"Doctor, I have also heard of this ancient relic, but you can actually find this?"
Luvia sat on the sofa and whispered.
Dr. Schneider nodded:
"Feature, if you put these hair close to your head, it will automatically connect to your own hair. This feature is not valid for people without any hair on their heads, and for people whose longest hair is less than 0.1 inches (about 2.54mm).
Once attached to these hairs, one's own luck will become extremely bad. For the longest record, some people persisted until the 13th day before being killed by bad luck. And the only way to get rid of these hairs is"
"Shave your hair off?"
Shade asked, and the doctor smiled helplessly:
"How can it be so simple? The only way is to gain good luck while being attached to the relic. Any method will do, including your [Twenty-sided Dice of Destiny]. I remember that the effect of your dice has a high
Priority, the number rolled is not affected by the luck of lower priority items.”
The doctor said, saw the cat behind Shade's head, and reminded:
"This thing is also useful for long-haired animals, Shade, watch your cat."
Shade immediately turned around and grabbed Mia, holding her firmly in his arms.
Mia looked happy.
"Doctor, this is just bad luck. What about good luck?"
Dorothy got the point right.
"It's very simple. First, splice another person's hair on your own hair. It must be black, and it is natural black, not dyed. Then, splice [the unfortunate person's long hair] on another person's black hair.
The other end. [Unfortunate person with long hair] can only be effective on the hair that is still growing on the scalp, so it will not work on another person's hair. And because it is separated by one person's hair, it will be spliced with the user's hair.
, thus achieving an ambiguous flip in a certain sense. This state will last for about 10 seconds, during which the user will be extremely lucky, and after the time is up, the relic will fall off on its own."
"What's the price of manipulating fate?"
Luvia asked cautiously, and the doctor shook his head:
"For at least half a year, the user will be easily attacked by evil spirits, and the deceased around him will also be easily able to return in the form of evil spirits, but the specific time will depend on the user. Don't underestimate this side effect, the record says
After using a relic, you should never go near haunted houses or other areas in a short period of time. This is a side effect of the relic itself. In addition, there is an absolutely equivalent fate. Whatever luck you get, you will pay the same.
A degree of bad luck. This kind of bad luck is delayed, but it will definitely happen.”
"No problem, just use this."
Shade said that if he used the dice illegally, not only would he have to bear the cost of further damage to the dice, but he would also be unsure whether the good luck brought by the numbers would definitely come to the road signs he chose.
The good luck brought by the hair lasts for a long time. He doesn't want much, he just hits it once with a probability of a few percent. As long as he is fast enough, he doesn't have to worry about using the relic but not getting what he wants.
Effect.
"Shadow"
The doctor looked at him but did not stop:
"The college has given the news and they are investigating. I can't stop you, because I also want to save Priest Augustus, or at least know what happened to him and bring his body back. Go, Shade, you must
be safe."
"We are waiting for you here. No matter what happens, you must come back at five o'clock in the afternoon to say something."
Dorothy said.
"I have divined Priest August before. He definitely did not die in Fort Midhill. Shade, please be safe."
Luvia also whispered, then looked at the people around her and asked again:
"But do you have black hair here?"
"Yes, I have a black hair from my friend."
Shade nodded slightly. Luvia knew that Shade had an unusual relationship with the witch's maid, so she raised her eyebrows and said nothing. Dorothy even knew that Shade had a close relationship with "her" aunt, and that she had a close relationship with the maid.
Better, so he just glanced at Xia De and said nothing.
Take out Tifa's hair from the study room and ask Dorothy to help tie it to the short hair next to his right ear. This is a very delicate technique.
Afterwards, the four people came to the first floor together. The doctor did not follow him. He did not want the devil in his heart to see more secrets. But before leaving, the doctor gave Shade a wooden button. This was the alchemy he made himself.
After using the item, you can use the distortion of light to distort your facial features, never forming a certain degree of camouflage.
