Chapter 416

"No..." Maria struggled, but her body was controlled by the shadow. She tried to break free, but found that her body was separated from her soul uncontrollably.

She could feel that her soul was being completely torn out of her body, and she couldn't help letting out a terrified scream.

Maria didn't dare to struggle anymore. She knew that if she moved around, she would face real death. What this black shadow controlled was not her body, but her soul.

"Are you all right, Ms. Maria?" Lin Jie came out from behind the counter, trying to support Maria who seemed to be having a seizure.

"what!!"

The moment Maria saw Lin Jie, she let out a hoarse scream, her blue pupils shrank, and she showed a terrified expression as if she saw a ghost, and her originally quiet and haughty face was distorted outrageously.

"Help! Help, help!!" Maria was completely seized by fear. She shook off Lin Jie's hand and opened her eyes wide. She could clearly see that the black shadow that had controlled her just now was standing there. Behind Lin Jie.

Quietly, silently, just staring at her like this.

"Ah, lady, calm down."

Lin Jie saw Maria gasping for breath, as if something terribly frightening had appeared before her eyes, and wherever she looked, the object of fear...was right behind her.

Lin Jie suddenly turned around, but saw Xiao Hei.

The little black who can help repair the light bulb and turn on the switch, is harmless to humans and animals.

"Xiao Hei." Lin Jie was taken aback, then subconsciously said in a low voice.

The black figure tilted its head and disappeared in an instant, and Maria seemed to have lost the object of the game with her, and fell to the ground like a rag bag.

What Maria was terrified of...was none other than Xiao Hei standing behind him at some point.

Lin Jie's view of Xiao Hei is actually mainly thanks to him, after all, it gave him the library of the entire human world and realized his greatest dream.

And Xiao Hei was very friendly, never hurt his friends, including Moen Joseph, and never affected other customers in the bookstore, so Lin Jie regarded Xiao Hei as the creature behind the spirit in the anime he had seen before .

As for Xiao Hei's purpose, Lin Jie didn't care about Xiao Hei's identity, after all, everyone has their own secrets, and he has never felt Xiao Hei's malice, and it doesn't appear often.

But today is different.

For the first time, Xiao Hei appeared in other people's sight, and it seemed to make the other party fear.

This was Xiao Hei's first attack on a bookstore customer, and from a certain point of view, Xiao Hei did nothing wrong.

Even though Lin Jie was very friendly, he could clearly feel that Maria was looking for trouble, after all, Hood's matter was there.

Moreover, Xiao Hei's appearance is like a ghost to a certain extent, and it is normal for an ordinary person like Maria to be frightened.

"Ma'am!" Lin Jie grabbed Maria's shoulders hard, forced her to calm down, and then comforted her with a smile: "There is nothing here, what happened to you just now?"

After Maria heard this, her pale and bewildered face recovered, and she seemed to have calmed down a bit. She stared blankly at Lin Jie's gentle smile exuding a friendly atmosphere. Lin Jie squinted his eyes and said with a smile: " You see, our bookstore is very clean, there is nothing there."

As he spoke, a huge black shadow gradually swelled up behind him. The black shadow existed behind his smile, and even his whole body was covered by shadows. Those shadows stretched out countless dark tentacles, like the head of a gorgon. Make a fuss.

Lin Jie's gentle words of comfort turned into some kind of terrifying threat.

"You you you you..." Maria stammered in horror. Before Lin Jie could react, she had already taken several steps back, almost scrambling to open the bookstore door and escape from the bookstore, as if there was some kind of horror behind her. The existence of her—no matter how Lin Jie tried to keep her behind.

Lin Jie: "..."

Is it necessary to run like this? things are falling...

Lin Jie frowned, picked up an old notebook left by Maria from the ground, looked at Maria who was running away, sighed, and turned around. Hei instantly shrank into a black shadow that was about the same size as him.

"What's the matter with you today? What do you want to do?" Lin Jie's tone was a little unhappy and confused, and he whispered: "Obviously you just want me to spread books, why do you want to scare people away? It's not something you gave me. task?"

Xiao Hei remained motionless, as if a child who had failed in a prank was obediently listening to Lin Jie's scolding.

"But that's all... It seems that you probably want to keep that fragment?" Lin Jie walked back to the counter and looked at the three fragments on the table.

Lin Jie looked at Xiao Hei, pointed to the pieces, and said, "Do you want to eat this?"

Xiao Hei didn't respond at all, just quietly face to face with Lin Jie.

If Xiao Hei wants to eat this fragment of the stone tablet from life, does it mean that Xiao Hei is an enemy of the life witch?

It brought Lin Jie here, now it seems that it is not a coincidence, but because it came from here.

It knows it, it needs it.

So... what kind of existence does Xiao Hei play in the history of the continent of Azir?

Lin Jie was thinking, staring at the black shadow in front of him.

After a while, Lin Jie took a deep breath, slowly raised his hand, and reached for the black shadow.

Lin Jie didn't know why he did this? Probably want to touch Xiao Hei? This is the first time he has tried to do this in the years since he met Xiao Hei.

What is there in that shadow, is it a substance, or a piece of ice like water?

Unexpectedly, Lin Jie's pupils constricted suddenly, and suddenly saw Xiao Hei making the same movement!

It seemed to be imitating him, the two stretched out their hands at the same time, and their fingertips touched for a split second.

Lin Jie's fingertips clearly felt a temperature he hadn't expected before, which seemed to be similar to the temperature on his own hand. Lin Jie was slightly stunned, wanting to touch Xiao Hei further.

But He disappeared in the next instant, like a TV signal flickering, suddenly blurred, and then erased.

Lin Jie's fingertips stopped in mid-air, as if no one had appeared just now.

Lin Jie withdrew his hand, looking at his empty palm, he seemed to be able to feel a real sense of touch.

Xiao Hei...is he a human?

Lin Jie shook his head. It is impossible for a human to be in this form. Maybe it just adopts a human form to simulate a temperature similar to his.

And... Xiaohei probably didn't want to eat the fragments of the life witch.

After all, just like the last golden apple incident, if Xiao Hei wanted it, he would take it on the spot.

Lin Jie moved his thoughts back from Xiao Hei, and looked down at the three pieces on the table again.

Lin Jie frowned, and put the three pieces together slowly and carefully, with a serious expression. As Lin Jie expected, the three pieces were perfectly spliced ​​together, as if they had never been broken.

Lin Jie took out a magnifying glass from the drawer, and the inscription on the round stone tablet was also clearly visible without any defects.

"Life never stops, flames never go out...what?" Lin Jie thought, this ancient script is different from the Elvish script of the second era, and it seems to come from an older script variant, although he can recognize it , but just like people who learn simplified characters today to recognize traditional characters, there will always be some places that they don’t know.

The light in the bookstore gradually became insufficient, Lin Jie raised his head, and found that it was almost dark before he knew it.

So he walked to the door, looked at Depression No. 23 block, and suddenly thought in his heart that what happened to Maria today was quite frightening. Would the president of the dignified Truth Society not call the police?

It's useless to call the police... The first combat force of the police station is in my shop.

It seems that it is impossible to exorcise ghosts... Lin Jie is mostly responsible for the establishment of Nuo Jin's largest church.

Hmm... nothing to worry about.

I only hope that Maria's three views of reason as a scholar are still stable.

"Shua." He closed the shutter of the bookstore, and the bookstore was plunged into darkness, and then it suddenly lit up. Lin Jie turned his head and saw that the stone tablet on the table was emitting a faint dark red light.