Whispering Verse

Although the repulsed evil spirit did not suffer much damage, Shade's actions made it become more violent. Below the elemental corrosion spirit body, more and more black faces appeared from the depths of its soul, and Shade could even hear the continuous whispers and curses coming from his ears.

His right foot swept away the fallen leaves on the ground, and before it attacked Shade again with its white mist, Shade took the initiative and rushed over with swords in both hands:

"one!"

He thrust forward suddenly, and the moonlight sword was blocked by the pale green shield as expected.

"two!"

Through [Raglai's Jump], his figure appeared behind the evil spirit, and the light shield appeared again to block the sword in Shade's hand.

"three!"

The sword and light shield competed with each other behind the evil spirit. The second sword summoned by [Blade of Chaotic Time] appeared from the front of the soul and hit the evil spirit's head directly.

The light shield is in the shape of half an eggshell. If it defends against attacks from behind, it cannot defend against attacks from the front. The two-handed sword carrying the moonlight pierced out of the air, first piercing the blood-red hand stretched out from the spirit body's neck - the evil spirit's abilities are mostly related to resentment and the cause of death, and then the sword blade pierced the spirit body's neck. head.

The light shield behind him disappeared at this moment, but Shade did not relax:

"Mind blast!"

With one punch, the black faces surrounding the soul disappeared in shock. . . The whispering elements were expelled along with the white mist. With the appearance of the pure white spirit body and the appearance of cracks on the surface of the spirit body, Shade knew that he had won.

At the last moment of collapse, Professor Higgins turned to look at Shad, his eyes filled with puzzlement and confusion. He was about to say his last words before disappearing. This is the unique characteristic of the evil spirits in the Fort Midhill area:

"Why."

I didn't mean to be troublesome, but his sad expression was indeed pitiful. The soul is about to disappear, and Shade is not worried about the other party informing him. Considering that he had taken the other person's suitcase, Shade sighed and couldn't help but said in relief:

"Actually, I am a gray eagle, so your mission did not fail, you succeeded, Professor."

Professor Higgins' "last words" came to an abrupt end, and the soul that was collapsing from the bottom up looked at him.

"Yes, I am the Gray Eagle of Tobesk. I got the information from Virgil Cameron of the Principality of Set. In that pen, the accurate information is - the last day of this month , your goods are in the warehouse with a red door plate on Punjab Street, Fort Midhill. The ink is blue and black, and the paper is rolled up."

The professor's pure white and transparent hand grabbed his arm, and his soul, which was about to collapse, became whole again because of Shade's words. So, Shade lightly drew with his finger, and the black cracks immediately opened, and the light spots of souls floated towards the place of death:

"Leave, your mission has been completed."

He said softly, and Professor Higgins' soul looked at him:

"Tomorrow at half past nine, on the platform of the Fort Midhill train station. Take a bouquet of red roses, wear gray gloves backwards, and a gold pen in your breast pocket. Remember to dress decently and have someone hand over the box. Password, no, all ages, interested in."

Shade looked at him in surprise. There was no mention in his memory that he could complete the task like this. But he soon realized that after one of his companions was shot and another committed suicide, Professor Higgins could not fail to notify his superiors of the change in the mission within a week.

Therefore, this is a new arrangement. Professor Higgins did not expect to be able to take this box away.

The soul had collapsed, leaving only the part above the neck. Shade nodded slightly, but did not make a promise. He thought of the password for giving up the mission (Chapter 561) that he got from the cipher text in the newspaper, so he whispered in Kassenric:

"Your mission accomplished - everlasting loyalty."

"eternal loyalty"

The spirit body completely collapsed and floated into the "Death Door" opened by Shade.

Shade waved his palm, as if smoothing the black crack with his palm.

Then he sighed slightly, raised his head over the treetops of the dense forest, and looked at the dim sun in the sky. The strange optical effect makes the dim sun disc blurry and reflects the gradually thickening sunset glow:

"This world is really dangerous for ordinary people."

Professor Higgins' body was buried in the Sikar Mountains, under a tree where you could overlook Fort Midhill, and then returned to Tobesk's home with the suitcase.

There was no one at home, and under the setting sun, only Mia the cat happily jumped down the stairs from the second floor to welcome Shade home.

Therefore, no matter how bad things happened to Shade outside, he would always feel good when he came home and saw the cat that greeted him.

I changed out of the clothes I wore when I went to Fort Midhill, and after freshening up a little, I took the cat with me to find Dorothy on Quill Street in the University District.

It's a pity that the blond writer lady is not at home. The landlady said that she went home to have dinner with her family.

So Shade pretended that he was taking a walk in the evening, walked to Silver Cross Avenue with Mia in his arms, and handed a note to Agelina's maid in the flower shop to see Lesia in an emergency.

Later, in the lounge specially reserved for Agelina behind the flower shop, they tasted rose tea and exquisite rose cakes. Agelina sometimes sneaks out and likes to spend time alone in this flower shop, so the lounge reserved for her is really nice.

