Chapter 4151: Intelligence and Indebtedness

Ajielina had nothing she needed to buy here, while Miss Macdonald purchased a batch of metal parts stored in a special environment, intending to make preliminary preparations for her next experiment.

When Miss Macdonald went to purchase, Xia De took Ajielina to inquire about news in the black market. Actually, it was to check whether anyone had accepted his commission to acquire coins, and spent money to buy some ambiguous cheap intelligence.

"Local vampire species disappearance, oh, finally someone noticed. The local vampire species were really low-key... 【Skin-Object Hall】 was successfully contained by St. Byron Comprehensive Academy. There are many skin-objects circulating in the local market that have not been recovered by the Church..."

Xia De thought about the intelligence slips he exchanged with paper money, and then believed that those organizations holding the Source of Fire would probably want to acquire this batch of skin-objects. After all, he had already verified that "skin-objects" contained life energy far exceeding normal people.

"The Old Continent Industrial Expo opening late this month is reported to have extremely dangerous major events. The intelligence of the local black market is really accurate... A special mechanical infectious disease has appeared locally. The performance of ordinary people after getting sick is temporarily unknown, and the Church is controlling related information."

Xia De frowned at the last piece of intelligence. The "mechanical plague" that had appeared so far was nothing more than mechanical activation, which had nothing to do with ordinary people getting sick.

"Is this the effect after a relic loses control?"

This is the most reasonable guess, and relics that can produce this effect are not rare. Xia De himself could think of at least three types.

"Look, although the hall was contained, there are still many other things locally."

Xia De handed those slips to Ajielina again, and Ajielina read them carefully:

"So, are there still skin-objects locally?"

"Of course. Since the hall descended, the skin-objects scattered out are certainly not few. In the club activity that your teacher and I participated in, weren't there many people wearing skin-objects?"

Hearing Xia De say this, Ajielina moved closer to Xia De on the bench, making a look of being a little scared. So when Miss Macdonald returned, she saw Ajielina almost leaning on Xia De.

The little princess obviously wasn't just scared.

"My business is done, let's go."

Although there were some different emotions in her heart, the tall girl still pretended not to notice anything and said to Xia De and Ajielina. The three then prepared to return to the Fragrant Residence, but when they were walking toward the black market exit—

Click~

The slight sound of gears turning entered Xia De's ears. With his current hearing, it was quite easy to hear the sound of a pocket watch in someone else's pocket, and the click~ sound was actually not particularly obvious either.

But that sound sounded different to Xia De than any gear turning sound he had heard before. He trusted his feeling, subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound, and then looked at Miss Macdonald's chest.

The tall girl asked hesitantly:

"What's wrong?"

Xia De shook his head:

"Nothing... after going back, can you let me check your body?"

"Hmm?"

Xia De had always trusted his feeling. After returning to the Fragrant Residence, he held Miss Macdonald's hand in the study. Both of them sat on the long sofa, and Ajielina sat on the short sofa on the side watching curiously.

Xia De held her wrist and felt it, then shook his head:

"Seems like nothing is wrong. Do you have any special feelings yourself?"

The tall girl shook her head:

"I feel my state is very good. Last night, the teacher also let all the followers who had entered the 【Skin-Object Hall】 undergo a physical examination to prevent us from having problems. My physical examination result at that time was also normal."

"Xia De, did you notice something?"

Ajielina then asked, and Xia De nodded:

"Just now in the black market, I heard a click~ sound from Miss Macdonald's heart position. It sounded like gears turning... wait a moment."

He closed his right hand and placed it in front of his eyes, then suddenly opened the gap between his index finger and middle finger:

"Sharp Eye Technique - Edwards' Eye, Echo of Blood, Seed of Life."

The tall girl felt embarrassed being stared at her chest by Xia De. However, although she was a little blushing, she didn't say anything.

Xia De used three exploration-type sorceries in a row, but didn't find any abnormalities:

"Everything is normal."

Actually, to be on the safe side, directly using his hand to touch the part that might have a problem was the most rigorous approach. But in the case where various examinations didn't have any problems, he couldn't just ask to touch the girl's heart position based on a sound that he didn't know whether it was an illusion or not.

Of course, having come all the way, the Outlander would not ignore any potential hidden dangers:

"In the past week, you must pay attention to your physical condition at all times. If problems arise, please tell me or Vigo immediately. Don't act alone these few days. If you need to go out, someone must accompany you."

Xia De warned again, and Miss Macdonald agreed with a smile, feeling very happy in her heart that she was cared for by Xia De like this.

At 4:30 in the afternoon, Vigo also returned home. When she came to the study and saw Ajielina and Miss Macdonald discussing potion formulas by the desk, and Xia De sitting on the sofa reading a book by himself, Vigo inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief:

"I'm back~"

She walked toward Xia De while opening her arms, and was satisfied after being hugged by Xia De:

"Today is really a peaceful day. This kind of life is the appearance of Arcadia City in my memory. I'm going to change clothes. Xia De, do you want to stay for dinner?"

