Chapter 2144: Calamity of Light

Because Xia De heard from his superior, Director Anluosi, that Willendale wanted to take advantage of the upcoming completion of the Moon Bay Bridge to organize citizens to take to the streets and attack the city councilors for their corruption in building the bridge, he roughly guessed the purpose of this Gray Glove chief's visit. But Mr. Richard certainly wouldn't say it like this:

"His Majesty intends to send royal members to visit Moon Bay, and I am here to do preliminary security work."

Earl Hawthorn and Miss Berindell exchanged a look, and the latter asked with a smile again:

"I don't know which one is coming? Prince Samuel Anjou? Princess Margaret Anjou?"

There are only three princesses and two princes in Karsenrik, among whom Samuel Anjou is the oldest, and the second prince, William Anjou, has been disliked by the "Lion Ryan" because of his poor handling of the Stonemason Association in the Randall Valley earlier this year, so he will certainly not be entrusted with such a task. Margaret is the second princess, and her sister is already married. Although the eldest princess still has some power within the kingdom, anyone can see that she has long faded out of the political center of Willendale City.

As for the youngest prince, because he is only 12 years old and not the kind of genius who can handle big things even if he is not an adult, he will not come to perform such a task. Therefore, from the current situation, only Samuel Anjou and Margaret Anjou, who participated in the Green Lake talks some time ago, are possible to appear in Moon Bay... Among the descendants of the Anjou royal family, they seem to be the most likely to inherit the throne now.

"I'm really sorry, even if I really know the answer to this question, I can't say it before the official notification."

Mr. Richard answered with a smile:

"And it's not necessarily a prince or princess, it could also be a duke or marquis deeply trusted by His Majesty."

But judging from the current situation, the Anjou royal family wants to win over the local nobles of Moon Bay on the one hand, and send someone capable enough to hold the scene on the other hand, and the person sent cannot be too heavy, to prevent the local citizens from thinking that Willendale is putting pressure on Moon Bay. So, Samuel Anjou and Margaret are the best choices. And if Xia De guessed correctly, Miss Sylvia and Miss Bernice would probably take this opportunity to come to Moon Bay to meet him.

This banquet was originally scheduled to last until 10:30 in the evening. Now Moon Bay City is in a troubled time, and no one is at ease walking at night. But plans are always faster than changes. At about 9:40, Xia De was sitting on the sofa with the golden-haired countess, discussing the beautiful stockings that would be sold locally next week with the Marchioness of Ankara and several other noble ladies, when a scream suddenly came from the east of the banquet hall, followed by noisy sounds like "someone is dead" and "where is his head," and it was completely chaotic here.

【Do you feel it?】

"Yes, at that moment, the light in the room became very strange."

Thinking in his heart, Xia De stood up almost immediately:

"Ladies, please stay here and don't move, I'll go see what's going on."

The maids and servants had already walked over to protect these ladies who must not have any accidents, and the countess cooperated very well and let Xia De pay attention to safety, which let him leave.

At this time, a circle of people had surrounded the place where the incident occurred, but more people wanted to stay away from there. After Xia De squeezed to the front, he saw that what was surrounded by the circle of people was a corpse lying on the ground.

It is not accurate to say "a corpse." The corpse only had two-thirds left. The torso including the head, neck, and upper chest all disappeared, and the disappearance of the shoulders also caused the arms to be unable to connect with the upper body, so this should actually be considered a dismembered corpse.

The fracture of the corpse was quite smooth, even if Xia De held a sword to hack, he might not be able to hack such a natural wound. To avoid suspicion, he didn't intend to squat down to examine the corpse, but from the narration of the people around, he also learned the general idea of what happened just now.

Returning to the sofa, the frightened ladies all wanted to know what happened.

"It is indeed dead. The deceased is Baron Madur Bins. People said that just now he and his partner were dancing, and then his body seemed to be on fire, emitting very dazzling light, and then half of his upper body disappeared."

Xia De said in a low voice, and the noble ladies looked at each other, unable to understand what was going on. The witch's eyes were full of worry, and after making eye contact with Xia De and seeing him nod, she understood that Xia De thought so too.

With such an incident, the banquet naturally could not continue. The police arrived quickly, and Earl Hawthorn also apologized to the guests and arranged for people to leave as soon as possible.

Xia De also followed the witch back to the manor. After boarding the carriage, Miss Berindell said almost immediately:

"Headless serial murder case."

"Yes, in those cases, the heads of the deceased should also suddenly glow and disappear. But the serial murder case is likely to be man-made. This incident tonight seems to be a natural phenomenon."

