Chapter 458: Old God [Earth-Shaking Worm]

Time came to Wednesday, and the inspection and maintenance work of No. 6 St. Theresa Square was officially started. Xia De went to the third floor to take a look in the morning. According to the current progress, most of the work should be completed this week.

Although after the maintenance, it would also take time for the cement to dry and for the gas pipes and steam pipes to be tested, as well as the inspection by the City Hall House Inspection Center, before the third floor could be completely opened for use. But the joy of such a long-awaited thing being about to be completed still made Xia De feel very good.

Today he had to go to Coldwater Port to take a short trip with the witch. So Xia De appeared at Dorothy's place early after breakfast, wanting to let her take care of the cat temporarily.

But very unfortunately, Dorothy went out early today. Her "Hamilton Detective Story Collection" had been serialized for two weeks and had received unexpected huge attention. The landlady said that Dorothy went to the "Steam Bird Daily" newspaper office to discuss the next serialization plan with the editor, and probably wouldn't be back before noon.

Besides Dorothy, Xia De had other choices. He thought about it carefully, and finally didn't go to ask for help from other friends.

Mia found it hard to get close to strangers, and her familiarity with Dorothy was adapted to after a long time. Therefore, rather than letting this cat be wronged and stay with others for a day, Xia De thought it would be better to take the cat to Coldwater Port himself, and then entrust the cat to Miss Aurora's maid to take care of when he had to go on an adventure.

Just like this, Xia De appeared at the Aurora Manor at 8:30 this morning, and after hurriedly taking a bath, he was immediately pulled onto the carriage by Miss Aurora, and the carriage went straight to the Coldwater Port train station.

Miss Aurora's trip, of course, would not be just carrying a suitcase and leaving. She bought a VIP carriage ticket in advance, which was a separate compartment. Besides Xia De, there were three personal maids and more than a dozen ordinary servants responsible for moving luggage following her.

The three maids were all Ring Warlocks, and their levels were very uniform, all at the fifth ring. They didn't look very old, only two or three years older than Xia De's physical age.

"Why do witches always have so many young but high-level female warlocks around them? Even the Orthodox Church finds it hard to find so many young middle-ring warlocks."

During the leisure of the journey, Xia De asked Miss Aurora for advice.

The train wheels crushed the rails, making a rhythmic clatter. Because of the installation of the first-class carriage mechanical shock absorption device, the train travel was considered comfortable.

The witch was sitting at the desk in the compartment reading a book, while Xia De was sitting on the sofa. This entire carriage was a compartment, decorated like a living room, and even had a decorative fireplace, rather than the space divided into five or six parts that Xia De imagined.

In this era, the quality of life of the rich was far beyond the Outlander's imagination.

"Very simple, they all have the power of a witch."

The witch with brown curly hair said, calling the girl with shoulder-length short hair who was bending over to pour tea to her front:

"This is Kees, I discovered her in an orphanage when she was nine years old."

It is worth mentioning that although Miss Aurora was wearing a ruffled long dress, her current posture was not very ladylike, with her legs crossed, one hand covering the book on her right knee.

She waved her hand to signal the maid to lower her head, and then stroked her face with her hand.

"Originally, I wanted to cultivate her into a secretary to help me handle paperwork after I came of age. Unexpectedly, she awakened her talent when she was seventeen. Kees is 24 years old this year. In seven years, with the help of witch power, she became a fifth-ring warlock. Although this speed is very fast relative to normal Ring Warlocks, compared to you, this is already very slow."

Saying this, her right hand slid from the side of the maid's face to her chin. Afterward, the witch's slender fingers hooked the maid's chin, letting the latter's slightly blushing face slowly move closer to her own.

Xia De consciously covered the eyes of Mia, who was squatting on the sofa cushion, with his hand.

Miss Aurora didn't make any more excessive moves, just kissed her personal maid lightly, and then let the maid continue working. Seeing Xia De looking embarrassed, she laughed lightly:

"Don't look like you've never seen the world, Xia De. Speaking of which, you wouldn't have had any intimate contact with any girl yet, right?"

Seeing Xia De unwilling to answer, she continued to laugh;

"Could it be that the aesthetics of the girls in the Northern Pearl are different from those in the coastal area? This is interesting, or rather, did Galina block those pursuers for you?"

"I think not, in fact, I rarely appear in public."

"Knight Hamilton of Lei Jiede tells me he is a very low-key person."

The witch shook her head with a smile:

"Just wait and see, Xia De, sooner or later the love letters you receive will fill your mailbox. However, I am quite curious about how Galina will view her relationship with you."

"Partners."

"Is that what you think?"

