Miss Luo Yan’s Feet Are Buried With Corpses v3c78

Witch’s Night: Chapter 78 A Letter Across Time

The Sanctuary—the corrupted Old Noah, the library.

As Luo Yan walked through this library, the increasingly strong sense of familiarity in her mind intensified, and some emerging memories gradually overlapped with the scenes before her eyes.

Following these memories, she wandered through this massive, forty-story building.

There were no sounds, no figures in these memories, only images of moving through mountains of books.

These images guided Luo Yan towards a certain place. She walked step by step, and one of Shadow’s shadow avatars carefully followed behind.

Seriously… how could she let Luo Yan wander around the library without any supervision?

Even Noah hadn’t figured out everything within this library, a legacy of the Old Era.

The six libraries left behind were just empty shells; not a single book remained inside.

Various experimental instruments and special devices were sealed with complex restrictions, and even now, Noah had deciphered less than ten percent of them.

Who knew what terrifying restrictions would be triggered by touching something carelessly?

Even if the person entering the library wasn’t this mysterious Miss Luo Yan with her strange origins, Shadow would still cautiously… peep… oh no, observe.

But strangely, this library didn’t seem to impose any restrictions on Miss Luo Yan. Shadow watched as Luo Yan passed through one restriction after another. If she hadn’t been attached to Luo Yan’s elongated shadow under the library lights, she wouldn’t have been able to reach so many places.

Over the past hundreds of years, Shadow had already explored every accessible area within these six libraries, but the places Miss Luo Yan was going now felt strangely unfamiliar even to her.

An absurd thought arose in Shadow’s mind. Could Miss Luo Yan actually be… someone who lived from the Old Era until now… and was registered in the library’s system?

Noah’s current exploration of the library was all brute force, forcibly destroying or overriding restrictions, without truly accessing its internal systems.

The only thing that could be considered a legitimate record was probably the gate restriction, but that was only the lowest level visitor access, set by the Saint herself.

However, Shadow, after a moment of thought, still felt it was unlikely.

Even if they looked young, most long-lived individuals would still carry a certain air of age.

Even Illusion, as young as she looked, Shadow could occasionally see a hint of weariness in her eyes.

Miss Luo Yan clearly wasn’t like this.

As Luo Yan continued walking deeper, the surrounding bookshelves were empty, filled with scattered instruments and devices, seemingly still carrying the haste of a panicked escape.

Shadow felt a chill run down her spine, her heart skipping several beats.

This wasn’t from the time of Old Noah’s destruction…

This was… the Old Era.

Thirteen hundred years ago.

Just as Shadow couldn’t help but want to ask, Luo Yan stopped. In front of her was a small, inconspicuous room.

She pushed the door open.

Time seemed to have frozen within this library. Even after a thousand years, there were still many signs of life.

There weren’t many things on the prominent desk, a small lamp in the corner, and a simple mug on the right side.

Several lab coats were hanging in the closet in the corner of the room, and next to it was a painting with its surface smeared, nothing else.

However… the most eye-catching thing was an item on the desk.

A document.

This was… a document passed down from Old Noah!

Seeing this, Shadow finally couldn’t help herself and materialized,

“Miss Luo Yan!”

“Ah?”

Hearing Shadow’s voice, Luo Yan was clearly startled, as if frightened.

She turned to look at Shadow, a hint of confusion in her eyes, then, as if just waking up, nodded slightly and said,

“Saint Shadow? Why are you here?”

“I… I apologize, I’ve been following you from the beginning.”

Shadow took a deep breath and looked nervously at the document on the desk.

It was no wonder she was nervous. This was a document left from the Old Era!

Although many legacies from the Old Era had been passed down to the New Era, there was one type of item that had never appeared.

—All written records.

Whether it was data systems or paper documents, none of them survived to the New Era.

As if completely destroyed by some kind of force, this directly led to the New Era humans having to rely on their own step-by-step exploration when researching Old Era legacies.

