Only then did Wu Ming realize that Lafite was not only a highly skilled blacksmith, but also a blacksmith with "extensive knowledge".
Card creatures like Lafite can only last until midnight on the day at most, and will be forcibly stuck after that, just like Wu Ming will make up for all the energy he has consumed that day.
So Wu Ming still had a lot of time to get some information from Lafite that shocked him. However, after communication, Wu Ming discovered a fact that made him dumbfounded.
That is, Lafite seems to only answer certain questions.
Because he saw the 'Ghost Card Book', he would reveal a little information about ghosts and the three ghost holy places, but other than that, he would not say anything else.
Wu Ming tried his best to get some words out of Lafite, but what he knew was extremely limited. He only knew that this card book might come from one of the three ghost holy places in the 'different world'.
This conversation lasted until late at night when Lafite had to get stuck again, while Wu Ming still had some unfinished thoughts and was digesting the knowledge.
The three ghost holy places mentioned by Lafite, 'Ximian', 'Saizhuo' and 'Qianku' should belong to the place names of the 'other world'. Anything related to ghosts must be related to these three ghost holy places.
Of course, as for what else is in that other world, Lafite seems to be subject to some powerful 'restriction' and refuses to reveal anything.
But for Wu Ming right now, the most important thing is how to use the 'Ghost Card Book' for his own use.
There must be an extremely powerful resentful spirit living in the card book. Lafite told Wu Ming that if he wanted to use the card book for his own use, he must defeat this resentful spirit. However, after this resentful spirit appears, it will continue to absorb awakenings. The vitality in the body must be destroyed, so this resentful spirit must be killed as soon as possible. This is tantamount to a race against time.
Kill the wraith before all the energy in your body is absorbed, and you will gain control of the ghost card book.
Naturally, only when the awakened person's vitality reaches full value, the chance of success can be greatest. However, if you find that the vitality in your body is about to be absorbed by the resentful spirit attached to the ghost card book, you must stop.
Of course, the vitality that was sucked away before is regarded as paying the ‘tuition fee’ until this resentful spirit can be completely killed.
Now that he had obtained this rare card book, Wu Ming naturally wanted to use it, so he made some plans, but for this reason, his departure from Yucheng might have to be postponed for a few days.
The next day, Wu Ming found a relatively safe place and tried to control the ghost card book. Naturally, Eminem, Daya and Erya were preparing for the battle.
Just like what Lafite said, when Wu Ming tried to control the ghost card book, a terrifying scream came from it, and then a ghost wearing a crown with dry skin sticking to the bones appeared.
As soon as this ghost appeared, it immediately began to attack Wu Ming, and Wu Ming found that his vitality was being sucked away uncontrollably. Unless he stopped controlling the ghost card book immediately, the flow of vitality would not stop.
Naturally, this was Wu Ming's first attempt. When the energy in Wu Ming's body was absorbed to only two units, he had to stop. Otherwise, once the energy was exhausted, the loss would be life. .
From this point of view, if you try rashly when you are not strong enough, you will definitely suffer a big loss.
After stopping, the resentful spirit will disappear without a trace.
This wraith is also very difficult to deal with. It is difficult to damage it with physical attacks. The effect of burning it with flames is also average, and its claws can actually cause real damage.
Wu Ming was grabbed by this resentful spirit, and his clothes were shattered. Five scratches were left on the Alloy Vitality Armor. It is conceivable that without the Alloy Vitality Armor, Wu Ming would have been disemboweled.
The only one who can cause harm to this resentful spirit is Eminem. Wu Ming discovered this in the air raid shelter. Eminem's method of dealing with ghosts is actually better than Lafite's.
So after dark, Wu Ming said to Amu, who had just killed a few insect-men and was licking his mouth after eating the parasitic beetles: "It depends on you whether you can kill that resentful spirit tomorrow!"
After saying that, he touched Eminem's head. The latter obviously understood what Wu Ming meant, but he called out "Eminem, Eminem" a few times, waved his little paws a few times, and just squatted there.
Enter the petrified state and begin to recharge your batteries.
The places Wu Ming chooses to stay overnight are usually high-rise buildings. He will ask Daya and Erya to eliminate some potential dangers in advance. Just like now, Wu Ming is standing in a window on the twelfth floor of a building, looking at the dark darkness below.
Paint the lifeless city.
It took the next day for the vitality in his body to recover. Wu Ming was bored, but suddenly he remembered that he had brought something out from the air-raid shelter, but because his attention was all on the ghost card book, he forgot about it for a while.
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Wu Ming took the thing out of his backpack, pulled off several layers of clinker tape wrapped around it, and found that there were several layers of newspapers wrapped inside.
This time Wu Ming did not tear it apart, but carefully removed the newspaper and looked at the date on the newspaper. It read: July 21, 1964.
This turned out to be a newspaper from fifty years ago. Wu Ming remembered that the middle-aged awakened man named Jiang Liang once said that the history of the air-raid shelter was at least fifty or sixty years old. Now it seems that it must be correct.
And what was wrapped in the newspaper was an old diary.
Both newspapers and diaries have become moldy due to being too long, and the paper is extremely brittle and may be broken if you are not careful.
Fortunately, because it was wrapped in a plastic bag, there were no missing pages.
Wu Ming carefully looked through it, and found a huge secret.
Wu Ming didn't come back to his senses until he closed the diary. The notebook was written by a person named 'Zheng Ping' and belonged to a mineral resources exploration team. At that time, the country had just been established and lacked various mineral resources. At that time, there were many
Passionate young people devoted themselves to national construction, and Zheng Ping was one of them.
There were six people with him, a total of seven people, including teachers and students. In short, this is not the most important thing. What really attracted Wu Ming was the second half of the diary. When they were exploring mineral resources, they discovered
After entering an entrance, they experienced a series of extremely horrific events. However, this part of the writing was severely defaced and Wu Ming could not see all of it, and several pages of the diary also showed signs of being torn out.
But even so, Wu Ming still saw the words 'vitality' and 'card'.
This undoubtedly overturned some of Wu Ming's previous perceptions. He had always thought that vitality and cards only appeared after the catastrophe, but this diary opened up another possibility.
Of course, Wu Ming couldn't guess the possibility from just a few vague words, let alone be so surprised. The important thing is that he also found the 'Ghost Card Book' in the air-raid shelter. It was obviously Zheng Ping and the others who discovered it and brought it with them.
Came back.
But what happened next was not written in the diary, but since the diary was in the arms of the corpse, maybe that corpse was Zheng Ping, and the other four remains in the air-raid shelter were members of the seven-man team at that time.
What Wu Ming is concerned about is, why did people fifty years ago know the existence of vitality and cards? And there is a real rare card book beside them, what on earth did they encounter?
Obviously no one can answer these questions. Maybe there are other clues in the air-raid shelter, but now they have probably been burned away by the fire set by themselves.
Wu Ming closed the diary. The more he thought about it, the more he felt like he was in a fog. He couldn't think of a reason. Although he was puzzled, Wu Ming didn't want to continue thinking about this problem.
If some questions cannot be answered, it is better not to think about them at all.
And for Wu Ming now, the most important thing is not to figure out this mystery, but how to survive and survive better in the new world after the disaster.