Whispering Verse

"Ahem!"

As if the water suddenly emerged from under the dark lake, Shade suddenly opened his eyes, and then he suddenly sat up from the bed while coughing due to the dust.

"Damn it, hasn't this place been cleaned in hundreds of years?"

There was almost no light in the room, except for the faint light of the gas lamp peeking out from the crack in the door. The air was extremely cold and almost smelled of moldy dust everywhere. This damp, cold and dilapidated environment caused by being uninhabited for many years was even more shocking than the lighthouse on the island in the middle of the Pantanal Lake. Shade even wondered if he had slept in a cemetery.

"Silver Moon."

The gradually brightening golden spots on his body illuminated the bed beneath him, while the moonlight from his fingertips illuminated the entire room. Seeing the whole room, Shade's eyes widened slightly.

This is actually the master bedroom of Room 1 on the second floor of No. 6 Saint Teresa Square where he fell asleep in reality. The evidence lies in the decoration and furniture of the room.

It's just that compared to the bedroom that has been renovated and the furniture changed in reality, the layout of the room in the dream at this moment is actually exactly the same as the layout of Detective Sparrow's room before he died when he came to this world. Even this bed is The bed where Detective Sparrow died.

At this time, most of the furniture in the room was covered with white cloth, and Shade also sat up from the white cloth on the bed. But in the same location in reality, the atmosphere is completely different.

I jumped out of bed, touched the white cloth, and felt a thick layer of dust on my hand. The blackened floor stirred up dust as Shade's feet landed on the ground. He tore off the white cloth on the bookshelf and saw a metal pot and a black and white photo frame.

These furnishings are exactly the furnishings of the master bedroom where Detective Sparrow died before his death. Everything is almost exactly the same as Shade's memory.

"I'm sure this is definitely not my dream, but how could these things be in Luvia's dream? I have never described the details of this bedroom to others."

[Perhaps, you can look at other places. 】

"She" whispered softly in Shade's ear. Even in the dream, "she" was still with Shade.

Apart from the dust and white cloth, the difference between this place and the bedroom in my memory is that the windows are completely sealed with layers of wooden boards, which is why there is almost no light in the room. Shade had only seen this method of blocking windows in mental hospitals of this era or in buildings where epidemics broke out.

"Although I predicted in advance that Luvia's dream would be special, it turned out to be like this."

He approached the window, and the moonlight illuminated the wall with his fingertips, allowing him to see gray-green moss-like traces on the wall. The No. 6 Saint Teresa Square in this dream was completely ruined. Even though he knows this is a dream, as the owner of this house and a foreigner who regards this place as his only home, his feelings at this moment are quite complicated.

After confirming that there were no other noteworthy details in the bedroom, Shade opened the door and walked out of the room. Then he frowned and saw the layout of the living room, which was also the layout of the detective agency in Sparrow's era.

All the furniture was covered with white cloth, and only the sofa and coffee table showed signs of use. All the windows that can be seen are still completely nailed from the inside with layers of wooden boards. The fireplace in the living room, which was repaired due to the arrival of winter in reality, is also completely abandoned.

There was only one gas lamp on the wall, and the light from the gas lamp was unusually weak. This was not only due to the lack of gas in the gas pipes, but also because the lampshades looked like they had not been wiped clean for hundreds of years. The living room was also cold and damp. Not to mention the warm home feeling when Shade and Mia lived there, it was no different from any imaginable haunted house in urban legends.

In the dim light, Shade came to the wall next to the fireplace, frowned and looked at the traces of gray-green moss, and then tried to push it, but could not find the secret door leading to Room 2, and that door The secret door was also made during renovation:

"It is indeed the layout of the detective agency during Detective Sparrow's time. It seems that after Detective Sparrow's death, this place was completely abandoned and no one was using it. After the church recovered and inspected the dangerous houses, it sealed it up ”

Suddenly he turned his head and looked behind him, and in the faint light, he looked at another door:

"If no one inherits this house after Detective Sparrow dies, then 'my' bedroom"

Thinking of this, he turned around and walked towards the side bed, where the original owner once lived when Detective Sparrow was still alive. The door was unlocked, and it was only after opening the door that I saw that there was a utility room with messy old furniture and sundries piled up. Of course, they were also covered with white cloth.

Shade entered the room and pulled off the white cloth, confirming that there was no bed where the bed was. It was indeed being used as a utility room, and it was definitely not the bedroom it once was.

"Everything is the same as before. There is only the room where 'I' live, and there is no trace of 'I'."

