Chapter 3099: Detective's Career

Helen didn't answer her sister with words, but reached out to give her sister a no-problem gesture. So Grace put down the tablecloth again, wiped her hands with a handkerchief, and said to Xia De:

"Sir, do you want me to take over now?"

The blue eyes showed a very serious expression, and the Outsider felt that this morning was very absurd:

"I have opposed it since just now. Are we really going to play this kind of game?"

"Of course, it's what you said, because you have been cold to us recently, so you promise to do whatever we want."

Saying that, she reached out and pulled her sister's hand down, so the two positions changed with a flash of red light, and Xia De's side became Helen in a black dress. Xia De took a deep breath; he still liked more ordinary mornings.

Today was the date time with Grace and Helen, or more accurately, the date time started last night. However, the sisters didn't ask to go out on a date with Xia De, but spent an ordinary day with Xia De at home.

Eating breakfast together, reading books together, and at noon they even cooked lunch for Xia De at home. The sisters' craftsmanship was not better than that of professional maids. After all, for relics, eating was not necessary. (Note)

After lunch, Xia De wiped the table, the sisters washed the dishes, and then Xia De hugged them and took a nap, and the cat was also very satisfied with such a slow-paced life.

After waking up from the nap, the three and the cat made the potion class assignment that Xia De needed to submit before the end of the year in Room 3 on the third floor together. The potion class assignment for middle-ring warlocks was no longer to repeat the production process according to steps; it required a certain amount of creativity and enthusiasm.

When Xia De was making "Blood Explosion Potion," Grace suggested that this potion, which could make the drinker's blood explosive for a short time, could actually be suppressed by adding stabilizers, and combined with the alchemy material "Flame Essence" to let people drink it secretly, and then let it directly become a "bomber" after the stabilizer failed—this way, a group of people could be assassinated at once.

And Helen creatively improved the formula of "Soul Stitching Elixir," turning this potion, which was originally able to help victims recover forgotten or lost memories, into a powerful "memory cleanser" after reversing the effect.

"No, no, I don't think I need such a big innovation. I don't want to publish a paper directly."

Xia De politely declined the girls' kindness, but later Siris heard about this and asked for the formula of "memory cleanser."

At dinner, Xia De invited the girl who turned into an eighteen-year-old after fusion to dine at a restaurant on Silver Cross Avenue, and then went to the Maria Queen Opera House with the gorgeously dressed girl to watch an opera performance. Of course, not in a box, just in the ordinary audience seats.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Xia De and Grace and Helen kissed goodbye in the entrance hall at home, then sent them into the entrance of the "Space Labyrinth" in the basement, and agreed to arrange another date of this specification before the Year-End Festival.

After returning to the second floor, Xia De told Luweiya, who was preparing to stay at home, what he had done today, and the diviner Miss summarized:

"Although it sounds very plain, this kind of plain day is the most romantic... But what do you mean by saying that you only wore a top for almost the whole day at home?"

Because he felt that his life in the past half week was really too decadent, Xia De decided to do some serious things on Thursday, so he visited the ritual site of the 【Spiritual Cult】 located on the mountain peak.

It seemed that except for Tuobeisike, it had already started snowing in winter everywhere, and the ritual site hidden in the rocks had also turned silver-white. However, the interior of the ritual site, which should have been quite cold in winter with stone outer walls, was not cold at all; it could even be said to be warm.

When Xia De came to the bottom floor of the ritual site and saw Sister Daifulin kneeling by the fire meditating, the sister didn't have any reaction to Xia De's footsteps.

"I am still sensing the location of the remaining initial fire flames."

She said softly with her back to Xia De. It was magical that there was no echo when she spoke in such a spacious ritual site:

"I need time, please wait for my answer."

However, Xia De didn't come back empty-handed this time:

"Can you determine how many remaining initial fire flames have not been recovered?"

"Please hold my hand."

Xia De came to the sister's side and saw her kneeling by the fire basin putting both hands into the fire, so Xia De also sat down opposite her and put his hands into the fire basin.

Sister Daifulin, as a woman, had hands much smaller than Xia De's. So Xia De's large hands easily hugged the sister's hands. He closed his eyes and let his body lean forward, and then in the darkness before his eyes, three long and thin flames appeared abruptly.

They were not clear, but they could be truly perceived:

"Only three left? Sister, if all the scattered initial fire flames are collected, what will happen?"

The sister who had been bowing her head raised her head and "looked" at him:

"The original fire will become complete."

