Whispering Poems

Chapter 1225 Clues to the Cemetery

The statue is extremely realistic. Although it may be a real stone statue, since it appears here, there is a high probability that it is a living person who has been petrified.When Xia De bent down and tried to pull it up, he found that the back of the stone statue was almost integrated with the earth.Obviously if they hadn't appeared at this time, the earth would have swallowed the statue completely soon.

The stone statue is dressed like a nearby hunter, and even the scabbard can be seen around the waist, and the old-fashioned musket behind it is only the muzzle still on the ground.

But it is a pity that the soul is no longer there, this is a permanent petrification.The difficulty of restoring the stone statue in front of him to a living person is the same as the difficulty of finding a random statue to become a normal living person.

"He didn't die from petrification, because of this."

Miss Benanis also came over, and the experienced witch pointed to the hunter's chest, where there was imperceptible puncture damage.Although witches don't like to approach men, it doesn't matter that men's statues:
"A weapon like a needle pierced through the heart directly. Look, the stone next to the wound has no obvious peeling feeling, indicating that the wound existed before petrification."

"Has he been attacked before petrification? Then he was not killed here, but someone killed him elsewhere and threw his body here. It seems that the other party knows the problems of this land very well."

Xia De judged, but without the blood, he couldn't track it at all.

"It should be a ring warlock. It's really interesting. Who would go to such a remote place?"

Miss Benanis looked around, but because it had been snowing, there were no footprints on the snow.

"Wait a moment, I will use the power of time to listen."

Shad stood up from the stone statue:
"Echoes of the past."

Narrowing his eyes slightly, the voice immediately entered his ears.This time I was lucky, the man's voice that appeared in my ear was obviously not his own:
"Just throw it here, be careful, don't step over, or I won't be able to save you."

"understood."

It was another man's voice, who seemed younger.Then there was the sound of heavy objects falling into the snow, probably bodies being thrown here.

Shad made a gesture of silence to Miss Benanis, and even the unicorn understood Shad's gesture and stopped moving.

The voice continues:

"The target is nearby, right? If we can't find it after killing the guide, our three days of activities in the forest will be in vain."

It was still the voice of the young man.

"It's nearby. This is the result given by [Puppeteer's Script]. Since the price has been paid, how could there be a problem?"

The voices of the two gradually became smaller, which meant that they were leaving.

Because there will be no more human voices in this field, Xia De is not worried that he will not be able to find this voice, so he temporarily stopped his thaumaturgy effect:
"People from the [Blood Spirit School] used the angel-level relic [Puppeteer Script] to find things nearby. This hunter was a guide they hired with money, and because they were close to their destination, they killed him. It fits the style of those guys."

The witch who was observing her surroundings frowned slightly:
"Blood Spirit School? Didn't they come here looking for something last year?"

"Is it possible that it is also the tomb of that 'Saint Perry'?"

Shad made a guess.

"It's possible, but no matter what, let's catch up and see. No, you need to rest now, don't cast any more spells. I'll ask the earth, and I can also track thaumaturgy."

The witch said, Xia De did not object:
"I can only confirm that they appeared here within three days, but I can't determine the exact time. I'm afraid there is a high probability that they will not be able to catch up now."

"It doesn't matter. After all, we are just here to try our luck. Let's pretend for a while, we may encounter enemies in a while, oh, it's the witch's eye shadow, and this is also given to you by Galina? But isn't it only witches can use it? "

Eyes with traces of blue and gold glanced at Xia De suspiciously, but didn't ask any further questions.The two then led their respective horses. They were worried that the unicorn would run away, but they didn't expect it to happily follow Xia De, as if they believed that Xia De's side would be safer.

Xia De didn't know exactly what the witch's ability to "listen to the earth" was, but she didn't show any hesitation or pause. After setting off on horseback, she went straight to the northwest in the sparse creek forest.

The destination was very close to the land handled by Xia De, but the witch stopped in less than 10 minutes and signaled to Xia De to dismount.

At this time, they came to the vicinity of a not-so-steep rock wall in the mountains. On the slightly rough map that Shade bought in advance, this place was not even specifically marked.

The footprints still don't exist, but the traces of the ring warlock's battle are clearly visible.There is an obvious trace of cutting with a sharp weapon on the rock wall. Although the stubble of the broken trees around has frozen, it can still be judged that it was broken not long ago.

When the snow layer was removed, traces of the explosion could be seen, and a closer look revealed a collapsed black tent half buried in the snow.

