Chapter 585: Abandoned Tower

"Doctor, I have also heard of this ancient relic. You were actually able to find even this?"

Lu Lu Weiya said softly while sitting on the sofa.

Doctor Shi Nai De nodded:

"Characteristic: bring these hairs close to your own head, and it will automatically attach to your own hair. This characteristic is ineffective for people who have no hair on their heads, and for people whose longest hair is less than 0.1 inches (about 2.54mm). And once attached by these hairs, one's own luck will become extremely poor. The longest record is that someone persisted until the 13th day before being killed by bad luck. And the only way to get rid of these hairs is..."

"Shave off your own hair?"

Xia De asked, and the doctor smiled helplessly:

"Where is it that simple? The only way is to obtain good luck while being attached by the relic. Any method works, including your 【Fate's Twenty-Sided Dice】. I remember the effect of your dice has a very high priority, and the numbers rolled are not affected by the luck of low-priority items."

The doctor said, seeing the cat behind Xia De's head, and reminded him again:

"This thing is equally useful for long-haired animals, Xia De, watch your cat."

Xia De immediately turned around and grabbed Xiao Miya, firmly fixing it in his arms.

Xiao Miya looked very happy.

"Doctor, but this only obtains bad luck, what about good luck?"

Dorothy grasped the point.

"Very simple. First, splice another person's hair onto your own hair. It must be natural black, not dyed. Afterwards, splice the 【Unfortunate Hair】 onto the other end of the other person's black hair. 【Unfortunate Hair】 can only take effect on hair that is still growing on the scalp, so it will not take effect on the other person's hair. And because it is separated by another person's hair and spliced with the user's hair, a kind of ambiguous reversal is realized. This state will last for about 10 seconds, during which the user will have extremely strong good luck, and after the time ends, the relic will fall off by itself."

"What is the price of manipulating fate?"

Lu Lu Weiya asked cautiously, and the doctor shook his head:

"For at least half a year, the user is extremely susceptible to attacks by evil spirits, and the dead around them are also extremely susceptible to returning in the form of evil spirits, but the specific time depends on the different users. Don't underestimate this side effect. It is recorded that after using the relic, absolutely do not approach haunted houses or similar areas in a short period of time. This is the side effect of the relic itself, and besides that, there is absolute equivalent fate. You get what kind of good luck, you will pay the same degree of bad luck. This kind of bad luck has a delay, but it will definitely happen."

"No problem, just use this."

Xia De said. If he were to use the dice in violation of the rules, he would not only have to bear the cost of further damage to the dice, but also not be sure whether the good luck brought by the numbers would definitely fall on the road sign he chose.

And the good luck brought by the hair is time-continuous. He doesn't want much, just to hit once in a few percent probability. As long as the speed is fast enough, he doesn't have to worry about using the relic but not getting the effect he wants.

"Xia De..."

The doctor looked at him but didn't stop him:

"The Academy has already received news, they are investigating. I can't stop you, because I also want to save Priest Ao Gu Si, or at least know what he encountered and bring his body back. Go, Xia De, must pay attention to safety."

"We are waiting for you here, no matter what happens, you must come back and say something at 5:00 in the afternoon."

Dorothy said.

"I have divined for Priest Ao Gu Si before, he absolutely did not die in Midehillburg. Xia De, pay attention to safety."

Lu Lu Weiya also said in a low voice, and then looked at the circle of people around, and asked again:

"However, do you have black hair here?"

"Yes, I have a strand of black hair from a friend."

Xia De nodded lightly. Lu Lu Weiya knew that Xia De and the witch's maid had an unusual relationship, so she raised her eyebrows and didn't say anything. Dorothy knew even more that Xia De and "her" great-aunt had a close relationship, and had a better relationship with that maid, so she just glanced at Xia De and didn't say anything either.

From the study, he took out Difa's hair. Let Dorothy help tie it to the short hair on the right side of his ear, which was quite a delicate technique.

Afterwards, the four people came to the first floor together. The doctor didn't follow down, he didn't want his inner demon to peek at more secrets. However, before parting, the doctor gave Xia De a wooden button. This was an alchemical item he made himself, which could use the distortion of light to process the distortion of his own facial features, never forming a certain degree of disguise.

