Whispering Verse

Chapter 2822 The Devil's Sense of Humor

If the trapdoor was open, Shade might have thought someone had left the manor through here. But since it was locked, he took out the time key to the "Ashes Valley" and inserted it into the keyhole of the hot wooden trapdoor:

"May the World Tree bless me in infinite time."

[Stranger, you opened a "twisted tree hole". ]

[Tips from the Father of Infinite Trees:]

[Use the normal time key to open the door, and it will connect to the following time point: 1546 of the Sixth Era of the Present World. ]

[Note, except for you, any life that uses this channel will be cursed by time. ]

[Note, you can enter the past time for sixty minutes through this abnormal channel, and you must return through this channel after the time is up. ]

[Note, after using the key to open the door here twice, the channel will completely collapse. 】

Every time Shade solved the paradox bug, the time he could use the "Twisted Tree Hole" would increase, but this increase was irregular, and this time it finally reached an hour:

"There are two more chances left."

[Do you want to go to three hundred years ago now? 】

Shade hesitated for a moment, then held the key and opened the door:

"Of course, I am curious about who touched this door just now. I guess I will meet interesting people three hundred years ago."

He disappeared in the white mist and in the fire.

Shade once cast the spell "Time Return" on those antiques from the past, knowing that they came from the night of the fire at Hoy Manor, so he knew that the destination this time was that night.

Speaking of which, he didn't quite understand the ratio of the time on both sides of the "Twisted Tree Hole". It seemed that the time conversion of each tree hole was different, but fortunately, when he appeared three hundred years ago this time, the fire had not been ignited.

Because when Director Kant rebuilt the Hoy Manor, the furnishings and layout of the first floor were almost exactly the same as the Hoy Manor back then, so the place where Shad appeared was still the kitchen storage room, and the trap door looked like it had just been painted, and it was no different from the state in 1854.

The storage room was closed, and the room smelled of various vegetables, and there was no one else here.

Shad used "Echoes of the Past" to try to listen to the sound, and found that it was all the voices of the chefs in the kitchen behind the door, so he gave up the attempt. It was obvious that the door of this storage room was not soundproof.

The exact time now was 8:43 pm. According to local customs, dinner time had long passed, and even the time to prepare breakfast for tomorrow morning had ended, so there was no one in the kitchen except the servants who were responsible for watching the fire and preparing tea for the Hoy family at any time.

Although he knew that a tragedy was about to happen here, Shad did not think about reversing time to save anyone. He also didn't know whether the demon, which was obviously in a better state than three hundred years later, was also here when the fire broke out tonight, so he was very cautious and didn't walk around, but went directly under the trapdoor.

According to Sir Wayne's account, the treasure of the Hoy family was here, so he was not discovered by the Hoy family every time he took action.

And Shade's guess was right. The person who came to this time and space before him was here. And his identity was consistent with Shade's guess, that is, the police chief of Vista City, who is now desperate.

Chief Kant didn't look good. When Shade found him, he was panting against the wall of the treasure room in the secret passage, covering his chest while looking at the boxes here.

Shade had been here before. The ventilation vent of the manor's well was connected to this place. Unexpectedly, this place was also used to store treasures three hundred years ago. It's just that the difference between those simple boxes and the so-called "treasure" is really too big.

He did not hide his footsteps, so Director Kant also realized that someone was coming, but he did not even have the strength to turn around to see who was coming.

It was dark here, and Xia De did not light the torches on the wall or call for moonlight:

"Disappointing, right? You imagine that this place should be like the dragon's lair in the story, with gold and antiques everywhere."

The middle-aged man laughed bitterly a few times:

"Now I almost understand that he can get those riches from here, not because he discovered this place, but because someone allows him to get those things from here every time."

Director Kant turned his head with difficulty and tried to open his eyes wide, trying to see who the person was in the dark, but ordinary people could not do this in a completely dark environment:

"Who are you?"

"Come here from three hundred years later to catch you If you die at this time, it will cause a lot of trouble. "

Shade said, feeling that the other party might misunderstand that he was a member of the church:

"It sounds like you seem to know who moved the treasure from this time. According to our investigation, you should know nothing about it. You know that the person you are working with is a demon, right?"

"Yes. Of course I know."

