The Whispering Verses Chapter 1652: Wolf and Factory
"Doctor, just drive the carriage."
As Dorothy spoke, she had already pushed open the lid of the wooden box, held a handful of refined salt, and carefully sprinkled the salt on the huge St. Byrons school emblem symbol on the surface of the black coffin on the trembling carriage. .
At the same time, more than a dozen black wolves emerged from the strange forest that did not look like the real world and followed the carriage. They were no ordinary beasts. Apart from their huge size and uneven crystal spikes on their backs, they actually walked on the air and ran in the air, almost blending into the black shadow.
As long as no big noise is made, in the current state of spatial dislocation, Tobesk cannot see any changes in this carriage. Therefore, Shade was relieved and prepared to cast the spell. At the same time, the "Match Girl" called by Dorothy, who was spreading salt, also appeared next to Shade with a basket.
The little girl with bare feet and a headscarf bowed to Shade, then took out a match and put it in front of her mouth. She blew lightly and the sea of fire swept towards the back of the carriage. However, the effect of the flames was not good, because soon, the first black wolf running in the void broke through the sea of fire and approached the carriage, and was then cut in two by Shade's sword light.
It left no body behind but disappeared into the shadows. From this point of view, these things that look like wolves should belong to elemental life forms.
"Moonlight Slash."
The cross moonlight flew from the rear of the carriage into the sea of spreading flames, and Dorothy had completed nearly half of the work of spreading salt. The leakage of the relic's power this time was not very strong, so it was surprisingly smooth to stop.
"Detective, be careful, a big guy is coming."
Priest August’s reminder came from the front, so the little girl carrying the basket took the burning match away from her mouth, and together with Shade, they saw the black wolves who had been lucky enough to escape the attack just now. They merged together, and then a black wolf larger than the carriage appeared behind the slow-moving carriage.
The eyes are glowing red, and the hair on the body and the crystals on the back are also pure black, almost blending into the night with no clear boundaries.
It raised its front paws and slapped the fragile-looking carriage. Shade quickly cast a spell, but when the silver ring flying out of the carriage approached its front paws, the front paws turned into shadows and disappeared. entity. [Light of Confinement] passed through the shadows and flew towards the larger body of the black wolf, but was bitten by the wolf in its mouth and shattered into pieces.
Fine silver light spots sprinkled downwards, and the giant black wolf once again grabbed the car with its sharp claws. But this time, the little girl carrying the basket disappeared beside Shade, and appeared on the top of the carriage while snowflakes suddenly fell in the air. She blew out the burning match:
"Stop."
The wolf froze in the air, getting further and further away from the slow-moving carriage, but he could move again in just five seconds. This is the result of the combination of Shade's incomplete mystery lock and Dorothy's thaumaturgy. They discussed the use of this kind of thaumaturgy in their studies every Saturday, but this was the first time they actually used it. Of course, this effect is incomparable with the full version of Shade's Mystery Lock "Wish", but the advantage of the weak effect is that it does not consume a lot of money.
Taking advantage of the opportunity Dorothy fought for, Shade, who was holding a sword, had already pointed the [Night Watcher] at the huge black body running towards them again:
"Sunray ray!"
The huge torrent of warm yellow energy bombarded the shadow body, penetrating the body of the black wolf like a hot iron rod passing through the snow.
Meanwhile, Dorothy had finished spreading the salt. The forest scene disappears, and the foggy night Tobesk street scene reappears. The slow-moving carriage continued to roll over the city's roads, and the rhythmic clapping of the horses' hooves was reassuring. The gas streetlight caused the shadow of the carriage to be reflected diagonally on the low wall on the other side of the street, and the giant wolf was gone from behind.
This night is still so peaceful.
Shad took back the sword and breathed a sigh of relief. Dorothy also returned to him, patting the salt stains in her hands while they continued to watch the street scene that was moving away.
"Well done."
Doctor Schneider's voice came from the front, indicating that the brief leakage of the relic's power was over.
