"This is the right thing to do. If there really is a tree hole there, you may be sucked in accidentally."
Shade said this, and the specific location of the incident has been marked on the map.
Regardless of whether there was another tree hole or there was something strange about Miss Linda Bennet, this matter must be investigated. Therefore, after temporarily entrusting little Mia to Miss Danister, the owl immediately grabbed the cat and left.
The window flew out.
"This time, is it my turn to go out?"
The red-haired girl who stayed in the room murmured to herself, and then looked at Miss Jane Alba who had not left. Of course the latter did not want to answer this kind of question. In private, the girls talked about the great witch of death, Saint.
The relationship between Byrons' "The Witch of the Red Moon" and Shade.
However, Miss Denister just complained softly, not necessarily finding the answer.
The speed of Owl Air was quite fast, and it landed the cat in the forest in less than half an hour. There were no landmark buildings or landscapes near where Miss Linda Bennet disappeared, and simple trace identification could not be found.
The footprints of the girl who suddenly disappeared, so after confirming that neither of them could feel the scent of the tree hole immediately, they had no choice but to conduct a carpet-like search of the nearby area.
Of course, Shade would not suggest splitting up in a place like this where a person was already missing, so the witch followed him. She wanted to turn into a cat and jump onto Shade's shoulders, but Shade was firm.
Rejected:
"Don't be lazy like little Mia."
"I don't mean to be lazy, I just want to"
The witch's face turned slightly red, and she was embarrassed to continue saying that she just wanted to get closer to him.
As Miss Alba said, there were indeed no traces of spatial anomalies nearby, but Shade unexpectedly captured traces of some unusual elements.
It didn't look like a new tree hole had appeared, so Shade speculated that the girl was unlucky and encountered other mysterious phenomena that could not be explained in the forest, but this did not seem to explain her behavior of escaping from the house.
The two of them observed their surroundings carefully, and soon found a mirror fragment in the grass a hundred meters away from where Linda Bennet disappeared. The fragment was still stained with blood. After Miss Winslet's identification, the mirror fragment was
The blood on it belongs to two people, both of them young girls:
"Is this the piece of mirror that Linda Bennet cut herself with and then cut the maid?"
Since there is blood, things are much easier. Shade took out the empty wine bottle and used the "blood brewing" technology to separate two different bloods. Then he dropped only one drop of the blood brew into his eyes and used "
Echo of Blood" Thaumaturgy.
The essence of this thaumaturgy is not to simply observe blood, but to observe the traces left by other blood of the same origin in time and space. Therefore, although ordinary detective thaumaturgy does not work, Linda Bennett's bloody figure almost immediately
It appeared in Shade's eyes in the golden forest on the autumn morning.
"I found it, come with me."
As he spoke, he took the witch's hand and led her to follow the series of red figures in the forest. Miss Linda Bennet continued to go deeper into the forest, and she did not disappear nearby.
, and also proves that her inexplicable disappearance is definitely related to supernatural power, otherwise Miss Alba would not have been lost.
Continuing forward, we have entered a place that neither Shad nor the Witch has reached, but Miss Linda Bennet seems to have a clear goal, because she neither takes detours nor takes the same path.
In this way, the two of them followed her figure for another thirty minutes before they finally walked out of the forest and saw a lake in the forest. The lake looked like a heart-shaped outline.
Vista Woodland has a well-developed water system, with the Aronson River running through the city and connecting Willendale as its main trunk, and many tributaries passing through the forest to other areas of Carsenlick, so the forest is also densely populated with large and small lakes.
The area of the lake in front of us is not very large, so neither the official map nor the hermits' map has marked it with a name. The small lake is about the size of Saint Teresa Square, and the animals in the forest will mark it.
Considered an important water source, when Shade and the Witch walked out of the forest, they scared a group of deer drinking water by the stream.
However, before they had time to apologize to the deer, they looked up together and saw Linda Bennett lying upward on the water of the lake, floating slowly as the wind in the forest blew across the lake.
The bloody light and shadow in Shade's eyes extended to the edge of the lake, and then he saw the girl sinking to the bottom of the water and floating up. But Linda Bennet did not just float after being drowned, she still seemed to be alive.
, just lost consciousness.
"There are others."
The witch reminded in a low voice, and then Shade saw that there were actually three people floating on the lake. In addition to Linda Bennett, there was a man and a woman. From a distance, they were all well-dressed young people.
