Tifa took Shad to the guest room of the manor to meet Miss Swift. The train from Fort Midhill stopped at the station at 11 o'clock last night. Miss Swift and the other children of Granny Cassandra
The followers all spent the night at Belindle Manor, which had many guest rooms.
When Shade opened the door and walked in, the young girl with flaxen hair was writing a letter to Granny Cassandra.
Seeing Shade coming, she put down her pen and seemed to want to hug Shade, but seeing that Tifa was still there, she was reserved again, so the considerate black-haired maid smiled and nodded at her, temporarily
Leave the room and close the door.
Moon Bay City is a famous big city in the Old World, and the Cassandra chain auction house has the largest branch here. However, Miss Swift and the others do not live in the auction house, but like Tifa and the maid group, next
They all live here.
The [Witch Council] has arranged for the local great witch Bella Belindel to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Moon Bay incident this time. Therefore, Belindel Manor, as the base camp, does need more manpower.
Now the Northern Maid Group is arranged to assist the local maids in strengthening the manor, and the task of Miss Swift and her party is to assist the witches in interpreting the documents and information of the seven major families. This is not a simple task.
As for Shade wanting to attend the high-end auction of Cassandra Auction House with his friends today, the flaxen-haired girl just asked Shade to go directly:
"The badge and business card my mother-in-law gave you before will allow you to freely enter and exit all auction houses everywhere. Oh, I will write you another letter and take it with you. Don't let the local auction houses neglect you."
She quickly wrote the letter and handed it to Shade. When she handed him the letter, she grabbed the letter and refused to let go. She pursed her lips and looked up at him, until Shade belatedly looked at her side face.
After kissing her gently, she smiled and let go.
After leaving their teachers, the young witch apprentices all have their own little thoughts. From this point of view, this generation of apprentice girls has more of the spirit of the ancient times than the previous generation of great witches.
The auction started at ten o'clock in the morning. In order to prevent missing the time, Shade quickly went to Spider Alley to meet Mr. Bernhardt, and then rushed to the Cassandra Auction House in the north of the city.
The small auction that Mrs. Jude is going to attend is not something you can attend if you want to. This auction, which is held on the top floor of the auction house, can only be attended by special people who have accepted the invitation. And these people even in the "City of Fortune"
Yuewan can also be said to be the most famous and wealthy person.
However, with the badge and business card of Grandma Cassandra, and the letter written by Miss Swift, Shade can actually regard this auction house as his home. The witch followers stationed in the local auction house heard that Shade
After arriving, he hurriedly went out to greet him in person.
Miss Swift will come over tomorrow to look at the ledger, so everyone at the auction house is already very nervous. Of course, they will give the greatest support to Shade's request to come to participate in the small auction.
This auction is nominally a "charity auction", and the profits from the auction will be used to renovate the rural roads connecting the northern part of Yuewan City. Mrs. Jude likes to participate in such activities, and she spends generously every time. She is local
Part of its good reputation comes from this.
There were not many people participating in the auction, and the small hall used for the corresponding auction was not large. Before the official start of the auction, all the auction items were displayed around the small hall, and the people participating in the auction also went to their own places.
Watch it with a glass of wine in hand.
Schade and Mr. Bernhardt also specially changed into formal clothes. Each of them held a glass of champagne and stood in front of an abstract painting titled "Girl and Blue Sky" to make their own comments.
Of course, neither of them actually appreciated this style of oil painting.
Mrs. Jude had already arrived at this time, but she was surrounded by three ladies talking, so they did not join her immediately.
While pretending to be professional in commenting on the oil paintings using lines, colors and contrasts of light and shade, they were actually quietly observing Mrs. Jude's every move. When the ladies who covered their mouths and chuckled lightly left together, Mrs. Jude wanted to talk to her again.
When the middle-aged man dressed as a painter chatted with him, Mr. Shade and Mr. Bernhardt walked over first.
"Good morning, Mrs. Jude."
"Oh, good morning, gentlemen."
The vampire noble lady looked at them curiously:
"Excuse me, what's the matter?"
Shade glanced at Mr. Bernhardt, who nodded and handed over his business card. Mrs. Jude was a little surprised after reading it, but she still said politely:
"Viscount, good morning, it turns out that you are a distant relative from Willondale.
Please forgive me for not meeting you right away. I don’t really want to have any contact with Willendale’s family. I had some conflicts with them when I was young.”
She said it politely, but what she actually wanted to express was that she refused to discuss anything with Mr. Bernhardt.
