“Oh My God!”

Just when the atmosphere was becoming increasingly tense and might turn into a conflict in the next second, the strange bird Simon flew down from the corridor accompanied by an exaggerated shout and jumped onto the bar counter.

“What did I say just now? Buy in! Buy in!”

“These two living people are the new arrivals! Go away, don’t even look at them! Go and have fun! This has nothing to do with you!”

At its scolding, the “skeleton men” turned around and the noise rose again in the hall.

Led by Simon, Hitzfeld and Xia Yibing went down the stairs and quietly hid in a wooden house that looked like a storage room.

“You actually managed to get in alive!”

After closing the door and locking it three times, Simon turned around and uttered the above exclamation.

“You are not ordinary people!”

“I’m sorry for treating you like that, Simon.”

Xia Yibing is not a fool, so she naturally knows what to say now.

“We want to know how to get out of here.”

“Go out? Back to where?”

“Outside, outside the dream.”

“Generally speaking, you can go out after 6 o’clock.” Simon turned his bird head, “But Eternal Night is an exception. You have to stay one more day.”

The two looked at each other again.

“Simon.”

Hitzfeld half-crouched.

“Can you tell me what’s going on?”

“What do you mean?”

“The whole of West Grant, as I recall, the city is supposed to have been…”

“Eated by the Dark Snake?” Simon asked.

Hitzfeld nodded slightly.

“It is indeed the case.”

This sentence made her face change slightly.

“It is precisely because of being devoured by the Dark Serpent that West Grant appears here…in the dream world, not in the form of ruins, but in the form of a real, physical city!”

Simon shook his head, looking a little depressed.

“I… and the current residents of this city – you have just met them… we are all native to West Grant.”

“We were all alive. Yes, we all had lives…”

“But things soon changed. Because West Grant had changed. It no longer had the sun and no longer provided shelter for the living.”

“We have become immortal, clinging to this city and continuing to exist. But except for our wisdom that can be preserved in our skulls, our bodies will also rot, so we have business.”

“business?”

“Well, it’s to take away the bodies of the creatures that break in here.”

Xia Yibing almost couldn’t help but pull out the gun again.

“This is a gift from the Dream Fairy to us. One of the businesses in the bar is to provide living bodies.”

Simon flapped his wings and his tone began to rise rapidly.

“Of course, we are not not paying. Strictly speaking, this is not ‘taking away’, it is more appropriate to call it an exchange~”

“Exchange?” Xia Yibing’s face was grim. “What are you going to exchange for?”

“Of course it’s the qualification to enter the library.”

Simon laughed softly, ha…ha…ha….

“Our fruits have withered, so there is no point in retaining our qualifications.”

“But it’s different for you.”

“Believe me, it is definitely the greatest heritage treasure in human history!”

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Chapter 26: Disappearing Day

Library?

Withered fruit?

The message in Simon’s words was vague and confusing, and the two needed further explanation.

“It’s easy to understand, actually.” Simon jumped onto the stacked wooden boxes, making sure he was at eye level with the two men, and continued, “A long, long, long time ago… Sigrant was targeted by the Dark Serpent, and the entire city and the people inside – that is, us – were swallowed up by it, merged with it, and became part of the Dark Serpent.”

It can’t be serious, can it?

Hitzfeld got goosebumps again.

Doesn’t that mean that the entire West Grant, including her and Xia Yibing who are in West Grant, are now in the belly of the Black Meng Snake?

“We were originally going to be digested.” Simon snorted a few times, “But at this moment, the great dream fairy, Miss Izabella, found us. She told us that there is a way for us and Seagrant to survive forever.”

“any solution?”

“Continue to provide sacrifices to the Dark Serpent.”

“Sacrifice?”

“Yes.” Simon nodded. “The Dark Snake is a terrifying giant monster. I don’t know if there are other creatures like it in the world, but as far as I know, it is definitely the largest and most terrifying!… The most frightening thing is that its greed is even more exaggerated than its appearance. It has no mind and only knows how to eat by instinct. Maybe it has always been active in reality, but it may be a coincidence that one day it caught its own tail. Its mind, which is weaker than that of a baby, is not enough for it to appreciate what it is, so from that moment on it became an Ouroboros – constantly devouring itself and then growing the digested body back again.”

“It really sounds like a plot from a fantasy novel.” Xia Yibing couldn’t help but complain.

“You’re so rude!” Simon glared at her in dissatisfaction, stretched out a wing and pointed at Hitzfeld: “If you were one tenth as cute as this lady, I was going to save you just now!”

Xia Yibing’s face suddenly turned as dark as the bottom of a pot, and correspondingly, Hitzfeld’s mouth corners slightly curled up.

“Please continue to talk about sacrifice, Mr. Simon.” Hitzfeld followed his “polite” personality and clasped his hands together in front of Simon: “Please, we really want to know~”

“Cough! Cough!” Simon took two steps back, and two suspicious blushes appeared on his pale cheeks.

“Of course… for a lovely lady like you, we are always willing to provide the greatest help!”

