Chapter 3121: Twin Spiders

Luweiya saw Xia De's misunderstanding immediately, and her face turned slightly red as she kicked his boot lightly with her boot:

"I'm looking forward to seeing what will be written on your card in a while. It should be said that the doctor still has a good eye when picking tasks."

Priest Ao Gu Si's situation could be explored by relics, but it seems that this relic could not know Luweiya's reality, which could fully explain that the long-haired Luweiya was much stronger than the incomplete angel.

Although Xia De regretted not seeing interesting content, he also accepted such reality. He returned the card with artistic design to Luweiya. After Luweiya took it, the carriage suddenly bumped, and then—

Boom!

Xia De was startled and almost stood up in the carriage. Dorothy on the inside of the carriage also looked outside the carriage:

"It sounds like it came from the north. What happened over there?"

The psychologist driving the carriage in front answered:

"It doesn't sound like the sound of steam bombs or gas explosions. We can't see the fire from our side either. Is it the church team in action?"

Iruna had returned home and would probably come back next week. Although Luweiya knew that the church had actions tonight, she didn't know the details.

"Isn't our next destination the West District? Things happening in the north shouldn't affect us... Luweiya, can you divine it?"

Xia De asked, and Luweiya took out her divination cards, rinsed them slightly, and cut them again, then turned over the top one of the card pile:

"Upright · Fate. Fate will arrange everything that follows, whether it is good or bad, what should happen will definitely happen."

"What does it mean?"

Priest Ao Gu Si asked in the wind, and Luweiya explained:

"Neither good nor bad, it can be considered a neutral result. I think as long as we are cautious, there should be no problem."

Tobesk West District is the industrial area of the "City of Steam". The Tairar River flows through the city center from the northeast of the city and then reaches the West District. Wharves and warehouses are built along the river, ensuring that products produced in factories that never stop day and night can be transported to cities in the southwest of Delarion located downstream.

In the Tobesk city area at night, the West District is the brightest area from the sky. Workers in two or three shifts ensure that steam machinery will never stop, and the "n-hour working system" that has been repeatedly discussed in the parliament for many years is nothing more than a ridiculous piece of waste paper in the eyes of factory owners who crave more money.

It is basically impossible to find large open spaces like "Regent Park" or the "abandoned mansion" just now in this area where every inch of land is worth an inch of gold, but fortunately, there are also continuous warehouses in the factory area, and the location given by the Academy is right there.

"Here we are, I'll open the door."

After the carriage stopped, Xia De jumped out of the carriage first, went around to the front of the horse, took the key thrown by the doctor, and opened the gate of the warehouse courtyard rented by the Academy in advance.

Because it is often used, the ground of the warehouse courtyard only has a thin layer of snow that fell today. In the creaking sound, the two doors were pushed open by Xia De, and the doctor drove the carriage in. Xia De closed the two metal gates again at the door.

Then Priest Ao Gu Si, who was sitting next to the doctor, also jumped off the carriage and pushed open the main door of the warehouse building. The interior of the low-rise building was quite spacious. The previous owner stored steam engine parts here for a long time, so although the warehouse was ventilated, there was still a pungent smell of machine oil inside.

After the carriage stopped steadily, the two girls also walked out of the carriage. At this time, Xia De was using "Moon Thorns" to block the main door of the warehouse building. Dense silver thorns grew continuously along the walls and ceiling, but after Luweiya turned on the gas lamps on the warehouse walls, the brightness of the thorn bushes was suppressed.

"There are still twenty minutes, everyone set up."

The doctor said, separated the horse from the carriage, led it to the corner of the warehouse, and protected it by hypnotizing it.

Although setting traps is useless, the means that can be used indoors are ultimately more useful than in the open courtyard just now.

This time it was Dorothy's turn to conduct the card experiment, but while waiting for the experiment time to arrive, the sound of explosions rang out vaguely in the city again. Although this time the distance was relatively far, the five people could still hear it.

"I'll go out and see."

Xia De said, jumped up and disappeared, and then appeared on the roof of the warehouse bungalow. Heavy snow covered the tiles, and most of the factory buildings in Tobesk West District were quite tall. However, looking toward the east, Xia De could still vaguely see the spire of the side tower of Yodel Palace in the snow.

The red butterfly flew upward, and a few seconds later he appeared on the roof of a taller building nearby.

