Whispering Verse

The time key thing is over for the time being, and this Monday is the real beginning. But before everyone left home that morning, Shade asked one last question:

"Carina, do you know where you can find Director Anlos now?"

The last time Shade met with Director Anlos was a few weeks ago. Director Anlos said that when MI6 restarted the dormant agents in Moon Bay City, they found that one of them was missing.

He said at the time that if he really couldn't find that person, he would ask Sha De to help investigate, but since then Sha De has not received any new notification.

But this morning, Shade went to see his boss not because of this matter, but because he wanted MI6 to help investigate the matter of Yuewan Bank.

I met Director Anlos in a restaurant on Silver Cross Avenue. Shade often brought his cat here to finish his dinner, but it was still early and there were only a few customers having breakfast in the restaurant.

When Shade arrived, Director Anlos, who had received the letter from the maid sent by Miss Carina, had already hid his face behind the newspaper and sat down at the table in the corner. Shade didn't know why his home was so close to here, but Director Anlos came here first.

"Want to find a specific account?"

After hearing Xia De's request, the ordinary-looking middle-aged man hesitated:

"Do you know which bank it is?"

"I don't know. I just know that in the past two years, that account has conducted large remittance transactions during certain periods."

Shade took out the date that Baron Chandler gave yesterday in the basement of the autopsy room.

Director Anlos nodded, folded the piece of paper and put it into his pocket:

"Leave it to me, today is Monday, and we will have the results before the end of this week."

"So fast?"

Shade raised his eyebrows in surprise, and Director Anlos held the tea cup and said:

"We have been paying close attention to the situation of Yuewan frequently in recent years. Large-value transactions of major banks in Yuewan are one of the things we pay attention to. If you just find an account and check the transaction records, it couldn't be simpler. I know you The things they are involved in must be troublesome, and I will ask them to proceed with caution.”

Xia De didn't ask much:

"Has the missing colleague you mentioned some time ago been found now?"

Director Anlos sighed:

"Not found, but there is some progress in the investigation."

He didn't seem to have had breakfast yet, so he met Sha De here to solve his breakfast problem, so he didn't mind saying a few more words to Sha De:

"The disappearance of that man was not a betrayal of the company, but an accident. He was sent to work so far away and had no contact with the headquarters for so many years. It is normal for accidents to happen. But we still have to investigate and find out what happened. It’s unexpected, after all, at least a month and a half ago, that person was still living as usual.”

There was breakfast in front of him, and there was only a teacup in front of Shade:

"Homicide? Love murder? Accidental death? Or was he involved in something unspeakable?"

The latter refers to things related to ring warlocks.

So Director Anlos looked around alertly and saw that the breakfast atmosphere in the restaurant was very leisurely, so he lowered his voice again:

"It's funny to say that it has something to do with the Rhodes cards. No, it's not something like owing money for gambling cards. It has something to do with a collectible-level card with special rules."

Shade raised his eyebrows:

"You're not talking about the "foreign businessman and the missing three playing cards" thing that has been spreading in Yuewan City recently, right?"

"You do know."

Director Anlos smiled and said:

"It is said that each of those three playing cards can be sold for more than five hundred pounds. They are all very old playing cards. Our colleague is not a card player himself, but he is a collector and reseller of antiques in Yuewan. business.

Judging from the current situation, it seems that he got one of the cards and suddenly disappeared while planning a deal with others to sell it for a big price. "

After speaking, he picked up the tea cup and took a sip of coffee. Shade noticed that his boss drank coffee without adding sugar at all.

"But even so, we must avenge him. After all, this is the rule."

"Do you know which card it is?"

Shade asked again, Director Anlos shook his head:

"Those three cards caused a lot of things in Yuewan. It's still unclear which one they are."

Among the three legendary cards, [Holy Sword·Dragon-Slaying Sword] Shade has already obtained it from the dead businessman and his son. It has nothing to do with the missing and dead agent, and [Ancient Alchemy·Dragon Stone] Shade will soon I've heard of it once before.

The cousin of Viscount Bel Guerra, the champion of the Ayutthaya Players in 1850, tried to get information about this card from the vampire Captain Rudolf, but at that time Captain Rudolf admitted that he did not have this card. Viscount Guerra obviously had wrong information.

Therefore, the card that appeared in the hand of the missing and dead agent should be "Ancient Alchemy" or the unknown third card:

"I once met an information dealer in Moon Bay. She said she had clues to one of the three cards. If I have time, I will help investigate."

