Chapter 307: Apple and Professor

"Key of the Door... but what does this spell have to do with the deity's story?"

The voice in his ear didn't answer Xia De; on the contrary, thick white fog had already appeared behind him.

The witches' singing didn't stop there. They stood by the bonfire, watching the outlander gradually be swallowed by the white fog. Each person's eyes seemed to be glowing, and they offered sincere blessings to Xia De:

"Traveler from a foreign land, may your figure always be in the wind that blows through the world."

"Man of the future, may you always see the morning sun whenever the sun rises."

"Unexpected guest, may time be with you, and may the Silver Moon always favor you."

Amidst the sound of the lyre and singing, the white fog swallowed Xia De. He left, but the witches' voices seemed to have crossed that forest and crossed the river of time. Even though Xia De was already standing in Saint Delan Square, those singing voices seemed to still be echoing in his ears.

"Meow?"

The cat lying on the sofa saw Xia De, who came out of the door with a thoughtful expression, and turned over to reveal its snow-white belly, meowing to attract him to walk over.

Xia De sighed and walked towards the cat that was acting spoiled on the sofa:

"Their singing..."

【How was it?】

"It was really better than opera."

【Worried that you won't be able to hear it in the future?】

She was laughing lightly.

"Of course I won't have such thoughts. Your voice is even better than theirs. I'm just thinking, it's known that Miss Feilian won't die in the Forest of a Thousand Trees, but I don't know if the other two witches can walk out of there alive."

The establishment of Saint Byron's was a matter of the previous era. Because of the loss of history, even though Xia De had checked the information, he couldn't confirm who the students beside Miss Feilian were when the Academy was first established.

Time had just crossed midnight. Xia De sat on the sofa and picked up the cat that was acting spoiled:

"Clearly this time travel didn't face a deity, but I always feel the pressure is no less than the first time."

【Do you have confidence in completing the task?】

She asked softly in his ear.

"Of course I have confidence. At worst, I'll drag it for another month. Although it's a waste of time, Miss Feilian helped me, and I will also help her."

Lowering his head, he discovered that the 【Ring of Incarnation】 had somehow been put on Little Mia's tail.

Xia De smiled and took off the ring. Amidst Little Mia's dissatisfied meowing, he put the cat on the sofa, and he took the ring into the hidden space behind the basement wall and placed the ring by the wall.

He didn't leave, but looked at the Sage-level relic 【God's Gift Box】 also placed here. Now it was Monday, and the children could obtain a gift from the box every week.

Xia De liked this kind of "lottery" activity. Although he had to complete some tasks to obtain gifts, he was still quite confident in himself.

For the sake of the so-called ritual sense, he specially carried the box to the coffee table on the second floor. After washing his hands, he gently pushed open the lid and stretched his arm in.

"What will it be? Do I have the luck to obtain a relic?"

Under Little Mia the cat's curious gaze, Xia De's hand slowly pulled out. One person and one cat looked at that hand, and what was held in it was a plump red apple.

This was not a special item disguised as an apple; this was really just an apple. Xia De looked at it and took a bite; the taste was quite good. Little Mia saw Xia De eating, so she immediately stretched out her paws to pull him, so she was also given a small piece by Xia De.

"But why would it give me an apple?"

Xia De fell into deep thought, and the task to obtain the apple was to brush his teeth seriously before going to bed for three consecutive days.

(Little Mia is sleeping Zz......)

The key to completing the 3002 Time Key task lay in Xia De completing the ritual—contacting the Old God 【Yaobian Doorway】 in the Sixth Era. Among the two current ideas, finding new blood coins probably required going to Coldwater Port, after all, Luweiya had already searched Tobesk and the surrounding areas, and had long ago posted a bounty on the black market. As for finding the ancient organization 【Light-Guiding Cult】, he had to find friends related to academics to help. Academic groups that studied doomsday theory couldn't be found just by posting in the newspaper.

So on Monday morning, Xia De visited Professor Manning, who lived at 17 Cat Tail Alley, alone. He and Professor Manning originally only knew each other because of the 【Pleasant Dream Pen】, but later met again when attending an academic report and chatted quite congenially, so it was fine to call them friends now.

Because it was Monday, he was worried that the professor would go out, so Xia De came very early. Not long after knocking on the door, the familiar fat maid opened the door. The professor had also just finished breakfast and was sitting in the dining room wearing home clothes and slippers, reading the newspaper. It looked like he didn't plan to go out in the morning.

When Xia De came to him, the professor was pointing to the obituary of Police Chief Anthony Vograve of the Lideweiqi Field in the newspaper and complaining about the public security in Tobesk:

"Detective, I have lived in this city for fifty years. It's the first time I've encountered a situation where cultists kill hundreds of people in one night, and even kill the Police Chief. I even suspect that I have returned to my youth, ran to a remote town where archaeological excavations were being carried out, and got involved in the death of the town's sheriff and the stupid townspeople there..."

He mumbled and didn't make the second half of the sentence clear, but Xia De suspected he heard the two words "gunfight" and "corpse." It seemed that the archaeologist's youth was not as calm as ordinary scholars.

Professor Manning was very talkative, so Xia De didn't directly state the purpose of his visit, but talked about the terrible things of last week with the professor. Professor Manning completely accepted the rhetoric in the newspaper, and while cursing the cultists, he was also dissatisfied with the slowness of Lideweiqi Field, Military Intelligence Section 6, and the church.

In his view, since citizens paid taxes, they should be protected. And the events of a week and a half ago fully explained that City Hall definitely hadn't used all the tax money in suitable places.

So Xia De realized that what the professor really wanted to complain about was the Kingdom's tax policy. He believed that professors' salaries should enjoy special tax exemptions, rather than paying the full amount of taxes like ordinary people.

To ask Professor Manning for help, the excuse Xia De gave was that he was dealing with a troublesome commission, so he needed to obtain some information from scholars who studied doomsday theory.

Professor Manning was a very optimistic person and had some disgust for the so-called "doomsday theory," but since Xia De was only doing it for a commission, he was of course happy to help. Professor Manning had met many friends because he had been excavating ruins all over the world when he was young, and he happened to be able to help Xia De inquire about news.

"Of course, it's best not to make this matter too public, and I don't want to expose the news of my client because of this."

Xia De said embarrassedly. Seeing the professor agree, he took out the prepared envelope, which contained 10 pounds:

"The matter is a bit urgent, I hope you can give me news within a week. Please accept this, no, don't rush to refuse, the client will reimburse this expense, so you are actually taking money from my client, not me giving it to you."

Xia De would not let the professor help him for nothing. Although they were friends, if he asked for help for nothing, the friendship would fade more and more. ===== CHAPTER 308 =====