Chapter 2641 The Journey to Death
With the witches present, Mr. Nelson naturally shrank and said nothing, so Ms. Bullock briefly introduced:
“She appeared after you left. Like me, she also wanted to take a boat and leave here forever. The man over there and I comforted her, but if you also want to help her, I’m afraid you’ll have to think of a way later. .”
“Did she come here because she lost someone important to her?”
Xia De frowned and asked:
“If it is the same reason, then we will set off on a boat with us later. Anyway, we are looking for people in death, whether we are looking for one or two.”
As he spoke, he took off the mithril eyepatch stuck on his arm:
“Look, I brought this too.”
He gently tapped the cat’s little head with warm mithril to stop it from moving, but Ms. Bullock just saw the eyepatch and covered her mouth with red eyes:
“Yes, I know this. This is the inheritance of the fire-bearing nuns. With this, my sister will not fail to come out to see me.”
But the young girl came here for a different reason than either Mr. Nelson or Ms. Bullock:
“Hello, sir, or madam. I, I made a big mistake.”
She said tremblingly, not even daring to ask Shade whether he was a boy or a girl. This is something only a powerful witch dares to do:
“My name is Peggy McConaughey. The teacher used a very dangerous ritual to sleep in order to be promoted. After waking up fifty years later, she can be promoted to the twelfth level. She hid herself in a hidden space, The only key was given to me to wake her up fifty years later, but I broke the key.”
“Ah, this”
Xia De looked at the thirteenth-level witch, who controlled herself from choking:
“According to this girl, the hidden space her teacher found was a special area naturally formed in the material world. And the power that locked that special space was an ancient ritual they didn’t know where they got it from. , so I always tell my students not to use this ancient thing casually.
No one can do anything if the key is broken. The ritual sounds like a sealing ritual. Forcibly opening it will most likely affect the safety of the witch inside. ”
“Miss McConaughey, did you bring the broken key?”
Xia De asked again, and the young girl nodded immediately and took out a small bag from her skirt pocket, which contained some broken silver crystals.
“How long has it been since the key broke? I mean before you entered here.”
“About two years. I have tried many methods in the past two years but can’t fix this.”
She sobbed softly. It was precisely because she thought she had killed her teacher that she came here in despair. Miss Peggy McConaughey, who wears braids, is not trying to make amends, but it seems that she can no longer find a way.
“Two years? Fortunately, the limit of my thaumaturgy is to go back three years.”
Shade held all the broken silver crystals in his hands and took a deep breath under the secret gaze of the two ladies and Mr. Nelson:
“Breath of Time!”
The gray air flow was sucked into his nasal cavity, and the broken crystals assembled themselves amidst the sound of ????. The originally dim light in the crystal became brighter and brighter as the key was reconstructed, but at the moment when the key was fully formed, with a click, it shattered into the same small crystals again.
The dishonest cat immediately stretched out its paws to touch them, and Shade did not object. After all, the cat had just sniffed them and knew they were not food.
He picked up a small piece of crystal with his hands and felt its power against the firelight:
“It is not useless to turn back time. Is the key that was successful just now conceptually broken? Miss McConaughey, I am very curious, how did you break it?”
Hearing this question, the young girl covered her face and started sobbing again.
The kind-hearted Ms. Bullock patted her on the back and explained for her:
“She went out on an adventure and encountered something she couldn’t explain clearly. The other party used conceptual annihilation powers such as ‘Hand of the Void’, ‘Black Moon Symbol’ and ‘Death Finale’. The key helped her block it. After a moment, she was able to escape, but the key itself was broken into pieces.”
“So, this is your teacher’s way of protecting you? Since your teacher wants to keep you alive, why did you leave?”
Shade then asked again. The young girl pursed her lips, lowered her head and shook her head. Mr. Nelson beside him said softly:
“That’s what I said too, that’s why she was willing to sit down.”
“This key is conceptually damaged, and I can’t fix it. What happened to you?”
But the girl still shook her head, and Ms. Bullock gave her a gentle hug, probably thinking of herself being protected by her sister:
“Since that ship can take us to death, it should also be able to take us to the past. Why not go together to see what happened at that time, without changing the past, just to confirm the situation at that time.”
“No problem.”
As Shade spoke, he took out the two paper figures of the doctor. Of course, the paper figures at this time were Donald Gunn, whose family was killed, and Father Francois, who threatened Baron Cumming. .
