Chapter 488 (1/2)
The mysterious knowledge which was hidden behind the common knowledge or even contrary to it was beyond average human’s understanding. Even Ogyust who had been living since three centuries ago and used much energy to study witchcraft and taboo knowledge, he would still get things wrong sometime. He didn’t know what vengeful spirit really was, he judged solely basing on the sound he had heard in his illusion that the ‘dark monster’ had been divided into half by the witch. One of them was suppressed in the frozen ground of Siberia, the other one was in him. Based on this understanding, he made the decision to distance himself from the Andrea family, and limit his frequency of contact with them according to the knowledge of witchcraft which only God knows where he had got from. this is what the bizarre hides. This was how the obscure letters came about.
Although many of the measures he took were ridiculous and useless in the eyes of the real expert, at least ‘staying away from Siberia’ was a sensible decision, especially when he took the thing out of the room, Vivian was more convinced of it.
Ogyust brought a black, complexly-structured wooden box to Vivian, handing it to her with both hands. “The stone is in there.”
“What the box is all about?” Vivian looked at the wooden box curiously. “It looks rather familiar.”
Ogyust was surprised. “Have you forgot? This is what you gave me. You had specifically told me and my descendents to keep this box. You said that you might come to take it back one day. I thought you come this box?”
“Was it?” Vivian’s brows knit together. “Oh, I think I might have missed something.”
She opened the wooden box as she spoke, and saw the gizmo inside. “This is the second piece on which a part of the power of the vengeful spirit still remains. I might have overlooked it as I was too exhausted back then.”
Hao Ren saw a palm-sized elliptical object lying quietly inside the box, which was different from the first device the Andrea family had kept. On the surface of this thing was a concentric circle pattern, in the middle was a hole. Beside that there was no visible unevenness.
From the outside, it is difficult to see how it was related to the first device.
“This thing is strange. What is vengeful spirit?” Hao Ren muttered, taking out the triangular gizmo from his dimensional pocket as he tried to put the two pieces of ‘stones’ together. “There’s no response?”
He help up the two bizarre ‘relicts of the vengeful’ and tried to join them together or click with each other lightly, but neither of them made a sound nor light. Lily looked at the stones and became interested. She came up and took them from Hao Ren. Hao Ren was hesitating but he let her; he knew that the husky was interested in collecting stones, he was worried she might bite the stones in her mouth just to try them out.
Lily had fiddled with the stones for a long while but nothing had happened. There were no signs of activation or start-up: no one knew how to use the gizmos.
Then the husky shoved the stones back to Hao Ren, frustrated. But judging from the reluctant look on her face, apparently she was eager to add these two stones to her collection.
“It seems that … something is missing,” the MDT hovered out and circling around the two ‘stones’. “I could sense that they are resonating, but it seems this resonance signal is sent to another device. There is no other device here, so they receive no feedback and movement.”
“Another device?” Hao Ren’s eyebrows pulled together, and suddenly remembered the crack in vengeful spirit dimension. “Is it really about that door? Are these stones the key to the door?”
While Hao Ren and the hald-baked experts were discussing about vengeful spirit, Ogyust was almost scared the hell out of him as he saw they tried to put two ‘stones of curse’ together. His was wide-eyed. He hemmed and said, “You can’t put them together.”
“It’s okay. The evil spirit has been destroyed,’ Hao Ren waved his hand. But he felt an unpleasant sense of coldness coming through his hand which was holding the second ‘key’. The breath of the vengeful spirit was till hovering over the stone. “Sanba, please help purify this thing.”