Almost as soon as the two keys showed a fusion trend, Jenkins separated the two without hesitation. He just wanted to try to use two keys to open the door together, but if he lost part of his gifts, it would be too worthless. Whether it's opening the door to the outside world or breaking the seals and mysteries, he doesn't want to lose these two characteristics.
"Meow~"
The disobedient cat came out of the collar of Jenkins' coat again and looked behind him. Jenkins turned around following its gaze, and saw a short humanoid figure disappear from the back door.
He didn't catch up, but blinked his eyes, but saw nothing:
"phantom?"
Jenkins guessed, and took out the small silver bottle that was presented in the strange world from his pocket. According to "Sigrid", the potion in this bottle can make Jenkins the strongest mortal in the material world within an hour.
"No, now is not the time."
After hesitating for a moment, he didn't use the potion immediately.
Looking at the counter beside him, besides the small cushion dedicated to chocolate, there were also a few upside-down papers on the counter. Jenkins picked it up casually and saw that it was the church's investigation on Luther's death. Because the Gear Craftsmanship was involved, the efficiency this time was very high. Excluding the part Jenkins already knew, the strange curse mentioned above about the fusion of Luthor's body and the machine was not the first time that Nolan had appeared. Even within a week, There are also such things happening in other places, but they are only treated as an example.
"Where did so many gear germs come from? Or is there a problem with my judgment, is this really a naturally formed curse?"
He thought about it, and then looked at the files again:
"Since these documents are on the counter, it means that Dad received news from the church before dawn and was reading these documents on the first floor..."
He glanced at the wall, and sure enough the faint gas lamp was still on.
"I heard voices upstairs, so I temporarily put down the paper in my hand, and then never came back."
He speculated that he raised his head and put on the monocle, and looked at the room with the eyes of reality again. After careful observation, he could see a faint black aura spreading on the wall, very rarely very slight, but it did envelop the entire antique shop.
Just as I was about to go upstairs again to confirm the source of the aura on the door, I suddenly heard a loud cry of a baby. He followed the sound to the warehouse in the backyard of the antique shop, and saw an ugly baby-like thing in an empty cardboard box in the corner.
But it was definitely not a human baby, more like an oversized mouse pup. The whole body is pink and tender, and there is no hair. There is a short tail on the buttocks, and the body is constantly twitching in the cardboard box. The howling sound made Jenkins extremely uncomfortable, and when he saw the appearance of that little monster, it made him tremble even more.
"What is this?"
The opponent is not a phantom but a real entity. Although there is a flow of the spirit of life in the body, it is more of the power of death. It is not so much a living thing as it is an unknown species of undead. Jenkins can be sure that this is definitely not something that should be in Papa's antique shop. Its appearance is related to today's things.
"Chocolate, is this a mouse?"
He asked his cat, who was upset by the ugliness and ignored Jenkins. Jenkins knew that his cat had never been interested in mice, but seeing that it couldn't even tell whether it was a mouse or not, he was immediately disappointed in the cat.
Picking up the carton and returning it to the antique shop, and putting it on the counter, nothing happened. Jenkins didn't know why, but discovered another abnormality at this time. He and Chocolate hadn't left the front of the antique shop for more than ten minutes, but the umbrella standing behind the counter had been replaced.
It was originally a black ordinary canvas umbrella, because it had been used for a long time, so it was a little worn out, and it was kept by the old man in the store to be used at any time. But now the umbrella in that position turned into a new umbrella, more precisely, it was a new umbrella with a golden-yellow umbrella surface and a red wooden handle.
After taking a look to make sure it was an ordinary umbrella, Jenkins grabbed it and opened it directly in the store. There is no hindrance in the process of opening, unlike the old umbrella that requires force, just press the obvious button, and the umbrella will unfold with a bang, which makes Jenkins think of the umbrella in his previous world in a daze .
The handle is genuine mahogany, and the golden umbrella surface is a bit hard, like metal or plastic, but there is no plastic in this world. These are not the key points. While the umbrella surface opened "smoothly", Jenkins vaguely heard the slight gear rotation sound in the handle of the umbrella, and at the same time he felt the regular vibration of the umbrella shaft, which shows that there is a very delicate structure inside. mechanical organs.
"Strange, why is there such a thing in the store?"
He closed the umbrella and put it next to the cardboard box containing the "rat man cub", looking at these two things, he felt suspicious in vain:
"Isn't it the old man's trick key that got out of control?"
