Whispering Poems

Chapter 1858 Red and Green

"I had a strange dream last night. In the dream, Rezia and I held hands and turned into a red butterfly, and then flew and flew, and flew and flew. We were hit by the red light from our wings The people in the city turned into red butterflies. In the end, everyone turned into red butterflies, and everyone flew together."

"It's really strange, what happened in the end?"

Xia De asked curiously, the blonde girl carefully picked up the bacon with a fork, the cat nose lying on Xia De's lap sniffed, and opened his eyes at once:
"Then I saw Mia squatting on the top of the bell tower in the setting sun, and with one pounce, she swallowed us up."

"Meow!"

Mia jumped from Xia De's lap to the table, even if it didn't intend to snatch the food, at least it wanted to sniff it.However, Xia De, who was familiar with the cat's nature, grabbed the back of its neck immediately, lifted the cat up and put it back on his lap.

Dorothy smiled and looked at the scene in front of her, feeling that in the rainy weather, watching Shade play with cats is also a good enjoyment:

"What do you think this dream means?"

"Well, if you miss Rezia very much, don't worry, isn't this Saturday the new Red Butterfly Day?"

He was then rewarded by Dorothy's "dream interpretation" which ignored him for several minutes.

The wooden boat that Shad brought back from the bottom of the island on Monday night has been repaired on Megan and Audrey's cruise ship after a day of treatment yesterday.Instead of using the power of time to restore the centuries-old wreckage, it was done with ingenious craftsmanship.

This morning, when Xia De handed the cat to Dorothy and came to the cruise ship docked on the Duyn River under an umbrella, besides Megan and Audrey, Miss Sylvia was also here.

"Good morning, Shad."

The black-haired space witch greeted Xia De, and took Xia De to the cabin of the cruise ship.Megan was standing in the innermost drainage compartment, looking at the repaired boat in front of her.Originally, she stretched out two arms behind her, gesturing as if she was about to cast a spell, but when she saw Xia De approaching, the two real arms immediately retracted:

"Good morning, Shad."

The purpose of Xia De to get this boat out is to find a way to make the soul of the boatman appear, so as to obtain the key.And Megan and Audrey repaired the ship and even invited Miss Sylvia who was supposed to handle the affairs of the City of Glass, so they naturally had their own ideas:

"We don't know whether we can still summon the soul after leaving the island, but we have to try it. Therefore, we must restore the environment that made the soul appear as much as possible, that is, the chaotic state of water and space. In addition, the normal The method of stimulating the soul should also be tried, that is, repeating what the boatman did before his death."

She handed Xia De and Miss Sylvia the same information:

"I've checked, and if I'm not mistaken, this boat belongs to Old Reynolds, the penultimate boatman in Green Lake Township. He inherited the responsibility from his father and is responsible for the ferry work in Green Lake Township."

"Wait a minute, that town is so big, and usually only rely on a small boat, how to maintain the connection between the townspeople and the outside world?"

Miss Sylvia raised a question, and Megan replied:
"Of course it's not just this boat. Green Lake Township belongs to the Kingdom of De La Rion, and there is usually a daily big boat to communicate with Green Lake City. If any residents miss the big boat at ten o'clock every morning, Old Renault will be responsible Send them to the lakeside. Sylvia, don't think that the town was as prosperous as the ordinary towns now more than 100 years ago. At that time, the wave of the steam revolution just emerged. How much travel do you think the townspeople in the countryside can have? ?”

"You said he was the penultimate term?"

Shad also raised questions.

"Yes, he disappeared before Green Lake Town was abandoned. From the current point of view, he set up a boat alone and sank in the lake. After that, his son became the new boatman of the town and escaped that night. Green Lake Town. Today, the descendants of the son of the old boatman Reynolds still live in Pukhov Village by the lake. When my girls were investigating the descendants of Green Lake Town, they found them and got this."

She shows off a rusty and simply shaped silver pendant that looks like a ship's anchor:
"The family heirloom of their family is not sterling silver. It is said that this thing has been handed down in the family in the time of Green Lake Town. I checked, it is just an ordinary silver jewelry, and it is said to be a family heirloom. It is a little extra 15 pounds, and it is easy to buy. Once you get it, you might be able to use it later.”

"15 pounds."

Xia De once again felt that the witches had a different view of money from his own. You must know that Ms. Mia Gold only sent 10 pounds a month.

