Greeting Priest Augustus familiarly, the middle-aged priest quietly hid the book that shouldn't appear in the church under his desk. After checking Shade's two documents, he asked them to wait for a while, and then went out. But he walked back quickly and returned the land deed and house deed kept in the file bag to him.
"Later today, the church will send... a professional house appraiser to inspect the current condition of the house and determine whether you can open the closed area."
Of course, when Xia De left the church, the farewell priest Augustus whispered to Xia De on the stone steps in front of the church that the "professional house appraiser" was the Ring Warlock of the Dawn Church.
Because he was thinking about Mia's dinner at home and the storybook he got from Miss Louisa, Xia De didn't chat with Priest Augustus any more, and went straight home. Because the Dawn Square where the Dawn Church is located is very close to the center of Tobesk, the sunset just appeared in the distant horizon when we got home, and on the St. Feed the pigeons with crumbs.
There are many pigeons in the square in summer, and sometimes they even park on the windowsill of the bedroom on the second floor of Square No. 6 in the early morning. Mia liked to watch the pigeons sitting on the windowsill through the window, so Shad never opened the window.
After dinner, Xia De originally thought to check the books borrowed from Miss Louisa immediately. But the "building safety inspectors" from the Church of Dawn came sooner than he expected, and they came in the evening.
The security inspector was named Mr. Franky, an elderly gentleman who looked the same age as Priest Augustus, wearing a somewhat outdated brown checkered coat. When the two shook hands, the whispering voice in the ear was already reminding that the old gentleman was a ring magician.
The so-called security checks are nothing more than going around the areas that are to be opened. While talking to Shad about what happened in the house in the past, Mr. Frank walked from the first floor to the second floor with him. I observed the blocked passage on the first floor, stood in front of the locked door on the second floor for a while, and finally talked about what happened when the church cut off the stairs on the third floor.
Mr. Franky didn't find any abnormalities in the house, so he signed the safety report smoothly.
Shad originally thought that he would have to spend his own money to find someone to open the passage and repair the stairs. Unexpectedly, Mr. Franky asked Shad about his work and rest time when he left, and a team of workers came half an hour later.
While completely breaking the blocked passage on the first floor, the other two areas cannot be solved for the time being.
The key to Room 2 on the second floor was originally kept in the church, but because the Holy Prayer Day is approaching, the church is checking the warehouse and sensitive items are not allowed to leave during this period, so the key will not be delivered within a week, Mr. Frankie Tell Xia De not to open the lock privately.
The broken stairs on the third floor cannot be repaired for the time being. The problem on the first and second floors is a curse from a hundred years ago, and the third floor is really closed because of safety.
This requires Xia De to find someone to repair the house by himself, and notify the church when repairing, and the church can help connect the stairs for free.
By the time the first floor of No. 6 Place Saint Teresa reopened, the wooden boards of the windows were removed and glass was installed, and the rubble was cleaned up, it was almost eight o'clock in the evening. Xia De, who had been standing on the stairs holding Mia and watching the construction team work, came down to bid farewell to Mr. Franky, who had also been here the whole time.
"If you find any problems with the house, remember to find me at the Church of the Dawn. Of course, since you know Augustus, you can go to him, he can find me."
Mr. Franky was very enthusiastic:
"Although you may be surprised that the Church of Dawn is responsible for this matter, after all, it was the church that sold the house to Mr. Sparrow Hamilton three years ago. So this matter is very reasonable and there is no need to doubt it, yes, it is so."
Xia De could only nod to deal with it.
After seeing off a group of people, he had the opportunity to enter the first floor of his house to check.
Because the gas pipes on the first floor were cut off for safety when the passage was closed three years ago, there are no gas lamps on the first floor. With the cat in his arms, Xia De walked into the large living room on the first floor from the cleaned-up foyer with a glass-covered kerosene lamp in his hand. As expected, there was nothing inside.
The two windows of the living room have been closed by wooden boards for a long time in the past, and the passage connected to the hall is tightly closed, so that there is not even much dust on the ground.
But it's not very dark here, the moonlight and the gas street lamp beside the Saint-Terraine Square spilled into the room through the window, and the gas lamp in the foyer behind also illuminated here.
"are you still there?"
Xia De asked quietly in his heart while checking the first floor.
[Are you afraid of ghosts? 】
"Of course not, I just want to ask, since you said that my soul is sensitive, do you feel that there is a problem here?"
[Not currently, but you can walk inside. 】
The area of the first floor is twice that of the house where Shade lives upstairs. After all, the second floor is divided into two rooms.
But because of some past events, there are only load-bearing walls and floors left on the first floor, and the decorative walls and furniture that divide the rooms all need to be prepared by Shad himself. It's empty here, but the good thing is that you can see the foyer when you look back, so it's not so scary.
