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Chapter 1586

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Xia De had known for a long time that every detail of the witches was the most perfect, and after having a more intimate relationship with Galina, he also verified this point from other aspects. But even the blood was perfect and flawless, which was still beyond his scope of understanding.

"Very beautiful."

He praised softly. The pharmacist miss probably didn't understand what he was praising, thinking he was talking about her wrist, so she resisted the urge to raise the corners of her mouth and placed the test tube in front of the grave with a blank expression. After she stepped back, Xia De stepped forward and put down the diary. In this way, the six items were displayed in a circle in front of the tombstone.

"Blacksmith, I want a key."

The pharmacist miss said:

"The materials are ready, please accept them."

The blacksmith's soul then nodded to her, and the fog drilled out from the ground, covering the six items. After the fog dissipated, the six items had already disappeared:

"Descendant of the lord, the key now belongs to you."

The soul nodded to the pharmacist miss, and then disappeared. Like the soul of the pharmacist miss's great-grandmother buried in the old lighthouse grave, this soul also continued to walk on.

And the sorceress blinked in surprise:

"Where is the key? He hasn't given me the key yet?"

She reached out to touch her pocket, and directed the fireball to fly around this small cemetery to see if the key was lying in the weeds on the ground.

But in the end, they found nothing, so the brown-haired lady could only look at Xia De with a slight apology.

"I understand, I understand."

Xia De sighed, pulled the shovel out of his pocket, and inserted it into the ground again:

"Move aside, let me do it."

So in the thick fog, under the illumination of the surrounding fireballs, he dug up the second grave of the day. The rhythm of the shovel shoveling the soil fully explained that Xia De was not very willing to do this kind of work, while his increasingly neat movements showed that he was gradually mastering the skills of a "grave digger."

The shovel of the shovel hit the metal coffin, and the coffin also rose to the ground, and the surface of the pitch-black metal coffin was also covered with silver patterns like roots, just like the coffin of the lord's wife:

"It seems it's not a coincidence, such a coffin should have a specific meaning."

Xia De said softly, but the pharmacist miss still shook her head. She was also knowing this for the first time. By the time all the details of the coffin were displayed under the fireball, they also found that although the style was similar, the fineness of this coffin and the quality of the metal were far inferior to that of the pharmacist miss's great-grandmother.

The opening method was the same as last time. As Xia De and the pharmacist miss used force together, the coffin lid was opened, revealing the withered bones lying inside and the white bone key tightly held in the bone claws.

The key was not big, and there were short cylindrical small protrusions pointing in different directions on the cylindrical key post. At the same time, a clear red blood line was attached to the surface of the key post. And although the key handle was also bone, obsidian and amethyst were inlaid on the front and back sides respectively. Looking at the light, there were blurred shadows of children in both.

"It really was used to cast the key with those materials, I thought it was just a symbol."

Xia De sighed. The process of taking out the key did not encounter things like the resurrection of the undead. And this key was obviously not an ordinary item; it was an alchemical prop, but it was unknown what it was used for.

Xia De gave the key to the pharmacist miss as agreed, and then buried the coffin back. During this period, the pharmacist miss had no intention of helping at all, standing aside with her head down and playing with the key.

By the time Xia De leveled the land and thought he also had the potential to become a grave keeper, he leaned on the shovel and asked:

"Since there is a key, there must be a door. Last time you also mentioned that your acquisition of refined gold, mithril, and mountain copper was for a similar purpose, then where exactly is that door with many keyholes, or those doors?"

The pharmacist miss shook her head slightly:

"This is related to some deeper secrets, for the time being... I can't tell you."

"I have been so deeply involved in the past events of your family, can you still not trust me completely?"

He asked, putting away the shovel, but didn't make the pharmacist miss more embarrassed. And as the key was taken out, the thick fog around returned to a normal level again:

"I think sooner or later, you will tell me. Since what I want to seek is not your family secret, then it doesn't matter if I know it now or not. It's getting late, take me to see the other grave of the Edwards you know."

He said, and the sorceress nodded, looking at the key in her hand, and then looked up at Xia De's figure with pursed lips:

"If one day, I can really open the door corresponding to this key, I will invite you to go together."

"As long as it's not asking me to dig a grave again, I'd be happy to."

The brown-haired lady understood the slight resentment in Xia De's words. She smiled at Xia De's back, but looking at the fog in the night, she sighed softly again.

