Chapter 2722 Lake of Love
“This is correct. If there is a tree hole there, you may be sucked in accidentally.”
Xia De said this, and the specific location of the incident has been marked on the map.
Whether there is another tree hole or there is something strange about Miss Linda Bennet, this matter must be investigated. Therefore, after temporarily entrusting little Mia to Miss Danister, the owl immediately grabbed the cat and flew out of the window.
“This time, is it my turn to go out?”
The red-haired girl who stayed in the room murmured to herself, and then looked at Miss Jane Alba who had not left yet. Of course the latter didn’t want to answer this kind of question. In private, the girls talked a lot about the relationship between the Great Witch of Death, the “Red Moon Witch” of St. Byrons, and Shade.
But Miss Danister just complained softly, not necessarily finding the answer.
Owl Air was very fast, and it landed the cat in the forest in less than half an hour. There were no landmark buildings or landscapes near the place where Miss Linda Bennet disappeared, and simple trace identification could not find the footprints of the suddenly missing girl. Therefore, it was confirmed that neither of them felt the tree hole at the first time. After hearing the news, they had no choice but to conduct a carpet-like search of the area.
Of course Shade would not suggest splitting up in a place like this where a person was already missing, so the witch followed him. She wanted to turn into a cat and jump on Shade’s shoulders, but Shade firmly refused:
“Don’t become lazy like little Mia.”
“I’m not trying to be lazy, I just want to”
The witch’s face turned slightly red, and she was embarrassed to continue saying that she just wanted to get closer to him.
As Miss Alba said, there were indeed no traces of spatial anomalies nearby, but Shade unexpectedly captured traces of some unusual elements.
This did not look like a new tree hole had appeared, so Shade speculated that the girl was unlucky and encountered other mysterious phenomena that could not be explained in the forest, but this did not seem to explain her escape from the house. move.
The two of them observed their surroundings carefully, and soon found a mirror fragment in the grass a hundred meters away from where Linda Bennet disappeared, with blood still on it. After Miss Winslet’s identification, the blood on the mirror fragments belonged to two people, both of whom were young girls:
“Is this the fragment of the mirror that Linda Bennet cut herself and then the maid with?”
Since there is blood, things are much simpler. Shade took out the empty wine bottle and used the “blood brewing” technology to separate two different bloods. Then he dropped only one drop of the blood brew into his eyes and Used the “Echo of Blood” thaumaturgy.
The essence of this thaumaturgy is not to simply observe blood, but to observe the traces left by other blood of the same origin in time and space. Therefore, although ordinary detective thaumaturgy does not work, Linda Bennett’s **** figure Almost immediately, the golden forest in the autumn morning appeared in Shade’s eyes.
“I found it, follow me.”
As he spoke, he took the witch’s hand and led her to follow the series of red figures in the forest. Miss Linda Bennet continued to go deeper into the woods, and she did not disappear near here, which also proved that her inexplicable disappearance was definitely related to supernatural power, otherwise Miss Alba would not have been lost.
Continuing forward, we have entered a place that neither Shad nor the Witch has reached, but Miss Linda Bennet seems to have a clear goal, because she neither takes detours nor takes the same path.
The two of them followed her figure for another thirty minutes before they finally walked out of the forest and saw a lake in the forest. The lake looked like a heart-shaped outline.
The water system in Vista Woodland is developed, with the Aronson River running through the city and connecting Willendale as the main trunk, and many tributaries passing through the forest to other areas of Carsenlick, so the forest is also densely populated with large and small lakes.
The lake in front of us is not very large, so neither the official map nor the hermits’ map has a name on it. The small lake is about the size of St. Teresa Square. The animals in the forest regard it as an important water source. When Shade and the Witch walked out of the forest, they scared a group of deer drinking water by the stream.
But before they had time to apologize to the deer, they looked up together and saw Linda Bennett lying upward on the water of the lake, floating slowly as the wind in the forest blew across the lake.
The **** light and shadow in Shade’s eyes extended all the way to the edge of the lake, and then he saw the girl sinking to the bottom and floating up. But Linda Bennett didn’t just float after drowning. She still seemed alive, just unconscious.
“There are others.”
The witch reminded in a low voice. Only then did Shade see that there were actually three people floating on the lake. In addition to Linda Bennett, there was a man and a woman. From a distance, they were all wearing clothes. Decent young men, but Shade didn’t recognize them.
