Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 147

2021-07-08

Chapter 147 Peeping through the door

But anyway, now the first floor of the Place de la Sainteland is open , This house suddenly has so much space, Shade still needs to think about how to use it.

Returning to the first floor from the basement, looking at the open space, Shade, who knew the new secret, was in a very good mood:
"The Ancient God statue is underground. According to the experience of the past hundred years, this will affect the To the ordinary person upstairs, so if you want to rent it out, you can't rashly rent it to the ordinary person."

There is no need to have similar concerns when renting to a ring warlock, but Shade doesn't know the relationship that can live together Nice ring warlock. Among the other four people in the group, except for Miss Luyisa, everyone else has a good place to live. And Shade hasn't been reckless enough to invite a single, unmarried blonde to move in with him.

But think about it, he's not very short of money now. If you want to buy expensive relics and knowledge, rent is not enough, so renting houses is not what must do.

Thinking of this, Shade temporarily gave up on renting out the first floor.

He walked down the stairs to the second floor, making plans for his future:

"When I have money, I might consider asking a maid to help with cleaning like Professor Manning did. It's a waste of time to clean the house by yourself now. For the time being, use the first floor and basement as a space for cluttering, and Mia will probably like a place to walk. The pipes and gas pipes are connected."

He walked up the curved stairs while thinking about the trivial matters in his life, feeling that the first floor was reopened, and the expenses he needed to spend seemed to be even greater.

When I opened the door on the second floor, I looked up and thought about the time. It was only eight o'clock in the evening. There are still two hours before the time to visit the girl Sophie with Miss Luyisa.

So I took advantage of the time to write a report on the application for viewing the "Book of Ascension", send it to the Academy through the manuscript pages in my hand, and then borrow it from Miss Luysha's friend. Open the pages of the coming stories.

Mia, who was locked in the room by Shade, wanted to play with Shade for a while, but Shade, who was looking forward to the transcript of the translation of the first draft of the story, could only reject the orange cat. Asked, but still found a ball of wool to let it play on its own.

After he washed his hands, he solemnly sat down at the desk, and only then did he open the cloth wrapped around the pages.

It seems that books describing mysterious power don't like to use ordinary paper as a carrier. The book that Miss Luyisa lent to Shade uses an unknown leather material as the page, which is very smooth to the touch.

On the top of the page numbered 1, the name of the story is clearly written in ancient language——

"The Little Girl Selling Matches".

"That's it!"

He looked at the first page with anticipation, and carefully read the strange words that were densely packed like dancing matchsticks. Then it took about ten minutes, carefully and seriously, to read the story of the poor match girl in the snowy night from beginning to end.

Nothing happened.

Even though this is a page with special power, the feeling after reading the whole thing is not as good as telling the story to three children in the past time.

"This is a bit of a hassle. Do I really need to find the original manuscript so that I can gain great power?"

He looked at the moonlit night outside, thinking in annoyance, and lowered his head again. looked towards the letters on the page. He admits it's a good story, but Shade doesn't like stories with sad endings.

Miss Luysha knocked on the downstairs door at ten o'clock, and Shade, who was already ready, set off directly with her. By the way, he also returned the pages of the story to her:
"Is this used up? Do you really understand the text on this? [Time and Space] Rune is so powerful?"

As Miss Luyesha spoke, she rolled up the paper and stuffed it into her pocket. Ring warlock casting requires casting materials, so even in summer, clothes without pockets are mostly avoided, which is why Shade also wears coats in summer.

In this world, there is no such thing as a convenient "space ring".

The steam bomb went off last night and the alley is still blocked. Although the murloc was blown to pieces by Miss Luysha, the traces left still attracted the attention of the church.

Therefore, when they went to the house of the little girl Sophie, they chose to take a detour to avoid the location of the alley.

The girl Sophie Dyce came from a poor family, otherwise there would be no need for such a small child to sell flowers. The Days lived in a slum in the riverbank neighborhood on the banks of the Terraria River, a family of five crammed into a house about the size of Shade's basement.

Last night, the two sent the girl to the door of the house and watched her enter the house before leaving. But today the girl had to be seen with her own eyes to make sure she was healthy, so something else had to be done.

When I set out with the blond writer, I could still see the starry sky, but when I was halfway there, the thick fog came up, which made Miss Luysha complain very much about the factories in the city.

