Although Xia De succeeded in making "Miss Witte" no longer keen to talk to him, the lady had no intention of leaving either. She talked with Xia De about the Rhodes card, and now the rumor that Xia De is about to get [Founding Knowledge] has spread throughout the city. In this era, he is a real "legendary player".

When it comes to the topic of Rhodes cards, Xia De is not boring. Not only [Initiation·Knowledge], the new card he got from the Prophet Association, which can be adjusted between 12 and 13 [Old World Minerals·Cavill Gem Mine], is also interesting.

The two of them were not the only ones who liked to play cards, and those who fell behind the crowd were mostly those who were bored of visiting. Unknowingly, more people joined the conversation, including Sir Lykins Priscia.

He is a poet. Although he is knowledgeable, he is not very interested in mechanics and physical chemistry. It is impossible for a middle-aged nobleman of his age to have never been exposed to Rhodes cards, so he also joined the conversation.

This gentleman may be busy with the [Apner Library] recently, and he doesn't even know about the rumors in the city that Shade is about to get the fifth Rhodes card of the founding series. Hearing that people were talking about this matter, he also asked Xia De with great interest what he had paid for that card, but Xia De just pointed at his mouth with his fingers, expressing that he would pay for that card. confidential.

Then the people around them all understood.

Anyway, without knowing it, Miss Pavo had already left, Shade noticed her standing behind Princess Margaret for a while, and left the procession to end the trip to the academy. And the seven or eight middle-aged gentlemen who talked with Xia De at the end of the team even made an appointment to play Rhodes cards in the tavern outside when they had lunch at noon.

Seeing that Sir Priscia wanted to go with him, Xia De also agreed. The poets in the southern country are very interested in this elegant activity, and Xia De is also creating opportunities for in-depth conversations with him.

Therefore, the atmosphere at the end of the visiting team was more lively than that of Princess Margaret and her party at the front. If the princess was not still visiting, these gentlemen might find a place to start playing cards.

At eleven o'clock in the morning, Princess Margaret came to the last stop of her morning itinerary, which was to listen to a half-hour academic report. The theme of the report was "Research Progress of the New Steam Engine in De La Rion". Of course, this could not be the latest steam engine developed by the Kingdom, it was just a new model that was about to be put into commercial use, but even so, it was quite valuable to Kaserik, so the princess and the accompanying envoys attached great importance to it.

The report was held in the auditorium of the Third National Institute of Mechanics of De La Rion. The main auditorium was too large, so this time it used the lecture hall No. 3. The lecture hall is the most indispensable thing for this kind of college with a history of hundreds of years.

Princess Margaret sat in the second row, and the guards who had investigated the place earlier arranged the seats for the others. The gentlemen who walked at the end talking about Rhodes cards naturally sat at the end.

It's a pity that you can't chat while listening to the report, let alone play cards, so the gentlemen are much quieter. Sir Priscia, who was sitting in the two rows in front of Shad, even took out a collection of poems to read. It is now confirmed that he is the fourth candidate, and Xia De feels that through the daily actions of this knight, he can roughly judge what kind of person he is. Of course, more in-depth investigation is still necessary.

After sitting in the lecture hall for ten minutes, Xia De heard a whisper in his ear:

[Perhaps I should remind you that a man appeared three times in a row in five minutes in the second window on the left side of the podium. 】

Xia De looked at the middle-aged mechanic on the podium explaining the data on the blackboard with an unchanged expression. He was talking about fuel saving and the difference between solid fuel and liquid fuel.

"Passing by with your face completely exposed? Or appearing very covertly?"

Outside the window is the path in the academy, it is normal for someone to walk by.

[He is in the opposite building, looking in this direction from the opposite window. 】

"Who could it be? It won't be the Royal Guards. The Royal Guards don't act like this. Could it be a colleague from MI6 on a mission? Or a colleague from Gray Gloves on a mission?"

Xia De thought silently, then bent over and got up, leaving temporarily through the back door of the lecture hall. No one paid attention to him, because he was at the end, and it was normal to leave temporarily to solve physical problems.

Instead of going through the main entrance, Xia De turned directly out of the corridor window. He lowered his hat to cover his face, followed the path to the side of the auditorium, and looked at the window of the opposite building.

Blinking his eyes, [Echo of Blood] clearly showed the **** halo inside the window. The blood color was very clear, extending from the far side of the corridor to the position under the window that was blocked by the wall. Because it was only a part of the foot, Xia De judged that the opponent had stepped on blood.

"It doesn't matter which side the people are, they are obviously not good people if they step on blood here and lie in ambush."

