Chapter 36: The gathering of insect swarms

The island is more than a hundred nautical miles away from the location of the Kozia family.

By the time Sister Lily arrived amidst the cold wind, the depression and anger in her heart had long been frozen away by her shivering body.

And when she stepped onto the beach, she calmed down completely.

"Otherwise, shall we go back?"

After hesitating for a moment, the girl suddenly whispered to her father who was parking the speedboat behind her: "I think my current behavior is a bit impulsive."

go back?

The ugly man was stunned when he heard this. He looked up at the sky which was already whitening, and his face immediately darkened: "We are already here - why didn't you tell me halfway?"

"The wind is too strong and I can't open my mouth..." the girl responded guiltily.

In fact, she was also very conflicted along the way.

You want to go back? You’re already halfway there. It would be a waste of time to run out in the middle of the night for so long.

But if he didn't go back, what would he do after seeing Andy? Would he complain to him? Would he get angry too, and then they would all curse at the royal family and the damn housekeeper?

What use is this...

More importantly, she and Andy were not familiar with each other at all.

She didn't realize this problem when she was emotional.

Now think about it, if I really ran to that boy and complained about my problems... wouldn't that be too embarrassing?

She already regretted just thinking about the scene, let alone actually going there.

"You couldn't open your mouth when the wind was strong, and now you have the nerve to open your mouth to me?"

The ugly man snorted coldly and rejected his daughter's proposal without hesitation, "Don't mention the word going back to me before noon!"

After saying that, he walked towards the town on the island.

"I'm going to find a place to catch up on my sleep. As for you, just go and finish what you want to do. What's the point of giving up halfway?"

"I think you should come with me. He might not be up yet at this hour..."

"hehe."

The sneer faded away as the ugly man's back receded. Lily stood there for a moment, then finally sighed.

Then, without any further hesitation, she walked towards the small wooden house that was faintly visible at the end of her sight.

"Just think of it as coming to inform him of the death of his benefactor." Lily thought as she walked.

Someone is dead, and Andy, as the person involved, should have the right to know.

Although this will not bring him any substantial help, it will make him depressed like himself.

But maybe this would motivate him to work harder and learn that extraordinary ability faster? To become a semi-extraordinary person? After finding some excuses for her embarrassing behavior, the girl gradually let it go and quickened her pace.

She decided to go and come back quickly, just to talk about business, and not to stay any longer.

It was a good idea, but before she actually got close to the cabin, she heard a melodious horn sound coming from the other side.

The sound has a vast atmosphere, like the singing of a whale, or like an ancient cry coming from prehistoric ruins in the deep sea. It is very special.

"He's blowing the conch?" Lily was surprised.

As someone who grew up in a seaside city, she knew many people who could play the conch shell.

But this is the first time I have heard one that sounds so nice, or so powerful.

This kind of "instrument" is easy to learn but difficult to master, and most people are not interested in spending several years or even more than ten years to study such an ancient and simple natural instrument.

But then the girl felt relieved.

Because she remembered that Andy seemed to come from a place called Casse in France.

It is also a port city.

"I guess it's a hobby." Thinking so, her footsteps were already approaching the wooden house.

Then, before she saw Andy, she suddenly froze in place, her expression becoming very stiff.

Because she saw a bug!

There were so many of them that they looked like a black mass under the white sky!

These long, yellow worms have a lot of long legs that make your scalp tingle, and they are constantly crawling and wriggling.

Now gathered together, they form a huge crowd in the dim light, filling the open space in front of the house.

It’s like arriving at a centipede’s nest!

Twisted, disgusting, scary, dark...

Sister Lily was caught off guard by this horrifying scene and instantly got goose bumps all over her body. Her face was filled with horror and a nausea-inducing feeling emerged from her stomach, which kept getting stronger and stronger!

And when the vast conch sound stopped and the insects gathered in the open space in front of the house quickly scattered in all directions, she could not help but scream, and turned around and ran away in fright!

Andy was standing in front of the door of the wooden cabin at this time. When he heard the noise, he turned around and looked, feeling a little strange.

"Why is she here?"

Sister Lily was a stranger to Andy because he had only seen her twice, once during the church assessment and the other time in the other party's family.

I don't have much impression of him and we didn't say many words. Logically speaking, the other party would not come to my house for no reason.

Even if there was something wrong, it should be her ugly father who came, right? Andy was very puzzled.

But at this time, the girl who had run away had turned a corner and came back, so he had no time to think about it.

"These bugs, how could you——"

Lily, still frightened, wanted to ask what these bugs were.

