novelonline Chapter 2822 The Devil’s Sense of Humor
Chapter 2822 The Devil’s Sense of Humor
Chapter 2822 The Devil’s Sense of Humor
If the trapdoor was open, Shade might have thought someone had left the manor through it. But since it was locked, he took out the time key to the "Ashes Valley" and inserted it into the keyhole of the hot wooden trapdoor:
"May the World Tree protect me in infinite time."
[Stranger, you opened a "twisted tree hole." ]
[Tips from the Father of Infinite Tree:]
[Using the normal time key to open the door will connect to the following time point: 1546 of the sixth era of the present world. ]
[Note that any life other than you who uses this channel will be cursed by time.]
[Note: You can enter the past sixty minutes through this abnormal channel. After the time is up, you must return through this channel.]
[Note: After using the key to open the door twice, the passage will completely collapse.]
Every time Shade gets rid of the paradox bug, the time he can use the "Twisted Tree Hole" will increase, but this increase is irregular, and this time it finally reached a full hour:
"There are two more chances left."
[Do you want to go back three hundred years now? ]
Xia De hesitated for a moment, then held the key and opened the door:
"Of course, I'm curious about who just touched this door. I guess I'll meet someone interesting three hundred years ago."
He disappeared in the white mist and into the fire.
Shad once cast the spell "Return of Time" on those antiques from the past, and knew that they came from the night of the fire at Hoy Manor, so he knew that the destination this time was that night.
To be honest, he didn't quite understand the ratio at which the time on both sides of the "twisted tree hole" changed. It seemed that the time conversion in each tree hole was different, but fortunately, when he appeared three hundred years ago, the fire had not yet been ignited.
Because when Director Kant rebuilt Hoy Manor, the furnishings and layout of the first floor were almost exactly the same as the Hoy Manor of that time, so the place where Shad appeared was still the kitchen storage room, and the trap door, except that it looked like it had just been painted, was no different from its state in 1854.
The door of the storage room was closed, and the room was filled with the smell of various vegetables. There was no one else here.
Xia De used "Echoes of the Past" to try to listen to the sounds, but after discovering that they were all the voices of the chefs in the kitchen behind the door, he gave up trying. It was obvious that the door of this storage room was not soundproof.
The exact time now was 8:43 in the evening. According to local customs, dinner time had long passed, and even the time to prepare breakfast for the next morning had ended. Therefore, there was no one in the kitchen except the servant who was responsible for watching the fire and preparing tea for the Hoy family at any time.
Although he knew that a tragedy was about to happen here, Shade did not think about reversing time to save anyone. He also did not know whether the demon, which was obviously in a better state than three hundred years later, was also here when the fire broke out tonight, so he was very cautious and did not walk around, but went directly under the trapdoor.
According to Sir Wayne, the treasure of the Hoy family was here, so he was not discovered by the Hoy family every time he took action.
And Shade's guess was indeed correct, the person who arrived in this time and space before him was here. And his identity was consistent with Shade's guess, that is, the police chief of Vista City who was now desperate.
Director Kant did not look well. When Xia De found him, he was leaning against the wall of the treasure room in the secret passage, panting, covering his chest and looking at the boxes there.
Xia De had been here before. The ventilation hole of the manor's well was connected to this place. He didn't expect that this place was also used to store treasures three hundred years ago. However, the difference between those simple boxes and the so-called "treasure" was too great.
He did not hide his footsteps, so Director Kant also realized that someone was approaching, but he did not even have the strength to turn around to see who it was.
It was dark here, and Shade did not light the torches on the wall or call upon the moonlight for illumination:
"Disappointing, right? You imagine this place should be like the dragon's lair in the story, full of gold and antiques."
The middle-aged man laughed bitterly a few times:
"Now I almost understand that he was able to obtain those riches from here not because he discovered this place, but because someone allowed him to take those things from here every time."
Director Kant turned his head with great effort and tried to open his eyes wide, wanting to see who was coming in the dark, but ordinary people couldn't do this in a completely dark environment:
"who are you?"
"The people coming from three hundred years later to catch you will cause a lot of trouble if you die at this time."
Xia De said that he felt that the other party might misunderstand that he was a member of the church:
"It sounds like you know who moved the treasure from this time. According to our investigation, you should know nothing about it. You know that the person you are working with is a demon, right?"
"Yes. Of course I know."
"So when did you know the function of that door? Judging from the process, Sir Wayne should have moved the treasure and then gave you part of it."
