Withdrawing the gun, the lady in the brown coat led Xia De to the empty room on the second floor.
There was no furniture in the room except a small bench and a brazier where charcoal was burning. Kettles, metal basins, blood-stained bandages, and women's clothes were scattered on the floor. Although the temperature in the room had increased a little, it was still very cold. Xia De, who hadn't turned off the effect of [Blood Echo], saw a large amount of blood in the copper-colored basin beside her. She should have been treating her own wound just now.
In front of the small bench, Miss Brown tried her best to sit down with her body crooked, and pressed her left leg:
"I was taking a bullet for myself just now, and the amount of bleeding was a bit beyond my expectation. I haven't done this kind of thing for so many years, and it's a bit rusty."
"Your uncle was taken by MI6."
Xia De sat directly on the floor, stretching out his hands in a gesture of warming himself by the fire.
"It doesn't matter. Uncle has a lot of contacts in the local area, and he really has nothing to do with this matter. He doesn't know what secret I have."
Miss Brown looked at the brazier in front of her with a disappointed expression.
"Who found you at noon?"
Shad asked again, and added:
"I didn't report you."
"Of course not you, sir, otherwise there would not be only one person who came to see me at noon."
She picked up the teacup and moistened her pale lips:
"Before I left Tobesk eight years ago, the upline who was in charge of contacting me discovered me. The eucalyptus of the bomb attack on His Royal Highness last week caused MI6 to spill out as many spies as possible, so He saw me...unlucky."
She lowered her head and said dryly, Xia De didn't know how to evaluate this kind of luck:
"I have delivered your letter, and here is the reply."
Instead of asking how the woman whose life had been utterly shattered was feeling, she handed over the letter:
"It's not easy to find you."
"It's really not easy for you to find me."
Miss Brown said as she put down her teacup, opened the envelope, and pinched a corner of the letter to check the contents.
After reading it, she refolded the letter without saying a word, and threw it into the brazier. Seeing the scene of the letter paper being licked by the flames and emitting bright flames, she seemed to be in a daze, and seemed to have fallen into some kind of hallucination.
It took a long time before he said in a hoarse voice:
"I didn't expect that His Highness would forgive me so easily. Of course, I didn't expect that kind of noble lady to reprimand me in such a tone. Your Highness has grown up too."
"After all, it was eight years ago. So what if I don't forgive you? Let me kill you? Or bring you in front of her and scold you for being a hateful woman?"
Speaking of this, Xia De also laughed, thinking of the scene where the elegant princess with pale golden hair yelled, it was really funny:
"I delivered the letter, and I have nothing to do here. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else about your location. I wish you luck, ma'am."
"Please wait a moment."
She stopped Xia De as expected, and looked at him with some hesitation.
"You don't want me to tell Princess Margaret about you, and ask her to help you escape?"
Xia De asked, and Miss Brown shook her head:
"Your Highness does not pursue my disloyalty, which is something I can't even imagine. How can I still have face...Sir, are you willing to accept my commission?"
She took out a letter from the inside of her coat:
"Send me a letter, don't worry, it's not to someone who can help me, it's to my fiance... Anyway, I want to say goodbye to him."
Xia De didn't go to pick up the letter, but stood in front of the brazier and looked down at her eyes:
"You should know that MI6 should have found him by now."
"No, I thought that my affairs would be exposed one day, so no one except my uncle knew where he lived, and I never talked to my neighbors about his place of work. I rarely communicate with my neighbors, I know who I really am."
Miss Brown also looked up at Shad:
"No matter how fast MI6 is, it will take at least this evening to find him. Before that, give him this letter... With this letter, MI6 knows that he is not involved In my secret identity, I won't embarrass him... I hope so."
Xia De snorted and laughed:
"Then why should I help you? After all, we have no friendship. Or, do you think I was easily moved by you?"
Xia De indeed appreciates the other party's sincere feelings, but in order to maintain his character setting of "princess agent without emotion", he cannot directly agree. It's easy for him to run errands, but he needs a good reason from the other party.
Miss Brown pursed her lips:
"I can give you money."
"money?"
Then he took the letter, opened the folded letter in front of Miss Brown, and made sure there was nothing suspicious in it:
"How much?"
"... How about twenty, no, I mean fifty pounds?"
