Chapter 309: Mermaid Statue

Seeing the identification of Military Intelligence Section 6, the old man inside the door immediately showed a terrified expression. Xia De gave him a fierce push, making the old man stagger back a step, and he also took the opportunity to walk into the door.

With a bang~ sound, he closed the door behind him. His right hand raised to press his hat, and Xia De stood in the shadow of the foyer. He was much taller than the old man, and at this moment, he manifested a kind of oppressive temperament:

"If there is no problem, don't disturb me in the attic. I will leave naturally after I take the things."

"You, you..."

The old man leaned against the wall with his body crooked, holding his cane with both hands, not expecting the young man to break in like this.

"Still have a problem?"

"No, no, but you can take his things, but I won't refund the rent!"

He said at the top of his lungs, with a look of fear but also persistence.

"Rent? Do you think I care about this?"

Xia De deliberately laughed, and then regardless of the old man behind him, stepped on the creaking stairs and walked up.

He was very satisfied with his acting.

Lemaire had complained about the landlord of this house in his diary; he was the kind of typical person who bullied the weak and feared the strong. When Lemaire came to rent the house, he was tried to be slaughtered by the old man, but after the crew member revealed his more terrible and vicious personality, the landlord immediately gave a relatively fair price.

Being able to be a landlord in such a relatively chaotic wharf street area, the old gentleman leaning against the wall and panting behind him was not a good person. According to Lemaire's speculation, the other party seemed to be using the basement workshop to smuggle contraband from the New Continent to produce some shady drugs.

It was truly puzzling to do such things at such an old age, but Xia De didn't plan to investigate deeply for the time being.

Judging from the diary, Lemaire, who successfully took up his post two years ago, only entered the second ring this spring. He didn't record the warning measures he set for the attic in his diary, but he was not a church Ringed Shushi, nor could he be an Academy Ringed Shushi, so the means he could use shouldn't be many.

The attic door was locked, and a full three large locks sealed the door together.

It just so happened that he had obtained the new spell 【Key of the Door】 from his adventure in the past last night. This spell could open anything that had the concept of a "lock," and the actual effect depended on the power of the lock itself and Xia De's own power.

Hesitating for a moment, he reached out and tapped the black iron lock on the top. With the power of the spell, click~ the lock popped open directly.

"Oh? So effective?"

Xia De looked at his fingers, and then tapped the brass-colored lock in the middle with great expectation. The lock also opened automatically in response.

"With this ability, if I were that kind of person who didn't walk the right path, I'm afraid Tobesk would have one more clever thief."

Xia De sighed in his heart, chatted with the smiling woman, and finally tapped the lock on the bolt inserted into the floor, but this time he encountered some obstacles. He clearly felt some power hindering the use of the spell. Fortunately, this hindrance was not strong, and after a slight touch, the last lock was also opened.

He picked up the rusty iron lock and checked it, finding that there were marks on the inside of the lock that were difficult to detect. Strictly speaking, this lock was not an alchemical item, but was just treated with runes, so that when violent unlocking occurred, the lock would produce an explosive effect that would blow off a person's hand.

It might work on ordinary people, but for a Ringed Shushi, as long as they were slightly careful, they wouldn't fall for it.

Opening the door and waiting for a while without hearing any abnormal sounds inside, Xia De walked into the attic.

The entire attic was transparent, which could be considered a large room, about as big as the main bedroom of Detective Sparrow. The interior was dim, with common furniture such as wardrobes, bookshelves, tables, and beds. There were some black-and-white printed magazines on the table and a pile of tax documents on the coffee table. It looked like a boring single man's room, and no suspicious items could be seen on the surface.

First, he used 【Echo of the Past】 to listen to the sounds within 48 hours to confirm that no one had come recently, and then looked around:

"Can you feel the traces of relics?"

Turning on the gas lamp, Xia De stood by the window, using his fingers to slightly lift the gap in the curtain, while cautiously looking out and asking.

