The doctor left alone, and Shad returned to the front door of the Three Cats Inn and sat down opposite Durut Giles.
He had no intention of having dinner with the other party, and said directly:
"The curse expert has seen your situation and will send the potion to remove the curse here at the weekend. You can rent a room here as your mailing address. Otherwise, the female owner here, Mrs. Sangmei, may not be willing to help you receive mail."
"Just a bottle of antidote?"
The man, whose face was still pale, said in astonishment:
"If it were that easy, I would..."
"That's because you didn't find an expert. Remember to be a good person in the future and don't rob other people's graves again. The contract you want to sign with me will be sent along with the antidote. After you sign it, send it to Professor Manning. He knows where I am in the city."
Xia De said again, and the man showed an excited expression on his face:
"Thank you so much, if it weren't for you, I..."
"Don't be happy so early."
Xia De interrupted him and looked around to make sure no one was at the nearby tables:
"You know, the father of this 'little lady' next to you is a thirteenth-ring fortune-teller who defected from the Prophet's Association. He left a prophecy in the blood of all his descendants, saying that the family will be reunited one day. I don't know if this includes the soul."
The girl's soul floated beside the man and clapped her hands. When Shade finished speaking, she actually sang the prophecy on her own initiative:
"When the day of reconciliation comes, the scattered bloodline will return to the origin of the family. We will drink the wine of immortality together and escape the cage of the world."
"Well, it seems that she is included."
Shade shook his head:
"And her father couldn't have failed to notice when you escaped from the island. You let her go so easily because you probably thought she would come back."
"What?"
Giles' eyes widened in surprise:
"She's going back to that damn place?"
"I thought you would be more surprised by the Thirteenth Ring... I don't know exactly what happened, and I'm not a fortune teller. But this possibility is very high. Since you are willing to let her follow you, you might be involved. I want to warn you in advance. This matter involves a lot of people, so you'd better be careful."
The man didn't know what to say:
"Then what should I do?"
"Would you like to let her go? I can let her go on. After all, that's where she belongs."
Giles glanced at the girl's soul swinging back and forth holding onto his arm, and shook his head at Shade:
"I must make sure she fully recovers her humanity and sanity before sending her away. I don't intend to keep her forever, but that's not the time. Besides, I have a feeling that her father won't let her go so easily."
Xia De shook his head and said nothing more:
"If you have any problems in the future, don't look for me through Professor Manning, as that would implicate the professor. If you have any problems, hold a red rose in your hand and go to the fountain statue in St. Teresa's Square in the city center at 6:30 in the morning or 6:30 in the evening. If my people see you, they will notify me."
"Yes, sir, please allow me to express my gratitude again."
Xia De stood up, but before leaving, he grabbed the back of the chair and warned him condescendingly:
"Also, Delarion has a very sound legal system. Although she is dead, her age is still beyond the legal range."
Durut Giles' face turned red and he wanted to explain to Shad, but Shad had already turned and left.
Although it was easy to find a carriage near Anthem Square, due to the distance between North City and Central City, when Shad got off the carriage at St. Teresa's Square, the gas lamps surrounding the square were already flashing a reassuring warm yellow light.
As he was about to take out his keys, Shad saw workers hired by the city hall setting up a ladder under the gas street lamp to the left of his window, and then climbing up the ladder to clean the glass lampshade of the gas lamp.
Gas lamps are not electric lamps, so it is okay to clean them while they are running. But it is still very dangerous. Xia De stood there and watched for a while, not knowing what reason to use to warn people.
When I got home, Luvia had indeed arrived, still busy on the third floor. As the lunar eclipse night of the 30th day of the Sowing Month, next Wednesday, drew closer, Luvia's work became more and more intense.
"You don't have to ask me to eat with you, just bring me one portion when you and Mia go to eat!"
The purple-eyed girl's voice came from a higher floor as Shad carried Mia, who came to welcome him, upstairs.
"What would you like to eat?"
"It's all right, just keep it simple."
Xia De could almost imagine Luvia speaking hurriedly while lowering her head to take notes at the table.
Shade was going to Green Lake Hotel to get the four bloods, so the meal could be postponed. But Mia had obviously misunderstood Shade, thinking that he had just come home and was going out again at this time, and wanted to eat without her, so she followed him to the basement with a meow, and Shade had to turn her into a toy and take her to Green Lake.
