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The short-haired girl not far away took off her sunglasses, and a rare surprise flashed in her eyes.

Doris!

"Mother, do you know her?" Lin An blurted out subconsciously.

"Well, Miss Wood is an elegant lady." Adelia wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, "I made an appointment with her for a private lesson in the afternoon. Xiao An, do you have anything else to do?"

Lin An's eyes widened. What he had been worried about had come true!

The "Professor" Doris called in the video was really his mother!

Why is she pestering Adelia? Lin An frowned. His mother was an ordinary person. She seemed to have nothing to do with the world of mystics.

"Professor Hughes and An... cough, classmate Lin."

At the same time, Doris was also very surprised. Even though her guess had been confirmed, seeing Lin An and Adelia standing together, their very similar faces still gave her quite a shock.

And an inexplicable sense of tension.

But after all, she was the daughter of the chairman of Wood Group. Her usual self-confidence quickly dispelled the inexplicable discomfort in her heart. Doris chatted with Adelia for a few words in a good-natured manner and turned to Lin An.

"I didn't expect you to be the son of my favorite Professor Hughes. It seems that my taste in picking people has never changed."

Doris bent down, leaned close to Lin An's ear, and spoke in a misleading tone, as soft as a pillow whisper.

"An'an, please keep your reserved tickets for the first day of the planetarium."

As she spoke, she took out the ticket stub from the lady's wallet, opened Lin An's fingers, and stuffed it into his palm. The latter nodded without saying a word.

Unexpectedly, she took the promise in the video seriously!

What does Doris want to do?

She probably hasn't discovered that I have Hittite rituals yet...but I'm afraid she knows that I am a mystic.

Lin An closed his fingers and accepted the ticket.

Is this a kind of solicitation?

Lin An wanted to tell his mother not to get close to this woman, but unfortunately he knew that not only would Adelia not listen to his advice, but it would also offend Doris.

Watching the two of them go away, Lin An let out a sigh of relief.

She must find a way to remind her mother that Doris cannot be allowed to get closer to her.

The whispers around the restaurant became louder and louder, all discussing who Lin An was. Not only had he conquered the aloof Professor Hughes, but he had also won the favor of the famous social queen Doris.

"I remembered, he is Lin An!"

Suddenly, a loud voice broke people's suspicions.

"What!?"

Lin An immediately became alert and left this place of right and wrong before a crowd of people swarmed towards him.

…………

Due to the chaos in the restaurant, Lin An arrived at the door of the professor's office early to wait.

Sitting on a chair in the employee corridor, he began to sort out the attachments of his mother's emails, and the family and image of his great-grandfather gradually emerged.

The Hughes family has a long history of rule in this town, and the land has been theirs since around the 15th century.

The common speculation among the townspeople is that the experience of the Hughes family is a bit like that of the Duke of Luxembourg. They once had a huge power in Xizhou until they lost all other territories and had to return to their last territory to retire.

The family kept a low profile for hundreds of years, living in a remote castle.

When their members reach adulthood, they will leave the castle and the small town, study and work overseas, spread their business around the world, start families, and have no contact with the original family ever since.

There is also a custom in the Hughes family that both men and women must change their spouse's surname after marriage.

Even so, these members have not escaped unfortunate fate in the past twenty years. According to the statistics of the litigants, a total of 56 direct or collateral members died due to various accidents.

My mother took the surname of her adoptive parents, who happened to also have the last name Hughes. Lin An thought, she herself got a doctorate degree, so she did not follow my father's surname Lin.

On the contrary, she survived by keeping her surname generously?

In each generation of the Hughes family, only the eldest son will stay in the castle, but they do not live long. They die in their thirties, as if they were cursed.

In more than a hundred years, the only person who has not left the castle is Duke Vasilika, Lin An's great-grandfather.

Unlike his short-lived children, the Duke lived to be a full 147 years old. The townspeople always saw him smiling in the garden or in his library; either reading or playing with his cat.

According to statistics, the Duke had about 3,000 cats in his lifetime, and most of them died of old age before him.

The old man in the town said that when he was a child, he once naughtily broke into the Duke's garden and accidentally fell into the pond. The Duke asked the servants to pick him up and invite him into the castle.

The Duke is handsome and looks to be in his early thirties, but his eyes are particularly deep.

Later, this citizen left his hometown to work and wandered for half his life. When he returned to his hometown after a full 40 years, the Duke invited him to be his guest again.

