While rummaging through the bookshelves on tiptoe, I heard a carriage pass by the door in the rain, and then the sound of horseshoes stepping on puddles stopped next door. Jenkins blinked, put down the book in his hand, tiptoed to the window, leaned against the wall, opened a gap in the curtain with one finger, and saw the carriage parked at the neighbor's house the door.
That direction was not the Goodmans, but the house of Mistalla Frante, Miss Silver Flute. Three young girls came down from the carriage under umbrellas. They anxiously rang the bell on the fence at the door, pointed to the full mailbox and said a few words, then stood on tiptoe and looked into the yard.
Judging from the movements of standing on tiptoe, these three strange girls have all learned to dance. Only then did Jenkins recall that when he first visited his neighbor, Miss Yindi mentioned that she intended to open private dance lessons at home. These three girls should be students, but Jenkins had never met them before. been.
Their faint calls to the door passed through the spring night rain to the ears of Jenkins, who was peeping next door, but Miss Silverpipe's door did not open. Because it was raining, the girls did not stay any longer. After confirming that there was no one at home, they returned to the carriage and wrote a letter and put it in the overflowing mailbox. The carriage then drove them away.
"Strange, why don't you take the newspapers and letters in the mailbox?"
Jenkins let go of the curtain in doubt, then looked up at the second floor of the house next door, where Miss Silver Flute was lying.
"Obviously at home...Speaking of which, when I went back to Nolan yesterday morning, was she lying in that position too? It doesn't seem to have changed at all... This position seems to be a bit low, not like lying on the bed, but like lying on the on the floor… "
He realized that something was wrong, so he peeked into the neighbor's yard again through the gap in the curtain, and then decided to take a look.
Let the protoss send those books to Ruen first, then go back to your own house, and go to the back of the yard from the back door of the kitchen. There was no one on the street on a rainy night, only the dim yellow light of gas street lamps flickering.
For the sake of safety, I changed my image, and then turned from my own backyard into the neighbor's backyard. He tiptoed to the back door, trying to poke the keyhole with a wire, but just as the wire went in, he was ejected by a strange force.
"Oh, the anti-theft measures made with rituals are really cautious."
The back door was inaccessible, and attempts were made to push the first-floor windows, but each was locked from the inside, and unless Jenkins violently smashed them, the path would be impassable.
Finally came to the main entrance, turned the door handle, and the door was pushed open.
"..."
Jenkins entered the house in silence, dried himself with flames, then turned and locked the door behind him.
Mrs. Mistalla Frant's house was as deserted as Jenkins's house, but the structure of the house was the same. Even without the help of a monocle, Jenkins could find the stairs leading to the second floor in the dark.
The corridor on the second floor was dark and permeating, and combined with the sound of rain outside, it felt like a haunted house in a horror story. Jenkins felt trembling in his heart, walked quickly to the door of the bedroom and opened the door to go in. The first thing he saw was an empty bedroom, and then he looked again, and there was no one in the bedroom.
Taking a deep breath, he let go of the doorknob and entered the room, then took another look with the [Eye of Reality], the spot of light representing Miss Yindi was indeed on the carpet under his feet.
But in the ordinary field of vision, there is nothing on the carpet, because there is not even an indentation, so Miss Silver Flute should not be invisible.
"What's going on?"
He thought suspiciously, then squatted down, trying to touch in front of him. A few seconds later, he actually touched the object leading to the suspected arm, but at the same time he touched the invisible arm, his eyes suddenly lit up.
The bright yellow light was not very noticeable, but the light that appeared with the cold wind still startled Jenkins. He looked up quickly, and found that the curtains and glass of the window facing him had disappeared, and even the wooden window frame had become crooked, and the spider web in the lower left corner had already woven quite densely.
And outside this dilapidated window, the huge bright yellow moon seemed to be right in front of my eyes. The moon was so close to the ground that Jenkins had the illusion that he could touch it by sticking his hand out the window.
"This is… "
Looking down at the stone statue of Miss Silverpipe lying on the dirty carpet that almost merged with the floor, I realized that I probably came to the decaying Norland city again.
Suddenly he heard a voice behind him, and when he looked back, he saw a fat humanoid monster holding a butcher knife standing at the door.
Its height made it necessary to bow its head to enter the bedroom door, and its skin was the same black as the monster Jenkins had seen the other day. She wore a thin sleeveless top that almost blended with her skin, and a square helmet on her head.
