The Doctor was still in his dream, and the two people standing in the corridor discussed the finishing work while listening to the rain outside.
As the night deepened, Miss Louisa still looked very energetic:
"Later, I'll use Psychography to write down tonight's experience and leave it here. When the Orthodox Church arrives, they'll understand what happened. The words produced by Psychography are similar to print, so no handwriting will be left."
"Miss Louisa, do you often 'cooperate' with the Church like this?"
The Outsider asked curiously, wanting to learn from their experience.
"Not often, but doing so can effectively prevent the Church from causing trouble. The Miracle Academy and the Orthodox Church are not hostile; it's just that the Church doesn't like us, believing we always cause trouble..."
From Xia De's brief two-week experience, he found it hard not to agree with the Church's view.
"So, leaving suitable clues is also a gesture to the Church, and the Church will tacitly not pursue us."
"The relationship between us and the Church is really..."
He flipped through the "delarion common language Dictionary" in his mind:
"It's truly subtle."
"That's a good word."
The Golden-haired girl praised.
Although the Doctor said he would give him twenty minutes, by the time he woke up, thirty minutes had actually passed.
Entering the dream didn't exhaust Doctor Schneider; instead, it made him more energetic. In the drizzling summer night, the Doctor's tone was light:
"A Four-Ring Warlock, just within my suppression range."
He smiled at his two companions and, seeing the eye in the bottle Xia De was holding, explained:
"I've basically clarified everything. This eye is a keeper-level relic, the 【Count's Left Eye】. The eye's original owner was known as Count Gela, who lived in the late fifth epoch. After he was assassinated, his body's eyes were obtained by a witch and made into an alchemical item, subsequently becoming a relic. Its specific function is that when the demonic eye makes eye contact with any intelligent creature, the other party will suffer a mental shock based on the difference in soul power and spiritual power between them. Simply put, for someone more powerful than the holder, the demonic eye is completely ineffective, but for ordinary people, it's not difficult to turn them into a vegetable with one glance."
"This relic... isn't very useful."
Miss Louisa was a little disappointed:
"If they're weaker than me, isn't it more convenient for me to just use a Miracle? Why would I need to damage my own eye and install something like this... Forget it, it's free anyway. Doctor, Detective, you two keep it. I'm not interested. Tonight's clue wasn't provided by me, and I didn't help much, so you don't need to give me anything."
"As I said, tonight I only want the 【forged philosopher's stone】; everything else is yours."
The Doctor shook his head, and so, this demonic eye belonged to Xia De. Of course, logically, he still needed to give Miss Louisa a sum of pounds as compensation for monopolizing the relic, as she also participated in the battle. But judging by the Golden-haired girl's attitude, she didn't seem to intend to ask Xia De for money, after all, she was interested in Xia De's other things.
Although the Doctor's direct combat ability was not outstanding, his ability to obtain information through dreams was beyond doubt.
"We can go now. The two relics that Mercury Blood entrusted Pang Dun with are ordinary items, used to make him believe he is still trusted. The Silver-Eyed One had long discovered Pang Dun was embezzling the organization's assets, and this man was here to silence him."
The Doctor, like Miss Louisa just now, kicked the unconscious man on the ground. He shook his head at Xia De:
"I also interrogated him about his past. This guy specializes in dirty work for the Silver-Eyed One. If you ask me, he should be executed by steam cannon directly."
"Have you found any clues about the 【forged philosopher's stone】?"
Xia De asked again, as this was the main purpose of tonight.
"No, but there are some clues. This guy knows more ordinary people who help Mercury Blood guard relics. But for what comes next, Detective, you don't need to participate. This kind of thing is too dangerous; you're not suitable for acting together."
Xia De did not object; instead, he nodded directly. The Doctor was right. His coming tonight was merely to fulfill his promise to Miss Bei Ya Si not to take any relics other than the 【forged philosopher's stone】.
"Then, have you found the Silver-Eyed One's hiding place?"
Xia De asked on behalf of Miss Bei Ya Si. The Doctor shook his head and picked up the short knife, just like Xia De had done earlier. Miss Louisa stepped back, and Xia De then understood and also stepped back, watching the Doctor plunge the knife into the man's heart.
The Doctor pulled out the short knife and tossed it aside casually. Metal and blood beads fell to the ground, making a sound amidst the rain.
"After the Silver-Eyed One was injured by you, his injuries cannot be treated by ordinary methods. He is now in a dilemma of declining power and no longer trusts those around him. This guy who does dirty work also doesn't know the Silver-Eyed One's location; they exchange information through secret communication."
