Chapter 1776: Cigarette Butt and Boy
Since the boy John provided effective clues, after Xia De shared them with the witch beside him, Ao Dai Li also believed that the two missing boys might have encountered that door that appeared occasionally by the river.
So the two continued to walk forward. Not long after, when they reached the area pointed out by the boy, Mei Gen shared the Seven-Colored Mushroom Potion with Xia De, and the two dropped it into their eyes respectively.
Because this was a diluted version of the potion, it certainly didn't have as good an effect as eating the mushrooms directly, so they couldn't fully see the black cracks in the air, only some distorted light and shadows, and because they couldn't thoroughly observe them, they couldn't touch them.
Continuing to walk forward, carefully observing the areas by the river where doors might appear, Xia De originally thought it would take some time, but he didn't expect that after only five minutes, they saw a door standing abruptly together.
The street was much higher than the river, and at a distance of about one mile, small openings would open on the side of the street near the river, laying stairs leading to the real river. This was both for the convenience of transferring goods and for the convenience of the City Hall to maintain the river.
And at this time, at the end of the small pier at the bottom of the stairs, a wooden door stood quietly in the sparse sunlight, as if it were attracting people who saw it to open it.
"Whispering elements."
Xia De said softly, and Ao Dai Li nodded gently:
"Yes, a relic. It cannot be fully determined what it is yet. Let's walk closer and see."
Walking down the narrow stone stairs, stepping onto the pier's boardwalk, they reached the end. That door was a wooden door painted with white paint. It looked quite dilapidated, the color on the surface was mottled, but it blended well with the environment.
When he realized the danger and lowered his head, what he saw was a pitch-black chain darting out from his chest.
"I probably guessed what this is, but I can't be completely sure. Open it... no, don't open it with your hands, don't touch it directly."
"Bully Hansen," mentioned by the boy John, had already climbed up seven or eight steps stumbling, but suddenly heard the sound of breaking air behind him. Because he had been trapped in the door for too long, his stagnant thoughts couldn't allow him to react in the first place.
"Does it really satisfy wishes? Or... use it to kill? That's too much trouble. Not all relics can develop so-called positive characteristics, so most relics can only be contained."
He translated those words and told Green Lake, who was thoughtful:
"The data describes it as being like a big mouth. This door will randomly appear in any scene related to water, and possesses the ability to seduce people into opening it. Once you touch the doorknob with your skin to open the door, even if you are a ring-warlock, you must make an extremely difficult choice to break free from the impulse to walk into the door."
She gave an example: "How did you die?"
"For example, if someone wants food, we throw delicacies into the door. But this method cannot save those whose desires are too abstract."
The whole room became magnificent because of this, but the eleven-year-old girl who was gnawing on the thin boy's corpse looked out of place with the scene.
Yin Wu said to the girl beside him, then asked softly:
Mei Gen sighed, drew a crack in the air, the crack of death opened, the thin boy's soul bowed slightly to Mei Gen, then walked toward the beach illuminated by the moon behind the crack.
Just like if Yin Wu were trapped in it, he found it hard to imagine what he could throw in to save himself.
"Strangled by him."
With just a flick, the soul was thrown back into the door, and then the door was closed.
He saw the interior of his own home in the door. It was the scene of the living room on the second floor of No. 8 Saint Deran Square. The furniture, layout, and even the view of the square outside the window were exactly the same as at home. If it weren't for the "Desire" mermaid oil painting hanging on the wall turning into a blank canvas in the door, Yin Wu would have almost thought that this door was a door connecting space.
Xia De didn't comment on Mei Gen's behavior. The Great Witch of Knowledge and Wisdom looked curiously at the crack that had "healed":
"That's a good idea."
Mei Gen asked curiously, Xia De
Thought for a while: "How to do it?"
"You opened a spatial crack! Now you can still do this kind of thing in Ao Dai Li... Wait! Is that real death? Too incredible!"
In short, the sun sank to the west, and the cloudy Yin Wu City welcomed another evening. Spring had already passed more than half, and the daytime was getting longer and longer. When the carriage carried Mei Gen and Xia De to the hotel, the gas street lamps on both sides of the street hadn't been lit yet.
"I saw my own home." Mei Gen continued to ask, Xia De shook his head:
As for Mei Gen, what he was actually most worried about was Dr. Schneider, who also lived in the Ao Dai Li Hotel, encountering the 【Mirror Association】 brothers who came to the hotel to attend the banquet. The two brothers were blinded and it had a direct relationship with the doctor. Although Mei Gen was very sure that the two brothers together definitely couldn't beat the current doctor, he was very worried that once they clashed with the doctor, it would destroy the doctor's and Mei Gen's plan to find the demon.
The chain retracted into Mei Gen's sleeve, and the tightly closed door stood by the river, motionless. The two talked while leaving that place. As for the crystals after the flesh exploded, they had already melted into the air silently.
