Whispering Poems

Chapter 447 Fifth Epoch 1784

At 10:[-] p.m., [-] minutes before the end of the week, Shade sat in the living room with no lights on, playing with the time key carefully selected by Professor Garcia.

The weather is fine tonight, and the moonlight enters the living room through the window.The three-color moonlight mixed together, and the strange light shone on Xia De's lap, and on the back of the cat lying on Xia De's lap.

Mia is an orange and white cat, the pattern on the back is mainly orange. According to Shade when he first saw it on the roof, this cat is like a white cat covered with orange. blanket.

Its coat color is quite good, whether it is in the sun or in the moonlight, it seems to be able to reflect light.Because Xia De is going to go on a brand new time adventure tonight, he can't go to bed early, so the cat didn't go to bed alone in the bedroom, but fell asleep on Xia De's lap.

It must not have fallen asleep, Xia De even thought, if he suddenly yelled in the silence at this moment, the cat would definitely be frightened and jump up.

Of course, he wouldn't do that either.

Thinking about the relationship between myself and my friends, thinking about the chosen one and my own path to becoming a god.When the clock in the corner and the city clock tower in the distance struck midnight together, Xia De patted Mia Cat's buttocks, the latter meowed, and reluctantly climbed on his lap with short legs Get up and jump on the couch.

"Mia, see you in three seconds."

Saying that, Xia De walked towards the bedroom door.But this time, instead of inserting the key directly, he hesitated.

[What are you thinking about? 】

"According to the past rules, this time it will definitely have something to do with the old god. I'm thinking about who it will be this time."

[Don't you know right away? 】

"That's right. May the World Tree bless me in time."

Turning the key, as the bedroom door opened, white mist floated out of the door like catkins, and he thought about these special spaces again:

"Mr. Edmond said that the Priory of Guiding Light believes that the space left by the thirteen ancient gods is the last refuge. What is the reason for this statement?"

Stepping into the white mist, a familiar voice immediately rang in my ears:

[Outlander, you have stepped into the "Time Corridor". 】

[A message from the ancient god "Father of the Infinite Tree":]

[Fifth Era Winter 1784, Northern Continent, Dreadfort. 】

[Event: Gambling - Game of Life. 】

[Duration 10: 1 minutes (3/[-]). 】

"The Southern Continent - Hope Town, the Western Continent - The Forest of Thousand Trees, and now the Northern Continent - the Fort Dreadful. The fourth key after a month, won't it be the Eastern Continent?"

[You have additional information. 】

[The figure of the father of the infinite tree is watching you. 】

[The ancient god of time will give you a test. 】

[Help mortals win the "gamble of life". 】

[The father of the infinite tree will give you rewards: thaumaturgy - breath of time, a piece of real information - dark dungeon. 】

"Dark dungeon? In this mission, there is no mention of gods."

Xia De muttered, and after confirming that there was no other information, he took a step forward.

The surrounding white mist quickly dissipated, and the feet stepped on the uneven stone bricks.The light in the white mist faded, the light suddenly weakened, and the light of the dim yellow oil lamp made Xia De feel a little uncomfortable.

When the vision completely returned to normal, he immediately noticed a decaying smell in the air.Looking around again, he was standing in a long and narrow corridor.

Under the feet is a ground paved with gray bricks and stones, but due to the grinding of the years, the stone bricks are no longer smooth.The surrounding walls and the 3-meter-high top above the head are all gray-black stone walls that seem to be turned into powder.

Touch it a little, and immediately get a hand of dust.

There are square spaces at regular intervals on the wall, and oil lamps are placed in the spaces. The light of the oil lamps is as big as a soybean grain, so when looking forward, the light and dark areas are connected to each other segment by segment.

Maybe there were murals on the wall originally, but nothing can be seen clearly at this time.

The temperature was a little low, Xia De sniffed.Because he is not outside, he can only choose to move forward and backward.According to the direction in which he came, it made sense to continue walking forward, but Xia De still looked behind him curiously.

There is exactly the same narrow and ancient stone corridor behind him, but no oil lamps are lit.Shad looked at the darkness extending into the unknown area, and suddenly saw a pair of scarlet eyes in that darkness.

He is not a timid person, and he has seen much weirder scenes than this in this world.But when he saw those eyes, his body trembled instinctively because of fear. Those eyes had the power to directly evoke fear in people's hearts.

It was getting closer, and the flames of the oil lamps around Shard immediately flickered.Although he didn't know the consequences of the oil lamp being extinguished, Xia De still ran forward immediately.

The oil lamps behind him were extinguished one by one, and the flames in front were also flickering.Xia De felt that the chill that seemed to freeze his soul was gradually attacking his back, and the chill became more and more obvious.

"Really, why can't [Father of the Infinite Tree] just send me to the destination? Silver Moon is like this every time!"

