Chapter 146: Peeking Through the Door Crack

But regardless, now that the first floor of St. Therese Square was opened, this house suddenly had so much more space, and Xia De still needed to consider how to make use of it.

Returning from the basement to the first floor, looking at the open space, Xia De, who knew the new secret, was in a very good mood:

"The Ancient God statue is underground. According to the experience of the past hundred years, this will affect the ordinary people upstairs, so if you want to rent it out, you can't rent it to ordinary people rashly."

Renting to Ring Mages didn't require similar concerns, but Xia De didn't know any Ring Mages with whom he could live together. Among the other four in the group, except for Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha, the others had good residences. And Xia De wasn't reckless enough to invite a single, unmarried blonde lady to live with him.

But thinking about it carefully, he wasn't very short of money now. If he wanted to buy expensive relics and knowledge, the rent alone wouldn't be enough, so renting out the house wasn't something that had to be done.

Thinking of this, Xia De temporarily abandoned the plan to rent out the first floor.

He walked up the stairs to the second floor, planning his future:

"When I have money, I can consider finding a maid to help clean up like Professor Manning. It's really a waste of time to clean the house by myself now... temporarily use the first floor and the basement as a space for sundries. Little Mia will probably like to have a place to walk... but even so, I have to spend a sum of money to reconnect the steam pipes and gas pipes..."

He thought about the trivial matters in his life while walking up the curved stairs, feeling that reopening the first floor seemed to increase his expenses.

When he pushed open the second-floor door, he looked up at the time. It was only eight o'clock in the evening. There were still two hours until the time he agreed with Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha to visit the girl Su Fei together.

So, taking advantage of the time, he first wrote the application report to view the "Codex of Sublimation" and sent it to the academy through the manuscript paper in his hand, and then opened the story paper he borrowed from Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha's friend to read.

Mia, who was locked in the room by Xia De, wanted to play with Xia De for a while, but Xia De, who was looking forward to the handwritten copy of the translation of the story draft, could only refuse the orange cat's request, but found a ball of wool for it to play with by itself.

After washing his hands, he sat solemnly at the desk, and only then opened the cloth wrapping the paper.

It seemed that books recording mystical power didn't like to use ordinary paper as a carrier. The book Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha borrowed for Xia De was made of unknown leather material, which felt very smooth to the touch.

At the top of the paper labeled 1, the name of this story was clearly written in ancient language—

"The Little Match Girl."

"This is it!"

He looked at the first page with expectation, carefully reading the dense, strange characters that looked like dancing matchsticks. Afterward, he spent about ten minutes carefully and seriously reading the story of the poor match girl in the snowy night from beginning to end.

Nothing happened.

Even though this was paper with special power, the feeling after reading it completely was not even as good as telling the story to the three children in the past time.

"This is a bit troublesome... do I really need to find the original manuscript to gain powerful strength?"

He looked at the moonlit night outside and worried, then looked down at the letters on the paper. He admitted that it was a good story, but Xia De didn't like stories with sad endings.

Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha knocked on the door downstairs at the ten o'clock bell, and Xia De, who was already prepared, set off directly with her. Incidentally, he also returned the story paper he got from Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha:

"Are you done with it? Can you really understand the text on it? Is the 【Space-Time】 rune really that strong?"

Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha said while rolling up the paper and stuffing it into her pocket. Ring Mages needed casting materials to cast spells, so even in summer, most of them would avoid wearing clothes without pockets. This was also why Xia De wore a coat in summer.

In this world, there were no convenient items like "space rings."

The steam bomb explosion happened last night. That alley was still in a state of being blocked. Although the fishman was blown to pieces by Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha, the traces left behind still attracted the attention of the church.

Therefore, when going to the home of the girl Su Fei, they deliberately chose to take a detour to avoid the location of that alley.

The girl Su Fei Des was from a poor family, otherwise there would be no need for such a young child to sell flowers. The Des family lived in the slums on the riverbank near the Terraril River, and a family of five was crowded into a house, which was about the same size as Xia De's basement.

Last night, the two sent the girl to the door and watched her enter the house before leaving. But today, they had to see the girl with their own eyes to confirm whether she was healthy, so they had to think of other ways.

When setting off with the blonde female writer, they could still see the starry sky, but when they walked halfway, the thick fog surged up, causing Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha to complain about the factories in the city.

