Chapter 25: Cat-Seeking Commission

Leaving the doctor's psychological clinic, it was already sunset outside. The sunset shone in the misty city, giving Xia De, who was walking on the road, the illusion of being in another world.

Half a day ago, he was still an ordinary person, but at this moment, he was able to light a piece of paper with his mind...

"Actually, it's not much different."

Thinking about it carefully, he didn't pay almost anything, and he got everything he has now. This seems a bit too lucky.

"But listening to the doctor, besides the compulsory credits obtained by learning, every academic year, one also needs to complete the Academy's practical tasks and obtain practical credits, otherwise, even if you are promoted to the Second Ring, you will have to repeat a grade."

Life seems to have really gotten on the right track, making the outsider who was still considering receiving relief food yesterday produce a bit of unreality. His plan can be further updated. With power, the work of the detective agency can be done.

Xia De has already planned to complete the three-month task of the former detective. Of course, the premise is that at least one formal commission must be completed to try whether he is really suitable.

Because he wants to save money, he still walks home, but to celebrate, he also ate dinner at a restaurant.

It was already seven o'clock in the evening when he got home. He studied the doctor's notebook a little bit and learned that wonders and spells are actually taught by the Academy's formal courses. But corresponding to spirit runes, everyone has different explorations, which can give birth to personal wonders. They can be used for exchange, or only for oneself to learn.

Looking at it this way, rather than researching wonders by himself, it is better to wait until he has textbooks and learn some ordinary wonders first. But Xia De still couldn't resist his curiosity and spent this night exploring spirit runes.

Thought influences matter, mind interferes with reality. As a result, before going to bed, the power of 【Time-Space】 could not be drawn at all, and Xia De was only able to make his fingertips emit a faint silver light, which was the wonder of the 【Silver Moon】 rune.

That light was very peaceful, and staring at it could make Xia De feel at ease.

"It's useless... at least it can save some gas money... Speaking of which, do I need to pay for the water, gas, and steam fees of this house myself?"

He entered a dream in exhaustion with such a bad idea.

The night sky outside the window had three moons hanging high, and the brightest moon phase of the silver moon had passed, but the silver moon still shone on him.

Although the doctor and the writer lady both thought that the influence brought by the Ringed Shushi taking office was not so easy to ignore, the detective probably had to lie in bed and rest for three days.

But Xia De, who woke up on time at 6:30 the next morning, didn't feel that he was any different from yesterday.

He lay on the bed for a while, thinking about the relationship between the world and life, and then was pulled to a lower and more realistic level by his embarrassed economic situation.

Only then did he stretch his finger to his face, and then saw the faint silver light on his fingertips. He stared at the light for a long time before he breathed a sigh of relief, because the mood that was bad because of thinking about the gas fee before going to bed improved, and he didn't even consider the gas fee he thought of before going to bed.

He got up to wash, and at seven o'clock, he waited for the newspaper and milk at the door on time. He didn't see the newspaper yesterday because he got up too early. In fact, he saw "Tobesk Morning News" and "Kingdom Morning News" thrown on the foot mat when he got home last night.

Of course, from next month, he will have to pay for the newspaper himself.

After drinking two bottles of milk, he went out for breakfast and put the empty milk bottles into the milk box at the door. Although Dr. Shi Nai De asked Xia De to rest well for three days, Xia De didn't feel that he had any abnormalities and thought this was the characteristic of the outsider's powerful soul.

So, today he still planned to try the commission left by the former detective.

If the commission is not smooth, he will plan to pawn the detective's relics to pay off the debt.

He doesn't plan to intervene in the investigation of Mr. Lawrence's mistress for the time being. Wait until three days later to ask the doctor and others about the pebble ring before making plans.

Among the remaining three commissions, finding Miss White's missing sister and asking about the news of a doctor who can treat eye diseases are still a bit difficult, so today's task is to find the lost orange cat for Miss Mia San Gao De.

In fact, the former Detective Hamilton has already found that cat, but in order to leave a simple task for Xia De, he didn't hand it over. So Xia De only needs to pick it up and return it to the client.

He had breakfast at a restaurant near St. Deran Square, rolled up the newspaper and tucked it under his arm, and walked east along Charide Avenue. He waited at the next intersection, watching the crowd of people going to work in the thin fog on Monday morning.

Only then did he turn left into the narrow Purple Iris Alley, glanced at the wild grass that was unusually lush because of the arrival of summer in the alley corner, and carefully avoided the barefoot children running wildly in the alley. According to the detective's notebook, he stopped downstairs in the building with the "Good Peter's Pet Shop" sign.

His nose had already smelled the smell of animal feces fermenting, but just as he was about to knock on the door, the door of the pet shop opened by itself. A girl with brown long hair walked out. She looked very young, holding a red lady's handbag in her hand.

She was stunned after seeing Xia De, then nodded politely, bypassed Xia De, and walked east along Purple Iris Alley.

Xia De's gaze followed her, watching the brown-haired girl merge into the crowd at the alley entrance.

"She..."

This was of course not love at first sight. The moment he saw the other party, Xia De suddenly had a strange feeling.

"It's as if at that moment, the surrounding light suddenly dimmed, and only a spotlight hit her. She is the protagonist of the stage..."

"That is a person from the Sun Church, young man, you'd better not have any unnecessary ideas."

Only then did he notice the middle-aged man with a big wine-red nose standing in front of the pet shop door behind him, looking at Xia De who turned around.

The smell of animal feces fermenting mixed with food was more serious on the middle-aged man. He was wearing blue work overalls, and his upper body was covered with a coat that couldn't see the original color, and his feet were black boots stained with mud.

"Is there anything?"

The middle-aged man asked.

"Hello, I am from Hamilton Detective Agency, I am here to pick up... Please wait."

Xia De withdrew his strange feeling just now and looked at the note in the former detective's notebook:

"An orange cat, about half a year old, the tail is pure white, there is orange flower color on the left front leg, the other legs are pure white, the name is Mia."

He described the characteristics of the orange cat, but he didn't expect the man's face in the door to change suddenly.

"You don't want to tell me that the cat is lost, right?"

Xia De's face also changed suddenly, pressing on the door frame and asking in a low voice. The former detective had paid money to board it here, and the client, the lady described as "generous," offered a reward of 2 pounds and 3 shillings to find the cat, and even allowed reimbursement for reasonable expenses in the process of searching.

This kind of offer was extremely unreasonable, but it also showed the cat owner's anxiety. For such a high reward, if it weren't for the fact that "Good Peter's Pet Shop" was not open on weekends, the first commission Xia De chose would definitely not be Mr. Lawrence's mistress. ===== CHAPTER 26 =====