Chapter 2565: Skilled Time Traveler

"Wait a moment."

The debris in the alley was enough to block the view from the alley entrance. Xia De jumped and turned into a silver cat and jumped onto the wall.

For some reason, although Xia De's height was above the average for his age, the volume of the cat Xia De transformed into was very small, even smaller than Little Mia, so it looked even smaller when facing the cat Wen Si Lai Te transformed into.

There was no comparison before. When both turned into cats, the "Cat Witch" immediately noticed this, and subconsciously stretched out her claws to pat Xia De's head, but was blocked by Xia De at once.

The gray-black cat was not embarrassed, and turned around on the wall while swinging her tail elegantly, and then jumped off the wall with the silver cat.

The traces of Baron Kaming she captured indeed didn't go far. The two cats followed each other and came to the nearby Old Hank Lane, and then broke into Old Hank Lane No. 9, which looked uninhabited.

This was also a two-story building that was old and dilapidated. The door was locked from the inside, and almost no furniture could be seen in the room. The floor and walls were all moldy, and it was obvious that it hadn't been used for many years, but there were clear footprints on the dust on the ground.

The traces of footprints finally led the two cats to the small bedroom on the second floor, and then the traces of footprints disappeared abruptly at the door of the room. This house hadn't been visited for a long time, so no one would speak, and this time it was finally Xia De's strange art's turn to play its effect:

"Echo of the Past!"

He recovered into human form and cast the spell again. Then a very chaotic sound came, but he could barely hear someone groaning in pain, and the voice sounded very much like Baron Kaming:

"There is interference in this place, the strange art 【Echo of the Past】 is not effective in places where time power has acted."

"Time power? Is there a tree hole here too?"

The gray-black cat didn't change back into human form, but jumped onto Xia De's shoulder, and looked at Xia De taking out the canvas for testing. But the few wooden products in the empty room, that is, the rotten floor and the door, could be turned into toys.

"This is strange, the footprints stopped immediately at the door. Could it be that Baron Kaming is actually not an ordinary person?"

The cat asked suspiciously, and then the furry tail poked Xia De's neck:

"You say, could it be..."

"Time Travel First Rule: Time travelers appear in places where they have stayed for a long time in the past, so they will spontaneously be attracted to that time again."

Xia De said while continuing to look at the room:

"The book that the Kaming family passed down is still in James Kaming's hands, so if the Baron wants to travel, unless he finds another tree hole, the method he uses is probably this one. The groaning sound I heard just now might be the deepening of the curse caused by such illegal time travel.

However, did that Baron actually notice this rule too?"

"Found him and can go and ask again. Now the problem is, how do we find him? What time did he go to?"

Xia De really couldn't answer this question. If Baron Kaming only went to 1809 when his wife was stolen at the age of one, then he is probably in 1809 now. But if the Baron has been to more times, then it's hard to say.

Although the book 【Open the Forest Door: Our Animal Friends】 only connected to 1802 now, no one can say clearly how many times it had connected during the unstable period in the past.

The investigation seemed to be interrupted here, but when the owl grabbed the silver cat and flew back to the Accordion Hotel, Baron Kaming actually appeared again.

At that time, Xia De was having lunch with the two ladies. Miss Dannister was quite happy that they could rush back so quickly. And when Miss Wen Si Lai Te was popularizing "Kasenrik spice knowledge" to the other two, Miss Beier knocked on the door and came in:

"Miss, the group responsible for monitoring the Morris Mansion sent back information that Baron Kaming appeared in his own home, but the girls didn

The two ladies at the dining table looked at Xia De again, and Xia De immediately understood:

"Resonance is bidirectional. If he could be attracted by the past in 1854, then in the past, he could also be attracted by the 'present'... No, that's not right. This attraction is likely unidirectional as well; otherwise, his time travel would not need to rely on the tree hollow at all. This does not conform to the laws of time travel... Did he find that copy of *Opening the Forest Gate: Our Animal Partners* again in the past?"

"That book is currently at the Morris Mansion, so it is normal for his return point to be next to *Opening the Forest Gate: Our Animal Partners*."

The red-haired sorceress nodded, and the witch asked with doubt:

"But in this way, has he mastered a method to open a fixed time channel at a specific point without a Time Key? When Danister and I were trapped in the winter of 1763, we waited for over a month and didn't see that cabinet send us back."

