Chapter 643

Although the repelled evil spirit did not suffer much damage, Xia De's actions made it even more violent. Whisper elements corroded the spirit body, and more and more black faces appeared from the depths of its soul. Xia De could even hear the continuous whispers and curses coming to his ears.

Sweeping away the fallen leaves on the ground with his right foot, and before it launched an attack on Xia De again while carrying the white fog, Xia De took the initiative to rush over with the sword in both hands:

"One!"

He lunged forward, and the Moonlight Greatsword was blocked by the miserable green shield as expected.

"Two!"

Through 【Lagley's Leap】, his figure appeared behind the evil spirit, and the light shield appeared again to block the sword in Xia De's hand.

"Three!"

The sword and the light shield contended behind the evil spirit, while the second sword summoned by 【Blade of Chaotic Time】 appeared from the front of the soul and struck the evil spirit's head directly.

The light shield was in the shape of half an eggshell; if it defended against the attack from behind, it could not defend against the front. The two-handed greatsword carrying moonlight stabbed out from the air, first piercing the blood-red big hand reaching out from the spirit body's neck—most of the evil spirit's abilities are related to resentment and cause of death—and then the sword blade pierced the spirit body's head.

The light shield behind disappeared at this moment, but Xia De did not relax because of this:

"Mind Blast!"

A punch was thrown, and those black faces surrounding the soul dissipated in astonishment. Whisper elements were expelled along with the white fog. With the appearance of the pure white spirit body and the cracks on the surface of the spirit body, Xia De knew he had won.

At the last moment of collapse, Professor Higgins turned to look at Xia De, his eyes filled with incomprehension and confusion. He was about to speak his last words before disappearing; this is a unique characteristic of the evil spirits in the Mid-Hillburg area:

"Why..."

Originally not wanting to meddle, his sorrowful expression was indeed pitiful. The soul was about to disappear, and Xia De was not worried about the other party snitching. Considering that he had taken the other party's suitcase, Xia De sighed and couldn't help but open his mouth to comfort:

"Actually, I am a Gray Hawk, so your mission didn't fail; you succeeded, Professor."

Professor Higgins' "last words" stopped abruptly, and the soul, which was collapsing from bottom to top, looked at him.

"Yes, I am a Gray Hawk from Tobesk. The information was obtained from Virgil Cameron of the Principality of Sette, in that fountain pen. The accurate information is—on the last day of this month, your cargo is in the warehouse with a red door plate on Punjab Street in Mid-Hillburg City. The ink is dark blue-black, and the note is rolled up."

The professor's pure white transparent hand grabbed his arm, and the soul that was about to collapse was actually about to become complete again because of Xia De's words. So, Xia De drew lightly with his finger, and the black crack opened immediately. The light spots of the soul drifted towards the Land of Death:

"Depart, your mission has been completed."

He said softly, and Professor Higgins' soul looked at him fixedly:

"Tomorrow morning at 9:30, Mid-Hillburg train station platform. Hold a bunch of red roses, wear the Gray Glove upside down, pin a gold fountain pen in your chest pocket, remember to dress decently; someone will hand over the box. The password is, not, all ages, interested."

Xia De looked at him in surprise; the memory just now didn't mention this at all, and he didn't expect to be able to complete the mission like this. But he immediately understood again; after his companions had one shot to death and one committed suicide to end the mission, within a week, Professor Higgins couldn't have failed to notify his superiors of the change in the mission.

So, this was a new arrangement; Professor Higgins hadn't intended to be able to take this box away himself.

The soul had already collapsed to only the part above the neck. Xia De nodded lightly but didn't give a promise. He thought of the password for abandoning the mission obtained from the cipher in the newspaper (Chapter 561), so he said softly in Carsonrick language:

"Your mission is completed—eternal loyalty."

"Eternal loyalty..."

The spirit body collapsed completely and drifted into the "Gate of Death" opened by Xia De.

Xia De waved his palm, as if smoothing out the black crack with his palm.

Then he sighed slightly, raised his head over the treetops of the dense forest, and looked at the dim yellow sun on the horizon. The strange optical effect made the dim yellow sun disk blurry and indefinite, reflecting the gradually thickening sunset clouds:

"This world is really dangerous for ordinary people."

He buried Professor Higgins' body in Sikar Mountain, buried under a tree where he could overlook Mid-Hillburg, and only then returned to his home in Tobesk carrying the suitcase.

There was no one at home. Under the sunset light, only Mia the cat jumped down from the second floor along the stairs to welcome Xia De home.

So, no matter how bad things Xia De encountered outside, when he came home and saw the cat welcoming him, his mood could always become very good.

After changing out of the clothes he wore when going to Mid-Hillburg and washing up a bit, he took the cat to find Dorothy on Quill Street in the University District.

Unfortunately, the blonde writer young lady was not at home. Hearing from the landlady, she had gone home to eat with her family.

So Xia De pretended he was taking a walk in the evening, held Mia, and strolled to Silver Cross Avenue, handing a note saying he had an urgent matter to find Lei Lei Qianya to the maid of Angelina in the flower shop.

