“This card is really interesting.”
Looking at the content of the card, the strange existence holding the soul on the card seems to be alive under the light of the kerosene lamp.
Xia De shook his head, dispelling his illusion, and then asked:
"So what's the situation on the third floor?"
The long-faced man replied:
"There is a group of very rude people living on the third floor. There are about 15 or 16 of them. My friend said that most of them don't like to go out. They lock themselves upstairs every day. Occasionally, they go downstairs to find some girls at night. They are waiting for a ship to the New World. Maybe they are wanted fugitives."
As he said this, he stood up and said goodbye to Shad, and Shad also said goodbye to Mr. Asmon with a card.
He had a very strange premonition that this might be the special ability of the ring wizard. Shade would definitely meet this man who called himself a demonologist again.
After Mr. Asmon left, Shade also came to the counter and put a penny on the table and pushed it to the woman:
"Please help me deliver a letter to Mr. Darkness upstairs."
Xia De lowered his voice and tore a piece of paper from his notebook:
"I know he lives here."
After getting accurate information that Mr. Darkness's companions were here, Shade made an appointment with them to meet at another location.
He didn't write who he was, only that he was a companion on the ship, so he wanted to invite him to meet. If he could come, that would be even better. If he couldn't come, Shade would ask Lecia for help and ask the police to search the place on the grounds of fire safety hazard, which would definitely make Mr. Darkness show up.
The woman put away the silver coin and looked at it under the gaslight:
"You came here for this, right? Actually, you don't have to buy wine or look at the Rhodes cards, just give the money directly."
“You’re probably more willing to do things for your customers than for a stranger who shows up out of nowhere.”
Shad said that buying wine only cost a few pennies anyway, and it also gave him the opportunity to check out the situation at the inn, which was a little trick to get someone to do something for him.
"So, are you interested in one of our girls? Maybe you can have some fun while you're waiting for someone."
The middle-aged woman asked with a smile, reaching out to touch Xia De's face.
Xia De took a step back, shook his head regretfully, and his voice returned to its normal volume:
"I prefer Rhodes cards to women."
There was a sound of someone choking on his drink behind him, followed by the men's laughter:
"Mrs. Mary, this is useless."
That must be the name of the woman behind the counter.
"Bah, damn gamblers."
The woman cursed softly while smiling, but Shade, in a good mood, pretended not to hear and walked out of the Pink Rose Inn.
The place where he met Mr. Darkness was on the rooftop of a building that was still under construction 20 minutes away from here. The house was basically completed, but the surrounding steel pipes and locks had not been removed. There was an iron ladder on one side of the wall that smelled of heavy paint, and for some reason there were no workers here today, so it was convenient to meet a stranger.
After Xia De climbed to the roof, he held up an umbrella and looked at the hazy harbor in the rain. Because the building was relatively high, he could vaguely see the sea level in the distance. The drizzling rain made the ancient harbor city look like it was covered with a layer of hazy fog. It was just unknown how long this calm could last.
After waiting for half an hour, the sound of boots hitting the iron plate finally came from below. After waiting quietly for a while, Mr. Darkness really came alone. Because Shade prepared a mask in advance, he could not see what Shade looked like at this time.
A middle-aged man with short yellow hair and turned-out eyelids, wearing a red glove on his right hand like last time.
Like Xia De, he was holding a black umbrella. The two men stood on the edge of the roof, staring at each other from a considerable distance, and neither of them spoke first.
Shad was not Luvia, and he did not have the ability to identify the chosen ones at a glance. When he first met Iluna at the door of the pet store a month ago, he felt as if the light of the whole world was shining on one person, but he did not feel that way at the auction on the cruise ship. Therefore, Shad, like everyone else except Luvia, could not distinguish the other chosen ones before they truly awakened.
The woman's voice in his ear had mentioned something like "fate" when Shade met Iluna again at Lakeview Manor. But on the cruise ship, she did not react at all. It seemed that she, like Shade, only reacted to Iluna as an individual.
No, I said, your 'other self''s' real talent is to rebound fate. I can feel the fate of the chosen one influencing your fate, such as the night at Lakeview Manor, when I met her during the ritual of summoning the evil god.
“But on the ship, I was also implicated on the Fishbone Pirate Ship because of the special fate of the chosen one.”
But that was just a slight disturbance of fate. Compared with the evil god, the sage-level relic was nothing.
What she said seemed to make sense, that is, only when Shad was involved in matters related to God again because of the Chosen One, would he be able to clearly know whether the other party was the Chosen One.
But it doesn't matter if he doesn't know. There are still a few coins in God's gift box. What Shad wants to do is to meet the chosen one, or even obtain the items used by the other party, and then let Luvia predict questions such as "Did Shad meet the chosen candidate today" and "Does this dress belong to the chosen one".
This does not count as direct divination of the chosen person itself.
Mr. Darkness seemed determined not to speak, so Shade said:
"Good morning, sir. I don't think there needs to be such an awkward atmosphere between us. I want to ask you if you have any good ideas to deal with the Mermaid Song Curse on us. I think you can't be unaware of this."
"Actually, I'm more interested in how you found me."
The middle-aged man frowned and asked, then added:
"Also, if you could take off the mask, I would trust you more."
"No, no, no, then I won't trust you."
Xia De shook his head and said softly:
"We are all survivors of that ship, why don't we unite to solve the curse?"
"Sorry, not interested."
Mr. Darkness shook his head slightly, his eyes fixed on Shade:
"Anything else?"
"The church has been looking for us recently. You should know this, right? If we hide separately, we will be found sooner or later. Isn't it safer to work together to find the reason why the church wants to catch us?"
"I'm safer with my friends. As for you... I'm a sixth-ring warlock, what about you?"
He smiled, and that attitude undoubtedly showed his disdain for Xia De.
The pair of blood-red gloves were the only thing that looked colorful on the rainy rooftop.