Chapter 107: Duncan’s Gift
Chapter 107 – Duncan’s Gift
The illusory waters dissipated as quickly as a dream at dawn, and Vanna’s spirit returned to her physical body once more, her eyes snapping open after a deep breath to see that she was still standing in the rocky chamber that seemed like a cave under the sea, a canopy of flame blazing before her eyes.
She looked to her side and saw that Bishop Valentine was also opening his eyes.
With the memory of the Spiritual Coven still vividly imprinted in her mind, Vanna subconsciously looked into her hand – which was, of course, empty, the piece of parchment that existed only on the Coven not having been brought to her in the real world.
“We’ve only just sent out a circular to inform the ocean-going captains of the ‘Mannequin Hearse’ being out of control,” Bishop Valentine sighed, “and now it looks like we’re going to have to reissue the circular again. ”
Vanna moved her wrist and looked thoughtfully at the Bishop, “The question is …… what should the circular say? We don’t know anything except that the name of anomaly 099 has changed ……”
The old bishop didn’t say anything for a moment, apparently he agreed that it was quite a tricky question.
Vanna had brought back news from Vision 004, but that news was only about the new name of Anomaly 099, perhaps she did hear more detailed information from the owner of the tomb, and even heard about the new characteristics of Anomaly 099 after it changed its name to “Mannequin”, but this part of the content had obviously been left forever with the torn parchment. But this part of the content has obviously been left forever with the torn parchment in the main crypt.
“At this stage, we can only announce the renaming of Anomaly 099 from ‘Doll Hearse’ to ‘Mannequin’ first, and at the same time amend all the descriptions of Anomaly 099’s characteristics to ‘Possible Alteration ‘,” Valentine suddenly said after a long period of silence, “That’s an anomaly within the hundredth percentile, and a change in its name will definitely be accompanied by a series of chain reactions, its power, trigger conditions, sealing conditions and even its external characteristics will most likely change as well, so treating it according to the old information will most likely lead to a big problem! It’s likely that something big will happen ……”
Vanna nodded silently.
Anomaly 099’s number remained unchanged, and its absolute danger and weirdness might not have changed much, but for humans, it had already changed from a known anomaly to an unknown anomaly – the experience that had been piled up with countless lives had been reduced to nothing, and the “unknown” had become an unknown anomaly. “…… has become its greatest danger today.
If it is said that after the last notice was issued, the captains of the infinite sea after encountering the anomaly 099 may still be able to follow the experience of the old data to try to re-house the sealing of the “mannequin casket”, then from today onwards …… all the people encountered the “mannequin” in the After encountering the “mannequin”, the only choice left is to stay away immediately and hope that the guardians of the Four Orthodox Churches can reseal it.
The chamber was quiet for a while, Vanna and Valentine were both thinking about their own things, this atmosphere lasted for an unknown period of time, Vanna suddenly broke the silence: “…… All the abnormalities and visions in the world are numbered from Vision 004, is that right?”
“Of course,” Valentine nodded, “Why are you asking this all of a sudden?”
“I was thinking …… about the nameless bodies in that mausoleum, and the tomb keeper who was always very silent, and who …… ‘they’ really were. “Vanna pondered, “They are obviously not humans, nor even real-world existences, not gods, and not shadows of ancient gods in subspace …… a vision that can interact with the outside world, so why would they use this method to ‘help’ the world? And how did the owner of the tomb determine the list of anomalies and visions?”
Valentine looked into Vanna’s eyes and waited for the other party to finish all the questions in one breath before he sighed, “This is the first time that you have entered the interior of the tomb as a listener, and the vast majority of people would have had just as many questions as you did after leaving from there …… But unfortunately, after so many years have passed We have learned more and more about anomalies and visions, but we have never been able to touch the essence of Vision 004, that tomb …… never explains information related to itself.”
“I remember that you have also entered that tomb,” Vanna turned her head and looked at the old bishop curiously, “What information did you bring out at that time? Was it also related to anomalies or visions?”
“That’s not true,” Valentine shook his head, “Although for the most part, what that mausoleum announces to the outside world are things related to anomalies or visions, the owner of the mausoleum will actually convey something else once in a while, and sometimes it will even be something that is very… …odd or even useless information, at the time of receiving a summons from the tomb keeper, no one can be sure what the owner of the tomb is trying to convey, the only thing that can be determined is that the information coming from the tomb must be true ……”
Vanna still looked at the old bishop curiously, “Then the intelligence you brought out at that time was ……?”
