Shad had no other plans for the evening, as Captain Rudds had made an appointment for the evening's visit.
When you get home, put that bottle of holy water in the hidden space in the basement as well. Then I took the cat out to have a sumptuous dinner, and then used the time before Captain Ladds came to write yesterday's investigation report on Lawyer Locke Laurel, and sent it to the client Lemay by post. Mrs.
In this way, the only thing left to sign this entrustment is Mrs. Lemaire.
Captain Lades, who had agreed to come to visit, knocked on the door downstairs at seven o'clock that night.
The captain's whole mental state was different from before. When he came to visit, he still carried a bottle of wine that he knew was not cheap as a gift.
He excitedly told Shad what he had seen and heard when he took notes at Ridwich Field, and repeated what he had said in letters from his friends.
Finally, with a wide and rough palm, he tightly held Xia De's hand and kept shaking it, thanking the detective for his help with an excited face:
"I've known many people in my life, but Detective, you will be my friend for life."
"Captain, this is your own choice. I didn't invite you to help me and Mrs. Lemaire yesterday. It was you who chose to follow. It was your kindness that changed your destiny."
Shad was happy for him, but even so, the captain believed that Shad had changed his fate.
This middle-aged man who was born in the army is relatively kind, and I want to thank Xia De. But he didn't have much money, so he could only come here to thank him verbally, and promised that he would never forget Xia De's kindness.
This actually made Xia De a little embarrassed.
On Friday morning, she received a letter from the client. Mrs. Lemaire had already made an appointment with Lawyer Laurel to accept the estate of the distant relative next Friday, and Shade would go there together according to the entrustment contract.
As for the schedule on Friday, that is because Lawyer Laurel has to contact the notary office of the city hall to confirm that the transfer of the estate can be carried out. After all, it involves a lot of money, so the process will be relatively complicated.
There is no need to worry about entrusting for the time being, and the opening of the new key will also take time to wait, life seems to be leisurely at once.
So he went out at eight o'clock in the morning and went to the Black Raven Library to inquire about the thaumaturgy of [Echo]. The library does have the knowledge Shade needs, and [Echo] is not a rare spirit rune. But the problem is that although the thaumaturgy they provide is practical, the price is abnormally high.
Even though Xia De had close to 400 pounds in cash to consume, he was still hesitant to [Echo Power] worth 700 pounds including materials, and [Natural Hollow Sound] worth 1200 pounds without materials.
Xia De knew that he didn't intend to study the [Echo] spirit rune carefully, and he didn't see the connection between this spirit rune and [Time and Space] and [Silver Moon] for the time being. So even if the queen's ruby ring and the Rhodes card in his hand can be cashed out, unless he encounters a very practical thaumaturgy, he will not spend so much money to buy knowledge.
There is no gain in the Black Raven library, but St. Byrence's library may have cheap thaumaturgy. It's just a pity that although the library catalog from last week is still in Xia De's hands, the thaumaturgy in the catalog is only related to [Silver Moon], [Time and Space] and [Gluttony].
Therefore, we still have to wait until Saturday, which is tomorrow, to further inquire about the information.
At 9:30, I hurried home, and after confirming for the last time that all sensitive items were hidden in the basement, I welcomed the exorcist from the Church of Dawn at 10:00.
Xia De originally thought that it would be a high-level ring magician, but he didn't expect that after opening the door, there was a group of people standing outside.
[The nine of them are all ring warlocks, and the man closest to you has a higher level than your doctor friend. 】
That is to say, in order to show the importance attached to Xia De who just joined the church, the Church of Dawn arranged a whole team of ring magicians to carry out the exorcism.
The squad leader is a man of few words but very strong in action. He called himself Hells Nidero, and was a full-time exorcist of the Church of the Dawn in the Tobesk Archdiocese. After the brief introduction, the group went directly to the second floor.
Mr. Nidero took out a somewhat rusty black iron key from his pocket, and after confirming that the lock was intact with Shad, he opened the door with the key.
"No, Mr. Hamilton, let's enter half of the people first, and you will enter the door after it is confirmed that it is safe."
He pressed the door of the house and said to the young detective holding the cat, it seemed that he really had a lot of experience.
The five members of the exorcist team filed in, and it took a while for others outside the door to be allowed in.
Room No. 2 on the second floor is similar to Room No. 1, which was originally closed. The gas pipes and steam pipes were completely cut off, and all the windows were sealed with wooden boards. A layer of dust fell on the ground, and it was dusty when walking.
