Chapter 3851

Xia De's prayer had no harvest, and Danister had no harvest either. However, since Xia De already had a plan, she didn't say anything more:

"After breakfast and a rest, let's go to the big city in the north for a stroll."

There was a fairly large city about 100 miles north of Mount Karas. Neither Xia De nor Danister had been here, so after resting in the tent until ten o'clock, the two flew over directly.

Naturally, nothing happened during the whole day of city sightseeing and dating. Xia De even purchased some gifts, planning to take them back to distribute to Doctor Shi Nai De and the others.

When night fell, the two returned to Mount Karas. Dinner had already been eaten in the city. Xia De handed the reluctant Little Mia to Danister for safekeeping, then took out the Philosopher's Stone and rotated the 【Ring of Longevity】:

"Miracle - 【Breath of Time】."

The Philosopher's Stone merged into his body and soul, helping Xia De perform highly efficient spellcasting. He came to the front of the tower ruins. Following his sudden inhalation, thick gray fog emerged from the abandoned tower foundation.

The gray fog quickly enveloped the tower foundation, and then encompassed the entire cliff. This was a rare, powerful use of a miracle by Xia De in his ordinary state to reverse the time of such a large object, but fortunately, with the help of the Philosopher's Stone, he only felt a little pressure.

And Danister, standing behind Xia De, although she couldn't see through the gray fog representing the time anomaly, could hear the sound of stones colliding and rubbing, and could feel the vibration of the mountain beneath her feet.

Xia De's spellcasting speed was quite fast. Half a minute later, the gray fog dissipated, and the complete tower was already standing on the edge of the cliff. As Xia De looked up at the tower, comparing whether the tower in the memories obtained during the "fall" was the same as the tower at this moment, Danister stuffed Little Mia back to Xia De and went to the edge of the cliff to look down; the ruins beneath the cliff had also disappeared.

The ancient "Moon Tower" was a pure stone building. When it stood under the moon, the scenery composed of the starry sky, the tower, and the cliff was indeed quite beautiful.

"It's the same as the tower in my memory."

Xia De said, and Danister was already somewhat impatient:

"Let's go, let's see what the situation is inside."

The door under the tower had no door panel; one could enter the interior directly by passing through the doorway. The ancient tower had never played any role in the nearly thousand years since it was discovered by scholars, so naturally, there was nothing inside.

The two then checked the decorative details inside the tower all the way. In the hidden places of the tower, the patterns of the sun seemed to be as numerous as the patterns of the moon. Xia De and Danister could not explain this point.

"Is it the same as in your memory?"

Danister asked again, and Xia De held her hand and walked beside her:

"It's the same, but when I climbed this tower in my memory, there were many corpses inside."

"Corpses?"

The sorceress and Xia De looked at each other, both thinking of the corpses they had found in the past few days.

This tower had a full thirteen floors. Fortunately, the structure of each floor was relatively simple, so climbing up continuously didn't take too long.

While walking up the stairs, Xia De explained to Danister where it was exactly the same as what he saw in his memory. Although the memory was blurry, Xia De basically confirmed that the tower he climbed in the spring of 1853 was the one under his feet.

It was just that when the two came to the top of the tower at nine o'clock at night and walked out of the door of the thirteenth floor to the Moon-Watching Terrace, the moon in the starry sky was still three rounds, and they didn't find many valuable things in the tower.

And below this terrace was the cliff. Xia De touched the stone railing wrapped with withered vines at the edge of the terrace and said quite firmly:

"In my memory, I fell from here."

He said, and then stuffed the cat to Danister again:

"Danister, you stand in front of the railing and don't move. I'll try again, imitating the scene in my memory."

The sorceress did not stop him. Xia De adjusted his position again, and then jumped over the railing of the terrace.

He flew back quickly, and facing Danister's gaze, he only shook his head:

"Ever since I entered this tower, I feel that everything is very familiar, including the jump just now; I also very clearly felt that I had definitely done this before."

"But other than that, there are no other feelings."

"It doesn't matter. Next, let's search carefully in this tower. Since the teacher has been here, and the astrologer Euclid has also been here, it's impossible for them not to have left any clues."

The exploration previously conducted by the 【Truth Society】 here might have already obliterated the information left by others, but Xia De did not mention this point, and instead acted separately with Danister. One from top to bottom, one from bottom to top, conducting the most careful search of everything in the tower.

He was quite curious about the sun patterns in this "Moon Tower," hoping to find some clues through the frequency and order of the sun patterns, but the result was naturally nothing.

