Chapter 2019: Target Location

Without getting too entangled in the matter of the three mysterious Rhodes cards, Xia De continued to ask:

"The second question. Someone entrusted me to find a special person. About two or three months ago, he contacted you. Yes, you know what I am talking about, Ringed Shushi. Don't be so surprised, you just need to answer me, what did that person do here, and where did he go now?"

The bare-chested Hawthorne hurriedly shook his head:

"I don't know what you are talking about, don't ask anymore, this is not a topic we should get involved in."

"I am curious, are you really willing to pay the price for others."

Xia De asked:

"You should be able to see that I am a Delarion. In the capital of the distant northern country, Tobesk City, at the Yodel Palace, I once heard of a type of attendant official called 'Eunuch Attendant'. Mr. Hawthorne, are you interested in this profession?"

Freeman Hawthorne opened his mouth:

"You are really good at joking... Don't, don't do this! I don't know much about that Ringed Shushi either. It was my grandfather who asked me to send people to help him find things, but he didn't make it clear what he wanted to find, just saying it was in the lower city area, with a very high level, and asked my subordinates to inquire about unusual things recently. But in the end, nothing was found. Although that person still occasionally appeared beside my grandfather, he never contacted me again. Later I heard my father say that the thing seemed to have been taken away by someone from the Belindel family. Once this kind of thing is known by the church, everyone will be unlucky, so both sides tacitly acted as if nothing happened."

"Belindel?"

I didn't expect to go around such a big circle, but I still have to continue to find people:

"The seven glorious families of Moon Bay, how come they all have contact with Ringed Shushi? Are the nobles of this city so bold?"

"We all understand the rules of the church, but this is Moon Bay, a city where wealth gathers..."

In other words, if Xia De wants to know if that relic is the "Hope Diamond" he is looking for, he still has to find someone from the Belindel family. But the Freeman Hawthorne in front of him didn't know about the Belindel family, and Xia De needed to start with the Ringed Shushi that the Hawthorne family had contacted.

However, he didn't ask the man in front of him about the whereabouts of the Ringed Shushi who had contacted their family, but asked the last question:

"The third question, are you related to the illegal organization 【Eternal Light】 in Moon Bay City?"

Hawthorne shook his head immediately:

"How could it be related? They are a bunch of lunatics who want to overthrow the control of the seven glorious families of Moon Bay over the city. If I support them, wouldn't I be opposing myself? Oh, sir, since you are an outsider, why don't we sit down and talk properly, I really..."

"What number is this?"

Xia De interrupted his words and held out his right index finger wearing the Heart Crystal Ring.

"One?"

"Mind Blast!"

The finger pointed at Freeman Hawthorne's forehead, his eyes immediately rolled white, and then he fainted with foam at the mouth. Xia De didn't have a very effective means of erasing memories. Mind Blast belongs to a direct attack on mental power. Although Xia De couldn't be sure whether he would become an idiot or just lose part of his memory after waking up, this result was enough to satisfy him.

Now he hadn't thought about how to solve the obstruction of the Dock Office and the Hawthorne family to Lei Qianya's business, but didn't expect to get involved with the Belindel family again. But compared to Lei Qianya's three ships of goods, what that relic was was what Xia De had to figure out.

He didn't choose to inquire about the news of the Grey Gloves from Mrs. Frey in this club immediately, but left the club and found the reporter Mr. "Boatman" again, and then inquired about the residence of the old Earl Hawthorne and the other party's daily action trajectory.

The contact person arranged by Director Anluosi was indeed reliable, asking nothing, and telling Xia De whatever he wanted to know. Xia De spent the entire afternoon sorting out information with "Boatman". At dusk, he went home to have dinner with the cat, and just wanted to go out again, when he happened to meet Luweiya visiting.

Luweiya looked like she had just finished work and came to the third floor of No. 6 St. Deran Square to watch the stars. Xia De went out just to find her, so he told her about the investigation he had done in the past two days at home:

"Old Earl Hawthorne will meet with that Ringed Shushi from time to time. I want to find that Ringed Shushi and find out what relic it is. But I don't know the time they meet very well, maybe you can help me divine it."

"This is really rare. The number of times you take the initiative to find me for divination is much less than Iluna. Iluna will seek guidance from me when she encounters trouble, she is much more than you..."

Xia De didn't hear the second half of Luweiya's sentence clearly.

The purple-eyed girl is best at card divination, but this time, in order to make the result accurate, she also used the relic "Diviner's Silver Coin" and "Obsidian Pendulum" for assistance.

She shuffled the cards in a very fancy way, and after a series of "performances" that even Xia De, a Rhodes card expert, felt dazzled, she finally let Xia De choose two cards to draw from the cards divided into five stacks.

"Fate and the stars tell me that tonight is a good opportunity for action."

The two sat across from each other at the desk, Little Mia squatted on the table, looking at the cards for a while and then at Xia De.

