Whispering Verse

Chapter 2722 Love Lake

"It's right to do this. If there really is a tree hole there, you might get sucked in if you're not careful."

Shad said so, and the specific location of the incident has been marked on the map.

Whether it's a tree hole that has appeared again or something strange about Miss Linda Bennett, this matter must be investigated. Therefore, after temporarily entrusting Mia to Miss Danister, the owl immediately grabbed the cat and flew out of the window.

"Is it my turn to go out this time?"

The red-haired girl who stayed in the room murmured to herself, and then looked at Miss Jane Alba who hadn't left yet. The latter certainly didn't want to answer such questions. In private, the girls talked a lot about the relationship between the Great Witch of Death, the "Red Moon Witch" of St. Byrons and Shad.

However, Miss Danister only complained softly, not necessarily to find the answer.

The speed of Owl Airlines is quite fast, and it landed in the woods with the cat in less than half an hour. There were no landmark buildings or landscapes near the location where Miss Linda Bennett disappeared, and simple trace identification could not find the footprints of the girl who suddenly disappeared. Therefore, after confirming that neither of them could feel the breath of the tree hole at the first time, they had to conduct a carpet search nearby.

Of course, Shade would not propose to split up in such a place where one person had already disappeared, so the witch followed him. She wanted to turn into a cat and jump on Shade's shoulder, but was firmly rejected by Shade:

"Don't become lazy like Mia."

"I'm not lazy, I just want to..."

The witch's face was slightly red, and she was embarrassed to continue saying that she just wanted to get closer to him.

As Miss Alba said, there were indeed no traces of spatial anomalies nearby, but Shade unexpectedly captured some unusual element traces.

This did not look like a new tree hole, so Shade guessed that the girl was unlucky to encounter other mysterious phenomena in the forest that could not be explained, but this did not seem to explain her behavior of running away from home.

The two carefully observed the surroundings, and soon found a mirror fragment in the bushes a hundred meters away from where Linda Bennett disappeared, with blood on it. After identification by Miss Winslet, the blood on the mirror fragment belonged to two people, both young girls:

"Is this the mirror fragment where Linda Bennett cut herself and the maid?"

Since there is blood, things are much simpler. Shade took out an empty wine bottle and used the "blood brewing" technique to separate two different bloods, and then dripped only one drop of each blood brew into his eyes and used the "blood echo" magic.

The essence of this magic is not to simply observe blood, but to observe the traces left by other blood of the same origin in time and space. Therefore, although ordinary reconnaissance magic does not work, Linda Bennett's bloody figure almost immediately appeared in Shade's eyes in the golden forest in the autumn morning.

"Found it, follow me."

As he said, he took the witch's hand and took her to follow the string of red figures to continue moving forward in the forest. Miss Linda Bennett continued to go deeper into the forest, and she did not disappear near here, which also proved that her inexplicable disappearance was definitely related to extraordinary power, otherwise Miss Alba would not have lost her.

Continuing forward, they had entered a place that neither Shade nor the witch had reached, but Miss Linda Bennett seemed to have a clear goal, because she did not take a detour or repeat the same path.

In this way, the two followed her figure for another thirty minutes before finally walking out of the forest and seeing a lake in the forest. The lake looked heart-shaped.

The water system of Vista Forest is well developed, with the Alenson River running through the city and connecting to Willendel as the main trunk. Many tributaries pass through the forest to other areas of Carsenrick, so the forest is also densely dotted with large and small lakes.

The area of ​​the lake in front of them is not very large, so it is not marked on either the official map or the hermits' map. The small lake is about the size of St. Teresa's Square. The animals in the forest regard it as an important source of water. When Shade and the witch walked out of the forest, they also scared a group of deer drinking water by the stream.

However, they did not have time to apologize to the deer, and they looked up together to see Linda Bennett lying on the surface of the lake, floating slowly as the wind in the forest blew across the lake.

The bloody light in Shade's eyes extended all the way to the lake, and then he saw the girl sink to the bottom of the water and float up. But Linda Bennett did not float up after being drowned. She still looked alive, but she had lost consciousness.

"There are others."

The witch reminded him in a low voice, and Shade saw that there were actually three people floating on the lake. In addition to Linda Bennett, there was a man and a woman. From a distance, they were all well-dressed young people, but Shade did not know them.

