Whispering Poems.

Chapter 1842 Murder at the Opera House
For the multiple versions of "Belfry Lovers", Shade has learned a lot from Dorothy and Rezia during the study every Saturday.The repertoire performed by the "Golden Dawn Opera Troupe" this time is closer to the original version of this fairy tale recorded in ancient documents unearthed in the fifth era.

Most of the original versions of fairy tales have nothing to do with descriptions such as "innocence and kindness". On the contrary, they are extremely realistic and even have some horror elements. It is believed that young witches in the fifth era need to be exposed to such stories from an early age.

Although this kind of story is not suitable for children in today's sixth era, it is indeed suitable for adults.

In the box with the lights off, when Xia De and the blonde princess were loving each other, the grand performance downstairs had already attracted wave after wave of applause. The reputation of the "Golden Dawn Opera Troupe" is not only supported by Miss Bernanice, who has not been on stage for many years. When Shade hugged Margaret and thought about this ancient fairy tale, he really felt that every great witch must have other advantages besides her own strength.

"Hold up the snow on the top of the snow mountain, watch the sun in the depths of the desert."

"If you can meet us, dear girl~~"

"Please call our names softly, please ask your doubts."

"Where the lilies bloom, or, where the sunflowers face west."

Margaret didn't care about the performance downstairs, but put her arms around Shad's neck, humming softly the songs of witches.Seeing Xia De looking at her, he smiled and said to him:

"It's such a good day, why don't you open a detective agency in Willendale?"

"From my experience, wherever I go, big things will happen, and the people of Willendelle will not welcome me."

Xia De spoke cautiously, then lowered his head and kissed the squinting Princess Her Highness, who became even happier:

"My decision is indeed correct. Becoming a Witch Apprentice is what I want. I can get it"

She bit her lower lip with her white teeth, and her eyes were about the same level as Shad's nose, so she spoke from the bottom up:

"Everything. Xia De, come to Willendale as soon as possible. I promised you that as long as you see me in Willendale, I will definitely give you a gift."

Saying that, he hugged Xia De's neck and wanted to change his sitting position, but suddenly saw Xia De turn his head and look outside the door:

"There are a lot of footsteps and heartbeats. There are many people coming, and the heartbeat is very fast."

Sure enough, a few seconds later, the door was knocked from the outside, and the knock was quite urgent:

"Your Highness! Your Highness!"

"what happened?"

Margaret then stood up, smoothed the folds on the skirt, and confirmed that the clothes on the upper body were neatly dressed, and finally brushed the long hair on her shoulders behind her.He closed his eyes and took a deep breath to let the blush on his face subside. The thaumaturgy turned on his calm mind, and then he opened the door.

Apart from her maids outside the door, there were several royal attendants who were originally at the stairs.In addition to the people who were already here, among the strangers, Margaret recognized the chief of the Mikaela Blast City Police Department whom she had only seen twice, and the secret agents who secretly protected her with gray gloves.Margaret looked directly at the tall and thin man among them. The latter looked ordinary, but he was the leader of the special operations team:
"Your Highness, a shooting occurred in the alley on the north side of the opera house. It was fired from a silencer, at least 10 minutes ago. The dead were theater cleaners. Their clothes were stolen. We suspect that at least three gunmen entered here."

Margaret's face darkened, she just opened the door of the box a little to ensure that people outside the door could not see the sofa because of the angle.She looked back at this moment, but she didn't see Xia De, but only saw a silver cat standing on the back of the sofa, looking at her with piercing silver eyes.

Although she hadn't seen Shade's transfiguration with her own eyes, she had heard about it from Miss Sylvia—the latter was told by Audrey Edwards.Therefore, he immediately understood what Xia De meant, and said to the nervous people outside the door:

"Don't panic, I need to leave now, don't I?"

"Yes, Your Highness. I'm sorry to disturb your interest, but according to our security regulations, you'd better leave here now. Your Highness, the carriage is ready, and the streets are very quiet now."

The tall and thin man said, Margaret made a sigh, but said helplessly:
"Okay, I won't make it hard for you. But wait a minute, I have to pack up."

"Alright Your Highness, for safety's sake, please hurry up."

No one asked Margaret what to pack in the box at the opera house, but after the princess called her two personal maids in and asked them to clean up the marks on the sofa, she herself put away Shade's belongings, and then picked up the silver cat and put it on her shoulder.Xia De released the illusion and hid himself.The spellcasting ability of the cat form has been weakened a lot, but fortunately, the cat is smaller, so it is still very easy for others to not see themselves.