They first removed the wooden boards of the windows, and then the nine people had a clear division of labor to carry out inspections in each room.
Xia De was asked not to walk around, but he could still stand in the living room of the second room and see the outline of the house. It was empty without any furniture, but at least the decorative walls were preserved, and the layout of the room was exactly the same as the No. 1 room where Shad and Miya lived.
Looking around, there is no suspicious sign in the room. So I asked in my heart, but I just got a normal answer.
The church's ring warlock team came prepared for this trip, and they conducted a careful inspection of each room. And on the premise of confirming that Xia De did not peek, close the door and use thaumaturgy and spells to exorcise the demons to ensure that even if there are evil spirits, they will never survive.
The entire exorcism operation lasted for more than an hour, and finally ended at 11:30. And the reply from the "Exorcist Squad" is:
"It's safe and there's no evil here, so it can be used normally."
Xia De was dubious about this conclusion, after all, the church also believed that there was nothing strange about the basement. Therefore, after the ring magicians of the church left, they immediately returned to the second room where the door was opened.
"Echoes of the past!"
Five times in a row, no suspicious sound was heard.
"The Echo of Blood!"
Large areas of faint blood-colored halos spread on the ground, walls, and ceiling. The brutality of the mass suicide incident decades ago was far beyond Xia De's expectations. But those overlapping blood colors did not provide any effective clues. He could barely identify some blood-stained footprints, but he couldn't discover the value of the footprints like he did in the basement exploration.
Because of the "experience" in the basement, I finally tried to call out the ring of life, and used the aura of [Time and Space] to illuminate each wall in turn.
This is a big project, and Xia De worked hard for half an hour. Until Mia walked out of Room 1, meowing impatiently asking for lunch, he failed to find any hidden walls again.
"It's a good thing. It would be weird if every floor of the house had problems."
Standing in the middle of the living room and looking at the empty room, after the worries disappeared, there was an indescribable joy in my heart:
"The usable area of the house has increased a lot."
[But you and the cat don't need such a large space. 】
"Watching the house get bigger, I can feel a kind of joy from the bottom of my heart. You probably can't realize that in my hometown, it is almost impossible to own such a big house."
He stroked the walls of the room, considering the usable area of his home. It is really important for foreigners to have a stable residence of their own and a feeling of home.
Just looking at the dust on the walls and the footprints on the floor, I can't help worrying that as the house gets bigger and bigger, cleaning will become more troublesome.
Thinking of this, the image of the black-haired maid Miss Tifa Servitt suddenly jumped in front of her eyes. Immediately shake your head:
"It's someone else's maid. I probably need to pay a housekeeper to come and clean the room every week...Maybe it would be good to help with the laundry."
[Do I need to remind you that the one staring at you at the door is also someone else's cat. 】
Her voice is charming.
"It's not the same, how can humans and cats be the same."
Xia De said in his heart, only to get laughter as an answer.
"Meow~"
Mia squatted obediently at the door, wagging her tail, waiting for Xia De to take it out to eat something delicious. The little orange cat knows very well that if it is not cooking in the kitchen at this time, UU reading www.uukanshu.com means that it must go out to eat.
He raised his right paw and rubbed his furry face bag. Cats hate going out, but they like to go out to eat.
After the free morning is over, the itinerary for the afternoon is already arranged. The Association of Tobesk Universities advertised in the "Steam Bird Daily", inviting people from the community to attend academic lectures.
Xia De had long planned to attend the lecture, so he set off after lunch. As for Mia, she continued to look after the house at No. 6 Place Saint Teresa. This timid cat doesn't like to go outside, much less during the hot summer months. Xia De got a basin of snow for it, and used another water basin and heavy objects to hold it down to prevent it from being eaten by the cat.
I hope Mia can spend a cool afternoon.
This academic lecture was sponsored by the Kingdom's Department of Culture and Education, Tobesk City Hall and a small number of nobles, organized by the Tobesk University Federation, and provided by the De La Rion Royal Institute of Mechanical Engineering.
The academic lectures started at 1:30 p.m. and lasted until 8:30 p.m., and were divided into different sessions according to different subjects. In addition to the city's educators and scholars, scholars from the surrounding areas of the kingdom and even Carson Rik will also appear. But generally speaking, this is not a large-scale event.