The Whispering Verses Chapter 2610: Missing
Chapter 2609 Missing
Miss Bell wrote the last letter as she finished speaking. The three people on the sofa looked over. The straight line represented the normal timeline, and the curved dotted line represented abnormal time travel.
From 1803 to 1854, there are currently only two "time travel" phenomena surrounding the Cumming family. Among them, James Cumming spanned 51 years and half a century, while his father spanned less than twenty years.
They were silent for a while.
"Fortunately, there are only two members of the Cumming family that Shade discovered were cursed by time. If there were one more, I can't imagine how we would analyze this matter."
Miss Winslet sighed softly, and the red-haired girl also nodded:
"And fortunately, the only time tree hole discovered around the Cumming family is that one, otherwise there would be more variables. Anyway, now at least the idea is straightened out. Shade, what is your opinion? Where should we start? Start?"
"From Baron Cumming."
Xia De stared at the whiteboard with a very clear idea:
"Baron Cumming's role in the entire timeline seems to be over. He has completed traveling through time, and other major time nodes have nothing to do with him. But it remains to be seen whether little Cumming got Erica pregnant. He knows, so although we can easily capture little Cumming directly, it is better to start the investigation from Baron Cumming."
The two ladies also agreed with Shade's idea, and naturally the task of chatting with Baron Cumming could not be done by the witch followers. Shade planned to do it in person.
As for whether to sit down and talk to the Baron face to face, or to force the Baron to tell the secret, it depends on the Baron's cooperation. You can even use magic potions such as "Veritaserum" as a last resort.
To deal with an ordinary person, ring magicians have many methods.
It's just that things didn't go as smoothly as Shade imagined. Not including Miss Charlotte Bell, Miss Winslet currently has only nine followers in Vista City.
The nine girls were divided into four groups to perform the tasks of monitoring Baron Cumming's mansion, monitoring Bennet's old house, going to the black market to collect intelligence, and staying on standby at the Accordion Hotel, so no one followed Baron Cumming.
This led to the fact that when the witch sent the **** standby at the hotel to the city to inquire about the Baron's schedule today, she discovered that Baron Cumming seemed to be missing.
When I got the news, it happened to be just before lunch. Shade was chatting with Miss Winslet about the topic of transfiguration. She seemed to want to teach Shade how to do it, while Miss Danister was looking through the literature. While listening.
Miss Bell, who was out on a mission, hurriedly knocked on the door and came in:
"Miss, the Baron is missing."
The witch who just gave Shade an example of "the role of animal hair in transfiguration" frowned:
"What does it mean to be gone?"
“The Baron met with his local business partners at the club in the morning and left around ten o’clock. We heard from the club’s doorman that the Baron got into a taxi at the door of the club.
We then found the taxi and found out that the carriage dropped the Baron in the northeast of the city, and then the Baron's whereabouts were never found again. ”
Miss Bell glanced at her pocket watch:
"Almost two hours have passed since Baron Cumming got off the carriage in the morning."
"Where exactly did he get off the bus?"
Miss Danister asked, and Shade swept the documents and information on the coffee table onto the carpet, and then spread the city map on the coffee table.
The young black-haired girl stepped forward to check and pointed her finger at the old city in the northeast:
"At the eastern exit of Lovegood Lane, three of us surveyed the area. I am very sure that the Baron has not left this area. The entrance to the lane is in the old city, and there are not many pedestrians on the road. There are none today. Anyone who has seen a person dressed in such a special way as Baron Cumming passes by means that he has not gone far."
"How did you investigate?"
The witch continued to ask her apprentice, Miss Bell stood at attention and answered the question, while Daniste asked her apprentice:
"What do you think?"
"Since it is the old town, it means that it used to be part of Creekwood Town. We just talked about the past and the present, so where was Lovegood Lane in the past Creekwood Town era?"
The red-haired girl bent down and picked up the old map of Ximu Town from the carpet, and briefly compared it with the map on the coffee table:
"That place was called Lovegood Lane in the old days. You have a good idea, Shade, but on this map published in 1810, there is nothing particularly noteworthy about that neighborhood."
"Then let's see for ourselves. I don't believe it's such a coincidence that he is missing now."
Xia De stood up, the eyes of the witch and the red-haired girl met, and the former said:
"Dannister stays and guards the cupboards and doors. I'll go with you. Charlotte, you don't have to follow me. You take people to the Morris House where the Cummings live to make sure that James Kamin doesn’t want to disappear.”
