Pierrefitte was the name of a neighborhood in Paris. There was also a Pierrefitte in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis. However, they referred to different places.
It was too eye-catching to ride a motorcycle in the city of Paris at this time. It was as eye-catching as driving a supercar in the city. Additionally, it would be more troublesome if there was a GPS on the motorcycle.
Therefore, when he was 4-5 km away from Pierrefitte, Xia Pingan parked his motorcycle behind a parterre in a boisterous roadside park. After leaving the key in the vehicle, he walked towards Pierrefitte.
The journey was smooth and there were no more mishaps.
About 40 minutes later, Xia Pingan arrived at Pierrefitte.
This was a rich district in Paris. This neighborhood was close to the Seine River. There was an iron arch bridge nearby. A large number of villas were built here.
In this age, in order to resist space invasion, those rich people who built villas here compromised their function in terms of aesthetics. Therefore, the villas in Pierrefitte were all like small castles. Under their pointed roofs, there were solid walls made of granite, reinforced concrete and steel everywhere. The area of windows on the walls was compressed as much as possible. The walls outside the villas were at least 3-4 m high, which was very solid.
In order to beautify the villas, the walls of many villas were covered with perfume, jasmine, coral vines, and pineapples. Large patches of green hung down from the walls of the villas. The blooming flowers softened the hard buildings at once.
Besides these plants, beautiful and elegant iron gates and fences, as well as some conspicuous sculptures, became the decorations of these hard villas.
Some of the villas had already been destroyed. Xia Pingan saw that the villas within 50 meters of this area had already disappeared, and the surroundings were all ruins. There was a large crater on the ground, and some villas had collapsed. There were some traces of fire, but there were also some villas that were still inhabited.
Walking in such a neighborhood, Xia Pingan could clearly feel pairs of vigilant eyes gazing at him from the windows of the surrounding villas.
Xia Pingan was wearing a hat. The collar of his windbreaker covered his neck and a small part of his face. Those people gazing at him from the villas could not see his face clearly.
...
"It should be here …" Finally, Xia Pingan arrived in front of the castle-like villa in his image.
Everything in front of him was the same as in his memory. There were two marble sculptures in front of the villa, and the brown iron gate was tightly shut. Outside the gate of the villa was an avenue full of sycamore trees. Further away, there was a small pier, and the Seine River flowed calmly about 200 meters away, turning into a huge river bend. Through the gap of the gate, he could see that the courtyard inside was full of flowers and plants.
Seeing that the villa in front of him did not seem to be abandoned, Xia Pingan felt a little more at ease.
He could talk to the owner of the villa first and see if he could buy or rent the villa. If that didn't work, he could think of other ways.
There was a doorbell at the door of the villa, and a hidden camera on the top of the door, facing outside the gate. If Mr. and Mrs. Gérard were still living here, they should still remember his face.
Xia Pingan walked to the door, turned his head, and faced the hidden camera. Then he pressed the doorbell of the villa.
Outside the door, he could faintly hear the tinkling sound coming from the villa.
Xia Pingan pressed the doorbell twice with a two-second interval. Then he stopped and waited outside the door quietly.
After more than ten seconds, Xia Pingan saw a woman with wheat-colored curly hair, wearing a blue floral skirt, holding a shotgun, and leading a shepherd dog out of the villa through the crack of the door.
In Xia Pingan's memory, this woman was Emily, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gérard, who was a student of Mr. and Mrs. Gérard. If Xia Pingan's memory was correct, Emily was just 19 years old this year. When Xia Pingan was Emily's home painting teacher, he got along very well with Mr. and Mrs. Gérard and Mrs. Gérard.
Emily was very vigilant. She walked out of the villa and came to the gate. She opened a small side window on the iron gate, revealing half of her face to carefully look at Xia Pingan outside.
"Mr. Luo An, is that you?"
Luo An had not taught painting here for almost two years. During these two years, Luo An's appearance had changed a bit. Therefore, the woman inside the door wanted to confirm it.
"Emily, it's me. I'm here to see you …" Xia Pingan asked.