After getting ready, Margaret left the box, and under the tense guard of a group of people, she came to the side entrance of the opera house from the hidden stairs on the side.The guards who had already gone downstairs guarded the two carriages and parked in the alley outside the side door.

Surrounded by the crowd, Margaret and her two maids boarded the front carriage, and two of the remaining maids boarded the carriage behind.The two carriages drove out of the alley one by one, but headed in different directions.

Among them, the carriage carrying Marguerite is driving eastward in the silent night along the glass bottle avenue in front of the "glass bottle opera house".But within five or six minutes, he suddenly drove into a side alley.

The alley was purposely widened for the convenience of the water trucks of the fire department of the city hall to pass by, and it was not narrow at all for the carriage to enter.

The streets and alleys were indeed very quiet. There was only one gas street lamp every few hundred meters in the alley, but before the people in the carriage could react, the driver jumped off the carriage suddenly in the dark area between the two lights.

He rolled over the ground nimbly, and picked up the pistol that had been placed in advance from the trash can beside him.The horses were still moving forward, but in front of the alley, dozens of people emerged from the roofs, behind the garbage dumps, and even at the entrance of the sewer. Under the cover of night, they aimed at the carriage that was still rushing forward due to inertia and pulled the trigger.

Because each gun was equipped with a silencer, and it was a specially selected pistol with low kinetic energy, the continuous gunfire did not disturb the silent night.The flames lit up one by one and then disappeared, and the muffled sound made everyone watching this scene feel more and more depressed.

Originally, members of the royal family were supposed to ride in an all-metal carriage, and the carriage should also be made of metal, but this time the carriage was made of wood.Holes were punched in the wooden walls, and after the first round of shooting, the alley was filled with the smell of gunpowder.The assassins skillfully replaced the magazines, preparing for the second round of attack, but at this moment, there was a screeching sound in the silent alley, and everyone saw that the door of the carriage was pushed open, and a man walked out of the carriage that should have only the princess and two maids:
"Where did you find this broken carriage? The metal shaft of the door can be used as a tetanus infection weapon."

Xia De frowned and jumped off the carriage.He opened his tightly clenched right hand, and the metal bullets fell to the ground with a clatter.The speed of the bullet passing through the wooden boards of the carriage is really slow.

Looking around, even though there was no light around, his eyes could still see the positions of all the gunmen clearly, and he confirmed that all of them were ordinary people.

The gunmen were silent, and suddenly the driver next to the trash can pulled the trigger on his head. Shade didn't even turn his head, and quickly raised his right hand and clenched it in front of his shoulder.

He maintained this posture, and then turned his head to look at the coachman who couldn't believe the scene in front of him, and then spread his palm.

The specially chosen alley was dark, but somehow the shooters were able to see something in the shape of a bullet lying in the young man's palm.With the palm tilted, the thing fell to the ground and collided with those bullets just now, making a clanging sound.

This was the first time for Xia De to catch bullets with his hands. The outsider's thinking made him think that this was a very difficult thing, but he found it very simple when he actually did it.With his current physical fitness, the flight trajectory of this small-caliber pistol bullet can be seen quite clearly. The difficulty of catching a bullet that can't turn is much easier than catching Mia who is alive and kicking.

"That's why I said that only low-level ring warlocks are afraid of weapons in the hands of ordinary people."

As he thought in his heart, the black chain in the sleeve fell to the ground——

call out!
After raising his hand the next time, the sound of chains breaking through the air suddenly exploded in the alley.But the chain was quickly taken back by Shad. He turned around and spoke to Margaret in the carriage. Behind him, the trash can, the metal pipes standing upright, and the cabinets thrown on the roadside were neatly divided into two, and the bodies of twelve living people hidden in every corner of the alley were quickly wrapped in pink crystals.After the whole body turned into pink crystal clusters, they exploded into crystal fragments one by one.And the crystal fragments quickly and silently disappeared on the ground.

"Solved, but how to explain this matter? Does the church know that you are a student of the Higher Medical College of Serkses? You should have this tacit understanding."

Xia De asked Margaret in the carriage, and the two maids beside her had fallen into a coma.

"Don't worry about this, you have disposed of the body, how to explain it is my own business."

Her Royal Highness said, and then they heard a slight explosion behind them.Turning around, I saw that a spinning black and gold vortex appeared out of thin air in the alley. Miss Sylvia, Miss Bernice and Megan, three great witches wearing high heels, walked out together.

　PS: Illustration "Marguerite Anjou"

　　
　
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