But this kind of alchemical item can only last for half an hour, and it is easy for Ringed Shushi to see the clues, so it can only be considered a spare prop for Xia De.

Thanking the doctor, Dorothy and Lu Lu Weiya sent Xia De to that wall together. Neither of them felt surprised that the other knew this secret.

"In short, be careful."

They didn't say much more. Xia De put the cat that was clinging to him into Dorothy's arms. Because she had lived with the blonde writer for a few days, although Xiao Miya was dissatisfied, it didn't escape.

"You go to lunch first, I'm afraid I won't be back until evening."

He turned around, and Lu Lu Weiya put the metal box containing blood on the ground, fished out the hair from the blood, and tied it to the long black hair on the side of Xia De's face.

The feeling at this moment was very strange, the hair itself had no sense of touch, but when 【Unfortunate Hair】 touched Difa's long hair, Xia De actually felt that his hair "felt" a burst of extreme cold.

The whispering sound in his ear was even more obvious, and Xia De could even distinguish that it was a woman telling her miserable life in an ancient language.

Xia De didn't say much, and walked quickly into the hidden wall in front of him, touching the statue in the center of the circular space without stopping:

"May the original crack protect me in the infinite space."

The white thick fog immediately surged, wrapping Xia De. He entered the world wrapped in white fog again, and on the blurry path in front of him, stood two old wooden road signs.

And at the same time, because of the mental pressure brought by using the relic himself, it actually decreased sharply, and even the whispering sound in his ear became weak:

"You must not be suppressed by this space."

【Outsider, you have stepped into the "Space Labyrinth."】

【Message from the Ancient God "Original Crack":】

【Existing space road signs: 2.】

"Sacrifice this White Stone Crystal."

Time was tight, Xia De immediately lifted the white crystal in his hand upward, and it disappeared silently in Xia De's hand, as if melting into this thick fog.

【Gained new information, can search for new...】

"Southeast!"

【Ancient God - Original Crack, accepted your sacrifice.】

【Randomly linking space road signs.】

【Link successful, existing space road signs: 3.】

Xia De immediately reached out and took off the strand of black hair stained with blood hanging on the side of his face, confirming that the hair was not stuck to Difa's long hair before he felt relieved.

It was clearly not a containment condition, but those black hairs were like "dead," motionless.

"Are there still whisper elements?"

Xia De himself could no longer feel the elements.

【Yes, but very weak.】

Xia De nodded, which showed that low-level relics would be suppressed in areas where the power of Ancient Gods remained.

He didn't touch the third wooden road sign that appeared on the path in front of him, but took a step back and returned behind the hidden wall in the basement. Walking out of the wall, he handed this dangerous relic to the uneasy girls, and only then officially started another long-distance adventure.

Touching the statue again to return to the 【Space Labyrinth】, he walked on the blurry path in the white fog. The third road sign that appeared was also inserted crookedly on the ground, and a wooden arrow was nailed to the old wood, crookedly writing the number three.

Xia De put his hand on the road sign:

【Original Crack will guide you in the direction.】

The white fog dissipated.

Xia De stood in place without moving. When the white fog completely dissipated, what was presented in front of him was a circular space exactly the same as the one behind the wall of his own basement.

The statue of the Ancient God 【Original Crack】 stood quietly in the center of the space, emitting light as Xia De watched.

In the circular spaces of Saint Deran Square and Cold Water Port, Xia De had placed some characteristic objects that could indicate the location. And in the space where he was currently, there were no items except the statue.

"I was still looking forward to getting the property or relics left by predecessors in this kind of place."

Xia De thought in his heart, looking at the wall in the direction the statue was facing. Summoning the Fate Ring behind him, he controlled the spirit light of the core Spirit Rune 【Space-Time】 to shine on the wall. The wall disappeared silently, but there was faint light outside.

"What?"

The light should be at a relatively far position, so the opening of the wall did not trigger any reaction.

Xia De waited for a few seconds, confirmed that he didn't hear approaching footsteps, and then quietly came to the outside from the circular space.

There was a strange musty smell in the air. Listening quietly, the wind blowing through the treetops and the last wailing of summer insects in early autumn were the only sounds.

The light came from above the other side of the room he was currently in, and it was the natural light of the sun.

