You have come into contact with 'blasphemy'.
"What?"
I wanted to go around the grape trellis, but I didn't expect a voice to suddenly appear in my head. Blasphemous elements are mostly related to evil gods. Doctor Schneider said that once you come into contact with such elements, the right thing to do is to turn around and run.
Xia De also wanted to turn around and run, but there was another person in front of him, and the tearful poet didn't seem to notice Xia De walking nearby.
"Is the bard a ring wizard?"
He continued to move forward, asking anxiously in his heart.
no.
Xia De heaved a sigh of relief, and as he sighed in his heart that his "other self" was very useful, his steps became lighter. He did not look around, but walked straight under the grape trellis.
Only when he was completely away from this area did he stop and relax, holding on to the flower bed. He was really worried that a pair of hands would suddenly drag him into the darkness.
"Is there something hidden under the grape trellis? Oh, it seems that I can't run around anymore, otherwise something bad will really happen."
Tonight's strange luck was really hard to understand, and Xia De thought he'd better find a safe place and stop running around.
After I recovered, I looked around and found that this was actually the maze area of the garden. The garden maze built with fences and trees would not make people get lost, but once you rashly walk in, you will definitely not be able to get out without spending some time.
Shade looked at his pocket watch. It had been almost an hour since he parted with Father Augustus. He didn't know if he could play a role in the upcoming event, but at least he couldn't sit here all night.
I continued walking forward, and when I came to the fork in the road between the fence and the tree wall, I turned left. Soon I heard the sound of a conversation, and I was delighted, thinking of following the others out, but when I heard the content of the conversation, I stopped:
"Nightingale, do you understand that you are not a gray eagle? How can we who are hiding in Tobesk not be afraid of MI6? How dare you meet me here? Carsonrick, who only does everything for glory... Wait, do I hear someone approaching?"
"A spy from the United Kingdom of Carsenrick? I have met countless acquaintances, frustrated officers, strange ring sorcerers, and foreign spies tonight. What kind of crazy night is this? Did the Rhodes card just now overdraw my luck for the whole day? How exactly does the 20-point dice affect me?"
He turned around and left, unwilling to have anything to do with such trouble.
At the next intersection, he turned right and soon heard footsteps again. This time, the footsteps were dense, and it was obvious that there were more than just one or two people. Shade was relieved and immediately walked forward quickly. Then, when he turned a corner at the end of the hedge, he saw the ring magician team under the Church of the Sun and the Earth.
Xia De had seen them at the beginning of the banquet. There were dozens of people in the group and all of them were still there. He was also surprised at the young man who suddenly appeared from the corner.
The burly man at the head seemed to be the captain. He looked at Xia De and suddenly asked:
"Sir, why are you attending the dinner at Lakeview Manor?"
It was obviously ordinary language and an ordinary narration, but Xia De had the urge to blurt out his thoughts.
"The power of the Ringwitch! Fortunately, he didn't expect that I'm not an ordinary person."
While thinking about this, I couldn't suppress the urge to tell the truth, because it didn't matter if I told the truth:
"To play Rhodes, of course."
He spoke without thinking, but as soon as he finished speaking, a look of deliberately pretended surprise appeared on his face.
"You, you, what kind of power is this?"
As he covered his mouth and stepped back, Shad thought that maybe he was really good at acting.
The leader of the Ringwitch Squad, a man who looked quite strong, looked at Shade, then stepped forward, patted his shoulder in a friendly manner, and looked him in the eyes at close range. The middle-aged man had brown eyes:
"Sir, forget you ever saw us, and go do what you are supposed to do."
Shade felt a slight dizziness.
Pretend to be confused.
The murmured sound prompted Xia De to narrow his eyes immediately and sway his body clockwise like a tumbler.
He thought his disguise was ridiculous, but the ring sorcerers of the Church of the Sun and the Earth apparently believed it. So they ignored Shade and hurriedly passed by him with a group of people.
Xia De noticed the youngest girl in the team, the one with long brown hair. She glanced at him as she passed by him, but did not recognize Xia De because he had met her in front of the pet store a few days ago, so she hurried away.
Shade still maintained that ridiculous look, and did not leave until he was sure that he could no longer hear the footsteps of the Ringwitch team.
"My luck seems to have suddenly turned bad, whether it was the eavesdropping near the stables, the encounter with spies from other countries just now, or the encounter with the ring sorcerer from the Orthodox Church here. Is this the price of good luck? However, meeting the captain should be considered a good thing."
Xia De thought in his heart, but the woman in his heart asked back:
Why can't this be part of good luck
"What's good about these things?"
He asked in confusion, lowering his head and hurriedly walking along the courtyard path illuminated by the elegant brass gas lamp. Suddenly someone patted his back, and Shade thought that "bad luck" was coming again, but when he turned around, he saw the smiling blonde writer Miss Dorothy Louisa.
She was wearing a beautiful long dress, but the style was relatively conservative, and the pleats at the hem were decorated with white lace trimmings.
"Oh, this must be good luck!"
If they weren't so unfamiliar with each other, Xia De would have wanted to hug her.
"What good luck... What do you smell like?"
The blond writer asked with a smile, looking up and down at Shade with his green eyes, wondering why he was wearing a shirt and holding a coat. Shade thought there was still the smell of horse manure, and patted his clothes awkwardly.
"Detective, why are you here? By chance, I just ran into Luvia. She actually came back from Carsenrick yesterday, but she didn't attend our study session. Let me introduce you to each other."
Xia De thought about it doubtfully:
"Luvia? Who's that... Oh, it's Miss Luvia Annette."
Miss Luvia Anat is the only ring wizard in Dr. Schneider's team who has not met Shade. She is a third ring wizard. Her main job is a staff member of the Prophet Association. She is a joint student of St. Byrons Comprehensive College and the Prophet Association.
"Let's talk about this later. There are more important things to do now."
The two of them left the lighted courtyard path and entered the dimly lit bushes on the side.
Shade briefly talked about his encounters with various strange people tonight, skipped the Rhodes card segment, and then talked about the conversation with Reverend Augustus an hour ago:
"Priest Augustus said that the church is very likely to close the net tonight and arrest Lady Lazoya of Mercury Blood, also known as Jack Deon. The priest asked me to inform you to leave as soon as possible and not to take risks for the forged Philosopher's Stone."
Miss Louisa's expression turned serious when she heard this:
"It's not a good night to take action, but you're really lucky. When the Orthodox Church's ring wizard team goes out on a mission, they usually avoid ordinary people. You actually encountered them three times in one night... Detective, you must not go near the mansion. Since you and the priest have been separated for an hour, then..."
"Dorothy!"
They all heard someone calling Miss Louisa's name in a low voice, and looking toward the courtyard path under the gas light, they saw a young lady in a blue dress and short brown hair, walking towards them with two glasses of wine.
Somehow, Shade realized that this lady who looked a little older than himself was the fortune teller Luvia Anat. The last member of the ring wizard team finally appeared.
Instead of being happy, he thought in surprise:
"Wait, they are all here? Oh, what on earth is going to happen?"