"I'll go home to eat, and I have to visit some friends after eating."

Xia De shook his head, and Vigo was not disappointed either:

"The time is still early, no need to rush to leave, stay and talk to me for a while. Oh, wasn't it said that tomorrow, which is Monday, I can perform the Chaos blessing for you? I discussed it with everyone, and postponed the ritual to Wednesday. Everyone will have time to go to the Council by then."

She said and went to change clothes first, and after returning, she listened to Xia De talk about his observations from visiting everywhere all afternoon.

Xia De was not in a hurry to let the witches help collect the materials for opening the door. The core of the ritual "Seed of Life" couldn't be found, and collecting other materials was meaningless. He planned to try to find this ancient item first.

As for the spell to extract mother liquid shared by the Pseudo-men, Vigo thought it was very simple to learn after Xia De's introduction:

"All materials are here. Let's go to the underground palace, and you help me hold the ritual."

The learning of the spell didn't have any mistakes either. The whole process was even smoother than Xia De thought. And after mastering the spell, naturally, he had to try its effect. Although this spell didn't only take effect on Xia De's body fluids, it was meaningless even if it took effect on other liquids, so Vigo could only lean close to Xia De embarrassedly:

"Then, I'm starting~"

In the study on the second floor of the Fragrant Residence, Ajielina, Miss Macdonald, and Miss Luolin saw Vigo, who was sitting on the sofa, lean close to Xia De, and then kissed on Xia De's neck—the blood here had the best effect.

She kissed deeply, while Xia De's expression became more and more strange. And as Vigo's hands lying on Xia De's chest and shoulders used more and more force, finally it became Xia De lying on the sofa, and Vigo lying there constantly sucking.

"This looks a bit wrong. Should we stop it?"

Ajielina, who felt more and more wrong the more she looked, wanted to protect Xia De, but Miss Luolin thought of the time she had disturbed her own master's good deeds, and immediately shook her head:

"This looks very normal."

"Normal?"

The tall girl looked at her teacher's quite unladylike appearance, and she also felt this scene was very strange:

"Why don't we make some strange sounds to wake them up?"

The housekeeper naturally didn't want to do this, but the red-haired little princess, who thought that Yiluna and Amelia were not there and she had the responsibility to protect Xia De, put her fist in front of her mouth and coughed heavily:

"Cough cough~"

No one paid attention to her. Vigo lay on Xia De and sucked blood for a long time before sitting up with dazed eyes.

"Cough cough~"

She also coughed lightly, but it wasn't that her body was still weak, but that she choked on the last mouthful.

The three girls at the door walked into the study hurriedly. Xia De also sat up holding his neck:

"Vigo, your state just now was a bit wrong. Was this out of control?"

Vigo's voice had a sense of etherealness, and her eyes were still dazed:

"This spell is really strange. Your blood originally tasted very good, and after being affected by the spell, it tasted even better. I have never drunk anything so delicious. Both my soul and flesh need this taste."

Until she took a sip of the tea Miss Luolin handed her to rinse her mouth, she finally realized what she had done:

"Oh!"

She looked at Xia De at once, and her eyes finally returned to normal, but her cheeks turned red at once:

"I just... sorry, really sorry."

She wanted to check the wound on Xia De's neck, but the wound had already healed. It was just a bite mark, not a particularly serious injury for Xia De.

Vigo was quite self-loathing at this time. She covered her face with her hands:

"What have I done?"

"But at least this spell is indeed effective. I feel your state is quite good now."

Xia De wiped his neck with the handkerchief Miss Macdonald handed over:

"If your normal state is viewed as 1, and the state after drinking blood brew is viewed as 4, then after taking the potion given by Miss Feilian, your normal state is permanently improved to 2, and you have sucked my blood with the spell now, your state can be viewed as 3."

"Isn't that still not as good as blood brew?"

Ajielina asked in a low voice, so Xia De replied:

"The mermaid who gave this method said it very clearly. This treatment method is not a radical cure either. The biggest advantage is the improvement of Vigo's life span. Vigo, feel it yourself. If you want to normalize this state 3, what cycle do you need to use the spell according to."

She looked at Xia De guiltily, and the appearance of biting her lip made people feel more distressed than ever:

"No, I don't want to..."

"We finally defeated the 【Skin House】 and obtained a reward from an Unknowable-level relic. Vigo, you cannot waste everyone's hard work."

The black-haired witch had no choice but to whisper:

"Five times a week for the last month. Once my condition stabilizes completely, once or twice a week will be enough... I will control myself well later and won't be so... excited again. I owe you more and more."