After eating and drinking with the cat, Lesia sent a letter asking Shade to wait for her by the Terrariel River on the west side of Yodel Palace. After a while she and Agelina would go out to see the opera, and after the carriage took them through the Via Felice, they would stop by the river.

"The lives of princesses are really pleasant."

Sighing in his heart, Shade picked up the suitcase that he had not opened yet and set off again with the soft cat that looked like he was sleepy. Bypass the huge Jodel Palace complex from the side, pass through the street between Jodel Palace and the Kingdom House, enter the intersection with Felice Pastoral Street, and choose the road leading to the river at the five-way intersection. That one.

The Terrarel River in autumn is still a wet season, and freight ships are rushing to transport the last cargo of the year before the winter freezes.

At this time, the sun has almost completely set, and the Terrariel River is reflected in a golden color. Steamboats with thick chimneys patrolled the river, pulling out columns of smoke behind them. The autumn wind swept across the water, creating sparkling waves. People couldn't help but squint their eyes due to the reflected light.

Wild geese pass through the sky in a row. In this hazy city sky, the irregular cotton-like clouds are almost impossible to observe. When the sun showed its last rays of light, the traces of three moons could already be seen on the horizon.

The red moon, the yellow moon, and the silver moon, the three moons hang in the shadowy starry sky. This is dusk, and it is probably the most pleasant time of the day. Because no matter who it is, they will subconsciously slow down at this moment, and night is coming.

Shade didn't wait long by the river before the princesses' motorcade drove over. But after the motorcade drove away, an ordinary-looking carriage stopped.

Not far away was the Cavendish Bridge across the Terrarel River - this Tower Bridge was built with royal money, and the coachman motioned to Shade to go to the bridge. So Shade and the cat walked leisurely along the river bank, and the carriage followed him at an extremely slow speed.

Soon they arrived at the bridge. Shade walked onto the bridge. After walking about twelve steps, he stopped and looked at the scenery outside the bridge. Mia looked curiously at the water under the bridge in his arms, then shrank her head as if she was frightened.

The carriage slowly blocked behind Shade. As the door opened, Shade turned around suddenly and rushed in with the cat in his arms at an extremely fast speed, as if he was holding an orange steam bomb.

Because he was going too fast, he almost bumped into Agelina who wanted to put her head in to say hello to him.

"Shadow, good evening."

"Good evening, Lesia, oh, good evening, Your Highness Agelina."

I don’t know if it’s because Shade took the initiative to come to her this time, but Lesia, who was wearing a red dress, was in a very high mood:

"Is there something you want to do if you wrote to me specifically?"

Because it would be very troublesome to explain MI6, Detective Sparrow and vampires, so Shade asked directly:

"Have any valuables or confidential documents been lost in the kingdom's important departments recently that can be put into this box?"

Shade put the black suitcase on his lap. The cat that was placed next to the bench immediately jumped up and lay down on the box.

"Agelina, give me a hug."

Shade then handed the troublesome cat to the little princess, who happily hugged Mia. Seeing that Shade was really talking about business, Mia struggled symbolically to show that she was actually unwilling.

"I picked this up from Fort Midhill. It belongs to the Gray Gloves."

"Grey gloves?"

Lesia smiled, not realizing how important this was:

"Our great detective did not forget to contribute to the kingdom at Fort Midhill. Oh, I remembered, you are still an agent of MI6."

The five people in the team all knew that "that lady" had arranged for Shade to get paid without having to work, but no one knew what Shade's current salary and status were in MI6.

"A detective is both a knight and an agent?"

Agelina, who was holding the cat, whispered, but no one paid attention to her.

"Let me think about it. The kingdom has not lost any important information recently."

Lesia curled her hair around her ears with her fingers and answered.

"So is it possible that important documents or information were copied?"

“Unlikely”

She raised her eyebrows:

"Other than the four metal plates in your basement, I'm not aware of any recent leaks of important items."

She was referring to the mother of four one-shilling notes.

Agelina looked very curious, but neither Shade nor Lesia wanted to explain.

"So what could it be?"

Shade looked at the suitcase on his lap with a solemn expression.

"Would you know if you open it and take a look?"

Lesia looked past Shade out of the car window. It was difficult for her and Agelina to show up, so she could only look at the Terrariel River from this small window. It had only been twenty minutes since Shade arrived at the riverside, and the last traces of the sunset had already disappeared.

On the calm Terrariel River, the lights of steamships dot the river scenery. On both sides of the river are the lights of thousands of families. This is the core city of Tobesk, the Pearl of the North. The firelight of the steam age symbolizes the greatest civilization of this era. Achievement.

This scene made Lecia Cavendish even more convinced that she deserved all this.

PS: Guess what’s in the box. Someone will guess it correctly before the evening update. I’ll add another chapter tomorrow.