Chapter 2152: A Ray of Light

The soul agreed with Xia De's point of view and nodded without hesitation:

"Yes, I can tell you who the murderer is. Even, I can sense the murderer's position now, this is a kind of..."

Xia De finished this sentence for him:

"Instinct, the soul is so magical."

"Then let me describe the murderer's position for you. Do you know Gray Street in the city? That is..."

Xia De stopped him:

"Wait a minute, you go with us. As I said, it's not early, I don't want to miss dinner time because I found the wrong person and ran again."

He said, reaching into his pocket. The soul wanted to express his predicament, that is, he couldn't leave his body too far, but Xia De had already found the crow skull from his carry-on toys:

"I have learned a lot of skills recently, this can temporarily store your soul. Now don't resist, don't resist the suction... It seems to be successful, my skills are still quite good."

Carrying the soul, the detective holding the cat and the mysterious blue-eyed girl took the carriage back to the city. Although Xia De thought in his heart that this was another troublesome matter, in fact, according to the guidance of young Mr. Gillot, the group found the underground casino in the lower city where the murderer "worked" within five minutes of getting off the carriage.

This place is not far from Herring Street and Spider Alley, and you can see the Taton River by crossing three alleys to the northwest. The concept of weekends has appeared in this era but has not been fully popularized, but on Friday afternoon, even the people in the underground casino are not as capable and dedicated as in the past.

However, Xia De would not go so far as to hold a gun and rush into the building to slaughter a whole building of people for a small matter. He just turned on the illusion, passed through the casino on the first and second floors with Miss Ilese, and entered the non-public area on the third floor.

After knocking out a few irrelevant people, Xia De saw his target. Although the bald thirty-year-old man didn't know what Xia De was going to do, he chose to run away at the first time. He ran out of the room quickly, Xia De stood in front of the wall and counted down three numbers, then punched out—

With a bang, the fist passed through the thin wall and stopped just right in front of the bald man's face. The latter looked at the fist in shock, his left eye looked to the right, his right eye looked to the left, his eyes gradually became cross-eyed, and then he collapsed to the ground.

"The strength is really good."

Miss Ilese on the side commented, and Xia De went to pull down the curtains of the room, tore off a piece of cloth, and stuffed the cloth into the mouth of the bald man who was already runny and teary due to panic. Turning the remaining cloth of the curtain into a toy and putting it away, he carried the man like a wild boar and left the casino.

After finding the carriage, he went to the city cemetery again, and the carriage driver, because of the illusion, turned a blind eye to the person Xia De was carrying. After this trip, when the guy whose name Xia De was too lazy to ask was thrown heavily in front of young Mr. Gillot's tombstone, the twilight color had already appeared on the horizon.

The cat, which had slept enough in the afternoon, was now in an excited state—because it was about to be dinner time, and Xia De's afternoon was not wasted in vain. On the way back and forth, Miss Ilese told him many interesting stories and legends about the ocean. The girl didn't mind Xia De testing her identity in another way.

It's just that every time Xia De wanted to deepen the topic to the real core, she would purse her lips and smile to avoid Xia De's topic.

The soul trapped in the crow skull in one direction was released by Xia De again. After the soul manifested, he looked at the person who killed him with a gloomy face, and seeing the person who should have died, the liquid immediately seeped out of the pants of the man whose mouth was still stuffed with cloth.

Miss Ilese stood behind Xia De without a trace, and young Gillot continued to look at his enemy with a cold face:

"I was actually killed by such a cowardly person."

"You don't seem to hate him at all?"

Xia De asked with great interest, and the soul replied:

"Yes, he killed me, how could I not hate him? But I also know that they just wanted to rob me of my money, and didn't intend to kill me at first. My death was a situation that no one expected. I hate him, but I hate this fact even more. This way of death makes my life too meaningless."

The sun set, and even the soul was dyed with a layer of dim yellow halo. He just looked at the person who killed him, but in the end, he didn't do anything, but said to Xia De:

"Sir, then will you take him to my father?"

"This depends on whether you are willing to follow me to see your father."

The soul, who had always been very cooperative with Xia De's actions, finally hesitated this time, and Xia De also sighed gently, standing under the big poplar tree looking at the setting sun that seemed to be hanging under the treetops.

