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"Yes, I'll take you there. ¨卡¨卡/小+说-徃· '追_最?鑫`彰.节*"

The two of them walked towards the restaurant one after the other. Just as they reached the door of the restaurant, she suddenly saw her mother walking alone through the garden towards the back door of the villa not far away.

"Huh? Where is mom going?"

She hesitated for a moment, ran quickly into the restaurant, got a piece of cake, and then ran over happily following Matilda.

A few minutes later, Matilda opened the small door to the backyard of the garden, walked out and stood at the door, looking around as if looking for something.

Bernadette ate the cake in a few bites, a mischievous smile on her face, and tiptoed closer - she wanted to scare her mother!

"Matilda!"

At this moment, a man's voice came, Matilda looked over immediately, with a bright smile on her face:

"Long time no see, Dubois."

...

The villa at No. 7 Rose Street.

After Edward left Sephira Castle, he activated his spiritual vision and looked around each room, then walked all the way to the basement.

Compared to the mess when he came last time, the basement had been cleaned up now, and the bottles and jars that were originally placed in a mess were put in order, but Edward could still see at a glance that two vases were missing - they must have been taken away by Du Bois to sell.

I didn't see anything strange.

He subconsciously wanted to tell fortunes, but he took back the gold coin the moment he threw it, then turned around and left the basement, returned to the room, and logged into Sefirah Castle again.

Divination here can not only get more information, but also avoid alerting the enemy.

"There is a mechanism in the basement."

He tossed the gold coin lightly and grabbed it.

The head facing upwards indicates affirmation.

"How to open the mechanism in the basement."

Edward closed his eyes and leaned back, entering a dream. In the hazy and illusory picture, a man whose face could not be seen clearly walked to the corner, pressed his palms on the floor, and then injected spirituality. \白¨马*书!院` \免!沸_岳+黩*

Then a creaking sound was heard, and the place where the spirituality was injected slowly shrank, revealing a pitch-black entrance leading to a lower level.

Chapter 471 Bernadette: I want to run away from home!

Below the entrance was a small space large enough for only one person to move around in. A metal stick about wrist-length and made of brass was quietly inserted into the ground.

What is this?

Extraordinary items?

Extraordinary characteristics?

Edward stared at it quietly for a moment.

He once again divined on the brass stick to find out its function, but he got nothing.

This result either means there are too few clues to predict the future, or there is a strong person at least at Sequence 1 who interfered with the brass stick. (As a Sequence 1 seal, the feather pen can interfere with Sefirah Castle's predictions to a certain extent. So even though Sefirah Castle is higher in rank than Sequence 0, it is not omnipotent.)

If you go to the scene in person, you might be able to divine some clues, but who knows if the brass stick is a trap set by "Intis" specifically for the members of the Dusk Hermits.

After all, at the gathering just now, the hunter brother revealed in his words that there were behaviors of setting traps for each other and even hunting each other among the members, and no one else denied it.

Edward couldn't understand why Father Maozi didn't care about this kind of internal fighting? Wasn't he worried that the group of people he had gathered would all die in internal fighting?

However, judging from the original work, Father Maozi did succeed in making the development of the times meet his expectations in the end. As a result, he took the potion and was promoted to Sequence 0. After being promoted to a dreamer, the Sunset Elderly Group seemed to be abandoned by Him.

Therefore, He did not intend to maintain this organization from the beginning, but just gathered a group of people to help Him.

Well, if you think about it this way, it does make sense.

"Wait two days, find another night, disguise yourself as an outsider and come here to 'investigate' again. After you've completed the act, go to the boulevard to exchange 'information'."

Hey, I wonder what kind of surprise Intis will have waiting for me there.

At this time, a star in the depths of the gray fog expanded and contracted and lit up. It was the star that symbolized Bernadette. Edward suddenly felt a headache, but he still extended a spiritual touch - after all, Bernadette gave him a lot of help in the future, and now it was just to coax the child. Apart from wasting some time, there was no other loss.

Bernadette's image appeared in the depths of the gray fog. She huddled in her little bed, holding a doll of the Little Mermaid in her arms, with a pouty mouth and a wronged look on her face:

"…Mysterious Mr. Sparrow, I want to run away from home, can you take me away?"

"???"

Edward was stunned. Why did she suddenly run away from home? Wasn't she only six or seven years old? She was still far from the rebellious adolescence, right?

Okay.

