Chapter 11 Lonely at Night

Looking at the empty sleeve arrow, the middle-aged man covered his neck and made a sound of "ugh".

He never thought that the other party had no hidden weapon.

From the beginning to the end, Xu Bai used the empty sleeve arrow to distract him.

If he was not distracted, perhaps the outcome would still be unknown, but he was distracted.

Distraction means death.

The middle-aged man stared at Xu Bai, and the words Xu Bai just said echoed in his mind.

"You are not experienced in the world..."

He wanted to say that if Xu Bai was considered to be inexperienced, he, an old man, would not have to mix in the world, but he couldn't say it now.

More and more blood flowed, and death was gradually approaching.

The bright knife light flashed, and the middle-aged man only felt a pain in his chest and completely lost consciousness.

"I paid for you, but you turned your swords against each other. It's not unfair to die."

From the beginning to the end, Xu Bai didn't intend to give them a chance.

After wiping off the blood on the blade of the middle-aged man's body, he put the ghost-head knife on his waist, looked at the bodies in front of him, and began to search them one by one.

After the search, he got more than ten copper coins and a book with a yellowed cover.

The handwriting on the book was no longer clear, Xu Bai glanced at it and raised his eyebrows.

Another golden progress bar!

"Tonight's harvest is really big..." Xu Bai touched his chin.

There were several corpses lying around. It was late at night and no one saw him. He chose a remote alley, so no one saw him.

But it was not good to stay here for a long time. If someone came, he would have to kill them.

He felt that he was not a bad person, and it was not good to fight and kill.

Taking advantage of the night, he wiped out his traces, pulled out the sleeve arrow from the body, wiped off the blood on it, and left the alley.

...

The night was like water, and the moonlight was like light.

Xu Bai opened the door and closed it after entering.

As soon as he entered the house, he went straight to the bedroom, took off his coat and lay on the bed, and put the ghost-head knife aside.

In the bedroom, the oil lamp was dim.

In the era without electric lights, the flickering light of the oil lamp was very suitable for shooting horror movies.

"It's a gain, but not completely a gain."

Xu Bai felt that the failure of the plan to visit the brothel today was entirely the fault of those gangsters.

Originally, he planned to have a meal, and then go shopping after eating to enjoy the girls' singing and playing, but who knew that they would chat until the evening.

Even when they came back, they killed them, which was unexpected.

"Is an honest man like me really easy to bully?" Xu Bai thought.

Maybe it's the law of time travelers...

Aren't those predecessors in novels all innocent before they traveled through time, but became ruthless event harvesting machines after they traveled through time.

Thinking of this, Xu Bai leaned against the wall, supported his chin with his hand, and fell into deep thought.

"It's because I'm still young."

He naturally passed the buck, saying something that made a dead person vomit blood, and picked up the nameless book that had just been placed on the bed.

On the book, the golden progress bar shone, especially conspicuous in the dark.

Xu Bai stared at it without blinking.

After an incense stick...

Looking at the progress bar that only increased a little bit, Xu Bai knew that he had picked up a treasure.

The slower the progress bar increases, the greater the benefit.

Look at the kidney-beating method, the quality is very good.

Although there is a side effect of kidney deficiency, it is only a short-term kidney deficiency, but the effect is great.

Therefore, the slower it increases, the happier Xu Bai is.

"I'll eat it tonight!"

As the saying goes, the night is long and I don't want to sleep.

At this moment, Xu Bai really has insomnia, and he stares at it with the light of the oil lamp.

Another stick of incense passed...

Xu Bai rubbed his dry eyes and said, "It turns out that if you don't blink, your eyes will really dry up."

If someone asked him now whether his eyes would dry up if he didn't blink for such a long time, he would definitely slap that person.

Didn't he know whether it would dry up or not?

"No, I have to do something." Xu Bai tried to open the book.

Just like reading "The Secret of Strengthening the Kidneys", he planned to use this to kill time.

The yellowed book felt very brittle when turned, as if the book would be broken if the force was a little stronger.

Turning to the first page, the words jumped out of the paper.

"Round and smooth, the air goes through the gate of heaven, mysterious and hazy, like chaos..."

Xu Bai felt a headache just after reading the first line.

He knew all the words above, but when they were combined together, he didn't know them anymore.

It was obscure and difficult to understand, but it was difficult for any normal person to read it.

"I have to finish it tonight!"

Xu Bai patiently continued to read.

Because it was difficult to understand, the more he read, the more dizzy he felt.

As he read, he began to turn the pages faster, no longer carefully considering each word, but reading ten lines at a glance.

Anyway, it was just to kill time, so Xu Bai didn't care.

After another stick of incense...

Xu Bai turned to the last page, expressionless.

I didn't understand it, I couldn't understand it at all, it was like reading a book from heaven.

But there was a new discovery when I turned to the last page, there was a piece of paper stuck in the last page of the book.

This discovery was like finding an unknown object called "XXX Dictionary" in a computer folder, Xu Bai immediately got excited.

Turning the paper over, dog-crawling words appeared.

Xu Bai looked carefully, it was a note about the book, and it was also a mental method.

After the paper was torn off, he opened the book again and compared it carefully. The notes on the paper were not complete, only half of the book.

It didn't look like the notes of the book, but more like a reader's understanding of the book.

According to this person's understanding, just half of it was enough to comprehend a low-level mental method.

"Dog-crawling words..."

Xu Bai thought of the middle-aged man.

Could it be written by the middle-aged man?

He speculated that the middle-aged man got this book from nowhere, and from it he comprehended a low-level and simple mental method, and he went from being a nobody to a ninth-grade one.

This speculation is very likely.

"Anyway, this thing is better than the bone-breaking mental method."

Half of it can produce a low-level mental method, and the whole book is of a higher level.

After reaching the conclusion, Xu Bai became more and more interested.

He didn't feel his eyes dry, and continued to stare at it intently.

...

The night was long, and in the room, Xu Bai didn't know how many times he added lamp oil, and he kept it up until the rooster crowed.

[You observe the nameless book and comprehend the butcher's mental method. ]

Words appeared in front of him, and Xu Bai stared with slightly dull eyes.

Finally... it worked!

Not sleeping for a night is nothing for a martial artist.

But staring at a book intently for a whole night, and still not understanding what is in the book, that is really torture.

In addition to being boring, it makes people sleepy.

It was like when a game is loading, the progress bar is rising little by little, just thinking about it makes my blood pressure rise.

Fortunately, this night was not wasted, he finally finished the book.

"Slaughter Heart Method... What is that?" Xu Bai thought to himself.

No information was transmitted to his mind as he imagined, the line of text seemed to be stuck, just staying in front of him.

"Is it broken?" Xu Bai stretched out his hand and scratched in front of his eyes.

The text in front of him seemed to have suddenly restarted and was gradually changing.

A new line of text appeared...