Chapter 632: Misfortune and Good Fortune

Xia De came to the side of Captain Lei Lei Jiede by the wall, confirming that the captain was only unconscious.

"Kill him? Of course not, why would I do that?"

Xia De asked himself in his heart, preparing to retrieve his Rhodes cards before waking the captain:

"What good would it do me to try to resist someone else's prophecy?"

The action of standing up caused an airflow to pass by his ear, and faintly, Xia De actually felt a lock of cold long hair brush past his ear. Just the hair alone made him shiver uncontrollably:

"What's going on?"

Looking at the fallen Henry Wa Er, the evil spirit behind him had indeed disappeared, and the current situation should have nothing to do with the other party.

"Wait, the hanging hair by my ear... it's that artifact! 【Long Hair of the Unfortunate】!"

【Outsider, an unfortunate fate is attacking you.】

"What?"

Thick white fog suddenly appeared around, almost instantly swallowing Xia De and the other two in the secret room. The familiar feeling made Xia De immediately understand what this was:

"Damn it! The entrance to the Boundary actually opened here! Just like when the priest fell into the Boundary, this kind of unlucky thing is actually appearing now!"

White fog surged from the invisible boundary, representing that the boundary between life and death was gradually becoming blurred. Xia De keenly felt the change in the abnormal space; the temperature was dropping rapidly, and everything in the secret room was becoming rotten. He even heard the wailing of evil spirits and saw countless rotten hands reaching toward him from the blur that was becoming clear.

If there were no accidents, with the next breath, Xia De would fall into the Boundary like the priest. And he couldn't even call for help from anyone.

Fortunately, Xia De was stronger than Priest Ao Gu Si:

"Space Stabilization Halo!"

Invisible fluctuations spread from Xia De as the center toward the surroundings. As if the sound of glass shattering rang in his ears, all the white fog around disappeared instantly, and the exit that had just opened also disappeared.

The entrance to the 【Boundary of Life and Death】 was inherently extremely unstable, so it required rituals to maintain it to exist continuously. Expelling this kind of abnormal spatial phenomenon, although very exhausting for Xia De, was at least not impossible.

The feeling of the cold long hair by his ear also disappeared; the misfortune brought about by the unauthorized use of the artifact was considered successfully avoided by Xia De.

"So, if it's not necessary, one must absolutely not do things that manipulate destiny."

The Outsider summarized in his heart the lesson he had learned in this world.

And besides not trying to manipulate destiny, another important experience Xia De gained was not to trade with demons.

"However, after the priest left the Gate of Death, relying only on my Misuo could seal the gate, but Mid-Hill Fort actually started to have Boundary entrances appearing again. The priest said that the Boundary swallowing living people is also to balance life and death. It seems that the final time for the death outbreak is getting closer and closer. I hope this time, the church won't neglect important intelligence like in Tobesk."

Before waking up Captain Lei Lei Jiede, who seemed to have been drugged, Xia De briefly searched this somewhat small dark room.

Because there was only one bookcase, he easily found the diary of Henry Wa Er, who had become a vegetable, and then discovered a terrifying book titled "Treasures of the Human Body: Life Extension Method" on the bottom shelf.

The book used hand-drawn anatomical human diagrams as illustrations, depicting methods of extending one's life through cannibalism. Of course, these methods were all fake and had nothing to do with true mysticism. So, this was probably just nonsense written by a lunatic, published by a mysticism enthusiast among ordinary people, and then fell into the hands of this Folklore student.

"Fake mystical knowledge is so maddening; I can't imagine what changes would happen to this world if the church didn't regulate the knowledge of Ringed Ringed Shushi."

So the Five Gods Church is truly an important force for maintaining civilization stability.

While flipping through the book, a note fell out from the pages, with only one line of text on it:

【Prophesying death, advance booking, no bargaining. Building A, No. 8 Pig Tail Alley, three long two short, three short two long.】

"How does it look like a scammer. That boy, couldn't he have just happened to guess Henry Wa Er's situation?"

After considering it, Xia De put the note back into his pocket and put the book back in its original place.

Besides books, there were some strange small bottles containing suspicious liquids on the bookshelf. Besides that, five or six hideous enamel figurines were placed on the top layer; unfortunately, they couldn't even be considered valuable antiques, only handicrafts with unique aesthetics.

Henry Wa Er didn't have a wallet on him, but there were some in this secret room. However, those ladies' wallets looked like relics of the victims, so Xia De didn't touch them, waiting for the police to return them to the victims' families. Of course, it was possible the money inside would be embezzled, but Xia De would absolutely not take it.

"I knew it, there must be a hidden compartment!"

After knocking on the wall for a while, he indeed found a position where the sound was not right. After prying off that wall brick, behind it were an old-fashioned single-shot pistol, several boxes of bullets wrapped in oil paper, brown paper bags with the victims' identity information, and a long-handled makeup mirror wrapped in burlap.

The handle and frame were silver, and it was also dotted with gems of unknown authenticity. Only around the mirror frame, some thick silver wires were actually hooked together in the style of tentacles, and there was a small line of imperceptible ancient text on the handle:

【The safest place is—inside the mirror!】

The moment he opened the burlap and touched the item, the whisper had already been given in his ear:

【Outsider, you felt a whisper.】

"A whisper? This is..."

Xia De widened his eyes.

【Yes, an artifact.】

Having come to this world for more than three months and experienced so many things, strictly speaking, this artifact in his hand was the first one Xia De had actively touched himself.

Many previous artifacts were either bought or encountered because of others, such as 【Scale of the Drowned Fishman】 and 【Pen of Joyful Dreams】, and even 【Seal of the Demon Hunter】 should be considered to have fallen into Xia De's hands because of Sparrow Hamilton.

And this mirror in his hand fell into his hands under such a coincidence entirely because of Xia De's own reasons.

"Three months! Three months! I knew it! Even if I'm not the Chosen One, how could I never encounter a stray artifact!"

The happy mood at this moment was even higher than when he discovered the truth just now. It wasn't because he got something valuable, but because he proved his luck:

"I knew it, my luck is still quite good."

Unfortunately, Henry Wa Er didn't record the origin of this mirror, but it must have been obtained when he was collecting those "mystical items" he thought were.

"Today is truly a perfect day."

Putting the mirror away, he filled the brick back into the wall. First returning to the wall where he came from the broom closet, he found the push-type mechanism to open the door, proving that he had entered in a normal way, and only then did he wake up the dazed Captain Lei Lei Jiede.

After he opened his eyes and saw Xia De, then saw Henry Wa Er, who was dead or alive, his face turned red:

"I was actually ambushed by a young man."

It looked like if there weren't no cracks in the ground, Captain Lei Lei Jiede would have wanted to drill directly into the ground.

The next things were simple. Xia De found it inconvenient to attract too much attention in Mid-Hill Fort, so he used the excuse of "the troublesome client doesn't want me to expose myself" to let Captain Lei Lei Jiede alone receive the credit for solving this serial murder case.

The captain certainly refused, but Xia De waved his hand to indicate he didn't need to say more:

"Captain, I'll take 90% of the 100-pound reward. The remaining ten pounds are yours. If you feel bad, you can treat me to a meal when you have time."

Except for Henry Wa Er, who had become a vegetable, no one had seen Xia De and Captain Lei Lei Jiede investigating in the castle together. And the only one who knew the truth of this matter was now only Professor Deng En.

Xia De only needed to solve the case; as for the credit, perhaps Captain Lei Lei Jiede needed it more. ===== CHAPTER 633 =====