Xia Yibing pinched her knuckles and tried her best to remain restrained.

“Let’s talk about sacrifice!” Simon was full of energy like an engine that had been refueled. “As mentioned before, the Black Snake constantly devours itself while digesting the nutrients provided by the body, and then uses this nutrition to grow its body back… This cycle has limits.”

“What does that mean?”

“That is, it is impossible for it to grow its body indefinitely in this way. For example, if it was originally 10 meters long – I am just assuming, it certainly cannot be only 10 meters – it eats its own tail, eating 3 meters, and these 3 meters of its body may only be enough for it to grow back to 2.5 meters. In other words, if you want to maintain an infinite cycle, you must provide it with additional nutrients!”

“Is that why West Grant is being targeted by it?” Hitzfeld’s expression changed slightly.

“I guess so.” Simon nodded. “The Dark Snake can no longer hunt in the way of snakes, but the ‘Infinite Dream Ring’ formed in the process of devouring itself can pull everything in the world into its dreams.”

So this is what it means to become one?

Xia Yibing and Hitzfeld both breathed a sigh of relief.

Dreams… If it was just a dream, it would definitely be much better than having it stay in the stomach.

“Don’t underestimate dreams.” Simon saw that they were relaxed and began to laugh strangely again. “The dream of the Dark Snake is no different from its stomach. It can easily digest everything in it into dregs!”

“The only way to delay this process is to offer sacrifices – Miss Izabella said: ‘Only by continuously producing forbidden fruits and using them to make up for the consumption can Sigran avoid being digested by the giant snake and barely maintain its existence’!”

“So your sacrifice is this kind of ‘fruit’?” Xia Yibing asked it.

“Of course.” Simon puffed out his chest.

“What exactly is this fruit and where does it come from?”

“Oh, well…” Simon was about to say, but suddenly he shuddered as if he remembered some taboo, “I can’t say it.”

“Why can’t I say it?” Xia Yibing frowned.

“Because the great Dream Fairy, Miss Izabella, has told us that this is the secret of West Grant’s existence. It is the most important key to the existence of all the undead spirits attached to this city.”

Simon shook his head slowly: “She forbade us to reveal this secret…”

“Yes… After all, you are living people…”

“Please, Mr. Simon~”

Hitzfeld knew it was her turn again. She tried her best to put on a pitiful look and begged Simon: “You may not know, I, Hitzfeld, and this, Agent Xia Sha… We were sent by the outside world to find Sigrant!”

“Really?” Simon flapped his wings, obviously surprised.

“really!”

“Hmm…” Simon groaned.

“please!”

Hitzfeld just moved forward.

This was the first time she had done such a thing in her two lifetimes…but she was probably only about 18 years old in both lifetimes, so this level of shame was acceptable.

Xia Yibing couldn’t bear to watch it anymore.

Hitzfeld’s hair was a little wet, and a gray fringe hung down diagonally, covering the strange left eye. This style made her look even more delicate and pitiful, and she couldn’t help but imagine in her heart that it would be great if the other party could beg her like this.

“Uh…uh…”

Faced with Hitzfeld’s “offensive”, Simon gradually couldn’t stand it.

“No!” It flapped its wings unbearably and turned its back to the girl. “This… this is related to whether we can continue to exist! It’s too important… I can’t say it!”

“Then give us a hint~” Hitzfeld still insisted, “We understand Mr. Simon’s difficulties, Mr. Simon should also forgive us a little~”

“never mind……”

The strange bird couldn’t stand her pestering any more, so it shrugged its head and turned back.

“Whatever you want to ask, just ask it now… I’ll decide whether to answer it depending on the situation.”

This guy is really easy to deal with.

Hitzfeld’s brows jumped.

My first impression was that it was ugly and scary, but I didn’t expect it to have a gentle heart.

Perhaps, as it says, it was once an ordinary resident of West Grant.

“I should like to know more about that library which Mr. Simon has just spoken of,” she said immediately.

According to what Simon said before, the residents of West Grant need to constantly replace the bodies of the living in order to maintain their existence. And this body of the living… In addition to plundering, in most cases they will use the qualification to enter the library to exchange with the living entering West Grant.

Then it mentioned that if Sigrant wanted to maintain its existence, it had to constantly sacrifice forbidden fruits to the dream of the Black Snake. So she naturally combined the two together and guessed whether the qualification to enter the library was related to these fruits.

Simon emphasized that it was not “robbing”. If he was not exaggerating, it indirectly showed that the living were willing to do business with the undead.

The first thing Hitzfeld thought of when he connected these pieces of information together was Nan Xinze’s newspaper war.

Those novelists who emerged from the newspaper wars.

They were suddenly endowed with extra wisdom.

Is it because they have also been to West Grant and obtained it through this kind of transaction to enter the library…

She felt that this library was of vital importance and she had to find out what it was all about.

“I can’t reveal much about the library.” Simon shook his head. “I can only warn you – if you want to go to the library, please bring something that can be used to contribute.”

“What do you mean?” Hitzfeld demanded.

“I can’t say.” Simon shook his head.