OBS Chapter 2551 Time Traveler
Chapter 2551 Time Traveler
Chapter 2551 Time Traveler
"Have you heard of the legend of the 'Time Tree Hole'? It is said that some people can go to the past or the future after passing through some mysterious tree holes."
Xia De asked the two sisters again and expressed his guess based on the ancient texts shared by the church.
“There have been rumors, but we haven’t seen it with our own eyes.”
Grace stopped talking halfway, and the three of them looked at the cupboard together -
"Accordion Hotel Room 321 Bedroom, the third black book from the left on the bookshelf, I am 17"
An extremely vague voice came from the bottom of the cupboard. The voice was so vague that it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman.
Xia De and his sister waited in surprise for a while, and after making sure that the sound had disappeared, Xia De bent down and opened the door again. As expected, there was still nothing inside.
"Is this also a voice coming from the past? Could it be the lady that sir is looking for?"
Helen asked softly.
"We are not sure. We are not even sure whether the room 321 of the Accordion Hotel mentioned by the other party is the time point where we are now."
Xia De asked them to stay in the broom room temporarily to prevent any further noise, while he left temporarily and went to Room 321, which was also on the third floor, alone.
He left for less than five minutes and came back again, holding a black notebook in his hand:
"The window of Room 321 faces the Golden Music Hall. There is even a piano inside. It should be the VIP room of this hotel. It looks like a lady lives there alone, but she is probably not the lady I am looking for. I found this on the bookshelf in the bedroom."
He shook the notebook in his hand, summoned a ball of light and opened it.
This notebook looks new, but it is actually filled with densely written text and illustrations, and even contains cutouts of newspapers.
These contents are all investigation reports on the "Missing Persons of the Accordion Hotel". The notebook lists in detail the names of all the people who have disappeared here since the hotel was established in 1809 in the Common Calendar.
The earliest missing person was the youngest son of the first owner of the Accordion Inn, and of course, the uncle of the current owner, and the notebook said that the case has not been closed to this day;
The last person recorded as missing was Mary Atlas, a maid who worked in the hotel three years ago.
"The detective's report?"
Shad guessed, but after flipping through a few pages he was sure that this was not a detective investigation record, but more like a writer's material record book. Dorothy liked to make such records when she was collecting materials for real cases.
"In the past 40 years, a total of seven people have disappeared."
Helen whispered, her eyes glowing in the darkness:
"Sir, why don't we investigate these missing persons one by one? The earliest missing person disappeared only 40 years ago. Their relatives and people who knew about the situation at the time should still be alive. Maybe, through the details they provide, we can infer how the cabinet's most stable connection state appeared."
Grace reached out and pinched her sister's face affectionately:
"Helen, now is not the time for you to play detective games. Save the person first. Sir, you should understand what the three numbers and seasons written on the cover of the notebook mean, right?"
The cover of the notebook reads "Spring 1698", "Winter 1763" and "Summer 1834", with three numbers and three words representing the seasons circled together.
"I think I understand. Isn't the spring of 1698 the time I just went to?"
This is easy to reason about:
"So, the person who made the sound from the closet was in the winter of 1763? Could it be the lady you are looking for?"
"I'm not sure. The sound just now was too vague. I saw a few letters on the desk in that room just now, but the handwriting on the letters is not familiar to me. Of course, it is also possible that the handwriting was deliberately disguised. If it is not her, then there is one more missing person?"
"Do you want us to go downstairs and ask about the tenant's rental period of that room? Didn't the lady you are looking for move in recently?"
Grace asked again considerately, and Xia De shook his head again:
“Although she only arrived recently, the Battle of Moon Bay had not yet ended when she learned about the news in Riverwood Town. I’m not sure exactly when she rented the room.
Besides, it doesn’t really matter whether it’s her or not. Since the person suspected to be in 1763 knows the inside story, we can find him or her first, and then go find the lady I’m looking for.”
Grace and Helen both nodded:
"So sir, what else are you going to try?"
"Just now I guessed that this cabinet is related to the 'Time Tree Hole', and the 'Time Tree Hole' is related to the ancient tree god. When you don't know how to use divine items, using the power of the same source to stimulate is the best choice."
As he spoke, he took out the black and normal time keys, and then took out a piece of [Eternal Youth Leaf]:
"It's a pity that the Ocarina of Time was taken back to Saint Byrons by Emilia, otherwise I could have tried that relic."
