The next day, early Wednesday morning.
The morning in St. Teresa's Square was so leisurely and comfortable. Most of the neighbors living here had not gone out yet, but Shad, Luvia, Dorothy and Dr. Schneider were already standing together at the door of No. 6 St. Teresa's Square. Mia was temporarily placed in the Dawn Church by Shad. The nuns in the church liked this cat very much.
"I have already roughly explained what happened last night in the carriage. Today, I hope everyone can help me check the house. If you really can't find the problem, I will have to go outside the city to ask my high-level warlock friend for help."
Xia De took out the key, opened the door, picked up the newspaper delivered from the delivery port, and asked everyone to come in.
Friends can see that Shad is in a very bad mood now, and he really cherishes his house.
“Do we search in layers, or do we act together?”
Dr. Schneider, who was called in early in the morning, frowned and asked with a serious expression. He also knew the rumors about this house. He thought that there would be no problem after Shade moved in, but he didn't expect that evil spirits would still appear frequently.
"Doctor, you have a lot of experience, what do you think?"
Shad asked back.
“Can we now determine where the suspected problematic area is?”
The doctor continued to ask questions, and the four people stood in the hallway, looking at the first floor and the staircase leading upstairs.
"There is no problem with the basement, there is no doubt about that. Also, the evil spirit should not have escaped from the second floor. When I woke up last night, I saw the thick fog coming from the stairwell. Therefore, the problematic area should be the first floor that I temporarily left unused, as well as the third floor and the attic."
He paused.
"The probability of it being on the third floor is relatively high. When we were helping Dorothy perform a ritual some time ago, we encountered a mirror ghost. The mirror ghost tends to attack the nearest target. It did not go to look for Mia on the second floor first, but went to the attic. This means that it is more likely that the thing came out of the third floor."
"Then we will split into two teams to search. Louisa and I both have five rings. I will go upstairs, and Louisa will stay downstairs."
He looked at Xia De and the female fortune teller who had been promoted to the fourth ring:
"Shad, you follow me. Anat, you follow Louisa."
"OK."
So Shad put the newspaper in the shoe cabinet in the hall, and then took the sword and followed the doctor up the stairs. Dorothy threw two parchment rolls downstairs, and as the parchment burned, the princess holding a spindle and the match girl carrying a basket appeared together.
The two summoned fairy tale characters walked in front. Dorothy wanted to call Luvia to follow them, but she saw the female fortune teller behind her toss a coin, then frowned slightly and looked at the shoe cabinet behind her. More precisely, she looked at the newspaper placed on the shoe cabinet by Shade.
They were all called by Xia De early in the morning, and none of them watched today's news:
"Wait a moment, Dorothy. I want to read the newspaper."
The doctor chose to let Shade follow him, and he also meant that if something happened, he could use the devil's power without scruples. But everything was calm on the third floor of Saint Teresa's Square. Room 1 displayed Luvia's astrological equipment and densely packed star maps on the wall. Room 2 was completely empty, because the maids came to clean it every week, so there was almost no dust.
Everything was normal in the corridor and the attic above. The doctor even carefully checked the two high-pressure steam fire extinguishers that Dorothy had been too lazy to take away after the last promotion ceremony, but still found nothing abnormal.
"Luvia is on the third floor almost every night to read the stars, and has never encountered an evil spirit. Could it be that the problem is really downstairs? Or, did the mirror ghost and the pus-filled evil spirit last night come from the same place?"
Xia De expressed his doubts, and then he and the doctor summoned the life ring, using the ringmaster's sensitive senses to explore the space on the third floor, and the result was still normal.
Because they had one more attic to check, the girls were already back in Room One when they returned to the second floor.
Dorothy was preparing hot tea in the kitchen, while Luvia was holding the newspaper that Shad had just placed on the shoe cabinet, as if she had found some interesting news.
Of course, they did not find anything unusual on the first floor. After the four of them sat down on the sofa in the living room, Luvia placed the newspaper on the coffee table and pointed to the small square on the edge of the second page.
This newspaper is the Terrarium River Newspaper. Unlike the Steambird Daily which is currently only sold in the central and western regions of the kingdom and a small area of Carsenrick, the former is a newspaper that can be bought throughout the Kingdom of Draerion.
According to Xia De's understanding, the front and second pages of this newspaper should all be full of big news. The small square news could only be caused by breaking news after the newspaper was typed last night.
"Last night at midnight, another major earthquake occurred in the Sikar Mountain area west of Midhill City, and this earthquake was stronger than the previous one."
Luvia recounted the short news, and Dr. Schneider was the first to react:
"I remember Shad said that when the mirror ghost appeared in his house last time, there was also an earthquake in the Xikar Mountain area?"
"Yes, it was on the same night. But the last earthquake was in the evening, and the mirror ghost appeared in my house after 10 o'clock at night."
