You call this a black hand?

There was nothing unusual in the tower, but a dense crowd of crows gathered in the city hall. Meren was startled when he broke in.

He can deal with a single crow very quickly, but if a group of extremely fast little things charge towards him, he needs to avoid the edge temporarily.

Fortunately, he discovered that these birds had no IQ at all and had an extremely strong desire for meat.

So they used the corpse of the first crow to gradually induce and divide it, but the number of crows quickly decreased, and eventually they were completely eliminated.

Under the bird feathers on the ground, he finally saw a sarcophagus stored in the center of the city hall that had been hidden by the crows.

The sarcophagus is gray and old, and its surface looks quite rough, with unsmoothed edges and protrusions.

After pushing it away, a white jade skeleton with both hands holding a sword came into view.

The skull wears a golden crown, and there is a gold pendant hanging on the chest. It is placed on the hands in front of the body, and is also covered with several beautiful rings that look pure gold.

At first glance, he looks very nouveau riche.

However, after taking a closer look at the slender bones in some parts of the skeleton, Mellen discovered that this person might be a woman.

"In a small town, a queen was placed in a very simple sarcophagus?"

The current situation is like this, which seems very strange.

However, considering that this town is his "original birthplace", it is understandable that there are special features.

However, no matter how you think about it, this seems to have nothing to do with the mother mentioned by the Holy Spirit.

Holding the cold and hard edge of the sarcophagus, he looked inside for a while to carefully observe the delicate-looking white jade skeleton.

Mellen then tried to take off its jewelry and crown, but found that these things broke at the touch and turned into a mist and dissipated without even falling dust.

"It's really strange..."

Gently touching the skeleton's chest and ribs, which were as pure and transparent as jade, it felt quite warm and smooth, making him squint his eyes.

The mere abnormality of the touch was nothing. What surprised Mellen was that with this movement, he faintly felt that the skeleton in the sarcophagus seemed to be shy...

This feeling makes no sense, because no matter how you look at it, this thing is dead.

However, Mellen did not believe that this was his illusion.

After several attempts, he gradually became convinced that the skeleton was "alive".

In other words, in a state of half-death.

"You can't say that it is the mother of the Holy Spirit."

Although this was the purpose of entering this world, Meren didn't think he would find his goal so easily.

And although this skeleton looks very strange, judging from some of the details inside the sarcophagus, it has nothing to do with the Kingdom of Heaven.

Of course, you can't tell it from the outside.

Unfortunately, after pondering for a long time, he still couldn't find a way to communicate with the skeleton, let alone any special clues.

Mellen's attention then shifted to other things around him.

In addition to the sarcophagus, there are several desks in the city hall. Apart from being quite dirty with bird droppings and bird feathers, they look relatively complete.

Pulling out the desk drawer, Mellen was refreshed by some documents inside.

When I took it out and looked at it carefully, I was even more shocked.

These documents themselves are nothing, they are just plans and drawings related to urban construction.

However, the time marked on it made him have to think more.

The New Calendar is from October 4th to November 7th, 1927.

The file is not single, and the time on it also fluctuates, but this format actually corresponds to reality!

Mellen remembers clearly that the day he entered Fort St. Grant was August 1864 in the New Calendar!

"Is this the future?"

He couldn't help but have this idea.

When Melen entered this place through channeling before, he only suspected that he had entered another world, or simply a special small plane.

But this time unit...

There are currently no more clues, and Mellen is not sure of the exact situation.

Looking through the documents, apart from the time, the only thing left is the name of the town - the town of Vernal.

After remembering this unfamiliar name, Mellen went back and forth to check the upstairs and downstairs of the city hall, as well as the inside and outside of other surrounding buildings.

As a result, other than letting him know the town better, there was no other gain that could prove more.

So he was about to leave and check whether this place actually existed.

But before leaving, Melen had a thought. He returned to the sarcophagus and said to the white jade skeleton inside: "I'm going back first, and I'll see you next time."

As he finished speaking, a feeling of reluctance and sadness faintly emerged from the skull, making him even more surprised.

But this did not affect his decision.

After gently patting the skull's forehead, Mellen's mind moved, and the world around him suddenly fell into darkness.

When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to the laboratory of "Base 3".

"The town of Vernal."

Transformed into Egg Wilson, this name flashed in his mind, and the "database" of Fort St. Grant began to search on its own.

In a few breaths, Mellen learned the relevant information from the books in the school library.

[Vernal Town: The Black Reef Islands area in the southeast corner of the Southern California Colony, a seaside territory occupied by Imperial Baron Ryan Vernal in 1850. Due to its convenient location, it was often used as a supply depot by nearby pirates.

And the land for selling stolen goods.]

In addition to this line of information, there are several relatively crude sketch pictures.

After careful comparison, Mellen was able to confirm that the general outline of this place was indeed similar to what he remembered!

"It can't really be the future, right?"

He was a little confused.

Traveling through time sounds very high-end, but entering that world yourself is not only very easy, but the method is also so...

"Maybe a parallel world?"

He thought of "stepping back and trying to do better", but he always felt uneasy.

If it's a parallel world, it's easier to say. If it's a future world, then isn't this future post-apocalyptic?

Apart from the flock of birds, he saw no other life in that town!

This means that the disaster of the Black Sun has not been prevented, and the plans of Holy Spirit Christine and others have failed...

"I need to find a way to get more clues."

Mellen made up his mind.

First of all, we need to determine whether that place is a parallel world or a future world.

The second thing to determine is whether the situation in other places other than the small town is the same as that of the small town.

Only after determining these two aspects can he make an accurate judgment, otherwise it will just be a blind guess.

This needs to be explored by yourself.

But now there is another faster way, which is to completely wake up the white jade skeleton in the sarcophagus and then ask it.

Thinking of this, Meren raised his feet and prepared to go find Madam and the Holy Spirit.

But as his mind turned, he rushed in another direction.