Chapter 3231

Dorothy closed the diary and recorded the story very satisfactorily, then put it back in its original place:

"This is a story recorded from the third-person perspective by a woman who lived here two years ago. Although I can't tell how much of it is true or false, it is a good story."

"All gifts gifted by fate have already been marked with a price. The double-edged sword of fate can hurt people and can also hurt oneself."

Priest Augustus sighed softly:

"So, don't do bad things, and don't always think about getting things that don't belong to you."

"Priest, you can always say such truths."

Dorothy then smiled and said to Xia De on the left side of the window:

"Detective, didn't a detective from two years ago also appear in this story? Do you know who that is?"

Xia De was stunned, and then looked at her very incredibly:

"It wouldn't be..."

The writer lady's smile was very bright:

"It should be him. Although the surname of the detective was not written on the diary, it described that the detective was invited from somewhere in the city center. Why, didn't the detective records at home record this matter? The date should be in the autumn of 1851."

Xia De quickly recalled those detective records of Sparrow Detective that were mixed with truth and falsehood:

"Oh, I remember! It did appear in similar situations. The detective record says that he helped someone regain property, but there are not many records about this women's shelter. The record of this case is very brief... Do you know the story of that disabled man afterwards?"

"Is there a follow-up? That disabled man wouldn't be a liar, right? He is actually not the widow's stepson?"

Dr. Schneider asked from the door, but didn't turn to look at everyone, but kept staring outside the door.

"No, no, that person really is the heir to that wealth. However, the detective record says that he originally promised to send one-tenth of the money to the detective who contributed a lot to this matter as a detective fee after getting the property back, no matter how much it was. But in the end, he broke his promise. By the time the detective went to find him again, he had long since disappeared from Tobesk with the wealth. The detective only got the initial deposit, and the wedding ring of the widow that the lame man gave to the detective as a gift after regaining the property."

"Tsk~ Was that ring treated as trash?"

Priest Augustus shook his head helplessly:

"What happened after that? Did the detective go to the door to ask for the debt in person?"

"This didn't happen. Because of some reasons, the detective wouldn't leave Tobesk often. However, later the detective asked a 'familiar person' to investigate the whereabouts of the disabled man. The latter was probably also worried about being chased for debt by the detective, so he took a boat and thought about going to the New Continent to enjoy life with that not-so-small wealth."

"Unfortunately, that ship encountered a storm halfway. Although the ship finally arrived at the New Continent, there were quite a few casualties on the ship. That lame man was one of the dead. After he died, the money couldn't find any heirs. Finally, the local church in the New Continent buried him and donated those properties to the poor. I heard that there is even a statue of him locally."

The other three were amazed at the follow-up of this story and sighed at the impermanence and strangeness of fate. The story that started because of malice ended in another malice. And the wealth that had helped countless poor women in Tobesk continued to help others in the city on the coast of the New Continent.

As for the wedding ring that Sparrow Detective got, Xia De never found it at home. It was probably given to someone else by Sparrow Detective, or sold. If there was this at home, the outsider wouldn't have almost gone to collect relief food at the beginning.

So time passed quietly in their chat. During this period, the abnormal space area expanded once, but it was controlled by Dorothy's spell.

Xia De originally thought that some monsters would appear from that space anomaly area, but he didn't wait for the opportunity to take action.

For the first half hour, everyone was chatting, and gradually became quiet after half an hour. And as the time got closer to one hour, Xia De's worry became more and more serious. He trusted Luweiya would not have an accident, but encountering some small troubles was inevitable.

When the time came to the fiftieth minute of Luweiya entering that area, Xia De's voice sounded in the quiet room:

"It's been an hour, I'll go in and see. Although Luweiya said that it is important for her to complete this test alone, I can't really watch her encounter danger."

Although everyone knew that only fifty minutes had passed, no one pointed this out. In fact, the doctor even thought that Xia De would open his mouth when it reached forty-five minutes:

"Detective, I and the priest will go with you, let the writer watch the situation outside."

The doctor said, and Dorothy also agreed with the doctor's suggestion:

"The internal spatial situation of that space adhesion area will probably be very complicated. Luweiya has walked a long way. If you want to catch up with her, you need to exceed her speed. It is faster for three people to act together."

