Chapter 588: Blindness and Prophecy

"Then what happened to that Sister Matilda later?"

Xia De sat on the sofa and continued to ask curiously. The blind lady shook her head slightly:

"They continued to correspond by letter afterward, and Grandma Matilda even thought about laying down her burdens once she turned 45 and going to Tobesk... About 15 years ago, she passed away due to a terrible accident."

A somewhat sad expression appeared on Miss Michelle's face, and Xia De was speechless for a while.

"Yesterday, I saw Mr. Rat Ao Gu Si again after twenty years, and learned that he had become a Ringed Shushi of Zha La Si."

"It's Byron's, you don't have to test me."

Xia De interrupted, and Miss Michelle nodded:

"I understand. He has become a student of the Saint Byron's Chemical Academy. I am really sad for them. If they could have been earlier... I told Priest Ao Gu Si the location where Sister Matilda was buried. After he left us, he should have gone directly to the cemetery."

Xia De sighed:

"So that's how it is. He never mentioned this past to us friends. It's like this, there is clear evidence that Priest Ao Gu Si encountered an accident and is extremely likely to die immediately. So, I want to know if the divination you performed yesterday pointed to other clues."

"Sorry, although I have a certain divination ability, all I can see on him is death."

"Speaking of which, you are already the second diviner to divine the meaning of 'death' for the priest."

Xia De said, and Sister Matilda showed a slightly surprised expression:

"Doesn't that mean that the gentleman..."

"We friends can only do our best to save him."

Xia De stood up to say goodbye. He didn't have that much time to waste. He must find the final disappearance location of Priest Ao Gu Si before the effect of 【Blood Echo】 faded.

"Please wait a moment, Mr. Watson. Although I cannot provide you with direct help, if you need anything, you can come to me here at any time. In addition, I want to perform a divination for you."

"Divination?"

"Yes, our divination method is different from ordinary divination. We don't need any auxiliary tools, but directly use our eyes to capture spirituality."

She signaled Xia De to sit down again, and then raised her hand to untie the cloth strip wrapped in front of her eyes circle by circle. Xia De only then understood that the other party was not blind at all, but deliberately covered her eyes, which was a form of practice.

"Spirit Cultivation Sect?"

He suddenly said softly. Miss Michelle's hand stopped, maintaining the posture of raising her hand and looking at Xia De. Of course, because the cloth strip was not completely untied, this couldn't really be counted as "looking."

"You know us?"

Although the Spirit Cultivation Sect was not a particularly secret organization, it was not easy to guess it immediately.

"I am a friend of the priest in Tobeisike. During the 'Darkness Descends' event in Tobeisike some time ago, I saw your people in the city."

"Yes, Sister Daifulin did lead a team to go there in person."

Miss Michelle nodded, lowered her head, and completely untied the cloth strip.

Seeing that she was about to look up at him, Xia De immediately maintained a correct sitting posture and sat well. Miss Michelle looked up and opened her eyes. I don't know if it was a psychological factor, but Xia De felt that her brown eyes were very beautiful.

"Oh!"

Just by looking at Xia De, this nun of the Spirit Cultivation Sect groaned in pain and covered her eyes, lowering her head.

"Sorry, what's wrong with this?"

Xia De was a bit at a loss, but Miss Michelle just waved her hand, telling him not to panic:

"Mr. Watson, the moonlight on your body is really dazzling. So shining, so pure, so eye-catching. I shouldn't have easily peeked at you so boldly. I think, there should be no problem with you solving Priest Ao Gu Si's matter."

"Are you really okay? I have a kind of eye drop that can treat eye diseases, do you want to try it?"

Xia De took out the bright yellow eye drops prepared by the ophthalmologist that he hadn't finished using in the 【Dark Domain】, but Miss Michelle covered her eyes and politely refused. Their kind of Ringed Shushi organization with special eye training methods wouldn't lack potions to treat eye diseases.

Knowing that Xia De was in a hurry, Miss Michelle called another middle-aged nun in the House of the Blind to send Xia De downstairs. This middle-aged nun was a Third-Ring or Fourth-Ring Ringed Shushi. She was very surprised to see Miss Michelle's state, but didn't blame Xia De for this.

Xia De also roughly understood what this so-called "House of the Blind" was. This should be a stronghold of the "Spirit Cultivation Sect" in the local area, and that Miss Michelle was the leader of the stronghold. Therefore, before saying goodbye, he kindly told Miss Michelle that Priest Ao Gu Si's disappearance would soon attract the attention of the Church and the Academy.

Xia De could find this place, and the Church and the Academy should also have ways to find this place, so they needed to be prepared in advance.

The Outsider was actually very interested in this organization, but now Priest Ao Gu Si's matter was the most important. After saying goodbye to the House of the Blind, he left from the back door and continued to track along Priest Ao Gu Si's trajectory.

The priest first went to a flower shop in the alley to buy flowers. Xia De spent 5 pence and learned from the flower shop that it was a bouquet to pay tribute to a friend.

And afterwards, the priest took a carriage again. Xia De, who already knew the priest's destination, didn't track on foot this time. He also took a carriage and then went to the Midehillburg Public Cemetery.

The public cemeteries in De La Rui Ang's big cities were all planned by the City Hall. This was also to facilitate the rapid expansion of the city in the steam era to carry out municipal planning and prevent the dead from occupying the land of the living.

And for Midehillburg, the city could only expand toward the northern plains. Expanding toward the southwest Xikaer Mountain was basically impossible, so the public cemetery of Midehillburg was in the southwest of the city, which was actually at the foot of Xikaer Mountain.

Strictly speaking, that was already considered the mountain area. But because the cemetery was built against the mountain, not only was the greening condition excellent, but there were even artificial canals passing through the cemetery, so the conditions of the cemetery area here seemed to be a bit better than Tobeisike.

"If I don't become a god in the end, and step into the end like a mortal, maybe it's not bad to be buried here."

Xia De thought about messy things.

I don't know how it happened, but when the carriage carried Xia De to the entrance of the cemetery, a thin layer of mist actually appeared between the mountains and forests. Xikaer Mountain was already towering, and when Xia De looked up, he only saw that the layer of white mist had covered from the mountainside to the cemetery at the foot of the mountain.

This was not smog caused by steam industry development, but mist formed naturally. But Xia De clearly remembered that when he went down the mountain at noon, everything in the mountains and forests was normal.

"You are probably from out of town."

The coachman who was looking for change for Xia De saw Xia De looking at the continuous mountains in surprise, so he explained with a smile:

"Every autumn, Xikaer Mountain always has this kind of mountain mist from time to time. It can happen at night, morning, day, or evening, and the duration is uncertain. People living in this city all know about this kind of thing. Adults always like to use the demons in the white mist of Xikaer Mountain to scare children who don't listen."

Talking to Xia De about local stories, the coachman handed the 7 pence change to Xia De, but Xia De only took a 1-pence coin, then waved goodbye to the other party, and turned to look at the cemetery in the mist:

"If I remember correctly, the negative effect of attracting evil spirits after using 【Unfortunate Hair】 is still on me..." ===== CHAPTER 589 =====