The Villain Saint is my secondary account

Xiaowei took the jar from Yifei's hands, still somewhat disheartened, "All that work before was for nothing."

"It's not that all of them are gone... I made a copy using the copy parchment from the store, it might still be of some use."

Duo Jian patted Xiao Wei on the shoulder, "If there wasn't any hidden secret inside, the simple pattern will still remain."

"Dude!! You're so thoughtful!!"

Xiao Wei's eyes lit up, but then she frowned. "...Hey, why not just use the fake one to exchange for it?"

"...That depends on who we are exchanging with. We probably can't afford the consequences if the other party finds out it's fake."

Multiple stalls.

"Okay, at least leaving a copy means it wasn't all for nothing."

Xiao Wei shook the jar, "Koi, oh koi, recover quickly. We've really put our hearts and souls into you."

The fish shadow in the jar released a few bubbles in response.

"Thank you for your hard work... Effie,"

Duo Jian then patted Iphie on the shoulder, "Let's go, it's getting late, let's hurry back to town and see if there are any places left at the tavern."

……

The next morning, dawn broke.

In the guest rooms of a tavern in a small town.

As soon as Ye Xiao opened his eyes, he saw Greta's drooling baby face pressed against his forehead.

This guy really doesn't care about his image at all when he's sleeping.

Ye Xiao silently pushed away the little maid's upper body. The girl's pink and white hair, which was draped over his cheek, brushed against his neck, bringing a slight ticklish sensation.

Does a demon god really need to sleep? Asamontie took Lucyville back to Valond's manor for a party all night without even breaking a sweat, yet Greta is still lazing in bed.

Perhaps sensing Ye Xiao's shoving, the girl groggily opened her eyes and slowly yawned.

"Meow--"

But then she paused, as if realizing something, looked down at her small body in her nightgown, her face suddenly flushed, and she grabbed the blanket, "Ah, you pervert!! Don't look!!!"

Ye Xiao, who was kicked off the bed, never understood what she had done wrong.

Fortunately, after a short while, Greta blushed and apologized to Ye Xiao, "It's all your fault! If you had let me eat it earlier, I wouldn't have been so agitated!"

This should be considered Greta's apology, I suppose.

Ye Xiao scratched his head.

The two then changed clothes. Ye Xiao couldn't get rid of Greta when he changed clothes. The little girl squatted on the bed and said she would cover her eyes, but her big, golden pupils were practically peeking out from between her fingers.

As for Greta, she can simply raise her hand and change her outfit with a single click, instantly transforming her nightgown into a neat black and white maid outfit.

This was the first time Ye Xiao had ever been in a male body, and he felt a strange sense of unfairness, as if he had been taken advantage of.

Then the portal opened, and Asamonte and Lucyville entered the room.

"Morning."

As always, Ashamonty was full of nonsense, "Wow, my dear sister looks radiant. It seems your husband had a tough time last night..."

Before she could finish speaking, Greta punched her so hard she deflated like a ball. "Are you trying to die?!"

"Brother-in-law is alright..."

Ye Xiao's lips twitched.

Fortunately, Lucyville was still eating breakfast with a big loaf of bread, her cheeks stuffed full like a hamster's, and she didn't join the noisy group.

Upon descending to the tavern's main hall, the Seven Stars Society members gathered.

On the way, Ye Xiao noticed that Li Cheng looked unusually listless, so she asked him curiously, "Why are you so thin? Were there too many people on the bed last night? Did you get squeezed?"

"Brother Xiong, you can't say things like that."

Li Cheng held up his index finger and put it to his lips, "It's mainly because the people here on the island are very warm and welcoming, and it's hard to refuse their hospitality."

"Don't ruin your health, buddy."

"Oh, it's okay."

As they were talking, they suddenly heard some commotion outside the tavern.

The doors opened, and several town guards entered the hall. They first bowed to the tavern owner behind the counter, saying, "Excuse me, Mr. Jordan."

"What happened?"

The tavern owner was a burly man with a thick beard. Judging from the guard's slightly respectful tone, the owner must be someone with connections.

"This morning, someone found the bodies of a couple in the bushes."

The guard said, "We searched their identities and found your residence permit on them."

"May I see your residency certificate?"

The tavern owner frowned. "This way, I can also help you find out which room the guest is staying in."

"of course can."

The captain of the guard gestured to his men to bring over a small oilcloth bag and handed it to the tavern owner. "Thank you for your help, Mr. Jordan."

The shopkeeper opened the oilcloth bag and glanced at the bloodstained wooden certificate inside. "It is indeed from here, second floor, room number three. I have a pretty good impression of this couple. The man was much older than the woman and seemed a bit eccentric. They also had a little boy with them."

Room 3?

Ye Xiao, who overheard the conversation from a distance, was taken aback, because he lived in room number four.

And there it is next to me again. Do I look like Conan now?

The captain of the guard stroked his chin and turned to his subordinate beside him, "Did any witnesses see a little boy at the time?"

"Only the bodies of the couple were found at the scene; the little boy was not seen."

The subordinate replied.

"Mr. Jordan, would you mind describing the boy's appearance?"

The captain of the guard then turned to the tavern owner.

While the tavern owner was describing the little boy's appearance, the other guards came over to conduct a brief check on the guests in the lobby.

Although a murder had occurred, the guards' search was not too thorough, since the actual crime scene was in the woods several miles away.

