Chapter two hundred and ninety seventh morning letter
LR417 - March - 1st.
On the first day of the new moon, Ronald left the boarding house early in the morning and looked at the mailbox at the door out of habit.
Three rolled newspapers.
One Citizen's Daily, one Queen's Daily, and one Art Weekly.
With Ronald's sense of smell, he could even smell a bit of ink printing.
But in addition, there was a white envelope, which was obviously just delivered to the apartment this morning.
Seeing this letter, Ronald raised his eyebrows.
Ordinary people can only see that this is a mailed letter, but in his opinion, there is a mark printed on it with magic power on the white paper page. The person who left the mark is quite clever, and there is not even a trace of it.
The power of the curse leaks out.
Mysterious personnel with weaker observation skills will miss this mark without looking specifically.
And Ronald can detect this subtle thing.
Or because when I communicated with the Great Witch before, she specifically mentioned this aspect.
"..."
"Ms. Teresa...?"
Muttering in his mouth, Ronald reached out thoughtfully and took out the letter.
In fact, what happened before was exactly as he expected.
When the witch incident was over and he and the investigators returned to Springs, it turned out that the big witch who had left the city with Ronald did not return. Later, the [Twelve Witches] also said that the big witch was unwell and needed to return to the school.
Internal rest.
And the current letter seems to confirm this.
Ronald opened the envelope with one hand. In addition to the expected letter paper, there was also a brand new [Gert] note issued in Springs, with the denomination of one dollar as expected.
Let’s take a look at the contents of the letter:
[Dear Ronald:
I'm really sorry for leaving without saying goodbye.
But for people of my age, once all kinds of old diseases break out, the body and bones really can't hold on. The coins in the envelope are the rent I paid for the apartment during that time, and I hope I can pay it on my behalf.
Looking forward to seeing you again.
Your loyal friend.
Theresa Russell
Attached——
There is still unfinished tea on my table. It is tea that I brought from my hometown and is mixed with local flavor. You can try it if you don’t mind.】
"As for the rent, I gave [Depp] more..."
"..."
After reading the text on the letter, Ronald raised his eyebrows.
When communicating with the great witch, he incidentally taught the old magician about text encryption methods, and also compared the communication with each other.
Then according to the language grammar of this world...
There seems to be a shadow of this encryption method in the last incident.
He took the letter and walked out into the street.
Ronald subconsciously rubbed his temples.
He has always had a good memory. He could probably recall the original exchange, and he could also recall the Vigenère cipher from that experiment, as well as a few lines of the cipher table that transcribed the text.
I reluctantly tried to translate it, the content is——
[——Mezzanine on your desk, put down the gift, to pursue the truth, please accept this, I believe it will definitely help you.]
"..."
"Fluid mechanics is really a convenient thing..."
After standing there for a moment, Ronald stuffed the letter paper and coins into his pocket, and then continued walking towards [Visius University].
Although not all characters have been translated successfully, the general meaning is obvious.
The great witch left a gift on the mezzanine of the table.
Of course, Ronald had no intention of going back and studying his desk now.
Now as an original code holder with "strong combat power".
You don't need to guess to know that the Investigation Bureau has specialized personnel to observe your movements. If you want to study the things on the table, you should wait until you come back in the evening.
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The work of the [Scroll Research Society] has not changed much.
Reading books normally, helping with research normally, practitioners having normal arguments, and then going to and from get off work normally.
In such a research institution, Ronald's life has not changed in any way, and the battle that took place on the beach will not affect the research institution's attitude towards him.
In this way, the working day passes quickly.
When Ronald returned to the apartment in the evening, the landlady was wearing a pair of glasses, sitting in the courtyard holding a book and reading attentively. Next to her was the pen and paper she used to take notes.
Ronald glanced at it and saw that it was a composition-type book that had no overlap with his knowledge.
So he walked forward and Ronald took out the coins he received this morning from his pocket.
"Miss Cynthia, this is Ms. Teresa's previous rent."
"She left in a hurry, so she entrusted me to pay the rent for that period of time."
Hearing Ronald's voice, the landlady immediately put down her book and looked up, with a somewhat reserved smile on her face:
"That's right."
"As for Ms. Teresa, she has lived in the room for more than a week but not yet two weeks. There is no problem with the interior of the room, so it can be counted as one week."
After taking the coins, Cynthia touched the side pocket of her clothes, then immediately got up and walked to her room.
"Mr. Ronald, I don't seem to have any change with me. Come with me to the house to get some change."
Hearing this invitation, Ronald smiled slightly:
"I'll just wait here."
"..."
After successfully collecting the change, Ronald said goodbye to Cynthia and walked up to the third floor.
After hanging his coat on the hanger, he went straight to the balcony and closed the curtains.
After blocking the sunlight and sight outside, he began to fiddle with the desk in the center of his room.
Considering the big witch's behavior, he prefers that the 'gift' mentioned in the letter be placed in the mezzanine of his desk. Otherwise, after the big witch leaves the apartment, there is a high probability that this 'gift' will be collected by the people from the Bureau of Investigation.
Walk.
And it turned out that Ronald's guess was consistent with the big witch's idea.
Just under the top drawer of his desk, Ronald quickly found an extra item.
——It was a piece of paper clipped to the back of the bottom of the cabinet.
So I carefully pulled out the paper.
Ronald looked at the content written above seriously.
[Significantly solid and standardized planning diagram of the Luminous Loud Channel Method...]
"..."
"All right……"
Looking at the black and white paper in front of him, Ronald smiled wryly and scratched his hair.
It's still the same encryption method they used before.
However, compared to the text on this morning's letter that still made sense after being encrypted, the text on the page here is obviously a lot more unfamiliar. It is obviously the work of the great witch after she just learned the encryption method.
In other words, some time before leaving the city.
The great witch had already prepared this 'gift', and now she told Ronald about the existence of this gift as she continued to pay the rent.
Can this original code holder adopt this kind of attitude...
What the great witch wanted to tell him was probably very important.