Chapter 253

"Detective, well done. Your Silver Moon Slash just now was almost more powerful than my Sunlight Spear. A Sage-level Relic is indeed extraordinary."

Confirming the opponent's death, Miss Beiya panted and praised, took out a small bottle containing holy water from her pocket and drank a mouthful. She had used multiple oddities in a row just now, and the consumption was really not small.

Xia De looked down at the necklace on his neck and then at the corpse of the Fifth-Ring Shushi. If the opponent hadn't chosen to transform into a ghost fog, the three people couldn't have won so thoroughly.

"Even among Sage-level Relics, this necklace that the Detective doesn't know which lady he borrowed from is also quite a powerful piece, oh~"

Miss Annette groaned in pain, clutching her chest, and sat on the stairs. Victory was not without a price; she was injured.

Neither Xia De nor Miss Beiya went to check on Miss Annette's situation. The former walked quickly toward the stairs to listen to whether there were footsteps outside, and the latter watched the basement where paper pages were flying vigilantly, guarding against the appearance of a second Ringed Shushi.

"No problem."

After being quiet for a while, Xia De said softly.

"No problem here either; the battle ended very quickly."

Miss Beiya said. They were all people who did things decisively and reliably, and Xia De appreciated such girls.

The young female Shushi continued to observe the surroundings vigilantly, while Xia De took out a small bottle containing water from his pocket and came to Miss Annette's side:

"Drink some, not too much, otherwise you will hiccup. If the trauma is severe, you can pour it on the injured position."

The profane silver spiritual light flickered on the water surface. After Miss Annette took it, Xia De turned around very consciously. After waiting for the lady behind him to say she was already fine, he turned around and took the empty bottle.

Xia De actually had many treatment methods: 【Gluttonous Food】 treats physical injuries, 【Cynthia's Silver Moon Grace】 treats mental trauma, and 【Youth-Preserving Leaf】, if used as a one-time consumable, can make people recover completely from a serious injury state.

In this operation, not to mention his combat power, his auxiliary abilities alone were enough to play a role.

"Do you need treatment?"

Xia De didn't forget to ask, and Miss Annette stood up and shook her head:

"It's already fine."

Xia De asked Miss Beiya again:

"Do you need treatment?"

The latter also shook her head:

"Not for now, Detective, go search the corpse quickly, and then leave immediately."

【Relics】 are extremely precious, and the total number of recorded Relics will not exceed five digits. Not all Ringed Shushi have 【Relics】, at least for Ringed Shushi who are not from the Church or Academy. But this doesn't mean the scar-faced man who was killed didn't have any 【Relics】. For that absurd goal, Mercury Blood collected many good things with the help of the power of the 【Puppeteer Script】.

Although no suspicious items were found on the corpse after the initial search, Miss Annette simply tossed a coin and determined that the other party must have a Relic on him.

"It's really convenient to have a diviner acting with you."

Xia De and Miss Beiya both had this thought.

Searching the corpse again didn't find anything, but with the help of the woman's voice in his head, Xia De still took out a small glass bottle from inside the dissected corpse while wearing gloves. The bottle body was approximately round-cake shaped, but only a quarter of the size of a palm, without a bottle stopper, and was hidden directly at the position of the corpse's liver.

Ringed Shushi can pay a price for power. Miss Beiya doesn't care about one eye, and this scar-faced man also had the courage to stuff such a big thing into his stomach. There was very little mercury inside the bottle, just covering the bottom of the bottle. As Xia De shook it, the residual mercury also swayed inside the container, but no matter how it was tilted, this mercury couldn't be poured out of the bottle.

"Do you know what this is?"

Xia De asked his companions, and both ladies shook their heads:

"An unknown Relic is a hidden danger in itself. Hide it here first and take it away when we leave. Today's most important goal is the Silver-Eyed One."

Miss Annette said, so Xia De pressed the bottle under the corpse again temporarily.

The area of the basement was quite large, and the stacked cardboard boxes almost formed a maze. After searching the corpse, it was time to find the entrance to the underground ruins; the entrance was hidden.

Miss Annette prepared to divine again, but this more specific search required some time. Xia De used 【Blood Echo】 to observe the ground, but unfortunately, except for the blood spat out by Miss Annette, there were no traces for Xia De to observe.

So he used 【Echo of the Past】 again to capture the sounds within 36 hours. The underground warehouse guarded alone rarely had human voices, so Xia De captured the sound at once. It was exactly the voice of the dead scar-faced man:

"Damn Diake, hiding below and not coming out, letting me keep the door for you here. One day, I will sit in your position, and I will also stuff your ** into **."

Judging from the tone, this was a complaining voice.

After this sentence ended, there was only the sound of pacing back and forth, so Xia De ended the oddity effect and then listened again.

There was no sound at all; probably in the area near that point in time, there was no movement.

So he listened for the third time.