The helmet resembled a barrel of metal, for there were neither eyes nor nose holes. The bronze-colored helmet has sharp edges and corners, and on the slender surface that Jenkins can see, the complicated and repeated engraved patterns are confusing.
clatter~
The handle of the butcher's knife is attached to an iron chain, and the iron chain is wrapped around the butcher's arm. When it swung the butcher knife, the sound of the iron chain let Jenkins know that it was the enemy.
Clang~
The butcher's knife was thrown towards the squatting man in the room, and the man set up his own sword to block. The two weapons collided, and sparks flew everywhere. Jenkins, who had not adjusted his center of gravity, was hit by a huge force and fell to the ground.
Then he heard Tiesuo pulling back the butcher knife, and then the sound of heavy footsteps striding towards him.
Jenkins immediately rolled on the dirty carpet, and after taking off, the butcher knife slashed heavily, almost hitting the floor next to his face. Not being frightened, he took advantage of his rolling momentum, jumped up with one hand on the floor, and stabbed a sword at the side of the fat butcher who was drawing his knife from the floor.
But the opponent's skin was quite thick, and this sword didn't have much effect.
As the Butcher turned slowly, Jenkins followed his turn. When I tried to hit it hard from behind again, because the movement of swinging the sword was delayed, the butcher knife was already approaching when I swung it.
He set up his own sword to block by his side, and then swung the sword again following the force of the butcher knife being bounced back. But the sword struck the iron chain wrapped around the thick black arm of the butcher. Although it fell back and fell due to the force of Jenkins' rebound, it was not injured.
"good chance!"
Because of the fall, the butcher fell on the stone statue of Miss Silver Flute, but put his hands on the ground to open his chest. Jenkins saw this opportunity and jumped up. While falling, he held the hilt of the Bone Holy Sword with both hands, and with a roar of anger, he thrust the blade of the sword into the opponent's chest.
It wailed like a beast, its body fell back and collapsed on the ground, and when its arms fell to the ground, it bounced on the floor several times. The body quickly turned into soot-like dust and disappeared into the air, leaving Jenkins with nothing, including the weapon.
Not caring that he had nothing to gain, Jenkins hurried to the door of the bedroom and looked out at the half-collapsed corridor. After confirming that there was no second monster, he turned and went back to the room to check the stone statue of Miss Silver Flute.
She was still alive, and those ability spots in the [Eye of Reality] were still shining, so Jenkins guessed that this was a forced state of suspended animation.
The stone statue with a lot of dust on the floor should have appeared recently, because the dust on other objects in the room was thicker. It was in a curled up position, as if hiding from something, but Jenkins couldn't see the expression because his face was hidden by his arms.
Put your hand on the arm of the stone statue, close your eyes and relax, and you can easily feel the strong vitality inside the stone statue. As if instinctively controlling the silent life force flowing in the torso, at the same time [the origin of life] invested more life force into the stone statue, and gathered together with the life force like a pool of stagnant water, it became more and more smooth in the stone statue Pentium.
Kacha~
The sound of cracking stones clearly appeared in his ears, and Jenkins immediately understood that this was effective. As he further guided the vitality, the stone statue shattered inch by inch. Ten minutes later, except for the feet, all the stones covering Miss Yindi's body had disappeared.
Her consciousness was also awakening quickly. When those confused eyes opened, she saw the strange man squatting in front of her for the first time.
"I'm Mr. Candle, there's no Mr. Candle with a cat."
This sentence can only be understood by those who participated in the previous party, so Miss Yindi understood the identity of the other party. Only then did I see what he was doing, so I immediately thanked him.
"Compared to thanking you, I need to know where this place is and what your situation is."
Jenkins clapped his hands and stood up, seeing that the stones on his feet were all peeling off, then he stretched out his hand to pull Miss Silver Flute up, and then looked at the bright moon outside the window:
"Of course, we'd better change to a safer place."
"There is no safe place anymore. If you kill the monsters in the corridor, I think this is the safest place."
Miss Silver Flute is also curious about how Jenkins found her. She has now shown her true face, and her current location is also the location of her home, which means that Mr. Candle knows everything about her.
Jenkins shrugged at the question, saying he had just strayed into the world and found her in this location by accident. Of course, Miss Yindi didn't believe in accidents, but she didn't ask any more questions.
For the appearance of this strange and decaying Nolan, Miss Yindi really knows the reason. After standing up, she took a deep breath, as if she was not used to the air here, and then took the initiative to mention her own situation and the situation outside:
"Remember what I mentioned at Mr. Hood's party last time?"