Whispering Poems.

Chapter 5 The Real World

Of course, in the end, Shade did not run.The three-month mission left by Mr. Hamilton, no matter how you think about it, knows that something is wrong, and Xia De, who has been involved in it, since he did not leave before his death, it is even more impossible to leave now.

But investigating that mission, and finding out about Hamilton's secrets, is for the future.The key now is to get enough money to survive for a week before making other plans.

Bring the survey report and map, and don't forget the compass and pocket watch in the desk drawer.For safety reasons, although no firearms were found, the cane can also be used as a weapon, and of course don't forget to bring a fruit knife.

For the clothes, I chose an inconspicuous black button-up coat and trousers, which is in line with the dressing habits of Tobesque, which has just entered the summer.

Room 1 on the second floor has a total of two bedrooms. In the other room, Shade found clothes that fit his current figure.It's a pity that the room suspected to belong to the original owner, Xia De, has no diary or the like, nor does he have any hints that Xia De originally wrote with his pathetic literacy, otherwise life would be simpler.

After doing all this, the clock in the corner of the living room is approaching eleven o'clock in the morning.

Shade found the keys to the door and the door downstairs in the bowl in the cupboard at the door of the room.He cautiously locked the door, took a deep breath, and pulled a hair from his head through gritted teeth.He lay down on the floor between the door and the stairs, put his hair in the crack under the door, squinted his left eye, and made sure that his hair was facing the bulge on the left corner of the bedroom door in the room.

The windows in the stairwell are closed, and the first floor is also blocked. All the windows inside the room are closed, so there is no need to worry about the hair being moved by the wind.As long as Xia De comes back, don't stride at the door, be careful when opening the door on the first floor, the hair position will indicate whether someone is passing here or entering the room.

He wanted to stand up, but looked at the locked door of room "2" on the second floor next door.So after thinking about it, he pulled down a piece of hair reluctantly, and clipped it between the crack of the door, parallel to the position of the lock.

Since there are so many secrets left by Mr. Hamilton, it is always good to be cautious.

Circling down the stairs, the sound of pedaling in the quiet space made Xia De nervous again for some reason.

There is no dust on the stair railings, and the decorative oil paintings on the walls also seem to be frequently wiped.The closer he got downstairs, the more Xia De felt his heart beating faster.

He understood that there was nothing to panic about, but after all, this was the first step in stepping into this place, truly stepping into this world.

Standing in front of the door, he changed his boots, grabbed the black dome hat from the standing hanger and put it on his head. It took him a long time to hold the doorknob and push the door open.

The heartbeat became faster at the moment when the door was opened. The feeling of entering an unfamiliar environment and accepting the fact that I had passed through was really uncomfortable.

He stepped over the threshold, but instead of looking out immediately, he walked out quickly with his head down, then turned around and turned the key to lock the door.

Closing his eyes, he slowly turned around to face the street, leaned back against the door, and pressed his head against the cold metal number "No. 6".

"There's nothing to be nervous about, just stepping into another world, there's a high probability that you won't be able to go back."

He said to himself, trying to suppress the desire to take a deep breath, raised his head, opened his eyes, leaned against the door, and looked at everything in front of him—

There was some smoke in the air, and the weather was gloomier than it had been in the morning.But the noisy square is still full of people, gentlemen in formal suits and hats, ladies in skirts with powder on their faces, porters with wooden boxes, newsboys shouting with bare feet, shy soliciters Flower girl, carriage hurried by, bloated housewife in lace hat holding paper bag
There was a smell of burning in the air, and people of all shapes and sizes mingled on the streets on the edge of the smoky square, almost completely overlapping the clamor and clamor.On the other side of the square in the distance, there is a three-storey house like the one behind it. The dense metal pipes are clinging to the wall, like vines and spider webs, shining in the weak noon sun.

In the center of the square stands a fountain with a girl holding a water bottle. The fountain does not spray water, but the statue has turned yellow.The patrol officer sitting next to the fountain wearing a police badge looked at Xia De curiously. The middle-aged man asked him if he needed help, and Xia De hurriedly turned his eyes away.

The newspaper boy passed by, the sound of the soles of his feet rubbing against the gravel-covered ground made his hair stand on end; the jingling of the bells of the four-wheeled carriage passing by the door echoed the inquiring sight from the carriage window. , together to make Shade's heart pump blood faster.

Feeling the beating of my heart, I opened my hands and pressed it on the door behind me, I instinctively leaned back, terrified by what was really in front of me.The blood pressure surged, the heart beat faster, and the sudden sound of a bell in the distance, almost like a bomb exploding in his head, made Xia De almost fainted.

So real, so incredible, so contrary to the common sense of the past twenty years.This is another world. He really left his hometown and came to a different world, a completely unfamiliar world.

"Don't panic! Don't panic!"

Shade kept repeating in his heart, but his body's instincts couldn't be suppressed like this.

"It's okay, I'll be familiar with it all, and I'll blend in here!"

He desperately kept telling himself, but his body still involuntarily leaned back against the door, his back was already wet.

Suddenly, the woman's murmured voice sounded again. Although it was also the voice of another world, it seemed to bring Shadra back to reality and let him face all this.The murmured voice, like reciting a poem, proclaimed:

【You have gained 'enlightenment'. 】

The speed of the heartbeat was slowed down by the sound, and the high blood pressure gradually returned to normal due to the murmur, and the sound echoed in my heart.

"Inspiration from what?"

It's not that he didn't hear clearly, he just didn't understand the meaning of the sentence. [Enlightenment] It also belongs to the four mysterious elements vaguely mentioned by the detective before his death, but Shade needs further explanation.He has now fully determined that what is in his brain is definitely not a system, and that voice is most likely a part of the mysterious system of this world.

[You are me, and I am you.Stranger, you control the direction of destiny in front of the curtain, and destiny unfolds because of you; I touch the truth of the world behind the scenes, and you are strong because of me.Even if you are suspicious, we are one, we are not different. 】

The woman's voice didn't answer the question, but Xia De was not angry, but rather happy.

His guess was right. In the mysticism system of this world, the voice in the mind is most likely to be the part of contacting and using the mystery.The world view of this world seems to be somewhat close to Cthulhu and agnosticism. The transcendent and mysterious have power, and existence itself will affect mortal things, so there needs to be another power to help mortals contact those weird and dangerous things.

"You are me, and I am you. Although you say that, you are definitely different from ordinary situations."

He tried to confirm his thoughts to the whispering voice in his head, but all he got was a chuckle from the woman.

In any case, he has at least been exposed to the mysterious elements of this world, even if he does not understand anything, but at least he is standing here and has his own goals.

The panic just now gradually subsided, as if he was getting closer to this era of steam surrounded by smoke.The feeling of being down-to-earth made Xia De more calm, and he told himself to gradually accept all this, instead of useless panic:

"Make a commission, investigate Hamilton's story, gather the four elements, study the voice in your head and move forward, don't panic."

Repeating in my heart, I finally let my back leave the door.Abandoning the idea of ​​going back and changing clothes, Xia De cautiously walked down the three steps of the door, came to stand on the street at the edge of the square, opened his eyes wide and looked up at the world amid the crowd. And let the world reflect in his eyes:

"Anyway, move forward."

He said in his heart, after a short pause, according to the plan in the house, he walked along the circular street around the square and walked towards the entrance of the street that left the square on the other side.

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