Chapter 1631

Xia De didn't take this sentence, but asked about the matter in a while:

"How is the situation now? Have the people from the Mirror Association gone to investigate the three locations we haven't investigated yet?"

"The two locations in the city and by the lake haven't yet, and the information from the City of Glass hasn't been passed back. But since it's not early, we won't go to the black market shop of Rotten Eye Bali in the City of Glass.

Although the 【Mirror Association】 hasn't taken action, others have started to snatch Rotten Eye Bali's other territories. It's 3:03 now; after you have lunch, we will set off. First go to the city, Rotten Eye Bali's secret private villa, and then see if we still need to go to Green Lake, Rotten Eye Bali's own cruise ship. That's the place he only goes to when meeting important people."

"No need for lunch; I'm in a good state now."

Xia De shook his head, so the witch gathered some courage and asked:

"Since you're not eating lunch, how about having dinner with me after today's action ends? If you still want to take care of your cat, you can bring it too, but I think it shouldn't be at the Green Lake Hotel."

Xia De showed a smile:

"If the action goes well, of course. Let's set off now; I hope this rain won't delay our time."

As a well-known local gang leader, the Ringed Shushi Rotten Eye Bali had more than one residence in the city, and each one was very hidden. The one investigated by Paradise Island Pharmaceuticals was considered the most important residence by Audrey and Megan. Xia De asked about the reason for their judgment, and Audrey, who dominated the body, gave an unexpected answer:

"Of course it's divination."

"Divination? You also know divination?"

"Of course, I am a contemporary witch who possesses wisdom and knowledge... coexisting; isn't it normal to know a little bit of everything?"

Saying it was a villa, after the carriage stopped, Xia De first saw a tall white courtyard wall. Because of the rain, the white courtyard wall was also a bit yellow, and it was very quiet inside the courtyard wall.

"This is it; let's start the investigation quickly. If we run into strange people again, let's solve it according to the method in the morning."

The witch said, and this time she didn't open the barrier, but left the carriage with Xia De, each holding an umbrella.

Only after getting off the carriage did Xia De discover that two carriages were waiting for them here.

The witch waved at the two carriages, and seven or eight girls in maid dresses walked out of the carriages.

With a bang-bang-bang~ sound, the black umbrellas in the hands of each girl who lowered her head and passed through the carriage door opened one after another; each of them was a mid-tier.

It had to be admitted that the scene of young girls wearing black and white maid dresses, white socks, and black buttoned low-heeled small leather shoes appearing together holding umbrellas was indeed very pleasing to the eye.

"These are my most loyal servants. Among my followers, they are also the most worthy of my trust."

The witch explained and nodded to the girl dressed as a head maid.

"Yes, lady."

The latter said in very standard Delarian, and then walked towards the closed metal sliding door first. All the maids pushed their palms forward together, and under the spellcasting of nearly ten mid-tier Ringed Shushi, that door popped open towards the inside like a cannonball.

Xia De heard the barking of dogs and also heard the panicked voices of men. And the maid ladies held umbrellas in one hand and cast spells in the other, rushing into the door together, and Megan also signaled Xia De to go in with her.

"I have a question."

Xia De and the witch walked side by side:

"Don't you think that in rainy weather, dressing like them makes it easy to get clothes dirty? That cumbersome dress is secondary, the key is the shoes on their feet and the white..."

He realized that he seemed to have observed a bit too carefully; while "she" chuckled in his ear, Audrey also asked with a smile:

"Are you observing my maids very carefully? Mr. Watson, you probably haven't been in contact with professional maids. They have undergone professional training and are not ordinary people themselves; they can maintain decency and elegance in any scene."

Xia De had been in contact with professional maids; thinking about it now, Tifa indeed maintained beauty, elegance, and attraction to Xia De in any scene.

【Now we are doing serious things.】

"She" said gently in the sound of the rain, and this voice seemed to have the ability to dispel the cold. Xia De immediately pushed the distracting thoughts to the back of his mind, and when he entered the courtyard with Megan, he saw more than a dozen men with guns and two black guard dogs lying in the courtyard, with blood flowing from under each person's body, merging with the accumulated water on the ground.

And the maid ladies, besides two checking other positions in the courtyard, others had already attacked the four-story villa.

"This doesn't look like a battle of Ringed Shushi, but rather like a gang murder scene."

Xia De, holding an umbrella, said to the lady beside him, and the latter also expressed agreement:

"An ancient city left behind by the times; perhaps this kind of scenery also fits the atmosphere of the city."