His skin has become a little soft due to aging, but his posture is still upright. He is clearly a centenarian, but he looks more like a middle-aged man in his fifties. However, the townspeople have changed from a hairy boy to a white man. A gray-haired old man.

The townspeople felt a little scared at the time and went home without daring to talk to the Duke.

There are countless examples like this, and the townspeople agree that the Duke is aging too slowly.

Castles, nobles, ageless looks... many factors blended into the rumors of vampires.

However, the media in Romania is underdeveloped, and strange things and strange news are only spread in small towns and surrounding cities. The Internet also does not open the door to information to them due to language barriers.

Combining various information, Lin An basically determined that his great-grandfather was one of the aristocratic families, or belonged to a large Xizhou aristocratic family. He broke away from it more than a hundred years ago and came to this town to write "The Encyclopedia of Magic".

These two suspicions gave birth to two explanations.

First, my great-grandfather stole a core item from a Western continent family, similar to the Holy Shroud of Jericho, took it as his own, and flew away. Later, the family came to visit him. When the lost property was recovered, he also lost his life, and his children He was also implicated.

Second, my great-grandfather was originally the heir to the ancient dynasty, but his property was coveted by other forces, so he kept his name anonymous and hid in the town waiting for the arrival of "Comes". Unfortunately, the pursuers arrived early and robbed him. , and destroyed his bloodline by the way.

The key item in this, Lin An believes, is none other than the "Encyclopedia of Magic."

To be precise, it is the original text of [Encyclopedia of Mysteries].

The 12-volume "Encyclopedia of Magic" is a collection of occult science written by my great-grandfather based on "first-hand materials". However, the original reference object has disappeared from the inheritance.

Regardless of whether the process was correct or not, there is no doubt that the Hughes family was persecuted. During this period, they also tried to escape by going abroad, changing their surnames, and hiding themselves, but they still could not escape the pursuers.

Lin An was puzzled by one thing. Why didn't these victors take away the "Encyclopedia of Magic" and instead let their mother inherit it?

Is it some kind of deal between aristocratic families?

Maybe you simply didn’t expect it to have the mysterious power to awaken people?

The most ominous explanation is that someone wants to fish out the last bloodline of the Hughes family through "The Encyclopedia of Magic" and catch them all...

"Lin An! You are Lin An!"

Immersed in the ocean of thoughts, Lin An suddenly heard his name, and Lin An was alert and looked at the person who spoke.

This man has a tall build, wheat-colored skin, and blue dreadlocks. He wears short sleeves, revealing his arms covered with tattoos and a pierced belly button. His ripped jeans tightly wrap his strong thighs. Wearing short studded boots.

"Excuse me, who are you?"

"Sander Delprat, your name is a bit long, please call me Sangsang." The young man couldn't help but put his arm around Lin An's shoulders, "Brother, you are my idol!"

Since being noticed by Doris, Lin An has become a famous figure in the university and has to wear a hoodie every day to prevent being recognized.

However, Sangsang was not here for Doris.

"What are you doing standing there in a daze? Didn't we play electric guitar together in the Art Institute before!" Sangsang gestured to a gun with his index finger, "I just recently discovered that, yoyo, you are actually a loyal supporter of LGBT+."

Damn, the topic is too jumpy.

Looking up from the ancient and tortuous history of the aristocratic family, Lin An suddenly had the illusion of time travel when he saw such a son who kept up with current events and had labels all over his body.

Even in the modern world of 2038, the differences between the cultures of various countries are indeed too great.

Sangsang continued to hold his shoulders and gestured with his other arm.

"Your performance at Bodwell made my heart sing! You are obviously a man, but you played the heroine. It is so brave. You are speaking out for our community. Long live the non-binary gender, woohoo!"

"Sorry, buddy, I have to go find the professor." Lin An was too lazy to pay attention to him.

"How can you assume my gender?" Sangsang flicked her thin highlighted dreadlocks and put one hand on her hips. "It's true that I'm biologically female, but I'm actually a man. Also, I'm heterosexual, so Don’t worry about what will happen between us.”

"……ah???"

Lin An's CPU was given to him - her - uh, it was burned out.

Your Walmart bag is as convoluted as the Hughes family's history.

"Lin Dou, I would like to ask you to take over as the lead singer of our band." Sangsang continued very self-proclaimed, "Two directions, do you know? The Caribbean band that is very popular in the university recently will perform next week. Forward it. They all exploded.”

"bump!"

