The corner of her mouth twitched and she thought she knew what she was doing.
These people lying on the ropes are actually sleeping.
Yes... She had read some relevant records. During the early period of rapid industrial development when workers were being recruited everywhere, there seemed to be laws prohibiting anyone from sleeping on the streets.
But workers who cannot afford to buy houses or stay in hotels still have to sleep. In order to avoid legal punishment, some factory owners build such sheds in the factory, hang a rope at both ends, and let the workers sleep hanging on the rope at night.
feeling bad.
It's painful just to look at.
If I remember correctly, these people even had to pay to hang on this rope. Then when the time limit was up, someone would cut the rope and everyone on it would fall to the ground.
So, when Hitzfeld went back to look at the content of the second level, he couldn't help but be amazed.
It is already very dark to exploit labor in this way.
The person who wrote this paragraph - he is probably also a factory owner - actually came up with the idea of canceling the lanyards and fining the workers. This is really -
I owe you street lights...
However, despite my feelings, I still didn't gain anything important from just looking at these pictures and texts.
Hitzfeld continued to read the entire contents of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth levels, and found that they were all somewhat nonsensical, recorded in a very chaotic and arbitrary manner, like the frustrated mumblings recorded in the darkest life experiences.
But she has identified some patterns.
①: The graphic and text content of each level comes from different narrators.
②: These people began to doubt their mental state and suspected that they were being influenced and controlled by something.
③: Three out of six people mentioned "it" and "suddenly realized".
The emotions in that passage are very intense, just like a madman realizing the truth of the universe.
But it feels very uncomfortable.
Hitzfeld couldn't explain why he felt uncomfortable, but it was just like that - he had a nauseating feeling, as if he had seen something very bad happen, and that it had already "happened", and he was completely powerless to stop it and could only let things get worse.
"Could the 'it' here be the evil god they are talking about..."
Hitzfeld was a little uneasy.
She decided to keep reading.
Level 7.
[I am Sisso-Grest.]
Pupil constriction.
[I don’t know if I can survive this accident, so just in case, I wrote this down to record what I encountered.]
Chapter 61: The Sphinx in the Gray Mist (Part 2)
Grace...
It was actually Grace! ?
Hitzfeld felt as if her heart was about to burst out of her chest - she was truly shocked.
No... calm down and think about it, Ferdinand did say that this book originally belonged to that old man.
So he opened it?
How did he manage to decipher the seventh level???
At this point, Hitzfeld discovered another contradiction in the book, that is, no matter who it is... a madman, a worker, a factory owner, or even Grace.
It seemed so easy for them to get the book and leave a record!
But isn't this a code book?
Shouldn't it... require solving puzzles one level at a time before it can be opened again and again?
Don't say anything, they have successfully decrypted it.
She knew how difficult this kind of combination was. If the woman hadn't told her the answer to the secret code in the illusion and allowed her to solve it, she probably wouldn't be able to succeed for seven or eight years.
This is already a very optimistic estimate, and it will be even more difficult to actually crack it.
So, when faced with such a thankless task, only those who have no worries about food and drink, nothing to do all day long, and have a certain passion for languages will rise to the challenge and spend so much time fighting against it.
If it were any normal person, would they give this thing a second glance?
impossible.
A normal person would not be able to untie this thing, and would probably lose it after turning the gears a few times.
There is no option to decrypt and then leave a record, which is very strange!
So Hitzfeld believes that these people - at least those who have left records so far - when they got the code book, it was not locked.
She continued to look down.
[This thing is special.]
[More special than any evil spirit I have ever encountered.]
[Since I don’t know if I can survive, I’ll just say it openly: I suspect it is directly related to the destruction of the ancient continent in the east, Laceres.]
[Laceres is both the name of that continent and the name of that civilization. According to the ancient documents unearthed so far, before 1800, Laceres was a prosperous civilization that was no less developed than the Sara continent. It is located at the end of the Far East Sea - prepare the most powerful fleet to follow the Kelar route, bypass the trenches, reefs and whirlpools. If you are lucky enough to break through the fog on the sea, you can see this legendary land.]
[There are 403 such lucky people. I am honored to be one of them.]
[But there is no civilization left in Laceres.]
[Due to time and water shortages, we didn’t dare explore too far. But as far as what we did explore is concerned, we did find many old city-state sites. Those ruins, tall city walls, magnificent sculptures… all of these are enough to show that there was once a prosperous landscape here.]
