The Whispering Verses Chapter 955: The rat in the cage

The [Fish Training Ring] was not suitable for the white mouse's paws or head. Shade grabbed the mouse with one hand and used the mouse's slender tail as a rope to tie the ring. As the relic comes into play, the mentally retarded rat gradually stops struggling, because clever wisdom is occupying the high ground of the mind.

It raised its head and looked at Shade. Shade looked into the eyes of the tiny black mouse, and could clearly feel the emergence of wisdom from the trembling of the fur on the mouse's head and the "look" of its eyes.

After a while, the white mouse spoke:

"Oh, you ****, you are so damned, are you trying to **** me, I curse you, you are so ****, *****."

Its voice is not loud. Judging from the voice, it is a male mouse and is an adult mouse. It spoke Kasenrik with a very heavy accent, cursing Shad who was holding it, using words that Shad couldn't even fully translate:

"The owl I met last time at Fort Midhill also seemed to be very good at swearing in Kasenric."

He thought in his mind and slightly increased the grip of his right hand. The mouse squeaked, but no longer cursed. Compared to the owl Shade met at Fort Midhill, this rat in the lower town was really rude.

"You hate me so much?"

He asked with a smile, and the mouse in his hand replied angrily:

"I can smell the cat smell on you through a door. It's worse than Old John's athlete's foot!"

"John" is a very common name, so "Old John" here is definitely not Tobesk's stingy **** shop owner.

"Cat smell?"

Shad looked at himself and realized that the mouse was talking about Mia:

"Are you afraid of cats?"

"Aren't you afraid of man-eating beasts?"

The white mouse asked back, wagging the ring on its tail, and its tone showed that it was very angry:

"But I am a brave mouse. Call that cat out quickly. I will defeat it with my wisdom! Yes, I have wisdom now, and wisdom is my wealth and power!"

Xia De held back his laughter. With little Mia’s wisdom, the cat could easily play with this overestimating white mouse:

"Back to business, let me ask you to answer. First of all, have any strange strangers been here in the past week or two?"

"You..."

"Except me."

"There were strange people before the fifteen sun and moon cycles."

"How many people are there in total?"

"Two!"

"What did they ask?"

"Similar to the question you just asked, if you would give me some cheese, I would..."

"Huh?"

"I mean, they asked similar questions to you and then knocked the unfortunate guy unconscious."

The unlucky guy is the owner of this white mouse.

"When the two humans left, they chatted about a place name. Yes, that name was 39 Matilda Street!"

The mouse said quickly, as if he was really worried about being crushed to death by Shade's palm. In fact, its worries are completely unnecessary. For any human beings and creatures with the same intelligence as humans, Shade will carefully consider whether to kill them.

This is respect for life.

"39 Matilda Street..."

Shad knew this street, but he had only seen it on a map. He hadn't even been to Huntington half a month ago. Shade couldn't confirm what the two people who found Rust Alley knew before he launched Operation Huntington.

With his left hand, he found a piece of Xiao Mia's cat food from his pocket and threw it on the table. Then, amidst the pitiful cry of the white mouse, he put the mouse down.

The white mouse did not run away, but sniffed the expensive cat food. It did not eat immediately, but said to Shade:

"My hearing is much better than that of humans. After they walked outside, I still heard a few words. Voodoo society, relics, sacrifices, wasting time, a once-in-a-hundred-year opportunity."

The white mouse described that the pronunciation of several words was very inaccurate, and it was obvious that it did not remember it clearly.

"Voodoo? Another member of the Pantanal Voodoo?"

Xia De was very surprised:

"They are so imprudent, talking about this kind of topic in the alley."

[Don’t you often talk about sensitive topics with your friends on the street? 】

"She" asked with a smile. Shade touched his nose and pretended not to hear, and then said to the mouse that was getting ready to eat:

"Mr. Mouse, thank you very much for your help. I'm leaving. Do you want to go back to the cage, or do you want me to help you get free?"

[Fish Training Ring] Shade will definitely take it off, but he can let the mouse go and leave some money for the boss here.

The white mouse stepped on the wood grain on the counter, raised his head in horror, and said in an accent mixed with slang:

"Please don't put me outside, those wild cats and mice will eat me!"

"So, are you willing to go back to the cage?"

"Do you need to say that? Oh, humans like you who have never lived in a cage will not understand how comfortable life is with a stable cage and food at a fixed time. Just like I can't understand You always like to walk around outside. To me, life in a cage is..."

Seeing that the mouse had a tendency to turn into a philosopher, Shade took off the ring. While the white mouse was squeaking, he put it back into the cage and threw in the grain of Xiao Mia's high-end cat food.

"These animals are really interesting."

Xia De thought to himself.

