Shade and Miss Denister did not leave the tavern and wander around the village of Little Miguel. Instead, they sat here and waited.
They talked about the secrets that the Hermits in the Forest might hide, the secrets discovered locally in the past few days, and then even talked about the Moon Dance Festival concert that started at the weekend.
Mr. Bell Van Buren, the hermit, said that he would be back in about two hours, which made Shade and Miss Denister guess the location of their real residence, but in fact he came back in more than an hour.
Two other elderly hermits with gray hair came with them. They were also wrapped in brown coarse cloth robes, but the villagers in the tavern were not surprised by them. It was obvious that these hermits often appeared in the village.
When they entered the tavern, the red-haired girl was smiling and asking Shade what he thought of Flora Winslet.
"Thank you for returning the Holy Emblem, Mr. Watson."
The two old hermits seemed to be the elders of the [Forest Hermits Group]. They came specially to thank Shade and told him how to contact them in the village and city in the future. They regarded Shade as
For true friends.
Shade also left the address of the Accordion Hotel as his mailing address, thus establishing a mutual communication channel between the two parties.
Three hermits brought information about the "astrologer Euclid", but it was just a somewhat yellowed notebook:
"Three years ago, a strange sorceress visited the forest, and she had brief contact with us. The lady was very powerful, and we don't know why she came here, but she talked about it with our great elder.
'Euclidean the Astrologer' topic."
The old hermit who called himself "Cork Jarvis" said, and Shade was even more surprised:
"You mean, someone also inquired about the astrologer Euclid three years ago?"
As he spoke, he glanced at Miss Danister, who shook her head and didn't know what was going on.
"Yes, she didn't want others to know her identity. She was active in Vista Grove for half a month and then heard nothing from her. She probably left the local area. We couldn't help her much, and she didn't stay.
Drop something.
As for this notebook, it is the diary of the hermit elder a hundred years ago. The astrologer was mentioned above, so the lady three years ago read it, and I think you should also need it."
The old hermit handed the notebook to Shade, and Shade flipped through it roughly. It was indeed a diary, but the recorder was not diligent and only wrote a diary every other week, so it can be called a diary.
"Zhou Zhi".
There are very few records of "Euclide the Astrologer", only two chapters: "15th of the month of Frost, 1750" and "23rd of the month of Frost, 1750".
The owner of the diary said that on the 15th, he met an astrologer from out of town while purchasing supplies in Ximu Town. The two chatted in the tavern for an entire afternoon and they liked each other quite well, so they exchanged belongings as gifts;
Then on the night of the 23rd, the reporter met an astrologer in the forest who was preparing to watch the stars. This time they talked about the relationship between stars and disasters. The astrologer even said that the stars showed that there was a high probability that something would happen in the local area in ten years.
A terrible disaster.
"Um?"
Shade frowned, because next to this diary, there was obviously some new ink written with the phrase "Red Moon Change". The diary's handwriting was completely different from this newer handwriting. The former was male.
As for the handwriting, the latter’s cursive letters are most likely written by a woman.
"The note next to it was left by the lady three years ago."
The old hermit reminded, and Miss Daniste also tilted her head and looked at the notebook.
"Isn't it 1760, ten years after 1750, when the diary was written? I heard from people in the local black market that a terrible red moon happened at night in Ximu Town that year (Chapter 2545)."
Shade asked, and the old hermit nodded slowly:
"Yes, the astrologer successfully predicted the disaster ten years later through the stars, so we have an impression of this name that only appears twice in the diary."
Shade was amazed at this. Although astrology is also an important part of divination, its complexity can actually be regarded as a separate science.
Even Luvia, who has passed the "Registered Fortune Teller" exam, now only dares to say that she is "beginner in astrology", while Mr. Euclid a hundred years ago is obviously already a master of astrology.
However, the diary did not record other things in detail, so it only allowed Shade to know the specific time when "Astrologer Euclid" appeared in Ximu Town, which was the frost month of 1750 in the universal calendar.
That was 104 years ago.
"The years that that cabinet can lead to are 1698, 1763 and 1834. It seems that no matter which one is far away from 1750."
But no matter what, this was considered a major gain. Shade raised his head to ask Miss Daniste's opinion, but saw the eighteen-year-old girl sitting next to her staring at the notebook in his hand.
