"You look at me strangely now."
The girl with beautiful long brown hair said, then got up:
"It's very late, so I'll leave first. Detective, our cooperation is still continuing. If there is anything, I will write to you directly."
"Miss Bayas, where do you live, then? The Church of the Sun?"
"Of course not, otherwise, why don't you just tell others that Blackstone Security Company is the church's stronghold?"
She gave her address, of course, it was also an apartment similar to that Miss Louisa rented:
"I will continue to track down the whereabouts of the silver pupil, so goodbye, Detective Hamilton."
Shade sent Miss Bayas downstairs, and when she watched her leave the Plaza de Saint Teresa, he suddenly realized that his current relationship with Miss Bayas was very similar to the "friend" relationship that Miss Anat pursued.
"If the progress on Miss Anat's side is not going well, perhaps relying on the progress on my side, Miss Bayas will know the chosen one and is willing to cooperate with us."
He closed the door, picked up Mia and wanted to go upstairs. Knowing the current time in my heart, it is eleven o'clock in the middle of the night on Sunday. Although I was invited to play cards again on Sunday this week, there was no accident this time.
A woman's chuckle sounded in her ear.
"Well, no big accident happened. Last week I met the evil god, and this week it was just a ring warlock and a [Keeper-level] relic. Relatively speaking, is this still an accident?"
He asked the woman in his heart, but she didn't answer.
Xia De, who was in a good mood, walked up the stairs with the cat in his arms. It was time to rest.
In this way, Xia De came to the Moon of Thunder without incident, which is the second week of July in 1853 in the Sixth Universal Calendar. When I woke up on Monday morning, I was still summing up the gains and losses of the previous week. But it seems that after the accident at the Lake View Manor on the last day of June, life has really gradually calmed down, and the things encountered are not too dangerous.
After breakfast, he took a rental carriage to the psychological clinic located on Roentgen Avenue in the East District of Tobesk. It's not yet nine o'clock, but the clinic is already open.
When Dr. Schneider heard that Xia De was visiting, he ran downstairs from the consultation room on the second floor in a panic:
"What's going on? Shad, are you okay?"
He looked terrified, probably thinking that Xia De had encountered something dangerous and needed his help to deal with it.
"I'm fine."
The two then moved to the reception room on the second floor to talk.
"I recently met a good friend...I don't want to disclose my identity, but I always got information. Mr. Ponton from the Chengdong Steam Engine Special Screw Factory and Mr. Roosevelt, the accountant of the Xingxingcao Public Tobesk Nursing Home, and Mr. [Blood of Mercury] is closely related, help the group of hiding guys keep some [relics].”
"Huh? Is the news accurate?"
The doctor came to the spirit.
"It's guaranteed to be absolutely fine. The two of them are probably ordinary people. Of course, it's only a high probability. But this news will be revealed to the Orthodox Church on Tuesday, that is, tomorrow, so..."
"clear!"
The middle-aged doctor clenched his left hand into his palm, with a smile on his face:
"As long as there are clues, it will be easy. Even if the thing kept by these two gentlemen is not the [fake Philosopher's Stone], they must know more people who keep things for Mercury's Blood."
The doctor looked smug, but he was equally cautious:
"Xia De, I need to make some preparations to push back the bulimia of the earl's wife and daughter who are going to be treated tonight, and then tonight I... no, call Louisa to act together. Although it's just ordinary people , but don’t be careless. Do you want to go together? Just take it as a long-term experience.”
"certainly."
Xia De is actually very interested in the relics kept by these ordinary people:
"I'll go with you, and the friend who gave me the clue said, if [the relic] is not what we are looking for, then don't take it, so as not to disrupt the church's investigation."
"no problem."
The doctor waved his hand indifferently, he is not a greedy person:
"I just want [the fake Philosopher's Stone], nothing else."
The two agreed to meet at Shade's house at seven o'clock in the evening, because his house was closer to both targets. As for this information, the doctor thinks it is of great value, and he cannot let Xia De suffer:
"Don't you owe 20 pounds this month? If you find the [fake Philosopher's Stone] later, you don't have to pay it back, I will pay it for you. If you don't find it, then you just pay 10 pounds."
Although the current economic situation is much better than two weeks ago, Xia De is still very happy that the arrears can be reduced.
It didn't take too long to stay with the doctor, so Shade then took the carriage to Old John's **** shop.
Because the distance is a bit far, it is very heartbreaking to pay when getting off the bus. But now that he has a legitimate weekly income, Xia De is also persuading himself that the gold pounds that should be spent must not be saved.
He didn't think he was stingy, but he was afraid of being poor some time ago.
There were no customers in the pawnshop, and before Xia De entered, the elderly store owner was reading a letter. Looking up and seeing that it was a regular customer coming to the door, he quietly put away the letter:
"Detective, I haven't seen you for half a week, and I look pretty good..."
