Whispering Poems

Chapter 2610: Skilled Time Traveler

"Hold on."

The debris in the alley was enough to block the view from the alley entrance. Xia De leaped up and turned into a silver cat and jumped onto the wall.

Somehow, although Shad's height is above the average for people of the same age, the cat he transformed into is very small, even smaller than Mia, so he looks even smaller when facing the cat transformed by Winslet.

There was no comparison before, but when both of them turned into cats, the "Cat Witch" noticed this at once and subconsciously stretched out her claws to pat Shade's head, but was immediately blocked by Shade.

The gray-black cat was not embarrassed either. It turned around on the wall gracefully, wagging its tail, and then jumped off the wall with the silver cat.

The traces of Sir Cumming that she captured were indeed not far away. The two cats came to Old Hank Lane near Lovegood Lane one after the other, and then broke into No. 9 Old Hank Lane, which seemed to be uninhabited.

This is also an old two-story building, the door is locked from the inside, and there is almost no furniture inside. The floor and walls are all moldy, and it is obvious that it has not been used for many years, but there are clear footprints on the dust on the ground.

The footprints eventually led the two cats to the small bedroom on the second floor, and then disappeared abruptly at the door of the room. No one had come to this house for a long time, so no one spoke. This time, it was finally Shade's magic that worked:
"Echoes of the past!"

He returned to his human form and cast a spell again. Then, a very chaotic sound was heard, but one could barely hear someone groaning in pain. The sound was very similar to that of Baron Cumming:
"There is interference in this place. Thaumaturgy [Echoes of the Past] does not work well in places where the power of time has worked."

"The power of time? There is a tree hole here too?"

The gray-black cat did not change back to human form, but jumped onto Shade's shoulder again, and then watched Shade take out the canvas for testing. But the few wooden items in the empty room, that is, the rotten floor and door, can be turned into toys.

"That's strange. The footprints stopped immediately at the door. Could it be that Baron Cumming is not an ordinary person?"

The cat asked in confusion, and then poked Shade's neck with its furry tail:

"You say, could it be?"

"The first rule of time travel: Time travelers appear in a place where they have stayed for a long time in the past, so they will spontaneously be drawn to that time again."

Shade continued to look around the room and said:
"The book that has been passed down in the Cumming family is still in the hands of James Cumming, so if the Baron wants to travel through time, unless he finds another tree hole, he will most likely use this method. The groaning sound I heard just now may be the deepening of the curse caused by this illegal time travel.

But did the baron also notice this pattern? "

"We can ask him again after we find him. The question now is, how do we find him? When did he go?"

This question was really hard for Shade to answer. If Baron Cumming had only been to 1809, when his wife was stolen when she was one year old, then he would most likely be in 1809. But if the baron had been there more often, then it was hard to say.

Although the current book "Opening the Forest Door: Our Animal Companions" only connects to 1802, no one can tell how much time it was connected to during the unstable period in the past.

The investigation seemed to have ended there, but when the owl flew back to the Accordion Hotel with the silver cat in its grasp, Baron Cumming appeared again.

At that time, Shade was having lunch with the two ladies, and Miss Danister was very happy that they could come back so quickly. Just as Miss Winslet was popularizing the "Knowledge of Carsonrick Spices" to the other two, Miss Bell knocked on the door and came in:

"Miss, the team responsible for monitoring Morris Mansion sent back information that Baron Cumming appeared in his own home, but the girls did not notice when he entered the house."

The two ladies at the table looked at Xia De again, and Xia De immediately understood:

"Resonance is two-way. If he was attracted to the past in 1854, then he could also be attracted to the 'present' in the past. No, that's not right. This attraction is probably one-way, otherwise he wouldn't need to rely on the tree hole to travel through time. This doesn't conform to the law of time travel. Did he find the book "Opening the Forest Door: Our Animal Companions" in the past?"

"That book is now at Morris House, so it's only natural that his return would be next to Opening the Forest Door: Our Animal Companions."

The red-haired sorceress nodded, and the witch asked in doubt:
"But in this case, has he mastered the method of opening a fixed time channel at a fixed point without using a time key? Danister and I were trapped in the winter of 1763, but we waited for more than a month and the cabinet did not send us back."

