Whispering Verse

Chapter 2655 The Damaged Clock

Iluna, who was walking in a hurry, was also a little surprised to see Shade here, but the two of them were calm and just passed by. Five minutes later, Shade saw Iluna in the empty corridor where the boxes on the third floor of the opera house were located.

"Good afternoon, I thought you were in Creekwood now."

The 18-year-old brown-haired girl took off her hat and held it in her hand:

"Our team is collecting relics. Since last Monday, there have been many reports of missing persons near the Queen Maria Opera House.

Redwich Field began investigating the matter last Wednesday, but soon a police officer and two police officers who were investigating the matter also disappeared. The police took it very seriously and sent more people to investigate, but they all disappeared.

So the matter was reported to the church, and the church sent the file to the captain at the weekend."

"So your captain found this relic hidden in the opera house?"

Shade pointed downstairs.

"No, our captain is missing too."

Iluna shook her head, but seeing the expressionless face, it was clear that although he was missing, the captain of Blackstone Security Company should be fine:

"After the captain disappeared for a day and a night while investigating alone, we dared not send anyone to this area anymore. Then the church asked the Prophet Association for help and conducted some peripheral investigations before confirming that the relic here was a keeper-level relic [damaged Antarctic Constellation Clock]. Oh, 'Antarctic Star' is a watch brand from the Fifth Era."

Since the word "clock" is in the name of the relic, it is most likely a time-related relic. Iluna's subsequent introduction also proved this point. Even if she faced this relic alone, she would be in danger:

"The body of this relic is a damaged mechanical clock. The pendulum of the clock will not swing, but the hands will rotate normally. In the case of containment failure, the three hands on the dial will stop rotating one by one--

First, the second hand. When the second hand stops, anyone who sees this clock during this period will fall into a state of time stasis. This state is terrible because the consciousness of the contact person is still active and can perceive the surroundings, which will put their spirit into an unspeakable bad state;

Then the minute hand. When the minute hand stops, the bodies of people who fall into the state of time stasis will disappear and enter the so-called "time gap". In this way, even if we regain control of the relic, most ordinary people will get lost in it and cannot come back;

Finally, the hour hand. When the hour hand stops, the time stasis force of the mechanical clock The amount will spread to the surrounding area in a wide range. If it is not stopped in time, the clock may cause the entire area to fall into a state of stillness. The keeper-level danger assessment of this relic is mostly due to the characteristics of the last hour hand stopping. "

"So now it is the minute hand stopping stage, right?"

Shad asked curiously, and Iluna nodded in annoyance:

"This clock has the strange characteristic of making a clicking sound to attract people. Those missing people were attracted here by the sound, opened the door and saw it, and then time stopped and disappeared. Then the investigators came here according to the clues, saw the clock again and disappeared, and finally the captain came here and disappeared after seeing the clock.

We must admit that if we don't know what is here in advance, the characteristics of this relic are indeed difficult to guard against. But when the captain comes back, we will laugh at him severely. "

Although she described it simply, this relic is actually quite terrifying. If it weren't for the sufficient manpower in the Tobesk Parish, I don't know how many people the small hall where the clock is stored would have to "swallow" before it could be detected.

Even because of the relic's "clock hand stops" feature, perhaps people won't know what happened here until the entire area stops in time.

Shade was amazed at the relic, and then continued to ask:

"Since time can only be stopped by looking at the clock, then you just need to send someone to close their eyes to contain it, right? Why is there such a big commotion now?"

Iluna looked unhappy:

"It's not looking, but sensing. As long as you know the existence of the clock and get close to it, the effect will be passively triggered. So our team is not here to contain the relic, we are responsible for arranging the ritual around the room to prevent the third stage of the feature from being triggered and unable to end.

A ring warlock who doesn't know what relic is here will come to contain it later, so we will run field work in this kind of weather."

It's not that she doesn't want to run field work, but she is not happy to wait for others for the whole afternoon.

"Do you need help? I still have the umbilical cord with me. Although I'm not sure how well it can resist this relic, at least it can ensure that you won't be frozen at a glance."

"Not for now. I think it should be no problem to solve this matter. What I'm more curious about now is who put it in the opera house. The manager of the theater said that there have been no clocks purchased here recently. Did the person who rented the performance hall forget to take it away?"

