The Whispering Verses Chapter 2686: Bronte’s story
Chapter 2685 Bronte’s Story
The lady continued to answer expressionlessly:
"My son sent us here. Theodore didn't want us to leave. He couldn't let us escape death like him, so he trapped our souls here. I'm in the cemetery In the chapel, his father is in the left tomb of the underground cemetery, and his sister is under the tree behind the west wall of the cemetery.
Theodore’s wife, possible children, and other brothers should also appear here after their deaths in the future. Young man, it's not that I don't want to leave here, I just can't. ”
Shade pressed the cat's head on his chest. He clearly felt that she wanted to speak and comment on this matter.
"So besides your son, who else traveled through time?"
After all, the Paradox Bug has not been found yet, this question is very important, but this time the lady shook her head:
"I don't know. I was already dead when Theodore traveled through time. All the things I just mentioned to you were all said by him when he came to me."
Xia De frowned slightly:
"Then do you know how he traveled through time?"
"Tree hole."
The lady said the term accurately, but then she shut up and continued after a moment of silence:
"I don't know how much you know about this. There has been a legend about the Time Tree Cave in Ximu Town since ancient times. I am the daughter of a noble family who married from a foreign country. I was not born locally, and my husband did not have any knowledge during his lifetime. So many things have been said to me.
I just know that the Bronte family has known about the existence of the tree hole from a long time ago. Although not every generation of Brontës used tree holes, my husband must have told Theodore the family secret, which was probably how he was able to travel through time. ”
Xia De knew that the ancient families in the Ximu Town era knew the secret of the "Tree Hole", which was something that Sha De had guessed from the beginning, and it was confirmed again here. It's just that he doesn't have time to deal with the more ancient matters for the time being, so he still has to deal with the matters in front of him first:
"Is that tree hole passed down from your family?"
If this is true, then the origin of the book that first appeared in the hands of Baron Cumming's mother, the lover of young Cumming, is also worthy of doubt.
“I don’t know, my husband rarely talks to me about time.”
"Then what was the mysterious being in the forest that your son saw, the one who gave him his destined death?"
The lady still can’t give the answer:
"I don't know, when he found that mysterious being in the forest, I was already seriously ill and bedridden. When he came back, I was already dead.
Everyone living in Ximu Town knows that there are many mysterious things hidden and sleeping in this woodland. Most of the surnames who have lived here for a long time know some of its secrets. Maybe he found something from the information left by his ancestors in the family collection, or maybe it was just the desire for immortality that allowed him to glimpse the darkness in the forest. ”
Next, Shade asked her some questions, such as the identities of the Bronte family members, and whether there were any other abnormalities in the Bronte family. The ladies are all willing to answer, and there is only one thing she wants Shade to do, which is to rescue York Bronte from "immortality":
"Young man, please kill my son and free us. His existence now has become a curse. I can clearly feel that he is rejected by all souls."
The curse here refers to the nature of the existence of "Dead Apostles" itself, not the curse of time. Therefore, Shade also wanted to find out what the other party's time curse was, but unfortunately the lady really didn't know.
After confirming that there were no clues here, Shade and the cat temporarily left the small auditorium and returned to the outside world shrouded in heavy fog. Half of the time traveling this time has passed, and they must speed up the progress.
"Did you notice the timing?"
The cat on the chest reminded:
"The correct sequence is: Theodore Brontë knew his destined death, and then he traveled through time to escape death and became a Death Apostle and was cursed by time. So he was cursed and he became a Death Apostle, almost happened at the same time.
According to the rules of time travel, the more powerful you are, the stronger the time curse you will receive. As a Death Apostle, Theodore Brontë's curse may not be stronger than ours, but it's definitely not a trivial matter like touching gold that will cause death. ”
Xia De looked at the grave pit where the coffin was buried again:
"And he was still a three-ringed sorcerer from 1821 to 1854. There is something wrong with this matter. When my friend told me about the Death Apostles, he said that the Death Apostles directly changed the nature of life. Even if his original talent as a ring warlock was not high, he would not be able to reach the mid-level level after becoming a Death Apostle."
"So the curse content is limited in level? It can never break through the third ring?"
"The lady just now didn't know if her son was a transcendent. There is still some time left, so let's move quickly and ask other people. Aren't his sister and father here too?"
