Chapter 1692: Mineralogist

The two in the fog hugged each other tightly, wanting to vent some unspeakable emotion caused by "Desire" in this way. Finally, Xia De was the first to wake up and wanted to push Megan away, but the body dominated by the female witch instantly switched to the witch's dominance, and she continued this kiss even more enthusiastically.

Obviously, both Megan and Audrey were affected.

Finally, Xia De succeeded in separating from Audrey. At this time, both of them were completely awake, but Xia De still felt a fire jumping in his heart. He only hoped that tonight Luweiya's astrology wouldn't last until very late.

The witch didn't know Xia De's thoughts, wiped her lips, and felt that the heart in her chest was about to jump out:

"You are very skilled."

She said, bit her lip again, and waved her hand in front of her face. The appearance covered by the illusion disappeared, revealing her true appearance. In fact, it hadn't changed much, just that the face became more exquisite. It was also beauty that exceeded the normal level, and because her face was pale, it had a special charm that other witches didn't have.

Golden eyes looked at Xia De:

"Am I beautiful?"

"Very beautiful."

Xia De praised, thought for a moment, and also revealed his true face. However, neither Megan nor Audrey recognized who this was. Although Xia De's photos had appeared in newspapers, most of them were side shots or back shots. Plus, black and white photos had distortion problems, so she didn't immediately associate him with the detective from Tobesk.

"Are you better? If you are better, let's set off."

Xia De suggested, and the witch nodded gently. Her little finger hooked subconsciously, and then she felt the vibration of that golden silk thread:

"Much better, let's set off. There are still many things to do today."

Saying this, she moved forward again, her lips touched Xia De's lips, and she lingered on this temperature that made her soul vibrate:

"If the operation goes smoothly today, come to my place for dinner tonight. Let's discuss what clothes you should wear when attending the banquet with me on Friday. I see you shouldn't be good at preparing banquet dresses for yourself, right?"

She was indeed right; Xia De's clothes were prepared by the girls around him, and Princess Lei Qianya was especially interested in this.

"At the banquet, I will definitely tell you everything. I will let you meet my friends."

She held Xia De's hand. Xia De looked at her and said quite cautiously:

"As long as you don't get angry with me by then, you can do whatever you want."

He was increasingly worried about what plan the red-haired Duchess had.

The terrain of the central island of Green Lake was roughly flat in the north, while the south was mostly mountainous. The island area was not large. Green Lake Town was located in the north of the island, and the Edwards family mansion was almost located in the center of the island.

And today, in order to obtain the key, Audrey didn't take Xia De to the Green Lake Town cemetery located in the woods again, but entered the abandoned Green Lake Town through a small path in the woods, and then took Xia De to move toward the southeast of the town, finally stopping in front of a very ordinary building.

Most of the buildings in Green Lake Town were low, and the two-story building in front was located on the edge of the town, but it didn't look much different from other buildings. When Xia De landed on the island with Megan for the first time, although he turned around in the town, he didn't enter this building.

"It's here, the residence of the mineralogist—Mr. Rudy McMahon. I investigated his life. He was a mineralogist who had made quite a few achievements in the academic field more than a hundred years ago. He moved to the island five years before Green Lake Town was destroyed and died half a year before this town was abandoned."

Megan looked at the building and said:

"I found the descendants of the surviving townspeople back then and confirmed after asking around that this scholar didn't die, but went missing. After the townspeople couldn't find him, they could only think he had died. Therefore, he had no cemetery, and no corpse existed."

"I remember this key of yours requires precious metals like refined gold, mithril, and mountain copper... Is this scholar still in the house?"

Xia De asked, and Megan nodded gently:

"Yes, I even suspect that his disappearance has something to do with my ancestor. Follow me, wanting to see him doesn't require being in a state of spatial loss like the blacksmith, but it's definitely not simple."

She pushed open the door and walked in with Xia De.

The house was not big. Megan was very familiar with the internal structure, led Xia De through the living room to the stairs, and then took him to the bedroom on the second floor.

Because this was just an ordinary house in a small town, even the explorers who landed on the island didn't come to specifically loot it. Everything in the room was still there.

Megan took Xia De to the desk and pointed to the oil painting hanging on the wall above the desk: "It's this one."

More than a hundred years ago, there was no mature photography technology like today, so if people wanted to record their appearance, oil painting was a good choice. The oil painting on the wall was the portrait of that mineralogist. Although it didn't look special at first glance, Xia De did feel the traces of elements when he reached out to touch it:

"How to call out the soul?"

