There was no snow near the campfires in the square, the wet stone slabs were full of rubbish, ribbons, feathers, rags, and the wax of torches, two sleepy-eyed wild dogs licking the scraps of food, and several men in tattered beards huddled beside the fire, snoring and suffocating.

At this time, Cheng Mo had to thank the cold weather and the chaotic heavy snow, and he could imagine how dirty the environment would be if it was a good day. Cheng Mo sped up and walked through the square, chasing towards the alley where the bird-beaked doctor had disappeared.

The dark night and the snowflakes in the sky couldn't stop Cheng Mo's sight, and when he entered the alley, Cheng Mo saw a person wearing a bird's beak doctor's clothes stumbling forward against the stone wall, and his embarrassed movements made Cheng Mo puzzled. Because he heard the voice of the Chosen One, Cheng Mo did not immediately catch up, but from a long distance, relying on listening to the other party's messy footsteps, he fell silently behind the bird's beak doctor.

At first, the bird's beak doctor was still running in the dark and gloomy alley in a panic, but he didn't see Cheng Mo behind, so he gradually slowed down, gasped and began to walk slowly, obviously he was very familiar with this place, and he could find the way forward without hesitation without torches. Soon Cheng Mo found that he was walking towards an ancient half-Gothic, half-Romanesque tower in the eastern corner of the town, because only the whole town was still in the dim light of the windows at the top of this tower, which was like a lighthouse guiding the way in the inky night.

Cheng Mo followed Doctor Birdbeak through the crooked and narrow alleys, and finally reached the vicinity of the tower, where the other party's breathing had calmed down and his steps became lighter. Cheng Mo jumped onto the roof of the stone house next to him, stood on the snow-covered ridge and watched the bird's beak doctor wandering cautiously near the stone tower, he looked left and right for a long time before he took out a bunch of keys from his waxed black leather robe and walked to the doorway of the tower.

Sure enough, the other party's destination was this spired rectangular stone building, Cheng Mo stared, and noticed that there were no windows on the first floor of this building, and the location of the windows should be all shrines, and stone sculptures were placed in the shrines, and the stone sculptures were not angels or gods, but some ancient Greek style. There are windows on the second and third floors, but they are not large, and they are nailed with iron fences, which do not look like houses, but like prisons.

This reminds Cheng Mo of Disney's cartoon "Rapunzel", but in Grimm's fairy tales this story is called "Lettuce Girl", and Grimm's fairy tales are out-and-out dark stories compared to Disney. The Lace Side Witch imprisoned the beautiful Lettuce Girl, and every day she climbed up the tower with her hair to check the Lettuce Girl's body. This was discovered by the prince, so the prince also learned the witch's code, and climbed the tower along the lettuce girl's hair, making the lettuce girl unmarried and pregnant, and the witch who found out the truth was furious, and cut off the lettuce's long blonde hair when the prince climbed the tower, and let the thorns under the tower blind the prince's eyes......

In modern times, this is an extremely avant-garde story, and a large number of ambiguous descriptions in it can be regarded as a little yellow text today. Of course, if you just look at the dark Grimm fairy tales as a pornographic story, it is impossible to understand that it deeply reflects the medieval penchant for indulgence and the hatred and fear of witches in the Middle Ages, under the threat of the Black Death.

The sound of "squeak" interrupted Cheng Mo's thoughts, and seeing that the Birdbeak Doctor had opened the iron-covered door, Cheng Mo was sure that the Birdbeak Doctor was not much of a threat to him, so he calmly used teleportation and entered the second floor of the tower. It was a small room, and it smelled of spices, which smelled much better than the smell on the street.

Cheng Mo couldn't help but take a deep breath, he turned his head to look at the cabinet against the wall, there were countless bottles and jars in the open cabinet, some made of metal, some made of glass, and the glass bottles contained liquids or powders, with Latin notes pasted on them. Beside the window there is a wooden table, on which is a book mimeographed and scented with ink. Cheng Mo walked over and took a look, it turned out to be a medical book with a drawing of the human body, and to Cheng Mo's surprise, the design of the pages was extremely similar to the manuscript.

Cheng Mo closed the folio print that looked like a publication, and the cover was printed with "Fasciculus Medicinae", which probably means medical guide, and those who can know Latin in this era can be said to be knowledgeable, and those who can read and understand books are probably equivalent to top scholars. Cheng Mo curiously flipped through this medical book, and the illustrations in it were very detailed in drawing the five internal organs, and also corresponding to the zodiac signs on the organs.....

At this time, Cheng Mo heard the sound of stairs and heavy footsteps, followed by a low reprimand: "Anna, you ran out again, God forbid, nothing happened to you....." This is a soft but stern female voice, which reminds Cheng Mo of the profession of doctors, they tend to speak in such a tone when giving injections to patients.