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Last time, the three blank cards given by the “Boatman”, also known as the “God of Ferryman”, were taken out by Ms. Bullock. Two of them already have patterns at this time, one is a teardrop representing “tears of regret”, and the other is a flame representing “a little warmth of the soul”. Ms. Bullock’s profile can be vaguely seen in the translucent flame. .
Shade then pressed Father Francois’s paper man on the last card, and then the paper man was sucked into the card. At the same time, the gilt font also states the information of this card——
【Cowardice・Treasure・3 moments. 】
According to the classification of sins, treasures are already of the highest quality.
Shade then moved the remaining 9 moments of ordinary quality Cowardice closer to the card, but the card had no reaction:
“No more, right?”
But since 3 ticks is greater than the 1 tick required for the ticket, then the ticket has been collected and it is time to set off.
Mr. Nelson has no interest in going to death. He still has to wait for his wife here, so he will not go with Shade.
Although the young witch does not want to stay here alone with a man, it is obvious that the legendary “death” is more dangerous. Moreover, Ms. Bullock did not want more people to see her privacy, so she stayed.
Without further ado, Shade and the thirteenth-level witch said goodbye to their two companions by the campfire for the time being, got up and walked on the damp black trestle to the side of the boat.
Perhaps she could tell something from Shade’s attitude in the conversation with the “Boatman”. Ms. Bullock stood very cautiously behind Shade this time and still let him negotiate. After Shade showed the three cards, the tall “boatman” in black robe did not give Shade “change”, but let the three cards fly into his sleeve, and then made an invitation. The act of them boarding the ship.
“The ticket is cowardly for 1 moment, but I paid for 3 moments, and it is still a treasure.”
Xia De had no choice but to emphasize, but there was only the sound of the tide. Until both of them boarded the boat, the boat left the dock silently, and he still didn’t get change.
Contrary to Shade’s imagination, the ship was not stable at all, but was constantly rocking with the sound of waves.
A tall boatman wearing a black robe made of black mist stood at the stern of the boat. When the boat moved towards the depths of the seemingly endless black waters, both Shade and Ms. Bullock, who were holding the cat, He turned to look at the shore.
The black beach and the pier were disappearing little by little, and the bonfire next to the pier soon turned into candles shaking in the mist.
The two sat down on the simple boat, one on the left and the other on the right. Ms. Bullock curled up and looked very uneasy. Shade first looked at the little Mia who was being held by him with some worry. After finding that the warm cat was looking around with interest, he looked up and looked into the depths of the water.
Ahead were deep darkness, undulating waves and thin white mist. As Shade stared at this scene, he first instinctively felt a little fear of the darkness and the unknown, as if someone was telling him that this was an impossible road. The way back;
But then, he suddenly felt that they did not seem to be moving, because no matter how the ship rocked, the scene in front of him remained surprisingly consistent.
When he turned his head again to confirm the distance to the shore and found that the black sand pier and the bonfire had completely disappeared, he understood that darkness had completely fallen.
No one spoke, and the monotonous sound of water made the unknown surrounding environment even more terrifying. Even if the next second, the indescribable giant Shade emerges from the bottom of the water, he will not be surprised. Outsiders have not read many horror novels about deep-sea voyages, but even the most terrifying scenes that can be described in books are probably only about the same as now.
He didn’t know whether the gradually rising sense of fear and loneliness was the characteristics of the area itself or the depressive feeling brought by the scene itself, but in short, he felt okay holding little Mia, because the cat was really It was very warm, and he felt like he was holding a small heater under the quilt in winter.
Across from him, the thirteenth-level witch’s face was now frighteningly pale. Shade originally wanted to hand her the eyepatch stuck on his arm, but after thinking about it, flames immediately appeared in his right hand.
The flame with the power of the first fire is so dazzling and warm in this oppressive dark water. So Ms. Bullock moved closer to Shade, and the cat excitedly stretched out its claws towards the flames.
But it raised its head and glanced at Shade again. Seeing Shade looking down at it, it honestly retracted its paws.
The two of them remained silent during the rest of the journey, because the time adventure was subject to strict time constraints. He was originally worried that the journey to “death” would be too long, but fortunately, he did not know when the surrounding tide would The sound gradually became smaller, and the originally thin fog suddenly became thicker.
The “boatman” rowed the boat and carried the two people silently into the thick white fog. Then the sound of the tide completely disappeared, and the boat that was still shaking completely stabilized.