Whispering Poems

Chapter 1277 Pendulum safe and contract
"Luvia Anat?"

Her Royal Highness said softly, then nodded in understanding:
"Since you have something to do, do it, but then don't forget to make time for a date with me."

It was already five o'clock in the evening when Xia De returned to Mason Street where the Mason Association was located.He walked through the bustling stream of people into the noisy tavern, glanced around and saw Mr. Antonio sitting in the corner against the wall.

After the waiter left, Xia De, who sat next to Mr. Antonio, apologized softly:

"Sorry, I may be a little late. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see that old Huck."

"You don't need to apologize. I think even with the Earl's power, it would be very difficult for you to meet the criminal who assassinated the prince for such a reason."

The middle-aged playwright understands this, and Shad adds:
"Of course, although I couldn't meet him in person, I investigated his neighbors and exchanged a few pieces of candy for some stories from the children."

Randall Valley's local specialty honey beer, the two ordered a glass each, Shad has never liked alcohol, so he just took a sip to increase his knowledge.

"It's good if you can achieve your goal. Do you have any good stories to share with me?"

"of course."

Xia De then told the story he heard this afternoon, and Mr. Antonio recorded it excitedly.After Xia De finished talking about his harvest, the middle-aged man also talked about his harvest:

"I inquired about the old Humphrey who was crushed to death last year in the association. The middle-aged stonemason we met in the afternoon was not lying. He was indeed crushed to death by a crooked full-body statue during the earthquake last fall. The wound is in the head."

He also pointed to his head, explaining the specific location:

"It is said that he died immediately on the spot, and the ground is red and white."

The corner of Mr. Antonio's mouth trembled, obviously not very comfortable with this kind of topic:

"It's very interesting that since the death of Old Humphrey, the stonemasons' association occasionally heard the sound of carving stones at night, which is the prelude to the rumors of ghosts. Because of this incident, the high-level officials of the association invited the local sun The Church performs exorcisms."

He lowered his voice slightly:

"My friends at church told me that there was a real ghost in that event."

This world already has a wealth of ghost stories and legends, so it's okay for ordinary people to know about these things.Things that cannot be circulated casually are things about relics and gods, and specious ghost stories are a means of covering up dangerous information.

"But after the exorcism of the church, even if there were ghosts, they should be gone now, right?"

Shad asked, but Mr. Antonio shook his head:
"Since then, the sound of carving has occasionally appeared. But people searched carefully and found nothing, and no one was in danger. Later, I heard from an architect that it was because the house was aging and the temperature difference between day and night was too high. I don’t know if you believe it or not, but I don’t know if I should believe the sound produced by the deformation of the materials inside the building.”

"In this way, we have so many stories in our hands, but we have no clues for further investigation."

Xia De said with a glass of wine, but Mr. Antonio laughed instead:
"Mr. Watson, aren't we here for the story? Investigating the truth is not our purpose. You have gone too far, and you have forgotten your goal when you set off."

"That's right, there are enough stories today, and even our investigation process can be called a good story."

Mr. Antonio agreed, said Shad.So the two chatted with wine glasses for a while, exchanged and recorded the information they had obtained, and then parted ways.

In other words, Shade sat still, and Mr. Antonio took the initiative to get up and say goodbye to him, and agreed to go to the Prophet Association to play Rhodes cards together when he had time.

Xia De continued to hold the dirty wooden wine glass, looking around:

"Mr. Antonio is gone, the next step is to find Luvia."

【What are you looking around for? 】

"She" suddenly asked in Xia De's ear.

"I was wondering if the demon scholar, Mr. Sean Asmond, would suddenly come out of the crowd at this time. Since there may be demons in the Randall Valley, it cannot be ruled out that they are demons."

But it seems that the demon scholar who always met Shad by coincidence is probably not in the local area now.

After leaving the tavern, Xia De went to the Fertile Land Hotel to find Luvia who had just got off work.After hearing about Xia De's investigation this afternoon, Luvia was also very interested in it, so she agreed to go with him at night.

Of course, the two had dinner together before that, and Luvia smiled and said that since she came to the Randall Valley on a business trip, she and Shad spent more time eating alone than in Tobesk.

This is probably hinting at something to Xia De.

The Masons' Guild usually closes at eight in the evening, and after 08:30 there are only three gatekeepers left.Xia De calculated the time, and came to Mason Street with Luvia at around eight o'clock in the evening, waited with Luvia for a while in the tavern in the evening, and left with Luvia after making sure that the building of the Mason Association was turned off past.

