Chapter 616

Baron Dimon, a 45th-level alchemist, left the Alchemy Association and returned to his ancestral home.

The cause of everything came from the forbidden secret book he accidentally obtained.

The secret book seemed to be from the hands of the high priest of the ancient mysterious gods.

It contains many fields of sacrifice, curse and alchemy, which are mysterious and magical.

The more strange and mysterious things are, the more attractive they are, and Dimon soon got involved.

Not long after, his parents and wife died of illness.

The important people left one by one, and Dimon also understood the fragility of life.

Grief-stricken, he was more persistent in studying the resuscitation technique in the secret book.

Dimon knew that his research was absolutely prohibited by the Alchemy Association.

So he chose to resign and returned to his ancestral home in the countryside with his only daughter.

The various magic arrays of priests and sacrifices were not something he could complete alone.

He selected those loyal servants or the family members of patients who had saved his life, and asked them to help him, and unknowingly formed a secret society.

The research was carried out step by step.

Until one day, a terrible accident happened.

His daughter Rapunzel, the always energetic child, accidentally broke into the basement of the annex.

That is, the research site of the secret society.

At that time, an important sacrificial experiment was being carried out, and Rapunzel's mistaken entry messed up the entire research.

And Rapunzel suffered an evil curse in this accident.

Her originally healthy body began to decline.

The curse was depriving her of her vitality, and she had to endure the pain of illness at a young age.

Damon regretted his mistakes and was unwilling to let his most cherished and last remaining relative leave.

So he studied the taboo book like crazy, and decided to find a way to eliminate the curse at all costs.

Considering the worst case scenario, he invested more energy in the art of resuscitation.

After that, he adopted four wandering children in the town and placed them in the annex.

On the surface, they were playmates for Rapunzel, but in fact they were just a few experimental subjects.

He couldn't be sure if he could succeed in one go, so he could only find more sacrifices.

This kind of pure sacrifice would have a higher success rate.

He provided them with gorgeous clothes, inexhaustible food, and bought them things they liked as compensation.

Among them, the youngest Ashley and Rapunzel played the best and stuck together all day long.

With her best friend, Rapunzel smiled more and more, and seemed to have recovered from the blow of illness.

But these were just mental tranquilizers, and the curse was still spreading.

The little girl only lasted for a year and eventually died of illness.

Damon worked day and night for the past year, and made a major breakthrough in the study of resurrection.

So he decided to take the risk and try to resurrect his daughter.

The ceremony went smoothly, but in the end... his daughter turned into a bloodthirsty and violent crow.

The crow told him that if he wanted to be resurrected perfectly, he had to continue to provide them with sacrifices.

Its favorite is the young and fresh life and the innocent soul.

It targeted the other three children and took and devoured one of them every week.

It also told Damon that every time it devoured a person, his daughter's soul would be complete, and finally completely revived and reunited with him.

Things had come to this point, and Damon was not willing to give up, so he could only choose one way to go.

Until the crow was about to devour the last sacrifice, the child named Ashley.

As it said before, Rapunzel's sanity was gradually recovering.

At the critical moment, Rapunzel was unwilling to hurt her friend, and would rather let herself die again and perish with the crow.

At the end of the story, the crow wanted to choose Ashley's body, but was stopped by Rapunzel's soul again.

It could only choose Damon, who had been spying silently.

The remaining soul fragments of Rapunzel also merged into Ashley's consciousness, and she called out that daddy.

Isn't this to protect her friends?

Because she knew that once she disappeared, the angry Damon would definitely kill Ashley.

This is the true story of the "Insatiable Bird".

Most of it was told by Ashley to Rin, and some of it was inferred by Rin based on the influence and the story.

I dare not say it is the complete truth, but it is almost the same.

These dead souls can no longer remember how they died in the end.

What supports memory is the most profound impression and the strongest obsession.

Death does not bring relief.

Even when he came to the dead city, what he thought in his mind was to find his daughter's soul again and "revive" her to reunite.

But this is impossible in itself.

Because Rapunzel had long disappeared, even the fragments of her soul had been integrated into Ashley's soul, and Dimon himself knew it.

The so-called greed is not just endless desire in a broad sense.

Knowing that the possibility is 0, he still persists in looking for answers that do not exist.

Isn't this also a kind of greed.

