Chapter 2655 The damaged clock
Iluna, who was walking in a hurry, was also a little surprised to see Shade here, but both of them remained calm and just passed by. Five minutes later, Sha De saw Iluna in the unmanned corridor where the boxes on the third floor of the opera house were.
“Good afternoon, I thought you were in Ximu Town now.”
The eighteen-year-old brown-haired girl took off her hat and held it in her hand:
“Our team is collecting relics. Since last Monday, there have been multiple reports of missing persons near the Queen Maria Opera House.
Redwich Field began investigating the matter last Wednesday, but soon a police officer and two police officers investigating the matter disappeared. The police took this very seriously, and after sending extra manpower to investigate, they all disappeared.
That’s why this matter was reported to the church, and the church sent the file to the captain over the weekend. ”
“So your captain discovered this relic hidden in the opera house?”
Xia De pointed downstairs.
“No, our captain is also missing.”
Iluna shook her head, but judging from the lack of expression on her face, she knew that although she was missing, the captain of the Blackstone Security Company was probably fine:
“After the captain conducted an investigation alone and disappeared for a day and a night, we did not dare to send anyone to this area anymore. Then the church asked the Prophet Association for help, and conducted some peripheral investigations before confirming that the relics here were the guardians. Secret-level relic [Damaged Antarctic Constellation Clock] Oh, ‘Antarctic Star’ is a clock brand from the fifth era.”
Since the name of the relic contains the word “clock”, there is a high probability that this relic is a time-related relic. Iluna’s next introduction also proves this point. Even if she faces this kind of relic alone, she will be in danger:
“The body of this relic is a damaged mechanical clock. The pendulum of the clock will not swing, but the hands will rotate normally. And if the containment is out of control, the three hands on the dial will stop rotating in sequence –
The first is the second hand. When the second hand stops, anyone who sees this clock during this period will fall into a state of time standstill. This state is terrible because the consciousness of the contact is still active and can sense the surroundings, which will make Their spirits are in an unspeakably bad state;
Then there is the minute hand. When the minute hand stops, the bodies of people who have fallen into a state of time stasis will disappear and enter the time gap called the ‘narrow space of time’. In this way, even if we regain control of the relics, most ordinary people will People will also get lost and unable to come back;
Finally, there is the hour hand. When the hand stops spinning, the time-stopping power of the mechanical clock will spread to the surrounding area in a wide range. If not stopped in time, the clock could bring the entire area to a standstill. The Keeper-level danger rating of this relic is largely due to the characteristics of the final hour hand when it stops spinning. ”
“So now is the minute hand stopping stage?”
Xia De asked curiously, and Iluna nodded in annoyance:
“This clock has the strange characteristic of making a clicking sound that attracts people. The missing people were attracted here by the sound. After opening the door and seeing it, time stopped and then disappeared. Then the investigators based on the clues After looking for it, he saw the clock again and then disappeared. Finally, the captain came here and also disappeared after seeing the clock.
We must admit that if we don’t know what is here in advance, the characteristics of this relic are indeed difficult to guard against. But when the captain comes back, we will laugh at him severely. ”
Though she described it simply, the relic was actually quite terrifying. If the Tobesk diocese hadn’t had enough manpower, the small hall where the clock was stored would have had to “devour” many more people before any abnormalities were noticed.
Even because of the “clock hand stopping” characteristic of the relic itself, people may not know what happened here until the entire area has stopped in time.
Xia De marveled at this relic, and then continued to inquire:
“Since time will be stopped by looking at that clock, then you just need to send people to close their eyes and go to contain it? Why is there such a big movement now?”
Iluna looked unhappy:
“It’s not about watching, it’s about sensing. As long as you know the existence of the clock and get close to it, the effect will be triggered passively. So our team is not here to contain this relic. We are responsible for arranging rituals around the room to prevent third parties from doing so. The stage’s characteristics cannot be ended after being triggered.
Later, a ring warlock who doesn’t know what relics are here will come to carry out the containment work, so we go out to work in this ghostly weather. ”
It’s not that she doesn’t want to do fieldwork, she just doesn’t like having to wait for others all afternoon.
“So do you need help? I still have the jar of umbilical cord with me. Although I am not sure about its resistance to this relic, at least it can ensure that you will not be stopped at a glance.”