Then, in the lounge behind the flower shop specially left for Angelina, he tasted rose tea and exquisite rose cakes. Angelina sometimes sneaks out and likes to spend time alone in this flower shop, so the lounge left exclusively for her is indeed very good.

After eating and drinking enough with the cat, Lei Lei Qianya sent a letter asking Xia De to wait for her by the Terraril River on the west side of Yodel Palace. In a while, she would go out to watch an opera with Angelina. The carriage would pass through Felis Garden Street and stop by the river for a while.

"The lives of princesses are really comfortable."

Sighing in his heart, Xia De set off again carrying the suitcase he had not opened to this day, holding the soft cat that looked sleepy. Detouring around the huge Yodel Palace building complex from the side, passing through the street between Yodel Palace and the Kingdom Parliament, and after entering the intersection with Felis Garden Street, he chose the one leading to the riverside at that five-way intersection.

The Terraril River in autumn is still in the high water season. Before freezing in winter, cargo ships are rushing to transport the last batch of goods of the year.

At this time, the sun had almost completely set, and the Terraril River was reflected in a golden yellow. Steamships with thick chimneys patrolled the river, pulling out columns of smoke behind them. The autumn wind swept across the water surface, sparkling, and the reflected light made people unable to help but squint their eyes.

Wild geese passed through the sky in formation. In this hazy city sky, irregular clouds like cotton could hardly be observed. As the sun revealed its last ray of light, the traces of three moons could already be seen on the horizon.

The red moon, yellow moon, and silver moon hung in the shadowy starry sky. This is dusk, and probably the most comfortable moment of the day. Because no matter who it is, at this moment, they will subconsciously slow down their pace; night is about to come.

Xia De didn't wait long by the river before the princesses' motorcade drove over. But after the motorcade drove away, a carriage that looked unremarkable stopped.

Not far away was the Cavendish Bridge spanning the Terraril River—this tower bridge was built with royal money, and the coachman signaled Xia De to go to the bridge. So Xia De took the cat and walked leisurely along the riverbank, while the carriage followed behind him at an extremely slow speed.

Soon he arrived at the bridge. Xia De walked onto the bridge deck, stopped after walking about twelve steps, and then looked at the scenery outside the bridge. Mia looked curiously at the water under the bridge in his arms, then shrank her head as if she had been frightened.

The carriage slowly blocked behind Xia De. As the carriage door opened, Xia De turned around suddenly and darted in with the cat at an extremely fast speed, as if he were holding an orange steam bomb.

Because the speed was too fast, he almost bumped into Angelina, who wanted to poke her head out to greet him.

"Xia De, good evening."

"Good evening, Lei Lei Qianya, oh, good evening, Princess Angelina."

I don't know if it's because this time Xia De took the initiative to find her, but Lei Lei Qianya, wearing a red dress, was in very high spirits:

"Writing a letter specifically to find me, is there something wrong?"

Because explaining the MI6, Detective Sparrow, and vampires would be very troublesome, Xia De asked directly:

"Recently, has any important department of the Kingdom lost any valuables or confidential documents that can fit into this box?"

Xia De placed the black suitcase on his lap. The cat, which had been placed on the side of the long seat, immediately darted up and sat on the box with its butt.

"Angelina, help me hold it."

Xia De then handed the troublesome cat to the little princess, who hugged Mia happily. Seeing that Xia De was really talking about business, Mia struggled symbolically to show that she was actually not willing.

"I picked this up from Mid-Hillburg; it's something from the Gray Gloves."

"Gray Gloves?"

Lei Lei Qianya smiled and didn't realize how important this was:

"Our great detective doesn't forget to contribute to the Kingdom even in Mid-Hillburg. Oh, I remember, you are also an agent of MI6."

The five members of the group all knew about the job that "that lady" arranged for Xia De to get a salary without working, but no one knew what Xia De's current treatment and status in MI6 were.

"The detective is both a knight and an agent?"

Angelina, who was holding the cat, whispered, but no one paid attention to her.

"Let me think... the Kingdom hasn't lost any important information recently."

Lei Lei Qianya gave an answer while twirling the hair hanging by her ear with her fingers.

"Then is it possible that important documents or information were copied?"

"It's also unlikely..."

She raised her eyebrows:

"Except for the four metal plates in your basement, I don't know of any leakage of important items recently."

She was referring to the four one-shilling banknote master plates.

Angelina looked very curious, but neither Xia De nor Lei Lei Qianya wanted to explain.

"Then what could this be?"

Xia De looked at the suitcase on his lap with a grave expression.

"Why don't you open it and see?"

Lei Lei Qianya looked out the carriage window past Xia De. She and Angelina could not easily show their faces, so they could only look at the Terraril River from this small window. From the time Xia De arrived at the riverside until now, it had only been twenty minutes, and the last ray of sunset had already disappeared.

On the calm Terraril River, the lights of steamships dotted the scenery of the river, and there were thousands of lights on both sides of the river. This is the core urban area of Tobesk, the Pearl of the North. The firelight of the steam age symbolizes the greatest civilization achievement of this era.

This scene made Lei Lei Qianya Cavendish even more firmly believe that all this deserved to be possessed by her.