Chapter 2546: The Third Tree Hole and Time Communication

The sweet snacks did not make the elf lady's attitude toward Xia De become friendly; she continued to stand in the sea of flowers with a blank expression and said:

"I don't need you to give me these things, and, I don't think our relationship has reached that level yet. Thank you for your concern, and, I don't like eating sweets."

Saying this, she bent down again to continue collecting dew, not even looking at the things Xia De left behind. Xia De said goodbye softly and then turned and left.

【Confirmed?】

"She" asked with a smile.

"Confirmed, it's her, so this is very interesting."

"Meow~"

The cat felt that it was disliked by someone today, so it felt very aggrieved.

Although he didn't intend to approach the Accordion Inn today, Xia De finally entered the city.

Last night at the banquet, he heard the conversation between young Kamin and his fiancée Jane Bennett, and thus learned the address of Baron Kamin's family, so he planned to take advantage of having nothing to do today to investigate Baron Kamin and his son, or rather, Baron Kamin and his father.

Although the Baron's family was not truly local, they also had their own fixed residence in Vista City. Every autumn when the family came to Vista City for vacation, they would stay at "Morris Mansion" in the southwest of the city.

That was a manor slightly smaller than the Collins Earl's mansion last night; although the location was slightly remote, the advantage was that the neighborhood was very quiet, so there was no need to worry about being disturbed by annoying passersby and neighbors.

It was Wednesday morning, and Xia De didn't know if the Baron's family was still at home. His original plan was to break in quietly directly; since the whole family were ordinary people, there was no need to be too cautious.

But when he approached "Morris Mansion," he saw a rental carriage that had just passed by him stop at the gate of the mansion, and then two ring mages wearing police uniforms walked out of the car and knocked on the gate.

"Church ring mages disguised as police..."

Touching the cat on his shoulder, Xia De turned and walked into a small alley. When he walked out again, little Mia had been turned into a toy, and Xia De had turned into a silver-white cat. The cat approached Morris Mansion quickly along the wall, and then jumped onto the wall with a fierce leap.

At this time, the two ring mages wearing police uniforms had also shown their credentials, so they were invited into the mansion.

Xia De confirmed that one of them was a middle-ring and the other was a low-ring before jumping into the courtyard wall, giving the big black dog in the doghouse by the wall a look to let it chew on the bone obediently, and then the cat climbed onto the second floor along the drainpipe on the outside of the building lightly, then used the art "Lagrange's Jump" to perceive the space, appearing directly behind the sofa in the reception room where the police were being entertained.

No one in the room noticed the arrival of the cat, and the person receiving the two police officers was not the Kamin couple, but the young Mr. James Kamin.

The gentleman who was about to get married next year was at home alone this morning and didn't know what he was doing. When he pushed the door in to greet the police, he was wearing a white shirt and black trousers tied with a belt.

The cat listened to their conversation behind the sofa without moving. The police first exchanged pleasantries with the young man, and then asked:

"Please don't be nervous, this time it was entrusted by the local church for us to come and inquire.

Mr. James Kamin, two weeks ago after you followed the Baron to the local area, when participating in local social activities, you asked friends many times about hallucinations, ghosts, succubi, and local legends related to demons. May I ask if you encountered anything?"

The cat then understood, the church suspected that he had encountered something related to the supernatural, but also believed that it was probably not a big deal, so they only sent two people to investigate.

For this kind of simple work, the "Black Stone Security Company" where Iluna was would not do it; Iluna and the others only took tasks with confirmed clues, while the two ring mages in front of them were clearly responsible for peripheral work.

Young Kamin did not answer directly, but frowned and asked:

"Who reported me? Howard or Newman?"

No one reported it, and such a small matter generally wouldn't lead to someone coming to inquire specifically.

The "police" of course did not answer this question, but continued to ask:

"May I ask what you encountered? You have the right not to answer, but we will ask your parents later. Mr. James Kamin, please answer our questions seriously. You came from Willendale City, you should have seen those who refused the church's entrusted police inquiry in the big city, and how they would be treated later."

The young man then said somewhat anxiously:

"It's nothing, it's just that I've been having strange dreams recently, and some beautiful women will appear in the dreams. This situation only appeared after arriving locally, so I suspect whether I was entangled by things like 'Forest Demons' in local legends."

But "Demon Vision" did not see any power of demons, and looking at his spirit, he was clearly very well.

