Chapter 167 Hungry
Thor has not seen himself for a long, long, long time.
So much so that he was stunned for a few seconds before he realized that the person lying there was his previous life.
A poor social creature who was nearly thirty years old, but already unshaven and with black eyes.
To this day, he still doesn't know why he traveled through time in the first place.
Did he die suddenly while working overtime late at night, or did he collapse due to alcohol poisoning?
The memories before coming to this world seemed to have been ransacked, and all experiences were blurred like a dream.
"So what I'm afraid of is the death of my previous life? Is there anything particularly terrifying in some of the forgotten memories?" In the library, the surrounding
white fog gradually thickened, blurring the vision.
"Time is limited, and the mystery of time travel is obviously beyond my reach now." Thor stretched out his hand to the human body in front of him, "If you blindly explore the unknown, you will fall into the unknown. Just let nature take its course." His hand touched the human body in front of him
. People, Saul's eyes suddenly blurred, the body disappeared, and the bookshelves turned back into thick books.
These books are unlike any other. Each book is at least ten centimeters thick, and the entire book is bound with a thin silver chain.
A small card hung from a silver chain with the title of the book written on it.
The fog began to obstruct Thor's vision, and the surrounding visibility was getting lower and lower.
If you stay in the depths of the library for a long time, you may get lost. This is also a method used by the mentors to prevent the apprentices from rashly coming into contact with too much knowledge.
He lay on the ground and quickly scanned the cards one after another.
Before the bookshelf was completely submerged in white mist, Saul finally selected two books.
He took out the two books, returned to the passage between the bookshelves, and looked around.
After determining the direction from which he came, he grabbed the book and ran away.
The white fog is getting thicker and thicker.
Thor's running speed became slower and slower.
Finally, when his speed was about to return to zero, Thor stepped out of the white mist.
The door of the library appeared in front of me, and the old librarian appeared with him.
Sol held the book in his arms tightly and looked back.
The bookshelves behind him were still submerged in the light white mist, quiet and quiet, waiting for people to read. Everything just now seemed like his illusion.
But even though he was almost left in the white mist, the diary did not issue a death warning.
Isn't this white mist dangerous? Or is it because he has been promoted to a second-level apprentice?
"Do you want to borrow these two books?" The elderly administrator, who was standing at the door suppressing his excitement, actually stepped forward when he saw that Saul was delayed in coming.
When Thor heard the sound, he turned around and found that the administrator was almost touching his face.
He quickly took a step to the right and said, "Yes."
"Let me take a look." The old administrator stretched out his hands to take Sol's book.
In the past, he would never take the initiative to contact apprentices except reaching out to take money.
Saul was caught off guard and failed to avoid the administrator's outstretched hand, and the book in his arms was forcefully snatched away.
However, after the other party snatched the book, he only glanced at it lightly and immediately stuffed it back into Saul's arms.
Everything went so fast as if nothing had happened.
"It is not recommended to borrow these two books for more than three days." He even gave Sol some advice.
"Did this bad-tempered old man take his medicine today?" Sol thought in surprise and thanked him repeatedly.
Before leaving the library, Saul couldn't help but look back at him. But he saw the old administrator holding his hands behind his back and nodding to him with a smile.
After Thor left, the elderly administrator raised his hands and looked at them. The fingertips of his hands were all shorter, as if they had been swallowed up by something.
But he smiled excitedly.
"You're right, it's the taste of freedom."
...
Sol held the book and did not return to the dormitory or go to the second warehouse.
He wanted to find a relatively safe place to read these two books.
For example, Tutor Katz’s laboratory.
Each mentor's laboratory has an apprentice stationed there for a long time, who tidies up the laboratory and is also responsible for vigilance.
When an abnormality occurs in the laboratory, the stationed apprentices will directly notify their instructors through their unique communication devices.
As expected, the instructor will arrive soon.
