Chapter 2564: Missing

Miss Beier wrote down the last letter when the voice fell. The three people on the sofa looked over. The straight line represents the normal timeline, and the curved dashed line represents the abnormal time travel.

From 1803 to the current 1854, the "time travel" phenomenon surrounding the Kaming family currently only has two. Among them, James Kaming crossed 51 years, a full half-century, while his father crossed less than twenty years.

They were silent for a while.

"Fortunately, the members of the Kaming family discovered by Xia De who were cursed by time are only two. If there were one more, I couldn't imagine how we would analyze this matter."

Miss Wen Si Lai Te sighed softly, and the red-haired girl also nodded:

"And fortunately, the time tree hole surrounding the Kaming family discovered is only that one, otherwise there would be more variables... No matter what, the train of thought is sorted out now. Xia De, what is your opinion? Where should we start?"

"From Baron Kaming."

Xia De stared at the whiteboard, his train of thought was very clear:

"Baron Kaming's role in the entire timeline seems to have ended. He has completed time travel, and other major time nodes have nothing to do with him. But whether little Kaming made Erika pregnant is still unknown, so although we can easily take little Kaming away, it is better to start the investigation from Baron Kaming."

The two ladies also agreed with Xia De's idea, and the task of talking to Baron Kaming naturally could not be left to the witch followers. Xia De intended to do it himself.

As for whether to sit down and talk to the Baron face to face, or force the Baron to tell the secret, it depends on the Baron's cooperation, and even in the worst case, potions like "truth serum" can be used.

To deal with an ordinary person, Ringed Ringed Shushi have many means.

It's just that things didn't go as smoothly as Xia De imagined. Excluding Miss Xia Luote-Beier, Miss Wen Si Lai Te currently only has nine followers in Vista City.

These nine girls had to be divided into four groups to perform the tasks of monitoring Baron Kaming's mansion, monitoring the Bennett old house, going to the black market to inquire about information, and standing by at the Accordion Hotel, so no one followed Baron Kaming.

This led to the fact that when the witch sent the girls who were standing by at the hotel to inquire about the Baron's itinerary in the city, they found that Baron Kaming seemed to have disappeared.

The news came just before lunch. Xia De was chatting with Miss Wen Si Lai Te about the topic of transformation, and she seemed to want to teach Xia De a few tricks, while Miss Dannister was listening while flipping through literature on the side.

Miss Beier, who went out to perform the task, knocked on the door and came in:

"Miss, the Baron is gone."

The witch, who was still giving Xia De an example of "the role of animal hair in transformation," frowned:

"What do you mean by gone?"

"The Baron met with local business partners at the club in the morning, and left separately around ten o'clock. We inquired from the doorman of the club and found that the Baron got into a taxi at the door of the club.

Later, we found that taxi, only to know that the taxi dropped the Baron in the northeast of the city, and then we could never find the Baron's whereabouts."

Miss Beier glanced at her pocket watch:

"It has been almost two hours since Baron Kaming got off the taxi in the morning."

"Where exactly did he get off?"

Miss Dannister asked, so Xia De swept the files and data on the coffee table to the carpet, and then spread the city map on the coffee table.

The young black-haired girl stepped forward to check and pointed her finger at the old city in the northeast:

"The exit to the east of Lovegood Lane, we have investigated the vicinity with three people in total, and I am very sure that the Baron did not leave this area. The location of the alley entrance is the old city, there are not many pedestrians on the road, and no one has seen a person dressed as specially as Baron Kaming pass by today, which means he didn't go far."

"How did you all investigate?"

The witch continued to ask her apprentice, so Miss Beier stood at attention and answered the question, while Dannister asked her apprentice:

"Do you have any ideas?"

"Since it is the old city, it means that this place was part of Creekwood Town before. Just now we were talking about the past and the present, so what kind of place was Lovegood Lane in the Creekwood Town era?"

The red-haired girl bent down and picked up the old map of Creekwood Town from the carpet, and simply compared it with the map spread on the coffee table:

"That place was called Lovegood Lane in the old era. Your idea is good, Xia De, but on this map published in 1810, there is nothing particularly noteworthy in that vicinity."

"Then take a look for yourself, I don't believe it's such a coincidence that he disappeared now."

Xia De stood up, the witch and the red-haired girl exchanged glances, and the former said:

"Dannister, stay here to guard the cabinet and the door, I will go with you. Xia Luote, you don't have to follow, you take people to the 'Morris Mansion' where the Kaming family lives, and make sure James Kaming doesn't disappear."

