Chapter 2865: The Fed Pigeon

The demon said, picked up a few beans from the plate between the two, and threw them to the pigeons on the ground nearby that looked very expectant. Weisi Ta City is located in the forest area in the middle of the Old Continent, and the winter temperature is far lower than in the coastal areas. Most of the poultry here will not go to distant places to spend the winter:

"Do you know the relationship between a pigeon keeper and a pigeon?"

Xia De looked at the pigeons pecking at the beans without any sense of crisis:

"If it's just the literal relationship, I think I know."

"Pigeons are the eyes of the pigeon keeper, the ears of the pigeon keeper, and sometimes they can even be regarded as the incarnation of the pigeon keeper, but the pigeons themselves may not be aware of this at all."

The demon asked Xia De:

"The answer you want is probably this. Ban Na Te is a pigeon raised and bred generation after generation by that one in the woods."

"So you just told me so directly?"

"You want the answer, so I give it to you. If you say you want to worry about that one outside the city, perhaps you haven't noticed that this town is safer than the forest outside. The enlightenment elements composed of human communities can completely block that big tree that is not yet willing to appear, otherwise it wouldn't need to specifically raise pigeons generation after generation.

Besides, tonight's celebration is really lively..."

Xia De was actually very worried about the safety of the pigeons—referring to the pigeons that ate the beans thrown by the demon. He tapped his finger on the wooden table lightly and shifted his gaze from the pigeons to the lively crowd by the bonfire:

"I originally thought it was omnipotent, but after hearing you say this, it doesn't seem to be anything."

The demon also followed his gaze to the crowd by the bonfire. It didn't continue Xia De's topic:

"The scene now reminds me of some transactions from a long time ago. Although humans are developing and changing, human nature has never changed. Men always like eighteen-year-old girls, rich people always want more wealth, even the most beautiful Witches will envy the appearance of their companions, and people sitting on the throne are always wary of everyone except themselves.

Someone once made three wishes to me with their soul: eternal youth, meeting me once every hundred years, and I could only take his soul after he made the third wish. He seemed to want to prove that he could overcome his inner greed, so I agreed to this wish that seemed a bit uneconomical. Do you know what happened in the end?"

"He lost?"

"It's hard to say whether he won or lost, but I got his soul. After our eighth meeting, the man who had tasted all kinds of life wished for me to kill him and end his life. He said he had had enough."

Although it was another story of someone selling their soul to a demon, Xia De laughed, and then looked at it again:

"In the eyes of ancient beings like you, human nature is so simple that as long as you use it slightly, you can get anything you want from mortals, right?"

The demon's gaze also moved away from the bonfire jumping in the center of the square and looked at Xia De again:

"Yes, ancient beings all understand this truth, so raising pigeons is a very simple thing for it."

After this sentence, they both fell silent. The two maintained a posture of looking at each other, and people behind and around walked past and came back. The firelight of the gas lamp overhead flickered a few times due to air pressure, and the pigeons that finished the beans still wanted more, so they looked at the "person" who had just thrown them food.

No one cast their gaze to this corner of the square, and the colorful picture seemed to have turned into a silent silent film. Until Xia De took the initiative to close his eyes and sighed, the silent confrontation just now ended. He still had one question he wanted to ask, but this question was definitely not free.

"Are you trying to ask how you are going to deal with it? The power of the Chosen Ones has not yet grown to the point where they can fight such a powerful enemy, and the sparks of the first fire have not yet re-aggregated. Currently, it is difficult to defeat it."

The young man opposite the table asked like this, but Xia De shook his head:

"What I want to know is not this. I want to know, when the story ends this time, do I have to face a choice that must be made?"

The young man opposite the table raised his eyebrows:

"Don't think of me as too omnipotent, but if you say so, I can probably guess some things."

He twisted his fingers at Xia De, but Xia De shook his head:

"No, I just want to see if you are clear about this matter and get your attitude. However, if you really want to trade with me, I would like to know how you came to be."

The demon's eyes narrowed slightly, and it stretched its head towards Xia De opposite the table, its neck seeming to be stretched a lot:

"Tell me, do you really want to know this?"

Xia De closed his mouth tightly and even controlled his head not to make any movements that could be mistaken for "agreement."

