Shade came in a hurry and knocked on the door downstairs of Dorothy's apartment in the dark. Of course the landlady who opened the door knew the famous Tobesk detective in front of her. Although she disliked the rumored romance of Mr. Detective
However, she still informed Xia De about the news of the female writer:
"Lotusa has been in her room since she came back from the publishing house in the afternoon. She didn't even go out to eat dinner. She is probably losing weight again. This is not a good habit for a young girl nowadays. Mr. Hamilton, you have to go upstairs and see you
Want to see her? But you can only stay until half past nine."
This apartment is only rented to women, and the rule when renting is that men are not allowed to stay overnight. Shade knew this before, so he thanked the landlady who, although she seemed strict, actually took great care of Dorothy.
But as expected, when Shade arrived at Dorothy's apartment on the third floor, he closed his eyes and knew there was no heartbeat in the room, but he still used illusions to fake Dorothy's voice and invited himself in.
"Is it Shade? Please come in."
Then there was the sound of the door being opened, forged by illusion. Shade did not have the key to Dorothy's apartment, but the "door key" could not recover fast enough to deal with the energy consumed by such a door lock.
"Good evening, Dorothy."
He said to the empty room, and then walked in. Shade had been to this apartment more than once. After closing the door, he quickly checked the room, and then saw the manuscript he was writing in front of the desk.
The manuscript stops at the word "corpse", which is still two letters short of being written. And Dorothy's favorite chair behind the desk is arranged as if it is being used:
"Disappear in place?"
If it was only Lecia who was missing, then the princess should have informed Dorothy of the matter through her ability to communicate with Dorothy across space. Therefore, Shade had guessed that Dorothy might not be there before coming.
Taking a deep breath, Dorothy used illusion magic to create an illusion, and asked her to go downstairs with her. Then she explained to the landlady that she would be traveling to other places to collect materials for a few days.
Because Dorothy had done similar things before, and although Shade had a bad reputation in his private life, "Tobask's Detective" was only discussed in terms of his private life, so the landlady, as an ordinary person, was also
I have no doubts, I just asked the writer to pay attention to her safety.
After giving a reasonable explanation for Dorothy's disappearance, Shade threw away the glass slipper and returned home.
"Meow~"
"Mia, I don't have time to play with you right now. I have something urgent right now and I don't know what time I will go home tonight. You come with me."
Shade came out of the bathroom and said to the surprised cat, then picked it up and quickly went to the basement, entered the hidden space behind the wall, and picked up the [Butterfly Calling Flute] from the shelf beside the wall.
This is a gift left to Shade by the butterfly god [Thousand-Eyed Phantom Butterfly] from the fifth era after the adventure in [Worm Cave]. It is a genuine divine item. It can summon butterflies by playing it, and can strengthen the relationship between butterflies and butterflies.
Related to the power of thaumaturgy and incantation. However, Shade has always kept it with Helen and Grace to help them fight against the resurrected whispering power of the relic.
When the Red Butterfly girls were preparing to accompany Granny Cassandra to leave Middleburg, they gave the flute to Shade so that Shade could play the flute to call them. When Shade thought it would not work, he didn't expect it to actually work.
Used.
Because he had a vague suspicion in his mind, he did not play the flute at home, but turned around and touched the statue and went to Green Lake. He just brought the cat to the Green Lake Hotel, and just after he came out of the hidden wall, he felt something was wrong.
"Undead. What happened locally in space?"
He did not take the newly opened door in the basement, but still took the side door of the kitchen, and then came to the alley behind the hotel. The night was gloomy and scary, and in Shade's eyes, countless phantoms were actually wandering in the night sky
There are an astonishing number of clouds hovering in the sky.
This is not Fort Midhill, and these souls are extremely illusory and approximate projections, which will not affect the city and residents for the time being, but this is still very wrong:
"What's going on?"
It's just that Shade didn't have time to take care of this matter for the time being, and the local church would naturally handle it. He said hello to the boy John who had "go home" and asked him not to "go out" casually tonight. After walking around to the main entrance of the hotel, he first
I inquired with Mr. Soren Green and learned that Priest August had not come to check in yet. Then he returned to the room on the third floor and blew the silver flute in his hand.
The flute played, and hundreds of red butterfly phantoms appeared around Shade, and gradually turned from illusion to solidity. This surprised the cat on the sofa. But before it stretched out its paws to pounce on the butterfly,
The phantoms of red butterflies gathered in front of Shade, outlining the appearance of two girls of fifteen or sixteen years old.
