The following Sunday, Shade wanted to go to a mental sanatorium with the doctor to find objects that could make spiritual crystals, but No. 6 Saint Teresa Square was renovated and he needed to personally inspect and accept it.
The acceptance process and letting the workers move the furniture from the basement to the upstairs and arrange it took a whole morning. By the time all the workers evacuated, it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon, and Shade also left the house with Mia.
.
He first locked the door, put the key in his pocket, then took out the key and opened the door with a smile.
Although he can open the door without a key, it is now a ritual.
He opened the door and walked in with the cat. He turned around and closed the door, facing the stairs in front of him and taking a deep breath:
"Look, Mia, this place is all ours!"
He laughed himself, put the key into the cookie box in the shoe cabinet, and then walked into the basement behind the stairs with the cat, whose head was peeping around not knowing what he wanted to do.
He reached out and turned on the gas light switch on the wall, and a bright light illuminated the room in front of him. The walls of the basement had been painted, and now there were a small amount of construction supplies such as metal pipes and stone bricks piled up. There were still a few Shards standing on the wall.
Ask the carpenter to help build the wooden frame. When he transforms this place into an underground alchemy workshop or potion studio in the future, the stone bricks and shelves can be used.
“It’s really good.”
He said, and then took the cat to the first floor.
Different from the floors above, the first floor is not divided into room one and room two. It is a residence as a whole. Now the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room and study room on the first floor are all decorated, and the water pipes, gas pipes and steam pipes are all
Connected. The gas lamps and curtains are all the styles that Tifa chose for Shad. The fireplace in the living room has been connected to the chimney on the roof, and it can be used normally in the winter in a few months.
Although Shade and Mia have been living on the first floor this week, he still walked through every room on the first floor with joy. Finally, he opened the curtains and stood in front of the window behind the sofa, looking out at the lively scene outside.
Saint Teresa Square:
“It’s really good.”
There were no changes on the second floor, so I led Mia through the second floor to the third floor.
The structure of the third floor is exactly the same as that of the second floor. After a week of renovations, gas lamps and waterproofing of the walls were installed. Now it is completely different from the terrible appearance a week ago with mold spots everywhere.
Opening the two newly installed wooden doors on the third floor, there was no furniture inside the doors. Instead, they were as empty as Room 2 on the second floor downstairs. In view of the fact that Shade still believed that the house in St. Teresa Square might have hidden dangers that he had not yet noticed.
, so he planned to use the two rooms on the third floor as functional rooms instead of decorating them as guest rooms. The three bedrooms on the first floor could be used as guest rooms.
Of course, this also makes it easier for Mia to run around.
“It’s really good.”
Finally, we climbed to the attic through the stairs at the end of the corridor on the third floor. The area of the attic is about two-thirds of the area downstairs, but it is a little low.
Shade lowered his head and climbed up. Now there was only a small cardboard box in the corner.
The smile on his face disappeared, he put the cat aside, and then squatted down to open the carton. Mia didn't run around, probably because she noticed the change in Shade's mood. The small cat looked at Xia De with its big eyes.
The action of virtue.
The ordinary box in front of me was found behind the decorative wall that originally existed in the attic when workers were renovating the third floor. Of course, that useless wall has now been demolished.
There weren't many things in the carton. They were travel postcards and old photos from various parts of the Old World. Although the photos were all landscape photos with no people visible, Shade was inexplicably sure that these must have been left by Detective Sparrow. Except
Because this house has only been used by Detective Sparrow in recent decades, and also because of intuition. Apart from spy agents who hide their identities, he can't think of anyone else who would take so many pictures of landscapes without people while traveling.
Detective Sparrow knew that he would die. Since he had time to train Shad, of course he must have disposed of sensitive items such as pistols and personal letters that might reveal his identity. As for his personal belongings before coming to Tobesk,
He must have destroyed some of them, but in the end he did not choose to destroy these photos that represented memories.
Shade looked through the postcards and the landscape photos that did not include Detective Sparrow himself. When he thought about it carefully, the locations of the postcards covered almost all the well-known cities in the Old World. Thinking about it, Detective Sparrow must have been there when he was young.
Had a very rich and colorful experience.
He planned to carry the box down and put it in the study. Compared with the false diaries complaining about no business and reduced savings, these photos were the real relics of Detective Sparrow. And Detective Sparrow did not destroy the photos, which also made Shade
For the first time, I saw another side of this late middle-aged man in an image other than "Carson Rick Spy".
