Whispering Verse

Chapter 2591 The Third Tree Hole and Time Communication

The sweet snacks did not make the elf lady friendly to Shade. She continued to stand in the sea of ​​flowers with an expressionless face and said:

"I don't need you to give me these things, and I don't think our relationship is good enough. Thank you for your concern, and I don't like sweets."

She bent down again to collect dew, without even looking at the things Shade left. Shade said goodbye and turned away.

[Are you sure? ]

"She" asked with a smile.

"It's confirmed, it's her, so this is very interesting."

"Meow~"

The cat felt that he was hated today, so he felt very wronged.

Although he didn't plan to get close to the Accordion Hotel today, Shade finally entered the city.

At the banquet last night, he heard the conversation between Little Cumming and his fiancée Jane Bennet, and thus knew the address of Baron Cumming's family, so he planned to take advantage of today's free time to investigate Baron Cumming and his son, or Baron Cumming and his father.

Although the Baron family is not a real local, they have their own fixed residence in Vesta. Every autumn when the family comes to Vesta for vacation, they stay at the "Morris Mansion" in the southwest of the city.

It is a manor slightly smaller than the Earl Collins Mansion last night. Although the location is a little remote, the advantage is that the neighborhood is very quiet, and there is no need to worry about being disturbed by annoying passers-by and neighbors.

It is Wednesday morning now, and Shade doesn't know whether the Baron family is still at home. His original plan was to sneak in directly. Since the family are ordinary people, there is no need to be too cautious.

But when he approached the "Morris Mansion", he saw the rented carriage that had just passed by him not long ago stopped at the door of the mansion, and then two ring warlocks in police uniforms got out of the car and knocked on the door.

"Church ring warlocks pretending to be policemen"

Touching the cat on his shoulder, Shade turned and walked into the alley on the side. When he walked out again, Mia had been turned into a toy, and Shade had become a silver-white cat. The cat quickly approached Morris's house along the wall, and then leaped onto the top of the wall.

At this time, the two ring magicians in police uniforms had also shown their credentials, so they were invited to enter the house.

After Shade confirmed that one of them was a middle ring and the other was a low ring, he jumped into the courtyard wall. After giving a look to the black big dog in the doghouse beside the wall that wanted to bark and told it to chew the bone obediently, the cat climbed up to the second floor along the drainage pipe outside the building lightly, and then used the magic "Ragley's Leap" to perceive the space and appeared directly behind the sofa in the reception room where the police were entertained.

No one in the room noticed the cat's arrival, and it was not the Cummings who received the two policemen, but the young Mr. James Cumming.

The gentleman who was about to get married next year was alone at home this morning and didn't know what he was doing. When he pushed the door in and greeted the police, he was wearing a white shirt and black trousers tied with a belt.

Cat was motionless behind the sofa listening to their conversation. The police first exchanged pleasantries with the young man, and then asked:

"Please don't be nervous. This time, the local church has entrusted us to inquire.

Mr. James Cumming, after you came to the local area with the baron two weeks ago, you have repeatedly asked your friends about hallucinations, ghosts, succubi, and local legends related to demons when you participated in local social activities. May I ask if you have encountered anything?"

Then Cat understood that the church suspected that he had encountered something related to the extraordinary, but thought that it was probably not a big deal, so only two people were sent to investigate.

For such a simple job, the "Blackstone Security Company" where Iluna works will not do it. Iluna and her team only accept tasks that confirm clues, and the two ring warlocks in front of them are obviously responsible for peripheral work.

The young Cumming did not answer directly, but frowned and asked:

"Who reported me? Howard or Newman?"

No one reported it, and such a small matter generally would not be specially inquired.

Of course, the "police" did not answer this question, but continued to ask:

"What happened to you? You have the right not to answer, but we will ask your parents later. Mr. James Cumming, please answer our questions seriously. You are from Willendel City. You should have seen those who refused to be questioned by the police commissioned by the church in big cities, and how they will be treated later."

The young man said anxiously:

"It's nothing, but I have been having strange dreams recently, and some beautiful women appear in my dreams. This situation only appeared after I arrived here, so I suspect that I was entangled by the "forest monster" in the local legend."

