Chapter 2533: Father-Son Relationship

The three continued to sit at the table. When Miss Wensilai Te called the waiter to order, she also pressed the frame of her gold-rimmed glasses lightly, and the hypnotic effect of the relic was activated:

"What is your boss coming here to do today?"

The waiter, who was recording with a pencil, answered without hesitation:

"Boss Bennett came here to check the account documents with Baron Carmin. He has an office on the fourth floor of the hotel."

"Are your boss and the Baron business partners?"

"Yes, the Baron is an important business partner of Boss Bennett, and Boss Bennett's eldest daughter, Miss Jane Bennett, has already become engaged to the Baron's eldest son. Mrs. Bennett is very satisfied with this and often says in front of us that her daughter is going to marry the future Baron."

Miss Wensilai Te nodded, and Xia De then asked again:

"Is the pineapple sweet wine on the menu very high in alcohol? I am not good at drinking and don't want to make a fool of myself in front of two ladies."

So the red-haired girl patted him:

"I just like to see you make a fool of yourself."

The waiter, who had returned to normal from the hypnosis, silently noted the "pineapple sweet wine" on the menu, not realizing what he had just said.

Because of what happened at the old Bennett house yesterday, Miss Dannis Te was worried that the current old Bennett had eyes from the 【Tree Hole Society】 around him. So after lunch, Xia De swapped the cabinet Miss Jia Lin Na had someone build with the broom closet, and after temporarily containing the cabinet that could travel through time in the witch's room, the three of them conducted an investigation together.

But old Bennett was just an ordinary person after all. After the three spent some time confirming that there were no reconnaissance rituals or relic powers around him, the high-level Great Witch Miss Wensilai Te used her glasses relic to hypnotize the six people in the room through the ceiling.

And after old Bennett, Baron Carmin, young Carmin, the two accountants checking the accounts, and a servant all lost their senses, Xia De, who was also in Miss Dannis Te's room on the third floor, went upstairs directly using "Lagley's Leap", and came back the same way three minutes later:

"There are no traces of a time curse on old Bennett."

"Then why are you frowning?"

Miss Dannis Te asked. Xia De was indeed frowning:

"There are traces of a time curse on Baron Carmin and his son."

"What?"

Unlike the Bennett family, which had been rooted locally since the Creekwood Town era, the Carmin family were "outsiders" who came to the area when Vista City was first built. Moreover, the Carmin family did not settle locally; they were still nobles from the royal capital, Willondale.

The Baron Carmin who was over fifty years old today was the son of the Baron Carmin who first arrived locally back then. Because of business reasons, he spent half his time in Vista City every year, so he was considered half a local.

As for his acquaintance with old Bennett, who ran the hotel, it was because of business, and because it just so happened that both families had young people of similar age, they arranged an engagement.

According to the hotel waiter, it was not that old Bennett agreed to this marriage to climb up to the nobility; 23-year-old Jane Bennett and 26-year-old James Carmin were in a free-love relationship, and they met at a banquet themselves. Mrs. Bennett used the fact that her eldest daughter was about to marry the Baron's son as a topic of conversation, and hoped that the remaining three daughters could marry just as well.

Therefore, the Bennett family was very satisfied with this marriage, and the wedding of the two young people was set for next spring.

"You said there are traces of a time curse on the Baron and his son?"

Miss Wensilai Te asked in disbelief:

"Could it be that the treasures we found in the old Bennett house were hidden by this Baron? No, this doesn't make sense."

"The Baron's family is not considered completely local, this is really hard to understand."

Miss Dannis Te also said, and she did not doubt that Xia De's perception had gone wrong:

"Do they know they are cursed themselves? Could it be that they were accidentally stained with the curse?"

Xia De shook his head:

"The intensity of the curse on the two of them is even stronger than yours. Although I am not sure what the content of the curse is, this is definitely not something that could be accidentally stained."

"Originally wanted to investigate Bennett, but now it has become the Baron and his son..."

Miss Wensilai Te thought for a moment:

"After they finish checking the accounts and leave in a while, I will turn into a sparrow and follow them to see where they are going.

Xia De, Dannis Te, you wait here for my news. I will confirm Baron Carmin's residence in the city and then go investigate. I only knew them before and didn't know their other circumstances."

Old Bennett and Baron Carmin and his son stayed in the hotel until 2:00 PM before setting off to leave. So the grey sparrow flew out of the window, while Miss Dannis Te and Xia De stood at the window watching the three get into the carriage downstairs.

The eighteen-year-old red-haired girl suddenly had a flash of inspiration, took out the monocle she had used at noon again, put it on her eyes, and looked down, then grabbed Xia De's arm in surprise:

"Red Moon! What did I see?"

