The latest website: Le Maire, who was abandoned by his own organization, almost spent all his savings over the years to solve the problem. Although he couldn't even find out what the name of the relic mermaid statues were, he was introduced by a friend. A fortuneteller who is said to be very powerful, the fortuneteller gave him advice.
"pirate?"
Xia De sat on the chair and looked at the words on the notepad in surprise.
The fortune-teller seeks the guidance of fate through divination, and what he sees are pirates. Those mermaid statues will be associated with pirates, and the way to break the curse may be related to pirates.
It's a pity that Le Maire didn't have the opportunity to verify whether the fortune-teller who received him 300 pounds in cash really saw fate.
Relying on illegal smuggling activities, Le Maire has accumulated a large amount of savings over the years. Unfortunately, in order to break the curse, he spent a large amount of gold on divination, and the rest of the money was used to buy relics with the function of breaking the curse. Little cash was found here.
The relic was carried by Le Maire, presumably buried in the bottom of the sea. Therefore, apart from cash, Xia De only got the old book [Abyss of the Wind] and the notebook of the second-ring warlock.
Because I suspected that there was a hidden space here, I used [Echo of Blood] to observe the room. Although he found all the spellcasting materials hidden behind the bookshelf, most of them were worthless and inconvenient to carry, so Xia De didn't want to take them away.
To sum up, the harvest from this trip is not too much. Counting those notes and books, you can earn about 200 pounds if you sell them all. After all, it came for nothing, so Xia De would not think it was enough. And with this money, plus the current savings, he can spend money to renovate the third floor of Saint Teresa Square with peace of mind.
"However, this incident once again told me that this world is so dangerous that even a second-ring warlock may die suddenly due to bad luck."
When I was about to leave, I thought about it in my heart, and I was quite amazed at Le Maire's fate.
【What are you going to do with that statue? Put it here? 】
"Of course not, tell the church. But before going to report, I have one more thing to do."
Putting the money and books into the wide pockets of his coat, Shade pushed open the door and walked out of the attic.
It's Monday daytime, and there's no one else in the rental apartment except the landlord. When I saw the old man again, he was hiding in his basement workshop.
The basement is hot and steaming, and the dense steam pipes extend from the ground and upstairs to supply the production of the small workshop.
Gas lamps were lit on the wall, several gas-fired stills were placed beside the wall, and further inside was a box-type drying device and a small-power steam engine.
The most occupied area in the basement is a red copper-colored high-temperature calcination furnace. The furnace was still working when Xia De walked down. Indicates the internal working environment.
"What else do you want to do?"
Hearing the sound of Xia De opening the basement door, the old man asked vigilantly, standing at the innermost part of the basement with a gun in his hand.
"I want to tell you that I have already taken all the things upstairs."
Shad said.
"Leave then, and I won't tell anyone you've been here."
"One more thing, I want to see what you produce here."
While he was talking, he looked around here, and the old man suddenly raised his gun:
"Get out of here now! I'm just saying it once, get out of here now! Don't think I'm afraid to shoot because you're from MI6, young man, get out now and I'll pretend nothing happened."
"It seems that the things you produce are really problematic. Shoot if you have the guts. Have you ever killed someone before?"
"Of course I killed someone, do you think I'm scaring you?"
Through the steam, neither of them could see each other clearly. But the sound of Xia De's footsteps was very obvious. Seeing that he was still approaching, the old man fired a shot at Xia De's feet.
The young detective stopped and looked at the bullet holes under his feet:
"Okay, I'll stop."
Even so, he still walked aside. When he was about to get close to the huge distiller, he rushed forward. It looked like Shad was hiding behind the still, but the old man's eyes widened because his legs couldn't be seen under the still.
"Where did you go?"
Holding the gun, he looked vigilantly at the quiet room, but soon felt a hand stretched out from behind.
The old man's reaction was also quick, and he didn't intend to compete with Xia De for control of the firearm in his hand. On the contrary, his body lay down, forcing Xia De to bend over to wrestle with him.
But the old man's left hand took advantage of this opportunity to reach Xia De's waist, and pulled out the revolver at once.
Very skillfully overwhelmed the hammer with his thumb, raised his left arm in reverse, pointing backwards at Shad's face:
"I haven't forgotten that you still have a gun in your waist, young man, it's still too easy to think."
Boom~
[The Gun of Kindness] Killed the shooter, and the bullet penetrated his forehead, leaving him no chance to leave a last word.
