Whispering Verse

Chapter 2761 "Detective" Flora

Early on Sunday morning, when Shade handed the umbrella in his hand to Miss Bell and sat down on the third floor of the Accordion Hotel, the gray-black-haired witch immediately came forward and sniffed.

Miss Bell inserted the umbrella into the umbrella tube but hesitated to speak. She wanted to remind her teacher that it was unseemly to do so. As for Miss Danist, who was putting down the book in her hand, she had already adapted to Flora Winslet's childishness in some aspects:

"What about Flora, do you smell anything on Shade?"

The red-haired girl smiled at Shade as she spoke.

"The smell of the forest."

The witch said frankly, then looked at Shade suspiciously:

"Did you take a shower this morning?"

This is a very personal question. Before the dream of the Lake of Love, the witch would not have mentioned it, but now this question is common to her.

"Of course, as long as time is not too tight, I will clean it a little early in the morning."

He actually only does this when the girls are spending the night at home, but considering there seems to be someone at home all the time lately, it wouldn't be wrong to say it's a daily habit.

Flora nodded, looked at Shade carefully with her golden eyes, and did not continue the topic:

"Tonight I will perform at the Golden Music Hall, which is the Harvest Festival performance. According to the order of appearance, I will appear at around 8:30. No matter what your plans are today, don't forget this. You don't want to figure out the time. The secret of the temple?”

"I will never forget this kind of thing. But there is indeed something to do today. My friend has already seen the black fire. He said that it is the power of demonic division, but it is different from the one that was sealed by the church three hundred years ago. Compared with the essence of the demon last night, the condition is not very good, and its strength has definitely not returned to its peak. "

Shade briefly talked about the doctor's conclusion last night, and mentioned that it was the sin he used when sealing "Bronte's" soul that caused the other party to act:

"Miss Bell, after the fire, can you now determine where the bodies of the Hoy family were buried?"

The young witch apprentice nodded immediately:

"Last night, after we traded information about demons with the church on the black market, we also confirmed the situation from many years ago from the church. According to the information provided by the Church of Nature, after the 'Range Hunters' sealed the demons, the subsequent team that arrived locally was responsible. It is a special force under the Church of Nature that deals with demon-related matters that occur in Ximu Town.

They basically believed that the fire at Hoy Manor was related to demons, so they re-excavated the body that had been buried for three months for examination. Although they did not come to many conclusions, the church magicians at that time still exorcised the corpse according to the procedures, then burned the corpse and disposed of the ashes harmlessly. "

Although this may sound a bit too cautious, past lessons show that you can never be too cautious when dealing with matters related to those ancient evil spirits.

Shade had already guessed this outcome when he was talking to the doctor last night:

"Have all the bodies been disposed of? Nothing left?"

"According to the information provided by the church, if the devil hadn't appeared again, these information would have been permanently sealed. In fact, if it weren't for your reputation, I don't think the church would be confirming the [Ice Magic Box] Before seeing the situation inside, I completely believed that the demon was active again.”

Miss Bell said, and Flora suggested:

"Would you like to go outside the city and see those burning trees? Maybe, we can infer some clues from the distribution of those trees."

Shade shook his head:

"Flora, come with me to Hoy Manor first. I haven't picked up the goods from last night's auction yet."

Although the fire last night was sudden, it was actually quickly controlled. Therefore, when Shade came to Hoy Manor again, he could only see the burned window on the west side of the third floor from the outside. It was so dark that it looked like the fire had only affected that one room.

Today is Sunday. As the police chief, Mr. Conde personally expressed his apology again in the manor to the people who came to pick up the bids.

Flora was not familiar with the local police chief, but Mr. Conde was very enthusiastic about her and wished her a smooth performance tonight.

So "Ximu Town and the World Tree" and "Elven Antique Arrow" came to Shade's hands. There was nothing wrong with that arrow, it was the arrow that the elf girl asked Shade to find. According to the police chief, he bought it many years ago, and he couldn't remember exactly where he bought it.

Shade interpreted this as "the origin of this antique is not correct, so I can't say."

"Does he have a time curse on him?"

Flora asked after leaving the manor, and Shade immediately shook his head:

"I observed it last night. Neither the director nor the other members of the Kant family present showed any traces of the time curse. Of course, the beacon acorn did not detect the time traveler."

