Chapter 2289: Aftermath of the Turmoil

Temporarily ending the matter of the time key, this Monday was truly considered to have started. But before everyone left home this morning, Xia De asked the last question:

"Galina, do you know where I can find Director Anluosi now?"

Xia De last met Director Anluosi a few weeks ago. Director Anluosi said that when Military Intelligence Section 6 restarted the dormant agents in Moon Bay, they found that one of them was missing.

He said at the time that if they really couldn't find the person later, he would let Xia De help investigate, but since then Xia De had not received any new notifications.

But Xia De didn't go to see his superior this morning because of this, but wanted Military Intelligence Section 6 to help investigate the Moon Bay Bank.

Meeting Director Anluosi was in a restaurant on Silver Cross Avenue. Xia De often brought his cat here to solve his dinner, but it was still early now, and there were very few guests eating breakfast in the restaurant.

When Xia De arrived, Director Anluosi, who had received the letter sent by the maid sent by Miss Galina, had already hidden his face behind the newspaper and sat down at a table in the corner. Xia De didn't know why his own home was so close to here, but Director Anluosi arrived here first.

"Want to find a specific account?"

Hearing Xia De's request, the middle-aged man with a plain appearance hesitated for a moment:

"Do you know which bank it is specifically?"

"I don't know, I only know that in the last two years, that account would conduct large-sum remittance transactions during certain specific periods."

Xia De took out the dates that Baron Chandler had confessed in the basement of the morgue yesterday.

Director Anluosi nodded, folded the paper, and put it into his pocket:

"Leave it to me, today is Monday, there will be results before the end of this week."

"So fast?"

Xia De raised his eyebrows in surprise. Director Anluosi said while holding a teacup:

"We have been frequently paying attention to the situation in Moon Bay for the past few years. Large-sum transactions in major banks in Moon Bay are one of the contents of attention. If it's just finding an account and checking the transaction records, this couldn't be simpler. I know that the things you are involved in must be troublesome things, I will let them act cautiously."

Xia De didn't ask much:

"The... colleague you mentioned some time ago, has the person been found now?"

Director Anluosi sighed:

"Not found, but there has been some investigative progress."

He looked like he hadn't eaten breakfast yet, so meeting Xia De here also solved his breakfast problem, so he didn't mind talking to Xia De a few more words:

"That person's disappearance was not a betrayal of... the company, but an accident. Being sent to work in such a distant place, and not contacting headquarters for so many years, it is normal for accidents to occur. However, we still have to investigate what kind of accident occurred. After all, at least a month and a half ago, that person was still living as usual."

He had breakfast in front of him, while Xia De only had a teacup:

"Homicide? Crime of passion? Accidental death? Or involved in unspeakable things?"

The latter refers to things related to ring-warlocks.

So Director Anluosi looked around vigilantly, and seeing that the breakfast atmosphere in the restaurant was very leisurely, he lowered his voice a little:

"It's ridiculous to say, it's related to Luo De cards. No, it's not about gambling cards and owing money, it's related to a special rule card of collectible grade."

Xia De raised his eyebrows:

"The one you are talking about, wouldn't it be the 'Out-of-town Merchant and the Three Missing Cards' that has been spreading like wildfire in Moon Bay recently?"

"You really know."

Director Anluosi said with a smile:

"It is rumored that each of those three cards can be sold for a price of over five hundred pounds, and they are all quite ancient cards. Our colleague himself is not a card player, but he does some business as a collector and antique dealer in Moon Bay.

From the current situation, he seems to have obtained one of the cards, and disappeared suddenly when he was planning with others to trade it for a high price."

After speaking, he picked up the teacup and took a sip of coffee. Xia De noticed that his superior didn't add sugar to his coffee at all.

"But even so, we have to take revenge for him. After all, this is the rule."

"Do you know which card it is?"

Xia De asked again. Director Anluosi shook his head:

"Those 3 cards have caused quite a few things in Moon Bay, and it is not clear which one it is yet."

Xia De had already obtained the 【Holy Sword · Dragon Slaying Sword】 among the three legendary cards from the dead merchant father and son, and it had nothing to do with the missing and dead agent. And Xia De had heard of 【Ancient Alchemy · Dragon Transformation Stone】 once not long ago.

The cousin of Viscount Bell Gra, the champion of the 1850 Great City players, once tried to get news about this card from the blood-sucking Captain Rudolf, but at that time Captain Rudolf frankly said he didn't have this card. Viscount Gra's news was clearly wrong.

Therefore, the card that had appeared in the hands of the missing and dead agent should be "Ancient Alchemy" or the unknown third one:

"I once met an information peddler in Moon Bay, and she said she had a clue to one of the three cards. If I have time, I will help investigate."

