Whispering Poems

Chapter 402 Eavesdropping
"Big city players? Oh, yes, there are gamblers outside the venue. Well. Speaking of which, do you know the situation of the contestants now?"

Xia De asked absent-mindedly, always feeling that someone was watching him from behind.Of course, this was completely an illusion. The two professors sat down in a corner and talked in a low voice, not noticing the "stranger" with their backs turned away.

Xia De carefully took a sip of the strange drink in the cup.

"Not yet, but I heard that this time there are Rhode card holders of the [Founding] series."

"Cough cough~"

Xia De coughed and waved his hands to indicate that he was fine:
"That would be very good. The newspaper should record those key game information."

He whispered, trying to lower his sense of existence, and planned to get up and leave after a while.Otherwise, it would seem very strange for him to leave as soon as the professors came in.

"I don't have the chance to go to Tobesk. Even if I had the chance, I can't get tickets to watch the big city players play live. When the 'Great City Players Rhodes Tournament' was held in Lengshuigang 21 years ago, the ticket price was quite For my salary of a few months, it will only be more expensive now."

The bartender shook his head regretfully, then shook his head in the direction of Aurora Manor, and said while wiping the glass:
"Sometimes I really envy the rich. Do you know how much gold pounds that manor was sold for 20 years ago?"

"How much? You know all this?"

Xia De asked in surprise.

"I worked in this tavern 20 years ago, and I heard from the boss here."

The bartender dipped his finger in some water and wrote a few numbers on the wooden board of the counter.Xia De raised his eyebrows, and calculated the prices and purchasing power of money around 20 years ago. If he can prove that the house in Saint-Andrés Square is not haunted, then the price of Aurora Manor is only lower than that of a house in Saint-Andres Square. Houses are a little more expensive.

"That is to say, if I sell No. [-] Saint Teresa Square, and I add a sum of money, I can buy a manor with a beach, courtyard, and garden in a place like Lengshui Harbor."

The mood suddenly became high. Even if you don't sell it, knowing what you have can make the owner of the house happy.

"Speaking of this manor, the manor was here when my father was a child. The history of the manor is not shorter than those old streets in Nancheng District."

The bartender continued.

"Isn't that hundreds of years old?"

Xia De asked, then turned sideways and took a risky look, but the professors did not pay attention to him.

"I can't tell you the specifics, but I know that the original owner of the manor was a wealthy local businessman 30 years ago. He has a special way to get jewelry from sunken ships or pearls from the seabed for sale. .Then one day, the wealthy businessman disappeared, and the house was mortgaged and sold.”

The bartender shook his head and wiped the cup in his hands, as if lamenting the impermanence of the world:

"But it used to be very gloomy. Don't look at the glamor now. When I was young, the whole house was like an underground cave soaked in water for a long time. Every night, I could even hear the wind passing through the windows without glass. making strange noises."

The more Xia De heard, the more something was wrong, and the uneasiness in his heart gradually increased.

He continued to chat with the bartender, but before Shad was about to leave, the two professors of St. Byrence stood up first, left the tavern and entered the rain outside.

Of course Xia De didn't dare to follow.

The time at this time is 04:30 on Wednesday morning, and there are still about two hours before the sunrise of Lengshui Harbor.

After sitting on the high stool at the counter for a few more minutes, after making sure that the professors would not turn back, Xia De took the cup of weird drink and sat in the corner where the professors were sitting just now.

The bartender felt very sorry for not being able to sell those strange medicinal wines to Shade.

The professors didn't leave anything here. After Shade put the cup down, he tried to use the thaumaturgy [Echo of the Past] to try his luck.

But this is the pub, and there will be people talking almost every moment for 48 hours, so he doesn't have much hope for it.

First try.

"Star 8, look at my 20 o'clock!"

It seems to be playing the Rhodes card.

Second attempt.

"Oh my Maya, my Maya"

A man was crying, probably because his wife or daughter had died.

"Why did you leave this home and leave me?"

Perhaps it was not death, but the sudden disappearance of his wife.

"I have raised you for three full years, and I have saved your cat food money until after 1856."

Xia De did not comment, but tried a third time.

"So, Mafar, it's a pity that we didn't invite the professors from the School of History this time."

Xia De was startled, it was the voice of Professor Sanchez.And judging from what he heard, it was indeed the professors of St. Byrence who were talking in low voices.

"Since when did I have this luck?"

I thought suspiciously in my heart, but continued to listen attentively.

"Oh, Professor Sanchez, who would have thought that such a thing would happen here?"

The middle-aged professor called "Mafar" sighed:
"Who would have thought that the manor was actually one of the ritual nodes of the sea return ceremony? The Scarlet Esoteric Cult spent a lot of money and used the relic [no entry signboard]. Now people outside can't get in, and people inside can't enter." I can’t get out. If there is a professor from the School of History here, I think I can think of a way to let at least one of us in from the perspective of space.”

The surprised expression on Xia De's face was completely uncontrollable.

"The manor itself has problems. We start with the direction of the cult's funds flow these days. The previous investigation has proved that the owner of the mansion cooperated with the Scarlet Esoteric Cult 30 years ago to circulate funds for the cultists and murlocs. I think the mansion was at that time We have already started preparations for the 'return by sea'."

Professor Sanchez said, followed by the sound of the glass being lowered:
"We have just seen there. With the current means, no one can get in for a few hours, unless the high-ring warlocks in charge of other nodes are mobilized. It's just that other nodes are just as important. I'm afraid there are similar problems in other places. But we don't have to worry too much. Didn't the Church of Nature say that they received the news in advance that there was a suspicious person at the banquet, so there was a team of ring warlocks in the manor? The news came from the team, and the two sides are confrontation, and neither intends to go to war again."

"That would be nice."

Professor Mafar pondered for a moment, but immediately realized the problem:
"However, in such a situation where the whole city is short of people, why would the Church of Nature think of secretly mobilizing a whole team of ring magicians to ambush at the banquet without telling us? They probably don't know that the manor of the Aurora family , there are ceremonial nodes, otherwise it will be resolved in advance. Could it be that the Church of Nature has found a second place."

(End of this chapter)