“Spire…”

Xia Ren's whispers of patient No. 3 popped up in his mind, and he once mentioned the word spire.

His heartbeat couldn't help but accelerate.

The worm corpses washed ashore by the sea and several spire-shaped buildings not far away, what he was looking for during this trip should be close to him if nothing unexpected happens.

He lifted Lily's legs upwards, and Xia Ren carried the little guy on his back and quickly walked over.

The sea breeze blew on his face with a slight salty and humid atmosphere, and with the sound of tides surging, Xia Ren approached the building.

Steeple-shaped buildings were prevalent in Xizhou, which had not yet been unified, but with the establishment of the Supreme Alliance Government, all aspects developed rapidly. This type of architectural form with low space utilization and relatively difficultness gradually faded out of mainstream history. Now only some ancient families of blood in Xizhou are still in use. Xia Ren had an ancient dream and entered a small town full of maggots. There are many similar buildings.

The building that appeared in front of Xia Ren at this time looked quite old. Its walls were made of blue stone bricks. After years of weathering and the erosion of the Shanghai style, the surface of the building was filled with potholes, making it look extremely fragile, as if it could fall in love at any time.

At the top of the building is the iconic red conical spire. There are five spires, the main body is a cylindrical cylindrical building, connected with long steps. The spire on the rock wall is the highest, and the others are two or three meters shorter than it. Two of the spires originally had skylights, but the wooden window frame had been corroded at this time, leaving only two rectangular frame holes, which looked like hollowed-out eyes.

Xia Ren came to the building gate - if the pile of guys connected by rusty iron sheets in front of him could be called the door.

Everything in front of me was full of the texture of time. The main body of this door was also made of wood and nailed together by iron sheets. It was vaguely visible that when it was intact, it should have been very grand, but now it is just a pile of rotten wood.

The door was covered in a vain, I don’t know if anyone had ever been in. Xia Ren wanted to pass through the crack of the open door, but he overestimated the strength of the door. As soon as he walked over, he didn’t even touch it, the door collapsed out with a "click" and had a bang. If it weren’t for dodging in time and jumping aside quickly, he would have been covered underneath.

Gravels fell from the door frame. Xia Ren was afraid that Lily would hit her, so he hugged her again and bent over to pass.

After walking a few steps, he entered a somewhat narrow courtyard. A small square pond was surrounded by a low wall in the middle of the courtyard. Xia Ren guessed that it was supposed to be used to raise fish, but at this moment there was not even a drop of fresh water left.

“Who would live in this place?”

Xia Ren turned his head and looked around. In the direction of the gate, there was a living room with dark light. At the entrance of the living room, a long corridor extended to connect the rooms on both sides. The architectural style of this part was a bit like the shadow of the ancient courtyard of Dongzhou.

Without going to see the rooms on both sides, Xia Ren went straight to the living room.

At the door of the living room, a layer of corroded debris was scattered. From the shape of the debris, it should have been a recliner.

Xia Ren was increasingly unable to understand it. Based on the current situation, he could not associate the insect nest with this used building.

He then searched the living room and the entire building, and was so tired that he was panting. However, just like the door outside and the recliner just now, the building had been too long, so that almost all traces of human life inside were wiped out by time, and he could not obtain any useful information at all.

Just as he was about to sit down and rest for a while, Lily woke up quietly.

Xia Ren lowered his head and saw her in his arms, tilting her head and looking at him with her big eyes open.

"Is it okay?"

He asked.

Lily blocked her for a while before, and he still remembered it very clearly.

"Um?"

Lily didn't seem to understand what he was asking, tilted her head, and looked confused.

It seems like this, it should be fine.

A stone in Xia Ren's heart finally fell down, and then he put her back on the ground and held her fleshy little hand.

In order to cooperate with Xia Ren to complete this action, and not be picked up and hung with his feet in the air, Lily took the initiative to grow taller and became about four years old.

"Lily, do you know where the bug is?"

Xia Ren searched for a while and couldn't find it, so he asked Lily for help.

"insect?"

Lily raised her head and thought for a while, then lowered her head and pointed to the ground: "Here."

"You mean, under the ground?"

Xia Ren looked at the floor tiles where she pointed her finger.

If you want to dig the ground, it will be troublesome.

Lily seemed to understand Xia Ren's thoughts, spread his hands away, stepped on his short legs, and ran to the depths of the living room.

“Here here.”

Her tender voice called Xia Ren, who quickly followed.

Lily didn't know whether she was following the smell or was familiar with this building. After walking around it for a few circles, she actually came to a place that Xia Ren had never searched before.

"here it is……"

If the direction is not wrong, he remembers that this position should be below the highest spire.

He didn't find the way to this tower just now, so he gave up temporarily, but unexpectedly he was found by Lily.

Lily ran ahead, Xia Ren followed her and followed the spiral staircase. They walked not long after they arrived at the room on the top of the tower.

As soon as he arrived here, Xia Ren couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Too clean.

The walls here are intact, with no trace of weathering, and there is not even a spider web, as if people often live here.

The doors on the top of the tower are made of wooden, unlike the doors downstairs. They are still intact and there is no sign of the hardships of the long years.

In the middle of the door, a brown wooden sign was nailed with a nail. A string of symbols was written on the wooden sign with a black brush. The three symbols in the front looked like some lost text, and the letter "Eibon" was behind it. However, Xia Ren could not understand any of the meanings in it, either the symbol or the letter.

“Yibon.”

Lily suddenly said.

"?"

Xia Ren looked at the direction she looked in and found that she was talking about it at the wooden sign.

“This is Ibonn’s room, our good friend.”

Lily suddenly grinned, revealing her white teeth, and smiled happily.

Xia Ren looked at her smile, but was inexplicably sad.

Even he himself couldn't explain what happened to this sudden emotion.

Lily pushed open the door and Xia Ren followed her in.

There is a study room with brown floors, which makes a "creaking" sound when stepped on, which is very comfortable. The surrounding walls are also decorated with wooden boards. There is a large bookshelves standing against the wall. The bookshelf is filled with books of various sizes. It looks roughly tens of thousands of books, including many unbound manuscripts, which are extremely shocking in visual effects.

On the other side corresponding to the bookshelf is a metal test bench, with a precise and complex mechanical instrument on the table, as well as exaggerated glass flasks and goose-neck bottles, but the inside is empty. Like the neat environment inside the house, the test bench is also cleaned up.

The location directly in front of the study is a wooden chair and a desk.

At this time, a figure in a white long gown was sitting on the chair, with his back facing Xia Ren.

There is a window in front of the desk. From the window, you can see the blue ocean. A faint sea breeze blows in, tilting the manuscript paper on the desk.

The man seemed to be asleep, his upper body lying on the table, motionless.

Xia Ren looked at his back without any ups and downs.

Suddenly, an unbearable thrilling pain broke out in my heart, and a sad thought burst out.
Chapter completed!