Chapter 1297: Little Mia

"Specifically what happened, I don't know either. It wanted to find you, so it rushed into the night, and then it glowed."

Fiona said again. Xia De looked at his cat with suspicious eyes. However, before he had other thoughts, Fiona explained again:

"Since you said it has bloodlines other than ordinary cats, I think it should be that it actively stimulated the power of its ancient ancestors when facing life-threatening danger. This kind of thing is not rare. No matter how thin the bloodline is, it still counts as the inheritance of the ancestor's power. Plus, when its tail touched my tail just now, I seemed to have some special feelings, which should explain what happened just now."

Fiona herself was a hybrid of human, elf, and dragon, so her statement was very credible.

Time was running out, even if he wanted to explore the truth of Mia's sudden glowing, it was not the time.

"Maybe it's like that. Let's see what the situation is here first. Oh, Fiona, what we are looking for this time is..."

"A gold needle."

The front hall of the art gallery was very large, but only the door and the top of the reception counter had lights. This caused the entire interior to be a mixture of light and dark, and it did not have the warmth and peace of the previous two stores.

There was no one at the reception desk, and a huge portrait of a man with a black background hung on the wall behind the counter. The eyes of the man with the hooked nose looked like they were looking at people outside the painting no matter from which direction they were observed.

On the counter was an art manual with a hard cover, which looked quite formal. The name 【Midnight Art Gallery】 was written in white letters on the cover, and the rest was all black.

Flipping open the manual, the first page was not an introduction to the art collection, but a warning written in black letters on white paper:

【Do not make loud noises in the gallery!】

【Do not damage the collection in the gallery!】

【Do not look into the eyes of any collection in the gallery for more than ten seconds!】

"It seems this place is more dangerous than the first two places."

Xia De said to Fiona. The red dragon girl nodded, watching Xia De quickly flip through the collection manual.

Although this collection manual had more pages than the clock shop's product catalog, Xia De's luck was not bad, and he saw the last key item to piece together Fiona's compass on page 103:

【God of Labyrinth - "Lost Goddess" Gold Needle, divine art item, sunlight or moonlight shining on the upright gold needle, the shadow will guide you in the direction.】

The art gallery's collection manual had full-color pictures. The picture on the left was the gold needle. But this was not a sewing needle, because Xia De didn't see a hole.

【"Lost Goddess" is keen on building labyrinths, and it is rumored that the architecture of Eternal Night City is also related to her.】

【Purchase requires paying, pigment that can paint on the night.】

The text here was the text of the current era of the Fifth Era, and judging from the grammar, the "pigment" that needed to be paid could paint directly on the "night" itself, that is, using the void night as a canvas.

"What kind of strange requirement is this?"

Xia De muttered, but it wasn't too difficult: "Fiona, do you have similar items on you now?"

The red dragon girl reached toward her back, and didn't know where she took out her small package from the coffee shop again. After searching a bit:

"Maybe I had it, but I don't have it now."

"That's fine, I'll go find it."

"So, you are leaving again?"

She asked quite pitifully. It was indeed cruel to leave her alone here, but Xia De couldn't decide his own stay:

"Continue to wait for me in the dream, may the moon protect you, Miss Fiona Fiona Delage."

Xia De said very seriously, and then found a wall without oil paintings, and built a camp centered on the tent with Fiona again.

This time he brought more mattresses and quilts, making the inside of the tent quite soft. Afterward, Xia De surrounded the tent with small stone pillars, and then tied each stone pillar with thick hemp rope in turn. Xia

De stood outside the tent, inside the stone pillar fence, and released the technique he had just acquired:

"Moon Thorns!"

After casting the spell three times in a row, silver, golden, and blood-red thorn bushes climbed densely on the stone pillars and hemp ropes.

Fiona hugged Xia De's coat, sat in the tent and watched Xia De cast the spell, and after he bent down and sat on the ground with his vision level with her, she said in a low voice:

"You must come back as soon as possible... In the dream, I will try my best to recall the things I forgot... You must come back."

"It's a deal, I will accompany you to the end of this city, and then safely send you out."

Xia De repeated what he had said. Time was almost up, and white mist was already surging around him. Little Mia, squatting on his shoulder, curiously reached out its paws to grab the white mist. Xia De hurriedly turned it into a toy and put it in his pocket:

"Hmm? Little Mia can also see this fog... oh, it doesn't belong to this time either."

Thinking in his heart, he said softly:

"Then, I should go."