Shad nodded. A ceremony was being held for Dorothy that night, so both he and the blonde remembered it very clearly.
"Are these two things related? There was an earthquake in Mount Xikar, and an evil spirit appeared in Shade's house. But the two places are so far apart, how could they be related?"
Luvia hesitated to speak. She glanced at Shade and knew the answer in her heart. As the owner of this place, Shade naturally thought of the answer, but this answer was a little too scary.
Shade hesitated:
"I have a ring wizard friend in the church. Do you remember the gap between life and death in Midhill Castle? The earthquake in the Xikar Mountain area is actually caused by the instability of the gap. And my friend said that as the largest boundary between life and death in the material world, and an unstable boundary on the verge of death, every vibration there will synchronously cause changes in all the boundaries between life and death in the entire world (649)."
The wrinkles on Dr. Schneider's brow deepened. He raised his head and looked towards the third floor, and said softly:
"Detective, if I remember correctly, among the owners who died in this house a hundred years ago, someone disappeared after entering the third floor... just like Reverend Augustus who disappeared in Midhill Castle."
"Yes."
Shad nodded.
Dorothy also understood:
"The earthquake in Midhill Castle will cause anomalies in the boundary between life and death in the entire material world, and the earthquake over there will cause evil spirits to appear in the Shade family. Moreover, some of the former owners of the house also suffered the misfortune that priest Augustus encountered in Middle Castle..."
She looked at Shade:
"So, on the third floor of No. 6 Saint Teresa's Square, there is an entrance to the boundary between life and death!?"
There is no so-called underworld in this world, this is certain, and death itself is just a concept. Including the body of water that Shade had seen, it can only be regarded as an extension of the concept. There is no so-called boundary between life and death, but due to reasons that are still unknown, the material world has had countless large and small boundaries between life and death in the past eras.
It is not the world of the living, nor is it where the dead should go. Therefore, according to Mr. Edmund, the old tower keeper of the Guiding Light Hermitage, the boundary between life and death is a mistake of the world.
Among them, the one below Midhill Castle is the largest boundary between life and death, and because it has become a relic, it is called the narrow space between life and death. It includes three passages and is rated as the highest level of relics, level 0.
Although other boundaries between life and death in the material world are far less dangerous than the one in Midhill Castle, obviously no one wants such a place to overlap with their home.
"The scope should not be the entire 6th St. Teresa's Square."
The doctor responded the fastest and pointed to Room 2 next door:
"The traveler's door that the detective bought will cause problems if used in an abnormal space zone. Since the relics on the second floor show no signs of being out of control, the range of the life and death boundary parallel to this house should only be limited to the third floor, and the range is extremely small, so problems may not occur once every hundred years. Recently, it is only because of the vibrations in the narrow space between life and death that evil spirits are frequently released."
The doctor's speculation was also supported by others. Luvia also admitted that during the half month she spent on the third floor doing astrology, she had used divination to assist in mapping the star map many times, but the divination had never been affected abnormally.
"I often leave Mia at home. Recently, besides scratching the wall in the second room next door, she also likes to take a walk on the third floor. But this cat never seems to have encountered anything terrible."
Xia De also said that he touched his cat and felt very scared. He couldn't imagine how terrible and cruel things would happen if only this cat was at home when the narrow space between life and death shook again and caused new evil spirits to emerge in his home.
"This is going to be difficult. Xia De also told us that the boundary between life and death can only be sealed, and it is impossible to completely resolve it. So, the third floor of this house will be completely sealed off from now on?"
The blonde female writer also said, looking at Shade with great concern:
"I didn't expect that in addition to the basement you mentioned, there is also a problem on the third floor. Maybe the other floors... Number 6 St. Teresa's Square is indeed the haunted house in the rumors. Xia De, if it doesn't work out, just move. How about buying another house in the city, or renting an apartment for the transition? I know there are some good houses on Quill Pen Street, and I'm very familiar with the landlady there."
"No, this is my home. I will never give up number 6 St. Teresa's Square!"
The stranger was very persistent about the house problem, and he believed that he could solve it:
"The descent of the gods this summer didn't scare me away from Tobesk. Can a few ghosts make me abandon my home?"
"Meow~"
Mia, who was squatting next to Xia De, called out softly, but no one knew what she wanted to express.
"I knew you would say that. So what do you want to do?"
Luvia asked, and the doctor glanced at the sword that Shade placed on the coffee table:
"You can't just hang this precious relic in the corridor on the third floor as a permanent early warning device, can you?"
"Of course not. I have a very powerful friend in Midhill Castle. If all else fails, I will ask her if she can come to my place through the door next door. Her eyes can detect traces of the border. But in this case, I will need to transport the traveler's travel door to Midhill Castle first."
Shad was talking about Sister Defulin of the Spiritual Order. The order had a deep understanding of the Narrow Space and even helped Shad rescue Father Augustus.