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Chapter 3277 Adhesion Space
Chapter 3277 Adhesion Space
Dorothy closed the diary, satisfied that she had memorized the story, and put it back to its place:
"This is a story recorded from a third-person perspective by a woman who lived here two years ago. I can't tell how much of it is true or false, but it's a good story."
“All the gifts given by fate have already been marked with a price. The double-edged sword of fate can hurt others as well as oneself.”
Father Augustus sighed softly:
"So don't do bad things, and don't always think about getting things that don't belong to you."
"You always have such a point, priest."
Dorothy then smiled and said to Shad, who was standing at the left window:
"Detective, isn't there a detective from two years ago who also appears in this story? Do you know who that is?"
Xia De was startled, then looked at her in disbelief:
"not"
The writer smiled brightly:
"It should be him. Although the diary does not mention the detective's last name, it describes the detective as being hired from somewhere in the city center. Why, isn't this incident recorded in the family's detective records? The date should be in the autumn of 1851."
Shade quickly recalled Detective Sparrow's detective records that were a mixture of truth and falsehood:
"Oh, I remember now! There was indeed a similar situation. The detective's record said that they helped someone recover their property, but there weren't many records about this women's shelter. The record of this case is very brief. Do you know what happened to the disabled man afterwards?"
"Is there a follow-up? Is that disabled man a liar? Is he not actually the widow's stepson?"
Dr. Schneider asked from the door, but he didn't turn around to look at everyone, but still stared outside the door.
"No, no, that man is really the heir to the fortune. But the detective records say that he originally promised to give one-tenth of the fortune, no matter how much, as a detective fee to the detective who made great efforts in this matter after he got the fortune back. But in the end, he broke his promise. When the detective went to find him again, he had already disappeared in Tobesk with the fortune. The detective only got the initial deposit and the wedding ring that the lame man gave to the detective's widow as a gift after he took back the fortune."
"Tsk~ Was that ring considered trash?"
Father Augustus shook his head helplessly:
"And then what happened? Did the detective come to collect the debt in person?"
"That's not the case. The detective doesn't leave Tobesk very often for some reason. But later the detective asked an 'acquaintance' to investigate the whereabouts of the disabled man. The latter was probably worried about being chased by the detective for debt, so he took a boat to the New World and used his considerable fortune to enjoy life in the New World.
Unfortunately, the ship encountered a storm on the way. Although the ship successfully arrived in the New World, there were many casualties on board. The lame man was one of the dead. After his death, there was no heir to the money. Finally, the local church in the New World buried him and donated the property to the poor. I heard that there is a statue of him there.
The other three were amazed at the sequel of the story and lamented the fickleness and strangeness of fate. The story that started with malice ended with another malice. The wealth that had helped countless poor women in Tobesk finally helped others in the city on the coast of the New World.
As for the wedding ring that Detective Sparrow got, Shad never found it at home. It was probably given to someone else by Detective Sparrow, or sold out. If the family had this, the stranger would not have to go to the relief food.
So time passed quietly as they chatted, during which time the abnormal space area expanded, but was controlled by Dorothy's spell.
Xia De originally thought that some monster would emerge from that abnormal area of space, but he did not wait for the opportunity to take action.
Everyone chatted for the first half hour, and then gradually quieted down after half an hour. As the one-hour deadline approached, Shade became more and more worried. He trusted that Luvia would be fine, but it was inevitable to encounter some minor troubles.
When the time came to the fiftieth minute since Luvia entered the area, Shade's voice rang out in the room that had been silent for a long time:
"It's been an hour. I'll go in and take a look. Although Luvia said it's important for her to complete this test alone, we can't really watch her get into danger."
Although everyone knew that only fifty minutes had passed, no one pointed it out. In fact, the doctor even thought that Xia Deren would speak after forty-five minutes:
"Detective, I and the priest will go with you. Let the writer watch the situation outside."
The doctor said, and Dorothy agreed:
"The internal space conditions of that spatial adhesion area are probably very complicated. Luvia has traveled a long way. If you want to catch up with her, you need to exceed her speed. It will be faster if the three of you move together."
