"No problem, that's what I came for."
Xia De nodded and simply wrapped the makeup box with newspaper again:
"The lady did not ask me to bring you any reward."
"She's already paid, she threatened us, and then she got this for cheap."
The Mercury Blood Ringmaster said in a muffled voice, glancing at the stranger:
"You were hired by that lady, right? She doesn't want us to know her true identity. But we can probably guess that this kind of behavior must be done by a witch from the Witch Council. I just don't know which one it is. Those crazy women..."
"You don't have to tell me your guess."
Xia De stopped the other party. He did not forget that Mercury Blood was not a good person. Even if what the other party said was true, it would be better to listen less to it.
"Oh? Are you afraid that you'll be silenced if you hear too much? Those women who claim to have inherited the legacy of the ancient witch emperor really hate men. Hiring you is just to use you. She probably doesn't want others to know her existence, so you must not know who she is. Or... you are not a man at all?"
The other party asked again in a provocative tone. Xia De deliberately sneered to express his disdain. This method of provoking conflicts was too low-level.
He simply ignored the other person, stared at the driver, slowly backed away, and only turned and left after reaching a safe distance.
There was heavy fog tonight. During the short few minutes of receiving the goods, I couldn't see the bridge entrance clearly when I stood in the middle of the bridge.
Seeing that Shade didn't listen, the man dressed as a coachman laughed and wanted to get on the carriage and leave from the other side of the Tower Bridge. But at this moment, a figure wearing a black robe and a hood suddenly jumped up from under the bridge.
The timing of her appearance was very clever, taking advantage of the fog and the relaxation period after the handover. After getting on the bridge, she rushed towards the driver, who punched forward casually, and the mercury-like liquid wrapped around his arm, causing his fist to break through the air with an astonishing whistling sound.
The hooded figure dodged swiftly to the side, and then summoned the Life Ring amid the ringing of the bell. The Life Ring spun, and the brass-colored Enlightenment Rune of the Frozen Dead flashed. In the summer night fog, there was actually a rustling sound of water vapor condensing.
Shade turned around and looked at the sudden battle. The mercury in the driver's fist seemed to have problems due to the low temperature, but the hooded figure still did not dare to confront him head-on.
Both of the people fighting summoned their life rings, and the emergence of steam mist made their vision even more blurred.
"Stranger, this is a conflict between me and Mercury Blood. It has nothing to do with you. Get out of here."
The woman's voice came from under the hood, and Shade, who was about to leave, stopped. He carefully placed the makeup box wrapped in newspaper on the bridge, and the life ring of the first-ring warlock gradually emerged behind him.
"A first-ring warlock? Come and help me. I won't let you suffer any loss."
The man with the mercury blood shouted.
"Of course."
As Xia De said this, he quickly walked towards the two people who were fighting.
The situation is now evenly matched, but the hooded man seems to have the upper hand because of his sneak attack.
The brass-colored enlightenment aura emerging from the hooded man's body was fighting against the power of mercury on the driver's fist. The life rings of both sides were spinning. The hooded man and the driver were both fourth-ring warlocks, but the latter was obviously better at frontal combat.
Xia De had already passed through the thick fog on the bridge and approached the two people. The silver light on his right hand flashed, drawing a bright light in the air. The light was extremely dazzling, and it appeared in this summer night shrouded in thick fog, which actually made the driver lose consciousness for a moment:
"So beautiful... No, why is this light coming towards me..."
Yin Yue's slash hit his face in an instant. Although he saw that the opponent was a first-ring sorcerer and knew that the power of the magic would not be very strong, his subconscious vigilance still made him raise his other arm to block it.
Unexpectedly, the silver light actually created a long wound on his arm. The blood flowing from the wound was mixed with a silver luster and soon soaked through the clothes on his shoulders.
"No! How can you possibly split my skin?"
Xia De knew that the huge gap in the number of rings could not be made up by the divine afterglow state, so the second silver moon light mark flew out immediately. At the same time, silver mist gradually gathered from the surroundings, and the illusion of the moon shadow allowed him to hide his figure in front of the enemy.
Faced with the second moon mark, the driver chose to dodge immediately this time, but he dodged the silver moonlight in the distance but failed to dodge the hooded figure nearby.
The hooded man grabbed his shoulders, and as his white hands exerted force and his joints bulged, Shade understood the meaning of the spell:
"At the end of the fairy tale, the fire takes away all traces of life!"
Dazzling flames shot up into the sky in the night fog, and the driver caught by the hooded man burned like a torch. He screamed and struggled to break free from the hooded man's hand, and was then cut on the left arm by the third silver moon's light.
