Chapter 1532: The Meaning of Whispers

Still feeling dizzy, Xia De stared blankly at the strange spiritual light. He wasn't surprised by the spiritual rune itself, but vaguely understood something:

"Whisper-End... Whisper elements only appear on relics or related powers. But now I haven't contacted any relics other than the black time key, and that key is not the source of this spiritual rune. The spiritual rune comes from the world of this space-time. Whisper... Whisper... Do relics and Whisper elements really represent the 'Darkness of the World' that Doctor Shi Nai De told me about (Chapter 14)?"

He breathed in the choking air and remembered another description the doctor initially had for "Whisper elements" — "Whispers are almost natural phenomena, echoing throughout the material world."

"What Whispers represent, could it be... the lingering sound of the world about to perish? So, relics are actually the world's... but this is not right either. The appearance of relics started from the Second Era. And shouldn't there be more relics in the Sixth Era, which is closer to the final demise?"

The more Xia De thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, and the spirit in his soul also became restless with his thinking. Finally, Xia De "puffed," covered his chest, and spat out a mouthful of blood. Then he wiped his face, and his nose, ears, and eyes were actually bleeding.

Even though he hadn't gone through any battles, he had already fallen into a state of serious injury. Knowing that he couldn't continue thinking, Xia De hurriedly stopped thinking and suspected that this perished world was inducing him to head toward the end as well.

At this time, feeling that his body had recovered a little, he had time to look around. Of course, doing so was also to distract his attention and keep himself from thinking about those strange things.

The windows in the living room were sealed with wooden boards, making it so dim that there was almost no light. The furniture in the living room was surprisingly sparse; not to mention Xia De's knight sword, shield, and honorary degree certificates, there wasn't even a coat rack by the door or a cabinet by the wall.

The few remaining pieces of furniture were covered with white cloth and placed on the dirty floor covered with white ash and mold. The only thing not covered with white cloth was the sofa in front of the fireplace.

Xia De was very familiar with the style of that fabric sofa; it was the one in the living room when Schluch Lake passed away. And in the time when the Outlander arrived, this old sofa had been replaced by Lei Qianya and was now in the basement:

"Sure enough, there is no me in the Past Era · Sixth Era."

Xia De thought to himself. In fact, he had guessed this point when he saw that the side room that originally belonged to him didn't even have a bed and was used as a storage room for sundries last time (Chapter 1154).

In the Sixth Era where the Outlander did not arrive, Schluch Lake didn't even meet the blind and foolish original owner...

"Hmm?"

He tilted his head slightly; this seemed a bit wrong. The Outlander's awakening should be the day Detective Schluch died, and the history before that was not affected by the Outlander's arrival. Therefore, even in the Past Era · Sixth Era without the Outlander, that side room should have had an owner.

"Although I cannot explain this situation, the change must have happened in the spring of 1853, which is half a year before I woke up. What exactly happened at that point in time?"

He muttered softly, waited for a while without waiting for "She's" voice, and then continued to look around.

"Although I know this is not my home, such a dirty floor, walls with peeling paint, choking, moldy, humid air... it's really uncomfortable."

Because the time he could stay was not limited, Xia De didn't have to race against time like when he used the time key before. He looked around, then walked to the sofa, sat down slowly, and let out a long breath:

"First of all, the specific time point now is..."

The miracle 【Contact Father of the Infinite Tree】 was used, but the answer obtained was very surprising:

【Now is not any point in time, and time is also broken.】

Although there was no specific time for the location of previous time key missions, at least there would be reminders like "spring, summer, autumn, and winter" when using the key. This time, it only said "Last Era" at the beginning, and Xia De could guess some things:

"Is this the end of the world? Everything does not exist, and time and space are completely chaotic."

And chaotic time also meant that Xia De probably really couldn't meet that long-haired Luvia.

"Is there anything moving nearby?"

Xia De asked in his heart.

【No.】

"That's good, let's start exploring."

If he could, Xia De actually wanted to use 【Moon Dream】 on this sofa to sleep for 4 hours to recover his spirit. But this world was still showing him the horror and malice of the end of the world without reservation, so even if there was no time limit and he could rest a little, Xia De felt that he had better not stay in this place for too long.

Last time in the dream of the Year-End Festival, because he met the silver-eyed Little Mia on the second floor, then chased the cat in the dream all the way to the third floor, entered the attic, and climbed onto the roof, Xia De didn't actually explore the house carefully.

