"Detective, you go first. This is my enemy."
Seeing the enemy clearly, Miss Bei Ya Si stood completely in front of Xia De, urging him to leave.
"Is it the same Mercury Blood from last time?"
Xia De asked in a low voice.
"No, but this guy is connected to the Silver-Eyed One. He belongs to another organization... Don't worry, he's a wanted criminal, and a disgusting tomb raider."
Miss Bei Ya Si whispered, her eyes never leaving the man under the lamp.
"Alright, I'll go first. You be careful."
"Detective, you be careful too. I'll come to your house to find you later."
As she spoke, she had already heard Xia De's footsteps fading away.
"The Detective acts too decisively, doesn't he..."
Without any worries, Miss Bei Ya Si twisted her neck:
"This time, I won't let you off. Balance!"
She walked towards the man under the street lamp, whose body was gradually showing lividity.
Xia De moved quickly forward along the alley. Since it had nothing to do with Mercury Blood, there was no need for him to intervene in such a high-level Ring術士 fight.
Of course, he didn't intend to leave immediately. Instead, he looked for a safe place nearby to wait for the battle to end. If Miss Bei Ya Si was at a disadvantage, he could immediately jump out; and if Miss Bei Ya Si was injured, he would have a suitable reason to expose his Ring術士 identity.
The alley was not very long, and there were no other exits in the middle, with both ends connecting to two different streets. Just as he could see the light of a gas street lamp ahead, another figure appeared, blocking the alley entrance.
Xia De stopped, clearly seeing that it was a corpse that had already begun to rot. If the man who had just appeared under the street lamp still had some human qualities, then this one was undoubtedly a complete corpse.
"Not a Ring術士, and no trace of whisper element. It's probably a corpse controlled by Miracle."
A whispering voice softly reminded him.
"The Ring術士 fighting Iluna Bayas wants to stop me... How strong is he?"
"I can only sense the trace of the element. I cannot give an answer as to how strong a corpse controlled by Miracle is."
"Understood."
Xia De said in a low voice. He saw a gunshot wound on the corpse's bluish face, which was probably the cause of death.
"Was this corpse also obtained from tomb raiding?"
A silver Moonlight appeared in an arc, flying forward. At the same time, Xia De vigilantly summoned a silver mist, using illusion to conceal himself. But then he saw that the silver moon's slash neatly cut the blocking corpse in half, and the two halves fell to the ground, motionless.
"Hmm? So weak?"
Somewhat surprised, he continued to hide in the silver mist. Only after a long time, confirming that the other party was truly motionless, did he come out. There was a strange smell in the dim alley, and the two halves of the corpse lay there, with maggots vaguely visible wriggling in their nostrils.
"Did he think I was an ordinary person, so he didn't take me seriously?"
Shifting his gaze from the corpse, Xia De was momentarily at a loss for words. So he walked out of the alley and looked around the street, but he didn't see any other enemies or corpses.
"Pretending to be an ordinary person actually has this advantage?"
He turned to look at the other end of the alley. Because of the distance and the lack of light in the alley, he couldn't tell what was happening over there.
"Since I can solve the problem, Miss Bei Ya Si will definitely be fine. She will definitely..."
A cold wind blew from the alley, and Xia De immediately shivered. The wind seemed to blow directly into his body, a cold feeling from the inside out, making Xia De feel as if his body had stiffened.
He looked behind him, and a transparent phantom with black smoke floating out from the wall on one side of the alley. He couldn't clearly see what it was; the phantom seemed as if it would dissipate with a gust of wind.
It stretched out a pale, transparent hand towards Xia De, and Xia De also stretched out his finger towards it:
"Silver Moon!"
The silver Moonlight shone forward, and in that light, the black smoke next to the evil spirit's figure gradually dissipated. Xia De, squinting his eyes, seemed to see the phantom of an old woman swaying before him. She bowed slightly to Xia De, then pointed to the wall from which she had appeared, and finally disappeared into the holy Moonlight.
"I always thought you were afraid of ghosts and such things."
The whispering voice came to his ear. Xia De withdrew his finger and looked suspiciously at the wall in front of him:
"I'm not afraid of ghosts; I'm just uncomfortable with death and the unknown. What's so scary about ghosts... Is there something in the wall?"
He pressed his hand against the wall covered with dirty, vulgar words. After a few seconds, he got the answer himself without the whispering voice's reminder.
A cold aura emanated from inside the wall. Even without the hint from "the other me," he directly sensed the unique whisper element of a relic. This relic was currently functioning, which was why it could be sensed so easily.
He glanced at the brick wall, carefully probed it, and found that one of the bricks could be removed, but his fingernail couldn't pry it loose.
"What should I do? Wait, I have another trick."
Xia De took a step back, squinting his eyes and staring at the brick in the darkness. After a long while, he suddenly shouted:
"Ha!"
The power of a spell pulled the object, and the brick was forcibly pulled out by one-third.
He neatly removed the entire brick, reached in, and felt something wrapped in newspaper. After pulling it out and removing the newspaper, he found a human finger bone inside. The withered yellow bone was intricately carved with chillingly fine patterns. His finger brushed over it, discovering text carved on the back.
This was not like the dream pen of joy, where the characteristics were known beforehand. So, because of the lesson from the darkness box, Xia De didn't dare to directly interpret the meaning.
"A relic. It seems your luck is quite good."
At the same time, a man's scream and the bright color unique to the Miracle Sunlight Gun came from the other end of the alley:
"Damn it, who touched my relic! No, my undying body!"
It seemed Miss Bei Ya Si had won.
Holding the relic, Xia De thought for a moment and stood still at the alley entrance.
A few minutes later, he saw Miss Bei Ya Si, dressed in a maid's dress, walking over with a serious expression, dragging a corpse. There were hardly any signs of a struggle on her clothes; she seemed to have won quite easily:
"Detective..."
She stared at Xia De, then saw the withered yellow, slender finger bone carefully held in Xia De's hand:
"Are you really an ordinary person?"
Her eyes were fixed on Xia De.
Xia De could choose to lie again, but it was meaningless. Since he had already decided to help The Chosen, there was no need for prolonged deception. This was a good opportunity, so he made up his mind and met Miss Bei Ya Si's gaze:
"Let's reintroduce ourselves. Xia De · Su Lun · Han Mi Er Dun, Detective... and a one-ring Ring術士 by correspondence from Saint Byron's Comprehensive College."