"So when did you know the function of that door? Judging from the process, it should be Sir Wayne who moved the treasure and then gave you part of it. "

Shade asked, Director Kant laughed self-deprecatingly, then coughed a few times, and answered in a very low voice:

"I discovered it accidentally, about five years ago. Now that I think about it, maybe the devil asked me to discover this, so that I can have no doubt about the so-called 'Hoy family treasure' and I can believe that it has given me Those promises of mine.”

Shade originally wanted to ask him how he activated the tree hole, but after hearing this, he asked first:

"What exactly did the devil promise you? Greater power? All the treasure of the Hoy family?"

"Everything is there. The most important thing is that it told me that after the Hoy family was burned down three hundred years ago, although the distant relatives of the Hoy family left the local area with some of the family's property, most of the treasures they did not have at all. Not found.

I have done a lot for it over the years, and it promised me a way out: once I am discovered by the church, it will send me back three hundred years ago, and let me take those real treasures away from Vesta City, and even leave Card. Senrik restarted his life three hundred years ago. "

Shade shook his head slightly. The devil asked Director Kant to discover this tree hole, probably because he wanted to tie Director Kant more firmly.

Director Kant, who thought he was a member of the church, took the initiative to explain what happened today without Shade asking.

The devil once gave him a box and asked him to open it when he was desperate.

When an unknown "out-of-town policeman" came to the door today, he realized something was wrong. Then when he found that he could not contact his "son", he opened the box and came to the manor with the lantern and dead branches inside.

He used the fire saved in the lantern to ignite the manor in an attempt to destroy all evidence of his cooperation with the devil. Then, following the instructions on the note in the box, he touched the trap door with the dead branch, and then came to three hundred years ago. .

The dead branches had turned into powder, so Shade could only guess what it was but could not confirm it.

Although the devil "kindly" gave his partner a way out, Director Kant's current appearance of dying was obviously not what he expected. This stems from the damage caused by the "time curse", and the content of Director Kant's curse, who is eager to start a normal life from scratch, is also very straightforward——

[The body will always be in a weak state, but it will never die from it. 】

No one can tell whether the devil had predicted this in advance, but Director Kant obviously believed that this was also the devil's plan:

"It just wanted me to die here. It made me think that I really had a way out, but when I came here, I could only sit here and look at these boxes but couldn't move. Maybe it was laughing somewhere, Laughing at me is as greedy as it thinks."

"That demon has been defeated by us. I'm afraid it won't be able to laugh anymore."

Shade corrected, and Director Kant laughed, but it was obviously not a happy smile, but a laugh at himself. As the local police chief, he knows best what will happen to him if he is attacked by the devil:

"You followed me to this era, do you want to take me back immediately?"

"Yes, I have already said that you will cause some trouble if you die here."

After saying that, Shade walked towards him, but the man said:

"Can you wait a little longer? Wait another twenty minutes."

"You won't still want to find those treasures even if it becomes like this, right?"

Shade raised his eyebrows, but the man holding his chest shook his head:

"I checked the information about the fire at Hoy Manor. As the chief of police, I can see much more information than the average person. In twenty minutes, the manor will be completely ignited. The story of the Hoy family will go At the end, my story only begins from that moment.

The cause of the fire three hundred years ago is no longer important. I think I just want to know what the devil promised the Hoy family. I'm pretty sure their wealth comes from that demon. They're demon worshipers like me, and I want to know, I really want to know what they got. "

There was plenty of time this time, and Shade was actually a little curious, so he really waited another twenty minutes. After confirming that the fire was ignited, he used the "Light of Confinement" to control Director Kant to prevent him from escaping, and he went to the ground.

He came back soon. Director Kant, who could not move, looked in the direction of the footsteps in the darkness:

"Do you know the answer?"

This was the only obsession he had left before he lost his freedom and even his life. Even his worry about his son would not exceed his desire for the answer to this question.

Shade spent some time just now because he was worried that the devil was nearby, but he did bring the answer:

"The Hoy family also got a promise from the devil. The promise they got was just as much a way out as you."

"The devil said, can they go to another place to change their appearance and start a new life?"

Shade looked at him pitifully and condescendingly:

"The content of the promise is: Once the Hoy family is discovered by the church in this era and cannot survive, the devil will send them to three hundred years later to replace the man who also lives in the Hoy Manor who took their treasure. family.

That is the devil's promise to let them replace you and live a normal life. If you think about it carefully, this matter is really full of black humor. "

Director Kant lowered his head, and then laughed in a deep voice. He was laughing at himself and everyone involved. After all, no one involved in this story got a good ending.