Since Jindel's body can be obtained tonight, the dragon hunting plan is officially scheduled for midnight between Wednesday and Thursday.
The elf girl stayed in the lair to crack the tree hole. Xi Wei and Sylvia were responsible for protecting her here, while Flora communicated with the church with information to ensure that she could receive support from the church's power tonight.
With the means to lure out the dragon beast and the power strong enough to defeat the dragon beast, everything seems to have been arranged, but the girls on board the Radiant Messenger are still making preparations carefully.
After Shade came back from the woods at noon, he originally planned not to do anything else today, but to check the books he had harvested while waiting for midnight. But at two o'clock in the afternoon, he met Margo who came to the hotel secretly.
Lit.
Her Royal Highness the Princess was wearing a coarse cloth skirt that ordinary girls would wear. When she saw Shade, she hugged him first:
"I'm really sorry, it's been so long and I haven't finished the work at hand."
"You should go and say no to Vanessa. It's better not to see her now. No, no, don't show a sad expression. Vanessa doesn't hate you anymore."
The shrunken witch definitely doesn’t want to see her apprentice now:
"But why are you here? Did something happen?"
"I received the information you passed on about the Northern spy Jindel. That information said that the illegitimate children were twins. It really scared me."
Margaret looked troubled:
"Although the characteristics of the child are not mentioned above, in a small town with a small population like this, if a neighbor gives birth to twins, it will definitely become the talk of the entire neighborhood. I searched for information based on this point, and it turned out that
some gains.
If there are no errors in this investigation, then there should be a boy and a girl born that year. The whereabouts of the boy have not been found, but the whereabouts of the girl have been determined."
"Do you really have a sister?"
This time it was Shade's turn to be surprised, but Margaret still had a sad expression:
"The girl is missing."
Shade felt that her emotions were quite complicated when she said this. Although they were half-mothers and the other party was an illegitimate child, it did not mean that she did not care:
"She disappeared about two years ago. She grew up in a local orphanage and was later admitted to the Ximu Town Music Conservatory. One afternoon two years ago, she told her classmates that she wanted to go back to the orphanage to deliver some things, and never returned.
Never appeared."
In fact, if calculated according to time, Margaret's "sister" is only two years younger than her, and they should be considered the same age. However, when Margaret talks about each other, she still uses the term "child".
"I don't want to use divination to find someone, so I can't provide a report to my father, and the teacher also said not to always try to rely on divination. But this time I really have no choice, Shade, I want to know if the child is still alive
.”
So Margaret hopes that Shade can ask Bella or Luvia for help. Shade also understands her complicated thoughts now. After all, she is her sister:
"No problem, but our fortune tellers are very busy today. Please leave some basic information. It would be better if there are things she has used before. Don't worry too much, she might just have had a minor accident.
, is still alive now.”
"I also hope so. She has a nice name 'Ashley'. She must be a gentle and elegant girl. Her last name is after Bettany, the deceased former director of the orphanage."
Margaret said and handed the document bag she brought to Shade, but Shade did not accept it. He blinked and asked doubtfully:
"So, the girl's name is Ashley Bettany?"
"Yes. Do you know this person?"
Margaret asked in disbelief, while Shade temporarily put the cat lying on his lap on the arm of the sofa, pursed his lips and didn't know how to tell her the news.
He did know this girl, or rather this ghost:
"When I first arrived here, Miss Danister and I visited an abandoned lumber camp in the woods, and got a door-shaped tree hole there, which connected to 1821."
That time, I got information about Miss Denister's teacher from the "Hermits in the Forest". It was later determined that Ms. Helena Carter had traveled through that tree hole. She traveled through time and obtained the knowledge of the astrologer Ou
It is for this reason that the news about Gilde was stained with the curse of time.
"I heard the teacher say that that is the second tree hole you get."
Margaret said, and Shade nodded slightly:
"Besides the tree hole, there was another thing that happened at that time. There was a well covered by bluestone in the lumberjack camp, and a ghost lived in it. We heard from her that there were sometimes strange sounds in the camp.
Only then did we determine the location of the tree hole (Chapter 2584)."
Margaret also guessed what Shade wanted to say:
"That ghost."
"She said her name was Ashley Bettany, and she looked about twenty years old. The girl did not turn into an evil spirit, but because her body was at the bottom of the well, she stayed in that abandoned camp.
middle."