All of this is to repay Bernadette for her help to me in the future!

Five minutes later.

Edward came to Bernadette's room. She was still curled up on the bed, feeling wronged and in a daze, just like when she prayed just now.

"cough!"

With the combination of [Secret] + [Hide in Space] + [False Reality], even a Sequence 3 warrior would not be able to notice the presence of another person unless they were about to enter Bernadette's room.

"What's wrong, Huang Beibei?"

"My name is not Huang Beibei."

She retorted subconsciously, but reacted immediately, "Mr. Sparrow, take me away from home quickly, I can't stay here for a minute."

As she spoke, she actually picked up a small package from the side, looking ready.

"Correct that."

Edward held out his hand. "If you run away by yourself, it's called running away. If I take you with me, it's called kidnapping."

"So when you took me to find the mermaid last night, was that also kidnapping?"

"Well... in a way, yes."

"Okay." Bernadette said indifferently, "Then kidnap me."

"…"

Edward walked to the bed, took a chair and sat down: "What's wrong, why do you want to run away from home suddenly?"

"My father is busy with work and ignores me. My mother... also ignores me, so I am running away from home."

hiss--

Was the mysterious queen so rebellious when she was a child?

When I wanted to run away from home as a kid, my parents had to help me.

"Tell the truth."

She raised her chin slightly, closed her mouth and looked at Edward, as if to say, "Don't even think about me speaking."

"Okay, I'll go back then."

"etc!"

Bernadette shouted hurriedly, "It's my mother! She...she..."

She closed her eyes and yelled, "While Dad was hiding in the study and working, she went out on a date with another man!!"

"???"

After a brief moment of confusion, Edward felt mixed emotions:

Good, good, good!

Great Emperor, oh great Emperor, you have come to this day!

You spend all day sleeping with this lady and that lady outside, but you didn't expect that your own backyard would be on fire!

It's really... retribution.

Although he thought so in his heart, he still asked seriously: "Are you sure? Maybe it's just a friend of your mother or something. No one stipulates that a man and a woman together is a date, right?"

"Wait! You're only six or seven years old, do you know what a date is?"

Bernadette snorted immediately, "How could I not understand! My father taught me that girls must be careful of men's sweet words and not be tricked by those blond men into going on dates or something like that." After a pause, she was a little confused, "But, many people in Intis have blond hair..."

The yellow-haired person that Russell mentioned is probably not the yellow-haired person you think of.

"Anyway, Mom and Dad are husband and wife, so only Mom and Dad can date. It's very, very bad for Mom to date another man. It's... a betrayal!"

Edward subconsciously wanted to ask her if she knew what Russell had done outside - but then he thought, it would be better not to make the child feel upset.

"Where's your mother? I'll take you to see her. Maybe it's just a misunderstanding."

Although if Russell's wife really betrayed him, he would not have mentioned it in his diary, but through his later diary, we can still see Russell's guilt towards his wife later - if Matilda really betrayed him, with his personality, he would not feel guilty at all.

"I don't know. I saw them going out the back door together, talking and laughing, and I didn't follow them."

"Then do you have anything she uses personally?"

"I'll get it!"

She jumped out of bed quickly, ran out quickly, and came back a few minutes later with a comb.

Edward took out his cane: "Matilda's current location."

The cane floated in the air and then fell in one direction.

"Let's go."

Bernadette looked at the cane curiously, "How can this cane know my mother's location?"

"It's just a magical ability. Has your father ever told you about Extraordinary People and the Extraordinary World?"

Edward took her wrist, and the two of them flashed out of the room in the direction of the cane, and then walked in the direction of the cane.

"Yes, but he said it was too early for me to get involved in this."

Her eyes were fixed on the dangling cane. "Can I learn this from you?"

"No, you have your own path to follow."

"What?"

She was puzzled. .Micro-interest·Xiao/tax_wrong? `Has been published, the most pleasing conclusion`

"I can't explain it right away. I'll teach you slowly when I have time."

"Humph, another adult's perfunctory rhetoric for children."

The two walked along the garden to the small door in the backyard. As soon as they went out, the direction of the cane turned slightly to the right. They continued to walk to the right.

"By the way, you just said that your father was in seclusion in the study. What was he doing in seclusion?" - Seclusion? This word must have been taught to her by Roselle.

"have no idea."

Bernadette shook her head. "As soon as he came back from church yesterday, he hid in the study. Anyway, he was quite happy at that time."

