Chapter 1154: Polluted Earth

"Don't worry about the evil spirits in the manor; I come here to 'clean up' every once in a while. The last time I came was half a month ago; in such a short time, there shouldn't be too many evil spirits born."

The brown lady's short boots stepped over the snow-covered earth. Miss Grande introduced the situation to Xia De while using a key to open the lock that fastened the hinges. After pushing open the fence gate, she walked in first, and Xia De followed closely behind. But just as he stepped into the gate, he frowned slightly.

He felt a familiar chill and malice. This feeling came from the earth beneath his feet itself, and it was very faint. Even for him, it was only because he knew in advance that there was a problem here that he could perceive it.

The familiar chill was very similar to the strange evil spirit that Miss Norma turned into when he handled the "Miss Norma Buried Alive Case" last week. And that malice was undoubtedly the disgusting black mud he encountered in his dream last night.

Of course, the problem with this manor looked more serious than the "Buried Alive Case" in Tobesk, but the malice was far less terrifying than the black mud in the dream.

At this moment, Xia De could almost be certain that the "mad earth" mentioned by the robed man in his dream last night should refer to the situation here.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Xia De stop, Miss Grande, who was walking in front, also stopped and looked at Xia De.

"I probably know what the situation is."

He said, retreating back outside the manor, bending down to push aside the snow layer on one side of the fence gate, and with a swipe of his sharp silver light-trace fingertips, pried out a piece of soil that had been frozen hard:

"Miss Grande, I can solve the problem here. However, I still have some doubts, so I want to meet the undead here and ask some questions."

The young female Ringed Shushi raised her eyebrows:

"If you want to ask the reason why the manor attracts souls to turn into evil spirits, I think you probably can't do it. The evil spirits here are different from ordinary souls; not only are they more powerful, but almost every one of them can perform skills like petrification."

Miss Grande reminded him. She looked like she had tried psychic communication and communicating with souls:

"They are more mad, and their influence on ordinary people is also greater. The first time we discovered there was a problem here was because a few stupid thieves broke in... Even, besides eliminating those evil spirits, ordinary evil spirit purification-type powers are completely ineffective against them."

"I understand, but I have to try it in the end."

He temporarily put away the soil and patted his hands, looking at the desolate winter courtyard:

"Where can I encounter them... I see them."

Xia De looked up at the window on the second floor of the mansion, where several ferocious-looking guys were staring at them from behind the black window.

Although the characteristic of gathering evil spirits made this piece of land dangerous, these special mad evil spirits were not a threat to a seven-ringed Ringed Shushi like Miss Grande.

She took Xia De along the snow-covered courtyard walkway all the way to the front of the manor mansion. And looking at her unlocking the door, Xia De guessed that she might be a member of the Golden Dawn Opera Troupe herself. Of course, he had no intention of prying into other people's secrets, so he didn't say much about this.

The appearance of evil spirits would spontaneously affect the surrounding environment. In the courtyard with the sun, one couldn't feel anything, but entering the interior of the building, the damp and cold atmosphere immediately made this manor, which looked good on the outside, look like a terrifying haunted house.

The two had just stepped into the door when the gate behind them closed with a bang. Without giving them any chance to react, ferocious-looking souls with gray-green light on their bodies pounced on the two from left and right.

"Be careful!"

Miss Grande reminded him, and then discovered that the targets of both evil spirits were actually her. The one on the right even deliberately bypassed Xia De and thought about pouncing on her. The female Ringed Shushi, who was already unhappy because the manor had been "dirtied" again, was even more unhappy at this moment.

Her right thumb rubbed the emerald ring on her index finger, and gray smoke drifted from the ring and "swallowed" the two evil spirits. Amidst the harsh, sharp screams, the two souls shattered completely.

"Follow me, there should be many more upstairs... Really, how did so many dirty things appear again."

Miss Grande said with great displeasure, looking at the dark staircase going up. Xia De knew this displeasure was not directed at him. She quickly took Xia De up the staircase covered with a layer of glowing green moss, going to the second floor in the darkness where the gas lamps inexplicably couldn't be lit.

They had just stepped onto the last step when a tide of souls composed of dozens of evil spirits rushed toward the two, or rather, toward Miss Grande. Her mouth twitched, and she pushed her index fingers forward in a cross shape, and a golden cross flew out to cut the spirits.

Although it was a sunny day outside, the corridor without curtains was as dim as if the sun had already set. The pitch-black spirits swayed and screamed, rushing toward the two even though their spirits were being split. The countless terrifying illusions impacted the spirits of the two Ringed Ringed Shushi, and the woman's screaming that almost pierced the eardrums made Xia De couldn't help but frown:

"Sun."

