Chapter 2757 Resentful Spirit, Secret Room and Fire
"We folklorists will not easily believe in claims of supernatural phenomena."
The professor immediately emphasized, but lowered his voice:
"But this statement is most likely true, and I have seen similar records. Also, do you know where the bodies of the Hoy family were found after the fire was put out?"
Seeing that Shade and his "female assistant" were shaking their heads, Professor Wood said mysteriously:
"The whole house was almost burned down, but what's strange is that the tables and benches in the banquet hall on the first floor were only burnt black. And those charred corpses were all sitting around the table after the house collapsed.
It is said that several of the people who put out the fire were frightened and went crazy on the spot."
After the manor was rebuilt, the banquet hall was still a banquet hall, or the layout of the first floor of the building after reconstruction was almost exactly the same as before. This sounds quite unlucky, but no one knows what Director Kant was thinking.
Today, the banquet hall on the first floor was also used as an auction venue, and it was also the most important venue in this charity auction. Out of curiosity, Shade wanted to see if he could really encounter ghosts, so he said goodbye
After meeting Professor Wood, he and Miss Danister returned to the first floor to check the situation.
But although the ghost didn't see it, Shade saw something that surprised him:
"arrow?"
In the exhibition cabinet against the wall, there are "elven antique arrows" that the elf girl has been entrusting Shade to find. Although he has not touched them directly, Shade has already found two, and there is no mistaking them.
The auction item is labeled "Antique Arrowhead Unearthed in Vesta Woodland", and the starting price is 10 crowns, which is about 130 pounds. Even based on the price of a charity auction, it is a bit too high.
Already.
"You definitely want this."
Miss Denister looked at the other information:
"The auction time is at 8:15 in the evening. We'll come over after taking the photo of the book later. But, did you bring so much cash?"
"Of course, how could I come to the auction without bringing money?"
I didn't have any trouble buying "Ximu Town and the World Tree". Only a few people were interested in this unknown ancient book. Seeing that Shade was very determined to raise the price, no one competed with him.
But then it was a bit troublesome to go back to the first floor to auction the arrow. Shade didn't know why, so many people were interested in it. Within a short time after the auction started, the price of the arrow increased from 10 crowns to 10 crowns.
Increased to 50 crowns.
However, Shade was determined to win the arrow, so no matter who bid, he would continue to raise the sign. One after another, people gave up, and in the end, only a very familiar young man was left to bid with him.
George Kant, the son of Director Kant who had awakened from the Lake of Love, also noticed Shad. After several rounds of bidding with Shad, pushing the price up to 80 crowns, he finally stopped bidding.
Therefore, Shade bought the arrow at a price 8 times higher than the reserve price. Although he no longer cares about money issues, it does not mean that he is happy that this happened.
"The sign says that this is an antique donated by Director Kant himself. Why would his son want to bid for this with you? This is so rude."
Professor Wood, who was sitting next to Shade, asked. He had just raised a sign and wanted to bid, but gave up after the price exceeded 20 kronor:
"That young man doesn't want to raise the price maliciously, does he? Mr. Watson, have you known him before?"
Shade shook his head:
"Of course I don't know him, but I heard that he was seriously ill some time ago. Is he cured so soon?"
Although I spent a little more money, it was good to buy the arrow. However, the arrow was not delivered directly to Shade. After the auction, he had to pay the money with others and get the arrow he bought.
thing.
However, Shade was not interested in other items at the auction. After making sure that he had bought the arrow, he wanted to leave the table with Miss Danister and go to other corners of the manor to take a look.
He just tilted his head and wanted to talk to the red-haired girl when he suddenly noticed a dark, translucent figure appearing next to the auctioneer. When his eyes swept across it a few seconds ago, he was sure that there was nothing there.
No.
"Is there really a wraith?"
The figure was obviously badly burned, so it could only be seen that it was a middle-aged man. It was obviously facing Sha De. When Sha De looked over, he stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the door of the banquet hall.
"What to do?"
Shade was surprised when he heard the red-haired girl complain again, and then he noticed that his tilted head was leaning on her shoulder.
The eighteen-year-old girl pushed Xia De gently, but the force was not strong. She probably thought that Xia De did this on purpose:
"This is a public place, please be careful. You have done similar things to Flora."
"Sorry, you can't see that?"
Shade pointed at the soul next to the auctioneer, who still extended his right hand and pointed at the door.
"What?"
