Chapter 2189: Frequent Accidents

"Sister!"

Ajelina raised her head abruptly. She felt that she had gathered all her courage to dare to say this sentence:

"You don't understand at all. You have already obtained it, but I have nothing. I... to Xia De..."

"My meaning is, what you want is much more than this."

In the flat voice, Ajelina loosened her clenched fists and lowered her head again.

The girl by the window sighed softly:

"You are our younger sister, so how could we stop you? Ajelina, we are the closest relatives. For this trip to Moon Bay, you must speak less and do more, and see clearly what you really want. After you come back, answer this question again in front of us: what exactly do you want."

"I understand, sister."

The seventeen-year-old girl said in a low voice, but still didn't understand what kind of answer she should give. Afterwards, she heard footsteps again. Just as she raised her head, she had already been hugged by the girl with red-golden hair:

"Be careful with everything in Moon Bay, silly girl, and don't hurt yourself for others. You don't want to become that Mermaid Princess, and I don't want to beg the Dragon to give you a second chance, even if that Mr. Dragon always has ideas. Remember, young princess, our lives don't have a second chance."

The gentle hug made the feelings in Ajelina's heart more and more complicated. She also reached out and hugged her sister:

"Yes, I know."

"Take this; this is an alchemical item we made using special power."

After letting go of Ajelina, Rixia took out a silver pendant with the Cavendish family crest from her skirt. After signaling Ajelina to lower her head, she hung it on Ajelina's neck:

"The power of space, and you and I are connected by blood, so we used this to make it. As long as you use your own spirit to activate the pendant, no matter where you are in the material world, I can immediately perceive your existence and direction."

The girl who was a head taller than Ajelina bent down, pressed her hands on Ajelina's shoulders, and looked at her with green eyes at the same height:

"Without me by your side, you must be careful. But as long as you need the help of me, this sister, I will definitely come to your side."

"Sister!"

Ajelina finally couldn't help but wrap her arms around Rixia's neck, and then sobbed softly. Rixia patted her back gently, and then gently hugged her too:

"Going on a long journey alone, you must be careful."

The sun spilled on Rixia and Dorothy's backs, and on Ajelina's face. The seventeen-year-old princess was about to embark on a journey alone to find what she craved in her heart. She had to walk the road ahead alone for a while, but Rixia believed in her sister, just as she had always believed in herself.

(Little Mia is running...)

"Good morning, Emilia."

Today, Moon Bay City was having sleet; of course, it was generally tending to rain. On days when the weather was bad, the Countess also had to go out to deal with her own affairs, so the witch and most of the maids were not there. Only Emilia was reading in her room in the manor.

The little unicorn lay at her feet, looking like it didn't feel bored because it was "confined" here. When Xia De knocked on the door and entered, he happened to see Emilia hurriedly pressing the book she had just been reading to the bottom of the pile of books on the desk.

And seeing Xia De's inquisitive gaze, the elf girl with pointed ears immediately changed the subject:

"Good morning, Mr. Watson... Have you heard? Something happened in the city again yesterday. Miss Beilindier mentioned this when we were eating breakfast this morning. A small area in Baker Street in the east of the city experienced a 'Crazy Earth' phenomenon. The ground of two connected houses on that street gushed out sludge. As long as living people were stained with that sludge, they would take root under their feet and turn into petrified trees within ten minutes."

"Crazy Earth?"

Although Xia De knew that after the Randall Valley incident ended, the distortion of the earth was only temporarily contained and not disappeared, but since spring had ended for so long, this was the first time he had encountered a similar thing again.

Emilia had experienced the first half of the Randall Valley incident, so she also knew how terrifying this phenomenon was:

"During breakfast, Miss Beilindier asked me if the purification ability of unicorns could expel those filth, and I said it probably couldn't. But I think the local church should have a way to temporarily limit the expansion of that area, right? After all, you also said that although the church cannot purify the earth as simply as you, it is not without means to limit the Crazy Earth."

Xia De was very interested in this Crazy Earth that appeared in Moon Bay, so he let Little Mia go play with the unicorn, and he pulled Emilia to ask for more details.

"Speaking of which, what book were you reading just now?"

He still hadn't forgotten this matter. Emilia's face turned red at once, her right hand raised to press the book on the desk, not giving Xia De a chance to pull out the book, and then she explained in a panic with a tone that sounded problematic:

"It's the novel you gave me. I was worried that you would think I was wasting time every day, so I hid it when you entered the door."

