"Oh~"

　　 He groaned and patted his forehead, then lightly patted the unicorn on the back:

　　 "Catch up."

Chapter 1935 Chapter 1906 Chapter Honeywood Town

　　 The city is shrouded in dense fog, and the air in the countryside is not very good now. It is too close to Nolan.

　　 On a mist-covered country road, Mr. Black Cat, Mr. Hood, and Miss Bailing Hathaway are walking forward together. Mr. Black Cat checked his notebook from time to time, muttering words, Mr. Hood was holding a compass, which was the one he used to find the Skeleton Sword holder Pompeii. .

　　 "I can only act with you until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and then I will report to the cult. I hope I won't encounter the reflection of the greedy people in the future. Those guys are really annoying."

　　 Hathaway said to the two companions, and then glanced at the pocket watch to determine the time.

　　 "Your cult, are you really sure that the treasure is nearby this time?"

　　 Mr. Hood asked. He and Mr. Black Cat went out to hunt for treasures, and ran into Miss Bailing halfway. Both parties disguised their faces, and only after telling each other their identities did they know that they were friends at the party, so they acted together.

"It’s the chief priest of the cult. I don’t know the specifics. She just said that it might be nearby. Let me try my luck. It’s okay if I can’t find it. Mr. Black Cat, are you sure your notebook is correct this time? Is the incident helpful?"

　　 Hathaway asked Mr. Xiang Black Cat again, and the latter nodded:

"Although this is not a numbered item, it is just a time-sensitive enchanted item that I occasionally get, but it really has the power equivalent to the [treasure detection] ability. When I was in the Shire, I saw one on the street relying on this. A lot of money!"

　　 "How much money did you pick up?"

　　 Mr. Hood asked with interest, and Miss Bailing was also curious about the answer:

　　 "1,000 pounds! This is the biggest sum of money I have ever picked up in my life!"

　　 The other two immediately showed expressions of amazement, but Mr. Black Cat sighed again:

"I was hit by the bag of money in the alley. I learned later that this was an illegal tobacco transaction. Yes, it is the one you know. It was the tobacco transaction. The group of people was blocked by the Orthodox Church. , Threw the money and tobacco from the window, and it happened to hit me. After that..."

　　 His expression was a little frustrated:

"If it weren't for helping Mr. Candle, I accidentally met someone from the Orthodox Church (Note), I might have been taken away as a bad guy. It's a pity, 1,000 pounds...oh, I'm not Greed of money, but is this kind of opportunity a second time? I can’t just stretch out my hand to do it again..."

　　 He stretched out his hand to the sky, and then he really caught something. He looked up with a surprised expression on his face, only to realize that it was just a wrinkled tourist map, not an imaginary banknote.

　　 Hearing a sound from above, the three of them soon saw the unicorn carrying the cat and the man appearing from behind the dark clouds.

　　 Mr. Candle took the white cat vanilla and jumped down from mid-air, and the unicorn screamed and walked away.

"good afternoon!"

　　 Jenkins greeted his friends enthusiastically after landing:

　　 "Sorry, Mr. Black Cat, this is mine."

　　 He pointed to the map, and Mr. Black Cat returned the paper in his hand.

　　 The three friends came here to hunt for treasures, and the three of them came earlier, including Hathaway, and arrived in the morning, but the three of them converged when they dine in the town at noon.

　　Mr. Black Cat and Mr. Hood are purely to join in the fun, Mr. White Cat did not show up, he wants to go to the City Hall to get documents for the three new business. The two accidentally found a greedy person in the morning, and the clues they got were:

　　【The treasure is not buried underground】.

　　 And Hathaway still didn't get anything that day. She is actually not caring about treasures. She came here purely because of the mission of the Order.

　　 Jenkins originally wanted to go on a treasure hunt with three friends. His goal was not to get the treasure, but to take a break in the last free time.

　　 But the next target of the three is not the town of Honeywood, in fact they have just walked out of that town. Jenkins didn't want to change his goals, nor did he want to change the goals of his friends, so after discussing the matter with them, he separated again and headed to the town with the cat who could not wait.