"Yeah, too young."
After the shots were fired, echoes echoed in the basement. Xia De sighed, put the body down, and then took back the [Spear of Kindness] from the old man's hand. Ignoring it any more, he walked out while wiping the gun with a handkerchief.
The old man had seen his face, and after telling the church where the mermaid statue was hidden, if the church came to ask, something would inevitably go wrong. And if he was shot to death with his own gun, even if the body was taken away, there was a small probability that the church would associate the dispatcher's death with this incident. Therefore, letting the old man "suicide" with the [Gun of Kindness] is the best way Xia De can think of.
In this way, no matter what method the church uses, they will never want to know who is here one step ahead of schedule today.
Afterwards, things were simple. Xia De skillfully locked the door downstairs of the apartment, and after confirming that he did not leave any footprints, he left through the back window. When I returned to the street again, I glanced back at the apartment building with the doors tightly closed, and became more understanding of Dr. Schneider's ability to always take out shoe covers and gloves.
The church closest to New Denton Avenue is the [Church of Creation and Destruction] of the righteous God [Ms. Creation], but Shade did not report it immediately, but returned to the hotel he rented to change his clothes.
To report dangerous relics, of course he couldn't run to the church by himself, so Shade's plan was to find a child on the street near the church and pay some change for the child to help deliver the letter.
He wrote in his left hand and simply explained the location of the apartment and the mermaid statue, and planned to leave the hotel by carriage. But when Xia De found an empty carriage at the door of the hotel and was about to get in the carriage, a group of policemen ran over with whistles in the distance:
"All carriages stop!"
When the police blow their whistle, it usually means that something happened, so all the passers-by dodge except for the coachmen who stopped in place. Xia De didn't want to get into trouble either, so he could only shake his head apologetically at the driver in front of him.
The team of policemen who ran over gathered the coachmen in the whole street, but they didn't say anything, they just forbade the coachmen to carry passengers now.
Xia De was worried that other accidents would happen to the mermaid statue, so he rushed to the church in a hurry, so instead of waiting there, he thought about walking to the next street to find the carriage.
Coldwater Port City is a standard seaport city on the west coast. Compared with Tobesk, which is located inland, the air here is more humid. And because it is adjacent to the pier, you can even feel the moisture of the sea as long as you take a breath.
Unlike the capital of De La Rion, where the steam industry is well developed, Lengshui Port City relies on ocean trade as its main economic means. And this also caused the city's steam pipeline and gas pipeline facilities to be constructed far behind Tobesk.
On the outer wall of the building along the street in Tobesk, the two kinds of pipes can be arranged in a relatively orderly manner, which well maintains the appearance of the city. However, the metal pipes on the outside of the wall in Lengshuigang City are purely for convenience and installation.
Xia De thinks that although the pipe arrangement looks a little messy, it has an inexplicably rough aesthetic. Coupled with the aging buildings in the upper dock area, the streetscape here seems to be a mixture of ancient medieval buildings and the steam age. Outsiders appreciate this scenery very much.
Just don't let him live in a place like this.
Both sides of Hoglunz Boulevard are connected with many alleys. Compared with relatively clean streets, most of the alleys can be directly equated with garbage dumps. Even if it is daytime, passers-by will subconsciously go around when encountering the alley instead of passing directly through the alley.
The same is true for Xia De, but when he was looking at the animal clinic across the street and thinking about bathing Mia, there were hurried footsteps in the alley beside him.
As if that person had been hiding in the alley, Xia De didn't even have time to react, the young girl in a black and white veil rushed out of the alley, and then stuffed the paper bag in her hand into Xia De's arms involuntarily:
"Help me get it!"
After finishing speaking, regardless of Xia De's reaction, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com quickly crossed the street with the hem of his skirt, and ran into the alley next to the pet clinic.
"What?"
Immediately afterwards, another group of police officers ran out from the alley from which the young girl rushed out. It was not the first time Xia De saw the police in this world, but the people who appeared at this time were definitely the most military-looking policemen he had ever seen, not ordinary street patrolling police officers.
"The police department in Lengshuigang City is indeed more powerful than Tobesk City."
I couldn't help but admire in my heart.
The policemen didn't pay any attention to Xia De who was standing at the entrance of the alley, but ran straight into the alley across the street in the direction the young girl left just now. Only Xia De was left standing there, holding the paper bag, completely unaware of what happened just now.
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