The princess smiled and said to the stunned Xia De, and then motioned Xia De to sit down and talk:
"I happened to meet here, do you want to watch an opera together?"
Apart from her, there were only the maids in the box. This time Agelina Cavendish came out to watch the opera alone.
But she probably didn't know that Xia De was waiting for her sister, but really wanted to invite Xia De to watch the opera together, otherwise she would never invite Xia De to stay.
Shad himself doesn't want to get involved with more Cavendishes, which will cause a lot of trouble. He deliberately found an excuse to reject the other party's invitation, but perhaps seeing what Shad meant, Princess Agelina said again:
"Knight, do you have any other companions? Or are you waiting for someone? Oh, it doesn't matter, you can invite them together."
Agelina Cavendish's attitude was very sincere, and Xia De couldn't refuse after seeing this, but thinking of the news sent by Rezia just now that she would arrive at least half an hour later, he said:
"Good Your Highness, but I can only stay here for half an hour. I have other things to do later. I just came to watch the opera today because I received a commission."
"No problem, but you must come to my salon next time, my friends are very interested in you..."
The sixteen-year-old princess said happily, then motioned for Xia De to sit down and talk, and called his maid to pour tea and bring new biscuits.
Compared to watching an opera, the conversation between the two is what really interests Shad.
Although in the eyes of outsiders, Princess Adelina is the kind of princess who is favored by the king, hangs around banquets and salons, and is only waiting to be betrothed by Larousse III for a political marriage, but when it comes to domestic politics and the recent Carson Rico She can easily give her own opinions and insights, which is no worse than Xia De imagined.
She even has an understanding of things in the New World. Although Her Royal Highness doesn't like the kind of remote place where there are no cake shops, she can speak clearly about the kingdom's gains from the New World.
Of course, it was limited to very simple explanations, and more of the strange experiences she heard from the people around her. For example, she told Xia De very excitedly that there is a cat in the New World that is smaller than ordinary mice, and is very cute and docile, does not shed hair, has a small appetite, and defecates at 8 am every day.
But the recipe for this idealized pet is limited to the fresh leaves of the plant "sage" that can only grow in the New World, so the strange creature called "rat cat" by the expedition team was not brought to the princess.
"When that kind of grass can be transplanted to the old continent, I must raise one."
The princess said to Xia De, but Xia De couldn't imagine the picture of adding a new pet.
He could almost imagine that the orange cat Mia was squatting on the highest cabinet in the house, the whole cat was hidden in the darkness, looking gloomy at the terrifying scene of Xia De interacting with the new pet under the gas lamp.
The two watched the opera while chatting, half an hour like this passed quickly.
Princess Agelina asked Shad to leave as promised, but before leaving, she once again invited Xia De to attend her salon if she had time:
"The first time I saw you in the courtyard on the second-floor terrace of the Lake View Manor, I felt that you were different from everyone else."
The little princess praised:
"Don't refuse the next invitation, knight, I have a good impression of you."
Xia De smiled and agreed, but said that he was very busy recently and would only have time in a few months.
Saying goodbye to the princess at the door of the box, Xia De walked along the corridor to the stairs, intending to return to the box and wait for Rezia.
At the corner of the corridor, when he met three strange men in black windbreakers who were walking hurriedly, Xia De let them pass first. The leader, a tall man wearing a black hat, nodded to Xia De as a thank you. Xia De was very curious that these three gentlemen were actually wearing ordinary clothes to watch the opera.
"Probably the guard of a certain nobleman."
He was thinking in his heart, thinking about what he was going to say when he saw Rezia for a while, and continued to walk forward with his head down. Because he lowered his head, his eyes unconsciously looked at the floor under his feet.
Therefore, he saw a series of not dense red halos on the red carpet under his feet.
"Um?"
The footsteps did not stop, but his eyes blinked twice, and he immediately recognized what it was:
"Is this the echo of blood? Can it be displayed passively now?"
Xia De was surprised to think that these red halos were indeed the manifestation of [Echo of Blood]. But he didn't activate the thaumaturgy, which meant that this thaumaturgy could actively display relatively fresh blood at close range.
As soon as his heart moved, these halos disappeared immediately. It seemed that the passive state, once it was noticed and became active, Xia De could still cancel it at any time.
"However, where did the blood come from? The bottom of the three people's shoes just now?"
Anyway, there is nothing to do now, so Xia De stopped and walked back to the corner of the corridor, tilting his head back and looking at the three men.
