Whispering Poems

Chapter 1345 New Card Group and Original Sin of Arrogance
After leaving the Wilde Opera House, Shade braved the snow and carried his suitcase again to the local Prophet Association.Although it was snowing heavily and it was freezing cold, it still couldn't affect people's enthusiasm for Rhodes brand.

There are countless carriages parked in the square at the entrance of the Prophet Association, and there are people coming and going on the escalators on both sides of the fountain statue around the entrance of the association.Xia De was originally curious as to what day it was, but only after seeing Luvia did he find out that today the entire Old Continent released a brand new Rhodes card group "Phantom Opera Series" simultaneously.

The so-called "Phantom Opera House" is not a real opera house, but a fabricated one, referring to the title of the general opera house.This set of cards is not a reprinted card, but a brand new series.Among all the issued cards, there are more than a thousand cards with special cards and a total of 52 cards with special rules.That is, each of the numerical suits other than the king and queen corresponds to a special rule card.

There is a superstition among the Rhodes players. If you buy cards on the first day of the deck release, you are more likely to encounter cards with special rules. Therefore, although it is a snowy day, so many people still come to the prophet association activities.The local association held a regional competition, and the top three winners could get ten, five and three boxes of brand new cards for free.

"You're not interested in this matter."

The Prophet Association in Randall Valley City has a larger area and more rooms, so Luvia randomly found an empty room to talk to Shad.She doesn't work as a fortune-teller here, so Shade can't ask her for fortune-telling.

"When did you see me take the initiative to buy issued cards?"

Xia De smiled and said:

"My cards are all won."

"It's hard to imagine how you insisted on not gambling when I first met you. You don't need to explain. I know you still don't gamble. You are just interested in Rhodes Card itself."

Luvia knew Shad well:

"Come to find me so early, you should have a very important harvest, right? Yesterday, you and that lady were in the Temple of the Night. Apart from getting the Sands of Time soaked in the night, you also found new clues?"

"There are new leads, but very few. The point is, the 17-year-old girl in Tobesk has new information from where she works."

Shad handed over the notebook, trying to avoid directly stating key information in a place like the Prophet Association.

Luvia frowned and glanced:
"Except for the third item of Heart of Stone, which is somewhat obscure, the others are completely in line with your guess."

"Yes, but it only confirmed my guess. I need to contact the guardian again as soon as possible to confirm my thoughts. But if it goes well this time, we will welcome a victim who is stronger than Sister Divelin." chooser."

Luvia nodded:

"So what are you going to do today? Visit Earl Granger and get that antique key?"

"The Earl won't be back from outside the city until tomorrow. I'm going to visit the haunted Watson Manor today."

"Haila Oxenfurt's family. Be careful."

Luvia said softly, seeing Xia De standing up and carrying a suitcase to leave, she stopped him again:

"Since you have come to the Prophet Association, I will give you a small gift. Wait a minute, I will buy a newly released card, you can keep it as a brand new spare card set. And I use the identity of an insider , the price is very cheap.”

Seeing what she said, Xia De didn't object.Luvia came back soon after leaving the room, and handed a very ordinary flat wooden box to Xia De.

The cards sold by the Prophet Association that may contain special cards are all packaged in this way, and the cards that must not contain special cards can be bought everywhere and are packaged in cartons.In order to prevent people from using strong light to judge whether there are special cards in the deck when buying cards in the Prophet Association, the outer packaging of Rhodes cards is all wood.

Of course, compared to the lacquered card group storage box that Xia De got when he exchanged "Initiation Knowledge" with the "Wisdom Pyroxene" with the association, this kind of wooden box is much simpler.

It was the first time for Xia De to open a brand-new Rhodes deck. Although he said he was not interested just now, he still had a smile on his face when he got it. Luvia was naturally very happy to see him like this.

Limited to the packaging cost, there is no mechanism to open the wooden box. The box itself is composed of upper and lower parts, which are connected together after being sealed with wax at the junction.Xia De peeled off the layer of wax with a knife, opened it and took out a brand new 54 Rhodes cards.

The smell of ink hits my face, and the smell of brand new playing cards is intoxicating.

He weighed the deck happily, then pressed it on the table, and pulled it sideways, so that the cards were arranged in an arc on the table.In this way, you can see at a glance whether there are special patterns among the 54 cards:

"Oh, look, Luvia, your luck is really good!"

