Chapter 143: Hidden Wall

Greeting Priest Ao Gu Si familiarly, the middle-aged priest calmly hid the novel that didn't seem like it should appear in the church under his desk. After checking Xia De's two documents, he told them to wait a moment and went out. But he soon walked back and returned the title deed and property deed kept in the file bag to him.

"Later today, the church will send... a professional housing appraiser to survey the current state of that house and determine if you can open the sealed area."

Of course, when Xia De left the church, Priest Ao Gu Si, who was seeing him off, whispered to Xia De on the stone steps in front of the church that the "professional housing appraiser" was a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi from the Dawn Church.

Because he was concerned about little Mia's dinner at home and the storybook he had gotten from Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha, Xia De didn't chat with Priest Ao Gu Si anymore and went straight home. Because Dawn Square, where the Dawn Church was located, was very close to the center of Tobesk, the sunset had just appeared on the distant horizon when he got home, and in St. Therese Square at the entrance of his house, there was unexpectedly a group of young people enthusiastically feeding pigeons with breadcrumbs.

There were many pigeons in the square in the summer, and sometimes they would stop on the windowsill of the second-floor bedroom of No. 6 Square in the early morning. Little Mia liked to watch the pigeons stopping on the windowsill through the window, so Xia De never opened the window.

After dinner, Xia De originally thought about checking the book he borrowed from Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha immediately. But the "building safety inspector" from the Dawn Church arrived faster than he expected; the inspector arrived in the evening.

That safety inspector was named Mr. Franky, an elderly man who looked the same age as Priest Ao Gu Si, wearing an outdated brown plaid coat. When the two shook hands, the whispering in his ears had already reminded him that this old gentleman was a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi.

The so-called safety inspection was just walking around the areas to be opened. Mr. Franky talked to Xia De about what had happened to the house in the past while walking with him from the first floor to the second floor. He observed the sealed passage on the first floor, stood in front of the locked door on the second floor for a while, and finally discussed what happened when the church cut off the third-floor staircase.

Mr. Franky didn't find anything abnormal about the house, so he signed the safety report smoothly.

Xia De thought he would have to spend his own money to find someone to open the passage and repair the stairs, but he didn't expect Mr. Franky to ask about Xia De's schedule when he left, and he brought a team of workers half an hour later.

While completely breaking the sealed passage on the first floor, the other two areas could not be solved for the time being.

The key to Room 2 on the second floor was originally kept in the church, but because the Saint Prayer Day was approaching, the church was checking the warehouse and did not allow sensitive items to leave during this period, so the key would not be sent until a week later. Old Mr. Franky told Xia De not to unlock it privately.

And the broken third-floor staircase could not be repaired for the time being; the problems on the first and second floors were curses from a hundred years ago, while the third floor was really not open for safety reasons.

This required Xia De to find someone to repair the house himself, and notify the church during the repair, and the church could help connect the stairs for free.

By the time No. 6 St. Therese Square was reopened on the first floor, the wooden boards of the windows were removed and glass was installed, and the rubble was cleaned up, it was already close to eight o'clock in the evening. Xia De, who had been standing on the stairs holding little Mia and watching the construction team work, walked down to say goodbye to Mr. Franky, who had also been here the whole time.

"If you find any problems with the house, remember to come to the Dawn Church to find me. Of course, since you know Ao Gu Si, you can also go to him; he can find me."

Mr. Franky was very enthusiastic:

"Although you might find it strange that the Dawn Church is responsible for this, after all, three years ago, it was the church that sold the house to Mr. Schluch Lake Hamilton. So this matter is very reasonable, no need to doubt, yes, that's it."

Xia De could only nod in response.

After seeing the group off, he finally had the opportunity to enter the first floor of his house to check.

Because the gas pipeline on the first floor was cut off for safety when the passage was sealed three years ago, there were no gas lamps on the first floor. Xia De held the cat, carrying a kerosene lamp with a glass cover in his hand, and walked from the newly cleaned foyer into the large living room on the first floor, seeing that there was nothing inside as expected.

The two windows of the living room had been sealed with wooden boards for a long time, and the passage connected to the foyer was tightly closed, so there wasn't much dust on the ground.

But it wasn't very dark here; the moonlight and the gas street lamp light next to St. Therese Square spilled into the room, and the gas lamp light from the foyer behind also illuminated this place.

"Are you still there?"

Xia De asked in a low voice in his heart while checking the first floor.

【Are you afraid of ghosts?】

"Of course not, I just wanted to ask, since you said my soul is sensitive, did you perceive any problems here?"

【Not for now, but you can walk inside.】

The area of the first floor was twice the area of the house Xia De lived in upstairs; after all, the second floor was divided into two rooms.

But because of some things in the past, only load-bearing walls and floors were left on the first floor now, and the decorative walls and furniture dividing the rooms all needed to be prepared by Xia De himself. It was empty here, but the advantage was that he could see the foyer when he turned back, so it wasn't that scary.

Little Mia's eyes shone in the dark. The timid cat was initially afraid of the strange environment, but after being held by Xia De and walking around twice, it got used to this place. It struggled to jump down from Xia De's arms. Seeing that there was no danger here, Xia De put it on the ground.

