Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 448

2021-11-07

Chapter 447 Fifth Era 1784

11:50 at night, from this week's With ten minutes to go, Shade sat in the living room with no lights on, playing with the time key carefully selected by Professor Garcia.

The weather is fine tonight, and the moonlight enters the living room through the window. The three-color moonlight mixed together, and the strange rays of light shone on Shade's lap and on the back of the cat lying on Shade's lap.

Xiaomi is an orange and white cat. The pattern on the back is mainly orange. According to Shade's opinion when he first saw it on the roof, this cat is like a white cat. Put on an orange blanket.

Its coat is quite well-colored, and it seems to reflect light in both sunlight and moonlight. Because Shade has a new time adventure tonight, so he can't go to bed early, so the cat didn't go to the bedroom alone to sleep, but lay on Shade's lap to sleep.

It must not have fallen asleep, Shade even thought, if he suddenly screamed in the silence at the moment, the cat would definitely be scared to jump up.

Of course, he wouldn't do it either.

Thinking about my relationship with my friends, thinking about the chosen ones and my own path to Godhood. When the clock in the corner and the city clock tower in the distance struck midnight together, Shade patted Mia Cat's butt, and the latter meowed, reluctantly stepped on his short legs and got up from his legs Jump on the sofa.

"Mia, see you in three seconds."

With that, Shade walked to the bedroom door. But this time instead of inserting the key directly, it hesitated.

【What are you thinking about? ]

"According to the law of the past, this time there will definitely be something to do with the old god. I'm thinking about who it will be this time."

【No immediate Did you know? ]

"That's right. May the World Tree bless me in time."

Turning the key, as the bedroom door opened, white mist came from the door like catkins. Floating out of the sky, he thought about these special spaces again:

"Mr. Edmond said that the light-guiding Hermit Order believes that the space left by the Thirteen Ancient Gods is the last refuge. What is the reason for this argument?"

Walking into the white fog, a familiar voice immediately rang in my ears:

[Outlander, you have stepped into the "long time" gallery". ]

[Message from Ancient God "Father of the Infinite Tree":]

[Winter of 1784 in the Fifth Age, Northern Continent, Fort Dread. ]

[Event: Gambling - Game of Life. ]

[Duration twenty minutes (1/3). ]

"Southern Continent - Hope Town, Western Continent - Forest of Thousand Trees, now it is the fourth key of Northern Continent - Dread Fort 1 month later, won't it be Eastern Continent?"

[You have additional information. ]

[The silhouette of the father of the infinite tree is watching you. ]

[The Ancient God of time will test you. ]

[Help mortals win the "game of life". ]

[The Father of the Infinite Tree will give you a reward: Mystic Art - Breath of the Years, a piece of true information - Dark Dungeon. ]

"Dark Dungeon? In this mission, there is no mention of gods."

Shade muttered, and after confirming that there was no other information, he took a step forward .

The surrounding white fog quickly dissipated, and my feet stepped on the uneven stone bricks. The rays of light in the white fog faded, the light suddenly weakened, and the dim yellow oil lamp made Shade a little uncomfortable.

As soon as his vision returned to normal, he immediately noticed a rotten smell in the air. Looking towards the surroundings, he was standing in a long and narrow corridor.

Underfoot is a ground paved with gray bricks, but due to the grinding of the years, the stone bricks are no longer flat. The surrounding walls and the top, which is about 3 meters high, are all gray black stone walls that seem to be turned into powder.

With a little touch, it was immediately covered with dust.

There will be square spaces at intervals on the wall. Oil lamps are placed in the spaces. The rays of light of the oil lamps are the size of soybean grains. connected to each other.

Perhaps there were frescoes on the walls originally, but nothing can be seen clearly at this time.

It's a little cooler, and Shade takes a breath. Because it is not outdoors, he can only choose to move forward and backward. According to the direction when he came, it is common sense to continue to move forward, but Shade still curiously looked towards the back.

Behind him is the same long, narrow and ancient stone corridor, except that no oil lamps are lit. Shade looked towards the darkness that stretched into the unknown area, and suddenly saw a pair of scarlet eyes in that darkness.

He is not a timid person, and he has seen pictures that are far more bizarre than this in this world. But when I saw those eyes, my body trembled instinctively because of fear. Those eyes had the power to directly evoke fear in people's hearts.

As it got closer, the flames of the oil lamps around Shade immediately flickered. Although he didn't know the consequences of the oil lamp going out, Shade ran forward immediately.

The oil lamps behind him went out one by one, and the flames in front were shaking. Shade felt a chill that seemed to freeze his soul, gradually attacking his back, and the chill became more and more obvious.

"Really, why can't [Father of Infinite Tree] send me directly to my destination? It's like this every time, Yinyue!"

