Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 293

2021-08-27

Chapter 292 The Cat in a Bottle
"No no, of course I would like to go to the opera. Just curious, Although the curfew has been lifted next Saturday, isn't this kind of crowd gathering place open for control?"

Of course, the follow-up impact of the Evil God's coming event will not disappear so easily, so Shade is curious.

"It was requested by the royal family. This seems to involve a conflict between the church and the royal family. I don't know very well. Anyway, Shade, do you accept the invitation?"

Luye Miss Sha asked again.

"Of course, I haven't seen the opera."

Shade nods, and then asks suspiciously:

"You said you were going to Mary Isn't what the Queen's Opera House does to store relics again?"

"Where are there so many relics for me to store? Do you think it's something you can easily come across?"

Miss Luyesha smiled and asked back, and then explained:

"I'm going to pick up the goods. I'll ask someone to bring some sensitive things back from outside, so there won't be any accidents. Shade , the number of relics on record does not exceed five digits, and we are not those chosen by fate, where do we often encounter relics?"

"speaking of which, Miss Luyisa, you know Did a Level 1 relic get out of control in Tobesque's town? This proves that the danger is actually very close to us."

Shade has put Mia aside, the cat's body temperature Higher than human beings, holding it in summer is like holding a small stove, and now he is holding a water glass.

"Speaking of the relic getting out of control."

The blonde female writer glanced at Shade, her emerald eyes smiling:

"My friend Lei Shia Princess is now in Coldwater Harbor, and she wrote to tell me that there has also been a nasty relic out of control incident in Coldwater Harbor City. It is said to be a level 2 relic with a strong curse, which is a group of mermaid statues."

“cough cough.”

Shade, who was drinking water, choked:
“Anything else?”

“Lecia said , the first group of people who were cursed all died, but the last person did not die from the curse, but from the shooting."

Miss Luysha said while observing Shade's expression, Shade lowered her head and said He wiped his mouth with a towel, not noticing that she was looking at him.

"Are you interested in this? There's also some news that the church said the dock dispatcher who died of a gun shot was very valuable, maybe the strange ceremony he set up really attracted something, so he The cause of death has been fortune-telling."

Shade nominated me, he was carrying the [Twenty-sided Dice of Destiny], and was not afraid of fortune-telling at all:
"Guess what the fortune-telling should be?"

p>

"Because I was worried about the interference of the relics, this time I specially asked the fortune-tellers of the local Prophet Association to help, and also used a large ceremony to assist, and even used a clerical-level relic to assist."

Miss Luyesha said in a soft voice.

【Twenty-sided dice of destiny】can interfere with destiny, but it is not that there is no other way to clear the fog.

"So what's the end result?"

he asked.

Miss Luyesha lowered her voice and said:
"The divination is very vague, but I still got a few important clues."

She glanced at Shade's expression and said Putting the pen in his hand in the gap of the notebook, he said while flicking his wrist:
"The murderer came to the home of the dock dispatcher, which has a lot to do with the seemingly useless pentagram ceremony."

Shade did see blood on the ceiling before deciding to investigate.

"The killer came from the ocean."

Shade did climb out of the ocean.

"The murderer came from afar."

Shade did travel to Coldwaterport from far away Tobeysk.

"The murderer used the power of Evil God."

Shade did use the spell "Water Breathing" from God of the Dead.

"Before the murderer went away, the body and the fish were almost fused together."

Shade indeed held a fish to travel through space.

He was very surprised that the divination was so accurate, and although he knew that the church still impossible to know it was him, he was still a little worried. Shade hesitantly found out:
"So the church thinks that the murderer who killed the last dead person is."

Miss Luyisa smiled and shook her head:
"These details are not very important. It's clear, and the divination is not 100% correct. The church is just guessing."

"The guess is?"

"The murderer is a man who was favored by Evil God and summoned by ceremony summon. Come, the terrifying murloc from the deep sea."

Miss Luysha carefully observed Shade's expression, and she felt a little disappointed when she saw that Shade had no expression.

Shade had turned his head slightly and looked towards the window at this time, and there was a dusky evening scenery outside, which reminded him involuntarily of the sublimation words of vampire.

"It turns out that this information can piece together such outrageous news."

Shade sighed softly in his heart.

He had made up his mind not to go to Coldwaterport any time soon, and as a detective in Tobesque, he thought it better not to get involved with troubles in far-flung cities.

Of course, the most important thing is that the sage-level relic is out of control and is not profitable for him. Only when he is crazy will he travel thousands of miles to Coldwater Harbor just to put himself in danger. .

