Chapter 4054: Club and Resurrection

Xia De chose to throw the crystal shoe to return home, because it was clearly closer to the Blue Ink Library in the Lower City from home.

And after appearing in the library again, this time there was no girl waiting for him in the library, but the rain outside the window was much heavier than in the morning.

The Hohenheim Opera House in the Lower City was not far from Green Vine Street where the library was located, so Xia De opened his umbrella at the library door and stepped into the rain.

That opera house was in the Lower City, but its area was not small at all. Because "City of Scholars" had a large number of colleges, young students had no money to go to the opera houses in the Upper City, so they had viewing needs for the cheap but practical opera houses in the Lower City. Plus, the cultural level of the citizens of "City of Scholars" was generally higher, so even the opera houses in the Lower City had good business.

The Holborn Opera Troupe was an opera troupe that walked out of the Lower City. Although they had long since not performed in the Lower City, the opera house was still willing to temporarily provide them with a place to work and perform.

That opera house was located on the side of the Green Park in the Lower City. The park was a civilian park, and the opera house also mainly relied on staff, shop owners, ordinary families, and students to make money.

However, it was Wednesday morning, so the opera house was not open for business. Because it was raining, there was almost no one in the citizen park next to it either.

The front door of the opera house was closed, so Xia De went around to the backyard, and subsequently found a few workers unloading goods in the rain, and two middle-aged women checking the items in the boxes under the eaves.

Xia De saw that the boxes were filled with costumes and stage props, so he understood that this was the Holborn Opera Troupe moving luggage.

He walked directly into the courtyard with his umbrella, and seeing his young appearance, the two middle-aged women in the opera troupe did not say that outsiders were not allowed to enter, but asked Xia De what he was here for.

Xia De, holding an umbrella, smiled and said:

"I am a loyal audience of the Holborn Opera Troupe. I heard that the opera troupe moved to the Lower City temporarily, so I wanted to come and visit."

He did not give the two middle-aged women a chance to refuse:

"I also heard about the coal gas explosion in the Upper City last night. It is truly bad luck for the troupe to be forced to move here. I don't know if the troupe accepts external donations? I want to contribute some strength for the troupe to get through the difficult times ahead."

Since Xia De mentioned donations, the two women looked at each other, and then invited Xia De into the opera house, subsequently calling the troupe leader of the opera troupe.

The troupe leader of the Holborn Opera Troupe was Mr. Holborn. Because of the troupe's forced temporary relocation and the disappearance of important members, this middle-aged man looked quite worried.

He exchanged pleasantries with Xia De. After confirming that Xia De was willing to donate and was not wanting to go out alone with certain actresses, just wanting to meet everyone and say a few words, Mr. Holborn gladly accepted the donation of a not-small amount.

He had his own temporary office here, so he introduced the current predicament of the opera troupe to Xia De in this temporary office. This period naturally also mentioned the "third female lead" who disappeared last night.

The latter was an older Ring-Ringed Ringed Shushi who died of relic loss of control last night, and the corpse is now in the underground palace of the Fragrant Residence. Who the original owner of the skin-object she was wearing was, Vigo could not determine either. And after hearing about the situation of the various leads in the troupe from Mr. Holborn this morning, Xia De determined that the "third female lead" probably appeared wearing a skin-object from the beginning.

Xia De took this opportunity to know her interpersonal relationships in the troupe, even found out that Mrs. Connaught, who was now disguised as an old man, was also introduced into the troupe through her introduction.

And Xia De did not forget to ask about the "mermaid" matter from the side. Troupe leader Mr. Holborn was not completely ignorant of this, and he informed Xia De that a small number of ladies in the troupe believed that those small accessories related to "mermaid" could make themselves more popular.

And after Xia De curiously asked where this saying was passed from, Mr. Holborn thought for a long time before answering:

"It seems it started from last summer. We went to perform in other places, this should be some kind of custom in other places."

It seems the "mermaid worship" in the opera troupe came from other places, but Xia De still believed that there definitely existed "desire followers" locally.

It was just that Mrs. Connaught, who was suspected of being related to the follower, did not appear today disguised as an old man, and people in the troupe did not know where she lived. Clearly, the disappearance of the "third female lead" had already caused the woman who abandoned her originally prominent identity to feel fear. Although the church had not discovered the troupe's abnormality for the time being, it would sooner or later search for her again, so she hid temporarily.

This was just an ordinary person, and Xia De was not worried about not finding her traces later.

As for that "third female lead," although Xia De was not very convenient to directly ask if the other party had any strange performance on weekdays, through the conversation with Mr. Holborn, Xia De also knew that the other party was a veteran of the opera troupe's founding era.

