Chapter 2114 Cursed Letter
While eating breakfast, Shade asked why Amelia came so early. As expected, she sneaked out again:
“The three of us have agreed to meet for breakfast on the first floor of the hotel at 7:30 every day. I got up an hour early to avoid them.”
She even looked very proud when she said this, but she did not forget to explain the reason for coming here:
“We have been staying at the Three Cats Hotel for half a week. There is no problem with the task of tracing the relics given to us by the college, but since I moved into that room, I have started to have some weird dreams frequently. ”
She held the fork and frowned. She did not wear a charm to disguise her appearance at Shade’s house, so she still looked young and beautiful:
“If it’s just a dream, forget it. I was woken up by a nightmare early this morning, and then I saw an extra letter in the room. Oh, Cat, do you want to eat?”
Little Mia on the side walked away in disgust and lay down next to Shade again.
Emilia didn’t mind either. She took out the letter and handed it to Shade. Shade touched the envelope and confirmed that the paper was ordinary. He looked again at the location of the stamp and address. The stamp is the cheapest 1 penny stamp, which means this is a letter sent within Tobesk city limits. It’s just that the pattern of the stamp is a **** hand on a black background. Shade is very sure that regular stamps will not have this pattern.
As for the location of the address, it is a series of weird tadpole texts.
“I don’t know this kind of writing.”
The elf eating the fried egg whispered. Shade didn’t know what the text was, but he could decipher it. It was an address in the urban area.
Take out the letter, and the text on the letter is written in Delarian Common Language——
[Hello, stranger:
This is a cursed letter. After seeing this letter, you need to send the letter to at least three different people, otherwise you will die tragically in seven days and your soul will be cursed by the devil for forty-nine days. Fire burns. 】
Under the brief text, there were **** handprints that seemed to be drawn with blood, but Shade knew it was red ink after sniffing it.
Then I looked at the back of the letter and saw nothing. After touching the cat that raised its head in interest, Shade frowned and thought for a moment:
“Prank letter? No, there are indeed traces of whisper elements, but they are very weak.”
“Is there any?”
Emilia raised her head in surprise. Although her perception was very strong, it was still within the scope of an ordinary elf:
“I don’t know if this is a real curse letter or a prank, so I came to you. Go to the academy. Once it is confirmed that it is really a relic, my family will definitely let me go back on the grounds that I am in danger. .”
“There is a high probability that it is really a relic. Although it looks like a bad prank, the traces of elements cannot be forged.”
Shad, who originally wanted to go to Yuewan City to meet Miss Belindel as Luvia said, also gave up his plan to travel far this morning. He adjusted his sitting posture and said seriously to the elf girl holding the fork:
“Report it to the college, this is no joke. Safety first.”
“But, but”
Emilia pursed her lips, looking aggrieved:
“In this case, the college will definitely ask us to go back, and it will be difficult to spend the summer outside the college. You haven’t taken me to see Tobesk, and Miss Anat even said that she would go shopping with me on the weekend. Also There’s Miss Louisa, and I want to visit the apartment where she created “The Hamilton Detective Stories.”
She lowered her head, but raised her big green eyes to look at Shade. She looked really pitiful:
“Help me, please, find out what relic this is. I promise, if we can’t handle it, I will report it to the college immediately. I, I, I can pay you.”
“Well, when you were in school, did you also plead with the professors like this when you couldn’t hand in your homework?”
Xia De asked. The elf girl pursed her lips and looked like she was really about to cry. Then he nodded:
“Okay, okay, don’t be like this, I’ll just help you. You know I will definitely help you, otherwise you wouldn’t come to me, and of course I won’t let you down.”
As he spoke, he picked up the cat watching the excitement:
“But you have to promise not to run around when you follow me.”
“Okay!”
“What are your companions going to do? They are probably worried about you now.”
“It’s okay. I left a letter at the front desk of the hotel. They know I’m here to see you. I’ll be back before evening.”
When it comes to unknown relics, it is natural to go to a respected elder, that is, Old John, for identification.
So after Amelia had eaten breakfast, Shade left the cat at home and took a carriage with her to Old John’s Pawn Shop. Of course there were no customers in the **** shop early in the morning. The old man behind the counter was reading the newspaper leisurely, and the front page still showed a large photo of His Majesty the King. When he heard the bell ringing at the door, he raised his eyes and raised his eyebrows in surprise:
“Good morning, detective elf friend?”
“Huh? Isn’t there a disguise charm?”