He stretched out his hand and pointed behind him, and at the same time as the silver moonlight burst out, the chill behind him was far away.And the end of the passage finally appeared in front of it. It was a closed copper-colored metal door. There were no holes or decorative patterns on the door, only a slightly raised flip coin symbol.

Xia De was ready to unlock the lock, but he didn't expect that when he rushed to the door, the door would be pushed open with a light push.

He rushed into the door quickly, then turned around and closed the door firmly.He pressed his body against the door, but the inexplicable thing outside the door didn't mean to hit the door at all.

Even, even if I put my ear against the door, I couldn't hear any sound from outside.

Only then was he relieved, Xia De turned to look inside the room, and then saw a man with a vicissitudes of face, who seemed to have not washed his hair and bathed in months, standing by the square stone table, staring at him dumbfounded.

The style of the interior of the room is basically the same as that of the passageway outside. The ground is uneven square bricks, and the gaps between the bricks and stones are filled with ashes. The walls above the head and around are uneven and unpainted stone walls.

The room is not big, about the same as the bedroom where Shad lives.There is a square stone table in the center, and there is no other complete furniture.

There are some remains of wooden furniture along the walls, but it looks like it's been broken for hundreds of years.There are dozens of corpses beside the wall on the right. Judging from the degree of decay, the age of death of the corpses varies, but they all maintain a uniform posture leaning against the wall.

On the edge of the stone table near Shad, there is an oil lamp, which is also the only light source in the room.But the light of this oil lamp is still the size of a soybean grain, and it is very strange, it can only illuminate the half of the room between Xia De and the strange man, while the other side of the room is completely covered by thick darkness.

"man?"

When the other party looked at Xia De, Xia De was also looking at the other party.There are no men in the fifth era who can use supernatural powers, so the other party must be just ordinary people.

He was wearing a brown robe that was so dirty that the original color could not be seen clearly, his feet were bare, and a turban was wrapped around his head.The brown eyes are ordinary, but the thick eyebrows left an impression on Shad.

"How are you?"

The stranger was using the language of the fifth era, trying to say hello to Shad, his voice was hoarse, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time.

"Hi, sorry, I think you didn't understand me."

Xia De also replied that this time the companion is not a witch. Although it has advantages, the disadvantage is that they cannot communicate at all.

"No, no, I can understand! There are special rules in this castle, as long as the language is not used with extraordinary power, these languages ​​can be understood by everyone! Are you human?"

The stranger in a robe and bare feet asked cautiously. Xia De looked at him in surprise, nodded, and approached the stone square table from the shadow of the door:

"Of course I'm human, but are you human?"

He stretched out his hand to the other party, the man flinched and hid for a while, then smiled embarrassedly at Xia De:
"Sorry, I have encountered too many weird things here. Yes, I am also a human being. It is great to meet my companions here."

He reached out his hand that hadn't been washed for a long time, and took Shad's hand.

[Ordinary humans. 】

The smile on Xia De's face became more sincere.

The man's name was Sledge Riddle, and he claimed to be a scholar and a seer.And considering the time point of the Fifth Epoch, his so-called "prophet" is probably similar to the "demon scholar" Sean Asmond that Shad met in the Pink Rose Hotel in Coldwater Harbor.

Mr. Riddle probably hasn't met a human being for a long time. After confirming or forcing himself to believe that Shade is really not a weird thing, he narrates his own affairs to him endlessly.

He knew that this was the Fort of Dread in the Northern Continent, but he couldn't tell in detail what the Fort of Dread was.On the one hand, this weird place will erode people's memory, on the other hand, this prophet seems to really not know.

When Mr. Sledge Riddle was flipping through ancient documents, he accidentally learned the general location of the Dreadfort, which "seals ancient knowledge, secrets and evil".With the idea of ​​going out for a walk when there is nothing else in his hands, he set off from his hometown in the Eastern Continent and embarked on an adventure.

Although he only regarded this trip as a study tour, and didn't have much hope for achieving his goal, but after experiencing a series of unimaginable things, this gentleman really found this place.

The middle-aged man in a turban admitted to Shad that he couldn't remember how long he had stayed in this weird place. The changing terrain inside the castle made him feel lost and flustered. Something that made him dare not recall at all.

Even Xia De just tried to ask the other party's experience during this period, which made him start screaming and praying hysterically out of fear.

Dreadfort is similar to Hope Town and Forest of Thousand Trees, both of which will have an impact on the memory and consciousness of humans who stay for a long time.Unfortunately, the men of the Fifth Epoch were not as lucky as the three children to be blessed by the good god, nor were they as powerful as the two witches more than a dozen centuries later.

If Shad appeared a little later, Shad might not even know these basic facts.

(End of this chapter)