Shad came to Captain Rades by the wall and confirmed that the captain was just unconscious.
"Kill him? Of course not, why would I do that?"
Xia De asked in his heart, preparing to get up and retrieve his Rhodes card before waking up the captain:
"What good would it do me to try to defy someone else's prophecy?"
The movement of standing up caused air to pass by his ears, and Xia De could vaguely feel a bunch of cold long hair brushing against his ears. Just the hair alone made him shiver:
"What's going on?"
Looking at the fallen Henry Val, the evil spirit behind him had indeed disappeared, and the current situation should have nothing to do with the other party.
"Wait, the hair hanging down by the ears... is that relic! The long hair of the unfortunate person!"
Stranger, misfortune is coming upon you.
"What?"
Thick white fog suddenly appeared around them, almost swallowing up Xia De and the other two people in the secret room in an instant. The familiar feeling made Xia De immediately understand what it was:
"Damn it! The entrance to the narrow space is actually here! Just like the priest fell into the narrow space at that time, such a bad thing actually happened now!"
White mist surged out from the invisible boundary, representing the boundary between life and death gradually becoming blurred. Shade keenly felt the changes in the abnormal space, the temperature was dropping rapidly, and everything in the secret room was decaying. He even heard the wailing of evil spirits and saw countless rotten hands reaching out to him from blur to clarity.
If nothing unexpected happened, in the next breath, Shade would fall into the narrow space like the priest. And he couldn't even call for help from anyone.
Fortunately, Shad is stronger than the Augustus priest:
"Space Stabilization Aura!"
Invisible waves spread around with Xia De as the center, as if the sound of broken glass rang in his ears. All the white mist around disappeared in an instant, and the exit that had just opened also disappeared.
The entrance to the narrow space between life and death is extremely unstable, so it needs a ritual to maintain its continued existence. Although it is very consuming for Xia De to expel this abnormal space phenomenon, it is at least not impossible.
The feeling of the cold long hair beside his ears also disappeared. The bad luck brought about by the illegal use of the relics was successfully avoided by Xia De.
"So, if it is not necessary, you must never do anything to manipulate your fate."
The stranger summed up the lessons he had learned in this world in his heart.
In addition to not trying to manipulate fate, another important experience Shade learned was not to make deals with the devil.
"However, after the priest left the Death Gate, my puzzle lock alone could seal the gate, but the entrance to the narrow space began to appear again in Midhill Castle. The priest said that the narrow space swallowed the living in order to balance life and death. It seems that the final time for the outbreak of death is getting closer and closer. I hope that this time, the church will not neglect important information like Tobesk did."
Before waking up Captain Rades, who seemed to be drugged, Shad briefly searched the slightly small dark room.
Because there was only one bookcase, he easily found the diary of Henry Val, who had become a vegetable. Then he found a scary book called "The Treasure of the Human Body: The Way to Prolong Life" at the bottom of the bookshelf.
The book uses hand-drawn anatomical diagrams as illustrations, depicting methods of prolonging one's life through cannibalism. Of course, these methods are all deceptive and have nothing to do with real occultism. So, this is probably just nonsense written by a madman, published by an ordinary occultist, and then fell into the hands of this folklore student.
"Fake occult knowledge drives people crazy. I can't imagine how the world will change if the church doesn't control the knowledge of ring sorcerers."
Therefore, the Church of the Five Gods is truly an important force in maintaining the stability of civilization.
When I was flipping through the book, a piece of paper fell out from the page. There was only one line of words on it:
Predicting death, make an appointment in advance, no bargaining. Building A, No. 8 Zhuwei Lane, three long and two short, three short and two long.
"Why does he look like a liar? Did that boy just happen to guess what happened to Henry Val?"
After thinking for a moment, Shade put the note back into his pocket and put the book back to its original place.
In addition to the books, there are also some strange small bottles filled with suspicious liquids on the bookshelf. In addition, there are five or six hideous-looking enamel figurines on the top layer, but unfortunately they are not even valuable antiques, but only aesthetically unique handicrafts.
Henry Val didn't have a wallet on him, but there was one in the secret room. However, those women's wallets looked like the victims' belongings, so Shade didn't move them, but waited for the police to return them to the victims' families. Of course, it was possible that the money inside would be embezzled, but Shade would never take it.
"I knew there must be a secret compartment!"
After knocking on the wall for a while, he found the location of the sound. After prying off the wall brick, he found an old-fashioned single-shot pistol and several boxes of bullets wrapped in oil paper, a brown paper bag with the victim's identity information, and a long-handled makeup mirror wrapped in linen.
The handle and frame of the mirror were both silver, and were dotted with gemstones whose authenticity was unknown. However, around the frame, some thick silver threads were actually connected to each other in the shape of tentacles, and there was a small line of ancient text on the handle that was barely noticeable:
The safest place is in the mirror!
The moment I opened the linen cloth and touched the object, my ears actually gave me a hint:
Stranger, you feel the whispers.
"Whisper? This is..."
Xia De's eyes widened.
Yes, relics.
After more than three months in this world and experiencing so many things, strictly speaking, the relic in his hand is the first relic that Xia De has come across on his own initiative.
Many of the relics before were either bought or found because of other people, such as the Drowned Murloc's Scales, the Dream Pen of Joy, and even the Demon Hunting Seal, which should be attributed to Sparrow Hamilton, and thus fell into Shad's hands.
And the mirror in his hand fell into his hands by coincidence entirely because of Xia De's own reasons.
"Three months! Three months! I knew it! Even if I'm not the chosen one, how could I not encounter the relics that were lost outside!"
His happiness at this moment was even greater than when he discovered the truth just now. It was not because he had obtained something valuable, but because he had proved his luck:
"I know that I have good luck."
Unfortunately, Henry Val did not record the origin of this mirror, but it must have been obtained when he was collecting what he considered to be "occult items."
"Today is a perfect day."
Put the mirror away, and then fill the wall with the brick. Go back to the wall from the broom room, find the push-button mechanism to open the door, prove that you came in the normal way, and then wake up the confused Captain Rades.
After he opened his eyes, he saw Shade, and then Henry Val, whose life or death was unknown, and his face turned red:
"I was attacked by a young man."
It seems that if there were no cracks in the ground, Captain Rades would have wanted to drill directly into the cracks.
The next thing was simple. It was inconvenient for Shad to attract too much attention in Midhill Castle, so he let Captain Raddes alone get the credit for solving the serial murder case on the grounds that "the troublesome client did not allow me to expose myself."
The captain refused, but Shade waved his hand to signal him not to say anything more:
"Captain, I'll take 90% of the 100-pound bonus. The remaining 10 pounds is yours. If you feel bad about it, you can treat me to a meal when you have time."
Except for Henry Val, who had become a vegetable, no one had ever seen Shad and Captain Rades investigating together in the castle. The only person who knew the truth of the matter was Professor Dunn.
All Shad needs to do is solve the case. As for the credit, perhaps Captain Raddes needs it more.