In an underground sewer in Dongting City, pungent odor filled every space, and sewage mixed with excrement and various domestic garbage slowly flowed in the ditch.

On the stone walls on both sides, some saprophytic fungi emit a faint fluorescence, bringing a slight light to the dark sewer.

Suddenly, ripples appeared out of thin air on the surface of the quietly flowing sewage.

Wow...

A skinny and skinny arm suddenly stretched out of the water, its fingers spread out, and an eye suddenly opened in the palm of the hand.

The palm with eyes turned left and right, and after observing the surrounding situation, it slowly sank under the water surface.

The sewer fell into deathly silence again.

It took about five minutes, maybe ten.

Ripples began to appear on the water surface again, and what emerged this time was a head with shoulder-length hair.

There were some fine pieces of garbage mixed in the wet hair, like a mess of waterweed.

Underneath the hair was a pale, bloodless face that looked like the face of a dead person.

If Jiang Xilin were here, he would definitely recognize the owner of this face.

Edward Gale, once a researcher of the Citron Society, is now a remnant of the Citron Society.

Edward Gale slowly came to the edge of the ditch, and then climbed out of the smelly ditch slowly.

At this time, his body shape was greatly different from before.

Weight loss was secondary. The most important change was that his limbs and torso seemed to have been forcibly elongated. Visually, the body length exceeded two and a half meters. The whole person looked extremely uncoordinated.

The sewer was inherently narrow, and the clear height of the space was only about two meters, so Edward Gale had to crawl forward on all fours.

He crawled for a long time and finally found an exit.

Dragging the iron plate with both hands, he slowly moved it away. A faint blue light shone in from the gap and fell on the saprophytic fluorescent fungi growing on the stone wall. Then, particles of firefly-like bacterial dust began to evaporate from the fluorescent fungi.

Float.

Edward Gale looked up at a corner of the night sky, took a deep breath of the cold air from the outside world, and cracked the corners of his mouth, revealing a scary smile.

"So, this is what it feels like to be alive? I am still alive, Jiang Xilin, and... the Book of Thorol."

The fluorescent bacteria dust floating in the air began to fall on Edward Gale accompanied by slight air flow disturbances.

squeak——click——

The iron plate at the entrance of the sewer was completely moved to the side. Edward Gale jumped out of the sewer, then got down on all fours and disappeared into the night with ease.

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…

In the dark basement, a flame burned out of thin air on a steel plate.

The bright light from the flame illuminated the handsome young figure next to him wearing a single-layer gray jacket and a short brown ponytail.

This young and handsome guy is Jiangxi Lin.

Different from the skinny and skinny appearance he had when he first traveled through time, after more than a month of good food and good food, he can't be said to be strong now, but he still has more meat on his body and his figure is much more symmetrical.

He is also healthier, except for the increasingly darker dark circles on his eyes, which look a bit off.

He still couldn't sleep normally, and those gibberings still existed, but fortunately, arcane meditation could replace sleep, which made him full of energy every day.

At this time, he was conducting final tests on the arcane energy-burning stove.

Yes, through these days of research on the Taff-class conventional angular array, he has perfectly solved the problem of arcane energy adjustment, and even innovatively produced a regulator similar to a "switch".

Jiang Xilin turned the switch, and the flames on the steel plate grew larger and smaller accordingly.

“Finally I don’t have to eat bread soaked in boiling water anymore.”

Jiang Xilin released the switch and clapped his hands with satisfaction. Furthermore, he planned to use the basic flame array to make a few "lamps" so that he could eliminate the alchemical oil lamps and save money on lamp oil.

Of course, in addition to being used in daily life, the arcane magic circle can also be used to improve one's own strength. For example, applying the thunder magic circle to a sword can increase the lethality of the sword.

This is very similar to the anti-wolf electric baton in the previous life, or the weapon enchantment in the novel.

Although Jiangxi Lin does not have a blueprint for the Thunder Array, he does have a Flame Array.

Using the new arcane energy-burning stove, Jiangxi Lin rewarded himself with a sumptuous lunch, and then continued to go to the activity center on 5th Street in Kodakrang District in the afternoon to buy those books for free.

In fact, Jiang Xilin spends at least half a day "recharging" there almost every day these days, either in the morning or in the afternoon. Sometimes he is too lazy to move and will stay all day.

The old gentleman Lester seemed to be a man who didn't like to talk much. Jiang Xilin had been in and out of there these days and took the initiative to chat with him, so he barely managed to raise his favorability level to "friendly".

…

Thick clouds cover the sky.

Because the distance was too far, the airships flying through the clouds looked no bigger than a finger.

Jiangxi Lin stepped onto the steeple stone awning of 31 5th Street, and then pushed open the double stained glass door.

The old gentleman Lester was wearing round-framed reading glasses, sitting at the small round glass table in front of the bay window, drinking afternoon tea and reading today's Dongting Daily.

"Mr. Leicester, the daily newspaper will be decomposed soon. You have to speed up your reading."

"Mr. Black Crow, you are here."

Lester raised his head and glanced at Jiang Xilin, then lowered his head and took a sip of afternoon tea, and then said,

"It's okay, I've already read it once in the morning, but it's more leisure time now, so I turned it out and read it again."

"What's new?"

Jiang Xilin walked to the window, looked at the street scene outside the window, and asked curiously.

"There hasn't been much happening recently."

"What happened over there in Baishi District? Nothing else happened?"

"No, Baishi District has been very quiet recently."

Jiang Xilin pursed his lips and said no more, but he couldn't help but wonder in his heart that those serial tragedies were really just the work of a ghoul that ran out of nowhere and was suddenly killed inexplicably? Or did he think about it?

Much more.

The room seemed extremely quiet.

Jiangxi Lin didn't speak, so Lester naturally wouldn't take the initiative to say anything unless it was related to business.

Forget it, don’t think about it so much.

"Mr. Leicester, then I will go to the study upstairs and won't disturb you in reading the newspaper."

With that said, Jiang Xilin turned around and planned to go upstairs.

"By the way, Mr. Black Crow."

The old gentleman Lester suddenly stopped Jiangxi Lin.

Jiang Xilin turned around and looked at him.

"A gentleman who calls himself a steam master is also here today. He is in the study upstairs."

According to the rules, he shouldn't have said this, but he still reminded Jiang Xilin.

This is probably Jiang Xilin's reward for taking the initiative to increase Lester's favorability these days.

But Laird's thick-browed guy finally came today. Jiang Xilin comes here every day, and it's not like he didn't want to meet Laird in private.
Chapter completed!