Chapter 2940

"Asking me?"

The gray-black-haired witch held her teacup and organized her language:

"If I really have to say it, I probably first developed a good impression of Xia De because there was a sense of peace around him. This was before I discovered that the temperature of his soul was enough to fill the void in my soul; he is very reliable. Although I don't like relying on others, it's also very nice to have a reliable person by my side."

You also know about the series of things that happened later; unknowingly, my good impression became higher and higher, and it became like this."

A knock on the door sounded, and then Miss Bell walked in with a tea tray, on which were a new teapot and some tea leaves; the witch wanted to brew tea herself.

She did not avoid talking about these things in front of her apprentice:

"We all admit that Xia De is a near-perfect person, in every respect."

"Except for his love life."

The red-haired girl pointed out, but Flora had a different opinion:

"I actually think it's better this way."

Seeing her friend raise an eyebrow, she explained again:

"Don't you have this feeling? We can't tie him down by ourselves. After knowing him, I always feel like he will suddenly float away high up one day and never come back... Charlotte, do you have this feeling?"

So the pale-faced girl answered her teacher's question very honestly:

"Mr. Hamilton is different from everyone we know; he is always looking at the sky, and perhaps one day the sky will also respond to him."

Flora nodded in agreement with this view:

"So if we don't add a few more ropes to firmly tie down that soul that is always gazing at the moon, he will fly to a higher place one day."

The red-haired girl was thoughtful, and then she chatted with Flora about things after the Vista Forest incident ended.

Around 7:20 that evening, the "Red Moon Witch," who had been laughing and chatting with the witch, suddenly frowned and looked out the hotel window while holding the armrest of the sofa.

At the same time, Miss Olanod, who was discussing the divination results with Luvia and Bella on the ship, also looked directly upward from the cabin at the bottom of the ship, her gaze as if it could pass through several layers of ship planks to see the starry sky outside.

Megan and Audrey were responsible for night watch on the ship tonight. The sisters, who were laughing and talking with Grandma Cassandra on the deck while the wind blew, were a little later than the ladies belonging to the "Moon" to look up at the starry sky above.

With a soft sound of "bang," Sylvia jumped directly to the deck through space. Almost at the same time, Miss Eleise's figure also walked out of the twisting air.

Everyone on the deck looked up together. The moon was gone from the position that originally belonged to the three moons, and a huge pitch-black crack appeared there. And behind the crack, the blood-red color gradually became extraordinarily brilliant from the twinkling stars.

That touch of blood-red light gradually illuminated Yulun Lake, and then illuminated the entire Vista Forest. When more and more local ring mages who sensed something looked up at the starry sky, the bright red blood moon emerging from that black crack had already dyed the entire starry sky red.

In the field of vision of ordinary people, perhaps the starry sky just turned slightly red, but in the eyes of ring mages, the night sky above was gradually turning into a dim dark red as the crack expanded, and the twinkling stars all turned bright red.

When the bright red stars twinkled in the dark red sea of stars, this strange and terrifying scene, even if just looked at once, would make people feel fear from the bottom of their hearts. And when the bright red blood moon behind the crack, together with the starry sky, dyed the earth with that touch of scarlet, in this red world, some basic rules seemed to be quietly changing.

Footsteps came from the cabin entrance of the Radiant Messenger, and the great witches in the cabin walked out quickly. Luvia, Bella, and Miss Olanod appeared together. After leaving the cabin, they saw that the people on the deck seemed to have turned into "blood people."

And when the purple eyes saw that blood-red moon, amidst a slight headache, some strange memories suddenly flooded into her mind. The earth turned into a mass of real flesh and blood, people bathing in the blood moon turned into deformed lumps of meat amidst screams, everything solid was oozing blood and merging with each other, and finally...

【Xia De mentioned this matter.】

"Another me" in her ear suddenly spoke up, interrupting Luvia's thinking about that strange memory. She then remembered what Xia De had said:

"The disaster of the moon—the Moon of Madness! The blood moon bestows scarlet upon the world, so everything turns into crazy flesh and blood amidst distortion! Xia De heard about this in the local black market; something similar happened in the Creekwood Town area a hundred years ago (Chapter 2545), and the astrologer Euclid also predicted in his notebook in 1750 that the 'Moon of Madness' would appear in the Vista Forest area in 1760!"

Luvia's voice clearly reached the ears of everyone in this scarlet world, and the blood moon, which was becoming clearer in the increasingly large black crack in the night sky, clearly looked like an eye gazing at the entire world at this moment.