Huntington, the capital of red wine, has a dense water network, and Matilda Street is a street that directly leads to the second largest river in the city, the Thomson River. The eastern part of this street starts from a five-way intersection, and the western part leads directly to the river bank. Overall, it is not long.

Shad believed that the white mouse was not lying, but when he came to Matilda Street at three o'clock that afternoon, he unexpectedly discovered that there was no No. 39 on this street at all.

The house numbers of Matilda Street are odd numbers on the north side and even numbers on the south side. Numbers 1 and 2 are the flower shop and law firm next to the five-way intersection respectively. The last two house numbers at the end of the river are No. 37 and No. 38, which is the end of Matilda Street.

In order to prevent mistakes, Shade also specifically inquired in the taverns on this street and confirmed that there has never been a No. 39 on Matilda Street. Although the street has been renovated many times in the past ten years, the house number The quantity never changes.

There are not even rumors about "invisible shops" and "Number 39 appearing at night" here. This means that, whether from the perspective of normal people or from the perspective of urban legends, what the white mouse said 39 Matilda Street is completely non-existent.

Shad did not rush back to Rust Alley to find the white mouse that did not want to get out of the cage to continue talking about philosophical topics. Instead, he took advantage of the heavy fog to emerge again in the afternoon, left Matilda Street and came to the Thomson River where it intersected. Strand.

In the afternoon, there were only a few women in headscarves washing clothes below the river bank. The heavy fog on the river made it possible to only see the outline of the buildings on the other side of the river.

"This also makes it easier to move around."

Xia De carefully walked along the **** and descended from the river bank street to the river. Of course, the city hall will not waste manpower on repairing the river bank. The bank is overgrown with grass, and huge pipes continuously discharge sewage from unknown sources into the river. There was mud and garbage everywhere on the shore, and occasionally there were iron cans and broken kerosene lamps that might scratch the soles of shoes.

There are probably scavengers who regularly pick up garbage here, so the footprints on the river bank are very messy.

Shad searched back and forth for several times at the location facing Matilda Street, and indeed found traces under "her" guidance.

It is an uneven stone wall on one side of the river, located just on the odd-numbered side of Matilda Street. There are very slight traces of elements on the stone wall. After Shade's judgment, there should be an entrance covered by ritual and thaumaturgy.

Someone must have been here recently, and the person was so confident that no one would be discovered that they didn't even clean up the footprints.

Xia De touched the stone wall with his hand and roughly confirmed the covered entrance. After careful observation on the stone wall, I found a small trace among the normal cracks and stains on the stone wall. If I understand it as text, the meaning is roughly:

[The great Pantanal will eventually regain its lost territory. 】

"It is indeed a voodoo society."

Shad thought in his mind, and then used the thaumaturgy [Echoes of the Past] to try to find the voices of the people who came here to determine the way to open the covered entrance. But it's a pity that after trying many times, all I could hear was the urban noise coming from above the river. The only sound was the chasing children discussing fishing.

"In other words, this may be a local stronghold of Halder Ondiba, the owner of 'Arrow' decades ago. The ring warlock who came to look for him visited fifteen days ago Rust Alley, I came here again after finding no clues, but that was 48 hours ago, so I didn’t hear the sound."

There are no traces of damage here, indicating that the first comers most likely knew how to open the entrance a long time ago. There is reason to believe that those two people are also members of the Voodoo Society.

【So how do you open the entrance? 】

"She" whispered softly in Shade's ear.

Xia De turned around and glanced at the sun in the sky at five o'clock in the afternoon, and looked left and right to make sure there was no one nearby:

"This is not simple. The other party only covered the entrance, but did not hide the space itself. I don't believe that the other party has this ability. Since there must be space behind the stone wall, then..."

Pressing his right hand on the stone wall:

"Feliana's Witch's Light!"

Golden light radiated from the palm of his hand. As Shade's hand pressed firmly against the stone wall, the golden light was like a flame melting ice, causing Shade's arm to penetrate into the stone wall.

Obviously, the ring warlock who made this place his base also thought that someone would use violence to destroy the stone wall. Therefore, when Shade's wrists completely entered the stone wall, he felt that he had touched something extremely cold. .

The cold air and curse rushed towards Sha De's heart along the palm of his hand. Sha De suddenly froze in place, and then trembled suddenly:

"Oh, it's so cold."

I complained in my heart, and after confirming that the remaining curse had been completely suppressed by divinity, I continued to reach out towards the stone wall. After encountering the curse three times in a row, one-third of his arm was already submerged into the stone wall. Only then did he finally feel that his palm had completely penetrated the stone and entered the space behind the stone.

Retract your arms and squat slightly, looking into the dark space inside the hole:

"It's so thick. Do you think this is the safehouse of the Bank of the Kingdom of Kasenlik?"

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