Chapter 3962

Although the fat woman and her lover were involved in the great battle on the lake in the park, it was proven afterwards that they were really just used as bait by others. Therefore, the church fished them out of the lake and determined that their memory loss was severe and they had no valuable information at all, and they didn't even know about the subsequent battle, so they released them after a careful check.

The tone of the two people when they spoke made everyone around who heard the voice unable to help but frown. The behavior of the Viscountess calling the Luo De card a "little piece of paper" made more than one person look at them in surprise.

But they did not feel embarrassed because of people's gazes and were still talking to themselves:

"Madam, you are so good to me. Not only did you give me the full set of cards left by the Viscount, but now you are also willing to continue helping me supplement the deck. I really don't know how I should repay you~"

As they spoke, they walked to the side, and Xia De already understood very well why Weige said they were the laughingstock of the local social circle.

However, Xia De did not want to say much about the fact that the deceased Viscount's deck was obtained by his wife's lover. He frowned slightly at this moment, just because he felt a familiar power on that Mrs. Connaught, and the other party did not have this power last Friday.

"Desire..."

This power was very, very faint, far from being comparable to those true "Apostles of Desire." This power could not make the other party possess supernatural abilities; at most, it just made her look slightly younger.

Therefore, that Mrs. Connaught probably came into contact with people or items related to "Desire" through some channel, and thus became tainted with this power. Considering that it was impossible for the church to let her leave the local area recently, it meant that people or items corrupted by "Desire" had already appeared in Arcadia City.

"There really are more and more troubles. That mermaid has reached out further and further."

Xia De did not want to contact Mrs. Connaught; the other party probably didn't even know what "Desire" was. In the current Arcadia City where undercurrents were surging, having one or two more "Apostles of Desire" didn't count as a big deal in Xia De's view.

Therefore, he planned to let the girls under Weige report Mrs. Connaught. Although the church let them go, they must still be paying attention recently, so reporting now was really the most appropriate thing.

"However, does the church in Arcadia City still have enough manpower to investigate 'Apostles of Desire'? Really, I originally thought that after attending the auction, I would go back to comfort Weige and Miss MacDonald. Why are there so many things here too?"

【Actually, relatively speaking, this is just a small matter and not very important.】

"She" said gently, and Xia De also agreed with this point of view:

"Yes, fortunately this is just a small matter. Fortunately, I didn't see Mr. Bernhardt here, otherwise, I'm afraid something big would happen again."

He sighed. At this time, there were still five minutes before the auction officially started, and the people who were originally chatting and checking the auction items were taking their seats one after another. Xia De then sat down in a position slightly to the left in the third row, and a lady in a black dress soon sat down on his left.

Xia De turned his head slightly and nodded to Miss Pawo, which counted as strangers greeting each other. Miss Pawo also smiled at Xia De in a friendly way. This current president of the 【Truth Society】 was a Nine-Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi. Although her abilities in other aspects were outstanding, her attainments in illusion were clearly not as good as Xia De's, and she did not recognize who the person beside her was.

The two did not chat. After Xia De turned his head back, his expression remained unchanged, but a stormy sea had already surged in his heart. He wanted to take back his previous thoughts; he would rather have Mr. Bernhardt sitting beside him now.

"Why did Miss Pawo come to Arcadia City? Is this her personal itinerary, or does it mean the 【Truth Society】 has also appeared here?"

Although Xia De was not sure about the specific location of the 【Truth Society】 headquarters, it was definitely not Arcadia City, so Miss Pawo would not be out for a walk because she was bored at home.

【Things are becoming more interesting, aren't they?】

"She" asked Xia De with a smile. Xia De did not want to answer this question:

"I feel that the one who needs to be comforted now is me, not Weige."

But regardless, the auction started normally. Xia De only had his eyes on two auction items, among which 【Ancient Alchemy · Soul Solvent】 was arranged to appear fourth, so he had been very focused from the beginning.

This was not a professional auction, so people only needed to raise their hands and state their price. Xia De was confident that he had brought enough money, but he also marked a price for himself in his heart. If the price exceeded the price in his heart, he would give up bidding. Even if he had more money, he would not spend it recklessly.

The accident appeared five minutes after the auction started, but the source of the accident was neither Miss Pawo beside Xia De nor Mrs. Connaught and her young lover sitting in the last row.

At that time, the introduction of the first collection had just been completed, and the guests under the stage were still raising their hands to bid one after another. Suddenly, the tightly closed door was pushed open, and then two fierce-looking men with guns rushed in and locked the door from the inside.

