book of old days

Chapter 49

"Wednesday, Wednesday!"

Wednesday's figure immediately appeared outside the door, "Master is here."

"Get them tools, we're going to work."

Half an hour later, Sean led a group of dwarves to the forest land full of twilight grass.

The sun set early in Nord, and Sean took out his pocket watch to check the time. It was not yet four o'clock, and the sky was already getting dark.

There are still more than ten hours before three o'clock in the morning, which is enough for them to be busy.

"Get to work, guys." He gave an order, and the dwarves immediately got busy and started excavating on the spot. Work started at several locations at the same time, and soon dug up the human bones buried in the soil.

As the twilight grass and soil on the surface were cleared away, more and more bones were exposed. Sean was secretly startled. A frightening and shocking picture.

These corpses have obviously been buried here for a long time. Most of the bones have decayed under the passing of time. Many remaining bones are broken when touched, and more are mixed in the soil and turned into pitch-black mud. Rotten soil.

Fortunately, there are enough bones, and if you dig too much, you can always find some relatively complete ones, and Sean doesn't need them to be strong. In fact, sometimes being weak may not be a bad thing.

According to the book, although lost spirit bodies have lost their self-awareness, like any kind of undead, they follow the most basic behavior pattern-kill all living creatures, and once they are attached to the bones, they will die. It will turn into an undead creature and attack nearby life.

And Sean's task is to physically transcend it and kill it again. If you want to absorb the memory of the lost spirit body, you must make it appear, kill it, and consume the last trace of death power of the spirit body, and the rest is pure. Otherwise, if it is directly absorbed, even the weakest spirit body will still cause unavoidable damage to the body of the living.

Therefore, these excavated bones are only used as temporary shells for spirit bodies, and will be destroyed soon, and it is not good if they are too hard.

Looking at the relatively complete bones in front of him, I feel that any stick can be easily broken, and the undead after possessing must be very fragile.

But even though he thought so, Sean decided to add another insurance.

When the dwarves were digging up the bones, he walked to the edge of the grass, looked at a juniper tree with a crooked neck and calculated its height. This tree was only a dozen meters away from the place where he would perform the summoning ceremony, and he decided to install it An agency is the last insurance.

Taking out a logging ax from his pocket, Sean chopped down a fir tree not far away.

What Xiao En wants to do is a mechanism called a pendulum, the principle is very simple, trap several pieces of wood together, hang them with ropes, pull them up high, and then tie them tightly with ropes.

At that time, as long as the rope is cut off, the log will fall down like a huge pendulum, regardless of whether it is a skeleton or a zombie, it can be smashed to pieces in one fell swoop.

This job is not easy. If the weight of the log is not enough, the lethality will be insufficient. Sean does not have much logging experience. It took more than an hour to bring down the not very thick tree and cut it into four pieces. segments, bundled together.

Tired and sweaty after all this, he decided to leave the rest of the work to the goblins.

The goblins over there are working very fast. They have dug up a lot of skeletons, but unfortunately none of them are complete. Sean is not in a hurry, and they can use patchwork.

He roughly calculated the number of bones, probably three or five skeletons would be enough.

So he stopped the little goblins to set up the 'pendulum', while he started fiddling with the bones himself.

He found an open space, sorted these bones into categories, and pieced together a complete human figure according to the shape of the human body. Although he knew that hundreds of years had passed, Sean still couldn't help but feel a little scared when he touched the bone.

However, once you see a lot of things, it will be so. Xiao En quickly got used to this touch and became familiar with it.

Soon this 'skeleton' was pieced together.

Sean didn't know much about the human body's bones, but the shape was fine, so he wasn't sure how many pieces were missing.

Fortunately, spiritism is not a Lego toy, and there is no such high-precision requirement, as long as it can fool ghosts, and the lost spirit body has no IQ, so it should be fine...

It was seven o'clock in the evening, and the preparations were finally completed.

The pendulum was hung high and marked. Xiao En felt that it might not be needed, but it would be good to have an extra layer of protection.

More than a dozen torches were left in the air for the fourth week. It must be completely dark at three o'clock in the morning, and lighting tools must be prepared in advance.

The skeleton is placed right in the middle of the clearing.

After arranging everything, Sean took the goblins back home.

After dinner, Sean saw that the time was still early, so he asked Wednesday to wake him up at two o'clock in the morning, and then fell asleep.

A few hours later, Sean was woken up.

"Master, it's time, do you want to go?"

Sean nodded and struggled to get up from the bed.

Washed his face with cold water, tried to wake himself up, dressed neatly and walked out of the mansion door, the dark night outside and the cold night wind blowing in front of him made him retreat involuntarily.

In the middle of the night, in the middle of the night, instead of hiding under the covers to sleep, he chose to go into the woods. It was really not a comfortable thing. At this time, he missed the wooden bed covered with fur, and even more missed the apartment in Jianbao.

But he knew that there was no way to avoid this kind of thing, and the only way to summon the lost spirit body was at three o'clock in the morning.

Sean sighed, waved his hand, and set off with the team.

The goblins obviously complained about working the night shift, but this time Sean made up his mind. He didn't want to go to the cemetery by himself to take risks in the middle of the night.

The valley was unusually quiet at night, but it was not without sound. The howling of wild beasts, the rustling of the night wind blowing through the treetops, and the weird noise of bustling in the dark all made this The night seemed restless.

However, walking in the dark valley, Sean still felt a deadly silence. He could feel that there seemed to be something moving in the darkness. Although he couldn't see or hear it, those things were there. And getting closer.

Medorian called three o'clock in the morning the time of the junction of the dark and the sun. Maybe it's not for nothing. He looked at the darkness around him and couldn't help shivering. His thick fur coat couldn't stop the cold. He held the torch in front of him. , Try to let the flames dispel the darkness in front of you.

He glanced at the dwarves behind him again, they all showed a cowering and sleepy look, and followed sparsely behind, only Wednesday was still paying attention, waving his stick to make sure no one was left behind.

On the contrary, the briquettes were extremely excited, darting back and forth in the darkness ahead, and its eyes glowed faintly in the darkness, becoming a striking signpost.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, just when Xiao En wondered if he had lost his way, the front suddenly opened up, without the cover of trees, and the moonlight poured down without any cover.

Arrived!

He recognized it at a glance, even in the dark night, the flat open space and the pale bones in the open space were still clear, the green of the surrounding grass was pitch black at night, only those small white flowers, It is looming under the light of the fire.

Here is the battlefield he had set up before. Sean lit the torches around the open space one by one. The beating fire light illuminated the skeleton lying flat on the open space, which also brought a somewhat mysterious atmosphere to the ceremony scene. .

Sean nodded in satisfaction, and seemed to have a bit of a posture.

He glanced at the goblins. These little guys might not be of much help, but they are living beings after all. If the resurrected undead is too fierce, these little guys can attract some firepower.

He was ready to lose a few goblins—except for Wednesday, who he kept on the perimeter, responsible for 'site security', in effect giving it a place to run away at any time.

Everything was ready, and Sean stood in front of the skeleton. Under the light of the fire, the put together human skeleton was piled up on the ground like a jigsaw puzzle. Sean nodded respectfully at the skeleton on the ground, and then He took out the Book of Old Days from his pocket.

(End of this chapter)