Chapter 3852: Dream Under the Tower

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

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

There is a city of considerable scale 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.

Sightseeing and dating in the city naturally didn't have anything happen all day. Xia De even purchased some gifts, planning to bring them back to share with Dr. Schneider and the others.

When night fell, the two returned to Mount Karas. Dinner had already been eaten in the city. Xia De threw out a gold nugget to cast a spell to summon the camp, and Danister prepared a very good tent. But for safety reasons, this two-person tent did not have spatial specificity, and the internal and external spaces were consistent.

Danister didn't let Xia De summon dinner with a ruby, but took out the prepared ingredients for simple cooking. Xia De also released the cat. Little Mia was held by Xia De and also looked toward the tower base, but soon shifted its gaze to the pot on the campfire.

Investigating the Moon Tower certainly had to be done at night, so the two planned to investigate at night and rest during the day for the next few days.

The last ray of sunset disappeared completely, and the stars and the three moons floated above their heads. Camping under the starry sky was quite romantic, but Xia De and Danister were both thinking about many things in their hearts, so they hurriedly finished dinner and immediately started the investigation.

The first thing to do was not to examine the ruins, but to release detection sorcery such as "Strong Spatial Perception" and "Echoes of the Past" to determine whether there were supernatural traces around.

Besides sorcery and incantations, Danister also prepared rituals for detecting the power of the moon, as well as the Sage-level relic 【Master Marcus's Crystal Ball】 specifically borrowed from the Academy library for detection. As long as this crystal ball is placed and activated, it will continuously collect clues around until it finds what the user wants to see and reveals it.

The disadvantage of using it is that if the clues are hidden very deeply, it may take a long time for the relic to take effect. However, the two have patience to wait for it to operate slowly. As for the negative characteristics of the relic, that is, it is extremely easy to attract evil things that are sleeping or sealed in the surrounding area when used, Danister is responsible for supervision to ensure that it will not be triggered.

The first wave of detection did not find too obvious traces. There was no problem with space and time nearby, and no one had been here recently. However, Danister's incantation "Metal Detection" found some man-made metal items underground not far away. Xia De recorded the location and planned to look for them later.

The ritual for detecting the power of the moon was arranged at eight o'clock in the evening. With the shattering of thirteen precious silver gems, the ritual detected that a long time ago, there had been an explosion of super-strong moon power on this cliff.

Because the power explosion was so strong that it exceeded the detection threshold of the ritual, the ritual could not give the specific time of the power explosion.

The relic's detection had not shown results, and Xia De and Danister's subsequent inspection of the tower base and other parts of the tower below the cliff did not yield good results.

Other parts of the tower below the cliff were extremely severely damaged, and combined with the tower base, only a few remaining patterns could be seen, which proved that the original patterns and decorations in the tower indeed existed besides moon patterns, and there were also sun patterns.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Xia De put the cat, which was already a bit sleepy, into his coat pocket, and found a blocked cave with Danister at a position slightly lower than the top of Mount Karas.

This looked like a mine, but it only extended hundreds of meters toward the mountain body before collapsing. After clearing the collapsed rocks and mud with sorcery, the deepest part revealed dozens of white bones buried here, as well as the metal tools just detected by Danister, such as small carts and shovels.

"It looks like a production safety accident... What are they digging here?"

Xia De was quite puzzled, but Danister could give an answer:

"I once mentioned to you that the 【Truth Society】 had found the notebook of that astrologer Mr. Euclid in the ancient high tower of Mount Karas (Chapter 1081)."

"That should be before the spring of 1853, that is, before the high tower collapsed. The 【Truth Society】 had professors conducting certain research near here. I think the deceased here may be related to the 【Truth Society】."

"Is it possible that this high tower was knocked down by the 【Truth Society】?"

Xia De put forward a guess, and Danister shook her head:

"The 【Truth Society】's way of doing things would not be so rough, and it can be seen at a glance that the work of these deceased has not been completed. The 【Truth Society】 will not waste human resources like this."

Although both were curious about what was being dug here, since the sorcerers of the 【Truth Society】 did not choose to cast spells to dig, and did not even choose to continue digging after the passage collapsed, Xia De and Danister did not choose to continue to extend this passage for the time being.

However, since 12 of the 23 people died here, it is possible that the bodies of the remaining 11 people are also nearby, and among them, someone may know more things.

The inspection of the bodies was carried out by Danister. Centered on the tower base on the highest cliff, they found new bodies at two o'clock in the morning below the cliff. The bodies were not in the tower wreckage, but in the mud deeper than the tower wreckage.

Xia De found those bodies one by one while trying not to touch the tower wreckage. The damage to the 7 bodies was extremely severe, and there were even traces of wild animal bites on the bones of many bodies.

The subsequent spiritualism successfully summoned the soul, but this batch of souls was quite ignorant, and the information given was intermittent. Xia De finally summarized:

"The time of death of these seven deceased was from the 23rd to the 30th of the Month of Wind in 1853. After the first batch of 12 people were buried due to safety production accidents, the rest were unable to rescue and were unwilling to continue digging the dangerous cave."

"So they were assigned other tasks, that is, trying to excavate in other locations. As a result, seven people died of unknown diseases one after another during this period. To prevent the spread of the plague, the foreman decided to bury the seven people in the forest below the cliff."