"Hmm... and then?"

Sister Daifulin just shook her head lightly, so Xia De stared at the pair of hands he was holding in the fire, thinking about whether he should give her hand cream as a gift during the Year-End Festival.

"Speaking of which, is there hand cream in this era?"

【Then, have you calculated the number of gifts you want to send out for this year's Year-End Festival?】

"She" whispered in Xia De's ear. Xia De hadn't calculated it yet, but that must be a very exaggerated number.

And he had to ensure that there could be no duplicate gifts, and the gifts given to everyone had to be innovative, and he couldn't ask the girls for advice—this sounded more difficult than fighting the ancient one again.

(Little Mia is running...)

The first snow of this winter in Tuobeisike City was late to arrive, and time passed quickly before Xia De's eyes like Little Mia running.

It seemed like just a blink of an eye, and when he went to the "Moon Sanctuary" with Lei Qianya to soak in the hot spring, he couldn't meet the witches who had all evacuated from the woodland. It also seemed like just a blink of an eye, and the Month of Frost had already come to an end.

Monday, when the Battle of the Woodland ended, was the 10th of this month. However, Xia De didn't waste the second half of the Month of Frost either.

Taking advantage of having nothing to do, his review progress was quite rapid—at least faster than Emilia, who would appear at home every weekend. And Xia De, who had become idle, finally carried out his detective career after a long time.

That was on a morning when Xia De woke up hugging Duo Luo Qian and Luweiya. The haggard woman who came to the "Hamilton Detective Agency" for help introduced by Doctor Shi Nai De told about her insomnia all night and the strange sounds she always heard from under the house at night.

The Outsider, who had already handled quite a few bizarre cases, thought this time it was someone digging a tunnel in someone else's house without public morality, or that there was some buried treasure coveted under the haggard fat woman's house. But after he conducted an on-site inspection with "Sherlock Assistant" Little Mia, he unexpectedly discovered a new situation.

"Why do I feel that every time I rest after a great event, I always encounter such strange and bizarre cases? Are these things waiting for me to have time to explode collectively?"

The reason for the sound under the house was very scientific. A secret room that hadn't been discovered by the current owner existed under the basement of the old mansion located in the East District of Tuobeisike. This secret room should have been an "escape passage" built by the owner of the mansion in the distant war years to connect to the city's sewer pipes.

It was just that it was closed in some unknown era, and the foundation settlement over the years and the climate with large temperature differences between day and night this winter caused the wall structure of the underground secret room to constantly undergo tiny displacements at night, thus producing slight knocking

And after Xia De directed the employer's servants to dig open the secret room, amidst the screams of the plump woman, the dozens of corpses sealed beneath her house finally saw the light of day.

Based on the state of decomposition, the police officers from Ridgewich Field believed their time of death was likely in the spring of 1854. After surveying the scene, it was discovered that the bodies were not brought in from the house above ground; the wall on the east side of the secret room was adjacent to the city's sewer pipes, and someone had broken through the wall a year ago, sealed the bodies into the room, and then blocked the wall back up.

This was a near-perfect place to hide bodies; in the remote parts of the underground pipes, no one would notice that a wall had once been opened, and the blocked passage above the secret room was completely undetectable from inside the room.

Even the city sewer map currently kept by City Hall did not show the location of this secret room. However, when Miss Brown—a defector from MI6 and a victim of the "Purple Cabbage Incident"—and her fiancé, Mr. Fellinger, fled Tobeisike with the help of Xia De and Margaret, the sewer map that Mr. Fellinger, an engineer, gave to Xia De did have this secret room marked (Chapter 1060).

So, on a dark and windy night, Xia De followed the map, carrying an oil lamp into the sewer pipes to explore. He discovered two more body-hiding locations in the nearby pipes, and after encountering an ambush, he killed the attackers and learned through spirit mediumship that this matter involved an incredible big shot.

Realizing the severity of the situation and having nothing better to do, "Detective" Xia De went to Moon Bay City, found Mr. Fellinger—who was now under the protection of the "Eternal Light" organization and making a living following a coroner—and subsequently learned of others who might know of the secret room's existence or might have come into contact with that version of the map.

"I actually heard rumors about this when I was still at MI6... It was one of the dark sides of Tobeisike."

This was the warning from the veteran agent Miss Brown, who was now a mother and working as a night school teacher in the "Eternal Light" organization. However, she did not try to persuade Xia De to ignore the matter, as the couple knew exactly what kind of energy the young man possessed.