Even if he immediately chased to the first floor, Xia De was still a step too slow.
When he arrived on the first floor, he just saw Miss Bei Ya Si being unwillingly dragged into a side corridor by someone wearing white gloves.
Even when ladies wear gloves to a banquet, they are usually very elaborate lace gloves, while plain white gloves are mostly worn by men.
"Is Miss Bei Ya Si in trouble?"
Xia De frowned and immediately followed, of course, before pushing open the door to enter that corridor, he first asked a waiter in the banquet hall what it was used for.
"Sir, that leads to the kitchen, and also provides empty rooms for the chefs to rest."
Chefs who can cook and prepare refreshments and drinks for banquets of this caliber certainly deserve special lounge arrangements.
Xia De nodded and walked into the corridor. Although ordinary guests are not allowed to enter such "staff areas," Xia De was not an ordinary guest.
The banquet was in its middle stage, the kitchen was still busy, and the corridor for dining carts was not here, so there was no one in the corridor, only faintly hearing the voices of a man and a woman discussing today's dishes around the corner at the end of the corridor.
Due to its location and layout, the corridor in front of him only had rooms on one side, while the other side was a wall hung with oil paintings. And since there was no disturbance from around the corner, it meant that the person who forcibly dragged Miss Bei Ya Si here did not take her out of this corridor.
"There are five rooms in total... Can you find Miss Bei Ya Si?"
【My perception can only work at close range. No, even if you press against the door, it won't work unless the other person also presses against the door.】
Although there was no sound of fighting at the moment, nor obvious whisper element traces from Miracle release, Xia De was still a little worried about the somewhat immature girl.
Standing in front of the door, he hesitated for a moment, just as he was about to knock on the door to probe, the woman's voice in his ear finally gave a hint:
【There are traces of the whisper element behind the third door, almost right behind the door.】
"Didn't you say that you could only sense the whisper element if I saw the relic?"
Xia De thought to himself as he tiptoed quickly towards the third door.
【This time is different, this relic is very special, you can understand it as it is spontaneously spreading power.】
"Understood."
He made sure he had a disposable Sunlight Gun holy emblem brooch in his pocket, then held a gun in his right hand—the normal one—and his left hand glowed with the color of Moonlight.
He kept all these movements as light as possible, then tiptoed to the door, not hearing any sound from inside. So he counted to three silently, bent his knees slightly, exerted force with his legs, held his breath, and slammed into the door.
The sound of the door being hit was covered by the noise from the banquet hall. Xia De darted in after the door, not feeling the door hit anyone, so he neatly rolled on the ground, tumbling into the room.
But he didn't encounter an attack; instead, he heard footsteps fleeing towards the bedroom of this suite:
"Trying to run? This definitely isn't a good person, why would a good person run?"
【Probably because you don't look like a good person.】
"Don't disturb me."
Miss Bei Ya Si was probably held hostage, and the footsteps were not chaotic, indicating that there was only one person. In this situation, the opponent fleeing clearly showed that the opponent was not strong, or was worried that Miss Bei Ya Si and the intruder would act together.
"It should only be a low Ring術士."
Thinking this, he chased into the room, kicked open the closed bedroom door, and then saw a quilt flying towards him like a hard wall:
"What kind of move is this?"
Worried that it was a trap, he merely tore the quilt in front of him with the Moonlight in his hand. He pointed the gun forward, keeping his attention ready to let the Moonlight tear the enemy apart, but when he took a step forward, he found himself stepping on a bedsheet. Before Xia De could react, the bedsheet was quickly pulled by an invisible force, and then he lost his balance and fell to the ground.
The bedsheet quickly wrapped him up, but with just a light slash of the light in his hand, the bedsheet also became rags. Smoke quickly spread in the room at this time; the other party probably didn't want Xia De to see his face.
"In which direction is the whisper element?"
【Right in front of you.】
As he got up, he surprisingly saw the bed in the bedroom flying directly up, seemingly wanting to crush him:
"Can't let him escape."
Confirming there was no wind in the room and seeing the thick curtains covering the window through the spreading dense fog, Xia De ignored the bed pressing towards him. Instead, he stretched out his finger, letting the silver Moonlight bloom at his fingertip.
【You want to...】
"Moonlight!"
The next moment, it was as if a silver sun exploded in the room, and the instantaneous brilliance even made Xia De, the Miracle user, feel severe discomfort in his eyes.
The flying wooden bed was also split in half by the Moonlight. Xia De kicked away the split wood, maintaining the high-intensity light in the room, vaguely seeing two figures in the light trying to escape through the window.
"Why are both of them women? Hmm? Why is Miss Bei Ya Si running away?"
He rushed over with a gun in each hand, and as the afterglow of the light on his fingertips had not yet faded, he pressed the guns against the backs of the two women, one on the left and one on the right.
"Don't move, whoever moves dies!"
The Moonlight at his fingertips completely extinguished, and the room felt as if it had been steamed, abnormally dry. All the items still retained the afterglow of Moonlight, and their sacred appearance could even be said to make this place an unknown sanctuary.
Miss Bei Ya Si's figure on the left dispersed like foam, and at the same time, the sound of thunder echoed from behind him.
His wrist hurt, and his right hand uncontrollably dropped the pistol, but Xia De didn't pick it up. Instead, he looked at Miss Annette, who was wearing an evening gown on his right, in surprise:
"It's you?"
Miss Annette heard the familiar voice, put down the small golden knife in her hand, turned around, and looked at Xia De with her purple eyes in surprise (Note):
"It's you!"
Behind Xia De, Miss Bei Ya Si, who was holding a Sunlight Gun and intending to stab him in the head, also stopped her movements. Although her eyes were injured, her ears were still very good, and she also asked in surprise:
"It's you?"
All three of them froze there, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward for a moment.
Xia De, whose eyes were intact, and Miss Annette looked at each other. Xia De was surprised that Miss Annette's eyes were not injured.
This kind of encounter was not part of the plan, but it was clearly not the time to leave. The young Detective and Diviner both wanted to use their eyes to ask each other what was going on.
"Miss Bei Ya Si, you actually know Miss Annette?"
Before Miss Bei Ya Si realized something was wrong, Xia De preemptively questioned her, his tone as if he had been deceived:
"Why didn't you tell me before?"
Miss Annette looked at him in surprise, not expecting Xia De to ask such a question.
Miss Bei Ya Si then stammered:
"Yes, I know... Wait a minute..."
She also reacted:
"That's not right, why should I be questioned by you? Detective, you also know Miss Annette? Speaking of which, could it be..."
Although Miss Bei Ya Si's eyes were temporarily injured, her mind was not:
"Wait a minute, how do you two know each other? No, this is a bit off! Detective, you tell me, what exactly is going on?"