old dream

Chapter 243 The Fear of Others
The mansion of the Dallozzo family has been renovated not long ago.After the curfew was lifted and the streets were less chaotic, Colin asked his uncle Craigie to move back to the ancestral house from the secret warehouse.

All the way back from the Seminary’s report room by carriage, it was almost eight o’clock, and the night was dark.This time Colin's hand rested on the grip again, and then he looked up unconsciously.

From this angle, the tall ancestral home of the Dallozzo family still looks very gloomy, because there are no windows to leak light, and it is as silent as ever.

But the corners of Colin's mouth turned up slightly, because he no longer felt strange or inexplicable about it.However, in just a few months, a lot has been experienced. Some things are different, and it seems like a lifetime away.

Open the door easily and walk in. You don't have to grope as carefully as before, because now Colin has almost endless redstones, so in the corridors and in every room, he has people hanging specially-made redstones lamps.The consumption of redstone evaporation is nothing, and the uncomfortable red light, after passing through the expensive and beautiful lampshade, no longer looks weird, but is soft enough to make people feel warm.

All the notes hidden deep in the cellar were also cleared out, just like the heavy obsession of the Dallozzo family for hundreds of years was finally buried in the ground.With Ke Lin's expensive renovations this time, those lingering ghosts and fates seemed to have been swept away from this gloomy mansion, and it was no different from an ordinary house.

But Colin looked around again and frowned slightly.Because the ornaments in the room have not been touched, the sofa is covered with a layer of fine dust, which means that uncle may not have left the underground laboratory for a few days.

Craigie's eye disease still shows no sign of being cured, but with the improvement of home and lighting, people's spirits will also improve to some extent, and uncle will gradually become cheerful in the future.

Colin walked through the corridor where the portraits of the ancestors were hung, and the crutches made a sound of tapping.The distorted faces in the painting all looked at the stairs leading to the ground with strange expressions.

Colin reached out and knocked on the door of the basement, but there was no response from inside.

"Uncle, are you in there?"

Unscrew the handle, and the basement is pitch black.Colin was startled, and instinctively turned on the switch of the redstone lamp, only to see Craigie sitting in front of his workbench.

As the lights came on, the uncle looked towards the entrance with empty eyes.

The atmosphere was a bit strange, and Colin looked around the basement with a little vigilance.But apart from being renovated to be more livable, it has not changed from usual.In front of the uncle was a crude instrument, and there was also a large amount of manuscript paper piled up in disorder, filled with unknown formulas and notes, and many of the papers had been crumbled.

Colin twitched the corners of his mouth to make himself smile:
"What's the matter, why don't you turn on the light?"

"...They have already mixed in."

The uncle stared fixedly at the entrance of the basement, and said abruptly and blankly.

who?Colin looked back following Craigie's line of sight, but found that there was nothing behind him except the stairs.

"No one has found out yet. It is conjectured that they have got the same body as ours..." Craigie confirmed his shoulder and murmured:

"They changed their appearance and blended into the vast crowd."

"They?" Colin asked with a frown as he approached the workbench.

Do you mean something that looks like a human being?
Craigie shuddered, but the voice in his mouth became muffled, muttering something like an excuse.Colin glanced at the manuscript paper in front of him, most of which had been scribbled beyond recognition.

Maybe my uncle has been tortured by repeated experiment failures, alcohol and drugs for too long, and his spirit has begun to become a little disturbed.

Colin sighed secretly, but at the same time silently remembered these inexplicable words.Maybe it needs to be dealt with later, but now is not the time to be mindless about who "they" are.

"The cracking ceremony has been completed." Colin said to Craigie:
"In a few days, all the materials needed for the ceremony will be ready."

He paused for a moment. Colin still had a sense of unreality for how things went smoothly.But he hopes the news brings some solace to Craigie:

"Uncle, our hard work has finally paid off."

It was Craigie who got himself into the seminary office, and he provided a lot of references as Ji Lian designed the ceremony.

Although he blocked his way to study witchcraft through normal channels, it can be said that besides Ji Lian, Craigie is the second hero to complete the cracking ceremony.

"yes……"

Hearing these words, Craigie Dallozzo’s eyes recovered a little.After being stunned for a while, he confirmed at a loss:

"When you retrieve your memory, you should be able to know about Lenz...?"

"Yes." Colin said:

"If Lenz is still alive, I will determine his whereabouts."

In fact, Colin is still not sure whether he was also in that nameless valley at the last moment of the Senalese War ten years ago, and whether he witnessed the end of Lenz Dallozzo with his own eyes.

But Craigie can no longer leave the ancestral home. Even if Lenz is still alive in a certain country, it may be difficult for them to have the opportunity to meet again.

So Colin chose the most optimistic statement.

"That's good."

Hearing this sentence, Craigie seemed to let go of some heavy burden, and his voice became even.Then it returned to the state of sluggishness at the beginning.

There is still cooked tuber food in a corner of the workbench. Although it has become cold, it is at least the same day, which shows that Craigie at least still maintains his previous living habits.Although Ke Lin felt a little strange, he couldn't figure it out, so he could only give up a few words as usual.

Before leaving the basement, Colin thought of something again, turned around and said:
"I heard something at the seminary just now." He asked:
"Before the riots, you had a call with Archduke Edmund?"

This should be one of the reasons why the Grand Duke finally chose to suppress the riots, and it may be very critical.Although, Colin was also a little curious about what they talked about.

"It's just what humans should do." Craigie said deadpan.

"Don't say that." Colin smiled, otherwise too many guys would be unworthy of being human:

"It seems that I should apologize to you for my previous ignorance and bad words."

He turned around and said seriously to Craigie:
"You are a true hero of the Sincilians."

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After years of eavesdropping, Ke Lin was able to roughly determine several relatively powerful ether nodes in Stadt and its surroundings, which can provide a wider channel for the flow of spiritual elements, so that rituals far exceeding the general specifications can be carried out.

But if we consider the issue of concealment and aftermath, most of them can be ruled out.But for the rest, we need to go to the field to screen with Ji Lian, the ceremony designer.

Ji Lian walked out of the apartment with several layers of cotton masks on her face, and her petite body was tightly wrapped in a heavy cotton coat.

Colin looked at her who rarely came outside and felt a little uncomfortable, smiled and said:
"Let's go."

(End of this chapter)