Miss Luysha didn't mention the harbor city after that, but just casually sighed that her friend Laccia Princess is very bored now in Lengshuigang City, if a friend can visit her , then very good.

It's a pity that Shade didn't have enough clues to hear what the blonde writer meant.

During the rest, he also talked about the story of the two ghosts in the cemetery, which quickly diverted Miss Luisa's attention. She quietly listened to Shade's experience in the cemetery rain, and then looked at the Moon Dance Festival:

"Shade, you know I plan to serialize a detective story collection in the newspaper after exam week. . I decided to use this story as the opening. Rest assured, the specific plot will not be exactly the same, and the old lady will not see it."

There is a moving story, she is very It's easy to forget about Laccia Princess for a while.

Because of the curfew at night, Miss Luysha can't stay here long in Shade. After having dinner together, Goldilocks left, not forgetting to remind him to remember next week's exam.

Shade took the time to organize his tax returns while he was free at night. It will be the end of the month soon, and he needs to file a tax return to the Tobesque Tax Office. A detective agency that operates legally must not be involved in tax evasion.

But five minutes after Goldilocks left, there was another knock on the downstairs door.

It wasn't dark yet, and Shade couldn't guess who would visit him at this time.

After opening the door downstairs, what he saw was actually Augustus Priest. The dusky sunset was behind him, and the body of Priest was plated with a layer of gold.

Behind him is the crowded St. Teresa Square, where the pigeons stop to be fed by the people. Shade has always felt that the pigeons living in the square have a more comfortable life than the Mia living in the house:

"priest? Why do you have time to visit me? Come in."

With a cat sticking one's head around to look for behind his legs, Shade warmly invites the priest to enter. When the two took their seats at the coffee table covered with ledgers and contracts, the priest seemed to be in a very bad mood, and he didn't even care about the apparently low temperature in Shade's house:

"Shade, do me a favor. ."

The priest came to the door with a wine bottle wrapped in newspaper, the straw rope was tied outside the newspaper, and finally extended upwards to become a handle. Very coincidentally, the outside page of the newspaper was a photo of the Mayor of Tobesque giving a public speech three days ago.

If Shade remembers correctly, that talk was related to this summer's draft. Fortunately, the all-out war is over now, the kingdom no longer recruits troops on a large scale, and Shade doesn't have to worry about suddenly receiving a recruiting notice one day, and then directly carrying his luggage to the front line.

"No, I'm an agent of MI6, and I'm part of the Imperial Family army. The recruitment notice is completely useless to me."

Thinking of this, my mood suddenly changed. very good.

The old priest with a bitter face tore open the layers of newspapers on the outside of the bottle, and Shade saw that inside the dark glass bottle, there was actually a bottle smaller than Mia. pure white cat.

But no matter how small it is, it is packed into that wine bottle, and its body is inevitably deformed. It is impossible to tell whether the cat inside is alive or dead, it is stuffed in the bottle with its eyes closed, and it does not move.

“Meow~”

The orange cat that was lying on the sofa jumped up. This cat has always been quite repulsive to the same kind. The fierce name Shade in the pet store heard about the first time he went to pick it up. Later, after being taken to St. Teresa Square for temporary residence, as long as Shade held other cats outside, he would definitely hear the small orange cat when he returned home. "Evil Fiercely" cry.

"I'm curious, priest, how did the cat get stuffed in?"

Shade stared cautiously at the wine bottle full of cats.

"Don't be kidding Shade, you can definitely see that this is not a cat at all."

The priest grabbed the corked wine bottle and shook it vigorously a few times. So the "white cat" melted into the bottle and turned into a half-bottle of liquid like milk.

Shade was amazed that while people joked that cats were liquids, what was going on in front of him was a little too exaggerated. Mia stood on the sofa in horror and looked towards the bottle, then looked towards Augustus priest, and then ran behind Shade to hide.

The cat probably misunderstood something and thought Augustus Priest was the cat-killer.

"What's this? A relic?"

Shade comforted the timid cat, then reached out and touched the dark brown glass bottle, but didn't feel the Whisper element. trace.

"How can you come across relics so easily? This is a potion, or in other words, a precursor of a potion, you just understand it as a semifinished product."

The old priest explained , seeing that the liquid has a tendency to turn into a cat, so I picked it up and shook it again:
"Potion - [Cat in a Bottle], a human can drink it and turn into a cat in a short time."

"Meow?"

