Whispering Verse

Chapter 3171 Midwinter Cemetery

The conversation about the devil soon dissipated in the midwinter snow. Bill Schneider, who would sooner or later face a battle with the "original evil spirit", still had the confidence and courage. His noble soul led him to a deeper darkness, and what Shade was most concerned about the doctor's condition was actually -

"What on earth is the Demon King?"

The opponent's power level is probably at least the same as "Desire" and Professor Youke Wood, but as long as he is not a god, Shade should be able to defeat him with a drop of divinity, or at least repel him and get the two lost souls.

But inspiration kept reminding him that the truth about what the doctor was pursuing was probably more complicated than he thought.

"Yes, but I can guarantee that the mermaid will appear in front of me again at the right moment."

After the experiments in the four areas of the city's southeast, northwest, and northeast were completed, the final test site was not in the central city of Tobesk - the academy would not let the correspondence ring sorcerers take such a big risk.

The carriage carried the group through the slums in the north of the city, and finally returned to the east of the city where they started. Then the carriage continued along the small road on the outskirts of the city, and finally arrived near the public cemetery in Tobysk.

"Speaking of which, I'm going to come visit Detective Sparrow at the end of the year. Remember to remind me."

【OK.】

Shade was very glad that the first experimental location was not here, otherwise the skeleton spiders summoned by Priest Augustus when activating the derivatives might directly pull out an "Undead Army of Tobesk Citizens".

In addition to Father Augustus who is not a local, Dr. Schneider, Luvia and Dorothy also have some relatives and friends buried here, so everyone is familiar with this cemetery.

The cemetery was protected by the Church of Creation and Destruction. The doctor did not dare to park the carriage directly outside the cemetery fence. Instead, he hid the carriage in a small woods on the outskirts of the city about a mile away from the cemetery. Then everyone walked to the cemetery.

"This time the location is quite wide, and most of the eastern section of the cemetery meets the criteria. The snow is getting heavier, so we have to hurry to complete this work."

Although the doctor encouraged everyone, when the five people arrived at the outskirts of the cemetery under the cover of night, they still noticed something was wrong.

"The church's ring warlock is here. No, not just a gravekeeper, there is at least a complete team here."

Luvia gave vague information through divination, and then Dorothy summoned the match girl again to make a wish, and used her unique spatial talent to sense the current situation in the cemetery.

The conclusion we got in the end was not very good. It seemed that the church team that had just sent out a rescue signal in the city had arrived nearby. Although the whispering elements around were very faint, it was basically confirmed that they were collecting the troublesome relics.

And since the team's mission has not yet been completed, the signal just sent may have received a response, so there should be at least two teams of church ring warlocks in the cemetery.

"It should be a team from the Peace Church."

Father Augustus gave his opinion, as he knew best how the churches in the Tobysk diocese operated.

The doctor then asked the four people:

"According to the relevant provisions of the College Correspondence Student Code of Conduct and the Off-campus Reward Implementation Regulations, when we encounter the church team during an operation, we can choose to voluntarily give up the activities or tasks we are currently carrying out. But if we choose to give up, we can only get half of the reward for this mission, so..."

"Since we are here now, let's take a look at the situation first."

Shade said that he and the doctor were high-level warlocks in the team, so their decision was the most crucial.

"In fact, as long as the 'Fate Weaver' doesn't appear this time, the detective will activate the card and run away. What does the church do have to do with us?"

Dorothy also said so, and so everyone abandoned the idea of ​​giving up the mission. The group climbed over the iron fence outside the cemetery and entered the snowy cemetery in the night.

The East District of Tobesk Cemetery is a newly opened area of ​​the public cemetery in recent years. The cemetery covers a large area. Even if there are not many obstructions in the cemetery, there is no need to worry about being seen by others in such a deep night.

With the help of Luvia's divination, the group carefully avoided the area where the church's team might be. Then, under the guidance of the doctor, they came under a bare cypress tree.

At this moment, there was only the sound of falling snow in the cemetery, and there would definitely be no insects chirping in the winter night. But in this silence, the five people knew that somewhere in the cemetery, the church's troops were probably fighting fiercely, or the church's ring warlocks were hiding in the darkness waiting for the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.

