Whispering Verse

Chapter 3179 Knocking and Dice

When the bell rang downstairs, Shade stopped walking. He glanced at Mia who was dozing in front of the fireplace, and then quickly went downstairs. When he arrived at the hallway, he took a deep breath in front of the door, then opened the door with a smile on his face.

So, priest Augustus, standing outside the door with the bustling St. Teresa Square in the background, asked curiously:

"Are you so glad to see me, Detective? I am truly honored."

The old priest was wearing a clergyman's robe, and the carriage of the Dawn Church was parked not far to his side, next to the first-floor window of the Shad family.

Xia De took another deep breath, but did not explain the reason for his strange expression. Instead, he asked tentatively:

"Priest, you don't want me to go out now and not come back until the afternoon, do you? Is there something wrong with someone, or does Bishop Owen want to talk to me about something? It can't be that a letter for help from our friend who is traveling far away has been sent to you, right?"

"What?"

Father Augustus raised his eyebrows, feeling that Shade was strange today:

"Bishop Owen knows that you and I have a good relationship. He asked me to inform you that the celebration on the end of the year will be advanced from 9:00 to 8:40. Can you arrive on time?"

In fact, this kind of thing can be done by just sending someone to tell them, but because the year-end celebration is the most important festival besides the "Holy Prayer Day" of the Dawn Church, in order to ensure that every important member can come, Bishop Owen specially asked Priest Augustus to come.

"Meow~"

The cat whimpered from behind. Seeing that Shade had not gone upstairs, the cat came down and called out to him from the corner of the stairs. Shade had no choice but to close the door and take two steps at a time up the stairs. He bent down to pick up Mia and returned to the second floor with her.

Ding Dong~

The bell downstairs rang again.

He put the cat on his shoulder and went downstairs again. This time he opened the door with an expressionless face, which scared both Durrut Giles and the ghost-like girl Rusty Edwards outside the door.

This strange soul seems to have the ability to change her clothes at will. In the winter now, she floats above Durrut Giles' head, wrapped in a very thick cotton skirt, but the temperature does not actually affect her "health".

The young history lecturer first greeted Xia De, and then explained the purpose of his visit:

"I came here to do some work today. Luster said that the holiday is coming soon, so she asked me to ask if her brother's descendants had sent her any holiday greetings."

The little girl who was frightened by Xia De's expression just now has now regained her spirit. She excitedly wants to fly directly into the house, passing the two men at the door, but for some reason she suddenly turns around and retreats when she reaches the door.

She pretended to be mature and said:

"Those younger generations should still remember me as their elder. So have they sent me greeting cards? Or holiday gifts?"

"I'm sorry, no."

Then the girl's soul fell on the head of Durrut Giles, grabbing his hair as if she was about to lose her temper, but in fact her spirit did not come into contact with any existence in the material world.

Duruto Giles, who felt sorry for the sudden visit, comforted him:

"There are still two days until the end of the year. Maybe their letters are on the way."

Shade also said:

"Meghan and Audrey are coming to my place to celebrate this year. They are expected to arrive tomorrow. Even if others don't remember, they will definitely prepare a greeting card for you."

So the innocent soul became excited again, and she asked Durut Giles to tell Shad their current address again. After the young history lecturer gave Shad a year-end gift, the two said goodbye and left.

Shad stood at the door and looked at their backs. In fact, he didn't know whether Megan and Audrey had thought of preparing a holiday card for the soul, but he would remind Miss Edwards.

This time, he didn't hear the bell when he went upstairs. Seeing that it was already 10:20, Xia De asked Mia to go back to the fireplace to warm herself by the fire while he started writing the greeting card to be sent out at the table in the dining room.

Although he planned to visit most of his friends in person, after all, he didn't know many people. But for some of his past clients, there was really no need to visit them, and writing a greeting card to express his feelings was enough.

【So will we continue to wait today? 】

"She" asked softly, and Shade replied while writing:

"Wait until lunch time. If Miss Gold doesn't come, I won't wait any longer."