However, this kind of alchemy item can only last for half an hour, and it is easy to be detected by the ring magician, so it can only be regarded as a backup prop for Shade.
After thanking the doctor, Dorothy and Luvia sent Shade to the wall together. They were not surprised at all that the other knew the secret.
"Anyway, be careful."
They didn't say much. Shade put the cat that was pestering him into Dorothy's arms. Although Mia was dissatisfied after living with the blonde writer for a few days, she did not run away.
"You go have lunch first, I'm afraid I won't be back until evening."
He turned around, and Luvia put the metal box containing blood on the ground, fished out the hair in the blood, and tied it to the long black hair on Shade's side face.
The feeling at this moment was very strange, the hair itself had no touch, but when [Unlucky Man's Long Hair] came into contact with Tifa's hair, Shade actually thought that his hair "felt" an extremely cold chill.
The whispering in his ears became more obvious, and Shade could even tell that it was a woman telling her miserable life in an ancient language.
Shade didn't say anything, and quickly walked into the hidden wall in front of him, and touched the statue in the center of the circular space without pausing:
"May the original crack protect me in the infinite space."
Thick white fog immediately surged in, wrapping Shade in it. He once again entered the world wrapped in white fog, and on the blurry path in front of him, there were two worn-out wooden road signs.
At the same time, the mental pressure caused by using the relics suddenly eased, and even the whispers in my ears became fainter:
"You must not be suppressed by this space."
[Outlander, you have entered the "space maze". 】
[Message from the ancient god "Original Crack":]
[Existing space road signs: 2.]
"Sacrifice this white stone crystal."
Time was tight, so Shade immediately raised the white crystal in his hand upwards, and it disappeared silently into Shade's hands, as if blending into the thick fog.
[New information obtained, you can search for new information]
"southeast!"
[Ancient God - Original Crack, accepted your sacrifice. 】
[Randomly linking space road signs.]
[Link successful, existing space landmark: 3.]
Shade immediately reached out and took off the bloody lock of black hair hanging from the side of his face. He was relieved after making sure that the hair was not stuck to Tifa's long hair.
Obviously it is not a containment condition now, but those black hairs are motionless as if they are "dead".
“Is there still an element of whispering?”
Shade himself could no longer feel the elements.
【Yes, but very weak.】
Shade nodded, which meant that low-level relics would be suppressed in areas where the ancient god's power remained.
He did not touch the third wooden signpost that appeared on the path in front of him. Instead, he took a step back and returned to the hidden wall in the basement. He walked out of the wall and handed the dangerous relic to the anxious girls. This was the official announcement.
Another long journey adventure began.
I touched the statue again and returned to the [Space Maze], walking on the blurry path in the white mist. The third new signpost appeared, also inserted crookedly on the ground, with a wooden arrow nailed to the worn wood, crookedly.
The number three is written on it.
Shade put his hand on the road sign:
[The original rift will guide you in the direction.]
The white fog dissipated.
Shade stood still and did not move. When the white fog completely dissipated, what appeared in front of him was a circular space that was exactly the same as behind the wall of his basement.
The statue of the ancient god [Original Crack] stood quietly in the center of the space, glowing as Shade watched.
In the circular spaces of St. Teresa Square and Coldwater Port, Shade placed some characteristic objects that could indicate the location. However, in the current space, there are no objects inside except the statues of gods.
"I'm also looking forward to getting the property or relics left by our predecessors in a place like this."
Shade thought to himself, looking at the wall facing the direction of the statue. He summoned the life ring behind him, and the spiritual light that controlled the core spiritual rune [Time and Space] illuminated the wall. The wall disappeared silently, but there was a faint light outside.
.
"What?"
The light should be far away, so opening the wall did not trigger any reaction.
Shade waited for a few seconds to make sure he didn't hear approaching footsteps, and then quietly walked out of the circular space to the outside world.
