novelonline Chapter 2591: The 3rd Tree Hole and Time Communication
Chapter 2591: The 3rd Tree Hole and Time Communication
Chapter 2591 The Third Tree Hole and Time Communication
The dessert did not make the elf lady's attitude towards Shade any friendlier. She continued to stand expressionlessly in the sea of flowers and said:
"I don't need you to give me these things. Besides, I don't think our relationship is good enough yet. Thank you for your concern. Also, I don't like sweets."
As he said this, he bent down again to continue collecting dew, without even looking at the things Xia De left behind. Xia De said goodbye softly and turned away.
【Are you sure? 】
she asked with a smile.
"It's confirmed, it's her, so this is very interesting."
"Meow~"
The cat felt that he was disliked today and felt very wronged.
Although he had no intention of going near the Accordion Inn today, Shad eventually went into town.
Last night at the banquet, he overheard the conversation between Baron Cumming Jr. and his fiancée Jane Bennet, from which he learned the address of Baron Cumming's family. So he planned to take advantage of today's free time to investigate Baron Cumming and his son, or Baron Cumming and his father.
Although the Baron family was not really local, they also had their own permanent residence in Vista. Every autumn when the family came to Vista for vacation, they would stay at the Morris Mansion in the southwest of the city.
It was a manor slightly smaller than Earl Collins's mansion last night. Although the location was a little remote, the advantage was that the neighborhood was very quiet and there was no need to worry about being disturbed by annoying passers-by and neighbors.
It was Wednesday morning, and Shade didn't know if the Baron's family was still at home. His original plan was to sneak in quietly, since the family was just ordinary people, there was no need to be too cautious.
But when he approached the "Morris Mansion", he saw the rented carriage that had passed by him not long ago stopped at the door of the mansion, and then two ring warlocks in police uniforms got out of the carriage and knocked on the door.
"A church ring wizard disguised as a policeman"
After touching the cat on his shoulder, Shade turned and walked into the alley. When he came out again, Mia had been turned into a toy, and Shade had turned into a silver-white cat. The cat quickly approached the Morris mansion along the wall, and then jumped onto the top of the wall.
At this time, the two ring wizards in police uniforms had shown their credentials and were therefore invited into the mansion.
After Shade was sure that one of them was in the middle ring and the other in the low ring, he jumped into the courtyard wall. After giving a look to the big black dog in the kennel beside the wall that wanted to bark and told it to chew the bone obediently, the cat climbed up to the second floor along the drainage pipe on the outside of the building lightly, and then used the magic "Ragley's Leap" to perceive the space, and appeared directly behind the sofa in the reception room where the police were received.
No one in the room was aware of the cat's arrival, and the two policemen were not greeted by the Cummings, but by young Mr. James Cumming.
The gentleman who was going to get married next year was alone at home that morning and no one knew what he was doing. When he pushed the door open and greeted the police, he was wearing a white shirt and black trousers tied with a belt.
The cat sat motionless behind the sofa, listening to their conversation. The police first exchanged pleasantries with the young man, then asked:
“Please don’t be nervous, this time it was the local church that asked us to come and inquire.
Mr. James Cumming, two weeks ago, when you came to this place with the Baron, you repeatedly asked your friends about hallucinations, ghosts, succubi, and local legends related to demons while participating in local social activities. May I ask what happened to you?"
Mao then understood that the church suspected that he had encountered something related to the supernatural, but thought it was probably not a big deal, so they only sent two people to investigate.
The "Blackstone Security Company" where Iluna works will not do such simple work. Iluna and her team only accept tasks that have confirmed clues, and the two ring mages in front of them are obviously responsible for peripheral work.
Young Cumming did not answer directly, but frowned and asked:
"Who reported me? Howard or Newman?"
No one reported it, and generally speaking, such a small matter would not lead to anyone coming to inquire about it.
Of course, the "police" did not answer this question, but continued to ask:
"May I ask what happened to you? You have the right not to answer, but we will ask your parents later. Mr. James Cumming, please answer our questions seriously. You are from Willendale City, and you should have seen how those who refused to be questioned by the police commissioned by the church were treated in big cities."
The young man then said anxiously:
"Nothing, I just keep having strange dreams recently, with beautiful women appearing in them. This only happened after I arrived here, so I suspect I've been haunted by something like the 'forest monster' in local legends."
