Sharon, with a pale face and delicate appearance, appeared in mid-air, wearing a small black bonnet, a black palace dress trailing in the air, and her tone of voice was erratic.
Rawls looked at the familiar herbal shop in the distance. The door was closed under the crimson gauze, like a silent giant, waiting for its prey.
This is the herbal shop where he met the Fat Pharmacist this morning. According to the boss himself, herbal medicines from all over the world are gathered here. It is the place where many herbal shops in Backlund come to purchase goods. Compared with the northern continent, the southern continent is obviously
It is more suitable for the growth of medicinal herbs, and the southern continent has only been developed for a hundred and fifty years, so its mysterious witch doctor culture is very attractive to many people in the northern continent.
There are many pharmacists in the Northern Continent who are pretending to be witch doctors in the Southern Continent. They collect many unique herbs and witch doctors' unique tools in the Southern Continent, and pretend to have inherited the medical skills of witch doctors to provide medicine to people who lack enough common sense.
Cure.
After Rawls found the candy store, he discovered many strange things. He thought that the orange Hermosuin who loved eating candy was because of his own preferences, so he provided some ideas and tools to the Hilliers.
, but mixed in these things are the manuscripts of the third generation difference engine.
The reason why I talk about manuscripts rather than design drawings is because the difference engine, as a unique product of the steam age, is equivalent to the computer of this era. Its size and weight are not a small number. Rawls was probably 56 years old.
I saw a model of the first generation difference engine at the Kingdom Museum years ago.
It was a mechanical behemoth with a height of more than four meters and a length of more than five meters. If it were not just a model on display, there would be no way to move it into the museum. Because the real difference engine has as many as 5,000 parts.
It weighs nearly 6,000 pounds.
Even though the number of parts and weight were reduced due to the model machine, it took several days to reassemble it in the museum before it could be exhibited externally, and it was destroyed due to mechanical failure after a few days of display.
Therefore, the number and weight of such a behemoth design drawing itself will not be too small, so the third-generation differential engine manuscript that appeared should be more of a design idea.
But why is the manuscript in a herbal shop?
With the superb lock-picking skills of the senior "criminal" Miss Sharon, Rawls stood in the underground storage room of the herbal medicine shop. There were not only herbs that needed a cool environment, but also two or three boxes of rifles and seven or eight boxes of bullets.
There is also a barrel of gunpowder.
Rawls looked at the rifles in the wooden box and took out one at random. The signs of wear and use on it were very heavy, and it was a muzzle-loading musket that was out of date. The others were even better.
, there are rifled guns, and there are also standard rifles installed by the Loen army.
It seems that this herbal medicine shop not only sells herbal medicines, but also does some arms business. However, judging from the types of guns in the box, the arms business must have just started. There is not even a fixed purchase channel, so you can only collect them one by one.
This herbal medicine shop should have hired the indigenous people in the Southern Continent to collect herbal medicines, and these guns should have been sold to them. This kind of business was very common more than a hundred years ago. But at that time, what the Northern Continent needed was not herbal medicines, nor herbs.
Maybe sell guns to the natives of the Southern Continent.
Throwing the musket into the wooden box, Rawls looked at Sharon. She was looking at a primitive and rough wooden box, with a figure engraved on it with his hands tied and hanging in the air, and an unknown figure.
The blood was painted bright red.
That mark was originally a sign of belief in the Bound God. Only the aborigines of the Southern Continent would engrave this mark on their belongings. They firmly believed that as long as they controlled their desires, they would be saved by the Bound God.
But with the expansion of the power of the indulgence faction, the shackles on the bound people in the mark are getting fewer and fewer, and now only the bound hands are left. This mark has gradually changed from representing the belief in the bound god to a rose.
It is a symbol of the power of the school.
"The things are in wooden boxes."
Rawls glanced at Sharon. Her voice had obvious fluctuations, as if she had broken away from the "revengeful spirit" state.
Opening the wooden box, there were indeed more than a dozen manuscripts inside, the top one depicting a huge machine, gears, levers, and some unknown parts assembled into this mechanical behemoth.
