Chapter 3138

Xia De's original plan for today was to go out and visit friends. Although it was already past one o'clock in the afternoon, after eating the lunch prepared by the maids, he still decided to go out according to the original plan, otherwise tomorrow would be even busier.

Of course, before leaving, he didn't forget to pick up the last weekly gift of 1854. Because he had to leave from the basement anyway, he drew the gift in the basement before setting off. It was a box of ordinary biscuits. The task required sharing the biscuits with at least two friends to taste. Xia De tasted one himself, and the flavor was quite good.

He planned to visit his good friends in the order of the cities he had reached, so the first stop was Coldwater Port.

His only acquaintance there was the old Mr. Edmund, who guarded the old lighthouse. Xia De prepared a piece of knowledge from the Fifth Era from the "Academy of Strange Trees" as a Year-End Festival gift for him.

Although the old folklorist's living environment on the sea cliff didn't look like much, the business of the old lighthouse, which served as the local black market near the end of the year, looked quite good. When Xia De arrived at the lighthouse, there were actually guests.

However, Mr. Edmund didn't make Xia De wait too long. The Year-End Festival gift he prepared for Xia De was a special Poet-level coin—

"【Legacy of the Starving】, when used in a state of hunger, it can be exchanged for a full meal, but the price is that you will become more easily hungry within a week. So, whether you want to obtain a temporary full stomach or silently endure the feeling of hunger, this requires a careful choice."

Just as the inscription on the side of the coin says—【Fullness is easy to obtain, hunger is hard to repay.】

Except for a very small number of relics such as 【Leaf of Eternal Youth】, the price of Poet-level relics is generally not high, so this gift was just right for Xia De.

The second stop should have been Riceburg, but Xia De didn't go. Because he thought that the day after tomorrow was the Year-End Festival, and he didn't plan to go out of town on the day of the festival, visiting Grandma Cassandra and Grace and the others could be left for tomorrow. Such important relationships are different from friends after all.

The same went for visiting Sister Daifulin, so there was no need to make a special trip to Middlehillburg.

Next, Xia De didn't have many acquaintances in Huntington City. Although Mr. Bernhardt had a winery in that "City of Red Wine," the letter this morning indicated that Armand Bernhardt still chose to spend the winter in Willandale just like in 1853, so Xia De didn't need to visit in person; just mailing the gifts and letters was enough.

In the following Randall Valley, besides the Golden Dawn Opera Troupe, the "Guardians of the Earth" were also objects that needed to be visited. Although those soul aggregates didn't care about the holiday issue, Xia De still set off from the Night Spirit Temple and went to the "Heart of the Earth" to offer holiday congratulations in person.

He presented a "Fire of the Sun" as a holiday gift. Unexpectedly, the guardians had also prepared a gift for him in advance. It was a drip of stalactite liquid contained in a ceramic bottle. This special material was not only one of the essential materials for the "Bell-Ringing Potion" necessary for the awakening of Ringed Shushi, but it could also be formulated into a potion that permanently enhances physical fitness.

The Outlander felt that similar things seemed to appear frequently in some novels from his hometown.

Visiting Vanessa and Xilisi and the others, of course, also had to be left for tomorrow, so Xia De didn't enter the Randall Valley urban area. And after Randall Valley, it was the itinerary for Green Lake.

Xia De's acquaintances in Green Lake were the Green siblings of the Green Lake Hotel, and Grandma Natalie of the Kingfisher Tailor Shop. The latter, like Mr. Edmund and Old John, was a member of the "Light-Guiding Yinxiu Society." She operated a black market locally, and Xia De had also received a lot of help from her when he was adventuring in Green Lake.

The entrance to the "Space Labyrinth" located locally was in the hotel itself. When Xia De came in the afternoon, the Green siblings were not there, so he went to the tailor shop first. When he returned twenty minutes later, not only were Helena Green and Solon Green back, but even Megan and Audrey were actually there.

"Good afternoon, Xia De. I was just wondering if I would run into you here."

The twin witches smiled and hugged Xia De:

"I'm arriving in Tobesk tomorrow, so I came to Green Lake today to take a look around. Cousin Nicholas Green and my niece and nephew look quite well. Seeing you are so busy, I won't invite you to go to Green Lake Island to take a look. Oh, Helena has something to tell you."

And the latter gave Xia De a letter somewhat embarrassedly:

"Can you take this to your doctor friend?"

Because of the rapid movement, when Xia De headed to Moon Bay, the sunset had just spilled onto the sea surface of Moon Bay Port.

Xia De also had quite a few acquaintances in Moon Bay. After entering the city with gifts, he first went to Sibyl Street to visit Mr. Chekhov of the Yinxiu Society. This gentleman who operated an old bookstore had originally provided the relic 【Star Sword Stone】.