"Yes, Miss."

So the witch turned into an owl spreading its wings in the gray-white fog, flapping its wings and landing on Xia De's shoulder.

Xia De said to Miss Dannister:

"Don't forget to eat lunch in a while, we don't know when we will be back, but don't worry even if we don't come back very late."

"You had better not make me worry."

She said, and threw the box containing 【Family Stabilizer】 to Xia De:

"It seems I have to eat lunch by myself again today."

Since it was Xia De and Miss Wen Si Lai Te acting together, there was no need to waste money to take a carriage. The owl lady directly grabbed the silver cat and flew into the sky, crossing the city filled with trees and the residents living leisurely, all the way to the northeast of the city.

They didn't have to worry about being discovered by others at all. As long as no one directly saw an owl grabbing a cat flying, general reconnaissance and defense rituals were ineffective against this top-level transformation technique.

There was no one in Lovegood Lane, so Xia De and Miss Wen Si Lai Te changed back to human form in it.

"It's really smelly."

She covered her nose, thought about it, and turned into a gray-black cat and stood on Xia De's shoulder. Xia De was already used to carrying a cat around, although this cat was heavier than Little Mia, it didn't affect his actions:

"It's normal for this kind of slum alley to smell a bit."

Lovegood Lane was not a narrow alley specifically connecting two different blocks. On both sides of the alley were low-rise apartments in the style of slums. These buildings built a hundred years ago could be classified as "dangerous houses" at this time. With the development of the city, this kind of place was eventually forgotten by the era.

"It seems that there are not many people living here. The real slums of Vista City are in the west of the city. Even the poor are unwilling to stay in the old city."

The cat on the shoulder said. Xia De was not used to the cat he was carrying being able to speak human language, and he had to suppress the urge to touch her:

"Since there are not many people - Echo of the Past!"

Listening for a while with his eyes closed, Xia De shook his head regretfully. Then he narrowed his eyes and used "Enhanced Space Perception," but the space around here was very normal.

Miss Beier had already brought the girls to inquire about the shops nearby in the morning, so Xia De didn't have to ask again. So seeing that Xia De had no gains, the "Cat Lady" coughed:

"Then look at me, I thought you were really omnipotent."

The cat's golden eyes glowed slightly, she was using witch secret arts:

"Don't think that the Death Witch is only proficient in sending people to death. We also have deep research on 'life and death'. Let me see the traces of living people nearby... Oh, the traces on you are too bright!"

It jumped from Xia De's shoulder to a wall, and stopped in a cleaner position with great disgust:

"You leave this alley first, I will cast a spell to check the traces of living people. If Baron Kaming really entered here less than three hours ago, I should be able to capture some traces. Give me twenty minutes, this is not something you can see just by looking."

Xia De made a no-problem gesture to her, and after leaving the alley with his hands in his pockets, he thought about turning around in the vicinity, maybe there would be other gains.

The two ends of Lovegood Lane were Banyan Street and Oak Avenue, which were also places that existed in the Creekwood Town era. On that 1810 map, even the Creekwood Town Magistrate's Court was in this block.

"The old town didn't disappear~"

The Outlander sighed in his heart. After arriving at Oak Avenue, he saw a man holding a newspaper look at himself. Xia De stared at him for a few seconds, then moved his gaze away. This was just a look between strangers.

The man stood by the old red mailbox across the street, and behind him was a second-hand store that looked exceptionally deserted. Most of the pedestrians walking on the street were in a hurry, only the man holding his lyre looked very excited, probably because he got some good news, but he turned at the next intersection and disappeared.

The noon in autumn only had some ordinary pictures. Xia De, who was standing at the entrance of the alley, took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and then stopped moving, but pretended to be impatient waiting for someone. The "Cat Lady" in the alley didn't move fast. Xia De stood bored for five or six minutes, and couldn't help complaining in his heart:

"I thought I could meet the Ringed Ringed Shushi of the 【Tree Hole Association】. Did they encounter something? Why haven't they appeared since the Bennett old house?"

The Outlander didn't know that the other party failed to peek at him, and was now so frightened that they almost didn't carry out unnecessary actions while curled up in the woods.

He continued to think about the city's affairs in a daze, and was very worried that if he continued to investigate, he would find that all the permanent residents here could actually be related by two generations.

Fortunately, a few gentle meows came from the alley in time. Xia De turned and entered the alley, and the gray-black cat stood on the wall:

"Found it, follow me." ===== CHAPTER 2565 =====