Chapter 666: Priest

"Sorry, ten months ago? You mean, I died at the beginning of this year?"

This time, not only Xia De, but even Sister Devlin raised her head slightly to look at that "boy."

"I, died at the beginning of this year?"

Xia De repeated it again, pointing at himself incredulously:

"Mr. Barton, you can't talk like that even if you are joking. Please hold my hand and tell me whether I am still alive."

Even if calculated according to the time when the original owner's body was occupied by him, the "date of death" should be the Saturday of the third week of June this year, not the more distant beginning of 1853.

Xia De said, reaching out his hand. Joey Barton also struggled to stand up, bent down, and reached out to hold it.

【First Tier.】

"Yes, you are still alive."

He only touched it for a moment before letting go. The "boy's" face still had an expression of disbelief:

"Yes, you are still alive. The divination just now was 【Death】, and now it is like this... Oh, Mr. Watson, sorry, I think I cannot perform divination for you."

"What do you mean?"

"Perhaps my divination has a problem, or perhaps something happened to you that even you yourself don't know."

Joey Barton pointed to the envelope on the table:

"Only need to pay for one person's fee. I think you are the kind of person who escaped the fate of death."

He looked somewhat frustrated and said softly again:

"But sometimes, death is also a very good thing. After all, life always has an end. Normal birth, normal growth, normal death; this is nature, and it is something very enviable..."

Before Xia De could ask again, Joey Barton clapped his hands, letting the people outside the door come in, preparing to send the guests away.

Although Xia De was still puzzled, he also knew that it was best not to ask too much, after all, he had plenty of opportunities to come here again. So he stood up, pushed Sister Devlin away, and the nun also had no intention of asking other questions.

When the two returned to the carriage, Xia De immediately expressed his doubts to the nun, and the nun told him not to worry:

"Mr. Hamilton, perhaps you were really helped by a Great One, but you didn't know it yourself. At the beginning of this year, did you encounter any accidents?"

At the beginning of this year, the Outlander had not yet arrived. Because he didn't inherit any memories, Xia De didn't know what the original owner had encountered at that time. He only knew that Detective Sparrow had encountered a homeless man around that time and took him in. And when the Saint Byrons Comprehensive Academy investigated Xia De's identity information, it didn't point out that the original owner had encountered anything unusual at the beginning of this year:

"This is really strange. Perhaps I should investigate whether any towers collapsed in the Old Continent and the New Continent at the beginning of this year. If what that 'boy' said just now is all correct, I hope the tower he refers to is not an inconspicuous mill tower in the countryside, or an abandoned tower in a remote mountainous area."

Xia De sighed, not expecting that he would be divined to have such a result:

"Let's not talk about this for now. Let's go back to the purpose of this time. Nun, that Mr. Joey Barton looks really wrong. Did your eyes see anything?"

"His body is indeed 13 years old, but the age of his soul seems to have exceeded 40."

The Eleventh Tier nun said.

Xia De was startled and asked softly:

"In other words, that body... is not his?"

He thought of his own situation.

"No, that body is his, and the soul and body fit perfectly."

"His soul was once stripped away alone and experienced a long time?"

Xia De gave another guess, but the nun shook her head slightly:

"It's just a guess for now. I will let the sect investigate. He is very strange. Since the accent is a local accent, he must have had a very long life record locally."

"Then what about his eyes? When he used his eyes to see through death, did you notice that Luo De card? Was it that card that gave him the power to see through death, or was that card just a cover?"

Although it was only separated by a coffee table at the time, Xia De couldn't distinguish the source of the power; he only knew that those eyes were at least not Demon Eyes.

"His eyes are indeed extraordinary. I think seeing through death should be his own talent."

The nun said, hesitated for a moment, and added:

"But that Luo De card gave me a very strange feeling. The playing card is indeed an ordinary object, but... it seems to have enhanced the power of his eyes. Perhaps, this is a strange spellcasting condition that even I don't know."

Xia De had some guesses about this, but everything had to wait until the nun investigated the other party clearly.

"Then, do you think Mr. Joey Barton might join the Spiritual Cultivation Sect?"

"I don't think I will absorb him. The sect does not welcome people with too many secrets."

The nun put on that silver eye mask that looked like a crown again, using the metal on both sides of the eye mask to bind her long hair:

"The sect will re-investigate Joey Barton. This person might hide a method to solve the danger of the Narrow Gap. Mr. Hamilton, this cooperation was very pleasant. You are a friend of the sect, and you are welcome to come to me for help. As for Joey Barton's matter, I will notify you when there is follow-up intelligence. It can be seen that you are also quite curious about him."

The carriage sent Xia De to Oak Street, and then carried Sister Devlin away.

And the reason Xia De got off at Oak Street was because he had an appointment to meet Priest Ao Gu Si at noon today, wanting to ask him some things.

Since the priest gave Xia De the sorcery and Narrow Gap materials last time, the two hadn't met for more than half a month. When they met again at noon this day, the priest was quite moved by his busyness recently.

