Chapter 90: Inheritance and Spy

When Xia De returned to No. 6 St. Derand Square with Little Mia, it was already ten o'clock in the evening. He changed his shoes in the entrance hall on the first floor and walked up the stairs, feeling that the distance since he last walked down the stairs seemed as remote as a century.

Priest Ao Gu Si put all of Xia De's items in his study. The 【Silver Moon's Orb】 was damaged because of the dream last night, and the document-level 【Relic】 【Ring of Vampirism】 turned into dust because it overestimated its ability to absorb the power of a god.

The relics Xia De currently held only remained the paper pages of the poem manuscript, the 【Gun of Kindness】, and 【Fate's Twenty-Sided Dice】. Even the 【Puppeteer's Script】 had completely lost its supernatural characteristics because the paper pages had all been used up.

Looking at the calendar on the wall, June, known as the "Sun Month," had passed. It was now July, and people called this month the "Thunder Month."

He sat in the chair behind the desk, looking at the items on the magnificent desk, summarizing his gains and losses in the Lake View Manor incident. Because of Baron Lavender's invitation, he went to the outdoor banquet at the Lake View Manor, obtained the special Luo De card 【Ancient Fairy Tale - Match Girl】, obtained that gun, and obtained divinity...

Scorching steam surged behind him. Turning around, on the rotating brass wheel, the silver blasphemy spirit rune 【Gluttony】 was flowing on the metal ring body. This was Xia De's first spirit rune.

"Obtained the state of divine radiance, obtained 【Gluttony】. Advancing as a Ring Mage requires one of each of the four types of runes. Now it is easily satisfied by one-fourth. Thinking about it this way, the gains from last night far outweigh the costs."

He muttered to himself.

Not only that, "The Crazy Light Chaser" would likely bring him a spirit rune with an enlightenment element related to the concept of "light" within three months; and the task of the Ancient God 【Father of the Infinite Tree】 still had a miracle 【Echo】 waiting to be harvested. Looking at it this way, if the Word of Sublimation wasn't considered, then he didn't seem far from the second ring, and it was even possible to advance within a few months.

It was just a pity that although the radiance of divinity had appeared on Xia De, the key opening time was one week. It was only Monday, and he had to wait until early Thursday morning.

It was just that no matter how much he gained at the Lake View Manor, that was something that happened under extremely special luck, and he didn't think that kind of good luck would visit him again.

And besides the silver blasphemy rune 【Gluttony】, the biggest gain last night should be the understanding of the Silver Moon. Although it was impossible for him to reproduce that kick standing in front of the Silver Moon in the dream, Xia De hadn't forgotten the scene of standing on the field ridge in the dream, looking up at the huge Silver Moon overhead.

"From this aspect, the 【Silver Moon's Orb】 can be considered worth the price."

He was thinking about the 【Relic】 he had destroyed, and his fingers drew in the air wanting to try the 【Silver Moon Slash】 again, but suddenly stopped. He was in the study now, and if any item here was destroyed, Xia De would be very sad.

He got up from the study chair, walked into the living room, pushed open the door to the corridor, and walked down the stairs to the entrance hall on the first floor. Standing in the entrance hall, facing the layers of wooden boards sealing the first floor.

With the sound of bells and steam whistles, the huge brass Life Ring appeared in the steam behind him.

Reciting the ancient incantation in his mouth, he drew lightly in the air with his fingers.

With the blooming of dazzling silver light, an arc-shaped light trace appeared in the air. Afterward, it was the sound of wooden boards being shattered, which startled Little Mia, who was poking her head at the corner of the stairs on the first floor to see what Xia De was doing. But this time, the orange cat wasn't scared away; instead, it tucked its tail, not knowing whether it should go to "rescue" Xia De.

The entrance hall itself wasn't very big, and Xia De was also hit by the splashed wooden board fragments. Fortunately, the injury wasn't very serious, but the back of his hand was scratched.

"Hmm?"