"*Opening the Forest Gate: Our Animal Partners* has been passed down for three generations and a total of half a century, from Erica Kaming to the current James Kaming. They might have really researched something."

Xia De guessed:

"In any case, now that we have found the person, we have plenty of ways to ask for the truth."

Afterward, he asked Miss Bell:

"What did the Baron do after he returned?"

"He went out alone again, and the girls have already followed him."

When news came again, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was still Miss Bell who brought them the news:

"Baron Kaming took a carriage to the north of the city, and then took a shovel and went out of the city alone. Our people watched him dig up a box in the woods outside the city, and then he took the box and returned to the city. He should have just returned to the Morris Mansion now."

"It wouldn't be something that wasn't worth much in that era but is very valuable now, would it? He has the status of a Baron; does he still need to earn money like this?"

Xia De sighed and put down the teacup in his hand:

"We must see him this time. Why on earth did he steal his wife, give that book to his son, and now do this kind of thing?"

"Then let's go."

Miss Winslet transformed into an owl again and jumped onto Xia De's shoulder:

"Charlotte, you have also worked hard for a day. Miss Winslet and I will go handle this; you sit down and keep Professor Danister company for afternoon tea."

"Very well, Miss."

Thus, the young black-haired girl and the even younger red-haired girl watched together as the owl grabbed the cat and flew out of the window. This scene looked exactly like a predatory raptor snatching away a weak pet, making that cat look very pitiful.

Miss Danister held her teacup and looked at the somewhat reserved Charlotte Bell again:

"Speaking of which, has your teacher ever developed such intense interest in anyone before?"

She asked. The witch apprentice did not know how to answer for a moment, but not answering was clearly impolite:

"No... Mr. Hamilton is different from everyone else."

"Flora and I have only known each other and lived together for a little over a month; you must know her better than I do. Tell me, what do you think Flora's attitude toward Xia De is now?"

Although her tone was very relaxed, the black-haired girl, who was naturally very good at perceiving people's emotions, still felt the danger in this question.

She hesitated and reached out to take a biscuit from the table, which allowed her to think of a perfect answer:

"Probably about the same as my attitude toward Luo De cards."

The red-haired girl tilted her head and looked at her:

"What does that mean?"

"If I encounter a precious special-rule card, as long as it doesn't violate my own moral bottom line, getting that card into my hands to play with and admire carefully will make me happy for quite a while."

Riding the "Round-Faced Owl Aircraft," Xia De soon appeared at the remote and quiet Morris Mansion. Miss Winslet still had no intention of transforming back into a human to act with Xia De. This time, she didn't even transform into a cat, but instead transformed into a white mouse and burrowed into Xia De's pocket.

"I thought the fur color of the animals you transform into was always the same as your hair color."

"A black rat is just too ugly; my aesthetic sense makes me resist transforming into that."

The witch said this, and then urged Xia De to hurry and execute the mission.

Baroness Kaming and James Kaming were not at home, and Baron Kaming was alone in the study on the third floor of the mansion.

The curtains were drawn tight, the door was locked from the inside, and the middle-aged man with a very ugly expression placed the box he had brought back from outside the city onto the table, then sat behind the desk, covering his face for a long time without speaking.

Because of this, when a hand suddenly pressed onto his shoulder from behind him, he was so startled he almost jumped up.

But the reason he didn't jump up was that Xia De, who had entered the room using "Lagley's Leap," had forcefully pressed him down into the chair.

"May I ask who this is?"

After the initial panic, Baron Kaming was still able to pretend to be calm and ask:

"The trading location doesn't seem to be my house. However, I have brought the box you asked me to bring. I have crossed fifty years and completed this mission; you should let me go."

Xia De, behind him, raised an eyebrow and could not give an answer immediately, and the Baron, sitting with his back to him, also reacted during this silence:

"You... are not that person?"

"Who made you do what?"

Only then did Xia De truly speak to ask, but he did not expect that after a moment of silence, the Baron's body suddenly trembled, and then his entire person began to become transparent.

"What?"

Xia De had never thought that an ordinary person could escape from his hands, and the Baron, who turned his head to see who exactly had appeared behind him, was most surprised not that he didn't recognize the person behind him, but that the right hand of the person behind him was also becoming transparent along with his own body.

Xia De was following him closely.

【Outsider, you are heading to the Sixth Era of the present world, 1802. If you return to the past in this way, the Time Curse...】