(Little Mia is running...)

"Good evening, Mr. Masked Man."

Stepping into the Time Transit Station, Xia De said to the man standing behind the counter in a somewhat light tone. He thought that after experiencing the wonderful card game last time, the two could barely be considered not strangers, but Bennett, who was wearing a mask, still spoke coldly:

"People who usually come and go here do not call me 'Masked Man'; this title is too ridiculous."

"Then how should I address you? Station Master?"

"Shopkeeper will do."

He carried that old kerosene lamp and walked out from behind the counter. Xia De did not sit down this time:

"I am ready, let's set off now. Let's make it clear first, I have already paid the Sands of Time as a reward for this short journey through time, so you cannot take out a contract for me to sign again."

The masked man had no objection to this:

"Then please board the stairs; the door to 1819, where Anthony Winslet went, has been opened for you. You can only stay there for a maximum of 24 hours. During this period, return to the place where you appeared, and you will be able to return to the Time Transit Station."

But Xia De shook his head:

"I changed my mind; I'm not going to the winter of 1819, I'm going to the summer of 1821."

He stated the date when he parted with Miss Helena Carter in the rain last time:

"I investigated these days, and neither Anthony Winslet nor the childhood playmate he wanted to save appeared in the current era, which means the 'rescue plan' in the winter of 1819 definitely did not succeed.

I don't know what happened at that time, and I don't know what the clues to the childhood playmate Anthony Winslet discovered locally more than ten years ago were, but I definitely won't go there again. It's better to choose a date a year and a half later; I'll go there and try my luck."

The masked man hesitated for a moment, then nodded again:

"That's fine. But I suspect that your saying you wanted to find Anthony Winslet was an excuse from the beginning; you weren't planning to go to 1821, were you?"

"Does my purpose have anything to do with whether you open the door?"

"It has nothing to do with it. Since you have already paid the appropriate reward, you should receive the service of the Time Transit Station. It is still a valid time of 24 hours. If you fail to return within 24 hours, I will not tell you what will happen.

Also, try not to leave too many traces in the past time; that place does not belong to you after all."

"I understand."

So the masked man led Xia De to the stairs with the oil lamp. Xia De looked up, then stepped onto the stairs.

He had walked the stairs from the first floor to the second floor of the Accordion Hotel many times, but this time, after turning the corner of the stairs and looking up, he did not see the scenery of the second floor, but endless darkness.

So he continued to move forward in this darkness, the light from behind gradually extinguished, until the surroundings of the stairs became completely unknowable. After counting that the number of steps had exceeded the original 8, the stairs in front were still extending forward.

And when he counted to 80 in his heart, light appeared higher up; when he continued to count to 99, the light in front swallowed him.

The sound of rain appeared almost instantly, and at this moment, Xia De felt the rain completely soaking him.

The light dissipated, and the scenery of the small alley in Vista City in the midsummer of a rainy day appeared in front of him, and on the wall of the small alley behind him, the pitch-black square door gradually hid itself.

"The feeling just now... was really too stable, with almost no stagnation of traveling through time. Except for the lack of white fog, this is almost no different from traveling using the Time Key."

The Outsider had new thoughts about the source of the "Time Transit Station" function. Of course, he did not forget to take the umbrella out of his pocket, open it with a "bang," and walk a few steps forward to the alley entrance.

Carefully distinguishing the street scene, because of the rain, there was no one on the street. He identified that this was probably "Gray Brothers Street" in the old city area northeast of Vista City in 1854; he had passed by here when he took a carriage from outside the city into the city.

"Why did you put me here?"

This place was not close to any place related to clues about "Anthony Winslet," but fortunately, Xia De did not come here just to find Flora's uncle.

Looking toward the direction outside the city, the corners of his mouth unconsciously curled up, revealing a smile.

"Xia De, if I didn't calculate the time wrong, you only left half an hour ago, right?"

There was only the sound of rain in the forest, and in this sound, Xia De, who had placed his hand on the thick tree where the tree hole was located, turned around and saw the black-haired sorceress who was still wearing a sun hat on a rainy day walking toward him.

She was not holding an umbrella, and all the raindrops automatically avoided her. The black ladies' boots did not leave any footprints in the mud; she was still as elegant and gentle as ever.

"Yes, I'm sorry I came again."

Although he said so, Xia De had no intention of apologizing on his face, and Miss Helena Carter naturally had no expression of blame on her face either. She asked with a smile:

"Is this time still just to chat with me, or do you want me to help you do something?"