Iluna, who was in a hurry, was also a little surprised to see Shade here, but both of them remained calm and just passed each other. Five minutes later, Shade was in the unmanned corridor where the box on the third floor of the opera house was.
Met Iluna.
"Good afternoon, I thought you were in Ximu Town now."
The eighteen-year-old brown-haired girl took off her hat and held it in her hand:
"Our team is collecting relics. Since last Monday, there have been multiple reports of missing persons near the Queen Maria Opera House.
Ridwich Field began investigating the matter last Wednesday, but soon a police officer and two police officers who investigated the matter disappeared. The police took this very seriously, and after sending extra manpower to investigate, they unexpectedly found out
They all disappeared too.
That’s why this matter was reported to the church, and the church sent the file to the captain over the weekend.”
"So your captain discovered this relic hidden in the opera house?"
Shade pointed downstairs.
"No, our captain is also missing."
Iluna shook her head, but looking at the expression on her face, she knew that although she was missing, the captain of the Blackstone Security Company should be fine:
"After the captain conducted an investigation alone and disappeared for a day and night, we did not dare to send anyone to this area anymore. Then the church asked the Prophet Association for help, and conducted some peripheral investigations before confirming that the relics here were of the Keeper level.
Relic [Damaged Antarctic Constellation Clock]. Oh, ‘Antarctic Star’ is a clock brand from the fifth era.”
Since the name of the relic contains the word "clock", it is most likely a time-based relic. Iluna's subsequent introduction also proves this point, even if she faces this kind of relic alone, she will be in danger:
"The body of this relic is a damaged mechanical clock. The pendulum of the clock will not swing, but the hands will rotate normally. And if the containment is out of control, the three hands on the dial will stop rotating in sequence——
The first is the second hand. When the second hand stops, anyone who sees this clock during this period will fall into a state of time stasis. This state is very scary because the consciousness of the person in contact is still active and can sense the surroundings, which will disturb their spirit.
Trapped in an unspeakably bad situation;
Then there is the minute hand. When the minute hand stops, the bodies of people who have fallen into a state of time stasis will disappear and enter the so-called "time gap". In this way, even if we regain control of the relics, most ordinary people will
Lost in it and unable to come back;
Finally, there is the hour hand. When the hand stops spinning, the time-stopping power of the mechanical clock will spread to the surrounding area in a wide range. If not stopped in time, the clock may bring the entire area to a standstill. The secret keeper of this relic
Level risk assessment, mostly due to the characteristics of the final hour hand when it stops."
"So now is the minute hand stopping stage?"
Shade asked curiously, and Iluna nodded in annoyance:
"This clock has the strange characteristic of making a clicking sound that attracts people. The missing people were attracted here by the sound. After opening the door and seeing it, time stopped and then disappeared. Then the investigators found it based on the clues.
, saw the clock again and then disappeared. Finally, the captain came here and disappeared after seeing the clock.
We must admit that if we don’t know what’s here in advance, the characteristics of this relic are indeed difficult to guard against. But when the captain comes back, we will laugh at him severely.”
Although she described it very simply, this relic was actually quite terrifying. If the Tobesk diocese hadn't had enough manpower, the small hall where the clock was stored would have had to "swallow" many more people before any abnormalities were noticed.
Even because of the "clock hand stopping" characteristic of the relic itself, people may not know what happened here until the entire area has stopped in time.
Xia De marveled at this relic, and then continued to inquire:
"Since time will stop when you look at that clock, can't you just send people to close their eyes and go to contain it? Why is it making such a big noise now?"
Iluna looked unhappy:
"It's not about watching, it's about sensing. As long as you know the existence of the clock and get close to it, the effect will be triggered passively. So our team is not here to contain this relic. We are responsible for arranging rituals around the room to prevent the characteristics of the third stage.
It cannot be ended after being triggered.
Later, a ring warlock who doesn't know what relics are here will come to carry out the collection work, so we are out in the field in this horrible weather."
It's not that she doesn't want to do fieldwork, she just doesn't like having to wait for others all afternoon.
"Then do you need help? I still have the jar of umbilical cord with me. Although I'm not sure how effective it is in resisting this relic, at least it can ensure that you won't be stopped at a glance."
"It's not necessary for the time being. I think there should be no problem in resolving this matter. What I'm more curious about now is who put it in the opera house. The manager of the theater said that no clocks have been purchased here recently. Could it be that they were rented before?
