Chapter 997: News of the Chosen One

After returning to the second floor, Xia De walked straight toward the lady wearing a brown headscarf, whose headscarf and scarf were almost integrated. On the lady's table was a stack of divination cards, half a glass of beer remained in her wine glass, and in addition, there was a pencil, a black-covered notebook, and a string of smooth small stones strung together.

She looked like the common type of diviner who made a living by divination. Few people in the tavern would take the initiative to talk to such a lady, because if one was not careful, one would sit opposite her and hand over one's money while listening to nonsense sentences. In particular, this lady looked like she should be quite old. Although her face could not be seen, her clothing style reflected that she was definitely not younger than 40.

Xia De sat opposite her. The lady who was counting cards with her head down looked up, saw Xia De's face, and shook her head before looking at the cards again.

"Luweiya, what are you doing here?"

Xia De asked softly, took out a shilling from his pocket and handed it to her. Luweiya, whose hair turned black, eyes turned green, and wore strange makeup, shook her head:

"Sir, a divination costs two shillings. One shilling is not even enough for my wine money this afternoon."

"Madam, drinking too much is not only harmful to health, but it will also make the divination results you give look even more like nonsense."

Hearing Xia De's words, the waitress passing by with a tray couldn't help but smile.

Xia De took out another coin and pushed it over:

"Are you also here for the Victor Box?"

"What box?"

Luweiya, wearing a headscarf, took Xia De's money, stuffed the coin into the folded corner of her clothes, gathered the divination cards into her hand, and began to shuffle:

"Detective, you are not reading at home in this snowy weather, nor did you go to other cities, but you ran here. Is it because of a commission?"

She knew Xia De's daily schedule very well. While speaking, she placed the deck of divination cards in the lower right corner of the table and then divided them into stacks of 5 in the center of the table.

"Yes, a commission, but it involves supernatural power, so I'm not sure what will happen. Luweiya, what are you doing here? Do you need my help?"

Xia De asked while watching her cut the cards.

"Not for the time being. I am determining the identity of the Chosen One. I gained something in my dreams a few days ago, so I came to try my luck. If you didn't appear, I would probably leave in half an hour."

Most of the dreams of high-level diviners predict the future, so acting according to the guidance of dreams is a very common thing for diviners.

"Chosen One?"

Xia De raised his eyebrows but did not turn his head to scan around. In every corner of the city that he did not know, Luweiya had never stopped her search for the Chosen One:

"I'll stay and help you. The Chosen One must be a Ringed Shushi. At least I can determine who is suspicious."

"That's fine, it won't delay your business. If there is no result in half an hour at most, I will give up. After all, dreams are too illusory. I have been having some strange dreams frequently lately..."

Luweiya hesitated for a moment, and the movement of cutting cards in her hand stopped, but soon returned to normal:

"Many things have changed, but they haven't changed. I claim to follow the poems of fate, perhaps only to find at the end that everything I have done is just walking in the same circle repeatedly."

"What are you saying? Are diviners always so sentimental?"

Xia De asked with a smile, and the girl wearing a headscarf also smiled, signaling Xia De to choose a card and flip it over:

"Speaking of which, your divination lately has indeed been very accurate. The 'Game' drawn at the Prophet Association on Wednesday night pointed directly to the events of that night."

He flipped one over casually, and the card face was "Anger."

"A card representing emotions."

Xia De sighed and put the card back. Luweiya did not express any opinion and gathered the divination cards together again.

"I'll go down and tell my companions. If they wait too long, they might worry."

"Who did Dorothy come with? That maid with a very good figure?"

Luweiya asked while organizing the cards.

"Not Tifa, it's... Princess Miss Jia Lin Na."

"Detective, your methods are truly brilliant."

Luweiya teased, and then said in a hoarse voice:

"Sir, I cannot divine your fate. Your fate seems to be shrouded in a layer of mist."

Xia De looked at her performance with a smile, but did not expect Luweiya to reach out and take a 1-pound coin from the corner of her clothes and hand it to him.

"I only paid two shillings, there's no need for so much even if it's a refund."

Xia De reminded.

"Sir, I think you might be possessed by a demon."

Luweiya held back her laughter:

"So, one day in the near future, I will go to your home to help you exorcise the demon. This will probably last until late at night. This is the deposit for you."

Xia De did not ask why the diviner had to pay him for "exorcising the demon." He smiled and reached out, and Luweiya put the coin into his hand, even rubbing Xia De's palm with the pad of her index finger.

After accepting Luweiya's "deposit," Xia De returned downstairs and informed Dorothy and Princess Miss Jia Lin Na that he might stay upstairs for about half an hour before returning. The two girls had no objections. They had many common topics, especially Dorothy, who was intentionally or unintentionally probing Princess Miss Jia Lin Na, which made Xia De unsure whether it was Dorothy or Lei Qianya here now.