After walking around the house, Shade felt so wonderfully satisfied that he almost wanted to take Mia out for a big meal to celebrate the complete opening of the house. But he resisted this urge, after all, he drank too much
Gluttony is wrong.
The doctor had gone to the mental sanatorium alone, so Shade went to Luvia in the afternoon to ask about Mr. Riddell, the fortune teller of the fifth era.
Tonight, you can enter the winter of 1784 in the Fifth Epoch for the second time, and Shade doesn't want to waste time. When he found Luvia, she was performing divination for others, so Shade could only wait a little.
Luvia gave pretty good news:
"I have obtained part of Sledge Riddle's life document and copied down the parts that may be helpful to you."
She handed the heavy document bag to Shade, with a somewhat troubled expression on her face:
"This gentleman's life experience is very trivial, and the association is only willing to open part of it to me. You want to find eight major events he experienced, but I summarized the information and found that there are only four events."
"It doesn't matter. The first time is two experiences, and the second time is four experiences. This can at least help me complete this adventure."
Shade squeezed the document bag in his hand and judged from the thickness that he might have to spend the rest of the day reading these materials.
"But what about the third time? Do you have to wait until my application can be approved? Or do you have other documents? Is this person mentioned in Miss Feliana's notes?"
"of course not."
Shade shook his head:
"We already know from the sixth era that that gentleman must have successfully left the Dreadfort, so even if my mission fails, it will not cause Mr. Riddle to die there. This is really tricky. Except for the Prophet Association, there is no one
There are other ways. No matter how rich his life experience is, he is just an ordinary man from the Fifth Age. Other organizations will not record this kind of information. In this way, I think I can wait half a month."
"You gave up when you had no other options for half a month?"
Luvia raised her eyebrows, she didn't think Shade was the kind of person who gave up easily.
"Of course not. Darkness will be here in half a month. Since we have decided to deal with him, we will definitely get some valuable information about him by then. You will report this information to the association, and then use the history
The association will not refuse Lech Riddle’s information as a reward.”
"This is a good idea."
Luvia nodded, then frowned:
"Also, I was very curious about the level 0 relic you mentioned that can summon the gods, so I did a little research."
"Did you find the information?"
"Found it."
"Um?"
Shade smiled in surprise. Neither the Prophet's Association nor St. Byrons would easily release the information on level 0 relics, so he didn't even think about checking the information on that table.
"When you mentioned that relic, I felt like I had heard it before. Shade, is it this?"
Luvia took out another photo and handed it to Shade. The black and white photo was already a little yellowed. The photographer's skills were very poor, and the lighting at the shooting site was very poor. From the angle, the photographer seemed to be tilting the camera.
We were filming, but in the dark, the appearance of the table against the wall was completely captured, and Shade could clearly see the twenty grooves on it.
At this moment, he seemed to be back in the Horrible Fortress, challenging the gods on the table with Mr. Riddle. But soon he realized that he had only seen the relics in the photos, and the people around him had not taken a shower for who knows how long.
A sloppy middle-aged man, but a beautiful girl whom I know well.
But traveling through eternity, nearly fifty centuries later, this table was actually seen by Shade again.
"That's it, but what camera can take photos of level 0 relics?"
He was even more surprised, while Luvia shook her head:
"This is not a level 0 relic, nor can it call upon the projection of gods. This is a keeper-level relic [Life Gambling Table]. In 721 of the Sixth Epoch Universal Calendar, the association was in the flea market of the capital of the Slavic Principality at that time in the southern part of the Old Continent.
Contain it."
The Slavic Principality was a dead country, and in 721 the United Kingdom of Kasenric had not yet appeared to unify the south.
"When two ring warlocks with a level difference of no more than two levels sit on both sides of the gambling table, they can trigger the characteristics of the relic. Through the gambling method you mentioned, the winner can obtain a spiritual rune of the loser, and the loser will
Die directly. But the winner also has to pay the price. Abnormal ways of obtaining spiritual runes will pollute one's own spiritual elements, making it more difficult to improve in the future."
Luvia said, tapping the table with her fingers. This is a habit to avoid happening to herself when she thinks of bad things:
"But the most important function of this relic is to allow the ring warlock to show the specific appearance of the enemies he has encountered and confirm what those unknown enemies are. As long as the gambling party announces that he will give up the bet at the end of the game, then
Both of them only need to pay the spirit to start the gambling game."
"This is a very good use, but how can the function of calling the gods disappear? Where is the table now?"
Shade immediately asked, if he really couldn't win the gambling game, maybe he could win in other ways by relying on his knowledge of the gambling table.
【That is cheating.】
There was a voice in her ears, but Shade ignored her.