snap——

The old door lock of the door was pried open by Xia Xiu. He pushed the door open with his hand and walked in.

A moist breath filled the air, as if the air itself was carrying a layer of water vapor. The white paint on the wall began to fall off under the erosion of moisture, just like the paint on a gradually fading canvas began to fade, leaving behind

Irregular marks were left.

Only frustrated people like Xiao Eli, who had fled from the city in panic, could live in such a shabby place. He saw no other tenants along the way, and many people avoided it.

. He estimated that Xiao Eli was tricked into staying here by a black agent, and by the time he regretted it, it was already too late.

Xia Xiu's feet stepped on the wooden floor on the ground. The floor was also affected by moisture. There were some small water marks on the slightly uneven wood grain, as if the floor was whispering the secret of indoor humidity.

"If there are no problems with this investigation, then the relevant conclusions I submitted before will be strongly proved." Xia Xiu said to [Adam] in his mind. At the same time, he also began to look towards the place where Xiao Eli once lived.

There is no elevator here, so he can only walk up the stairs.

[The article "Conjectures about the rituals and physical body required for Kuperler's recovery" that you wrote after investigating Haifeng Village and based on the information compiled by the intelligence officer has been uploaded to the [Central Containment Room], the containment room

Researchers generally support many of the views and conjectures you mentioned in your paper——]

"So now this is the last piece of the puzzle. I need to conduct one last retrospective look at Xiao Eli to prove my conjecture."

Xia Xiu had already arrived at the ninth floor. This weird self-built building was in decay from the first to the eighth floor. Only the floors above the ninth floor were relatively normal, and the building where Xiao Eli lived was

908, he was standing in front of 908's room at the moment.

Xia Xiu twisted the door handle but did not open it.

So, [Sisyphus] floated out of his body and raised his right fist high.

Bang!

The door opened and he walked in.

908 is a typical cheap urban village single room.

The room is small in size, crowded, and does not have much private space; the internal facilities are very basic, with a bed, a simple table, and a chair; the bathroom and shower are combined, there are only a few steps in the room, and the facilities are rudimentary

, and there was a disgusting yellow dirt and smell.

"A thousand slaves have been sacrificed, and the brand of the stars has been engraved on the body of the Great Mother. Please let me take away His divine body so that He can be in a more suitable depth in the pelvic cavity; He will experience the ups and downs of life, just like

As the earth's seasons change, He will contain infinite hope and strength, guarding the germination of new life..."

Xia Xiu recalled the words of the black-robed woman in his mind, and at the same time, the shadow of [Vashak] appeared behind him again, and at the same time, he began to review the important information he had obtained through two fragments of retrieval.

The prayer of the woman in black robe is very important. When he was studying in Deer Garden, he had realized the importance of [Word Spirit] and [Oath] more than once during Alice's performance, especially for the gods.

, the prayers to the gods must be satisfied - the words must express the meaning, the words are true, refer to the original characteristics, and symbolize the ontology.

In the field of thaumatology, language and rhetoric are as important as symbolism, and their specific applications are prayers and oaths.

Both prayers and oaths require three things: a contract, a mime carrier, and a probability field.

During the tracking and retrieval of [Kupler], Xia Xiu observed the details revealed by the woman in black robe from the clues in the scene fragments, and used this as a clue to closely pursue and analyze her behavioral motives and next steps.

every move.

The first is [Referring to the original card] and [Symbolic body]. This is what Xia Xiu has always paid attention to. When Frank killed [Human-Faced Rat] and went back for the first time, he noticed that the opponent held [Big

"Mother Goddess" is one of the five essential characteristics of "the big circle", and when he went back for the second time in Haifeng Village, he noticed that the appearance characteristics of the divine organs in the shrine did belong to the "big circle".

This clue is very important, because the essence is the embodiment of the divine power and personality. At the same time, it is also the symbolic characteristic of [miracle]. It is the advanced manifestation of [crown element]. When the thaumaturge penetrates the "seven levels of ether"

, they will receive the "Essential Weapon (Essential Characteristics)" that represents a miracle.

If the [Great Mother Goddess] wants to be resurrected, it must meet its inherent characteristics, and this involves two other points: what she says must be true, and what she says must be true.

Refining the words of the woman in black robe, we can get the following keywords:

"A thousand slaves", "The mark of the stars", "Proper pelvic cavity", "The ups and downs of life", "Changes of the seasons".

