"Well, it seems that it really can't be me."
Xia De smiled shyly, sat on the sofa and stroked the cat beside him:
"Then let's continue divination. Now we have two blood money and one redemption coin left... After knowing the genders, we are still not familiar with the ten people... We certainly can't divine where they live. Oh, I want to know when they will leave Coldwater Harbor."
Xia De wanted to determine the search range, and he could only carry out operations in Coldwater Port and Tobesk City. Even if he knew the other party's identity information, once the other party left Coldwater Port, Xia De would not be able to continue the search.
"Yes, but just like when I first divined Iluna, I can only get vague results."
First use a civilization gold coin, then throw out a blood money, but it still doesn't work.
Luvia glanced at Shade, and when he nodded, she threw the last blood money away. When Luvia opened her eyes, what she said was indeed satisfying:
"The second person chosen will stay in Coldwater City for about a week before heading to Tobesk."
"Come here?"
Shade showed the same smile as Luvia:
"Then things will be much simpler. I will go to Coldwater Harbor to get information. I have friends there and can try to find out the identities of the ring sorcerers who escaped last night. Even if I cannot find the exact people in Coldwater Harbor, as long as I know their identities, and then in a few weeks, I can determine which male among them has arrived in Tobesk, then the candidate can be determined."
"Yes, this seems to be going more smoothly than my search for Iluna's identity."
The continuous divination made Luvia look a little unhappy, but she was also excited because she got useful information.
Because they still don't know who the second chosen person is, Luvia asks Shad to try to find him first. Even if he finds him, he should not contact him immediately, but instead determine his personality and the faction he belongs to.
What Luvia wants to do is to unite, ensure and witness the chosen ones standing in front of the final door, and ensure that the number of chosen ones standing on her side in front of the final door is dominant. But if the other party is a bad guy, Luvia is not interested in dealing with him.
"Leave the rest to me. I will be in charge of the operations in Coldwater Harbor before the other party goes to Tobesk. Except for me, everyone else has been infected with the mermaid curse. I just need to find those who want to remove the curse, and I will definitely get something."
He paused for a moment, thinking of Mr. Darkness who cheated by changing the cards when playing cards with him in the tavern and escaped on the pirate ship:
"Also, Luvia, I know the name of one of them. Although that person will not show up in the tavern easily after the pirate ship accident, we can still track him down. In addition, there are about nine other people whose identities are waiting to be verified..."
Xia De didn't feel that this was a difficult task. Apart from finding someone himself, it would be impossible for the church to find someone without going through the Coldwater Port officials, and Princess Leicia would definitely have a way to get the list of people who were being focused on.
"But I'm more curious about why the other party chose to go to Tobesk a week later. My friend said that this curse is a regional curse. Once you leave Coldwater Port, the curse may mutate."
This is Xia De's only question at the moment.
"We should know in a week."
Luvia said. She sat there quietly, watching Shade pick it up and stroking its little head. Mia quite liked Shade doing this.
"Shad?"
"I'm here, what's wrong?"
The purple-eyed fortune teller shook his head again:
"No, it's nothing... If your fifteen credits are really not enough, I have some relics that I don't need. You can hand them in. It's a pity that I don't trust you enough to go there with you."
(Mi Mia is sleeping...)
Early Wednesday morning, the sound of rain hitting the window woke Shade up. The heavy rain probably started last night, and in the morning, the rumbling sound of rain heard when he opened the window seemed to drown the entire city.
Today is the last day of the Thunder Moon, and this rain is also the heaviest rain that Shade has seen since he came to this world.
"When I see the rain, I think of water. When I think of water, I think of giving you a bath. Mia, I will definitely give you a bath next month."
When Shade got the newspaper and milk from downstairs, he said to the cat who was following him. The small orange cat followed Shade up the stairs, looking forward to breakfast in a while, and did not respond to what Shade said.
It was nice not to have to go out on a rainy day, but Dorothy was a little grumpy when she came to St. Teresa's Square in the rain. She wore rain boots and held an umbrella, hugged her notebook and books tightly, and even though she came in a carriage, she was inevitably wet by the rain.
Today, Shad is going to Coldwater Harbor to meet Princess Leia, and Dorothy comes to Shad to help take care of the cat.
Her main task recently was to write the detective novel that would be serialized in Steambird Daily starting next week. She happened to need to look through the detective records at Shade's place as material, so she brought the notebooks and books needed for writing. While Shade was away, she could also take good care of Mia, which was killing two birds with one stone.
"Want to see how I get to Coldwater Harbor?"
Shade kept the ring so that Dorothy could play with the cat. But the blond writer, who was already in the study ready to write, didn't want to see the dangerous things in the basement, so he just waved his hand in annoyance, asking him not to disturb him.
