It was not easy to take the body out of the red hall, but Basil still managed to do it. While the two city guards returned to the duty room to rest, he drove the carriage to the door of the hall, and then took his wife and daughter into the car.

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There were many stab wounds on Luvira's back because she was still using her body to protect her daughter before she died. But she failed, and someone sent someone to use a pillow to complete the final work.

Basil held his wife's lifeless body in his arms, feeling neither sadness nor anger in his heart, only the complete numbness after extreme pain.

I will let half the city's humans be buried with you, he thought, and the remaining half of the city belongs to our daughter. They use your death to maintain a false peace, and there is nothing more fragile than this.

Basil opened the gate with the key in the guard room and drove out of the Red Room.

His next target is the Old Town.

It may not be wise to go home now, but Basil is willing to take the risk. In order to ensure that the souls of his wife and daughter can return to the goddess, he needs to retrieve their birthstone necklaces and be buried with them.

But maybe it's pointless, maybe the goddess doesn't care about her people at all. If she really cares, how could she allow such a cruel thing to happen?

Luvela, who had always been pious, died tragically under the knife. He cursed the goddess before dying but survived...

No, don't think about it now. Luvira and Antolina need their birthstones, and so does he. This is the last thing he can do for them, so even if it's just a lie to himself, he has to

Finish.

Basil parked the carriage in an alley two blocks away from his home. There were no street lights and it was pitch dark. And at this time, there was probably no one wandering around on the street.

Basil jumped out of the car and walked to his house alone. For the sake of caution, he still kept himself in the shadows.

The street in front of the door was empty, not a single soul could be seen, and the lights in the nearby houses were all off - normal people should have rested long ago at this time.

Worried that someone decent was watching, Basil observed from a distance for a while. There were too many hiding places on this street. There was a park opposite the house, and there might be someone hiding in any bush over there.

Suddenly, there were footsteps on the street. It was the sound of boots, women's boots with high heels. Basil squinted his eyes and looked carefully at the direction where the sound came from.

It's Shireen Marron.

She walked in a hurry and looked a little panicked. Shireen stood at the door of Basil's house, looking at the dark windows, and finally plucked up the courage to walk up the steps and knock on the door.

Boom, boom, boom.

No one responded, that's natural.

But Shireen didn't give up. She tried again, this time hitting harder.

"Mr. Basil!" she whispered, "Mr. Basil! Are you at home?"

She doesn't know yet, Basil thought, she doesn't know what's going on yet. He wants to go up to her, hug her hard, and tell her the truth. Shireen is like my other daughter, she has the right to know...

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No, a cold voice in my heart said, she is not your daughter. She is a human being. If you still trust her, then you are a fool who cannot learn a lesson.

Shireen kept knocking on the door, getting more and more anxious. Finally, the lights at Percy's house next door came on, and not long after, a fat woman in pajamas opened the window. "Stop knocking, little girl, you know

I wonder what time it is now?”

"I'm sorry, ma'am." Shireen said quietly, "but, but..."

"I really can't stand you. What do you want from Basil?"

"I just had a nightmare." She replied softly, "I dreamed that something happened to him."

"Just because of a nightmare, you came knocking on the door in the middle of the night? And you did it yourself?" Mrs. Percy looked in disbelief.

Shirin lowered her head and was speechless.

"Basil's hearing is very good. You've been knocking for so long and he didn't answer the door. He must not be at home."

"Is he in danger?" Shireen raised her head and asked, "Madam, did you hear anything wrong tonight?"

"No, I didn't hear anything." Mrs. Percy shrugged, "Go home, little girl."

Shireen left dejectedly. Not long after, the street returned to silence.

Basil counted to a hundred silently in his mind, then walked out of the shadows and walked towards the door of his house. He found the spare key in the flower bed in front of the door and opened the door softly.

The house was still as it was when they were taken away, and no decent people stayed to clean up. Basil went straight to the bedroom and found Luvira's amethyst necklace, and then went upstairs to find Antolina's opal necklace.

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He held the two gems tightly in his hands. They were as cold and lifeless as the bodies of his wife and daughter.

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"Only a pious fool would believe such a thing." Basil said seriously, "And isn't it a little too early to discuss the details of the funeral? We have at least five hundred years to live."

"Oh, dear. Even if our lives last longer than Fire Seal City, we will eventually die one day." Luvira replied with a smile, "And you are right, I am indeed a pious fool."

"But you actually prepared a necklace for Antolina. Isn't this a bit exaggerated? She is only twelve years old!"

"It's not an exaggeration. You're making too much of a fuss. It doesn't mean that you are waiting for death if you buy a birthstone necklace. On the contrary, this necklace will protect us. If you are willing, I will buy one for you next time."

"No, I don't need to." Basil shook his head, "I don't believe in these."

"You should believe it, my dear." Luvira raised her hand and caressed his cheek, "You have lived in a human city for too long and you are becoming more and more like a human being. I have to find a way to cure your disease.

--Now put that necklace down and come and kiss me."

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Basil pocketed the necklace and left the house. He found the carriage in an alley two blocks away.

This time, his destination was the Midnight Gate. There was an alder forest a league outside the city, where they often went for picnics on weekends.

Antolina will love it there, she always enjoys picnics.

Before leaving the city, he encountered another trouble. The soldiers guarding the gate would definitely not let him out easily. The black carriage was too suspicious and would definitely be inspected.

He parked his car near the city gate and began to think about what to do.

Just when he was worried, the city gate suddenly opened. A carriage drove in slowly. The driver was a man in simple clothes who looked like a traveling businessman. At this time, he could still let the gatekeepers open the city gate.

It must have cost a lot of money.

Basil looked at the carriage approaching him and suddenly thought of a way.

As the carriage approached, Basil deliberately fell off the carriage and rolled into the middle of the road.

The businessman exclaimed and quickly stopped the car.

"Sorry, sir," Basil pretended to be in pain, "Sorry for blocking your way, I will get out of your way." He stood up unsteadily, and soon fell to the ground again.

"Are you okay? You look bad." The kind businessman asked.

"I'm fine...I'll go to the hospital later, but now I have to take a rest."

The businessman jumped off the carriage and said, "Let me help you. Come on, give me your hand."

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Chapter completed!