Thor hadn't been to Instructor Kaz's laboratory for a long time. As soon as he opened the door, he saw a familiar figure.
Ankita was writing and drawing at the table, but she was in a daze, didn't know what she was thinking, and looked a little haggard.
Saul heard Mark mention that since entering the Wizard Tower, Ankita has never been to work outside the laboratory.
No matter which senior is responsible for organizing the laboratory, she can always successfully apply for the position of assistant.
As time passed, Kaz's apprentices all came to know who she was.
In the words that Sol is familiar with, he is the flowing senior and the iron-clad Ankita.
She never seemed to think about changing jobs and stayed in the laboratory with peace of mind.
Sol walked in and sat directly at the table directly opposite Ankita.
The sound of the chair being dragged woke up Ankita who was in a daze. She stood up subconsciously and looked towards the door as a reflex.
Seeing that there was no one there, she belatedly noticed Thor opposite.
"Thor, you haven't been here for a long time." She tried to smile, but the dark circles on her face became more obvious.
"Well." Sol remembered Ankita's suspected split personality last night, and rarely took the initiative to greet her, "You look very bad, are you sick?"
"No, no!" Ankita immediately retorted forcefully, but she quickly realized that her tone was too strong, and smiled awkwardly, "I just haven't had a good rest recently." The other party didn't want to elaborate, and Sol naturally did
n't Don't mind your own business.
He placed both books on the table, read the titles back and forth twice, then picked up one of them and began to carefully untie the chain on it.
Ankita looked at Sol with his head lowered while reading and hesitated to speak. After several torments, she finally couldn't help but want to speak.
However, her right hand suddenly raised, her index finger raised, and she put it in front of her lips.
Shhh...
Ankita blinked her eyes, and her eyes instantly filled with tears.
She lowered her head, and two tears fell on her robe, spreading all over.
Angela quickly put the book up and used the cover of the book to carefully wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes.
Saul didn't notice Angela's abnormality. The content in the book had attracted all his attention.
The first book he opened was a collection of stories. It writes about horrific events related to nightmares that happened in the wizarding world.
Thor quickly flipped through each story. He didn't really want to read a novel, he just wanted to look for the words "Nightmare Butterfly" here.
Surprisingly, Thor really found the nightmare butterfly in the fifth story.
The story is simple.
A very powerful official wizard suddenly discovered that his son had discovered his secret, and wanted to use this secret to kill and inherit all his inheritance.
The official wizard knew why his son wanted to kill him.
He was promoted to an official wizard in his early years, and his appearance remained in middle age. But because his son had no talent, he was unable to break through the apprenticeship stage and became old.
The official wizard felt sorry for his son, and although he foiled the plot, he did not punish him.
Unfortunately, the son did not repent and took advantage of the opportunity to admit his mistake to launch another sneak attack.
This time, the official wizard took direct action and killed his son.
But the moment he took action, he realized that he was actually his son.
But before, he somehow had the memory of an official wizard, confusing his own existence.
At the moment of death, the son saw a beautiful silver butterfly fly away from his eyes.
At this point in the story, the perspective changes to an unknown narrator.
He said that when the butterfly flew out of his son's brain, he was caught by an official wizard. After several inquiries, he finally determined that the butterfly was actually a nightmare butterfly that was also very rare in the wizarding world!
But not long after, the official wizard also died.
Before dying, he gouged out his eyes, pierced his eardrums, cut off his nose, and finally jumped naked into the leyline fire and was burned to death.
Before he died, he kept shouting: "It's all fake, it's all fake!"
Seeing this, Saul closed the book.
"The nightmare butterfly can indeed affect people's consciousness, or it can copy other people's consciousness. If the subject's willpower is not enough, it will lose itself..." Suddenly, there was a heart-burning hunger in
Thor's stomach. . His thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a craving for food.
Food...
Sol raised his head and saw Angela with red eyes opposite her, lowering her head and reading silently.
Thor swallowed.
(End of chapter)