Chapter 1876: The Dog's Plea for Help

At 1:30 in the afternoon, under the suggestion of Miss Afuluoluo, the Great Witch of "Light," Xia De was trying to cooperate with the witch's secret technique to cast "Moonlight Thorns" on the first floor. The witch had a new idea, trying to use those moonlight thorns as the outermost defense of the hotel. Xia De's current spellcasting ability alone was not enough, so she wanted to assist Xia De in casting spells with her own power.

The two were discussing which position to use as the node for spellcasting when a faint barking sound came from the sound of rain outside the hotel door.

The sound stopped outside the door. Miss Afuluoluo looked at her niece in surprise, so Miss Haili Afuluoluo opened the door and soon discovered the situation outside:

"There is a puppy outside... it seems to have been kicked by someone, and it's about to die."

"A puppy? Since it stopped here, check it out, and if there's no problem, bring it in and feed it some potion."

Miss Afuluoluo said, not caring much about this matter. So the young girl called other female sorcerers to check the puppy at the door to prevent tricks like transformation.

Xia De didn't care much at first, and was about to continue discussing spellcasting with Miss Afuluoluo, but looked outside the door again:

"That shouldn't be."

He walked to the door, poked his head out to look outside under the curious eyes of the girls, and then frowned.

That puppy outside the door was the dog of the boy Little John in the garbage alley.

Since the storm arrived, Little John had moved into the hotel as a helper. Seeing that although he was young, he worked hard and had no bad habits, the Gelinhu siblings had decided to let him live here in the future, and Xia De had also arranged for the tuition fees for his future to be funded and responsible by "Paradise Island Pharmaceuticals."

But he definitely couldn't stay in the hotel today. It would be very dangerous here after evening. If Xia De remembered correctly, Mr. Solon Gelinhu arranged for a hotel servant who had an empty room at home to take him away temporarily, and that puppy should have been with him, so Xia De couldn't think of why it would appear here.

He reached out and used "False Immortality" to maintain the life of the weak puppy, then dripped a few drops of potion into its mouth, and the serious injuries were almost completely cured... this was the top-level healing potion prepared by the Council for tonight. After the puppy recovered, it barked at Xia De twice, then jumped off the table, trying to get Xia De to follow it.

Xia De then caught it and put the 【Fish-Training Ring】 on its paw.

"The Fish-Training Ring can only be used by species that like to eat fish, such as cats and seabirds. Fortunately, dogs are not among them."

The effect of the Relic appeared almost immediately. The puppy, which was still struggling to jump off the table, was dazed for a moment, then looked up at Xia De, and said in a childish voice that couldn't distinguish whether it was male or female:

"Save him, save him."

Being able to find this place on its own showed that its intelligence was not low. After having the 【Fish-Training Ring】, it could describe what happened completely.

This matter was not very complicated. After the puppy finished describing it, Xia De decided to solve it himself.

"You don't need to go yourself, it's still raining outside, I'll send someone."

Miss Afuluoluo, who had also finished listening to the puppy's description, said from the side. Xia De shook his head:

"Since this matter is related to me, I will solve it myself. I'll be back in an hour at most, and then we can continue to discuss the Moonlight Thorns."

The witch also knew that she couldn't persuade Xia De, so she found an umbrella for him, and then watched him enter the rain with the puppy.

Xia De didn't take off the 【Fish-Training Ring】, but let the puppy wear it to guide him. The location of the incident was by the Duyin River, not too far from the Gelinhu Hotel. Therefore, even without a carriage, Xia De soon arrived at the destination.

The heavy rain washed away the bloodstains, and there were no longer many people on the small pier in the city as the puppy said, only the boy's shoes were left in the grass on one side of the pier.

The river surface was hit by the heavy rain, creating ripples. The puppy couldn't track the scent in this weather, and the only weakness of Xia De's 【Echo of Blood】 in tracking bloodstains under normal conditions was also rain and rivers.

"Tell me again, what happened here."

Xia De stood up straight while holding the umbrella, and said to the puppy at his feet that was still desperately trying to sniff out its master's scent.

"Master, John, followed a fat woman to a house at noon, ate, and ran out. He heard that many people by the river found treasures, and some even found very rare cards, so he thought about finding one for you."

Xia De knew all this information.

"There were quite a few people looking for treasures by the river. Those men found something, and then somehow they started fighting. Master wanted to leave, but a man said he saw Master find something good, so he let Master hand it over. But Master didn't find anything, he had nothing, so he was slapped several times by that man and fainted. I wanted to save Master, was kicked, and could only go to find you."

Although this puppy didn't have the "philosopher" temperament like the goat not long ago, its description of things was quite clear.

Xia De frowned slightly, and was about to jump into the river to try to find more clues, but the puppy barked "Woof woof woof" at another patch of grass at this time.

