Pollution throughout the territory - #355 - Chapter 351 Ebon’s Study Room

“Minaret…”

Patient No. 3’s low murmur suddenly popped into Xia Ren’s mind, and he mentioned the word “spire”.

His heartbeat couldn’t help but accelerate a little.

The corpses of worms washed ashore by the sea, as well as several spire-shaped buildings not far away, what he was looking for on this trip, if nothing else happened, should be within easy reach.

Jiang grabbed Lily’s legs and lifted her up. Xia Ren carried the little one on his back and walked over quickly.

Xia Ren approached the building with a slightly salty sea breeze blowing on his face, and accompanied by the sound of tidal waves.

Minaret-shaped buildings were more popular thousands of years ago in the ununified Western Continent. However, with the establishment of the Supreme Alliance Government and rapid development in all aspects, this architectural form with low space utilization and high difficulty has gradually faded out of the mainstream. History, now only some families with ancient blood in Xizhou are still using it. Xia Ren had an ancient dream and entered the town full of maggots. There were many similar buildings.

The building that appeared in front of Xia Ren at this time looked quite old. Its walls were made of blue stone bricks. After years of weathering and the corrosiveness of the sea breeze, the surface of the building had become stained everywhere. The potholes made it look extremely fragile, as if it could collapse at any time.

The top of the building is the iconic red cone-shaped spire. There are five spiers in total. The main body is a cylindrical tube tower. There are long steps connecting each other. The spire closest to the rock wall is the tallest, and the others are higher than the tower. It was two or three meters shorter. Two of the spiers originally had skylights, but by this time the wooden window frames had long since corroded, leaving only two rectangular frame holes, which looked like hollowed-out eyes.

Xia Ren came to the door of the building – if the pile of rusted iron sheets in front of him could be called a door.

Everything in front of me is full of the texture of time. The main body of this door is still made of wood and is nailed together by iron sheets. It can be vaguely seen that when it was still intact, it should be very grand, but now it is just a pile of rotten wood. .

The door was ajar. I didn’t know if anyone had gone in. Xia Ren wanted to pass through the crack in the open door, but he overestimated the strength of the door. He just walked over without even touching the door. With a “click”, it suddenly collapsed outwards. If it hadn’t been for the timely dodge and quick action of jumping to the side, it would have almost been covered underneath.

Debris fell on the door frame. Xia Ren was afraid of hitting Lily, so he held her in his arms again and bent down to pass.

After walking a few steps, he entered a somewhat narrow courtyard. A small square pond was surrounded by a low wall in the center of the courtyard. Xia Ren guessed that it should have been used to raise fish, but at this moment there was not even a drop of fresh water. There are no more left.

“Who would live in a place like this?”

Xia Ren turned around and looked around. Reflecting the direction of the door, there was a dark living room. At the door of the living room, a long corridor extended out, connecting the rooms on both sides. The architectural style of this part is a bit Dongzhou. The shadow of the ancient courtyard is gone.

Xia Ren went directly to the living room without looking at the rooms on either side.

At the door of the living room, there is a layer of corroded bamboo debris scattered. From the shape of the debris, it can be seen that this should have been a recliner.

Xia Ren couldn’t understand it more and more. Judging from the current situation, he couldn’t connect the insect nest with this abandoned building.

He then searched the living room and the entire building, panting from exhaustion. However, just like the door outside and the deck chair just now, this building has gone through so long that almost all human life inside it All traces of the past have been erased by time, and he cannot obtain any useful information at all.

Just when he was about to sit down and rest for a while, Lily woke up quietly.

Xia Ren lowered his head and saw her in his arms, looking up at him with her big eyes.

“Are you okay?”

he asked.

He still remembered clearly the time Lily blocked him.

“Um?”

Lily didn’t seem to understand what he was asking, and tilted her head with confusion on her face.

From the looks of it, it should be fine.

A stone in Xia Ren’s heart finally fell, and he immediately put her back on the ground and held her fleshy little hand.

In order to be able to cooperate with Xia Ren in completing this action and avoid being lifted up with her feet dangling in the air, Lily took the initiative to grow taller and became the size of a four-year-old.

“Lily, do you know where the bugs are?”

Xia Ren searched around and couldn’t find it, so he asked Lily to help.

“insect?”

Lily raised her head and thought for a moment, then lowered her head and pointed to the ground: “Here.”

“You mean, underground?”

Xia Ren looked at the floor tiles pointed by her fingers.

It would be troublesome to dig the ground.

Lily seemed to understand Xia Ren’s thoughts. She let go of his hand and ran towards the depths of the living room on her short legs.

“Here here.”

She called Xia Ren in a childish voice, and the latter quickly followed.

Lily didn’t know whether she was following the smell or because she was familiar with the building. After walking around a few times, she came to a place that Xia Ren had not searched before.

“here it is……”

If the direction was correct, he remembered this location, which should be under the tallest spire.

Just now he couldn’t find the way to the tower, so he gave up temporarily. Unexpectedly, Lily found him.

Lily ran ahead, and Xia Ren followed her. Following the spiral staircase, they arrived at the room at the top of the tower not long after.

When he arrived here, Xia Ren couldn’t help but be a little surprised.

So clean.

The walls here are intact, with no traces of weathering, not even a spider web, as if someone often lives here.

The door to the room at the top of the tower is made of wood. Unlike the doors downstairs, it is still intact and shows no signs of being tempered over the years.

In the middle of the door, there is a brown wooden sign nailed with nails. On the wooden sign, a series of symbols are written with a black brush. The first three symbols look like some kind of lost writing, and the following symbols are It was the letter “Eibon”, but Xia Ren couldn’t understand any of the meanings, whether it was a symbol or a letter.

“Ebon.”

Lily said suddenly.

“?”

Xia Ren looked at the direction where her eyes were looking and found that she was looking at the wooden sign when she spoke.

“This is Ebon’s room, our good friend.”

Lily suddenly grinned, showing her white teeth and smiling happily.

Xia Ren looked at her smile, but felt a little sad for no reason.

Even he himself couldn’t explain what this sudden emotion was about.

Lily took the initiative to open the door, and Xia Ren followed and walked in.

Inside is a study room with a brown floor that creaks softly when stepped on. The surrounding walls are also decorated with wooden boards. Against the wall, there is a large bookshelf with all the books on it. There are all kinds of books, large and small. At a rough glance, there are thousands of them, and there are also many unbound manuscripts. The visual effect is extremely shocking.

On the other side corresponding to the bookshelf, there is a metal test bench. There is a sophisticated mechanical instrument placed on the bench. In addition, there are exaggeratedly large glass flasks and gooseneck bottles, but they are all empty. Like the tidy environment, the experimental bench was also kept clean.

Directly in front of the study are wooden chairs and desks.

At this time, a figure wearing a white gown was sitting on the chair, with his back to Xia Ren.

In front of the desk is a window. From the window, you can see the blue ocean. The light sea breeze blows in and stirs the manuscript paper on the desk.

The man seemed to be asleep, with his upper body lying on the table, motionless.

Xia Ren looked at his back, without any fluctuation.

Suddenly, there was an unbearable throbbing pain in my heart, and sad thoughts burst out.

“Ebon is dead.”

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