Shade pulled the tent out of the snow, and he could see that there were still some daily necessities inside. There was even a bitten apple and a pirated copy of "Hamilton's Detective Stories" in the Kaseric language in the corner. volume one.

Miss Benanis turned over the snow near the tent and saw the remains of the extinguished campfire:
"My listening can only be traced to the vicinity, and the earth is unwilling to continue to inform me of their whereabouts. It seems that they set up a bonfire near here last night. The size of the bonfire is obviously not just for cooking."

"And then there was an attack in the night. Then I'll listen."

Xia De used [Echo of the Past] again, and after slightly frowning, he could only hear extremely chaotic fighting sounds, as if he was trying to listen to the people in the opposite house across a noisy street. Characteristics:

"The power of time is disturbed, and I can't hear the sound anymore."

"Even if people from the [Blood Spirit School] can defend against one type of tracking method, it doesn't make sense to be able to defend against two at the same time. What's more, your time power itself is not easy to defend against. Moreover, they are in a hurry to fight with you around here. Unknown enemies have fought, so it is unreasonable to think about preventing being tracked."

Miss Benanis frowned slightly:

"Look around, there may be dead bodies."

The two horses were still tied to the tree, and the unicorn happily followed Xia De to walk around. When Xia De bent over the snow layer to check under the snow from time to time, the little animal would also use its hoof to open the snow. Xuemian pretended to be very serious and lowered his head to check.After being touched by Xia De casually, he will happily call out again, it really likes Xia De.

Soon, Xia De's [Echo of Blood] found a faint bloodstain under the snow surface. He searched along the trace, but found that the bloodstain kept moving away.He continued to chase until he came to a nearby mountain stream. The bloodstains went straight into the ice, and then disappeared completely.

Shade stepped onto the ice and found a hole in the ice that hadn't been frozen yet.After the blood was diluted by the subglacial river water, Xia De couldn't see those bright red traces.

"The other party jumped into the river and escaped. This should have happened last night or this morning."

After Shade returned, Miss Benanis was inspecting the cut marks on the rock wall:
"I sense the power of the sun, most likely it is the trace caused by the high-ring thaumaturgy 'Sunshine Great Sword' of the Church of the Sun."

Shad's [Moonlight Great Sword] comes from the thaumaturgy of Tobesk's thirteen-ring warlock "Sunshine Great Sword" Mr. Hogg Rendell, and he is very familiar with this thaumaturgy:
"I've heard friends from the Church of the Sun say that there aren't many high-level magicians who master this thaumaturgy, so it's impossible to appear here. Could it be that St. Perry's cemetery is nearby?"

Miss Benanis was not wearing a hood at this time, her curly golden hair was hanging from her cheeks, and her cheeks were a little red from the cold, but this not only did not affect her appearance, but made her look even more pitiful:

"It's possible that they probably triggered some kind of defense mechanism in the cemetery. My Listening Earth and your time power cannot be traced, and it may also be because of the cemetery of saints."

Xia De pinched the small silver cube in his pocket, and confirmed that the silver cube did not respond:

"It's 02:30 in the afternoon."

He sensed the time:
"Although I don't know how they did it, the time seems to be at night. Most of the local rumors and stories about the 'St. Battle relics and alchemy weapons. We will return in the evening, and we will pitch our tent here tonight."

If the two don't return all night, others will be worried.

"No problem, but I'm worried that the [Blood Spirit School] will send other people to come again. If the other party escaped last night, as long as they don't die on the way, they have probably joined their companions."

The witch said that a simple warning ceremony was arranged nearby. If anyone else came to this area, she would be able to detect it when she came back:
"Be careful with this kind of thing. You know, my fighting power in the council is not strong, and I may not even be able to fight Granny Cassandra. Safety first. In the evening, besides us, I will bring my followers .Although [Blood Spirit School] has more High Ring Warlocks than Golden Dawn, after all, this is not their territory."

After speaking, he snorted again, with a rather confident look.

Having made up their minds, the two set off back to the city.The unicorn took the initiative to follow them without Miss Bernice's guidance. It was smart enough to know that it was difficult to survive alone in the winter forest.

This time, there was no need to make a detour, and he returned to the grass farm on the outskirts of the Randall Valley after riding for just over an hour.The unicorn, of course, could not be brought into the city, so it was temporarily housed on the farm.It was not placed in the stable, and Miss Bernanice specially arranged a room for it to rest.The snow-white little beast saw that Xia De was going to leave, bit his clothes hem with some reluctance, and only said goodbye to him sadly after Xia De told him that he would come back in the evening.

(End of this chapter)