Shad came to his conclusion and glanced at the building. He circled around again, and in a position where no one was paying attention, he directly used [Lager's Jump] to enter the window.

The inside of the building is heated and much warmer than the outside. Wrapped in a coat, Xia De crossed the portraits of people hanging on both sides of the corridor, looking for the source of the blood, and finally found a dead body with a severed neck hidden in a corner in the room on the east side. It was not a student, but looked like a It's the gatekeeper.

Xia De frowned, returned the same way, came to the corner of the corridor, and pressed his body against the wall.

The fingers carefully stretched out a fingernail distance, and then quickly retracted:

"see it?"

[It's the man from just now, huddled under the window. ordinary people. 】

"Then it's easy to handle - Red Butterfly Illusion Technique."

There was a twist at the corner of the corridor for a moment, and then it returned to normal. Xia De walked out from the corner and walked to the end of the corridor. And the shrunken man looked out nervously from time to time as if he didn't see him.

The focus of "Red Butterfly Illusion" and Xia De's sealed "Moon Shadow Illusion" is different. The former tends to create illusions, so Xia De created the illusion of a corridor without people. This kind of hiding is easy for ring warlocks to be discovered, especially when Xia De is getting closer, but ordinary people need a strong inspiration to see through it. Unfortunately, Xia De's opponent this time does not have it.

In this way, he walked up to the shrunken man, and while walking, he took out the "Mind Crystal Ring" from his pocket and put it on his finger. Stopped at a distance of ten meters away from him, clutching the mute charm in his left hand, pointing the index finger of his right hand at the man's forehead,:

"Mind blast!"

Peng's whole body was muffled, red and white things flowed from the man's mouth, nose, ears and eyes at the same time, he stared wide-eyed at the void in front of him, and then slid limply to the ground.

Xia De shook his head, approached the corpse, and sprinkled bone meal as a material for casting spells:

"Soul Echo."

The dark wind swept across the corridor, and the psychic soul floated above the corpse. Xia De sighed softly, and asked from a position invisible from the outside:

"who are you?"

"I'm Neil Hawkman from the Principality of Latin America."

The soul replied unconsciously, although facing the murderer who killed him, but because of the blessings from thousands of souls on Xia De, it did not attempt to attack Xia De with evil spirits.

"what are you doing here?"

"Confirm that the bomb went off."

Xia De was taken aback:

"What bomb?"

"The steam bomb was installed under the fifth seat in the seventh row of the opposite auditorium, using a leaking steam valve as a delay device, and it exploded in about five to seven minutes."

"ha?"

Hearing this, Xia De didn't have time to ask any more questions. Reaching out to touch the soul, the thaumaturgy [Guide to Death] allowed him to directly "see" the soul's deepest memories.

Although Xia De's [Guide to Death]'s ability to obtain soul memories through touch is far inferior to Sister Devlin's ability to "look" at all the emotions of the soul, but at least he is sure that the bomb really exists, and This organized murder was for Princess Margaret.

They are the independent organization of the Principality of Latin America. This small principality belongs to Delarion, and the organization wants to provoke the relationship between Delarion and Kaserik in order to seek an independent position in the war that started.

This Monday, Director An Luosi who came to Saint Teresa Square clearly mentioned this matter, but Xia De did not expect that he would actually meet ~lightnovelpub.net~ The dead janitor just now, because he accidentally saw Neil Hawkman was killed by him. But apart from that bomb, they haven't been able to find any other way to murder the princess.

Even being able to place a bomb depends on bribing the guards of the auditorium after the police check, so that they can barely touch the rear seats, and cannot be placed directly behind the front seats.

"This is really bad."

He opened the door of death casually and pushed that soul in. Frowning and thinking for a moment, he took a deep breath to restore the surrounding environment to its original state, and then completely melted the corpse with the witch's light, eliminating any traces that might remain, and then put his hands in his pockets and turned to leave the building.

It wasn't long before the bomb exploded. Although he couldn't explain the source of the information, it was actually nothing to tell MI6 directly, but Xia De couldn't find anyone from MI6 now.

As for breaking into the auditorium and yelling that there is a bomb, of course it is also possible, but this will make him more noticed, which is what Shad has been avoiding.

Fortunately, he still has the identity of "Ace Agent Gray Eagle". After the princess arrived in Tobesk, he received an order and learned how to contact the princess urgently. Showing up to protect the princess at this time is also a way for Shade to repay the detective Sparrow Hamilton who is buried in the cemetery. Rather than using the identity of a grey-headed eagle to benefit oneself, protecting others is a good way to keep this identity honorable.