Whispering Verse

Chapter 2586 The Second Tree Hole

The red-haired girl pinched her waist and spoke with the sternness of a teacher in school, which obviously scared the ghost of Miss Bettany.

The ghost then escaped from the wall again, and this time she waited for half a minute before coming back. Of course, she still only showed half of her face in the wooden house. Shade guessed that the shadow outside was covered by the shade of the tree.

"I can answer questions, but can you please not send me away afterwards? I want to play for a while longer."

The ghost begged, and Miss Danister nodded:

"Okay, we promise you."

"No, let him say, are you his lover or student? That man is the one who keeps his word among you!"

Miss Bettany pointed at Shade, and the red-haired girl took a deep breath to calm her temper, then waved to Shade, and Shade nodded and said:

"We promise you. But you must promise that you will not hurt anyone, otherwise I will definitely come back to find you."

In fact, this warning is not very meaningful. Looking at the strength of this soul, she is probably not able to hurt people. At most, she can scare the timid guys in their dreams.

So Miss Bettany's soul floated completely into the cabin, and then nodded quickly:

"No problem, I promise not to hurt anyone."

After saying that, she pointed to the door:

"There is actually nothing unusual here, but I heard two strange sounds twice. There is obviously no living person here, but I heard two woodcutters complaining about not having a holiday this month, and once I heard thunder and rain, but the weather was clear that day."

Miss Danister's eyes lit up. This is clearly the same as the broom room where the cabinet is located, indicating that there must be a "tree hole" nearby.

"Where is the source of the sound? In the well where you are?"

Shad asked again, worried that he would jump into that kind of place, but fortunately the soul hurriedly shook his head:

"On the ground. I was also very curious at the time, and I floated around to look for it. The source of the sound is roughly around here, yes, near this cabin."

"Echoes of the past!"

Shad immediately cast a spell, but after listening for a while, no strange sounds came. Combined with what the ghost said, the recent activity of the "tree holes" here should be far less than that of the cabinet.

"Are there so many tree holes in the Vesta area? I haven't even heard of it in other places. I'll dig three feet in this area, and I'll find the door!"

The sorceress was about to start, but was stopped by Shade:

"Don't bother, I'll do it."

He took the red-haired girl out of the wooden house and came outside. Ashley Bettany's ghost plunged into the well covered by the stone slab, but stuck his head out to look here.

Then Miss Danister turned around and waved, and a layer of red moon halo covered the well mouth, blocking the ghost's prying eyes.

"Remember? The cabinet was immune to my spell last time."

Shade asked, and the sorceress recalled and looked at the wooden house in front of her:

"Toy Transfiguration, right? But this is so big, you..."

"You'll know if you try it?"

Shade took out a handkerchief from his pocket. In fact, it was a toy made of huge canvas. Then he took out the small pink bottle, and the bright pink liquid looked even more crystal clear in the afternoon sun.

After opening the lid, Shade took a sip, then wiped the "handkerchief" on his body, and then threw the rapidly enlarged canvas into the air.

The spell controlled the large canvas to float above the wooden house, and then accurately covered it below. As Shade frowned slightly and began to cast the spell, the outline under the canvas quickly shrank and became smaller.

This was the largest item Shade had handled after learning "toy making", but because it was hollow and not very heavy, the spiritual consumption was less than he thought, and it should have been fine even if he hadn't drunk the essence just now:

"It turns out that I'm so powerful now."

Soon the huge canvas seemed to be lying on the ground of the lumberyard. Miss Danister stretched out her hand to let the canvas fly again, and under the canvas, in addition to the exquisite wooden house model the size of a human head, there was also a wooden door that had been eaten by insects.

That is, the door of the wooden house.

"I'll do it."

Shad came over immediately and was about to take out the black time key to see if it could be turned. Unexpectedly, Miss Danister handed him a normal time key directly:

"Ask the academy for it."

Of course, a normal key is better. Shad stretched out his hand to let the wooden door stand up and then put the key close to the keyhole:

"May the world tree bless me in infinite time."

The key was successfully inserted into the rusty keyhole, but Shad's wrist force failed to turn it. Both of them were stunned for a moment, and Shad immediately guessed:

"Although both use keys, opening the tree hole and opening the door to the 'Time Corridor' are different. The focus of the former is the tree hole itself, and the focus of the latter is the key. So the door of the latter only needs to be a door, while the door of the former must be a door."