But the "seeing demon" did not see any demonic power, and his mental state was clearly good.
The two "policemen" asked him more questions indirectly, and then warned him seriously that the Orthodox Church strictly prohibited the circulation of any books that recorded the so-called "mysterious rituals" and "magic spells", and using the knowledge in those books was a serious crime.
They used the ring magician's method to quietly check the house and Little Cumming himself, and even went to James Cumming's room to make sure there were no special elements before leaving. According to the rules that Shade heard from Iluna, Little Cumming is expected to stay on the "alert" list for another half a year. If nothing happens during this period, the church will completely ignore him.
Of course, the silver cat did not leave with the "policemen". When little Cumming went to the door to see them off, it followed him. Then, as James Cumming saw the police off, the slightly nervous expression on his face, which he acted well, disappeared and was replaced by a real look of uneasiness.
But when he turned around and walked back to the house, he adjusted his mood, told the servants not to follow him, and went upstairs to the bedroom alone.
The cat continued to follow.
Because of the illusion, the young man did not realize that a cat followed him into the bedroom. He nervously walked to the window of his room and looked out, then pulled the curtains tight and went to the desk and took out a book from the locked drawer.
The cat jumped onto the table and stretched its head to look at the old book. The title of the book was written in Kasenrik: "Opening the Forest Gate: Our Animal Companions". The cover showed a wooden door standing in a clearing in the woods. The gate was closed, but elks, ponies, lions, tigers and other animals stretched their heads out from the side of the door frame.
This is just an ordinary book that looks like it is used to popularize wildlife science.
Little Cumming pulled out a chair and sat down. After taking a deep breath, he took out a pencil from the pen holder and wrote directly on the upper left corner of the cover:
"Erica, are you there? The police are here to see me! I thought you were a ghost or a devil some time ago, so I asked my friends for help, and they actually reported me to the church!"
The cat stared with wide eyes as the pencil marks gradually disappeared, but after waiting for a full ten minutes, new marks appeared out of thin air:
"James, don't worry, the police are just doing a routine check. We all know that the church is very strict about this kind of thing. Calm down now. They won't find out our secret, and no one can stop us from being together."
The young men and women in love were talking sweet words to each other. Shad tried to see if the ring wizards had set up any rituals or detection spells before leaving, so he returned to his human form and stood directly behind little Kamin, bending over to watch their conversation.
Every time James Cumming wrote a sentence on a book cover, if it disappeared immediately, it meant that the text was sent to "Erica". If it did not disappear, little Cumming would carefully erase it with an eraser and rewrite it. The probability of the sentence disappearing was about one in two.
From the conversation, Shad learned that "Erica" actually knew about Cumming Jr.'s engagement with Jane Bennet. The reason why the young "Erica" didn't care about it was because she lived in 1802, 52 years ago, and she was also engaged, but she was deeply in love with this man who did not belong to her own era.
The two of them were obviously very familiar with talking to each other on the book covers, and they were obviously in a passionate relationship, so little Cumming, who was originally an ordinary person, was concentrating on saying sweet words to his lover and did not notice that Shad's hand directly touched the book.
"There is no soul hidden in books."
Xia De watched the words disappear, carefully feeling the ups and downs of the spirit and the traces of the elements when the words disappeared, and then he had to admit a fact:
"This is also a tree hole. The time when he communicated with her was 1802. The book "Opening the Forest Door: Our Animal Companions" in the hands of the girl Erica is most likely from that era. How many tree holes are there in this place?"
Today is Wednesday. He has come across three twisted tree holes in just one week since he came to the area.
The conversations between the couple in love were quite cheesy, but in order to get enough information, Shade had to force himself to read on, and thought that the two men's skills in love talk were not as good as his. Of course, they were not satisfied with just text communication, and little Cumming even took the lead in writing:
"I can't wait to see you again."
Erica responded:
"Wait a little longer, my James. There is no fixed time for the passage to open, but I believe that as long as our feelings are strong enough, we will be able to meet again soon!"
Cumming continued:
"Erica, I miss your face, your lips, your body, everything about you. I was so crazy to think of you as a ghost and a demon at first. No, you are my demon, and I am willing to give you everything I have."
"James, I am also willing to give you everything. Time cannot hinder us. My love for you will last until the end of time. The next time we meet, I will give you a gift."
(End of this chapter)