After confirming that it was Xia Pingan, the woman inside the door seemed to let out a sigh of relief. She put down the shotgun in her hand and took out a bunch of keys. "Mr. Luo An, wait a moment. I'll open the door for you right now!"
After the door lock was opened and the iron bolt slid, the side door of the villa was completely opened. The moment Xia Pingan entered the villa, Emily hurriedly closed the side door and locked it from the inside.
The moment Xia Pingan came in, the shepherd dog that followed Emily became excited. It wagged its tail and stuck out its tongue as it kept circling around Xia Pingan. Emily could not help but pat the shepherd dog's head. "Batu, don't move …"
Xia Pingan glanced at the shotgun in Emily's hand. He remembered that this shotgun was part of Emily's father's collection. There were two of them in total. They seemed to have been placed in the wall cabinet in the small living room of the villa.
"Emily, where's your father?" Xia Pingan asked.
Upon hearing this, Emily's eyes turned slightly red. "My father has already passed away …"
"Ah, sorry …" Xia Pingan looked apologetic. "I remember that your father has always been very healthy. I even wanted to pay him a visit today. How could it be …"
"Mr. Luo An, let's talk inside!" Emily quickly hid her emotions and put on a strong expression. She even revealed a smile. "There's still your favorite black tea at home …"
"Okay!"
Xia Pingan followed Emily into the villa.
The front door of the villa was just like the security door of a bank vault. It was about a foot thick and unusually heavy. On both sides of the front door, there was a floral window. However, the floral window was divided into many pieces by polymeric plexiglass and thick ironwork windows. The largest piece was only slightly bigger than the mouth of a bowl. Animals that were slightly bigger couldn't squeeze in. Everything was the same as two years ago.
The villa was unusually tidy, but it also gave off a cold and cheerless atmosphere. Besides Emily, there seemed to be no one else in the villa.
…
The accident happened very suddenly. Almost as soon as Xia Pingan entered the villa and sat down on the sofa in the living room, Emily brought him a pot of black tea. Xia Pingan was about to ask Emily what had happened in her home when Xia Pingan's mind suddenly trembled violently.
Not good!
Xia Pingan's expression changed abruptly!
This tremor was a warning from the Doppelganger Secret Technique. It meant that his original body in the underground secret chamber of the Immortal City was trembling violently. This was the most dangerous warning. If it wasn't for the Tortoiseshell Five Elements Inverted Eight Trigrams Sword Formation Version 2.0 in the secret chamber, and his original body was in the Embryonic Breathing Realm and was under the protection of the Soul Power Barrier, this kind of tremor and warning wouldn't have happened.
Could it be that someone was destroying the formation and was about to invade the secret room!
If his original body died, it would be very troublesome.
Facing such an urgent matter, Xia Pingan didn't even have time to say anything when he saw Emily who had just brought him a cup of tea. Neither did he have time to make any preparations or barriers. His spiritual body directly left this body by force and interrupted the doppelganger secret technique. His spiritual body then returned to his original body at the fastest speed …
In a split second, Xia Pingan's spiritual body trembled violently as if entering a black hole through a space-time tunnel. Under a huge pulling force that even made his spiritual body feel pain, Xia Pingan's figure had already appeared in the Spiritual Realm Fortress. Furthermore, he didn't have time to explain. In the next second, Xia Pingan's spiritual body passed through the arch of the fortress and returned to his secret Spiritual Realm Shrine in the Spiritual Realm Shrine. In the next second, his spiritual body merged with his original body from the secret Spiritual Realm Shrine in the Spiritual Realm Shrine.
…
In the secret room, Xia Pingan, who was sitting cross-legged on the praying mat, opened his eyes at once. His breathing and heartbeat instantly returned to normal …
The entire secret room was trembling as if a train had just passed by it. Huge rumbling sounds reverberated throughout the underground room. The tortoiseshell Five Elements Inverted Eight Trigrams Sword Formation was already in full operation. The six golden tortoises released a ball of golden light to protect the entire secret room. However, it was slightly deformed by a terrifying force from underground. Under that huge force, cracks had already appeared on the tortoiseshell of the golden tortoises.
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