The remaining manuscripts are many of Hermoshuin's ideas about the third difference engine, but the last one is about the design of a thermometer, which proposes that the characteristics of mercury can be used to expand the range of temperature measurement.
Just simple design drawings and guesses? But there is indeed a thermometer on that copper spoon? Wasn't it made by Hermoshuin himself?
"These drawings and those in the candy shop came from the same person. He mixed the drawings with herbal medicine and then transported them to the northern continent. The owner of the herbal medicine shop gave some of them to his friend, who opened
That candy store."
Rawls looked at Sharon in surprise. According to the description in the book, Miss Sharon rarely spoke so many words in one breath. Was it the pattern on the wooden box that made her mood rise and fall?
Putting the parchment into his pocket, Rawls picked up the wooden box and handed it to Sharon:
"I think you need this."
Sharon looked him up and down with her blue eyes and took the wooden box.
…
North District, in a certain apartment building.
Hugh Dilcha yawned and got up from the bed. He looked at Forsi who was sitting next to him and was dressed in mostly neutral clothes. He rubbed his sleepy eyes and said:
"Did something happen to you to come to me now?"
Forsi took off the top hat on his head, put it on the table next to him, and with a serious face told how the senior superintendent came to inquire today.
"Wait a minute, slow down, I need to calm down, otherwise I always feel that either I am dreaming or you are sleepwalking."
Xio rubbed her temples while pacing in front of the bed. She really felt that she was dreaming. After all, what Forsi said was really hard to accept. After a while, Xio combed her mind after confirming that she was completely awake.
Let’s look at what Forsi just said:
"You said that Jeffrey suddenly appeared near our apartment and was discovered by the police. It turned out that he was an extraordinary person who appeared to be a senior superintendent but was actually a 'punisher'."
Forsi nodded, she tried to analyze the relationship between before and after, but because the writer is good at association, she always felt that she had thought too much, so she took advantage of the opportunity to give Xio the 500 pounds.
Use Hugh's beastly intuition to analyze it.
"Do you think that Alicia was secretly arranged by Jeffrey to spy on us? How is this possible? Although I was not at the scene when the incident on Tiemen Street in the Bridge District happened, according to the information I collected, at least several powerful people
The Extraordinaries are fighting there. If Alicia is really the mid-level Extraordinary that the Seven Churches say, then there is no need for Jeffrey to send her to monitor us.
Moreover, Jeffrey has my information. As long as he is willing, our identity may be taught at any time. MI9 knows that by then, we will be like the emperor Russell said, fish and meat on the chopping board.
It will be chopped into pieces at any time.”
Forsi licked her lips. She also felt that there was something wrong with her guess, but this kind of thing was still too much of a coincidence. As a writer, she really had to consider this.
"So, I think Jeffrey just came to us for something urgent. He knew my information and it was easy to find the apartment we rented."
Xio let out a long breath. It was indeed a bit difficult for her to think so much, but there was really no need for Jeffrey to do this. Don't people who write novels have bad minds?
"By the way, Audrey invited me to her home today. Because of Chillinges' assassination of Duke Negan, Count Hall hired an extraordinary person to protect her. When we were alone, she gave me the reward for the commissioned task.
.”
Forsi recalled Audrey's nine cloakrooms, which were all filled with custom-made dresses, which were even more luxurious than Alicia's cloakroom. Some of those clothes were only worn once and never worn again.
"But we haven't achieved anything?" Xio frowned. Although she was short of money, it didn't mean that she would get paid in vain.
Forsi took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket and placed it on the table. The thick stack indeed made Xio open his mouth and he replied with a satisfied smile:
"That's what I said at the beginning, but Audrey said that part of it is to compensate for the time and energy we wasted on Qilingos, and the rest is the reward and funds for the next mission. She is afraid that in a short time
There is no way to go out and see me as often as before."
Xio nodded and could only sigh:
"Miss Audrey is so considerate! What is her next mission? It won't be to investigate a certain pirate general again, right?"
