Chapter 1232: Pendulum, Safe, and Contract

"Luvia Anate?"

The Princess said softly, and then nodded in understanding:

"Since you have things to do, go do them, but don't forget to make time for a date with me next."

When Xia De returned to Stonemason Street where the Stonemason Society was located, it was already 5:00 in the evening. He passed through the bustling crowd and entered the noisy tavern, scanned twice before seeing Mr. Antonio sitting in the corner against the wall.

After the waiter left, Xia De, who sat down beside Mr. Antonio, apologized softly:

"Sorry, I might be a little late. It's a pity, I didn't get to see that Old Hack."

"No need to apologize, I think even with the Earl's power, it would be very difficult for you to see the criminal who assassinated the Prince for this reason."

The middle-aged playwright expressed understanding, and Xia De added:

"Of course, although I didn't see him in person, I investigated his neighbor and exchanged some stories from the children for a few candies."

Randall Valley local specialty honey beer, the two wanted a glass each. Xia De never liked alcohol, so he just tasted it to increase his knowledge.

"It's good to achieve the goal, do you have any good stories to share with me?"

"Of course."

Xia De then told the story he heard this afternoon, and Mr. Antonio recorded it quite excitedly. After Xia De finished talking about his harvest, the middle-aged man also talked about his harvest:

"I asked about the matter of Old Humphrey who was smashed to death last year in the society. The middle-aged stonemason we met this afternoon didn't lie. It was indeed during the earthquake last autumn that he was smashed to death by a crooked full-body statue. The wound was on his head."

He also pointed to his head to explain the specific location:

"It is said that he died on the spot, and the ground was red and white..."

Mr. Antonio's mouth twitched, obviously not very used to this kind of topic:

"What's interesting is that since Old Humphrey died, the Stonemason Society occasionally made the sound of carving stones at night, which is the prelude to the ghost rumors. Because of this, the high-level management of the society went to invite the local Sun Church to exorcise demons."

He lowered his voice slightly:

"My friend in the church told me that there really was a ghost in that incident."

This world originally had rich ghost stories and legends, so it was nothing for ordinary people to know these things. What couldn't be spread casually were things about relics and gods, while plausible ghost stories were the means to cover up dangerous information.

"But after the church exorcised demons, even if there were ghosts originally, they should be gone now, right?"

Xia De asked, but Mr. Antonio shook his head:

"Since then, the sound of carving occasionally appeared. However, people searched carefully and found nothing, and no one encountered danger because of this. Later, I heard an architect say that it was because the house was aging, and the materials inside the building deformed due to the large temperature difference between day and night, which produced the sound... I don't know if you believe it, anyway I... don't know if I should believe it."

"In that case, we have so many stories in our hands, but we don't have clues for the next investigation."

Xia De said holding the wine glass, but Mr. Antonio laughed instead:

"Mr. Watson, aren't we here for stories? Investigating the truth is not our goal. You have gone too far and forgotten your goal when you set off."

"That's true, today's stories are enough, and even our investigation process can be called a good story."

Xia De said, and Mr. Antonio agreed deeply. So the two held wine glasses and chatted for a while, exchanged the information they obtained and recorded it, and then left separately.

Or rather, Xia De sat still, and Mr. Antonio took the initiative to get up and say goodbye to him, and agreed to go to the Diviner Society to play Luo De cards together when there was time.

Xia De continued to hold the wooden wine glass that was a bit dirty, eyes looking around

"Mr. Antonio is gone, the next step is to find Luvia..."

【What are you looking at everywhere?】

"She" asked in Xia De's ear suddenly.

"I was thinking, would the demon scholar Mr. Sean Asmon suddenly walk out of the crowd at this time. Since there might be demons in Randall Valley, it cannot be ruled out that it is a demon."

But it seemed that the demon scholar who always met Xia De by coincidence was probably not in the local area now.

After leaving the tavern, Xia De went to the Abundant Earth Hotel to find Luvia who had just finished work. Hearing about Xia De's investigation this afternoon, Luvia was also very interested, so she agreed to go with him at night.

Of course, before that, the two had dinner together, and Luvia even smiled and said that since she came to Randall Valley on a business trip, the time she spent eating alone with Xia De was much more than in Tobesk.

This was probably hinting at something to Xia De.

The Stonemason Society usually closed at 8:00 in the evening, and after 8:30 in the evening, only three gatekeepers were left. Xia De calculated the time, waited for Luvia at the tavern at the end of Stonemason Street at about 8:00 in the evening, and after confirming that the building of the Stonemason Society was dark, he walked over with Luvia.

