Chapter 1284: Gardener

Xia De thought thoughtfully:

"Be prepared, right? No problem."

"Of course, it's not just you who has a harvest. I also have a harvest."

The doctor said with a smile:

"I have also processed the gardener's corpse corrupted by the demon you brought. While there is time, how about we go into the dead man's memory and take a look together? Maybe there will be a harvest. Of course, this won't take too much time. After watching the memory, we can go to lunch together and talk about the preparations made to counter 'Goethe'."

Entering the memory of a corpse corrupted by a demon was not difficult. The doctor brought a copper water basin and placed the water basin on the bonfire in the fireplace, waiting for the water to boil. Then, he took out two glass bottles each containing a pure black eyeball, and handed one of them to Xia De. The two dripped their blood into the bottles respectively.

The eyeballs in the bottles began to rotate immediately. After the color of the bloodstains faded, they poured the eyeballs and the slippery liquid in the bottles into the boiling water basin together. Immediately, blue-gray smoke with a faint odor diffused, and soon enveloped the entire room.

The two found places in the room to lie down respectively. The doctor lay on the imposing leather chair behind the desk, while Xia De lay on the sofa. Seeing Xia De lie down, Little Mia jumped onto his chest, and then looked down at Xia De who slowly closed his eyes and entered the dream.

Xia De and Dr. Schneider had entered more than one dream together, so he was very experienced in this. It was just that this time, after he realized he was dreaming, he immediately felt that the scene around him was a bit wrong.

In the dream, he perceived a feeling of cold, and above his head was the pitch-black sky.

Looking around, this was undoubtedly Osenfurt Manor in Randall Valley, and the more precise location was outside the manor's fence gate. It was night, but there seemed to be white shadows dancing at the edge of the field of vision in the night. Looking inside from the fence gate, the semi-desolate manor revealed eeriness everywhere in the silent night. And looking up at the sky, in the middle of the three moons, the red moon and the yellow moon each had a massive eye that kept blinking, as if looking for something, and the silver moon had even turned into a strange human face with closed eyes.

The stars were dim, and the few stars in the sky connected into a complete sentence in Karsinik:

"You are about to die, I am watching you!"

Xia De suspected he had entered some horror story.

"The alienation is truly severe."

At this time, the doctor's voice came, and Xia De noticed that the doctor was by his side. Xia De's clothing was still the original set, while the doctor had changed into an outfit more like an outgoing detective.

"I am good at the power of dreams and can change my outfit at any time in the dream. Isn't that a very normal thing?"

The doctor said, and then introduced the situation around:

"The original scene in the dream certainly wasn't like this, but because of the torture suffered by the soul and body, the memory also changed, forming the scene we see now... truly a pitiful guy, he must have suffered quite a bit before and after his death."

"I didn't see the gardener's soul."

"Probably still imprisoned in the manor you mentioned. Since the body was made into a demonic corpse ghost, there is no reason to consume the painful soul directly."

The doctor pushed the fence gate in front of him. With a slight creak~ sound, the gate was pushed open directly:

"Let's go, let's see this last memory before death."

Even the most brilliant horror writer probably couldn't depict the scene of the manor courtyard at this moment. Bloodstains of unknown origin flowed on the cobblestone path, the laughter and whispering of a crazy woman constantly came from the surrounding bushes, cold night wind mixed with the smell of corpses diffused around, and in that big house, the windows with lights kept flickering, and human figures stood behind the curtains, as if looking at the people in the courtyard.

But the doctor told Xia De not to worry. Just as he said, they indeed didn't encounter danger. The owner of the memory, that unlucky gardener, lived in a small hut in the corner of the garden behind the courtyard.

Compared to the severely alienated courtyard scene, the gardener's small wooden hut seemed much more normal. He didn't go to sleep on this night, but huddled on the wooden table by the rice-grain-sized dim light of the oil lamp, looking at a... pirated printed book with more pictures than text.

This was not the gardener's dream, just the gardener's memory, so even if Xia De and the doctor broke into his house, he had no reaction.

Before Xia De could exchange opinions with the doctor about that book, the gardener felt a bit sleepy and put the book down. He stood up and looked at the window, then picked up his coat and walked into the garden.

Xia De originally thought he had something to do, but unexpectedly he just found a corner and whistled to water the flowers in a very uncivilized way. Suddenly the ground shook, as if an earthquake happened in the memory, and the gardener also looked up at the position of the front yard:

"Mr. Osenfurt is back?"

