Whispering Poems

Chapter 2673 Hide and Seek Boy

Although William of Anjou's visit to the local area was not publicly announced in the newspapers, it seemed that many people knew about it. Shade was also curious about what he was doing, but the young officer suddenly left the prince and walked to the east side of the manor.

"what happened?"

Iluna, who was sitting next to Shade, asked softly.

"See that young girl over there with the blue ribbon in her hair? That's Linda Bennett."

Iluna took a quick glance and felt that the other person was not as pretty as herself.

The Bennet family was of course invited to the wedding banquet, and at this time, the Bennets should be talking to the newlyweds in the hall of the mansion, just like Miss Winslet. As for their daughters, Shad had just seen the eldest daughter Jane Bennet walking with James Cumming beside the fence on the side of the courtyard.

Linda Bennet was the prettiest among the sisters, and she looked even more beautiful when she wore a goose yellow dress to attend the party.

She smiled and waved to York Bronte, and the young officer picked a flower from the bushes beside and handed it to her, then walked along the path on the side of the mansion to the garden behind with the girl who was trying hard to be reserved.

Although Shade wanted to hear what William Anjou said, he still followed with Iluna. However, this manor was too big, and tonight's banquet opened almost all areas to the guests.

They couldn't follow closely enough, so they lost track of the two people in front of them. When they found them again behind a garden fence, the young man and woman were hugging and kissing each other.

Iluna and Shad were at the corner of the fence at this time. The eighteen-year-old girl gently pulled Shad's sleeve, and Shad and her took a few steps back, not looking at the scene again:
"Mrs. Bennet is very pleased with York Brontë and has tried her best to bring him together with her third daughter. I guess last week's concert was not the first time these two met, otherwise this was moving too fast."

"Yes, we kissed after knowing each other for a long time. Girls from this country place are really not reserved."

Iluna also said, grabbing her skirt with her right hand, but she was not the only one concerned about this matter:

"From his appearance, it seems that he wants to live forever in this time that does not belong to him. If he is determined to do this, then he no longer needs the power of the tree hole. The tree hole may have been dealt with by him, so you didn't find any clues in the barracks last night."

"If that's true"

Xia De stretched out his hand:
"I learned a new magic some time ago - the return of time. This magic can allow people to return to their own era. And I can know where he went the moment he returned."

Iluna understood what Shade meant:
"Want to test him? Of course you can do that. If you do it covertly, he won't even notice whether someone attacked him or he returned unexpectedly. But will this make him alert?"

"Although it may sound a bit arrogant to say so, he only has three rings, and we have eight and nine rings respectively. The Dead Apostles are just powerful in combat, not completely omnipotent. Besides, we were planning to take action tomorrow. Before we take action, we should at least make things clear, right?"

Iluna thought about it and nodded, and Shade suddenly coughed behind the fence. Not only did York Bronte and Linda Bennett behind the fence stop moving, but even a pair of young men and women popped out of the bushes not far away.

Shad and Iluna stood in the shadows and waited for a while, and sure enough, they saw Bronte and Miss Bennet hurried out from behind the fence. They carefully looked around, kissed goodbye, and left the garden in different directions.

Shade and Iluna followed the former, while he seemed to want to circle the garden and return to the front courtyard.

Then the invisible Shade came behind him:
"The return of time."

With a gentle push, the clothes and their contents fell to the ground with a loud rustling, and York Bronte disappeared.

[1787. The content of the time curse cannot be detected, and the speed of repatriation through thaumaturgy is too fast.]

"Your magic can only send people back, but not clothes?"

Iluna asked curiously, and Shade shook his head:
"Wait a moment, let me sense it first. No problem, I can't sense this person. No, of course not. My magic is only to repatriate things that do not belong to this time. His clothes and personal belongings obviously belong to the current Rosicrucian Order."

A red metal badge floated out from the pocket of the clothes scattered on the ground. The "rose" and "cross" patterns on the badge were easily recognizable.

"The group of ring sorcerers in Willendel? Is he a member of the Rosicrucian Order?"

"That doesn't mean anything. There are many people outside the Rosicrucian Order. Since he grew up in Willendel, it's normal for him to mingle among them."

For example, Mr. Bernhardt also claimed that he was a member of the Rosicrucian Order, but that was just for the convenience of moving around in Willendel.