The small cat ran around on the floor, making a thumping sound. But soon, little Mia disappeared from Xia De's sight.

After searching for a circle, he found that while opening the passage on the first floor, the door leading to the basement behind the stairs was finally revealed.

Xia De was of course happy about this. He couldn't live in such a big house by himself, and he had long thought about renting out a part of it. If the basement area was large enough, he could completely divide it into compartments and rent it to the poor...

"How could I do this? Am I crazy about gold pounds?"

Xia De slapped himself and bent down to pick up little Mia, who was constantly scratching the wooden door of the basement.

There was no furniture on the first floor, and the walls had been carefully maintained before, so they looked okay, and the traces of time could not be seen. But he didn't know how long this door had stood here; the wooden skin was severely rotten, and even the claws of the small orange cat could leave marks.

When he tried to push the door, he almost pushed the whole door down. But precisely because this door was not secure, the air circulation between the basement and the outside world was good, so there was no need to worry about hypoxia.

When Priest Ao Gu Si talked about this house, he didn't mention that the basement had problems, so after pushing the door open with a creaking sound, Xia De boldly held the cat and walked down the stairs.

The ceiling height of the basement was only about two meters, which was a bit low. Standing on the stairs and holding the oil lamp high, except for the rusted steam pipes piled in the corner, there was only corrupt air here.

"The church is really cautious, really moved away all suspicious things, not even leaving a stone."

The orange cat Mia curled up in Xia De's arms, curiously looking at everything in the dim light. But because the basement floor was not clean, Xia De didn't put it down this time.

Thinking about walking around in the basement to see if there were any rats that had made a home here, he walked down the stairs. But the moment his shoes touched the ground, the whispering in his ears sounded:

【You have touched a "Miracle."】

"Miracle?"

The miracle element was related to God. Xia De's movements stopped, and the oil lamp in his hand was raised higher, trying to see strange traces:

"I knew it wouldn't be peaceful here, but the appearance of the 'Miracle' element is not in my plan at all."

Fortunately, the whispering sound only appeared once. If it was a repeated reminder of the appearance of the element, Xia De would definitely turn around and leave now.

But after walking around the basement with the oil lamp, except for knowing that he had to spend money to install gas lamps here, he found nothing.

He even carefully checked the walls, trying to find wonderful unknown languages, but there was nothing here. If there were, the church couldn't have failed to find it.

"This is interesting. A hundred years ago, two Ninth-Ring Mages died on the first floor, and after that, the owners here kept dying suddenly. It seems it's because of these miracle elements. The elements are harmful to ordinary people..."

Thinking in his heart, the Ring of Fate in his soul turned. First was the miracle 【Echoes of the Past】.

He only heard his own footsteps and Mia's dissatisfied meowing.

"If the sound doesn't work..."

A blood color appeared in his right eye. Even though the oil lamp could only illuminate a small area, in Xia De's field of vision at this moment, extremely faint blood-colored traces were revealed in the dark part.

These traces were probably left a hundred years ago, looking like the shape of footprints, and almost covered the entire basement, from inside the basement all the way to the entrance.

"There are no bloodstains from the entrance to the room, which means the appearance of the bloodstains is something that happened inside the basement."

He thought in his heart.

Taking the basement stairs as the starting point, Xia De followed the direction of the intertwined footprints to find the end, going against the walking order of the person a hundred years ago. The position where he finally stopped was in front of the wall facing the basement stairs.

The footprints stopped in front of the wall, and there were deep bloodstains on the wall and the ground. At the same time, the owner of the footprints that appeared here seemed to have wandered around for a long time, making the blood-stained footprints constantly overlap, and then set off to the exit of the basement.

"Why are there bloodstains at such a high position on the wall? It doesn't look like it was splashed on, it looks like it was smeared on... and, why wander here? What happened here? Even if you are considering things, there is no need to be in the basement... is there space behind the wall? No, the church couldn't have failed to find this trick."

Xia De frowned, holding the cat with one hand, put the kerosene lamp at his feet, and then reached out and pressed it on the wall. At this moment, there was only a cold feeling, and he knocked with his fingers, but couldn't hear the hollow echo.

"Do I have to find a hammer to knock this open?"

Xia De thought, and stared at the wall for a while. Before giving up, he had a new idea:

"Anyway, trying it doesn't cost gold pounds."

Thinking in his heart, he summoned his Ring of Fate. Little Mia was frightened by the bell and the whistle, and stared with amber eyes, looking back on Xia De's shoulder. The orange cat had never seen such a thing.

The Ring of Fate turned slowly, and Xia De controlled the core rune 【Space-Time】. Through the flow of the manipulation spirit, he made the rune glow slightly. The light shone on the wall in front of him.

Afterward, the wall disappeared like a phantom, revealing a long and narrow passage...

Xia De believed that his expression should be the same as the cat looking at the Ring of Fate at this time.

【Hidden wall ahead.】

She said with a smile. ===== CHAPTER 144 =====