Time came to Wednesday, and the decoration of No. 6 Saint Teresa Square was still in progress. Shade went to the third floor in the morning to take a look. According to the current progress, most of the work should be completed this week.
Although after the repairs are completed, we have to wait for the drying of cement, the trial of gas pipes and steam pipes, and the verification of the city hall housing maintenance center before the third floor can be completely brought into use. But the joy of this long-awaited thing is about to be completed.
, it still put Xia De in a good mood.
Today I was going to Coldwater Harbor for a short trip with the Witch. So after breakfast, Shade went to Dorothy's place to ask her to take care of the cat for a while.
But unfortunately, Dorothy went out early today. Her "Hamilton Detective Stories" has been serialized for two weeks and has received unexpectedly huge attention. The landlady said that Dorothy went to "Steambird"
Daily newspaper office, discussing the next serialization plan with the editor, I'm afraid I won't be back before noon.
Besides Dorothy, Shade had other options. He thought about it carefully and finally did not ask other friends for help.
It was difficult for Mia to get close to strangers, and it took a long time to get used to the familiarity with Dorothy. Therefore, instead of letting the cat stay with other people for a day, Shade thought it would be better to take the cat with him.
Go to Coldwater Port, wait until it's time to go on an adventure, and then entrust the cat to Miss Aurora's maid to take care of it.
In this way, Shade showed up at the Aurora Manor on time at 8:30 in the morning. After a hurried bath, he was immediately pulled into the carriage by Miss Aurora, and the carriage went straight to the Coldwater Port Railway Station.
Of course, Miss Aurora's trip would not be just carrying her suitcase. She bought a ticket in advance for the VIP carriage, which is a separate box. In addition to Shade, there were three maids and a dozen people responsible for porters.
The baggage's common servant followed her.
The three maids are all ring sorcerers, and all have the same level as the fifth ring. They don't look very old, only about two or three years older than Shade's physical age.
"Why are there always so many sorceresses who are young but of high level around witches? Even the Zhengshen Church has a hard time finding so many young middle-level sorcerers."
During the free time during the journey, Shade asked Miss Aurora for advice.
The train wheels roll over the rails, making regular clicking sounds. Because of the installation of mechanical shock absorbers in the first-class carriages, train travel is quite comfortable.
The witch is holding a book and sitting at the desk in the box, while Shade is sitting on the sofa. This entire carriage is a box, arranged like a living room, and even has a decorative fireplace, not Xia De.
A carriage in De's imagination is divided into five or six spaces.
In this era, the quality of life of wealthy people is beyond the imagination of outsiders.
"It's very simple, they all have the power of witches."
The witch with long curly brown hair said, calling the girl with short hair and shawl who was bending over to pour tea in front of her:
"This is Jisi. I found her from the orphanage when she was nine years old."
It is worth mentioning that although Miss Aurora is wearing a long ruffled skirt, her current posture is very unladylike with her legs crossed and a book covering her right knee with one hand.
She waved to the maid to lower her head, and then touched her face with her hand.
"Originally, I wanted to train her to be a secretary who would help me handle paperwork when I grew up. Unexpectedly, she awakened her talent when she was seventeen years old. Jisi is 24 years old this year. It took seven years, with the help of the witch's power, to become a secretary.
Five rings, although this speed is faster than that of a normal ring warlock, it is already very slow compared to you."
As she spoke, her right hand rubbed the maid's cheek from the side and slid down to her chin. Then, the witch's slender fingers lifted the maid's chin, causing the latter's blushing face to slowly move toward hers.
near.
Shade consciously used his hands to cover Mia's eyes, who was squatting on the sofa cushions.
Miss Aurora did not do anything more extreme. She just kissed her personal maid gently and asked the maid to continue working. Seeing Shade looking embarrassed, she chuckled:
"Don't act like you've never seen the world, Shade. Speaking of which, you haven't had close contact with any girls yet, have you?"
Seeing that Xia De was unwilling to answer, he continued to laugh;
"Are the aesthetics of girls living in the Pearl of the North different from those in coastal areas? This is interesting, or maybe Carina helped you stop those suitors."
"I don't think so. In fact, I rarely appear in public."
"Rejed's Hamilton Knight told me that he is a very low-key person."
The witch smiled and shook her head:
"Just wait and see, Shade, sooner or later the love letters you receive will fill your mailbox. But I am curious about what Carina will think of your relationship with her."
"Partner."
"Is that what you think?"
Miss Sylvie Aurora picked up the tea cup and made a gesture of clinking the cups to Shade:
"Then I wish you good luck, Mr. Detective."
