In fact, during business hours yesterday, I devoured this book.
But at that time, for the purpose of passing time, I did not look closely at the cover illustration.
Now I picked up the book "The Count of Monte Cristo" again, and finally noticed the weird cover illustration in the book.
This cover illustration shows a colorful woman.
Why is it said that the women in the painting are colorful?
Because she has long blood-colored hair, and a pure black face is covered under the long blood-colored hair.
Her face and neck were all green, resembling the green skin of a frog.
Not only that, she was also wrapped in a long blue skirt, but the blue on the skirt was not the blue of the clear sky, but the kind of melancholy and lifeless blue.
Perhaps because the blue color is too melancholy, this long skirt gives me an eerie feeling, as if there are countless ghosts lurking in it.
I only glanced at it a few times, and then I felt endless negative emotions growing in my heart. These negative emotions tried to teach me to commit suicide and do many evil things.
I quickly looked away and looked at the hands and feet of the woman in the painting.
Staring at the hands and feet of the woman in the painting, bursts of astonishment flashed across my face, because the woman's hands and feet were not the ordinary white flesh color, but bright purple and bright red!
But what shocked me even more was not the skin color of the woman's hands and feet, but her heart.
There was actually a square book embedded in her heart!
This book is pale and looks like a small flat square with no words on it. At first glance, it doesn’t look like a book at all, but I secretly feel that it is a book!
"What does it mean when a book is painted on a woman's heart?" I couldn't figure it out, so I had to look at the woman's head in the painting, where five pale characters were engraved.
These five pale characters are exactly the title of this book - The Count of Monte Cristo.
Under the purple-red feet of the woman in the painting, there is the name of the author of this book - Alexandre Dums (Alexandre Dums), known simply as Alexandre Dumas.
"The cover illustration of this book is so strange. It provokes my nerves every moment and gives people an unspeakable sense of fear." "The Count of Monte Cristo" is a famous literary masterpiece at home and abroad.
The cover illustration of the publication usually shows the image of the protagonist Edmond Dantès, because Edmond Dantès is very masculine and has conquered many readers.
Therefore, in order to increase the sales of published works and highlight the core characters in the book, many versions of "The Count of Monte Cristo" use the rigorous and profound image of Edmond Dantès as the cover illustration of the book.
However, "The Count of Monte Cristo" in the horror bookstore goes against the norm and uses a gloomy and beautiful picture of a woman as the cover illustration of this mammoth book, which is really puzzling.
However, it is difficult to explain. The book "The Count of Monte Cristo" in front of me is exactly a story about revenge, which just meets the requirements of the items required for the terrifying trial.
"Although there are many books about revenge, I still like this one better, so I chose to bring it with me." After thinking to myself, I threw the book into my black backpack.
After choosing a book about revenge, I moved to the inside of the milk tea console.
There are several paper baskets placed on the inner hem of the milk tea console.
Inside these paper baskets, there are all kinds of sundries piled up, including plastic cups for holding milk tea, plastic straws and plastic spoons for guests to drink milk tea, and a few silver fruit knives.
Of course, those plastic cups, plastic
The straws and plastic spoons are sealed in vacuum plastic bags, which is very hygienic and safe.
In addition, the shining silver fruit knives were also wrapped in plastic scabbards to prevent the blades from being exposed.
I casually picked up a fruit knife and unsheathed it: "One of the items required for the horrific trial is a knife stained with my own blood. Later, in the horrific trial, I will use this knife stained with my own blood."
Knife, scratching the pages of The Count of Monte Cristo."
As a tall and dignified man of 1.8 meters, how can I be afraid of bleeding?
I immediately took the handle of the knife, pointed the blade at my palm, and gently cut it off.
The blade cut his hand, and the skin on his palm receded from side to side, and a stream of thick blood overflowed.
I immediately clenched my fingers and let blood drip on the blade.
When the blood completely solidified on the blade, I put the knife back into its sheath and threw the fruit knife into the black backpack.
Seeing that the knife stained with my own blood had been made, I immediately turned around and rushed to the bathroom to clean the wound on my hand.
I cut my hand very lightly, so the wound on my hand was not very deep.
After I put a piece of tape on it, the wound had already started to scab.
"This horror trial is really weird. It actually requires me to bleed, but it's just a little bit of blood. It's not a problem." After complaining a little, I left the bathroom and returned to the horror bookstore.
There are five items required for the terrifying trial, including forty-four sleeping pills, a bottle of warm water, a book about revenge, a knife stained with his own blood, and three sticks of incense.
Among them, I have prepared the book about revenge and the knife stained with my own blood. I only need three other items.
The other three items were three sticks of incense, a bottle of warm water and forty-four sleeping pills.
If you want to get incense, you need to go to the grocery store on the street to buy it. However, the store is still open now. I can't leave the horror bookstore at will. I can only wait until the bookstore closes at 8 o'clock in the evening before going to buy incense groceries. I hope to sell incense groceries.
