Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 283 Extinguished Sun and Rain

Adele didn't know how long she had been falling, she only saw everything around her collapsing.

She wanted to use the silk thread to hook something to slow down, but as far as she could see, there was nothing fixed for her to cling to. The spider silk flew to its maximum range in the dark background, and then drooped down.

Just when Adele pessimistically thought that she would be smashed to pieces on the rock, the darkness around her suddenly disappeared, and the kinetic energy accumulated in the darkness suddenly disappeared. Her body paused in the air for a moment, and then began to fall again.

This time Adele did not miss the opportunity. She quickly manipulated the ice crystals behind her to form the skeleton of her wings, and then filled them with silk threads, allowing herself to slowly glide down the mountain.

However, she soon discovered that the rainforest had changed dramatically from what it was before she was sucked in.

The trees inside the rainforest turned gray, as if all colors had faded overnight. The branches of the trees began to move toward the sky, and an indescribable light gushed out from the cracked earth, rushing straight into the sky, flying towards the sun in the sky that was about to go out.

"Is the sun going out here?"

Adele was shocked and quickly adjusted her wings, flying towards the original position of Wendy and the other person.

During the flight, Adele saw from a high altitude that black waves were rising on the sea in the distance, and the black horizon was approaching Bimini Island at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At this moment, thin stripes appeared on the surface of the sun in the sky, like a group of twisted snakes. Poisonous saliva oozed from their mouths, dimming the light of the sun formed by angelic characteristics and irreversibly falling into a deep sleep.

"Is that the White Saint Katerina?"

Adele was secretly shocked. She didn't expect that she would go to such lengths to completely wipe out the Source Faction.

Obviously, she had been doing this for a long time, and there was no sign of me coming out at that time. If I hadn't gotten out in time, she would have probably abandoned the whole island.

The most urgent task now is to return to the Honeysuckle Queen as soon as possible and prepare to escape...

Adele's mind moved slightly, and she quickly made up her mind. She controlled her wings to land on the beach. Before entering the observation range of the crew on the ironclad ship, she retracted the silk thread and ran towards the shore.

She got the potion from the Tarot Club, and she couldn't explain it to Katarina and the others, so she could only pretend that she hadn't been promoted yet for the time being.

……

At the same time, on the deck of the Honeysuckle Queen, the witches under Wendy and Gagran were anxiously waiting for Adele to return.

As the only saint here, Catalina's will could not be disobeyed by the witches. So even though they were quite dissatisfied with Catalina's actions, no one dared to raise objections openly.

Just as everyone was waiting anxiously, Natalie was the first to see Adele running out from the other end of the beach and screamed in surprise.

"Come here, Adele!"

When she called out, a group of witches immediately gathered around her. Natalie, who was at Sequence 6, released a thread to wrap around Adele's waist and hoist her up.

"What is Ms. Pellet going to do?"

After questioning and verifying her identity, Adele hurriedly confirmed with the witches.

"A new demigod has arrived on the island. In order to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the situation, she plans to destroy the island and take the High-Sequence Sealed Artifact of the Sun Pathway back with her."

Tracy replied quickly, "But this is a good thing. We don't have to stay underground for so long. During this time, the pirates under my command should not cause any trouble."

"How long have I been away?" Adele thought for a moment and asked Wendy again.

"Exactly twelve hours, no more, no less." Wendy looked at her pocket watch and told Adele.

"Judging from Ms. Pellet's progress, there should be results soon. There's no time to recover the materials moved to the island." After understanding the current situation, Adele made a quick judgment.

"Everyone, go back to your respective positions. We'll leave here when Ms. Pellet finishes the seal. Natalie, you and Leila go together to inform the sailors to be ready to set sail at any time. Aphra will go to guard the port side, Lisette will go to the starboard side, Sister Tracy will go to the captain's room to wait for me, and Wendy and I will go to the engine room to confirm the situation."

Adele made arrangements at a rapid pace. The witches obviously had no objections and took their positions. Only Wendy showed a hint of doubt on her face, but she quickly suppressed it and went to the engine room with Adele.

After arriving at the engine room, Adele turned around, locked the cabin door, and casually set up a spiritual wall.

"What did you discover?"

When Wendy saw Adele's behavior, she immediately understood.

Others didn't know how much Adele knew about this ironclad ship, but Wendy herself knew it very well. At most, Adele had learned how to read the instruments in the captain's room, and her steering skills were average. She couldn't even help with the work in the engine room. She asked to go to the engine room with her, which was obviously to discuss something with her.

"I do not know how to put it."

Adele hesitated. "A lot of things happened. I don't know which ones I can tell you."

She took out the orange-covered notebook from her pocket and handed it to Wendy.

"Anyway, I met one... maybe the last normal human being over there, and spent about eight hours with her using your name, and this is what she gave me."

Adele stared at Wendy's face and said slowly, "She said that your handwriting is very similar to hers."

"Ah, that's such a coincidence..." Wendy wanted to explain herself, but found herself tongue-tied and unable to utter a word.

"Although I can't understand the main text now, I will definitely recognize the words in the notes on this notebook." Adele said confidently: "This is the kind of mysterious symbols in the notes left by Emperor Roselle."

"Now that I think about it, you really know too much about that ancient history, as if you have experienced that era yourself. Both you and Emperor Roselle."

Wendy stared at the notebook in her hand. The familiar handwriting on it made her sure that this was the mark she had written. The things from the past that she had not found when she was looking for the stone appeared in front of her, and she could no longer remain calm.

She picked up the booklet and flipped through it quickly. Although she had no memory of the last period of time, the owner of the booklet seemed to treat it as her own diary and wrote a lot of notes on it.

