Whispering Verse

Chapter 2712 The past of the temple

"Professor of nature worship, have you recorded all the runes, ancient texts and murals you discovered at that time?"

Shade asked again, while Miss Danister pretended to record it.

The professor answered:

"Although the construction workers destroyed part of it, of course we recorded a lot. Unfortunately, according to the inspection rules for temple-type buildings, most of those records were taken away and sealed by the local Natural Church at that time. A small amount of information was taken away by the instructor. Back to school."

"Those small pieces of information won't be given to his friends abroad, right?"

Shade asked tentatively, expecting to hear Professor Tiris Manning's name again, but not this time.

"Those materials were left to me after my mentor retired. I made a copy of them after my retirement. The original manuscripts are still in Willendale. I brought my manuscripts back to Ximu Town. They are now in the museum. In the data room, I’ll have someone take you to see them later. You can copy them, but you can’t take them out of here.”

The professor replied, quite proud of this matter, and Shade gave a small compliment:

"This is really amazing. Your sharing spirit is the cornerstone of the development of history. Oh, professor, it is said that when inspecting this kind of ancient temple architecture, some unusual things sometimes happen. Did you encounter it back then?"

Professor Quintu laughed:

"You young scholars always like this kind of story. Well, I admit that I was also very curious about this kind of thing when I was young. But I'm sorry, young people, the inspection process was quite boring, and we were only in the daytime. I only work when I’m here, and I go back to the town to rest at night, so I don’t have the chance to encounter any unusual incidents.”

Miss Danister, who was sitting across the coffee table from Shade, nudged Shade with her foot, which meant that Professor Quinto was lying.

"That's it. Since it is an ancient ruin, a lot of stone tablets and ancient sacrificial objects should have been unearthed, right? Are these things also in the museum now?"

The professor shook his head awkwardly:

“Construction had already started when we arrived. Due to insufficient early protection, the construction workers sold the antiquities they found here, leaving us with not many valuable antiquities.

However, it is said that this also gave them a curse. None of the construction workers who resold antiques lived past the age of 40. A few people who were over 40 years old at the time of construction also passed away soon after the completion of the project, and all of them died of natural causes. "

The red-haired girl rubbed her foot against Shade again, which meant that this sentence was also a lie.

Of course, Shade himself also felt suspicious. If there were no special reasons, it would be impossible for a professor far away in Willendale to care about the time and cause of death of a group of construction workers. After all, according to him, only a few people died naturally and it was not a mass death, so this should not cause much concern.

Shade nodded again and said to the professor according to the previous plan:

"I have an antique here that is said to have been exported from the local area. Please help me take a look."

Professor Quinto was a little surprised, and then saw the red-haired young female assistant taking out a box. The moment the box was opened, the old professor's eyes immediately went blank and he fell into a hypnotic state.

Miss Danister took out the piece of agarwood that was used as a spellcasting material in the box and put it in the incense burner that Shade had transformed from the toy form to ignite it.

After confirming that everything was OK, Xia De asked again:

"Professor, did any unusual events occur when you were inspecting this temple building?"

"Yes."

Professor Quintu replied expressionlessly. Under deep hypnosis, it would be difficult for an elderly man like him to wake up even if his mood swings were severe:

"Actually, this happened before we arrived. Some workers would sleep directly in the construction site at night. Many people mentioned that they had dreamed of many, many people in their dreams, and they even appeared in stories. Elves, dwarves, etc., come to this temple to worship.”

"Did you dream about it too?"

"Yes, the mentor and I have rested here. The dreams of the mentor and the others are normal, but I dreamed about it. I doubt that it was a scene from the past, because the temple in the dream is not just a simple building complex, it is in the center of the temple There is also a huge green tree growing, which is the same trace that remains in the ancient temple ruins.”

"What about other than that?"

"Nothing unusual."

"What about the antiquities unearthed from the ruins?"

Professor Quintu was obviously silent for a moment before speaking:

"Most of them were sold by the workers before we arrived, but we found some underground antique dealers who were in contact with the workers - most of them are active near Willendale. In fact, they are not strangers, but there is something wrong with them. wrong.

