Whispering Verse

After seeing the ID of MI6, the old man inside the door immediately showed a horrified expression. Shade pushed him hard, causing the old man to stumble back a step, and he walked through the door.

He closed the door behind him with a bang and raised his right hand to press his hat. Shade stood in the shadow of the foyer. He was much taller than the old man, and now he showed an oppressive temperament. :

"If there's no problem, don't bother me in the attic. I'll take my things and leave."

"you you"

The old man held his crutches with both hands and leaned against the wall crookedly. He didn't expect that the young man would barge in like this.

"Any more questions?"

"No, no, no, but you can take his things, but I won't refund the rent!"

He said in a loud voice, with a frightened but persistent look.

"Rent? Do you think I care about this?"

Shade smiled deliberately, then ignored the old man behind him and walked up the creaking stairs.

He is very satisfied with his acting skills.

Flamel complained in his diary about the landlord of this house, who was a typical bully. When Le Maire first came to rent a house, the old man tried to kill him, but after the crew member revealed his worse and worse character, the landlord immediately offered a relatively fair price.

An old man who can be a landlord in such a relatively chaotic dockside neighborhood, leaning on the wall behind him and panting, is not a good person. According to Le Maire's guess, the other party seemed to be using the basement workshop to smuggle contraband from the New World to produce some shady drugs.

It was really puzzling to do such a thing at such an old age, but Shade didn't want to investigate further for the time being.

Judging from the diary, Le Maire, who successfully took office two years ago, has just entered the second ring this spring. He did not record the security measures he had set up for the attic in his diary, but the other party was not a church magician, nor could he be an academy magician, so there should not be many methods available.

The attic door was locked, and three large locks sealed the door together.

It just so happened that I got a new spell [Key to the Door] from my past adventure last night. This spell can open anything with the concept of a "lock". The actual effect depends on the power of the lock itself and Shade's own strength. Depends on strength.

After hesitating for a moment, he stretched out his hand and knocked on the top black iron lock. With the power of the spell, the lock popped open with a snap.

"Oh? Does that work?"

Shade looked at his fingers, and then hit the brass lock in the middle with great anticipation, and the lock opened automatically.

"With this ability, if I am the kind of person who doesn't take the right path, I'm afraid Tobesk will have another clever thief."

Shade sighed in his heart, chatted with the smiling woman, and finally tapped the lock on the bottom latch inserted into the floor, but this time he encountered some obstacles. He clearly felt that there was some force hindering the use of the spell. Fortunately, the obstacle was not strong. After a slight touch, the last lock was opened.

I picked up the rusty iron lock and inspected it, and found that there were imperceptible scratches on the inside of the lock head. Strictly speaking, this lock is not an alchemy item. It is just treated with runes, so that when the lock is violently opened, the lock head will produce an explosion effect that can break a person's hand.

It may work for ordinary people, but for ring warlocks, as long as you pay a little attention, you won't be fooled.

After opening the door and waiting for no unusual noises inside, Shade walked into the attic.

The entire attic is transparent inside and is considered a large room, as big as the master bedrooms of two Sparrow detectives. The interior is dark, with common furniture such as wardrobes, bookshelves, tables, and beds. There are some magazines printed in black and white on the table, and there is a pile of tax forms on the coffee table. It looked like a boring single man's room, with no suspicious items visible on the surface.

First use [Past Echoes] to listen to the sounds within 48 hours. After confirming that no one has been here recently, look around:

"Can you feel the traces of the relics?"

Turning on the gas lamp, Shade stood by the window, slightly opening the gap in the curtains with his fingers, looking out cautiously, and asked.

[There is a strong whispering element, look to the left. 】

On the left is the wardrobe, with some cardboard boxes on top. The main element was inside the closet, so Shade put on gloves before reaching out to open the closet door.

As soon as his hand grasped the handle of the wardrobe, a dark wind that seemed to penetrate deep into his bones immediately blew in the room with the doors and windows closed. Then there were footsteps behind him. Shade turned around and saw a rotting corpse rushing toward him. The terrifying look shocked Shade even though he was prepared.

"Thief!"

In the corroded open mouth, the bright red gums are clearly visible.

[Hallucination. 】

"I know."

He released the door handle with his palm, and the sinister wind and the bodies rushing towards him disappeared. Holding the door handle, the corpse and Yin Feng appeared again.

So Shade bent down to study it, and sure enough he saw the carefully carved runes on the door handle:

"This person is really good at runes, but after all, he has just been promoted to the second level, and his foundation is not solid."

Thinking in his mind, a ray of moonlight flew out of his hand, splitting the closet door handle into two pieces, and then he opened the closet door.

A musty smell came from inside. In the small wardrobe, there were a few men's clothes, two cool women's clothes and a white garter hanging on the left side. I don't know if they were left by technical workers or Flamel has some special quirks, but they are just ordinary clothes.

There was something covered with red cloth on the right side. Shade reached out to lift the red cloth, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, he frowned and took a step back.

Judging from the shape, the shape of this thing was very similar to the cloth-covered mermaid statue he had seen before.

"I knew there was going to be trouble."

Shade still doesn't know the specific method of spreading this strange mortal curse, but not contacting the source of the curse is definitely the best way to resist the curse.

So regardless of whether there were other valuable items in the closet, I found a poker from the side and closed the closet door very carefully. Looking at the cabinet door, I waited for half a minute and saw nothing unusual, so I felt a little relieved. Even if there were tens of thousands of pounds in cash in the closet, Shade would never open the door again.

After that, the search continued, but unfortunately, the only [relic] in the closet was found in the attic. In addition to the relics, after carefully searching the room, Shade also found 23 gold pounds and 7 crowns in cash. The crown is the currency of Kasenrik. Sailors who are active at sea and in the New World all year round do need to hold foreign currencies.

The coins were just a small harvest. The most important harvest was actually an old book "The Windy Abyss" related to the "Wind" Spirit Rune, as well as Flamel's notes and letters from the Ring Warlock.

Any ring warlock must be related to an organization. The harsh employment conditions and complex power system determine that there is no single ring warlock. Judging from those letters, Flamel became a ring warlock when he met a traveler who took a boat to the New World when his talent was awakened two years ago, and thus embarked on the path of a ring warlock.

The name of the organization they belong to is "Sea Breeze Club". Shade has never heard of this name. Judging from the knowledge recorded in Flamel's notebook and his usual exchanges with friends, these should be the kind of ring warlocks. The small club formed together may be slightly stronger than Dr. Schneider's five-person group.

In addition to his own experience, the information left by Flamel also described what happened after he realized that he was cursed.

The curse was discovered three months after receiving the statue from the warehouse dispatcher. The strange dream led him to think of the mermaid statue, and after understanding that it was the source of the curse, the slow Flamel finally realized that it was a relic.

He wrote to the club asking for help. After describing what happened to him, the club immediately cut off all contact with him. Later, like the dispatcher who had been shot dead by Shade, Flamel also knew that based on what he had done, if he went to the church for help, he would definitely die, so he hoped to rely on his own research to discover how to lift the curse. Methods.

Although he died in the end because of the curse, strictly speaking, this low-level warlock who was abandoned by the organization did discover something.