The Whispering Verses Chapter 1025: Bomb attack

Although Shade succeeded in making "Miss Werther" no longer keen on talking to him, the lady had no intention of leaving. She talked to Shade about the Rhodes card. Now the rumor that Shade is about to get the [Original Knowledge] has spread throughout the city. In this era, he is a real "legendary player".

When it comes to the topic of Rhodes cards, Shade is not bored. Not only [Original Knowledge], the new card he got from the Prophet Association, which can be adjusted between 12 and 13, is also interesting.

They were not the only ones who liked playing cards. Most of the people behind the crowd were bored with the visit. So unknowingly, more people joined in the conversation, including Sir Kingsley Priscilla.

He is a poet. Although he is rich in knowledge, he is not really interested in mechanics and physical chemistry. It is impossible for a middle-aged nobleman of his age not to have been exposed to Rhodes cards, so he also joined the conversation.

This gentleman may have been busy with the [Apna Library] recently, and he didn't even know that there were rumors in the city that Shade was about to get the fifth Rhodes card in the founding series. Hearing that people were talking about this matter, he was quite interested in asking Shade what he had paid in exchange for that card, but Shade just tapped his mouth with his finger, indicating that he wanted to do this. Confidentiality.

Then everyone around understood it.

Anyway, without knowing it, Miss Pavo had left. Shade noticed that she stood behind Princess Margaret for a while, then left the team to end the trip to the academy. The seven or eight middle-aged gentlemen who talked with Shade at the end of the team even made an appointment to go to the tavern outside to play Rhodes together during lunch.

Seeing that Sir Prisha also wanted to go with him, Shade agreed. Southern poets are very interested in this elegant activity, and Shade is also creating opportunities to have an in-depth conversation with him.

As a result, the atmosphere at the end of the visiting team was more lively than that of Princess Margaret and her group at the front. If the princess were not still visiting, these gentlemen might have found a place to start playing cards on the spot.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, Princess Margaret's morning schedule came to the last stop, which was to listen to a half-hour academic report. The topic of the report was "Research Progress of the Delrayon New Steam Engine." Of course, this cannot be the latest steam engine developed by the kingdom, just a new model that is about to be commercialized. But even so, it is quite valuable to Kasenrik, so the princess and the accompanying envoys attach great importance to it.

The report was held in the auditorium of the Third National Mechanical College of Delrayon. The main auditorium is too large, so this time we used Lecture Hall No. 3. The most important thing for a college with a history of hundreds of years is the report. hall.

Princess Margaret sat in the second row, and the guards who had conducted an investigation here earlier arranged the seats of others. The gentlemen who walked at the end chatting about Rhodes naturally sat at the back.

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

Xia De sat in the lecture hall for ten minutes when he heard a whisper in his ear:

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

Xia De watched with an unchanging expression as the middle-aged mechanic on the podium explained the data on the blackboard. He was talking about fuel savings 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 college. It is normal for people to walk by it.

[He was in the opposite building and looked in this direction from the opposite window. 】

"Who could it be? It can't be the Royal Guards. Royal Guards would not act like this. Could it be colleagues from MI6 performing the mission? Or colleagues from Gray Gloves performing the mission?"

Xia De thought silently, then bent down and stood up, temporarily leaving through the back door of the lecture hall. No one paid attention to him because he was right at the back, and it was normal to leave temporarily to deal with physical problems.

Xia De did not go through the main entrance, but climbed out directly from the corridor window. He lowered his hat to cover his face, followed the path around to the side of the auditorium, and then looked at the window of the building opposite.

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 location below the window that was blocked by the wall. Because it was only part of the foot, Shade judged that the opponent had stepped on blood.

"No matter which side they are from, they stepped on blood here and laid an ambush. They are obviously not good people."

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

There is heating inside the building, which is much warmer than outside. Wrapped in his coat, Shade walked past the portraits hanging on both sides of the corridor, looking for the source of the blood stains. Finally, he found a corpse hidden in the corner in the east room with its neck cut off. It was not a student, but something like a corpse. It's the janitor.