Xia De looked at her suspiciously, but under "her" suggestion, he didn't pursue it, but continued to ask about the Crazy Earth. After Miss Beilindier returned at noon, the witch also described more things to him:

"The expanding filth has been contained, but it hasn't been purified yet. The Church of Nature and the Church of the Sun intend to join hands to set up a ritual, but this takes time. Before I came back just now, I went to take a look from afar."

She shook her head violently, wanting to expel the memory from her mind:

"It's truly terrifying power. I stood on the roof across two streets and just used my perception to probe it, and I almost vomited from disgust."

Saying this, she also looked at Xia De while sitting at the dining table:

"When you were in Randall Valley, how did you purify such dirty things?"

After the Dragon Night, she guessed that Xia De was the "God-Awakener," so she naturally knew that Xia De was deeply involved in the Randall Valley incident.

"I have a Ringed Shushi that can purify the earth, specially restraining the Crazy Earth."

"Specially restraining? You have this power, yet you couldn't become the Chosen One of the Earth?"

The witch raised her eyebrows, and Xia De said very easily:

"Because those guardians are more worthy of this power and responsibility than I am, aren't they? I cannot be mentioned in the same breath as those great souls who dare to sacrifice themselves."

Although "Earth Power · Healing Aura" could easily expel the Crazy Earth, the area that appeared in Moon Bay City was in a very conspicuous place in the city, and it was not convenient for Xia De to take action, so he didn't think about helping the church.

The abnormalities that appeared this day were not just "Crazy Earth." After lunch, the Countess wanted to talk to Xia De about her research on that black dragon scale and the progress of the investigation into the 【Light-Worshipper Seminar】, but the maid who arrived in a hurry sent new information:

"Miss, news came from outside the city. Something happened to our farm outside the city."

"What could happen to a farm? It wouldn't be the stewards in the countryside wanting to tell me that the granary caught fire, right? It's not autumn yet."

"No, it's light. A steward disappeared into the light."

Little Mia stayed behind to accompany Emilia. The carriage carried the witch and Xia De and three maids out of the city, and then they changed to horses outside the city and rode to the farm owned by the Beilindier family in the northwest of the city.

The farm was adjacent to the "Poisonous Swamp" and "Wind-Howling Valley" in the north of Moon Bay, and its area was not large. According to Miss Beilindier, it was less than one hundred acres. Besides managing the surrounding farmland, the farm also had a dairy farm on the west side that raised more than one hundred cows. The fresh milk that Emilia had been drinking in the manor every morning recently came from here.

The incident location was not in the main building complex of the farm, but in the pasture surrounded by wooden fences.

Led by that trembling farm steward, Mr. Nock, riding a donkey, the group rode west along the country road, and then dived into the rugged path between the farmlands. From afar, they could see the pasture under the sky that was as clear as jade after the rain. The weather in the city was terrible, but it was very sunny outside the city.

Large groups of black-and-white cows were strolling leisurely in the pasture. It didn't look like anything strange had happened here at all. The Countess, who had excellent riding skills, dismounted at the pasture gate, and steward Mr. Nock immediately went to find the pasture owner who was said to have some relatives with the Beilindier main family.

"The smell of cow dung is truly disgusting."

Handing the reins in his hand to the maid behind him, Xia De said softly, but the Countess didn't mind these strange smells, instead standing at the pasture gate and looking around:

"The traces of elements are wrong; sure enough, something happened."

Soon the group arrived at the incident location, which was under the shed where the pasture's cows ate. There were soft straw, troughs, and water pumps placed here. According to the pasture owner—

"Around 11:30 this morning, a helper named Mick Leon came here to pump water for the trough, and then we heard his scream. By the time we all ran over, Leon had already disappeared, and only a ball of light was left here."

He said while trembling, but he was not afraid of Miss Beilindier, but afraid of the light that was still entrenched in the shed.

It was 2:00 PM, one of the brightest times of the day in summer. There were no black clouds in the sky outside the city, and the visibility here was very good, but everyone could still see the blinding white light entrenched on the right side of the shed.

That helper had disappeared, and along with him, half a trough and a large bucket of feed had also disappeared. The cross-section of the trough was extremely smooth; even Xia De could not easily slash out such a cross-section with a sword. And the black shadows left on the ground were the last traces of the living person who disappeared into the light. ===== CHAPTER 2190 =====