Culture Conquers Foreign Worlds

　　 In the few days after getting married, no one would be uninterested in any way.

　　 Harvey almost sinks into the easy daily life that ordinary people should have, reading books and drinking tea, and when he is bored, he summons the messenger black cat to come out to amuse him, sleep in bed like ordinary people instead of meditating. To talk about the experience of a few days of leisure, that is that Harvey once again feels the lack of entertainment elements in this world, and one person can't find any way to entertain.

　　 Now that he moved to the former home of the Adrian family, Harvey should also be investigating the Adrian family's affairs.

"is it here?"

Harvey used [Spell Vision] to inspect the entire mansion, and his eyes were covered with a thin layer of light blue light. The sights observed in the line of sight were transformed into information and conveyed to his consciousness. The study room was surrounded by towering bookshelves, full of I read all kinds of classical books, exactly the same as when he moved out here. It seems that the owner who bought this house had no intention of reading these books.

　　 The light blue vision quickly found the inconsistency in the study. Among the three bookshelves, only the sixth book in the sequence had the traces of frequent removal.

　　 Harvey took out this hardcover ancient book. The leather cover shows the name of the book "Alston History", which is a historical biography. I searched page by page. When I turned to the middle, I found the abnormality of this book. There was a square on the page of the book. Inside the square, there was a spell written in simple star text. There is no special understanding from the star language. significance.

"It should be a simple combination of star text syllables, so that most people can't figure out the meaning of this sentence when they read this book. Only those who know the star text can understand it, or they can record it through word of mouth. It is not uncommon among spellcasters. It is usually a spell that activates a magic circle or some special mechanism."

　　 Harvey closed the book and put it back, chanting the star spell displayed in the book just now. Under [Spell Vision], you can observe the surrounding etheric elements converging towards the bookshelf, which is equivalent to casting a first-order spell.

　　 "Success!"

　　 "Crack~"

Behind the bookshelf came the sound of the mechanism turning. Various gears were operating at high speed. The bookshelf tilted forward and opened a hole. However, before Harvey became excited, the sound of the mechanism stopped abruptly, followed by a mess of metal crashing. , The bookshelf completely ceased operation.

"Unexpectedly, after all, it is impossible to be like in the game. The complex mechanism has not been maintained and has been operating normally for hundreds of years." Harvey shrugged, stretched out his right hand and chanted a spell, an invisible negative energy. The ball formed in his hand and threw it on the bookshelf. A large number of books and the wooden bookshelf disappeared silently, revealing a hole leading to the inside. Through the light of the study chandelier, a staircase in the hole leading to the bottom can be seen.

　　 "Crack~crack~"

　　 Harvey pressed a mechanism on the inner wall of the passage, but nothing changed.

"The lighting device is useless, and the smell... should be the smell of a rotting corpse." Harvey frowned and covered his nose, with a bad premonition in his heart, he chanted the spell and cast a first-order general spell [Magic] Light Art].

　　 Several **** of light lit up on Harvey's shoulders. Harvey used [Spell Vision] to carefully watch the surroundings. The light **** on his shoulders automatically shot in all directions, sticking to the walls to illuminate the entire underground space.

　　 Harvey stopped when the lower room was fully illuminated, his face became solemn.

The spacious basement was not as simple as he thought, but Harvey couldn’t think that this basement was full of corpses, with weird torture tools hanging on the walls, and a large cage next to it was piled with four or five corpses, and there were also outside the cage. Two, and a strange magic circle drawn in blood is still kept not far from the corpse.

"The clothes worn on the two corpses are really his missing parents." Harvey squatted down and inspected the fallen corpse and directly recognized that this was the clothes his parents often wore. So far there is nothing wrong with it. Special feeling.

　　 Harvey pinched his nose and turned the corpse: "There is no obvious trauma to the body, and the cause of death cannot be determined for the time being."

　　 then came to the cage to check the corpse inside: "The corpse has signs of being bitten, and the wounds are neat and neat. The cause of these people's deaths is most likely to starve to death, and then they ate the corpses of their companions because they were kept together in order to survive."

　　 "It can be judged that my parents died first, and the people in the cage were starved to death without food."

　　 Looking at the traces of human teeth on the corpse, Harvey couldn't help but feel horrified. What kind of despair had the people in the cage experienced.

This basement is more like a dark magician's lab that cannot be seen. After patrolling, Harvey found research notes and recording crystals, a book recording the method of the founder of the Adrian family to summon demons, and another The note records the experimental records of Harvey's parents. On the first page of the note is a sentence: "Only the status of the Adrian family can be restored..."

　　 "On July 3rd, the summoning formation was drawn using the girl’s blood, and the material died due to excessive blood loss..."

　　 "July 4th, fill the core with the blood of the tortured, the material is dying..."

　　 "July 5th, use desperate people as sacrifices..."

　　 "Buying a woman rumored to have an elf bloodline at a big price can finally come in handy, if it can replace her bloodline! The Adrian family will become a family with noble spellcaster blood!"

　　 "July 6th, all preparations are complete, if nothing else, the Adrian family will..."

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　　 After reading the two notebooks, Harvey felt complicated thinking and came to a heavy conclusion: "His ancestors should have become spellcasters by summoning demons and paying a certain price."

　　 "But the offspring did not continue this ability, so my parents discovered the notes of their ancestors and wanted to copy what he did..."

　　 "The plot is really old-fashioned."

"The note stopped the day before the experiment, which means that there must be some accident that caused the tragic death of his parents, and the people in the cage had no chance to escape and starve to death." After reading the notes, Harvey died to his parents. The last trace of regret disappeared. Although he was not a gentleman, he had received modern education anyway, and he was both disgusted and angry with his parents' experiments.

　　 "It is very likely an accident in the experiment."

Harvey began to carefully check the illusion crystal that records the information. The content displayed in the illusion crystal is basically that Harvey’s parents are torturing and torturing some people with torture ~www.readwn.com~ Use blood to talk about the magic circle. Uncomfortable, after checking the last crystal, Harvey's spirit penetrated into the illusion crystal to replenish its magic power, activating the projection screen stored in it, and a figure that Harvey was very familiar with, Shirley in the girlhood, appeared in the screen.

　　 "Shirley?"

　　 "Sure enough, it was mentioned in the notes that the woman with the blood of the elves was her. She had been to this basement but didn't tell herself." Harvey's heart sank.

In the projection of the illusion crystal, Harvey’s parents brought her here. Her body was also scarred, and the snow-white outer lining was bleeding. Shirley stood obediently in the center of the so-called Demon Summoning Array, as Harvey’s parents chanted the spell. , The illusion crystal seems to be ineffective due to some interference.

Harvey's face was uncertain and stood up. Harvey didn't care what happened in the basement. What his ancestors and parents did had nothing to do with him personally, but Harvey was more concerned about why Shirley, who knew everything, didn't tell him the truth, Shirley again How did you escape from here, why didn't you die like the people here, and what made Harvey the most creepy was why Shirley could escape but watched the people in the cage starve to death.

　　 There are many reasons to assume that Harvey has never been an optimist, and Shirley is more likely to have something wrong.

"The most likely thing is that there is an accident in the experiment. Isn't it common in games or movies? For example, people who are regarded as sacrifices have become the host of the devil. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain why Shirley is the only person. Survive."

　　 "But why could I be spared? Why didn't Shirley kill Harvey at the time? For so many years, Harvey didn't feel anything unusual about Shirley."