Did the people in that performance hall forget to take it away?"
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Although Iluna wanted to continue chatting with Shade about recent events, she still had to work after all, so in the end she had to say goodbye to Shade gloomily.
However, Shade thought that he would probably be at the opera house this afternoon, so he invited Iluna to have dinner with him, Vanessa and the others if she had time in the evening.
The eighteen-year-old girl nodded and agreed. Although she loved church work, she was not a complete workaholic.
It was very interesting to watch the girls rehearsing on the stage, discussing the script with Sirius, or being taken to the dressing room by Vanessa to watch the actors put on their makeup. The thirteenth-level witch didn't really care about the situation not far next door.
There was something about the relic getting out of control, but this afternoon when I was chatting and laughing with Shade, I joked:
"We have only been here for a week and we encountered something like this. This is indeed the city you live in."
"It should be the city where Iluna lives. There are very few incidents of unowned relics getting out of control around me."
Shade corrected that he was not worried about things over there. Since Iluna and the others already knew the characteristics and response methods of the relic, and the church also sent a special person to take care of it, this was a standard relic containment mission.
This kind of task cannot go wrong.
It’s just that this time Shade’s idea was obviously wrong. Towards the end of the evening, he was sitting in front of the dressing table. A group of girls surrounded him, smiling and watching Sirius bend down to help him draw his eyebrows. He was still thinking about Iluna.
When did you come over.
Vanessa, who was watching this scene with a smile, was about to comment on Shade's appearance at this time, but suddenly she and Shade turned to look at the wall:
"The Whispering Elements are rioting, what's going on?"
Shade, who was quite uncomfortable with his "fair-faced" appearance at this time, immediately stood up:
"I'm going to check on the situation. You don't have to go there. Sirius, next time you should practice with little Mia. I think my eyebrows look very good."
The young blonde girl then smiled and said:
"It's so difficult to put makeup on a cat. I'm afraid I can't do it. Do cats have eyebrows?"
So all the girls looked at the cat lying on the dressing table, and little Mia looked up at Shade who was about to leave with wide eyes, thinking that he was going home now, so everyone was sure that the cat had no eyebrows.
(Luvia is divination)
In the sealed performance hall on the second floor of the Queen Maria Opera House, with the arrival of evening, the gas lamps in the room also turned on together with the gas lamps in other rooms of the opera house.
There were only two people in the auditorium with a slight downward slope. Iluna held up a dark golden scale made of her life ring in both hands. The light of the scale enveloped her whole body, and the light all over her body came into contact with the air.
The rippling water phantoms appeared one after another.
She was standing in the middle of the auditorium aisle, and on the stage with the curtain half-opened, all three hands of the mahogany-cased mechanical clock had stopped spinning.
But what is even more terrifying is that behind the clock, half of the body of a man who looks to be around thirty years old seems to be growing closely with the clock.
The left half of his face has been integrated into the textured wooden shell of the clock, and the remaining right half of his face has an abnormally crazy expression. While the clock is assimilating him, it is also transforming the remaining half of his face.
Iluna could clearly hear the clicking sound of the body that continued to operate coming from his chest, and just now she just looked at the other person and she was almost stopped in place.
Iluna closed her mouth tightly and moved forward with difficulty. The golden balance balanced the abnormal flow of time, but her movements of moving forward were still extremely slow.
The sunlight gun she tried to throw just now was still in mid-air behind her, and all the people who entered here earlier had disappeared. She complained in her heart that the early investigation team had not found out the origin of this clock, but
The current situation can only be solved by her alone.
No matter how slow she moved, she was still approaching the stage, and the man on the stage, who was integrated with the clock, finally stretched out his right arm, which seemed to be pierced by a metal pointer under his skin, when Iluna was close enough.
Pointed at her:
"stop!"
While speaking, there was even a metallic friction sound that made Iluna dizzy, and after the almost roaring cry, Iluna felt that her whole body froze.
She was still able to move, but her speed became slower. The obstacles she encountered during her progress were like pushing a house with a solid foundation. She was now very fortunate that she had experienced Shade's "time suspension" and gained experience.
Otherwise, I might have been really affected just now.
Seeing that Iluna was still moving forward, the man crazily rotated his right arm counterclockwise and pointed at her again: