Whispering Poems.

Chapter 1663

It was still early, it was spring, and there would be more than an hour before sunset this Friday, so Shade took a carriage to the public cemetery in Green Lake City.The public cemetery in this ancient city also has a long history, and Xia De came here this time only to find a new tomb that was half a year ago.

The tomb of the former tomb robber "Hard Ferrero" is located in a corner of the cemetery, crowded with other poor poor people.It can be seen that no one has come to see him for a long time. The tomb is entangled with the new weeds that grew this spring, and the tombstone is also covered with dust.

Although strictly speaking, night is the best time to rob graves, Xia De has no time to wait until night.After making sure that there was no one nearby, and that the choking fog could obscure his vision, he used illusion to cover the surrounding area, and then skillfully took out a shovel to dig.

When he and Megan were on the island, they had already practiced this technique.

The excavation went well because the coffin was not buried very deep.As soon as he saw the shabby wooden coffin, Xia De knew that he had found the place, and he felt the unique spirit and elements of the power of the death angel.

Where there is the power of the angel of death, there is no need to worry about the undead, so Xia De relievedly pried open the coffin lid of the tomb robber, and found the piece of the coffin from the shabby funeral objects such as metal cups around the carrion corpse. Bone pieces in a box.

The pure white bone fragment was about the size of a quarter of Xia De's palm.But the power contained in it is far inferior to the other "remains of the dead angel" that Xia De has come into contact with.The harvest this time is probably better than nothing for Priest Augustus, but it at least proves that the Edwards family really has the remains of the dead angel other than the two powerful angel bones.

"Continue to investigate and delve into Edwards' secrets, maybe we can find more."

Xia De is very optimistic about this, but he is also very puzzled about what the ancestor of Edwards, the powerful thirteen-ring fortune teller, wanted to do when he found these precious materials in the first place.

After re-burying the tomb and cleaning up the traces of his presence, it was time for dinner.

Xia De didn't stay in Green Lake for a long time, but returned home first after throwing the glass slipper, took Mia to dinner, and then came to Green Lake City again.

Through the dark night, he came all the way to the casino he visited in the afternoon.It can be seen that the business of the casino is even hotter at night.Even before entering the small four-story building, Xia De could still hear the sound inside.

At the same time, there are many more guards in the casino at night than during the day.In addition to the gatekeepers, in the alleys extending in all directions around the casino, there are people guarding important places such as the corners of the alleys.Of course it is not easy to get close by ordinary means, but fortunately Xia De can turn into a cat.And these casino guards are not responsible for preventing cats from wandering in nearby alleys.

The deepest room on the fourth floor has no windows, so it is impossible to fly directly into it.But the other rooms on the fourth floor have windows, so on the roof near the casino, the Shade cat transformed from a cat to a red butterfly, and then flew to another window on the fourth floor.

[I thought that you should pretend to be a Rhodes gambler and sneak into the casino, and go to gamble a few hands first, it is best to get some special cards, and then take the opportunity to go upstairs. 】

"She" whispered in the ears of the butterflies, and Xia Dedie felt that she was misunderstood:

"As I've said before, I've always hated gambling. As for betting on special cards, that's another story."

"She" smiled softly, and the red butterflies under the moon, which became transparent with illusion, also successfully flew out of the window on the highest floor of the casino.

Although the windows are locked from the inside, [Ragley's Jump] can move as long as it can be seen, so Shad used the space transfer ability to enter the temporarily empty room.

However, this is not the room where I met Barry the Bad Eye in the afternoon, but the warehouse where the casino stores its books.Xia De recalled the fourth-floor structure he observed in the afternoon:

"The front and left side of the stairs are doors. The door on the left leads to Barry's office. There are doors on the left and right sides of the office. The door on the left is the private room, and the door on the right seems to lead to this."

He looked at the familiar door on the side wall of this room, walked over in the dark, put his ear on it and listened, and then opened the door with the "door key".

There is also a room with no lights on behind the door, and dark vision can give a panoramic view of every detail of the office scene.Xia De smiled, and walked to another door on the side wall, but this time after putting his hand on the doorknob, he didn't open it immediately, because he sensed the traces of the elements:
"Reconnaissance? Counterattack? Or an alarm?"

Because I don't know what the elements on the door represent for the time being, Xia De didn't open the door, but put his hand on the wall next to the door:
"Fosmise into mud!"

The arm went straight through the wall and into the next room.Afterwards, Xia De turned into a group of butterflies, and flew into the windowless secret room through the hole his arm penetrated.