Cheng Mo walked to the door, he didn't need to pay attention, he could hear the sound and sound downstairs, through the sound he could tell that the bird-beaked doctor who came in just now was undressing, and her name "Anna" must be a woman.

"Mom, what could happen? I just quietly went to the square to take a look. Immediately, Anna's soft and timid answer verified Cheng Mo's speculation.

"Oh my God, who told you to put this dress out!

"Didn't you say that wearing this dress will not only ward you off the plague, but also see death?" Anna became excited, "Mom, do you know what I saw? I didn't see death, but I saw an angel, but he was different from the one in the book, he had no wings and a black ....."

"Snap" a loud slap echoed through the room, "Shut up, do you know how dangerous it is out there now, if you are caught wearing this dress, you will definitely be hanged at the city gate..... Oh my god, you're so damn dead. ”

"Mom, no one dares to come out at night. The girl didn't cry when she was slapped in the face, but just stubbornly whispered justification.

"How do you know that there is no one? I stood on the tower and saw the crusaders and monks arrest Catarina's family......"

"Aunt Katarina, will there be anything going on with them?"

Before the long sigh was over, suddenly someone knocked on the door hard, and the sound of "bang" exploded the whole tower, and Anna's mother immediately whispered eagerly, "Quick! hide your clothes......

Cheng Mo hesitated, carefully opened the door and walked out, the corridor was very short, the stairs were on the side of the door, candles were placed on the rotating stone wall, Cheng Mo walked downstairs along the stone staircase that was almost not polished, and it looked extraordinarily rough, the entrance hall downstairs was lit with a faint light, and a blonde woman wearing a blue coarse cloth dress and a dignified appearance opened the secret door on the floor, and half-squatted and threw the waxed leather robe into it.

Anna, who was standing aside, handed the bird's beak mask in her arms to the blonde woman and whispered, "Mom..... Be careful. ”

Cheng Mo stared and looked at the girl named Anna who was wearing the coat of the bird's beak doctor just now, she was not tall, but slender and straight, she looked slender, her skin was very white, and her cheeks were densely covered with some subtle brown spots, but the outline was still exquisite, not at all like the barbaric appearance of the Germans, but there was a kind of Andalusian sweetness and loveliness, some like a girl's version of Miranda Kerr.

The blonde woman ignored Anna, and the constant knocking on the door was like a spell, mixed with a loud shout: "Drom lifter, open the door....."

The blonde woman hurriedly threw the beak mask under the floor as well, and replied loudly, "Here we are!" She quickly closed the secret door, and then motioned for Anna to lift the brown wooden table to the secret door.

After the two pressed the heavy wooden table against the secret door, the blonde woman straightened her clothes and hair, reached out and picked up the three-legged bronze oil lamp on the table, and asked in a loud voice, "Who?"

"It's me, Priest Frank, the Delome Lifter. ”

Cheng Mo walked down the stairs and slowly walked to Anna who was standing at the table, Anna, who had taken off the clothes of the bird-beaked doctor, couldn't see him at all at the moment, wiped the sweat on his forehead through his body, and stared at the door. Cheng Mo felt as if he had found an interesting thread, and he turned his head to look at the door.

The blonde woman opened the door and asked, "Your Excellency Noble Franc, is there anything to do with me at such a late hour?"

"God bless, Drome Lifter!" said the chubby kappa, dressed in a dark gray squirrel fur and wrapped tightly in the doorway, drew a cross on his chest, "You need to hurry, Lord Leohard's wife is about to give birth, and now you need to hurry to deliver the baby." ”

Hearing Franc's words, the blonde woman's tense body relaxed, her hand holding the doorknob stopped trembling, and her tone became normal: "Okay, Lord Frank, you wait, I'll go get the box!" The blonde woman turned around and immediately turned back to ask, "Would you like to come in and sit down for a while?"

"No need, just hurry up, this damn weather is about to freeze me....."

"Right now. The blonde woman ran upstairs with her skirt and a little while, and in a short time she got a white linen cloak and went downstairs with a rattan suitcase. Before leaving the tower, she said sternly in Anna's ear: "Close the door, don't run around, stay at home honestly." ”

The young girl Anna nodded, and watched as her mother and Priest Frank stepped into the snowstorm and closed the heavy wooden door covered with iron sheets. She fastened the deadbolt and cheered loudly, then ran to the table, pushing it aside with great effort.

