Chapter 402

"Dacheng Player? Oh, yes, there is also a betting pool outside... hmm... speaking of which, do you know the situation of the contestants now?"

Xia De asked absentmindedly, always feeling that there was a gaze behind him looking at himself. Of course, this was completely an illusion. The two professors chose a corner to sit and talk in low voices, and didn't notice the "stranger" with his back to them at all.

Xia De carefully took a sip of the strange drink in his cup.

"Not for the time being, but I heard that there are actually holders of the 【Founder】 series of Rod cards appearing this time."

"Ahem~"

Xia De coughed and waved his hand to indicate that he was fine:

"That would be very good. The newspaper should record the key game information."

He said in a low voice, trying to lower his presence as much as possible, intending to get up and leave after a while. Otherwise, if he left as soon as the professors came in, it would look very strange.

"I don't have a chance to go to Tobesk City. Even if I had a chance, I couldn't get a ticket to watch the Dacheng Players play cards on the spot. When the 'Dacheng Player Rod Card Tournament' was held in Lengshuigang twenty-one years ago, the ticket price was equivalent to several months of my salary, and now it will only be more expensive."

The bartender shook his head quite regretfully, and then gestured toward the Afuluola manor, saying while wiping the cup:

"Sometimes I really envy the rich. Do you know how many gold pounds that manor was sold for twenty years ago?"

"How much? You even know this?"

Xia De asked in surprise.

"This number... I worked in this tavern twenty years ago, and I heard it from the boss here at that time."

The bartender dipped his fingers in some water and wrote a few numbers on the wooden board of the counter. Xia De raised his eyebrows and converted the price and purchasing power of currency twenty years ago and now. If he could prove that the house on Saint Delan Square was not haunted, then the selling price of the Afuluola manor was only a little more expensive than a house on Saint Delan Square.

"In other words, if I sell No. 6 Saint Delan Square and add a sum of money, I can buy a manor with a beach, courtyard, and garden in a place like Lengshuigang."

His mood suddenly became high, and even if he didn't sell it, knowing what he had could make the owner of the house jump for joy.

"Speaking of this manor, when my father was a child, the manor was already here. The history of the manor is no shorter than those old streets in the South City District."

The bartender continued.

"Then isn't it several hundred years old?"

Xia De asked, then turned sideways and risked a look behind. The professors really didn't notice him.

"I can't say the specific situation, but I know that the original owner of the manor was a local big businessman thirty years ago. He had special channels in his hands and could get jewelry from shipwrecks or sell pearls from the bottom of the sea. Later, one day, the businessman disappeared, and the house was mortgaged and sold."

The bartender shook his head and washed the cup in his hand, as if sighing at the impermanence of the world:

"However, it used to be very eerie there. Don't look at it as bright now. When I was young, the whole house was like an underground cave that had been soaked in water for a long time. Every night, you could even hear the wind passing through the window without glass, making strange sounds."

The more Xia De listened, the more wrong it felt, and the sense of unease in his heart gradually increased.

He continued to chat with the bartender, and before Xia De planned to leave, the two professors from Saint Byrons took the lead to stand up, left the tavern, and entered the rain outside.

Xia De of course didn't dare to follow.

The time was 4:30 on Wednesday morning, and there were still about two hours until sunrise in Lengshuigang.

He sat on the high stool at the counter for a few more minutes, confirming that the professors would not return, and Xia De carried the strange drink and sat in the corner where the professors had just sat.

The bartender felt very regretful that he couldn't promote those strange medicinal liquors to Xia De.

The professors didn't leave anything behind. After Xia De put down the cup, he tried to use the miracle 【Echo of the Past】, wanting to try his luck.

But this is a tavern, and almost every moment in 48 hours someone will speak, so he didn't hold much hope for this.

First attempt.

"Star 8, look at my 20 points!"

It seems they were playing Rod cards.

Second attempt.

"Oh, my Maya, my Maya..."

A man was crying, probably his wife or daughter had passed away.

"Why did you leave this home and leave me?"

Maybe not passed away, but his wife suddenly disappeared.

"I raised you for three whole years, and I saved your cat food money until after 1856."

Xia De didn't express an opinion, but tried a third time.

"So, Mafaer, it's a pity that we didn't invite the professor of the School of History to come with us this time."

Xia De was startled. This was Professor Sanchez's voice. And judging from the content he heard, it was indeed the professors of Saint Byrons talking in low voices.

"When did I have such luck?"

He thought with doubt in his heart, but continued to listen with his ears pricked up.

"Oh, Professor Sanchez, who could have imagined that such a thing would happen here?"

That professor called "Mafaer" sighed:

"Who could have imagined that the manor would be one of the ritual nodes of the Sea Sending-Back ritual? The Scarlet Secret Sect spent a lot of money and used the relic 【No Entry Sign】. Now people outside can't get in, and people inside can't get out. If there could be a professor from the School of History here, I think we could at least find a way to get one of us in from the perspective of space."

The surprised expression on Xia De's face could no longer be suppressed at all.

"The manor itself has a problem. We have started from the direction of the evil sect's capital flow these days. The preliminary investigation has proven that the owner of the mansion thirty years ago cooperated with the evil sect members and mermen to turn over funds for the evil sect. I think the mansion had already started preparing for the 'Sea Sending-Back' at that time."

Professor Sanchez said, and then came the sound of a cup being put down:

"We just looked at it there. With the current means, no one can get in within a few hours, unless the high-ring sorcerers responsible for other nodes are gathered together. It's just that other nodes are equally important, and I'm afraid there are similar problems in other places. But we don't have to worry too much. Didn't the Church of Nature say that they received news in advance, and there were suspicious personnel in that banquet, so there was a full team of Ringed Shushi in the manor? That small team sent news that the two sides are confronting each other, and neither side has any intention of fighting again."

"That's quite good..."

Professor Mafaer pondered for a moment, but immediately realized the problem:

"However, in a situation where the whole city is short of people, how could the Church of Nature think of secretly gathering a full team of Ringed Warlocks behind our backs and ambushing them in the banquet? They should also not know that there is a node of the ritual under the Afuluola family's manor, otherwise they would have solved it in advance. Could it be that the Church of Nature has already found... the second... "