Chapter 1615: Gang Casino and the Last Grave Robber

The morning rest was enough; both Xia De and Dorothy had things to do in the afternoon. After saying goodbye to Dorothy at the intersection, Xia De carried the sleepy cat to the Prophecy Society and informed Luweiya about Yiluna's sudden visit at noon and her unusual behavior:

"It's very abnormal. Usually, Yiluna is positive and cheerful; I rarely see her so troubled."

The purple-eyed girl listened patiently to Xia De's narration and thought with a frown:

"Are you sure you didn't say the wrong thing at noon?"

Xia De immediately denied it:

"It shouldn't be my fault. After all, when she came to find me at noon, she was already in a bad mood. I asked her what she did in the morning, and she said she went to the warehouse district to investigate what happened last night."

"Could it be because she's worried about us? But this time it's not more dangerous than the Chosen One Battle... Leave this matter to me, I will communicate with Yiluna."

Luweiya said, and Xia De nodded, but still felt a bit uneasy. But thinking that Tifa told him to visit Miss Galina on the weekend and to bring flowers and gifts, the visit time could be set for Sunday. Sunday was also the time for Yiluna to train with the witches, so Xia De should still be able to meet Yiluna.

"Also, besides Yiluna, I also have to worry about you. I saw it last night, you were targeted by that corpse."

The purple-eyed girl continued, looking at Xia De with concern in her eyes:

"Don't explain to me that you're fine. Whether you're fine or not, I have my own judgment. Dorothy accompanied you for a nap in the morning, and you do look much better, but you can't be completely relieved. In the past week, don't touch any relics that affect emotions, and be careful of forces that might evoke your memories of last night's hollow heart. I think after a week, you should be fine."

She seemed to have plenty of experience in dealing with such negative emotions. Xia De knew Luweiya was concerned about him, so he nodded and agreed:

"Yes, after all, it's an Angel-level relic. I will be careful, and if there's any situation, I'll tell you immediately. I don't want to recall that kind of indifference again. However, you should also have some confidence in me."

Afterward, Xia De returned home, placed Little Mia on the soft cushion on the windowsill of the second-floor living room for a nap, and then went alone from the basement to the Green Lake area. The clues about the grave robbers from Rotten Eye Barry should have been found. Xia De was looking forward to meeting that group of bold grave robbers.

As for the information broker's identity as a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi and the smell of water ghost pheromones on him, if there was time, he could investigate that together.

When they met last time, Rotten Eye Barry gave Xia De a business card with his address in the city. That was not the residence of this gang leader, but a four-story detached building located in the slums in the southeast of the city.

The area nearby was the oldest residential area in Green Lake City, so the buildings were very old. Besides being dilapidated, a few buildings were actually crooked. After Xia De got off the carriage and entered the alley, he heard that all the buildings here were tilted to varying degrees due to unstable foundations.

The city's gangs and shady shops were hidden here, and police patrols would not go deep into this area. The numb poor, due to the hardships of life, had long lost their longing for the future in their eyes. But this was also the only place in the whole city where one could not feel the tense atmosphere caused by the negotiations between the two countries.

After all, for the poor who lived difficult lives, Delarion, Karsenrick, peace and war, border lines, and trade routes had nothing to do with them.

Rotten Eye Barry's four-story building was the base of the gang he belonged to—this was what Xia De, who had never been in contact with such gangs, thought. Following the dilapidated building signs, stepping on the muddy ground, and arriving here in the afternoon fog, the two bare-armed men guarding with sticks downstairs wouldn't let Xia De in.

It wasn't until Xia De took out the business card that one of them opened the door and led Xia De in, warning Xia De not to walk around and not to talk nonsense.

After entering the building, Xia De discovered that this was a Luo De card casino. The choking smell of tobacco was suffocating, but the interior decoration was much better than the dilapidated exterior of the building. People of all kinds gathered here, fighting in pairs at the gambling tables. Xia De even saw a well-dressed nobleman leaning his gold-decorated cane against the table, gambling with a pot-bellied merchant amidst a pile of banknotes, their eyes red.

If it weren't necessary, the Outsider wouldn't want to come to such a place at all.

The first and second floors here were Luo De card casinos, and the rooms on the third floor were where the casino minions rested and ate. The fourth floor was all offices, used to maintain the daily operations of the casino. Rotten Eye Barry was in the fourth-floor office. When Xia De followed the man who led him in to the end of the stairs, he happened to see a man who had been beaten until he couldn't stand straight being dragged down the stairs from the fourth floor.

"Look who's here, a friend of Captain Lades!"

The one-eyed man clapped his hands behind the desk in an exaggerated tone to welcome Xia De. The others originally in the room left temporarily, and the man who led Xia De upstairs closed the door outside.

Xia De sat on the chair outside the desk, his peripheral vision scanning the windows on the wall and the small doors on the left and right sides:

"Good afternoon, has the news about the grave robbers been checked clearly?"

"Yes, it's here."

He took the file bag to the desktop and pushed it to Xia De. Xia De touched it:

"Maybe I misunderstood, but why is it so thin?"