The office door is opened.

"Del Plat, if you make a few more noises, I will throw your paper into the trash can." The angry professor saw Lin An, and his tone softened a lot, "Lin, come in, I will tell you what happened before." Highlights of several lessons.”

Sang Sang immediately fell silent and walked into the office with Lin An.

The professor pushed up his thick glasses, first listed the key points for Lin An's make-up lesson, and then pointed out the problems in her thesis to Sang Sang.

It turns out that Sang Sang is Lin An’s senior—senior? ——This semester, I signed up for the same class taught by Professor Emmett as Lin An, but I was absent from class for a while, causing the progress to fall behind like Lin An.

The professor hopes that the two of them will form a study group and supervise and help each other during this period.

Despite the initial shock, Lin An couldn't accept it.

After all, when he applied for the University of Ann Arbor, the 42 options that popped up in the gender column had already given him a shot of vaccination.

What's more, although Sangsang was a bit "avant-garde", her academic performance was surprisingly good, so the professor did not give up on her like he did with Mike.

The two made an appointment to meet in the study room of the library the next day.

As soon as he opened the door, a strong shadow spread its wings and pounced on Lin An.

"Lindou!"

Lin An had already prepared a flash, sat on the chair with an expressionless face, and turned on the computer to study.

Undaunted by the rejection, Sangsang pulled out a chair and sat next to him, and diligently handed over a folder filled with information.

"Don't worry, rock and roll and bands are just hobbies and will not affect your college grades. The professor asked us to go to the museum for a field trip in two days. No, I have the preparation materials here, Lin Dou."

"What is Lindou, Lindt chocolate?"

"To join Two Directions, you have to have a catchy nickname." Sang Sang flicked the paper, "I am the guitarist and backup singer Sang Sang, the drummer A Zhe, the bass brother, and you, as the temporary lead singer, are called Lin Dou Duo It rhymes.”

Lin An took the information and took a cursory glance. The key points compiled by Sangsang were very useful and saved him a lot of effort.

In addition, there was another reason why Lin An continued to tolerate Sangsang. In the tree diagram provided by the system, he found that the branches of the "God of Farming" medium on her body were exceptionally long.

There are very few mysterious archetypes recognized by ordinary people, so the tree branching is sparse, and the branches extending out of each medium are very short, which means that they can only awaken to the weird story rating.

However, the length of Sangsang's "God of Farming" is far longer than that of ordinary people. In terms of this medium alone, it is even longer than her mother, which shows that she contains legendary potential.

However, after contact, Lin An discovered that Sangsang avoided the occult and even showed a little disgust.

Whenever Lin An brought up related topics, she would deliberately change the focus and touch upon them in an ambiguous way.

It’s not ignorance, but subconscious rejection and fear.

Has she experienced any recent incidents related to "Comuth"?

"What happened to your original lead singer?" Lin An asked casually.

"Tsk!" Sangsang was like a noisy chicken being pinched by the neck and fell into silence. After a while, he said, "He, she, he and I had a fight. Hey, can you join us, Lin Dou, I I’ll give you 50 bucks.”

Is it him or her, can your band come up with a complete gender. Lin An was speechless.

"It's not about money."

"500 dollars for fun! This is my bottom line!"

"I recommend a lead singer to you." Lin An took out his mobile phone and clicked on the video, "His name is Sasaki Haruto, and he is using a voice changer to become a virtual singer on MyTube. You can find him."

"Both directions need cool guys. You are the only person I know who is handsome and can sing. I don't have time to look for other team members!" Sangsang waved his hands repeatedly, "Yes, Lin Dou, I'll treat you to a night out... Eat BBQ."

Before Lin An could answer, the phone rang. When Lin An saw the name of the contact, he pushed Sangsang away with his elbow and pressed the connect button.

"Lin, the victim of [Ghost] has appeared."

Simon's deep voice came.

Currently, Lin An still belongs to his control team and needs to cooperate in carrying out tasks.

The second-generation ghost is really dishonest. He commits crimes under my vest every day. Lin An licked the corner of his mouth.

Maybe it would be good to just catch it like this, at least it wouldn't have to be criticized every day by the Foundation's insiders as "the ghost of Detli City".

"When will we meet you?" Lin An said cautiously. He did not want to return to the foundation facility and be affected by the "prophet's" mysterious technique again.

"No, you stay where you are."

"Why?"

"Because [the ghost] is most likely at Ann Arbor University right now."

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