This refers to Mrs. Frey, the female shopkeeper of the "High-end Technical Place" Parsifal Club. Although it was unclear which of the three cards she knew about, Xia De didn't mind trying to give back to Military Intelligence Section 6, which paid his salary every month.

The meeting with Director Anluosi didn't take too much time. Because he had to come back to participate in the church activities of the Saint Prayer Festival in the afternoon, after returning home, Xia De seized the time to go to Moon Bay according to the plan.

As for Little Mia, the cat with its tail on fire was not suitable for going out. But Xia De was not worried that the cat would burn down Saint Deland Square No. 6. Miss Galina would live here for a long time before Tifa came back, so there would be several maids in the house, and they would also help watch the cat.

Walking out of the cave connected to the Dragon's Nest, and looking at the city from the small woods, the fire last night had clearly been extinguished, but the sky over the city was still shrouded in black mist.

When Xia De entered the urban area through the city gate from Saint George Stone Bridge, he found that the street in front of him was indeed half-burned. The air was still filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke. Although there were not many completely collapsed buildings, most of them had traces of fire, and wisps of black smoke were rising toward the gloomy sky.

This street directly connected to Saint George Stone Bridge looked much more lively than usual, because the residents and merchants on the street were organizing various losses in their homes, drying furniture that had been wet by fire fighting, and moving away furniture and other garbage that had been burned.

Police officers wearing safety helmets walked back and forth on the street, as if they were counting the disaster situation. The city fire department was still working to prevent the dead ashes from reigniting in the buildings. And the people who died in the fire last night had already been transported away, leaving behind those poor people who had to continue to face life to clean up the mess.

Judging from the battle situation last night, the area with the most serious damage should be this area where the fire broke out in the north of the city, and the block where the witches fought with the "Light Chasers" in the east of the city.

But the latter was protected by the witches, so although many houses were lost, there should be few citizens who died. The north of the city, under the ravages of blood-sucking monsters and big fires, really suffered a disastrous impact.

Because Xia De's appearance was different from last night, people on the street did not recognize that the young man passing by was the one who helped them last night. However, Xia De saw the two children he saved from the fire last night, holding hands and following their father and mother, looking for things that could still be used in the ruins of their house.

He didn't talk to them, just stood there for a while and then left.

Not only the city, clearly something happened in the villages outside Moon Bay last night, but these things were not only unknown to the carriage driver, but also not published in detail in the newspaper.

Because of the situation last night, local reporters organized the disaster situation in various parts of the city overnight, and before the morning newspaper was sold this morning, they added a small newspaper outside the newspaper sequence number, which was the "Extra". But the headline was not the situation organized by the reporters, but the appeasement-style speech that the Mayor of Moon Bay was going to deliver this morning, which was urgently sent to major newspaper offices in the middle of the night yesterday.

When Xia De was reading the newspaper in the carriage to understand the situation, he also discussed it with the carriage driver. The thirty-something driver's family was very lucky and almost unaffected:

"Sir, my family lives in the lower city area in the south of the city. When something happened last night, someone organized the neighbors to gather together and hide in the basement, and when they went out at dawn, the matter was over. It is said that it was 【Eternal Light】, I heard people say that this is an organization that helps the poor, they are really good people.

Some people say that monsters appeared in the city, but I think robbers are the most terrible. There were gunshots everywhere last night, and the guest who took my carriage just now helped me read the Mayor's speech. That Mr. Wright said that it was pirates colluding with the gangsters in the city trying to loot the city, but I don't think it will be that simple."

Last night, the big fire shrouded the five streets in the north of the city connected by Saint George Stone Bridge, and after leaving this area, the traces of the fire basically disappeared. But on the streets passed by the carriage, one could still see municipal personnel splashing clear water and solvent on the street surface to wash away blood stains, priests visiting house to house, and vehicles transporting corpses traveling through the streets and alleys.

Those blood-sucking monsters last night killed quite a few people in the city. And besides monsters, gangsters who fished in troubled waters and wanted to rob and commit other crimes also created the same evil.

Xia De and the carriage driver did not have too much discussion about the tragic situation in the city. Xia De didn't know how to open his mouth, and the driver thought that the prophecy about the city was probably true, and such things would happen again in the future.

And the more they moved toward the core area of the city, the more they found that the impact of last night's turmoil on the city was becoming smaller. And when the carriage arrived near the Belindell Manor, they could almost not see the traces of the turmoil.

Only, the Belindell Manor and the City Hall were in the same block, so the police checked suspicious people at the intersections in the nearby blocks. Xia De, who was sitting in the carriage, was also checked, but he fooled them. ===== CHAPTER 2290 =====