There is a strange musty smell in the air. I calm down and listen. The wind blows through the treetops. The last wail of summer insects in early autumn is the only sound.
The light comes from above on the other side of the room where you are currently, and is the natural light of the sun.
Shade then lit up the light on his fingertips and looked around, and found that it seemed to be an abandoned basement. Animal feces and various worthless garbage were thrown on the ground, and spider webs were hung all over the corners.
The moonlight even disturbed the bats resting in the darkness. Those creatures tried to attack Shade, but after a flash of moonlight, they fell to the ground.
"Where is this basement? It smells really bad."
There are no steps leading from the basement to the upper floors, and the two are connected by a trap door. There may have been a metal or wooden escalator, but now there is nothing.
Although the distance between the ground and the basement was not more than ten meters, because he didn't know what was going on above, Shade did not choose space movement but chose [Frog's Leap].
"Hi!"
After taking off lightly, his hands grabbed the edge of the square entrance to the basement, which was the edge of the gap in the first floor. After still not hearing any human voices, he used both arms to raise his head from under the trap.
This kind of pull-up-like movement puts no pressure on Shade now:
"Where is this place?"
With curiosity, he finally saw everything around him. The ground was covered with a thick layer of dust, and rusty or even rotten metal furniture was piled messily against the wall. There were some fires on the ground near the right.
There are traces, but that was at least a year ago.
The space on this floor is actually circular, and the walls are made of rough gray square stone bricks. There are no traces of the steam industry era.
Looking up, the spiral staircase spreads upwards. A slender but very strong-looking metal pole extends from the top of the tower to the ground, making it easier to fall from the top floor back to the bottom.
"Tower? Bell tower or lighthouse? Judging from the style, it seems to be neither."
The sunlight comes from directly in front. There are no traces of human use in this large tower. The door at the bottom of the lighthouse has been removed, and the bright sun shines into the first floor of the lighthouse from the outside, and then passes through the square gap in the ground.
Shine toward the basement.
Shade used his arms hard, and after his upper body jumped out of the basement, he first put his legs on the dusty ground, and then climbed up.
As he stood up, he patted the dust on his clothes and palms. Because of his actions, there was some grainy dust in the sunlight coming in from the door in front. This look was simply telling Shade that this place was far away from human beings.
community area.
"I hope it's not too far from the city, I hope this is Fort Midhill."
Xia De thought quietly in his heart, and then he remembered that he nominally believed in the righteous god [Mr. Liming], so he prayed to Mr. Liming in a low voice.
The sunlight shining in from the door was a bit dazzling. He raised his arms to shield his face. Instead of exploring this long-abandoned old tower, he walked into the light of the door.
The wind blew through the treetops, allowing Shade, who had lived in the Steam City for a long time, to feel the breath of nature for the first time in a long time. There was a forest in front of him, and the old tower behind him had almost completely integrated into the forest. It was abandoned.
The age is probably far more than 100 years.
The treetops have been set up on the outer wall of the old tower, and tree vines connect the towering trees and stone walls. Moss, weeds and various plants that Shade could not recognize covered the ground. Looking up, birds came from
The windows of the old tower fly out, as if it has survived in the tower for several generations.
"The air is really nice, but what is this tower originally used for?"
He was thinking.
There was no immediate night exploration because he found a metal plate nailed to the stone wall at the door of the old tower. On the metal plate were engraved a few lines of vague words in the form of official documents to explain the situation here:
[The 1st Regiment of the Royal Army of the Kingdom of Delarion - the 3rd Brigade of the Windy Trail - Tower 12 was abandoned due to the relocation of the front line, and the nearby camp has been demolished. Hunters, lost persons, and stowaways operating in the Sikal Mountains can
Move to the northwest at 11 o'clock and look for a path into the mountains. It takes about 30 minutes to reach the southeastern suburbs of Fort Midhill.
Royal Army of the Kingdom of Delarian, Logistics Support Bureau