Chapter 2842

"I noticed that you didn't refute that you like dragon maids."

"She" laughed lightly in Xia De's ear. When Xia De was unable to refute, he still chose to pretend he hadn't heard.

Whether out of fear of Xia De or because Flora had truly persuaded them, in the following conversation, the two dragon-descendant ladies answered all of Xia De's questions intermittently.

First, the dragon-descendant bloodline certainly would not be transmitted through intimate acts, so as fellow dragon descendants, they were indeed relatives. The noble Lady Anne Dupont was the last child of the vanished Kindel family, and the maid Jessica shared a common great-grandfather with her.

Anne Dupont's dragon-descendant bloodline had manifested when she was very young, and the elders who were still alive at that time taught her how to control this "cursed power."

As for the maid Jessica, she was just an ordinary person when she applied to be a maid at Colonel Dupont's house. It was only after she began having an affair with the Colonel's wife about five years ago that these inhuman characteristics gradually manifested.

At first, the two, who knew nothing, thought that Anne Dupont's curse had been transmitted to the maid with whom she had intimate contact. But later, after hiring a private detective to investigate and learning that they had a common ancestor, they understood that the maid Jessica also possessed the Kindel cursed bloodline.

"I need to correct you; this is not a curse, this is the awakening of the dragon-descendant bloodline."

Xia De, by the fire, said. At this time, the three high-ring young ladies hidden in the woods also came to the fire to rest. Xia De called them over to warn Anne Dupont not to have any other ideas.

"As for this young lady's bloodline suddenly awakening, it is indeed related to the intimate relationship between the two of you."

Xia De had acquired knowledge of dragons, so he deduced from an academic perspective:

"The bloodlines of the two of you originate from the same source. The mutual agitation of spiritual power during intimate contact can potentially allow the already activated bloodline of one party to trigger the bloodline of the other. It's just that this method is often used by elders to assist juniors in meditation with spiritual power; your approach is quite rare."

"How rude!"

The Colonel's wife then picked up a dead branch from her side and threw it at Xia De to protest his way of speaking. Xia De caught the branch and threw it into the fire:

"In this way, it can be explained why you look so young; anti-aging is a very common characteristic of dragon descendants. Just now, I sensed your power. Although it exceeds that of an ordinary person, there is still a big gap compared to a normal dragon descendant. Your dragon-descendant bloodline is very weak, and it was not specifically activated during your puberty growth age, so youth should be the biggest inhuman characteristic you have acquired."

"We are humans, please don't call us inhuman."

The young maid said in a low voice on the side, and Flora then curiously asked:

"Mrs. Dupont, did your two children not show the same characteristics as you?"

"No."

The latter immediately shook her head:

"When I first gave birth to them, I was very worried, and even thought about actively confessing my family's secret to my... husband. But fortunately, the inheritance of this bloodline is not stable. In fact, before me, the Kindel family had not shown this characteristic for two consecutive generations.

When the children grow up a bit more, I will confess this matter to them to prevent their descendants from also having this characteristic."

Although Mrs. Anne Dupont also did not know what a "Ring Mage" was, she had heard that some people in this world could use very magical powers, but she was also certain that no such powerful person had appeared in the Kindel family for nearly two hundred years.

And when Flora asked her about the origin of this bloodline of the Kindel family, the Colonel's wife thought for a long time before speaking. It was not a refusal to answer, but she had to recall carefully:

"When I was a child, my family told me about this, but I didn't listen carefully... It seems that when our family first moved from another place to Creekwood Town, an elder in the family saw a very strange egg in the woods. Out of curiosity, he wanted to know what was inside that egg, so he tried to hatch it."

"He spent many years before the strange creature in the egg was born, and he took care of it during its infancy. But after that thing grew up, it returned kindness with ingratitude, and after cursing us, it left."

If "strange creature" were replaced with "dragon," this story would be much easier to understand, but Flora and Xia De did not think it was "returning kindness with ingratitude":

"Then do you know what your ancestors relied on to get a large amount of wealth to gain a foothold in Creekwood Town?"

Xia De asked again. The maid Jessica shook her head; she only learned in recent years that her bloodline also came from the Kindel family. And Anne Dupont showed a feeling of clear stupidity:

"Doing business."

"What kind of business?"

"Smuggling business to Delarion. I know our family has a relative relationship with that Duke family in the North... Looking at your expressions, is that not the case?"

