novelonline Chapter 2722 Love Lake
Chapter 2722 Love Lake
Chapter 2722 Love Lake
"That's the right thing to do. If there really is a tree hole there, you might get sucked in if you're not careful."
Xia De said this, and the specific location of the incident has been marked on the map.
Regardless of whether the tree hole appeared again or there was something strange about Miss Linda Bennet, this matter must be investigated. Therefore, after temporarily entrusting Mia to Miss Danister, the owl immediately caught the cat and flew out of the window.
"Is it my turn to go out this time?"
The red-haired girl who stayed in the room murmured to herself, and then looked at Miss Jane Alba who had not left yet. The latter certainly did not want to answer such questions. In private, the girls talked a lot about the relationship between the Great Witch of Death, the "Red Moon Witch" of Saint Byrons, and Shade.
But Miss Danister only complained softly, not necessarily seeking an answer.
Owl Air was very fast, and it landed in the forest with the cat in less than half an hour. There were no landmark buildings or landscapes near the place where Miss Linda Bennett disappeared, and simple trace identification could not find the footprints of the suddenly missing girl. Therefore, after confirming that neither of them could feel the breath of the tree hole at the first time, they had to conduct a carpet search nearby.
Of course, Shade would not suggest splitting up in a place where one person had already disappeared, so the witch followed him. She wanted to turn into a cat and jump onto Shade's shoulder, but Shade firmly refused:
"Don't become lazy like Mia."
"I'm not being lazy, I just want to..."
The witch's face turned slightly red, and she was too embarrassed to continue saying that she just wanted to be closer to him.
Just as Miss Alba said, there were indeed no signs of spatial anomalies nearby, but Shad unexpectedly captured some unusual traces of elements.
This didn't look like the appearance of a new tree hole, so Shade guessed that the girl was unlucky enough to encounter other inexplicable mysterious phenomena in the woods, but this didn't seem to explain her behavior of running away from home.
The two carefully observed the surroundings, and soon found a mirror fragment in the bushes a hundred meters away from where Linda Bennett disappeared, with blood on it. After Miss Winslet's identification, the blood on the mirror fragment belonged to two people, both young girls:
"Is this the shard of mirror that Linda Bennett used to cut herself and then cut the maid?"
Since there was blood, things were much simpler. Xia De took out an empty wine bottle and used the "blood brewing" technique to separate two different bloods. Then he dripped only one drop of each blood brew into his eyes and used the "blood echo" magic.
The essence of this magic is not simply to observe blood, but to observe the traces left by other blood of the same origin in time and space. Therefore, although ordinary reconnaissance magic does not work, Linda Bennett's bloody figure almost immediately appeared in Shad's eyes in the golden woods in the autumn morning.
"Found it, come with me."
As he spoke, he took the witch's hand and took her with him to follow the string of red figures in the forest. Miss Linda Bennet continued to go deeper into the forest, and she did not disappear nearby, which proved that her inexplicable disappearance was definitely related to supernatural powers, otherwise Miss Alba would not have lost her.
Continuing forward, they entered a place that neither Shad nor the witch had reached, but Miss Linda Bennet seemed to have a clear goal because she neither took a detour nor repeated the same route.
In this way, the two followed her figure for another thirty minutes before they finally walked out of the woods and saw a lake in the forest. The lake looked heart-shaped.
Vista Woodlands has a well-developed water system, with the Aronson River as the main trunk, which runs through the city and connects to Willendel. Many tributaries pass through the forest to other areas of Carsonrick, so the forest is also dotted with lakes of various sizes.
The lake in front of them was not very large, so it was not named on either the official map or the hermits' map. The small lake was about the size of St. Teresa's Square, and the animals in the forest regarded it as an important water source. When Shade and the witch came out of the forest, they scared a group of deer drinking water by the stream.
However, they did not have time to apologize to the deer, as they all looked up and saw Linda Bennett lying face up on the surface of the lake, floating slowly as the forest wind blew across the lake.
The blood-red light in Shad's eyes extended to the lakeside, and then he saw the girl sink to the bottom of the water and float up. But Linda Bennett did not float up after drowning, she seemed to be still alive, just unconscious.
"There are others."