This was just a usual greeting, but then he looked suspiciously at Xia De's face:
"Do you have a time key?"
Xia De stood in front of the counter and tapped on the table with his fingers.
"have."
"Um?"
He was just asking casually, but he didn't expect it to be true, so he became excited:
"How many are there?"
"One, although this is a [relic] with multiple existences, do you think [Time Key] can be easily picked up?"
He left the counter, went out through the back door of the pawnshop, and returned within two minutes holding a long and thin box.
Push the wooden box to Xia De, and after opening it, lying in the red lining is the wooden time key.
"Is the packaging so good to raise the price?"
After getting permission, Xia De picked up the key to check.
"This is a business strategy, young man, you don't understand."
Old John waved his hand, seeing that Xia De was very fond of the key, he began to make an offer:
"I won't guess what you are looking for [Time Key], although I can guess it. Because [Time Key] exists in plural, the price is relatively transparent. I set the price according to the average market price. The time point corresponding to this key, I I have checked it, it was around 3002 of the Fifth Epoch, which was in the middle of the Fifth Epoch, and nothing major happened in that year, so this key should be very common [Poet-level]...25 pound."
High-level time keys are generally more expensive than other relics of the same level, while time keys of low-risk levels are generally cheaper than other relics of the same level. Shade has investigated this point, so he knows that the price is relatively reasonable.
"Twenty pounds. For the sake of that cane."
But in the face of Old John, he still habitually lowered the price.
"How long will you keep mentioning this matter? I didn't raise the price this time. This price is just right."
"A little lower and I'm not doing very well financially."
Xia De put the key back into the box, and the old man looked him up, as if he was thinking about the thickness of his wallet:
"13 pounds and 15 shillings, no more."
"make a deal."
Xia De nodded, and the old man heaved a sigh of relief, pressed the box with one hand, and twirled his fingers with the other:
"Pay first and then deliver."
"No problem, but I still want to sell a [relic]."
"A relic? Why don't you talk about selling things first? Take it out and let me see it."
Seeing Xia De take out the long and thin thing wrapped in newspaper from his pocket, Old John suddenly became interested. Perhaps he is more interested in seeing new things than making money.
"Let's talk about shopping first. I have money, so it's not easy to lower the price?"
Shad said with a smile, unfolding the newspaper to expose the finger bones. This time, Old John didn't complain about Shade's price reduction strategy, but looked at the finger with a serious expression, and after looking at it for a moment, he sighed:
"Oh? It's this one?"
"You know?"
"Of course I do. The keeper-level relic [Yin Corpse Remains] can make people obtain undead relics. If I can't even recognize these special relics, why do I open a **** shop?"
After obtaining Xia De's permission, the old man solemnly put on gloves to inspect the relic, and then put on a special geared metal device like a monocular to carefully observe the scratches on the surface of the phalanx:
"No problem, it is indeed a secret keeper-level relic [Yin Corpse Remains]. Look at the above text, this is a genuine fourth era undead text, which has been completely lost. If it does not have too many side effects, this thing can be called the most A valuable Keeper-class relic."
He leaned close to the finger bone and sniffed:
"The smell of corpses and graveyards, oh yes, that's it."
He put the phalanx back in Shad's newspaper, and took off the gloves:
"Good stuff, let's make an offer."
Xia De knew the general pricing of [Relic] in advance, and also discussed this issue with Miss Bayas last night. But just as he was about to open his mouth to say the price, Old John stopped him by raising his hand:
"Speaking of ~www.mtlnovel.com~, are you interested in bartering? I don't have four-figure or five-figure cash at hand."
Working with Miss Bayas was dangerous, but rewarding. The sum of the money Xia De earned in this world is not so much.
Xia De looked at the old man in front of him, wondering if this was some kind of bargaining strategy. But bartering is not impossible, after all, he makes money to spend on relics or knowledge:
"Tell me what it is first."
Old John walked out of the counter first, but after looking at the door, he locked the door from the inside, and then returned to the counter and whispered to Shad:
"This is a really good thing. I just received it not long ago. It is also at the keeper level, but it is quite special. The college and the church named it [Witch's Carbon Paper]. This is a relic used by the Fifth Epoch Witch Emperor. For the first time When it was discovered, there were 108 sheets in a stack, and they were later distributed to different people. Each sheet has the same effect, and it can be imprinted on the paper by pointing the carbon paper at some kind of thaumaturgy, spell, or ritual that is being released. Ring Warlocks burn the carbon paper, soak the ashes in water and drink it, and there is a high probability that they can obtain thaumaturgy, spells, divine spells, and even spiritual runes similar to the extraordinary ability of the brand..."