Whispering Verse

As she pounced, the chill even made the air rustle with frost. The "evil ghost", whose eyelashes, cheeks, and hair were covered with hoarfrost, and whose face turned completely blue, stretched out his hand as if he wanted to strangle Miss Theresa.

But she was still blocked by Shade. The silver moonlight sword she held in one hand blocked her hand. The sword's light was dim, but the runes that had been hidden in the light in the past were clearly revealed.

Holding Miss Theresa in his left hand, Shade held a sword in his right hand and looked at the girl with frost on her face. She staggered back two steps, and then pounced on the two of them again. The sword light was not bright, but it penetrated her easily. Then little bits of light spread out from the false body. The girl who seemed to have regained her composure looked at her hands and showed a sad smile to Shade:

"Do I look ugly now?"

"I don't know exactly who you are, but Miss Schultz Theresa is really beautiful."

The girl who had turned translucent nodded bitterly:

"Can you give me one last hug?"

Shade thought for a moment, the moonlight sword dissipated, and he held her in his arms with his left hand. That false body finally dispersed into spots of light and disappeared completely. The transparent and pure white soul shrank in Shade's arms, looking blankly at his body on the other side.

When the soul and the body held hands, amidst the violent coughing, the body that was "fished out of the sea" by Sha De, the pale face finally showed blood. Miss Schultz Theresa also opened her eyes, and then she hugged Shade and trembled with a painful expression. The soul returns to the body, and all the discomfort from the body rushes to the soul in an instant.

Coupled with the fact that her soul and body are already weak, she is not even used to the feeling of "alive" now:

"I seem to have had a dream, dreaming about playing with glass balls in the past, dreaming about meeting my aunt for the first time, dreaming about runes lessons, dreaming about"

The weak voice was not easy to distinguish, so Shade carefully held her and sat next to the fire. Looking at the other three people, the frost on the faces of the three ladies disappeared at some point. They looked at the fire blankly, as if they had no idea what had just happened:

"Sir, what did the gods say?"

Professor Evans asked tremblingly.

The ordinary girl Miss Malone and the maid Miss Maxim also looked at him. Shade hesitated for a moment while holding the gradually recovering Miss Theresa:

"God is fishing, using the bait you provide, to find out the truth about the ship's sinking, and then send you out. I will assist the gods, and you can just wait here."

Although the specific situation is unclear, the sinking of the "Glory Messenger" is most likely related to the four people present. The idol was giving them a chance to be rescued, but in a really weird way. Since they still didn't know that their bodies had already sunk into the deep sea together with the ship, there was no need for Shade to reveal this.

Everyone said just now that when the Radiant Messenger sank, everything around them sank rapidly. They probably "died" together at that time. However, the souls floated up under the guidance of the gods, and whether the gods were fishing just for their wishes and dreams, Shade couldn't tell yet.

The story this time is not difficult or even dangerous, but it is full of doubts and extremely complicated.

Of course, Shade is not worried about his current soul state. "She" can monitor Shade's physical condition in real time. Moreover, when the tree father asked Shade to come to the past, he was only to witness the story and provide some help to people in the past, not to let Shade face danger.

"Fishing? Thank you, sir, I'm counting on you here."

The purple-haired maid moved her lips and whispered softly, and Shade made the request accordingly:

"Using your items to fish requires passing some illusion-like tests. Professor, Miss Maxim, and Miss Malone, please think carefully about what wishes and wishes you have had in the past. I don't know if you just saw it. , the past wishes from fishing need to be fulfilled. I am not very knowledgeable and I don’t know what kind of pasts and struggles you all have. In fact, I will leave here later. If you have any problems, I can go Find a solution outside."

"who are you?"

Professor Sarah Evans finally asked the question she had been holding in her mind. Miss Teresa, who had just woken up, held Shade's shoulders and answered the question for Shade:

"Shade is the person chosen by His Majesty Violet, and he is the person closest to His Majesty."

She squeezed Shade's hand gently. Besides Shade, she also understood the current situation and knew that the three companions were not completely real. There were too many things in the deep sea dream that she didn't want to recall, but the dreams about childhood, girlhood and the conversation a few days ago were like nails, firmly stabilizing her spirit.

"I don't have much time."

Shade said:

"I only have one question now, why does this god want to help you?"

He turned around and glanced at the god who had started fishing again. The god had not used the remaining three baits. He didn't know if he could really catch anything when fishing with an empty hook:

"Have you ever had any involvement with this great man?"

"As a child, I probably prayed to this god."

Miss Teresa said softly, and the other three gave similar answers. The maid Miss Maxim even clearly remembered that she heard the legend of this god from her grandmother, and once naively believed that as long as she prayed sincerely, she would get trees growing with candy.

"Candy tree? This condition is easy to achieve."