Although Luweiya's eyes were looking at Xia De, Xia De clearly felt that she was looking at a more distant place:

"But also be careful, tonight's action may not be very smooth. Maybe you will encounter a strong enemy, but caution will save you from those unnecessary troubles."

"The other party is strong?"

"Of course not, the target you are looking for should only be five rings, and there is no anti-divination power. But if you contact the other party, it may attract others. So be careful, Moon Bay area is after all a place we have never set foot in, no one knows what is hidden there."

Xia De trusted Luweiya's divination ability very much. Since she thought today was a good opportunity for action, he naturally wouldn't miss it. Therefore, although he remained cautious, he still entrusted Luweiya to help take care of the naughty cat for himself tonight, and then took advantage of the night to go to Moon Bay City again.

Moon Bay City under the night was brightly lit, and the brilliance of the city was displayed to the fullest at this moment. The city outline outlined by gas street lamps and household gas lamps that seemed to be on day and night even surpassed the brilliance of Tobesk at night in some places.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the Moon Bay Port Opera House ended, and the well-dressed gentlemen and ladies discussed the content of the opera just now and walked down from the steps outside the main entrance of the Opera House. And the taxi carriages waiting at the entrance of the Opera House also lined up to welcome guests preparing to go home.

It's just that in the open space illuminated by gas lamps in the southeast corner of the Opera House, no empty taxi carriages dared to stay. Carriages with the family crests of the Hawthorne family, the Belindel family, and the Eddington family were waiting for the return of those noble masters.

The 67-year-old Earl Hawthorne looked very healthy. He and the man in a black top hat beside him walked down the steps, and the servants followed behind. The old Earl first boarded the carriage on the lowest level of the magnificent steps in front of the Opera House, then the man in the black top hat also boarded the carriage, and the servants took another carriage to follow.

The coachman shook the bell, and the carriage began to move on the wide Port Street at the entrance of the Opera House. Pedestrians on the street and other carriages avoided one after another, and people were used to this scene.

The night was deep. Although Moon Bay City had a rich nightlife, there were not many pedestrians on the street. Therefore, when a red butterfly entered the window of the steadily driving carriage with the wind, no one else noticed such an abnormality.

But the people in the carriage definitely saw the red butterfly. The carriage stopped, the man in the black top hat got off the carriage, and that carriage fled away along the street at a faster speed.

The red butterfly danced in front of him. The man in the black top hat frowned and followed the red butterfly, passed through an alley to the side, entered the lower city area, then climbed onto the roof along the iron stairs on the side of the house under construction at the alley entrance, and saw the strange young man looking at the city night view with his back to him there.

The red butterfly that led the man in the top hat crashed into Xia De's body, and ripples appeared on his back.

"Good evening, how was the opera?"

Xia De said while turning to look at the other party, and then confirmed that just as Luweiya said, this was a five-ring Shushi.

"Who are you? You broke the rules. The church does not allow Ringed Shushi to provoke secular nobles at will."

The man in the top hat raised his hand to touch his hat and said.

"But does the church allow Ringed Shushi to cooperate with nobles at will?"

Xia De also asked:

"The church also does not allow the use of relics at will. As long as it is not too much, the church will not care about so many things. Moreover, I am not here to find Earl Hawthorne tonight, I am here to find you."

"Me?"

The man in the top hat asked suspiciously:

"But I don't know you."

"Yes, I don't know you either, but that doesn't matter, you just need to answer me a few interesting little questions."

"But why should I answer you? Also, in the afternoon, the Earl's grandson suddenly fainted at the Parsifal Club and lost a week's memory after waking up. Does it have anything to do with you?"

He said while taking off his hat, and Xia De nodded knowingly:

"You want to do it, right? That's why I chose to meet here. The terrain is open, and a few light-avoiding spells and silence spells can avoid the sight of others."

Silver thunder jumped out of electric arcs in his right hand, while the man in the top hat slammed his hat brim, buckled his hat down fiercely, and then his whole person entered the hat.

"Oh?"

After the hat landed, it spun rapidly, sticking to the ground, and shot towards Xia De's leg like a dart, even splashing sparks while rubbing against the ground. But Xia De ignored the hat on the front left, but found the right time to step forward to the front right, and his right foot accurately stepped on the invisible hat in the air:

"Dare to play illusion in front of me?"

Screams came from under the black top hat, and Xia De, who was holding a silver-white thunder spear with both hands, had already pierced the dazzling thunder towards the bottom.

The hat pierced by the thunder spear burst into a cloud of white smoke. Taking this opportunity, the man "drilled" out of the hat that flew back into the air. In the steam mist, the five-ring life ring appeared under the starry sky. While the Enlightenment 【Qi】 flashed with brilliance, his right hand pulled the hat that was stationary in the air to prevent himself from falling, and his left hand gestured into a gun shape, making a "biu~" sound with his mouth towards Xia De's position in the smoke. ===== CHAPTER 2020 =====