Xia De then lit the light on his fingertips and looked around, finding that this seemed to be an abandoned basement. Animal feces and various worthless garbage were thrown on the ground, and spider webs hung in the corners of the walls.

That moonlight even disturbed the bats resting in the darkness. Those creatures tried to launch an attack on Xia De, but after a flash of moonlight, they fell to the ground.

"Where is this basement? The smell is really terrible."

The basement was connected to the upstairs without steps, and the two were connected by a trapdoor. Originally, there were probably metal or wooden stairs, but now there was nothing.

Although the distance between the ground and the basement did not exceed ten meters, because he didn't know what the situation was above, Xia De didn't choose space movement but chose 【Frog's Leap】.

"Hi!"

After a light jump, his hands climbed onto the edge of the square entrance of the basement, which was the edge of a gap in the first-floor floor. After confirming that there was still no human sound, he used his arms to let his head rise from under the trapdoor.

This kind of pull-up action was no pressure for Xia De now:

"Where exactly is this?"

With curiosity, he finally saw everything around him. The ground was covered with a thick layer of dust, and rusted or even rotten metal furniture was piled up in the corner of the wall. There were some traces of fire on the ground near the right side, but that was at least a year ago.

The space on this floor was actually circular, and the walls were rough square gray stone bricks, and no traces of the steam industrial era could be seen.

Looking up, the spiral staircase spread upward, and a thin but sturdy-looking metal rod extended from the top of the tower to the ground, as if it were convenient to fall from the highest floor to the bottom floor.

"Tower? Clock tower or lighthouse? Looking at the style, it seems neither."

The sunlight came from directly in front. In this large tower, there were no traces of human use anymore. The door at the bottom of the lighthouse was removed, and the bright sun shone into the first floor of the lighthouse from the outside, and then shone toward the basement through the square gap on the ground.

Xia De's arms used force, and after his upper body jumped out of the basement completely, he first put his legs on the dusty ground, and then climbed up.

While standing up, he patted the dust on his clothes and palms. Because of his movements, there were some granular floating dust in the sunlight shining in from the door. This appearance was simply telling Xia De that this was an area far from human settlements.

"Hope it's not too far from the city, hope this is Midehillburg."

Xia De thought in his heart, only then did he remember that he nominally believed in the Orthodox God 【Mr. Dawn】, so he prayed to Mr. Dawn again in a low voice.

The sunlight shining in from the door was a bit dazzling. He raised his arm to cover his face, didn't explore this long-abandoned old tower, but walked into the light at the door.

The wind blew through the treetops, allowing Xia De, who had lived in the city of steam for a long time, to feel the breath of nature for a long time. In front of him was a forest, and the old tower behind him was almost completely integrated with the forest. This place had been abandoned for a long time, probably far exceeding 100 years.

The treetops had already rested on the outer wall of the old tower, and vines connected the towering trees and stone walls. Moss, wild grass, and various plants Xia De couldn't recognize covered the ground. Looking up, birds flew out of the windows of the old tower, and they had already lived in the tower for several generations.

"The air is really good, but what was this tower originally used for?"

He thought in his heart.

He didn't leave immediately, but walked around the tower and found that this lighthouse was actually near the mountainside of Xikaer Mountain. Behind the tower was a cliff slope that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and standing here, looking over the lush forest trees and towering mountain rocks, he could actually see the huge steam city stretching to the north under the mountain.

The city under the mountain was divided into small squares by streets. In the sun, the city built against the foot of the mountain extended toward the distant plain. The chimneys sprayed black fog toward the sky, and he had to squint to barely see small black dots moving in the city.

The railway passed through the west of the city, connecting the northern plains of the Kingdom and the entrance to the mountain of the Rommel Mountain Range. This was the most important railway line in the southeastern region of De La Rui Ang. Through this railway, the trade goods and travelers between De La Rui Ang and Kasenrike did not have to detour around the giant mountain range in the middle and east of the Old Continent, nor did they have to climb over the peaks. It can be said that in the peaceful era of 1853, both De La Rui Ang and Kasenrike attached great importance to this city.

Compared to when he first poked his head out under the sea in Cold Water Port and first glimpsed the Cold Water Port wharf, glimpsing the huge city lying under the mountain from the forest at this moment gave Xia De more shock: ===== CHAPTER 586 =====