The time key matter was temporarily over, and this Monday was the real beginning. But before everyone left home this morning, Shade asked one last question:
"Carina, do you know where you can find Director Anlos now?"
The last time Shade met with Director Anlos was a few weeks ago. Director Anlos said that when MI6 reactivated the dormant agents in Moon Bay City, they found that one of them was missing.
He said at the time that if he really couldn't find the person later, he would ask Shade to help investigate, but since then Shade has not received any new notification.
But this morning, Shade went to see his boss not because of this matter, but because he wanted MI6 to help investigate the matter of Yuewan Bank.
The meeting with Director Anlos was in a restaurant on Silver Cross Avenue. Shade often brought his cat here to finish his dinner, but it was still early and there were only a few customers having breakfast in the restaurant.
When Shade arrived, Director Anlos, who had received the letter from the maid sent by Miss Carina, had already hid his face behind the newspaper and sat down at the table in the corner. Shade didn't know why his home was so far away.
It's so close here, but Director Anlos came here first.
"Want to find a specific account?"
After hearing Xia De's request, the ordinary-looking middle-aged man hesitated:
"Do you know which bank it is?"
"I don't know. I just know that in the past two years, that account has carried out large-amount remittance transactions in certain periods."
Shade took out the date that Baron Chandler gave yesterday in the basement of the autopsy room.
Director Anlos nodded, folded the piece of paper and put it into his pocket:
"Leave it to me, today is Monday, and we will have the results before the end of this week."
"So fast?"
Shade raised his eyebrows in surprise, and Director Anlos held the tea cup and said:
"We have been paying close attention to the situation of Yuewan frequently in recent years. Large transactions of major banks in Yuewan are one of the things we pay attention to. If you just find an account and check the transaction records, it couldn't be easier. I know you
The things they are involved in must be troublesome, and I will ask them to proceed with caution."
Xia De didn't ask any more questions:
"Has the missing colleague you mentioned some time ago been found now?"
Director Anlos sighed:
"Not found, but there is some progress in the investigation."
He didn't seem to have had breakfast yet, so he met Sha De here to solve his breakfast problem, so he didn't mind saying a few more words to Sha De:
"The disappearance of that man is not a betrayal. The company encountered an accident. He was sent to work so far away and has not contacted the headquarters for so many years. It is normal for accidents to happen. But we still need to investigate what happened.
Surprisingly, after all, at least a month and a half ago, that person was still living as usual."
There was breakfast in front of him, and there was only a teacup in front of Shade:
"Homicide? Murder of love? Accidental death? Or involved in something unspeakable?"
The latter refers to things related to Ring Warlocks.
So Director Anlos looked around alertly, and saw that the breakfast atmosphere in the restaurant was very leisurely, so he lowered his voice again:
"It's funny to say that it has something to do with the Rhodes cards. No, it's not something like owing money for gambling cards. It has something to do with a collectible-level card with special rules."
Shade raised his eyebrows:
"You're not talking about the "foreign businessman and the missing three playing cards" thing that has been spreading in Yuewan City recently, right?"
"You really know."
Director Anlos smiled and said:
"It is said that each of those three playing cards can be sold for more than five hundred pounds. They are all very old playing cards. Our colleague is not a card player himself, but he is a collector and reseller of antiques in Yuewan.
business.
Judging from the current situation, it seems that he got one of the playing cards and suddenly disappeared while planning a deal with others to sell it for a big price."
After speaking, he picked up the tea cup and took a sip of coffee. Shade noticed that his boss drank coffee without adding sugar at all.
"But even so, we must avenge him. After all, this is the rule."
"Do you know which card it is?"
Shade asked again, Director Anlos shook his head:
"Those three cards have caused a lot of things in Yuewan. It's still unclear which one they are."
Among the three legendary cards, [Holy Sword·Dragon-Slaying Sword] Shade has already obtained it from the dead businessman and his son. It has nothing to do with the missing and dead agent, and [Ancient Alchemy·Dragon Stone] Shade will soon
I've heard of it once before.
In 1850, the cousin of Viscount Belgra, who was the champion of the Ayutthaya Players, tried to get information about this card from the vampire Captain Rudolf, but at that time Captain Rudolph admitted that he did not have the card. Viscount Guerra obviously had wrong information.
Therefore, the card that appeared in the hand of the missing and dead agent should be "Ancient Alchemy" or the unknown third card:
"I once met an information dealer in Moon Bay. She said she had clues to one of the three cards. If I have time, I will help investigate."