After returning to the second floor, Luweiya was talking to the waiter and asked for two more glasses of fruit juice. After Xia De sat down, she began to shuffle and cut the cards again, looking like she wanted to continue divining for Xia De to prevent the two from sitting there and causing suspicion.

Although Xia De's perception was powerful, his perception could not allow him to directly determine who among a whole floor of people was a Ringed Shushi. Before he came to the second floor, Luweiya only stared at someone for a long time to determine the target, so she would definitely miss some people who came to the Three Cats Hotel from other stairs or earlier than her.

But that didn't matter, Luweiya herself was here to try her luck. The reason she could still sit here with interest was purely because Xia De was sitting opposite her.

At 3:20 PM, which was the tenth minute after Xia De sat down on the second floor again, a lady wearing a black and red dress walked up from the stairs, followed by a middle-aged blonde gentleman in a crisp blue-black suit. The lady was holding a small silver book, glanced at the second floor, and walked to the left side of the stairs, where there were more empty tables in that area.

"Miss Pawo?"

Although she was disguised, Xia De recognized her at a glance. To prevent being discovered, he immediately turned his head slightly to look at the other side, and according to "Her" observation, Miss Pawo and her companion's eyes did not stay on him.

He whispered the person he saw to Luweiya. The girl who was shuffling cards for the umpteenth time frowned slightly:

"I observed her last time and confirmed that she is not the Chosen One, at least not the first candidate."

She said softly, looking at the lady who was sitting down and greeting the waiter with her peripheral vision. Half a minute later, she shook her head again:

"No, she is indeed not."

"What about her companion?"

"Neither."

"What a coincidence, to actually encounter people from the Truth Society here. They aren't planning some conspiracy, are they?"

Xia De muttered, and Luweiya thought for a moment:

"That Miss Pawo is different from the other lunatics of the 【Truth Society】. She is very calm and has deliberately avoided ordinary people several times when causing trouble in the city. There are so many people in the Three Cats Hotel now, she won't cause trouble. I think she should have an appointment with an important person and is waiting to meet."

"Makes sense, I'm curious who she's meeting. However, people like her who believe in numbers are usually very punctual. They won't arrive too early or too late. We should be able to see soon who the 【Truth Society】 is meeting with again."

Xia De said softly. Neither he nor Luweiya had any intention of reporting Miss Pawo. Since the other party boldly chose to appear in such a public place, it was impossible not to guard against being ambushed by the Orthodox Church.

Just as Xia De thought, Miss Pawo and her companion had just ordered drinks when Ringed Shushi appeared from the stairs again. This time it was two men. The distance was too far for Xia De to judge their level, and Xia De did not know the two newly appeared people.

One of them was tall and was wearing only a single layer of clothing in the snowy winter. The other was very tall but thin. He looked plain, but there was a cyan tattoo on his right eye.

Xia De didn't speak, just pointed in that direction. Luweiya watched the latter sit down with Miss Pawo and the other, and after carefully observing for half a minute, she shook her head again:

"It's not them either."

"Do you know them?"

Xia De asked:

"Maybe they are cultists hired by the Truth Society again."

"I haven't seen them either. They are not locals. Looking at their appearance, they look a bit like people from the Pantanal region. Maybe it's the Voodoo Society you mentioned."

Luweiya answered softly. People in this world who are good at observing and summarizing can distinguish the differences in appearance of people from different regions based on life experience, but the outsider who has only been in this world for half a year does not have this ability:

"Voodoo Society? What are they doing here? I heard in Huntington City that they are preparing to do something big. A talking mouse overheard some news that they are looking for the arrow in my hand for a once-in-a-century event."

"It's indeed very strange. People from the Voodoo Society generally don't leave the Pantanal region. I have never heard of them being hired to come to Tobesk."

"Maybe it's because the 【Truth Society】 paid too much."

Xia De joked.

Luweiya also moved her gaze away from that group of people, and while recording the results of the card divination just now in her notebook, she asked with a smile:

"I heard you say a few days ago that you felt your cat crawling all over your body because you failed to shoot that arrow in Huntington City. Did you stay overnight at Dorothy's place later?"

"Why do you all put these two things together? No, Dorothy hasn't been feeling well lately."

"In other words, since that incident last Tuesday, these nights, there have only been you and your cat at No. 6 St. Deran Square."

Luweiya picked up the wine glass on the side with her right hand. Xia De recalled and nodded:

"Yes, by the way, Mia is now..."

"Doesn't legally belong to you yet."

Luweiya waved her hand to interrupt him, laughing with a long tone:

"It's really pitiful, Detective. You clearly have three lovers and rumors with the Duchess, yet you have to spend the long night alone." ===== CHAPTER 998 =====