As a resident living next door, Ye Xiao was naturally also asked a routine question.

Of course, this matter had little to do with him or the rest of the Seven Stars Society, since they had spent the entire night in the tavern.

Chapter Forty-Six: The Voyage

After this little incident, everyone hurried to the dock and boarded the merchant ship in time.

As passengers boarded one after another, the merchant ship was quickly prepared and set sail again.

The roar of the ship's horn echoed throughout the harbor as the colossal ship, as large as a moving mountain, slowly departed from the island shore.

……

Two days later, things were much calmer than usual.

The merchant ship drifted slowly on the boundless ocean, with only the blue sea as far as the eye could see, and occasionally a bird flying by in the sky, accompanied by the large ship and a few escort ships of Loren.

Ella went to worship as usual every day. If there was nothing else to do, she was outwardly a fairly dutiful saint, even though she talked about some irrelevant things when she prayed to the God of Light. But since no one really listened, she just let herself go.

Sometimes she would commission Councilor Wind to decipher some of the tadpole-like scripts she found, including the script left in the dungeons by the Dark Shepherd when he was first born as an evil god, as well as some scripts excavated from ancient tombs.

After the collapse of the Caesar Company's Tree of Life on Lyra Peak, Ella commissioned Dong Muge and Hyde to form an archaeological team to excavate the destroyed ancient tombs in the Howling Mountains to see if there was any information left behind. Discovering these tadpole-like characters was part of their work.

Meanwhile, in the cabin on the middle deck, Ye Xiao was engrossed in studying the parchment left behind by Su Xiyun and the treasure map he had recently obtained from Yifei.

Ye Xiao fiddled with the two pieces of paper for a long time, and then suddenly had a brilliant idea to stack the two pieces of paper together and then use his staff to summon fluorescent light.

As the light shone through the paper, he continuously adjusted the positions of the two sheets, making the lines on them subtly overlap, until finally, a clear topographical map was formed.

The roads on it are intricate and complex. The outermost layer has a butterfly-shaped outline, and the inner layers of lines are stacked like onions, arranged like contour lines, but the lines occasionally intersect.

Where is this map from?

Ye Xiao leaned back in his chair, trying to recall if there were any mountain ranges that would resemble a butterfly when viewed from the air.

Greta also came over to look curiously, but unfortunately, she had no recollection of such terrain in her little brain.

Well then, let's rest for a while.

Ye Xiao tossed a cookie to Greta, then stood up and stretched.

"Do you want to go out?"

"Gredia asked in a childish voice."

"Let's go up on the deck for some fresh air."

Ye Xiao ruffled the little maid's hair. "Together?"

Greta's gaze lingered on the comic book she hadn't finished reading on the bed. After hesitating for a moment, she jumped off the bed, stuffed her tiny, milk-cake-like feet into her little leather shoes, and then grabbed Ye Xiao's clothes.

On the deck, the sky was a clear, deep blue, and the sea breeze was strong and melodious.

Ye Xiao placed a straw hat with a flower crown, which he had bought from the island, on Greta's head to prevent the sea breeze from messing up the girl's carefully styled hair.

It has to be said that life at sea is like fried rice in an iron pot; once the initial novelty wears off, it becomes a monotonous and turbulent journey day after day.

Looking out into the sea breeze, Ye Xiao pondered.

He glanced at Greta, who was covering her straw hat, which was being blown around by the wind, with one hand and holding his sleeve with the other. Her two clear, watery eyes were gazing at the sea with great interest.

"By the way, Greta, you've probably been to most places in this world by now."

"of course,"

Greta puffed out her chest. "From the Temple of Light to the River Styx, the sights I, this maid, have seen are far more than any mortal could ever imagine in a lifetime."

"But I see you gazing at the ordinary sea, and you seem quite engrossed in it."

"Looking at the scenery is one thing, but looking at it with someone is another."

The little maid gently rested her head on Ye Xiao's arm, "With you, even the most boring scenery looks beautiful."

Huh? This guy would say something like that?

The maid's sudden display of romance startled Ye Xiao for a moment, then she couldn't help but chuckle: "Pfft!"

"Hey! What are you laughing at? What's so funny!"

"You must have learned that from a comic book, right? It's so corny, just like what we're used to, hahaha!"

"So annoying! They have absolutely no sense of romance!"

The maid immediately became enraged and punched Ye Xiao in the chest.

"Holy crap!"

The powerful demonic force abruptly stopped Ye Xiao's unrestrained laughter, nearly breaking his ribs.

But if he didn't say it, it was indeed his own fault.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Ye. Are you also enjoying the sea with your female companion?"

As the two were flirting, a familiar voice rang out from behind them.

Ye Xiao gasped, clutching her still throbbing chest, and turned around, forcing a smile. "Hiss... Good afternoon, Captain. Have a moment to rest?"

"Indeed, it's rare to have some free time."

Captain Castor habitually handed Ye Xiao a hookah, but then realized that Ye Xiao didn't smoke hookah, so he withdrew his hand and smiled faintly, "Look at my memory."

"Hahaha,"

While gently rubbing the little maid's hat to comfort her, Ye Xiao asked, seemingly casually, "By the way, the couple who were looking for the boy in the corridor last time, I haven't seen them on the ship recently."

"Oh, I remember that couple's itinerary only included the Mansa Islands."

The captain replied, "They disembarked there."

"No wonder."