Chapter 5 Even the Dead Have to Work
I don’t know how long it took.

Sean woke up.

When he walked out of the small room, the butcher was eating a plate of broccoli, a plate of greens, and cut boiled potatoes, with oatmeal as the staple food.

"Eat." The butcher pointed to the side.

Sean's breakfast was placed aside, on an iron plate, with a sausage, some vegetables, chopped tomatoes, a small piece of bacon, and a slice of bread as the staple food.

hungry.

Sean sat down and took a bite of bread, looking at the other person's food, all vegetarian. He didn't even touch the sausages and bacon in front of him, but just silently finished the bread and vegetables in front of him.

The butcher didn't care.

He stood up and pulled a rope. A crisp bell rang, then the door opened and a maid walked in.

When the expressionless middle-aged maid passed by Sean, he smelled a faint smell of preservatives, which was almost exactly the same as the smell inside the morgue.

finish breakfast.

Xiao En packed up his things, tried not to look at the maid's back, and whispered, "What should I do next?"

The butcher's work is done.

There was only a bloody meat hook on the huge iron rack next to him. He seemed to like drinking very much. He took a sip and said in a deep voice: "Class."

"I'll arrange a teacher for you first."

"But she has a bad temper and is not in the tower for the time being, so I will teach you some general knowledge first."

Attend class?

Xiao En was silent for a moment, then smiled bitterly and nodded, "Okay."

He has one good point: he listens to advice.

The butcher took out a pen and a piece of white paper and drew a circle on it. It was very round, just like a compass. Then there were twelve scales, divided into twenty-four parts, like a clock. He marked the positions from 8 to 10 o'clock, drew a triangle, and said, "This is the Kingdom of Dorne."

"That's where your body once lived."

"The function of the soul echo is to allow the souls of the other world to completely integrate with the memories of the natives, and also to make you a part of the world, so that you won't be easily found by those monsters."

"This process takes about three days, and you are now on the first day."

In fact, Sean has already noticed that the memory in his mind is completely different from what he sees in front of him. The sense of incoordination and conflict is so abrupt. Because Sean's memory is a completely normal world, probably the level of civilization during the Industrial Revolution, with steam trains, factories, metropolises, and countless ordinary people who work hard and work hard.

But everything he saw now was very different from what he remembered.

“This is where we are.”

The butcher drew another circle outside the circle and continued, "This is the real world, and this is the realm of illusion."

The more you look at it, the more it looks like a clock, because many people draw clocks as more than just a circle, there is another circle wrapped around the outside. The butcher even drew a solid line between the two circles, and with the scale drawn in front, it looks exactly like a clock pattern.

"Reality? Illusion?" Xiao En asked puzzledly.

The butcher didn't care about Sean's change and continued, "This is the weird country."

His rough, huge palm was very steady. He drew an outline that looked like a continental plate, then dotted it with some clouds and mist, and said in a deep voice: "This is gray fog."

"In the world outside the walls, it's everywhere."

"This is our planet, Terra, Gaia, Blue Planet, whatever you want to call it."

The butcher's voice was a little heavy. He drew a planet that covered everything and said slowly, "This planet has fallen before and was swallowed up by monsters that are even more terrifying than those you have seen before."

Xiao En opened his mouth to ask something, but was interrupted by the butcher.

He pointed to the scale on the clock and continued, "Do you know the twelve zodiac signs in astrology?"

Xiao En nodded slightly and said, "I know a little."

The butcher smiled, his face full of flesh, and said in a deep voice: "That's much simpler."

"We are located here, representing the Scorpio sign of the zodiac, which symbolizes death."

"These twelve scales make up the [Twelve Realms of Clock Nirvana]."

“It’s a miracle of destiny.”

“It’s also a miracle for mankind.”

"I shouldn't be telling you this right now, but you're different from the others. You're someone who needs to rely on [Confusion] to survive. It's definitely impossible for you to live a normal life."

"So this can be considered as the beginning of your course on extraordinary people."

This information impacted Sean's brain, which was completely different from the memory knowledge he gained in the soul echo.

What's even more strange is that after learning about these mysterious knowledge that ordinary people don't know, he actually felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction.

He thirsts for knowledge!
Damn.

Xiao En sensed something was wrong.

"You have met the great detective - Motilan. It is impossible for him to let you go easily."

"As long as your strength allows, the more you know, the higher your chances of survival." The butcher seemed to know what happened yesterday and continued, "You must control your overly eager curiosity and learn as much knowledge as possible."

"You may ask me questions now, but only about what I just said."

"I killed a soul-sucking monster yesterday."

"Unspeakable vanity, they have already set their sights on you."

Sean's head was buzzing, and when the other party mentioned the great detective - Moty Lane again, it seemed as if his ears suddenly tinnitus.

"Has this world ever fallen?" Xiao En gradually calmed down and began to ask questions.

"Yes." The butcher sat down and said calmly, "During the Dark Ages of the Third Era, the sun went out and the whole world fell. Humans were the only survivors."

"There are some things you can't know yet because you are too weak."

"Just knowing all this will make you a target of them."

Xiao En nodded silently. The other party mentioned that humans were the only survivors. That means there must have been races other than humans in this world.

"What are the [Twelve Realms of Clock Nirvana]?" Xiao En stared at the clock pattern in front of him.

The butcher picked up a pen and wrote a row of characters on it, life, death, nature, courage, etc. After thinking for a while, he said in a deep voice: "It is a barrier to protect the real world."

"Just like the [Confusion] you are wearing, you can't see them, and they naturally can't see you either."

"The Third Age."

"The last seventy-two legendary men of destiny jointly completed this world miracle. It is composed of twelve scales. The clock symbolizes time, Nirvana represents rebirth, and the twelve realms correspond to the twelve mythological paths of the extraordinary."

