Greeting Priest August familiarly, the middle-aged priest calmly hid the novel that seemed like it shouldn't be in the church under the desk. After checking Shade's two documents, he asked them to wait for a while.
, and went out. But he came back quickly and returned the title deed and house deed that were kept in the document bag to him.
"Later today, the church will send out... a professional house appraiser to survey the current condition of the house and determine whether you can open the closed area."
Of course, when Shade left the church, the farewell priest August told Shade in a low voice on the stone steps in front of the church that the "professional house appraiser" was the ring warlock from the Church of Dawn.
Because he was thinking about little Mia's dinner at home and the storybook he got from Miss Louisa, Shade didn't chat with Priest August anymore and went straight home. Because the Dawn Square where the Dawn Church is located is far away from Torbes
The city center is very close, so when we got home, the sunset had just appeared in the distant horizon. On St. Teresa's Square in front of our home, unexpectedly, there was a group of young people happily feeding the pigeons with bread crumbs.
There are many pigeons in the square in the summer, and sometimes they even park on the window sill of the second-floor bedroom of No. 6 Square in the early morning. Little Mia likes to look at the pigeons parked on the window sill through the window, so Shade never opens the window.
After dinner, Shade originally wanted to check the books he borrowed from Miss Louisa right away. But the "building safety inspectors" from Dawn Church arrived faster than he expected. They came in the evening.
Already.
The security inspector's name was Mr. French. He was an elderly man who looked to be the same age as Priest Augustus. He wore a somewhat outdated brown checkered coat. When the two shook hands, they whispered in their ears.
The voice is already reminding me that this old gentleman is a ring warlock.
The so-called security inspection is just a walk around the areas that are to be opened. While talking to Shade about what happened in the house in the past, Mr. French walked with him from the first floor to the second floor. He observed a few things.
They stood in front of the locked door on the second floor for a while, and finally talked about what happened when the church blocked the stairs on the third floor.
Mr. French found no abnormalities in the house, so he signed the safety report smoothly.
Shade thought he would have to spend money to find someone to open the passage and repair the stairs. Unexpectedly, Mr. French asked Shade about his work and rest time when he left, and a team of workers came over half an hour later.
While the blocked passage on the first floor is completely removed, the other two areas cannot be solved for the time being.
The key to room 2 on the second floor was originally kept in the church, but because Holy Prayer Day is approaching, the church is checking the warehouse and does not allow sensitive items to leave during this period, so the key will not be delivered within a week, Mr. Frank
Tell Shade not to open the lock without permission.
The broken staircase on the third floor cannot be repaired for the time being. The problem on the first and second floors is a curse from a hundred years ago, and the third floor is really not open because of safety.
This requires Shade to find someone to repair the house himself, and notify the church when the repairs are done, and the church can help connect the stairs for free.
By the time the first floor of No. 6 St. Teresa Square was reopened, the wooden boards on the windows were removed and glass was installed, and the rubble was cleared away, it was already close to eight o'clock in the evening. I kept standing on the stairs holding little Mia and watching.
Shade, who was working in the construction team, came down to say goodbye to Mr. French, who has also been here.
"If you find any problems with the house, remember to come to Dawn Church to find me. Of course, since you know Augustus, you can also go to him. He can find me."
Mr. French is very enthusiastic:
"Although you may feel strange that Dawn Church is responsible for it, after all, it was the church that sold the house to Mr. Sparrow Hamilton three years ago. So this matter is very reasonable and there is no need to doubt it. Yes, it is
so."
Shade could only nod and deal with it.
After sending the group away, he had the opportunity to enter the first floor of his house to check.
Because the gas pipeline on the first floor was cut off for safety reasons when the passage was closed three years ago, there is no gas lamp on the first floor. Shade held the cat in his arms and held a glass-shaded kerosene lamp in his hand as he walked into the newly cleaned foyer.
When I entered the large living room on the first floor, as expected, I saw that there was nothing in it.
The two windows in the living room have been closed with wooden boards for a long time in the past, and the passage connected to the foyer is tightly closed, so there is not even much dust on the ground.
But it's not very dark here. The moonlight and the light from the gas street lamp next to St. Teresa's Square shine into the room through the window, and the gas lamp in the foyer behind it also illuminates the place.
"are you still there?"
Shade asked quietly in his heart while checking the first floor.
【Are you afraid of ghosts?】
"Of course not, I just want to ask, since you said my soul is sensitive, do you sense there is a problem here?"
[There is currently no one, but you can walk inside. 】
The area of the first floor is twice that of the house where Shade lives upstairs. After all, the second floor is divided into two rooms.
But due to some past events, only the load-bearing walls and floors are left on the first floor. The decorative walls and furniture that divide the rooms all need to be prepared by Shade himself. The place is empty, but the advantage is that you can see the foyer when you turn around, so there is no need to
So terrifying.
