The sound of cats' meowing travels far on the streets at night, but it is obvious that the thing the city has the most is cats' meowing.
There were only two people whose eyes were attracted by the cat's cry. One of them was of course Shade. He looked at his cat and was quite sure that Mia was looking directly at him. But considering that this cat had also seen the evil god with him and had even absorbed a ray of divinity, it didn't seem surprising that it could see him at this time.
Leicia, who also heard Mia's cry, subconsciously looked in the direction Mia was looking at, and was surprised to notice that Shade was standing there. Shade did not disappear in her eyes just now, but she just subconsciously ignored his position. Now that she really noticed it, she felt that the previous neglect was so strange.
"Shad, now..."
The blonde walked quickly towards Shade holding the cat.
"Take a breath first, don't be so anxious. Don't come near me now, hold Mia tight, and don't let it touch me."
Xia De continued to walk forward, and recognized from her eyes that the person in front of him should be Leicia:
"Dice story collection, I know."
"Yin Luna Bei Yasi..."
"It's the friend from the church I mentioned before."
He responded to Leicia's surprised look and then asked:
"Lecia, I need to know what is happening now."
"no problem."
Leixia held onto a lamp post nearby, but let go after a few seconds.
"Meow~"
Mia called out softly, looking up at Shade who was walking away. Shade immediately asked:
"Do Yin Luna and the others know that you appeared beside me?"
Dorothy was startled when she opened her eyes. She followed and immediately shook her head:
"We just know you slowed down, we don't know what you were looking at."
"Then keep moving forward."
Xia De said, and then said with some concern:
"I know the rules myself. Now I know that you are not in the story for the time being, so you and Leicia should not swap easily. Such frequent swaps will greatly damage your spirits."
"But this is angel level..."
Seeing the worry on Dorothy's face, Shad quickly explained:
"Is this my first time to come into contact with an angel-level relic? Don't worry about me. The current situation is that only a target that has a direct impact on me or directly threatens my life can appear in the narrative of the story, so you just hold Mia and continue talking to me. What's the situation inside the relic now, three storytellers, have you found the thief Jack?"
"We have found two opponents for Yin Luna Bei Ya Si."
Dorothy directly explained the location of Jack the Thief, and the two walked past the edge of the two street lamps and headed for the next gas lamp. The patrolling police came from a distance, and Dorothy hid the sword in Shade's large coat. The tall policeman in the team just glanced at her, thinking that she was a girl walking alone at night.
"That Miss Beias is in a dilemma. It seems that she doesn't want to expose your identity as a ring wizard. Leicia cannot communicate directly with Miss Beias. There are many ring wizards of the church over there. Do you need me to lure the ring wizard team arranged by the church on Silver Cross Avenue? Let them enter the story and capture Chogori Deus and Lydia Pengelo. Since Mia can let me see you, I should be able to let the high-ring wizards of the church see the two guys who are sneaking."
"No, for relics that have rules and stories, don't try to cheat. Just use the rules properly. Also, we can't easily introduce other variables into the story."
Xia De looked ahead at the street and said softly:
"Introducing an additional variable, each of us must pass an additional dice judgment. Yin Luna, I mean Miss Bei Yasi, she can't reveal my identity. I will be the one who suffers every time a judgment is made."
"What do we need to do now?"
Dorothy asked, hugging Little Mia tightly. The cat also remained quiet, which was unusual. Although the writer had never experienced anything like this, she had a broad mind:
"I'm not a character in the story yet, so how about I just go ahead and kill Jogori Deus and Lydia Vongolo? They only have one ring, and I have five."
"I can't let you take risks. You are a normal person, and they are characters in the story that are affected by the rules of the relic. Who knows what they will do? I would rather not catch Thief Jack than let you get hurt."
Shad emphasized. Dorothy raised her lips and was about to say something when she saw Shad's face change.
"I have received the next instruction. Miss Bei Yasi asked me to return home directly? Strange, even if she didn't know what to do for me, she shouldn't have let me leave Silver Cross Avenue."
"Let Lecia answer you."
"etc... ... "
Without waiting for Shade to stop her, Dorothy leaned against the lamppost again with the cat in her arms, and immediately stood up again. The short-term soul exchange made her face very ugly, but the blonde did not complain at all.
The princess opened her eyes and told the current situation:
"Thief Jack is moving, heading towards St. Teresa's Square. The Church made a wrong judgment, and its target is not the Yodel Palace at all. The high-level sorcerers and cultists of the Truth Society passed a judgment of up to 1,200 points and learned that the destination is St. Teresa's Square. They let Georgori Deus and Lydia Pengelo successfully follow Thief Jack. Miss Bei Yasi has no choice but to issue an order for you to go home."
As she spoke, Shad clearly sensed the two "stealth" people passing by them hurriedly, but he still could not sense any trace of "Thief Jack".
"Yes, if Thief Jack doesn't steal, he is equivalent to non-existence. Although he has the power of the dice story collection, the judgment required to capture him at this time must be extremely harsh. Yin Luna's opponent should be thinking of waiting for theft to occur before arresting him."