That key has the power of "evolution", and if the two things in front of him are the little mouse and the ordinary umbrella that originally existed in the store, it is likely that they have accepted the power of "evolution".
But Jenkins didn't understand why the entire store couldn't go out now. This might also be the power of the key, but it was a bit too coincidental that the key just got out of control today. Whether it was Miss Stillwell's memory or the year Jenkins and Dad knew each other, they had never even seen Dad use that key.
Thinking in his heart, he took another look at the "rat man" cub in the cardboard box, picked up the well-behaved cat squatting on his mat, and walked up to the second floor again. This time there were still strange noises coming from the corner of the first floor, but Jenkins didn't care, and still entered the second floor without looking back.
The hallway remained the same, and Jenkins searched all the rooms except Dad's bedroom, which couldn't be opened. There are quite a lot of rooms on the second floor, except for the study room, the reception room, the father's bedroom and the washroom, the rest are daily spare rooms.
Finally, relying on the reminder of the chocolate, Jenkins opened the bed board in the room at the far end of the left side facing the sun and saw a huge rune engraved on the back of the bed board.
He couldn't recognize what it was, so he could only write down the rune with his heart. When he turned around and wanted to leave the room, he suddenly felt an extremely dangerous sign in his heart.
Jumping to the side, soft white light instantly shot from outside the half-closed door, and almost the entire door frame was filled with light. Of course, Jenkins' movements could not outpace the speed of light, so he was hit by the light.
A warm feeling filled every corner of his body, and the extreme comfort made him want to groan.
At the same time, the black coat, trousers, and shoes began to deform when exposed to the light. It was not because of a sudden intelligence that he wanted to strangle Jenkins to death, but just a change in material and style.
Jenkins himself can't see his whole face, but the colorful dressing style obviously doesn't suit him, and the strange texture of the clothes doesn't seem like a material that people in this era can make.
But he himself was not affected by the white light. The warm and comfortable feeling just now was really good, but it only lasted for a few seconds and ended, and it did not bring permanent changes to Jenkins.
As for the chocolate, Jenkins was dodging to the right just now, and the cat was standing on the right shoulder, so it was not hit by the light.
"who is it?"
He just froze for a moment to feel the change in himself, and then quickly chased him out. What was seen in the hallway was a small, goblin-like, cyan figure with long ears, which began to flee before Jenkins could chase it out. He quickly got into the bathroom on the left, and when Jenkins also opened the door of the bathroom, the figure had disappeared.
"Isn't the key out of control?"
Lord Silver Dragon didn't mention that the key could also turn into a short and ugly goblin, but the white light just now was most likely made by that goblin.
"It's fine if it's not a key. I can't deal with that level of curse."
He thought to himself, looked around the bathroom, and smashed the mirror with his fist. There was originally a solid wall behind the mirror, but Jenkins' fist directly entered a space without any light, and then pulled out the goblin hidden inside.
The front of the thing was even uglier than he thought, the head was almost as big as the body, and the eyes took up almost a third of the face. The whole body is covered with hard-to-see but very prickly white hairs, and the skin has a slippery touch with a layer of oil, but it sinks fingers deeply like mud.
The right hand pinched its neck, where the skins of the two sides touched, there was a crackling sound as if the skin was being burned. This monster is stronger than Jenkins thought, and it doesn't seem to be affected much by the passive effect of [Hero]. Even though the twisting of the facial features showed its discomfort, it still had enough strength to struggle in Jenkins' hands.
"Do you introduce yourself yourself, or let me force you to say it?"
He opened his mouth to ask, and exerted more force with his right hand. But when the neck was shrunk to a certain extent, Jenkins did not notice the tissue structure such as bone or cartilage trachea. The neck of this thing seemed to be stuffed with a ball of cotton.
"evolution!"
There was a hissing sound coming from the mouth of the ugly goblin. Listen carefully to hear the words spoken in the broken Common Tongue. Jenkins frowned and looked at the goblin:
"I know you are related to evolution, but I want to know what you are?"
The "goblin" suddenly stopped struggling, and a stronger black aura suddenly lit up in its huge eyes. Its left eye has not changed in any way, but the black pupil of the right eye has expanded to the entire eye, making the entire right eye black.
At the same time Jenkins summoned flames to burn it, black light burst out from the right eye, covering the entire area in front of the eye without any dead ends.