Seeing Xia De's appearance, the demon opposite the table retracted its head again, narrowed its eyes, and warned:

"Don't try to inquire about the origin of any evil spirit, never. Even if the little story I want to tell you is just a story 'related to wishes but also overcoming wishes,' this price is not something you can bear now."

"My doctor friend has also said similar things."

Xia De then opened his mouth, and the red light in the eyes of the demon opposite the table converged:

"Regarding Ban Na Te, I can give you one last warning. That whole family has received the protection of the tree. Don't think about any spying spells, relics, or divine arts that can take effect on them."

Xia De nodded to show he understood:

"Since it's the last warning, are you leaving? Before leaving, can you talk about why you appeared in Weisi Ta City? You came here last night, didn't you? But you set the transaction time for tonight... Is it for this young man you controlled?"

The demon showed a mocking expression on its face:

"It seems you haven't realized this point yet, but it doesn't matter, you will understand soon."

It said this, then closed its eyes and lay on the table. After a while, the young man sat up straight again in a daze. He looked at the surroundings in surprise, as if he didn't understand why he appeared here.

But soon he seemed to find a reason to convince himself, covered his aching head, stood up, and stumbled into the crowd in the square, without looking at Xia De even once during the whole process.

"Evil spirit possession, he probably won't live past thirty."

Xia De thought while looking at the halo of light dyed by the gas lamp in the wine glass. If he was in the mood, he might have called the other party just now and asked what wish he had made. But he was not in the mood now, so he could only use the 【Moon Library】 to draw the other party's face after returning, and then throw the information to the church for them to handle.

"The Ban Na Te family?"

Tonight their family must be listening to a concert in the magnificent music hall not far away, and in the two months since he came to Weisi Ta City, except for Linda Ban Na Te in the Love Lake incident, Xia De had not found any evidence that any Ban Na Te had major problems:

"Could it be that Desire asked me to collect debts, and said that the other party hid in a place it couldn't go, because Ban Na Te was protected by the tree?"

He thought in his heart again, but if this idea was true, it meant that Desire was not as good as the World Tree wreckage:

"Any investigation-type strange magic and relics are useless to them. Speaking of which, I don't seem to have used such... 【Family Stabilizer】 on them!"

He thought of Miss Dan Ni Si Te's document-level relic, whose function was to judge blood relationships:

"Regardless of whether they have other relationships, at least now I can't be sure whether Mr. Ban Na Te's five children are his biological children..."

Thinking of this, he widened his eyes slightly:

"So, as long as two of the children are not his biological children, Mr. Ban Na Te might actually only have three children, which fits the description of that mermaid."

【Only one needs to not be his biological child to meet the conditions. Linda Ban Na Te, the third daughter of the Ban Na Te family, was sent to the church as a nun after the Death Apostle Bronte and Love Lake incidents, and can already be considered to have been expelled from the Ban Na Te family.】 (2747)

"She" reminded softly in his ear, and Xia De also remembered this matter:

"But at least that Mrs. Ban Na Te who is very worried about her daughters' marriage is real, this can't be faked."

This time "She" didn't refute Xia De, but the Ban Na Te family had now become the core of everything, so what secrets Xia De would discover next was really unclear.

He also picked up a few beans and threw them to the pigeons that hadn't left yet. Everyone was very happy during the festival today, and this group of pigeons that walked in the square all year round begged for a lot of food.

This made Xia De think of the pigeons living outside his own door in St. De Lan Square that were stared at by cats sunbathing all year round. They might have also flown to this forest to spend the winter.

Sighing slightly, he happened to see a flower-selling girl nearby selling flowers to passersby, so Xia De called her over:

"Do you have roses?"

The flower-selling girl with two small braids on her head looked to be in her teens, and her height was much shorter than Vanessa's now. She was wearing thin clothes that were inappropriate for the season, and that washed-out skirt looked like summer attire.

But even though she was shivering from the cold, she still carried her flower basket and tried hard to show her enthusiasm:

"Yes, sir, they are very fresh red roses. How many do you need?"

"How many do you have?"

The flower-selling girl who had seen all kinds of customers immediately realized what the other party wanted to do:

"There are 9 left, sir, do you need them wrapped separately?"

Her flower basket itself was not big, and nine flowers already occupied a large part of it.

Xia De calculated:

"Nine... one for each person should be enough. No need to wrap them separately, just tie them together with old newspapers."