Since there was an opportunity this time, he walked down the stairs, intending to confirm all the situations in this house starting from the basement. Of course, he didn't forget to guard against the appearance of a "powerful enemy."

Very interestingly, just like the stairs connecting the second floor to the third floor were filled with several doors connected by some unknown sticky curse, in this home of the end, the brick wall that originally blocked the first floor was also opened.

However, it was clear that the user of the house in the 【Past Era · Sixth Era】 did not treat this place as their home, because there wasn't even a piece of furniture on the first floor. The windows were also sealed with wooden boards, the ground was piled with white ash, and under the ash was a damp floor corroded by mold.

And entering the basement, the sundries Xia De piled here in his real home, as well as his potion workshop and alchemy workshop, were also gone. There were only things left by the previous or previous-previous owner that already existed when Xia De opened the basement.

But Xia De didn't care about this. He lit up the moonlight with his fingertips, came to the wall in the deepest part of the basement, and the ring behind him slowly emerged.

Regardless of whether the Outlander arrived or not, the hidden wall in the basement always existed. After all, when he first entered the space behind the hidden wall, the things inside already indicated that at least hundreds of years ago, the predecessors of the 【Light-Guiding Cult】 had found this place.

So the 【Space-Time】 spiritual rune bloomed with spiritual light, and the light shone on the wall. The wall disappeared just as Xia De expected.

A smile appeared on his face, and he stepped forward to go deep into the black passage in front of him, but he didn't expect to hit a completely invisible transparent wall.

"Oh, my nose!"

【Outlander, a hint from the Father of the Infinite Tree.】

【You cannot leave the Saint Teresa Square area.】

"I know, but does the space behind this wall not belong to Saint Teresa Square?"

Xia De complained in a low voice while covering his red-swollen nose, and only received "She's" light laughter.

Since the "Space Maze" still existed, Xia De naturally missed the other doors in the house. Among them, the 【Dark Dungeon】 in the basement required "Omnipresent · Darkness" to open, and the 【Keeper's Hall】 on the second floor required "Aikenola-Chosen Arrow" to appear.

Therefore, the only things Xia De could investigate were the 【Geocentric Furnace】 in the basement and the 【Soul Cemetery】 on the third floor.

To his great surprise, these two special spaces actually existed. The 【Soul Cemetery】 appeared because of the "edge of life and death" that originally existed in the house, so its location was still in the third-floor corridor. And the 【Geocentric Furnace】, which still existed in the form of a trapdoor, although it was still in the basement, its position changed from the side of the stairs to the center of the basement.

Of course, Xia De couldn't enter these two places either, and could only watch the doors appear in front of him.

"In the Past Era · Sixth Era, there were also people who put many doors in No. 6 Saint Teresa Square, just like I did."

Except for those doors, there were no other clues worth noting in this house. Except for Room 1 on the second floor where Detective Schluch lived, other areas didn't even have furniture, and this place was still in the "haunted house" state before it was repaired.

Xia De opened every room and remembered the various things he had experienced in different rooms, which made him even more unable to accept that the ending of No. 6 Saint Teresa Square was like this.

He originally thought that he might be able to find old newspapers and other sundries, at least to understand the news he hadn't experienced. But there was really nothing here, and he himself became in a worse and worse mental state because he stayed at this point in time for too long.

"Only the roof is left."

With the last hope, Xia De climbed into the attic. However, after looking up at the small door leading to the roof, he didn't move immediately, but came to the decorative wall of the attic and used the spell "Fossil to Mud" to reach his hand into the wall.

Soon, his hand grabbed a small cardboard box and pulled it out. There were not many things in the box; they were travel postcards and old photos from all over the Old Continent, and there were only landscapes in the photos, no people.

"Sure enough, this also exists."

This was what the workers found in the wall when Xia De renovated the house after Detective Schluch died (Chapter 463). Xia De speculated at the time that this was a souvenir left by "Grey-Headed Eagle" when he was performing missions all over the Old Continent. Since these photos also existed at this point in time, Xia De could be completely sure that at least the history that Detective Schluch once owned this house still existed.

"So, the difference between here and the point in time where I am should only have appeared in the spring of 1853."

He put the box on the floor, and then finally opened the small door on the roof and jumped onto the roof. ===== CHAPTER 1533 =====