Miss Denister also looked over, and then asked suspiciously:
"I don't see anything here, what do you see?"
So things start to get interesting.
In short, Shade first took her to say goodbye to Professor Wood and left the banquet hall. When he came to the corridor and saw no one in the corridor, he whispered what he saw:
"A charred wraith, but he just pointed at the door."
The red-haired girl is still confused:
"There are really resentful spirits here? But isn't that right? Hasn't the church found anything wrong after so many years?"
As Miss Daniste was talking, on the east side of the corridor, the soul appeared again, still pointing out the direction with its finger, and only Shade could see it. But after Shade took a few steps to get closer, the soul disappeared.
:
"Follow me. No matter what the resentful spirit is, let's first see where he wants us to go."
Shade is not the kind of reckless person. Of course, he has considered that this resentful spirit that only he can see is a trap. After all, its spirit body is contaminated with genuine demonic power.
But the soul did not guide Shade to leave the Hoy Manor. Instead, it led the two of them out of the building first, and then around from the courtyard in front of the manor to the garden in the back.
Burnt souls are sometimes missed in the dark night, but fortunately Shade's perception is very strong. They finally arrived at the back of the manor house and stopped in front of a low building in the corner of the garden.
This seemed to be where the servants lived, and there was a well next to the building. The resentful spirit finally appeared in front of the well, and pointed at the mouth of the well with its finger lowered.
"Are you sure you want to go down?"
Miss Danister asked. Shade stood at the mouth of the well and looked down. He closed his eyes and used "powerful spatial perception" to determine the environment under the well:
"There is a small secret room under this well. I want to take a look. You can wait for me here."
"I really can't do anything to you. I'll wait for you for ten minutes. I'll go down to find you in ten minutes."
Shade made a no-questions-asked gesture to her, then jumped into a swarm of butterflies and flew into the well.
There was no entrance to the secret room at the bottom of the well, but the ventilation window of the secret room was opened on the side wall of the well. So the red butterflies flew in through the ventilation window. After Shade transformed into a human and stood in the secret room,
He did not encounter the attack just guessed:
"So the evil spirit really just wants me to discover this place?"
Using strong spatial perception to once again determine the location, it was found that the real entrance to the secret room should be in the manor house. When Shade summoned a light ball to illuminate the surroundings, he saw a few lonely boxes placed in the corner.
Other than that there was nothing else, it looked quite strange for such a large place to be empty.
The box was not locked, and when opened it contained some gold and silver jewelry and antique oil paintings. Shade was not very proficient in antique appraisal, but at least he could confirm that the precious metals were genuine:
"Visual Demon."
Sure enough, all the gold and silver jewelry and antique oil paintings have the power of the devil, which shows that these things were obtained through transactions with the devil. Of course, being contaminated with the power of the devil does not mean that these items are harmful to the owner, but keeping these properties will definitely
It will make the holder's luck worse.
There is not much dust on the ground. After careful inspection, although these boxes are from hundreds of years ago, they should have been transported in recently.
In other words, it was not the Hoy family who left these things here three hundred years ago, but the current owner of the mansion or someone who knew the location of this secret room moved these belongings here:
"Is Mr. Kant making a deal with the devil?"
He continued to look at the antiques, writing down all their styles and shapes, and planned to ask Miss Bell to confirm whether these antiques came from the same source as the antiques he found in the basement of Bennet's old house when he returned.
But he soon discovered that there was no need to trouble Miss Bell, because among those antique oil paintings, a portrait with the nameplate "Cline Hoy" actually appeared:
"Is this an antique from the Hoy family?"
Shade didn't understand even more:
"So is the legend of the Hoy family's treasure true? Did the devil help Director Kant find those treasures? Or did the Hoy family make a deal with the devil back then, and Director Kant just accidentally discovered these long-buried treasures?
"
Although he discovered the secret room and clues, his questions only increased, and Shade still didn't know what happened to the ghost that led him to discover this secret room. The other party did not appear again, and there was no death in the secret room.
strength.
With this doubt, he transformed into a red butterfly and flew out of the well, but as soon as he landed, he found that the night sky was reflected in red. Amidst the screams, the mansion of Hoy Manor suddenly burst into flames.
The flame must have just ignited. The fire was located above the front of the mansion, so Shade, who was in the rear garden, couldn't see exactly which room was burning. Just by hearing the sound, people were evacuating in panic. The fire
There should be no obstruction to the exit of people on the first and second floors.