Ten minutes later, at half past ten in the morning, St. Teresa's Square outside the window also entered the busiest time of the day. The slight noise did not affect Shade and the cat living in the house, and the sound of the bell again made Shade put down his pen, go downstairs and open the door, but found that there was no one outside.

A kind passerby then reminded him;

"Just now, three kids were randomly pulling the doorbells of other people. Now they have run away."

The corners of Xia De's mouth twitched a few times, but the festival was about to begin, and the outsider, who prided himself on being very generous, didn't care about it - unless those kids dared to play such a joke again.

After thanking the passerby, Xia De was about to close the door when he suddenly heard a clanging sound from very close. The sound was similar to dice jumping on the table. He opened the door again in confusion and looked outside. Saint Teresa Square would not allow people to squat by the wall to play dice, and he would not allow gamblers to gamble under the wall of his house.

But there were only pedestrians and vendors outside. When the clanging sound rang out for the second time, Xia De suddenly realized that the sound actually came from his own house:

"What?"

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I shut out all the winter noise outside the door, turned around and looked behind me at the home where theoretically there should only be me and my cat. The slight clanging sound rang out for the third time.

"Is it Mia playing dice? No, this sound shouldn't be an illusion, right?"

【It’s not an illusion.】

The sound did not come from upstairs, it should be on the first floor. Frowning, Xia De turned from the hallway into the first floor room. The first floor of the house was different from the two floors above. It was not divided into two different apartment rooms, but a complete large suite.

Because of privacy issues, the curtains are always drawn during the day. At this moment, the winter sun shines through the thin curtains, illuminating the somewhat dark living room on the first floor. Xia De followed the sound that continued to sound but became weaker, and when he reached the middle of the living room, behind the sofa, the strange sound disappeared.

The stranger knew that even though he had lived in this house for a year and a half, there were still many secrets here that he didn't know. It was not the first time he had heard the inexplicable dice sound, and Euclid, the astrologer who had stayed there many years ago, had also mentioned this matter in the letter he left behind.

He stood there hoping that the sound 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 that just appeared was related to the construction team next door trying to destroy the wall.

But just as he took a step, his surroundings were immediately filled with glowing white mist. The scenery on the first floor of his house was completely obscured by the white mist, and this scene was very familiar to Xia De.

As if to verify his guess, "she" reminded him softly at this time:

[Outsider, you have entered the "Casino of Destiny". ]

"What?"

The "Fate Casino" is a special space left behind by the ancient god of fate, "Mr. Ring". During the Vesta Forest incident, Shad accidentally entered there by borrowing the characteristics of the [Tail Ring], one of the "Mia Bajies", because he needed to return to 1854 from 1821, and successfully achieved a time travel by winning the card.

Time travel through the "Casino of Destiny" is also the only legal way of time travel he has come into contact with at present, besides the "Key of Time".

Although he felt surprised to be here again, he still took two more steps forward in the white fog. The clanging sound of dice falling and colliding became clearer and clearer. As he continued forward, he could hear countless people shouting and talking in the white fog.

The sound didn't make Xia De feel too noisy, but was just like background noise, which made him not pay too much attention to it.

The white mist gradually faded, the surrounding walls rose, and the hall took shape in the mist. Countless tables were densely packed and arranged in an irregular pattern in front of him. However, because there was still white mist here, although Xia De could see the blurry figures beside the tables and hear their voices, the only thing he could see clearly was the table in front of him.

It was a typical Rhodes gambling table covered with a green table carpet. After he walked to one end of the table, a figure came out of the fog and stood at the other end of the rectangular gambling table:

"Welcome back, guest outside of fate. Do I need to repeat the rules here? Everyone who comes here to find a change in fate will leave behind a shadow, and the opponents of the latecomers are those who have won something 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 Shade played cards here, a tall and thin old gentleman appeared, but this time it was a bald middle-aged man wearing a black tuxedo, as if he was going to a grand ball.

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