Because it is a brand new deck, the cards are arranged according to suit and number.At a glance, Xia De saw the exquisite pattern on the penultimate card of the moon suit, that is, the card of Moon 12.After picking out the cards, I saw a line of small characters printed on the bottom of the card, which undoubtedly means that this is really a special rule card:

"Luvia, you are really my lucky girl!"

The purple-eyed girl was also a little surprised, she didn't expect her luck to be so good today.

The picture of the card is divided into two parts: the upper left and the lower right.In the upper left part of the card, faceless dancers are dancing on a brightly lit stage; in the lower right part of the card, there are neatly arranged auditoriums, and a blurry figure outlined by a brush sits alone in the second row of the auditorium The center, that is, the center of the entire card surface.

"[Phantom Opera House Silent Audience], Suit: Moon 12. If the previous card is also of the moon suit when this card is drawn, all players except yourself are forced to stop in this round."

He smiled and read out the rules of the card:
"This rule is really good, especially in multiplayer games, it can play a greater effect. I am really looking forward to it. I mean, I have one more special card, and now there are 23 cards."

"There are still 31 cards left to collect the entire special card deck."

Luvia concluded, Xia De stood up and kissed Luvia's forehead lightly:

"Thank you so much, Luvia."

"I really hope you can use other reasons to kiss me, but that's fine, as long as you're happy."

Luvia doesn't have much opinion on Xia De's liking to play Rhodes. After all, apart from Rhodes and Mia, Xia De's private life is really monotonous and outrageous.In fact, she and Dorothy have the same worries. Xia De's low materialistic life seems to be moving away from them step by step.So take the time to defile Shade before he really wants to become a "saint".

"Speaking of which, I went to see those two ladies this morning. What did they say that you were injured?"

Seeing that Xia De was about to leave, Luvia asked again.Xia De blinked and shook his head immediately:
"It's all right now. There were indeed some accidents, but it was just a small accident. It didn't even appear in the [False Immortal] state, which is nothing."

The purple-eyed girl looked at him:
"I always feel that something is wrong when you say this. However, since you don't want to say it, I won't ask you. Just pay attention to your own safety. Also, who hurt you? Those two ladies also said Very vague."

"It's the one who was hurt by me. Although I was hurt, it should be."

Luvia looked at him even more strangely:

"Your physical injury is healed, won't your spirit be affected? Okay, I know you're fine, you don't need to prove it to me."

She gently kissed Xia De's side face:

"Be careful, don't underestimate any opponents and enemies. The path we walk is destined to be extraordinary, but don't be arrogant and think that we are the ones chosen by fate. Arrogance is the original sin."

But Xia De always feels that this sentence is more appropriate to describe long-haired Luvia than to describe him.The long-haired Luvia's way of doing things is very different from the short-haired Luvia.

After bidding farewell to Luvia, Xia De braved the wind and snow and came to the street again, heading for today's real goal, which is the family manor of Haila Oxenfurt, who was tragically destroyed.

Watson Manor is also not in the city. Although the Watson family was also a very successful merchant family back then, it was still far behind the old local nobles.The manor is located in the northern outskirts of the city, but fortunately it is not very far from the city.

Since he didn't know if strange things would happen near the manor, Xia De didn't go on a horse, but took a carriage to the outside of the city first, and then walked to his destination.

Watson Manor was abandoned for three years, and because of rumors of haunting, no one even dared to approach the surrounding woods.Three years is enough for the grass to submerge the original path, and it is also enough to eliminate the traces of human activities nearby.

Xia De, who was looking for the location of the manor with the guidance of the map, at the end of the country road, barely discerned the traces of the forked road that existed before under the snow.Follow the traces of the forked road deep into the cedar forest, and among the trees, you can barely see the manor standing not far away.

The closer you get to the manor, the darker the sky becomes.Although it is winter and there are no leaves on the branches, the fangs and claws of the branches are connected to each other, which also makes the woods feel a little weird and disturbing.

As the snow fell harder and harder, Xia De pressed his hat against the wind and walked forward, squinting his eyes and watching the manor standing higher than the forest getting closer.Even in the snowy weather, there were still three crows circling above the manor, the gloomy black clouds were overwhelming, and the twisted and twisted dry branches, Xia De seemed to be in a horror story, going through the wind and snow and entering the haunted house to take refuge hapless protagonist.

Seeing that the manor was right in front of him, but in the cedar forest in front, there were three figures sitting.When I got closer, I saw that it was not three living people, but three skeletons wearing rags.

(End of this chapter)