"Natural phenomenon?"

The witch asked in disbelief, took the divination cards handed by the maid on the side, shuffled the cards quickly and put three cards on her lap, confirmed the card face and groaned, covering her face with both hands:

"This is really... I would rather the incident tonight be a man-made event."

Xia De leaned against the soft cushion of the carriage seat, looking at the scenery of Moon Bay outside the window:

"Finally started... The calamity of the earth originates from the earth, and the calamity of space comes from space. When light also becomes a kind of disaster, can people really abandon light?"

"At least before figuring out the reason, we'd better stay away from the light."

The carriage drove towards the distant place where the stars were sparse, and the kerosene lamp light in the carriage was extinguished. Darkness shrouded the land of Moon Bay, and compared to light, darkness was indeed safer.

Until he accompanied the witch back to the Berindell Manor, Xia De said goodbye and left. The countess looked like she really wanted Xia De to stay overnight, but Xia De insisted on leaving. So before parting, he accepted a light kiss from her as thanks for accompanying her to the banquet.

But Xia De had to come again tomorrow morning. The cultists launched a ritual to summon the evil thing of the deep sea - the player of the seven tails in the near sea of Moon Bay last Sunday, and she had already figured out some clues. And with this, Xia De's last time exploration in the Sea of No Light finally came to the end.

The crystal shoe was thrown out, and then the figure of the outsider holding the crystal shoe appeared on the stairs on the second floor of No. 6 St. Deran Square. Xia De had just walked up two steps, and was welcomed by Little Mia who came to welcome him happily. And after coming to the second floor, seeing the house where the elven girl had stayed for the past few days, it became only him and the cat again, even the outsider who was used to living alone felt a bit melancholy:

"I don't know where their train is now."

"Meow~"

The cat rubbed against Xia De's chest happily in his arms. Any lady might be absent from every night here, but Little Mia would definitely accompany Xia De.

After washing up, he returned to the bedroom to turn off the lights and rest. When falling in the dream, looking up at the silver moon on the ridge of the field that seemed to be an endless wilderness, Xia De suddenly asked:

"Where did the people who became light finally go?"

【You won't become light.】

"She" smiled gently, like a gust of wind on the wilderness, like a blade of grass under Xia De's feet.

"Why?"

Xia De asked in confusion, and thought "she" was implying that he didn't have to be afraid of the calamity from light.

"She" just smiled and didn't answer. Xia De continued to look at the moon, and then suddenly laughed:

"Yes."

He looked down at his glowing hands:

"The moon and the sun are also light themselves."

After a night of sound sleep, time came to Friday. When he went downstairs to get goat milk and newspapers, Xia De was still thinking about the arrival of the next Red Butterfly Day, and then when he went upstairs to prepare breakfast for himself and the cat, he hesitated about whether to wait until the next time he saw Miss Ilese to use the time key that could already be used, or to use it after getting the information from Miss Berindell in a while.

Breakfast time without the girls, except for the cat slightly disliking Xia De's craftsmanship, nothing else happened. The newspaper news was still the front page with the King's photo. Recently, nothing worth mentioning happened in Tobesk City. The discussion about war and peace became the topic of critics, but the outsider didn't care about this.

Originally, he was going to Moon Bay City after breakfast, but the unexpected doorbell downstairs disrupted Xia De's plan.

After going downstairs to open the door in confusion, Bill Schneider was standing outside the door. Xia De was surprised first, and then welcomed with a smile:

"Doctor, are you back from the academic conference?"

The blue-eyed psychologist nodded with a smile:

"I came back last night. I received the letter you sent to me. I didn't expect that I only went out for half a week, and you actually encountered such a thing."

He took off his hat and entered the door. After following Xia De upstairs, he heard Xia De tell the general process of "Emilia's Unlucky Story Collection."

"【Friendly Neighbor】 【Malicious Serial Curse Letter】 【Shadow of Peripheral Vision】 【Ghost Bone Tree】, this is really... I haven't heard of anyone who can encounter so many malicious relics in a week."

Even if he knew the general process of the incident in the letter, the doctor was still very surprised:

"But you really have the ability to handle so many relics safely. However, does the 【Doom Cult】 you mentioned really have this ability?"

"This is also the only doubt at present, but the captured prisoners have admitted that it was indeed them who cast the curse on Emilia."

Xia De saw the doctor was a little worried, and added:

"And since the curse was lifted, Emilia has lived here for three days, and nothing has happened during this period."

"Could this be because your house itself is very fierce?" ===== CHAPTER 2145 =====