But the "visual demon" did not see any demonic power, and he looked very mentally well.

The two "police" asked more questions in a roundabout way, and then warned him seriously that the Orthodox Church strictly prohibited the circulation of any books that recorded the so-called "mysterious rituals" and "magic spells", and using the knowledge in those books was a felony.

They used the ring magician's method to quietly check the house and Little Cumming himself, and even went around James Cumming's room to make sure there were no special elements before getting up and leaving. According to the rules that Shade heard from Iluna, Little Cumming is expected to stay on the "alert" list for half a year. If nothing happens during this period, the church will completely ignore him.

Of course, the silver cat did not leave with the "policemen". It followed Little Cumming when he went to the door to see him off, and then watched James Cumming's slightly nervous expression disappear after seeing him off the police. He turned around and walked back to the house. He adjusted his mood and told the servants not to follow him. He went upstairs alone to the bedroom.

The cat continued to follow.

Because of the existence of the illusion, the young man did not realize that a cat followed him into the bedroom. He walked nervously to the window of his room and looked out. After pulling the curtains, he came to the desk and took out a book from the locked drawer.

The cat jumped onto the table and stretched its head to look at the old book. The title was written in Kasenrik: "Open the Forest Gate: Our Animal Companions". The cover showed a wooden door standing in a clearing in the woods. The gate was closed, but elks, ponies, lions, tigers and other animals stretched their heads out from the side of the door frame.

This is just an ordinary book that looks like it is used to popularize wildlife.

Little Cumming pulled out a chair and sat down. After taking a deep breath, he took out a pencil from the pen holder and wrote directly on the upper left corner of the cover:

"Erica, are you there? The police are looking for me! I thought you were a ghost or a devil some time ago, so I asked my friends for help, but they actually reported me to the church!"

The cat stared at the pencil marks gradually disappearing, but after waiting for a full ten minutes, new marks appeared out of thin air:

"James, don't worry, the police are just doing a routine check. We all know that the church has strict management of such things. Now calm down first. They won't find out our secret, and no one can stop us from being together."

The young men and women in love were talking to each other. Shade tried to see if the ring magicians had set up a ritual or detection spell before leaving, so he returned to human form and stood directly behind Little Cumming, bending over and watching them communicate.

Every time James Cumming wrote a sentence on the cover of a book, if it disappeared immediately, it meant that the text was sent to "Erica". If it did not disappear, Cumming would carefully erase it with an eraser and rewrite it, and the probability of the sentence disappearing was about one in two.

From the conversation, Shad learned that "Erica" ​​actually knew about the engagement between Cumming and Jane Bennet. The reason why the girl "Erica" ​​didn't care about it was because she lived in 1802, 52 years ago. She was also engaged, but she was deeply in love with this man who did not belong to her era.

The two of them were obviously very familiar with talking to each other on the book cover, and they were obviously in a passionate relationship, so the ordinary Cumming was concentrating on talking to his lover, and he didn't notice that Shad's hand directly touched the book.

"There is no soul hidden in the book."

Shad watched the handwriting disappear, carefully felt the ups and downs of the spirit and the traces of the elements when the handwriting disappeared, and then had to admit a fact:

"This is also a tree hole. The era of 1802 when he communicated with him, the girl Erica's hand is probably also the book "Opening the Forest Door: Our Animal Companions" from that era. How many tree holes are there in this place?"

Today is Wednesday, and he has come across three twisted tree holes in the week since he came to the local area.

The man and woman in love talk quite disgustingly, but in order to get enough information, Shad had to force himself to read on, and thought that the two people's skills in love talk were not as good as his. Of course, they were not satisfied with just text communication. Little Cumming even wrote first:

"I can't wait to see you again."

And Erica replied:

"Wait a little longer, my James. There is no fixed time for the channel to open, but I believe that as long as our feelings are strong enough, we will meet again soon!"

Little Cumming continued to write:

"Erica, I miss your face, your lips, your body, and everything about you. I was really crazy to think of you as a ghost and a demon at the beginning. No, you are my demon, and I am willing to give you everything I have."

"James, I am also willing to give you everything. Time cannot hinder us. My love for you will last until the end of time. The next time we meet, I will give you a gift."

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