Whispering Verse

The princess smiled and said to the astonished Shade, and then motioned to Shade to sit down and talk:

"We happen to meet here, do you want to watch the opera together?"

The only other people in the box were the maids. Agelina Cavendish came out to the opera alone this time.

But she probably didn't know that Shade was waiting for her sister, but really wanted to invite Shade to watch the opera together, otherwise she would never invite Shade to stay.

Shade himself does not want to be associated with more Cavendish, which will cause a lot of trouble. He deliberately found an excuse to refuse the other party's invitation, but perhaps seeing what Shade meant, Princess Agelina said again:

"Knight, do you have any other companions? Or are you waiting for someone? Oh, it doesn't matter, you can invite them together."

Agelina Cavendish's attitude was very sincere. Seeing this, Shade couldn't refuse anymore, but thinking of the news that Lesia had just sent that she would not arrive for at least half an hour, he said:

"Okay, Your Highness, but I can only stay here for half an hour. I have other things to do later. I came to watch the opera today because I received a commission."

"No problem, but you must come to my salon next time. My friends are very interested in you..."

The sixteen-year-old princess said happily, then motioned for Shade to sit down and talk, and asked her maid to pour tea and bring new biscuits.

Rather than watching the opera, the conversation between the two was what really interested Shade.

Although in the eyes of outsiders, Princess Agelina is the kind of princess who is favored by the king, hangs out at banquets and salons, and is just waiting to be promised a political marriage by Larus III, but when it comes to domestic politics and the recent Carson Rick She can easily give her own opinions and opinions on the news, which is no worse than Shade imagined.

She even knew about things in the New World. Although Her Royal Highness herself did not like remote places where even cake shops were not available, she was very clear when talking about the gains the kingdom had gained from the New World.

Of course, it was only a very simple explanation, and more of it was the strange experiences she heard from the people around her. For example, she excitedly told Shade that there was a cat in the New World that was smaller than an ordinary mouse. It was very cute and docile, did not shed hair, had a small appetite, and excreted at eight o'clock in the morning every day.

However, the diet of this idealized pet was limited to fresh leaves of the cat's tail sage, a plant that can only grow in the New World. Therefore, the strange creature called the "mouse cat" by the expedition was not brought to the princess.

"When that kind of grass can be transplanted to the Old World, I will definitely raise one."

The princess said to Shade, but Shade couldn't imagine adding a new pet.

He could simply imagine the orange cat Mia squatting on the highest cabinet in the house, the whole cat hidden in the darkness, watching with a gloomy face the terrifying scene of Shade interacting with his new pet under the gas lamp.

The two of them chatted and watched the opera. The half hour passed quickly.

Princess Agelina let Shade leave as promised, but before leaving, she once again invited Shade to attend her salon if she had time:

"When I first saw you in the courtyard on the second floor terrace of Lakeview Manor, I felt that you were different from everyone else."

The little princess praised:

"Don't refuse the invitation next time, knight, I have a crush on you."

Shade smiled and agreed, but he also said that he was very busy recently and would not have time for a few months.

Saying goodbye to the princess at the door of the box, Shade walked along the corridor to the stairs, planning to return to the box and continue waiting for Lesia.

At the corner of the corridor, he met three strange men wearing black trench coats and walking in a hurry. Shade stepped aside to let them pass first. The tall man in the black hat, who was leading the group, nodded to Shade as a thank you. Shade was very curious that these three gentlemen were actually wearing regular clothes to watch the opera.

"Probably the guard of a certain great noble."

He was thinking in his mind, thinking about what he would say when he saw Lesia later, lowered his head and continued to move forward. Because he had his head lowered, his eyes were unconsciously looking at the floor beneath his feet.

Therefore, he saw a series of not dense red halos on the red carpet under his feet.

"Um?"

His footsteps didn't stop, but his eyes blinked twice and he immediately figured out what this was:

"Is this the echo of blood? Can it still be displayed passively now?"

Shade was surprised to think that these red halos were indeed the manifestation of [Echo of Blood]. But he did not activate the thaumaturgy, which shows that this thaumaturgy can actively display fresher blood stains at close range.

As soon as his mind moved, these haloes disappeared immediately. It seemed that once the passive state was noticed and became active, Shade could still cancel it at any time.

"But where did the blood come from? Was it on the bottom of the shoes of the three people just now?"

Anyway, he had nothing to do now, so Shade stopped and walked back to the corner of the corridor, tilting his head back and looking at the three men.