Looking into the distance, the windows with lights on and the street lamps that outlined the shape of the city marked the direction home for the people returning at night. And after putting on the 【Crow's Eye】 and looking in the direction of the sound source, no matter how strong the perception was, Xia De could only determine that the problem was in the core city area:

"It wouldn't be near St. Theresa Square, right? I hope Little Mia won't be scared."

He waited for a few minutes to make sure the explosion sound didn't continue, and then returned to the warehouse to inform everyone of the result. The doctor thought that since it wouldn't affect this side, he didn't need to care.

"Detective, I remember you said you bought insurance for your home, right?"

Priest Ao Gu Si asked while sprinkling bone powder on the warehouse floor, which ensured that he could summon the undead at any time.

"Yeah, but I just bought the house next door recently, right? Although the transfer of that house has been completed, the insurance used is still the previous owner's. I don't know what level of house insurance that is."

Dorothy and Luweiya both knew that Xia De bought the house at No. 7 St. Theresa Square, but the priest and the doctor heard it for the first time.

The doctor asked curiously:

"Such a big deal? Then what was the final transaction price?"

"Including the land, it's this number."

Xia De gestured a number, and the doctor and Priest Ao Gu Si were very surprised. Real estate in the core area centered on Yodel Palace is rarely traded directly, so the outside world is completely unaware of the price there.

"However, I want to declare one point. Although this money was indeed not taken by myself, I also paid half. I am not the kind of poor guy who eats by women as reported in the newspaper. I have a lot of money."

The doctor and the priest nodded to show understanding, while Luweiya and Dorothy both showed smiles. They both knew that although Xia De didn't care about details in many places in life, and didn't care about luxury and pomp, he cared about self-esteem.

So wanting to make Xia De happy, in the eyes of the girls, was a very easy thing.

"However, how did you think of buying a house there? Although the housing price in that area is not cheap, the appreciation potential shouldn't be very large, right? According to the fashionable saying now, you have exchanged all your liquid funds into bricks and stones that cannot be cashed."

The doctor asked again, Xia De looked at the girls, and then answered hesitantly:

"Many people are coming to my place for the Year-End Festival this year. I'm worried that there won't be enough rooms at home. Let's not talk about this. Speaking of which, when we had the task last time, was the warehouse where the coffin was temporarily stored nearby?"

Everyone chatted while doing preparatory work. Before the three-minute countdown, Dr. Shi Nai De asked the diviner of the group to divine with coins again. Luweiya believed that the probability of "Fate Weaver" appearing this time was quite high.

Her divination was indeed accurate. After the countdown ended, just as Dorothy injected her spirit into the card in her hand, a gust of wind suddenly appeared in the closed warehouse room.

Before the source of that wind was discovered, two intertwined frantic laughter sounds of hee hee hee~ ha ha ha~ suddenly appeared in everyone's ears.

The vigilant Xia De frowned, blocked the air in front of him with the long sword, clang~, and 【Night Watcher】 collided with the invisible weapon in the air, splashing a dazzling spark.

At the same time, the sound of air shock also came from the doctor's direction. Xia De's peripheral vision saw the doctor punch forward violently, and the invisible thing in the vibrating air was hit by him and flew out, hitting the thorn bushes on the wall.

"This is not right, how can there be two enemies?"

Xia De asked in a low voice while swinging his sword horizontally, and at the same time, the white crystal that appeared in his left hand threw upward. The light of the "Truth Crystal" covered most of the warehouse area, immediately revealing the appearance of the two enemies.

It is not accurate to say that there are two enemies, because Xia De clearly saw that he was facing half a crimson spider. The spider only had the left half of its body, while the part that should exist on the right side was filled with shadows to ensure that the spider would not lose its balance.

The enemy the doctor was facing probably only had the right half of the body, and since he saw the enemy's figure, it definitely couldn't escape.

The silver sword mark swung by the long sword split toward the body of the half spider, but the moonlight disappeared after approaching the surface of its body like ripples in the air. The spider's mouthparts continued to make frantic laughter, and it lowered its body wanting to perform space movement, but Xia De, who had already seen that this thing had space power, took a step forward in advance:

"Space Stability Halo!"

Then he narrowed his eyes and slashed with his right hand again. This time the moonlight slash successfully hit the enemy, splitting the spider with only the left half of its body into two, but the shadow connected to the crack, allowing the spider to recover (Note).

PS: The first moonlight slash did not hit and was directly transferred, so the second time it could still cause damage, but the third time it wouldn't.

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