Chapter 510: The Blood-Weeping One, Helmons

The stranger's voice was not loud, but it was clear, and obviously not a local accent:

"Madam, may I ask if this person is staying at your place?"

He first took out a banknote, and then took out a photo to show Madame Sangmei. Because of the angle, Xia De could not see what the photo looked like.

Xia De rested his arm on the counter, sat on the round stool in front of the counter, and looked at Luweiya. While the latter raised her eyebrows, he signaled her not to speak, and then continued the previous topic, complaining to Luweiya about how the technical worker Miss Mary did not tell the truth.

"Where did this high-ring Ringed Shushi come from? Could it be that the church has already investigated here? Then should I leave?"

This was the voice in his heart.

【The other party is at least a twelve-ring, in all likelihood a thirteen-ring Ringed Shushi.】

"Thirteen-ring?"

Xia De was even more surprised, but the expression on his face did not change:

"The Orthodox Church currently has thirteen-rings in Tobesk, which are the 'Sun Great Sword' of the Sun Church and the 'Steel Right Hand' of the Creation Church, but this one is obviously not them. The church would not casually transfer thirteen-ring Ringed Shushi across dioceses, and even if there were clues about Dac Nisi, according to the church Ring Ringed Shushi action norms I learned from Yi Lu Na, they would not let a thirteen-ring Ringed Shushi set out directly... therefore, this stranger is not a thirteen-ring from the Orthodox Church."

Pondering in his heart, the female shopkeeper over there frowned as she looked at the photo, and then decisively shook her head:

"I know the guests at our place very well; at least within three months, no one looking like this has stayed at my place."

Xia De continued to chat with Luweiya. Luweiya probably also realized that the man talking to the shopkeeper was somewhat unusual, so she responded very enthusiastically to Xia De's words.

"Then, may I ask who the guests who have stayed at the hotel in the last three days are?"

The man in the dark red coat asked very kindly. Xia De realized his accent was somewhat like the accent of the southern mountainous region of Delarion; he had heard a similar accent when he and Captain Lade Si visited the veterans' club.

"Guest, this cannot be told to you casually."

Madame Sangmei shook her head:

"No amount of money will work. If I told such things, no one would dare to stay at my place in the future."

"Yes, that makes a lot of sense."

The man nodded, and then coughed violently.

He hurriedly took a white handkerchief from the chest pocket of his coat to cover his mouth, coughed a few times, and then put the handkerchief away. Xia De's peripheral vision seemed to see blood on the white handkerchief:

"A thirteen-ring Ringed Shushi can still get sick? I remember that mid-ring Ringed Shushi are immune to most common diseases, and high-ring Ringed Shushi absolutely will not get sick."

"Then how about this, you take a look at this."

The stranger in the dark red coat took out a document from his pocket. After Madame Sangmei took a look, her eyes widened abruptly:

"Okay, I understand."

She bent down and took the account book from inside the counter, flipped through a few pages, and pushed it to the person outside the counter:

"The people who have stayed at the hotel in these three days are all here."

"Okay, thank you for your help."

The man said with a smile, and because he seemed to have coughed up blood just now, he looked even weaker.

He lowered his head and carefully examined the account book. The Three Cats Hotel's business was quite good, so it took a long while to finish reading:

"Okay, thank you again for your help."

Closing the account book and pushing it to Madame Sangmei, he picked up his hat and covered his head, and then nodded politely at Xia De to the side. Only then did the man turn and walk toward the stairs leading from the first floor to the second floor.

After the other party disappeared around the corner of the stairs, Xia De stopped the conversation with Luweiya about the commission task, moved his seat, and sat back in front of Madame Sangmei:

"Who was that person just now? You actually handed the account book to him?"

He asked in a frivolous tone, wanting to make himself look just curious.

"I can't say that."

The female shopkeeper shook her head, but her expression was somewhat dazed.

"Wait, Xia De, her state is not right."

Seeing this, Luweiya suddenly reached out and pointed at the other party's forehead. Madame Sangmei's movements slowly stopped, and then she lay on the counter with slow movements, as if she had fallen asleep.

"Her consciousness was influenced by someone else just now; the document she thought she saw is not necessarily a document that truly exists."

Luweiya said with a serious expression:

"We were right next to her, but we didn't feel any traces of elements; the man just now was absolutely very strong."

"Thirteen-ring."

Xia De said, pulled over the account book that Madame Sangmei was tugging at, quickly flipped to the last page, and then looked forward to check the content.

"What? Ten..."

"Keep your voice down."

Xia De immediately reminded her, took out the notebook he carried with him, and copied the content on the account book onto it:

"Did you see the man just now cough up blood? This is truly strange; could it be that the other party was seriously injured? Working even when injured like this, it seems being a thirteen-ring Ringed Shushi is not easy."

"Thirteen-ring, coughing up blood?"

Luweiya lowered her voice, somewhat unable to believe it as she turned her head to look at the position of the stairs:

"Oh? Could it be him... but how dare he return to the Old Continent, ever since thirty years ago..."

