Chapter 587: House of the Blind

Unlike the Dawn Church in Tobeisike that occupied the entire Dawn Square, the Dawn Church in Midehillburg was located on a street called "Saint Kara Avenue" in the southwest of the city. Although it was a street-facing building, the church still occupied a considerable area. It ran through the entire block, and inside, besides the auditorium and office space, there were even separate gardens and courtyards.

The area of this church was much larger than Dawn Square in Tobeisike... This was also related to the expensive land price in Tobeisike.

Xia De didn't dare to enter the church to prevent being discovered. And he didn't need to enter, because after approaching Saint Kara Avenue, he carefully took out the blood in the alley and dripped it into his eyes. When looking at the entrance of the Dawn Church again, he could very clearly see the action trajectory of Priest Ao Gu Si composed of blood-colored halos.

"At least at this time yesterday, Priest Ao Gu Si had not had an accident!"

Xia De reached this conclusion.

There was more than one figure of Priest Ao Gu Si walking out from the entrance of the Dawn Church, indicating that the old priest had passed by the entrance many times within 24 hours. Xia De chose the figure with the deepest color, which was the figure at the latest time point, to track.

Probably because of the purpose at the beginning of the city's construction, the streets of Midehillburg were generally wide. On both sides of the road, street trees and gas lamp poles alternated in turn.

After Priest Ao Gu Si left the Dawn Church, he first paced for a while under the lamp pole at the entrance of the church, as if observing the advertisement about "Cassandra Auction House" on the lamp pole, and then he walked along the street toward the east.

The priest probably wanted to do something not very regular, so he was sticking to the wall, trying not to let people notice him. Afterwards, he actually took a carriage when walking to the street corner of Saint Kara Avenue and Oak Street.

"Hmm..."

Looking at Priest Ao Gu Si's figure floating in the air, if it wasn't that the priest took a carriage, then it must be that the priest had learned the spell of maintaining a sitting posture and flying in the air.

"Where is the priest going?"

The priest 24 hours or closer ago could take a carriage, but Xia De couldn't, because he couldn't keep watching what the priest's figure was doing in the carriage.

So, he could only follow the figure of the priest floating in the air in a sitting posture and chase forward on foot.

From the intersection of Oak Avenue and Saint Kara Avenue, he moved all the way south, which was moving toward the direction of the city leaning toward the mountain range. After passing two intersections, the carriage turned into a small alley called Squirrel Alley.

This was a commercial street specializing in selling mountain goods, pine cones, and leather products, and it was very lively today.

After passing through Squirrel Alley, the carriage continued eastward. After reaching the street where the Midehillburg Police Hall was located, it turned south and stopped.

It was already 2:40 in the afternoon, and Xia De was very glad that he didn't run for a whole day following the carriage.

The place where the carriage stopped was an alley called "Ruff Alley." This was similar to Feather Pen Street where Dorothy lived, belonging to the kind of street that, although narrow, was clean and full of rental apartments.

After getting off the carriage, Priest Ao Gu Si looked around, as if confirming whether he had gone to the wrong place. Afterwards, he began to walk into the alley on foot.

"Could it be that the priest disappeared here... Are there traces of elements?"

【Not for the time being.】

"Okay."

Xia De nodded, walking forward while observing the streetscape around him. The City Hall of Midhill seemed to be very fond of planting trees; from the moment he left that old tower until now, trees had never been absent from his field of vision.

The priest's destination was here, and he stopped in front of the house with the "No. 15" door plate in Ruff Alley.

Xia De saw the figure of the priest knocking on the door, and then he walked in. But there was no figure of Priest Ao Gu Si leaving from the door afterwards, which meant that Xia De couldn't bypass this place.

【Xia De's Blood Echo】 saw continuous figures, probably appearing at a frequency of one every five seconds, but if he concentrated and paid extra spirit, he could see the more continuous movements of the figure. Therefore, Xia De could be sure that Priest Ao Gu Si entered the interior of the house five seconds after knocking on the door.

That is to say, this was a scheduled visit. And Xia De didn't see the priest disguising himself along the way, so Priest Ao Gu Si visited here with his real appearance.

"My miracle is really terrible, worthy of being the only one evolved... Priest Ao Gu Si in Midehillburg, wanting to secretly visit whom? I remember, the priest didn't intend to contact the local Saint Byron's correspondence Ringed Shushi, so, is it an old friend he knew when he was young?"

But no matter what, he had come to this kind of place, and Xia De couldn't give up easily. He took out the wooden button the doctor gave him, rubbed the concave and convex patterns on the surface, injected spirit to activate it, then climbed the steps, and knocked on the door gently.

Waiting silently for a few seconds, footsteps came from inside the door. He widened his eyes slightly, but that door didn't open immediately, and the light footsteps stopped behind the door.

Xia De knew there was someone behind the door, and the person behind the door also knew there was someone outside the door. Neither the person inside nor outside the door spoke, but tacitly maintained silence.

