Today is Monday. Because he got up early and went to the Prophet's Association, Shade didn't have time to get the gift.
Luvia and Iluna happened to be there, so Shade proposed to pick up this week's gifts in front of them.
Asking Iluna to hold the cat tightly to prevent it from escaping into the box again, Shade reached into the metal box.
It has been more than two months since he got this sage-level relic. Except for the banknote printing master that brought him some surprises, most of the gifts were dispensable.
But this time, Shade's luck finally came.
"oh!"
His eyes suddenly widened because his finger touched a key at the bottom of the box, and he immediately sensed that it was a relic.
"Finally! Finally! I've been really lucky recently. First I got the [Corpse Mirror] in Mibao, and now I actually got another gift!"
Trying hard not to show an overly exaggerated expression on his face, Shade took out the large, cold, black iron-colored key. The key itself was as long as Shade's palm, and the key teeth were small squares.
This kind of key is often used in large locks in the old days...
There are very difficult-to-observe scratches on the metal surface, which are slender ancient letters like earthworms. After translation, their meaning is:
[The only lock that cannot be opened is the lock on girls’ hearts.]
"Is this it? It turns out that [God's gift box] can really take out relics."
Luvia on the side commented.
"What's this?"
Shade asked curiously, and Iluna, who was well-informed in the church, also recognized it:
"Poet-level [Master Key]?"
"Yes, a master key, a one-time relic, with an unknown quantity and unknown origin. Its properties are very simple, it can open a lock unconditionally."
Luvia nodded to Shade:
"Yes, it is very similar to your [Door Key]. But the advantage of the relic is that it does not consume the user's spirit. Even if you open a mysterious lock, there is no consumption. And when you hold this key, you can strengthen it.
Its own ability to break illusions. The shortcoming is not only a one-time use, but also the resulting spatial instability."
Luvia thought for a while:
"The Ring Warlock who holds the key is more likely than others to encounter accidents in areas where space is already unstable. A small example is that he took this key to Midhill Fort and was accidentally involved in the [Life and Death Constriction].
time] is more likely.”
"That's really a pity. Just take it. I have the [Key to the Door] myself, so I don't need this."
Shade put the key on the table. Although he couldn't use the key, Shade was still very happy to get a relic.
The purple-eyed fortune teller and the seventeen-year-old Rapunzel looked at each other.
"Put it where you are."
Iluna took the initiative and said:
"I'm going to Fort Midhill in a few days. I don't want Shade to go to the Narrows of Life and Death again to rescue me."
"That's fine, I will find an opportunity to compensate Xia De."
Luvia put the key away and then asked Xiang Shade:
"So big boy, what kind of mission has God given you this week?"
She and Iluna both laughed. The "getting gifts" feature of the gift box can only be triggered by children. Luvia's comparison of Shade to a "big boy" was indeed interesting.
"It's very simple, at least easier than swinging the knife 100 times on each of the three days last week. It seems that the difficulty of the weekly task has nothing to do with the value of the gift - give your pet a bath."
Shade said.
"Meow?"
Little Mia, who was being held by Iluna, suddenly stretched out her head. Her big amber eyes looked at Shade. The way she tilted her head was very cute, so Shade smiled and picked up the cat from Iluna's arms.
return:
"It just so happens that the weather is getting colder, so I'll wash it again after autumn. I often hear people say that it's best not to bathe your cat too frequently, so I'll wash it this time so that I don't have to wash it again in winter."
Because of this idea, on Tuesday morning, the tenth month of this year, the first day of the Dead Leaf Month, Shade and Mia got into a "dispute" over taking a bath.
The winner of this dispute was of course Shad. He first used food to lure the cat to the bathroom where hot water was placed. After closing the door, he and Mia had a chase battle in the narrow space and won.
.
No matter how agile the cat is, it can only lose in front of Shade who has the ability to move in space.
She had obviously seen the sea and had taken a bath before, but when Shade put it in the bathtub, little Mia still made a "screaming" sound.
But after just meowing, the cat looked around suspiciously. Seeing that the warm water did no harm to it, it suddenly became obedient and rubbed Shade's hand while letting him wash it, even resisting during the process.
No.
Although this cat may seem very smart at times, in the final analysis it is just a cat.
After washing the cat, Shade did not go to Fort Midhill immediately. Instead, he took advantage of Monday to take the dried Mia to handle the monthly bills, taxes, and advertising fees in Tobesk, and collect them.
This month’s MI6 salary.
After finishing these things, I took the cat for lunch. By the time Shade entered the city limits of Fort Midhill, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.
