Chapter 2841

"How rude!"

With that, the cold-faced Anne Dupont stood up at once:

"If you want to speak to a Colonel's wife like this, then this conversation can end here. I have nothing to say. If you want to arrest me, produce evidence."

Saying this, she walked out of the room, and the young maid who had left earlier appeared at the door, waiting to see the two of them out.

Flora looked at Xia De, and Xia De stood up without any regret:

"What a pity, then let's go."

The witch did not quite understand but still followed Xia De out of there. After the fence gate closed behind them and the maid returned to the house, she asked suspiciously:

"What did you see? I always feel that the content you talked about and the content I heard were not the same thing."

Xia De nodded:

"This investigation will probably yield results very soon. Did you notice? That Colonel's wife doesn't look like someone who has been neglected by her husband for many years."

As he spoke, he signaled for Flora to follow him along the street to leave first. When it came to this topic, Miss Artist immediately became spirited, and she even said with "radiant joy":

"Of course I can tell. Her outfit doesn't look like that of a forty-year-old woman; the earrings on her ears are the latest style of this year, and I smelled lavender perfume. It's hard for me to imagine a woman who is neglected by her husband and stays at home all day would dress like this.

Although Charlotte's investigation said she always stays at home alone and doesn't participate in social activities, I bet she is definitely still being nourished by sweet love. A woman with a heart like dead ashes wouldn't be like this; she is having an affair! And I still bet that before or after our visit, she was planning to meet her lover."

Xia De basically agreed with her deduction:

"My guess is that after our visit today, she is already wanting to pack her things and flee."

"That's a bit much, isn't it? It's just having an affair after being neglected by her husband. Although it's immoral, isn't it quite common among the nobility?"

Flora guessed curiously again:

"Could it be that the identity of her affair partner is very unusual?"

Xia De smiled and shook his head:

"We have already arranged for people to monitor this house, and I confirmed just now that there are no secret passages in the house. Let's go back first. After confirming that the Colonel's wife has packed her things and left, we will go to the woods or the train to intercept her; some things are not easy to do in the city."

"Alright."

The witch then hooked her arm into Xia De's:

"But if she wants to leave the area, is it possible she will go to the woods? Walking out of the Vista Forest is not something an ordinary woman can do... You mean..."

That Anne Dupont's speed of action was faster than Xia De had thought. At noon that day, when Xia De was having lunch with the ladies on the boat, the girls responsible for monitoring the place hurriedly sent news that the target had already taken a taxi carriage and was heading toward the west of the city.

The local train station was not in the west of the city, so it could basically be concluded that she did not intend to take the train, but to enter the woods directly. Thus, Xia De, who had only eaten half his lunch, urgently took Flora with him to give chase.

Around one o'clock in the afternoon, they finally discovered the target in the woods, following the marks left by the girls who had been following the Colonel's wife.

The person in a hurry was not alone; Anne Dupont and the pretty maid seen in the morning were each carrying a large suitcase, walking quickly through the woods. The two of them looked to have quite good physical strength, and walking in the pathless woods in flat shoes, their speed was even faster than that of experienced hunters.

But they did not notice the three witch followers behind them. After Xia De and Flora met up with the three girls, they walked directly toward the ladies carrying the suitcases without hiding their footsteps.

Because it had been windy in the woods, it was not exactly quiet. But after Xia De and Flora approached, the Colonel's wife noticed them immediately.

She turned around abruptly, and after seeing it was the two people from the morning, a desperate and miserable expression appeared on her face, which even made Xia De think he was the villain.

"You really don't want to let us go, do you? Jessica, you go first, I will love you forever!"

She threw the luggage in her hand and charged toward Xia De while speaking. Although her steps were messy, at least the expression on her face was very imposing.

But what was more imposing was that in the process of charging forward, traces of scales quickly appeared on her face, and even a black tail appeared behind her. Her height suddenly shot upward, and the sense of power in her running became heavier and heavier, until finally, she slammed into Xia De sideways like a cannonball.

But nothing happened; Xia De just reached out one hand and grabbed her arm, making her stop. What seemed to be scales inside the sleeves of her white dress were indeed scales, because Xia De felt a hard texture.

Thus, the expression of grief and despair on Anne Dupont's face reached its peak, only at this time her entire head had mutated into the appearance of a dragon, but no wings appeared on her back, and no dragon horns appeared on her head.