It was like using a never-before-seen machine without an instruction manual.

More importantly, regarding the legacies of the Old Era, the humans of the New Era didn’t just want to use them, they also wanted to recreate them.

Even just copying them, creating a one-to-one replica, would be considered a success.

Because the technology of the Old Era had developed for thousands of years, and the world’s resources at that time were abundant enough to be squandered, unlike now, where they had to carefully explore the Endless Wasteland.

Compared to today, the technology of the Old Era in certain fields was still alien technology to the current human civilization.

But what did Shadow see here?

A document.

Even she had never set foot in this area, and there weren’t any traces of New Era humans around. Everything was frozen in the time of the Old Era’s destruction.

And this document… could only be left from the Old Era.

“You… want to see this?”

Luo Yan followed Shadow’s gaze and also noticed the document.

However, Luo Yan didn’t know what an Old Era document meant to the New Era civilization. She walked over normally and picked it up.

“Gasp!”

Shadow’s eyes almost popped out seeing this.

How could she directly touch this thousand-year-old artifact with her bare hands!

And it was a paper document…

Ordinary paper, let alone a thousand years, a hundred years was enough for it to disintegrate.

Although it looked perfectly intact, it would instantly turn to dust with a single touch.

However, this document didn’t seem to be made of ordinary paper. Luo Yan picked it up without any damage and even casually flipped through it.

“What does it say inside?”

Shadow quickly “whooshed” over, her shadow falling on Luo Yan’s shoulder, and looked at the contents of the document together with her.

Unfortunately, the content was written in Old Era script, and Shadow couldn’t understand a single word after staring at it for a long time.

“It seems to be a resignation letter.”

Luo Yan read aloud,

“Dear Dr. Haxton, I sincerely apologize for submitting this resignation request for personal reasons.

“The… research work at Haxton Laboratory is progressing very smoothly, my colleagues are friendly, and you are also very kind. These are not the reasons for my resignation.

“The reason I am resigning is because the end of the world is coming. A voice told me to go and save the world. Saving the world is quite a busy job, and I might not have time to work then.”

Hearing this, if Shadow weren’t in her shadow avatar form, her beautiful face would probably have turned purple.

It sounded like an ordinary, prank resignation letter. Shadow had seen even more absurd resignation letters.

There was once a parish priest in the Noah Church whose reason for resignation was that his work was too busy, and he wanted to travel the world, writing “There’s more to life than just the mundane, there’s also poetry and distant lands.”

This Old Era resignation letter seemed similar to this prank type, but the problem was that everyone now knew that the end of the world did happen…

What about the author of this letter?

“Who wrote this?”

Shadow asked nervously.

Judging from the tone of this letter, the end of the world at that time should still have been a joke. Why resign when it actually arrived…

“Let me see the signature, it doesn’t seem to be on this side.”

Luo Yan flipped to the back and looked down.

Seeing the signature, she instantly froze.

“The signature is…”

“World Federation, Luohui Division, Haxton Laboratory, Level 2 Researcher… Luo Yan.”

“Project in charge: ‘Human Enhancement Project No. 371 – Esper Abilities’.”

Silence descended as her voice fell.

“You?”

Shadow was shocked. Had her random thoughts just now come true?

Luo Yan wasn’t the incarnation of some “malice,” but this… Old Era researcher?

“How could it be me?” Luo Yan’s eyelids twitched, she picked up the pen next to her and wrote her own name on the letter. “Look at the handwriting, it’s completely different!”

Putting aside why this pen, which had been left for over a thousand years, could still be used, and why Luo Yan was casually scribbling on this priceless artifact, the handwriting of the two signatures was indeed different.

To be more precise, the handwriting of the “Luo Yan” who wrote the resignation letter was more delicate and elegant, while the current Miss Luo Yan clearly hadn’t written in Old Era script much, and her writing could only be said to be barely legible.

“It seems it’s just someone with the same name.”

