The moment the bell rang downstairs, Xia De stopped. He glanced at Mia who was lying in front of the fireplace, and then walked downstairs quickly. When he arrived at the foyer, he looked at the door and took a deep breath.
He let out a sigh, then he changed into a smile and opened the door.
So the priest Augustus, standing outside the door in the background of the lively St. Terran Square, asked curiously:
"Detective, is it so happy to see me? I'm really honored."
The old priest was wearing the robe of the clerk, and the carriage of the Dawn Church was parked at the window on the first floor of the Xiade family not far from him.
Xia De took a deep breath again, but instead of explaining the reason for his strange expression, he asked tentatively:
"Prince, you don't want to ask me to go out now and then not come back in the afternoon, right? Is something wrong with someone, or is Bishop Irving asking me for something? It can't be sent to you by our friend who travels far away.
Is it right?"
"What?"
Priest Augustus raised his eyebrows, feeling that Shade was very strange today:
"Biden Irving knows that I have a good relationship with you, so let me inform you that the celebrations on the end of the year are held from 9 o'clock to 8:40. Can you arrive on time?"
In fact, just send someone to say this kind of thing, but because the end of the year festival is the most important festival besides the "Holy Day" of the Dawn Church, Bishop Irving specially made a special trip to ensure that every important member can come.
Let Priest Augustus come.
Xia De nodded and said that there was no problem. The priest looked at Xia De again and persuaded him that if he could not imagine the gift he gave to others, he could make some meaningful handicrafts by himself. Then the old man went back to the carriage and said goodbye to him and leave.
Xia De was standing at the door of the room and watching the carriage leaving behind, and was still worried that it would suddenly retreat, but this did not happen. The foreigner looked at the square in front of him again, but he did not see the person who should have appeared.
girl.
“Meow~”
The cat's whimper came from behind. Seeing that Xia De had not been up, the cat who was looking for it was standing at the corner platform above the stairs and shouting at him. Xia De had to close the door three steps and go back on two steps.
After taking the stairs, I bent down and picked up Xiaomia and it just returned to the second floor.
Dingdang ~
The bells downstairs rang again.
He put the cat on his shoulder and went downstairs, this time he opened the door with a blank expression, which scared Durut Giles and the girl Rust Edwards, who looked like a soul, outside the door.
This strange soul seems to have the ability to change her outfit at will. In today's winter, she floats above Durut Giles' head, wrapped in a very thick cotton skirt, but the temperature does not actually affect her "health"
”.
The young history lecturer first said hello to Xia De, and then said his purpose:
"I went here to do business today. Rust said that the festival was about to be celebrated, so I asked me to ask if the descendants of her brother had sent her holiday greetings."
The little girl who was frightened by Xia De's expression just now regained her former spirit. She was so excited that she wanted to cross the door and flew directly into the house, but for some reason she flew to the door and suddenly turned around and retreated.
.
She pretended to be very mature and said:
"Those juniors should still remember me as an elder. So have they sent me greeting cards? Or have they sent me holiday gifts?"
"Sorry, no."
So the girl's soul fell on the top of Durut Giles' head, holding his hair and looking like she was about to lose her temper, but in fact she didn't use her spirits to touch the existence of the material world.
Durut Giles, who was sorry for this rash visit, comforted him:
"There are two days left until the end of the year, and maybe their letters are on the way."
Xia De also said:
"Megan and Audrey came to me for the holiday this year. They probably will be here tomorrow. Even if others can't remember, they will definitely prepare greeting cards for you."
So the simple soul became excited again. She asked Durut Giles to inform Shade of their current address again. After the young history lecturer gave Shade the end-of-year gift to Shade, the two of them were
Say goodbye and leave.
Shade stood at the door and looked at their backs. In fact, he didn't know if Megan and Audrey had thought of preparing a holiday card for the soul, but he would remind Miss Edwards.
This time I didn't hear the bells again when I went upstairs. I saw that it was already ten:20, Xia De asked Xiaomia to continue to go back to the fireplace to cook the fire. He wrote on the table in the restaurant to be sent away.
Greeting card.
Although he plans to visit most of his friends in person, he doesn’t know many people after all. However, there is no need for some client in the past to visit, so it is enough to write a greeting card to express his feelings.