Xia De dispelled the last soul:

"It seems that those bodies were later turned out by wild animals, and then smashed into the mud again when the high tower collapsed, so they looked so broken."

"Four people are still missing. What do you think they will do?"

Danister asked Xia De, and Xia De said very affirmatively:

"If it were me, I would definitely choose to give up this job. 23 people died and only 4 were left. This is too terrifying. And although it is remote here, the road down the mountain is not difficult to find. Once down the mountain, there is a train home in the town. If you really want to go, you can always find a way."

"Assuming no one intercepts... continue searching."

The discovery of 19 bodies originally made Xia De and Danister think that they would soon approach deeper secrets, but until dawn on Tuesday, they could not find any other meaningful traces.

Danister was not discouraged:

"Last night was just the first and roughest search. Starting tonight, I will combine astrology and moon phases to try to crack the special nature here. You are not guessing that behind the normal high tower, there is a hidden Moon Tower that can only see one moon? I will find it."

The two said while eating breakfast, and then dived into the tent to start sleeping. Xia De slept very lightly and woke up after three hours. At this time, Danister also opened her eyes. Obviously, she was not as unconcerned as she showed.

Xia De comforted Little Mia, and seeing that everyone didn't want to rest, he took Danister to the town at the foot of the mountain for lunch. Regarding the rumors about the collapse of the high tower on the mountain two years ago, the people in the town had heard some, but investigating all afternoon that day did not have any practical significance.

Dinner was also eaten in the town. Seeing that Danister was in a bad mood, Xia De did not rush to return to the mountain with her, but went to the "dating holy land" introduced by the enthusiastic restaurant owner, which was the town clock tower, to take a look.

The scenery here was not very good, but the concern shown by Xia De really made Danister feel much better.

So the investigation on Tuesday night continued. Regarding the 23 people pulled by the 【Truth Society】, it was impossible to continue the investigation for the time being. Danister planned to arrange for correspondence students near Thorn Bay to investigate whether anyone had luckily returned among those who went out and did not return two years ago:

"Or, perhaps the Truth Society found a second batch of people to come here after the first batch of people died. Although this clue is not easy to find, I believe there will be results." 【3852-

Xia De's expression was serious:

"We shouldn't stay here too long. This world gives me a strange feeling. It's too quiet, not just quiet at the sound level, here... Then let's go. I admit I'm very nervous now."

Danister held his hand and said with a smile:

"Me too, let's go."

The two walked toward the door of the tower together, but just as they truly approached the bottom of the tower, the two suddenly turned their heads again.

The ground was vibrating with a rumble, disturbing this quiet night. I saw that in the distance of the forest beneath the cliff, a behemoth was slowly walking toward the top of the mountain.

That thing was far taller than the tallest trees in the forest. Although this was a dream, when Xia De saw that 100-meter-tall giant tree under the moon moving its root-like feet to cross the forest like a giant, he was still stunned for a moment, and then asked Danister:

"Is this trying to stop us from entering this tower? But why can this tree walk?"

The sorceress naturally didn't understand either, and then Xia De asked again:

"And, the cursed tree needs to absorb time curses to grow. Can this tree also absorb time curses here? I originally thought that what we would see would only be a small sapling."

The red-haired sorceress looked at the tree, and tears had already slid down her cheeks. She bit her lip, feeling that the person she was looking for was clearly in that tree:

"Why say these things now? The cursed tree has appeared; this is what I am looking for. Help me subdue it, and then I will hold the ritual to obtain the seed."

"Yes, teacher."

Xia De said seriously. Seeing him use such a form of address for her, which was rare, Danister closed her eyes and took a deep breath to suppress the emotions in her heart:

"Let's do it together, Xia De. Let Teacher Carter see what kind of progress you and I have made since she left."

Xia De threw Danister into the air, and after the sorceress fell, she happened to land on the shoulder of Xia De, who had turned into a giant.

The giant straightened his waist under the moon, his height already rivaling the tower behind him. The giant turned his back to the tower and pounced on the giant tree that was walking slowly. And when he stepped into the forest area and had not yet completely approached the enemy, the terrifying power of the curse tried to twist time to slow down Xia De's speed.

But the 【Staff of Yggdrasil】, which had been prepared long ago, was stabbed into the ground of the forest by Xia De at this moment. Following the use of 【Ancient Elf Stability Principle】, the phantom of the verdant giant tree stabilized the order of space and time again, so Xia De continued to move forward.

The gray-green canopy of the big tree rustled, but unlike any "cursed tree" in the past, there were no corpses hanging under the canopy, which made Xia De even more curious about the source of this tree's curse.

The curse turned into black light bullets and flew over densely. The red moon barrier flashed and blocked them; afterward, the dense tree vines swimming out from the canopy surged toward the limbs of the giant Xia De. And because Xia De was worried about hurting Miss Carter's soul, he did not summon the most effective fire.

Four chains of original sin flew out from his sleeves with a clatter. After contacting the "Original Sin Brand," the power of this chain was greatly improved. In the state of nine original sin runes, the chains easily bypassed the tree vine tentacles and bound directly to the big tree itself.

Afterward, Xia De's silver moonlight and Danister's red moonlight bombarded the giant tree together. Although it was very strange that this tree could walk, it was still a cursed tree and still had its original characteristics.

Therefore, after reaching a sufficiently close distance—

"Lagley's Leap!"