Chapter 2757 The Chamber of Resentful Spirits and the Fire
“We folklorists will not easily believe in claims of supernatural phenomena.”
The professor immediately emphasized, but lowered his voice:
“But this statement is most likely true, and I have seen similar records. Also, do you know where the bodies of the Hoy family were found after the fire was put out?”
Seeing that Shade and his “female assistant” were shaking their heads, Professor Wood said mysteriously:
“The whole house was almost burned down, but what was strange was that the tables and benches in the banquet hall on the first floor were only burnt black. And the charred corpses were all sitting around the table after the house collapsed. Next to it, it is said that several people who were fighting the fire were frightened and went crazy on the spot.”
After the manor was rebuilt, the banquet hall was still a banquet hall, or the layout of the first floor of the building after reconstruction was almost exactly the same as before. This sounds quite ominous, but no one knows what Director Kant is thinking.
Today, the banquet hall on the first floor was also used as the auction venue, and it was also the most important venue in this charity auction. Out of curiosity, Shade wanted to see if he could really encounter ghosts, so after saying goodbye to Professor Wood, he and Miss Danister returned to the first floor to check the situation.
Although the ghost didn’t see it, Shade saw something that surprised him:
“Arrow?”
In the display cabinet against the wall, there is an “elf antique arrow” that the elf girl has been entrusting Shade to find. Although he didn’t touch them directly, Shade had already found two of them, and there was no mistaking them.
The label of this auction item is “Antique Arrows Unearthed in the Vesta Woodland”, and the starting price is 10 crowns, which is about 130 pounds. Even at charity auction prices, it’s a bit too high.
“You definitely want this.”
Miss Danister looked at other information:
“The auction time is at 8:15 in the evening. We will come over after we have auctioned the book later. But, did you bring so much cash?”
“Of course, how could I come to the auction without bringing money?”
I didn’t have any trouble buying “Ximu Town and World Tree”. Only a few people were interested in this unknown ancient book. Seeing that Xia De was very determined to raise the price, no one competed with him.
But then it was a bit troublesome to go back to the first floor to auction the arrow. Shade didn’t know why so many people were interested in it. Within a short period of time after the auction began, the price of the arrows increased from 10 to 50 crowns.
However, Shade is determined to buy this arrow, so he will continue to raise his sign no matter who bids. One after another people gave up, and in the end only a very familiar young man was left to bid with him.
George Kant, the son of Director Kant who woke up from the Lake of Love. He also noticed Shade, and after a few more rounds of bidding with Shade, pushing the price up to 80 crowns, he finally stopped bidding again.
For this reason, Shade bought the arrow at a price 8 times higher than the reserve price. Although he doesn’t care much about money issues nowadays, it doesn’t mean that he is happy about this happening.
“The sign says that this is an antique donated by Director Kant himself. Why would his son want to bid for this with you? This is so rude.”
Professor Wood, who was sitting next to Shade, asked. He had also raised a sign to bid, but gave up after the price exceeded 20 kronor:
“That young man doesn’t want to raise the price maliciously, does he? Mr. Watson, have you known him before?”
Xia De shook his head:
“Of course I don’t know him, but I heard that he was seriously ill some time ago. Will he be cured so soon?”
Although I spent a little more money, it was good to just buy that arrow. However, the arrow was not delivered directly to Shade. After the auction, he had to pay the money with others and get what he bought.
However, Shade was not interested in other items at the auction. After making sure that he had bought the arrow, he wanted to leave the table with Miss Danister and go to other corners of the manor to take a look.
He just tilted his head to talk to the red-haired girl when he suddenly noticed a dark, translucent figure appearing next to the auctioneer. And when his eyes swept over it a few seconds ago, he was pretty sure there was nothing there.
“Are there really evil spirits?”
The figure was obviously badly burned, so it could only be seen that it was a middle-aged man. It was obviously facing Sha De. Seeing Sha De looking over, it stretched out its finger and pointed in the direction of the door of the banquet hall.
“What to do?”
Xia De was surprised when he heard the red-haired girl complain again, and then he noticed that his tilted head was leaning on her shoulder.
The eighteen-year-old girl pushed Xia De gently, but the force was not strong. She probably thought that Xia De did this on purpose:
“This is a public place, please be careful, or say you did something similar to Flora.”
“Sorry, you can’t see that?”
Shad pointed at the soul next to the auctioneer, who still stretched out his right hand and pointed at the door.
“What?”