　　 The town of Honeywood is not convenient for road traffic because of its proximity to the mountains. However, it serves as a transit point for entering the mountains. The permanent population is small but the town is very large.

　　 Jenkins and the cat first found a store that retails honey. It is not a dessert shop. After all, it is impossible for such a country town to have a dessert shop. It's just a small shop opened by beekeepers downstairs to solicit cargo merchants.

　　 Their main business is large-scale transactions, but they are not opposed to retail.

　　 The kind proprietress also kindly told Jenkins that cats can drink honey water, but pay attention to the concentration of the preparation and the amount of feeding. She also raises cats, and she is also a small cat, so she has a different experience in raising cats. Jenkins nodded and wrote down the precautions she said one by one, and then carefully packed the three jars of thick yellow honey into the paper bag.

　　 didn't plan to take the things that got in the way back by herself. After leaving the shop, she found the post office in the town and explained the items to be sent, and then spent money to send them in a hurry. Send one copy to the church, one copy to the home, and one copy to Privet Road.

　　 The cat is a bit dissatisfied with this, it still has no taste at all. But Jenkins had asked the proprietress in advance for some samples of honey used to solicit customers. After dissolving it in the kettle, he heated it with flames, then poured the honey water into the palm of his hand, squatted down and let the vanilla lick it by himself.

　　 The cat looks very happy, which makes Jenkins happy too. Whether he can find the treasure is not important at all, he is here to relax.

　　 There is nothing to find in the town, except for seeing three strange benefactors walking together, nothing is worth staying. However, in the small town cemetery in the north of the town, Jenkins found two grave guards, one of whom had a blue alien aura on his body, who was exactly the greedy person he was looking for.

　　 In a sparsely populated town like this, the scale of the cemetery is not that big. One cemetery guard is enough, and two are really a waste. For people other than Jenkins, the way to find something wrong with the tomb guard is to realize this, and then through temptation, find the hidden greed among the two.

　　 After all, the disguise of the greedy person is absolutely perfect, and people related to it will have memories related to it, and his name will also be included in the written record. The only flaw is the small irrationality, which is quite a test of people's care and wisdom.

　　 Taking advantage of the separation of the two grave guards, Jenkins was in the northwest corner of the cemetery, blocking the greedy person who was carrying an oil lamp and wanted to enter the crypt.

　　PS: Refers to Miss Stillwell.

Chapter 1936 Chapter 1907 The Declining Family

"what do you need?"

　　 After finding the greedy man dressed as a grave guard, Jenkins still asked questions directly. He looked at the other party's attire, and if there was no real eye, he really couldn't tell that it was a fake.

　　 "There is a special soul in the tomb. I hope you can help me catch it."

　　 The greedy person holding the oil lamp said that their request is not necessarily a real thing, but with a very small probability that they want to do something.

　　 Jenkins nodded and looked at the entrance of the tomb with the door closed. After confirming that there was no black light, he opened the door and walked in.

　　The crypt originally belonged to a prominent local family, and it was the home of all members of the entire family after their deaths. But then the family fell and became a toll chamber in the town. Squares have been dug out on both sides of the long and narrow corridor to store the urn. Occasionally there will be forks in the road, and the left and right sides are respectively larger tombs, but they are also used to store urns.

　　 Cremation of the dead seems to be a small town tradition, and Jenkins appreciates this. He wandered around carrying the blue-purple miner's lamp, which symbolized [Mechanical Light], and at the end of the straight corridor, he saw the rusty iron fenced gate that stood in the dark and was locked.

The burial chamber behind the door is the largest burial chamber in the small town cemetery. It is the ashes depository of the ancestors of that prominent family. After the family's defeat, the last heir sold the cemetery and left. The cemetery who took over here put all the urns scattered in all corners of the underground tomb for storage in the final large tomb.

　　Because there are no people who will come to condolences, and no one in the family will use this tomb, so the tomb is locked forever.

　　 But these have no meaning to Jenkins, and he doesn't care about this history. He stretched out his hand to pull the rusty iron door out of the wall abruptly, and walked around the deformed iron railing into the somewhat cold tomb.

