Chapter 3133

The moment the bell downstairs rang, Xia De stopped his steps. He glanced at Mia, who was pretending to sleep in front of the fireplace, and then walked downstairs quickly. When he arrived at the foyer, he took a deep breath facing the door, and then put on a smiling face to open the door.

So Priest Ao Gu Si, who was standing outside the door against the background of the lively St. Deran Square, asked quite curiously:

"Detective, does seeing me make you so happy? I am really honored."

The old priest was wearing the robes of a church staff member, and the carriage of the Dawn Church was parked at the position of the first-floor window of Xia De's house, not far from his side.

Xia De took another deep breath, but didn't explain the reason for his strange expression, but tentatively asked:

"Priest, you wouldn't be wanting to ask me to go out now, and then not be able to return until the afternoon, right? Did something happen to someone, or does Bishop Owen have something to do with me? It couldn't be that the distress letter from our friend who traveled far away was sent to you, right?"

"What?"

Priest Ao Gu Si raised his eyebrows, feeling that Xia De was very strange today:

"Bishop Owen knows that I have a good relationship with you, so he asked me to inform you that the celebration activities on the day of the Year-End Festival will be moved up from nine o'clock to eight-forty, can you arrive on time?"

Actually, it would be fine to just send someone to say this, but because the Year-End Festival celebration is the most important festival besides the "Holy Prayer Day" of the Dawn Church, in order to ensure that every important member can come, Bishop Owen specially asked Priest Ao Gu Si to make a trip.

Xia De nodded to indicate that there was no problem. The priest looked at Xia De again and advised him that if he really couldn't think of a gift to give, he could make some meaningful handicrafts himself. Then the old man climbed back into the carriage and said goodbye to him and left.

Xia De stood at the door watching the back of the carriage leaving, still worried that it would suddenly back up, but this didn't happen. The outsider looked at the square in front of him again, but didn't see the girl who should have appeared.

"Meow~"

The cat's whimpering sound came from behind. The cat, who found Xia De because he hadn't gone up, stood on the corner platform above the stairs and called to him. Xia De had no choice but to close the door and go back up the stairs in two or three steps, bent down to pick up Little Mia and just returned to the second floor with it—

Ding-dong~

The bell downstairs rang again.

He put the cat on his shoulder and went downstairs again. This time he opened the door with an expressionless face, which startled both Dulut Giles and the soul-like girl Last Edward outside the door.

This strange soul seemed to have the ability to change her attire at will. In the current winter, she floated above Dulut Giles's head, wrapped in a very thick cotton skirt, but the temperature actually wouldn't affect her "health".

And the young history lecturer first greeted Xia De, and then talked about the purpose of his visit:

"I came here to handle some business today. Last said that the festival is coming soon, so she asked me to come and ask if the descendants of her younger brother have sent her any greeting letters for the festival."

The little girl who was startled by Xia De's expression just now had also recovered her usual spirit, excitedly wanting to cross the two men at the door and fly directly into the house, but for some reason, she flew to the door and suddenly turned around and retreated.

She pretended to be very mature and said:

"Those juniors should always remember me, their elder. So, did they send greeting cards? Or did they send me festival gifts?"

"This... sorry, no."

So the girl's soul fell on Dulut Giles's head, grabbing his hair as if she was going to lose her temper, but in fact, she didn't use her spiritual body to touch the existence of the material world at all.

Dulut Giles, who felt sorry for this rash visit, comforted her:

"There are still two days until the Year-End Festival, maybe their letters are all on the way."

Xia De also said:

"Megan and Audrey are coming to my place for the festival this year. They are estimated to arrive tomorrow. Even if others can't remember, they will definitely prepare greeting cards for you."

So the innocent soul became excited again. She asked Dulut Giles to inform Xia De of their current address again. After the young history lecturer presented the Year-End Festival gift to Xia De, the two said goodbye and left.

Xia De stood at the door watching their backs. Actually, he didn't know if Megan and Audrey had thought of preparing a festival greeting card for a soul, but he would remind the Misses Edwards.

There was no bell sound when going upstairs this time. Seeing that it was already ten-twenty, Xia De let Little Mia continue to return to the fireplace to roast fire, while he wrote the greeting cards he was preparing to send on the table in the dining room.

Although he planned to visit most of his friends in person, after all, he didn't know many people. But for some past clients, there was really no need to visit in person; writing a greeting card to express his feelings was enough.

