In the long silence, Huai Shi and the skeleton who was soaking happily in the poisonous pool looked at each other. Neither of them seemed to understand why the other was acting so strangely. They looked at each other without saying a word.
Huai Shi finally coughed dryly and broke the silence. He asked tentatively,
"… Sigh, why didn't you say anything before going down?"
"Huh?"
The skeleton was stunned for a moment, as if it finally understood something. It was in disbelief.
"You're so stingy, A 'Gou!"
It widened its dark eye sockets and complained with hurt, "I've already treated you to so much wine, why can't you even bear to drink so little?!"
Huai Shi couldn't hold back a mouthful of blood. He only felt a pain in his head.
Are we talking about the same f * cking thing?!
He felt terrible all over.
"Aren't you afraid of being poisoned?"
"Poisoned? How is it poisoned? It's such a good wine. " The skeleton looked at the pool it was soaking in puzzlement. It didn't understand what Huai Shi meant. It even lowered its head and drank two big mouthfuls. "Isn't the taste quite authentic?"
In the silence, Huai Shi didn't speak.
He looked at it with his mouth agape.
Looking at the wine leaking from the gap of its jaw, as if it had undergone some magical quenching, wisps of pale gold appeared.
Like formaldehyde meeting bamboo charcoal, the essence of hell hidden in the divine wine slowly shrank. As the skeleton stirred, it adhered to its skeleton, causing the originally pure white skeleton to appear with faint green veins, which became more and more prominent and lively.
The corner of Huai Shi's eyes twitched. He felt as if it had become … fresher from a corpse that had been dead for a long time?
"Wow, A 'Gou! Look! "
The skeleton raised its hand, touched its head, and shouted excitedly, "I've grown hair!!!"
There was no time to correct the term A 'Gou.
Huai Shi had already seen the scene of strands of golden hair sprouting from the skeleton's head. They grew rapidly from nothing.
In the end, they became slender and straight, as bright and pure as golden silk …
How terrifying!
Huai Shi rubbed his eyes hard to make sure that he wasn't hallucinating. The skeleton in front of him had indeed grown hair after soaking in the poisonous wine!
It was so tight and firm that it was enough to move a down and out male cowherd to tears. The only flaw was that it seemed to only grow in the middle and not the sides.
He had turned into a Mohican with the style of a punk!
What kind of miraculous principle could cause such a change?
Huai Shi scratched his head. He felt that the fantastical level of this world had begun to soar again. He could no longer keep up with the changes.
Especially after he confirmed that the curse in the godly wine had been greatly weakened and was almost completely purified … His gaze towards the skeleton became more passionate.
Was this a Great Grandmaster?
Not only could it be used as a stove, it could also be used to brew wine!
Love, love!
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Half an hour later, beside the wine pool, Huai Shi's pot was already hot.
The godly wine gradually boiled, emitting a rich fragrance that intoxicated people.
In the gradually tumbling water, the skeleton's two arms rested on the edge of the pot, and a hot towel covered its head. After getting into a comfortable position, it let out a carefree moan.
"Heat up, heat up more."
"Okay!"
Huai Shi added two more pieces of firewood.
After the godly wine in the wine pool passed through the iron pot, it was completely purified. Then, through a slender conduit, it dripped into Huai Shi's water tank drop by drop.
In this way, a freshly made poison filter valve was ready!
At this moment, in the iron pot, the skeleton enjoyed the long-lost warmth. It held the small cup in its hand and drank a big mouthful. It was so moved that little stars almost appeared in its eyes.
"Ah Gou, you are so good to me!"
In front of the iron pot, Huai Shi raised his head, wiped his sweat, and smiled honestly. "Don't mention it, we don't have to be so polite."
He casually pulled two books from the pile of ancient books beside him. He tore up the valuable ancient books and manuscripts that contained an unknown amount of wisdom and threw them into the fire to maintain the temperature.
There was no pity.
Anyway, they were not serious books.