"What's wrong?"
She reached out and pinched Shade's arm. Even with Shade's current physical condition, she felt a little pain.
The two looked at each other, and Shade actually felt that he could read the red-haired girl's thoughts at the moment from those rose-red eyes with an anxious and incredible look.
So he continued to ask the three hermits:
"About the lady from three years ago, do you know anything else? For example, where did she go after that? Since she is also investigating the astrologer, maybe we can ask her for help."
"That's all we know."
The hermits all shook their heads, but the eldest one thought for a while and said:
"However, we do know where she lived during her local activities. She did not live in the city, but in a lumberyard not far from here. There were rumors of haunting in that lumberyard more than ten years ago.
Then several lumberjacks died one after another, so it was abandoned.
Later, we sent people to investigate and eliminated the evil spirits entrenched there, but the lumberyard has never been used again. If you have a map, I will mark the location for you."
Shade did have a map in his hand. After confirming the location of the lumberyard, he took Miss Daniste's hand and stood up. He thanked and said goodbye to the three hermits before leaving the tavern.
Of course, the notebook had been returned to the hermits, and when the two of them left the village and went deep into the woods, the red-haired girl with a pursed lips finally spoke:
"The annotations on that diary are the teacher's handwriting! I won't admit it wrong. The teacher came to Vista Grove three years ago!"
Shade didn't speak, just held her hand and walked through the forest, so she said in a low tone:
"But we all know that this is impossible. The teacher died in Karas Mountain many years ago. This is the conclusion given by [Silver Moon Library], but the handwriting is absolutely correct."
"We first came to Ximu Town just to investigate the astrologer who also went to Karas Mountain. Before just now, we didn't know that your teacher had also investigated Euclid."
Shade added:
"Based on the above information and conclusions, the most reasonable speculation at present is: Is this time travel again?
Your teacher, who secretly investigated astrologers, had been to this forest before disappearing, and found a tree hole in the forest, which led to his appearance three years ago in 1851?"
"I don't know, Shade."
She pursed her lips and held Shade's hand harder, as if she was holding the answer:
"Do I still have a chance to see the teacher?"
"Do you still want to go back to the past?"
Shade turned to look at her:
"You are already eighteen years old now. Do you want to be eight years old next time?"
Daniste Gustave also looked at him stubbornly:
"I'm just asking you: Will you help me?"
"I will help you not make the wrong choice."
"Is it up to you to decide what is right and what is wrong?"
She asked with wide rose-red eyes, looking a little angry. This was very consistent with the behavior of an eighteen-year-old young man, so Shade didn't worry about it. He just nodded naturally:
"I'm older than you and my rank is higher than yours, so it's reasonable for me to help you judge."
She shook off Xia De's hand, and Xia De took two more steps forward before turning around and stopping.
At this moment, the two of them had arrived in the sparse woodland outside the village. This was a small open space. The autumn afternoon sunlight cast down through the gaps in the tree crowns that had not yet turned yellow. She looked at him in the swaying mottled shadows of the trees.
:
"Even if I become like this, I am still your teacher."
The rose-red eyes gradually lit up, but Shade shook his head:
"I'm not denying this. I just want to say that in order to prevent unexpected situations, I will make sure you don't make the wrong decision."
"Shad I want you to help me!"
The sorceress clasped her hands together, and then struck Shade with bright red light.
She gave Shade enough time to react, so Shade swung with one hand and also split bright silver moonlight.
The red moon and the silver moon collided in a cross shape in the middle of the open space. While light fragments were flying in the sunlight, the red-haired girl turned herself into a streak of blood and rushed towards Shade. With a loud bang~, both sides
Shade, whose feet left two drag marks on the ground, slid back three meters and blocked the impact of the bloody light.
In the bloody light, he only blocked with his left arm forward. The light melted his sleeves and caused the skin of the entire left arm to fester, but it still could not hide the fact that Shade blocked the attack with just his left arm.
fact.
Daniste, who was in the light, pursed her lips and looked at his injured arm and began to regret it, but Shade didn't want to end it:
"Night Seal!"
The expanding ink-colored shield almost immediately bounced the bloody light outward. The sorceress who appeared in the bloody light flew backwards and stopped after hitting the big tree next to the clearing.