The red dragon girl nodded lightly, and then asked with a flushed face:

"Can you kiss me? Just a light kiss."

Looking at Xia De with vertical pupils, Xia De hesitated for a moment, leaned his face over, and while Fiona knelt in the tent and closed her eyes, he pecked her on the red lips. Although he had kissed in the clock shop and kissed in the Gadis Library long ago, the soft and moist feeling was still very surprising:

"Good night, Fiona."

He said softly.

"Good night, Xia De."

The red-haired girl responded, and when she opened her eyes to look again, Xia De's figure was gone.

(Little Mia running...)

【Outsider, you have returned to the current time.】

Stumbling out of the side door, Xia De touched his lips, and the melancholy feeling made him sigh involuntarily:

"Now is not the time to be melancholy... Mia~"

He took the cat out of his pocket, restored it, and held it in his palm, looking at the cat's big eyes, Xia De also stared at it with wide eyes:

"Mia, when did you learn to glow?"

"Meow~"

The cat meowed gently.

"You mean, when you touched the flame on the tip of Fiona's tail in the clock shop, you felt the power... hmm? When did I learn cat language?"

"She" chuckled:

【It just meowed~ just now, the meaning is your own guess.】

"Is that so... can you, say that 'meow' sound again?"

Xia De asked, and "She" naturally ignored Xia De's request.

"Then Mia, can you still glow?"

Xia De asked with full expectation. The silly cat looked at him without any reaction.

"Then, what other skills do you have? Don't tell me, you still can't do anything."

Xia De said again, putting Little Mia on the dining table. The squatting cat stood up, and then tightened its whole body muscles—if it really had any, the hair on its back all exploded, looking very forceful.

After waiting for a moment, extremely weak, almost invisible light appeared on the cat's tail. Xia De widened his eyes:

"It's this!"

"Meow!"

The light gradually became strong, of course, only relative to just now.

"It's coming! It's coming!"

"Meow!"

The light gathered on Little Mia's tail.

"Yes! Yes!"

"Meow!"

In Xia De's expectant eyes—

Pfft!

A small cluster of dazzling golden flames appeared at the tip of the cat's tail, but it flickered and disappeared. If Xia De had blinked just now, he probably wouldn't have seen this flame.

"You can really pop out flames?!"

Looking at Little Mia again, this cat was excitedly turning in circles chasing its own tail, looking quite satisfied with its "power."

"However, although it counts as supernatural power, what is this? Charging small flames?"

So Xia De held the cat in his left hand, grabbed its tail with his right hand, and came to the stove in the middle of Mia's violent struggle. After turning on the gas stove, he ordered Little Mia to show off its skills.

It took a lot of effort to let the silly cat know what he wanted to do. After Mia "charged" again, the small flame that appeared on the cat's tail for the second time, held by Xia De, successfully lit the gas stove in front of him.

"Hmm... cooking at home in the future, save the money for matches... No, I can summon flames myself, this is a basic curse..."

He didn't know how to describe this cat's skill. If you don't count actively turning from a toy into a cat, this was the first supernatural ability this cat had shown, and it was also something Xia De had always wanted to prove. But when this really happened, Xia De felt that it didn't count as anything at all, completely inconsistent with his psychological expectations. The uniqueness of this skill couldn't even be compared with Mia's own high intelligence.

【What did you expect to see?】

"How about Little Mia turning into a sun and dispelling the darkness of Eternal Night City?"

"She" didn't intend to pick up this sentence at all.

Although Xia De had done a lot of things this morning, it was actually not even eight o'clock yet.

Seeing that it was still early, Xia De packed up and prepared to go out. Winter had come to an end, and the weather in Tobesk had been quite good in the past few days. But today, the familiar thick fog of the citizens shrouded the city again. Although the sun had risen, the city was still gloomy.

Outside the window, the sound of carriages passing by and newsboys shouting news had already sounded. At this time, the doorbell downstairs rang. Xia De went to open the door curiously, only to find that the visitor who came so early was Yiluna:

"New news!"

The seventeen-year-old girl said excitedly as soon as she entered the door. Xia De invited her upstairs to talk, but Yiluna had other things to do in a while and was about to leave immediately:

"After I told the church about the 【Feast of the Mother of Earth】 last Thursday morning at the Three Cats Inn, the church really started to arrange for me to go to Randel Valley on a business trip, but the specific time is uncertain. Besides that, I saw more poems about the Earth's Chosen One!" ===== CHAPTER 1298 =====