The desire for taboo knowledge, the desire for life, and the desire for resurrection have caused a series of tragedies.

Dimon, he is the irrefutable culprit.

The poem of the Insatiable Bird is actually about himself.

Rin did not see any fatherly love, only disgusting selfishness and paranoia.

He looked at Damon with disgust and contempt.

"Do you know why I have kept you here until now and haven't killed you yet?"

Dimon lowered his head, and no one could see his expression.

"You want to tell me how bad my script is in front of me, the mastermind behind the scenes, and arrogantly tell me that you have exposed my conspiracy and slap me in the face?"

"You think too highly of yourself, and I don't have the time to watch your pretentiousness. My opinion is, whether it's Rapunzel or Ashley, it's really pitiful to have a father like you who is mentally ill and extremely selfish."

Dimon suddenly raised his head, wanting to argue something, but he opened his mouth but couldn't find a reason to fight back.

"You say so, the loser has no right to argue... But the two points you mentioned before are just suspicion at best and not enough to expose."

"Yeah, of course there are other factors."

The biggest contributor is undoubtedly Fei Miao’s observation eye.

Of course, the natives of the entire dead city would not know this information. The death tellers should know it, but the white-haired man had already left before the scene could begin.

As for Charon, no matter what he thought, the authority was not enough to change the priority of the observation eye.

These guys can only do some tricks on the publicly visible instructions.

Amelia just glanced at Ashley and knew something was wrong with her.

Very similar to the infected and alienated monsters in the previous trial.

There is a special word for this state among the undead, which is called deterioration.

Fei Miao didn't understand the specific meaning of deterioration, but just by seeing Ashley's character traits, he knew that the other party would never be their enemy.

As for how to relieve Ashley's deteriorating state.

It all depends on luck, just by accident.

Chapter 166: The Clown’s War Letter (2/6))

This is thanks to a special prop.

Well, of course not that set of Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

Those were entertainment props he bought in the system mall when he was bored.

Apart from being able to transform the image in the card and make playing cards more vivid, it has no effect.

Do you still remember that in the forest above, Rin killed a rat man from Charon?

There's a lot of good stuff in that guy.

In addition to the 20-sided dice, there is also a weird sheep head pendant.

Whether this thing is a mysterious businessman or Natalie witch, neither one can identify it, and its purpose is unknown.

Who would have thought that after Rin took it out casually, the pendant, which had always been very quiet, suddenly reacted.

It actively absorbed the deteriorating energy from Ashley and stored it in its small body.

So far, Rin doesn't know the specific functions and principles.

But I'm really lucky to be able to solve a difficult problem so easily.

He didn't want to hurt an innocent person who was being controlled and fall into someone else's trap.

After Ashley regained her senses, she told outsiders like Rin the truth.

From the beginning, she wanted to warn them to leave, especially seeing Elise, it felt like meeting a former friend.

Under Dimon's strict supervision, this was difficult to do.

However, Ashley still tried her best to remind them, until she was later discovered and deteriorated into a monster.

Under Rapunzel's influence, she indeed regards Dimon as her father and her only relative.

Dependence occupied part of her emotions, but more of them were fear and resentment.

Dimon sometimes regarded her as a daughter, and sometimes regarded her as a thorn in his side.

During the day she was a pampered eldest lady, but at night she would be chained to the bed again, turning into the same wandering child waiting for death, tortured and terrorized by crows.

He killed Rapunzel and her companions, how could he not make her resentful.

She had always thought that Dimon was too powerful to contend with, but now she realized that it was just her fear that was causing trouble.

Now he looked at Dimon, who had absolutely no intention of resisting in front of Rin.

Ashley's mood was a little complicated and she didn't know how to face this "father".

Rin acted very relaxed and looked around this unusual space.

I don't know how long this place can last.

"It's strange. I've been waiting for a while now, but I haven't seen anyone come to save you yet."

Rin's words made Dimon subconsciously raise his head.

"What do you mean?"

"Don't you know better than me?"

Rin took the arranged deck from Momo's hand and rubbed her little head as if casually.

"You yourself are just a tool in the script. I don't believe you have the tools to change the rules of the game."

As he spoke, he pointed in the direction of the circus.

"A guy from the circus, or another group of outsiders?"

Dimeng's pupils shrank, his body tensed, and he regained his composure after a moment.