After they heard that we were looking for those antiques, they sold those antiques to us at a very low price. Since the price was so low, the professors bought them with their own money, so the ownership of these antiques became ours. "

Shade has already foreseen the direction of the next story:

"And then something went wrong?"

"Yes, within half a year after the expedition, all the professors who took the antiques went crazy. I was just a student on the team, and luckily I didn't get involved. I don't know much about it, but when the church questioned me about the situation afterwards, I heard that their skin surface began to become like wood.

The church strictly forbade me to talk about this to anyone, and the antiques were eventually taken away by the church. Experiencing such a thing in my youth made me very cautious in my subsequent academic career, which is also an important reason why I can live healthily until retirement."

Shad sighed. If this is true, then it seems that the clues here by Professor Quinto have been checked by the church half a century ago.

But there is one thing that the church half a century ago absolutely did not know:

"After experiencing this kind of thing, why did you return to Ximu Town after retirement? And work in this ruins?"

The red-haired girl cast an approving look at Xia De, and Professor Quinto replied:

"I want to find an answer. Over the years, I often come back here in my dreams and wander unconsciously in my dreams. I have seen a psychiatrist, but the doctor just said that I was too impressed by this place to get rid of the past.

I don't believe those nonsense of "look forward instead of looking back". I feel that there is still something here that attracts me. So I came back."

"So did you find anything?"

"No. But it doesn't matter. I have made up my mind to spend the rest of my life in Ximu Town. Even if I don't find anything in the end, it's a good thing to die here."

"So among the antiques excavated that year, have you seen some arrows?"

Xade asked this question at last, but the old professor's impression of the antiques of that year was already very shallow, and they only recovered some of the antiques, not all of them.

Then, under the guidance of Miss Danister, Professor Quinto explained his dream to the two. In the dream, he appeared in a random corner of the renovated Golden Music Hall. Then, an inexplicable attraction made him wander in the building, but he could not find where the attraction was.

Ordinary people's memories of dreams are often not very comprehensive, so Professor Quinto's description is not particularly detailed, so Miss Danister thought of a solution:

"Since he always wanders in dreams, why don't we let him sleepwalk in reality?"

This sounds difficult, but it is nothing more than a sorceress can solve it.

The action went quite smoothly. Professor Quinto stood up from the sofa in a daze, and without paying attention to Shade and the others, he staggered to the door of the reception room.

Shade and Miss Danister followed immediately to ensure that other people in the exhibition hall would not notice the professor's abnormality.

However, the professor did not just wander in the exhibition hall, but quickly came to the concert hall through the small door connecting different areas of the building. For this reason, Shade and Miss Danister had to cast an illusion to hide the three people to prevent being discovered, and Shade did not forget to record the professor's wandering trajectory.

This wandering in the dream continued until 3:30 in the afternoon, and Professor Quinto still did not reach his destination. Seeing that the time was almost up, Shade nodded to Miss Danister, asked her to relieve the professor's sleepwalking state, and then took the professor back to the reception room of the museum.

After simply compiling the professor's memory of the afternoon conversation, the hypnotic state was also lifted. After waking up, Professor Quinto felt a little tired, as if he had walked for an hour or two, but he just thought it was because he had been talking all afternoon.

"It's getting late, we still want to go around the museum, and then go to see the materials and documents you mentioned. Then professor, we'll see you later, thank you very much for your help."

Shade and Miss Danister stood up and said goodbye to the professor, and Professor Quinto also happily sent them to the door of the reception room. However, when both parties said goodbye, Professor Quinto asked again:

"Since you are from Tobesk, do you know Professor Tiris Manning?"

Shad had been waiting for this name to appear, and he nodded without surprise:

"Of course, Professor Manning is an academic leader in Northern History. How come you also know Professor Manning? Professor Manning has also been to Vista City?"

Professor Quinto said happily:

"Of course I know him, but he has not been here. I met Tiris Manning when I went to Tobesk to attend an international conference more than 30 years ago. He is younger than me, but we had a pleasant conversation. I am the kind of scholar who likes to stay in the office and classroom, but Manning has been to many, many places."

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