"I know what it is. Location-type relic, Keeper-level—【Door of Responsive Requests】. Open the door, and you will see the scene you desire most in your heart. Gold, silver, treasures, power, beauty, power, wisdom, you can get whatever you want, and they are all real. But the price is that you can only possess them by entering the door, and once you step into the door, you absolutely cannot come out on your own."
This door had no keyhole, but it had a slightly rusty golden doorknob. Green Lake pondered what this was, while Mei Gen walked to the back of the door and saw that the back and front door panels, although the details of the mottling were slightly different, were the same shape. And on the door frame on the side, he found a line of carvings: Read the book La
"What did you see?"
Light shone from the door, illuminating the faces of Mei Gen and Yin Wu. The two widened their eyes together. Mei Gen suspected that what Xia De and he saw were definitely not the same scenery.
Pink crystals appeared around the penetrating wound, and without even leaving a scream, the cannibal boy's body exploded into a pile of pink crystals on the spot.
"It will move on its own after staying in a certain area for a period of time, and it cannot be stopped by any method. However, we can set up a ritual on this pier to drive away idlers who might walk over, or make them unable to see this place, just like now. Of course, the best way is to report it to the church and let the church seal this place before the door leaves."
The chain "whoosh"ed, binding the pitch-black soul and flying back. The soul corrupted by Whispering elements was controlled by Yin Wu and was not infected by the pink crystals.
"This is a good idea."
Green Lake opened his mouth subconsciously, but immediately closed his mouth cautiously. She glared at Mei Gen very unreasonably, then closed her eyes, and Green Lake turned into Xia De.
"I saw..."
He heard the sound of the door opening and turned his head sharply. The dried blood around his mouth made that face incomparably terrifying. Seeing the door opened and the outside being a strange city, the eleven-year-old tall boy rushed out. Mei Gen and Xia De made way for him, letting him rush to the stairs leading to the street, then Mei Gen asked the thin soul that appeared behind the boy, which was also the boy whose corpse had been gnawed:
It was a dilapidated house, with nothing but a table and a bed. But on the floor, bed board, and tabletop, it was covered with banknotes, coins, and gold bars and bricks.
The soul said dryly, Xia De added: 【Open, satisfy all dreams.】
"That story is a bit long. That's a story from last autumn. Let's talk about it when we go back."
She made a gesture of pulling the door from the air, but the door didn't move. Then she looked at Mei Gen. Mei Gen nodded, the chain flew out of his sleeve and grabbed the doorknob, then just pulled it gently, and the door was opened.
"Didn't lie. I..."
A look of surprise:
"Those are all negative characteristics. Does the data say whether the door has any beneficial effects for us?"
However, Mei Gen could also see that Xia De was willing to do this, and his curiosity should be greater than his kindness.
She said while looking at the scene inside the door:
Going out for a walk before dinner did indeed help improve his mood. At least when Xia De and Mei Gen returned to the cruise ship, the bad mood affected by the family story had disappeared. However, considering the family banquet tonight, Xia De, who originally didn't intend to dress up, still prepared himself specially.
And Yin Wu didn't pay attention to Yin Wu's topic just now at all:
Yin Wu carried many toys, so he first threw some cooked food and fruits, but the scene inside the door didn't change. Then, he threw out a handful of coins. When the coins clattered on the floor, the interior scene of No. 8 Saint Deran Square in Mei Gen's eyes finally changed.
"Guess what the person trapped in the door desires, then throw the corresponding desire into the door, and you can temporarily reveal the scene that doesn't belong to their own desire."
"Can this door be contained?"
"If I hadn't seen that nun, I would have thought you were the Chosen of Death. Opening this kind of channel requires more than just power, but also permission. Death is willing to let you use its power, otherwise even the Witch Empress wouldn't have the qualification to intervene in true death. How did you master this kind of power?"
That is completely unimaginable in our era.
The scheduled gathering time was 8:30 PM, and it was only 8:00 PM when Mei Gen and Xia De arrived. ===== CHAPTER 1779 =====
Having obtained the clue, the puppy gave the girl another 10 pence for me to have dinner. Even though the girl didn't want it, I still tossed the coins into her basket.
"Oh, shut up! Don't cause trouble for the two of you."
You thought Xia De lived in Tobesk, so the puppy would identify as a Darian. But in fact, the outsider didn't care about all that. He was certainly clear that the negotiations taking place on the land beneath his feet right now had nothing to do with good or evil, only interests; precisely because of this, he felt troubled.
The puppy shouted again and walked quickly to the side of the street far from the riverbank. Little John let go of the puppy's hand and followed behind him, but only stood a short distance behind him without following further.
"Good afternoon, I didn't expect to see you here."
He instinctively wanted to greet the puppy, but then saw the noble and elegant lady beside him. So he immediately lowered the brim of his hat, turned sideways, and continued walking toward a nearby alley entrance, carrying his basket and holding the puppy.
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