The Whispering Verses Chapter 308: Mermaid statue

After seeing the ID of MI6, the old man inside the door immediately showed a horrified expression. Shade pushed him hard, causing the old man to stumble back a step, and he walked through the door.

The door behind him closed with a bang, and he raised his right hand to press his hat. Shade stood in the shadow of the foyer. He was much taller than the old man, and he felt even more oppressive at this time. Sexual temperament:

"If there is no problem, don't bother me in the attic. I will take the things and leave."

"You, you"

The old man held the crutches with both hands and leaned against the wall crookedly. He did not expect that the young man would barge in like this.

"Any more questions?"

"No, no, no, but you can take his things, but I won't refund the rent!"

He said in a loud voice, looking frightened but persistent.

"Rent? Do you think I care about this?"

Xia De smiled deliberately, then ignored the old man behind him and walked up the creaking stairs.

He is very satisfied with his acting skills.

Le Maire complained about the landlord of this house in his diary, who was a typical bully. When Le Maire first came to rent a house, the old man tried to kill him, but after the crew member revealed his worse and worse character, the landlord immediately offered a relatively fair price.

Being a landlord in this relatively chaotic dockside neighborhood, an old man holding the wall behind him and breathing heavily is not a good person. According to Le Maire's guess, the other party seemed to be using the basement workshop to smuggle contraband from the New World to produce some shady drugs.

It's really puzzling to do such a thing at such an old age, but Shade doesn't want to investigate in depth for the time being.

Judging from the diary, Le Maire, who successfully took office two years ago, has just entered the second ring this spring. He did not record the security measures he had set up for the attic in his diary, but the other party was not a church magician, nor could he be an academy magician, so there should not be many methods that could be used.

The attic door was locked, and three large locks sealed the door together.

I just happened to get a new spell [Key to the Door] from my past adventure last night. This spell can open anything with the concept of a "lock". The actual effect depends on the power of the lock itself and the power of the lock. Depends on the strength of virtue itself.

After hesitating for a moment, he reached out and knocked on the top black iron lock. With the power of the spell, the lock popped open with a snap.

"Oh? Does that work?"

Shad looked at his fingers, and then hit the brass lock in the middle with great anticipation, and the lock automatically opened in response.

"With this ability, if I am the kind of person who doesn't take the right path, I'm afraid there will be a clever thief in Tobesk."

Xia De sighed in his heart, chatted with the smiling woman, and finally tapped the lock on the bottom latch inserted into the floor, but this time he encountered some obstacles. He clearly felt that there was some force hindering the use of the spell. Fortunately, the obstacle was not strong. After a slight touch, the last lock was opened.

Picked up the rusty iron lock and inspected it, and found that there were imperceptible scratches on the inside of the lock. Strictly speaking, this lock is not an alchemy item. It is just treated with runes, so that when the lock is violently opened, the lock head will produce an explosion effect that can break a person's hand.

It may work for ordinary people, but for ring warlocks, as long as they pay a little attention, they won't be fooled.

Opening the door, after waiting for a while but not hearing any unusual noise inside, Sha De walked into the attic.

The entire attic is transparent inside and is considered a large room, as big as the master bedrooms of two Sparrow detectives. The interior is dark, with common furniture such as wardrobes, bookshelves, tables, and beds. There are some magazines printed in black and white on the table, and there is a pile of tax filing receipts on the coffee table. It looked like a boring single man's room, with no suspicious items visible on the surface.

First use [Past Echoes] to listen to the sounds within 48 hours, and only after confirming that no one has been here recently, look around:

"Can you feel the traces of the relics?"

Turn on the gas lamp, Shade stood by the window, slightly opened the gap in the curtains with his fingers, looked out cautiously, and asked.

[There is a strong whispering element, look to the left. 】

On the left is the wardrobe, with some cardboard boxes placed on the top of the wardrobe. The main element was inside the closet, so Shade put on gloves before reaching out to open the closet door.

As soon as his hand grasped the handle of the wardrobe, a dark wind that seemed to penetrate into the bones immediately blew in the room with the doors and windows closed. Then there were footsteps behind him. Shade turned around and saw a rotting corpse rushing toward him. The terrifying look shocked Shade even though he was prepared.

"Thief!"

In the corroded open mouth, the bright red gums are clearly visible.

[Illusion. 】

"I know."

My palm released the doorknob, and the sinister wind and the bodies rushing towards me disappeared. Holding the door handle, the corpse and Yin Feng appeared again.

So Shade bent down to study it, and sure enough he saw carefully carved runes on the door handle:

"This person is really good at runes, but after all, he has just been promoted to the second level, and his foundation is not solid."

Thinking in his mind, a ray of moonlight flew out of his hand, splitting the closet door handle into two pieces, and then he opened the closet door.

A musty smell came from inside. In the small wardrobe, there were several men's clothes, two cool women's clothes and a white garter hanging on the left side. I don't know if they were left by technical workers. What came down was that Flamel still had some special quirks, but they were just ordinary clothes.

On the right side was something covered with red cloth. Shade reached out to lift the red cloth, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, he frowned and took a step back.

Judging from the shape, the shape of this thing was very similar to the mermaid statue covered with cloth that he had seen before.

"I knew I was going to be in trouble."

Shad still doesn’t know the specific method of spreading this strange mortal curse, but not contacting the source of the curse is definitely the best way to resist the curse.

So regardless of whether there were other valuable items in the closet, I found a poker from the side and closed the closet door very carefully. Looking at the cabinet door, I waited for half a minute and found nothing unusual, so I felt a little relieved. Even if there were tens of thousands of pounds in cash in the closet, Shade would never open the door again.

The search continued after that, but unfortunately, there was really only this [relic] in the closet in the attic. In addition to the relics, after carefully searching the room, Shade also found 23 gold pounds and 7 crowns in cash. The crown is the currency of Kasenrik. Sailors who are active at sea and in the New World all year round do need to hold foreign currencies.

The coins are just a small harvest. The most important harvest is actually an old book "The Wind Rises Abyss" related to the "Wind" Spirit Rune, as well as Flamel's Ring Warlock notes and letters.

Any ring warlock must be related to an organization. The harsh employment conditions and complex power system determine that there is no single ring warlock. Judging from those letters, Flamel became a ring warlock when he met a traveler who took a boat to the New World when his talent was awakened two years ago, and thus embarked on the path of a ring warlock.

The name of the organization they belong to is "Sea Breeze Club". Shade has never heard of this name. Judging from the knowledge recorded in Flamel's notebook and his usual exchanges with friends, this should be the kind of club that The small club formed by famous ring warlocks may be slightly stronger than Dr. Schneider's five-person team.

In addition to his own experience, the information left by Flamel also described what happened after he realized he was cursed.

Aware of the curse, it was the third month after getting the statue from the warehouse dispatcher. The strange dream led him to think of the mermaid statue, and after understanding that it was the source of the curse, the slow Flamel finally realized that it was a relic.

He wrote to the club asking for help. After describing what happened to him, the club immediately cut off all contact with him. Later, like the dispatcher who had been shot dead by Shade, Flamel also knew that based on what he had done, if he went to the church for help, he would definitely die, so he hoped to rely on his own research to discover how to lift the curse. Methods.

Although he died in the end because of the curse, strictly speaking, this low-level warlock who was abandoned by the organization did discover something.