Leaving the cemetery, they did not return to the forest path connecting the town and the pier, but walked in the direction of going deeper into the forest. Because of the golden thread blessed by the witch's secret technique, even if the two could only see each other's blurred figures in the fog, they didn't have to worry about getting separated.

By the time it was close to seven in the evening, after passing by the abandoned hunter's cabin in the forest, they stopped by the pond in the forest not far from the hunter's cabin.

The area of the pond was very small, about the same as the area of two of Xia De's beds. The pond was not connected to any ditch, but this was not stagnant water; this was groundwater that welled up.

"This way."

The pharmacist miss led Xia De to circle this small pond clockwise twice, and then counterclockwise three times. After returning to the starting point, she and he covered their eyes with their hands, and then rotated in place ten times.

By the time they took their hands away, that hunter's cabin had actually turned into a small cemetery standing in the fog.

【Not hidden by illusion, a very clever method of folding space, only by specific methods can one see the cemetery. Similar to the miracle-space splitting, space merging used by that Professor Garcia at No. 6 St. Deran Square (Chapter 47).】

"She" in his ear explained softly, and the pharmacist miss signaled Xia De to follow her into the cemetery:

"I know this place, not based on the information left by my father, but found the scattered items of the Edwards family through other channels. Those grave robbers who stole from here might also have similar clues."

The area of the cemetery was very small, surrounded by black iron fences. On both sides of the fence gate at the entrance, there were decorations of elder flowers. However, one could not see graves in the small cemetery, only densely erected stone statues, and the building in the center of the cemetery.

As if seeing Xia De's confusion, the sorceress who pushed open the small gate of the cemetery explained:

"You probably haven't seen this kind of cemetery prepared for only one person. Yes, there is only one grave here, not simply buried in the ground and then a tombstone erected. Look at that small house, that is the ossuary where the coffin is placed."

The courtyard in the hazy fog was covered with weeds, but the weeds were not high. They walked dozens of steps along the barely visible stone path, passed through the stone statues of angels, humans, and various animals erected on both sides of the road, and came to the front of the building.

On the left and right sides of the ossuary were two angel statues covering their faces, but fortunately, they were not the relic 【Weeping Angel】, these were just decorations. The door was not locked. After pushing the door in, they saw that in the narrow space, a stone coffin was placed in the center, the foot of the coffin was facing a small table, and a perpetual candle made by alchemy was lit on the table. Because the area was really narrow, in order not to get within 1 meter of the pharmacist miss, Xia De stood at the door without going deep:

"Stone? This coffin is finally not metal."

The pharmacist miss beside the coffin shook her head:

"No, the outer stone coffin was added by me, the inner side is actually a metal coffin, but I haven't checked it carefully, so I was so surprised to see my great-grandmother's coffin at noon. This is the grave of the eldest daughter of the second generation, Last Edwards, who died young. Originally there were many funerary items here, but they were all stolen by grave robbers."

"This grave is much better than the one of your great-grandmother we saw at noon. That one lying alone in the forest is really strange."

Xia De evaluated, and the sorceress pursed her lips:

"Because my great-grandmother was not a real Edwards, she just married into this family."

Xia De did not comment on this:

"That gang of grave robbers shouldn't be ordinary people, right? Otherwise, it would be impossible to find this place."

"Judging from the traces, it was a Low-Ring sorcerer with a group of ordinary people. The other party had clues, and they had relics specifically used for treasure hunting in their hands, otherwise it would be impossible to discover this cemetery."

She pointed to the squares dug out of the four walls of the narrow ossuary:

"In every grid, there should have been funerary items, but when I discovered that this place had been stolen, only boxes that had been opened were left all over the floor."

She took a deep breath to control her emotions:

"Don't let me find them."

Now most of the squares in the stone walls were perpetual candles placed by the pharmacist miss, and a few squares had some exquisite boxes, but the boxes were probably all empty. Xia De looked at them, scanning from top to bottom and from left to right, suddenly paused, and then asked the pharmacist miss:

"Can you let me see that stone box over there?"

The sorceress nodded:

"Yes, but there is nothing inside."

She beckoned, and the stone box flew toward Xia De. Xia De opened it, and it was indeed empty. But he placed his fingers on the inner wall of the box again, confirming his idea:

"I didn't feel wrong, although the residue of the miracle element is very, very slight, this unique trace of the element definitely comes from..."

【Those angel finger bones obtained from Randall Valley. Yes, you have already found the traces of that gang of grave robbers who went from Michaela Blast Furnace City to Randall Valley and sold the angel finger bones to the Watson family.】

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