But when she saw the black-haired boy standing in front of the house with a conch in his hand, she was stunned for a moment.

Two days ago, she was inaugurated as an extraordinary nun, and the nun profession has an ability called [Eye of Devotion].

The main purpose of this ability is to see whether a person is currently in a difficult situation in life so that the nun can approach him and provide help.

By the way, through this passive ability, the nuns can also see whether the target possesses extraordinary powers.

And now, in her sight, there was a faint white light on Andy's body!

"You, you have learned to communicate with spirits?"

She was so surprised by this that she even forgot about the predicament she had just faced.

After all, Andy had only been in contact with the extraordinary scroll for about a week!

However, her grandfather and father estimated that it would take Andy at least twenty days to learn this ability...

"I guess I have a pretty good talent as a psychic."

Andy shrugged in response, then leaned over and asked the other person to come in and talk.

Lily wasn't surprised for long.

Because in fact, for a formal extraordinary person like her, the time she needs to learn basic abilities such as spirit communication will basically not exceed 24 hours.

Andy's progress was unexpected, but due to her "innate deficiency", no matter how fast she went, it would only be so-so - at least that's what she thought.

"Can you tell me what happened just now?"

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

When she was invited to sit at the wooden table, the girl recalled the fear she had experienced before, so she couldn't help but ask.

“It’s like a normal person walking down the street and suddenly hearing a nice song and running over to watch.”

Andy responded, “The bugs are my audience.”

"audience?"

Lily was a little surprised when she heard this, but then she reacted.

"You are using, spirit communication?"

"Yes."

"But I remember that basic level of spiritual communication cannot be performed remotely?"

“If you have the right instrument, you can use it remotely.”

"The right instrument?"

The girl was puzzled. "Are you referring to this conch?"

The conch was placed on the wooden table between the two of them. At a quick glance, one could tell that it was not much different from anything picked up from the beach.

It's just that there are some more processing traces required for musical instruments.

"You can think of it as a spiritual conch," Andy explained, "or you can call it a ghost conch, a spirit conch, or something like that."

"So, it's dead, but its spirit still exists?"

"Yes."

"But what does this have to do with communicating with spirits through the air?"

"I can't release it remotely, but I can communicate directly with the conch, and then use it to transmit special sound waves - that's probably how it works."

"oh……"

The girl seemed to understand what he said, but not quite.

I always feel that there is something wrong with a complex phenomenon being explained so simply.

Moreover, she had never heard of anyone being able to display such a low-level ability as spirit communication into this state.

Those bugs...

Thinking of the scene she just saw, Lily felt a chill down her spine, so she subconsciously didn't think too much about it.

He even completely ignored what Andy said about playing a nice "song" for the insects, which was actually much more exaggerated and even incredible than communicating with spirits through the air.

But even if she didn't realize it, after what happened just now, Lily finally recalled the shocking things Andy had done in the past.

At the same time, this incident unknowingly dissipated a lot of the strangeness in the conversation atmosphere.

So she originally didn't plan to say much and just wanted to simply share the news of the police chief's death.

After calming down a little, he still couldn't help but blurt out that the housekeeper had sent people to search the manor last night and asked him to write a review of "Ling Chi".

She wasn't sure why she was telling Andy this.

Maybe it was because deep down, my admiration for Andy had not dissipated like it had for other people his age.

I even had the inexplicable illusion that Andy might be able to do something.

It may also be that you simply want to find someone who shares the same ideals as you, talk to him/her, and vent your inner anger and frustration.

Or, does she hope to get an answer from Andy that is different from the "truth" told by her grandfather?

The girl's words were very fluent and clear, but she was feeling confused at the moment.

Unfortunately, Andy had no interest in being her life mentor, he just listened quietly.

His brows were slightly furrowed, and he remained silent.

His expression did not change until the girl had finished speaking all that was in her heart.

This made her feel inexplicably disappointed, as she had thought Andy would be angry because of the tragic death of his savior.

The resentful mood gradually cooled down, and I just felt bored.

"Nothing, I just came here to inform you."

Lily regained her composure and stood up as she spoke, "Now that the notice has arrived, I'll leave first."

"The York royal family, which has a thousand-year history," said Andy, who was sitting opposite her. "It is not easy to be overthrown."

Lily said nothing when she heard this, thinking that the other party was trying to persuade her to be patient, or to find excuses for his own powerlessness.

But then, she heard something that she was not expecting.

"But it's actually very simple to deal with that butler."

(End of this chapter)