The old bishop looked a bit torn, “It wasn’t very useful, just …… a sentence ……”
The old bishop’s evasive intentions were obvious, however Vanna was a persistent person, she froze and didn’t notice the old man’s attitude, “So what about the specifics?”
Valentine gave the dead-eyed inquisitor a helpless look and spread his hands, “July 24th, Prendergium weather is sunny with a southeast wind of four to six ……”
Vanna: “……?”
“Don’t you look at me like that, sometimes that’s the message,” Valentine covered his forehead, “Anomalies and visions are inscrutable, and that ‘inscrutability’ manifests itself in all sorts of places, and I just happened to catch the more exceptional …… Can you turn around if you’re going to laugh? I’m so old ……” “I’m sorry,” said Vanna, tensing her face and turning her back, “but to be honest, I’m a little envious… hearing a weather report is better than having a bizarre experience like today – nothing happens… that’s a good thing, isn’t it? Nothing happens, right?”
“…… hey, I’ll take your word for it ……”
……
On the edge of the uptown area, inside a relatively old single-family house, Heidi was expressionlessly looking at her father with a slightly rushed expression, “…… So you went to a student’s home two days ago for a home visit, and spent several hours in the middle of it chatting with the student’s parents, and took a total of twenty minutes to talk about the student’s situation, and when you left, you even shelled out more than three thousand dollars to pay for a home visit. with an old dagger and a fake crystal pendant made of glass for over three thousand solas?!”
Maurice sat behind a table with an amethyst pendant (the label had been removed) and shelves behind him filled with various collectibles, wiping a non-existent cold sweat from his forehead with a slightly embarrassed expression, “The pendant didn’t cost anything, it was a gift …… “
“…… Then isn’t it a bigger problem for you to treat it as a birthday gift for me?!” Heidi couldn’t help but cover her head, “How about you even pretend that it was carefully chosen ……”
Maurice thought seriously and spread his hands helplessly, “I really couldn’t find a second real thing in that store, there’s really nothing to pick ……”
Heidi: “……”
After huffing and puffing and confronting each other for a few more seconds, she finally didn’t hold it in, and let out her own breath first: “Forget it, it’s not the first time anyway …… Why do you always be the wrongdoer in this?”
“This time I didn’t suffer a loss! The one who suffered is that Mr. Duncan,” Morris said immediately, “I bought that dagger for 20% cheaper than the market price …….”
Heidi was shaking her head and sighing when she suddenly froze after hearing her father’s name: “The antique store manager’s name is Duncan?”
“Ah yes, his name is Duncan Strain,” Maurice said casually, “There have been rumors that he is a drunkard + gambler, but after actually contacting him, I found out that the rumors are really harmful… he’s obviously a funny, humorous and knowledgeable person… …huh? Why do you look like that? What’s wrong with the name?”
Heidi opened her mouth and hesitated for a moment before saying, “Ugh, I’ve been in contact with a very difficult ‘case’ recently, and it happens to be related to that name, so I’m a bit paranoid when I hear it.”
“It’s a very common name, there are a lot of people with the same name,” Morris nodded, but immediately followed by a bit of concern, “What kind of case?”
“It’s not your specialty, so don’t ask, it certainly can’t be the same person anyway,” Heidi waved her hand, “Can a spooky captain who makes people scared and a store manager who owns an antique store in the lower city be the same person?”
“That mustn’t be possible,” Maurice sighed in relief at this, he knew that his daughter often assisted city hall and even the church as a consultant to dangerous cases, sometimes even related to transcendentalists, and it was natural for him to be a little tense in this regard, but now he relaxed and dropped his gaze on the crystal pendant on the table, “So, what’s the point? “So do you still want this pendant ……”
“To! Of course I do!” Heidi grabbed the pendant on the table, “It’s so hard for you to think of bringing me a gift for once, even if it’s a freebie ……”
Maurice thought about it and made a serious suggestion, “…… In fact, you can pretend that I spent more than three thousand solas on a pendant for you, and that the dagger was a gift.”
Heidi glanced at Maurice while putting the pendant on her neck, “If you really spent over three thousand solas on this, I’d have to tie you up in my healing room even if I tied you up!”
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