"So when is the time for his return?"

"This is the strangest thing. Of the three tree holes we have now, the one closest to the present is the one that the wooden door leads to in 1821. I thought the tree hole in York Bronte's hand was closer than that, but in fact he returned to 1787."

"67 years ago?"

Iluna was very surprised:
"But wasn't York Bronte 24? His father wasn't even born 67 years ago? Did you do a background check on him?"

"Yes, this person really exists. His life story and witnesses can be found. So if my magic is correct, then this person is not actually York Bronte."

Shade's words made Iluna confused:
"Who is he then? And where is the real York Bronte?"

Xia De was about to speak as he stared at the clothes illuminated by the gas lamp beside the path, but was suddenly startled. Then, he and Iluna, who was also startled, turned around and looked behind them.

It wasn't York Bronte who reappeared, but a little boy bouncing a black ball who had appeared there at some point:

"Brother, sister, can you play hide and seek with me?"

The sounds of the lively party in the manor disappeared without a trace, and the darkness around the path was swallowing up the light of the large gas lamps. The boy raised his head, and there were no eyes on his pale face.

This doesn't mean that his eyes are blind, but that where a normal person's eye sockets should be, there is only smooth skin on his face.

"A humanoid relic."

Iluna said through gritted teeth, and took the initiative to stand in front of Shade:

"Leave first. This is probably caused by me again. Really, I was worried about encountering an accident in the woods all afternoon, but I didn't expect to run into trouble after returning to the city.

Don't worry about me, I know this thing. It's a Secret Keeper-level relic [Hide and Seek Boy]. You can't refuse his game request, but as long as you can find the black ball he hid within the time limit, he will leave by himself. "

But if it were that simple, this relic would definitely not be classified as "Secret Keeper-level".

"I'll play hide and seek with you!"

Iluna didn't even give Shade a chance to stop her, and she spoke directly to the eyeless boy who was hitting the ball. She had a lot of experience with relics. And the boy's action of hitting the ball really stopped:
"You guys wanna play with me?"

"Yes, it's me. It's me, not us!"

"Okay, you guys have to play hide-and-seek with me! I really didn't find the wrong place. The brother blessed by the guy who likes to make toys really likes to play games!"

It threw the ball in its hand into the night sky, but the ball disappeared without falling.

Then the eyeless boy pointed at two more people:
"Since there are two of us playing with me, I should use more interesting rules. You were just using the power of time, so why not..."

"Oops!"

Shade reached out to take out the umbilical cord that had been turned into a toy, but it was too late. Iluna didn't even see the process, and Shade disappeared in front of her just like York Bronte just now.

Of course, when Xia De disappeared, his clothes were taken away with him.

The jumping golden thunder appeared in the angry girl's hand, and the boy bowed to her:
"Our rules of the game are: he must first find my ball, then give it to you, and then you give it to me. If you fail to find my ball within three hours of our current time, not only will he not be able to come back, but I will also make everyone's head here into my new ball!"

(Little Mia is running.)

It seemed like just a moment, and when Shad took the jar out of his pocket, a strange light flashed before his eyes, and then Iluna beside him and the boy in front of him disappeared.

There was no trace of any whispering elements around, and looking around, this was still the old Collins house where the wedding banquet was being held.

But after a closer look at Shade, he still found something different. Although it was still night, the temperature was clearly that of midsummer. Moreover, the things belonging to York Bronte on the ground were gone, and the flowers in the bushes beside the path were blooming brilliantly.

The place is not illuminated by modern gas lamps, but by more primitive gas lamps and a small number of kerosene lamps. These lamps are placed on both sides of the path, but the optical effect is better than that of simple gas lamps.

Feeling a little hot, Xia De took off his coat and looked up at the boundless starry sky tonight:

"What year is it now?"

【Summer 1821, want to know more specific time? 】

"It was the summer of 33 years ago. Even if you were sending me to the past, why not send me to 1787?"

He sighed and looked at the light in front of the mansion in the distance. Although the era was different, it was obvious that a wedding banquet was also being held here tonight. The ribbons and wreaths hanging everywhere proved this. This was the only thing that had not changed.

Of course, being sent to 1821 was not the worst thing, because in the summer of that year, Miss Danister's teacher, a lady with the same thirteenth ring level, was also in Creekwood.