The witch reminded him in a low voice again, and Shad then saw that there were actually three people floating on the lake. In addition to Linda Bennett, there was also a man and a woman. From a distance, they were all well-dressed young people, but Shad did not recognize them.
All three of them were floating on the lake with their eyes closed, face up. However, since there were animals drinking water by the lake, it meant that this was definitely not a saltwater lake. The density of the lake water should not be enough to support humans floating without any assistance in a coma.
"Can you feel anything? I can feel that the traces of elements around here are stronger than in other areas, but other than that everything seems normal."
Miss Winslet whispered again, and after seeing Shad shaking his head, she pointed to the stone at her feet, and the stone turned into a puppy running happily with its tongue hanging out, approaching the lake.
Of course, she didn't turn a dead thing into a real living thing, it was just a transfiguration. The puppy entered the lake smoothly, tried to swim for a few minutes with a doggy paddle, and then, under the control of the witch, approached Linda Bennett, who was closest to the lakeshore.
It successfully reached the girl, opened its mouth and bit Miss Bennet's sleeve, then pulled her to the lake shore. Everything seemed to be going quite smoothly, the puppy successfully dragged the girl to the shore, and the two cautious people waited until Miss Bennet was completely out of the water before walking over.
The puppy turned back into a stone by the lake. Miss Winslet cast the soul purification spell on Miss Bennet again, and then turned to Shade and said:
"It should be fine."
They raised their hands together, controlled Miss Linda Bennet's body to float up, and moved it to a place far away from the lake shore before putting her down again. Shade poured holy water on her again out of concern, and only squatted down to check her condition after confirming that she was still fine.
There was no trace of the curse on Miss Bennet, and even the trace of the element was almost non-existent. She was indeed not dead, her breathing and heartbeat were still there, but she could not be awakened.
Shade tried many methods, and the Great Witch of Death even tried to briefly separate her soul and body, but her soul was also in a dormant state.
Although forced interrogation techniques such as the "Wall of Sighs" may work on sleeping souls, they will directly pollute the souls of ordinary people. Flora Winslet will not use it on ordinary people unless it is absolutely necessary.
Seeing that it was approaching noon, Shad used a small piece of gold to cast the "Traveler's Camp" spell, and used "Fiona's Household Servant" to summon lunch to share with Miss Winslet.
After lunch, the witch "salvaged" two more strangers using the same method as in the morning, and then confirmed that the strange man and woman were in the same situation as Linda Bennett.
They both looked like young nobles from Vista City, but their identities were unknown. Because it was drizzling in the forest again in the afternoon, Shade cut down some trees and built a simple wooden house to temporarily house them.
He and Miss Winslet never dared to go into the water directly. They tried many ways to wake them up in the afternoon, but to no avail.
But at least the time they spent together and talking to each other was still very interesting. When it was getting dark, Shad took the initiative to go to the forest to hunt two rabbits, while Miss Winslet was responsible for picking wild vegetables, and then they cooked delicious broth and roasted rabbit meat by the campfire.
There was no time to build a bigger cabin today, so the witch blushed and went into the double tent with Shade that night, but fortunately, they both behaved well and did not cross the line all night.
But when she woke up the next morning, the shy Miss Owl asked Shad to take advantage of the time today to build a wooden house that they could live in permanently, as she still preferred to rest in bed.
So Shade went to cut wood and make wooden houses and furniture. The witch was not idle either. She took the initiative to take charge of today's hunting and gathering of wild grass. She even asked Shade for a fishing rod and started fishing by the lake.
Both of them worked close to the lake, so even though they were doing their own different things, they were still able to chat with each other.
The lunch and dinner of the day were still sumptuous, and before resting at night, Xia De also rushed to complete the main body of the wooden house and two single beds.
Flora Winslet wanted to express her modesty, so she pushed the two beds apart. She slept in the bed against the east wall, and Shad slept in the bed against the west wall:
"Please don't come over here in the middle of the night. I trust you very much."
So the days passed one by one. During the day, Shad hunted and did carpentry work, while the witch was responsible for making textiles and decorating the new home they built with their own hands. Their relationship became closer day by day in this life that was hard but not boring.
The two small beds in the cabin had been separated from the wall at some point, first by some furniture, and then by the bedside tables. On the celebratory night when Shade hunted a bear, the two beds were put together, but the shy witch still used a curtain to separate the two.