Xia De and Yin Luna looked at each other, and both of them felt very strange:
"Ms. Lathers, did you see the other person's face?"
"I haven't seen it, but I can almost confirm that the very young girl is definitely not a normal person."
Miss Lathers continued:
"There was no feeling of pain in that erased memory, which means that the missing girl was not harmed or tortured during the week she was missing. In that memory, I smelled a faint floral scent, but also a bloody scent. Memory itself doesn't explain anything. I'm sorry, I can only help you up to this point."
"No, no, you can still help us. Since this is an opera house, there should be professional makeup artists and flower girl costumes, right? I remember that in many operas, there are scenes of flower girls selling flowers on the street."
Yin Luna had not forgotten her plan. She knew that Xia De did not want her to take risks, so she said to Xia De:
"Shad, please treat me as an independent individual, not just an ordinary girl under your protection."
She looked at Xia De, and then gradually looked away from him:
"I promise I won't take any risks. If there's any danger, I'll call you the first time."
In the end, Xia De could only reluctantly agree to this plan. Miss Lathers found clothes suitable for Yin Luna, and then asked a professional makeup artist to make her up like a girl selling flowers on the street.
The makeup artist of the Golden Dawn Opera Company was indeed professional. When Xia De, who was waiting outside the dressing room, saw Yin Luna again, he almost thought she was the girl selling flowers on the street. Not only that, Yin Luna looked very young. After putting on makeup, except for being a little taller, she looked three or four years younger.
"You really look like you are about thirteen or fourteen years old now."
He also smiled and praised Yin Luna for being very young. He thought it was the right thing to do to compliment a girl on her youth, but he didn't expect Yin Luna to be a little unhappy.
Xia De spent money to buy all the flowers, even the flower basket, from the flower girl he found near the opera house just now, and asked Yin Luna to carry it and continue selling flowers in the area where the girl who had already sold all the flowers was originally active.
Because it was known that every disappearance occurred in an alley, Yin Luna was also asked to frequently cross the nearby alleys.
And on this afternoon while waiting for the disappearance to happen again, Xia De kept hanging around Yin Luna, and even approached her to buy a Lyon chrysanthemum and a Randall carnation.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Yin Luna, who was already feeling a little bored, walked into the alley next to the opera house again. Xia De was waiting at the entrance of the alley reading a newspaper, planning to follow her in two minutes.
Unexpectedly, an accident happened this time, because the unique light of the sunlight gun suddenly flashed in the alley.
Xia De immediately dropped the newspaper and chased after him. He then saw that the alley was empty, with only a small amount of fresh blood on the ground:
"Oh, I knew I couldn't use bait... Blood Echo!"
A scarlet halo immediately appeared in the air. Xia De followed the direction of the halo and then, near the exit at the other end of the alley, he saw the halo directly enter the opened sewer pipe.
Although the smell of the city's sewer pipes was terrible, Shade still turned into a red butterfly and flew down. After gaining a foothold in the foul and humid environment, he continued to chase forward in the darkness, following the scarlet halos.
After chasing for five minutes in the underground maze-like sewer pipe, he finally heard the voice in front of him. He continued to move forward, and as Yin Luna summoned the golden light of the light ball to illuminate the sewer pipe, Xia De finally saw the scene in front of him.
The current location is an underground room in the sewer pipe, which is used to store construction equipment and provide a rest area for maintenance personnel. It is usually locked with iron fences and people are not allowed to enter and exit at will, but there are indeed chairs, cabinets and beds inside.
At this time, the four missing girls were lying on two beds put together. The little girl, whom Xia De had never seen before, stood in front of the bed, like an old hen protecting her chicks, with her arms open to prevent Yin Luna from approaching them.
The girl selling flowers looked very young, and her whole body was covered with whisper elements. She was undoubtedly a humanoid relic. She was only about as tall as Shade's waist. In addition to the clothing characteristics described by Miss Lathers, she was holding a small basket covered with black cloth. From the gap between the black cloth and the basket, five or six flowers of different colors emerged.
"Are you okay?"
Because he came here following the blood trail, Xia De was very concerned about Yin Luna's safety.
The girl with long brown hair shook her head:
"It's okay. I was accidentally hurt at the beginning. Other than that, I have always had the upper hand. You have to be careful. She looks young, but she is actually very powerful."
"I didn't hurt you!"
The little girl selling flowers had a very childish voice, but her words were quite angry, and her brown eyes seemed to be spewing out anger:
"I was just asking you a question, but you suddenly attacked me and I was forced to fight back!"