Miss Danister also looked over, and then asked suspiciously:
“I don’t see anything here, what do you see?”
So things start to get interesting.
Anyway, Shade took her to say goodbye to Professor Wood and left the banquet hall. When he came to the corridor and saw no one there, he quietly explained what he saw:
“A charred wraith, but he just pointed at the door.”
The red-haired girl is still confused:
“There are really resentful spirits here? But isn’t that right? Hasn’t the church found anything wrong after so many years?”
As Miss Daniste was speaking, the soul appeared again on the east side of the corridor, still pointing out the direction with its finger, and only Shade could see it. But after Shade took a few quick steps to get closer, the soul disappeared:
“Follow me, no matter what the resentful spirit is, let’s first see where he wants us to go.”
Xia De is not the kind of reckless person. Of course, he has considered that this resentful spirit that only he can see is a trap. After all, its spirit body is contaminated with genuine demonic power.
But the soul did not guide Shade to leave the Hoy Manor. Instead, it led the two of them out of the building first, and then around from the courtyard in front of the manor to the garden in the back.
The charred soul is sometimes missed in the dark night, but fortunately Shade’s perception is very strong. They finally came to the rear of the manor house and stopped in front of a low building in the corner of the garden.
This seems to be where the servants live. There is a well next to the building. The resentful spirit finally appeared in front of the well, and pointed at the wellhead with its finger lowered.
“Are you sure you want to go down?”
Miss Danister asked, Shade stood at the mouth of the well and glanced down, closed his eyes and used “powerful spatial perception” to determine the environment under the well:
“There is a small secret room under this well. I want to take a look. Wait for me here.”
“I really can’t do anything to you. I’ll wait for you for ten minutes. I’ll go down to find you in ten minutes.”
Shade made a no-questions-asked gesture to her, then jumped into a swarm of butterflies and flew into the well.
There is no entrance to the secret room at the bottom of the well, but the ventilation window of the secret room is opened on the side wall of the well. So the red butterflies flew in through the ventilation window. When Shade transformed into a human and stood in the secret room, he did not encounter the attack he had just guessed:
“So the resentful spirit really just wants me to discover this place?”
Use strong spatial perception to once again determine the location, and you can find that the real entrance to the secret room should be in the manor house. And when Shade summoned a ball of light to illuminate the surroundings, he saw a few lonely boxes placed in the corner.
Otherwise it was empty, and it looked rather strange for such a large place to be empty.
The box was not locked. When opened, it contained some gold and silver jewelry and antique oil paintings. Shade is not very proficient in antique appraisal, but at least he can confirm that the precious metals are real:
“See the demon.”
As expected, all the gold and silver jewelry and antique oil paintings have the power of the devil, which shows that these things were obtained through transactions with the devil. Of course, being tainted with demonic power does not mean that these items are harmful to the owner, but keeping these properties will definitely make the owner’s luck worse.
There is not much dust on the ground. After careful inspection, although these boxes are from hundreds of years ago, they should have been transported in recently.
In other words, it was not the Hoy family who left these things here three hundred years ago, but the current owner of the mansion or someone who knew the location of this secret room moved these belongings here:
“Is Mr. Kant making a deal with the devil?”
He continued to look at the antiques, writing down all their styles and shapes, and planned to ask Miss Bell to determine whether these antiques came from the same source as the antiques he found in the basement of Bennet’s old house when he returned.
But he soon discovered that there was no need to trouble Miss Bell, because among those antique oil paintings, a portrait with the nameplate “Klein Hoy” actually appeared:
“Is this an antique from the Hoy family?”
Xia De didn’t understand even more:
“So is the legend of the treasures of the Hoy family true? Did the devil help Director Kant find those treasures? Or did the Hoy family make a deal with the devil back then, and Director Kant just accidentally discovered these long-buried treasures? ”
Although he discovered the secret room and clues, his questions have only increased, and Shade still doesn’t know what the ghost that led him to discover this secret room is. The other party did not appear again, and there was no power of death in the secret room.
With this doubt, he transformed into a red butterfly and flew out of the well mouth, but as soon as he landed, he found that the night sky was reflected in red. Amidst the screams, the mansion in Hoy Manor suddenly burst into flames.
The flame must have just ignited. The fire was located above the front of the mansion, so Shade, who was in the rear garden, couldn’t see clearly which room was burning. Just listening to the sound, people were evacuating in a panic. The fire should not have blocked the exit of people on the first and second floors.