The two "police" then asked more questions by side-stepping, and then warned him very seriously that the Orthodox Church strictly prohibits the circulation of any books recording so-called "mysterious rituals" and "magic spells," and using the knowledge in those books is a felony.

They used the ring mage's method to quietly check this house and young Kamin himself, and even went to James Kamin's room to turn around, confirming that there were no traces of special elements before getting up and leaving. According to the regulations Xia De heard from Iluna, young Kamin would probably stay on the "alert" list for half a year. If nothing happened during this period, the church would completely stop paying attention to him.

And the silver cat of course did not leave with the "police." It followed when young Kamin went to the door to see the guests off, and then watched the very good acting somewhat nervous expression on James Kamin's face disappear, turning into real uneasiness.

But he adjusted his mood when he turned and walked back to the house, letting the servants not follow him, and he went upstairs alone toward the bedroom.

The cat continued to follow.

Because of the existence of illusion, the young man did not realize that a cat was following him into the bedroom. He walked to the window of his room nervously and looked out, pulled the curtains tightly, and came to the desk, taking out a book from the locked drawer.

The cat jumping onto the table stretched its head to look at that old book. The book title was written in Casenrick language: 【Opening the Forest Gate: Our Animal Friends】, and the cover depicted a wooden door standing in an open space in the woodland. The gate was in a closed state, but animals such as elk, ponies, lions, and tigers all stretched their heads out from the side of the door frame together.

This was just an ordinary book, looking like it was used to popularize wild animals.

Young Kamin pulled out a chair and sat down, took a deep breath, and then took a pencil from the pen holder, writing directly on the top left corner of the cover:

"Erica, are you there? The police came to find me! I thought you were a ghost or a devil some time ago, so I asked friends for help, and they actually reported me to the church!"

The cat stared wide-eyed as those pencil marks gradually disappeared, but it was not until a full ten minutes later that new handwriting appeared out of thin air:

"James, don't worry, the police are just routine checks, we all know that the church manages such things very strictly. Now calm down first, they won't discover our secret, no one can stop us from being together."

The young man and woman in love were saying sweet words to each other, and Xia De tested that the ring mages just now did not set up rituals or detection-type spells when they left, so he restored to human form, standing directly behind young Kamin and bending over to watch them communicate.

Every time James Kamin wrote a sentence on the book cover, its immediate disappearance meant that the text was sent to "Erica" over there, and if it didn't disappear, young Kamin would carefully erase it with an eraser and then rewrite it, and the probability of the sentence disappearing was about one-half.

From the conversation, Xia De learned that the "Erica" actually knew about the engagement between young Kamin and Jane Bennett. And the reason why the girl "Erica" didn't care about this was because she lived in 1802, which was 52 years ago; she was also engaged, but was deeply in love with this man who did not belong to her era.

The two were clearly very proficient in talking to each other by writing on the book cover, and they were clearly in the period of being in love, so young Kamin, who was originally an ordinary person, paid more attention to saying sweet words to his lover and paid less attention to Xia De's hand directly touching the book.

"There is no soul hidden in the book."

Xia De watched those words disappear, carefully feeling the ups and downs of the spirit and the traces of elements when the words disappeared, and then had to admit a fact:

"This is also a tree hole, and the era of 1802 that he communicates with, the girl Erica probably also has this 【Opening the Forest Gate: Our Animal Friends】 from that era in her hand... How many tree holes are there in this place?"

Today is Wednesday, he has encountered three twisted tree holes in just one week since arriving locally.

The lovers in love were quite cheesy when talking, but in order to get enough information, Xia De had to force himself to watch, and thought that the skills of these two in saying sweet words were not as good as his. And of course, they were not satisfied with just text communication, young Kamin even wrote first:

"I can't wait to see you again."

And Erica replied:

"Wait a little longer, my James, the channel opening doesn't have a fixed time, but I believe that as long as our feelings are firm enough, we will be able to see each other again soon!"

Young Kamin continued to write:

"Erica, I miss your face, miss your lips, miss your body, miss everything about you. I was dizzy to treat you as a ghost and a devil at first, no, you are my devil, I am willing to offer you everything I have."

"James, I am also willing to offer you everything, time cannot hinder us, my love for you will last until the end of time... Next time we meet, I will give you a gift." ===== CHAPTER 2547 =====