The two did not choose to climb over the wall from the backyard. With the help of Xia De's illusion, they pushed the door and walked in through the main entrance. The gatekeepers who gathered to play Rhodes did not notice them at all.

Most of the masonry associations are decorated with stone statues. Walking in such a place without lights is a bit scary.The president's office was on the top floor, and the two searched for it according to the house number, and found the location easily.

After Xia De unlocked it with the [Door Key], he saw an office bigger than his own bedroom.The owner of this office is very stylish, the floor is covered with not very luxurious carpets, and the wallpaper is dark brown.A stone round stool is placed next to the wooden bookshelf, and a stone statue of a philosopher is placed on a small table next to the clock by the wall.

Luvia walked in behind Xia De, looked twice in the dark, and saw the safe in the corner at a glance.

Xia De walked over directly, apologized softly, and knocked on the side wall of the safe with his fingers.Then, the sound of gears turning and pistons pushing and pulling came from inside the box.After waiting for a few tens of seconds, with a click, five alloy metal rods popped out from both sides of the box, accompanied by steam smoke, and the safe opened automatically.

He squatted down to check, and Luvia summoned a small ball of light that flew into the safe to illuminate it.

"Let me see what's there, cash, a small bag of precious stones and gold?"

It was a rather poor-looking gold bar, less than half the size of Shad's index finger, wrapped in paper and placed in the upper corner of the safe.Xia De didn't open the paper, but the paper was too thin, and the light from Luvia's light ball directly penetrated the paper:

"I didn't expect the president of the Stonemasons Association to have such a collection hobby."

Xia De will not mess with other people's things, he is here to find documents and contracts.There were indeed a lot of documents in the safe, Shad pulled them out and checked them with Luvia.

There are not only the election and appointment documents of the chairman of the association, but also the real estate and real estate contracts of the Stonemasons Association.Xia De even saw the letters sent by the Association to His Majesty the King of Willandell for more than ten years, but each envelope had a blue post office stamp of "returned", which was a sign of rejection.

"I didn't see that ancient contract."

Xia De muttered, Luvia also shook her head and said that the document in her hand did not have what he was looking for.So Xia De put all the files back to the original place, and after restoring the safe, he looked at the bookshelf behind the office:
"Could it be in the bookshelf? Library search!"

He stretched out his hand in the direction of the bookshelf. Although the spell was successfully launched, and the venue here was judged to be an environment where spells could be used, no ancient parchment or the like flew towards him.

"Xia De, don't waste time, let me do it."

Luvia said softly, took out an amethyst the size of half a thumb tied by a thin thread, and then held the end of the thread to let the amethyst hang in the air.This is a relatively traditional "pendulum divination", and it is also a compulsory course for fortune tellers.

Common pendulums are amethyst or obsidian, but compared to card divination, Luvia's talent for pendulum divination is very limited.And "pendulum divination" itself has great limitations, but when looking for lost keys, socks and other small things, this divination skill is quite useful.

"The target is an ancient contract"

Luvia chanted softly, pouring her spirit into the amethyst, then closed her eyes and emptied her mind, allowing her consciousness to touch the silk thread representing fate and time.As the amethyst emits a beautiful shimmer, the pendulum that was originally vertically downward began to shift slightly to the side:

"found it."

"Speaking of which, can you find cats with your pendulum divination? If you can find them, I, a detective, will lose my job."

Xia De asked curiously, and Luvia glanced at him reproachfully:
"You don't always ask this kind of question when we are doing business. Any divination can find cats, but fortune tellers don't do such boring things. If Mia gets lost one day, I can help you find it." return."

For some reason, Xia De suddenly remembered the silver-eyed little Miya who was held by another Luvia in the dream.

The amethyst pendulum pointed to the wall where the door of the office was. Luvia pulled the pendulum and moved in that direction. Sure enough, she found the safe embedded in the wall behind the oil painting next to the gas lamp. God of the Sun and Earth] The holy emblem of the old man with the lamp.

It was still Shad who opened the safe, and this safe was obviously much more empty than the safe placed in the open.Xia De saw the document he was looking for at a glance.Because this is a document hundreds of years ago, in order to preserve, each page of the document is framed in a photo frame and strictly sealed.Fortunately, the original simple contract was not long, only twelve pages.

(End of this chapter)