【So are you going to wait all day today?】

"She" asked softly, and Xia De wrote while replying:

"Wait until lunchtime, if Ms. Gao De doesn't come, I won't wait."

Ten minutes later, at ten-thirty in the morning, St. Deran Square outside the window also entered the busiest time of the day. The slight noise didn't affect Xia De and the cat living in the house, and the bell sound that rang again made Xia De put down his fountain pen. After going downstairs and opening the door, he found that there was no one outside the door.

A kind passerby then reminded;

"Just now three children were messing around pulling the bells in front of other people's doors here, and they have already run far away by now."

Xia De's mouth twitched a few times, but the festival was coming soon, and the outsider, who considered himself very magnanimous, didn't care about this matter—unless those children dared to come and play this kind of joke again.

After thanking the passerby, Xia De was about to close the door, when he suddenly heard a clanging sound ringing very close by. The sound was similar to dice jumping on a table. He pushed the door open again in confusion and looked outside. St. Deran Square didn't allow anyone to squat by the wall and play dice, and he wouldn't allow gamblers to gamble under his own wall.

But there were only pedestrians and vendors outside. It wasn't until the clanging sound rang for the second time that Xia De suddenly realized that the sound actually came from his own house:

"What?"

Closing all the noise of winter outside the door, he turned and looked at his home, which theoretically should only have himself and the cat. The slight clanging sound rang for the third time.

"Is Little Mia playing dice? No, this sound shouldn't be an illusion, right?"

【Not an illusion.】

The sound didn't come from upstairs, it should be on the first floor. Xia De, frowning, turned from the foyer into the room on the first floor. The first floor of the house was different from the two floors above, it was not divided into two different apartment rooms, but a complete large suite.

Because of privacy issues, the curtains were always drawn during the day. At this moment, the winter sunlight passed through the not-so-thick curtain fabric, illuminating the somewhat gloomy first-floor living room a little. Xia De followed the sound that continued to ring but was becoming weak and continued to walk forward. When he walked to the middle of the living room, that is, behind the sofa, the strange sound disappeared.

The outsider knew that even though he had lived in this house for a year and a half, there were still many secrets here that he didn't know. He wasn't hearing the inexplicable dice sound for the first time, and the astrologer Euclid, who had stayed here many years ago, had also mentioned this in the letter he left behind.

He stood where he was, hoping that the disappeared sound would reappear, but for a long time, there was only the background sound of the square outside the window. So he wanted to check the first floor again, suspecting that the sound that appeared just now was related to the construction team next door trying to destroy the wall.

But just as he took a step, in an instant, the surroundings were immediately filled with glowing white fog. The scenery of his own first floor was completely covered by the white fog, and Xia De was very familiar with this scene.

As if to verify his guess, "She" reminded him softly at this time:

【Outsider, you have entered the "Fate Casino".】

"What?"

"Fate Casino" is a special space left by the ancient god of fate, "Mr. Ring". When Xia De was in the Vesta Forest incident, because he needed to return from 1821 to 1854, he accidentally entered there by borrowing the characteristics of the 【Ouroboros Ring】, one of the "Mia Eight Precepts", and successfully achieved a time travel by winning cards—

Time travel through the "Fate Casino" is also the only legal time travel method he has come into contact with so far, besides the "Time Key".

Although he felt incredible about coming here again, he still took two more steps forward in the white fog. The sound of dice falling and colliding became more and more clear. Continuing forward, the sound of countless people arguing and talking came from the white fog.

That sound didn't make Xia De feel too noisy, but like background noise that wouldn't make him care too much.

The white fog gradually faded, the surrounding walls rose, and the hall took shape in the thin fog. Countless tables were densely and irregularly displayed in front of him, but because it was still shrouded in white fog, although Xia De could see blurry figures at those tables and could hear their voices, he could only see the table in front of him clearly.

That was a typical Luo De Pai gambling table covered with a green tablecloth. After he walked to one end of the table, a figure walked out of the fog and stood at the other end of the rectangular gambling table:

"Welcome back, guest from outside of fate. Do you need me to repeat the rules here? Everyone who comes here looking for a turning point in fate will leave a figure of themselves, and the opponent of the latecomer is those who once won something from this casino. What are we betting on this time? I can see that you are full of questions at the moment."

The last time Xia De played cards here, it was a tall and thin old gentleman, but the one who appeared this time was a middle-aged man with a bald head. He was wearing a black tuxedo, as if he was about to attend a grand ball.

?? PS: There is a recommendation tomorrow, adding more chapters.

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