At first, Huai Shi had some expectations for Helios, but after going through some of the alchemists' private collections these days, he found that they were really dirty.
It was simply unsightly.
It could be said that although it would be unfair to kill all of them, there would be fish that escaped the net if they were killed one by one.
Just look at these guys' notes and hamsters to know.
If it was not private research on live sacrifice and biological alchemy, it was the data records of various soul experiments. There were also all kinds of methods and precautions for trading with various existences in hell … What's more, there were all kinds of inhumane secret instruments and methods to obtain materials.
Those guys had already crossed the boundary of ethics in the vast space and stepped into the category of taboos.
They even dared to touch the field of the elements of destruction.
In just a few decades, under the guidance of the Pied Piper, the alchemists who monopolized the remnants of the gods had fallen to a jaw-dropping level.
At first, they might have just skipped some steps for convenience and used a more radical method. Later, they began to get used to repeatedly testing the edge of the boundary until someone was willing to pay any price for the results.
When the bottom line was gone, everyone would fight to be the first to fall.
In order to circumvent the restrictions of the three major seals, the increasingly crazy alchemists even tried to simulate the environment of old Gaia in the enclosed space of Helios to be closer to the ecology of the Chaos Era.
It was not a harmless phenomenon like the coral clouds, but an invasive species that would cause endless trouble. It was a poisonous environment that was absolutely incompatible with the current situation.
Even if they did not succeed, they still left behind all kinds of scalp-numbing records.
The ancient Grand Master Solomon had predicted the seventy-two sequences of hell, and they had revised twenty-one of them! They even made up for the creation of the 'Four Pillars of Asmodeus'.
How to use the solidification of souls to form eighteen different manifestations of the essence of hell. The lords of the eighteen hells swallowed and fused with each other, assisted with the secret instruments and stigmata, smelted and transformed, and finally created the authority of Asmodeus, and then became the ruler of hell …
Even if it was just a deduction and speculation, it made Huai Shi's scalp tingle.
The thirst for hell had driven this group of people into madness. Even if they knew that there was a taboo ahead, they still jumped into the abyss with confidence and hope.
In the process, there were many alchemists who were used as sacrifices, and there were even some who cut themselves …
It was better to burn this kind of thing that would only become a poison if it was kept.
Once and for all.
In the midst of the burning, Huai Shi paused and glanced at the end of the paper in his hand.
Unlike the madness and distortion of the content, the handwriting left by the writer was full of certainty. It could be said that the strokes were iron-like, and the power was penetrating the back of the paper.
Full of hope, he left a prayer for the future at the end.
[I am offering a meager sacrifice today, in order to reap the fruit of redemption in the future. May the truth have mercy.]
Seeking salvation and hope in hell, seeking the truth …
It was like a cold joke.
But this was the essence of alchemy.
If he attributed the hell he saw to the erosion of the Pied Piper, he would be underestimating Helios too much. Even if there were no believers of the Pied Piper, it was only a matter of time before Helios lost control.
The existence of the Pied Piper, the element of destruction, was nothing more than a catalyst.
It caused the existence of an organization to fall into collective fanaticism and extremes, distorted beautiful dreams and ideals into hell and despair, and caused all the huge future to collapse due to its own weight.
Those who pursued justice became lunatics who couldn't tolerate any evil in their eyes, those who longed for the truth burned themselves by playing with fire, and those who expected salvation fell into hell … That was what he was best at.
It was as if he had just casually pressed the switch that represented the impulse to self-destruct, and everything began to rapidly change beyond recognition until it fell apart, and its original appearance could no longer be seen.
"Truth?"
The skeleton in the iron pot soaked in wine looked at the paper in Huai Shi's hand as if it was drunk and couldn't help but sneer. "What's the use of truth? It can't be eaten … "
Huai Shi was slightly stunned. He casually threw the broken page in his hand into the fire and looked at the skeleton of Pubrus. "I thought you would feel the same way."
