With a pleasant bell ringing, Lawrence walked into the antique store. Unlike what he imagined, this antique store was not crowded and messy, but everything was neatly placed like a jewelry store.
Of course, this does not mean that there are not many things in the store. Every cabinet and glass cabinet is filled to the brim according to the type and grade of antiques. There are even several pieces of exquisite furniture that look old in the corner. The side of the store
There is a small staircase leading directly to the second floor. According to the sign next to it, there are staff dormitories and some expensive antiques.
The bell ringing when the door opened also alerted the store staff. Just as the three people walked into the antique store, a young man with brown curly hair and some freckles on his face came over and asked, "Can you please come to our store?"
yes--"
"Ah, that's it." Lawrence took a step forward and showed his ID, and said to the clerk at the same time, "We were entrusted by the vice president of the Lime Street Autonomous Committee to solve the problem in your store a few days ago.
The Incident of the Mysterious Shadow."
"Oh, I understand." After reading Lawrence's ID, the clerk told Lawrence and the others in detail about the strange things that had happened here before, just like pouring beans through a bamboo tube. After listening to his account quietly, Lawrence and the others
I have some guesses about the specific circumstances of the matter.
After the clerk finished talking about everything, he handed the key to Lawrence and they left the store. Fatina looked at the key in Lawrence's hand and asked strangely: "Squeak, he just believes you so much and gives you the key."
Did you leave after that? You know when I lived in the Dolphin District, those people wouldn’t even lend a copper plate to others.”
"That's because we also have real estate on this street, so his boss naturally trusts us." Lawrence shook his head slightly, "In this world, people often associate a person's wealth or identity with his credibility.
.And whether we are college students or the properties on this street, it is easy for people to think of us as having a good reputation.”
"Okay, let's not discuss these now." Lawrence waved his hand to start the next topic, "The most important thing for us now is to find out the reason why the strange black shadow is floating around the room, and we need to move faster.
.Because the clerk just now said that he falls into a state of fatigue more easily in the room than in other places, I am worried that the black shadow is slowly becoming stronger by absorbing people's energy."
"This matter is not particularly complicated." There was not much nervousness on Seifer's face. "You know, he just said that all the strange situations started a week ago. This time is already very clear. It needs to be investigated.
If something happened here, it would be best to start the investigation from what unusual things happened on the day of the accident.”
"I think we should first eliminate things related to customers," Lawrence said, "because according to the clerk's recollection, from the day of the incident until three days ago, there was no business in the store. At most, there was only
Several customers came in and looked around and then went out without even asking him about the price of the goods."
"Therefore, the focus of our investigation should be on the goods. According to the information obtained from previous inquiries, the owner of this store had just purchased a batch of goods from the Southern Continent the day before the black shadow appeared." Lawrence added.
"Then the day after the goods were sorted and put on the shelves, the black shadow appeared."
Now that they had the suspect Lawrence, they immediately went to check those items on the shelves. Fortunately, the previous clerk left them a receipt indicating the location of those items before leaving, so that they could check those items one by one.
Because there were less than ten items of goods purchased that time, Lawrence and the others quickly checked out the items on the first floor. After finding nothing, Fatina was left on the first floor to monitor the situation on the first floor, while Lawrence and the others
Saphiel went up to the second floor together. For safety reasons, Lawrence added a [Protection from Evil] to himself before going upstairs, and then walked at the front of the team.
Just as Lawrence stepped onto the stairs to the second floor, a black shadow suddenly flashed across the corridor in front of him, and he immediately felt a faint breath of death drifting past him.
[Fighting the Undead], Lawrence subconsciously raised his fingertips, aimed at the direction of the black shadow, and fired a positive energy ray. As a result, the black shadow made a sound like fingernails scratching on glass after being hit by the positive energy ray.
At the same time, because of this blow, the black shadow paused in the air and then quickly floated backwards towards the other end of the corridor, but at that moment, Lawrence and the others saw the appearance of the black shadow clearly.
Under the illumination of the gas lamp outside the window, they discovered that the monster was an evil spirit about one person tall floating in the air in the corridor. It was wearing a black tattered robe made of plant stems and leaves like a ghillie suit. It quickly floated in the other direction of the corridor.
When it came, everyone found that its two hands were exposed from the robe.
The skin of the monster's exposed hands is brown, as thin as if the skin is directly wrapped on the bones, and the exposed skin is covered with scabs, just like the claws of a mummy dug out of the desert.
Seeing this scene, Lawrence took a quick step towards the direction where the monster was escaping. He aimed at the monster and once again released a [Strike Undead] spell. Then, while the monster was still in the air, he reached his left hand to his waist and took it out from his belt.
He took a thumb-sized capsule made of cardboard and crushed it before throwing it away.
In an instant, a cloud of holy salt enveloped the monster from Lawrence's hand. After contacting the holy salt, the area where the monster was hit immediately emitted dots of silver light, as beautiful as the stars in the night sky.
However, the monster did not think this scenery was beautiful at all. As a spiritual creature with negative energy, it obviously lacked resistance to targeted forces such as positive energy rays or holy salt. Lawrence noticed that after being turned around
After the blow, the volume of this spirit body shrank visible to the naked eye, and the entire appearance was also much more blurry than before.
Just when Lawrence continued to hit the third [Fighting the Undead], the monster suddenly took a deep breath, and then a negative energy impact was sent out in a fan shape from under his turban towards Lawrence.
Lawrence already realized something was wrong when he saw the monster take a deep breath, but considering Sephiel behind him, he could only turn slightly sideways to avoid the vital point, and then released the [Secondary Deflection Stance] in front of him.
After a gentle collision, the negative energy impact shattered the magical force field wall formed by the [Secondary Deflection Stance] that Lawrence was blocking in front of him. However, after the force field wall collapsed, this impact became the end of the force, leaving him with nothing left.
For Lawrence, who still had a layer of [Protection from Evil] magic on his body, the bit of negative energy just felt like a slight cool breeze blowing on his arms.
At this time, Lawrence saw that the body of the monster in front of him looked even more insubstantial, and at the same time, wisps of black smoke were evaporating from the body and dissipating in the air. It was obvious that he had taken three [Fighting the Undead] in a row and was struck by the Holy Spirit.
After being smeared with salt, this undead monster couldn't bear it anymore.
At the same time, Saphire also rushed to Lawrence's side and sprinkled an open bottle of holy water with a faint white light on the evil spirit in front of him.
After touching the holy water in the bottle, the evil spirit finally couldn't hold on any longer. After letting out a scream, it turned into a plume of black smoke and disappeared into the air. At the same time, a trace of gray mist was absorbed by Bai Zexu in Lawrence's mind.
Shadow sucked it in.
"Well done." Lawrence turned his head and looked at Saphire, who was still holding the empty bottle in his hand. "I think we have completely eliminated this evil spirit."
Saphire also had a smile on her face after hearing Lawrence's words, but just when she wanted to open her mouth to say something, a ball of fire suddenly appeared in a cabinet next to her.