The previous records were very trivial, so Wendy didn't read them carefully. She just turned them over and looked at the last page of the notebook.

That was the notebook that Qiao Qiao had taken notes in her spare time when she started the mission. It seemed to have started from the time she met Adele, who was named "Wendy Pelomoncia", until the end, when this notebook was given to Adele as a gift by her past self.

Because it was written down secretly, the content is not much, only a few lines.

"I met Miss Wendy while on duty. God, I bet she is the most beautiful lady I have ever seen in my life."

"Something went wrong with Lucia, and I killed her. I was a little scared, but Miss Wendy was very calm."

"Ms. Wendy's handwriting is similar to mine. I was a little surprised, but fortunately she behaved normally."

"She actually has superpowers, and she looks so cool. If I could have such powers, would I be able to... Never mind, there are no ifs."

"She is not from this world, but I always feel that she is a bit like me... Of course, it's not just the handwriting. I hope I can be like her."

What followed were long blank spaces. The writer simply turned the page and lavishly wrote down his farewell message on the page.

"Wendy, live well in your world."

……

Wendy suddenly felt her eyes a little sore.

After wiping her face with her sleeve twice, Wendy raised her head and looked directly into Adele's eyes.

Adele opened her mouth, as if she wanted to ask what was going on, but when she saw Wendy's expression, she didn't ask.

"Just do your thing. I should go discuss the sailing with Tracy later. You can rest assured that I won't tell the sect about what happened today."

Adele summoned black fire, burning down the spiritual wall, and then unlocked the door.

"However, when we return to the surface, I hope you can tell me your story and translate the hidden information in the booklet. I think you should be ready by then, right?"

"Okay. If you see similar text in the future, you can ask me." Wendy nodded slightly and returned the booklet to Adele.

But instead of taking it, Adele pushed it back.

"That was her parting message to 'Wendy Pelomoncia' and I'm Adele Searcy."

Adele smiled slightly, "Besides, it's better for things like gifts to be kept by people who can understand them."

"……ok, I get it."

Wendy was stunned for a moment, then nodded vigorously and hugged the booklet to her chest.

"By the way, let me ask you something." Before leaving the cabin, Adele turned around and asked, "What does the last sentence she wrote mean?"

Wendy laughed, tears streaming down her face.

"A secret," she said, "only this is a secret."

……

Meanwhile, on Bimini Island, at the Sun's Edge.

Catalina was manipulating the seal in her hand, swallowing the blazing fireball bit by bit. Shadows symbolizing the power of the female kept flying out of the small box in her hand, including a huge sea snake with eight heads, a banshee with a human head and a bird body, and a mermaid with sharp teeth. They rushed straight towards the sun with infinite malice and swallowed it.

This is a powerful seal used by the Witch Cult to seal high-sequence items, "Annisdora's Jewelry Box", which comes from the remains of a Witch Path Saint. It can continuously release pure energy used for sealing, causing magical items and extraordinary creatures to fall into a semi-permanent sleep like petrification, and the side effects are relatively small.

Although most of the shadows were burned by the properties left by the "Sun" angel, as the shadows accumulated, the light of the "Sun" became dimmer and dimmer.

At first, Catalina could only stay nearly a thousand meters away from the sun to use the seal, but as time went on, Catalina was now less than ten meters away from the golden fireball.

Thick black shadows were still pouring out of the box tirelessly, forming a shell-shaped hemisphere around the sun, blocking most of the sunlight.

"It's finally done... As long as we destroy this place, we'll be done with His Holiness the Pope."

Catalina reached out and wiped the sweat from her forehead. She hadn't experienced this feeling for a long time. Saints have a strong ability to adapt to the external environment, and basically don't need to rely on sweating to lower their body temperature. However, she was still too close to this extraordinary characteristic, so close that she was more or less affected.

Try harder... Catalina thought, and then increased the spiritual output to "Annestora's Jewelry Box". At the same time, she also released various abilities such as petrification and freezing, trying to find a way to cool down the fireball.

With her efforts, the entire Bimini Island became dim, and the red and black in front of her eyes were no longer alternating, and the surrounding sky became clear. Due to the severe climate change of the sun going out, it seemed that it was raining on Bimini Island, forming a series of shining thin lines under the afterglow of the sun.

The light is so blinding that I can hardly see clearly...

Catalina frowned, and swung her hand in annoyance to release the silk thread, trying to hook the corresponding position in the spiritual world and pull herself upwards to avoid those long and narrow rain lines.

She moved up a little, and the clouds beneath her feet seemed to be further away.

Wait, clouds beneath our feet?

Katrina suddenly felt something was wrong. The cumulonimbus was right under her feet, so how could the raindrops fall on her?
She rubbed her eyes quickly and focused her spirituality on her eyes. The impact of looking directly at the strong light was swept away and her vision became clear again.

In this glance, she clearly saw that those dense rain lines did not fall from the clouds, but broke through the clouds directly, flew from the ground to the sky, and twisted into strange angles, flashing colorful light.

Those are not rain lines, they are clearly those strange colors flowing away from the observatory!
Their bodies are twisted, tiny germ-like objects that can only be seen in a clairvoyant state. When they touch the surface of the body, it will only make people feel like being sprayed by hot and humid exhaust gas.

Originally, they were afraid of the sun and just hid quietly in the shadows of the forest and in the flowing mysterious springs. But now, the sun that suppressed them has disappeared, and it is time for them to return to where they should go.

They twisted and tangled together, shaking violently as if blown by a strong wind. Before Catalina could react, the whirlwind formed purely by distorted colors tore open the clouds beneath her feet and swept her into the center of the storm!
(End of this chapter)