"The location we are in now corresponds to the Path of Death among the Twelve Mythological Paths."

“So there are more dead people than living people here.”

Xiao En tried hard to digest this mysterious knowledge. As his brain was rejoicing, he continued to ask, "Legend of Destiny? What is that?"

The butcher looked up at him, thought for a moment and said, "Fate is fate."

"If one day you embark on the path of destiny, you will know what destiny is."

The butcher seemed a little impatient because he was checking the time.

Xiao En was very keenly aware of this and immediately asked, "How should I become a superhuman?" As an ordinary person, there was no way he could survive here.

Just the things he saw unconsciously would have been enough to kill him many times over.

How to have the ability to protect yourself.

This is the most important question!
The butcher was not surprised by this. He stared at Xiao En in front of him and said slowly: "Strictly speaking, you are already a transcendent."

"For someone like you, you need [Confusion] to block your inspiration."

"You are born to be extraordinary."

Xiao En was stunned when he heard this.

"Every soul from another world has different talents, but yours is still rare." The butcher opened the cabinet, picked up a book, put it in front of Xiao En and said, "You are already a transcendent, but you don't know how to use your abilities yet."

"A book club?"

Xiao En was a little surprised and nodded, "Yes."

The butcher opened the book, which was a geography book. He gestured to Xiao En and said, "Read it."

Xiao En just wanted to read the words on it, relying on the memory fused in his brain to identify these words, but suddenly the butcher blocked the page in front of him with one hand and said in a deep voice: "Don't use your eyes to see it."

“Use your brain to see.”

Xiao En was a little confused. How could he read the book without using his eyes?

"Think back to how you felt when you met Motilane." The butcher stared at Xiao En and said slowly, "That living knowledge."

"In this absurd world."

“Knowledge is not what you originally understood! They are also living things, a phenomenon, a force, and a resource.”

“Understand them.”

"The knowledge is right in front of you. As a transcendent, you don't need to use your eyes to read them. You just need to understand the way they exist and then command them."

The butcher's words hit Xiao En's brain hard, making him feel dazed.

Subconsciously.

He no longer looked at the characters on the book, but stared at the book itself. Then, he saw the knowledge, the knowledge engraved on the book. They were not active and were completely different from the knowledge he had seen in the Soul Echo Corridor before.

They are lazy, they are indifferent, they linger unconsciously on the pages.

Finally, they began to respond to Sean and obey him, entering Sean's brain in a way that was not read with the eyes, and became part of the knowledge he mastered.

This knowledge has no owner.

When Xiao En came to his senses, he had already finished reading one-third of the book in front of him.

He could even memorize it completely.

This is amazing!
It only took Xiao En a few minutes to memorize more than 30,000 words, and he remembered it so clearly that he could almost remember it after reading it once.

"very good."

The butcher nodded, his ferocious face softened a lot, and he said in approval: "It's a 0-ring reading trick. It's not a true extraordinary spell, but you mastered it very quickly."

"No wonder you were targeted by Motilane."

A trick with 0 rings?

Can't this be considered a true supernatural power?

Xiao En was just a little tired now, but he was very excited because he had just memorized tens of thousands of words of geography knowledge in just three minutes.

The brain is delighted!
Because this is real knowledge that can satisfy the hunger of a barren brain.

"There are many kinds of power on the path of death."

"Obviously, you are not suitable for the path of death that I master. I will find another instructor for you." The butcher looked at the time again and said in a deep voice: "Next is the last general knowledge course of the day."

"About evil things."

"Those monsters you saw."

"Evil is an indescribable falsehood, a festering abscess in the earth, a deformity tainted by flesh and blood, and the hatred and pain of the world."

The butcher spoke a little faster, his deep voice making people feel inexplicably hurried. He said in a deep voice: "There are many types of evil things, but the most common ones are still the same few types."

"The indescribable falsehood is something that does not really exist."

"For example, the great detective - Moti Lane."

"They are all creations that did not really exist before. You can understand it as some false things becoming real and entering reality."

At this point, the butcher glanced at Xiao En and said slowly: "They are targeting you."

“So you must be careful of all vanity.”

Xiao En murmured, "Be careful of all falsehoods?"

The butcher nodded and continued, "Next."

"Don't worry about the rotten abscesses on the earth. They are all outside the high walls. The miracle of destiny has isolated them. As long as you don't leave the [Twelve Realms of Clockwork Nirvana], it is unlikely that you will encounter them at present."

"The thing I worked on yesterday was called the Pillar of Flesh and Blood, which is the rotten abscess of the earth."

"the last one."

"You have actually seen the distortion caused by blood and flesh pollution. The corpse of that alien soul is a distortion of blood and flesh."

"In the gray fog."

"All other races besides humans have been infected with the deformation of flesh and blood. You rarely encounter this, and you will understand it clearly in the future."

Hearing this, Xiao En couldn't help but ask, "Isn't there another one?"

The hatred and pain of the world.

The woman said the same thing, but the butcher left out the last one.

“The hatred of the world!…” The butcher in front of him seemed to be lost in memory, and said slowly: “If you are unfortunate enough to meet them, you will know.”

"The only thing you can do is one thing."

"escape!"

"The further away the better!"

The butcher looked at the time and seemed to have no desire to continue the conversation. He said in a deep voice, "Okay. Today's general knowledge is over."

Xiao En hesitated for a moment before finally nodding and saying, "So what should I do next?"

The butcher snapped his fingers and said, "Work!"

what?
Xiao En was stunned for a moment and stood up silently.

The butcher gave the final instructions so quickly, it seemed like he just didn't want to delay the work.

"Here, even the dead have to work," the butcher said seriously.

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(End of this chapter)