This refers to Mrs. Frey, the female shopkeeper of the "high-end technical place" Parsifal Club. Although it is not clear which of the three cards she knows, Shade does not mind trying to give back and give herself a monthly gift. Salary to MI6.

The meeting with Director Anlos didn't take much time, because he had to come back in the afternoon to attend the Holy Prayer Church activities, so after returning home, Shade took the time to go to Moon Bay as planned.

As for little Mia, a cat whose tail is on fire is not fit to be outside. But Shade is not worried that the cat will burn down No. 6 St. Teresa Square. Miss Carina will stay until Tifa comes back, so there will be several maids in the house all the time, and they will also help look after the cat. Cat's.

After walking out of the cave connected to Dragon Nest, I looked out over the city from the grove. The fire last night had obviously been extinguished, but the sky above the city was still shrouded in black mist.

When Shade entered the city through the city gate from the St. George Stone Bridge, he found that the street in front of him was indeed half-burnt. The air is still filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke. Although there are not many buildings that have completely collapsed, most of them have signs of being burned, and black smoke is rising towards the dark sky.

This street directly connected to St. George's Stone Bridge seems to be much livelier than usual, because residents and businessmen on the street are sorting out various damages in their homes, drying furniture that has been wet due to fire fighting, and moving those that have been damaged. Burnt furniture and other trash.

Police wearing hard hats walked up and down the streets as if counting the damage, and the city's fire department was still working to prevent a resurgence in the building. The people who died in last night's fire have also been transported away, leaving behind those who have to continue to face life to pick up the pieces.

Judging from the battle situation last night, the most severely damaged areas should be the area on fire in the north of the city, and the block in the east of the city where the witches fought with the "Light Chasers".

But the latter was protected by the witches, so although the house suffered a lot of damage, there should be only a few dead citizens. The north of the city was really hit by a catastrophic impact due to the raging blood-sucking monsters and fires.

Because Shade's appearance was different from last night, people on the street did not recognize the young man passing by as the person who helped them last night. However, Shade saw the two children who were rescued from the fire last night. They held hands and followed behind their father and mother, looking for anything that could be used in the ruins of their house.

He didn't talk to them, just stood there and watched for a while and then left.

Not only in the city, but obviously something happened in the countryside outside Yuewan City last night, but not only did the coachman not know about these things, but the details were not even published in the newspapers.

Because of last night's situation, local reporters spent the night sorting out the damage situation in various parts of the city, and before the morning newspapers went on sale this morning, they added small newspapers outside of the newspaper's sequential number, that is, "extra numbers." But the headline on the front page was not the situation compiled by the reporters, but the reassuring speech that the mayor of Yuewan City was going to deliver this morning, which was rushed to major newspapers in the middle of the night yesterday.

While Shade was reading the newspaper in the carriage to learn about the situation, he also discussed it with the carriage driver. The carriage driver, who was in his thirties, was lucky enough to be almost unaffected:

"Sir, my family lives in the lower city area in the south of the city. When something happened last night, someone organized the neighbors to get together and hide in the basement. They waited until dawn before going out. The matter was over. It was said to be [Eternal Light], I heard People say this is an organization that helps the poor, and they are really good people.

Some people say there are monsters in the city, but I think the robbers are the scariest. There were gunshots everywhere last night. The guest in my carriage just read the mayor's speech for me. Mr. Wright said that the pirates were trying to rob the city in conjunction with the gangs in the city, but I don't think it was that simple. "

Last night, the fire enveloped five streets in the north of the city connected by the St. George Stone Bridge. After leaving this area, the traces of the fire basically disappeared. But on the streets where the carriage passed, you could still see city workers splashing water and solvent on the streets to wash away the blood, priests visiting door to door, and vehicles transporting corpses passing through the streets and alleys.

Those blood-sucking monsters killed many people in the city last night. And besides monsters, gangsters who fish in troubled waters and want to commit robberies and other crimes also create the same evil.

Shade and the coachman did not discuss much about the tragic situation in the city. Shade did not know how to speak, while the coachman believed that the prophecy about the city was probably true and that this kind of thing would happen again in the future.

The further we move towards the core area of ​​the city, the more we find that the impact of last night's riot on the city is getting smaller. When the carriage arrived near Belindel Manor, there were almost no traces of turmoil.

It's just that Belindle Manor is in the same neighborhood as the City Hall, so the police checked suspicious people passing by at the intersections of nearby neighborhoods. Shade, who was riding in the carriage, was also interrogated, but he was also fooled.