And in this silence, the voice in his ear had already given a hint:

【Outsider, the person behind the door is a Ringed Shushi.】

Although the distance was very close, because it was separated by a door, he could only barely judge that it was a Ringed Shushi.

Xia De was not surprised by this result. He now suspected that Priest Ao Gu Si's disappearance was related to the person behind the door.

"Excuse me, who are you looking for?"

The middle-aged woman clearly had a local accent. In the silence inside and outside the door, she spoke first.

Xia De frowned and canceled the effect of the doctor's button. Since the other party was a Ringed Shushi, there was no need to use such means:

"Hello, Miss, I am the writer John Watson."

He said the same thing when he was in Cold Water Port, but he would occasionally call himself "Detective" John Watson:

"It's like this, you don't have to open the door. Please tell me, is my friend Priest Rat Ao Gu Si with you?"

"That old priest? He visited here at 3:00 yesterday afternoon, and then left from the back door."

"Where is the back door?"

"Go left, go straight after entering the narrow alley, and then turn right."

The voice said.

"Okay, thank you very much."

Xia De thanked her softly, wanting to leave here to confirm whether there was Priest Ao Gu Si's figure at the back door of the house.

But the voice behind the door called him:

"Sir, may I ask if you are also 'our' kind of person, just like Priest Ao Gu Si?"

Xia De considered it:

"If you mean a mechanic who manipulates steam metal wheel rings, I think so."

Rashly exposing his Ringed Shushi identity was just because Xia De needed to at least know the location of the black market in this city. When he was in Cold Water Port, Lei Qianya, who was disguised as "Miss Princess," brought him into the Ringed Shushi circle of the port city, but he really had no friends here... Unless, Dorothy had another princess connected by soul.

"Did Priest Ao Gu Si have an accident?"

The female voice behind the door asked.

"Yes, he is missing. May I ask, how did you know?"

"Because yesterday, I performed a divination for him."

The door was opened from the inside, and Xia De saw the woman who had talked to him behind the door.

The woman looked to be in her forties, with dull yellow long hair. She was wearing a dark blue-black dress that looked like a nun's robe, and a shawl of the same color on her shoulders.

She didn't look at Xia De's face because a strip of dirty-looking linen was wrapped around her eyes.

"Yesterday's divination result seemed to indicate death, but that old priest didn't care at all. Just now I was wondering what that terrible omen meant, now I probably understand."

She moved a step to the side, making room for the entrance:

"Please come in."

Although her eyes were covered with a cloth strip, she behaved the same as someone with normal vision:

"If you need help, 'House of the Blind' welcomes you."

【Mid-Ring.】

"Then I'm sorry to bother you."

Xia De crossed the threshold and walked in.

"House of the Blind" looked like a small-scale Ringed Shushi organization, and the reason it was called this name was because most of the people inside were blind.

After Xia De entered the door, he realized that there was more than just the woman who opened the door in the house. And under her introduction, Xia De knew that this was ostensibly a care organization providing help to the blind and disabled in Midehillburg, supported by local City Hall funding.

The interior of the house was very tidy, and to facilitate the walking of the blind, there was almost no clutter in the corridors and stairs. The woman led Xia De all the way from the first floor to the third floor, and finally stopped in a reception room.

During this time, Xia De saw many blind people being helped to walk in the corridor, or talking to others. Moreover, he encountered at least three Ringed Shushi on the way upstairs, but their levels were all low-ring, and it seemed that this organization was not strong.

"It's really lively here, but is this House of the Blind a city-level small Ringed Shushi organization?"

He guessed secretly.

The blind woman who led the way called herself "Miss Michelle." Although her eyes were wrapped in cloth strips, walking was completely unaffected.

After the two sat down, she also greeted the normal servant in the House of the Blind to bring hot tea to entertain Xia De. But based on a cautious mentality, Xia De didn't drink any tea in the territory of a strange Ringed Shushi.

"The connection between Priest Rat Ao Gu Si and us has existed for more than twenty years. A long time ago, probably when the old priest was in his thirties, he had been to this city and met one of our nuns."

Miss Michelle introduced. Thinking of "nun" and "blind," Xia De suddenly thought of another organization, an organization he had encountered in the 【Dark Domain】.

"Priest Ao Gu Si in his thirties, and your nun... hmm..."

Seeing that Xia De didn't know what word to use to describe it, Miss Michelle showed a smile:

"Yes, two souls were attracted to each other. I was only ten years old at the time and witnessed this love. But Priest Rat Ao Gu Si had to return to Tobeisike, and Sister Matilda had her own responsibilities. She was a Ringed Shushi, and the priest was just an ordinary person, or even a clergyman of the Orthodox Church..."

Xia De understood what she meant. This was a relationship destined to have no results. He just didn't expect that Priest Ao Gu Si had such a story when he was young. ===== CHAPTER 588 =====