Chapter 2885: Margaret's Sister

Seeing that Kindel's corpse could be obtained tonight, the dragon hunting plan was officially scheduled for midnight between this Wednesday and Thursday.

Neither of the two great witches brought apprentices or followers when going out to the dragon nest. Although Xierweiya was good at the power of space, she could also fly. Carrying the cat and the owl, the three arrived at their destination at ten o'clock in the morning while flying through the treetops in the forest.

Although the plan to lure out the dragon beast was arranged, and there was enough power to defeat the dragon beast, everything seemed to be arranged properly, but the girls on the Radiant Messenger were still very cautious in their preparations.

Xia De didn't intend to do anything else today after returning from the forest at noon, planning to check the books he had harvested while waiting for midnight. But at two o'clock in the afternoon, he met Margaret, who visited secretly, at the inn.

The princess wore a coarse cloth skirt that only ordinary girls would wear. After seeing Xia De, she hugged him first:

"I'm really sorry, I haven't finished the work in my hands for so long."

"You should go and tell Vannisha this... No, you'd better not see her now. No, no, don't show a sad expression, Vannisha doesn't hate you."

The shrunken witch certainly wouldn't want to see her apprentice:

"But why did you come? Did something happen?"

"I received the information about the Northern spy Kindel that you passed on. The information said that the illegitimate child was a pair of twins, which really scared me."

Margaret had a troubled face:

"Although it didn't write the characteristics of the child, in such a small town with a small population, if the neighbor gave birth to twins, it would definitely become the talk of the whole block. I searched for information based on this point, and I really gained something.

If this investigation is not wrong, then what should have been born was a boy and a girl. The whereabouts of the boy were not found, but the whereabouts of the girl have been determined."

"You really have a sister?"

This time it was Xia De's turn to be surprised, but Margaret still had a sorrowful expression:

"That girl is missing."

Xia De felt that her emotions were quite complicated when she said this. Although they were half-siblings and the other party was an illegitimate child, it didn't mean she didn't care:

"She went missing about two years ago. She grew up in a local orphanage and later was admitted to the Creekwood Town Music Academy. Two years ago, one afternoon, she told her classmates that she was going back to the orphanage to deliver some things, and she never appeared again."

Actually, if calculated by time, the age of this "sister" of Margaret was only two years younger than her. They should be the same age, but when Margaret spoke of the other party, she still used the way of addressing a child.

"I don't want to use divination to find people. This cannot give my father a report, and the teacher also said not to always try to rely on divination. But this time I really have no other way. Xia De, I want to know if that child is still alive."

So Margaret hoped that Xia De could ask Bella or Luweiya to help. Xia De also understood her complicated thoughts now. That was her sister after all:

"No problem, but our diviner ladies are all very busy today. You leave the basic information. It would be even better if there are things she used before. Don't worry too much, maybe she just encountered a small accident and is still alive now."

"I hope so too. She has a nice name 'Ashley.' This must be a gentle and elegant girl, and the surname follows the former dean Bettany of the orphanage who has passed away."

Margaret said and handed the document bag she brought to Xia De, but Xia De didn't take it. He blinked and asked suspiciously:

"So, the girl's name is Ashley Bettany?"

"Yes... Do you know this person?"

Margaret asked in disbelief. Xia De put the cat lying on his lap on the sofa armrest for the time being, pursing his lips, not knowing how to tell her the news.

He indeed knew this person, or rather, this ghost:

"When I first arrived locally, I once visited an abandoned logging camp in the forest with Miss Dannisite, and obtained a door-shaped tree hole there. That tree hole connected to 1821."

That time was to get news about Miss Dannisite's teacher from the 【Hermit Group in the Forest】. Later, it was determined that Miss Hailenna Ka Te had once traveled through that tree hole. She traveled through time to obtain news about the astrologer Euclid, and it was also because of this that she was infected with a time curse.

"I heard the teacher say that was the second tree hole you obtained."

Margaret said, Xia De nodded lightly:

"Besides the tree hole, another thing actually happened that day... There was a well in the logging camp pressed by a bluestone slab, and a ghost lived inside. We heard from her that strange sounds sometimes appeared in the camp, and that was how we determined the location of the tree hole (Chapter 2584)."

Margaret also guessed what Xia De wanted to say:

"That ghost..."

"She said her name was Ashley Bettany, looking about twenty years old. That girl didn't turn into an evil spirit, just because her corpse was at the bottom of the well, so she would always be in that abandoned camp."

