Chapter 2669: Temple of Time

The ladies did not mention the suggestion of letting Xia De move out of here to find a larger residence in the city. After all, they all knew Xia De's feelings for this house; he could not possibly abandon No. 6 Saint Deran Square.

That night, Schluch Lake was also invited to stay the night, but she went to live in the second room on the second floor with Luweiya. Luweiya said on the surface that she wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with Schluch Lake, but in fact, the purple-eyed girl just knew what the Duchess wanted to do.

Sure enough, when things became intimate that night, the silver burning moon-shaped "Undying Fire Mark" that automatically appeared on Miss Jia Lin Na Cavendish's right arm immediately caught Miss Feilian's attention.

And after learning about the effect of Xia De's sorcery, she, like the other girls, demanded that Xia De leave the same mark on her. And this time, without even needing Miss Jia Lin Na to "coerce" her, she took the initiative to extend her arm to Xia De.

Because things went so smoothly, early Monday morning, Miss Jia Lin Na even took advantage of the time when everyone in the house was washing up to quietly ask Miss Feilian:

"Have you considered letting Xia De leave the fire mark on other parts of your body?"

The blonde lady, who was drawing her eyebrows in front of the dressing table, shook her head gently:

"I haven't considered it. I know Xia De doesn't like strange marks appearing on our bodies, so the arm is enough.

Miss Jia Lin Na, do you think I would look better if I drew my eyebrows longer? I want to cover up my good complexion right now, otherwise the girls in the troupe will gossip."

"Both look good."

Miss Jia Lin Na said perfunctorily. The answer, which seemed natural to Miss Feilian, made the Duchess fall into self-doubt:

"Does Miss Feilian understand Xia De better than I do?"

However, this self-doubt didn't last long, because the atmosphere of the family sitting at the dining table chatting about newspaper news and their respective plans for the new week was so warm that after breakfast, Miss Jia Lin Na didn't care about these things at all.

Today is Monday again, and Xia De naturally didn't forget about this week's gift. However, 【God's Gift Box】 is currently with the elf lady, so Xia De will deal with this matter after visiting Professor Manning.

Early Monday morning, the professor living in Cat Tail Alley really hadn't gone out yet. After the maid led Xia De in, the professor, who had just finished breakfast and was reading the newspaper, was quite happy:

"I haven't seen you for about a month, Detective. Have you run into trouble again? Otherwise, you wouldn't come to me early Monday morning."

He said while standing up from the dining table and coming to the living room with Xia De.

"Yes, but not very big trouble."

They sat down on the soft fabric sofa, and Xia De briefly described the matter of Professor Kunto. Professor Manning had a very good memory and still remembered this friend he had known more than twenty years ago.

However, he had almost completely forgotten the details of that conversation, so he could only go to the study with Xia De to search for information. Because there were no clues this time, even the search function of Xia De's sorcery 【Moon Library】 could not be effective.

This search took the whole morning, and even Dulut Giles, who had made an appointment to visit last week, helped search together. However, the soul-state Last Edwards didn't help, but floated around watching the three of them busy in the study.

Fortunately, this search was not meaningless. At three minutes before eleven in the morning, Professor Manning finally shook the notebook in his hand happily at Xia De:

"Found it! I said that when the school office was flooded years ago, I transferred these materials to my home. I never had the habit of losing books or notebooks; I treasure all the materials of my life."

The three returned to the living room downstairs to talk. The little girl's soul swayed toward Xia De, showing curiosity while being a bit afraid of him.

And the young history lecturer Dulut Giles didn't discipline her this time, but listened to Professor Manning tell the story with Xia De:

"The ruins similar to the Golden Music Hall that I mentioned to Professor Kunto back then are located in 'City of Golden Ears' Eskaris in the central plains of Delarion. Recently, this place has often made the news; that is Delarion's largest grain-producing area."

Professor Manning said:

"The location of the ruins is in the north of the city. My eldest son was just born then. I received the letter sent by the postman at the excavation site. In the blink of an eye, so many years have passed. Oh, off-topic, you guys take a look. This is the investigation record and photos I left back then. I really miss it."

The preservation of the ruins that Professor Manning participated in excavating was much worse than the music hall in Vista Forest, and it wouldn't be too much to say that only wreckage remained there. But the small amount of decorative patterns left on the unearthed stone building materials did indeed show a style similar to the Golden Music Hall, and some patterns were even completely identical.