Needless to say, "The Brand of the Stars" is the price the woman in black robe has to pay for taking out her divine organ.

In addition to this clue, Xia Xiu integrated the other four clues into one. The third time he was going to trace back the events was to prove his conjecture.

[Vashak] Those deep and mysterious purple eyes shone in the room, like two bright stars in the night sky.

"Timing control——"

"Time Insight·Fragments of Events!"

——The beginning of the third event retrospective——

Phew~

Phew~

The surrounding scene was like a film. The brown picture quality replaced the colorful world. The only ones with color were the blond young man and the Time Demon behind him. They were like bystanders, watching the gaps in time.

Everything starts to rewind.

Soon, the rewinded clips began to freeze at the most important clips, and then began to play frame by frame.

"Damn it! My money was obviously low, why didn't I stop at that time!"

In the brown picture, in the small and dark single room, a middle-aged man sat quietly beside the shabby bed.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The dim light casts a faint halo, outlining his decadent and tired face, with messy hair scattered in front of his forehead, and a pair of eyes that have lost their luster.

His eyes revealed deep despair.

He was holding a wine glass in his hand, and the liquid in the glass was swaying. He took a sip, as if trying to anesthetize the pain in his heart. Countless empty wine bottles were scattered in the corners of the room, which were witnesses of his failure. The ground floor was covered with

paper, cigarette butts and all kinds of meaningless debris, just like the chaos of his life.

The indifference of the city and the cruelty of reality seemed to be pushing him ruthlessly into the abyss.

"House, house, house..."

Xiao Eli, who was full of alcohol, kept repeating this sentence. For the vast majority of office workers, a house means a sense of security and dependence; there is no need to rent a house and be forced to live in other people's houses and watch the landlord's face;

You don't have to worry about the house, you can read or rest at home.

Why is it necessary to have a house in life?

He doesn't know, he doesn't want to think about issues that are too philosophical and commonplace.

All he knows is that the house he bought with a 30-year loan has become a bubble in the eyes of others.

The Great Depression is coming, and there are countless people like him, and there are even some who are even worse than him.

What is even more terrifying is the powerlessness of the Phrygian government, the powerlessness of the Central Alliance, and the powerlessness of the Edici government...

During the Great Depression, the construction of countless buildings began to stagnate due to financial problems, and the projects were interrupted, eventually turning into half-completed or uncompleted building ruins.

A large-scale unfinished building project has appeared in Terra.

He has seen people worse off than him, poor people trying to find an explanation.

If you go alone to make trouble, they will find someone who will listen to you with nice words, let you vent, and finally let you go home.

If a group of people go to make trouble, there are various ways to deal with it. Even if you finally meet the person in charge of the Phrygian government, they will give you a good speech and art nonsense, and finally let you go home.

He didn't understand before that if you have built a house with dozens of floors, why don't you continue to renovate it?

Only later did I realize that developers could receive regulatory payments if the cap was imposed.

He didn't understand before that if a house is in bad condition, then no one can take care of the developer?

Later I discovered that even if you file a lawsuit in court, the court will usually tell you that the developer cannot be found and enforcement cannot be carried out.

The bank has almost become a joke, and the Phrygian government has directly destroyed the credibility it has built for many years.

The Phrygian region took the land finance and taxes, the real estate developers took the purchase money, and the banks made a lot of money. Then all the systems in the entire real estate chain could default and not bear responsibility. In the end, only the house buyers could not default and pay back.

You cannot file for personal bankruptcy.

If he deserves it, then those poor people have suffered eight lifetimes of bad luck.

During the Great Depression, a speck of dust of the times directly crushed Xiao Eli and others, crushing everything in their past.

"Damn! Damn! Damn! Why are you doing this to me!!!"

Xiao Eli smashed the wine bottle in his hand forward and roared angrily. At this moment, he was bursting with tears and grief-stricken.

And just when Xiao Eli was venting his anger, a slightly shrill laughter passed into his ears.

"You look like a dog."

"who!?"

Xiao Eli looked around suddenly, but found that there was no one there, just when he thought he was drunk.

The house comes alive.

squeak--

The house let out a long, low groan, and his soles and teeth felt the strangeness.

With a sound like the bursting of bubbles, the wall ate the window; something is eating away at your consciousness, and his feeling becomes more and more blurry. Is that the familiar feeling of hangover? No, it is something more wonderful.

Uterus?
To be continued...