Whispering Poems

Chapter 2641: Journey to Death

With the witches present, Mr. Nelson naturally shrank back and didn't speak, so Ms. Bullock briefly introduced:

"She showed up after you left. Like me, she wanted to take a boat and leave here forever. The man over there and I comforted her, but if you want to help her, you may have to think of a way later."

"Did she come here because she lost someone important?"

Xia De frowned and asked:
"If it's the same reason, then join us on the boat. We're all going to look for people among the dead anyway, so it doesn't matter if we look for just one person or two."

As he spoke, he took off the mithril eyepatch stuck on his arm:
"Look, I brought this too."

He tapped the cat's head gently with warm mithril to stop it from moving, and Ms. Bullock covered her mouth with her hands and her eyes turned red when she saw the eye patch:
"Yes, I recognize this. This is the inheritance of the Fire Sister. With this, my sister will not fail to come out to see me."

But the young girl's reason for coming here was different from that of Mr. Nelson and Ms. Bullock:

"Hello, sir, or ma'am. I, I made a big mistake."

She trembled as she spoke, not even daring to ask whether Xia De was a man or a woman. This was something only a powerful witch would dare to do:
"My name is Peggy McConaughey. In order to be promoted, the teacher used a very dangerous ritual to make herself sleep. After waking up in fifty years, she will be promoted to the twelfth level. She hid herself in a hidden space and gave me the only key, asking me to wake her up in fifty years, but I broke the key."

"Ah, this"

Xia De looked at the 13th level witch, who tried not to choke up:

"According to this girl, the hidden space her teacher found is a special area naturally formed in the material world. The power that locks that special space is an ancient ritual that they got from somewhere, so I always tell my students not to use such ancient things casually.

The key is broken and no one can do anything. The ritual sounds like a sealing ritual. Forcing it open will most likely affect the safety of the witch inside."

"Ms. McConaughey, did you bring the broken key?"

Xia De asked again, and the young girl nodded immediately and took out a small cloth bag from her skirt pocket, which contained some broken silver crystals.

"How long has the key been broken? Before you came in here, I mean."

"About two years. I have tried many methods in the past two years but I can't fix it."

She sobbed softly, because she thought she had killed her teacher, she came here in despair. Miss Peggy McConaughey, who had pigtails, did not want to make amends, but it seemed that she had no way to do it.

"Two years? Luckily, the limit of my magic is only three years of regression."

Xia De held all the broken silver crystals in his hands and took a deep breath under the secret gaze of the two ladies and Mr. Nelson beside him:

"Breath of Time!"

Gray air was sucked into his nostrils, and the broken crystals assembled themselves with a rustling sound. The originally dim light in the crystals became brighter and brighter during the reconstruction of the key, but at the moment when the key was fully formed, with a crisp sound of "click", it broke into the small crystals again.

The naughty cat immediately stretched out its claws and wanted to touch them, and Xia De did not object. After all, the cat had just sniffed them and knew that they were not food.

He picked up a small piece of crystal and held it against the firelight to feel the power within:
"Reversing time is not useless. It was clearly successful just now. Is the key shattered in concept? Miss McConaughey, I'm curious, how did you break it?"

Hearing this question, the young girl covered her face and sobbed again.

The kind-hearted Ms. Bullock patted her on the back and explained for her:
"She went out on an adventure and encountered something she couldn't explain. The other party used a conceptual annihilation power similar to 'Hand of the Void', 'Black Moon Symbol', and 'Death's End'. The key helped her block it and allowed her to escape, but the key itself shattered into this."

"So, this is your teacher's way of keeping you here to protect you? If your teacher wants you to live, why would you leave?"

Xia De then asked again, the young girl pursed her lips and lowered her head and shook her head, while Mr. Nelson beside her whispered:
"That's what I said, so she was willing to sit down."

"This key is conceptually broken, and I can't fix it. What on earth did you encounter?"

But the girl still shook her head, and Ms. Bullock gave her a gentle hug, probably remembering herself being protected by her sister:

"Since that ship can take us to death, it should be able to take us to the past as well. Why don't we go together to see what happened back then? We won't change the past, but just confirm the situation back then."

"no problem."

As Shad spoke, he took out the two paper figures of the doctor. Of course, the paper figures at this time were the appearance of Donald Gunn, whose entire family was killed, and Father François, who threatened Baron Cumming.