Luo Yan scratched the back of her head and said, a bit sheepishly.

Actually, she knew that her name also belonged to another person.

—Mister “Zero,” whom Mister One of Dawn once mentioned.

The timing also seemed to match, and the librarian’s way of addressing her seemed to fit as well.

The only doubt was why a Level 2 researcher would have the highest level of authorization in the entire library…

In the end, Luo Yan still decided to conceal some information from the Twelve Saints.

“Eh, but how did you find this place?” Shadow looked around. “This should be that ‘Researcher Luo Yan’s’ office…”

“I was just wandering around.” Luo Yan said honestly. “I originally wanted to find some books to pass the time, but I don’t know why, I just ended up here… like a subconscious action.”

Saying it was guided by memories wasn’t quite accurate. Luo Yan just felt that she should walk this way, and so she did.

Wandering around to this extent…

Shadow’s expression was one of disbelief—if she had an expression.

She had lived for hundreds of years, and even if she wasn’t a cunning schemer, she was still quite perceptive, and could tell at a glance that Luo Yan, with her innocent face and sheepish demeanor, was definitely hiding something.

However, since these were Luo Yan’s secrets, and she herself didn’t want to reveal them, Shadow tactfully didn’t pursue the matter.

“Eh, if that’s the case, can you go anywhere in this library?” Shadow’s eyes lit up at this thought.

Currently, less than thirty percent of this library had been explored, most of it sealed by restrictions.

If they had a human-shaped master key who could ignore restrictions, wouldn’t they be able to explore the entire library?

“…Can’t you?” Luo Yan blinked. “These doors aren’t locked, they open automatically when I approach them.”

“…”

Shadow felt that Miss Luo Yan was mocking her, but her innocent expression didn’t seem like it.

“But this place looks like it hasn’t been cleaned in a long time,” Luo Yan put away the strange resignation letter and looked around, “Has no one been here since Old Noah was destroyed?”

Shadow thought, it was even longer than that, but she just nodded,

“Almost.”

Unlike Old Noah, everything here seemed incredibly desolate, almost everything covered in a thick layer of dust, broken instruments and damaged devices everywhere.

Like a giant storage room.

Shadow wasn’t surprised by this. The other Old Noah legacies were in a similar state. Being able to find a few usable devices among the debris was already considered lucky.

Just as Shadow was pondering whether to have Luo Yan continue exploring other areas of the library, her true body sent a message.

“Gasp… how could this be?” Shadow couldn’t help but gasp. “Lord Noah left the white temple?”

“Lord Noah?”

Luo Yan asked curiously.

“The First Saint, whose Saint name is ‘Noah’.” Shadow explained.

Saint Noah and the “City of Noah,” it was now difficult to determine which came first.

Whether the first human mega-city was named Noah because of the First Saint’s Saint name, or whether the First Saint was given the name “Noah” because of the City of Noah, no one knew.

“Are the other Saints also in that white temple you mentioned?” Luo Yan asked again.

She had been wondering before, it was said to be the Twelve Saints, why were there only two Saints who appeared? Where were the other ten?

“Well, I wasn’t supposed to say it, but it doesn’t matter now.” Shadow nodded. “Yes, there have been rumors outside that the Twelve Saints are suppressing the Witch of Absolute Death who once ravaged the world. Let me clarify, it’s not a rumor, it’s true.”

“…Is it the Witch of Absolute Death who might look exactly like me?”

“Don’t say that… I find it creepy.”

Hearing this, the black shadow visibly trembled.

This place wasn’t too far from where the Witch of Absolute Death was suppressed…

“I… don’t really have much of an impression of her.”

Luo Yan thought for a moment and said, “Because I’ve also seen the Witch of Envy, and I’ve also seen someone who looks exactly like the Witch of Envy. The Gods’ appearances are inherently incomprehensible.”

The Witch of Envy looked exactly like Mrs. Natalie, but although their appearances were identical, their temperaments were very different and could be distinguished at a glance.