Shade said that the thaumaturgy [candy making] can turn any object that Shade considers to be food into candy. Although he does not eat trees, he can turn the fruits on the fruit trees that grow apples into apple candies.

Taking out the notebook, Miss Teresa, who was letting her body temperature recover, took his place and collected wishes from the remaining three souls. He was originally a little worried about whether the normal Miss Theresa was still willing to stay with three abnormal "partners", but he seemed to underestimate the eleventh-level witches of this era.

Shade then took advantage of the last few moments to return to the fishing god again.

God didn't look at him, and kept looking at the dark sea.

Sitting on the edge of the undulating floating board in the ocean, fishing, with his back turned to the souls waiting for salvation. Even if God currently looks like a child, this scene is still extremely shocking.

"God, I want to seek answers from you."

"Of course, I'm happy to grant the child's wish."

Shade adjusted his mood:

"How are they going to get out of here? Since you are willing to give them a chance to live a new life, are you also willing to be generous and let them return to the normal world?"

"It's very simple. Didn't you tell them yourself? If they find out the truth about the sinking of the ship, they will naturally be able to continue their lives. Children can't lie, they must do what they say."

God looked at the sea and smiled:

"Of course, if you can really help them discover the truth, I can also give you a gift. The innocent creator is so generous to you, so of course I can't be stingy."

"Thank you for your generosity."

Xia De thanked him softly:

"When I was fishing with Miss Schultz Theresa just now, I saw the last phone call between her and Miss Violet. Could it be that the four of them actually knew more or less about the accident before it happened? Some key information, but failed to piece together the truth?”

He asked tentatively, and the god smiled and said nothing.

"Also, why are you here rescuing them?"

Shade thought God would say "for their wishes", but God still smiled and said nothing. Somehow, he suddenly thought of what God said just now: "Children cannot lie", so he nodded slightly to express his understanding.

This time his time was about to end, so he thanked the gods again and turned back to the campfire.

Living people have to eat, so he left enough food, water and other supplies, and then once again emphasized the "mission" to find the truth about the sinking of the ship. The mission given to Shade by the tree father does not include this, but sending living people out of strange places is what Shade has been doing all along.

The three fake bodies have different expressions, and I don’t know what they are thinking of. But this time it was too late to ask. Shade took back his notebook and looked at what everyone had written about his childhood and girlhood, the unfulfilled wishes and some regrets left behind:

"No problem, I will find a way to solve it. Miss Theresa, you have to be careful here, and you must not enter the sea water again."

He said to the only living person besides him that such a single emphasis would not cause the other three to become suspicious. After all, they seemed very close from the beginning. The young blonde girl nodded. Although she really didn't want her only support to leave, she knew that she couldn't stop it. Miss Violet said that sooner or later, she would become a great witch independently:

"Come back soon, I'll wait for you here."

She hugged Shade gently. Although there were many things she wanted to say in her heart, she could not speak. So, he kissed Xade gently, a light kiss with the smell of sea water, it really tasted novel.

Touching his lips, he put the blanket on her again, and Shade waved goodbye:

"Well everyone, we will see you next time. Please believe that you are still alive. Only in this way can you be saved."

The three souls also said goodbye to Shade. At the same time, a white mist that these ladies could not see had emerged around Shade.

He was ready to return to the time of the Sixth Age, but at the last moment, he heard the soft whisper of the god who was fishing with his back to everyone:

"Maybe you're interested in what's in the water."

So as the white mist gradually became denser, Shade quickly came to the edge of the floating board for the last time. The sea water, which was originally completely invisible, was probably illuminated a lot because of the presence of the luminous white mist.

So before the white mist completely enveloped Shade and the outsiders left completely, he saw the scene under the surface of the Sunless Sea for the first time.

At the bottom of the deep sea, there are countless corpses with only the whites of their eyes open, densely packed up and down. Suspended in the water, everyone stretched out their arms to touch the water. The corpses shook unconsciously in the lightless seawater, like thousands of worms shaking.

There are countless debris whose specific appearance is unclear floating between the corpses, and the god's slightly luminous fishhook is floating between the corpses and debris, but no corpse or object touches it.

"Just now, I just threw the fishhook among these things?"

In a moment of shock, the corpses seemed to be jumping out of the water, and they rushed towards Shade who was watching them crazily. But the next moment Shade disappeared, so there was just an undercurrent under the water, pushing the corpses a little bit.

Beside the fire, the three ladies looked at the flames. Miss Schulz-Teresa watched them quietly with her lips pursed, and then wiped her lips with her fingers.

Professor Evans looked dazed, as if she was afraid of something; the purple-haired maid, Miss Maxim, had her left hand hidden in the blanket as if she was holding something, and her face began to frost slightly; the ordinary girl, Miss Malone, had her lips squirming as if she had been Whose name was he reciting? His eyes looking at the flames were clearly empty and lifeless.

Everyone has their own secrets, and their presence here is no coincidence.