Chapter 2046: Miss Lisa's Story

Although there was no anger in the conversation just now, as the two took steps one by one, both their momentum and spiritual power gradually rose. Every time Xia De stepped on the ground, he felt that he was drawing strength from the earth, and the process of stepping forward was actually accumulating this strength. The man walking toward him, whose weak body was expanding little by little with every step, until the wide windbreaker was about to be burst.

When another black cloud drifted from nowhere and completely covered the moon in the night sky, the two who had come to each other at close range punched out at the same time.

For a moment, Xia De seemed to hear a dragon roar from the sound of breaking through the air. The man with dragon scales in front of him seemed to have turned into a black dragon. And in the other party's spiritual perception, he didn't seem to be punching a human, but clearly punching a high mountain whose top could not be seen clearly.

"Power of the Black Dragon!"

"Power of the Red Dragon!"

Neither side dared to hold back in the close-range spiritual intersection. Whether it was a coincidence or inevitable, the last spell used was surprisingly similar. And when the two fists collided in close range, after a moment when fine cracks like spider webs appeared on the stone slabs under their feet, the man who punched Xia De had his right arm blown into meat foam, and his whole person flew backward to the distance:

"Red Dragon! So it was you!"

Xia De vaguely heard the other party say this word, but before he could pursue, the man who seemed to have only the last breath left rolled a few times after landing, then covered his broken arm, turned over, and jumped directly into the Taton River.

"What? What was me?"

When Xia De lay on the railing and looked down, there was no trace in the river:

"Count him lucky, the only disadvantage of 【Blood Echo】 is that it is afraid of water."

Saying this, he looked at his fist again:

"I thought I really met an opponent just now. The tone was so arrogant, the courage was so great, and the momentum was so full. I thought I really met a strong enemy, but the strength was not very great."

The dark clouds had moved away from three months ago, and the moonlight shone on Xia De by the river. "She" smiled gently, but said nothing.

"That's right, but it's only the seventh ring. Even if it has been transformed by human alchemy and has captured the power of a dragon, it is only the seventh ring. I heard about the cooperation between 【Dragon-Feast Cult】 and 【Light-Seeker Training Association】 some time ago. Since the man just now is likely to be from the 【Dragon-Feast Cult】, I don't know if Nadia Folen, the fifth generation of Edwards, the mother of the Folen brothers, has also come to Moon Bay."

He pondered these things, turned around, picked up the unconscious woman, and then walked away quickly along the street:

"The matter of that corpse actually involved the 【Dragon-Feast Cult】, and there was an egg-shaped thing in the corpse... Moon Bay, it seems that we really have to face a big problem."

When the unconscious Miss Lisa woke up, her instinctive reaction was not to check whether her clothes were complete, but to touch the hair ornament on her hair. That hair ornament was the only valuable item on her body, although it was just a silver-plated ornament, it was incomparably important in her eyes.

"... Just like this, the princess and the prince lived happily together."

The hair ornament was still there, and in front of her was a familiar ceiling. Then she heard the slightly familiar man's voice seemingly telling a fairy tale, and then the child's voice sounded:

"And then, and then?"

"The story is over, the prince and the princess lived happily together."

"Yes, what kind of happy life?"

"Hmm... you will know when you grow up."

"Can you tell another story? Just one, tell another one!!"

The girl's voice reached her ears, and the woman who woke up from the coma sat up from the bed immediately. And Xia De, who was telling stories to the eight-year-old girl, also shook his head with a smile:

"Look, your mother is awake."

The little blonde girl wearing clothes that were old but had no patches ran to the bedside immediately, and Xia De also stood up and came to the bedside:

"In the future, let your mother tell you stories."

He handed the storybook to the little girl, who saw that her mother was fine, and looked at Xia De worriedly again, before leaving the room holding the expensive storybook with color illustrations.

This is the rental apartment of Miss Lisa on Herring Street. Xia De brought her back directly. The fat landlady downstairs naturally wouldn't let him in, even if he gave money, she wouldn't let him in. Originally, she thought the woman's discrimination against Northerners had reached the bones, but then the little girl appeared and persuaded the landlady to let Xia De carry her mother upstairs.

And the fat woman kept telling the girl that if she encountered trouble, as long as she called, the whole building could hear it.

The rental apartment in the lower city is not very spacious. The room is divided into inner and outer layers. The outer layer is the living room, dining room, and kitchen, while the inner layer is the bedroom and small balcony, and the washroom is one per floor, shared by three families.

