The Whispering Verses Chapter 1697: Druit Giles (additional update)
"Are you always so good at talking?"
Megan changed from pursed lips to biting her lips:
"I will tell you about my business next week. I am waiting for a very important guest. As for what we talked about, it is actually nothing important. We talked about their grandfather and my father and left there. Life after Zuodao. I also mentioned what happened recently. We all believe that no matter what the ancestor wants to do, it seems that he is not a good person and will not cooperate with the cultists."
Shade, who had accepted a drop of the evil god's divinity, was too embarrassed to speak.
"These two brothers are very interesting. I will arrange for my subordinates to contact them again later. But first, I have to find out what their origins are - they are from ring warlocks."
The promotion method of the Ring Warlock determines that it is impossible for a Ring Warlock to read a few books and figure it out on his own. All ring warlocks must be backed by some organization. Both Fulun brothers are fifth-level, and their strength is not weak, so they must have their own organization.
"They don't seem to be from the three major academies, let alone members of the church. And there are only a few of the well-known ring warlock organizations in the Willondale area."
"Just make your own decision. I will continue to contact Brother Fulan. If it is not necessary, don't involve them in the matter of the chosen ones. People only know that the chosen ones are powerful, but they don't know How much responsibility and trouble does this identity carry?"
Xia De sighed. The three chosen ones currently alive, Yin Luna aside, Sister Devlin and the Guardian of the Earth, do not look like normal people.
"You really know everything."
Megan said with a smile, and moved closer to Shade:
"Then we agreed that next week, we will confess our identities."
"Yes. It's agreed."
Xia De nodded, and then prayed in his heart that he had better not make the atmosphere too embarrassing.
【Who are you praying to? 】
"She" suddenly asked.
"Um...Mia."
The carriage rolled over the stone road, making a regular sound. The sound of horse hooves seemed even more rhythmic in the light rain. The sorceress in the carriage asked Xiang Shade again:
"If one day something bad happens to me, will you protect me?"
"You asked this question on Monday night. Yes, to the best of my ability."
Xia De replied, then her red lips pressed against the side of his face. The shy brown-haired lady then sat back in her original position, folded her hands on her lap, turned her head with a blushing face to look at the scenery outside the car window. The earlobes were reddish, and the brown hair beside her ears was blown by the wind outside the window.
The two said nothing again until the carriage stopped at the front door of the Green Lake Hotel. When Shade was about to stand up and say goodbye, he felt the badge on his chest heating up.
Looking at the young lady unexpectedly, the latter finally turned around and made a small request:
"This time when you say goodbye, can you call me 'Audrey'? This is also my name. You can call me whatever you want from now on."
It seems that she has not forgotten what happened when we parted on Monday.
"Okay, bye, Audrey."
"Goodbye."
She watched Shade open the car door and hurriedly entered the hotel through the rain curtain. The door closed and the carriage continued to move forward. She covered her face, which was a little hot, and began to worry about how she would explain the man's affairs when the other great witches from the Witch Council arrived next week.
(Yin Luna is praying...)
"Meow~"
Shade had just walked out of the basement and walked around to the entrance of the hall stairs when he saw little Mia standing on the third step and yelled "fiercely" at him. Of course, the cat's meowing was actually soft and far less annoying than the sounds of stray wild cats that often meow at night recently.
"What's going on?"
Shade bent down to pick it up, but little Mia turned around and flicked Shade's hand with her tail, then jumped up to the higher steps and walked towards the second floor.
【Cuddled other cats in the cafe. 】
"She" reminded gently, and then Shade understood. But it was actually very simple to solve the unhappiness of this cat with a very sensitive nose. He tidied up a little and called Mia to go out for lunch together. The cat was half disgusted and half looking forward to it, and he didn't know which corner. Walking towards Shade with cat steps.
Xia De didn't know why he could see such rich emotions in a cat.
【Wipe off the lipstick on your face before going out. 】
"Oh, I almost forgot about this."
While scrubbing in front of the mirror, I thought of the key to time again. It will probably take two or three days or more to land on the island again, and a decision needs to be made whether the time key should be kept until then.
Stay here, and you might be able to buy valuable time; use the key's mission reward, which includes "powerful spatial perception" that can play a huge role on the foggy island.
"We'll decide later tonight."
Thinking in his mind, he picked up the cat who was looking forward to but disgusted at the same time, and then went out happily.
Today, Tobesk is still filled with heavy fog, and the sky is also gloomy. Sure enough, it started to rain lightly outside during lunch, causing people walking on the street to flee in a hurry.
Shade naturally had no shortage of rain gear among his toys, but after lunch he did not go directly to Professor Manning, but sent little Mia home first. Because of Professor Manning's unique hobbies, Shade would not bring Mia there no matter what.