And the reason why she could not become the heroine on stage was not because her acting skills were very poor, but because besides being an actress, she had other things to do, unable to focus all her energy on the acting career, sometimes even not participating in the troupe's rehearsals.

Xia De was quite understanding of this; after all, although he was called a famous detective, he also could not put all his energy into the detective career.

Mr. Holborn actually did not know much about that lady's background, only knowing that her parents died, and she inherited a large amount of inheritance, so her life was quite affluent. And her popularity in the opera troupe was quite good; the young girls in the opera troupe all trusted this senior very much.

"I hope she is still alive; truly didn't expect we would encounter this kind of thing."

Mr. Holborn sighed.

Subsequently, Xia De met with other members of the opera troupe and confirmed that there were no other personnel wearing skin-objects, so Xia De did not stay long. Next, according to the address just learned, he found the apartment of that "third female lead" in the city in the Lower City.

This was a relatively good residential street in the Lower City. Although it was just an apartment and not a detached building with a garden and lawn, the location here already belonged to the junction area of the Upper City and the Lower City.

Although the owner of the missing person was only a low-ring warlock, Xia De also prepared to deal with the anti-theft measures that might exist in the other party's apartment cautiously. But it seemed that besides using some kind of miracle to lock the door to prevent thieves from coming, the other party did not make other protections for her home.

The three-story apartment building looked plain and unremarkable. After a careful search, Xia De found a briefcase in a secret compartment behind the mirror in the second-floor washroom, and inside the briefcase were two skin-objects corresponding to different beautiful girls and an ordinary notebook.

"Before that person died last night, she said she found the feeling of her youth again relying on skin-objects... Counting the skin-objects on the laundry woman and Mrs. Connaught, the number of skin-objects related to this person has already been five."

Xia De let out a long sigh, but this also indicated that the other party was absolutely related to the main body of the 【Skin-Object Society】, otherwise she would not possess so many skin-objects.

As for the notebook, it recorded some identity information of young girls, including age, address, visual height and weight, and even body shape. This made Xia De think of the price the laundry woman paid to obtain the skin-object, which was helping the person behind her collect identity information of outstanding-looking girls.

"This is looking for raw materials..."

It was just that after continuing to search the apartment, Xia De failed to find a diary, nor did he find other effective clues.

Finally, Xia De re-examined that briefcase, and found an invitation letter in the hidden seam of the briefcase. That invitation letter was also an ordinary item, sprinkled with gold powder on the front, and the ink used to write the letters inside was also mixed with gold powder.

This invitation letter was issued by an organization named "Charming Ladies Club," inviting the guest holding this invitation letter to participate in a masked dance party held locally on Friday night, and the invitation letter clearly mentioned that a craftsman named "Skin-Craftsman" would also participate in this gathering to repair the "clothing" of everyone.

Xia De therefore remembered the "Resurrection Home" founded by 【House of Pseudo-Humans】 in the Tobesk region to expand its own influence, replacing the relatives and lovers around those nobles in the name of resurrecting the dead.

The 【Skin-Object Society】 now also had similar means, only they did not need to pretend that they could resurrect the dead. The technology possessed by the society to allow people to have brand-new appearance and looks was enough to make people crazy.

In the outlander's hometown, there were many people who underwent major surgery for better looks, and the method of 【Skin-Object】 which could almost be considered painless to possess better body shape and appearance would not lack followers in any world.

"Charming Ladies Club..."

Xia De looked at this name on the letter and had already decided to go and take a look on Friday. This should not be the main body of the 【Skin-Object Society】, but the appearance of "Skin-Craftsman" would definitely let him come into contact with deeper secrets of that relic.

The time was 11:00 AM, and Xia De was still thinking about Vigo. It was just that when he was ready to leave here with the briefcase—

*Click~*

The door downstairs of the apartment was opened from the outside, and someone came here.

"Oh?"

The owner of this apartment was definitely dead. That corpse was now sealed in the "Coffin of the Underworld" and absolutely impossible to resurrect. The surprised Xia De pulled out the invitation letter separately and put it into his pocket, stood on the second floor listening to the sound of the other party going upstairs, and retreated to the wall, covering his face with both hands:

"Miracle · Calm Posture."

Stone wings wrapped around his body forward, and Xia De thus turned into an angel statue that perfectly integrated with the environment.

And that sound of footsteps also quickly arrived on the second floor. The height, fatness, and hair color of the person who came were exactly the same as the owner of this house when she wore the skin-object.

If it weren't for the six eyes on her face and a gray protruding horn on the left temple, Xia De would really have thought that the corpse had resurrected. ===== CHAPTER 4055 =====