Xia De did not move forward, after all, he was heading home just now:
"St. Teresa's Place? I wonder which of my neighbors is so unlucky."
Hearing what Shade said, the blonde looked at him but did not say what she was thinking:
"In addition, Miss Bei Yasi's opponent is a high-level warlock of the Truth Society and a cultist who believes in evil gods."
She and Shad turned at the corner and left Silver Cross Avenue. The lights suddenly dimmed and they still had about seven minutes to enter St. Teresa's Square.
"But who would that thief's target be?"
Leicia asked again, and Shade shook his head:
"Including tenants and landlords like me who occupy the entire house, there are no less than 100 families living in St. Teresa's Square. Anyone could be his target, and our only advantage now is that as a character in the story, I can directly learn from you and the Secret Keeper things that I shouldn't know with my identity."
"Shad, this situation is not good for you. Maybe I can do something for you."
Leicia spoke softly, and the cat stared at the darkness around it with wide eyes, its piercing amber eyes seemed to have noticed something.
"My knight, I must do something for you at a time like this."
"Lecia, you have done enough for me. Now walk with me and return to Saint Teresa's Square with me. We need to confirm which unlucky family was robbed before we can take action. The two people walking in front of us will enter the area of Saint Teresa's Square in a few minutes. Although Miss Bei Yasi cannot control me to use the power of the ring wizard, we actually have other methods. Once we have to enter the battle scene, I will need your help."
"Okay, Shad."
Just as Leixia was about to nod, she found that Shade had stopped walking. She looked around in surprise and suddenly found that all the lights around her had gone out. The dark clouds had blocked the stars and the moon, and large tracts of darkness had enveloped them, even the lights in the windows of the surrounding buildings had disappeared.
The surroundings were extremely quiet, and this silence even brought about a certain inexplicable fear. Leixia subconsciously hugged Mia tightly, and then moved closer to Shade:
"I sensed the whispering element? The relic? But how?"
After she finished speaking, she realized that her voice was so hoarse. The blonde was surprised at the body's instinctive reaction, and then she finally saw that pairs of eyes emitting green light appeared densely from the surrounding darkness.
With those gazes, the darkness was slightly brightened, and Leicia and Shade saw densely packed wild cats surrounding them. It was like a swarm of locusts, or dense white maggots in a rotten corpse.
The whispering elements suppressed all the light and sound around them. The group of wild cats just stared at them, and they stood up from their squatting position together:
"Meow~"
"Meow~"
"Meow~"
The continuous and shrill cat meows came like waves, making Leicia's hair stand on end in the dark night. She had never known that the sound of a cat's meow could be so terrifying.
The shrill cry was like the last wail of a dying person in the dark night, or the low roar of an indescribable thing hidden in the darkness in a horror story. Thousands of wild cats gathered towards the two in the darkness, and the light in their eyes became more and more terrifying.
Lecia subconsciously wanted to summon the life ring, but was surprised to find that the thick air seemed to be suppressing her power.
Suddenly, a group of cats surrounded her and came to her feet. Black, white, orange, brown, cats of different colors had similar strange temperaments. When the wild cats screamed and approached, Leicia felt that she might never like cats again.
Just when she was about to explode with her magical power, her cold body felt warmth, the temperature of the cat in her arms. In an instant, it was as if she had gone from winter to spring. Mia's body temperature was so reassuring at this moment, and the princess thought that she would still like cats.
"A relic related to the cat community."
Shad's voice was clearly heard by Dorothy's ears, and Leicia finally came to her senses. She took a quick step forward and pressed against Shad's back without touching him. Shad's body was glowing in the dark, and Leicia knew that this was one of Shad's special abilities, which she had seen several times in the dark.
The steady silver moonlight at this moment was so joyful that Leicia even felt herself blushing for some reason:
"What should I do now?"
"My luck is not so bad that I encounter dangerous relics while walking at night. It seems that the story has taken a new turn. But I am lucky this time. Although it is on the verge of losing control, the whispering element is not very strong. This kind of relic is probably at the clerical level... Leicia, I think you need to take action. Take the Night Watchman and try..."
Leicia is not a character in the story. If the relic was expelled by Her Royal Highness the Princess, the story might have developed into "the relic was encountered on the road but was dispelled by a powerful ring wizard."
But before Shade could finish his words, Little Mia, who was held in Leicia's arms, unhappily stuck her little head out from the blonde's arms and looked at the cats around her.
It has never been afraid of its own kind, and has always hated any other cats approaching Shade. Its amber eyes stared at the cats around it, and just as it was about to make a sound to respond to the cats' meows, the moonlight and starlight suddenly sprinkled down from the sky, and the gas lamps and window lights around it returned one after another.
The whispering elements gradually subsided, and the cats with eyes emitting strange lights gradually surrounded the two people and one cat. When the petite Mia saw them, they stopped, lowered their heads slightly, retreated into the shadows like the ebbing tide, and disappeared.
Xia De was stunned when he was halfway through his words, and looked around in surprise:
"Hmm? Where's the relic? How come it disappeared before we even started doing anything?"
Who knows
Only "she" was laughing.