People, but Shade didn't know them.
The three of them were floating on the lake in a face-up position with their eyes closed. However, since there are animals drinking water by the lake, it means that this is definitely not a saltwater lake. The density of the lake water should not be enough to support the floating of humans in a coma without assistance.
"Can you feel anything? I can feel that the traces of elements around here are a little denser than other areas, but other than that, everything seems normal."
Miss Winslet said softly again. After seeing Shade shaking his head, she reached out and pointed at the stone at her feet, and the stone turned into a puppy that stuck out its tongue and ran happily and approached the lake.
Of course she didn't turn a dead thing into a real living thing, it was just a transformation technique. And the puppy entered the lake smoothly and tried to swim in a dog-pawing position for a few minutes, before the witch
Under control, he approached Linda Bennett, who was closest to the lake shore.
It successfully arrived at the girl's side, bit Miss Bennet's sleeve, and then pulled her to swim to the lake shore. Everything seemed to go smoothly, the puppy successfully dragged the girl to the shore, and cautiously
The two of them also waited until Miss Bennet was completely out of the water before walking over.
The puppy turned into a stone by the lake again. Miss Winslet worriedly threw the soul-purifying magic to Miss Bennet, and then turned to Shade and said:
"It should be fine."
They raised their hands together, controlled Miss Linda Bennet's body to float, moved her to a position away from the lake shore, and then put her down again. Shade worriedly poured the holy water on her body again,
After making sure she was still fine, he squatted down to check her condition.
There are no traces of the curse on Miss Bennet, and even traces of the elements are almost non-existent. She is indeed not dead, her breathing and heartbeat are still there, but she cannot be awakened.
Shade tried many methods, and the great witch of death even tried to briefly separate her soul and body, but her soul was still in a deep sleep.
Although forced questioning techniques such as the "Wall of Sighs" may also be effective on sleeping souls, they will directly pollute the souls of ordinary people. Flora Winslet will not use them on ordinary people unless absolutely necessary.
On the human body.
Seeing that the time was approaching noon, Shade used a small piece of gold to cast the "Traveler's Camp" spell, and used "Fiona's Housekeeping Servant" to summon lunch to share with Miss Winslet.
After lunch, the witch "salvaged" two other strangers according to the same method as in the morning, and then determined that the strange man and woman were in the same situation as Linda Bennett.
The two of them seemed to be aristocratic young men from Vista City, but their specific identities were unknown. Because it started to rain lightly in the forest again in the afternoon, Shade went to cut down some trees and made a simple wooden house for temporary use.
Place them.
He and Miss Winslet never dared to go into the water directly, and in the afternoon they tried many methods to wake them up, but to no avail.
But at least the time spent together and talking to each other was still very interesting. When it was getting late, Shade took the initiative to hunt two rabbits in the forest, while Miss Winslet was responsible for picking wild vegetables, and then they had a bonfire together.
Delicious broth and roast rabbit were cooked on the side.
There was no time to build a bigger wooden house today, so that night the witch blushed and got into the two-person tent with Shade. Fortunately, the two of them behaved and did not cross the line throughout the night.
But when she woke up the next morning, the shy Miss Owl still asked Shade to take advantage of the time today to build a wooden house that could be lived in for a long time. She still preferred to rest in bed.
So Shade went to cut wood and make wooden houses and furniture. The witch herself was not idle, and took the initiative to take over today's hunting and gathering weeds. She even asked Shade for a fishing rod and caught fish by the lake.
Both of them work far away from the lake shore, so although they are doing different things, they can still chat with each other.
The lunch and dinner that day were still sumptuous, and before resting in the evening, Shade also rushed to complete the main body of the wooden house and the two single beds.
Flora Winslet wanted to express her reserve, so she pushed the two beds apart. She slept on the bed against the east wall, while Shade slept on the bed against the west wall:
"Don't come over here in the middle of the night. I trust you."
So the days passed like this. During the day, Shade hunted and did carpentry, while the Witch was responsible for making textiles and decorating the new home they built by themselves. Their relationship was also growing day by day in this hard but not boring life.
of zooming in.
The two small beds displayed in the wooden house were separated from the wall at some point. They were first separated by some furniture, and then only the bedside tables remained. On the night worth celebrating when Shade hunted a bear, two small beds were separated from the wall at some point.
The beds were pushed together, but the shy witch still used a curtain to separate the two of them.