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Although Iluna wanted to continue chatting with Shade about recent events, she still had to work, so she had to say goodbye to Shade in a depressed mood.

However, Shade thought that he would probably be in the opera house this afternoon, so he invited Iluna to have dinner with him and Vanessa if she had time in the evening.

The 18-year-old girl nodded and agreed. Although she loved the work of the church, she was not a complete workaholic.

It was interesting to watch the girls rehearsing on the stage, discussing the script with Hillis, or being taken to the dressing room by Vanessa to watch the actors put on makeup. The 13th-level witch didn't care much about the relic going out of control not far away from the next door. It was just that she joked with Shade when she was chatting and laughing with Shade that afternoon:

"We have only been here for a week and we have encountered such a thing. This is worthy of the city you live in."

"It should be the city where Iluna lives. There are very few cases of unowned relics going out of control around me."

Shade corrected. He was not worried about the things over there. Since Iluna and the others already knew the characteristics and coping methods of the relics, and the church also sent someone to take them in, then this was a standard relic collection mission.

There would be no mistakes in this mission.

But this time Shade's idea was obviously wrong. As he sat in front of the dressing table near dusk, a group of girls surrounded him, smiling as they watched Hillis bend down to help him draw his eyebrows, he was still wondering when Iluna would come.

Vanessa, who was watching this scene with a smile, was about to comment on Shad's appearance at this time, but suddenly turned her head with Shad and looked at the wall:

"The whispering elements are rioting, what's going on?"

Shad, who was quite uncomfortable with his "handsome" appearance at this time, immediately stood up:

"I'll go and see the situation, you don't have to go over. Sirius, next time you should practice with Mia, I think my original eyebrows are very beautiful."

The young blonde girl then smiled and said:

"It's too difficult to make up a cat, I'm afraid I can't do it. Do cats have eyebrows?"

So all the girls looked at the cat lying on the dressing table, and Mia stared at Shad who was about to leave, thinking that he was going home now, so everyone was sure that cats had no eyebrows.

(Luvia is fortune-telling)

In the sealed performance hall on the second floor of the Queen Maria Opera House, as the evening came, the gas lamps in the room also lit up with the gas lamps in other rooms of the opera house.

There were only two people in the auditorium, which was slightly sloping downward. Iluna held up the dark golden scale formed by her life ring in both hands. The light of the scale enveloped her whole body. The light around her came into contact with the air, and the rippling water ripples appeared one after another.

She was standing in the middle of the aisle of the auditorium, and on the stage with the curtain half opened, the three hands of the mechanical clock with a mahogany shell had all stopped.

But what was even more terrifying was that behind the clock, half of the body of a man who looked about 30 years old seemed to grow closely together with the clock.

The left half of his face had been integrated into the textured wooden shell of the clock, and the remaining right half of his face had an abnormally crazy expression. The clock was assimilating him while also transforming the remaining half of his body. Iluna clearly heard the clicking sound of continued operation coming from his chest, and just now she just looked at the other party and almost stopped in place.

Iluna kept her mouth shut and moved forward with difficulty. The golden balance balanced the abnormal flow of time, but her movements were still extremely slow.

The sun gun that she had tried to throw just now was still in the air behind her, and the people who had entered here one step ahead had all disappeared. She complained in her heart that the previous investigation team had not found out the origin of the clock, but the current situation could only be solved by her alone.

Even if she moved slowly, she was getting closer to the stage, and the man on the stage who was merging with the clock finally stretched out his right arm, which seemed to be pierced by a metal pointer under his skin, and pointed at her when Iluna was close enough:

"Stop!"

There was even a metal friction sound that made Iluna dizzy when she spoke, and after that almost roaring cry, Iluna felt that her whole body was frozen.

She could still move, but her speed became slower, and the obstacles she encountered during the process of moving forward were like pushing a house with a solid foundation. She was now very glad that she had experienced Shade's "time pause" and had accumulated experience, otherwise she might have been affected in the moment just now.

Seeing that Iluna was still moving forward, the man madly rotated his right arm counterclockwise and pointed at her again:

"Go back!"