The three of them were floating on the lake in a face-up position with their eyes closed. But since there are animals drinking water by the lake, it means that this is definitely not a saltwater lake. The density of the lake water should not be enough to support a human being in a coma without assistance. of floating.
“Can you feel anything? I can feel that the element traces around here are a little denser than other areas, but other than that everything seems normal.”
Miss Winslet said softly again. After seeing Shade shaking his head, she reached out and pointed at the stone at her feet, and the stone turned into a puppy that stuck out its tongue and ran happily and approached the lake.
Of course she didn’t turn a dead thing into a real living thing, it was just a transfiguration. The puppy entered the lake smoothly, and after trying to swim in a dog-pawing position for a few minutes, under the control of the witch, it approached Linda Bennett, who was closest to the lake shore.
It reached the girl smoothly, opened its mouth and bit Miss Bennet’s sleeve, then pulled her and swam to the lake shore. Everything seemed to go smoothly. The puppy successfully dragged the girl to the shore, and the cautious two people waited until Miss Bennet was completely out of the water before walking over.
The puppy turned into a stone by the lake again, and Miss Winslet worriedly threw the soul-purifying magic to Miss Bennet, then turned to Shade and said:
“It should be fine.”
They raised their hands together, controlled Miss Linda Bennet’s body to float, moved her away from the lake shore, and then put her down again. Shade worriedly poured the holy water on her body again, and after making sure she was still fine, he knelt down to check her condition.
There are no traces of the curse on Miss Bennet, and even traces of the elements are almost non-existent. She was indeed not dead, her breathing and heartbeat were still there, but she just couldn’t be awakened.
Shad tried many methods, and the great witch of death even tried to briefly separate her soul and body, but her soul was still in a deep sleep.
Although forced interrogation techniques such as the “Wall of Sighs” may also have an effect on sleeping souls, they will directly pollute the souls of ordinary people. Flora Winslet will not use them as a last resort. Used on ordinary people.
Seeing that the time was approaching noon, Shade used a small piece of gold to cast the “Traveler’s Camp” spell, and used “Fiona’s Housekeeping Servant” to summon lunch to share with Miss Winslet.
After lunch, the witch “salvaged” two other strangers according to the method in the morning, and then determined that the strange man and woman were in the same situation as Linda Bennett.
The two of them seemed to be aristocratic young men from Vista City, but their specific identities were unknown. Because there was light rain in the forest again in the afternoon, Shade went to cut down some trees and made a simple wooden house to temporarily house them.
He and Miss Winslet never dared to go into the water directly. In the afternoon, they tried many methods to wake them up, but to no avail.
But at least the time spent together and talking to each other was fun. When it got dark, Shade took the initiative to hunt two rabbits in the forest, while Miss Winslet was responsible for picking wild vegetables, and then they cooked delicious broth and roasted rabbit meat by the campfire.
It was too late to build a bigger wooden house today, so that night the witch blushed and got into the double tent with Shade. Fortunately, the two behaved themselves and did not cross the line all night. .
But when she woke up the next morning, the shy Miss Owl still asked Shade to build a wooden house that could be lived in for a long time while she had time today. She still preferred to rest in bed.
So Shade went to cut wood and make wooden houses and furniture. The witch herself was not idle. She took the initiative to take over today’s hunting and gathering weeds. She even asked Shade for a fishing rod and fished by the lake. fish.
Both of them work far from the lake shore, so although they are doing different things, they can still chat with each other.
Lunch and dinner were still sumptuous that day, and before resting in the evening, Shade also rushed to complete the main body of the wooden house and the two single beds.
Flora Winslet wanted to express her reserve, so she pushed the two beds apart. She slept on the bed against the east wall, while Shade slept on the bed against the west wall:
“Don’t come over here in the middle of the night. I trust you.”
So the days passed like this. During the day, Shade hunted and did carpentry, while the Witch was responsible for making textiles and decorating the new home they built by themselves. Their relationship was also in this hard but not boring life. It’s getting closer day by day.
The two small beds displayed in the wooden house were separated from the wall at some point. They were first separated by some furniture, and then only the bedside tables remained. On that night worth celebrating when Shade hunted a bear, the two beds were pushed together, but the shy witch still used a curtain to separate them.