The blonde princess was silent for a moment:
"Shade, did you send her away?"
"No, she said she didn't want to leave yet. I promised her at that time that if she was willing to help me, I would not interfere with her. We recovered the tree hole and left, but I used my spell [Oath Binding],
Make sure that Miss Ashley Bettany won't hurt anyone or say anything nonsense."
As Shade spoke, he recalled the situation at the time. His deepest impression of that day before was actually the girl Danist having a fight with Shade in the woods because Shade refused to help her. Recycling
Tree holes and encounters with ghosts are less important things.
Looking back now, the face of the timid but curious girl ghost at the bottom of the well is indeed somewhat similar to Margaret. Of course, this is a process of inferring after knowing the result. In fact, Shade didn't know anything at the time.
Discover.
Margaret pursed her lips and didn't speak for a long time. Shade took her hand and sat down, but Margaret quickly adjusted her mood:
"Can you take me to see her? I want to know how she died, and I also want to know if her death is related to her identity."
The matter of the illegitimate child of the Southern Royal Family has never been an important matter to Shade. But if Margaret asked him to help, then this would be an important matter.
Shade still remembered the location of the abandoned logging camp very clearly. He left the cat in the hotel and set off alone with Margaret.
The last time I came here with Miss Danister, the forest had just been dyed golden, but now even the last touch of golden color has faded away. Dead leaves cover the courtyard, which is almost integrated with the forest.
In the lumberjack hut where Shade had taken away the door, there were now signs of animals spending the night.
The bluestone slab was still pressed against the dry well, and after Shade removed the slab, the face of the twenty-year-old girl who emerged from the wellhead almost immediately stuck to it.
Of course, this is not to show ambiguity, but she seems to want to scare Xia De in this way. Unfortunately, Xia De has no expression and just said hello:
"Miss Bettany, long time no see."
"Long time no see, handsome unknown gentleman. Oh, I found that the girl you brought this time is much more beautiful than the last time I came here~ Oh, sorry, it turns out she is not the same person."
She said meanly again, but Margaret was not provoked by her.
The blond princess looked at the face of the soul whose upper body was leaning out of the well, and then said softly to Shade:
"It's definitely right this time, we found the right person."
There was an indescribable sadness in her tone. Margaret was the fourth in Anjou of her generation. She had two brothers and a sister above her, and an underage brother below her. She had no sister.
Sylvia once said, "Lecia has a sister, but you don't have a sister, so you have lost." At that time, Margaret imagined whether her life would change a lot if she also had a sister. But it didn't.
I thought that this idea had become a reality, but my half-blood relative had passed away.
"You all look weird when you look at me."
The girl in the well said, shrinking her head in fear, but quickly got out again:
"So what are you going to do with me this time? I've told you all the new things here. To be honest, after you took away that door, this place became even more boring."
"I want to know how you died."
Seeing that Margaret didn't speak, Shade asked on her behalf. In fact, this question is generally not allowed to be asked of the deceased. Once the unwillingness and resentment at death are aroused, it can easily stimulate a normal spirit to turn into a crazy evil spirit.
.
Shade was even ready to use "Guide to Death" at the right time to help the soul in front of him get out of resentment, but Miss Ashley Bettany did not suddenly change, but said angrily
:
"This question is really ungentlemanly."
"I want to help you find the person who killed you."
Shade added, and the girl's soul smiled very ambiguously. Her body was still inside the wellhead, but her right arm was resting on the wellhead, and her left hand held her face:
"Why, do you want to fall in love with a ghost like the protagonist in the knight novel?"
Of course this was a joke. Seeing Shade's serious expression, she still said after the joke:
"I actually don't like remembering that very much.
That day I took the sweets I bought and wanted to go back to the orphanage to distribute to the children. It was already very late when I left the college castle, but the security in Vista City has always been very good. The orphanage where I grew up is located in the city.
The northwest part of the district is the old city. I knew that many alleys extending in all directions were shortcuts, so I went into the alleys because I wanted to get there early."
She paused:
"Now that I think about it, what the old ladies at the orphanage often told us was true. I made a wrong decision that day. I accidentally bumped into two people having a secret meeting in the alley, yes.
, it was the meeting of the bad guys in the story. I was shot to death by one of them without seeing their faces.”