"I don't understand, since salt works, why not just put the coffin in the salt. I think the college can't afford so much refined salt, right?"
Xia De's voice said, and the doctor smiled and asked him to try:
"You will know after you try it. Since the academy has not banned this, it means that it will not cause problems... Get it, we have to speed up and turn."
Shade then asked for a bag of salt from Dorothy, grabbed a handful and sprinkled it on the coffin in the wooden box, and the handful of salt melted into water like snow. Shade looked at the salt that Dorothy had sprinkled along the traces of the school badge, and it indeed "melted" after the abnormality ended.
"It's really interesting."
Xia De commented, and Miss Writer praised Xia De:
"I haven't seen you fight seriously for a long time. Your performance just now was really good."
"This sword is more useful."
Xia De said, seeing the salt on his hand, he licked it off. Dorothy showed a puzzled expression, not because she was disgusted with Shade's unhygienic behavior, but because she didn't know when he had a hobby of eating salt.
"It's not salt, it's sugar."
As he spoke, he also grabbed Dorothy’s hand and gently licked it, and explained:
"My thaumaturgy [candy making] can turn food into sugar. Although salt is not suitable for consumption in large quantities, it is obviously food."
The writer blushed and nodded, putting her hands behind her back, fearing that Shade would do something more extreme.
The estimated transfer time from Tobesk Railway Station in the north of the city to the warehouse rented by the doctor in the west of the city is between twenty minutes and half an hour. This is without accidents, which include not only relics getting out of control and being attacked, but also troubles caused by ordinary people.
When the carriage entered Saint Laurent Avenue at the junction of Beicheng District and Xicheng District, the patrolling police stopped the running carriage and asked what was being carried in the carriage.
Although the core city of Tobesk does not prohibit carriages from entering, it is indeed unusual for them to still be transporting goods at such a late hour.
So Dr. Schneider took out a forged document he had bought from Old John in advance:
"Deliver woven bags to Mr. Roman Schuels' flour factory. He is in urgent need of them, so let us deliver them as soon as possible."
After checking the ID, the police officer asked to open the car to check. The doctor did not stop them, and when they came to the back, they saw Shade and Dorothy standing in front of the coffin, but what they saw was a mountain of woven bags filling the entire carriage.
"Okay, let's go now. Don't leave after you've delivered your things. There was some trouble around seven o'clock, and there might be martial law tonight."
The police officer warned, throwing the ID to Dr. Schneider. The doctor raised his eyebrows, and when he saw Priest August nodded to him, he made a spell-casting gesture with his hand, and then asked softly:
"What happened in the city? At about seven o'clock, I heard gunshots."
"One of the barons in the Kasenlik delegation went to the north of the city to recruit, and was shot."
"Such a trivial matter, isn't it going to trigger martial law? It's considered a scandal. I've actually read some of the newspapers in the next few days."
The doctor said with a smile, and the policeman holding the oil lamp said:
"I heard it was for other reasons. On the surface, it was to recruit prostitutes, but in fact, it was to exchange information with others. Who knows? It has nothing to do with you anyway, so leave quickly."
So the carriage pulling the coffin continued on the road, and Shade in the carriage looked at Dorothy. Dorothy nodded knowingly and used her newly acquired ability to talk to Lesia at any time to communicate. :
"The person who met Baron Kasenrik was a high-status nobleman from Tobesk. We don’t know who it was at the moment. After the baron shot himself, the nobleman was alerted by the sound of the gunshot and ran away. The king was already preparing to take a rest, but he urgently summoned Director Anlos an hour ago and asked him to find out who was meeting the baron. 'She' said that MI6 knew nothing about this matter, and the king was very angry. ."
"The escaped nobles are spies planted by Gray Gloves at the top of the kingdom?"
"I don't know, judging from the pocket watches, letters and walking sticks left at the scene, it's not even an ordinary nobleman. This is not an ordinary spy, and it's not even necessarily related to the Gray Gloves. Apart from Carsonric and Delrayon, There are other forces involved."
