Chapter 138: Today (14)
The time reached 17:23.
Unfortunately, after flipping through the diary all the way to the end, up until yesterday, all Mark had been doing was experiments—experiments, and more experiments, nonstop. He had never even considered how to eliminate Xipe Totec.
As for today, Mark hadn’t had time to write in his diary before he seemingly died at home, likely due to a massive power outage that caused the monster to lose control.
As a result, even after Everly read through the entire diary, she still couldn’t find a way to destroy the monster.
The only clue even remotely related to killing the monster was a conversation between Mark and a Bokor from when the creature had first appeared.
[…After successfully using cameras to control Xipe Totec, I sought out that Bokor. Beating around the bush, I asked him whether it was possible to artificially create the “undead,” and if so, how they could be controlled.
The Bokor probably sensed something. After all, many of the witchcraft techniques I used in creating Xipe Totec were taught to me by him.
The Bokor told me that humans are not creators; a crude stitching together of souls can never produce true life.
“You’d best stop, and let them return to where they belong — ‘And he was gone into his hole, into the burning bowels of earth.’” That was his advice to me.