Whispering Verse

Tifa took Shad to the guest room of the manor to meet Miss Swift. The train from Fort Midhill stopped at the station at 11 o'clock last night. Miss Swift and the other children of Granny Cassandra The followers all spent the night at Belindel Manor, which had many guest rooms.

When Shade opened the door and walked in, the young girl with flaxen hair was writing a letter to Granny Cassandra.

Seeing Shade coming, she put down her pen and seemed to want to hug Shade, but seeing that Tifa was still there, she was reserved again, so the considerate black-haired maid smiled and nodded at her, temporarily Leave the room and close the door.

Yuewan City is a famous big city in the Old World, and the Cassandra chain auction house has the largest branch here. However, Miss Swift and the others do not live in the auction house, but like Tifa and the maid group, they will live here from now on.

The [Witch Council] has arranged for the local great witch Bella Belindel to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Moon Bay incident this time. Therefore, Belindel Manor, as the base camp, does need more manpower.

Now the Northern Maid Group is arranged to assist the local maids in strengthening the manor, and the task of Miss Swift and her party is to assist the witches in interpreting the documents and information of the seven major families. This is not a simple task.

As for Shade wanting to attend the high-end auction of Cassandra Auction House with his friends today, the flaxen-haired girl just asked Shade to go directly:

"The badge and business card my mother-in-law gave you before will allow you to enter and exit all auction houses freely. Oh, I will write you another letter and take it with you. Don't let the local auction houses neglect you."

She quickly wrote the letter and handed it to Shade. When she handed him the letter, she grabbed the letter and refused to let go. She pursed her lips and looked up at him. It wasn't until Shade belatedly kissed the side of her face that she smiled and let go.

After leaving their teacher, the young witch apprentices all had their own thoughts. From this point of view, the apprentice girls of this generation have more ancient spirit than the great witches of the previous generation.

The auction started at ten o'clock in the morning. In order to prevent missing the time, Shade quickly went to Spider Alley to meet Mr. Bernhardt, and then rushed to the Cassandra Auction House in the north of the city.

The small auction that Mrs. Jude is going to attend is not something you can attend if you want to. This auction, which is held on the top floor of the auction house, can only be attended by special people who accept the invitation. And these people can be regarded as the most famous and wealthy people even in the "City of Wealth" Yuewan.

However, with Grandma Cassandra's badge and business card, and the letter written by Miss Swift, Shade can actually regard this auction house as his home. When the followers of the witch stationed at the local auction house heard about Shade's arrival, they hurriedly went out to greet him in person.

Miss Swift will come over tomorrow to look at the ledger, so everyone at the auction house was already very nervous. Of course, Xia De will be given the greatest support for his request to attend the small auction.

This auction is nominally a "charity auction", and the profits from the auction will be used to renovate the rural roads connecting the northern part of Yuewan City. Mrs. Jude loved to attend such events, and she always spent generously. Her good reputation in the local area was partly due to this.

There were not many people attending the auction, and the small hall used for the corresponding auction was not large. Before the auction officially started, all the auction items were displayed around the small hall, and people participating in the auction also held their wine glasses and admired it.

Mr. Schade and Mr. Bernhardt also specially changed into formal clothes. Each of them held a glass of champagne and stood in front of an abstract painting titled "Girl and Blue Sky" to make their own comments.

Of course, neither of them actually appreciated this style of oil painting.

Mrs. Jude had arrived at this time, but she was surrounded by three ladies talking, so they did not join her immediately.

While pretending to be professional in commenting on the oil paintings using lines, colors and contrasts of light and dark, they were actually quietly observing Mrs. Jude's every move. After the noble ladies covering their mouths and laughing lightly left together, and Mrs. Jude wanted to chat with the middle-aged man dressed as a painter next to her, Shade and Mr. Bernhardt walked over first.

"Good morning, Mrs. Jude."

"Oh, good morning, gentlemen."

The vampire noble lady looked at them curiously:

"Excuse me, what's the matter?"

Shade glanced at Mr. Bernhardt, who nodded and handed over his business card. Mrs. Jude was a little surprised after seeing it, but she still said politely:

"Viscount, good morning, it turns out that you are a distant relative from Willondale.

Please forgive me for not meeting you right away. I don’t really want to have any contact with Willendale’s family. I had some conflicts with them when I was young. "

She said it politely, but what she actually meant was that she refused to talk to Mr. Bernhardt about anything.

