Chapter 3869

Xia De thought his suggestion was quite good, but Danister shook her head:

"Don't waste your mission times first. If you want that lady to help check information, you have to open a transfer station to ask a question, then let her return, and then open it again. This back and forth will consume 6 mission qualifications, this loss is too great.

Moreover, we are not sure that this is information that can be revealed in the transfer station. You also said that once information that is too valuable is spoken, the duration of the transfer station will be shortened. I think even if there is the information we need in that eggshell book, it is definitely not something that can be explained clearly in one or two sentences."

Xia De then asked:

"Then the Time Transfer Station can be used as a last resort. In the near future, how about I open the time key to try my luck? Maybe I can run into Miss Feliana and Fiona and the others in the middle of the Fifth Era."

"But even if you run into them, they may not necessarily master that knowledge, and you have to wait until your time mission ends before going to check. But you can't stay for a period of time every time your mission ends."

Danister said, she denied Xia De's two ideas because she already had an idea:

"Actually, the library of St. Byrons was also copied by other organizations in the past era. Don't open the transfer station first, you can decide for yourself whether to use the time key, I want to try to find a way in the current era first.

Including the 'Apna Library' you once contacted, copies of the book I want may be preserved in multiple organizations. I am already contacting all parties to search. The academy's face is big enough. But some organizations must be visited personally."

Xia De then understood:

"Need me to go out, right? Speaking of which, a brand new adventure is about to begin?"

Danister showed a smile:

"You don't need to for the time being, I just want to tell you this first. I will summarize the organizations that need to be visited, and will not trouble you to go out unless necessary. But if you are really needed, I won't be polite to you."

Xia De nodded:

"For Miss Helena Carter, this is not a trouble... Since conventional egg-hatching means are useless, have you tried human egg-hatching? After all, that soul belongs to a human."

The rose-colored eyes looked at Xia De with reproach:

"Of course I tried, those nights when you weren't there, I slept with that egg several times, but nothing happened. You can't really ask me to squat on that egg, right?"

Xia De imagined that scene and immediately showed a smile, and then he was gently hit by Danister with a throw pillow, but she herself also laughed.

"I asked you to come here this time for other things. Although the hatching of the egg hasn't been completed, the other two investigation directions we discovered at Mount Karas have yielded some results."

After joking, Danister continued:

"First of all, those laborers from Thorn Bay, didn't we discover that a total of 23 people went to Mount Karas, and as a result, the first batch of 12 died in a mining accident, and the second batch of 7 died of the plague?"

Xia De nodded:

"So the remaining 4 people, did someone really return to their hometown alive?"

Danister shook her head:

"It's a pity, no. But the correspondence students near Thorn Bay found that from the beginning of winter to spring in 1853, there were actually more than a hundred people transported to Mount Karas by similar means in the entire bay area. It sounds like a lot of people, but because the time these people left was scattered over four months, it didn't cause too much reaction at the time."

Xia De frowned:

"Everyone didn't come back? The Thorn Bay area is not big, it's just a small part of the entire Northern Bay. More than a hundred strong laborers disappeared in one winter, didn't the local area have any reaction at all?"

"【Truth Society】, although their methods are despicable, they really pay money, and they are very generous in this regard."

The witch sighed:

"These hundred-plus people almost all came from different villages, and it was quite difficult for the local correspondence students to investigate. It took a month to summarize the list of suspected missing persons. After all, some of the people taken away didn't even have relatives in the local area."

"But we only found 19 corpses in the local area, what about the remaining missing persons?"

"I have already arranged for a professor proficient in necromancy to go to Mount Karas to investigate again. They set off last week, but searched the entire Mount Karas and found nothing. Maybe the remaining corpses were handled separately by the 【Truth Society】, maybe those corpses are in places we can't find."

Xia De thought of the memory when he "fell" again, he had crossed the tower stairs covered with corpses:

"The remaining corpses, could they be in that tower in the dream?"

Danister shook her head:

"Not clear, to enter that tower again, we can only wait for the teacher to wake up. Or, the 【Truth Society】 must hold the most critical intelligence, unfortunately, Miss Pawo refuses to open her mouth."

"Miss Pawo... If there is still a chance to see the 【Truth Society】, I will find a way to make her open her mouth. I still have some friendship with her, if this friendship is useless, then I can only use some means."

