Chapter 1040: The Pursuit of the Military Intelligence Agency

"A good ending..."

Princess Ring Ring Mage Li Te nodded slightly and looked at Xia De in front of her:

"How should I thank you? Xia De, you probably can't understand the significance of this matter to me."

Xia De really wanted to propose meeting Sir Pu Li Xia now, but thought about it and decided to finish this small matter first:

"Let's tell me how to deal with Miss Bu Lang first. She is probably waiting for news in anxiety. Let me say first, I won't kill anyone. Although she is a spy to you, to me, she is an excellent agent of this country... a defected agent."

Thinking about it, whether it was as an active ace agent of the Military Intelligence Agency or as the ace spy "Gray Hawk" of the Gray Glove, Xia De had reasons to kill Miss Bu Lang.

"What are you talking about, who wants you to kill her?"

The Princess shook her head slightly:

"If I knew about this a few years ago, I would definitely teach her a lesson. But now... she has already defected from the Military Intelligence Agency, so she is no longer an enemy of Ka Sen Li Ke. Although she probably knows some things about the Military Intelligence Agency..."

"You don't want to punish her."

Xia De used a declarative sentence. The Princess with pale golden long hair glanced at him:

"This is what you said, not what I said."

"Then the next letter, you say I write, or you write it yourself."

For a moment, Xia De felt that he really saw the Princess show a smile at him, but looking closely, it seemed to be an illusion:

"I'll write it myself, and I'll have to trouble you to deliver the letter to her."

She reached out to Xia De. Xia De reached out his hand, let the Princess put her hand in his, and stood up from the sofa.

Ring Ring Mage Li Te An Ru looked at the silver-white manor courtyard outside:

"Regardless, the guilt of the past eight years can finally be considered gone..."

She asked Xia De softly:

"If I curse with dirty words very unladylike now, will you tell others?"

Xia De looked at her suspiciously and dug his ear:

"Sorry, what did you say? I didn't hear it."

The Princess showed a smile and said through gritted teeth:

"Qiao Ya Ni Ke Lao Si (Note), you bitch. You already have a fiancé, right? He will betray you sooner or later, just like you were unfaithful to my family."

After speaking, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. The Princess's "dirty words" were much more civilized than the slang Xia De imagined.

She opened her eyes and looked at Xia De:

"Knight, do you want to have lunch together?"

"Here?"

Although this wasn't Xia De's first visit to Canary Manor, having lunch here with a foreign Princess was no small matter.

"Yes, you helped me so much, if I drive you away at lunchtime, wouldn't that be too harsh?"

Saying this, she walked toward the door to notify the maid to prepare extra lunch, but there was clearly a faint red glow on her cheeks.

It was a coincidence that Xia De originally thought about whether he would see Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya at the lunch table of Canary Manor, but the witch didn't return until Princess Ring Ring Mage Li Te and Xia De finished lunch.

Xia De also inquired about Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya's whereabouts today, and then unexpectedly learned from the Princess who was tasting dessert, which was a small cake decorated with strawberries, that Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya had her own things to do.

"My math teacher also has her own life."

She used a fork to fiddle with the strawberry on top:

"She has been receiving invitations from Duchess Jia Lin Na frequently recently."

The Princess of Ka Sen Li Ke said in De La Rui Ang language. Members of the royal families of both countries were proficient in both languages. And mentioning Jia Lin Na Ka Wen Di Xu, and then thinking of the relationship between the detective in front of her and the Duchess, the Princess witch felt uncomfortable:

"I'll tell you a secret, you can't tell others."

She pretended to look around the restaurant cautiously, but in fact, there were only her two most trusted maids here, one of whom was a First Ring Warlock:

"Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya actually likes beautiful girls a bit."

She was satisfied to see the tangled expression on Xia De's face:

"Oh, Detective, so you shouldn't get too involved with Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya, my teacher's personality... is a bit unique."

She actually wanted to protect Xia De, not to let him get too close to the Great Witch, but somehow the next sentence blurted out:

"So you have to watch your Duchess, don't be cheated away by my teacher."

After lunch, Princess Ring Ring Mage Li Te had other schedules. Xia De went to deliver the letter, and the two agreed to meet again at Canary Manor in the evening.

So Xia De was still taking a carriage to set off. He originally thought that delivering the reply this time wouldn't cause any trouble, but when he reached the entrance of that old bookstore, he found that the neighbors were all standing at the door looking inside:

"What happened here?"

He also mixed into the crowd and learned the truth from the discussion. Probably at one o'clock in the afternoon, a gunshot suddenly came from inside the old bookstore, followed by a very dense burst of gunfire.