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's distance, and then quickly retracted:

"Did you see it?"

[It was the man just now, huddled under the window. Ordinary people. 】

"Then it's easy to do the Red Butterfly Illusion Technique."

The corner of the corridor was distorted for a moment, and then returned to normal. Shade walked out of the corner and walked towards the end of the corridor. The shrunken man seemed to have not seen him, and looked out nervously from time to time.

The "Red Butterfly Illusion Technique" and the "Moon Shadow Illusion Technique" that Sha De was sealed have different focuses. The former prefers to create illusions, so Sha De created the illusion of an uninhabited corridor. This kind of hiding method is easy to be discovered by the ring warlock, especially as Shade is getting closer and closer, but ordinary people want to see through it, which requires strong inspiration. Unfortunately, Shade has no opponent this time.

He just walked up to the shrinking man, took out the "Psychic Crystal Ring" from his pocket and put it on his finger as he walked. Stopping ten meters away from him, he held the Silence Charm in his left hand and pointed the index finger of his right hand at the man's forehead:

"Mind blast!"

There was a muffled sound all over Peng~, and red and white things flowed out of the man's mouth, nose, ears and eyes at the same time. He stared at the void in front of him with wide eyes, and then slid limply to the ground.

Shad shook his head, approached the corpse, and sprinkled the bone powder as a casting material:

"Soul echoes."

The dark wind swept through the corridor, and the channeled soul appeared above the corpse. Shade sighed softly, stood in a position that could not be seen from the outside and asked:

"Who are you?"

"I am Neil Hawkman from the Principality of Lamea."

The soul unconsciously answered that although it was facing the murderer who killed itself, it did not try to attack Shade as an evil spirit because of the blessings from thousands of souls in Shade.

"What are you doing here?"

"Bomb explosion confirmed."

Xia De was stunned:

"What bomb?"

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

"Huh?"

Hearing this, Shade had no time to ask any more questions. Reaching out to touch the soul, the thaumaturgy [Guiding Death] allowed him to directly "see" the soul's most profound memories.

Although Shade's [Guide to Death] ability to obtain soul memories through touch is far inferior to Sister Devlin's ability to obtain all the emotions of the soul with just one look, he is at least certain that the bomb is really existence, and this organized murder was for Princess Margaret.

They are an independent organization of the Principality of Lameia. This small principality is affiliated with Delarian. The organization wants to sow discord between Delarian and Kasenric in order to seek an independent status in the war that has begun.

This Monday, Director Anlos who came to Saint Teresa Square clearly mentioned this matter, but Shade did not expect that he would actually encounter it.

The janitor who died just now was killed by Neil Hawkman because he accidentally saw him. But apart from the bomb, they haven't been able to find any other way to murder the princess.

Even being able to place a bomb was only possible by bribing the auditorium guards after police inspection, so that they could barely access the seats in the back row, but could not be placed directly behind the seats in the front row.

"This is really bad."

He opened the door of death and pushed the soul in. He frowned and thought for a moment, took a deep breath to restore the surrounding environment to its original state, and then used the witch's light to completely melt the corpse, eliminating any remaining traces. Then he put his hands in his pockets and turned around to leave the building.

It wasn't long before the bomb exploded. Although he couldn't explain the source of the intelligence, it was actually okay to tell MI6 directly, but Shade couldn't find anyone from MI6 now.

As for breaking into the auditorium and shouting that there is a bomb, of course it is also possible, but this will bring him to the attention of more people, which is what Shade has been avoiding.

Fortunately, he still had the identity of "Ace Agent Gray Eagle" to use. After the princess arrived in Tobesk, he received the order and learned how to contact the princess urgently. Appearing to protect the princess at this time, in Shade's opinion, was also a way to repay Detective Sparrow Hamilton who was buried in the cemetery. Rather than using your identity as a gray eagle to benefit yourself, protecting others is a better way to keep that identity honorable.