It still only broke through the mercury protection of the inner layer of the skin, but it was not fatal. In the firelight, the driver suddenly broke free from the hooded man's palm, then suddenly jumped up and jumped into the Terrarium River beside him in the fog.
The hooded man hesitated, followed the trace of fire in the air, and jumped off the bridge. When Shade dispersed the illusion and lay on the edge of the bridge looking down, he could not see through the thick fog to the water surface and the two people.
So I could only turn on the Blood Echo to observe the bloodstains. Of course, there was a long trail of red halo traces in the air, but after entering the water, the blood was quickly washed away by the water and could no longer be tracked.
"It turns out that the nemesis of the tracking ability Blood Echo is the surface of water or the river."
Thinking of this, he shrugged his shoulders, looked at the frightened horse for a moment, and then turned around to pick up the makeup box on the ground.
Five minutes later, Shade met Miss Louisa, who was soaking wet, under the bridge. She had taken off her hood, and her long, wet blond hair stuck to her face, which only highlighted the bad mood of the blond girl.
"Good evening, detective. I'm so lucky to run into you again. It's unlucky that he got away with this situation!"
She said frustratedly, recognizing it as Shade from the silver moonlight just now. Shade recognized Miss Louisa by her voice, which was very simple, her voice was very recognizable.
"It's a coincidence. Someone hired me to pick up an item, so I happened to be here."
He shook the object in his hand.
"I was just by the bridge and saw it. Is this the lady's mission? It's pretty simple."
Miss Louisa said as she fixed her hair. She didn't really care that the lady's trading partner was Mercury Blood. As long as they were not cooperating deeply with Mercury Blood, and were just buying and selling items, it was a very normal thing. And according to Shade's information, "that lady" had a very high status and was very powerful. She was definitely not a partner of Mercury Blood.
"Detective, is there any water that can heal?"
After tidying up her wet hair and not dealing with her clothes that were still dripping with water, Miss Louisa asked Shade.
"Are you hurt?"
As he asked, he took out some water from the small bottle he carried with him and gently tapped the water, causing the surface to radiate a silvery luster.
"It's just a minor injury. I got punched in the river. He seems to have the ability to transform into a fish, or maybe it's a relic. I'm fine, I just feel a little uncomfortable in my lungs."
Miss Louisa said, but having learned the lesson from the last burp, she only drank a little this time, then avoided Shad's sight, poured the remaining water into her abdomen, and then handed the bottle back to Shad.
During this process, Shad looked aside very gentlemanly, pretending to be interested in the night view of Tower Bridge and Tobesk.
"Do you need the Silver Moon Gift from Scindia?"
Xia De asked again, handing the robe he used to cover his identity to Miss Louisa, who was soaked. It was summer, and the robe only meant hiding his identity, not keeping warm.
Miss Louisa didn't expect him to do this. She thanked him in a low voice and wrapped herself tightly in her robe.
Although she can set others on fire, she cannot use fire to warm or dry herself. After all, no matter which version of the match girl story, the match girl has not been able to use fire to redeem herself.
"No need for treatment for now. That punch did not contain any mental attack. Also, your Silver Moon Slash is really good. It can break through the defense of a fourth-ring warlock. But it is still not powerful enough. After all, the number of rings is too low..."
She sniffed.
The reason why Xia De showed up was to help someone pick up the goods, and Miss Louisa showed up dressed like this late at night, still for Dr. Schneider's college bounty order.
Although the doctor is now bedridden, Miss Louisa, as a partner, can still do something.
Currently, under the pursuit of the Orthodox Church, the Mercury Blood Organization was scattered all over the city. While tracking one of its important members, Miss Louisa learned about the transaction tonight. So she thought about whether she could catch a live person and ask about the forged Philosopher's Stone, but she didn't expect that even with the unexpected help of Shade, she still failed.
"Now all the ring sorcerers in Tobisk City know that the Five Gods Church has reached an agreement that the Sun Church will send a thirteenth ring sorcerer next week to fill the vacancy of the Tobisk Diocese without a thirteenth ring. The cultists and Mercury Blood are eager to hide, so they have scattered those important items and information around the city and have ordinary people keep them for them, so now is a good opportunity to find a forged Philosopher's Stone."
"So do we still need to continue looking for the guy who fell into the water? If we can find the place where he came ashore, I think my eyes can find him."
Xia De suggested that as long as the guy was still bleeding, he would definitely leave traces after he came out of the water.
But he shook the item in his hand again:
"I can only stay for half an hour. This thing needs to be delivered to the employer as soon as possible."