It was about 10:20 pm when we arrived near the slums on the banks of the Terraria. On such nights, even idlers will not go out and wander around.

Miss Luyisa had already made a very perfect plan, so after entering the dark alley where Dais's house was located, the two went directly to knock on the door.

There are no lights in the alleys, and poor families usually go to bed early at night, so there are no lights either. The sound of the knock on the door seemed to be able to wake up the nearby houses, at least the Dais family was woken up.

The candles were lit up in the house, and after at least two minutes, a nervous man's voice came from the door:
"Who is it?"

Even Ladd Where Captain Si lived, there would be gunshots from gangsters from time to time, and the slum where the girl Sophie Days and her family lived, the security was even worse. Shade could fully imagine that the man who was questioning behind the door was nervously holding a weapon such as a kitchen knife.

Miss Luisa glanced at Shade, then took a 1 shilling coin from her pocket and stuffed it through the crack of the door.

"It doesn't matter who it is, you don't need to open the door. Now let all the women in the family stand in front of the door in turn for ten seconds. If you can do it, you still have money. If you can't do it, it's just a gun."

These are Shade's mouth-watering words, which are more intimidating to men than women.

There was a commotion in the door immediately, and the family's voices were very heavy whispering together, and it was difficult to tell who said what.

"Okay."

It took a long time for the middle-aged man's voice to come. So Miss Luyesha motioned for Shade to get out of the way, and she looked in against the crack of the door. For this kind of dangerous action, it is better to do the ring warlock of High Rank.

"It's the first one now."

Shade said from the door, looking at both ends of the alley to prevent anyone from showing up. After waiting for a while, she looked towards Miss Luyesha again, and the blonde girl waved her hand to indicate that there was no problem.

"In a dark slum alley on a foggy night, looking through the crack of a door to see if there's something strange inside. Good subject for a horror story."

He entertained himself Thinking of it happily, he wanted to open his mouth to speak, but the reminder of the whispering voice in his ear made him stunned for a moment. Some inconceivable looked towards the back of the female warlock, and then said:
"Then the second one."

The light and shadow in the door crack changed, I think it was a change in front of the door people.

After a while, Miss Luyesha waved her hand again, Shade squinted at her back, and said to the door:

"The last one."

Yesterday, they asked little Sophie about the composition of her family.

There was no problem with the third person, Goldilocks left the crack of the door, bowed her head slightly to Shade, and hid her face in the shadows. She shoved two coins into the crack of the door again, and Shade watched the scene without saying a word.

After doing all this, the two people outside the door left the alley in the dark. The exit of the alley is facing the Terrarier River. Under the thick fog, the river bank can hardly be seen, and only the boats moored in the river can be vaguely seen.

The two of them slowed down at the alley, and Miss Luyesha stopped first, still keeping her head down. The block was only lit by moonlight, and on a foggy night, Shade couldn't see her face at all.

The clothes on her body became wet at some point, and her body was hidden in the deepest shadow at the entrance of the alley. Shade, who was standing downwind, could smell an abnormal seafood smell.

"Detective, you go first, I have something to do."

Her voice was hoarse.

Shade pursed his lips and looked up and down at his friend:
"I see."

He looked down towards his hand, then stretched it out in front of him The girl:
"Miss Luyisa, what do you think this is?"

The blond girl with her head bowed stretched her head to look at Shade's hand, Shade whispered:

"Silver Moon."

The holy silver moonlight suddenly erupted from the fingertips, even though Shade intentionally controlled the output of formidable power, but such a close observation touched the rays of light of the silver moon, still Let Miss Luyesha scream in surprise.

She covered her eyes and stepped back. When she raised her head, Shade finally saw that half of Miss Luyesha's face was covered with fish scales.

He didn't run away, but followed two steps closely, pressing the entire right hand on Miss Luyissa's face. The latter wanted to yell, but Shade's other hand reached over and covered her mouth.

She struggled, but was still firmly pressed to the ground by Shade. The covered mouth made a sound of "wu wu ~", and a blond hair fell to the ground.

Shade's hands radiated soft silver moon rays of light, and he squatted beside Goldilocks, even as Miss Luysha struggled, his fingers kept scratching his wrists. open.

Gradually, Miss Luyisa's resistance became weaker, until it stopped completely.

A thick fog filled the surroundings completely obscuring the starry sky and the triple moon. The wind also stopped, as if everything was still at this moment.

(end of this chapter)