Don't close the shop so early.
However, when the bookstore closes at eight o'clock in the evening, there are still four hours before the horror trial. Within these four hours, I should be able to find a grocery store that is not closed and buy three suitable incense.
Although the shortest and easiest burning incense takes about ten minutes to burn out, in order to shorten the time of the terrifying trial as much as possible, I had to choose this type of incense.
Ten minutes, just ten minutes, is better than the kind of sandalwood that can burn for an hour or two, which is really life-threatening.
If I buy incense that burns out in ten minutes, I still have a chance to survive. If I buy sandalwood incense that burns out in one or two hours, I will definitely die.
As for the bottle of warm water, I plan to get it closer to midnight. If I rush to fill it with warm water now, it will definitely cool down and become cold water by then.
I didn't dare to violate the requirements of the trial and take sleeping pills with cold water. After all, it said that when taking sleeping pills, use warm water, and it was a bottle of warm water.
Anyway, there is a water heater in the mini milk tea shop. I can fill it with warm water whenever I want, so I don’t have to rush to get the bottle of warm water.
But the forty-four sleeping pills are difficult to deal with. As far as I know, sleeping pills cannot be purchased online or in pharmacies.
If you want to get the sleeping pills needed for the terrifying trial, you can only go through qualified local hospitals.
And you may not be able to get it even if you go to the hospital. You still need to buy it with a prescription from the doctor.
What makes me even more troubled is that the amount purchased at one time cannot exceed the amount used for fifteen days.
The average person only needs one or two pills a day, which means that even if I can get a doctor's prescription, I can only buy fifteen to thirty sleeping pills at most, which is impossible to get.
Enough for forty-four sleeping pills.
Thinking of this, even though I was burning with anxiety, there was no solution.
How could I over-buy sleeping pills when I couldn't get them just with a doctor's prescription?
If you want to successfully get a doctor's prescription, you must prove that you have insomnia. The doctor will then decide whether to write a prescription based on your condition.
Moreover, the prescribed amount of medicine is not necessarily the amount used for fifteen days. It is very likely that it is only the amount used for three or four days.
Because sleeping pills are national second-class psychotropic drugs, taking too much can lead to death. Once a patient dies from taking too many sleeping pills, the corresponding doctor will be held legally responsible.
Therefore, doctors generally only try to prescribe the minimum amount to avoid getting themselves into legal trouble.
After all, too many people are committing suicide using sleeping pills, and doctors have to take precautions.
But what was more urgent at the moment was that I had time to rush to the hospital only after closing the bookstore at eight o'clock in the evening, but by that time the hospital was no longer accepting outpatient services.
If the hospital does not accept outpatient services, it means that I cannot get a prescription from a doctor.
The hospital pharmacy would not sell me sleeping pills without a doctor's prescription.
"It's only around five o'clock in the afternoon. How about calling Li Fansen back to look after the store, and I rush to the hospital immediately and try my best to get enough of the forty-four sleeping pills?" An effective method came to my mind, but it didn't take long.
, I rejected this method: "Even if I rush to the hospital immediately, it is impossible to get the outpatient number. The doctors will probably get off work at six o'clock on time."
And more importantly, even if I get the clinic number and the doctor's prescription, I still can't get enough 44 sleeping pills at one time.
The method of purchasing sleeping pills through the hospital did not work, so I had to make my decision to go to a private clinic.
Private clinics, independent of qualified hospitals, can get some sleeping pills even without a doctor's prescription as long as they are willing to spend more than the market price.
However, it is impossible for a single private clinic to obtain 44 sleeping pills at one time.
A few sleeping pills is simply a matter of money, and the clinic owner is happy to make this money, but the forty-four sleeping pills are not a matter of money, but a matter of human life. The clinic owner simply does not dare to sell so many sleeping pills at one time.
After all, you have to take responsibility.
Therefore, if you want to get 44 sleeping pills, you have to buy them from several or even a dozen private clinics, so as not to attract other people's attention, let alone cause worry to the clinic owner.
With a specific solution in mind, I waited quietly for eight o'clock in the evening.
The working hours of private clinics are very flexible, so I don't have to worry about them all closing.
Even if all the private clinics are closed, I can contact the owners of those private clinics with just one phone call.
After all, most of the private clinic stores will be marked with the number of the corresponding owner.
At that time, as long as I significantly increase the purchase price, those clinic owners will definitely be willing to open the door to convenience.
While I was thinking deeply, time passed by bit by bit.
Seeing that it was getting later and later, I simply ordered a takeaway.
After eating the takeaway, eight o'clock in the evening came as scheduled.
After closing the bookstore in a hurry, I merged into the vast night and sped away in one direction.
The end point of this direction happens to be a private clinic that has not yet closed.
But before I arrived at this private clinic, I was interrupted by an incoming phone call.
I took out my cell phone and looked at it. It turned out to be a call from Yuno Sota in the evening.