Dorothy shook her head:
"She said this has nothing to do with us, let us complete the group's tasks tonight."
The carriage continued to drive, and after entering the western part of Tobesk, it was obvious that the city had become noisy. This is of course not because people living in Xicheng prefer nightlife, but because the steam factories in Xicheng District are working overtime even at night.
Workers need shift breaks, but machines do not need shift breaks. Of course, under certain circumstances, people must also not be able to take breaks during shifts. The average working hours of workers in the Tobesk region is now close to twelve hours a day, although this situation has improved in recent years with the development of labor unions and the improvement of relevant labor laws. But obviously, after eight o'clock in the evening, it is absolutely impossible for the factory to rest.
Due to factory transportation of goods and other needs, the installation rate of gas street lights in Xicheng District is much higher than that in the slums of Beicheng District. Dr. Schneider planned the route in advance to avoid crowded neighborhoods, so that if he encountered trouble, he would not involve more people.
This means that they have to frequently walk through dark streets without street lights, which makes the four people feel even more pressure when they face the dual dangers of the power of the relic being leaked and unknown attackers.
"Doctor, I don't understand how the trackers from the New World determined the location of the relics?"
In the coachman's seat, Priest Augustus was still talking to Dr. Schneider, and the doctor said:
"For a short period of time when the power of this relic breaks through the containment measures, the unique power can be remotely located. The ring wizards who first came into contact with this relic and tried to compete with the academy for it knew how to strengthen this positioning. Method. So theoretically, we should have been targeted when we suddenly saw the forest."
"That's really bad."
Priest August said that Shade in the carriage could even imagine the dull look on his face when he spoke.
At this time, the carriage was driving in a narrow alley that could only allow one carriage to pass in one direction. On both sides of the alley were three-story apartment buildings with dense windows. It was difficult for Shade to imagine that there was no lighting at all on the ground floor. .
As long as the carriage enters the connected street at the other end of the alley, it takes less than three minutes to reach the warehouse prepared by Dr. Schneider. During the preparation of the team's mission, although he did not come to Shade for help, the rest of the team helped arrange defense, investigation and other rituals in the warehouse.
Entering the warehouse, the danger of this night is reduced by at least half.
But just when the carriage came to the alley and was about to turn east, Xia De in the carriage suddenly looked at the side wall of the carriage. Black vine-like patterns that were difficult to detect in the darkness were spreading on the wooden carriage and rapidly extending toward the bottom of the carriage.
Although he didn't know what it was, he still raised his sword and stabbed it on the pattern. Then his eyes blurred, and the scene inside the carriage turned into an open roof. From the side, you can even see the carriage driven by the doctor continuing to move forward in the night fog below the building.
[Forced space transfer. 】
"She" reminded softly, Xia De was surprised that this unknown thaumaturgy was so powerful, and then found that the long sword he was holding actually penetrated the right chest of the man in front of him.
The unknown ring warlock has golden hair and looks to be in his mid-twenties. He screamed in pain, but was unable to free himself from the sword.
"I just stabbed those patterns... It turns out that attacking the patterns will trigger forced space transfer, but the caster will also bear the attacks from the patterns. If you ignore the patterns, the space transfer effect will probably be directed towards the carriage. itself, and the relics are not affected... Is this considered powerful or not?"
While thinking in his mind, he rotated the hilt of the sword. The injuries caused by the sword spinning among the flesh made the unknown ring warlock scream again. Behind him, the six-ring warlock's life ring clearly appeared. He did not try to defend or treat, but endured the severe pain and slapped his left hand on Shade's chest.
Shad didn't even think about dodge. He used his free left hand to create a seal. Because the conditions for holding a sword in his right hand were met, the shield with a golden stream of light blocked the whispers of the six-ring warlock during the opening process. -[Poison] A slap-like thaumaturgy used by spiritual runes.
At the same time, [Headon's Seal] exploded at the right time, injuring the man's left hand at close range. The poison spread to his own hands. When he endured the pain in his chest and left hand and tried to fight back a second time, he had no chance.