However, this had nothing to do with them for the time being. In order to avoid attracting attention, the team did not take any additional actions this time. After confirming that the final experimental location was under the cypress tree, they simply used simple spells and charms to hide their voices and figures.

Then Shard brought out some cushions, and he, Dorothy, Luvia, and the priest sat down under the tree, while the doctor stood still and looked around cautiously.

"Come to think of it, you guys are all in Tobesk City during the year-end festival this year, right?"

Although he was on a busy mission, Xia De still asked this question since he had nothing to do.

The ladies would no doubt be there, and Father Augustus would certainly not leave the parish, but the doctor shook his head:

"I'm not sure yet. I've made some important discoveries in my studies recently. I plan to take advantage of the fact that patients won't be visiting me around the end of the year and go out of town. I probably won't be in Tobesk during the end of the year, but I should be back soon."

"Then we will send you the year-end gift a week in advance."

Dorothy said, asking Shade for an empty glass jar, chanting a spell and putting the small fireball in it. The spell - Flame in a bottle, can warm the surrounding environment without creating too much light. It is said that this is a spell developed by maids in the witch era to decorate indoor gardens, and it is also quite popular in today's era.

The small bottle containing the fireball was placed among the people. Luvia leaned over to keep warm while the doctor continued to look at the darkness around the cemetery:

"I won't send you gifts in advance. I'll arrange for the servants to send them to the post office, and they will be delivered to you at the end of the year."

The writer kindly reminded:

"At the end of the year, postal workers are very busy. Even parcels within the city are likely to be delayed, not to mention the bad weather this winter."

She gave an example from her own life:

"More than ten years ago, when I was a child, there was also a winter blizzard. Although it was not as big as this year, it was also very big. That was..."

"The winter of 1842. I remember that year vividly."

The priest said, and Dorothy nodded:

"An elderly distant aunt of our family died of illness in the city of art, Artek. Due to the bad weather, the funeral was over when the invitation to the funeral was sent to Tobysk. When my father saw the invitation, he was worried that my mother would be very sad, but he also felt that he would not be able to attend the funeral anyway, so he did not tell my sick mother about it, but thought that he would find a suitable opportunity to do so later.

As a result, before the end of the year, my mother mentioned the distant aunt again, so my father had to forge a New Year's greeting card from my aunt. Since then until this year, my father has forged a New Year's greeting card every year before the end of the year. My mother still thinks that the distant aunt is still alive. I asked my father what he planned to do in the future, and he said that he would wait until he was dying in the hospital bed, then he would hold my mother's hand and tell her about it. "

"Yes, so the problem caused by mail delays is indeed serious."

Xia De tried to hold back his laughter and said, he didn't expect that the prestigious Professor Louisa had done such a thing.

The priest took over:

"Although the end of the year is the most important festival of the year, the key to gift giving is still the intention. I see that in recent years, people always compete with each other on the expensiveness of gifts as a means of showing off in social life. Young people today are far inferior to people in my generation."

But when the priest was young, the steam revolution had not yet begun, the urban middle class was generally not wealthy, and there were not so many cheap goods on the market, so the two generations should not be compared together.

But no one refuted the old priest's words. Luvia just said:

"In the past two years, the Prophet Association has put forward the view that the gifts received at the end of each year can affect people's fortunes in the coming year to a certain extent."

"I've heard that, too."

The doctor who was on alert nodded:

"But is this true?"

"Of course it's not true. Originally, this was the slogan for the year-end series of cards three years ago. It originally said that the set of cards could bring luck, but then somehow it became that all gifts could affect fortune."

"I think this is a consumerist trap. Maybe it's a rumor made up in the newspapers by store owners who want to make a quick buck at the end of the year."

Xia De, who was sitting next to Luvia, said so the writer asked him curiously:

"What is 'consumerism'?"

"Just think of this as a mean trick used by businessmen, but at least they haven't created a new holiday just to make money. By the way, is there anything you need recently? I'm just curious, nothing more to it.

So is there any? It doesn’t matter how expensive it is, and it’s best if I can buy it within half a month.”

The five of them waited while chatting about the upcoming festival. Xia De's attempts to be lazy were of course unsuccessful, as he still had to choose the right gift himself if he wanted to give it.