Well, when I met him in Trier Cathedral yesterday, Roselle seemed quite happy - well, if Matilda really went on a date with another man, you would really cry.

Well, if that's the case, will Bernadette's two younger brothers still have a chance to be born?

Damn, the eldest son Charles is okay. He is just an ordinary person and has little impact on history.

But Bonova is an angel of the future. Isn't this causing a big mess?

When he thought of this, Edward couldn't help scratching his hair: Could it be the butterfly effect caused by my traveling back in time? But now, apart from meeting Bernadette and taking her out for a trip, I haven't done anything else?

That doesn't make sense. How could he blame me for his wife cheating on him while Russell was in seclusion?

impossible!

Absolutely impossible!

"Ah, Mom is here!"

At this moment, Bernadette suddenly screamed softly, and at the same time pulled Edward to the side to hide - but failed.

"Don't worry, she can't see us."

Edward comforted her and looked over:

What came into view was a woman who looked gentle, dignified and very beautiful. She was chatting with a man standing shoulder to shoulder with her beautiful smile, and chuckled from time to time. She seemed to be in a very good mood.

Tsk, no wonder it took Roselle several days to go from resisting arranged marriage to saying "Ms. Matilda is so beautiful." Frankly speaking, she is more beautiful than the future Bernadette.

But the point is, why does the man next to her, dressed in formal attire, look so familiar?

The next second, Edward was shocked.

Du Bois?!!!

After being surprised, Edward was stunned:

Wait, Dubois said to find another way to help me meet Emperor Roselle, isn't that... to date Matilda?!

Oh my god!

Matilda's cheating really has something to do with me?

Chapter 472 Vampire Night Attack

For a moment, Edward looked at Bernadette with an awkward expression. Even if he had thought his mind to pieces, he could not have imagined that things would develop like this. \k*s^w/xs,w?.`co/m~

"Look! Look! They look like they're dating now!"

Bernadette pointed at the man and woman opposite and said angrily, "I want to run away from home. No! You might as well just kidnap me!"

At this time, Dubois and Matilda walked side by side in front of the two of them and soon arrived at the door of the backyard of the Russell family villa. Dubois paused and said, "Okay, I'll take you here. Go back quickly."

The smile on Matilda's face turned into helplessness: "Are you really not going to meet Roselle?"

"not see!"

"What about Bernadette? The last time you saw her, she was just born."

"Forget it. To her, I'm just a stranger. There's nothing to see." Dubois waved his hand and turned back. "Oh, by the way, Matilda, don't forget, it's the villa at 7 Rose Street. Don't forget to send an invitation to the next cocktail party."

"I know, I know."

Matilda watched Dubois disappear around the corner, sighed, and walked into the garden.

Oh shit, he really came to help me find an opportunity to meet Russell. Although Dubois's method is not very glorious, it is really efficient and effective.

"I'm not running away from home!!"

Bernadette suddenly growled angrily.

Edward asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

She laughed out of anger, "Didn't you hear? Mom is about to invite that man to our house for a date, right at the cocktail party hosted by Dad! This...this is too much! I will, I will expose them in front of everyone! Otherwise, Dad will be too pitiful!"

I admit that your heart is "Xiao Shun", but if you do this, Emperor Roselle would rather know nothing. At that time, his title will no longer be "Son of Steam", but "Son of Green Hat". ~Swoosh-Search\Xiao￠tax.Wang*,埂¨欣`Drunk*Kuai*

"You go home first. I'll help you track that man and find out who he is, what his identity is, and what he wants to do. If that doesn't work... I'll help you destroy him and make him never appear again. How about that?"

Bernadette's eyes lit up: "Okay!"

"Okay, let's go back."

"Thank you, Mr. Sparrow."

She bowed to Edward to thank him, then said hesitantly, "Although... I know you must have some purpose in approaching me and being so nice to me, but... as long as you don't end up hurting my family, I will... I will forgive you in advance."

"…"

Edward smiled helplessly, and rubbed her hair as he did Lilith, "Children have complicated minds, go back quickly."

"Goodbye, Mr. Sparrow."

...

After Edward left Bernadette, he returned to the villa at 7 Rose Street. Dubois had not come back yet, so he asked Ossian to go out and buy a newspaper. After reading it for a while, Endili brought him the prepared lunch.

It was still a barbecue, but the preparation method and taste were completely different from breakfast. It seemed that some fruits were added during the barbecue, so it tasted different from the barbecue I had eaten before, and it had a bit more sweetness.