The blonde princess was silent for a while:

"Xia De, did you send her away?"

"No, she said she didn't want to leave yet. I promised her at the time that if she was willing to help me, I wouldn't interfere with her. We recovered the tree hole and left. However, I used my spell 【Oath Binding】 at the time to ensure that Miss Ashley Bettany would not hurt people or talk nonsense."

While speaking, Xia De recalled the situation at that time. His deepest impression of that day before this was actually that the young Miss Dannisite fought with Xia De in the forest because Xia De refused to help her. Recovering the tree hole and encountering a ghost were instead unimportant things.

And now looking back, the face of the timid but curious girl ghost at the bottom of the well indeed had some resemblance to Margaret. Of course, this was inferring the process after knowing the result. In fact, Xia De didn't discover anything at the time.

Margaret pursed her lips and didn't speak for a long time. Xia De pulled her hand and sat down, but Margaret quickly adjusted her emotions:

"Can you take me to see her? I want to know how she died, and I also want to know if her death has anything to do with her identity."

The matter of the Southern Kingdom's illegitimate child had never been an important matter to Xia De. But if Margaret asked him for help, then this was an important matter.

Xia De still remembered the location of that abandoned logging camp very clearly. He left the cat at the inn and set off alone with Margaret.

When he came here with Miss Dannisite last time, the forest was just stained with golden yellow. Now the forest had faded even the last touch of gold. Withered leaves covered this courtyard that was almost integrated with the forest. In the logging cabin where Xia De took away the door, there were now some traces of animals staying overnight.

The bluestone slab was still pressing on the dry well. And after Xia De moved the slab away, the face of the twenty-year-old girl that emerged from the well almost immediately stuck out.

Of course, this was not expressing ambiguity, but she seemed to want to scare Xia De in this way. It was a pity that Xia De had no expression, just greeted:

"Miss Bettany, long time no see."

"Long time no see, handsome unknown gentleman. Oh, I found that the girl you brought this time is much more beautiful than the one who came last time~ Oh, sorry, it turns out it's not the same person."

She said again with bad intentions, but Margaret also didn't have her emotions provoked.

The blonde princess looked at the face of the soul that was probing out of the well, and then said softly to Xia De:

"This time it must be right, we found the right person."

With an unspeakable sadness in her tone, Margaret ranked fourth among the Anjou of this generation. Above her were two older brothers and an older sister, and below her was a younger brother who was not yet an adult. She had no sister.

Xierweiya once said "Princess Lei Qianya has a sister, but you don't have a sister, so you have already lost." At that time, Margaret had imagined whether life would have great changes if she also had a sister. Just didn't expect this assumption to become reality, it was just that the half-blood relative had already passed away.

"You all have strange expressions looking at me."

The girl in the well said, shrinking her head in fear, but soon drilled out again:

"Then what are you doing looking for me this time? I've told you all the fresh things here. To tell you the truth, after you took away that door, it became even more boring here."

"I want to know how you died."

Seeing Margaret not speaking, Xia De asked on her behalf. This question is generally not allowed to be asked to the dead. Once the unwillingness and resentment at the time of death are stimulated, it is easy to stimulate a normal spirit to become a crazy evil spirit.

Xia De had even prepared to use "Guiding Death" to help the soul in front of him walk out of resentment at the right time. But Miss Bettany did not suddenly change, but said angrily:

"This question is really not gentlemanly."

"I want to help you find the person who killed you."

Xia De added, so the girl's soul smiled very ambiguously. Her body was still inside the well, but her right arm was resting on the well, and her left hand was supporting her face:

"Why, do you want to be like the protagonist in a knight novel and fall in love with a ghost?"

This was of course a joke. Seeing Xia De's serious expression, after the joke, she still said:

"I actually don't like recalling that thing.

That day I bought sweet snacks and wanted to go back to the orphanage to share with the children. It was already very late when I left the college castle, but the public security in Weisi City has always been very good. The orphanage where I grew up is located in the northwest of the city, which is the old city area. I know many alleys that lead in all directions are shortcuts, because I wanted to arrive early, so I drilled into the alley."

She paused:

"Thinking about it now, the words that the old nannies in the orphanage used to warn us are really right. I made a wrong decision that day. I accidentally bumped into two people having a secret meeting in the alley. Yes, it was the kind of meeting of bad guys in stories. I didn't see their faces, and I was shot and killed by one of them." ===== CHAPTER 2886 =====