Afterward, he thought that Little Mia sometimes had amazing inspiration, almost like a low-profile version of Ai Li, so he let the cat out to let it look around.

But it could be seen that the cat had no interest in exploring in such a desolate place. It walked around perfunctorily for a while, and then rubbed against Xia De's feet, wanting him to pick it up.

Afterward, it was another whole night of searching and inspection. When the time reached Friday morning, Xia De did not forget to use his miracle 【Truth Crystal】 to illuminate everywhere, but there were clearly no "hidden areas" in this tower.

When the sky on Friday morning was slightly bright, the two who had been busy all night returned to the camp under the tower to eat breakfast and rest.

Although the current investigation still had no clear results, at least the restoration of the tower brought some clues.

"The history of this tower is even longer than I thought. Perhaps the building materials were changed halfway, but judging from the style of the building and the details inside, the history of this tower will not be shorter than the history of the Time Temple in the Vesta Woodlands, which has now become the 'Golden Music Hall'."

"Is this tower also a building that can be traced back to the Mythical Era?"

Xia De asked, and Danister was very sure about this:

"Yes. Looking at it this way, the secret of this tower will likely be directly related to the Ancient Gods. The teacher came here in the end to pursue the traces of the Moon God; it seems she really found the right place."

She held a cup filled with hot milk:

"The 【Music Sect】 would come to this mountain forest every few years to perform for the moon, but in the more than a thousand years of records, they have never found any anomalies in this tower. In the decades since the teacher went missing, they have also never found any cursed trees in this mountain forest."

"I thought our action this time would yield nothing. In fact, finding those corpses and then being able to send people to Thorn Bay to continue the investigation is already very good. Today is already Friday; we will continue to stay for one day. If there are still no clues, we will leave tomorrow during the day."

Xia De shook his head:

"I have nothing to do anyway, so it's fine to stay here for a few more days. If we still don't find clues tomorrow, we will stay until next Monday. We can cover this tower with an illusion and come back when we have investigation ideas in the future."

Danister nodded gently:

"Our search has been careful enough. I think the clues may not be obtainable from the surface. It is possible that what we lack is some kind of important step, such as a ritual, a key, or a token."

"The teacher opened the Silver Moon Gate to enter the library back then; it is very likely that it was here. But we didn't find the door, and even you can't sense the existence of that door, so I think there is no point in staying any longer... Then Monday it is."

Xia De used a spoon to divide the meat porridge for himself and Danister, while Little Mia lowered its head to drink goat milk. Although it was away from home, its life had not changed much.

"Now we are only one step away from revealing the secret. I feel that there should be gains in the next few days. Think about it, is there anything important we haven't done here?"

"Relics are useless, prayer is ineffective, and the calculations of astrology and moon phases have also yielded nothing. There are no abnormal areas in the tower, and looking at the starry sky from the top of the tower is not the one moon you mentioned... We have explored both day and night, and even searched carefully in the nearby mountain forest."

The sorceress said softly. However, after more than half a week of searching, her mind was now somewhat faded. In fact, she had already accepted the possibility that this operation might have no gains:

"I can't think of other methods for the time being... Tonight, let's hold a moon-worshipping ritual to sacrifice to the moon in front of the tower."

"Just the two of us, is that enough?"

"It doesn't matter, simplify the ritual process. And you hold the Secret Fire, which can basically be regarded as the chosen one of the gods in the era when the Ancient Gods were still present. With you, we don't need more people."

"Taking advantage of the time during the day, let's build an altar first. There is no shortage of materials, but I have to think about what specifications of sacrificial ritual to use."

Xia De was also thinking about what else they could do, or rather, whether he had forgotten to do something. He felt that the answer seemed to be on the tip of his tongue, but he just didn't realize it.

【Why don't you ask me?】

"She" asked gently in the morning breeze, so Xia De asked:

"Alright then, shall we..."

All the memories from more than half a week passed through his mind, and then the methods and means he had always used to crack various puzzles were thought of one by one. Before the words in his heart were finished, Xia De suddenly raised his eyebrows.

Amidst "her" light laughter, Xia De put down the soup bowl in his hand and looked at Danister:

"Perhaps, there really is one more thing we haven't done."

"What thing?"

"Sleep."

The sorceress's face turned red, thinking of how Xia De often did this these days:

"Don't be so impatient, wait until I finish eating~"

"What?"

Xia De was stunned, and then immediately shook his head:

"No, no, I mean really sleep. Since we arrived here on Monday evening, we have never slept at night."