After Xia De pushed aside the grass, he actually saw a gold bracelet. After picking it up, he confirmed that this was absolutely a pure gold piece of jewelry, and looking at its appearance, it was still an antique. And on the bracelet, there were bloodstains that had not yet been washed away.

"Whisper elements..."

The traces of the elements were quite weak, but this item was just an ordinary item. Some Relic added power to this piece of jewelry that could arouse greed, but for Xia De, who had the 【Greed】 spiritual rune, this weak mental influence could be completely ignored:

"The rumor of treasure in the river is indeed related to Relics."

Thinking in his heart, he took out an empty wine bottle, sucked the bloodstains into the bottle as raw material for 【Blood Brew】, and then dripped the fermented wine into his eyes. After blinking his eyes, a blood-colored shadow of a burly man extended all the way from the pier to the tavern by the road.

Dripping blood into the eyes to observe the blood-colored trajectory is to use the power of the echo of blood and space-time, so he was not afraid of rain.

Without taking off the puppy's 【Fish-Training Ring】, Xia De took it across the street and walked into the tavern. After pushing the door and entering, the thirty-odd people who were soaked all over and sitting on the left and right sides of the tavern all looked at Xia De.

The tavern was warm and dry, but most of these people were dripping with water, and some had towels on their heads. As for the tavern itself, it belonged to the lower-city tavern common in Gelinhu City. The only thing worth mentioning was that a huge knitted blanket was hung on the back wall of the tavern, and the pattern of the blanket was roughly a map of the Old Continent.

These men who were confronting each other were located on the north and south sides of this huge Old Continent map.

"Sir. We are not open today, please leave."

Xia De didn't care about the gazes of the thirty-odd people looking over together, so the tavern owner sitting at the table on the right side of the crowd stood up, and Xia De turned and closed the door. Of course, he closed the door inside the tavern.

His eyes looked at the two groups of people:

"Are you all people who picked up treasures by the river? There are so many of you?"

It was clear that someone in the crowd wanted to stand up and wanted to throw Xia De out. Fortunately, the tavern owner, who was wearing an apron and holding a gun, didn't want a conflict to happen in his territory:

"We are Delarion people, and those people opposite are Kaisenrike people."

He first pointed to his side, and then pointed to the thirteen people who were confronting them:

"These southerners suddenly appeared here today. They said they were walking in the City of Glass and arrived here. Hmph, illegal entry is said so nicely."

The tavern owner snorted, and as for the men around him who looked like gangsters or hooligans who drank in the tavern all year round, they were probably local gangsters. Being able to open a tavern in this kind of street, he definitely knew quite a few people.

"So, you guys just fought?"

Xia De asked again, and this time someone finally couldn't help it. Sitting behind the tavern owner, a man who was a head taller than Xia De and had a hound tattooed on his right arm slapped the table and stood up:

"If you don't want to be thrown out by us, get out now!"

Xia De skillfully reached for his waist, and while taking out his revolver, both sides also took out their respective weapons. As one pistol after another was raised with a click, under the light of the dim gas lamp in the tavern, not only was Xia De aimed at, but the two groups also aimed at each other.

Thirty-odd people had fifteen or sixteen guns, and the gun muzzles of the three parties pointed at different people like a triangle.

Xia De held his pistol and looked at the others, and the others also looked at him, while the dog looked at everyone at his feet.

After a second of silence in the tavern, Xia De finally spoke first:

"I am not looking for trouble, answer me two questions, and I will leave immediately."

No one put down their pistols, the tavern owner frowned and asked:

"What do you want to know? If you also want treasure, go upstream along the river, but I warn you, those who try to find treasure haven't come back."

Xia De ignored him:

"The first question, for some wealth, you publicly use guns and even kill people in the city, are those things enough for so many of you to share?"

In the puppy's description just now, it was mentioned that when the boy tried to leave the crowd, those people had already used guns.

The fat tavern owner controlled his urge to scold, and said in Delarion language with an accent:

"Of course it's not just for treasure, but also because they are Kaisenrike people."

The ten-odd people behind him immediately echoed:

"Yes, it's not just for treasure. They are southerners!"

"They want to grab our things!"

"Since these things appeared on the upper reaches of the Duyin River, they belong to the Delarion people!"

"Yes, we must unite to defeat these Kaisenrike people!"

"Are you still a Delarion? Do you think we are doing the wrong thing?"

"Damn it! Are you a traitor?"

"You are not loyal to Delarion!"

Those messy echoing voices accused together in the chaos, completely not mentioning the treasure in their words, just emphasizing their respective identity affiliations. They were righteous, and some words were obviously heard from newspapers and people who had recently paraded. Obviously, these illegal social organizations with vitality in the lower city had nothing to do with the disputes between the north and south countries, but they could still say such things.

Of course, the guns in everyone's hands did not shift direction because of this. ===== CHAPTER 1877 =====