In the narrow small bedroom, the gas lamp also appeared a bit dim. The woman who woke up sat on the edge of the bed, looked at Xia De, and moved her lips, but didn't know how to speak.

"If you want to say thank you, then forget it."

Xia De shook his head:

"But don't worry, that strange person won't come to find you again; he thinks you don't know anything. If you are still worried, you can seek help from the church later."

The woman shook her head immediately, looking like she was somewhat afraid of the church:

"My daughter..."

"Oh, don't worry about this either. I don't have bad intentions. It's just that you have been in a coma, and I sat with the girl named Maria and didn't speak, which was a bit awkward, so I wanted to read stories to her."

Xia De's eyes slanted, in fact, the fact was that the anchor silver ornament in his pocket suddenly glowed, which meant that the girl was the object Miss "Radiant" wanted him to help. But the little girl didn't have any wishes he needed to realize... She probably hoped this stranger would leave, but didn't have the courage to say it.

Fortunately, Xia De had experience communicating with children, and later found that she wanted to hear fairy tales, so he told stories.

Miss Lisa nodded, still choosing to thank him softly, and then explained:

"I have never brought a man back here."

"I also live alone. I can see that you have decorated your home very warmly. People like you won't let your daughter see those things. Family and residence are the last bottom line for outsiders like us who have no reliance. I broke into your home rashly, and please accept my apology."

Xia De commented, and then added:

"I told the landlady downstairs that I am your distant cousin. Although she doesn't seem to believe it, you can explain it later."

The woman shook her head:

"You are a good person, I can see that."

Xia De laughed:

"Then satisfy some of my curiosity as a good person. The little girl looks like eight or nine years old. Counting the time, it should be when you were seventeen or eighteen. But unfortunately, I have studied some genetics courses. Her eyelids, hair color, and chin are not characteristics that your descendants should show."

He glanced outside the door to make sure the little girl wasn't eavesdropping, and then lowered his voice:

"That's not your child, right?"

Miss Lisa pursed her lips:

"I came to Moon Bay alone at sixteen, and another friend who lived with me here was five years older than me. Maria is her child, she... died in childbirth."

Under the dim gas lamp, her originally dim expression became even grayer:

"We originally wanted to go to Snake Heart Hospital for delivery, but she wanted to save money and insisted on giving birth at home by herself. By the time I found a doctor, the only one who survived was that child."

Xia De pursed his lips:

"Although saying this makes me look very cruel, the normal way is to send her to the Moon Bay Orphanage."

"... She cried non-stop as soon as she was born, and the nun doctor at Snake Heart Hospital couldn't coax her. Only when I held her in a panic could she be quiet. At that time, she was small, ugly, just a little thing, but she knew how to be close to me... I know I have no money, and I can't give her a good life... At least, I want her to grow up and not become like me and her mother."

Her eyes were already red, and Xia De interrupted her:

"Alright, alright, I don't want to hear such sad stories in the middle of the night. You are also a good person, so I didn't do anything wrong by sending you back."

He moved his position on the chair to make himself sit more comfortably:

"As for what happened to that man tonight, don't worry about it, that's something you shouldn't know. However, I still hope you can tell me the answer I want—what happened at the Crowley Steam Bathhouse at Number 18 Glev Street, North City, last week."

The woman nodded gently, wiped her eyes, which also wiped off some eyeshadow. She then spoke loudly, letting the little girl outside the door fetch tea cups and a teapot.

Of course, there were no good tea leaves in her house, but Xia De was not picky about this. After he picked up the teacup, Miss Lisa also began to talk about what happened last week:

"I am not the first time to go to Crowley Steam Bathhouse. It doesn't provide... women, but it doesn't forbid guests from calling women from outside. There were six people present that day. Besides me, there were two other... women. Among the three guests, I only know Mr. Freeman Hawthorne, but I heard him call the other two gentlemen Mr. Black and Mr. Wood."

This is consistent with the information obtained by Viscount Bernhardt.

"Nothing was different from the past at the beginning of that night. They talked about business together and played... games. Later, I don't know why, I fell asleep."

She shook her head:

"I'm not lying, it was hot and stuffy there, and I was very tired. At that time, I and another girl from the Parsifal Club fell asleep. I just vaguely heard Mr. Black say that he was going to take them to see interesting things. After I woke up, those people were gone, but they had already paid the money. There was only the girl from the Parsifal Club beside me. I woke her up and left the bathhouse together." ===== CHAPTER 2047 =====