The three stopped in front of Adelina's box, and after knocking on the door, the person at the front seemed to cover the mouth of the person inside. The three of them rushed in and closed the door.
The corridor returned to calm, only the sound of the opera was still echoing. The three men didn't notice Xia De's head protruding from the corner, so naturally they didn't know that this scene was seen by Xia De.
Xia De raised his eyebrows and straightened his slanted body.
When they passed each other just now, the voices in their ears did not indicate that the three of them were ring warlocks, so it shouldn't be that Xia De was so unlucky that he encountered a mysterious incident again.
But the three of them are obviously not right, so Shade restores the revolver that has been turned into a toy to its original state. Now that this kind of thing has happened, it is natural to take care of it, not to mention that Princess Agelina is Rezia's younger sister.
He went back to the door, knocked and said loudly:
"Your Highness, sorry, I put..."
He wanted to say that he had left something behind, but he thought that once the three men found that there was no item in the room that Xia De said was left behind, then the other party would know that Xia De had come prepared.
So Shad said:
"My lord, I have left with you the garter you gave me."
There were 5 women in the room, and Xia De couldn't believe that he couldn't even find a garter. And just now the princess didn't say that she would give Xia De a garter, so they could know at this moment that Xia De had sensed something was wrong.
The sound insulation of this kind of private box for nobles is very good, Xia De should be able to hear the loud voice inside, but he can't hear the voice inside. After a while, the door was opened with a gap, and the trembling maid stood in front of the gap, her mouth closed as if she wanted to speak but dared not.
She actually handed Shad a garter.
Decorated with white lace, it is decorated with a light pink bow fastened with pearls. When Xia De took it in his hand, he even felt the body temperature on it.
"Your Highness!"
He grabbed the door crack and didn't give anyone a chance to close the door, but he also didn't intend to push the door open:
"I know I made you angry just now, so you don't want to see me, but please believe that it was definitely not an offensive act just now."
He winked at the maid who was blocking the door in front of him, who bit her lip and looked at him.
"Please forgive me, or I won't be leaving today!"
He said so.
After a few seconds, Adelina's voice came from behind the door:
"Yes, Detective, I forgive you."
Her tone of voice was also wrong, Xia De was curious about who was so bold, so he continued:
"Your Highness, your eyes are as bright as stars, and your lips are more charming than delicate roses. I beg your forgiveness. Please see me one last time. If you refuse me in person, I will definitely give up this time." .”
Such words were of course not made up by Xia De, they were heard when he was listening to the opera just now. As for the three men who just arrived, they obviously didn't hear the lines that the actors read just now.
"Are you really...after seeing me...and leaving?"
Agelina behind the door spoke intermittently, and Xia De immediately replied:
"Oh, yes, Your Highness, please believe me."
The room was quiet for a while, and after at least half a minute, the maid who was blocking the door was suddenly pulled back, and then Agelina stood in front of the door again as if being pushed from the side .
The little princess pursed her lips and looked at Xia De. Her body blocked the view from the outside to the inside, but at the same time blocked the view from the inside. Shad didn't know if Agelina Cavendish had the good habit of carrying steam bombs with her whenever she went out like her older sister and liked to give them to others, so she assumed that she had no fighting power.
After pressing the gun in his hand to the hammer, he shook it in front of the princess:
"careful."
He made such a mouth shape, and then continued to speak the opera lines he just heard, regardless of whether Adelina understood it or not:
"Even the shining stars in the night sky~www.mtlnovel.com~ are not enough for you..."
Adelina blinked at Shad, her right hand suddenly moved, and her index fingers pointed in three different directions. From the direction behind the door, the sound of breathing could be faintly heard, which indicated that she was trying to tell Shad the location of the enemy.
"It seems that she is not completely useless."
Thinking about something in his heart, Xia De didn't realize what was said in his mouth. But he knew very well that it couldn't be delayed, otherwise no matter how stupid the people inside were, they should understand that Xia De was delaying time.
"Ordinary people are present, so I can't use the power of the ring warlock rashly. Even if I use it, I can only use it that is not easy to arouse suspicion. It's a pity that the doctor hasn't got the [Mind Crystal] yet. MI6 issued it. Although the Luger revolver has six cylinders, they cannot be fired in succession. I can only knock down one person with the gun at the first time..."
Thinking in his heart, Xia De has already made a decision. He held the gun in his right hand, took out four Rhodes cards from his pocket with his left hand, and put them between his fingers.
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