"Something's wrong, Shad said. The sunken ship is very close to the shore. Besides, the boatman can't swim. I don't understand. How did the old Renault you say die?"

After reading the information and Megan's plan, Miss Sylvia couldn't help asking again, Megan shook her head:

"If you are curious, you can ask him yourself in a while. However, I guess it has something to do with the ancestors. Although the grandfather destroyed the sealing ceremony on the island, so that the four of my father's generation can live outside the island, but now look Come on, the ancestor was arranging the thirteen keys before that, so it's hard to say whether he knows what the grandfather did. Let's go, Sylvia, you brought that relic, right? ?”

The boat was transferred to the Duin River, and then Xia De walked up with the two great witches.This very primitive boat needs oars to move, although the witches can make it move by itself, but this is in the city, so it can only be rowed by Shad.

In order to restore the situation back then, Xia De rowed the boat all the way from the city to the river mouth until it entered Green Lake. This made him suspect that the two witches had brought him here just to row the boat.Fortunately, they were going downstream, so it was not very laborious.

After the illusion enveloped the surroundings, the boat stopped on the lake.Megan dropped the obstructing umbrella and used an invisible stand to divert the rainwater above the boat.

She nodded to Miss Sylvia, who then took out two metal dolls, back to back, stuck together.

Both figures are palm-sized and crudely made, and both wear button-up coats, black boots, and hats.The appearance of the metal dolls is exactly the same, the only difference is the color of the clothes and hats, one is all red and the other is all green.Although it can be seen at a glance that it is a metal product, it is still a very cheap toy, belonging to the kind that Rezia and Margaret will never see.

Although the paint on the surface has not peeled off, it has also shown a dilapidated appearance due to the years.And the faces of the two dolls are engraved with some letters, which together form a complete sentence:

[To confuse the colors is to confuse the world. 】

"They have magnets on the back so they stick together back to back."

Miss Sylvia explained:
"Keeper-level relic - [Red and Green].

The only detachable part of these two dolls is the hat. In normal state, red clothes wear red hats, and green clothes wear green hats. At this time, they can be contained by putting them and a certain amount of green spine ore in the same airtight container.Once the hats of the two are exchanged, the relic characteristics will take effect, that is, the surrounding space will be confused.During this period, everyone who witnessed the hat exchange process will have strange red and green lights alternately in their vision.Once a certain kind of light no longer flashes but appears for a long time, it means that the relic is out of control:
The red light always exists: the puppet is the center, gradually erasing all the entities in the surrounding space; the green light always exists, the puppet is activated, and it turns into an evil thing whose name I cannot name. "

Meghan, standing by Shad, added:
"This is a more dangerous keeper-level relic, almost comparable to the keeper-level measure [Keeper's Eye]. I remember it was Sylvia's teacher, who completed the containment about 15 years ago. "

"Yes, when the teacher was still there, I often used this to exercise my spatial perception."

The black-haired witch recalled the past, sighed, and then said the purpose of letting Xia De come together:
"This relic is very easy to lose control. When the teacher was still there, she also had your ability to stabilize the surrounding space in the form of aura or domain. Although I have similar thaumaturgy now, the space of Green Lake is inherently fragile. No one can guarantee that this relic will appear in other situations. So for safety, we can only use this relic if you are present."

"no problem."

To be on the safe side, Shad even took off the black time key and turned it into [Yuktrazil's Rod].It was the first time Miss Sylvia saw Shade use this angel-level staff weapon, but she was doing serious business now, so she didn't ask too much about the origin of the relic.

When Xia De and Miss Sylvia were ready, Audrey's hand was stretched out from Megan's back to change the doll's hat, so that Megan could react immediately if something happened.

The hats of the two dolls are also fixed by magnets, so it is very convenient to exchange them.After the exchange was completed, Xia De felt that the raining sky suddenly turned into night, and then the unexplained red and green lights flashed alternately, almost blinding his eyes:
"Wait a minute, why is it dark?"

"I don't know, but the relic has not yet lost control. The effect of space chaos is about to start. Get ready."

Xia De's perception has already detected the power of the chaotic space of the whispering element, so he waited peacefully on the boat with the two witches holding the long staff, and Megan also put the "heirloom" on the bow of the boat.

The plan went well. At the specially vacated bow, as the red and green lights flashed alternately again and again, the dark green soul phantom slowly formed, and then bent down to pick up the silver anchor pendant.

The boatman actually showed up.

(End of this chapter)