OBS Chapter 2985 Downstream and Upstream
Chapter 2985 Downstream and Upstream
Chapter 2985 Downstream and Upstream
The only initial similarity between the two was the emerald ring, but during the battle in the White Ape Canyon, the moonfire that Shad spewed out after he transformed into a silver wolf burned the opponent's entire face, which was a permanent injury; and the "Witch's Secret Art - Arrow of Night" that Miss Orlanod appeared at the end pierced through the monster's right eye and caused damage, which added new similarities.
So Shade suspected that the monster that came from the apocalypse last week was the man he met two months ago.
It's just that the order in which Shad met the other party was reversed. From Shad's perspective, he first met him two months ago, and then met him again last week. But from the monster's perspective, it should have experienced that it first met Shad after escaping from the doomsday, and after being defeated, it entered the time rift, and after experiencing many things, it regained its sanity a little, and then emerged from the cupboard and came to about two months ago, and was solved by Shad, Grace and Helen at that time.
One person goes downstream and the other goes upstream, but they can still meet each other twice. This is the interesting thing about the long river of time.
In order to verify this possibility, Shade asked Sister Defulin for help. After hearing Shade's guess, Grace and Helen also helped identify the details of the short battle two months ago.
The corpse was obviously still in the state of a toy. Shade didn't want to dirty the Glorious Emissary, so he restored it in the woods by Lake Yuren.
Because "toy manufacturing" has a certain preservation function, the corpse has not yet decayed.
While Sister Defulin was standing in the snow, looking down at the corpse, Shad knelt on one knee on the snow and touched the corpse's burnt face, which still had an expression of surprise.
He was unable to sense the remaining power of the Moon Fire, but the special ability bestowed by the First Fire to perceive the power of fire allowed him to realize that the cause of this burned face was indeed not due to ordinary power.
He touched the corpse's right eye with his hand. The black hole in the right eye was no longer eyeballed, but the chaotic power of time and space still remained. When Shade focused his attention, he finally felt traces of darkness on the rotten skin around the eye socket. This was indeed the injury caused by the "Night Arrow".
"Sister, can you tell anything from this body?"
Xia De stood up and washed his hands with the water summoned by Helen before asking. The nun standing in the snow nodded slightly:
"This corpse has been around for a very long time, at least three thousand years. The corpse is not disguised in any way, and what we see now is its true appearance.
But a host of strange forces have deformed and distorted the body, and it is certainly different from its original shape, appearance, and other physical features. "
In other words, Shade could not tell who he was in life from this corpse:
"Sister, if you saw this body when it was alive, could you tell it apart? I doubt that at this point in time, the person it corresponds to is still normal."
But this time the nun still shook her head:
"Although the power of Doomsday has dissipated, it has permanently affected him. He is now completely different from the person he was before entering Doomsday."
"Sister, can you try to channel his soul? We didn't crush his soul at the beginning."
Grace asked the nun again, but Sister Defulin still couldn't do it:
"His soul has not reached an end, nor does it reside in the world of the living. He signed a contract with a certain existence during his lifetime. When he died, his soul automatically belonged to the other party."
"That's it"
Shade was thoughtful, but he didn't think this was the work of another demon. There shouldn't be a second powerful demon in the big event in Vista Forest. He now had a suspect, and if this guess was right, many things could be explained, but this guess was too bizarre:
"It is basically certain that this corpse from two months ago is the monster that escaped from the crack last week, but he and I should have encountered it more than twice."
He squinted his eyes, stared at the corpse and said softly:
"Perhaps my third encounter with him has not yet occurred, and his first fight with me has not occurred either. I am moving along time towards the future, while he is going upstream in the long river of time."
"I know who the sir is suspecting!"
Helen in the black dress smiled and raised her hand, and Shade reached out and touched her hair affectionately:
"Don't tell me for now, it won't make any sense. Anyway, the matter of this corpse has come to an end for now. Grace, Helen, since you have time, go into the city with the nun. I want the nun to go and see when all the Bennet family members died."
"Sir, is this the family protected by the tree?"
Grace asked, and Shade nodded:
"Yes, so I'm not sure how much the nun can see. Anyway, go and give it a try. You should also be careful. If something goes wrong, leave immediately."