There was still no sound, but Xia De waited patiently for dozens of seconds. He actually heard the sound of the underground warehouse door being opened.

He was startled, but seeing that the two ladies on the side didn't have any movement, and seeing that the door didn't move, he knew this was a sound from the past.

The door should have been pushed open completely, then footsteps came from the stairs, and then the scar-faced man's voice:

"Good morning, Mr. Madis."

His tone was very respectful:

"When did you arrive in Tobesk? Sorry, we didn't go to meet you."

This didn't seem to be someone from 【Mercury Blood】.

"Just arrived, the weather here is really terrible."

This Mr. Madis used a very heavy Delarion accent, and Xia De couldn't distinguish which accent it was.

"You've worked hard."

The scar-faced man continued, and Xia De could even imagine his respectful expression.

"It should be done, then according to the plan discussed by the school and the Silver-Eyed One..."

"Hmm? Blood Spirit School? But didn't Miss Galina say they wouldn't arrive until the weekend?"

Xia De frowned.

"... I will go into the ruins to confirm what you found."

Mr. Madis continued.

"No problem, please follow me, opening the entrance to the ruins is not easy."

Xia De frowned tightly and looked in front of him, then raised his finger and made a "shh" gesture, letting his companions not make any sound. Then, he followed the speaking voice he heard with his ears and walked inward, stopping on the south side of the deeper part of the underground warehouse.

The fight just now didn't affect this place, and the cargo boxes stored in the printing factory were stacked neatly together.

The sound of boxes being moved sounded, then it was the key unlocking, and the trapdoor was opened with effort. The two men said goodbye, one of whom was clearly entering below the trapdoor, then the trapdoor fell again, the lock was buckled again, the cardboard boxes were moved again, and the scar-faced man's footsteps sounded, walking toward the warehouse exit.

"Come quickly, it's here!"

Only then did he speak, and the two ladies also followed immediately.

Xia De said quickly:

"There is someone who is not from Mercury Blood, who entered the ruins this morning to meet Mercury Blood. Probably from the 【Blood Spirit School】."

"Such an ancient organization? It doesn't matter, no enemy matters. But did he come out again?"

Miss Beiya asked.

"I don't know, I can try to capture the sound again, but I'm not sure how long it will take to hear valuable clues again."

"There is not so much time to waste. Since the Silver-Eyed One already knows that someone attacked here, he must also be preparing."

Miss Annette said, she quickly washed the playing cards in her hand.

"The Detective has already found the entrance."

Miss Beiya said.

"No, not finding the entrance, I want to try to divine for the next action..."

She drew the top one, but didn't show it to the other two and stuffed it back into the deck:

"Divination shows that it is currently safe for the Silver-Eyed One to discover that there is a problem on the ground. There is no reason to retreat, let's continue walking down."

As she spoke, her purple eyes looked at the other two in turn. Xia De would absolutely not turn back for the 【Divine Gift Box】, and Miss Beiya was also eager to understand and explore the source of her own power, and would not give up easily:

"Let's continue walking down, there is no reason to turn back."

They worked together to move those cardboard boxes away, finally revealing the trapdoor on the ground; the entrance was here.

Xia De used the oddity that hadn't taken shape to transform into a sharp blade at his fingertips and cut the lock roughly. After pulling the door open with effort, below the door was a passage extending to the deeper underground with a very steep slope.

The three stood around the hole and looked down. There was no light inside the passage, which looked like a giant mouth that was about to swallow the lives of the three.

This was a passage excavated by 【Mercury Blood】, and the real entrance to the ruins was in a deeper place, otherwise, when building this house and laying the underground pipes of Tobesk city, the traces of the ruins should have been discovered long ago.

But the entrance to the underground ruins could not be too deep either. According to Miss Annette's speculation, when the ruins were built, the sect of the fallen Old God had already declined to the point of almost disappearing. They didn't have the financial resources and energy to dig deep underground to build large ruins, and Mercury Blood couldn't have dug such a deep underground passage in one year.

Entering such a narrow passage, the person at the very front might face the attack from the underground directly. To prevent being discovered by the Ringed Shushi in the ruins, the three set off immediately. Xia De even took out a piece of 【Youth-Preserving Leaf】 and let Miss Beiya, who was walking at the front, hold it in her mouth. Holding this leaf in her mouth could effectively allow people with serious injuries to maintain their ability to move.

The young girl didn't say much, held the leaf in her mouth, bent down, and walked into the cave. Xia De followed behind her, sticking his hand on her back, ready to use 【False Immortality】 at any time. Miss Annette walked at the end to prevent anyone from attacking from behind.

This manually excavated tunnel was very difficult to walk, but no one complained. For safety, they didn't create light and used the Mute Spell to eliminate the footsteps of the three. The passage was indeed not very long. Under the rapid movement, it only took ten minutes before Miss Beiya slowed down.

She vaguely sensed in the dark that the passage had reached the end, and the exit was ahead.