After her description, Xia De could almost imagine the scene at that time. Yin Luna, who was talking and laughing, suddenly threw out the sun gun.
"You are a humanoid relic, and you have kidnapped so many girls, so of course I have to attack you and keep you here!"
At this point, Yin Luna was also quite angry. She pointed behind the flower girl, as if she wanted to prove her righteousness to Xia De:
"Look, the missing girls are all here. The one lying in the middle is the Baron's daughter. I've seen her photo."
"Oh, you old woman who is obviously an adult but pretends to be an underage girl! How did I kidnap them? They obviously came to help me voluntarily."
The flower girl argued again, her childish voice echoing in the sewer pipe. This time, she finally angered Yin Luna completely:
"I'm only seventeen, I just came of age! How dare you call me an old woman?!"
As he spoke, a golden ball of light as bright as the sun appeared in his hand, and the size of the ball continued to expand.
The flower girl shuddered, then looked at Xia De pitifully:
"You'll help me, won't you, brother?"
The sweet tone made Xia De shiver, but he still stopped Yin Luna:
"Don't rush to do anything. What kind of relic is this?"
"A Secret Keeper-level relic flower girl. The name is the whole meaning. She is the combination of all flower girl concepts, resentment, joy, nostalgia for childhood, recollection of the past, sadness for poverty, and nostalgia for suffering. All of these combined into her. Don't be fooled by her young age. Her formation is likely to be traced back to the First Era. Decades ago, someone proposed to classify her as an angel!"
Yin Luna gritted her teeth and said, in fact, she was quite well-mannered, but she got angry when she was called an "old woman" this time. She was the only one who said this to others before:
"Just because she is only at the Secret Keeper level doesn't mean she isn't dangerous, because no one has ever been able to truly test the upper limit of this relic's power. Fortunately, apart from her uncontrolled influence on the surroundings, she doesn't have much ill will towards humans. She just likes to do some strange things related to selling and growing flowers. I think she was also attracted by the twisted power of the earth."
"Yes! Big sister is right!"
The girl said in a very childish voice, still showing an expression that she was very afraid of Yin Luna:
"The soil here is very special now, so it can grow flowers that would normally be difficult to bloom."
"So what do you want to do by taking these girls?"
Shade asked, and the girl looked up at him and replied:
"Flowers require not only soil but also nutrients to grow. I need blood to grow the flowers, so I asked these pure girls who have the same profession as me to help. I asked for their opinions, and they agreed!"
"That's because you have the ability to make all intelligent life sympathize with you, pity you, and agree to almost all your requests!"
Yin Luna gritted her teeth and said, glancing at Xia De:
"Shad, don't be fooled."
"Do you have any misunderstanding about me?"
Xia De said softly, and the girl continued to open her arms to stop Yin Luna:
"I didn't let them work for nothing. After they left after working for a week, I gave each of them a small white flower to decorate their souls. This way, they will not be infected by the petrification plague you mentioned, and the corrupted earth elemental spirits will not attack them. Even if they are far away from this area, the small white flower can enhance the strength of their souls."
"You see, this is why she's only rated Secret Keeper-level even though she's clearly quite dangerous."
Yin Luna said to Xia De, the light ball in her hand still did not disappear. This was Yin Luna's newly developed magic. Although it could only confine the power of the sun in her hand, it was enough to cause considerable damage.
"You're doing great, but can you let these girls go?"
Xia De asked, since Yin Luna said the other party was very powerful, it would be better for them not to act rashly.
The girl pouted and thought for a moment:
"Since you have made a request, I can let the four of them leave. After all, I am not a bad person. But later, I will look for new helpers in this city. After all, my flower has not yet bloomed."
At the deepest part of this small sewer room, there was a brown flower pot on the table. There was a smell similar to blood brew, a mixture of blood and wine, which was quite pleasant. However, there was only a short green bud in the soil of the flower pot.
"That won't do. Leave this city now."
Yin Luna stared at her.
"But what about my flowers... Let's do this."
The girl thought about it and proposed a condition to the two:
"If you help me find the nutrients that will make my flowers bloom now, I will leave this city immediately and give you a flower."
"What kind of nourishment do you want?"
Yin Luna asked hesitantly, it would be great if this could solve the problem.
The young girl looked at her and smiled:
"The nutrients are in this city, and they are easy to get. You can even get them right now. This may be difficult for others, but it should be easy for you. You just need to agree to my request, and you can save many flower girls. This is a very worthwhile exchange."