"Her? Charlotte? What did she want you to do?"
Lu Ban pressed further.
"She asked me to give this to you."
Bao Bao yawned and handed Lu Ban a small booklet from beneath herself—or perhaps from under the hem of her skirt, which had been warmed by her sitting on it.
Lu Ban saw that it was covered in strange writing from the Ruined City. The Silent Land seemed unable to help with the translation for the time being, so Lu Ban manifested the Silver Pen, Last Words, and directly opened illusory pages over the booklet.
Old News of the Ruined City
A document recording the history of the Ruined City. It contains many secrets. Do not read it lightly. The reason secrets are secrets is because they are dangerous.
It encompasses the humanities, geography, mythology, and traditions. It is enough to leave one greatly enriched—or to cause immediate mutation.
It even contains the deepest secrets of the Ruined City. Beware. When reading it, it is best to make sure you have already written your will.
Lu Ban had not expected this to be the final thing he lacked.
Old News of the Ruined City.
As long as he obtained this, Lu Ban could complete the final refinement of Last Words.
As for what state Last Words would enter after the final refinement, Lu Ban did not know.
He flipped through the booklet. Its writing was densely packed, but unfortunately, Lu Ban did not recognize a single character.
Nor did this thing possess the property of imparting knowledge and spreading pollution through contact.
In the hands of an ordinary person, it would probably be nothing more than a commonplace book of incomprehensible scrawls, completely useless.
But to someone capable of understanding the writing of the Ruined City, it might contain