Whispering Verse

Without getting too involved in the issue of the three mysterious Rhodes cards, Shade continued to ask:

"Second question. Someone asked me to find a special person. He had contact with you about two or three months ago. Yes, you know what I'm talking about, Ring Warlock. Don't be so surprised, you just need to answer me , what did that person do here and where is he now.”

Hawthorne, whose upper body was naked, shook his head hurriedly:

"I don't know what you are talking about. Don't ask. This is not a topic we should be involved in."

"I'm curious if you are really willing to pay the price for others."

Shade asked:

"You should be able to tell that I am a Delarian. In the Yodel Palace in Tobesk, the capital of the distant North Country, I once heard about a type of attendant called 'eunuch attendants'. Mr. Hawthorne, Are you interested in this career?"

Freeman Hawthorne opened his mouth:

"You really like joking, don't be like this! I don't know the ring warlock either. My grandfather asked me to send someone to help him find something, but he didn't say clearly what he was looking for. He just said that it was in the Lower City. There were many At a high level, I asked my people to inquire about the unusual things recently. But in the end, nothing was found. Although that person still appeared next to my grandfather occasionally, he never contacted me again. Later, I heard my father say that that thing It seems to have been taken away by people from the Belindel family. Once this kind of thing is known to the church, everyone will be unlucky, so both parties have a tacit understanding as if nothing happened."

"Belindl?"

I didn’t expect that after going around in such a big circle, I would still have to find someone:

"Why do the seven glorious families in Yuewan City have contact with the ring warlocks? Are all the nobles in this city so brave?"

"We all know the rules of the church, but this is Yuewan, a city where wealth gathers."

In other words, if Shade wants to know whether the relic is the "Hope Diamond" he is looking for, he has to go to Belindel's people. But Freeman Hawthorne in front of him didn't know what was going on with the Belindel family. Shade needed to start with the ring warlock that the Hawthorne family had contacted.

However, he did not ask the man in front of him about the current whereabouts of the ring warlock who was in contact with their family. Instead, he asked the last question:

"The third question is, are you related to the illegal organization [Eternal Light] in Yuewan City?"

Hawthorne immediately shook his head:

"How could it be related? They are a group of lunatics who want to overthrow the control of the city by the Seven Glory families of Yuewan City. If I support them, wouldn't I be against myself? Oh, sir, so you are an outsider, why don't we sit down Let’s talk about it, I really do.”

"What number is this?"

Shade interrupted him and stretched out his right index finger wearing the mind crystal ring.

"one?"

"Mind blast!"

A finger pointed at Freeman Hawthorne's forehead. His eyes immediately turned white, and then he passed out while frothing at the mouth. Shade did not have a very effective method of erasing memory. Mind blast was a direct attack on mental power. Although Shade was not sure whether he became an idiot after waking up or just lost part of his memory, the result was enough to satisfy him.

I haven't thought about how to solve the obstruction of Lesia's business by the dock office and the Hawthorne family, but I didn't expect that the Belindel family would be implicated again. But compared to Lesia's three shipments of goods, what exactly that relic is is something that Shade must find out.

He did not choose to immediately inquire about the Gray Gloves from Mrs. Frey at the club. Instead, he left the club and found the reporter codenamed "The Boatman" again, and then asked about the residence of the old Earl Hawthorne and his daily movements. .

The contact person arranged by Director Anlos was indeed reliable. He didn't ask any questions. He would tell him whatever Shade wanted to know. Shade then spent the entire afternoon sorting out information with the "Boatman". In the evening, I went home and had dinner with the cat. I was about to go out again when Luvia came to the door.

Luvia seemed to have just gotten off work and came to stargazing on the third floor of No. 6 Saint Teresa Square. Shade wanted to find her when he went out, so he told what he had investigated in the past two days at home:

"Old Earl Hawthorne will meet with the ring warlock from time to time. I want to find the ring warlock to find out what the relic is. But I am not sure when they will meet. Maybe you can help me divine it."

"This is really rare. The number of times you have taken the initiative to ask me for divination is much less than that of Iluna. Iluna will always come to me for guidance when she is in trouble. She is better than you."

Shade didn't hear the second half of Luvia's sentence clearly.

The purple-eyed girl is best at card divination, but this time in order to make the results more accurate, she also used the relics "Soothsayer's Silver Coin" and "Obsidian Pendulum" for assistance.

She shuffled the cards in a very fancy way, and after a series of "performances" that dazzled even Shade, a good Rhodes card player, she finally asked Shade to choose two cards from the five stacks.

"Fate and the stars told me tonight was the chance to make a move."

The two of them sat in front of and behind the desk. Little Mia squatted on the table, looking at the cards and looking at Shade.