She said, and endured the heartache to pluck off more than ten of her long golden hairs, wrapping them around Xia De's left little finger:

"These hairs will guide you to the correct direction, and I can sense your position through the hair and then directly move through space. This is something that can only be done in a space anomaly zone. Go and return quickly, remember to tell Luweiya that she owes me ten hairs."

Xia De hugged her, and Priest Augustus and Dr. Schneider also walked over at this time. Everyone checked the spell materials and relics they were carrying, and then followed Xia De, who had drawn his long sword, towards the twisted light and shadow.

"What a big wind!"

After the body entered that strange space, the strong wind mixed with snowflakes blew on his face immediately. But when looking around, the surrounding environment was clearly still the interior of "Carnation House", but the layout of the iron-framed beds, bedside tables, and wardrobes in the room was completely different from reality.

There was no light in the room, and outside the window was the pitch-black night, but the buildings of Tobesk could not be seen, only endless snowflakes and deep darkness.

According to Dorothy's speculation about this area, the "Carnation House" at this time should have turned into an endless maze form with supernatural characteristics because of spatial anomalies. And the wind, snow, and scenery outside the window they sensed were the characteristics of another space adhered to this space.

"Carnation House wouldn't have overlapped with the Extreme North Ice Sheet, right? Maybe after we find the exit, what we see will be the side view of St. Byrons behind the glacier."

The doctor even joked. The state of this abnormal space was safer than they thought.

The slight pulling feeling of the hair on the little finger told Xia De the direction to move forward. After leaving the room he was currently in and entering the corridor of "Carnation House", he just looked left and right, and this corridor could not see the end at all.

And after pushing open the door of the next room, the layout inside was still a ward. It's just that there is a window on the left wall, and doors leading to other corridors on the front and right walls. In the case of complete spatial confusion, there is no need to explore what these doors, windows, corridors, and rooms are.

"Follow me closely, we run forward. Eliminate any monsters encountered directly, there will be no normal people here."

Xia De said in a low voice, holding his sword and walking at the front, with the doctor and Priest Augustus following behind him on the left and right. The formation formed by the three was enough to face most situations.

Those hidden in the darkness and even unable to see their shapes, monsters from outside the normal space, as long as they dared to pounce from under the bed, behind the door, or from the ceiling, they would be immediately submerged by moonlight, death, and sulfur fire.

Doors that looked like part of the wall could not be opened, so Xia De used 【Night Watcher】 as the key of "Gate Key" to forcibly unlock them; resentment and special spatial phenomena remaining in "Carnation House" combined to give birth to ghosts and echoes that prevented them from moving forward, and when they had to find the traces of stories left in the past, Priest Augustus would very kindly eliminate all traces of the soul.

Even when the faint light emitted by the space itself disappeared completely, and the deep darkness tried to swallow everything around, forcing the three to turn to directions they didn't want to go, the doctor would also rush out without hesitation to swallow those darknesses.

The footsteps of the three were hurried, walking through corridors and rooms together. As they went deeper into the core area of this space anomaly zone, the surrounding environment was also becoming more and more strange.

The corridor was sometimes no longer horizontal. When Xia De rushed into the corridor, he found that gravity was reversed, and he was actually standing on the ceiling; the room was no longer a ward. After pushing the door and entering, women in white long skirts were hanging on their respective beds and looking straight at the three people at the door.

Once, Xia De's moonlight ring buzzed and flew towards the deep darkness at the end of the corridor, eliminating all the wandering dark shadows. From the end of the corridor, a giant hand covered with black eyeballs, enough to fill the entire passage, rushed towards the three as if it had been awakened.

This is part of an extra-dimensional evil object from outside the material world, which probed part of itself into this space adhesion area through the space distortion zone. The horror of this thing was far beyond expectations, and the three of them barely blocked the destructive light emitted by those eyeballs, and then fled into a room on the side together.

And along the way, while the three of them were rushing forward like a broken bamboo under Xia De's leadership, although they noticed that the spatial environment here was constantly changing and reorganizing, they could also see some traces left by Luweiya.

Some monsters whose corpses would not disappear lay in the corridor, and Xia De could judge the time Luweiya left here; a few souls that could communicate also put tests on Luweiya. At this time, the priest needed to come forward to collect information:

"The diviner seems to have honestly completed every task, and then got hints to move forward, unlike the three of us, who are like sitting on a runaway train and hitting forward along the tracks."

(End of chapter)