But since Mr. Bernhardt had already found a way to appear in front of her, when Bernhardt stretched out his hand, Mrs. Jude naturally stretched out her hand with white lace gloves and shook his hand gently.

Then Shade saw that Mr. Bernhardt crossed the index and middle fingers of his left hand in accordance with the secret signal agreed upon before coming. This also meant that the lady in front of him did not provide information for the [Dragon Feast Order]. Blood people.

Two of the five suspects have been eliminated, and the remaining three will be contacted at tonight's banquet.

But this auction trip is not over yet. Even if Mrs. Jude has nothing to do with the cultists, she might know something else. And so Herr Bernhard continues to speak:

"Mrs. Jude, if you don't want to be involved in some things, you will definitely not be involved. Please listen to me, this time."

"Gentlemen, the first round of auction is about to begin. Let's talk about it later, okay?"

The lady said with a smile, so Shade and the two had to find a place to sit down.

In the first round of the auction, Mrs. Jude bought two collections. One was the abstract oil painting just now, and the other was an ancient clock. It was a purely handmade product, not only an antique but also a work of art.

However, Mr. Shade and Mr. Bernhardt didn't buy anything. Mr. Bernhardt looked a little restless. During the interval after the first round of auction, he saw Mrs. Jude excuse herself to go to the bathroom and avoided the two of them. Mr. Bernhardt whispered to Shade in the deserted corridor:

"She sucked human blood, and just this morning."

He was holding a pocket watch in his hand, but inside the dial was an abstract pattern of blurred red and blue, which was even more difficult to understand than the oil painting just now.

This is also a magical item sent by Willendale's Vampire Order to support Mr. Bernhardt. It is specially used to detect whether vampires have sucked human blood. The accuracy is quite high, so there is no need to suspect mistakes.

"So, the news we heard from Captain Rudolph last night and the subsequent speculations are most likely correct? Is there really a problem with her adopting orphans and opening an orphanage?"

Shade asked, and Mr. Bernhardt nodded heavily:

"Yes. I will handle this matter. She broke the rules. If the church finds out, it will implicate all her kind."

At this moment, the sound of hurried footsteps came. The maid from the auction house walked over quickly and whispered to Shade:

"Mr. Watson, Mrs. Jude and her maid are coming downstairs. They are preparing to leave through the back door of the auction house."

The entrance to Cassandra Auction House is not just the main entrance. Some guests with sensitive identities always like to enter and exit through the hidden side door or the back door.

Outside the back door of the auction house is an alley, but because the front and rear of the alley are the auction house itself and the auction house's warehouse, the land in the alley also belongs to the auction house, and there are few pedestrians walking here on weekdays.

At this time, the carriage stopped in the alley. After the maid opened the door, Mrs. Jude, who was in a hurry, walked into it immediately and asked the coachman to set off immediately.

But just as the wheels were turning, they stopped again, and the coachman's voice came from the front of the carriage:

"Madam, there is someone blocking the road ahead. Look at this."

The lady stuck her head out of the car window and saw Mr. Bernhardt standing in the middle of the alley. So the corner of her mouth trembled and she closed the car window heavily. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said to the maid beside him:

"Get out of the car now and tell Viscount Bernhardt that I am not feeling very well right now. When I feel better, I will invite him to visit me. He is our relative in Willendale, you don't have to be afraid of him. "

"Yes, ma'am."

The maid then got off the carriage, and relying on the cover of her body, a small blood-red bat also flew out of the carriage at this time.

She flew almost close to the ground to avoid being noticed. But before she flew very far, she saw the handsome young man who had just appeared with Mr. Bernhard standing in front waiting for her.

The bats did not retreat, but accelerated towards Sha De, and suddenly turned into dozens of bats ten meters in front of Sha De, flying in different directions.

Mrs. Jude's body was hidden in the group of bats. She was still flying close to the ground, trying to get around Shade's right side. But she didn't expect that Shade didn't look at the pile of illusion bats at all. The bright yellow sword that appeared in his hand pierced directly into the soil around him. If the bat didn't fly fast enough, it might hit the sword.

The bat then changed direction and retreated, and then finally returned to the human form of Mrs. Jude.

After she landed, her nostrils flapped like a wild animal as she looked at the expressionless Shade. Then her plump cheeks quickly shriveled up as if dehydrated, until she returned to her original terrifying appearance of a vampire, and then her whole person transformed into a human being. A group of scarlet blood mist pounced on Shade.

Judging from the fact that her level is not high, but she can use her racial talents so skillfully, her vampire bloodline is indeed very noble.