"It's not an earthquake, it's the sound of horse hooves. But in the memory, it was twisted into an earthquake by intense pain."

The doctor explained to Xia De.

The gardener was curious about the master's return at night, so he actually walked carefully to the front yard in this strange night, hid in the bushes, and secretly looked at the conversation happening.

At this time, all the light around became dim, and the moonlight gathered on Osenfurt standing by the horse in the courtyard like a spotlight on the stage. This time, without the doctor's explanation, Xia De also knew that this was just a distortion of memory.

To be precise, there were not one Stone Osenfurt standing by the black horse, but two. Among them, one was the person Xia De knew, and the other, although wearing the same clothing as the former, had slightly darker skin, and the eyes were pure black, with no white of the eye at all.

"Demon body? Appearing in Osenfurt's image."

Xia De asked the doctor, and the other party had also appeared in the description of old curator Mr. Fernandez.

"It should be."

The doctor nodded very cautiously.

"You did very well."

The abnormal Osenfurt said to the normal one. The normal Osenfurt covered his forehead, looking exhausted:

"I will do what we agreed upon; you don't have to come to see me often."

"You are not a person who keeps promises; I have to urge you to complete our contract at all times."

The abnormal Osenfurt said.

"How dare I violate the contract with you? You are a demon after all."

Stone Osenfurt said exhaustedly, and the gardener who was peeking at this scene let out a terrified cry after hearing the word "demon."

So, the two Osenfurts looked at his position together.

The scene was completely frozen, as if the world was covered with a layer of gray, and it seemed as if someone had stilled time.

The doctor and Xia De were not stilled. The blue-eyed psychologist sighed softly:

"Originally there should be another segment, which is what happened after he was discovered. But the torture he suffered was too great, and he subconsciously forgot what happened next. Fortunately, the remaining memory is enough for us to judge that the demon's body, or something close to the body, is the same as Stone Osenfurt. The Stone Mirror Demon likes to appear in the image of its contractor, which also counts as evidence of its identity. Next, your investigation focus is how to lure the other party out and let the other party appear in front of you voluntarily."

Xia De nodded, but unexpectedly a third voice appeared in this stilled world:

"I didn't expect to encounter such an interesting thing."

"Hmm?"

Xia De and the doctor looked at the center of the courtyard together. The Osenfurt with slightly darker skin was looking at them.

"Doctor, this..."

"There is a small amount of demonic power attached to the gardener's corpse; don't worry, I can solve it."

"Will it be discovered by the demon's body?"

"If someone else takes action, yes; if I take action, no. This is a dream I built."

During the conversation, the demon had walked toward the two, as if it hadn't heard their conversation at all:

"Then, you two, do you want to play a game with me? If you win, I can give you an extraordinary gift: longer life, never-extinguishing fire, stones that turn into gold, or, do you want something else?"

The demon looked at the two with a smile. Xia De had never seen this kind of smile on the real Osenfurt's face.

"It is just a slight power of the demon and cannot give us things. Of course, even if we lose, we don't have to pay a price. Detective, play with it and see what its game is."

The doctor said, took a step back and came behind Xia De. Xia De nodded at "Osenfurt":

"Alright, I will play with you. What do you want to play?"

"Very simple, guess the playing cards."

The demon said, and three glowing playing cards appeared in front of it. They were three Luo De cards, respectively Sun 1, Moon 1, and Star 1:

"I will change the positions of the cards, and you guess where Star 1 is."

Saying that, the three cards overlapped and exchanged positions rapidly in the air.

Xia De watched this scene silently. After the three cards separated and floated in the air with their backs facing up, he reached out and uncovered the one on the far left:

"This one is not."

After flipping it open, it was 【Genesis - Darkness】.

Then he flipped open the middle one:

"This one is obviously not either."

After flipping it open, it was 【Genesis - Death】.

Xia De smiled and uncovered the last one:

"This last one is even less."

After flipping it open, it was 【Genesis - Balance】:

"Therefore, the answer I give is, Star 1 is not in these three cards at all."

The demon was stunned, and then laughed loudly.

That laughter was extremely sharp and piercing. In the laughter, the surrounding scene disintegrated like glass. The doctor placed his hand on Xia De's shoulder:

"Detective, the dream should wake up."

Only the demon laughing loudly still stood in place:

"Truly interesting, I am very much looking forward to you being able to meet my true body."

Its entire body turned into black flowing light in the disintegrating dream and rushed toward Xia De's face. ===== CHAPTER 1285 =====