The red butterflies dispersed, and the twins appeared. The black-haired girl in the white skirt and the black-haired girl in the black skirt, holding their skirts, came to Shade together:
"Good evening, sir."
"Good evening, sir. I feel the power of death outside the window, but it's not very strong."
They raised their skirts, curtsied and bowed, and then raised their heads and smiled at Shade. The young girls looked very good and smiled sweetly. Shade also wanted to smile at them, but he couldn't smile:
"Good evening, Grace. Good evening, Helen. This is Green Lake City, and we are at the Green Lake Hotel. I need help."
"Please tell me."
Overlapping voices said, and they saw Shade's anxious expression.
"Do you still remember the pair of red butterfly pendants you gave me? The two pendants that can allow Lecia and Dorothy to meet each other who cannot meet. Can you locate the current location of those two pendants?"
If they can't do it, Shade will have no choice but to find a way to find Luvia. There is still one [Home Coin] left in the special coin, and he will definitely be able to divine the result.
Grace in the white dress responded:
"It is impossible to locate the entire world. We have no means of leaving a location on the gift we gave you."
"But if it's in the same city or a very close distance, sir, we can search for those powers from the same source."
Helen in black dress added.
"Okay, now help me find the location of the two pendants."
So they held hands together and closed their eyes. After a moment, they opened their sky-blue eyes:
"Sir, the spatial environment in this area is too chaotic, which seriously affects our perception."
"It doesn't matter, try again. Can't you link my power? Just like in Randall Valley, come on, try again."
Shade put his hands on their shoulders, and then the three of them cast spells together.
"Strong Spatial Perception" helped Grace and Helen to the maximum extent, eliminating the influence of chaotic spatial conditions. When the city scene centered on the three people gradually spread to a larger surrounding area, Shade first noticed
Unfortunately, a street away from the Green Lake Hotel, similar forces were approaching the hotel.
Then the range of perception continued to spread to the surroundings, and a similar power appeared on a certain ship in the Duin River, but it was not the red butterfly pendant [True Red Butterfly], a sage-level relic, but the red butterfly pendant sent by Luvia in the morning.
The pendant for Megan and Audrey.
The evidence is that as soon as the three of them sensed it, the power of the same origin was blocked, which meant that the great witch discovered that someone was spying on her.
Even if Shade cast the spell to the limit, the final range of perception only covered a small part of the outside of Green Lake City, and did not even spread southward to the shore of Green Lake. But it was enough. The red dot that was moving towards the Green Lake Hotel,
Obviously represents one of the girls Shade is looking for.
After finishing the perception, Shade took Mia and went downstairs with Grace and Helen. As for Shade, he was alone when he went upstairs. When he came downstairs, not only did he have a cat, but there were also two fifteen or sixty-year-olds beside him.
Mr. Soren Green, the keeper of the store on the first floor, was very surprised. This was obviously against the hotel's rules of hanging behind the counter.
But thinking of the various girls and ladies around Shade and his relationship with his aunt, Mr. Green just smiled and said hello.
It took a long time to sense with the Red Butterfly girls just now, so when the three of them arrived on the first floor and the door of the hotel was pushed open from the outside, Shade immediately thought that it was Dorothy or Lesia.
.
Just then, he saw Dr. Schneider push the door open and come in. The blue-eyed middle-aged psychiatrist also saw Shade who had just walked down the stairs. He was a little curious about who the twins beside Shade were, but more importantly
He was dissatisfied and said to Shade:
"Detective, look at your expression now. Are you so disappointed when you see me appearing?"
"No, I am."
"I'm not joking with you. Today I went to do some shopping from Granny Natalie whom you introduced. That old lady with a very nice personality introduced me to a store outside the city to buy scarce goods. You will never guess who I met when I came back.
."
He made way for the door and let the blonde girl with a somewhat uneasy look on her face walk in. Dorothy saw Shade at a glance, and naturally noticed the uneasiness and expectation on his face.
"oh!"
There were other guests dining on the first floor. Shade suppressed the urge to call her name, stepped forward and opened his arms to hug her. Dorothy also hugged him tightly.
The doctor shook his head aside, not knowing what he wanted to express. Mr. Soren Green watched this scene behind the counter, tapping his fingers on the table while recalling which number it was. Helen in black dress,
Then she poked her sister's arm and quietly pointed in the direction of the doctor. Grace nodded cautiously and lowered her voice and whispered a few words in her sister's ear to express her agreement.