As she spoke, she reluctantly plucked out more than ten strands of her long golden hair and wrapped them around the little finger of Xia De's left hand:
"These hairs will guide you in the right direction. I can use them to sense your location and move directly there. This is something that can only be done in a spatial anomaly zone. Go quickly and come back quickly. Remember to tell Luvia that she owes me ten hairs."
Shade hugged her, and then priest Augustus and doctor Schneider came over. Everyone checked the spellcasting materials and relics they carried, and then followed Shade who had drawn his sword and walked into the distorted light and shadow.
"It's such a strong wind!"
After entering that strange space, a strong wind mixed with snowflakes blew towards me. But when I looked around, the surrounding environment was clearly the interior of "Carnation House", but the layout of the room and the placement of the iron bed, bedside table and wardrobe were completely different from reality.
There was no light inside the room, and outside the window was a long, pitch-black night, but no buildings of Tobysk could be seen, only endless snowflakes and deep darkness.
According to Dorothy's speculation about this area, the "Carnation House" should have become an endless maze with supernatural characteristics due to spatial anomalies. The snow and the scenery outside the window that they sensed were the characteristics of another space that was attached to this space.
“Will Carnation House not overlap with the Arctic Ice Sheet? Perhaps after we find the exit, we will see the silhouette of Saint Byrons behind the glacier.”
The doctor even joked that the state of this abnormal space was safer than they thought.
The slight pulling feeling of the hair on his little finger told Xia De the direction to go. After leaving the current room, he entered the corridor of the "Carnation House". But when he looked left and right, he could not see the end of the corridor.
After pushing open the door of the next room, the layout of the ward is still the same. There is only a window on the left wall, and two doors leading to other corridors on the front and right walls. In the case of a completely chaotic space, there is no need to explore the situation of these doors and windows, corridors and rooms.
"Follow me closely, we will run forward. Kill any monsters we encounter. There will be no normal people here."
Shad whispered, walking in front with a sword in hand, the doctor and priest Augustus followed behind him on the left and right. The formation formed by the three was enough to deal with most situations.
Those monsters hiding in the darkness, whose shapes cannot even be seen, and coming from outside the normal space, would be immediately engulfed by moonlight, death, and sulfur fire if they dared to pounce from under the bed, behind the door, or on the ceiling.
The door seemed to be part of the wall and could not be opened, so Shad used the Night Watchman as the key to the "door" to force it to be unlocked; the resentment left in the "Carnation House" combined with the special space phenomenon to create vengeful spirits and echoes that prevented them from moving forward. When they had to find the remaining traces of the past stories, Priest Augustus would kindly eliminate all traces of the soul.
Even when the faint light emitted by the space itself disappeared and the deep darkness tried to swallow everything around them, forcing the three people to turn in a direction they didn't want to go, the doctor would rush out without hesitation to swallow up the darkness.
The three of them hurriedly walked through corridors and rooms. As they went deeper into the core area of this anomalous space, the surrounding environment became more and more strange.
The corridor was sometimes no longer level. When Xia De rushed into the corridor, he found that the gravity was reversed and he was actually standing on the ceiling. The room was no longer a ward. After pushing the door open, he saw women in white long dresses hanging on their beds, staring at the three people at the door.
There was even one time when Shade's moonlight ring buzzed and flew towards the deep darkness at the end of the corridor. After destroying all the lingering dark shadows, a giant hand covered with black eyeballs that was big enough to fill the entire passage reached out to the three people from the end of the corridor as if awakened.
This was a part of the subspace evil that truly came from outside the material world, and it had penetrated part of itself into this space adhesion area through the space distortion zone. The horror of this thing was far beyond their expectations, and the three of them barely blocked the destructive light emitted by those eyeballs, and then fled into a room nearby.
As the three of them rushed forward with great momentum under the leadership of Shade, although they noticed that the spatial environment here was constantly changing and reorganizing, they could also see some traces left by Luvia.
Some monsters whose bodies would not disappear were lying in the corridor, and Shade could use this to judge the time when Luvia left. The few soul remnants that could communicate also put Luvia to the test, and at this time, the priests were needed to come forward to collect intelligence:
"The fortune teller seemed to have completed each task honestly, and then moved forward after receiving the prompt. It was unlike the three of us, who rushed forward along the tracks like we were on a runaway train."