Little Mia's eyes were shining in the dark. The timid cat was afraid of the unfamiliar environment at first, but after being carried by Shade for two rounds, he got used to it. It struggled to jump out of Shade's arms, and Shade saw this
There was no danger, so I put it on the ground.
The small cat ran around on the floor, making squealing sounds. But soon, little Mia disappeared from Shade's sight.
After searching around, I discovered that when the passage on the first floor was opened, the door leading to the basement behind the stairs was finally revealed.
Of course Shade was happy about this. He couldn't live in such a big house by himself and had long thought about renting out part of it. If the basement was large enough, he could carve out partitions and rent them out to the poor...
"How could I do this? Are you crazy about gold pounds?"
Shade patted himself, bent down and picked up little Mia who kept scratching the wooden door of the basement.
There is no furniture on the first floor, and the walls have been carefully maintained before, so they look okay, and no traces of time can be seen. But the door has been standing here for who knows how long, and the wood is badly rotted, even the small orange cat
The claws can leave marks.
When I tried to push the door open, I almost pushed the door down completely. But precisely because the door was not secure, the air circulation between the basement and the outside world was very good, so there was no need to worry about lack of oxygen.
When Priest Augustus talked about this house, he did not mention that there was a problem in the basement, so after opening the door with a creaking sound, Shade boldly walked down the steps with the cat in his arms.
The ceiling height of the basement is only about two meters, which is a bit low. Standing on the steps holding an oil lamp high, except for the rusted steam pipes piled in the corner, there is only corrupt air here.
"The church was really cautious and really removed all the suspicious things, not even a stone was left behind."
The orange cat Mia huddled in Shade's arms, curiously looking at everything in the dimness. But because the basement floor was unclean, Shade did not put it down this time.
I thought about walking around the basement to see if any burrowing mice had settled here, so I walked down the steps. But the moment my shoes just touched the ground, I heard a murmuring voice in my ears:
【You have come into contact with "miracle".】
"Miracle?"
The element of miracle is related to God. Shade stopped and raised the oil lamp in his hand higher, trying to see strange traces:
"I knew it would not be safe here, but what happened was a 'miracle' factor, but it was not at all in my plan."
Fortunately, the murmuring voice only appeared once. If it was a repeated reminder element, Shade would definitely turn around and leave now.
But when I walked around the basement with an oil lamp, I found nothing except that I had to spend money to install gas lights here.
He even carefully examined the walls, trying to discover the wonderful unknown language, but there was nothing here. If there were, there was no way the Church could not discover it.
"This is interesting. Two nine-ring warlocks died on the first floor a hundred years ago. After that, the owners here continued to die suddenly. It seems that it is because of these miraculous elements. The elements are harmful to ordinary people..."
Thinking in my heart, when the life circle in the soul rotates, the first thing is thaumaturgy [Echoes of the Past].
He only heard his footsteps and Mia's dissatisfied cat meowing.
"If the sound doesn't work..."
Blood appeared in the pupil of his right eye. Even though the oil lamp could only illuminate a small area, in Shade's field of vision at this moment, there were extremely weak traces of blood in the dark part.
These traces are probably left over a hundred years ago and look like footprints. They are almost all over the basement, leading from the basement to the entrance.
"There were no blood stains from the entrance to the interior, indicating that the appearance of the blood stains was something that happened inside the basement."
He thought in his mind.
Shade took the basement steps as a starting point, reversed the walking sequence of the man a hundred years ago, and followed the direction of the intertwined footprints to find the end point. The final stop was in front of the wall facing the basement steps.
The footprints stopped in front of the wall, and there were deep blood stains on the wall and the ground. At the same time, the owner of the footprints that appeared from here seemed to be lingering nearby for a while, letting the bloody footprints overlap, and then set off towards the
Exit from the basement.
"Why is there blood so high on the wall? It doesn't look like it was splashed on it, it looks like it was wiped on... Also, why are you wandering here? What happened here? Even if you are thinking about things, you don't
Does it have to be in the basement...with space behind the wall? No, there's no way the church wouldn't detect this trick."
Shade frowned, held the cat with one hand, put the kerosene lamp under his feet, and then reached out and pressed it against the wall. At this moment, there was only an icy cold feeling, and even if he tapped it with his fingers, there was no hollow echo.
"Should we find a hammer to break this place open?"
Shade thought and stared at the wall for a while. Before giving up, he had a new idea:
"It won't cost a pound to try it anyway."
Thinking in her mind, she summoned her life ring. Little Mia was frightened by the sound of the bell and the whistle. Her amber eyes widened and she lay on Shade's shoulder and looked back. The orange cat had never seen such a thing.
The life ring rotates slowly, and Shade controls the core rune [Time and Space]. By manipulating the flow of spirit, the rune glows slightly. The light shines on the wall in front of him.
Then, part of the wall disappeared like a phantom, revealing a long and narrow passage...
Shade believed that his expression should be the same as that of the cat who was looking at the life ring at this moment.