"Of course not. The reason your family was able to earn so much wealth in Creekwood Town as outsiders is because of the strange thing in the woods you mentioned."

Xia De did not directly mention "dragon dung":

"We keep our promise and will not disturb your life again. But regarding the Kindel family, do you really not know anything else?"

The Colonel's wife frowned and recalled again, and finally, the maid reminded her:

"You said it, there are also those things."

So Anne Dupont remembered:

"After my parents passed away, the original business in the family was handed over to a professional manager, and the contact with MI6 was also cut off. This is true. At least my generation has absolutely no connection with the North!"

"The old house in the hometown was burned down more than ten years ago because of a fire. However, our family's old house still has a basement, and there may still be some things in the basement. That fire should not have been able to burn the basement."

"What else is there?"

"I don't know. After the house burned down, it has been abandoned. My parents said before that after I got married, let the surname Kindel slowly disappear. Kindel should not have belonged here originally. Being able to safely wait for such an ending today is a good thing for everyone. They can be considered to have paid off the debt the ancestors owed to the Cavendish family."

The "debt" here refers to the affair between the Duke of Kindel's younger brother and the Queen back then, but the current Colonel's wife does not know about such royal scandals.

After she finished saying these things, she promised:

"I really only know this much. If you see anything in the basement of the old house, just take it away. You don't need to tell me. If you want, the land deed and house deed of that house can also be given to you. Anyway, it's useless to keep it... Will you really not come to disturb our lives in the future?"

The artist lady, who continued to play the role of a good person, smiled and said:

"Of course we won't disturb you, and we don't want your old house. But if there are other things to ask in the future, we may visit again. Of course, just a visit, and we will bring gifts."

"Excuse me, do you have any way to make us... become like normal people?"

The maid Jessica, who was huddled beside Anne Dupont, asked again. So Flora looked at Xia De, and Xia De also shook his head;

"I'm really sorry, the characteristics on your bodies are produced by bloodline inheritance. No one can change such things."

However, thinking that groups that love "biological experiments" like the 【Ringed Shushi】 and 【Zhenli Society】 were also in Vista City, he added:

"If anyone says they can help you remove these characteristics, you must not believe it. Many bad people have come to Vista City recently. If you don't want to end up like the Conder family, it's better not to have any more involvement with us Ring Mages."

Xia De was able to find the Kindel family because he devoured the memories read by the doctor who devoured the demon. The Kindel family currently seems to have completely disappeared, so he was certain that no one else would be able to find the Colonel's wife for the sake of that dragon beast.

After sending the two master and servant, who were like refugees, back to the city, Xia De and Flora returned to the hotel, called the purple-eyed diviner who was good at finding things, and then went directly to the Kindel family's old house in the northeast of the city.

Because of the city's migration, that area was now considered an area outside the edge of the city. Large areas of farmland surrounded the manor after the fire... When the carriage passed the Hoy Manor after the fire, Xia De suddenly wondered if the fire in the Kindel old house was also related to the demon.

But at least on the surface, the Kindel old house only experienced an ordinary fire, so the manor was not burned to the ground and still maintained its basic framework.

The manor ruins were adjacent to a small village outside the city, and a tributary of the Aronson River flowed between the manor ruins and the village. Xia De could almost imagine that in the summer, the children in the village would cross the small river from the bridge and run to the manor to play hide-and-seek.

Because he was worried that he would encounter trouble on this trip, in addition to Flora and Luweiya, Tifa brought the three high-ring maids from the North. The group of seven was too conspicuous, so they did not pass through the village, but took a big detour and came directly to the gate of the manor.

Just as the carriage was about to stop, Xia De saw from afar that there were actually people in those ruins. So, he signaled the young woman driving to stop early, letting everyone wait here for a while, while he walked toward the direction of the ruins.

The current weather river water had not frozen, and coupled with the continuous autumn rain some time ago, the upstream water level rose. Now standing in the manor ruins, one could hear the gurgling water sound. The elderly Professor Gao De looked like he had just walked out of the ruins of the house. After seeing Xia De waving and greeting him, he also smiled and walked towards him in the courtyard overgrown with dead grass:

"Mr. Watson, what a coincidence, we meet again."

"Yes, what a coincidence."

Xia De also smiled and answered, and shook hands with him:

"I was entrusted by a friend from the North to investigate the relationship between the local Kindel family and the Duke family in the North. Professor, did you come for this too?" **Chapter 2843: Dividends and Sylvia**