Little Mia's eyes glowed in the dark. The timid cat was afraid of the strange environment at first, but after being held by Shade for two laps, she got used to it. It struggled to jump out of Xia De's arms, Xia De saw that there was no danger here, so he put it on the ground.
The small cat ran back and forth on the floor, making screeching sounds. But soon, Mia disappeared from Xia De's sight.
After searching around, I found that when I opened the passage on the first floor, I finally revealed the door leading to the basement behind the stairs.
Of course Xia De was happy about this, he couldn't live in such a big house by himself, so he had thought about renting out part of it a long time ago. If the basement area is large enough, it can be rented out to the poor...
"How can I do this? Are you crazy about gold pounds?"
There is no furniture on the first floor, and the walls have been carefully maintained before, so they look okay, and there are no traces of time. But I don't know how long this door has been standing here, and the wood skin is so rotten that even the paws of the small orange cat can leave marks.
When I tried to open the door, I almost pushed the door down completely. But because the door is not secure, the air circulation between the basement and the outside world is very good, and there is no need to worry about lack of oxygen.
When Priest Augustus talked about this house, he didn't mention that there was a problem in the basement, so after pushing the door open with a creaking sound, Xia De boldly walked down the steps with the cat in his arms.
The height of the ceiling in the basement is only about two meters, which is a bit low. Standing on the steps and holding the oil lamp high, except for the rusted steam pipes piled up in the corner, there is only pure air here.
"The church is really cautious. It really removed all suspicious things, not even a single stone."
The orange cat Mia huddled in Xia De's arms, looking at everything in the dark curiously. But because the floor of the basement was not clean, Shade didn't put it down this time.
Thinking of going around the basement to see if any burrowing mice made their home here, he walked down the steps. But the moment the shoes just touched the ground, a whispering voice sounded in the ear:
[You have come into contact with "Miracle". 】
"Miracle?"
The miracle element is related to gods, Xia De's movements stopped, and the oil lamp in his hand was raised higher, trying to see strange traces:
"I knew it would not be safe and sound here, but what appeared was the 'miracle' element, but it was not in my plan at all."
Fortunately, the whispering voice only appeared once. If it was repeated reminders, Xia De would definitely turn around and leave now.
But I walked around the basement with the oil lamp, and found nothing except knowing that I would have to spend money to install gas lamps here.
He even scrutinized the walls, trying to discover the wonderful unknown language, but there was nothing here. If there is, it is impossible for the Church not to discover it.
"This is interesting. Two nine-ring warlocks died on the first floor a hundred years ago. After that, the owner here continued to die suddenly. It seems that these miracle elements are harmful to ordinary people..."
Thinking in my heart, the life ring in the soul rotates, first of all is the thaumaturgy [Echo of the Past].
All I could hear was my own footsteps and Mia's dissatisfied meowing.
"If the voice doesn't work..."
Blood color appeared in the pupil of the right eye, even though the oil lamp could only illuminate a small area, in Xia De's field of vision at the moment, there were extremely faint traces of blood color in the dark part.
These traces were probably left over a hundred years ago, and they looked like footprints, and they spread almost all over the basement, from the basement all the way to the entrance.
"There are no bloodstains from the entrance to the room, which means that the appearance of the bloodstains happened inside the basement."
he thought.
Starting from the steps in the basement, Xia De followed the direction of the intertwined footprints against the walking sequence of the man a hundred years ago to find the end point. The last stop was in front of the wall facing the basement steps.
The footprints stopped in front of the wall, and there were dark bloodstains on the wall and the ground. At the same time, the owner of the footprints that appeared from here seemed to have lingered nearby for a while, allowing the blood-stained footprints to overlap continuously, and then set off for the exit of the basement.
"Why is there blood on such a high place on the wall? It doesn't seem to be splashed, it seems to be smeared... Also, why are you wandering here? What happened here? Even thinking about things, there is no Necessary in the basement...is there room behind the wall? No, there's no way the Church wouldn't have discovered the trick."
Xia De frowned, hugged the cat with one hand, put the kerosene lamp under his feet, and then reached out and pressed it against the wall. At this moment, there is only a cold feeling, and there is no hollow echo when I tap it with my fingers.
"Do you want to find a hammer to knock this place open?"
Xia De thought of ~www.mtlnovel.com~ and stared at the wall for a while, before giving up, he had a new idea:
"Anyway, it doesn't cost a pound to try."
Thinking in my heart, I called out my life ring. Little Mia was startled by the bell and siren, her amber eyes widened and she leaned on Shad's shoulder and looked back. The orange cat had never seen such a thing.
The ring of life rotates slowly, and Xia De controls the core rune [Time and Space], and by manipulating the flow of the spirit, the rune glows slightly. The light shone on the wall in front of him.
Then, part of the wall disappeared like a phantom, revealing a long and narrow passage...
Xia De believed that his expression should be the same as that of the cat looking at the ring.
[There is a hidden wall in front. 】
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