Chapter 33

It was extremely quiet all around. Seeing no one, Xia De walked towards the sofa. He didn't sit down, so it would be convenient to leave at any time.

But his eyes saw the brass metal gear box on the coffee table again. According to common sense, Xia De would certainly not take the initiative to touch any unknown items.

But nearby, in addition to seeing the large and small gear knobs on the surface of the brass cubic metal, he actually saw a line of twisted musical note-like text on the upward front.

Although he had never seen it before, Xia De still understood it:

"I am watching you in the dark."

Immediately, the whispering voice in his heart reminded:

【You touched a "Whisper."】

"What, this is a relic?"

Xia De said in surprise, and at the same time found that the bright gas lamps and crystal chandeliers in the room actually became dim.

An inexplicable sense of terror made him look down at the brass gear box. The box was opened silently at some point, and the front lid was deviated from the box body.

As the light became more and more gloomy, rolling black mist poured out from it, rushing towards the surroundings like waves.

"Isn't this the plot of a horror novel... this is..."

【Relic containment out of control.】

Xia De didn't react at all, and the pouring black mist completely extinguished the light in the room.

It was pitch black all around, as if a layer of black ink had been painted in front of his eyes. In the darkness, the feeling of fear became more and more intense, making Xia De's body tremble subconsciously.

In the world where darkness descended, the sense of direction also completely moved away. Xia De felt as if he had fallen into the most terrible abyss, his body and mind were invaded by fear in a dual sense, and at some moment he even thought that he was being watched by a huge indescribable thing in the darkness.

Extreme panic made him want to scream, but the outsider soon calmed his emotions. He knew what to do at this moment to be the most rational.

In the dark space, reason and sensibility fought each other. This fear was not his emotional control, but an instinctive reaction. At the same time, the moment the feeling of fear surged, whispers came from the darkness.

That was not the pleasant woman's voice in his head, that was the whisper of hatred and resentment that seemed to be overlapped by millions of people. The sound rubbed in the ear canal like crawling white worms, and even a layer of goosebumps rose on his bare back of his hand.

"Hmm? Why can I see the back of my own hand?"

He looked down at his hands, and a faint silver luster covered them, so that his body would not be completely swallowed by the darkness:

"Yes, I am not an ordinary person, I am a Ringed Shushi."

He barely calmed down in fear, looked at his hands, felt the brass life ring slowly rotating in his soul, and called it out.

Bell rings!

Behind the body wrapped in silver moonlight, the white steam in the dark space seemed to be stained with silver light.

Whistle!

An inexplicable sharp sound echoed in the distant time and space, and the deep darkness was shaken by it.

Giant hammer!

The giant hammer struck from the depths of steam and darkness. Amidst the splashing sparks, the brass life ring appeared behind him in a state of extremely high-speed rotation, splashing sparks into the darkness.

"Silver Moon!"

Even without mastering any Silver Moon wonders, just by thinking in his heart at this moment, Xia De, standing in this darkness, still followed his own thoughts and shouted while holding his right hand high at this moment.

The full appearance of the life ring is the strongest state of the Ringed Shushi. The brass wheel ring splashing sparks responded to its master, and the 【Silver Moon】 core rune flickered.

Xia De seemed to hear the woman's laughter in his ears at this moment, and then, on the index finger of his right hand held high, the silver light bloomed like a dazzling sun.

The light of the moonlight gradually spread to the surroundings, letting the surrounding dark curtain fade away like time flowing backward.

At the same time, Xia De also noticed that in front of him, the golden light outlined the silhouette of the sitting woman. Her light was also dispelling the terrible darkness that emerged because of the relic's loss of control.

"This is the person who wants to see me..."

Xia De thought in his heart, watching the light dispel the darkness, letting the surroundings return to the appearance of the reception room.

The darkness retreated unwillingly. The darkness wanted to tear Xia De, but could not get close to the brilliance of the silver moon.

The whispers were also cursing the people who emitted light. The sound overlapped repeatedly, almost indistinguishable. But Xia De still heard the most obvious sound among them. Whispers in more than one place said that sentence. This was not a word directed at him, this was an unintentional murmur of whispers in the darkness.

The outsider understood this inexplicable language:

"Old God! You damn thieves! Thirteen..."