Xia De asked, and Audrey pointed to the display cabinet on the side of the room, on which various stones were displayed:

"Solve the puzzle, yes, don't look at me like that, I'm not joking. Every time I come here, the placement of the stones here will be slightly different. You need to pick out the stones with extraordinary characteristics and put them on the desk, and the scholar's soul can appear. The reason it is called solving the puzzle is because there are clues in the room."

"Hmm... when you came here for the first time, how did you know these rules? Did someone put the rule book on the desk?"

"Knew it from Father's relics. The Edwards who left back then should all have similar key clues."

Megan's tone was a bit low, but she shook her head to drive away this emotion. Judging from the current situation, it was easier for the descendants of the Edwards family to die than to live:

"Don't say so much, a total of 23 stones, do it."

There was special power in this room, used to make Ringed Shushi unable to directly perceive whether the stones were ordinary stones, and they could only distinguish them with knowledge. Xia De was actually very curious, if he broke the display cabinet and put his hand directly on the stones, whether perception could play a role, but he cautiously didn't do so.

Audrey was obviously not here for the first time. She recognized most of the 23 stones. The remaining stones that stumped the Great Witch of Wisdom and Knowledge were mostly precious ores that were rarely seen in this era, and Xia De was also familiar with some of those stones because of 【Witch Echoes】—most of the witch's potions and alchemical knowledge were materials that couldn't be found in this era.

The two finally identified 20 stones in total. For the remaining three stones, although they couldn't recognize them, Audrey relied on her experience of solving puzzles here several times and still found their names and functions from the room in less than an hour.

So five stones were placed on the desk. A moment later, as the stones turned into sand and scattered on the desktop, the man who had been frozen in the portrait suddenly blinked, and then moved in the frame:

"Descendants of Edwards, you have come again?"

His tone was not as stiff as the blacksmith Xia De and Audrey had contacted, but unfortunately, it couldn't reach the spirituality of a normal soul.

The witch nodded gently and took out the materials she had prepared for the key:

"You requested any one of three special metals; I found mountain copper for you. In addition, there are black pearls, steel ingots with the specific carbon content you requested, memories of research experiments about the Edwards family, blood of family members, flawless deep orange gemstones, and green ridge ore."

Among them, 【Green Ridge Ore】 Xia De had come into contact with; he found a piece in the water ghost nest and it was still kept at home. This kind of ore could allow people without spatial talent to briefly acquire spatial talent through special means, and the ore was mostly produced in areas where space was unstable. And the "memories of research experiments about the family" was a page of yellowed notebook paper written with dense text.

"Give them to me."

The man in the portrait said. With a click~ sound, the portrait popped slightly from the wall. Lifting the portrait to the right, behind it was a wall compartment where items could be placed.

Xia De looked at Audrey, asking if she needed help putting these ores and materials in, but the witch signaled Xia De not to be in a hurry:

"You said last time, if I am willing to give you more things, you are willing to reveal some other information to me?"

She frowned slightly:

"Can you say now what exactly I need to give you?"

She reached out to her bag, obviously having prepared many things in advance.

The man in the portrait nodded:

"Philosopher's Stone."

"Are you joking?"

Audrey asked in a stern tone, so the man said again:

"Or the other two of the three special metals; the more you give, the more I can tell you."

That is, "refined gold" and "mithril."

The brown-haired lady breathed a sigh of relief. First, she took out mithril, which was only half the size of a fingernail and was packed in a small glass bottle. As for refined gold, Audrey looked at Xia De, and Xia De nodded:

"Just use mine."

His refined gold came from the buy-life money of a Ringed Shushi who used an invisible long sword during a group task. Later, when he asked Megan for blood, he put it with the witch and never took it back.

Audrey nodded again:

"I will compensate you."

Those refined gold ores had already been smelted and purified by her into refined gold. The amount was very small, only the volume of a complete thumb.

So all materials were transferred by the two to the dark compartment behind the portrait. When Xia De pushed the portrait back to its original position, the man in the portrait already had a key in his hand.

He tossed the key and looked at Audrey outside the portrait with a pitiful expression:

"You cannot defeat your ancestor; you cannot imagine how terrifying he is." ===== CHAPTER 1693 =====

He tossed the key into the air, looking at Audrey outside the portrait with a pitying expression:

"You cannot defeat your ancestor; you cannot imagine how terrifying he is."