Chapter 2411: The Third

The priest looked up with difficulty to see the source of the light, only to see Xia De's face appear on the side of the hole above, followed by his pleasantly surprised voice:

"Found the priest! I said the ability to listen to the heartbeat is the most suitable for finding people in this situation!"

"Detective, move aside, let me."

Another familiar voice sounded, and then the entire ruin shook. A few seconds later, two tall figures dug open the boulders and beams on the ruins from left to right. Rat Augustus, who was kneeling at the bottom of the ruins, looked at Xia De Hamilton and Bill Schneider, who were standing with their backs to the sun behind the white mist, reaching out their hands to him from a higher place:

"Priest Augustus, give us your hand, we'll pull you up!"

At that moment, all the despair, doubt, and coldness in his heart disappeared. The old man didn't reach out to grab their hands but looked at his own right hand and then lowered his head and cried.

Xia De looked at this scene in surprise, then looked at the doctor. The professional psychologist Bill Schneider was also stunned, then shook his head at Xia De:

"It's okay, he needs to vent. Didn't you hear three other heartbeats? Oh, over there, it's three children! Detective, hurry!"

As he spoke, he jumped down, and Xia De followed immediately. And when he stepped into the deep pit, "She" said gently in his ear:

【Outsider, you have guided a hero, you have gained insight into "Guidance."】

【Note, this is the third time you have gained insight into "Guidance." The next time you will definitely obtain a Spirit Rune, the type of which will be determined by the content of the insight.】

"Hmm? What did I do? No one pulled a sword this time, and I didn't discuss justice with anyone~"

The confused Outsider asked in his heart. "She" didn't answer, but her laughter was even gentler than usual.

The three unconscious children were quickly transferred to the ground, and the crying Priest Augustus also left the ruins with them.

At this time, the entire building of the Moon Bay City orphanage had completely collapsed, and the surrounding street was also severely damaged. Dr. Schneider went to help the priest find his luggage from the ruins; it was nearby and contained some potions and spellcasting materials.

Xia De first used holy water to treat the wounds of the priest and the children, then used the liquid treated by 【Satiating Food】 to heal the external wounds, and finally held 【Night Watcher】 high:

"Sunlight Healing!"

Augmented by 【Night Watcher】, the warmer yellow sunlight, brighter and purer than usual, radiated from top to bottom in a cone shape, enveloping everyone. Even Xia De, who had no injuries, felt very comfortable being enveloped by this light:

"I knew it, 【Night Watcher】 amplifies the power of the Sunlight series more significantly."

Thinking this, he found a towel and handed it to the priest. As for the three children, they were lying on the warm mat Xia De had taken out, sleeping very peacefully in the sunlight.

"You, how did you find me?"

Having calmed his mood slightly, but with his eyes still red, Priest Augustus asked Xia De. At this time, the doctor also came back carrying the suitcase, so he answered the question for Xia De:

"Although the detective and I both knew you worked at the orphanage, we both thought you had already gone to the Heart Orphanage outside the city with the children. I was fighting those glowing monsters and the blood-sucking demons that crawled out of the sewers in the city just now, and then..."

The blue-eyed psychologist frowned slightly, finding it hard to describe that feeling:

"Light, hmm, like a halo that only appears at dawn, suddenly appeared before my eyes. I thought it was an illusion or a trap, or perhaps a strange relic. The detective said there were quite a few such relics in the Moon Bay area recently. But I still followed that beam of light and walked forward; that light was really warm.

Then I met the detective flying in the air. After he met me, he also saw the strange halo I was following. So we acted together and came here. The detective heard the heartbeat under the ruins, and the two of us guessed what needed to be done.

The combination of the strange technique of sensing heartbeats and 【Fossil to Mud】 is really convenient in this situation."

"That strange halo has very strong traces of miraculous elements, but I don't know what it is. However, it disappeared after we arrived here. Its purpose should be to let us come to save you."

Xia De said, still maintaining 【Sunlight Healing】. During the daytime, with the amplification of 【Night Watcher】, the healing effect of this spell was perfect.

Priest Augustus didn't ask how Xia De had learned the strange technique of the Church of the Sun again, but said softly:

"That's right, I had just prayed to my Lord 【Mr. Dawn】... You probably encountered a divine revelation."

Xia De and the doctor looked at each other in surprise. Just as Xia De wanted to say something, Priest Augustus shook his head:

"Detective, don't waste your spirit to continue the treatment, I'm already fine."

He had been sitting on the ground, but at this moment he climbed up holding the ground. Priest Augustus had always given Xia De the impression of an elderly man, but as he straightened his waist, Xia De and the doctor both clearly felt he had become much younger.