Coupled with the black tail behind her, this made her look not like a Dragonborn, but rather like a so-called "Lizardman."

"Let her go!"

The young maid Jessica did not leave as ordered, and without even a second of hesitation, the maid, whose body also showed signs of dragonization, darted out from behind the Colonel's wife, using her as cover. There were not so many Dragonborn traces on the maid; although a black tail also appeared, her head was still in the appearance of a human, only the skin on her face was covered by black scales.

She also waved her fist, trying to attack Xia De, and then her fist was also pinched by Xia De's other hand.

Both of them wanted to resist, but found that the strength of this young man was as unshakable as a mountain. So, in grief and fear, the Colonel's wife actually gasped and began to cry softly. She waved her other hand, clenched into a fist, to strike Xia De's shoulder; this time, even Flora couldn't stand it anymore:

"Let them go, I feel like we've become the bad guys."

Xia De then flicked his hands, and the master and servant, who had collided, fell to the ground, and then the two of them hugged each other and cried.

Xia De did not use the "Ring of Imprisonment" or the "Chain of Great Sin"; after all, they did not look strong, their Dragonborn bloodline was very weak, and they hadn't even undergone formal combat training.

"They really are Dragonborn, you saw it in the morning, didn't you?"

Flora looked at the two women crying out of fear, unable to bear it. Xia De, however, had no expression; in this situation, one had to be the good guy and one had to be the bad guy:

"Since the incident in the summer ended, I have been able to vaguely distinguish Dragonborn bloodlines. Their bloodline is very weak, and I also spent several minutes in the morning confirming this... However, I didn't expect that the relationship between the two of them was like this."

"What's wrong with that? He can like men in the barracks, so why can't I like Jessica at home?"

The crying Colonel's wife sat on the dead leaves in the woods and shouted at Xia De. This even more explosive news left Xia De truly not knowing what to say, while Flora comforted them:

"Of course you can, we are very open-minded."

As a witch, she was well-qualified to say this, but Xia De reminded them:

"But this is still an affair within marriage. Although your married life is unhappy, and according to you, your husband has also had affairs, before the marriage is officially ended, this kind of affair behavior of yours is still..."

"No one can be a morally perfect person. This is all the fault of that Colonel Dupont. Besides, people always think it's normal for a male master to have an affair with the maid at home, so why is it not allowed for the mistress to have an affair with the maid?"

Thus Flora "accused" him. As for the two ladies hugging and crying on the ground, their tails were intertwined, which made it easy for Xia De to distinguish the similarities in their scales. In other words, their Dragonborn bloodlines should have the same source.

The suitcases the two had been carrying were scattered to the side, and the impact when they landed caused the locks to pop open, revealing the clothes they had packed in a hurry. Coupled with the fact that they were crying so miserably, it really looked like Xia De was the villain at this moment.

Under Flora's further comfort and assurance that "we won't tear you apart," the crying master and servant finally calmed down, but they still looked very afraid of Xia De. So Xia De built a campfire on the spot and let everyone sit down to talk.

The Colonel's wife and the young, pretty maid were still hugging each other, as if they had made up their minds not to be separated again.

"What exactly do you want to do?"

This was the first sentence the noblewoman said to Xia De while sobbing after she had calmed down. Flora then looked at Xia De with a very "fierce" gaze, telling him not to speak, and then explained:

"We stated our purpose in the morning. We came for the Kinder family. As for you and your maid, we have no intention of disturbing your life. Once our doubts are answered, you can go back."

"But in the morning, you also said that the Kande family was solved by you."

The maid hugging the noblewoman was trembling, so Flora smiled again:

"He was just scaring you; it was the Church that solved the Kande family. Besides, the police chief really had dealings with demons. I see that apart from your special bloodline, you don't even seem to be Ring Warlocks."

"What is a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi?"

That Miss Maid asked embarrassedly again, which is why Xia De thought they were completely harmless.

【Isn't this your favorite dragon maid?】

"She" suddenly asked with a smile in Xia De's ear, and Xia De corrected her very seriously in his heart:

"First, a dragon maid refers to a pretty girl with dragon characteristics; they look more like lizardman girls. Second, a dragon maid refers to a maid who is attached to her own heart, not someone else's maid."