Chapter 2121: The Reappearing Neighbor

Although the hall downstairs was still lively, most of the hotel tenants upstairs had returned to their rooms to rest at this time, so the surroundings suddenly became quiet after coming upstairs.

When Luvia and Xia De entered the corridor, they saw the door of Emilia's room open. Xia De made a gesture to Luvia to let her wait at the door, then he carefully entered the room sideways, and then saw Emilia struggling to use her body weight and gravitational potential energy to try to close the suitcase that was bulging.

Her suitcase wasn't this full when she came, and she didn't have time to buy too many things during her time in Tobesk. It was just because she wasn't good at organizing that the suitcase became like this.

Seeing Xia De walk in, her face flushed, and she stood up immediately and was about to block the suitcase behind her:

"Xia De, why did you come up?"

"Luvia and I were worried that you wouldn't be safe here alone."

As he spoke, he turned around and called Luvia in as well. Although Emilia didn't encounter problems at this time, Xia De and Luvia still believed in their intuition. They both felt that something was wrong nearby. Tonight was indeed too smooth.

Xia De even thought of what Yin Yi Yi Lu Na once said:

"When Yin Yi Yi Lu Na's team moved in when you, Emilia, and the three of you moved in, they came to arrest a guy selling illegal magic potions, but that guy disappeared in the hotel. This matter has always been a mystery. I suspect there are still things here."

"Can't just leave like this, must confirm what is going on here, otherwise brought danger into the detective's house..."

Luvia said, and Xia De's palm lit up with silver moonlight, and then he turned around in the room, knocking on the walls, floors, furniture, and even under the bed with his hands.

"There's no problem in this room."

He finally said, and Luvia pointed outside:

"Then it's the corridor."

The three came to the corridor together, Luvia and Emilia stood at the door, the former blocking in front of the latter. Xia De continued to knock on the corridor wall with his hands and asked:

"Emilia, have you encountered anything wrong during the week you lived here?"

The elf girl shook her head immediately:

"Nothing wrong, the food here is very good, and there are servants who clean the room on time. Although it is very noisy at night sometimes, I don't sleep too early. The neighbors on both sides of the room are very enthusiastic, and the hotel owner, Madame Sangmei, also takes good care of me. Tobesk is a warm and hospitable city, but the price is higher than I imagined."

"Diviner~"

The purple-eyed girl drew cards again, frowned after seeing the card face and asked:

"There is a problem with Emilia's words just now. Food, servants, very noisy at night, neighbors, Madame Sangmei, price, which one of these six keywords is wrong?"

The die was thrown away, dang-lang-lang~

"Food, neighbors, price."

Another roll of the dice:

"Neighbors and price."

"The price of Tobesk City is indeed a big problem, but this is currently just a social problem. The remaining one is the neighbor... Emilia, you just said, neighbors on both sides?"

Xia De frowned and looked back at her, Luvia's pupils also widened slightly, and she also looked at the elf girl she was protecting behind her:

"Emilia, repeat the description of the neighbors."

The elf girl said timidly, not knowing what was wrong with them, only knowing that the problem seemed very serious:

"The neighbors on both sides of the room are very enthusiastic... this sentence... is there a problem?"

"Of course there is a problem, you do have neighbors on the left, but isn't the end of the corridor on your right?"

Luvia said, Emilia blinked blankly, looking past Luvia's body at the position Xia De was pointing at at this time, looking at the door that appeared there:

"Is it the end of the corridor? But the Goodman family, don't they live in..."

Luvia's finger tapped on her brow, and purple light appeared at the fingertip. Emilia's expression froze there instantly. After a few dozen seconds, the stiff expression turned into astonishment, and then turned into panic:

"Wait a minute, I remember that on the day we moved in, I specifically chose the room at the very end to prevent anyone from disturbing the neighbors. This is, this is..."

"Detective, she understands."

"Making friends with a seventeen-year-old girl, I didn't expect the things I encountered to be the same as her."

Xia De looked at the door that had just abruptly "squeezed" out from the inside of the space on the wall, sighed helplessly, made a fierce expression on his face, and then raised his hand and patted it several times:

"Mr. Goodman, Mrs. Goodman, come out!"

His voice carried full anger, and this was not pretended. Although Xia De heard from Miss Miss Jia Lin Na last time that this kind of relic would stay in the same city for a long enough time before leaving, he really didn't expect that this thing would dare to appear by the side of the people around him again.

The sound of slapping the door panel was quite forceful, but because this was the end of the corridor and Luvia had already used a silence spell, there was no need to worry about disturbing others.