“That can only deceive other people. I brought this strange elf lady to visit my business early in the morning. Detective, do you need me to say thank you?”
He asked with a smile, Emilia pulled the hem of Shade’s clothes and followed him. Sometimes Shade didn’t know whether she was bold or introverted:
“It is indeed patronizing business. There are two things this time. This elf lady has encountered some trouble. I would like to ask you to see what kind of relic this is.”
He asked Amelia to repeat what happened in the letter, and then handed the letter to Old John. The old man frowned and listened. After looking through the letter, he got the answer:
“It has become increasingly strange in recent years, and this kind of thing can also appear in Tobesk. The Keeper-level relic – the malicious serial curse letter, is a relatively rare event-type relic, but it itself is quite rare. It’s pretty famous.”
“Secret Keeper level? That’s fine.”
Xia De breathed a sigh of relief. If it was Sage level or even Angel level, he would report it to the academy immediately.
“So, the curse on the letter”
Emilia asked timidly, less enthusiastic and more timid. Only then did people realize that she was an underage elf in her fifties.
“It’s true.”
The old man nodded firmly and looked at the stamp on the envelope against the light:
“The origin of this kind of relic cannot be verified. The currently accepted view in the academic community is that it is inseparable from traditional prank letters. Angel-level relic [Corpse in the Wall], Sage-level relic [Friendly Neighbor], Keeper-level relic [Malicious Serial Curse Letter], Clerical-level relic [Ghosts in Afterglow], Poet-level relic [Midnight Footsteps], are collectively known as the five major urban legend relics, but in a big city like Tobesk Appearing is something that has never happened before. The place where they appear is usually a closed and superstitious town, or an ancient and declining city like Green Lake City.”
“What will happen if the curse is spread to three other people as stated in the letter?”
Xia De asked.
“On the one hand, it further spreads the curse, and on the other hand, it makes the person who sends the letter a puppet controlled by the curse. He will continue to send more letters until he loses his body and turns into a malicious curse. The solution is not complicated. Just crack this.”
Daddy John pointed to the tadpole text on the envelope:
“Look for the person who sent the letter and let the elf lady kill him. Yes, remember, the cursed person must do it. In this way, the elf lady can naturally get rid of the curse chain, even if she The letter has been sent, and the new recipient can also be freed from the curse. Of course, if the sender cannot be found, it is also possible to find the sender of the previous link, but that is more troublesome.
I am well-informed and have not heard any news about this kind of relic in the city, so this should be a letter close to the origin of the curse chain. If you find a living person, after killing him, inform the church about it from the black market. The church should be able to follow the clues and continue to find the source, and soon be able to completely expel this incident. If what you find is not a human being, but the source of the beginning of this chain”
He paused deliberately. Emilia showed a scared expression and tugged on Shade’s clothes to hide behind him:
“Old sir, what will happen?”
“Then you are lucky. The source of this relic is something that is almost human-shaped but extremely ugly. If you can solve it directly, then even other local curses that are in effect will lose their power. Except In addition, that kind of thing can be regarded as a strong aggregation of malice. Eliminating it may give you one more spiritual rune.”
Old John smiled and said:
“The source of this kind of curse can be divided into two categories. A very small number of them are caused by human beings’ extremely strong negative emotions, which are transformed by the whispering elements of the relics, but they are quite rare. The biggest skill is to use malice to form a mystery. The strange space, but it can be eliminated by defeating the main body. In most cases, it is a naturally occurring weak dark creature, which is really weak.”
Miss Elf is very puzzled:
“Why is the source of such a powerful curse so weak?”
“How powerful can something that hides in the dark and spreads fear and malice wantonly?”
Dad John asked back and raised the letter in his hand:
“Detective, I won’t charge you money for this appraisal. Sell me the stamp on it. This is a relic derivative. I happen to need it. Is the price of 3 pounds and 7 shillings okay? As for the price here? Tadpole Wen, do you need me to find you a master of ancient Chinese writing? “
“I will handle the text. You should remember that I am very good at analyzing ancient texts. As for this stamp, it is not my thing”
He turned to look at Emilia, who nodded:
“I’ll sell it to you.”
She didn’t say she didn’t want the money, but she thought that after this incident was over, she would use the money to buy some pet toys for little Mia as a thank you to Shad. But she didn’t know that the cat didn’t She likes toys, and only likes certain rings and Shades.
Xia De then talked about the second thing:
“I want you to help me see what this is.”
He took out the silver anchor jewelry given by Miss Elisa.
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