There were no black clouds covering the sky outside the city, and the brilliant sunset glow sprinkled on people and souls. And when the long shadows of people mixed with the shadows of many tombstones, it made the place look quiet but not lonely at all.

The warm light made Little Mia meow comfortably. Xia De saw that the soul didn't speak for a long time, so he said:

"It seems I guessed right. Your soul didn't leave, not because you hated your own death. You stayed here because you felt sorry for your father, right?"

The expression on young Gillot's face became more complicated, and Miss Ilese asked from behind Xia De:

"How did you guess it in advance?"

Xia De continued to look at the sun:

"Isn't this obvious? The tobacco merchant was willing to do such an impulsive act after his son died. Then when the gentleman in front of us was still alive, he must have loved his son very much.

I know that young people always ignore their parents' concern for them, but a boy whose mother died early and was raised by his father, really wouldn't say sorry to his father in his heart before he died?"

The soul trembled violently at this moment, and then a milky white luster emerged from the semi-transparent soul body. Young Gillot's soul seemed to be drawn out of time, flashing at a frequency of once per second, but after stabilizing, it only made the soul more solid.

He lowered his head and looked at the man on the ground who was almost fainting with fear, and it took a long time to speak:

"I have no face to see my father. I didn't listen to my father and indulged in the Luo De card casino. Now not only am I dead, but my father is also dead because of me. I can imagine how sad my father would be when he knew the news of my death... My father is an honest man, and he raised me by relying on the tobacco shop. I can't imagine how such an honest man would sell the shop, buy such expensive Luo De cards, and go to purchase guns and steam bombs... He is a very courageous man."

The sunset light sprinkled on the outsider's face. As an orphan in his hometown and here, he didn't know the meaning of these words. Everything he said was just dealing with problems from the perspective of a "human."

So he didn't try to persuade young Gillot to see the soul in the underground tomb, but asked:

"I only ask once. If you refuse, I will crush this crow skull and let everything return to its original state. I need to remind you that I don't have a second bone that can let your soul leave the grave for a short time."

He placed the crow skull on the tombstone, and the setting sun also dyed it yellow:

"You, really don't want to see your father?"

The soul looked at the entrance of the underground tomb area, then at the terrified man in front of his grave, and finally at his tombstone:

"Thank you."

The soul reached out and picked up the crow skull, paused, and then asked Xia De with a smile. This was the first time this soul smiled:

"Sir, look, I can touch real objects now. Before I leave, do you want to play a game of Luo De cards with me? Putting 【Holy Sword - Dragon Slayer Sword】 into the deck can be considered as letting me fulfill my last wish."

Xia De's gaze turned from the sun to him:

"You scumbag who caused your father's death because of playing cards, I won't play cards with someone like you."

He looked at the young soul with burning eyes. After bowing to Xia De and Miss Ilese, he walked along the grass illuminated by the sunset toward the entrance of the underground tomb area, and soon disappeared from their sight.

The two did not talk immediately, but waited together in this sunset scene. After a long time, Miss Ilese reminded:

"Can you feel it? They have all left."

"Then how did I do?"

Xia De asked, but the blue-eyed girl asked back with a smile:

"You evaluate yourself first."

"I did a great job, because you don't care about revenge at all. You care about whether the dead boy has the courage to express his apology to his father in person."

The blue eyes seemed to be shining in the sunset. She suddenly reached out, tucked the broken hair swaying with the evening wind behind her ear, and then looked at Xia De and asked:

"Do you know, sometimes this gentleness and intelligence of yours is actually like some kind of crime."

"I don't really like people using 'gentleness' to evaluate me."

The outsider took a deep breath:

"Guessing your intention is not very difficult. After all, you also said that I gave that black cat a ray of light, so that it finally didn't become a terrible evil spirit. Then you appeared in front of me this time, probably also hoping that I would give this boy and his father a ray of light, so that they, who are lost, can continue to walk."

"Then, Mr. Giver of Light, how are you going to judge him?"

Miss Ilese asked again, pointing to the man on the ground who had completely fainted due to excessive fear. ===== CHAPTER 2153 =====