Visiting a retired history professor with unique aesthetics and hobbies on a rainy day is often the beginning of a horror story. When Shade knocked on the door of the professor's house in Mao Tail Alley, he was still thinking about what kind of story he would encounter this time.
The servant opened the door for Shade, and Shade saw the old professor in the living room.
Long time no see. Professor Manning is in good health and in good spirits. He was wearing a brown woolen shirt over a white shirt, looking homely. After welcoming Shade with a smile, he also asked him if he had completely recovered from the serious illness he suffered more than a month ago.
"Of course, I feel fine now."
"I never thought that people like you could get sick."
This refers to the Ring Warlock.
"Some unexpected circumstances happened, it's okay. Professor, thank you for visiting me with a gift. I was asleep at the time, so it seems that the maid received you, right?"
"It's okay, it's okay, you were sick at the time, I understand."
"There is also the honorary degree thing, I didn't have time to thank you."
After greetings, we got down to business. The two sat down in the living room. When Shade took out the pen and mentioned the name Durut Giles, Professor Manning showed a rather surprised expression:
"Giles. I know this young man. He is very talented. When he came to Tobesk three years ago, I met him when I was invited to give a lecture at the school. He was holding a Weilon Letter of introduction from the College of Saint-Fabry. He just joined the Faculty of History of Tobesk University. I heard that he is a researcher. He is lonely and has few friends. Later, he came to me to ask questions and we became acquainted."
The professor recalled, and then showed a hesitant look:
"Mr. Hamilton, what's the problem with Giles?"
"He is also a ring warlock."
Shade told Professor Manning the truth:
"He led a group of tomb robbers to rob a tomb in the Green Lake area. The group of tomb robbers have all died due to the curse... Well, there is still one who is still alive. I will track it down When they stole the funerary objects, they tracked down this Giles."
"Human Sorcerer, there is also a curse..."
Professor Manning took a breath, and it could be seen that the last [Happy Dream Pen] incident left a deep impression on him:
"Fortunately, I corresponded with him most of the time, and he only visited three times."
"Professor, where is he now? I entrusted someone to go to Willondale to investigate. His former colleagues said that he seemed to have disappeared from the beginning of this year and had no contact with his friends and colleagues in Willondale. Is he... dead?"
Xia De is now afraid that he will be asked to dig another grave.
"Probably not. I received a letter from him last month."
Professor Manning immediately shook his head:
"However, he has indeed been in poor health in the past six months. He was seriously ill just like you some time ago. It took you half a month to recover, but he has never recovered. I have many connections in the Tobesk archeology industry. Guang, when I had dinner with my old colleagues last week, I heard that Giles has been asking for leave intermittently for the past six months."
Xia De frowned slightly, it’s good that he’s not dead:
"That's probably the curse I'm talking about...Professor, where does he live? I'm going to find him now to see what's going on."
"Giles also lives in the university area, but it's a bit far away from here. I heard that he came to live with relatives, but I don't know why he is living in embarrassment."
As he spoke, the old professor clenched his fists and gritted his teeth:
"I'll go with you. It just so happens that I haven't seen him for a long time. If he doesn't want to provide you with information, I can help you persuade him. He is really a very talented young man. Although He stole someone else's tomb, but there might be a chance to save it. I don't want to excuse him, but I really hope he can get a chance to be redeemed."
Professor Manning has provided help to Shade several times, and Shade also respects the professor. Therefore, Xia De is willing to use the professor's persuasion to not subdue the other party as soon as they meet, but he does not want the professor to get involved:
"Professor, if you are worried, just wait for me here and I will bring him over. Something may not happen in a while. Although I am more confident than him, I may not be able to protect you."
Although Megan said that the other party was only a low-level warlock three years ago, she cannot take it lightly.
"I can wait for you downstairs."
"Then why don't you wait for me here?"
Xia De asked with a smile:
"And it's still raining outside... So be it. You write a letter and I'll bring it to Giles. If he sees the letter and wants to believe you who helped him, then it will save you the trouble. Please prepare hot tea at home. I promise to bring him over. Oh, I will disguise my face in a while. I don’t want others to know who I am.”
The professor nodded and did not forget to give his instructions:
"Be careful yourself, or ask Louisa to go with you."
"I won't bother her for now, I can handle this matter myself."
Among the six districts in Tobesk, the University District occupies the smallest area, but even so, it is not easy to find Durut Giles' residence. In Shade's imagination, as a ring warlock, even if he had to keep a low profile for some reasons, he would at least have his own single-family apartment.
But in fact, he was as shabby as Professor Manning said, and he actually lived in a shared apartment building with others. It was a single room separated by wooden boards. It was the worst type of accommodation in the university area.
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The apartment building is hidden in an alley in the southwest of the university district. Walk one street further west and you will enter Tobesk West District.
