"Sit down! It's not that I won't give it, but I don't have cash right now!"
Seeing the decadent man yelling, Professor Higgins hurriedly took the other's hand, trying to make him sit down, obviously worried about attracting too much attention.
"Don't even think about it!"
The vampire shook off the professor's hand, and even raised his voice:
"Pay the money now, I won't believe your words. If you go out and take the train, where can I find you?"
"I really have no money for the time being, but someone will send it tomorrow."
The professor still wanted to persuade the other party, but the other party didn't appreciate it at all:
"I'll come to you again at eight o'clock tonight, if you run away..."
He leaned over and whispered something in the professor's ear, then got up and walked out of the hotel. But after walking a few steps, he turned his head and looked at the suitcase that Professor Higgins was carrying, so he waved to the professor and signaled him to follow.
The two walked out of the Xikale Hotel together, Xia De didn't follow immediately, but thought about drinking the apple juice in his hand before leaving, if he couldn't find anyone, he would give up his interest in this matter.
But before he finished his drink, another person came down from the stairs. It was Armand Bernhardt, the uncle of the blood-sucking uncles and nephews that Shad had saved in the narrow gap between life and death. .
Similarly, at the same time Shad saw him, the **** mist above Mr. Bernhardt's head also condensed into a small bat. Compared with the down-and-out vampire just now, Mr. Bernhardt could tell at a glance that he was an upper-class person.
He was probably attracted by the quarrel just now, or he had been paying attention to this place all the time, so he came down from the upstairs after the two left the hotel and followed.
Xia De still sat still, as if all this had nothing to do with him. He waited until he finished drinking the drink in the cup before leaving.
From a distance, Mr. Bernhardt could be seen walking along the east street, but he didn't go far, and turned into a side alley.
Xia De hesitated for a while and didn't follow up. Instead, based on the terrain he surveyed nearby last time, he made a big circle from the alley on the other side, passing through the narrow alleys between dense apartment buildings, trying to detour Go to the front and see where the professors and vampires who came out earlier went.
During this period, seeing few people on the street, he "pulled" a new coat from the inner pocket of the coat and put it on, "stuffed" the hat on his head into the pocket, and then "took" out a new coat. The hat is worn on the head. Finally he hesitated and even put a mask on himself.
But the result was very unexpected. In the end, Shade met Professor Higgins and the vampire in the garbage alley behind the Sika Hotel. He appeared from the east side of the alley on the east side, while Mr. Bernhardt, who walked leisurely, appeared from the west side of the alley.
The two saw the scene in the alley almost at the same time. The old professor fell to the ground, while the middle-aged blond man with a mouth full of blood was holding the suitcase that originally belonged to the professor of linguistics at Carson Rik. With wallets that clearly didn't belong to him and a pistol, he was trying to escape from the crime scene.
"this......"
The down-and-out man noticed people at both ends of the alley almost at the same time, and after seeing Armand Bernhardt on the west side, he turned around and ran to the east side without any hesitation. Shad pressing the hat.
"Go away!"
While running, he brandished a pistol and yelled loudly, the blood on his mouth was indeed very frightening.
Xia De raised his head, and the vampire also saw the mask on Xia De's face. But before he had time to think about it, he saw Xia De clapped his hands together, and then separated instantly.
The silvery arc of light was pulled apart from between the two palms, and shot out in the next second, splitting the rushing vampire into two neat halves. But after the corpse fell to the ground, it just left a cloud of blood on the ground, and then scattered into a small group of flying bats.
The group of little bats flew to the west end of the alley, and after passing Professor Higgins on the ground, they were forced to gather again after only flying more than 20 meters.
"Is the racial talent of vampires? I remember that they are very good at the power of flesh and blood..."
Of course, although the other party avoided this death by virtue of the vampire's racial talent, when they converged into a human form again, they could hardly move due to serious injuries:
"Help me, Mr. Bernhardt!"
Lying on the ground with difficulty, the blond middle-aged man reached out to Armand Bennhardt on the west side of the alley. But the latter had a very gloomy face, walked over in silence, and then unexpectedly stepped on the middle-aged man's head with his boots:
"I was kind enough to introduce you to a job. Is this how you repay me? Do you know how much trouble you will cause me? Don't you know what kind of mission I came to this city to shoulder? ?"
It's not the Common Language, or even any language Shad has ever heard, but luckily he hears
understood. There wasn't much emotion in Bernhardt's voice, but he was obviously angry when a well-dressed upper-class gentleman made such a move.
Xia De also walked into the alley from the entrance of the alley, first picked up the suitcase, pistol and wallet in the blood, and then continued to walk forward, squatting down to check the situation of the gray glove agent "Professor Higgins".