Thinking in a good direction, the Nine Ring sorcerer Silver-Eyed One's declining power gave Miss Bei Ya Si a chance to take revenge with her own hands; but thinking in a bad direction, it would probably be even more difficult for Miss Bei Ya Si to find this cautious guy.
The three of them handled the aftermath. Miss Louisa used the Miracle 【Psychography】 to narrate tonight's story, while Doctor Schneider and Xia De searched the body together.
After checking the body's pockets, the Doctor looked at Xia De with some hesitation.
"Doctor, what's wrong?"
Xia De looked at him strangely, thinking he had found something odd. Killers don't carry wallets when they work; Xia De had only found 3 shillings in loose change so far.
"There's something I shouldn't tell you because it's very dangerous. But since the initial information about this matter came from you, it would be wrong not to tell you."
The Doctor hesitated.
"Then tell the Detective. The fact that the demonic eye had no effect on him just now already explains a lot."
Miss Louisa encouraged, gesturing in the air with her fingers, as large swaths of text continuously appeared on the paper.
The Doctor thought for a moment, found it reasonable, and stopped his searching:
"Alright then."
Xia De looked at him, and the Doctor's words rang out after a clap of thunder:
"I know where the 【god's gift box】 is."
He looked at Xia De, and Xia De also looked at him, taking a while to understand the meaning of the sentence. He tentatively asked:
"You mean, the location of that Sage-level (Level 2) relic has been discovered by you?"
Although this box seemed to have no direct connection to Xia De's experiences, it could also be said that the beginning of everything seemed to be this box. If it weren't for this relic, Mercury Blood wouldn't have come to Tobesk, and the series of events that followed wouldn't have happened.
After nearly three weeks of life and adventure, after all the twists and turns, news of the 【god's gift box】 once again came to Xia De.
"Yes, Detective, I can tell you the exact location, but you must understand the difference between greed and ambition. Tobesk is not peaceful. After Lakeview Manor, do you know, last Saturday night, an Old God almost pulled a certain street in this City into..."
Xia De turned to look at Miss Louisa, who pretended to be interested in the "story" she had just written.
Seeing their strange actions, the Doctor continued speaking but looked at them with slight hesitation:
"Although the Orthodox Church has suppressed the news, I heard some things from Augustus. At that time, a High-Ring Sorcerer at the scene used an inspiration-type Mystic Lock to directly confront the Old God's gaze, paying a price to save the people on an entire street... Although incredible, even more incredible things have been seen at Lakeview Manor..."
He paused:
"It wasn't you two, was it?"
Xia De and Miss Louisa just avoided looking at him.
"Detective? Writer?"
Doctor Schneider called out softly. Seeing that they maintained that attitude, he stood beside the corpse, lowering his voice just enough to be heard over the raindrops hitting the window, and then his eyes widened, an astonished expression appearing on his face:
"Oh! My God, it was you!"
In short, despite a few minor incidents, the three of them had a relatively smooth joint operation on this rainy Monday night. Not only was no one injured, but the Doctor even obtained the next clue regarding the relic 【forged philosopher's stone】.
Even more valuable was the news of the 【god's gift box】.
Just as the initial information provided by Miss Jialinna, the 【god's gift box】 could not be moved due to certain special reasons, which is why Mercury Blood was unwilling to leave the Tobesk area even after the Silver-Eyed One was severely injured.
Roughly a year ago, in the winter of 1852 in the common era, taking advantage of the preliminary work for Tobesk City's third round of steam pipeline reconstruction, Mercury Blood, having discovered clues to a ruin from the ancient text "Book of the Dead," secretly conducted excavation work underground in Tobesk. They then truly found a sixth epoch ruin buried deep beneath the City, a ruin approximately 1000 years old.
The man killed by the Doctor did not know what exactly was in the ruin. He only knew that the 【god's gift box】 was discovered within the ruin. This relic was firmly fixed in a certain location within the ruin; even with Ring術士 methods, it could not be separated from its base.
Therefore, the Silver-Eyed One, as the leader, risked having most of the organization's personnel infiltrate the large City of Tobesk, attempting to complete the manufacturing of the so-called angel-level relic 【Mercury Blood】 within the ruin.
Although the dead man did not know the specific situation inside the ruin, he learned the exact location of the excavated ruin entrance by secretly tracking members of his own organization. He did not intend to monopolize the relic; he was merely curious about this secret.
And the location of the entrance was very familiar to Xia De; it was only one street away from the alley where he had unexpectedly discovered the statue of the Old God "Vampire Duke Loyaer".