Accompanied by the shattering of the wooden boards, a brown thing fell out from the crack behind the wooden boards with a plop. Xia De looked at it in surprise under the gas lamp light of the entrance hall, looking at that heavy wallet.

"This..."

This was indeed a wallet, and it looked bulging, and one could tell at a glance that it contained quite a lot of banknotes. Xia De tightened his face, thinking about his initial "big search":

"Speaking of which, I only thought that Room 1 on the second floor was the detective's inheritance, and didn't check the first floor at all... um..."

Actually, even if he had searched the first floor at the time, he probably wouldn't have found it. This wallet was hidden too well.

He looked up at the solid brick wall behind the three layers of wooden boards, and picked up the wallet with his bleeding hand:

"That wooden board should be removable, so hiding the wallet here is indeed something no one would think of, and it's very convenient to take money every time you go out. Detective Sparrow and the original owner should both know this location, but I didn't inherit the memory."

Xia De didn't know what kind of mood he should be in for a while, both happy that he finally found the wallet, and surprised that the answer was so simple.

So he opened the wallet to check. Inside were indeed banknotes. After counting, there were a total of 28 pounds and 12 shillings, enough to maintain the operation of the office for three months and let a single man with low expenses live well.

"But the value of that cane must exceed 15 pounds, and the price of high-end black tea won't be low either. The inheritance left by Detective Sparrow is only this much. It wouldn't be that he calculated it deliberately, right? Calculated that this money is just enough for three months of normal expenses."

Holding the wallet, he walked up the stairs, wanting to clean up the entrance hall, while summarizing his impression of Detective Sparrow in his heart:

"Extremely rigorous in doing things, writing a diary every day, with clear financial accounts. Detective ability is very strong, but some detective records are not true, and some clients have a poor view of him. High taste in black tea, expensive cane, likes novels of knight, war, and court types... Although such an image is much more three-dimensional, it still can't be seen what secret he actually has."

His footsteps suddenly stopped, making the cat climbing the stairs in front of him look back curiously. Xia De narrowed his eyes slightly, but actually didn't see anything:

"Wait, if all the things I experienced that night at the Lake View Manor were the result of luck, then do the things I didn't understand correspond to those things I didn't know?"

Among the many matters at the Lake View Manor, the most incomprehensible were the information about the "Witch Council" heard beside the stable, and the information about the spies of the Karsenrik United Kingdom heard after breaking into the garden maze.

The "Witch Council" must have nothing to do with Detective Sparrow. After all, no matter how you look at it, the detective is a man, and it has been confirmed by many parties that he is indeed an ordinary person. On the contrary, Xia De somewhat suspected that the information about the "Witch Council" pointed to the "lady" who was also present at the time.

As for the spies—

"If you think according to this line of thought, the identity of a foreign spy does indeed fit the setting of 'having a huge secret but just an ordinary person'."

He thought while continuing to climb the stairs, and the cat was already scratching the door on the second floor:

"Extremely rigorous in doing things, that's the caution of a spy;"

"Writing a diary every day, that's to disguise his ordinary citizen identity and whereabouts;"

"Clear financial accounts, so as not to leave clues for others, and to facilitate the fabrication of funding sources;"

"Detective ability is very strong, which fits the characteristics of a spy;"

"Detective records are not true, obviously covering up information, while enhancing the ordinary detective's character image;"

"Clients have a poor view of him, he must have done extra things besides the commission, or used a gun;"

"High taste in black tea, that's his own true hobby;"

"Expensive cane, it might be the only personal item he brought from his hometown, with commemorative value;"

"Likes novels, maybe those novels are codebooks, but I can't understand them..."

Xia De helped Mia open the door, and the cat active at night immediately rushed into the living room. He stood at the door looking at the place where Mr. Sparrow had lived. Moonlight passed through St. Derand Square and shone into the living room from the window, but the light stopped at his feet, leaving Xia De at the door half-hidden in the shadows:

"So, Sparrow Hamilton, wouldn't he really be a spy for Karsenrik?" ===== CHAPTER 91 =====