He stretched out his hand and pointed behind him. , At the same time that silver's moonlight erupted, the chill behind him really moved away. The front of the corridor finally came to an end. It was a closed red copper-colored metal door. There were no holes or decorative patterns on the door, only a slightly raised flip coin symbol.

Shade was ready to open the lock, but didn't expect when he rushed to the door, the door was pushed open with a slight push.

He hurried into the door, then turned and closed the door firmly. He used his body to touch the door of the house, but the inexplicable thing outside the door had no intention of hitting the door at all.

Even if you put your ear to the door, you can't hear anything outside.

This was a little relieved, Shade turned around and looked towards the interior of the room, and then saw a man with a vicissitudes of life, as if he hadn't washed his hair and bathed in months, standing beside the square stone table, staring in astonishment. follow him.

The interior style of the room is basically the same as that of the Yong Dao Foundation outside. The ground is uneven square masonry, the gaps between the masonry are filled with ash, and the walls above the head and surrounding are uneven and unpainted. stone wall.

The room is not big, about the same size as Shade's bedroom. A square stone table is placed in the center, apart from this there is no complete furniture.

There are some remains of wooden furniture along the walls, but they appear to have been worn for hundreds of years. There are dozens of corpses by the wall on the right. Judging from the degree of decay, the corpses have nothing common with each other in the age of death, but they all maintain the posture of leaning against the wall uniformly.

On the edge of the stone table in the direction of Shade, there is an oil lamp, which is the only light source in the room. But the light of this oil lamp is still the size of a soybean grain, and it is very strange. It can only illuminate the half of the room between Shade and the strange man, while the other side of the room is completely covered by thick darkness.

"Man?"

While the other party looked at Shade, Shade was also looking at each other. There is no male who can use extraordinary power in the fifth era, so the other party must be an ordinary person.

He was wearing a dirty brown robe of unrecognizable color, with bare feet and a turban over his head. The brown eyes were normal, but the thick eyebrows made an impression on Shade.

"How are you?"

The stranger tried to greet Shade in the language of the Fifth Epoch, his voice was hoarse, as if he hadn't spoken in a long time.

"Hello, sorry, I don't think you understand what I said."

Shade also replied, this time his companions are not Demoness. Although there are advantages, the disadvantage is that they are not at all. Unable to communicate.

"No no, I understand! There are special rules in this castle, as long as the language is not used with extraordinary power, these languages can be understood by everyone! Excuse me, are you human? "?"

The stranger in robe and bare feet asked cautiously, Shade looked towards him in surprise, nodded, approaching the stone square table from the shadow of the door:

"Of course I'm a human, but are you a human?"

He extended the hand to the other side, the man winced and ducked, then laughed to Shade sorry:
"Sorry, I'm here I've encountered too many weird things. Yes, I'm human too, and it's very good to meet my companions here."

He stretched out his hand, which he hadn't washed for a long time, and held Shade hand.

[ordinary person class. ]

The smile on Shade's face became more sincere.

The man's name is Shrek Riddle, and he calls himself a scholar and a prophet. And considering the time point of the Fifth Epoch, his so-called "prophet" is probably similar to the "demon scholar" Sean Asmond that Shade met in the Pink Rose Hotel in Cold Harbor.

Mr. Riddle probably hasn't met a human for a long time. After confirming or forcing himself to believe that Shade is really not weird, he told him about his own affairs. .

He knew that this was the Northern Continent's Dread Fortress, but he couldn't say exactly what the "Dreadful Fortress" was. On the one hand, this strange place will erode people's memory, and on the other hand, the prophet really doesn't seem to know.

While reading ancient documents, Mr. Shrek Riddle accidentally learned the general location of the Castle of Dread, which "holds ancient knowledge, secrets and evil". Ben had no other things in mind than going out for a walk, so he set out from his hometown of Eastern Continent and embarked on an adventure.

Although I only regarded this outing as a study tour, I didn't have much hope for achieving the goal, but after a series of unimaginable things, this gentleman really found this place.

The hooded middle age person admits to Shade that he can't remember how long he's been in this spooky place, lost and flustered by the changing topography of the castle's interior. The horrible and evil things he encountered also made him dare not recall at all.

Even Shade started screaming and praying hysterically out of fear just by trying to ask the other person about his experience during this time.

Similar to Hope Town and Forest of Thousand Trees, Fort Dread will have an impact on the memory and consciousness of humans who stay for a long time. And very unfortunate, the men of the fifth era, not the three children were so lucky to be blessed by the good gods, and they were not as strong as the two demonesses more than a dozen centuries later.

If Shade were to show up a little later, Shade might not even know the most basic of things.

(end of this chapter)