With the maid ladies opening the way in front, Xia De and Megan only needed to chat and follow behind. Rotten Eye Bali was not here today, but there were quite a few guards here, which proved from the side that this secret villa was indeed worth exploring. And besides the guards, the maid ladies also found other people in the house.

When Xia De heard the news, he was really surprised:

"There are four women in the bedroom on the fourth floor?"

The maid didn't answer Xia De's question, Megan nodded, and the cold-faced maid lady said:

"They are Rotten Eye Bali's mistresses; according to them, Rotten Eye Bali is scheduled to stay here tonight. When we went upstairs, they were putting on makeup."

"The appetite is really not small."

Megan said, glanced at Xia De, and ordered her maid:

"I won't go to see those women; you take people to interrogate. Since they are mistresses, they must know Rotten Eye Bali's private affairs."

"Yes, lady."

The maid left, and Xia De and Megan waited for a while on the third floor. After confirming that all enemies on the fourth floor were cleared, they went to the most important private study on the fourth floor.

The door lock of Rotten Eye Bali's study was very special, not an ordinary spring lock, but a mechanical lock powered by a steam engine. The body of this lock occupied at least the volume of two adults in the room, but the advantage was that once someone entered the wrong password, the falling metal plate could protect the room as safely as a bank vault.

But this was useless to Xia De, who had mastered the "Key of the Door."

The area of the study was very large, as if it had been renovated after connecting three rooms on the fourth floor. The interior decoration was also very luxurious; the display racks were filled with various gold wares, the crystal chandelier on the top looked like it was customized by craftsmen in Tobesk, and even the red cashmere carpet on the wooden floor, according to Megan's valuation, cost more than 500 pounds per strip.

On the imposing solid wood desk were pen holders and a few books; the fountain pens were all gold-plated, and those books did not match the identity of the gang leader at all:

"【Success Studies: What a Qualified Leader Needs to Know】, 【Teach You How to Cook a Fish】, 【Green Lake Area Travel Guide】? What are these? Are these books really what a gang leader should read?"

The witch flipped through the books, while Xia De had already skillfully started to pick the locks of all the drawers. He pulled open the top drawer and found a stack of letter paper without any text. But these letter papers had definitely been used because there were creases on them.

"Miss Pharmacist, do you have any revealing magic potion there?"

Xia De asked, and the witch nodded and handed the magic potion to Xia De. After Xia De poured the potion on it, he was surprised to see dense numbers appearing on the letter paper. The numbers were in groups of eight, and the last digit of each group was one of "1", "2", or "3".

"Password, right? It looks like it needs a codebook to decipher, and it might have been encrypted."

Audrey stretched her head to look, but found that a sighing smile appeared on Xia De's face:

"Books that appeared at the wrong time, book contents that don't match the identity. It's really nostalgic; look, isn't the codebook right here?"

He pointed to the three books on the desk:

"As for the deciphering method... this is the password commonly used by the Gray Gloves of the Kaisenrique intelligence department; although it might be a bit different from what I know, it shouldn't be a problem to crack... why are you looking at me like that? I have a part-time job at the Gray Gloves, earning some pocket money to subsidize my cat's food."

Xia De explained this, and then collected the letters and those codebooks, planning to give them to Miss Miss Jia Lin Na after going back. He didn't come here for the intelligence secrets between the two countries; spending time here deciphering passwords was really too stupid.

"I remember I asked you, are you very short of money?"

The lady with brown shoulder-length hair asked curiously, and Xia De shook his head:

"Just finding some things to do for myself, expanding interpersonal relationships... don't talk about these; in fact, a gang leader in a border city selling national secrets, or even eating from both sides, even a novelist could think of it, I'm not surprised at all to find those password letters."

Saying that, he pulled open the second drawer from the top on the left, and again found wordless letters in a cowhide paper bag. After deciphering with the revealing potion, this time what appeared were some meaningless letter combinations.

"Oh, this is... the password of MI6."

Although Xia De had been in single-line contact with Director Anluosi, he knew what the password of the department he worked for looked like.

"Do you also have a part-time job at MI6?"

The witch asked in surprise, and Xia De nodded as a matter of course:

"Earn some cat food money, and then expand interpersonal relationships... Rotten Eye Bali, he really eats from both sides."

"I find it hard to imagine how big your cat is that you need to work so hard to earn money."

Listening to Audrey's teasing, Xia De collected the letters discovered for the second time, and then continued to pull down the drawers, and then again found some wordless letters in cowhide paper bags.

At this, the smile on Audrey's face became even stronger:

"Why, you wouldn't have a third-party identity, would you? This time, what force's password is it?"