This refers to Mrs. Frey, the female shopkeeper of the "high-end technical place" Parsifal Club. Although it is not clear which of the three cards she knows, Shade does not mind trying to give back to herself by giving her monthly cards.
Salary of MI6.
The meeting with Director Anlos did not take much time, because he had to come back in the afternoon to attend the activities of the Holy Prayer Church, so after returning home, Shade took the time to go to Moon Bay as planned.
As for little Mia, a cat with a burning tail is not suitable for going outside. But Shade is not worried that the cat will burn down No. 6 St. Teresa Square. Miss Carina will stay until Tifa comes back, so there will be some problems in the house.
Several maids are always there, and they will also help look after the cat.
After walking out of the cave connected to Dragon Nest, I looked out over the city from the grove. The fire last night had obviously been extinguished, but the sky above the city was still shrouded in black mist.
When Shade entered the city through the city gate from the St. George Stone Bridge, he found that the streets in front of him were indeed half-burnt. The air was still filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke. Although there were not many completely collapsed buildings, most of them were
There were traces of excessive fire, and thin black smoke was rising toward the dark sky.
This street directly connected to St. George's Stone Bridge seems to be much livelier than usual, because residents and businessmen on the street are sorting out various damages in their homes, drying furniture that has been wet due to fire fighting, and moving those that have been damaged.
Burnt furniture and other rubbish.
Policemen wearing hard hats walked back and forth on the streets, as if counting the damage. The city fire department was still working to prevent a resurgence in the building. People who died in last night's fire had also been transported away.
, leaving behind those poor people who have to continue to face life to clean up the mess.
Judging from the battle situation last night, the most severely damaged areas should be the area on fire in the north of the city, and the block in the east of the city where the witches fought with the "Light Chasers".
But the latter was protected by the witches, so although the house suffered a lot of damage, there should be only a few dead citizens. The north of the city was really hit by a catastrophic impact due to the vampire monsters and fires raging.
Because Shade's appearance was different from last night, people on the street did not recognize the young man passing by as the person who helped them last night. However, Shade did see the two people he rescued from the fire last night.
The children, holding hands, followed behind their father and mother, searching for anything that could still be used in the ruins of their house.
He didn't talk to them, just stood there and looked at them for a while and then left.
Not only in the city, but apparently something happened in the countryside outside Yuewan City last night, but not only did the coachman not know about these things, but the details were not even published in the newspapers.
Because of last night's situation, local reporters worked through the night to sort out the damage situation in various parts of the city. Before the morning newspaper went on sale this morning, they added a small newspaper outside the sequential number of the newspaper, that is, "extra number". But first
The headline on the page is not the situation compiled by the reporters, but the reassuring speech that the mayor of Yuewan City is going to deliver this morning, which was rushed to major newspapers in the middle of the night yesterday.
While Shade was reading the newspaper in the carriage to learn about the situation, he also discussed it with the carriage driver. The carriage driver, who was in his thirties, was lucky enough to be almost unaffected:
"Sir, my family lives in Xiacheng District, south of the city. When something happened last night, someone organized the neighbors to get together and hide in the basement. They waited until dawn before going out. The matter was over. What is it said to be [Eternal Light]? I heard
People say this is an organization that helps the poor, and they are really good people.
Some people say that monsters have appeared in the city, but I think robbers are the most terrifying. There were gunshots everywhere last night. The guest in my carriage just read the mayor's speech to me. Mr. Wright said,
The pirates are working together with the gangs in the city to try to rob the city, but I don’t think it’s that simple.”
Last night, the fire enveloped five streets in the north of the city connected by the St. George Stone Bridge. After leaving this area, the traces of the fire basically disappeared. However, on the streets where the carriage passed, city workers could still be seen splashing water on the streets.
They used solvents to wash away the bloodstains, the priests were visiting door to door, and the vehicles transporting the corpses were traveling through the streets.
Those blood-sucking monsters killed many people in the city last night. In addition to monsters, gangsters who fished in troubled waters and wanted to commit robberies and other crimes also caused the same evil.
Shade and the coachman did not discuss much about the tragic situation in the city. Shade did not know how to speak, while the coachman believed that the prophecy about the city was probably true and that this kind of thing would happen again in the future.
The further they advanced towards the core area of the city, the more they found that the impact of last night's riot on the city was getting smaller. And when the carriage arrived near Belindel Manor, there were almost no traces of the turmoil.
It's just that Belindel Manor is in the same neighborhood as the City Hall, so the police interrogated suspicious people passing by at the intersections of nearby neighborhoods. Shade, who was riding in a carriage, was also interrogated, but he was also fooled by him.