"Opening the Forest Gate: Our Animal Companions" has been passed down in the Cumming family for at least three generations, from Erica Cumming to the current James Cumming, for a total of half a century. They may have really figured out something."

Shade guessed:

"Anyway, we have found the person, and we have plenty of ways to find out the truth."

Then he asked Miss Bell:

"What did the Baron do when he returned?"

"He's gone out alone again, and the girls have followed him."

It was already two o'clock in the afternoon when the next message came, and it was still Miss Bell who brought them the news:
"Baron Cumming took a carriage to the north of the city, and then left the city alone with a shovel. Our people saw him dig out a box in the woods outside the city, and then he returned to the city again with the box. He should have just returned to Morris Mansion now."

"Could it be something that was worthless in that era but is very valuable now? He is a baron, so why does he need to make money like this?"

Xia De sighed and put down the teacup in his hand:

"I must meet him this time. Why did he steal his wife, give the book to his son, and now do this?"

"Let's go then."

Miss Winslet turned into an owl again and jumped onto Shad's shoulder:
"Charlotte, you've worked hard all day. Shad and I will take care of this matter. You can sit down and have afternoon tea with Professor Danister."

"Okay, miss."

So the young black-haired girl and the even younger red-haired girl watched together as the owl grabbed the cat and flew out of the window. This scene was like a predatory bird of prey grabbing a weak pet, making the cat look very pitiful.

Miss Danister held the teacup and looked at Charlotte Bell, who was a little reserved:
"By the way, has your teacher ever had such a strong interest in anyone before?"

She asked, and the witch apprentice didn't know how to answer for a moment, but it would be impolite not to answer:

"No. Mr. Hamilton is different from the others."

"Flora and I have only known each other and lived together for more than a month. You must know her better than I do. Tell me, what do you think Flora's attitude towards Shade is now?"

Although her tone was relaxed, the black-haired girl, who was naturally good at sensing people's emotions, still realized the danger in this question.

She hesitantly reached for the biscuits on the table, and thought of a perfect answer:
"Probably similar to my attitude towards Rhodes cards."

The red-haired girl tilted her head and looked at her:
"What does that mean?"

"If I come across a precious special rule card, and I take it and play with it carefully without violating my own moral bottom line, I will be happy for a while."

Riding on the "round-faced owl aircraft", Shad soon appeared in the remote and quiet Morris Mansion. Miss Winslet still had no intention of turning into a human to act with Shad. This time she did not even turn into a cat, but turned into a white mouse and got into Shad's pocket.

"I thought the color of the fur of the animals you turned into was the same as your hair color."

"The black rat is really too ugly. My aesthetic sense makes me resist becoming like that."

The witch said this, and then urged Shade to carry out the task quickly.

Baroness Cumming and James Cumming were not at home at the moment, and Baron Cumming was alone in his study on the third floor of the mansion.

The curtains were closed, the door was locked, and a middle-aged man with a very ugly face placed the box he brought back from out of town on the table. Then he sat behind the desk, covering his face with his hands, and did not speak for a long time.

Therefore, when a hand suddenly pressed on his shoulder from behind, he was so scared that he almost jumped up.

The main reason why he didn't jump up was that Shad, who entered the room using "Raglai's Leap", pressed him down on the chair.

"Who is it?"

After the initial panic, Baron Cumming was able to pretend to be calm and asked:
"The transaction location doesn't seem to be my home. But I have brought the box you asked me to bring. I have completed this task after traveling fifty years. You should let me go."

Behind him, Shade raised his eyebrows but failed to give an immediate answer. The baron, who was sitting with his back to him, also reacted in the silence:
"You're not that person?"

"Who told you to do what?"

Only then did Xia De really ask out loud, but he didn't expect that the baron's body suddenly shook after a moment of silence, and then his whole body began to become transparent.

"what?"

Xia De never thought that an ordinary person could escape from his hands. When he turned around to see who the Baron was behind him, he was most surprised not that he did not recognize the person behind him, but that the right hand of the person behind him was also becoming transparent along with his body.

Shad was following him closely.

[Stranger, you are heading to the sixth era of the present world, 1802. If you go back to the past in this way, time will curse you.]

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