Seeing that Edward was satisfied with the meal, Endili felt more relaxed. "Dear master, we have some special grilled fish recipes. Would you like to try them?"

"Okay."

"Then I'll buy some fish for you tomorrow."

Ossain then stepped forward and said, "Master, the weeds in the garden have been cleared, but I don't know how to prune the flower beds and trees."

"Well, DuBois will hire someone to do it later."

Da da da.

As soon as Dubois was mentioned, he was seen walking over quickly with four people. "Mr. Sparrow, these are the two servants I just hired, a groom, and a cook."

Four people stood at the door of the villa with their heads down, their expressions showing some worry and fear. It was obvious that they knew some rumors about this haunted house.

But their status is not like that of a professional butler, and they have very few choices. If they do not accept the employment, they will have no money to support their families.

"Well, let's arrange for them to do their respective duties. Come with me to the study."

"Okay, but we need to buy a carriage."

"Come back later. I have something to ask you."

Dubois gave a few simple instructions to the four people, including asking the chef to take care of Endili and teach her some Intis dishes, and then quickly walked into the study.

Before Edward could speak, Dubois bowed like a gentleman and said in a tone of seeking credit, "Mr. Sparrow, I have already preliminarily completed the matter of getting to know Russell that you asked me to do."

"Oh, tell me about it."

"I...found an old friend of mine and asked her to send you an invitation letter as a friend when Roselle holds a cocktail party next time. You can then attend the party and wait for an opportunity to get to know Roselle."

Edward leaned back in his chair and pretended to be surprised, "Weren't you banned by the nobles in Trier? Where did you find your friends?"

"Banned?"

He was stunned for a moment, then guessed the general meaning of the word, "This... there are always some people willing to help when you are in trouble."

"Ahem, it's not some noble lady you slept with before... is it?"

DuBois hesitated for a few seconds. "It is a lady, but she is really just a very good old friend of mine."

After he said that, Edward believed it a little bit - after all, there was no reason for him to lie to him about this kind of thing.

But, being old friends... doesn't mean there won't be a chance for some emotional disputes to arise.

what do I do?

Should I expose the truth directly and ask Dubois to stay away from Matilda in the future? -- This is too far-fetched. It was obviously me who asked him to help, and he did so diligently and efficiently.

It's good that there are no faults.

After a while,

"Well, thank you for your hard work."

Edward thought for a moment and said, "How much do you know about Extraordinary People?"

Dubois' eyes lit up, and he quickly said, "I know that you need to take a potion made of extraordinary materials to become an extraordinary person. There are many ways to become an extraordinary person. I have heard of generalists, lawyers, arbitrators, etc., but I am not sure about the others."

"Oh, by the way, I also know that becoming a Beyonder might turn you into a madman, or even lose control and become a monster. It's actually very dangerous, and that's why I didn't become a Beyonder in the first place."

"Well, have you thought about which path to take?"

"Maybe a generalist? After all, I only know a little more about this path, but I can do either now. I want to seize every opportunity to become an extraordinary person!"

Dubois knew very well that although there were many paths to becoming an Extraordinary Person, and choosing a path was important, in his current situation, it would be completely ungrateful to be picky.

"Well, I understand. You can think about it again. When I really get to know Roselle, I will help you become a Beyonder."

"Thank you, Mr. Sparrow."

Du Bois left excitedly. He had a lot of things to do in the rest of the afternoon, including purchasing a carriage, arranging the remaining personnel, and helping the other party find a new residence.

As for the new residence, when he went to see Matilda in the morning, he also asked her if there were any villas for rent or sale near Roselle's house. Unfortunately, Matilda usually stayed at home and didn't know anything.

With nothing to do, Edward really acted like an idle, waited-on aristocratic rich man that afternoon. He either wandered around in the garden, read in the study, or rested in the bedroom.

"Hey, if I had known this earlier, I wouldn't have created a wealthy persona for myself. I would have opened a detective agency like Klein. At least I wouldn't be so idle. And if I became a famous detective, I would have the opportunity to come into contact with the church."

In the original novel, wasn't it because of this that Klein met the people of Mechanical Heart while investigating a serial murder case, and thus came into contact with the dog-licking mirror Arrodes?

At around 5:30 p.m., Dubois brought a few more people back to the villa, and by then all the personnel he had mentioned before were basically present.