Chapter 225: Coldwater Port City

Even though he hadn't tried diving and his own swimming level wasn't very good, because of the protection of 【Underwater Breathing】, Xia De felt quite good while swimming.

The passage continued forward without widening or branching, giving Xia De no chance to swim around aimlessly underwater. The light of the silver moon became dim in the water, and the murky vision underwater made him barely able to distinguish what was ahead.

The passage became narrower and narrower, eventually becoming an underwater crack in front that only one person could barely pass through.

Just when Xia De was worried that the crack would become narrower and narrower and he would have to perform demolition work, light actually appeared not far away.

Excited, he swam forward quickly. That light was the exit of the crack. After swimming out of the crack, faint sunlight spilled down from above through the water surface.

He tried his best to swim upward, and it took almost less than ten seconds for his head to emerge from under the water surface.

Canceling the spell, while taking deep breaths, he felt raindrops hitting his face. The rumbling sound of waves hitting the shore vibrated his eardrums, and the rain and wind brushed across his face together.

While panting heavily, he looked left and right. Behind him was a towering cliff, and that wet and cold passage was obviously under the water surface at the bottom of the cliff.

And not far in front of him, there was a black reef exposed above the sea surface.

"I can't rock climb."

So he didn't choose to climb the mountain nearby, but untied the rope around his waist and swam toward the black rock in the rain. Before long, he left the seawater and stood in the rain.

Because of the miracle 【Time Perception】, Xia De knew that it had taken about 15 minutes from leaving the hidden wall to now.

This was because it was the first time walking this "road," not only unfamiliar but also needing to observe the surroundings. After becoming proficient in the future, it should be no problem to compress the time to within 10 minutes.

"But where on earth is this? It wouldn't be a lonely island in the ocean, would it?"

The sky was covered with dark clouds, raindrops hit his cheeks, and the strong wind blew his hair. The cliff behind him, the steep rock wall falling straight down, could barely be seen in its entirety in the rain.

The fishy smell of the tide rushed into his nasal cavity. He squinted and looked toward the sky. Lonely seagulls circled above his head in the rain and flew away to more distant places before long.

Further away was the deep and terrifying ocean. Except for a few reefs nearby, the turbulent sea surface in the distance almost swallowed everything. At the end of his vision, dark clouds connected with the ocean, and the twisted and strange shape of the dark clouds on the ocean surface made Xia De feel terrified instinctively.

"Why is it raining in Tobesk, and it's still raining here?"

Xia De, soaked all over, endured the sticky feeling and continued to look around. Except for the huge black reef under his feet, a series of rocks exposed above the water surface were densely packed under the cliff, which seemed to have peeled off from the side wall of the cliff at some point in the past.

The waves rolled under his feet, stirring up a series of disgusting white foam, as if hitting the stones under his feet for thousands of years without change.

The sound of water was deafening, and it was desolate all around. Except for the vast ocean and rocks, he couldn't see any trees, let alone beaches and islands.

But just by moving a little, his line of sight could pass through one side of the towering cliff and see the scenery blocked by the cliff.

Xia De widened his eyes and held his breath.

He saw a seaport city located in the rain, saw the city standing by the sea, and even saw the huge factory chimneys looming in the distance. The light of civilization illuminated the coast, and the smell of steam was carried to the ocean with the wind.

"This is a port city on the west coast of the continent."

Only then did he extinguish the silver light on his fingertips and look at the giant steam cargo ships docked in the harbor in the distance, look at the warships flying the Delarion Kingdom naval flag, and look at the huge city building complex unfolding on the coastal plain.

"I am still in Delarion. The New Continent shouldn't have such a large city, so this is a port city on the west coast of the Old Continent."

He felt lucky about his luck in his heart, opened the suitcase wrapped in canvas in the rain, and took out the bag of frog legs.

After chanting the awkward incantation, he threw the crushed frog legs into the sea. Then he jumped in the rain, jumping from the slippery black reef to the nearby rock.

The view here was broader. Xia De now fully confirmed that the cliff towering beside him was located on one side of the seaport city. And from his current position, he didn't need to enter the water to enter the nearby seaport city.

As long as he kept moving on these reefs under the cliffs, he could land on the shallow beach by the sea after turning around one side of the cliff. Walking forward along the shallow beach, it was estimated to be a twenty-minute distance to reach the pier where the large warships were docked.

In other words, Xia De's emergence from underwater was actually on the edge of the city. After this road was walked proficiently, it would only take less than half an hour from leaving the hidden wall to entering the city.

Compared to his own hidden wall, this place was obviously safer, and safe to a fault.