"How is that possible? It was to help her find the formula for the Psychological Alchemy Society and the 'Audience'. She said that she also saw the power of the powerful Extraordinary at the banquet where Qilingos assassinated Duke Negan, so she wanted to become an Extraordinary.
, but I don’t want my family to know.”
Forsi handed 500 pounds in cash to Xio, pursed his lips and said:
"These are yours, totaling 500 pounds. I've left 200 pounds here."
"Is that much?" Xio was a little surprised. She originally thought it was divided equally between the two people, "Then you should get 350 pounds."
In fact, Forsi didn't leave any money behind, but she was afraid that Xio would see something, so she had no choice but to do so, and she also found a reason:
"I have been under surveillance by the police recently. I'm afraid I won't be able to get out. Audrey still needs you to complete the task."
"Okay then." Xio took the money and put it under the pillow.
Forsi still did not give up her previous suspicion. She picked up the half-top hat and put it on her head and stood up and said:
"By the way, since you said that Jeffrey has something urgent to do with you, then you can go and have a look tomorrow."
"good."
…
Iron Gate Street, Brave Bar.
In the innermost chess and card room, more than a dozen living corpses were lying or lying in different postures. Without the control of their owners, they were no different from ordinary corpses.
Maric sat at the card table near the door. Opposite him was Kaspars Camlinen, who had a rosy nose and a long scar on his face. On the other two sides, there was a living corpse lying on the table.
There were scattered playing cards on top. They had just been playing cards, but Maric obviously did not have enough patience to continue.
"Since Miss Sharon chose to go there on her own, she must not be worried about danger. I remember she can do divination, right? She should be able to divine whether there is any danger."
Kaspars has been comforting Maric. Since the last time he made a "dangerous" commission, the relationship between them has not deteriorated, but has become closer because of Ian's affairs.
Although it was Maric who asked many questions about Ian, Kaspars, who had become mature in age, could naturally tell from the way he asked and the questions he asked, that these questions came from the ghost-like Miss Sharon.
Before the commission, Caspars naturally did not want Ian to come into contact with Extraordinaries, but now that he has been involved, he can only get to know a few more Extraordinaries.
The malice in the pale Maric's eyes seemed to overflow. He looked at Kaspars coldly. An ordinary person would not understand the meaning of divination. Divination is not omnipotent, otherwise they would not escape.
Arrive at the Northern Continent.
But after all, Kaspars had played cards with living corpses, and with his experiences in his youth, he had long since paid no attention to Maric's eyes. A smile appeared on his old face, but behind the scar
Against the background, it looks extremely ferocious.
"You've asked a lot of questions about Ian before, can you tell me why?"
Maric didn't speak. The two living corpses lying on the table slowly raised themselves up. They stared at Kaspars with beast-like eyes and raised their arms to press on him. The cold touch made his whole body shiver.
.
Kaspars shuddered, shook his head at Maric, and stopped asking about the reason for this matter.
After a long silence, perhaps because of Sharon's delay in returning, Maric became increasingly impatient and could only find someone to talk to. Obviously, Caspars, a living person, was better than those living corpses.
"We had many friends who had red eyes like Ian."
That's it? Caspars was a little confused. Isn't this a little too simple? Or will it become like this once you become an Extraordinary? But before he could ask again, Miss Sharon, who was wearing a Gothic palace dress,
Floating in the air, her blue eyes looked at Kaspars, letting him leave the room knowingly.
Mariic, who revealed the reason, stood there with his head lowered as if admitting his mistake.
Sharon looked at Maric with his head lowered, pointed slightly at the card table and said:
"There are traces of them in that herbal shop." A primitive and rough wooden box fell gently on the card table, with a bloody man with his hands tied engraved on it.
Maric, who has long been accustomed to Sharon's speaking style, saw the wooden box, with a hint of sarcasm on his pale face:
"Backlund has many of their members, but the three major churches have not noticed them."
When the Rose School was chasing them, they also discovered many members of the Rose School in Backlund. However, due to lack of strength, fear of traps, and not wanting to attract the attention of several major churches, they did not take action against those people.
"That person lied, but he can be trusted."
Maric glanced at Sharon, lowered his head and said: