It was already 10 o'clock in the evening when Xia De brought Mia back to No. 6 Saint Teresa Square. He changed his shoes in the lobby on the first floor and walked up the stairs. It felt like a century had passed since he last walked down the stairs.
Priest Augustus placed all of Shad's belongings in his study. The Silver Moon Orb was damaged because of yesterday's dream, and the clerical-level relic blood-sucking ring turned to dust because of its over-absorption of God's power.
The only relics that Shade now possessed were the pages of his poem, the Lance of Kindness, and the twenty-sided dice of Fate. Even the Puppet Master's script had completely lost its supernatural properties, as all the pages had been used up.
Looking at the calendar on the wall, June, known as the "Sunshine Month", has passed. It is now July, and people call this month the "Thunder Month".
He sat on the chair behind the desk, looking at the items on the magnificent desk, summing up his gains and losses in the Lakeview Manor incident. He went to the open-air banquet at Lakeview Manor because of Baron Lavender's invitation, and got the special Rhodes brand Ancient Fairy Tale Match Girl, got the gun, and got divinity... ...
Hot steam gushed out from behind him. He turned around and saw that on the rotating brass wheel, the silver blasphemous rune of Gluttony was circulating in a circle. This was Shade's first rune.
"I got the Divine Afterglow state and Gluttony. The Ring Warlock needs one of each of the four runes to upgrade. Now I have easily satisfied a quarter of them. So, what I gained last night far outweighed what I paid."
He muttered to himself.
Not only that, the "Crazy Light Chaser" will most likely bring him an Enlightenment Element Spirit Rune related to the concept of "light" within three months; and the mission of the Ancient God Infinite Tree Father will also bring him a Miracle Echo. From this point of view, if the Word of Sublimation is not considered, then he is not far from the second ring, and it is even possible to be promoted within a few months.
It's a pity that although the afterglow of divinity has appeared on Shade, it will take a week for the key to open. It's only Monday now, so he has to wait until Thursday morning.
But no matter how much he gained in Lake View Manor, it was all due to extremely special luck, and he didn't think that kind of good luck would come to him again.
In addition to the silver blasphemous rune of gluttony, the biggest gain from last night should be his understanding of the silver moon. Although he could not reproduce the scene of hanging upside down in front of the silver moon, Xia De had not forgotten the scene of standing on the ridge of the field and looking up at the huge silver moon above his head in his dream.
"From this perspective, Silver Moon's Orb is worth every penny."
He was thinking about the relics he had destroyed, and he lightly drew his fingers in the air, wanting to try the Silver Moon Slash again, but he suddenly stopped. Now they were in the study, and Xia De would be very sad if any object here was destroyed.
He stood up from the chair in the study, walked into the living room, opened the door and came to the corridor, followed the stairs to the foyer on the first floor. Standing in the foyer, he faced the layers of wooden boards that sealed the first floor.
As the bells and whistles rang, a huge brass life ring appeared in the steam behind him.
He chanted an ancient spell and lightly stroked the air with his fingers.
As the dazzling silver light bloomed, an arc of light appeared in the air. Then there was the sound of wooden boards being smashed, which scared Mia, who was looking around the corner of the stairs on the first floor to see what Shade was doing. But this time the orange cat was not scared away, but instead tucked its tail between its legs, not knowing whether it should go to "rescue" Shade.
The hallway itself was not very big, and Shade was hit by the flying wooden fragments. Fortunately, the injury was not serious, just a cut on the back of his hand.
"Um?"
As the board broke, a brown object fell out from the gap behind the board with a snap. Shade looked at the heavy wallet in the gas light of the hallway in surprise.
"this... ... "
This is indeed a wallet, and it looks bulging, and you can tell at a glance that it contains a lot of money. Xia De's face tightened, and he thought about his initial "big search":
"Come to think of it, I only thought that Room 1 on the second floor was the detective's legacy, and I didn't check the first floor at all... Um..."
In fact, even if the first floor had been searched, it would most likely not have been found, as the wallet was hidden too well.
He looked up at the solid brick wall behind the three layers of wooden boards and picked up the wallet with his bleeding hands:
"That piece of wood should be removable, so if you hide your wallet here, no one would expect it, and it is very convenient to take money every time you go out. Detective Sparrow and the original owner should know this location, but I don't have the inherited memory."
Xia De didn't know how he should feel for a moment. He was happy that he finally found his wallet, but he was also surprised that the answer was so simple.
So he opened his wallet and checked, and found that it was indeed full of banknotes. After counting, there was a total of 28 pounds and 12 shillings, enough to maintain the operation of the office for three months and allow a single man with limited expenses to live a good life.
"But the value of that walking stick must be more than 15 pounds, and the price of the high-grade black tea is not low either. These are the only inheritances left by Detective Sparrow. Did he calculate it deliberately? He calculated that this amount of money is just enough for three months of normal expenses."
I took my wallet and walked up the stairs, intending to clean up the hallway, while summarizing my impression of Detective Sparrow in my mind:
"He is very rigorous in his work, writes a diary every day, and keeps clear accounts. He has strong detective skills, but some of his detective records are not true, and some clients have a bad impression of him. He has a high taste for black tea, an expensive walking stick, and likes to read novels about knights, wars, and courts... Although this image is much more three-dimensional, it is still hard to tell what secrets he has."
He suddenly stopped, causing the cat climbing the stairs in front of him to look back curiously. Shade narrowed his eyes slightly, but actually saw nothing:
"Wait, if everything I experienced that night at Lake View Manor was the result of luck, then do the things I didn't understand correspond to the things I didn't know?"
Among the many things happening at Lakeview Manor, the most incomprehensible were the intelligence about the "Witch Council" heard by the stables, and the intelligence about the spies of the Carsenrick United Kingdom heard after breaking into the garden maze.
The "Witch Council" definitely had nothing to do with Detective Sparrow, after all, the detective looked like a man, and it was confirmed by many sources that he was indeed an ordinary person. On the contrary, Shade suspected that the intelligence of the "Witch Council" pointed to "that lady" who was also present at the time.
As for spies—
"If we follow this line of thought, the identity of a foreign spy does fit the definition of 'an ordinary person who has a huge secret'."
He continued to climb the stairs while thinking about it. The cat couldn't wait to scratch the door on the second floor:
“We are extremely rigorous in our work, with the caution of a spy;
Writing a diary every day is a disguise of one's identity and whereabouts as an ordinary citizen;
Keeping your accounts in a clear and organized manner will not leave clues for others to falsify the source of funds;
He has strong detective abilities, which fits the profile of a spy;
The detective records are not true, and it is obvious that they are covering up information while enhancing the character image of the ordinary detective;
Some clients have a bad impression, he must have done something extra besides the commission, or used a gun;
Black tea is of high taste and is his real hobby;
The expensive walking stick may be the only personal item he brought from his hometown, and it has commemorative value;
I like novels. Maybe those novels are code books, but I can’t understand them... "
Shad opened the door for Mia, and the nocturnal cat immediately rushed into the living room. He stood at the door and looked at the place where Mr. Sparrow lived. The moonlight passed through St. Teresa's Square and shone into the living room from the window, but the light stopped at the foot, leaving Shad's face half hidden in the shadow:
"So, Sparrow Hamilton, isn't really a spy for Carsenrick?"