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"Yes, ma'am."
So the witch turned into an owl with spread wings in the gray-white mist, fluttering its wings and landing on Shade's shoulder.
Shad said to Miss Danister:
"Don't forget to have lunch later. We may not be back when, but don't worry even if you don't come back very late."
"You'd better not worry me."
She said and threw the box containing the [Family Stabilizer] to Shade:
"Looks like I have to eat lunch by myself again today."
Since Shade and Miss Winslet were acting together, there was no need to waste money on riding in a carriage. Miss Owl directly grabbed the silver cat and flew into the sky, passing over the city filled with trees and the residents living leisurely lives. Came to the northeast of the city.
They don't have to worry about being discovered by others. As long as someone doesn't directly witness the owl flying with the cat in hand, ordinary detection and defense rituals are ineffective against this top-notch transformation technique.
There happened to be no one in Lovegood Lane, so Shade and Miss Winslet transformed back into human form directly there.
"It really stinks."
She covered her nose, thought for a moment and turned into a gray-black cat and stood on Shade's shoulder. Shade is very accustomed to walking around with a cat on his back. Although this cat is heavier than little Mia, it does not affect his movements:
“It’s normal for the alleys in this kind of lower city area to have a stronger smell.”
Lovegood Lane is not a narrow alley that connects two different neighborhoods. It is lined with low-rise slum-style apartments on both sides. These buildings built a hundred years ago can be classified as "dangerous buildings" at this time. With the development of the city, such places have been forgotten by the times.
"It seems that there are not many people living here. The real slums in Vista City are in the west of the city. Even the poor are not willing to stay in the old city."
The cat on the shoulder said that Shade was not used to the cat he was carrying speaking human language, and he had to restrain the urge to touch her:
"Since there are not many people - echoes of the past!"
After closing his eyes and listening for a while, Shade shook his head regretfully. Then he squinted and used "Enhanced Spatial Perception", but the surrounding space was normal.
In the morning, Miss Bell had already taken the girls to inquire about nearby shops, so Shade didn't need to ask again. Seeing that Xia De had gained nothing, "Miss Cat" coughed:
"Then it depends on me. I thought you were really omnipotent."
The cat’s golden eyes are slightly bright, she is using the witch’s secret technique:
"Don't think that the Great Witch of Death is only proficient in sending people to death. We also have in-depth research on 'life and death'. Let me see the traces of living people nearby. The traces on your body are too bright!"
It jumped from Shade's shoulder to the side of the wall, and found a cleaner place to stop in disgust:
"You leave this alley first. I am going to cast a spell to detect traces of living people. If Baron Cumming really entered here less than three hours ago, I should still be able to capture some traces. Give me twenty minutes Time, this can’t be done just by looking at it.”
Xia De gave her a no problem gesture, put his hands in his pockets and left the alley, thinking that if he walked around, he might gain something else.
The two ends of Lovegood Lane are Banyan Street and Oak Avenue, which are where Creekwood existed since the time of the town. On that 1810 map, even the Sheriff Court of Brookwood was in this neighborhood.
"The old town has not disappeared~"
The outsider sighed in his heart. After arriving on Oak Avenue, he saw a man holding a newspaper across the street glance at him. Shade stared at him for a few seconds, and then looked away. This was just a look between strangers.
The man stood next to an old red mailbox across the street, and behind him was a thrift store that looked particularly bleak. Most of the pedestrians walking on the street were in a hurry. Only the man holding his lyre looked very excited. He probably got some good news, but he disappeared as soon as he turned the corner at the next intersection.
There were only some ordinary scenes at noon in autumn. Standing at the entrance of the alley, Shade took out his pocket watch and took a look. Then he stopped moving and pretended to be impatient to wait for someone. The "Ms. Cat" behind him didn't move very fast. Shade stood there boredly for five or six minutes, and couldn't help but complain in his heart:
"I thought I could still meet the Ring Warlocks from the [Tree Hole Association]. Did something happen to them? How come they never showed up again after they arrived at Bennet's old house?"
The stranger did not know that the other party had failed to spy on him. Now he was so frightened that he huddled in the forest and hardly took any unnecessary actions.
He continued to think about things in this city, and then he was worried that if he continued to investigate, he would find that all the permanent residents here were actually related to each other for one or two generations.
Fortunately, a few gentle cat calls came from the alley in time. Shade turned and entered the alley. The gray-black cat stood on the wall:
"I found it, come with me."