Bang bang bang~

Xia De finished knocking, but unexpectedly, a clapping sound with almost the same beat came from the inside of the door. Xia De immediately took a step back and drew the long sword on his back again to look at the room door. And as the silver light attached to the sword became brighter and brighter, the room door popped open with a "bang~" sound.

The room without any lights was pitch black, and only a small part of the area at the door was illuminated by the gas lamp in the corridor. It looked like Mr. Goodman, who was in his forties, Mrs. Goodman, who was plump and wearing an apron, a boy wearing an unknown school uniform with glasses whom Xia De hadn't seen, a girl wearing a white dress with a bright red bow tie on her chest, and the pet dog he saw last time, all stood neatly in that small area of light.

Mr. Goodman and Mrs. Goodman stood behind, each reaching out their left and right hands to embrace the two children. All four "people" and the dog lowered their heads slightly, looking at the outside with gloomy faces. That moment of malice could be felt even by Emilia, who was protected by Luvia in the distance.

She held Luvia's hand tightly, thinking that she had met this thing many times, and had even been neighbors with this thing for a whole week, she only felt that she wanted to go to Xia De's familiar

Because he had seen too many bizarre things over the past year, Xia De did not panic, but watched them cautiously. He did not recklessly barge into the room, but instead locked eyes with the pale-faced family.

Suddenly, the gas lamps in the corridor flickered rapidly twice. After a soft "Boom—" sound, the gas lamps extinguished one by one from the far end of the corridor toward the end, submerging all three people in the corridor into darkness.

Amelia held her breath, terrified that after the light suddenly shone again, she would see that she was not holding the hand of that purple-eyed fortune teller, but the hand of some other bizarre thing. Fortunately, at least this time she was overthinking it; silver light appeared softly in the darkness. The elf could not even tell if the light on Xia De's body had spread to the sword in his hand, or if the light on the sword in his hand had spread to his body.

"Silver Moon!"

Gripping the sword with both hands, he gathered strength and slashed diagonally forward. The brilliant arc of moonlight would likely remain in the young elf's heart forever, along with the running through the woods under the moonlight just moments ago.

This sword strike pierced through the darkness and slashed into the interior of that room which should not have existed. With a "Pop—" sound like a bubble bursting, the four people and one dog standing at the doorway all vanished, but the room with the open door remained. Therefore, neither Xia De nor Luweiya felt relieved because of this:

"Leave here first; this thing is different from last time. Last time it had just descended, but this time, who knows how many souls it has already absorbed."

Xia De stepped back twice and placed his hands on the shoulders of Luweiya and Amelia respectively. Then, all three appeared out of thin air in the night sky outside the inn, landing lightly on the street like feathers. Carrying two people with him for spatial movement was barely manageable for the Seventh-Ring Xia De; he was very glad now that Dorothy had not come along tonight.

"Friendly Neighbor" is a genuine Sage-level relic. Even though it still has not fully descended, it is not something that can be dealt with easily. Moving from the inn to the street was partly out of concern for implicating the Three Cats Inn, but more so because Xia De was worried that he truly could not solve it, and being on the street would allow the church to detect the abnormality here as soon as possible.

But that relic would not give him such an opportunity. Almost at the same moment the three landed, surging darkness poured out from every window of the Three Cats Inn. The gas lamps on the street flickered twice together, and then, just like the lamps in that corridor earlier, they extinguished one after another from the distance.

The light of the moon and the starry sky disappeared at some point. Although the light from Xia De and his sword could barely illuminate the ground, the impenetrable darkness surrounding them still made Amelia shudder.

Although she was bold enough to run out of school many times, for one thing, the Randel Valley at that time had no problems, and for another, a unicorn with combat power comparable to a dragon had always been by her side. This was her first time facing a runaway Sage-level relic "alone"; this was something she had not yet learned at the Academy.

"Detective, be careful. The space where this darkness is located is different from reality. That thing really does have spatial abilities."

Luweiya's eyes seemed to light up with purple light in the darkness, but no one had time to notice this now. Xia De held his sword and looked around, the sense of danger in his heart becoming increasingly intense:

"Take good care of yourselves. If we really can't beat it, I will turn into a dragon again and fly away with you. Although 'Friendly Neighbor' is bizarre and powerful, it also has the disadvantage of a limited range of influence."

Although he said this, if he really turned into a dragon in Tobesk, as long as the church wasn't stupid, it would be easy to link the dragon here with the "Moonlight Dragon" of Moon Bay, which was something neither Xia De nor Luweiya wanted to see.