Chapter 558: The Old Rowinston Marriage Contract

Following that vicious voice, a crowbar smashed toward Xia De's head. But even without the voice in his ear reminding him, the crowbar was grasped by Yiluna who was walking behind Xia De.

Xia De found the switch for the gas lamp before turning around to look, saying helplessly:

"It really is you. I say, attacking us with a crowbar, who are you looking down on? I thought it would at least be a pistol."

The one trying to attack them was Toby Julian, a result that was completely within expectations.

"I don't have a gun license, I can't buy a gun. You..."

Mr. Julian looked at the two in surprise, wanting to pull the crowbar out of Yiluna's hand, but instead, it was snatched away by Yiluna. The seventeen-year-old girl raised her right leg, violently bent the iron crowbar, and then tossed it into the corridor behind her.

Not only was Mr. Julian scared, but Xia De was also scared.

As the crowbar fell with a clang, Xia De looked into the room. He saw the corpse bride wearing a white wedding dress and a veil, holding her hands together, quietly bathing in the moonlight outside the window.

It seemed that because of her presence, the light of the gas lamp in the room flickered constantly, and the flickering appearance was very consistent with Mr. Julian's mood at the moment.

But the corpse bride's attire and the corpse itself now showed no signs of being damaged just now. Moreover, she just stood there and did not launch another attack because of the appearance of enemies.

"Injured too severely, so is she repairing? But why is every repair under the moon?"

Xia De thought in his heart.

"No, no one can disturb my wedding with her! No one!"

Seeing Xia De looking at the bride, Mr. Julian still wanted to pounce on them, but was topped by the muzzle of Xia De's gun:

"Give you three seconds, walk to the chair over there and sit down, let us search the room. If you don't make the right choice after three seconds, I will shoot. Three!"

Mr. Julian stared at Xia De, his face full of anger, as if his eyeballs were about to fly out. He didn't move at all.

"Two!"

Xia De stared at him too, while using his left hand to press down the hammer of the revolver. Mr. Julian breathed heavily, pressing his forehead against the muzzle of the revolver, just stubbornly not moving.

"One!"

Xia De's finger trembled violently.

"I surrender!"

Mr. Julian raised his hands high, he still retreated. Closing his eyes, this man under thirty seemed to have aged ten years in an instant:

"I surrender."

He said in a low voice.

Xia De forced Mr. Julian to sit on the chair in front of the desk with his gun, controlling this man and letting Yiluna search the room. And the corpse bride stood quietly by the window, the moonlight shining on her, and she was like a still humanoid doll.

This time they were quite lucky. Mr. Julian had the good habit of keeping a diary, and Xia De really hoped that all his enemies would do the same.

The diary was under the mattress at the foot of the bed, and besides that, Yiluna also found an old book introducing ancient ghost marriage funeral customs under the floorboards that were pried up in the corner of the wall.

This was a bizarre book published by an illegal publisher, belonging to publications strictly prohibited by the Orthodox Church.

"He wants to marry his sister?"

This was the first sentence Yiluna said in surprise after flipping through the diary. Xia De looked at the man pointed at by his muzzle, and the latter covered his face in pain.

Yiluna continued to flip through, her brows furrowing more and more:

"Wait, it seems it's not just that. Toby Julian, your sister's death actually has something to do with you?"

Mr. Julian, pointed at by Xia De's muzzle, sat on the stool in the corner of the wall and nodded dejectedly:

"I didn't expect such a thing to happen either."

"Wait, didn't Miss Julian commit suicide because she was abandoned by her lover?"

Xia De was very puzzled.

"Yes, but why was she abandoned by her lover?"

Yiluna hummed:

"Mr. Julian and Miss Julian depended on each other, and he had always had some unspeakable thoughts about his sister..."

"It was just a thought, I didn't do anything!"

Mr. Julian defended loudly, his chest heaving showing he was very excited.

"Miss Julian was already preparing to get engaged. Mr. Julian, who learned of this, got drunk half a month ago, then ran to Miss Julian's fiancé to make trouble, beat the other party up, and caused the other party's right hand to fracture. Miss Julian's fiancé was furious and refused to see Miss Julian again, so this poor lady thought she had been abandoned for no reason and hanged herself at home."

Mr. Julian's expression was no longer excited. He sobbed and covered his face with both hands:

"I, I really didn't expect it, really didn't expect it to be like this. It's all the fault of alcohol, alcohol really harms people."

Xia De's mouth twitched:

"Then what about later, what is going on with this?"

Xia De pointed again to the corpse bride standing motionless by the window. She maintained an elegant posture standing there, just like a physical doll.

Yiluna flipped back a few pages:

"After Miss Julian died, Mr. Julian was unwilling to accept this result. Because he had been interested in mysticism before, after burying his sister, he emptied his savings and inquired about the 'ghost marriage' ritual from friends around him who also loved mysticism. This guy actually succeeded. From a merchant selling contraband, he got an ancient marriage contract. I think that marriage contract is the reason for this matter. They call that piece of parchment..."

Yiluna flipped to the next page:

"The Old Rowinston Marriage Contract."

Although there was no evidence, Xia De had almost concluded that this was the relic that caused this incident.

Yiluna looked very worried because the Black Stone Security Company had things to do recently. How many people had come into contact with that marriage contract, where that thing came from, these were all problems:

"The diary says that by writing one's own name and the name of the person one loves at the bottom of the marriage contract with parchment as the carrier, one can realize that the two will love each other forever. And if one party is a dead person and one party is a living person, then after getting the corpse, writing the name with the corpse's blood can restore the corpse to its original state and let the deceased return to the world, and then they can be together forever... Really, there is actually someone who does this kind of thing."

"You actually believe this kind of thing?"