The darkness retreated completely, and the silver light in Xia De's fingers gradually dissipated. But he felt that if he needed to, he could still use such an ability. This could completely be regarded as the first wonder he created, 【Silver Moon Light Technique】.

Although it was not very useful.

The final whispers echoed in his ears constantly. Xia De was surprised by the content, but did not know whether it was true or false. The content heard in the whispers of the relic's loss of control is generally unbelievable.

Looking down at the brass cubic box on the coffee table, it was already in a closed state, as if the appearance of black mist pouring out just now was just an illusion.

Looking up again at the direction of the golden woman's figure just now, that was the wall where the bookshelf was located. At the lower right corner of the entire large bookshelf, there was a wooden door with a gap opened.

The handle of the wooden door was pure gold and blended well with the bookshelf, so Xia De didn't notice it when he walked into the room just now and stepped on the red wool carpet that was a palm wide and thick.

He instinctively understood that the woman who wanted to see him was in the room behind this door.

The room was a bit chilly compared to the corridor. You know, the corridor itself was cooler than this summer night city, and the temperature in the room seemed to be the season of late autumn.

"The temperature seems to be abnormal. I remember the temperature was normal at the beginning. Is the consequence of the relic's loss of control not over yet?"

【The power of the High-Ring Shushi affects the environment, the other party is probably very angry.】

"High-Ring? Above Nine Rings? Wait, how do you know? Also, why is she angry? Shouldn't the one who should be angry be me?"

Xia De thought hesitantly. At this time, the woman's voice finally came from behind the door:

"You... um... probably understand what happened just now, right?"

There was helplessness and indignation in the tone. Xia De discovered for the first time that he could clearly read the mood from other people's tone.

"Relic out of control."

He answered honestly, and then learned the truth of what happened just now.

"Young sir, you... I... I don't know whether I should blame myself or blame you. That is the poet-level relic 【Box of Darkness】. Only when the opening spell of its own is recited, and one possesses light and celestial-related spirit runes at the same time, will the containment be out of control. I just wanted to meet you, why did you do this? Don't you know that strange spells cannot be easily interpreted?"

Her speaking speed was not very fast. It was the kind of northern common language with an accent. Judging from the voice, the age should not exceed thirty, but it might also have just passed twenty. The tone was very elegant, and even Xia De could hear the undisguised anger in the other party's tone.

Regarding the things she mentioned, Xia De really didn't know. Although he maintained his usual caution, after all, he had just arrived in this world. Silently reciting spells in his heart could cause the relic to lose control, which was not something he could have foreseen in advance, but it was indeed an accident caused by his lack of caution.

He decided to treat this incident as a lesson:

"Lady, I'm very sorry. I don't want to shirk responsibility, just... excuse me, what is the matter for you looking for me?"

He didn't know how to explain either, so he could only express his apology first, and by the way, test the other party's attitude.

The lady behind the door certainly couldn't guess that the invited guest could easily read ancient texts, let alone know the guest's core runes, so the incident just now must be partly blamed on Xia De.

He wanted to open his mouth to talk about compensation, but the other party was a high-level Ringed Shushi, and he certainly couldn't afford it, so he could only ask what the other party wanted to do.

Just now he and the other party both used the power of the Ringed Shushi, and the lady behind the door was not surprised, which showed that when she invited the detective on the second floor, she already knew the detective's identity.

This made Xia De very confused. He had only become a Ringed Shushi for one day, and no one should have seen through him.

But at least the woman behind the door was not Lady Lasoya. Even if he hadn't heard Lady Lasoya speak, Xia De was very sure that someone who didn't know whether it was a man or a woman couldn't speak in such an elegant and calm tone.

"Forget it, forget the apology. I shouldn't have left the relic outside when receiving guests. We both have responsibilities. And this incident tells me again that 【Relics】 must never be left around, otherwise you might encounter all kinds of people. I also didn't expect that you could actually understand those spells. Those texts are really very ancient."

The lady behind the door sighed. Xia De breathed a sigh of relief, not because the incident just now was turned over, but because he understood through this incident that the high-ring female Shushi behind the door was a reasonable person, and the safety of dealing with such people was very high.

"Back to the topic, young sir, how should I address you?"

The woman behind the door adjusted her mood and asked. Xia De couldn't see through the door to see the other party, but believed that the other party could see himself. He could fully imagine the scene of the woman sitting behind the desk, talking to him through the door.