[But they are all rotten.]
[Countless skeletons are buried deep in the mud, buildings are buried in mud and dust, and the magnificent castle reliefs are weathered and broken...]
[This is very strange, because our expedition team also found many traces of life. This shows that these city-states did not die due to war or disaster.]
[It was not an earthquake, and there was no sign of crustal movement.]
[It wasn’t a tsunami either, most of the buildings are well preserved.]
[It was as if, one day, the people in the city-state were going about their daily routines. The old people were sitting by the roadside reminiscing about the past, the women were buying bread and milk to go home, the men were farming and working in the fields, and the children were running and playing on the ridges and streets.]
[And then something suddenly happened and they died.]
[All dead.]
[I found this book in a city-state called Acanaia. It was placed on the top floor of a clock tower, the tallest building in the city. Next to it was the remains of a skeleton dressed in gorgeous clothes.]
[Whether it is based on my own personality or the professional qualities I have developed over the years. Seeing such a weird combination, the best thing I should do is to set fire to the ruins of the clock tower, the skeleton, and the book.]
[But——Since you have read this far, you should know that I did not do this.]
[I don’t know what happened in between. When I came to my senses, I was already in the cabin, and this thing was placed on the table.]
[Since I am leaving this record at this location, I have certainly seen what has happened before. I think there is no doubt that an unknown existence has influenced me, just as it has influenced the previous recorder.]
[The only difference is that I am stronger than them.]
[It can't affect me and control me all at once, but I can try to fight it.]
Grace is indeed very strong. This can be seen from the fact that he wrote so much.
Previous recorders wrote very little, only a short paragraph on each of the five or six wooden boards, leaving a lot of space blank.
Turn the page.
[But I failed.]
[It is too powerful... It is not comparable to any evil spirit I have seen before. If it is willing to project its true body into reality, I have no doubt that it can stand in the sea.]
Hitzfeld's eyelids twitched.
She remembered two things at the same time.
One was Agent Tariq from the Tenth Team... the stupid woman who had a feud with Xia Yibing. She was showing off that she had found an image of a giant on the scoreboard.
The giant only had the upper body, and the lower body seemed to be blocked by something.
Could it be standing in the sea?
Another thing she remembered was the "Giant Shadow Case on the Sea" that she learned about in Barvik.
It is in the same vein as the Balvik Phantom Case, and the source behind it has been pointed out to be the Demon of Desire.
But how did the Demon of Desire come about?
There is also a... well, they say "evil god" behind the death ticket case.
It sounds like this evil god is also very good at controlling people's hearts and desires, and he needs to force humans to introduce a special case like Ferdinand who is completely devoid of humanity to fight against it.
So are they the same thing?
Destroyed Laceres.
Influenced several previous recorders.
And this evil god who even defeated Gracest...could it be the Demon of Desire?
She continued to watch.
[Its understanding of human nature is so profound that it terrifies me, and I begin to suspect that this is what they were created for.]
[It's studying us.]
[Watching us.]
[But it doesn't care if we live or die—it's not subjectively interested in killing us.]
[This is all more like a study, a game.]
[It will constantly set us tests, all kinds of tests... It will only go back to sleep if someone passes the test, otherwise all the chosen people will die, just like the silent destruction of Lazarus.]
[I passed almost all the tests, but still failed at the last moment.]
[Luckily, another person passed the test, so I might not have to die, but I would definitely have to pay a heavy price.]
[The evil god is sleeping, Sarah is safe for the time being.]
[From this moment on, the lock function of this book is finally activated.]
[But it was too late.]
[It's too late.]
[From the moment I was bewitched by it and brought it back to Sara, this monster has been eyeing this place.]
[It repeats itself every 11 years. The next time it wakes up will be in 1973.]
[We have to do something.]
[That's a given.]
[I……]
[must……]
[Do something…]
Chapter 62: Message from Ognia Folland
Seeing this, Hitzfeld almost threw the book away.
Because she was almost certain that this was what the Eclipse Church, the King of the Sun, and Aglaia had been looking for.
Something that the Sara royal family, the Wheel of Fortune, and Grace have been hiding and protecting.
It is most likely this code book.
It all started with that long sea voyage.
That was about 22 years ago.
22 years ago, Sarah organized an ocean-going fleet for unknown reasons. Grest was among them. They sailed eastward along the route opened by their ancestors and finally discovered the remains of the legendary civilization Laceres.
But Laceres was already dead.