He obviously didn't expect the "God-Caller" to come to visit him. In his haste, he couldn't take out a suitable gift to return the favor, but he remembered the long-term commission Xia De had left here, so he also took out a coin and gave it to Xia De.

"Another 【Legacy of the Starving】? I just obtained one from Mr. Edmund not long ago. Is this kind of relic very common?"

"This kind of relic can be easily found in the mouths of corpses that starved to death during famine years."

Mr. Chekhov said, and then wished Xia De a "Happy Year-End Festival."

Although he had just seen Mr. Ptolemy Albert at the Moon Bay ribbon-cutting ceremony a few days ago, Xia De still went to visit him that evening. This vampire coroner seemed to really work all year round without a break, and even as the Year-End Festival approached, he was still in the morgue.

"Do you have a holiday for the Year-End Festival?"

Xia De asked curiously, and the coroner, who was busy wearing a coverall and a mask, replied:

"If the local corpses were willing to hide themselves completely before and after the Year-End Festival so as not to be discovered, I would actually be very happy to have a holiday."

This answer had quite a dark sense of humor.

The Year-End Festival gift Xia De gave Mr. Albert was a small bottle of Moon Water, and he gave Xia De a small bottle of Crystal Dragon blood.

"Crystal Dragon? Mr. Albert, have you been in contact with the dragons on Dragon Island?"

The coroner shook his head:

"They want to see me, but I haven't decided whether I want to see them yet."

Later, Xia De went to visit Miss Brown and Mr. Feilinga. Last month, Xia De had also come to visit them because of the Tobesk sewer map. Now, the couple living together in an apartment in the Moon Bay port area both worked for "Eternal Light." Although their income was not high, their life was very stable.

Xia De heard good news when he visited this time: Miss Brown was confirmed to be pregnant.

"Congratulations to you both."

And in the memory of the "Past Life," Miss Brown's pregnancy happened before the Battle of Moon Bay. Although in this Sixth Era, the pregnancy still happened, at least this time she and the child in her womb would not be sacrificed by the cultists.

【Going home now? Not going to visit the mermaid?】

The only acquaintances in Vesta Woodland that needed to be visited were the "Hermit Group in the Forest," but Xia De felt that he didn't actually need to make the trip himself; letting the young ladies left behind at the "Moon Sanctuary" help deliver the gifts would be fine. Therefore, after Xia De left Moon Bay, he prepared to go straight home.

"Dengmen the mermaid? Am I crazy?"

Xia De responded in his heart, but still stood on the street and looked toward the northwest of Moon Bay.

Beneath the Earl of Dalmanin's mansion was the location of that "mermaid." Unless he obtained the power to resist it from the Council controlled by the chaotic Great Witch, Xia De would not take the initiative to look for it.

For vampires like Marquis Morson, Captain Rudolph, Mrs. Jude, and Miss Rice, who had given Xia De great help in the Moon Bay incident, he also didn't need to visit them in person. However, when walking out of the basement at home, Xia De remembered that he also needed to write a letter to Professor Drake, who had moved from Huntington City to Willandale.

"In this way, tomorrow I will go to visit Professor Manning, and after Megan and Audrey come, I will go to visit Luster Edwards. There shouldn't be anything left before the Year-End Festival."

Among the eight Great Witches, besides Miss Jia Lin Na who was already in Tobesk, Megan, Flora, Xiwei, and Beila would come here to spend the holiday.

Xia De originally thought that the witches would probably arrive tomorrow or even the day after tomorrow, but after he returned home from the basement in the evening, just as he walked into the first floor, he saw Tifa with Miss Bell and several other artist assistants, who were settling their luggage on the first floor.

The pale-faced young lady was originally standing at the door of the first-floor bedroom, and when she turned her head inadvertently, she saw Xia De.

At this moment, the sound of the cat flying downstairs also appeared. The black-haired head maid, knowing this was Xia De returning, walked out of the first-floor bedroom:

"Miss Winslet has arrived and is talking to the young lady upstairs."

Tifa said, knowing very well what Xia De wanted to know:

"Miss Winslet and her party arrived about an hour ago. The young lady arranged to set off for her manor for dinner in half an hour. Your clothes for the outing are already prepared in the second-floor bedroom. Do you need to change now?"

Flora's early arrival was not very surprising. After all, carefully calculating, her work was similar to Dorothy's, and the disposable time was quite a lot.

This time could also be considered "Miss Owl's" first formal visit to No. 6 St. Theresa Square. Although Xia De didn't hear her first evaluation of this house, he heard Flora commenting on the oil painting hanging in the living room when he went upstairs.

What she was commenting on was of course not "Dance Across Time," but the mermaid oil painting Xia De brought back from Green Lake:

"This painting is suitable to hang with my oil paintings. I admit that the other party's artistic level is not inferior to mine."

"The colors and composition are quite bold and avant-garde. This technique is rare among mainstream painters today. This is an antique painting, right? Xia De, where did you get it?"

(End of chapter)