Because he was worried about being seen with Xia De, the priest specifically found a restaurant far from the city center of Midhillburg to treat Xia De to lunch. The two exchanged the recent situation in Tobesk and Midhillburg, and Xia De also told the priest the good news that Duo Luo Xi had successfully advanced from the Fourth Tier to the Fifth Tier.

The priest told Xia De that the Five Gods Church had mobilized so many old priests from all over the Old Continent to prepare for a large-scale ritual, and the ritual was currently fine and would probably be held late next week.

"So, that really is a ritual to suppress the Narrow Gap?"

Xia De asked while cutting the steak in front of him with a knife. This was beef steak, said to be a famous variety in Midhillburg.

"Yes, there was originally a Thirteenth Tier Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi 'Nature Singer' from the Nature Church locally, and two more were transferred recently. Besides them, our church's Iluna Miss Beiyasi is also coming back. I remember she is your friend."

Xia De nodded:

"Yes, coming by steam floating airship, it should arrive in this city tomorrow, which is Monday."

Priest Ao Gu Si looked left and right, lowered his voice and said:

"Then you definitely don't know, I just heard the news last night that the steam floating airship encountered trouble on the journey! So it was scheduled to arrive tomorrow, but now I'm afraid it will be delayed until Tuesday."

"What did they encounter?"

Xia De looked at the priest in surprise, and the priest was quite moved:

"A green dragon."

Priest Ao Gu Si shook his head, quite moved:

"It seems to have flown over from the outer sea, and I don't know how it bumped into that steam floating airship. But don't worry, the problem has been solved. It is said that Miss Miss Beiyasi used a sunlight gun to kill the dragon in the air."

Seeing Xia De's curious face, Priest Ao Gu Si added:

"That was a pure-blooded green dragon. Although it was only a young dragon and was seriously injured by the high-tier Ring Mages on the same airship, and was weakened by the divine ritual on that airship belonging to the Sun Church, being able to kill a dragon in an air battle as a low-tier Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi is something only the legendary heroes of ancient times could do."

He stirred the meat soup in front of him with a spoon:

"The young people of today are truly remarkable. I think Iluna Miss Beiyasi will definitely become a hero on Luo De cards in the future. The title of Dragon-Slaying Hero is something even Thirteenth Tier Ring Mages might not be able to get in the contemporary era when most dragons have disappeared."

He took out his pipe again. The priest naturally wouldn't smoke in a public place like a restaurant; he just habitually took it out to wipe it.

"How was the green dragon's corpse handled?"

Xia De asked again.

"It is said that it was left on the spot waiting to be handled. After all, it is necessary to investigate where this dragon came from. However, besides that green dragon, it is said that after the airship took off again, another Sage-level humanoid relic slipped into the cabin. I am not a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi of the church, so I didn't hear much specific news, but it is said that the main body was a black humanoid, which manufactured a series of murders after disguising itself as someone who didn't exist in people's memories, and was only successfully expelled after being discovered."

"That ship is really unlucky. I mean, their journey is really not peaceful."

Xia De sighed, picked up the fruit wine beside him, and Priest Ao Gu Si also picked up his wine glass and clinked it with Xia De's in the air:

"Wish them luck!"

This was fruit wine brought by Xia De himself. This restaurant allowed bringing one's own wine.

After the two put down their wine glasses, Xia De asked about the thing he cared about most:

"Priest, do you have any power related to the Eye of Death? Sorcery, Demon Eye, or talent."

"This is truly an ancient question."

Priest Ao Gu Si said, but he had no guard against Xia De, so he didn't mind telling Xia De about such private matters:

"Of course, these eyes of mine can see any spiritual body, yes, any spiritual body."

But Xia De's eyes could also do this, and Xia De couldn't think that he might be the Chosen One of Death just because his perception was strong.

"Also, I can vaguely see the signs on some people who are about to die. It's very vague, almost like inspiration."

"Is this the sorcery you gave me?"

"No, no, it counts as another talent of mine."

Priest Ao Gu Si said, and the two were sitting at the innermost part of this "John Steak Restaurant," so it was convenient for him to sweep his eyes across the entire restaurant:

"Just like that gentleman."

The priest pointed to a stranger who had just entered. He was wearing decent formal wear and holding a black briefcase in his hand, probably a clerk working nearby:

"He will die within three months."

"What is the cause of death?"

"How would I know? Oh, detective, don't think of this talent as too powerful."

The priest said, and Xia De thought that Priest Ao Gu Si's talent was somewhat similar to the "boy" he saw in the morning, but the performance was undoubtedly weaker than the latter.

"Also, I can vaguely perceive the thoughts of a soul by gazing at the soul, but it must be at a very close distance, and there must be a long gaze."

This was similar to Sister Devlin's talent again, but compared to that grey-white-haired nun's ability to see through the secrets of the soul with one glance, the performance of the priest's talent was undoubtedly much worse. ===== CHAPTER 667 =====