"By the way, can I see you in Coldwater Harbor?"
Shad asked again, saying that he preferred going on adventures with Dorothy to the "familiar stranger" Princess Leithia.
"Except for the mandatory exchange once a week and hedging in times of danger, we generally don't exchange. Besides, Leicia won't help me write articles here."
Dorothy said in annoyance, lowering her head to start writing. Shad was quite regretful, and after saying hello to Little Mia who was licking her paws, he set off.
Mia the cat was not unhappy about Shad's departure. She knew it was raining outside and cats would not go out in such weather.
From the basement, I went to the sea cliff cave outside the Lengshui Port Pier. After emerging from the sea, I found that it was raining in Lengshui Port today.
When Shad landed on the coast in the rain, the waves hitting the shore due to the strong wind almost swept him back into the sea.
But the rainy day also meant that he didn't have to change his clothes before entering the city. The "ugly fishman from the deep sea" tremblingly came to the door of the Golden Rose Inn on Hoglundz Avenue, with water dripping from his body when he entered.
The fat innkeeper thought that Xia De went out without an umbrella, so he kindly reminded him that there was hot water in the bathroom in his room, but he had to open the steam valve:
"Never turn the valve all the way, otherwise the pressure will be unstable and water will leak from the gaps in the pipe!"
By the time Xia De finished his shower and changed his clothes in the somewhat cramped bathroom, it was already half past nine in the morning.
He pushed open the bathroom door while drying his hair, and was surprised to find someone in the room.
The red-haired girl in a long skirt was standing by the window with her hands behind her back, looking out at the rain. The room that Xia De rented was on the third floor of the hotel, from where he could clearly see the entire block.
"Good morning, Prin... Her Highness Leicia."
She was still a little uncomfortable when she greeted him, but when the princess heard the voice, she turned around and looked at Shade with a smile:
"Just call me by my name, Xia De. Good morning. This should be the first time I use my body to greet you formally. It feels really good... Yes, you asked me to introduce myself the day before yesterday."
She was wearing a relatively ordinary long dress today, but even ordinary clothes couldn't hide her unique temperament. Leixia took a step forward:
"Good morning, Hamilton from Rejade. I am Leisia Cavendish. I am glad to meet you in Coldwater Harbor on this rainy summer day."
"Good morning, Leicia."
Xia De said with a smile, he felt that the other party was indeed someone he was familiar with.
Then, Shade asked Leicia for more information about the follow-up of the pirate ship incident. He also learned that since the night before, the church had been looking for the ring wizard who escaped from the ship that day. The princess was of course well hidden, and the boatman and servants who came to pick her up had also been properly settled.
She just thought that the church wanted to know more about the pirate ship after learning about the Sea Return Ceremony. But Shade knew that the church had already understood that there was a second chosen one among the escaped ring wizards.
I'm afraid more strange people will flock to Coldwater Harbor.
Shade then asked Princess Leicia for help to find out the information of the ring magicians who jumped off the ship at that time, and she agreed immediately. Then, she asked about the mermaid curse, but the princess just told Shade not to worry, she would be fine.
"Shad, how can you keep talking about such nonsense when you come to visit me? Is it always like this when you are with Dorothy?"
The red-haired girl is in high spirits today:
"Because of the curse, I was trapped in Coldwater Harbor for two weeks and couldn't leave. Finally someone came to find me. Let's go do something interesting, shall we? I can't teach you for now. I didn't bring too many books on this visit to Carsenrick. It's like this. I collected an interesting piece of information yesterday. There is a local ring wizard who was infected with the curse and removed the curse by his own means. Do you want to go with me to take a look? We will visit him as ordinary people and observe whether he has really removed the curse. If it is true, then we will reveal our identity as ring wizards."
"There are such amazing people? Of course I have to go."
Maybe the people on the boat will be attracted over there too.
"Does the church know about this? If this method can be promoted, wouldn't the mermaid curse be solved? The sea return ceremony will also be solved."
He asked again.
"But the premise is that the ringmaster who was infected with the curse has really removed the curse, so we will first visit in a private capacity to confirm the specific situation."
The red-haired girl raised her hand and touched the ruby on her ear, then asked with a smile:
"Hamilton of Rejade, are you willing to pledge your knightly honor to protect the princess you serve today?"
The knights pledged their loyalty to the king rather than the royal family, so strictly speaking, Princess Leicia's statement was wrong, but Shade was not stupid enough to correct it now:
"Oh, yes, Princess."
He said it cooperatively, and guessed how the blonde writer would react after telling Dorothy about this conversation.