　　 The cat’s eyes glowed strangely in the dark. It stretched out its small paw and pointed to the left:

"I saw."

　　 As he said, he stretched his right hand to the right, and then a dim, cool green light appeared on the right. It's not that Jenkins is shining, it's that he grabbed a soul by the neck.

"This is it."

　　 He thought in his heart that he was about to drag the soul away from here. But at the same time, in every corner of the tomb, dots of dim green light lit up, and each and every soul stared blankly on the wall, surrounding Jenkins.

"What does it mean?"

　　 he asked.

　　 The soul who was pinched by his neck could not speak because Jenkins himself was suppressing it. The one who answered him was the one who seemed to be the oldest among the souls surrounding the wall. He said intermittently in a dialectal language:

　　 "Don't take it away."

　　 "Why?"

　　 Mortal souls will split after death, representing a part of the essence to go to the world that dominates [Ancient Death] and "keep going". That is only a tiny part of the soul, and more parts remain in the material world, dissipating completely in a short or long time.

　　 Some of the souls possess wisdom for various reasons, their consciousness is exactly the same as before death, and they can think and judge. This is the so-called ghost. The old man's soul in front of him is obviously like this. In this tomb, there are probably five or six such souls who can think.

　　 Of course, the one caught by Jenkins has no wisdom.

　　 "The family left some property, right in the tomb. You can take those jewels, but don't take our members."

　　 The old man continued.

　　 Jenkins shook his head:

　　 "I can see that the soul I grasped is very special. I think he should have been involved in mystery before he was alive? What did it do to make your family completely decline?"

　　 "How do you know...Ah~ the family has completely declined."

　　 Next, Jenkins and the cat heard a story that happened about three hundred years ago.

　　The family that is about to decline has welcomed the frustrated family members who have returned from the field. The young scholar is determined to revitalize the family. After accidentally discovering the anomaly in the underground town, he digs down step by step, and finally drives himself and the whole family into madness, triggering a mysterious force to invade the ground from the ground.

　　 The Church of Orthodox God suppressed all this, but the family involved in this matter at that time was too involved, and most of the members were executed by the church. The family began to decline completely from then on.

　　 The young soul captured by Jenkins was the young scholar who had returned. He didn't know what he had touched, and even the soul was deformed. This aberration lasted for three hundred years and did not disappear, but because of this, it made its soul stronger and stronger instead of being wiped out in the long years.

　　 If Jenkins does not deal with it today, this will sooner or later become a hidden danger for the town.

　　 "Let me say that."

　　 After listening to the story, Jenkins gave his choice:

　　 "Either I let you all disappear completely, or you let me take it away. I count three, and if you don't make a choice, I will default you to choose the former.

One. "

　　 "You take him away."

　　 The old man made a very wise choice. Jenkins had no reason for the attack, so he pinched the soul and walked out.

　　 But before stepping out of the door of the large tomb that he damaged, he turned his head and asked another question:

　　 "Speaking of which, what did your family find underground in the town?"

　　 soon returned to the ground with his soul and made a deal with the "greed" holding the shovel. The latter took the soul, and the clue was that the so-called "treasure" was hidden in a plaster statuette.

　　 This is a fairly clear clue, but Jenkins did not continue to search for the next town, but temporarily stopped "treasure hunting".

The underground souls told Jenkins that two or three hundred years ago, after the last descendant of the family's young scholars returned from afar, on the first night, they accidentally heard the strange sound of "click~click~" under the family mansion. This led to the subsequent excavation and the disaster of the collapse of the family.

If it is outside of Nolan, Jenkins will not think too much, but this is Nolan. He has every reason to believe that there was more than one-third of the possibility that this declining family encountered a differential engine. , Or it is part of the differential engine.

　　 Now that the family has completely disappeared, the soul of the person concerned cannot answer any questions. But the church dealt with this matter that year. Although it was not a church of the sage, as long as it was a church in the Nolan area, it must have kept records of the events of the year.

　　 For this reason, he temporarily gave up the treasure hunt and found the church of the night watchmen in the town of Honeywood. This is also a small church, but because of today's accident, there are also two gifted teams from Evergreen Forest staying there.