Although Luvia's eyes were looking at Shade, Shade clearly felt that she was looking at a place further away:

"But be careful. Tonight's operation may not go smoothly. You may encounter strong enemies, but caution will allow you to avoid unnecessary troubles."

"The other party is very strong?"

"Of course not. The target you are looking for should only have five rings, and it does not have any anti-divination power. But if you come into contact with the other party, it may attract other people. So you must be careful. After all, the Moon Bay area is a place we have never Wherever you go, no one knows what’s hidden there.”

Shade trusted Luvia's divination ability. Since she thought today was a good opportunity to take action, he would not miss it. Therefore, although he remained cautious, he still entrusted Luvia to take care of the naughty cat for him tonight, and then took advantage of the night to go to Yuewan City again.

The lights of Yuewan City are brightly lit at night, and the glory of the city is vividly displayed at this moment. The outline of the city outlined by gas street lamps and household gas lamps that seem to last day and night, even surpasses the brilliant lights of Tobesk at night in some places.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the Yuewan City Lingang Opera House ended. The well-dressed gentlemen and ladies talked about the content of the opera just now and walked down the steps outside the main entrance of the opera house. The taxis waiting at the entrance of the Opera House also lined up to greet the guests who were going home.

But in the southeast corner of the Opera House, in the open space illuminated by gas lamps, no idle taxi dared to stop. The carriages with the crests of the Hawthorne, Belindell and Eddington families are waiting for the return of their distinguished owners.

The 67-year-old Earl Hawthorne looked still in good health. He walked down the steps with the man wearing a black top hat beside him, and the servants followed behind him. The old count first boarded the carriage at the bottom of the grand staircase in front of the Opera House. Then the man wearing a black hat also boarded the carriage, and the servants followed him in another carriage.

The coachman rang the bell, and the carriage began to move on the broad harbor street in front of the Opera House. Passers-by on the street and other carriages gave way, and people were accustomed to this scene.

It was already dark, and although Yuewan City had a rich nightlife, there were not many pedestrians on the streets. Therefore, when a red butterfly followed the wind and entered the window of a steadily moving carriage, no one else noticed such an abnormality.

But the people in the carriage must have seen the red butterfly. The carriage stopped, the man wearing a black top hat got out of the carriage, and the carriage left along the street at a faster speed as if running for its life.

A red butterfly fluttered in front of him. The man wearing a black top hat frowned and followed the red butterfly through the side alley into the lower city. Then he climbed up the iron stairs on the side of the house under construction at the street alley. There, he saw a strange young man with his back turned to him, looking at the night view of the city.

Hongdie, who came with the man in the top hat, crashed into Shade's body, causing slight ripples on his back.

"Good evening, how about the opera?"

As Shade spoke, he turned to look at the other person, and then confirmed that it was just as Luvia said, this was a five-ring warlock.

"Who are you? You have broken the rules. The church does not allow ring magicians to provoke secular nobles at will."

The man in the top hat raised his hand and touched his hat and said.

"But does the church allow ring magicians to cooperate with nobles at will?"

Shade also asked:

"The church doesn't allow the casual use of relics. As long as it doesn't go too far, the church won't care about so many things. Besides, I'm not here to see Earl Hawthorne tonight, I'm here to see you."

"I?"

The man in the top hat asked doubtfully:

"But I don't know you."

"Yes, I don't know you either, but that doesn't matter. You just need to answer a few interesting questions from me."

"But why should I answer you? Also, in the afternoon, the count's grandson suddenly fell into a coma at the Parsifal Club and lost his memory of the week after waking up. Is this related to you?"

He took off his hat as he spoke, and Shade nodded knowingly:

"Are you going to do something? That's why I chose to meet here. The terrain is open and a few light-shielding charms and silence charms can avoid other people's sight."

The silver thunder in his right hand jumped and arced, and the man in the top hat suddenly pulled the brim of the hat, slammed the hat down, and then his whole body entered the hat.

"oh?"

After the hat landed, it spun rapidly and stuck to the ground. It drew an arc like a dart and shot towards Shade's leg. While it rubbed against the ground, it even spattered sparks. But Shade ignored the hat in front of him on the left. Instead, he found the right moment and stepped forward to the right. His right foot accurately stepped on the invisible hat in the air:

"Dare you play illusions in front of me?"

Screams came from under the black top hat, and Shade, holding the silver-white thunder gun in both hands, had already penetrated the dazzling thunder downwards.

The hat pierced by the thunder gun suddenly exploded into a cloud of white smoke. Taking this opportunity to fly into the hat again, the man "drilled" out. In the steam mist, the five-ring life ring emerged under the starry sky. While enlightenment [qi] was shining brightly, he held the hat still in the air with his right hand to prevent himself from falling. His left hand gestured like a gun, pointing at the Xia De's position in the smoke made a "biu~" sound with his mouth.