Miss Shivi Aurora picked up the teacup and made a toast to Xia De:

"Then good luck to you, Detective."

Klein City is located in the east of Coldwater Port. Like most cities on the Old Continent, this city has progressed with the rise of the steam age, but it cannot absorb more dividends of this era like Tobesk and Coldwater Port.

Hekils Town is a small town in the south of Klein City. The town is mostly mountainous, but because this is the last pass before entering the rugged basin in the middle of the West Coast of the Old Continent from the open plain area in the north, even if it is just a town, it has a train station.

This can also be considered a traffic artery in the east of Coldwater Port, but most of the people staying here are scattered tourists, so the north-south transfer of goods uses more sea transport, so the status of the traffic artery has not brought more trade opportunities to the town.

The history of Hekils Town is completely untraceable, but this is a town that can glimpse both the past and the present styles at the same time. When Xia De walked out of the station following Miss Aurora, he first sighed at the desolation of the country town, and then realized that compared to most towns in the Draerion Kingdom, this place could be considered prosperous.

The whole town consists of eight streets, three vertical and five horizontal. The city center is not the Hekils Town Security Hall located in the center, but the small town train station in the west of the city. Surrounding the train station, hotels, shops, restaurants, and taverns are arranged in order. At least within the two streets around the train station, one can still feel a bit of the atmosphere of a big city.

Miss Aurora brought Xia De here, of course, not for tourism. She had booked rooms in the "Honest Man Hotel," the largest hotel in the town, early on. After resting for a while, a personal maid and other servants responsible for moving luggage stayed in the hotel to look after the luggage and prepare for response. Xia De took the cat and set off with the other two maids and Miss Aurora.

Because he ate the lunch specially supplied in the first-class carriage of the train, there was no need to miss the food in the town. The witch's preparation was quite sufficient, and the entire action plan had already been formulated. The first step was to visit Mrs. Ilar, who lived in Hekils Town.

The elderly woman living alone lived in a house on the edge of the town. There were no detached apartments common in the city in the town, and the house where Mrs. Ilar lived seemed to be a product left over from before the steam age, standing on the side of the street.

The rugged dirt road extended to the front of the house, and the crooked wooden fence was used to delineate the scope of the house. The old man opened two vegetable plots in the yard in front of the house. The Outlander couldn't distinguish what those green vegetables were, but the cat placed on his shoulder was very interested in those plants.

I guess the city cat had not only never seen the sea, but also never seen a vegetable plot.

Steam pipes and gas pipes were not buried underground, but entered the house directly along the ground. Pushing open the fence door outside the yard, avoiding the chickens running around in the yard, the four people came to the door.

Mia was even more active now. She was never afraid of creatures slightly larger than herself, so she had the idea of jumping off his shoulder and competing with those chickens... Mia felt that this kind of insect was smaller than her, so there was no danger at all.

Xia De pressed the cat, and while looking at the chicken coop and vegetable plot in the yard, the maid had already started knocking on the door.

"How does it feel here?"

The witch asked Xia De with great interest:

"I heard from Galina about your background, you probably won't have memories about this kind of place."

"Yes, it feels here... although it's interesting at first glance, I still prefer living in the city."

Xia De's answer was quite honest.

Someone came to open the door very quickly, probably because there was an appointment early, so when the elderly woman, who was hunched over, wrapped in a headscarf, and leaning on a cane, saw the four people and a cat outside the door, she didn't feel surprised.

Mrs. Ilar was the oldest person Xia De had ever seen in this world, at least the oldest in appearance. She was already a bit inconvenient to walk, but her spirit looked pretty good.

The most surprising thing for Xia De was that the other party was actually a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi. But the level was very low. According to the reminder of the whispers in his ears, the other party was either a first ring or a second ring, and it was impossible to be higher than Xia De's level.

The interior of the house was filled with a strange smell unique to elderly people living alone, as if everything here was about to decay. The decoration style was old, and the wallpaper used to cover the cracks in the wall had long turned yellow. As for those old furniture, probably only Old John's pawnshop or the garbage dump would be willing to recycle them. When Xia De sat on the sofa, he even clearly heard the sofa make a terrible creaking sound.

Considering that his weight was very standard, this could only mean that the sofa, like Mrs. Ilar, was about to walk to the end of its life.

Both sides took their seats, and the maids went to the kitchen to get some tea. The witch then finally introduced the identity of this elderly woman to Xia De:

"This is a believer of the Old God 【Earth-Shaking Worm】, and she is the current High Priest of the cult."

"Don't mention any High Priest, the cult currently only has me as a member."

The old man waved her hand embarrassedly. She had very bright eyes, and when she smiled, she looked very kind and gentle. ===== CHAPTER 459 =====