Xia De asked Mr. Julian, and the latter sobbed and said:

"Yes, I hired a group of professional corpse thieves to sneak into the cemetery with me and dig out the corpse. After waking up my sister, I found that she could do some things according to my thoughts. So, I let her kill that group of grave robbers. Tonight, I was worried that you would discover the clues, so... I just wanted to be with her, even if she became like this... You, why must you investigate me?"

Mr. Julian asked while crying bitterly. Xia De frowned and looked at him. The Outlander could not understand this way of thinking and felt more and more that this person might really have mental problems.

"You think this is waking up? Your sister has already left, and you actually want to blaspheme her corpse? Are you sure you really like her?"

Yiluna asked Mr. Julian incredibly, and the latter covered his face in pain, tears overflowing his eyes:

"I know I shouldn't disturb the dead. But when she was alive, no matter what, I couldn't marry her, so at least after she died, I could let her have a place to belong. I know we are siblings, but I really tried to cross the bloodline, cross life and death... I didn't do anything wrong, it was really just because of love. I don't want to harm anyone, I just... want to be with her, even in this way."

Hearing the word "love," Yiluna showed an expression of disgust on her face:

"Mortals will eventually die, and you have blasphemed death. Julian, don't say it so nicely. What love? This is clearly to satisfy your own despicable and dirty thoughts."

She was really angry now, but she still knew to deal with this matter first:

"Detective, I don't know what the 'Old Rowinston Marriage Contract' is for a relic, but from the characteristics known so far, it is at least a document level (level 4), and it is highly likely to be a Secret Keeper level (level 3). The church needs to recover it."

"Yes, so, where is the marriage contract?"

Xia De moved the muzzle pointing at Mr. Julian's temple, and the latter sobbed and said:

"Don't kill me, the marriage contract is in the basement, soaked in a vat of blood. That marriage contract was originally only for the living. To use it for those who have left, it must be done this way to open the door between the world of the living and the world of the dead for a long time, letting her be with me forever. Even if, she doesn't seem to remember me."

Xia De regarded this as a "containment condition." Once the marriage contract exerted its characteristics and connected the living and the dead without being contained in this way, the relic would go out of control.

"Cruel ritual... do you think what you woke up is still a living person?"

Yiluna couldn't help but mock, even when facing Dac Dac Nisi, she had never shown such anger.

After thinking about it, she said to Xia De again:

"Now I can't kill this lunatic yet, really, I originally wanted to try the poet's description just now... cough cough, Detective, the church still needs him to provide information about the origin of the relic. And, for his own selfish desires, he even colluded with corpse thieves to blaspheme two other corpses. Killing him directly is too easy for him."

She meant that the two could not keep this relic. Xia De agreed with this approach, after all, this was not his commission:

"I think the church will make a fair judgment."

The seventeen-year-old girl showed a slight smile:

"Then you watch him here, I'll go to the basement first to erase the names on the marriage contract, end the relic's characteristics, and then return to the security company to bring that document-level relic 【Beast Tamer's Memory Erasure Stick】. It's really hard for you tonight, I'll treat you to dinner next time, sorry for dragging you into this kind of thing."

They couldn't let Toby Julian tell the church about Xia De's information.

Xia De nodded, and upon hearing the word "memory erasure," Mr. Julian suddenly looked at the two in panic:

"You want to erase my memory."

"Don't worry, just tonight's memory."

Yiluna said, but added another sentence:

"But if there are no accidents, after this matter is over, the church will erase your memories of the past few years and then find you a place to live where you don't have to worry about food and drink. Of course, if it is finally decided to sentence you to death, it won't be so troublesome..."

"No!"

The man suddenly shouted, even though he was topped by a revolver, he was not afraid at all. He stared at Yiluna with angry eyes:

"No one can! No one can erase the memories between her and me."

"This person is hopeless."

Yiluna said to Xia De. Xia De wanted to nod, but Mr. Julian suddenly raised his head. Bloodshot eyes spread into his eyes, and his state was a bit wrong:

"Kill me now!"

"That won't do. I want to leave the matter of judging you to the church. And you signed your name on the marriage contract, we can't guarantee what will happen if we kill you."

"That's good, since you won't kill me..."

He rushed toward the corpse bride by the window. Xia De flicked his finger, silver moonlight flew out, cutting off half of the sole of his right foot. This man, nearly thirty, was in pain and fell to the ground.

"Although I won't kill you, it's not that I can't let you get hurt. Sir, I advise you not to move around. I'll treat your wounds, and the church will give you a fair judgment."

Xia De took an empty test tube from his pocket and shook it while walking toward the other party:

"People always have to pay a price."

The man lying on his stomach struggled to sit up with his palms. Because of the severe pain, his face was pale, but the distortion of his face was probably not just because of the physical pain; he was being affected by the relic:

"No one can erase the memories between her and me!"

Mr. Julian actually pulled a short knife from his pocket, held the handle in reverse, and stabbed it neatly into his heart.

Xia De walked two steps quickly and pulled the short knife out. This aggravated the injury again, and the clothes on Mr. Julian's chest were almost instantly stained red:

"A little common sense, even if you stab through the heart directly, people won't die instantly. People who do this in stories can at least say 'the murderer is', and then die."

Xia De bent down and pressed his hand on the man's arm:

"False Immortality."

The feet and heart that were still bleeding stopped bleeding at once. Although Mr. Julian was still in a state of serious injury, the injury seemed to be fixed and did not worsen.

He looked up at Xia De who stood up in fear and despair. Because of the light of the gas lamp on his head, the shadow covered the man on the ground:

"I won't let you die, so don't even think about dying."

He said in a low voice. ===== CHAPTER 559 =====