Just like the noble lady who has completely transformed into a wraith, the old baron and the woman in her thirties have also turned into terrifying wraiths because their spirits have been on the edge of life and death for a long time.
Among them, the spirit body of the old baron in the underground tomb mutated and merged with a corpse, turning into a mutated ghoul that could achieve full-body virtualization. It fought with Shad in the narrow tomb and escaped with one blow. It relied on its ability to penetrate the wall to escape, and even wanted other undead wandering in the tomb to attack Shad.
Shade, who was in a hurry, had no time to fight with him. He relied on the strength of his body to forcefully break through the walls and chased after him. Then he destroyed the body of the ghoul with a thunder gun and used After the moonlight was purified, I wanted to ask the same question as before, but the witch gave a terrible answer:
"No, he has been dead longer than that lady. His soul has been completely lost, and he cannot even extract his memory."
But fortunately, Theodore Bronte's sister's death was the shortest. When Shade found her in the woods outside the cemetery, the young woman's soul rushed over with a shovel in hand. The ghosts transformed by this family have more power than ordinary souls. The special thing about this ghost is not the shovel in her hand, but her ability to conjure exploding apples.
But the wraith is still a wraith. After being successfully subdued by Shade and restored to normal by the witch, she also provided important information to the two of them:
"Yes, my brother is a ring warlock. That happened two years before his mother died. In order to treat his seriously ill mother, he gradually changed from medical research to occult research. And in a certain One day, he suddenly told me that he heard another voice of his own in his ears."
The soul named Anna Bronte stood quietly under the tree. She was 31 years old and unmarried when she died. This was a completely tragic life in this era and the era of 1854:
"Theodore likes to communicate with me very much. I know a lot about him. After he heard the voice in his ears, he spent a lot of money to buy a potion and became a ring warlock. But he He said that the medicine he bought had side effects and that he would never be able to touch a higher power in his life."
This is the shortcoming of the irregular employment circle warlock. The ritual methods mastered by the Five Gods Church and the three major academies are the formal employment paths.
"Two years later, my mother also passed away due to illness, and my physical condition also deteriorated. When holding the funeral for my mother, Theodore told me that he had achieved immortality, and he promised to let me and He is the same.
I rejected him. Theodore's mental state at that time was already very wrong. ”
"After he achieved so-called immortality, did you notice any difference between him and before? For example, the details of his life."
Xia De asked, and the girl’s soul answered after digging out the sleeping memories:
"He fell in love with eating raw meat."
But this is also the manifestation of humans transforming into Death Apostles, not a time curse.
"After my mother died, a series of consecutive disappearances occurred in the town, but the missing people were all outsiders, and the murderer could not be found in the town. I always suspected that it was him, but I was already seriously ill at that time. Bed, unable to investigate."
This is probably Theodore Bronte's crime of killing people and sucking life force. Priest August said that the Dead Apostles prefer humans and highly intelligent alien creatures to plants and ordinary animals.
"Except this year, he frequently appears in this weird world of the dead and chats with me, my mother, and my father. Even though we can no longer respond to him, he still comes to visit frequently after we lose our minds. We. I originally thought he was missing his family, but now that I think about it, he just seems to like the environment here. ”
But this is wrong. Although "Dead Apostles" sound like immortal undead creatures, undead creatures are things that are produced normally due to "death", and "Dead Apostles" are neither alive nor dead. This thing is absolutely Not undead, and even less likely to like "the edge of life and death".
Therefore, "liking to stay on the edge of life and death" is not the nature that Theodore Brontë should have.
A smile appeared on Shade's lips, and he felt that he had grasped the key point. The cat in his arms also realized this, but she thought of more things:
"How did your brother discover this place? Your family cemetery is also here. Could it be that your ancestors knew about the existence of the edge of life and death?"
The girl's soul was not startled by the cat speaking, and her emotional expression remained indifferent:
"At least before our parents died, none of us knew the existence of this kind of place. That was also what happened after my mother died. Theodore often came here. I originally thought he came here to mourn his parents. He has been coming in and out frequently since his mother died."
"Before your mother died, did anything similar to the resurrection of the dead occur in your family cemetery?"
Xia De asked again, Soul shook his head. This is very interesting. The edge of life and death overlaps with this area, and this happens to be a cemetery, but there is no resurrection of the undead. This can only show that the gap in this world actually opened after their mother died.