of the corresponding boss.

When the time comes, as long as I increase the purchase price significantly, the clinic owners will definitely be willing to open the door.

Just as I was pondering, time passed bit by bit.

Seeing that it was getting late, I simply ordered a takeout.

After eating takeout, eight o'clock in the evening came as scheduled.

After hastily closing the bookstore, I melted into the night and sped away in one direction.

At the end of this direction, there is a private clinic that has not yet closed.

But before I could get to this private clinic, I was interrupted by a ringtone.

I took out my phone and looked at it, and it turned out to be Yuno Aoda's night call.