"No, my uncle used to think about this stuff all day long. Didn't something happen to him in the end? That's why people with good brains like to think too much. "
The skeleton, who had been cooked to ninety percent well, burped happily in the divine wine and concluded, "It's still better to eat and drink!"
That was great.
Huai Shi was speechless.
You're the skeleton of a great grandmaster. Why didn't you inherit even the slightest bit of the great grandmaster's nature?! You only think about eating and drinking …
But what he said did make sense.
Eating and drinking was indeed good. Who didn't like to live a life of good food every day?
Huai Shi couldn't help but feel the same way and express his agreement.
But the skeleton began to moan and groan. "But it's not good to eat and drink too much. You'll run outside and mess around … Ah, I remember now!"
It suddenly slapped its forehead and cried out.
"Hmm?" Huai Shi subconsciously raised his spirits and saw the skeleton look over. It had a head of magical Mohican blonde hair and said to him in a very serious tone.
"My father might not be a good person!"
In the long silence, Huai Shi's expression twitched and he nodded with difficulty. "… Yes, I can see that."
The skeleton waved its hand and emphasized seriously, "No, what I mean is, he seems to be messing around outside behind my mother's back …"
And then?
She gave birth to a little zombie?
Huai Shi looked up at the sky and sighed expressionlessly. Brother, why can't you remember anything useful?!
Even if you remember a little bit of what you used to do, it would be better than this!
He really didn't know what to say. He could only comfort the skeleton with a helpless expression. "Look on the bright side. It's not just your family. Maybe all the species in the world are the same. "
"But that's not right!"
The skeleton became more and more confused. It scratched its blonde hair. "I don't seem to have a father. No, who is my father? He can't be a scum, right? That can't be! We, the Hermans, have always been loyal to our marriage … "
Huai Shi rolled his eyes and planned to take this thing out of the divine wine and dry it first.
You don't even have a stomach. How can you drink so much?
But the words that jumped out of the skeleton's mouth in the end stunned him. It was unbelievable.
"Wait! What did you say?! "
The skeleton looked at him blankly. After thinking for a while, it repeated, "Marriage …"
"The sentence before that!"
Huai Shi widened his eyes and asked word by word, "What family did you say you were from?"
"Uh … The Hermans?"
"Didn't you just say Herman?!" Huai Shi was so anxious that he wanted to hit the skeleton.
"I … can't remember clearly …" The skeleton fell into a state of stupor again. "Speaking of which, is my name Pubrus or Pavlov …"
Huai Shi rolled his eyes. He was very anxious.
He took out the Book of Destiny and repeatedly confirmed that he hadn't heard wrong. The skeleton had indeed said the Hermans!
The Hermans?
The famous pure-blooded family, the inheritors of the holy name of the 'Blessed One', a core member of the Roman genealogy …
This wasn't the first time Huai Shi had heard of it.
But Pubrus shouldn't be a member of the Hermans!
On the contrary …
Coincidentally, he just happened to know a direct descendant of the Hermans. Even more coincidentally, the other party was above Helios!
Isn't this just a coincidence?
The senior leader of the Stonecauldron Society, a legendary alchemist of the Roman genealogy, and a giant who had stood at the peak of alchemy a hundred years ago!
At the same time, he was the old bastard who had tricked Huai Shi into marrying Helios …
The great grandmaster, Garland Herman!
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but move closer to the skeleton and pick up its skull with both hands. He raised it and looked at it carefully. "Big brother, who are you?"
The innocence in the skeleton's eyes was about to overflow.
"I don't know either, brother. I'm just a corpse, okay? And I'm only half a body … Don't ask me such a question that's out of my scope, okay?"
It picked up the wine cup in its hand, scooped a large cup of wine from the pot, and stuffed it into Huai Shi's hand.
"Come, drink it and you'll be done —"
It was as if it didn't care whether the friend in front of it was Huai Shi or a dog.
As for whether it was Pubrus or Garland, it couldn't be bothered to care.
What was the use of thinking so much?
It was better to eat and drink!
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