After a sound that sounded like a steam bomb explosion, in just half a minute, a man holding his shoulder who looked like he had been shot fled from the bookstore.

Not long after he left, a large number of police surrounded the place and took away old Mr. Bu Lang, the owner of the old bookstore, who had just returned from collecting accounts and seemed to know nothing about what happened. The neighbors who were familiar with the situation of the old bookstore all found that Miss Be La Bu Lang did not appear, and the police also set up a cordon at the entrance of the old bookstore, and were currently searching inside the bookstore.

"The matter of selling illegal firearms here has been exposed?"

Xia De guessed like this first, but soon overturned his idea, because he actually saw his superior, Director An Luo Si.

That middle-aged man didn't see Xia De wearing a hat in the crowd. He entered the old bookstore with a team of police and whispered something to his companion. For an ordinary defection case, it shouldn't be necessary for him, as a director, to appear. It must be that the "Gray Hawk" who appeared in the Princess's bombing case not long ago made this gentleman smell something.

"Miss Be La Bu Lang was exposed. I just left, and the Military Intelligence Agency came. Is there such a coincidence?"

It seemed that the lady should not have been caught yet. She had a gunfight with people in the bookstore, and after forcing away the man who had a wounded shoulder and was suspected to be an agent of the Military Intelligence Agency, she escaped from another direction.

Thinking of this, Xia De went around to the alley behind the bookstore, and sure enough, found bloodstains scraped on the wall behind the old bookstore. Later, he realized that this was not just bloodstains scraped out. Miss Bu Lang was also wounded when she was fighting with others.

Taking advantage of the fact that the police in the alley didn't notice this side, he slipped into the alley quietly with the Red Butterfly illusion, and took those bloodstains into the red wine bottle to make blood brew, and then cheated the police with the illusion again and left here.

In the remote alley, he tilted his head and dripped those bloodstains into his eyes. The miracle 【Blood Echo】 was activated. Because the bloodstains were very fresh, when Xia De returned to the alley where the incident occurred, the continuous figure of Miss Be La Bu Lang with a blush appeared clearly in Xia De's field of vision:

"She was indeed wounded. Is this a gunshot wound to the leg? Oh, it looks like it didn't hurt the bone."

The wounded former agent didn't dare to enter the main road, but drilled into the alleys nearby and moved all the way to the north of To Bei Si Ke. Xia De followed that figure, and in this sunny winter afternoon, passed through alleys one by one, watching Miss Bu Lang limp and go around.

She first opened the door of an old apartment building in the eastern part of the city with a key, handled her wounds in the house suspected to be a safe house, took some daily necessities and banknotes, changed into a set of clothes, and left by climbing out of the window with difficulty.

She even made a simple trigger-type steam bomb trap with silk threads and gear mechanisms at the door. But Xia De entered the room through the window, so he didn't trigger it at all. And in order to protect her colleagues and possible thieves who broke in, Xia De very thoughtfully dismantled those things.

After leaving the safe house, Miss Bu Lang turned around nearby, then continued to move north until she entered the slums in the north of the city. The alleys that extended in all directions here were easy to get lost even for strangers with good sense of direction.

Miss Be La Bu Lang didn't know if she was lost, or simply to confuse possible pursuers. After taking the wrong road three times, she entered a narrow street with a rusted metal street sign "Long Ear Alley." After opening the door of No. 7 Long Ear Alley with a key, the continuous figure entered the house, and no figure walked out around:

"Hiding here?"

Long Ear Alley was an ordinary alley in the poor area in the north of To Bei Si Ke. Strictly speaking, this was not a slum, but a street block where poor people with a little money lived. The streetscape here was maintained quite well. The standing houses were arranged along the street one by one. Although no one swept the snow in front of each house, at least the street surface was cleared for people to pass.

In order to prevent scaring Miss Bu Lang, Xia De didn't knock on the door, but opened the door lock directly with the "Key of

To avoid startling Miss Brown, Xia De did not knock; instead, he used the "Key of Doors" to pick the lock and entered the house.

Because it had been uninhabited for years, the house was cold and damp, appearing even more eerie in winter. Likely to save money, although Miss Brown had rented the place, she had not paid the gas bill, so all the lamps in the house were unusable. Entering the house felt like stepping into a cold, damp coffin; the atmosphere was incredibly oppressive.

Following Miss Brown's translucent red figure, Xia De climbed the creaking wooden stairs all the way to the second floor. Just as he turned into the hallway, a gun muzzle was pressed against his forehead.

"Pointing a gun at me is not a good idea."

Xia De said to the lady, who looked to be in very poor health. Although she failed to recognize Xia De, who was wearing eyeshadow, at first glance, she recognized his calm tone.