"Why couldn't the exit be in some basement in the city, or in the sewer?"

This was the complaint of Xia De, who was jumping around on the reefs in the rain.

His boots stepped into the seawater of the shallow beach, leaving footprints on the beach while stepping small shells between the sand into the sand. But as the boots were lifted, the incoming seawater made the sand surface flat again, and no traces of human walking could be seen.

Xia De landed quietly at the shallow beach, then walked toward the shore, bending over sneakily. Fortunately, in this rainy weather, no one would come to the beach, so this caution was not seen by anyone.

This was the beach near the pier, and the wind and tide left some garbage on the soft sand surface. When Xia De was walking in the rain, he noticed a wet newspaper lying not far away.

After approaching quickly, he picked up the newspaper to check. Most of the content of the newspaper was blurred. The only things he could see were the name of the newspaper, the date, and part of the content on the left page.

The time was yesterday, and the content was "Princess Lei Qianya finished her visit to Karsenrick and returned to the country, resting in Coldwater Port City for a week" (Note), and the title of the newspaper was "Coldwater Port Evening News."

"The most important seaport city on the west coast of the Delarion Kingdom, the main trade hub with the New Continent, Coldwater Port City?"

He looked up at the city building complex under the dark clouds not far away, but still couldn't figure out what he had come here for.

"Princess Lei Qianya?"

He looked back at the abnormally large warship on the sea. This was a steam-powered ship. Except for supernatural power, a warship of this size could almost be considered the most powerful weapon that mortals could possess in this era.

Coldwater Port City indeed had the stationing of the Kingdom Navy and the Royal Army, but warships shouldn't be at the civilian pier, so this ship should be used to transport important figures.

"Is the Princess on the ship, or in the residence arranged in Coldwater Port City? Also, what's the use of me going to find Princess Lei Qianya? She doesn't know me, and I don't want to drag her into the matter of the 'Whispering Poem'."

Xia De hesitated in the rain and decided to walk around this seaport city first. Since he had come to such a far place with great difficulty, the outlander naturally wanted to see the customs of different cities.

Because of the heavy rain outside, when Xia De, soaked all over, broke into the Golden Rose Hotel on "Hoglerentz Avenue" in the pier area of Coldwater Port City, no one suspected that the young man had emerged from the sea.

The hotel in the pier area received guests who came to the city by boat from all over the world all year round. Relatively speaking, Xia De was not a strange guy.

When registering, he gave the fake name "John Watson" and spent 3 shillings (including lunch and dinner) to rent the cheapest room in the hotel. After taking a shower and changing into clean and dry clothes, he didn't rush to leave the hotel, but returned to the counter and borrowed some newspapers from the past few days from the knitting fat woman, before returning to the room.

In the small room with a damp and moldy smell, after lighting the gas desk lamp that seemed not to have been wiped for decades, the first thing was naturally to check the location where Princess Lei Qianya was staying.

The good news was that Miss Lu Yi Sha's princess friend did not live on the inaccessible warship. The bad news was that the Sofia Mansion where she was temporarily staying was not something ordinary people could approach at will.

That was a large mansion in the most prosperous South District of Coldwater Port City, part of the royal family's vast property. Most royal family members would choose to stay there when visiting Coldwater Port.

The Coldwater Port Evening News described with a large space the excellent efforts made by the local police and City Hall to protect the Princess's safety.

In other words, Xia De had no chance to meet Princess Lei Qianya Cavendish at all.

Then he flipped through other parts of the newspaper to see if there were any suspicious events in the local area. But just like the newspapers in Tobesk, all kinds of information, big and small, true and false, were displayed on different categories of newspapers. Fishermen brought back strange stone statues when fishing, men and women having an affair on the beach at night saw a ghost ship on the sea, a golden island with treasures everywhere appeared in the outer sea... and so on.

Every city had different city rumors. In Tobesk, most were related to the nightlife of big cities, while in Coldwater Port City, most were related to the ocean. If Xia De wanted to find valuable clues from this information, he might as well hope that the Silver-Eyed One would fall to death when going out to buy groceries.

"However, people with the status of the Silver-Eyed One shouldn't go out to buy groceries themselves."

He thought in his heart and spent the remaining hour of the morning reading the newspaper. He had lunch at the hotel and specifically took out the 【Pirate's Blood Coin】, but no induction occurred.

So in the afternoon, he borrowed an umbrella from the hotel to go out. Since there was nothing to do for the time being, he planned to deal with the matter of the client, Mrs. Lemeier. The friend who helped Mr. Lemeier keep the will was right here. ===== CHAPTER 226 =====