This type of apartment specifically rented to students in university areas generally covers a small area, but is quite crowded. But it was Wednesday afternoon, and most of the tenants were gone, and Shade was reluctant to let others know that he was here, so he disguised his identity and arrived at the door of No. 12 Nottingham Lane, closed his eyes to make sure there was no heartbeat behind the door, and then pretended He took out his own key and poked it into the keyhole.
Click~
The keyhole rotated automatically, and Shade walked in without blushing or heartbeat.
The lighting in this house is very poor, and it is even darker inside on rainy days. Shade always paid attention to his surroundings, climbed the narrow stairs from the first floor to the third floor, turned into the corridor and found the door with the number "3" on it.
Close your eyes and listen again. There is someone in the room behind the door. So, Shade held his breath and knocked on the door twice——
When~when~
When the crisp knock on the door sounded in the dim corridor, Shade felt a little eerie inexplicably.
[It’s not inexplicable. 】
"What?"
Then he saw an almost completely transparent spirit body floating out of the head and upper body through the wall. The spirit looked like a little girl. She tilted her head and looked at Shade.
When Shade also looked at her, the girl's soul face showed an expression of extreme shock, obviously not understanding why Shade could see her.
She quickly retracted into the wall with a whoosh - the onomatopoeia was Shade's imagination, but then he really heard the panicked sound of getting up and footsteps inside the door, and the footsteps were close to the window. of that wall.
The locked door was pushed open by Shade. When he entered, his hands directly pressed against the wall of the room. Blood-red thorn bushes immediately blocked the door and the only window in the room.
The pale young man wearing a nightgown stood desperately at the window and looked back at Shade, while the soul of the floating girl gloated beside him:
"Giles, Giles, you are in trouble!"
"I know...ahem."
The man who looked to be in his thirties coughed twice and did not dare to test what the blood-red thorns were. He walked back to the bed dejectedly and sat down, then looked at Shade with bloodshot eyes:
"What are you going to do?"
"Before I say what I'm going to do, can you explain why you want to run away?"
Xia De stood at the door and asked, basically certain that this was what he was looking for.
Duluth Giles was speechless for a moment, so Shade looked at the soul floating next to him:
"Are you... Rust Edwards?"
After saying this name, the little girl’s soul was stunned for a moment, then she clapped her hands and said:
"You know me, you know me!"
There is something wrong with her intelligence level. Even if she becomes undead, she shouldn't talk like this.
Looking at the pale man again, there was more despair in his tone:
"Are you from Green Lake?"
"That's true, but I'm from Tobesk."
The foreigner who owns a house in Saint Teresa Square said, and then introduced himself:
"You may have misunderstood my identity. I am not a member of the Edwards family, nor am I hired by anyone."
He took out the letter from Professor Manning and the pen he picked up from the bottom of the lake:
"In order to find a burial object, I traced it from the Randall Valley to the City of Glass-Micaila Blast Furnace City. Then I found clues on the central island of Green Lake, traced it all the way to Green Lake City, and destroyed the local area. After that, he found Willendale through your pen, then learned that you were in Tobesk, and finally found Professor Tiris Manning."
He himself feels that this process is complicated, but absolutely worth it.
The man sitting by the bed looked up at his lost pen, and then looked down at the letter:
"City of Spring - Randall Valley, that is a big city in the southwest of the Old World. I have never been there. Why did you...wait, what did those tomb robbers sell?"
He was unaware that the phalanges were being sold to Randall Valley.
Xia De breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the other party could communicate:
"It seems that what you encountered on the island is more complicated than I thought. Professor Manning said that you are very talented and asked me not to do anything to you casually. I respect this old gentleman, so please talk to me Let me go to the professor's place together."
As he spoke, he also introduced his relationship with the professor:
"He met me when he was young, and we helped each other a little. But just because I respect Professor Manning doesn't mean I'm really kind to you, so don't play tricks on me."
The man had finished reading the letter at this time, but he did not make a decision immediately. Instead, he looked at the soul floating around him. Rusty Edwards, the eldest daughter of the second generation of the Edwards family who died young, pondered for a moment:
"Go with him, go with him!"
"I'll go with you."
Duluth Giles nodded to Shade.
"Don't move yet, let me see what curse is on you."
As he said that, he walked over and held the other person's hand. After frowning slightly, he determined that it was the same curse as the mad tomb robber who was left with only one breath in Green Lake City. This curse is rooted in the soul, constantly draining the life force and will of the cursed person. Even Shade couldn't figure out what this weird curse was.
"It's very troublesome. Let's talk about the curse after we meet the professor."
He asked Durut Giles to change clothes and find shoes, and the latter obeyed obediently. While waiting, Xia De asked curiously:
"Speaking of which, what is your relationship with this...little lady?"
It was not a curse that bound the two of them, it was more like the soul of Rusty Edwards, who died young, stayed with him voluntarily.