Klein City is located to the east of Cold Water Port. Like most cities in the Old World, this city has progressed with the rise of the steam age, but it is unable to absorb more of the dividends of this era like Torbesk and Cold Water Port.
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Hekils Town is a small town in the south of Klein City. Most of the town is in mountainous terrain. However, because this is the last pass from the open plains in the north to the rugged basin in the middle of the west coast of the Old World, even if it is only a town, it is also located in a mountainous area.
There is a train station.
This can also be regarded as the transportation artery in the eastern part of Lengshui Port, but most of the people staying here are scattered tourists, and the north-south transshipment of goods mostly uses sea transportation, so the status of the transportation artery does not bring more trade opportunities to the town.
The history of Hercules Town is completely unknown, but it is a town where you can glimpse both the past and the present at the same time. When Shade followed Miss Aurora out of the station, he first lamented the rural town
depression, and then realized that compared to most small towns in the Kingdom of Delarian, this place was already prosperous.
The entire town consists of eight streets, three vertical and five horizontal. The city center is not the Hercules Town Sheriff's Office in the center, but the small town train station in the west of the city. Surrounding the train station, hotels, shops, restaurants, and pubs are arranged in sequence.
Open, at least in the two streets around the train station, you can still feel a little bit of the atmosphere of a big city.
Miss Aurora brought Shade here, of course, not for tourism. She booked a room early in the town's largest hotel, the "Candide Hotel". After a short rest, a maid and other servants responsible for carrying luggage arrived.
, guarding the luggage at the hotel and preparing to receive it, Shade took the cat and set off with the other two maids and Miss Aurora.
Because we had a specially provided lunch in the first-class carriage of the train, we no longer had to worry about the food in the small town. The witch was quite well prepared, and all the action plans had been made. The first step was to visit the residents who lived there.
Old Mrs. Ilar from Hercules Town.
An old woman who lives alone lives in a house on the edge of the town. There are no single-family apartments in the town that are common in cities. The house where old lady Ilar lives seems to be a relic from before the steam age, standing on the street
One side.
The rugged dirt road extends to the front of the house, and the crooked wooden fence is used to delineate the scope of the house. The old man opened two vegetable fields in the yard in front of the house. Outsiders cannot tell what the green vegetables are, but they are attracted by him.
The cat on my shoulder was very interested in those plants.
Probably city cats have not only never seen the sea, but also never seen a vegetable patch.
The steam pipes and gas pipes were not buried underground, but entered the house directly against the ground. After pushing open the fence door outside the yard, which seemed to be knocked down with one kick, and avoiding the chickens running around in the yard, the four people came to the door.
forward.
Mia was more active now. She was never afraid of creatures slightly larger than herself, so she had the idea of jumping off her shoulders to compete with those chickens.
While Shade held down the cat and looked at the chicken coop and vegetable patch in the yard, the maid had already started knocking on the door.
"How does it feel here?"
The witch asked Shade with great interest:
"I heard Carina tell you about your origin. You probably won't have any memories of this kind of place."
"Yes, I feel like it's interesting here at first sight, but I still prefer living in the city."
Shade's answer was quite honest.
Someone soon came to open the door. She probably had an appointment, so when the old woman with a stooped back, a headscarf, and a cane saw four people and a cat outside the door, she was not surprised.
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Old Mrs. Ilar is the oldest person Shade has ever seen in this world, at least the oldest person in appearance. She is already a little awkward when walking, but she seems to be in good spirits.
What surprised Shade the most was that the opponent was actually a ring warlock. But the level was very low. According to the reminder of the whispering voice in his ear, the opponent was either a first-level or a second-level magician, and could not be higher than Shade.
There is a strange smell inside the house that is unique to an old man living alone, as if everything here is about to decay. The decoration style is old, and the wallpaper used to cover the cracks in the wall has long turned yellow. As for the old furniture, it is probably only Old John who pawned it.
Only a bank or a garbage dump would be willing to recycle it. When Shade sat down on the sofa, he even clearly heard the sofa making a terrible squeaking sound.
Considering that his weight is very standard, this can only mean that the sofa, like old Mrs. Ilar, will reach the end of its life.
The two parties sat down, and the maids went to the kitchen to get some tea. The witch finally introduced the identity of the old woman in front of Shade to Shade:
"This is a believer of the old god [Earth-Shaking Worm] and the current high priest of the cult."
"Don't mention the high priest. I am currently the only member of the cult."
The old man waved his hand sheepishly. Her eyes were very bright, and when she smiled, she looked very kind and kind.