The two didn't choose to climb over the wall from the backyard. With the help of Xia De's illusion, they pushed the door and walked in directly from the front door. The gatekeepers who were playing Luo De cards together didn't notice them at all.

There were many stone statues as decorations inside the Stonemason Society. Walking in such a place without lights was quite terrifying. The president's office was on the top floor. The two searched according to the door number and found the location very easily.

Xia De opened the lock with 【Key of Doors】 and saw an office larger than his own bedroom. The owner of this office had style. The floor was covered with carpets that were not very luxurious, and the wallpaper was dark brown. Stone round stools were placed beside the wooden bookshelf, and the stone statue of a philosopher's head was placed on a small table beside the wall clock.

Luvia followed Xia De into the room, looked around in the dark, and saw the safe in the corner at a glance.

Xia De walked over directly, apologized softly, and tapped the side wall of the safe with his fingers. Immediately after, the sound of gears turning and pistons pushing and pulling came from inside the box. After waiting for a few dozen seconds, with a click, five alloy metal rods popped out from both sides of the box, accompanied by steam smoke, so the safe opened automatically.

He squatted down to check, and Luvia summoned a small ball of light to fly into the safe for lighting.

"Let me see what's inside, cash, a small bag of gems... gold?"

That was a gold bar with quite poor quality, less than half the size of Xia De's index finger, wrapped in paper and placed in the corner of the upper layer of the safe. Xia De didn't unwrap the paper, but the paper was too thin, and the light from Luvia's light ball penetrated the paper directly

"I didn't expect the president of the Stonemason Society to have this kind of collection hobby."

Xia De wouldn't move other people's things randomly, he was here to find document contracts. There were indeed many documents in the safe, Xia De pulled them out and checked them separately with Luvia.

There were election appointment documents for the president of the society, as well as real estate and land contracts of the Stonemason Society. Xia De even saw letters sent by the society to His Majesty the King in Willendale for more than ten years, but every envelope had a blue post office stamp of "returned," which was a sign of being rejected.

"Didn't see that ancient contract."

Xia De muttered, and Luvia also shook her head to indicate that the documents in her hand didn't have what he was looking for. So Xia De put all the documents back to their original places, restored the safe, and looked at the bookshelf behind the office:

"Could it be in the bookshelf? Library search!"

He stretched his hand towards the bookshelf. Although the spell was successfully activated and the venue here was judged as an environment where the spell could be used, no ancient parchment or anything like that flew towards him.

"Xia De, don't waste time, let me do it."

Luvia said softly, took out a half-thumb-sized amethyst tied with a thin thread, and then held one end of the thin thread to let the amethyst hang in the air. This was a relatively traditional "pendulum divination," which also belonged to the compulsory courses for diviners.

Common pendulum weights are amethyst

or obsidian, but compared to card divination, Luvia's talent for pendulum divination was very limited. And the limitations of "pendulum divination" itself were also very large, but when looking for lost keys, socks, and other small things, this divination skill was quite useful.

"The target is an ancient contract..."

Luvia recited softly, poured her spirit into the amethyst, and then closed her eyes to empty her brain, letting her consciousness contact the thread representing fate and time. As the amethyst emitted a beautiful faint light, the pendulum that was originally vertically downward began to shift slightly to the side:

"Found it."

"Come to think of it, can your pendulum divination find cats? If this can also be found, I, this detective, will lose my job."

Xia De asked curiously, and Luvia gave him a reproachful look:

"Don't always ask this kind of question when we are doing serious things... Any divination can find cats, but diviners won't do this kind of boring thing... If Mia gets lost one day, I can help you find it back."

For some reason, Xia De suddenly thought of Little Mia with silver eyes held by another Luvia in a dream.

The amethyst pendulum pointed to the wall where the office door was located. Luvia pulled the pendulum and moved towards that direction. Sure enough, she found the safe embedded in the wall behind the oil painting next to the gas lamp, and the oil painting was the holy emblem of the 【Sun and Earth God】 lantern old man.

It was still Xia De who opened the safe, and this safe was obviously much emptier than the safe placed in the open. Xia De saw the document he was looking for at a glance. Because this was a document from hundreds of years ago, for preservation, each page of the document was mounted in a photo frame and strictly sealed. Fortunately, the initial simple contract was not long, only twelve pages.

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