Before people could react, the tall man among them shouted loudly:

"Don't move! We only want things, we don't want to hurt people! Since Baron Ramsay framed us and said we stole so many of his precious collections, then we must take these things away! Nobody move! Whoever moves will be shot!"

Because this was a "stolen goods auction," and the invitees were all big shots with status locally, and the location was in the center of the Upper City District, the auction only arranged two security guards at the door, and there were no bodyguards indoors. Clearly, the two security guards at the door did not show up at this moment.

Xia De, who had a helpless face, sighed in his heart, while "She" continued to laugh gently. One of the two thieves threatened the auctioneer to leave the podium, and he went to collect those high-value items that were easy to carry.

The other thief was responsible for using the gun to deter the whole audience and loudly told everyone about Baron Ramsay's "conspiracy."

These two were the real protagonists of the Baron's theft case, the two great thieves who were said to have robbed Baron Ramsay of all his collections. The Baron offered a very high price in the newspaper to reward clues about the two, and local police were also investigating them. Nobody expected that they would actually come here.

And the truth they told made the expressions of the guests attending the auction very wonderful. In order not to be troubled by the insurance company, the truth of this incident must only be known to a few people. Xia De was one of the few, while most of the people here never expected that the truth would be like this.

Xia De no longer wanted to think about things related to that Baron. All information was made public by these two thieves. Even if they were subdued immediately, this auction could not continue.

He sighed in his heart that everything was not going well this afternoon, and thus worried that the operation to go to Mr. Copus tonight might not go very smoothly. Meanwhile, the two thieves very quickly packed small items, including the manuscript and Luo De cards, into their satchels, then opened the window, tied a rope to the steam pipe on the wall outside the window, and went downstairs from the second floor via the rope.

And after the thieves left, all the people attending the auction did not talk to each other, but tacitly left here through the door, just pretending that they had never been here this afternoon.

But Xia De could already imagine that a few hours later, the "big news" about Baron Ramsay would spread throughout Arcadia City. Perhaps later someone would adapt this incident into a story and write it down, and then it would become a very popular stage play decades later.

"Dorothy should like this story very much; it's full of twists and drama."

Xia De, who also left the club, thought. After turning into a silver cat in the alley, he followed behind Miss Pawo who was leaving quickly.

Miss Pawo had always been very mysterious and had quite brilliant means, but even so, she was only Nine-Ring after all. She had made preparations in advance for several meetings in the past. In this situation where she had not made preparations in advance, she failed to discover in the complex urban environment that she was being followed by a cat whose body was a cat.

Xia De only wanted to know where she was going at first, but soon Xia De discovered that Miss Pawo was tracking the two thieves just now.

The fleeing thieves did not choose to leave on foot. They stopped a carriage from a newspaper office in the Outer City District in a nearby alley. After boarding the carriage, one of them drove the car and drove quickly along the main road toward the direction of the foot of the mountain.

Thus, Miss Pawo followed the carriage, and Xia De the cat followed Miss Pawo. The three groups of people reached the Outer City District all the way. That carriage was actually a carriage of the "Candle Keep Daily" newspaper office. After the two thieves drove the carriage into the backyard of the newspaper office located in the Outer City District, they left there together, then boarded a taxi carriage and drove quickly toward the direction outside the city.

"Is this going to Gray Rock Pass?"

Xia De thought in his heart, but the carriage stopped in the desolate area between the Outer City District and Gray Rock Pass. The coachman looked very confused, but still let them down after collecting the fare.

Subsequently, the thieves left the main road connecting the Outer City District to Gray Rock Pass, walked along a small path for less than five minutes, and entered an already abandoned farm. The geological structure of the desolate area between the Outer City District of Arcadia City and Gray Rock Pass was special. Although there were large forests on the rolling hills nearby, for some reason, this place alone was not suitable for planting food.

Coupled with the fact that this area belonged to a low-lying land, once the river water overflowed the embankment, this place would likely be flooded. Therefore, except for a few farmlands, there was basically nothing in this abandoned area. As for the abandoned farm, it was probably left over when the Sernier River flooded more than ten years ago.

Following Miss Pawo outside the city without being discovered was much more difficult than in the city, so Xia De the cat followed from very far away.

This resulted in the fact that when he also arrived at the periphery of the abandoned manor, they were already fighting inside. However, it was not Miss Pawo teaching the two thieves a lesson, but a battle that broke out between Ring Mages.

?? PS: The picture in this chapter is "Truth Society · Miss Pawo"