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Chapter 741 Murong's progressive assumption

When Murong Shangjin saw the prosthetic limbs on Xia Shou, he was suddenly stunned. Some things that he still remembered but had long been thrown into the corner of his memory were dug out again by Xia Shou's prosthetic limbs and placed neatly in the center of Murong Shangjin's mind.

During the Blood Devil's House incident, he participated in the translation of Dorian Gray's Notebook. Although he only deciphered a section of it, Murong Shangjin still remembered that Dorian Gray's written record about the Blood Devil's House was:
[As for the follow-up of this house, I heard it from a local wizard. He said that people who entered that house could not come out, and those who came out were all people possessed by the blood demon.

People who are parasitized by the blood demon usually look no different from ordinary people. Their memories, personalities, everything is the same as before. But as time goes on, their bodies will slowly rot, and they must eat the flesh and blood of their own kind to keep their bodies from rotting.

I asked him, "Isn't it possible to destroy it directly? Can't we just burn it to death?"

The wizard said: "No, the blood demon can only be destroyed in the blood demon house. Once it comes to the outside world, the blood demon is immortal. In other words, it is not the blood demon itself that comes out, but the blood demon's evil desire."

"Then I will go and destroy the blood demon." I said.

Because of the portrait, I am immortal. I think if it were me who entered this room, I would definitely be able to destroy the blood demon.

But the wizard stopped me. He said that people with higher psychic powers are more likely to be favored by the blood demon, because only powerful psychics can bear the overly evil desires. The blood demon's parasitism is not a transformation of the body, but a possession of the soul.

█▊■█▊■█▊████■ (This location could not be deciphered)

The blood demon took over Jeffrin's body and he turned into the wind and ran away.

I don't plan to chase after him. I'm going to the next capital. 】

If you compare this description in the notes with the ending part of "The Journey of the Old Wizard", they are so similar!
At the end of the Crippled Old Wizard, the dead old wizard's body was without a drop of blood, as thin as a piece of paper or a dead tree, while the young hero who killed the old wizard moved into the evil castle and said those words.

The leaking thief who was pardoned by the king had little to do with the boy, but instead had a close relationship with the old wizard. However, the boy finally invited the other party to live with him in the castle. Isn't this a hint from the author?

The old wizard did not die, but turned into a young boy!
No, maybe they are really dead, just like the people possessed by the blood demon described in "The Notebook of Dorian Gray". They usually look no different from ordinary people, their memories, personalities, everything is the same as before, but after a long time, their bodies will rot, and they can only stop it by devouring the flesh and blood of their own kind.

The characteristic of decay is also mentioned in "The Journey of the Disabled Old Wizard". The disabled old wizard met a kind passerby, but the passerby's hands and feet decayed, while the old wizard's hands and feet grew back.

After that, when the old wizard returned to his hometown, he kept inviting those disabled people to his castle to fight. There is no clear explanation for the purpose of this behavior in the book, but if combined with the introduction of the blood demon in "The Notebook of Dorian Gray", the old wizard may have used this to devour the flesh and blood of those people!
The wizard's castle is the ancient blood demon's house!
Blood Demon... Blood Demon has existed since ancient times!
Murong Shangjin stared at Xia Shou, feeling a chill running up his feet. The sudden fear made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and goose bumps suddenly appeared on his arms and the back of his neck.

This truth horrified him, and an unbelievable answer emerged in his mind.

Survivors of the Blood Demon House? ...No, that's not the truth at all!
Can a newcomer who has just joined the company and is not even a closer really survive the blood demon's house?
The Control Bureau should have noticed this a long time ago, and the notes also made it very clear.

Those who enter the Blood Demon's House cannot come out, and those who come out are those who are possessed by the Blood Demon!
Whether it's the boy in "The Journey of the Old Wizard" or Jeffrey in "The Notebook of Dorian Gray", they are all the same! Isn't Xia Shou different? It's just that his memory and personality are exactly the same as before, so he can't be distinguished!

Murong Shangjin's brain was working rapidly, and he suddenly realized that the Control Bureau had considered the possibility that Xia Shou was the blood demon's parasite. At that time, the Control Bureau even sent out an execution squad, but they judged that the blood demon's house was destroyed because they observed the phenomenon of cursed power dissipation that would only occur after the monster was eliminated.

But in fact, the Blood Demon House may never have been a unique weird phenomenon, it is just a derivative created by a higher weirdness!
The dissipation of cursed power only means the death of the original blood demon, but there will be new blood demons.

Xia Shou is the blood demon!
"Um...that is, is there any problem?" Xia Shou saw that the moment Murong Shangjin saw him, his eyes suddenly revealed an extremely frightened look, as if he was frightened.

But Xia Shou didn’t know what scared the other person, was it the prosthetic limb installed on his body?
This should be impossible. People in the Control Bureau, even the civilian staff, are highly immune to bloody scenes. Compared with the daily news in public elevators, broken hands and feet are not even a small scene.

"No, nothing! There is no problem." Murong Shangjin shook his head in panic to deny it.

His heart was pounding, and new ideas popped up one after another.

The words he had just read from the book began to produce a chemical reaction in Murong Shangjin's mind. The originally insignificant details in reality began to slowly match some of the characteristics in the book.

[Scorpion grinding its teeth on the spine]...

This is a symbolic writing technique!
Murong Shangjin concluded that this was an adjustment made by the author deliberately in order to popularize and allegorize the article. It was very likely that it was not the scorpion grinding its teeth, but the shape of its spine was like a scorpion.

Yes! It’s the scorpion spine!

Is there any difference between Scorpion Spine and Blood Demon?
When the Blood Demon parasitizes humans, their memory and personality will not change, but they will be controlled by special desires. The same is true for the Scorpion Spine. Once it parasitizes a living creature, it will gradually change the habits of the parasite, causing the host to become extremely warlike, just like an undefeated beast!

Although it was a guess without any basis, Murong Shangjin had already assumed it was true.

Even though there is not a single word about the Second Coming in Journey of the Crippled Wizard, let alone any mention of the Red Duke and the Invincible Beast, but since this is the book specifically mentioned by the mysterious man, it should be related to the Second Coming.

Combined with the assumptions he had just thought of, the corpses eaten by the animals in the book were probably the second-born people themselves.

When a hypothesis can explain many problems that were originally unexplainable, and the reasoning and association are exceptionally smooth, then it is very likely that this hypothesis is the truth!
So... Xia Shou now is actually no longer a human being.

He is a monster that is parasitized by both the Blood Demon and the Scorpion Spine!

(End of this chapter)