The two reboarded the carriage that was waiting to take them back to the city center, but soon the owl grabbed the cat and flew out of the window. The two stood on the roadside and watched the carriage carrying the illusion gradually go away:

"Since there is no problem, then take me to see the antiques in the secret room."

Going to the secret room under the house, Shade still chose to go through the ventilation window in the well in the back garden of the manor. He can transform into a red butterfly, and Flora, who is proficient in shape-shifting, can also transform into a small bird.

The boxes were still in the secret room, and it looked like no one had been here since Shade left last night. Flora opened the box and checked it. Although she was not a master of antique appraisal, thanks to her understanding of oil paintings, she still saw something that Shade didn't see:

"It's OK that these antiques are genuine. But the problem is that they are too new."

"What does this mean?"

Shade walked behind her, so Flora pointed to the painting "Girl with a Pipe" in her hand. This was an abstract painting that Shade didn't quite appreciate:

"This painting has been mounted in a frame for protection. You see, this frame is also more than 300 years old. In the lower right corner, there are the initials of the craftsman who handmade the frame and the time of completion. Although the oil painting is protected But the frame is in direct contact with the air.”

She pinched the wooden frame, then moved closer to see if there were any cracks in the wood, and finally checked the metal parts behind the frame:

"Although the shape is from three hundred years ago, it does not have the texture that has been washed away by time. Or to put it simply, the degree of oxidation is not enough. But apart from being too new, the frame does not look like a fake in other aspects. Do you understand what this means?"

If Shade would have to hesitate elsewhere, he doesn't need to here:

"These antiques couldn't have been taken directly from three hundred years ago, right?"

Flora was very cautious, stepping on high heels to check other antiques:

"It can only be said that this is a possibility, but it does not rule out that someone has mastered special maintenance skills, or the owners of these antiques entrusted a magician to maintain this batch of goods."

But now that we have an idea, it is easy to prove that these antiques have gone through three hundred years to reach the present, or that they have skipped three hundred years and arrived now. Shade learned this from Adele The thaumaturgy [Return of Time] is specially used to send away things that do not belong to normal time.

Just to avoid attracting the attention of the owners of these items, Shade did not choose to send a single item back. Instead, he pulled out a nail from behind the frame and flicked it with his finger:

"Time returns."

The nail disappeared in front of the two of them. Shade raised his eyebrows and heard the voice of "her" in his ear:

[The time when the nail returned was the 29th of the first month of 1546. 】

"oh?"

After hearing Shade finish telling the date, Flora, who seemed to be playing the role of "detective" unconsciously, looked up at him in surprise:

"But if I remember correctly, the information provided by the church said that the date of the fire in the Hoy family was also the 29th of the first month of 1546. Although the information did not mention a more specific time, it was at night."

"The specific time of the return of the nails was 8:38 pm on the 29th. Were these properties obtained from the night of the fire at Hoy Manor?"

This is somewhat unexpected, but judging from the local situation, this seems more reasonable:

"So, the fire three hundred years ago was not set by Director Kant in 1854, right? In order to eliminate the Hoy family so that he could occupy these treasures three hundred years later?"

Shade made a guess from this, and even began to imagine what role the devil played in this.

Flora put back the painting:

"But you didn't find a time curse on Chief Kant. Whether this matter is related to the police chief or not, it shows that there is at least a tree hole leading to 1546."

She asked Xiang Shade:

"Three hundred years ago, this is the oldest time we have ever been in contact with. Have you noticed? The time span of the things we deal with locally is longer than each other."

"When is the best time to deal with matters related to the Fifth Era?"

Shade stretched out his hand to stir up the air, and used thaumaturgy to make the stirred dust return to its place. The witch then laughed. She knew what Shade meant. She actually wanted to meet those legendary witch emperors:

"So how to deal with this matter? There are these treasures and the suspicious police chief's family in the city, and there are burning trees outside the city. What do you think? Handle it yourself or report it to the church. As long as we report it, the Kant family will definitely Arrested on suspicion of having ties to the devil."

"Don't tell the church just yet."

This is not a worry that the church cannot handle this matter, but a worry that the church can remedy and deal with it.

The doctor still needs the demon's power. If the church really succeeds in sealing the demon this time, the doctor's third core spirit rune will be lost again.