It is a pity that he is dead, the bite mark on the neck is the cause of death.
"Sir, is this your friend?"
Stepping on the head of the down-and-out vampire, Mr. Bernhardt asked Shad who stood up halfway across the alley.
"It can be counted."
Xia De said softly, although the two had met in the narrow space of life and death, Xia De was much stronger then than now, and now Mr. Bernhardt obviously did not recognize him.
"Can I ask him a few questions?"
"sure."
"First of all, what did Professor Higgins commission you to do?"
"Psychic! A corpse in the psychic police station, we negotiated a price of 500 pounds! He paid 300 pounds first, and promised to settle the balance of 200 pounds today!"
The weak vampire barely spoke.
This price is certainly unreasonable in Xia De's view, but for ordinary people who have no access to mysterious power, they can only accept it no matter how much money it is.
"What did he ask the soul?"
"I don't know. I'm only in charge of channeling and sending away souls. I wasn't there when they were talking."
"Why kill him?"
"I have a huge gambling debt at Lord's Underground, and if he doesn't pay me cash today, I'll be in big trouble. I see he's been carrying that suitcase all day, and he's trying to trade the contents for some Gold pounds..."
Similar to what Xia De thought, the agent of Gray Gloves used the power of extraordinary creatures to obtain information, and finally died because of this.
"How did he contact you?"
"I introduced it."
Mr. Bernhardt stepped on his head and said in a deep voice:
"Your professor friend and I both live on the fourth floor of the Xikale Hotel, and occasionally smoke together. The professor suddenly told me last week that his friend passed away, but there are still some secrets that I haven't had time to tell, so I have good intentions , I introduced this guy, but I didn’t expect this to kill the professor.”
The boots were pushed hard again, and the trampled vampire had almost no strength left to moan.
"Sir, if you have no objection, I can give you some compensation."
Mr. Bernhard said politely.
It's not that the blood-sucking species in the middle ring is afraid of Xia De, but that vampires and other alien creatures are more dangerous objects in the eyes of the Orthodox Church than academic ring warlocks. In the daytime like now, they would definitely not be able to fight in the downtown area, so it was worthwhile to exchange some compensation for keeping the secret.
"compensation?"
Xia De shook his head, pointing to the downcast middle-aged man stepped on by him:
"How is this guy's life?"
"fair enough."
The boots crushed the head so hard that the corpse didn't even have time to leave a single last word. Bernhardt shook his head, took out a small bottle from his pocket, sprinkled the powder, and the clothes and corpse of the vampire slowly "melted" into the mud:
"I'm an outsider and I don't want to attract too much attention in this city. Since Coste broke the rules, I think he paid the price of his life, which is what he deserved."
Shad nodded and looked up at the sheets hanging on the clothesline above Garbage Alley. Raising his hand and flicking it lightly, the silver light cut through the clothesline, causing the bed sheet to fall down, just covering the body of Professor Higgins on the ground.
He pretended to squat down, folded the sheet continuously, then picked it up and kneaded it into a ball, tied the top knot behind his back.
This is to prevent the other party from seeing the details of thaumaturgy [toy making]:
"Then Mr. Vampire, I think you can also see that what Professor Higgins did is also unclean, so this matter ends here. I am not interested in you~www.mtlnovel.com~You don't want to either Tell anyone about it."
"That's fair."
Mr. Bernhardt nodded:
"I brought my nephew to this city, and I have no intention of conflicting with local forces. This is the end of this matter."
But Xia De reached into his pocket again, took out a roll of banknotes sealed with a note, and threw it far away. The rolled banknotes flew over the garbage alley, and were firmly caught by Armand Bernhardt.
"I paid the final payment of 200 pounds for the psychic."
Shad said.
In this way, he can take the suitcase as his own with peace of mind, because he has already paid for it.
The middle-aged gentleman wearing a black top hat smiled, instead of rejecting the huge sum of money, he put it in his pocket. Then he took out a business card, held it between his fingers, and flew it to Xia De. This was done with the help of the basic spell [Move Object] and superb skills:
"When something like this happens, my nephew and I won't be able to live here anymore. We will move to live with the same family in this city who have forgotten what it means to be decent. If you need anything, you can find me at this address. I think , no one will refuse to have one more friend."
"Yes."
Xia De glanced at the business card and found that it was a red wine winery in this city. The business card did not belong to Mr. Bernhardt, it should belong to a vampire living in this city. After putting the business card into their pockets, the two nodded to each other, and then left from both ends of the garbage alley in tacit understanding.
Except for the pool of blood on the ground and the sparrow standing on the clothesline, no one would know what happened here just now.