The Twelve Rings' Chosen Ones went out with the Red Butterfly Twins, so there was no danger. They returned from the city in just over an hour, and the nun brought two pieces of news:
"I couldn't tell when all five of them, including the boy and Mrs. Bennet, who were not of Bennet blood, would die. Grace and Helen went with me to see Linda Bennet, who is now a nun in the church, and I could see that she eventually died of influenza many years later.
But among the five members of the Bennet family, Mrs. Bennet's vitality is the most fragile."
"So it's not the Bennett bloodline that is special, but their family itself is special. Once expelled from the family, it means losing the blessing of the tree?"
The second piece of news was discovered by Grace and Helen. Although the characteristics of the relics became weaker and weaker after the two sisters became the chosen ones of the space, this did not mean that those characteristics were really weakened:
"That boy must be a twin."
Grace said with certainty that Shade certainly knew this news, and the real news brought by the twin girls was actually -
"Sir, you know where the souls of the boy's twin sisters are, right? If you allow us to use the power of the relic - the Red Butterfly Twins, we can use the connection between the soul and the boy to restore the boy's past memories.
This pair of twins has a difficult and hard fate. Although one of them has died, she still blesses her brother. We must take care of this matter before you reunite with us. "
"Restore Albert Bennet's memory?"
In this way, the secret of why the child appeared in the Bennet family was revealed:
"No problem, I'll ask Tifa to contact Margaret. This matter needs to be resolved as soon as possible. Tonight, I will go to the Time Transfer Station to meet the masked man, and then go to 1821. Although what happened in the Time Transfer Station only took a moment, it would take time for the masked man to travel there and back.
Take this opportunity to go to the Bennet family's house and try to contact the boy. Of course, if the boy is not in the room, then you can assume that he is actually the masked man. "
But Shad believes that this possibility is extremely low, and the real masked man is most likely Mr. Bennet.
Margaret also wanted to participate in tonight's operation. She wanted to hear about her half-twin sister and half-brother. Grace and Helen had no objection to this. The two sisters agreed to take Margaret with them and protect her, which made the blonde princess, who had recently felt very guilty that she was the only one who did not board the Shining Messenger, feel even more uncomfortable.
During the day on this Tuesday, Shade had been talking with Miss Orlanod and Emilia about the Fifth Era, and he also took the opportunity to test Emilia's current combat skills.
"Huh? Am I going to fight Shade this time?"
The elf looked at Shade pitifully, and then whispered:
"Can you be gentler later? I'm afraid of the pain."
This made Xia De think for a moment that he was doing something bad to her.
The anomaly in Vista Woods also continued on Tuesday, with heavy snowflakes starting to fly over the woods again around 10 a.m. The anomaly of this snow was that it only covered Vista Woods, and no snow fell after leaving the woods.
When the snowflakes first appeared, it was only moderate snow, but by noon it had turned into a blizzard. Shade had originally wanted to discuss the secrets of flying with Bella, who had also learned the ability to fly. The countess had even invited Shade to fly in the woods in the afternoon, but she had no choice but to give up because of the heavy snow.
During lunch, Iluna sent another letter from the church to the ship. In addition to informing Luvia of the church's current preparations, the letter also included two coin-like relics. However, Luvia saw from the letter that Iluna was so busy not because the church gave her a lot of relics, but because she seemed to be improving her own strength, which made the purple-eyed fortune-teller very pleased.
That is, around lunchtime, dozens of pitch-black cracks suddenly appeared in the sky above the woods southwest of the city amidst the silvery white snowflakes, and then from two of the cracks flew out monsters that even the church could not tell what they were for a moment.
The church's troops immediately launched an attack, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides in the sky southwest of the woods. In the end, the monsters that were defeated did not leave any corpses, but turned into smoke and disappeared.
Only the crack in the sky still exists. The crack itself is pitch black and cannot be seen through, but as time goes by, some phantoms of the past forest appear in the sky surrounding the crack.
The professors at the academy believed that those phantoms were scenes from the time behind the cracks, and that those monsters did not come from the time and space behind the cracks, but from the "narrow gap of time" between time and time. If the cracks were not controlled, more things would definitely come directly to the present era.