If he wasn't in a dream at this time, then this scene would be a bit too scary. The interest of Luvia's dream far exceeded Shade's expectations. He stood at the door of his side bed and thought for a moment, then gently closed the door. I thought I could test it out to see where the boundary of this dream is.

"Meow~"

The dilapidated haunted house was originally silent, but at this moment, a cat meowed suddenly, and the meow was extremely familiar.

Shade hurriedly turned around and walked towards the door of Room 1. After opening the door, the corridor and stairs were filled with oppressive, strange and terrifying darkness.

From the darkness downstairs, the orange and white cat jumped up. The cat ignored Shade standing at the door and continued to run towards the third floor.

"Mia?"

Of course, cats are just creatures of dreams. The real cat is still in the closet and has no direct contact with Shade. This dream belongs to Luvia alone.

Shade raised his right hand slightly and illuminated the stairs from the second floor to the third floor. Just as he thought, the broken stairs that were repaired by the church after he came to this world were certainly not in a repaired state in reality. Someone got a bunch of door panels from somewhere and forcibly glued them together to connect the second floor to the third floor.

The splicing of those door panels was extremely sloppy. If Shade saw it correctly, it was the effect of the spell [Adhesion]. He also knew this basic spell.

Stepping on the door panel stairs to reach the third floor, the third floor is what it looked like before it was repaired. There are mold spots everywhere, and there is not even a gas lamp on the wall. The door panels of the two rooms on the third floor were missing, and Shade suspected that they were inside the pile of door panels just now. All the windows in the room were sealed, and the dark hole looked extremely strange.

Although the cat that ran upstairs has disappeared, there are still cat paw prints on the dust on the ground. Following the paw prints to the stairs leading from the corridor to the attic, Shade climbed up the creaky old stairs in the dark.

The rituals of "Moonlight Water" and "Sun Fire" were not seen in the attic, and the accumulated sundries were covered with white cloths. I looked around and still didn't see the cat. However, there was a rusty metal triangular ladder on the east side of the attic, and above the attic, a small door that could only allow one person to pass was opened.

The roofs of the houses around St. Teresa Square are covered with tiles at an angle, so residents cannot move around on the roofs or dry their clothes. In reality, Shade only climbed onto the roof once when the house was being repaired to check for problems with the waterproof layer.

Normally, an additional ladder is required to get from the attic to the roof. In reality, in order to prevent the naughty cat from running up and falling off the roof, not only had the ladder at home been put away long ago, but the small square door on the attic roof was also locked by Shade.

"Luvia, are you on the roof now? Why is there Mia in this dream? Luvia, like Lesia, has plans for Mia?"

He came to the side of the triangular ladder and looked up. From the square hole, you can see the strange, dim yellow sky that looks like an oil painting. It seems that the outside world in the dream is just as abnormal as the house.

After hesitating for a moment, Shade held on to the ladder and climbed up. Only after his head emerged from the roof, he finally saw the whole picture of this strange world in his dream.

In the dim yellow sky, countless fragmented building debris and corpses were floating. The sun in the distance is still suspended in the sky, but the sun is actually black, surrounded by white edges and a red halo. The black sun was like a hole, flowing a fiery red line downwards.

The world seemed to have turned yellow-brown, and the wind and sand covered most of the city. The gravel was fluttering in the wind, and even the tiles on the roofs were covered with a layer of fine sand. I originally thought that the inside of the house was as cold and damp as a haunted house, but when I came outside, I found that the temperature had become even colder.

Shade climbed completely from the attic to the roof and stood up to look out over the city of Tobesk. The once prosperous "Pearl of the North" now seemed to have experienced a hundred years of vicissitudes. One-third of the buildings in the urban area were severely damaged, and the remaining buildings were full of signs of dilapidation. If the road is not blocked by collapsed buildings or sand piles, it is also full of garbage and debris. Occasionally, pedestrians can be seen wrapped in robes and hunched over in the alley.

Further away, the western part of the city seemed to have been hit by a giant meteorite, leaving a deep, smoking crater, and black smoke rising toward the terrifying dim yellow sky. In the northeastern part of the city, wriggling tentacles danced toward the sky from the smoke, but if you looked closely, it seemed that they were just a few wisps of black smoke in the wind.

And at a very high altitude, surrounded by countless garbage and corpses, a giant floating island-like building floated there silently. The island was wrapped in a storm, and dark electric light flashed in the storm.

Compared with everything around it, St. Teresa's Square can even be regarded as the place with the best architectural integrity. It is the only refuge in this doomsday dream.

PS: Modify one detail. In Chapter 1143, the time key given to Shade by Mr. Edmond was changed from "This is the time key for the year 3037 of the Fifth Era" to "This is the time key for the middle of the Fifth Era."