But since Mr. Bernhard had already found a way to appear in front of her, when Bernhard stretched out his hand, Mrs. Jude naturally stretched out her hand wearing a white lace glove and shook his hand gently.
Then Shade saw that Mr. Bernhardt crossed the index and middle fingers of his left hand according to the secret signal agreed upon before coming. This also meant that the lady in front of him did not provide the [Dragon Feast Cult] with anything.
blood people.
Two of the five suspects have been eliminated, and the remaining three will be contacted at tonight's banquet.
But this auction trip is not over yet. Even if Mrs. Jude has nothing to do with the cultists, she might know something else. So Mr. Bernhardt is still talking there:
"Mrs. Jude, if you don't want to participate in some things, you will definitely not be involved. Please listen to me, this time."
"Gentlemen, the first round of auction is about to begin. Let's talk about it later, okay?"
The lady said with a smile, so Shade and the two had to find a place to sit down first.
In the first round of the auction, Mrs. Jude bought two collections. One was the abstract oil painting just now, and the other was an ancient clock. It was a purely handmade product, not only an antique but also a work of art.
However, Mr. Shade and Mr. Bernhardt didn’t buy anything. Mr. Bernhardt looked a little restless. During the interval after the first round of auction, he saw Mrs. Jude excuse herself to go to the bathroom and avoided the two of them.
Mr. Bernhardt whispered to Shade in the deserted corridor:
"She sucked human blood, and just this morning."
He was holding a pocket watch in his hand, but inside the dial was an abstract pattern of blurred red and blue, which was even more difficult to understand than the oil painting just now.
This is also a magical item sent by the Vampire Cult of Willendale to support Mr. Bernhardt. It is specially used to detect whether vampires have sucked human blood. The accuracy is quite high, so there is no need to suspect errors.
"So, the news we heard from Captain Rudolph last night and the subsequent speculations are most likely correct? Is there really a problem with her adopting orphans and opening an orphanage?"
Shade asked, and Mr. Bernhardt nodded heavily:
"Yes. I will handle this matter. She broke the rules. If the church discovers it, all the members of her race will be implicated."
At this moment, the sound of hurried footsteps was heard. The maid from the auction house walked quickly and whispered to Shade:
"Mr. Watson, Mrs. Jude and her maid are coming downstairs. They are preparing to leave through the back door of the auction house."
The entrance to Cassandra Auction House is not just the main entrance. Some guests with sensitive identities always like to enter and exit through the hidden side door or back door.
Outside the back door of the auction house is an alley, but because the front and rear of the alley are the auction house itself and the auction house's warehouse, the land in the alley also belongs to the auction house, and there are very few pedestrians walking around here on weekdays.
At this time, the carriage stopped in the alley. After the maid opened the door, Mrs. Jude, who was in a hurry, walked in and asked the coachman to set off immediately.
But just as the wheels were turning, they stopped again, and the coachman's voice came from the front of the carriage:
"Madam, there is someone blocking the road ahead, look at this"
The lady stuck her head out of the car window and saw Mr. Bernhardt standing in the middle of the alley. So the corner of her mouth trembled, and she closed the car window heavily. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and said to the maid next to her.
:
"Get out of the car now and tell Viscount Bernhardt that I am not feeling very well right now. When I feel better, I will invite him to visit me. He is our relative in Willendale, so you don't have to be afraid of him.
"
"Yes, ma'am."
The maid then got off the carriage, and relying on the cover of her body, a small blood-red bat also flew out of the carriage at this time.
She flew almost close to the ground to avoid being noticed. But before she flew very far, she saw the handsome young man who had just appeared with Mr. Bernhard standing in front waiting for her.
The bats did not retreat, but accelerated towards Sha De, and suddenly turned into dozens of bats ten meters in front of Sha De, flying in different directions.
Mrs. Jude's body was hidden in the group of bats. She was still flying close to the ground, trying to go around Shade's right side. But she did not expect that Shade did not look at the pile of illusion bats at all, and the bright light appeared in his hand.
The long yellow sword pierced directly into the soil around him. If the bat hadn't flown fast enough, it might have hit the sword.
The bat then changed direction and retreated, and then finally returned to the human form of Mrs. Jude.
After she landed, her nostrils flapped like a wild animal as she looked at the expressionless Shade. Then her plump cheeks quickly shriveled up like dehydration, until she returned to her original terrifying appearance of a vampire, and then her whole person transformed into a human being.
A scarlet blood mist rushed towards Shade.
Judging from the fact that her level is not high, but she can use her racial talents so skillfully, her vampire bloodline is indeed very noble.