【So will you wait for today?】
"She" asked softly, Xia De replied with words:
"Wait until lunch time. If Miss Gaode doesn't come, I won't wait."
Ten minutes later at 10:30 in the morning, St. Terran Square outside the window also entered the most lively time of the day. The slight noise did not affect the Xiade and the cat living in the house, and the sound of the bells sounded again made Xiade
De put down his pen and went downstairs to open the door, but found that there was no one outside the door.
The kind passerby then reminded;
"Just just now, the three children were pulling the bells in front of others' doors, and they have already run away now."
Xia De's mouth trembled a few times, but the festival was about to be celebrated. The foreigners who claimed to be generous did not care about this matter unless the children dared to make such jokes again.
After thanking the passerby, Xia De was about to close the door when he suddenly heard a clang sound in a very close position. The sound was similar to dice jumping on the table. He pushed the door open again in confusion and looked out the door, St. Terran Square
No one is allowed to squat by the wall to play dice, nor is he allowed gamblers to gamble under the base of their own walls.
But there were only pedestrians and vendors outside. When the clang sounded for the second time, Xia De suddenly realized that the sound actually appeared from his house:
"What?"
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Keeping all the noise of winter outside the door, turning around and looking at the home behind me, where there should be only me and my cat, the slight clanging sound rang out for the third time.
"Is Xiaomia playing dice? No, this sound shouldn't be an illusion?"
【Not an illusion.】
The sound did not come from the upper floor, it should be on the first floor. Xia De, frowned, turned from the foyer to the room on the first floor. The first floor of the home is different from the two floors above and has not been divided into two different apartment rooms.
, but a complete large suite.
Because of privacy issues, curtains are always pulled here during the day. At this moment, the winter sunlight passes through the not-so-thick curtain cloth, illuminating the dark first-floor living room a little. Xia De continues to ring, but it is becoming a faint sound.
Continue to walk forward, and when you reach the middle of the living room, behind the sofa, the strange sound disappears.
The foreigner knew that even though he had lived in this house for a year and a half, there were still many secrets here. He didn't know the inexplicable dice sounds, but the astrology he had stayed many years ago
The warlock Euclid also mentioned this in the letter he left behind.
He stood there and hoped that the sound of disappearing would reappear, but for a long time, there was only the background sound of the square outside the window. So he wanted to check the first floor again, suspecting that the sound just now was related to the construction team next door attempting to destroy the wall
.
But just as soon as he took a step, the surroundings were immediately filled with glowing white fog. The scenery on the first floor of his house was completely covered by white fog, and Xia De couldn't be more familiar with this scene.
As if to verify his conjecture, "she" whispered to remind him:
[Foreigner, you have entered the "Fate Casino".]
"What?"
"Fate Casino" is a special space left by the ancient god "Mr. Huan". When Xia De was in the Vestalinland incident, he had to return from 1821 to 1854 and borrowed the title of "Mia Bajie"
The characteristics of the Tail Ring] unexpectedly entered there, and successfully achieved a time travel through winning cards—
The time travel through the "Fate Casino" is also the only legal time travel method he has come into contact with outside the "Time Key".
Although he felt incredible about coming here again, he still took two more steps forward in the white mist. The sound of the dice falling and the collision between them became clearer. Continue to move forward, and even more came from the white mist.
There were countless noises and conversations among people.
The sound did not make Xia De feel too noisy, but it would not make him care too much like the background sound.
The white mist gradually fades, the surrounding walls rise, and the hall is formed in the mist. Countless tables are densely displayed in front of you, but because there is still white mist here, Xia De can see those tables
There were blurred figures beside them, and they could hear their voices, but the only thing he could see was the table in front of him.
It was a typical Rhodes-card gambling table covered with a green blanket. After he walked to one end of the table, a figure came from the fog and stood at the other end of the rectangular gambling table:
"Welcome back, guests outside of fate. Do I need to repeat the rules here? Everyone who comes here to look for a turning point will leave his own figure, and the opponents of later generations are those who have ever come from this casino
What are you going to bet on this time? I can see that you are full of questions at the moment."
The last time I played cards with Xia De here was a tall and thin old gentleman, but at this time, a bald middle-aged man appeared. He was wearing a black tuxedo, as if he was about to attend a grand dance party.
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