"Third-party identity? There is really no such thing this time. Miss Pharmacist, although my identity seems a bit mysterious to you, I don't have that much time to play ordinary people's spy games... just to make some money."

It’s just money and maintaining relationships.”

The sorceress smiled and said nothing, but became more and more curious about Shade.

What appeared on the third batch of wordless letters were some strange pictures. Neither Shad nor Megan recognized them, but judging from the fact that the locks were all ordinary locks and the letters were stored in similar specifications, they were disgusting.

Lee attached the same importance to the three batches of letters, and they were all used as cover-ups to maintain his status as a "gang leader."

So Shade collected the third batch of letters and went back to see if Miss Carina was interested. He couldn't give it to Director Anlos directly, so it was best to let the Duchess go through it.

In addition to these three drawers, there were pistols, bullets, unknown potions and other miscellaneous items in other drawers of the desk. After further inspection of the study, they finally discovered the safe hidden behind the bookshelf.

Opening the safe, the first thing Shade noticed was the black metal pendants of more than a dozen "Reunifiers", the same ones he saw when he was pressing for information in the stables of the tavern in the fishing village by the lake.

It was the first time for Megan to see this kind of thing, but after inspection, she was convinced that these were ordinary items:

"This is somewhat similar to the Edwards family coat of arms, both spirals gathering inward."

She said this, so Shade asked for three pendants to keep for study, and left the others to her.

Apart from the carefully kept pendant, the most important thing to them in the safe was naturally Bad-Eye Barry's account books. These were not the account books of his illegal business, but the account books of his regular transportation of supplies to the central island of Green Lake.

Although he is the leader of a gang, he is very organized in keeping accounts, recording the date, ship information and even the weather. Megan browsed through it for a while and roughly understood what the so-called supplies were:

"It's not the daily necessities you imagined. It's strange. It's a lot of metal ore, earthwork, and wood. Although there are also animals such as pigs, cattle, and sheep, they just want to die... What is this going to do? Establish

A whole new city?”

There are more than ten account books in total, which completely record everything that Bad Eye Barry shipped to the lake from 1849 to 1854. As for the previous account books, I have not seen them, but they must have similar contents.

"So what does he get out of it?"

Shade asked puzzledly:

"In other words, what can the cultists get? Although these things are cheap, they are in such large quantities and need to be transported secretly, so the cost is definitely not a small sum. What exactly is the Order of the Drowned going to do?"

"There is no income recorded in the account books."

The sorceress shook her head, and then motioned to Shade to check the other items in the safe.

The safe was not big, so it mostly contained documents, papers and valuable gold and silver jewelry. In addition to the account books, they also found letters between Bad Eye Bali and the sect, but only from the past few days. The content was

The next shipment is about to arrive.

This kind of letter should be destroyed when it expires, and there is no stamp date on the envelope, so it can only mean that what happened here is indeed the behavior of the cult and not Bad-Eye Barry alone.

"There are a few more books here, let me take a look, "The Mystery of the Abyss: The Creeping Darkness", "Life and Death: The Dividing Line of the Ocean", "Corpse Speaks: Echoes of the Dead". These are all books by ring warlocks, and they are capable of

Gain the precious knowledge of spiritual runes."

Shade said. Megan glanced at the books and waved her hand for Shade to put them away. The wise witch obviously already had similar knowledge.

Shade was not very interested in the spiritual runes involved in these books, but he thought that the college library would be happy to collect these books. And when he took the books out of the bottom layer of the safe, he noticed that there was a

with an old black and white photo.

He took out the photo out of curiosity, and then saw a body soaked in water.

"Um?"

While Shade's eyes scanned the photo, the corpse's eyes also opened suddenly. Then, gurgling water emerged from the photo, and the pale hand stretched out of the photo and grabbed Shade's wrist.

"Do you know the pain of sinking in water, knowing that you are falling but unable to do anything about it?"

A series of bubble sounds reached the ears, and the hand grabbing the corpse of Shade's arm did not try to pull him into the photo. Instead, more and more water poured out of the photo.

The invisible darkness blocked all the light in the room. Xia De clearly knew that except for the water under his feet, the entire room was very dry, but he felt that he had been soaked in the entire room with the sound of gurgling water.

in water.

Except for the dim glow of the photo itself, all the surrounding light disappeared. He couldn't see the four walls of the room clearly, and he couldn't even feel that he was standing on a solid floor.

He seemed to be falling in the water, falling deeper into the abyss. He could feel the invisible threat waiting for him further below, and he could also feel that the feeling of drowning made him almost unable to breathe:

"Breathing underwater."

This spell was originally related to the "God of the Drowned in the Deep Sea". It was learned by Shade when he first used the Mystery Lock [Match Girl] to prevent the god from taking away the girl. Therefore, in this case, it took effect almost immediately.

After Shade adjusted his condition, although he couldn't figure out whether he was hallucinating or really being transferred to another place, he still struggled to swim upstream.