[Leaf of Eternal Youth] was the first one to be tried, but unfortunately nothing happened. As for the two time keys, since the cabinet itself had no lock or keyhole, Xia De carved a keyhole on the cabinet himself, and then tried the normal time key first.
The hastily carved keyhole did not match the size of the time key, but with just a little force, Xia De pushed the key in easily.
"it works?"
Helen asked softly, standing behind Shade with her hands on her knees, while Shade squatted in front of the cabinet:
"I'm not sure. It could be that the key itself worked. I turned it and went straight to the past. May the World Tree protect me as I move through time."
He tried to turn the key and found that it could be turned. However, Xia De pulled out the key and tried to insert the black time key that could only be used next month.
As expected, the black time key successfully entered the keyhole, but when Shad recited the spell again and turned his wrist, he found that the key could not be turned.
Helen, who was standing behind the two of them, summed it up:
"If the black key, which should be unusable, can be turned, it means that the characteristics of the cabinet are being triggered. But since the black key cannot be turned, then the characteristics of the time key itself are probably what was triggered by the normal key just now."
"Sir, since you said during our conversation just now that the tree hole might also be a special space left by the ancient gods, then according to the process, how should we open it?"
Grace in the white dress asked again, and Xia De suddenly realized:
"Yes, there is a step missing."
Steam and mist spread behind him, and his life ring appeared amid the sound of bells and whistles. Because the area between the brooms was too small, Shade's life ring automatically adjusted its size, appearing much smaller than usual.
“I still like the big ones.”
Helen muttered something, and Grace patted the back of her sister's hand to make her serious, but Helen was still smiling happily.
The [Time and Space] spiritual rune projected a brass-colored spiritual light to illuminate the cupboard in front of it. The cupboard itself did not change much, but under the gaze of the three people, the paint on the two doors below the cupboard peeled off, revealing the wood inside, and the tree grain on the wood became clearer in the spiritual light.
The keyhole that Xia De had just chiseled with his fingers gradually deformed and shrank until it became the shape of a real keyhole.
“It seems to be working!”
Xia De picked up the black time key again and inserted it into the keyhole:
"May the World Tree protect me in the infinite time."
With a slight twist, the black key that was originally unable to turn was turned with a crisp click.
"Sir, be careful."
Grace reminded him, and Shade nodded and pulled the door on the left side of the cupboard open. But this time, there was no thick white fog behind the door that Shade was familiar with, but a ray of sunlight behind the door.
"Success!"
"The door reappeared!"
A strange man's voice came from the sunlight, but before Xia De could reach his hand behind the door, a man's hand wearing an emerald ring stretched out from the cupboard.
He poked most of his body out of it at a very fast speed like a loach, which allowed Xia De to see that his face was severely burned and even his right eye was rotten.
This strange man used the light from the light ball to see three people standing outside the cabinet door. However, he obviously did not have [Dark Vision], so with only one light ball illuminating the area, he could not see the faces of the three people clearly. However, he still cast a spell immediately:
"Time pauses!"
Click~
The dust in the air and the expressions and movements of Grace and Helen were "frozen" at the same time, while the man with the burnt face continued to punch Shad, who looked the tallest.
There was a faint blood-red glow on his fist, and the ferocious fist seemed to go straight through Xia De's chest, but before it touched Xia De's chest, Xia De reached out and grabbed it.
Xia De didn't care about the slight tingling in his palm at all, and looked up and down at the stranger who came out of the cupboard:
"Although I don't know what happened to you, we should consider ourselves to have rescued you. Is this how you repay your benefactor? Answer me, what time period are you from?"
Xia De exerted force with his right hand suddenly, crushing the man's right hand with a snap, but because he wanted to know what happened to the other party and what was behind the door, Xia De did not want to kill him immediately.
The chain of sin had already wrapped around the opponent's arm and towards the man's body, but after a slight bang, the man instantly disappeared from Xia De's sight and came out of the cupboard again the next second.
【Retracing one's own time.】
This time the man did not try to attack Shad, but instead jumped upwards and disappeared through the ceiling.
His movements were so fast that Shade only had time to tie his right leg with a chain. The man, whose body had already passed the ceiling, struggled a few times before his right leg fell down with blood.
He simply cut off his leg in order to escape.
(End of this chapter)