Megan smiled:
"Young people should respect their elders. Why don't you first tell me what you are here for."
She was actually ready to take action. Although there were no followers ambushing her nearby this time, as her condition continued to improve, the witch thought that she would have no problem dealing with the two juniors in front of her.
The two brothers looked at each other—they could only look at each other:
"We are here to look for a certain relic. According to the results of the Mirror Association's investigation, relics have been circulated on the island over the past two hundred years, especially in the hundred years after the family fell. It seems that Earl Gaiman had come into contact with the relics circulated on the island during his lifetime, so Mr. Mirror Man sent the two of us to investigate."
Megan frowned slightly, which coincided with the results of her and Shade's investigation just now.
"Aunt, I wonder if you and uncle have found the relic? The relic can be used to make a wish."
One of the twin brothers asked, and Megan couldn't tell which one was the older brother or the younger brother. However, seeing that the other party was willing to exchange information, she also said:
"We are also here to look for relics, but not the ones you are talking about."
She shook the ring on her finger, and the two brothers subconsciously wanted to dodge, but then they realized that this action was just to show the object.
"I came here to look for this beautiful ring. Your uncle was very fond of it."
A smile appeared on her lips, and the silver-white cat spoke in a man's voice:
"In addition to this ring, we also got something else, which may be related to the purpose of your visit this time."
Although the way the cat spoke was strange, especially the beautiful silver cat speaking in the voice of a mature man, the two brothers still suggested:
"Since we are trying to deal with our ancestors, maybe we can work together to look for relics related to our ancestors. The area of this manor is only this big, and it will be faster for four people to search than for two."
This is what Shade was waiting for. He moved his claws, signaling Megan not to speak. The sorceress understood and continued to let Shade speak:
"It's an interesting proposal. However, we have to show you what you are capable of before we can discuss cooperation. You ran very fast on Monday when it started to rain. I think you must have inherited some of your family's special spatial talent."
Then, he threw out an extra chip:
"Would you like to show it to you? We can also tell you some other things about the family."
He wanted to confirm in advance what the other party's power related to the "Chosen One" was.
The two brothers seemed to have a special way of communicating, and they still communicated by "looking at each other".
"Can."
The man with the right eye blind nodded and reached out to hold his brother's hand. This time, the two did not show their life rings, but like last time, each of them stretched out the thumb and index finger of their free hand, formed a square together, and pointed it at Megan who was holding the cat.
Immediately, the feeling of being locked in came over me again. Last time it was through the rainy alley and the glass door, this time it was directly facing them.
"Our talent—spatial locking. Once we lock onto it, any of our subsequent attacks will definitely hit unless they are blocked or offset in advance... This includes the effects of firearms and magic."
"I also felt the effect of spatial fixation."
Xia De said, but this kind of fixation is not particularly strong, and it can be broken free in an instant. I don’t know whether the two brothers deliberately held back, or their eight rings’ strength is not enough to completely solidify the space.
"Space stability aura."
He whispered in his mind, and the feeling of his body being locked immediately disappeared.
The two brothers also put down their hands:
"Yes, we are also exploring this unusual talent. Mr. Mirror Man is our teacher. He taught us many magical skills that can be used with mirrors."
They only said this much, and Shadcat nodded. Compared with the complete Chosen, this talent is obviously not very outstanding, but it has also been proven that it is indeed one of the characteristics of the "Space Chosen":
"Okay, the information we can provide is that the Edwards family is not a pure human family. We have at least five different bloodlines: elves, goblins, star dragons, astronomical centaurs, and blood-sucking species. Moreover, there are very few unknown components in the bloodline, which are suspected to be related to human alchemy."
Megan said that if Shad said this, it would be a lie, but if she said it, it would be the truth.
The two brothers frowned, and were also surprised by this result. They took off their hats and put them on their chests, leaned forward and bowed slightly to the woman holding the cat:
"Thank you, auntie. This information is very valuable. Would you like to share the information here and search together?"
She squeezed Shadcat's paw, and the cat responded:
"Okay, we found a notebook."
"We have here a memoir of Count Gaiman's personal maid who passed away last month."