He did not dare to throw away the photo in his hand easily, so he could only hold it and keep swimming upstream. And just a few dozen seconds later, he heard the sorceress's voice ringing in his ears:

"don't want......"

There should be another paragraph behind it, but it was drowned in the sound of water.

"What?"

Shade was stunned, stopped moving upstream, looked hesitantly at the dark waters above his head and the dark waters below his feet, and then asked in his heart:

"Was that voice real?"

【Yes, I can feel the power of the witch used to connect to you.】

"So what do you think?"

【Just like you.】

"Oh well."

Shade then gave up on going upstream and headed downstream instead. The dim light in the photo in his hand became darker and darker, and the temperature of the surrounding water became lower and lower. When the light completely disappeared, on the deep seabed, in the words he spit out

As the bubbles floated past his eyes, he finally saw what was waiting for him at the bottom.

A skeleton was entangled with water and rags, and jumped out from the bottom of the dark abyss. It was surrounded by death and resentment, carrying fear and hatred, and stretched out its hand towards Shade, who was sinking like "seeking his own death."

At that moment, Shade, who "fell" into the deep sea, in this terrifying scene, actually felt that he somewhat understood the thoughts of the drowned person who died alone at the bottom of the sea. The same loneliness and helplessness, and that indifferent heart were also caused by this.

And born.

Unfortunately, he didn't have more time to think, and Shade found the right direction. The moment the skull touched him, he felt that he had broken through a thin layer of paper, and then he realized that he was breathing heavily and holding the

The photo shows him standing in a dry study room, with Meghan looking at him worriedly:

"Are you okay? It seems that this photo is a trap to prevent thieves. I just saw you stunned there, and you appeared in the photo, so I knew you must have been deceived."

She grabbed Sha De's wrist and used her spiritual power to touch Sha De's spirit with concern, only to find that Sha De's spiritual power was as huge as the full moonlight in the night sky. At this time, Sha De's whole body was dry.

Yes, even my hands are dry, and there is no liquid gushing out at all in the photo.

Looking at the photo again, it actually burned in Shade's hands. Shade threw it away, and took a few steps back with Megan, watching the photo burn in the air, and the last wisp of ashes combined into the evil god in the air [

God of the Drowned in the Deep Sea], and then pounced on Shade.

"careful!"

"It's fine."

A slight sense of coldness, carrying a curse, poured into Shade's soul, but it was quickly dissolved by the divine radiance.

"She" reminded Shade softly in his ear:

【Outlander, you are cursed.】

【The curse is lifted.】

If it is a curse from a real god, even if Shade has a drop of divinity, he cannot be exempted from it. But obviously, although the curse attached to this photo is related to gods, its power is much weaker. If it is an ordinary ring warlock, it may be

He was about to be hit, but for Shade it was completely negligible. What really affected him was the moment of loneliness of falling into the deep sea. He was confused as to how he could feel and understand the thoughts of the drowned people in the deep sea.

"I'm fine, but will the destruction of this photo alert Bad-Eyed Barry?"

After confirming that he was really not affected, Xia Decai asked, and Meghan shook her head slightly in concern:

"I don't know, but don't worry about him. My people have watched him. If he returns, at least before night, I will receive an early warning. Besides, he is just a low-level warlock. Even if he comes back, he can

How about it?"

Meghan was obviously more concerned about Shade than Bad-eyed Barry, and was afraid that Shade would be in the same condition as in the morning again, but fortunately, everything was fine with him.

The Unifier's pendant, account books, and occult books, these are all the valuable items that Shade and Megan found in the safe. Although it sounds like a small amount, after all, it is impossible for Bad-Eyed Barry to collect all the important clues.

Put them all in the same place.

Just when the two of them had finished searching the study, the maids' interrogation of the mistresses had come to an end. Those women were just ordinary people, and they were ordinary people with not very strong wills. It was easy to ask questions of value.

information.

Meghan and Audrey's head maid, the girl called Jill, compiled the information and informed her master.

"Miss, this is indeed one of the most important strongholds of Bad-Eyed Barry. He spends at least a week here overnight every month. Some of those women have seen what Bad-Eyed Barry looks like when he takes off his blindfold.

. He rarely took off his eye patch, and most of the time he wore it even when he was asleep. According to the mistresses, Bad Eyed Barry's right eye was not rotten, and there was a black eye white in his eye socket.

Strange eyeballs."

"It's most likely the Demon Eye. The Order of the Drowned sent him to carry out the mission here. Of course, it's impossible not to give him the means to save his life and increase his strength."

Meghan made the judgment easily.

The last piece of information provided by the women was that there seemed to be a secret passage underneath the house, because they would sometimes see Bad-Eyed Barry walking straight out of the basement, and he smelled like a sewer.

This time Megan did not go down with Shade, but asked her maids to go to the basement to take a look.
To be continued...