When I came out of the basement, it was already pouring rain outside, and the window glass was covered with a layer of moisture.

The three of them took the sculpture to a reception room, drank coffee and studied the sculpture.

Professor Derby was most interested in the study of sculpture, and while he was scrutinizing with his large telescope, he muttered some completely incomprehensible terms.

In contrast, Valred was a keen observer of sculpture, but he didn't have much interest in delving into it.

"It's not too early."

Watching the old professor touch and knock for a long time without seeing the slightest result, the owner of the house first lost patience.

He sat in a high-backed chair, supported his chin with one hand, and yawned half with exhaustion.

"Tomorrow we're going to look for the lost town of Innsmouth, so we should have a good rest tonight and recuperate."

"What if...... If I could, I'd like to take a closer look. The old professor glanced at Bai Ye and Valred respectively, and explained in a somewhat hurried voice: "The craftsmanship used in this sculpture is something I have never seen before, huh...... The material is also special...... Give me a little more time and I'll be able to see some clues, hell, if only I had the tools on hand now. ”

"Professor, our main purpose is to use sculptures to unlock the seals of the ancient gods, such god-created things, we mortals are not qualified to study them in detail, I advise you to give up."

Valred glared at Professor Derby with a strange warning in his eyes.

"Good...... Okay, I didn't think it through enough. ”

Professor Derby pulled out his handkerchief and wiped the sweat oozing from his forehead, not daring to disobey Valred's words.

Then, Valred proposed that he take care of the three sculptures tonight, Bai Ye thought about it, and chose to take back the two sculptures belonging to the Explorers Guild for his own safekeeping.

"Well, after all, they're still the property of the Explorers' Guild."

Valred shrugged his shoulders with some regret and said something odd.

……

Bai Ye was arranged in the guest room on the second floor, and after the strange-looking fishy servant brought him to his place, he whispered that he lived in the room at the end of the corridor, and if he needed anything, he could shout in the corridor.

After entering the room, Bai Ye glanced around and noticed that there were two doors in this bedroom of more than ten square meters, one was used to enter and exit the corridor, and the other seemed to be used to lead to the next room.

In the next room lived Professor Edward Derby, and not long after Bai Ye entered the guest room, he heard him knocking on the small door next door.

"Can you lend me a sculpture to study, I only need one."

The old professor didn't study the sculpture and was very unwilling, and he was hoping that Bai Ye would agree.

"Is this kind of sculpture really so rare?"

Bai Ye remembered that Rick Jones had also said exactly the same lines as Professor Derby, saying that the craftsmanship of this sculpture was very unique and unprecedented.

"It's true, at least I've never seen it."

The professor pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose.

"So what did you say to Valred...... What do you think of that statement about the Old Gods? ”

Bai Ye changed another question.

"This ...... Personally, I think it's just a legend, but what Master Izawa said is that maybe Innsmouth really exists somewhere, and these sculptures may be used to unlock the key to the mechanism. ”

"You know, sometimes the wisdom of the ancients is beyond the imagination of modern people, especially when it comes to the arrangement of mechanisms, they can always think of a thousand ways."

The old professor read two sentences in pieces, and began to urge Bai Ye to give him a sculpture for research.

There are three sculptures in total, and according to Valred's meaning, none of them can break the seal of the old gods.

Bai Ye didn't give the sculpture to Valred at that time, not because he was afraid that the sculpture would be lost, but because he felt that there might be more secrets behind the sculpture that he didn't know but Valred knew.

If Professor Derby had only been given a single sculpture to study, he might have been able to decipher the deep secrets of the sculpture, and secondly, there would be no possibility of concentrating all three sculptures in Valred's hands.

He then took one of the golden sculptures from the black box and handed it to Professor Edward Derby.

This made the old professor very happy, and he said on the spot that he must stay up all night to study the sculpture tonight, just like a scientific research madman.

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After sending Professor Derby away, the small door connecting the two guest rooms was closed, Bai Ye sat down on the big bed in the corner of the room, and carefully checked all the strange phenomena he encountered after coming to Izawa's ancestral mansion.

First of all, the strange servant who smelled of fish, although he didn't seem to do anything out of the ordinary, but his own existence was a sign of suspicion.

Then there was the crazy woman who broke into the banquet hall, she seemed to have the intention of asking Bai Ye for help, so what happened to this woman? Is it true, as Valred Izezer described, that he was mentally ill because of the sudden death of his father?

And then there is the owner of this mansion, Valred Izawa, because of the preconceived impression, Bai Ye still had a certain degree of trust in this character at first, but due to the flaws in the source and use of the sculpture given by this young master Izawa, and the strange behavior when treating his wife Athanas, Bai Ye gradually changed from 'general trust' to 'loss of trust'.

Bai Ye felt that Valred was overly obsessed with unlocking the seal of the ancient gods, which made him even more eager to take all three sculptures into his own hands.

If it weren't for the sudden heavy rain outside, perhaps the young master might have left for Innsmouth Town tonight.

Outside the window, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the raindrops were pounding on the dark window, and a lightning bolt crossed from time to time in the dark clouds, illuminating the dark earth as bright as day.

"I have a bad feeling that something is going to happen tonight......

Bai Ye lay on his back on the big bed, the tip of his nose filled with the slight smell of mold on the futon.

After lying like this for about half an hour, he suddenly heard a short, slight cry from the next room, and then it seemed as if something had been knocked over and fell on the stall.

After a brief two seconds, he heard the door open again.

"Is it Professor Derby? He left the room? What is he going to do? ”

Bai Ye immediately sat up from the bed, and after thinking for a while, he walked over and knocked on the middle door.

There was no response from the other side.

"Something bad seems to have happened."

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