Danister nodded, picked up the teacup and continued:

"The second investigation direction is the 'Big-Mouthed Sparrow' you mentioned. No, he hasn't gone to Mount Karas this year, but the necromancy professor I sent to the local area performed a deep memory excavation on the hotel owner, and he was very surprised to find that Leon Elwood—that is, the 'Big-Mouthed Sparrow'—who visited Karas Town two years ago, the departure point of the train he took was Escaris City south of Mount Karas."

When the hotel owner was cleaning the room, he had seen the train ticket placed on the bedside table. Although it was just an accidental glance, it finally left a shallow memory."

"That City of Golden Ears? When we went to Mount Karas, we also passed through there."

Xia De raised his eyebrows, and Danister nodded:

"It's there. But since the other party is a secret agent, I think it is highly likely that it was just a transfer station for the other party. The possibility of the Big-Mouthed Sparrow buying a ticket directly from his permanent residence to Karas Town is very small."

And two years is too long, now it is the war era, I don't want the academy to be involved in politics, so I didn't send anyone to investigate in Escaris City."

Xia De took a deep breath:

"I understand, then the appearance of the 'Big-Mouthed Sparrow' Leon Elwood, was it searched out from the hotel owner's memory?"

"It was searched out, the other party didn't wear a hat all day, that would be very suspicious. But whether the face revealed by the other party is the real appearance is not certain, ordinary people can also master disguise means, so the photo is for reference only."

Danister said, and handed a photo to Xia De. The person in the photo looked as ordinary as Director Anluosi. If this was the real appearance, then one could tell at a glance that he was a good hand at being an agent.

"It's much more convenient with a photo. I will let Luweiya help divine it. If it's really just an ordinary person, it should be found with Luweiya's current divination level."

Danister didn't object to Xia De going to investigate, but she still warned:

"Although you have the identity of a double agent, it is better to stay away from politics in the war era. I know your power is enough to subvert a country, but some things, although they won't hurt you, will disgust you."

So about the Big-Mouthed Sparrow, if it is determined that the other party's purpose of going to Mount Karas is really unrelated to the tower, don't make deep contact."

Xia De said with a smile:

"Understood, I am not the kind of person who likes to cause trouble, usually trouble comes to me on its own."

Danister agreed with this point. She paused, flicked her hair by her ear with her finger, and her rose-colored eyes carried some different meaning:

"The main business of asking you to come is finished, so, do you have time for lunch? Look at the time, it's almost 10:30, let me tell you more about the creation of flesh and blood, and in a while, find Emilia and Ellie, and let's go to the elves' side to eat together, how about it?"

Since she issued an invitation, Xia De would of course not refuse. He stood up and sat directly next to Danister, and the witch kicked off her high heels with a smile and put her legs on Xia De's legs:

"There is still an hour before lunch, we can talk about a lot of content... about the creation of flesh and blood."

"Yes, but in a while I have to go home and bring Little Mia over, Little Mia likes the elves' craftsmanship very much, um~"

Danister didn't notify Grandma Kisaragi in advance that Xia De was coming, so they only ate home-cooked food in the "Elf Kingdom" at noon that day.

It could be seen that Ellie often came here to eat, because when the lunch at the round table made of huge wooden stakes in the tree house was about to end, steaming "baked apples" were served as dessert after the meal.

This was a dessert with a long history of the elves, and the production method was also very simple. Bake the whole apple with a small amount of butter and sugar to caramelize the pulp, then add a small amount of elf brandy, honey, and a very small amount of cinnamon, and finally accompany it with hot milk sauce. Ellie liked this dessert very much.

When the dessert appeared, Grandma Kisaragi was telling Xia De about the population increase in the kingdom recently, and Ellie and Little Mia were immediately attracted by this dessert.

Ellie had eaten it, Little Mia hadn't, but the appearance of eating dessert later was very similar.

After the meal, Grandma Kisaragi also enthusiastically invited Xia De and Danister to take a look at the hinterland of the Elf Kingdom that was already quite large. This territory with a considerable area was divided into four areas, among which three larger elf towns surrounded the core "Royal City."

A large number of new-style tree houses had been catalyzed in the forest. The center of the Royal City was not a palace, but the holy tree of the Moon Creek clan. The World Tree seedling was still in Vistalyn, so the elves used this holy tree as a substitute for the World Tree to offer sacrifices.

There was a small palace building complex built on the holy tree for the Elf Queen Emilia to live in, and under the holy tree was the parliament hall of the kingdom. Although Emilia still lived in the school dormitory most of the time, the Queen's maids, attendants, and guards were all active here.