The three of them and the cat exchanged information with each other, and it didn't take too long to read those brief documents. In the memoirs of the personal maid, there was not much about the old earl who died fifty years ago, but it could be seen that the emotions were very sincere.
In other words, the maid was once the count's lover, and when she wrote her memoirs, she was still thinking about the man from fifty years ago.
"It's very common for maids to have affairs with their masters."
Megan said for some unknown reason, fortunately Shad was still in the state of a cat, otherwise his expression would definitely change.
As one of Count Gaiman's closest people, the maid certainly knew about the Count's "adventure". But the Count seemed to want to protect her, so he never told her what happened in full.
But she knew that Count Gaiman had always attached great importance to this manor, and he would often mutter in his dreams at midnight, "Never make more wishes", "Don't be greedy", "It will take away everything I have", "Don't trust that person" and other sentences. The young maid wanted to find out what happened to the Count out of concern for her lover, but when she secretly followed the Count, she found him alone holding a fishing rod and taking a boat from the small pier behind the manor one night. The Count found out that he was being followed and fired and drove her away.
"It should be to protect her."
Megan commented when she saw this, and continued to flip back.
Shortly after the maid was fired, the earl died unexpectedly. He seemed to have anticipated his own death, so he left a will. The fired maid also received a generous gift. The earl's family did not object to this, but chose to respect his own choice.
"It's a qualified love story. If we add a plot where the maid sneaks back into the manor to investigate the real cause of the count's death, then it would be great to adapt it into a novel."
Shadcat said from Dorothy's perspective, Megan rubbed his head unceremoniously, turned back another page, and made sure there was no other relevant content:
"That is to say, Count Gaiman's secret may not only be in this manor, but also in the water behind this manor."
“That’s what we thought.”
The two brothers who were not far away said:
"Aunt, the contents of your notebook further confirm this, and the possibility of it being in the water should be greater. Do you want to search together?"
They invited her again, and although Megan wanted to go back for lunch with Shade right now, she still agreed. After all, this matter might really be related to their ancestors:
"Okay, but the sun is too strong today and I didn't bring an umbrella. If there is still no clue by noon, I will go back."
The three of them and the cat then passed through the abandoned manor, bypassed the mansion, and came to the dock from the small door of the completely deserted back garden along the path. Although the manor and the buildings had been abandoned for a long time, the small dock here was still barely usable, probably because the local gangs occasionally came here for smuggling.
Of course, there was no boat left for the three people and one cat to use, but even the lowest-level Shade cat had the ability to walk on water, so the high-level witch and the eight-ring brothers would naturally not be stumped by such a problem.
The three of them and the cat started from the pier, divided the nearby waters into two areas, one on the left and one on the right, and then searched separately. The water near the shore was not very deep, so most of the time they only needed the help of "another me" to sense it, and did not need to reach into the water.
Even so, this search was quite difficult. Xia De thought it would take a long time or would yield no results at all, but within half an hour, the one with the left eye blind in the two brothers who were searching separately discovered something unusual:
"Come this way."
He called out to the other two people and the cat, and Megan walked over on the water holding the cat. This was about 800 meters from the pier, and there was no sign except for a clump of reeds nearby. What was found was a glass bottle lying in about 3 meters of water.
The specific shape and form of the bottle kept shaking with the ripples on the water surface, so no one could see it clearly.
"It's so easy to find it?"
Megan asked suspiciously. She didn't really trust the brothers and now she was even more suspicious whether this was their conspiracy:
"Now that we have found it, pick up this bottle. The whispering element is very slight, almost non-existent. What is this?"
"Aunt, we also doubt whether this is your conspiracy. After all, you came earlier."
The brother was standing on the water surface on the other side of the bottle and spoke with the same hesitation.
The cat looked at the bottle under the water, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar it looked. He frowned slightly, and then said to the three people:
"Why think so much? Since we are cooperating, we must trust each other. Let me try first, and you all step back."
As Megan held him and retreated, the cat raised its claws and a snowball fell from the sky. With a loud bang, the magic passion ice exploded on the water surface.