After figuring this out, he and Miss Danister retreated together, transformed the wooden house back to its original state, and then leaned the door against the door frame:

"May the World Tree bless me in infinite time."

With a click, the key was turned.

【Stranger, you have opened a "twisted tree hole". 】

【Tips from the Father of Infinite Trees:】

【Use the normal time key to open the door, and it will connect to the following time point: 1821 of the Sixth Era of the Present World. 】

【Note, except for you, any life that uses this channel will be cursed by time. 】

【Note, you can enter the past time for twenty minutes through this abnormal channel, and you must return through this channel after the time is up. 】

【Note, after using the key to open the door here twice, the channel will completely collapse. 】

"How is it?"

The red-haired girl asked expectantly, and Shade smiled and did not disappoint her:

"Connecting to 1821, I can still use it twice. The last cabinet I encountered could also be used twice. Is it a coincidence?"

"33 years ago, did the teacher at that time actually come to Ximu Town?"

The sorceress was a little absent-minded, and Shade took the opportunity to ask:

"Have you graduated at that time?"

"No, I was just... Don't try to calculate my age from this."

She said this immediately, and then looked at the door with a serious expression:

"If you use both opportunities now, what will happen to this door?"

"I don't know, this is not a normal time tunnel. It may be that this distortion disappears, but it may also have some bad results, so it's best not to do this."

Shade shook his head. If these "distorted tree holes" are really disasters caused by the changes in the world, then I'm afraid the consequences will not be a simple disappearance of the tree holes.

Miss Danister pursed her lips and nodded:

"Fortunately, this tree hole can be used twice."

"Even if it can be used twice, you can't use it. Do you remember what you promised me?"

The red-haired girl nodded unwillingly:

"I know, you are so nagging, Shade. Do you think that the teacher came to three years ago through this door? Was it an accident like me and Flora that the tree hole opened unstably, or was it more likely that it was an accident like you opened the door with the key? The teacher doesn't have the talent for time."

[Accident, the twisted tree hole opened with the time key is a one-way door. 】

"Unexpectedly, the tree hole opened with the time key is a one-way door. I can only come back from the past because of time constraints."

Xade explained:

"So your teacher is likely to have been infected with the time curse. If we can find her, maybe we can find out whether she has expelled the curse. She never talked about time travel and time curse before she disappeared?"

Xade asked seriously, and the red-haired girl shook her head a little disappointed:

"No, never, the teacher doesn't tell me everything, but I will tell you everything I know. I am different from the teacher."

She didn't want to show how close she was to Xia De, but wanted to show that she was better than the teacher - this was a child's way of being angry.

"It's almost four o'clock in the afternoon, let's go back now. This door will be placed in your room later, but it must be placed in the innermost room of the suite, and you can't get close to it casually later. I don't want you to be involved in the past time again."

From the experience of the cabinet, as long as you don't get too close to these "twisted tree holes", you won't be involved casually.

"I know. When I go back, I will check the relics left by the teacher again. Maybe there are clues that I didn't notice before."

The red-haired girl said, her tone was not very low. Being able to find this door was something she didn't expect before going out this morning. Now that Shade is by her side, she believes that one day she will be able to cross time and meet the teacher.

Even if she can't meet him, Danister Gustav is already very satisfied to let Shade meet the teacher:

"Shade, if someone in Ximu Town has mastered a safe way to travel through time, will you stop me from using this method to use this door?"

"Are you referring to Baron Cumming and his son?"

Shade asked, turning his head to look at the well again. Although he promised not to deal with the ghost, he also had to use the spell-[Oath Binding] to ensure that Miss Ashley Bettany would not hurt people or talk nonsense.

"Yes."

"That won't work either. I don't believe that traveling through time through the 'twisted tree hole' can be free of cost. This is the disaster of time."

As he said that, he walked towards the well, and the red-haired girl followed him. The door floated behind them:

"So you think you are the only exception. Xia De, you are so arrogant~"

She poked Xia De's arm from behind with some dissatisfaction.

"Arrogance is indeed my original sin. Listen to me today. I won't let you use this door."

"I didn't want to use it either. Am I the kind of impulsive person? But Xia De, when I recover, you can wait for me to assign you homework~"

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