Xia De's elf knowledge only allowed him to have a rough understanding of ancient elf art, so he couldn't draw any conclusions from this.

And Professor Manning's information here was only this much. There was nothing but broken walls and ruins in the ruins he participated in excavating.

Seeing that the clues were about to be interrupted again, the floating Last Edwards stretched her head to look at the photos in Dulut Giles's hand, and then suddenly said:

"Giles, I've seen this! In the ruins my father visited before, there were similar patterns! I've seen photos!"

The little girl had lived with Dulut Giles for half a year, and now her tone of speaking had matured a lot, but Xia De highly suspected that she was deliberately learning to speak like an adult.

Xia De and Dulut Giles both looked at her, while the ordinary person Professor Manning was a bit confused because he couldn't see the floating soul.

"Where are the photos left by your father now? Are there other records? Did he say anything else about those ruins?"

Xia De asked, so the floating little girl put her hands on her hips and proudly made a request:

"Although my father's inheritance was given to you, I remember you are going to marry the descendant of my younger brother. Then if you call me 'Great-Grandmother' now, I will tell you what you want to know."

Actually, calling her Great-Grandmother was nothing; after all, she was indeed the sister of Megan and Audrey's great-grandfather. Xia De was about to speak, but Dulut Giles stopped him:

"Mr. Hamilton, you don't have to do this; there's no need to satisfy all of a child's requests."

He sighed as he spoke, raising his hand to knock on Last Edwards's head.

"Ouch~ You bully me!"

So the girl pretended to cry and went to grab Dulut Giles's hair. After playing enough, she told Xia De that the photos she had seen were tucked in that notebook, and they were now in the Great Library on Green Island.

It could be seen that Last Edwards and Dulut Giles had a very good relationship. With the arrival of the Outsider, Dulut Giles would not be thrown into the spatial turbulence by Laplace Howard during the Green Lake incident and turned into the "Prophet of Wisdom" as in the past.

The young historian could probably accompany Last Edwards through this life. Of course, provided that the end of the world doesn't arrive before his life ends.

So after saying goodbye to Professor Manning, Xia De returned home and went to Green Island through the 【Spatial Maze】. Speaking of which, it's shameful that it has been half a year since he got that island, but Xia De hasn't read one percent of the astonishing number of books on it.

And the notebook pointed out by Last Edwards belonged to the range he hadn't read yet. Green Island is located on the reverse side of the real world, and there are still followers of Megan and Audrey on the island counting the fortune teller's inheritance.

Xia De greeted the girls and was very glad that after so long, the notebook was still in the corresponding position in the Great Library in the little girl's memory.

Laplace Howard seemed to have obsessive-compulsive disorder in recording investigations, experiments, etc. Every record was neat and tidy, with photos, text, and even physical objects as evidence. And the little girl's memory was indeed correct. The patterns on the decorative walls of the buildings in the photos tucked in the notebook were indeed very similar to the ancient patterns of the music hall in the forest.

However, the Thirteenth-Tier fortune teller of that year did not carefully investigate those ruins, but only recorded interesting places during his travels.

And when Xia De determined the location of the relatively complete ruins in the photo, he unexpectedly discovered that the place was actually southeast of Coldwater Port City:

"Okay, set off for Coldwater Port!"

Coldwater Port in autumn is rainy. When Xia De broke into the old lighthouse guarded by Mr. Edmund at the top of the sea cliff in the sound of heavy rain, he even startled the old man who was boiling tea on the stove:

"I thought someone was going to rob me."

"Have you really encountered robbers?"

"Of course, an old man living alone outside the city looks like an easy target for robbery. Are you interested in the fate of those people? There are a few experiences in there that are quite interesting."

"Not for now, I have something to ask you today."

Xia De came here to fish with the old folklore scholar last time nearly two months ago. At that time, the Moon Bay incident had just ended, and Xia De came here to talk to him about the Dragon Island. After all, it was Mr. Edmund who first mentioned the Dragon Island.

And when Xia De mentioned the ruins located southeast of Coldwater Port on this rainy autumn Monday, the old gentleman nodded quite surprisingly:

"Of course I know that place, but please answer one of my questions first. How did you know I knew about that place?"

"I didn't know, I just knew that the most knowledgeable person I am most familiar with in Coldwater Port is you."

The old man was quite satisfied with this flattery. He smiled and poured hot tea for Xia De:

"Then you really found the right person. There is indeed no one in the local area who knows more about that 'Temple of Time' than me." ===== CHAPTER 2670 =====