Instead, there was a light source in the secret room, and a few long white candles were placed on the ground. These are long-burning candles that can burn for a long time, and belong to basic alchemy items.And by candlelight, Xia De turned to look at the door, and sure enough, he saw traces of the ceremony on the back of the door:
"If the door is not opened with the corresponding key, but is opened by other methods, the person who set up the ceremony will know immediately."

He deciphered the effect of the ritual, and this ritual only took effect on the door, not on the walls.

Xia De did not lament the negligence of the other party's defensive measures, but looked towards the room.

The layout here is indeed like a special prayer room. The white candles on the ground that can burn for a long time are placed in turn on the nodes of the huge ritual array drawn with blood.However, the meaning of the ceremonial matrix is ​​only to concentrate people's minds, and there are no directional signs and symbols.

There are vague elements of blasphemy in the secret room, which means that there are extraordinary people praying to the evil god here for many years.It's just that there are no god statues or holy emblems in the room, and there are no words on the notebooks and papers here.

The only thing that could be called a clue was the innermost wall of the room covered with blood-red ropes.There is a low table under the wall, which is obviously supposed to enshrine a statue or a holy emblem, but there is nothing at this time, it should be that Barry, for the sake of safety, temporarily took away those sensitive items while he was away.

“The sound insulation here is really good.”

Entering this room, you can't hear the noisy voices of the gamblers downstairs.In addition, only Barry the Bad-Eye will come to this room, and the sound he makes after entering here can only be the sound of prayer, so——

"Echoes of the past."

Close your eyes and listen to the past, the first thing you hear is the sound of opening and closing doors, followed by a low voice complaining about the weather.After a while, the sound of footsteps moved towards the innermost side, and then the solemn and serious prayer of the one-eyed man entered Shad's ears.

This is the most crucial passage:

"Praise the first dead of the deep sea, you are the master of the sea and the carrion, you are the guardian of the mystery of death. Praise the Lord! Praise—the God of the drowned in the deep sea!"

Xia De opened his eyes suddenly, in a trance, on the night of last summer, in Tobesk City, the phantom of the evil god who confronted him who opened the mystic [Match Girl] for the first time will appear before his eyes again:

"Now, the three evil gods of Lengshuigang are complete."

Among the traditional three evil gods in the Lengshuigang area, the believer murlocs of [Lord of the Scarlet Spiral] attempted to flood Lengshuigang, but they were stopped by the church and Xia De together. As a result, Xia De even got a drop of divinity from the golden pearl, and The pearl became a gift to Queen Diana;

Followers of [Furious Storm] appeared at the grand wedding banquet at the Lake View Manor during Margaret's visit to Tobesk. Shade absorbed the divinity in the relic after being struck by the lightning that contained the power of the evil god , and also obtained the [Thunder] spirit rune, and the [Thunder Gun] he often uses now also comes from that experience;
As for the [God of the Drowned in the Deep Sea] this time, Xia De's contact with him was limited to when he was still the first ring. In order to save the souls of the flower girl's family, he opened the mystic [Match Girl], in Dorothy or Lei Witnessed by Sia, she used the "divine afterglow" state to confront her eyes.
"Aren't the believers of this god mostly active in coastal cities, islands, or oceans? How did they get to the Green Lake area? This is the inland part of the Old Continent, far from the east and west coasts."

The religious order formed by the believers of [Deep Sea Drowned] is usually called the "Order of the Drowned".Of course, the members of the order are all living people, but they are good at manipulating drowned corpses, so they have a hostile relationship with the "Scarlet Order" to which the "murloc" who can swim naturally belongs.

And raising and manipulating water ghosts is obviously the specialty of [Order of the Drowned]:

"That's how it's matched, so Barry the Rotten Eye will smell like a water ghost."

He closed his eyes and listened again. Although this was not a church, it was a genuine prayer to the gods after all, so the subsequent listening was not very smooth.After confirming that this was not the most important stronghold of Barry the Bad Eye and that there were no other clues, Xia De left here along the road just now. Of course, he did not forget to fill the hole in the wall.

After confirming that the gang leader is a cult member, Xia De can actually report him directly.But there are clues related to the tomb robbers and even the island directly on this person.Therefore, Xia De is not in a hurry to let the church deal with it.

He returned all the way to the Green Lake Hotel. The interior of the hotel was warm and bright in the night. Shad asked Mr. Soren Green who was on duty behind the counter:
"Can you contact the pharmacist lady? It's Megan."

Mr. Green was surprised:
"Did she tell you her real name?"

　PS: Ask for tickets, it’s a new month, and it’s still double!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)