He whispered softly. The slender "sunlight ray" erupting from his fingertips swept away the "disabled" evil spirits pouncing from the front. This miracle was really suitable for countering evil spirits that were about to collapse themselves.

"The evil spirits born this time are stranger and more powerful than ever before. The problem with this land is becoming increasingly serious."

Miss Grande explained to Xia De, then pointed her finger painted with nail polish forward. Gray light-traces flew from her fingertips, like two gray ribbons, binding the evil spirits that were trying to escape at the very back.

This miracle seemed to be particularly effective against souls, and the evil spirits actually really stopped in place.

【Those gray light-traces are memories; the power of memory has a great influence on spirit bodies.】

"She" whispered to Xia De.

"I can't trap it for too long. If you want to do something, do it as soon as possible."

Miss Grande urged, pulling the gray silk thread, and the evil spirit floated over automatically. So Xia De stepped forward, preparing to extend his hand toward the stiff black undead, but didn't expect the female Ringed Shushi to stop him again:

"Don't touch it; direct contact will cause your limbs to petrify."

But Xia De's "Guide to Death" required direct contact with the spirit body to read memories. He didn't have the ability of Sister Sister Daifulin to communicate with souls just by "looking."

【Don't worry, in the dream last night, you directly touched those black muds and weren't petrified. After devouring a part of the Weeping Angel, your resistance to petrification has also been enhanced.】

"She" continued to whisper in Xia De's ear. "The other me" really played a great role for Ringed Ringed Shushi.

"Miss Grande, I'm not touching it, I'm getting close to it. I will place my hand virtually above the spirit body."

Saying this, he extended his hand with his back to the lady behind him:

"Guide to Death."

The scene before his eyes began to blur, and then scenes that seemed like countless oil paintings cut into pieces and then forcibly pieced together appeared before his eyes. The chaotic scene made Xia De only able to distinguish the content of the soul's memory with great difficulty. After everything before his eyes returned to the dark corridor of the manor mansion, he had an extreme feeling of dizziness, as if he had spun in place 100 times.

"How is it?"

Miss Grande asked when she saw Xia De withdraw his hand.

"54 years old this year, name unknown, cause of death was heart disease. This was before death. The memory after death was completely indistinguishable. I only know that after she was buried, because there were not many regrets, the soul was originally going to leave normally, but it was attracted and captured by this land, and it became what it is now."

The miracle 【Guide to Death】 itself also had the power to reduce the resentment of evil spirits, but this time the soul touched by Xia De had almost no change.

"Do you want to try again? If not, I will disperse it."

Miss Grande asked. Xia De shook his head and hesitated:

"I want to determine how serious the pollution of this land to souls really is."

Taking a deep breath, his right index finger slowly swiped from top to bottom in the air:

"Door of Death!"

Accompanied by the opening of the pitch-black crack, Miss Grande subconsciously took a small step back. Of course, she didn't understand what this crack represented, but her instinct was frantically reminding her that she should retreat immediately at this time.

The evil spirit was still bound by her memory silk thread, so Xia De endured the stinging pain in his palm and tried hard to "push" this undead into death.

However, when the spirit body was extremely close to the crack, it was as if it had bumped into an invisible wall and couldn't move forward at all, which meant it couldn't enter death.

"Although I don't know what you are doing, it seems you failed."

Miss Grande said again, but there was already a bit of wariness in her words. The five-ringed Ringed Shushi hired before her eyes was definitely not as simple as he looked.

"I was just trying to do a small experiment."

Xia De let go and said, and thought of Miss Norma not long ago. It seemed that the problems in the two places were not the same. Miss Norma had left quite smoothly.

"Experiment? Don't tell me you are from the Truth Society."

The female Ringed Shushi joked, and Xia De shook his head:

"I do know them, but I am not one of those madmen. The temporary attempt is over; let's purify this place first... Wait, please continue to bind this soul; I want to see what happens after purification."

"No problem... If you can really purify this place."

Although the spell material for "Power of the Earth · Healing Aura" only required normal soil, it was best to stand on the ground when casting, rather than on the floor of a building. So Miss Grande dragged the soul and returned to the courtyard covered with snow with Xia De.

She had originally thought that Xia De was going to set up a ritual to assist, after all, what he was doing was purifying an entire manor, so the female Ringed Shushi even retreated a little, but didn't expect Xia De to just take out the soil he had just obtained and crush the soil that was frozen hard like a stone with both hands. ===== CHAPTER 1155 =====