Cheng Mo leaned against the wall, watched the girl Anna open the secret door, grabbed the oil lamp and turned around and climbed down, he also followed down the dark room, downstairs The stone is built into a fully enclosed room with a strong aromatic smell, this smell Cheng Mo is very familiar, he once smelled it in the Wangfmen used book market in Paris, probably the incense mixed with hazel wood and musk, Cheng Mo sniffed, glanced at the dark room, and felt that this was not like a room, but like a tomb.

The girl Anna picked up the black leather robe and bird's beak mask that had fallen on the ground, muttered a few words in pain, took the leather robe and bird's beak mask to the side of the stone workbench and put them away, and then she held the oil lamp and lit the two oil lamps embedded in the wall, and found a blue cloth to carefully wipe the black leather robe and bird's beak mask.

Cheng Mo took a closer look around through the candle flame, and saw the details that he had not seen in the dark just now, in addition to the outfit of the bird's beak doctor, there were also seven system magic talismans, personal magic talismans, black candles, golden candlesticks, and a book with a black cover, as well as a crystal ball and a portrait of Bafengte.

There is no doubt that this is a prop for holding a satanic ritual, and Cheng Mo was a little surprised that the witch was not purely a frame-up, but really existed. He walked to the workbench, the girl Anna was still carefully wiping the bird's beak mask, he moved to the bookcase next to the workbench, and searched for a while, mostly medical books and books on astrology, but nothing else special.

When Cheng Mo was thinking about what to do next, he found that there was a book on the bottom layer of the bookcase that surprised him, the brown parchment scroll that he couldn't read at all among the three books he had retrieved from the Wangfumen second-hand book market. Although he didn't know what was written in the book, he was deeply impressed by the Roman letters written on the cover, and Cheng Mo reached out to take it without hesitation, but didn't touch anything.

Cheng Mo stared at the parchment book and frowned, thinking that even if he picked it up, he still couldn't understand it, but since this book was here, it meant that someone here could read it. He had to figure out what was written in the book, perhaps the key to solving the Asgardian puzzle.

Of course, it's also possible that it's just a normal book about black magic.

In short, anything is possible, after all, it seems that all this is like a clue at the moment, but in fact it is just a coincidence with a high probability of happening, after all, he knew that the land of Asgard Ruins was related to "occultism" before he went to Wangfumen to find relevant books, and there are not many classic works of occultism, only a few have been handed down from ancient times, and it is not surprising to see them in a witch's house in a medieval town.

However, all this is related to the "black disease" and the "Bird's Beak Doctor", which is still very unexpected by Cheng Mo, who walked around the stone house again, and found no more. Cheng Mo was slightly disappointed, and walked back to the workbench, this time he did not walk around the house, but across the middle of the house, when he passed through the middle, he stepped on the obvious groove under his feet, he looked down and saw an inverted pentagram carved on the stone ground.

Underneath the inverse pentagram are engraved with two words in bold Roman letters: you, pray.

The oil lamp on the wall was jumping, and Cheng Mo noticed the black shadow reflected on the floor, which seemed to be imprisoned in the neat inverse pentagram, swaying slightly inside. He couldn't be seen by the people in the land of ruins, but there was a shadow, this strange phenomenon caused Cheng Mo to think. He vaguely felt that even if there was nothing special in the book, he had already opened a corner of history hidden in the depths of the fog.

Just as Cheng Mo was pondering, a piercing and dull scream sounded, Cheng Mo looked up, and Anna, a girl wearing a bird's beak mask, was holding the sharp and narrow silver beak and looking at him through the red crystal lens.

The crystal lenses burned with the flickering light of the oil lamp, struggling to extinguish it as if it was about to run out of the last drop of oil. The girl Anna's legs were shaking, and Cheng Meng thought that if she hadn't leaned against the workbench, she might have collapsed to the ground......

"You..... You..... Who are you?" asked the young girl, Anna, who mustered up her courage and reluctantly opened her dry throat.

"Me?" Cheng Mo stood in the middle of the inverse pentagram with his back hand, and said lightly, "Of course it is...... Satan.....

Just as Cheng Mo was pondering, a piercing and dull scream sounded, Cheng Mo looked up, and Anna, a girl wearing a bird's beak mask, was holding the sharp and narrow silver beak and looking at him through the red crystal lens.

The crystal lenses burned with the flickering light of the oil lamp, struggling to extinguish it as if it was about to run out of the last drop of oil. The girl Anna's legs were shaking, and Cheng Meng thought that if she hadn't leaned against the workbench, she might have collapsed to the ground......

"You..... You..... Who are you?" asked the young girl, Anna, who mustered up her courage and reluctantly opened her dry throat.

"Me?" Cheng Mo stood in the middle of the inverse pentagram with his back hand, and said lightly, "Of course it is...... Satan.....