The three of them floated on the lake with their eyes closed in a face-up position, but since there were animals drinking water by the lake, it meant that this was definitely not a saltwater lake, and the density of the lake water should not be enough to support humans floating without assistance in a coma.

"Can you feel anything? I can feel that the traces of elements around here are more concentrated than in other areas, but other than that, everything looks normal."

Miss Winslet said softly again. After seeing Shade shaking his head, she reached out and pointed at the stone at her feet, and the stone turned into a puppy that stuck out its tongue and ran happily and approached the lake.

Of course she didn't turn a dead thing into a real living thing, it was just a transfiguration. The puppy entered the lake smoothly, and after trying to swim in a dog-pawing position for a few minutes, under the control of the witch, it approached Linda Bennett, who was closest to the lake shore.

It successfully reached the girl's side, opened its mouth and bit Miss Bennet's sleeve, and then pulled her and swam to the lake shore. Everything seemed to go smoothly. The puppy successfully dragged the girl to the shore, and the cautious two people waited until Miss Bennet was completely out of the water before walking over.

The puppy turned into a stone by the lake again. Miss Winslet worriedly threw the soul-purifying magic to Miss Bennet, and then turned to Shade and said:

"It should be fine."

They raised their hands together, controlled Miss Linda Bennet's body to float, moved her away from the lake shore, and then put her down again. Shade worriedly poured the holy water on her body again, and after making sure she was still fine, he knelt down to check her condition.

There are no traces of the curse on Miss Bennet, and even traces of the elements are almost non-existent. She was indeed not dead, her breathing and heartbeat were still there, but she just couldn't be awakened.

Shade tried many methods, and the great witch of death even tried to briefly separate her soul and body, but her soul was still in a deep sleep.

Although forced questioning techniques such as the "Wall of Sighs" may also be effective on sleeping souls, they will directly pollute the souls of ordinary people. Flora Winslet will not use them on ordinary people unless absolutely necessary. of people.

Seeing that the time was approaching noon, Shade used a small piece of gold to cast the "Traveler's Camp" spell, and used "Fiona's Housekeeping Servant" to summon lunch to share with Miss Winslet.

After lunch, the witch "salvaged" two other strangers according to the method in the morning, and then determined that the strange man and woman were in the same situation as Linda Bennett.

The two of them seemed to be young nobles from Vista City, but their specific identities were unknown. Because there was light rain in the forest again in the afternoon, Shade went to cut down some trees and made a simple wooden house to temporarily house them.

He and Miss Winslet never dared to go into the water directly. In the afternoon, they tried many methods to wake them up, but to no avail.

But at least the time spent together and talking to each other was fun. When it got dark, Shade took the initiative to hunt two rabbits in the forest, while Miss Winslet was responsible for picking wild vegetables, and then they cooked delicious broth and roasted rabbit meat by the campfire.

There was no time to build a bigger wooden house today, so that night the witch blushed and got into the two-person tent with Shade. Fortunately, the two of them behaved and did not cross the line all night.

But when she woke up the next morning, the shy Miss Owl still asked Shade to build a wooden house that could be lived in for a long time while she had time today. She still preferred to rest in bed.

So Shade went to cut wood and make wooden houses and furniture. The witch herself was not idle, and took the initiative to take over today's hunting and gathering weeds. She even asked Shade for a fishing rod and caught fish by the lake.

Neither of them worked far from the lake shore, so even though they were doing different things, they were still able to chat with each other.

Lunch and dinner were still sumptuous that day, and before resting in the evening, Shade also rushed to complete the main body of the wooden house and the two single beds.

Flora Winslet wanted to express her reserve, so she pushed the two beds apart. She slept on the bed against the east wall, while Shade slept on the bed against the west wall:

"Don't come over here in the middle of the night. I trust you."

So the days passed like this. During the day, Shade hunted and did carpentry, while the Witch was responsible for making textiles and decorating the new home they built by themselves. Their relationship was also growing day by day in this hard but not boring life. zoomed in.

The two small beds displayed in the wooden house were separated from the wall at some point. They were first separated by some furniture, and then only the bedside tables remained. On that night worth celebrating when Shade hunted a bear, the two beds were pushed together, but the shy witch still used a curtain to separate them.