Ms. Bullock took out the three blank cards given by the "Boatman", or "God of Ferrymen", last time. Two of them already had patterns on them, one was a teardrop representing "tears of regret", and the other was a flame representing "a little warmth of the soul", and Ms. Bullock's profile could be vaguely seen in the translucent flame.

Xia De then pressed Father Francois's paper figure on the last card, and then the paper figure was sucked into the card. At the same time, the gilded font also stated the information of this card -

【Cowardly·Treasure·2.3 minutes.】

According to the classification of sins, treasures are already of the highest quality.

Shade then moved the remaining 0.9 ticks of ordinary quality cowardice closer to the card, but the card did not react at all:
"You don't want it anymore?"

But since 2.3 ke is greater than the 1.1 ke required for the ticket, then all the tickets have been collected and it is time to set off.

Mr. Nelson had no interest in taking a trip to death. He had to wait for his wife here, so he would not go with Shad.

Although the young witch didn't want to stay here alone with the man, it was obvious that the legendary "death" was more dangerous. Besides, Ms. Bullock didn't want more people to see her privacy, so she stayed.

Without further ado, Xia De and the Thirteenth-level Great Witch temporarily bid farewell to their two companions by the campfire, stood up and walked along the damp black pier to the side of the boat.

Perhaps she had seen something from the way Shad talked to the "boatman", so this time Ms. Bullock stood behind Shad very reservedly and let him negotiate. After Shad showed the three cards, the tall "boatman" in a black robe did not give Shad "change", but let the three cards fly into his sleeves, and then made a gesture to invite them to board the boat.

"The boat ticket was a cowardly 1.1 ke, and I paid 2.3 ke, and it was a treasure."

Xia De had no choice but to emphasize, but only the sound of the tide was still roaring, until both of them boarded the boat and the boat left the dock silently, and he still didn't get the change.

Unlike what Shade had imagined, the boat was not stable at all, but was constantly shaking with the sound of the waves.

The tall boatman in a black robe made of black mist stood at the stern. As the boat moved toward the depths of the seemingly boundless black waters, both Shad, who was holding the cat, and Ms. Block turned their heads to look at the shore.

The black sand beach and the pier were gradually disappearing into the distance, and the bonfire beside the pier soon turned into a flickering candle in the mist.

The two sat down on the simple boat, one on each side. Ms. Bullock curled up and looked very uneasy. Shade looked at Mia, who was in his arms, with some concern. After finding that the warm cat was looking around with interest, he looked up at the depths of the water.

Ahead was deep darkness, undulating waves, and thin white mist. As Shad gazed at the scene, he first instinctively felt a little fear of darkness and the unknown, as if someone was telling him that this was a journey of no return;

But then, he suddenly felt that they did not seem to be moving, because no matter how the ship shook, the scene in front of him remained surprisingly consistent.

When he turned around again to confirm the distance from the shore and found that the Black Sand Pier and the bonfire had completely disappeared, he realized that darkness had completely fallen.

No one spoke, and the monotonous sound of water made the unknown environment around them seem even more terrifying. Even if an indescribable giant creature emerged from the bottom of the water the next second, Shade would not be surprised. Outsiders have not read many horror novels about deep-sea voyages, but even the most terrifying scenes that can be described in the books are probably similar to what is happening now.

He didn't know whether the faint sense of fear and loneliness that was gradually rising up in his heart was the characteristic of this area or the oppression brought about by the scene itself, but in any case, he felt okay holding Mia, because the cat was really warm, and he felt like he was holding a small heater in his bed in winter.

Opposite him, the 13th level witch's face was pale and a little scary. Xia De wanted to hand her the blindfold on his arm, but after thinking about it, a flame rose directly in his right hand.

The flame with the power of the First Fire was so dazzling and warm in this oppressive dark water. So Ms. Bullock moved closer to Shade, and the cat excitedly stretched out its claws towards the flame.

But it looked up at Xia De again, and seeing that Xia De was looking down at it, it obediently retracted its claws.

The two remained silent for the rest of the journey, because the adventure was subject to strict time limits. He had been worried that the journey to "death" would be too long, but fortunately, the sound of the tide around them gradually became smaller, and the originally thin fog suddenly became thick.

The "boatman" rowed the boat carrying the two people silently into the thick white fog, and the sound of the tide disappeared completely, and the boat that was still shaking also completely stabilized.