“It’s not necessary for the time being. I think there should be no problem in resolving this matter. What I’m more curious about now is who put it in the opera house. The manager of the theater said that no clocks have been purchased here recently. Is it possible? Did the person who rented that performance hall forget to take it away?”
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Although Iluna wanted to continue chatting with Shade about recent events, she still had to work after all, so in the end she had to say goodbye to Shade gloomily.
However, Shade thought that he would probably be at the opera house this afternoon, so he invited Iluna to have dinner with him, Vanessa and the others if she had time in the evening.
The eighteen-year-old girl nodded and agreed. Although she loved church work, she was not a complete workaholic.
It is very interesting to watch the girls rehearsing on the stage, talking about the script with Hillis, or being taken to the dressing room by Vanessa to watch the actors put on makeup. The thirteenth-level witch didn’t really care about the relic getting out of control not far from the next door. She just joked with Shade that afternoon:
“We have only been here for a week and we encountered this kind of thing. This is indeed the city you live in.”
“This should be the city where Iluna lives. There are very few incidents of unowned relics getting out of control around me.”
Xia De corrected that he was not worried about things over there either. Since Iluna and the others already know the characteristics of the relic and how to deal with it, and the church has also sent special personnel to take care of it, this is a standard relic containment mission.
This kind of mission can’t go wrong.
It’s just that this time Shade’s idea was obviously wrong. Towards the end of the evening, he sat in front of the dressing table. A group of girls surrounded him, smiling and watching Sirius bend down to draw his eyebrows. He was still thinking about it. When will Iluna come over?
Vanessa, who was watching this scene with a smile, was about to comment on Shade’s appearance at this time, but suddenly she and Shade turned to look at the wall:
“The Whispering Elements are rioting, what’s going on?”
Xia De, who was quite uncomfortable with his “fair-looking” appearance at this time, immediately stood up:
“I’m going to check on the situation. You don’t have to go there. Sirius, next time you should practice with little Mia. I feel that my original eyebrows are very beautiful.”
The young blonde girl then smiled and said:
“It’s too difficult to put makeup on a cat. I’m afraid I can’t do it. Do cats have eyebrows?”
So all the girls looked at the cat lying on the dressing table, and little Mia looked up at Shade who was about to leave with wide eyes, thinking that he was going home now, so everyone was sure that the cat had no eyebrows.
(Luvia is divination)
In the sealed performance hall on the second floor of the Queen Maria Opera House, with the arrival of evening, the gas lamps in the room also turned on together with the gas lamps in other rooms of the opera house.
There were only two people in the auditorium with a slight downward slope. Iluna held up a dark golden scale made of her life ring in both hands. The light of the scale enveloped her whole body, and the light all over her body was like When the air comes into contact, the rippling water phantoms appear one after another.
She was standing in the middle of the auditorium aisle, and on the stage with the curtain half-opened, all three hands of the mahogany-cased mechanical clock had stopped spinning.
But what is even more frightening is that behind the clock, half of the body of a man who looks about thirty years old seems to be growing closely with the clock.
The left half of his face has been integrated into the high-quality wooden shell of the clock, while the remaining right half of his face has an abnormally crazy expression. While the clock was assimilating him, it was also transforming the remaining half of his body. Iluna clearly heard the clicking sound of continued operation coming from his chest, and just now she just looked at him. He was almost stopped in place.
Eluna closed her mouth tightly and moved forward with difficulty. The golden scale balanced the abnormal flow of time, but her movements of moving forward were still extremely slow.
The sunlight gun she tried to throw just now was still in mid-air behind her, and all the people who entered here earlier had disappeared. She complained in her heart that the preliminary investigation team failed to find out the origin of this clock, but the current situation could only be solved by herself.
No matter how slow her progress was, she was still approaching the stage, and the man on the stage who was integrated with the clock finally stretched out his skin when Iluna was close enough, as if a metal pointer was pierced through his skin. The right arm pointed at her:
“Stop!”
While speaking, there was even a sound of metal friction that made Iluna dizzy, and after the almost roaring cry, Iluna felt that her whole body froze.
She could still move, but more slowly, pushing against obstacles like pushing against a house with a solid foundation. She is now glad that she has experienced Sha De’s “time suspension” and gained experience, otherwise she might have been really affected just now.
Seeing that Iluna was still moving forward, the man crazily rotated his right arm counterclockwise and pointed at her again:
“Go back!”
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