"What did you see?"

Xia De immediately looked down, but everything at the hotel entrance was normal.

"Baron Carmin and his son, it's a father-son relationship."

The female warlock said in surprise, so Xia De looked at his teacher in confusion:

"This... sorry, is this very strange?"

"She" by his ear gave a light laugh, and Miss Dannis Te gripped Xia De's hand even tighter, her rose-red eyes staring at him:

"That young man, Baron Carmin's son James Carmin, is Baron Carmin's father!"

The Outsider had to admit that he did not understand what she said at first:

"Sorry... hmm?"

He took a deep breath, very impolitely reached out and took off her monocle, and then pressed his hand on her forehead:

"Your spirit is very stable, and the whisper elements of the relic do not have much fluctuation... Are you saying that the 26-year-old young man James Carmin is the father of the 51-year-old Baron Carmin?"

Miss Dannis Te pushed Xia De's hand away and covered her own forehead:

"I know you are very surprised; I am definitely just as surprised as you."

"Wait a minute, then is Baron Carmin the father of young Carmin?"

Xia De asked again, and Miss Dannis Te also took two seconds to understand what Xia De wanted to express. She immediately shook her head:

"No, if both sides had this relationship, this pair of glasses should also remind me. Their only blood relationship: the young man James Carmin is the father of the old Baron Carmin. This relationship is one-way."

After saying this, both looked at each other, and for a while, neither knew what to say.

They left the window and sat on the sofa, the expressions on their faces almost identical.

"So, young Carmin is not Baron Carmin's biological son? No no, this is too sinful, he is Baron Carmin's father, of course he wouldn't be his biological son, otherwise the origin of these two would form a paradox."

Although the Outsider's imagination was very rich, this matter was also somewhat beyond his understanding:

"Someone traveled through time to pass on the bloodline. James Carmin, who is about to marry Miss Bennett, actually already has a son, and his son is his father without blood relationship... Alright, let's sit down and sort it out carefully.

Regardless, I think we have caught a big fish."

When the owl flapped its wings and flew back in the evening three hours later, the Outsider had a moment where he thought it was here to deliver a letter.

Subsequently, the owl jumped off the windowsill and turned into the witch with grey-black hair. She greeted the two with great interest:

"Sorry for coming back late, I..."

"Can you answer these questions?"

Xia De stood up, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her to the side of the sofa. When the witch looked down at his hand, Xia De had already stuffed a piece of paper into her hand:

"First, we discovered that young Carmin's biological father is not Baron Carmin, and Baron Carmin's biological father is young Carmin, so it is completely normal that they look alike.

But who is young Carmin's biological father? Is Baron Carmin's wife his biological mother?"

"What?"

The witch who had been following them all afternoon looked at the teacher and student in surprise, while the teacher and student, who had been reviewing the logic all afternoon, were much faster than her:

"Second, who traveled through time? Young Carmin? If his biological mother is still Baron Carmin's wife, then Baron Carmin's wife is both his mother and his daughter-in-law? If this is really the case, this is a bit sad for Baron Carmin, because his wife is not only his wife, but also his... grandmother.

If Baron Carmin's wife is not young Carmin's biological mother, things in this family will be a little simpler."

"What?"

This kind of taboo topic made the witch look at the teacher and student with even more surprise. Her train of thought was still stuck on the first question.

"Third, if it was young Carmin who traveled through time, then why does Baron Carmin also have a time curse? Because Baron Carmin is a product born against time? But if it was Baron Carmin's mother who traveled through time? The old lady came to the present when she was young, met young Carmin, and then took the child back to her own time."

The witch stopped talking. She had given up on keeping up with the train of thought to ponder such questions. She reached out and stopped Xia De from continuing to ask:

"Give up on your questions. Please tell me now, what have you discovered?"

The red-haired girl sighed and pointed to the relic monocle placed on the pile of papers on the table:

"I have already said this more than ten times this afternoon: young Carmin is Baron Carmin's father; Baron Carmin is not young Carmin's father."

Even the witch, who prided herself on being smart, had her mouth twitch at this moment, then covered her face and sat down. It took her a long time to think before looking at the teacher and student who were looking at her inquisitively:

"I have been tired all afternoon, I want to rest! My apprentice has arrived, she is downstairs. I will introduce her to you two first, and then let's have dinner together.

Give me some time to think about what you said... If this complicated father-son relationship is really caused by time travel, then I can only say that things in the Vista area are even crazier than I thought." ===== CHAPTER 2534 =====