Xia De asked. Director Kant laughed at himself, then coughed violently a few times and answered in a very low voice:
"I discovered it by accident, about five years ago. Now that I think about it, maybe it was the devil who made me discover it, so that I could have full faith in the so-called 'treasure of the Hoy family' and believe in the promises it made to me."
Xia De originally wanted to ask him how he activated the tree hole, but after hearing this, he asked first:
"What did the devil promise you? Greater power? All the treasures of the Hoy family?"
"It has everything. Most importantly, it told me that after the Hoy family was burned three hundred years ago, although the distant relatives of the Hoy family took some of the family's property and left the area, they did not find most of the treasures.
I have done a lot for it over the years, and it promised me a way out: once I am discovered by the church, it will send me back three hundred years, allowing me to leave Vesta City with the real treasures, and even leave Carsenrick, and start my life again three hundred years ago. "
Xia De shook his head slightly. The devil let Director Kant discover this tree hole, probably because he wanted to tie Director Kant up more securely.
Afterwards, without Xia De asking, Director Kant, who thought he was a member of the church, took the initiative to explain what happened today.
The devil once gave him a box and told him to open it when he was desperate.
When an unfamiliar "out-of-town policeman" came to his door today, he realized something was wrong. Then, when he found that he could not contact his "son" no matter what, he opened the box and came to the manor with the lantern and dead branches inside.
He used the fire kept in the lantern to set the manor on fire in an attempt to destroy all evidence of his collaboration with the devil, then followed the instructions on the note in the box, touched the trapdoor with the dead branch, and traveled to three hundred years ago.
The dead branches had turned into powder, so Shade could only guess what it was but could not confirm it.
Although the devil "kindly" gave his partner a way out, Director Kant's current appearance of being on the verge of death was obviously not what he expected. This was due to the damage caused by the "time curse", and Director Kant, who longed to start a normal life from scratch, cursed very directly -
[The body will always be in a weak state, but will never die from it. ]
No one could tell whether the devil had anticipated this, but Director Kant clearly believed that this was also the devil's plan:
"It just wants me to die here. It made me think I really had a way out, but when I came here, I could only sit here and look at these boxes without being able to move. It might be laughing somewhere, laughing at me for being as greedy as it thought."
"We have defeated the demon. I'm afraid it can't laugh anymore."
Xia De corrected him, and Chief Kant laughed, but it was obviously not a happy laugh, but a laugh at himself. As the local police chief, he knew best what would happen to the devil:
"You followed me to this era. Are you going to take me back immediately?"
"Yes, I've already said it, it would cause some trouble if you died here."
As he spoke, Xia De walked towards him, but the man said:
"Can you wait a little longer? Another twenty minutes."
"You wouldn't still want to find those treasures even if you become like this, right?"
Xia De raised his eyebrows, while the man holding his chest shook his head:
"I have checked the information about the fire at Hoy Manor. As the chief of police, I can see much more information than the average person. In twenty minutes, the manor will be completely burned. The story of the Hoy family has come to an end, and my story will only begin from that moment.
The cause of the fire three hundred years ago is no longer important. I think I just want to know what the devil promised the Hoy family. I am sure that their wealth also comes from the devil. They are devil worshipers like me. I want to know, I really want to know what they got. "
This time there was plenty of time, and Shade was actually a little curious, so he really waited another twenty minutes. After confirming that the fire had started, he used the "Light of Confinement" to control Director Kant to prevent him from escaping, and went to the ground himself.
He came back soon. Director Kant, unable to move, looked in the direction of the footsteps in the darkness:
"Do you know the answer?"
This was his only remaining obsession before he lost his freedom and even his life. Even his worry about his son did not exceed his desire for the answer to this question.
It took Shad some time just now because he was worried that the demon was nearby, but he did come back with an answer:
"The Hoy family also received a promise from the devil. The promise they received was a way out, just like yours."
"The devil said, can we let them go to other places to change their appearance and start a new life?"
Xia De looked down at him with pity:
“The content of the promise is: once the Hoy family is discovered by the church in this era and cannot survive, the devil will send them to three hundred years later to replace the family that took their treasure and also lived in the Hoy Manor.
That is, the devil promised to let them replace you and live a normal life. If you think about it carefully, this matter is really full of black humor. "
Director Kant lowered his head and laughed in a low voice. He was laughing at himself and everyone involved in this matter. After all, none of the participants in this story had a good ending.