"Thirty years ago... coughing up blood... suspected of looking for Dac Nisi... Blood-Weeping One?"

Xia De stopped his pen, and abruptly raised his head to look at Luweiya:

"A few days ago I heard a witch say that the 【Blood Spirit School】 seemed to have sent a high-ring Ringed Shushi from the New Continent to come and hunt down the traitor Dac Nisi."

"Yes, I think so."

The purple-eyed diviner's expression was grim:

"The 【Blood Spirit School】's 78-year-old thirteen-ring Ringed Shushi, 'Blood-Weeping One' Helmons, is the actual controller of the school. Thirty years ago, for his own thirteen-ring advancement ritual, he colluded with criminals to obtain infants' blood, thus committing a major case that affected half the kingdom, but was ambushed by the Orthodox Church during his advancement and suffered serious injuries. Therefore, he led the Blood Spirit School to migrate to the New Continent, and for thirty years he has never dared to set foot on the Old Continent again."

"For the sake of the second Chosen One, he actually dares to come back?"

As he spoke, Xia De resumed writing to copy the information. After copying, he stuffed the notebook back into his pocket and put the account book back into Madame Sangmei's hands.

He nodded at Luweiya, and Luweiya pointed at Madame Sangmei's head again.

The latter made a loud sleep-talking sound, and then slowly woke up:

"How did I fall asleep? It seems I really haven't rested well these past few days."

The dazed female shopkeeper still could not immediately recover her usual shrewdness, and Xia De did not say anything more to her. After re-ordering drinks and food, he and Luweiya returned to the table next to the female poet playing the lute and sat down.

The time had already reached noon, so Xia De and Luweiya had lunch here. A thirteen-ring Ringed Shushi with powerful combat strength had appeared at the Three Cats Hotel, and neither of them dared to rashly take any further action.

Therefore, they simply treated it as coming here to relax, eating while discussing interesting places all over the Lower City.

Luweiya even knew that in the nearby alleys, there was a relic trading place similar to 【Old John's Pawn Shop】, but the safety there was completely incomparable to the pawn shop.

The time came to eleven-fifteen in the morning. Xia De was sharing with Luweiya his experience of helping a client find a cat on Tuesday, when that short, thin man in a dark red coat brought a tall man whom Xia De had never seen before down from upstairs.

The two first went to the counter. Judging from the action of handing over the key, they should have checked out of the hotel room, and then they left the Three Cats Hotel together.

Xia De did not get up immediately, waiting a full five minutes before signaling to Luweiya that it was okay.

He disturbed Madame Sangmei again, and then asked for an empty room on the fifth floor.

After climbing the stairs with Luweiya and entering the room with the number 7 doorplate, Xia De took out his notebook from his pocket:

"Dac Nisi and the Blood-Weeping One should have left. Luweiya, try to divine which of these rooms is the one Dac Nisi once stayed in."

Xia De pointed out the room numbers he had recorded; these rooms were the most likely ones. With the 【Blood Echo】 effect ending, their search would become much more troublesome.

The female diviner frowned and looked twice:

"Four choose one? Because it involves a 13-ring Ringed Shushi, I cannot guarantee the correctness of the divination."

"It doesn't matter, two on the fifth floor and two on the fourth floor. You divine as much as you can, and I will confirm through the door crack whether the maid cleaning the room will pass by here immediately."

So Luweiya borrowed the Luo De Pai from Xia De again. She spread the entire deck of 54 cards evenly on the bed, and then tried to flip over three of them. After thinking for a while, she flipped over three more cards, until all the cards were flipped over.

And during this period, Xia De indeed observed through the door crack the fat maid of the hotel, pushing a small cart welded from discarded gas pipes, humming the little tune played by the female poet downstairs, passing by the room door. On the cart were buckets, rags, brooms, and mops, and the metal wheels grinding on the wooden floor made a very loud sound.

Ten minutes later, the fat maid passed by the door again, heading toward the broom closet at the stairs. After the door of the broom closet was opened and then closed, her footsteps disappeared at the stairs:

"Cleaning the room now, it seems it is indeed a room on the fifth floor. Now it is two choose one."

Xia De at the door judged cautiously, while Luweiya was standing by the bed collecting the cards:

"If it is indeed the fifth floor, then I think it is the room furthest on the 5th floor, Room 1."

"Okay, let's go to Room 1 and see the situation."

Xia De nodded, pushed open the door, looked left and right, and seeing that there was no one in the corridor, he left the room with Luweiya. Opening the lock of Room 1, the two quickly walked in, and then locked the door of the room from the inside.

"Detective, I am very glad you didn't become a professional thief, otherwise no one would be able to stop you. The strange art that Old God gave you is truly too useful."

While Luweiya teased him, she did not forget to throw a silence spell at the door position.

Xia De shook his head without making much comment, but cautiously pulled open the curtains to look behind, opened the wardrobe to look inside, and finally lay down to check under the wooden bed covered with white sheets. ===== CHAPTER 511 =====