　　 After returning to his original identity, Jenkins asked about the whereabouts of the files related to the incident in the church, trying to figure out whether those files were handed over to Nolan’s [Night and Secret Church] church.

　　 Very good luck, there are files in both places, but the hand-copied copy of the files left in the town, but there is no difference to Jenkins.

　　 At that time, there was no photographic technology, at least not in the town, so when Jenkins got a moldy portfolio in the cramped data room, he only saw a large pile of text materials in it, and there was no more intuitive black-and-white photos.

　　 When the church in the small town found out that there was a problem, they immediately sent someone to Nolan for help. The problem was not very serious. It was just that foul-smelling black smoke rose near the old house of the declining family. At the same time, the strange metal friction noise made all the townspeople living near the big house unconscious.

　　 Nolan’s night watchmen arrived urgently and went into the old house to investigate. Finally found a gap in the basement that seemed to lead to the abyss. After venturing into and killing a metal monster that had never been recorded, the unconscious people awakened, but everyone in the old house was dead.

　　 Some family members were not in the house at the time. After interrogating them, they learned about the family's history of exploring underground. After the incident, all the persons involved were arrested by the Orthodox Church, and the cracks leading to the underground were also permanently blocked after inspection.

　　 Judging from only the description of the incident, the processing process and the final result are quite normal, there is no illegal operation, and there is no concealment of the investigation of the facts.

　　 But from Jenkins' point of view, there are quite a few doubts. According to his thoughts, perhaps as early as three hundred years ago, the differential engine tried to have contact and cooperation with humans living on the ground in Nolan. Later, I didn’t know what happened. The cooperation was terminated and the partner was Killed, the differential machine randomly threw out a mechanical monster for the crime, and retreated to the bottom of the ground to weave a conspiracy.

　　 This kind of idea is very bold, and it may really just be Jenkins's carelessness. But he has always been a very cautious person. After obtaining the information three hundred years ago, he planned to take a look at the original old house.

　　The mansion stands on the western hills outside the town of Honeywood, from the mansion you can directly see the whole view of the town. Three hundred years ago, when the family’s last generation of distant heirs dealt with the property, they sold the house to Nolan’s nobles and used it as a holiday home.

　　 Later, the owner of the mansion changed several times. With the help of the mayor, Jenkins looked up the notary documents kept in the town and confirmed that the last mansion owner was a businessman who lived 30 years ago.

　　 The merchant is in the honey business, but he has not returned since he took his family to Chesland 30 years ago. There is definite news that the merchant's family died of the undead plague 30 years ago.

　　 In short, when Jenkins climbed the hill along the path that had been flooded by weeds, what he saw was a mansion that had been completely dilapidated.

　　 The mansion was surrounded by iron fences. Although the gates of the fence were still locked by rusty chains, they were performing their duty of guarding here, but there were several holes in the fence. Thieves and robbers had visited many times.

Chapter 1937 Chapter 1908 Underground Blacksmith Workshop

　　 walked around outside the mansion to observe the condition of the yard and buildings. After confirming that there was no problem, he took his cat into the interior through the hole in the fence. The courtyard has long been unable to see the grand scene of the past, and at this time only the traces of the existence of a few flower beds can be vaguely distinguished.

　　 Jenkins took the cat to the back of the house first, pushed all the fallen leaves on the ground to one side with shoes, and vaguely saw the traces of the ceremony on the flat ground.

The trace of 　　 is not very old, it should have been used within a year. Because the remaining traces are very light, it is difficult to distinguish the original purpose.

　　 The front door of the mansion was blocked by a slanted cabinet and a long table. Jenkins could only enter from the side window. The curtains are all gone, and the furniture in the room has almost disappeared. I don't know which year it was a thief who broke in.

　　 There was a layer of dust on the ground. Every step Jenkins took would make the dust rise, causing him and the chocolate to cough quietly.

　　 did not go upstairs to check the situation, and directly followed the architectural diagram of the mansion found from the town hall, and found the entrance to the basement behind the stairs.