The three of them stopped in front of Agelina's box. After knocking on the door, the person at the front seemed to reach out and cover the mouth of the person inside. The three of them rushed in and closed the door.

The corridor returned to calm, with only the sound of the opera still echoing. The three men didn't notice Shade's head sticking out from around the corner, and naturally they didn't know that Shade had seen this scene.

"what's the situation?"

Shade raised his eyebrows and straightened his sloping body.

When they passed by each other just now, the voices in their ears did not indicate that the three of them were ring warlocks, so this should not be Shade's unlucky encounter with another mysterious incident.

But something was obviously wrong with the three of them, so Shade restored the revolver that had been turned into a toy to its original state. Since this kind of thing happened, it is natural to take care of it, not to mention that Princess Agelina is Lesia's younger sister.

He returned to the door, knocked on the door and said loudly:

"Your Highness, I'm sorry."

He wanted to say that he had left something behind, but he thought that once the three men discovered that the items that Shade said he had left behind were not in the room, then the other men would know that Shade was prepared.

So Shade said:

"Your Highness, I left the garter you gave me with you."

There were five women in the room, and Shade couldn't believe that they couldn't even find a garter. The princess didn't say that she wanted to give Shade garters just now, so they could know at this time that Shade had noticed something was wrong.

The sound insulation of this kind of private room for nobles is very good. You should be able to hear Shade's loud words inside, but he can't hear the sound inside. After a while, the door was opened a crack, and the trembling maid stood in front of the crack, her mouth closed as if she wanted to speak but didn't dare.

She actually handed Shade a garter.

Decorated with white lace and topped with a light pink bow secured with pearls. When Shade got it, he even felt the body temperature on it.

"Your Highness!"

He held the door open, not giving anyone a chance to close the door, but he also had no intention of pushing the door open:

"I know I made you angry just now, so you don't want to see me, but please believe that what you did just now was definitely not an offensive move."

He blinked at the maid blocking the door in front of him, who bit her lip and looked at him.

"Please forgive me, otherwise I will not leave today!"

he said.

After a few seconds, Agelina's voice came from behind the door:

"Yes, Detective, I forgive you."

The tone of her words was also wrong. Shade was curious about who could be so bold, so he continued:

"Your Highness, your eyes are as bright as stars, and your lips are more moving than delicate roses. I beg your forgiveness. Please see me one last time. If you reject me face to face, I will definitely give up this time. .”

Of course, Shade didn't make up such words. He heard them just now when he was listening to the opera. The three men who had just arrived obviously did not hear the actors reading this line just now.

"You really want to leave after seeing me once?"

Agelina behind the door said intermittently, and Shade immediately replied:

"Oh, yes, Your Highness, please believe me."

The room was quiet again for a while. After at least half a minute, the maid blocking the door was suddenly pulled back. Then Agelina seemed to be pushed out from the side and blocked the door again. .

The little princess pursed her lips and looked at Shade. Her body blocked the view from the outside to the inside, but it also blocked the view from the inside. Shade didn't know if Agelina Cavendish had the good habit of carrying steam bombs with her whenever she went out like her sister and liked to give steam bombs to others, so she defaulted to her inability to fight.

After pressing the hammer down on the gun in his hand, he shook it in front of the princess:

"careful."

He made such a mouth shape, and then continued to speak the opera lines he just heard, regardless of whether Agelina understood it or not:

"Even the shining stars in the night sky are not enough for you."

Agelina blinked at Shade, and her right hand suddenly moved, pointing her index fingers in three different directions. Behind the door, faint breathing could be heard, which indicated that she was trying to tell Shade the location of the enemy.

"It seems she is not completely useless."

As he was thinking about things in his mind, Xia De didn't realize what was actually coming out of his mouth. But he knew very well that he couldn't delay it, otherwise no matter how stupid the people inside were, they would understand that Shade was stalling for time.

"Ordinary people are here, so I can't use the power of the Ring Warlock rashly. Even if I use it, I can only use it that won't easily arouse suspicion. It's a pity that the doctor hasn't gotten the [Psychic Crystal] yet. It's distributed by MI6 Although the Ruger revolver has six chambers, it cannot be fired continuously. In the first moment, I could only kill one person with my gun."

Thinking about it in his heart, Shade had already made a decision. He held the gun in his right hand, and took out four Rhodes cards from his pocket with his left hand, holding them between his fingers.