"Because they are all dead, only one is still alive."

The one-eyed man folded his hands and placed them on the desk, introducing simply:

"After that grave robbing on the island, although the people who came back made a fortune, they all went crazy one after another. The remaining one's mental state is also not very good. You are lucky to have investigated in time; a few weeks later, he might have died too."

"Does the other party still live in Green Lake City?"

"Yes, the specific information is in the file bag. However, you probably won't find the things that were stolen. That guy who was lucky enough to live until now is already penniless. If he had anything valuable in his hands, he would have sold it for money long ago."

"It doesn't matter, at least there are clues."

Xia De took out his wallet, paid the final payment, and then stood up with the file bag, preparing to leave. But the one-eyed man behind the desk called him:

"Interested in helping me do some things? It's also related to the central island of Green Lake. Maybe you can solve it easily while investigating the grave robbers. I can offer a very high price, you will be satisfied."

"No, not interested, I just want to find the grave robbers."

Xia De said. After pulling the door handle, he saw the strong man standing outside the door blocking the way, not letting him pass through that door.

He turned his head and said to Rotten Eye Barry:

"Are you sure you want to offend a friend of Captain Lades?"

The strong man in front of him then gave way. Xia De muttered a local dialect curse, put his hand on his waist, and left along the stairs.

No one blocked the way during the process of leaving the casino, and he successfully arrived outside. But Xia De didn't go far, instead circled around the vicinity, and then sure enough, in the garbage heap between two buildings, he saw the man he met on the stairs who had been beaten badly and dragged out.

He was thrown here like garbage. Although his consciousness was still clear, he could only groan and couldn't move.

To test if he could still move, Xia De threw two coins in front of him. The man "came alive" at once, picked up the coins and held them in his hand very quickly, only then looking up at Xia De. His eyes, which had been beaten into a blue-purple swelling, were squinting, and this appearance was very ridiculous.

"What do you want to do?"

"Why did they beat you?"

"Because I saw them insulting a woman and went to stop them."

Xia De turned and left. The man on the garbage heap hurriedly changed his words:

"I owed them money, damn it, I thought I could win today. I was just unlucky today, damn it, my luck is always bad."

"Tell me about Rotten Eye Barry, say whatever you know."

Xia De shook the two 1-pound banknotes in his hand. The man looked at the banknotes and nodded immediately:

"Rotten Eye Barry is not a local. More than twenty years ago, he came here from elsewhere, killed a local gang leader whose name I don't know, and then gained power himself. He is very famous in Green Lake City now. Information, casinos, illegal drugs, smuggling, he does all kinds of business. I heard that even MI6 and the Gray Gloves can buy information from him."

"He's not a local?"

Xia De was slightly surprised:

"Can't tell from the accent, but that's right, after all, it's been more than twenty years."

"No one knows his background, only that he also lived in Delarion before."

The man continued, catching the banknotes Xia De threw to him:

"No one here dares to offend him; those who offend him are all dead. If you owe him money, he is even more cruel; this is a very stingy guy. And this person is very wise, he won't provoke people in the church, city hall, and the army. In spring and winter, he will even donate money to help the poor in the slums, so for so many years, no one has wanted to take him down."

"Which god does Rotten Eye Barry believe in?"

Xia De asked again, this was very key information, but the man thought about it and shook his head:

"Don't know. I've never heard of such a person praying... However, it is said that someone saw him praying in the innermost room without windows on the fourth floor of the casino. I've only heard of this saying, not sure."

Xia De looked at him suspiciously:

"How do you know such things? Don't tell me you heard this from a tavern."

The man smiled awkwardly:

"I thought about getting some valuable things from the casino to sell, pay off the money I owed, and then leave Green Lake City. Maybe I could live a normal life."

Xia De shook his head, threw the other banknote to him, and then turned and left.

Seeing Xia De so generous, the man stumbled and climbed up, wanting to catch up with him and say a few more words to him. But by the time he chased from the garbage heap between the two buildings to the outside, Xia De's figure had already disappeared.

Xia De had no hobby of prying into other people's privacy. A strange Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi hiding his name as an information broker and gang leader had nothing to do with him. If it weren't for caring about the water ghost matter, Xia De actually didn't want to know who Rotten Eye Barry was at all.

After getting the information from the man on the garbage heap, Xia De planned to go to the innermost room on the fourth floor of the casino to take a look. But the time was not now, but after sunset. He would act after that low-level Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi was not here. After all, the most important thing now was the whereabouts of that group of grave robbers.

Rotten Eye Barry's investigation was quite detailed. Although the description of the situation of the grave robbers who had already died was not particularly clear, at least the current address of the one who was still alive was indeed true.

The address of the mentally ill grave robber was also in the slums in the southeast of Green Lake. It was just located on the bank of the Duin River. Continuous low shacks were located on the east bank of the Duin River, crows circled in large numbers, and the background of the shacks was the gray, foggy sky.

This formed a sharp contrast with the relatively prosperous city area on the west bank of the Duin River. ===== CHAPTER 1616 =====