Steam mist dispersed behind Priest Augustus. Amidst the steam whistle and the tolling of the bell that sounded like death, the priest's Fourth-Tier life ring appeared. The core Spirit Rune 【Glimmer】 bloomed with a faint light. The priest pressed his right shoulder blade lightly, the peculiar light appeared, and then extinguished.

Priest Augustus closed his eyes and let out a long breath. The strange shadow of wings spreading flashed behind his life ring.

Xia De and the doctor both stepped back in surprise. Priest Augustus, who opened his eyes, shook his head again and said to Xia De:

"Don't worry about that bone anymore, it's fine now."

"Although I still don't quite understand what happened, it's fine as long as it's fine... That bone belongs to you."

Priest Augustus said to the doctor again:

"It will take another half hour for my power to fully recover. Could I trouble you to accompany me to send these three children to the Heart Orphanage outside the city?"

"Of course."

Dr. Schneider naturally wouldn't refuse:

"I wouldn't be at ease if you were alone. I can't even imagine what would have happened if the detective and I hadn't appeared just now. If those three children had died in front of you, you would probably... let's not talk about this. Oh, detective, I'm going out of the city with the priest now, and I'll come back after sending the children. Don't worry, we'll be able to catch up to help you."

"No need to be so anxious, there is no sign of God descending at all right now."

Xia De shook his head. In fact, he was also very worried about them; he didn't want to call all his friends to help, only to have them suffer serious injuries in the end.

Without delay, the priest and the doctor took the three children and were about to set off immediately. But before leaving, the priest told Xia De one more thing:

"These lights and mists are very strange, the departed souls are imprisoned in the mist."

"What do you mean?"

Xia De asked, and the priest just explained in a low voice:

"Since this morning, the souls of everyone who died in Moon Bay City have not gone to where they should go, but have been bound in the mist by the light. Because the aura of death is completely suppressed by the light, there won't be a tide of vengeful spirits, but this phenomenon is very wrong."

Xia De immediately thought of the memory of the "past life," where Miss Brown's soul melted into light and finally turned into the "Prayer of Light."

"Have those souls dissolved?"

"No, at least not yet."

"Compared to that, I'm more worried about your problem, detective."

The doctor raised an eyebrow at Xia De:

"Is what's going to happen later really something you can solve?"

"Believe in him."

Instead, it was the priest who spoke for Xia De, which shocked both Xia De and the doctor, because in the past, the priest was always more worried than anyone else at such times.

Although the old priest's eyes were still a bit red, the hand pressing on Xia De's shoulder was unusually powerful:

"Since the detective has chosen this path and chosen to stay here, he has his own reasons. We just need to help him as much as possible. The future is in our own hands, believe in him."

Dr. Schneider couldn't help but sigh:

"If I had known that your trip to Moon Bay would be so effective for treating psychological problems, we would have had you come months ago. Alright, detective, take care of yourself, we're leaving first."

"Take care."

Priest Augustus also said to Xia De, and threw him a bottle of No. 2 holy water, before he and the doctor hugged the three children and walked into the mist... The horses of the orphanage's carriage had been crushed to death by the collapsed stable.

Xia De watched them leave, then turned and prepared to continue returning to Belindell Manor:

"The priest seems to have completely figured it out. If this were told to Dorothy, I don't know what she would think."

But following the doctor and the halo just now to get here, he had instead taken a big detour in the city.

Other buildings on the street where the Moon Bay City orphanage was located also had damage, but only the orphanage building had completely collapsed, so Xia De didn't have to think about helping.

And when he found the alley and prepared to turn into red butterflies in the alley, another person walked out from the other end of the alley.

The other party had a large black birthmark on his face and was holding something very strange in his hand. Above the rectangular bronze handle were four dragon heads facing four directions, and the eyes of the dragon head facing Xia De were glowing red in the mist.

Xia De was startled, then recognized that the other party was the Ringed Shushi with black dragon scales on his face who had fought him many times in the 【Dragon-Feast Sect】.

Whether the other party recognized him, Xia De didn't know, but the other party was clearly much stronger than the two previous meetings. Seeing Xia De, the cultist didn't hesitate at all and stretched his neck, then the human head immediately turned into a huge black dragon head disproportionate to his body, opened his mouth, and sprayed scorching black flames toward Xia De.

The flames surged along the alley like water along a riverbed, but with the appearance of a gorgeous moonlight, the sword light split the sea of fire and rushed straight at the dragon head, but was blocked at the last moment by the strange bronze detector in the cultist's hand.

*Clang—* The detector was knocked away and slanted into the wall of the alley. Xia De stepped forward and came directly in front of the cultist, swinging his sword to cut off the black dragon head. **CHAPTER 2412**