The orange cat behind Shade stuck his head out to look at him, his pointed ears sticking out, and his big amber eyes staring at the wine bottle.

"priest, you can actually configure this potion?"

Shade asked with a look of admiration.

"Of course not, what are you thinking, I'm only in the second ring, this top-level potion that can change the body of a ring warlock, even St. Byrons, few people can make it. This is I bought an expired potion from the black market and wanted to study it as a content for the course report. But after I got it, I found out that it was not only expired for at least 30 years, but also some terrifying things were mixed in the potion.”

The priest's face became serious:

"Look carefully, is there something like black velvet in the white liquid?"

Shade picked up the wine bottle and put The liquid condensed into a cat was shaken vigorously, and he looked at his head for a while before he saw:
"Yes, there is indeed."

"This is a mixture of curses, this thing is in the magic The potion exists in it, and I fear that sooner or later this potion will give birth to something more terrifying. So, I did some exorcism in the church."

Auguspriest although not a church ring warlock , but as a senior clergyman, a little exorcism will not be impossible.

"Does it work?"

"It works. When I first got this bottle, at least one-fifth of the contents were black. I thought it was mold, until I found out that it had a strange reaction when it touched the holy emblem of my lord. But I can only do it to this extent. I still remember that Luyisa said that you can also exorcise demons, so I thought I'll ask you for help. If it still doesn't work, I'll have to hand it over to the Academy."

He pointed to the bottle, where Mia and Shade looked towards the contents with great interest. When the milk-colored pure white liquid gradually takes the shape of a cat, it does not change its shape like plasticine, but starts from the internal organs first, which is very disgusting.

"Exorcism? No problem."

Shade looked left and right, then got up and picked up his coat from the hanger by the door. The right hand holds the bottle and wraps the coat around the right hand:
"Augus priest, please don't look directly at my hand. Silver moon!"

The dazzling brilliance reveals the black fabric , but because it is blocked, it is not dazzling.

"If it doesn't consume much, try a few more times."

The priest touched the chin and suggested that Shade nods, and then the clothes in his hands continue to glow frequently. He didn't know what it was, so he counted twenty times before stopping.

Put the wine bottle in front of you and observe, there is no trace of black in the white liquid, but there are some solid deposits of black at the bottom of the bottle. They look heavy and have to shake the bottle vigorously to float, but they don't dissolve.

"Is this ok?"

He handed the bottle to the priest, the old priest looked at it for a long time, and finally smiled:

"Very good , that's it. The liquid on the top is the expired semifinished product potion, and the solid on the bottom is the combination of curses. After I separate it, it can be used as a precious casting material. I have very good curses. Shade, thank you for your hard work."

"It's just a small matter, oh, first, I also have something I want to find you. I want to try to prepare some euphoria and sleep water next week, I need you I wonder if you have time?"

"Practical content of potions class in first grade? Of course, it's very simple, I came to church on Wednesday morning, and Owen Bishop wanted to talk to you. "

He got up to say goodbye, the curfew time was coming soon, and he couldn't stay for long.

"Wednesday? Okay."

Shade stood up and Mia followed immediately.

Going downstairs with Auguste priest, the two talk about next week's exams and Holy Prayer.

Old priest also has a headache about the exam, and he is not complaining about the exam itself:

"I have a headache when I think about the exam, I'm at this age, and I still have to take the exam , when you were young, you really didn't expect such a thing."

"So when you were young, how did you think you would spend your old age?"

Shade Help Augustus priest open the door, and priest puts his hat on his head:

“Have some savings of your own, and then, with the help of the church, seek a job in the government welfare department. A job that can get paid, preferably more than half a pound a week. Have a house of your own in Tobesque, drink tea and read the newspaper every day, maybe you can have a cat like you See, Shade, how do I feel about you now? Have I fulfilled what I asked of myself when I was young?"

Speaking of this, the old priest himself laughed. Reached out to patted Shade's shoulder and walked out the door.

The afterglow of the setting sun has reached the roof of the house opposite the square, and the bright golden light in front of him made Shade subconsciously narrow his eyes. Augustuspriest went away facing the sunset, while Shade stood at the door and looked at his back:

"If I can be as handsome as Augustuspriest when I get old, then It's very good."

The priest envied Shade's current life when he was young, and the young Shade was also envious of the old priest's life, which made Shade think more about life in a foreign land.

【What thinking? ]

Shade closed the door gently, keeping the sun and the square out of the door.

"Even in this world, having a house of your own is the most important sign of a successful life."

(end of this chapter)