Fortunately, he didn't have anything important to do today. He just wanted to help Leziya count the goods in the warehouse at No. 19 Punjab Street to determine how much the local "rats" had stolen.
Punjab Street is a street in the city center, close to Santa Carla Street and Perfume Street. It is mostly home to multinational trading groups. It is very lively on weekdays, and it is even more crowded on the first day of October. Businessmen from all over the world
Everyone wants to finalize those important commodity transactions before winter comes.
Nos. 10 to 20 of Punjab Street are warehouses, but when Shade came here, the first thing he looked at was not No. 19, but No. 18 with a red door plate on the side.
Gray Gloves received the information that the goods would arrive at the warehouse on the 18th on the last day of last month, that is, yesterday. And if Shade's guess was correct, the agent who came to pick up the goods had died on the 4th of the Sikal Hotel last week.
building.
Among the three people who received the goods, the one who knew the address was shot dead, and the person in charge of security committed suicide at the local police station. Only Professor Higgins is still alive, and it is suspected that on the night of the gunman's suicide, he stole the pen that had no information.
"Theoretically speaking, there is a high probability that the goods are still here. The professor of linguistics has no possibility of knowing this address under normal circumstances."
Shade stared at the house number of No. 18 for a long time, then reached out and clicked on the door of No. 19, and the door lock automatically opened. He looked around and saw that although there were many people on the street, no one was paying attention here, so he lowered his hat with his right hand.
He ducked in and walked in.
This kind of warehouse located in the city center is generally small in area. Of course, due to land utilization considerations, there will naturally not be only one floor. In addition to the main entrance that opens on Punjab Street, there is also a warehouse on the other side for shipping goods.
The door was used, but that door was now locked from the inside with rusty hinges, so Shade didn't have to worry about anyone entering from the other side.
Lesia didn't know why she rented this place, and from the looks of it, some steam engine repair parts were piled here.
There is not much decoration inside the warehouse, only the floor is paved and the walls are painted. There is a very obvious smell of oil in the air, and the boxes of metal parts are the source of the oil smell.
"Lecia asked me to go to the third floor to check."
Between the second and third floors and the first floor, there is a lifting platform with a steam engine as the power source, and it is very convenient to use. You can start the lifting platform by standing on it and stepping on the bulge in the middle. But starting the steam engine as the power source requires
A special key, and the key is not there now.
Of course, this thing was also very noisy, so Shade did not use the magic of unlocking to move it. Instead, he chose to open the iron door at the stairway, and then took the stairs to the upper floor.
He didn't forget to lock the door again.
The second floor is lined with rows of shelves, with scattered steam engine parts on them. There are even some outdated decomposition diagrams of small steam engines posted on the walls, with specific sizes and alloy types marked.
Shade stood by the wall and watched for a while, then opened the iron door at the stairway again and went to the third floor.
The layout of the third floor was similar to that of the first floor. They were also made of wooden boxes. Shade found a crowbar by the wall, pried open the wooden board that was nailed down by iron nails, and saw that there was straw inside, and lying in the straw
, is a steam and gunpowder hybrid machine gun.
The black metal gun body, eyepiece, magazine, steam chamber and other small parts were disassembled and put aside. This is a controlled munitions that outsiders can only see in books. It is an incredible destructive weapon in the wars of this era.
"Oh, Lesia is actually in the arms business, and it's a multinational arms business. Who is she selling to?"
Shade whispered in his heart, but it was not surprising. After all, Lecia and Miss Aurora can jointly open a shipyard to build some ships that "have military potential but she can't modify them", so selling a few boxes of arms is not a big deal.
Unimaginable:
"The arms business seems to be very profitable."
Muttering in my mind, I took out the notebook toy from my pocket, restored it, and counted the number of boxes while recording it. Occasionally, I would pry open one or two boxes to confirm that the kingdom-controlled arms were inside.
After working for almost an hour, Xia De finally finished the work.
He carefully returned the same way he came, trying not to make too much noise. Fortunately, Shade was very lucky. Until he left Warehouse No. 19 in a flash, he didn't attract anyone's attention.
He lowered his hat and walked down the steps, walking along the wall toward the street entrance. He wanted to return to Tobesk immediately and tell Lesia the result. But because he was walking with his head lowered, he accidentally bumped into him after only a few steps.
The shoulders of retrograde strangers.
PS: In addition to the two major kingdoms of the Old World, there are also a series of small principalities, so Lesia did not necessarily sell Delarion's arms to Kasenric.
