Shade came to Captain Rades by the wall and confirmed that the captain had just passed out.
"Kill him? Of course not. Why would I do that?"
Shade asked in his mind, preparing to get up and collect his Rhodes cards before waking up the captain:
"What good will it do me to try to defy other people's prophecies?"
The movement of standing up caused airflow to pass through his ears. Vaguely, Shade felt a bunch of cold long hair brushing his ears. Just the hair made him shiver:
"what happened?"
Looking at the fallen Henry Val, the evil spirit behind him has indeed disappeared. The current situation should have nothing to do with him.
"Wait a minute, the hanging hair beside the ear is that relic! [The unfortunate man's long hair]!"
【Outlander, unfortunate fate is coming to you.】
"What?"
A thick white mist suddenly appeared around him, almost instantly swallowing up Shade and the other two people in the secret room. The familiar feeling made Shade immediately understand what it was:
"Damn it! The entrance to the narrow room is actually opened here! Just like the priest falling into the narrow room at that time, such an unfortunate thing has happened now!"
White mist surged out from the invisible boundary, representing the gradual blurring of the boundaries between life and death. Shade keenly felt the changes in the abnormal space, the temperature was dropping rapidly, and everything in the secret room was becoming decayed.
He even heard the wails of evil spirits and saw countless rotten hands reaching towards him from blur to clarity...
If there were no accidents, Shade would fall into the narrow space like a priest the next time he took a breath. And he wouldn't even be able to call anyone for help.
Fortunately, Shade is better than Priest August:
"Space stabilizing halo!"
Invisible fluctuations spread to the surroundings with Shade as the center, as if the sound of breaking glass rang from the ears, all the surrounding white mist disappeared instantly, and the exit that had just been opened also disappeared.
The entrance to [The Narrow Room of Life and Death] is extremely unstable, so it requires ritual maintenance to continue to exist. Although expelling this abnormal space phenomenon is very costly for Shade, it is at least not impossible.
The feeling of the cold long hair in his ears also disappeared. The bad luck caused by illegal use of the relic was successfully avoided by Shade.
"So, if it is not necessary, you must not do anything to manipulate fate."
Foreigners sum up in their hearts the lessons they have learned in this world.
In addition to not trying to control destiny, another important lesson Shade learned is not to make a deal with the devil.
"However, after the priest left the Door of Death, although my mystery lock alone could seal the door, the entrance to the narrow room actually began to appear again in Fort Midhill. The priest said that the narrow room swallows living people, and that is also true.
In order to balance life and death. It seems that the final time when death breaks out is getting closer and closer. I hope that this time, the church will not ignore important information like Tobesk did."
Before waking up Captain Rades, who seemed to be drugged out, Shade briefly searched the slightly small dark room.
Since there was only one bookcase, he easily found the diary of Henry Val, who had turned into a vegetative state, and then found a terrifying book called "The Treasure of the Human Body: How to Prolong Life" at the bottom of the bookshelf.
The book uses hand-drawn anatomical schematic diagrams of the human body as illustrations, describing methods of extending life by cannibalism. Of course, these methods are all deceptive and have nothing to do with real occultism. Therefore, this is probably just written by a madman.
After his nonsense was published by ordinary people who were occult enthusiasts, it fell into the hands of this folklore student.
"The fake occult knowledge is so crazy. I can't imagine how the world will change once the church doesn't control the knowledge of magicians."
Therefore, the Five Gods Church is really an important force in maintaining the stability of civilization.
While flipping through the book, a piece of paper fell out from the pages, with only one line of words on it:
[Prediction of death, reservation in advance, no bargaining. Building A, No. 8, Zhuwei Lane, three long and two short, three short and two long.]
"Why does he look like a liar? Could that boy have just guessed about Henry Val?"
After thinking about it, Shade put the note back into his pocket, and then put the book back to its original position.
In addition to books, there are also some strange small bottles filled with suspicious liquids on the bookshelf. In addition, there are five or six enamel figurines with hideous faces on the top shelf. Unfortunately, they are not even valuable antiques, they can only be regarded as unique aesthetics.
Crafts.
Henry Val did not have a wallet on him, but there was one in the secret room, but those ladies' wallets looked like the relics of the victims, so Shade did not move them, but waited for the police to return them to the families of the victims. Of course,
There is also a possibility that the money inside will be stolen by Tan Mo, but Shade will never take it.
"I knew there must be a hidden compartment!"
After banging on the wall for a while, I found the place where the sound was wrong. After prying off the wall tile, there was an old-fashioned single-shot pistol and several boxes of bullets wrapped in oil paper, with the identity of the victim written on it.
A brown paper bag with a message, and a long-handled cosmetic mirror wrapped in linen.
The mirror handle and the frame are both silver, and dotted with gems that are not known to be real or fake. Only around the frame, some thick silver wires are actually connected to form tentacles, and there is a small line of ancient writing on the mirror handle that is not easy to detect.
:
【The safest place is-in the mirror!】
The moment you open the linen and touch the object, a reminder is already given in your ears:
[Outlander, you feel the whispers.]
"Whispers? This is"
Shade's eyes widened.
【Yes, a relic.】
I have been in this world for more than three months and have experienced so many things. Strictly speaking, the relic in my hand at this time is the first relic that Shade came across on his own initiative.
Many of the previous relics were either bought or encountered due to other people's reasons, such as [Scales of the Drowning Murloc], [Happy Dream Pen], and even [Demon Hunting Seal] should be considered because of Si.
It was because of Pilot Hamilton that it fell into Shade's hands.
The mirror in his hand fell into his hands by this coincidence entirely due to Shade's own fault.
"Three months! Three months! I knew it! Even if I am not the chosen one, how could I not encounter the relics wandering around all this time!"
The joy at this time was even higher than when he discovered the truth just now. It was not because he got something valuable, but because he proved his luck:
"I knew I was very lucky."
Unfortunately, Henry Val did not record the origin of this mirror, but he must have obtained it while collecting what he considered "occult items."
"Today is a perfect day."
Put away the mirror, and then fill the wall back with the brick. First go back to the wall where you came from the broom room, find the push-type mechanism to open the door, prove that you came in the normal way, and then wake up
Captain Rades was bewildered.
After he opened his eyes, he saw Shad, and then Henry Val, whose life and death were unknown, and his face turned red:
"I was unexpectedly attacked by a young man."
It seems that if there were no cracks in the ground, Captain Rades would have wanted to crawl directly into the cracks in the ground.
The next thing was simple. It was inconvenient for Shade to attract too much attention in Fort Midhill, so he let Captain Rades obtain it alone on the grounds that "the troublesome client would not let me expose myself".
for solving this serial murder case.
Of course the captain refused, but Shade waved his hand to indicate that he didn’t need to say more:
"Captain, I will take 90% of the 100 pounds bonus. The remaining ten pounds are yours. If you feel bad about it, you can treat me to a meal when you have time."
Except for Henry Val, who has become a vegetative state, no one has ever seen Shade and Captain Rades investigating together in the castle. And the only one who knows the truth about this matter is Professor Dunn.
Shade only needs to solve the case. As for the credit, perhaps Captain Rades needs it more.
PS: The original update was scheduled to be 20,000 on the first day of the Lunar New Year. In order to make it less intensive, some chapters have been moved to tomorrow. This way it is spread out, but the total update is still 20,000.