When I came out of the back door of the hotel, it was completely dark outside. Although there was water everywhere in Garbage Alley, at least it was no longer raining.
The boy who lived in the trash can also returned to his residence. When Shad knocked open the lid of the trash can, the boy and his skinny puppy appeared. The transformed Mia cried out ignorantly, and was then suppressed by Shad's hand.
"Good evening, sir."
Even though he had seen Shade here many times, the boy was still a little timid. Shade smiled at him, took out the bread and handed it to him:
"I haven't seen you these past few days. Where do you hide when it rains?"
"There are many bridges over the Duin River, and you can take shelter under the bridges. Some old tramps can make fires. If I give them some things, I can go over and warm myself by the fire."
This answer was not unexpected. Xia De nodded:
"You need to be careful these days... Have any homeless people you know gone missing recently?"
He recalled the corpses that had been transformed into water ghosts that he had seen in various bases of "Rotten Eye Bali".
"Yes, but homeless people will disappear one day, just like the sun will always rise, it's normal."
The boy said, then waved carefully to Shad and retreated back into the trash can with the puppy in his arms.
By the way, although Shad rented a room at the Green Lake Hotel as his temporary communication address, in fact, he had never stayed overnight here and had not even opened the room a few times.
If it weren't for the house number on the key, he would have even asked for the specific location of "her" room. After opening the room on the third floor, Xia De unexpectedly discovered that the gas lamp in the room was on.
"The maid who cleans the room is here? But didn't I say that there's no need to clean the room?"
He thought in surprise, and his heart was alert. Moonlight appeared faintly in his hand, and he continued to enter the room. Only then did he see the familiar female sorceress with brown shawl hair sitting on the chair next to the desk, reading a book. The witch detection badge did not respond for the time being, proving that it was Megan, not Audrey:
"Good evening, Megan."
"Good evening. I was just wondering what time you would come over."
The witch with delicate makeup stood up, and Xia De also saw four long and thin test tubes filled with blood on the test tube rack on the desk. Each test tube had a label to help Xia De analyze and determine the source of the blood.
"You brought your cat again?"
She asked with a smile, and then explained:
"I asked Helena Green, the female shopkeeper downstairs, for the key. There were a lot of people downstairs at dinner time, and I didn't want to wait for you there... Do you need me to apologize for trespassing into your place?"
She asked tentatively, and Shade shook his head:
"No need to apologize, and you know I don't live here."
This room is the best room in Green Lake Hotel. In addition to the living room at the entrance, there is also a bedroom and a bathroom. Even if you compare it with other hotels in Green Lake City, it is hard to find a better room than this one. In addition to the desk, there is also a sofa set in the living room. Maybe Megan asked someone to send tea and fresh fruit, so the tea table is not empty.
Seeing that the cat was "eyeing" the fruit plate on the coffee table, Shade sat down on the sofa, then picked up the apple and cut it into small pieces by hand. Megan saw that Shade didn't intend to leave immediately, so she sat opposite him:
"We probably won't be able to land on the island tomorrow. The church has temporarily blocked the waters of Green Lake, and even the cargo ships coming and going have been affected. Looking at this situation, I'm afraid it will really be next week."
"Then I'll come back on Sunday. If Sunday doesn't work, I'll come next week. There will always be a chance."
Xia De reached into his pocket and said:
"Speaking of that island, what do you see here?"
As he spoke, he took out the white crystal key that he had gotten from Durut Giles in the afternoon. After the witch took the key, she immediately showed a surprised expression:
"The third key! Where did you get this?"
"Druut Giles, the owner of the fountain pen, is a low-level sorcerer who led the tomb robbers to the island two years ago."
He did not mention that Durrut Giles was now in Tobesk, but he told her about his other experiences in the afternoon, including, of course, the soul of the second-generation eldest daughter, Rusty Edwards, who died young.
Megan and Audrey were the fifth generation, so the eldest daughter of the second generation who died young was their... Grandfather's aunt, outsiders couldn't think of a good name for her at the moment. In short, Megan's relationship with Rust Edwards was even more distant than that between Resia and Miss Carina.
The witch listened very carefully. When Shade finished speaking, what she cared about most was not revenge against him for digging up her ancestor's grave, but another thing:
"You said there are evil spirits and demons left over from the Third Age on the island?!"