【There are strong whisper elements, look to the left.】

The left side was the wardrobe, and the top of the wardrobe was placed with some cardboard boxes. The elements were mainly inside the wardrobe, so Xia De put on gloves before reaching out to open the wardrobe door.

Just as his hand grasped the door handle, a gust of cold wind that seemed to penetrate into the bone marrow immediately blew in the room with closed doors and windows. Subsequently, footsteps came from behind. Xia De turned around and saw a completely rotten corpse rushing towards him. That terrible appearance, even if he had some preparation in his heart, still made Xia De feel a shock.

"Thief!"

The mouth opened by the corrosion clearly showed the bright red gums.

【Illusion.】

"I know."

His palm loosened the door handle, and the cold wind and the rushing corpse disappeared. Grasping the door handle, the corpse and the cold wind appeared again.

So Xia De bent down to study it, and sure enough, he saw runes carefully carved on the door handle:

"This person is really good at runes, but after all, he just promoted to the second ring, and his foundation is not solid."

Thinking in his heart, a moonlight flew from his hand, splitting the wardrobe door handle into two, and only then did he pull open the cabinet door.

The smell of mold came from inside. Inside the small wardrobe, on the left hung a few men's clothes, two very cool women's clothes, and a white garter. I don't know if it was left by a technical worker or if Lemaire had any special hobbies, but they were all ordinary clothes.

On the right was something covered with a red cloth. Xia De reached out and wanted to lift the red cloth, but he frowned as soon as he stretched out his hand and immediately took a step back.

Judging from the shape, the shape of this thing was very similar to the mermaid statue covered with cloth he had seen before.

"I knew I would definitely encounter trouble."

Xia De didn't know the specific transmission method of this strange must-die curse for the time being, but not coming into contact with the source of the curse was definitely the best way to resist the curse.

So, regardless of whether there were other valuable things in the wardrobe, he found a fire poker from the side and very carefully closed the wardrobe door. Looking at the cabinet door, he waited for half a minute without waiting for any abnormality, which made him feel slightly relieved. Even if there were tens of thousands of pounds in cash in the wardrobe, Xia De would definitely not open the door again.

Afterward, he continued to search. It was a pity that there was indeed only this one 【Relic】 in the attic. And besides the relic, after searching the room carefully, Xia De also found 23 gold pounds and 7 crowns in cash. Crowns were the currency of Kassenrik, and seamen who were active at sea and in the New Continent all year round indeed needed to hold foreign currency.

The coins were only a small harvest. The most important harvest was actually an old book related to the 【Wind】 spirit rune, 【Abyssal Wind】, as well as Lemaire's Ringed Shushi notebook and letters.

Any Ringed Shushi must be related to some organization. The harsh conditions for taking up a post and the complex power system determined that there were no independent Ringed Shushi. And judging from those letters, the opportunity for Lemaire to become a Ringed Shushi was when his talent awakened two years ago and he met a traveler on a ship heading to the New Continent, thus embarking on the Ringed Shushi path.

The name of the organization they belonged to was "Sea Breeze Club." Xia De hadn't heard of this name, and judging from the knowledge Lemaire recorded in his notebook and his usual communication with friends, this should be a small club formed by a few Ringed Shushi getting together, which might be slightly stronger than Doctor Shi Nai De's five-person group.

Besides his own experience, in the information Lemaire left behind, he also narrated what happened after he discovered he was cursed.

Discovering the curse started three months after he got the statue from the warehouse dispatcher. Thinking of that mermaid statue due to the eerie dream, and only after realizing that this was the source of the curse did the dull Lemaire finally realize that this was a relic.

He wrote to the club for help. After describing what he had encountered, the club immediately cut off all contact with him. Subsequently, like the dispatcher who had already been shot to death by Xia De, Lemaire also knew that judging from the things he had done before, if he went to the church for help, he would definitely die, so he hoped that he could rely on his own research to discover a way to break the curse.

Although he died because of the curse in the end, strictly speaking, this low-level Ringed Shushi who was abandoned by his organization did indeed discover some things. ===== CHAPTER 310 =====