When they reached the vicinity of the slums on the Terraril River, it was about ten twenty in the evening. On such a night, even the idlers would not go out to wander around.

Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha had already made a very perfect plan, so after entering the dark alley where the Des family lived, the two went directly to knock on the door.

There was no light in the alley, and poor families usually slept very early at night, so there was no light. The sound of knocking on the door seemed to be able to wake up the people nearby, at least the Des family was woken up.

The candlelight lit up in the house. After at least two minutes, a nervous man's voice came from inside the door:

"Who is it?"

Even in the place where Captain Lades lived, there would be gunshots from gangsters from time to time. The slums where the girl Su Fei Des and her family lived had even worse public security. Xia De could completely imagine that the man asking questions behind the door was nervously holding a weapon like a kitchen knife at this moment.

Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha looked at Xia De, then took out a 1-shilling coin from her pocket and stuffed it through the crack in the door.

"It doesn't matter who it is. You don't need to open the door. Now let all the women in the family stand in front of the door crack in turn, ten seconds each. If you can do it, there is money; if you can't, it's a gun."

This was what Xia De said with a suppressed voice. In such occasions, men's speech had more deterrent power than women's.

A commotion immediately sounded inside the door, and the whispers of a family with heavy accents were mixed together, making it difficult to distinguish who said what.

"Okay."

After a long time, the middle-aged man's voice came. So Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha signaled Xia De to move aside, and she leaned against the door crack to look inside. For this kind of dangerous action, it was better for a high-level Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi to do it.

"Now it's the first one."

Xia De said outside the door, his eyes watching the two ends of the alley, preventing anyone from appearing. After waiting for a while, he looked at Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha again, and the blonde girl waved to indicate that there was no problem.

"On a foggy night, in a dark slum alley, looking through the door crack to see if there are strange things inside... a good theme for a horror story."

He thought to himself, wanting to open his mouth to speak, but the reminder of the whispering sound in his ear made him stunned. Looking at the back of the sorceress in disbelief, he said again:

"Then it's the second one."

The light and shadow inside the door crack changed, thinking that someone had changed in front of the door crack.

After a while, Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha waved again. Xia De narrowed his eyes and looked at her back, saying to the inside of the door:

"The last one."

They had long asked about the composition of her family from little Su Fei yesterday.

The third person had no problem either. The blonde girl left the door crack, lowered her head and nodded slightly to Xia De, hiding her face in the shadow. She stuffed two more coins into the door crack again. Xia De watched this scene without speaking.

After doing all this, the two people outside the door left the alley in the night. The exit of the alley faced the Terraril River, and the riverbank could hardly be seen in the thick fog, only the ships anchored in the river could be vaguely seen.

The two slowed down at the entrance of the alley. Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha stopped first, still lowering her head. This neighborhood could only be illuminated by moonlight, and on a foggy night, Xia De couldn't see her face at all.

The clothes on her body became wet at some point, and her body was hidden in the deepest shadow at the entrance of the alley. Xia De, standing downwind, could smell an abnormal seafood smell.

"Detective, you go first, I still have something to do."

Her voice was a bit hoarse.

Xia De pursed his lips, looking up and down at his friend:

"I see."

He lowered his head to look at his hand, then reached out to the girl in front of him:

"Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha, do you know what this is?"

The blonde girl who lowered her head looked at Xia De's hand, and Xia De said in a low voice:

"Silver Moon."

The holy silver moonlight suddenly erupted from his fingertips. Even though Xia De deliberately controlled the output power, the silver moon light touched Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha at such a close distance, still causing Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha to scream.

She covered her eyes and backed away. When she looked up, Xia De finally saw that half of Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha's face was covered with fish scales.

He didn't run away, but followed two steps closely, pressing his entire right palm on Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha's face. The latter wanted to scream, but Xia De's other hand also reached out and covered her mouth.

She struggled hard, but was still firmly pressed to the ground by Xia De. The covered mouth made a "woo-woo~" sound, and the blonde hair fell messily on the ground.

Xia De's two hands radiated soft silver moon light outward. He squatted beside the blonde girl, letting Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha struggle hard, and even if she kept scratching his wrist, he absolutely wouldn't let go.

Gradually, Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha's resistance became weak, until it stopped completely.

Thick fog filled the surroundings, completely obscuring the starry sky and the three moons. The wind also stopped, as if everything had stopped at this moment. ===== CHAPTER 147 =====