Hao Renzhen didn't expect that he would one day have such a novel experience: to get together with a 10,000-year-old vampire and study magic books from the European Middle Ages. This should be the only part of a movie, the kind of dark and eerie abstract film that promotes the mysterious unknown, and it should take place in a dark basement. But now this ancient magic book is spread out in the sunny living room, and one of the people who studied it is the current pope, and there is also a husky with six catties of evil spirits on his body, and a frozen dog next to him...... The wizard who left the book at the time would never have imagined that his work would be studied in such an atmosphere.

Vivien mentions the anecdotes of human history, and she spent most of her time wandering around Eurasia at a time when "books" were still a luxury, and that was also the period when the confrontation between wizards and the church was at its most intense. The aliens had declined to the point of hiding in shelters, and the sorcerers, who had learned forbidden knowledge, took advantage of the lack of knowledge for the church to flourish in abundance, and more than half of the world's magic books came from that era, and Vivien had seen many of them with her own eyes.

This one in front of me is not in it.

Vivien rubbed the magically manipulated pages and remembered a little: "The world was chaotic at that time, mysticism and all kinds of dark legends of ghosts and gods were rampant, and there was even more terrible church pressure above it, and the survival of the lower human beings was very difficult. Wizards originated at the end of the mythological era, when they were only heterogeneous eagle dogs and spokesmen for the 'gods to rule over mankind', and they were called 'priests' and 'oracles' in human society at that time. But after the collapse of the Age of Mythology, the wizards became independent as a faction. Later, they recruited many monks who were not firm in their faith and nobles who had lost hope because of the war. While the Church and the Demon Hunters were busy dealing with the alien remnant, the group grew rapidly. The common people at the bottom who live in poverty are easily seduced by witchcraft. The number of high-ranking monks with the ability to exorcise demons was limited, and the witchers did not pay much attention to the requests for help from ordinary humans—so for a short time, wizards and witches were in vogue. ”

"This period is also mentioned in the history books of mankind," Hao Ren nodded, "but it must be different from the version you know." ”

"That's when this kind of magic book became popular," Vivien smiled, "and a book like this might even cause a scuffle between noble lords, because many of the magic recorded on them could be learned by humans, and only at a sufficient cost—usually human lives. And the lords at that time were willing to pay any price, especially human life. I remember that when I wandered around the towns of Europe, I often saw wizards and witches who were hanged or burned, but in reality most of them were fake, and they just wanted to make fake magic books to cheat a little money, but not every nobleman had the courage to accept such things, at least not publicly. Speaking of the big dog, when are you going to pretend to be an ice sculpture? ”

Lily shook her head vigorously and tossed the ice ballast from her hair, "I just want to see when you feel a little guilty!" Hiss...... I'm freezing to death......"

Vivien glanced at Lily, "What are you talking about?" You sled dog, you told me you were afraid of the cold?! ”

Lily bared her teeth and threatened, then waved her hand, "You continue to tell your story." I'm interested -- I didn't go through that era. ”

"Actually, what happened at that time was basically not interesting, the whole of Europe was in chaos, and the little between the church and the heresy was interesting for the first time, and it was boring to watch too much." Vivien pushed the book onto the coffee table, "What makes this thing interesting is that it has a ritual recorded on it, and no matter how I look at it, I feel that it has something to do with me." ”

Hao Ren was very curious: "What ceremony?" ”

Vivien opened the book. Find an illustration depicting a strange pentagram. In several corners of the pentagram are various offerings, and above the pattern is a female figure with fangs. She spreads her hands and points to the two worshippers on either side of the frame, who are prostrate on the ground. In the corner of the screen, a castle-like building can be seen in the distance.

Lily pointed to the woman on the screen, "So you mean it's you?" ”

Vivien's face was strange: "In a sense, I think I may be able to say that I may be able to ......"

Lily said bluntly: "Why is the painting like Monkey King?" ”

Vivien's little bat stuck in Lily's face, "That's why I'm not happy to discuss things with you!" You're getting closer and closer to the landlord! ”

"Why do I still shoot ...... in the air" Hao Renting spread his hands innocently, and then looked down at the strange illustration on the page, "What does this ghost draw mean?" ”

"The ritual of summoning the Blood King," Vivien pointed to a passage underneath the illustration, "drawing an inverted pentagram according to the marking, and placing the black goat's fur, the mistletoe's dead leaves, the bat's teeth, the limestone, and the ashes of the woman's hair in order, and performing the ritual on the night of the full moon, with two men standing on either side of the magic circle, cutting their fingers and dripping blood at the same time, and after the third drop of blood landed, the Blood King would appear." The Blood Lord casts a spell on the two people performing the ritual, killing one of them and transferring half of the person's remaining life to the other, while the other half of their life is taken away as a reward. ”

Lily listened with her ears pricked up for a long time, and finally came up with a sentence: "What the hell is this?" What are the gods talking about? ”

"Wizards like to record this," Vivien shrugged, "it's all lost now, but back then, it was a common thing. ”

"Why do you think the Blood King is you?" Hao Ren looked at Vivien in confusion.

"It's a terrible illustration, but look at this ......," Vivien said, gesturing to the woman with a cross hanging from her chest, "at least it's clear." I'm the only one in the world who wears a cross. The person who made this magic book is a very strict wizard, so his illustrations are definitely not messy, and ordinary wizards will not draw a cross on the blood clan when they are idle, which will be regarded as a psychopath by their peers, so the only explanation is that the author of this book may have seen me back then. ”

"Have you seen him?" Hao Ren looked up and asked.

Vivien tugged at the corners of her mouth, "I forgot." ”

Lily looked at Vivien with a strange expression: "I can understand everything else, but what are you doing with such a funny summoning ceremony?" Were you still ambitious enough to rule the world? ”

"You ask me and I'll ask whom," Vivien rolled her eyes at the sky, "wizards were originally from ordinary humans, and their magic system is different from that of aliens, who knows how this summoning ritual works." Hethanna just thought the book was interesting and sent it to me, and she didn't even know who the author was. ”

In the dark ages when the occult was prevalent, there were many similar magic books, and they were all in disorganized categories, and they were all circulated in secret, and the methods of summoning demons or gods recorded on them were now largely lost, and even those that were handed down were drowned out by other chaotic folk superstitions. After Vivian got the book, she only studied it out of curiosity, but Hao Ren's interest was obviously greater at this time: "Anyway, how about we try it?" ”

Vivien was stunned: "What to try?" ”

Lily was the only one who reacted quickly to this kind of amusing thing, and immediately understood what Hao Ren meant: "Summoning you!" ”

“…… Nerves," Vivien rolled her eyes and turned to the kitchen, "I'm cooking, you two are messing around." ”

Doudou immediately jumped out of the horn and happily followed Vivien: "I'll help light the fire!" Help light the fire! ”

"Keep her away from the gas canister!" Hao Ren hurriedly greeted him from behind, then turned his head to look at Lily and lowered his voice, "Let's try the summoning ritual on this?" ”

Lily nodded vigorously with an excited face: "Okay! ”

"But it says it takes a full moon night to summon," Hao Ren frowned, "It's really troublesome, it's still fixed." ”

Lily wagged her tail excitedly: "Tonight is the full moon, I've been excited for days~~"

No wonder this husky has such a big head in spirit today!

(I still have to go out to run errands, and it's another full day, so update in advance...... Anyway, I finally ran out of manuscripts when I went out to do errands in a row=. =)(To be continued......)