She looked at Xia De with some embarrassment:
"I don't have much savings myself. After escaping my life, most of my money was used to pay tuition fees and rent a safe house...Tobesk's housing prices are too expensive."
"If it's just to send a letter, 30 pounds is enough. If I take more money from you, I owe you a favor. I am loyal to His Highness, and I will not owe favors easily."
Shad said, folding the letter and stuffing it into his pocket:
"I don't want the deposit, but you don't want to run away, otherwise I can find you even if you go to the New World."
"I look like this, and I can't run anywhere."
Miss Brown laughed at herself. When Xia De walked out, she heard "her" laughing:
【You are not suitable to play this kind of person. 】
"Of course, but it's good to experience it once in a while...how am I doing?"
"She" whispered softly in Shad's ear:
[It's really bad. 】
Miss Brown's fiancé, Mr. Ferringa, was born in a local civilian family. His mother died of the plague when he was ten years old. His father was robbed and stabbed to death in an alley when he was thirteen years old. As tragic as this may sound, it is not unimaginable in this day and age.
Fortunately, Mr. Feringa has no relatives, so he was able to get all the inheritance, and relying on this inheritance, as well as his own efforts and the dividends of the times, he successfully graduated and became a mechanic. He is currently working in a steam factory in the west of the city .
When Xia De found this gentleman, it was close to four o'clock in the afternoon on this Wednesday. This gentleman, who doesn't know what happened, is in his cramped office, holding a teacup to look at the drawings, and sketching something on the drawings with a pencil from time to time.
When Xia De entered the room very politely, Mr. Ferringa thought that Xia De was from the factory.
"Something happened to your fiancée."
Xia De broke the gentleman's leisurely afternoon with a very short sentence, and the contents of the letter destroyed his longing for life:
"Where is Bella now?"
The middle-aged man with a slightly mediocre appearance but a well-proportioned figure finished reading the letter, held the letter and asked Xia De, his eyes widened and he seemed to be having trouble breathing. His eyes were brown, like Miss Brown's.
"I can't tell. And even if I did, what can you do? Sir, in your size, you can take three bullets at most and you're dead. No, maybe two, MI6 agents, Generally good marksmanship."
Shard sneered, and Mr. Feringa immediately said:
"Although her status is difficult to accept, I still want to marry her.
We can leave here together, go to the New World, or go to the southernmost part of Carson Rick, or even go to live on an isolated island overseas. We were planning to leave Tobesk, our luggage was packed, my savings had already been withdrawn, and I left them at home. As long as she is willing to walk with me, we can say goodbye to everything in the past at any time. "
He stood up and looked at Xia De almost pleadingly:
"Sir, please, tell me, where is she? She is my true love, my only relative in this world, I don't care who she was, as long as she still loves me..."
He wanted to hold Xia De's hand, but Xia De avoided it.
[Do you think his performance at this time is true or false? 】
"She" asked in Xia De's ear softly.
"You should know my judgment"
Xia De responded in his heart, looked Mr. Brown up and down, and added before the other side pleaded again:
"I won't help you directly, after all, it's too risky for me~www.mtlnovel.com~MI6 should find you immediately, so you go home immediately, and then bring the banknotes and handy Luggage, hide for now. I can go and tell Miss Brown your decision, and if she wants to leave with you, I'll come back to you; if she doesn't, you don't see me by ten tonight, and you Go to the police and surrender; if you are arrested by the police before I come back, it means that your love is not blessed by the goddess of luck."
Mr. Brown immediately nodded in surprise:
"When I assisted in repairing the steam pipes of the sewers a few years ago, I got the drawings of the Tobesk sewers and knew where it was safer to hide."
He told Shad where he planned to hide, which was the sewer in the core city of Tobesk, so that no matter where Shad looked for him from any direction in the city, he would be able to find him as soon as possible:
"Sir, I don't know how to thank you."
He took Shad's hand and shook it vigorously.
"Just take the money."
Xia De, who feels that he is short of money recently, said that Mr. Feringa was taken aback, and then smiled:
"No problem, I have some savings over the years. I will go home immediately to pick up my luggage. May [Father of Peace] bless us. I don't want to hurt anyone, and I don't want anyone to be hurt. I just want to leave with her , completely forgetting anything from the past.”