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Richard rolled up his sleeves and skillfully scraped the scales and decapitated the scales of a freshly caught fish, removed the internal organs, and cleaned the inner cavity. It is wrapped in a large sheet of tin foil and grilled on a hollow stone platform topped with a special sauce and spicy soup, and is thoughtfully filled with various vegetables and supplementary foods.

In a few moments, the fish was roasted until it was half-cooked, and the pungent pungent aroma spread through the small backyard of the workhouse, and everyone without exception was whetted by this never-before-seen south-continent delicacies. Even the indifferent and paralyzed Garland de was taken by the colorful and fragrant grilled fish, staring intently at the boiling red soup and pink and white fish, his eyes were glued to the grilled fish, and his mouth was still strongly organizing the language: "Chief, this, this is not the New Year......

"It's November now, and in my house, everyone is going to gather around to eat grilled fish in the winter."

"Ah...... Is there such a tradition in the coastal cities of Vrsac? This flavor doesn't seem to be ......."

"Spices and peppers are used in abundance, which is the style of the Southern Continent, the traditional flavor of the Paz Valley to the Star Heights." Richard scooped up a spoonful of soup with a large iron spoon and poured it on the surface of the fish, the sound and the bursting aroma made people feel uneasy, "Because it is close to the inland, everyone basically eats river fish, and such sea fish can only be eaten a few times a year." It's to my taste, so you can try it. ”

"Isn't the leader a Fursack?" A little child tried to lie on the stone platform on tiptoe, but he was burned by the hot stone, and blew wildly at his fingers, "You are very tall!" ”

"I'm from the Southern Continent." Richard, who is 192 tall, smiled and held the child's armpits with both hands and lifted him all high, "So everyone should eat well, and you can grow as tall as me in the future!" ”

The children, who had been watching quietly behind the adults, cheered and gathered around Richard, and shouted for Richard to lift them up in circles as well. There were also a few children who took the opportunity to squeeze to the edge of the stone platform, secretly dipped a little soup with a long fast spoon and smacked it a few times, and then were taken away by the teachers and sent to be cleaned, and then patted the back and shoulders a few times lightly, and gave a few harsh lessons.

Richard was also happy to play with the children, and after a while, the fish was cooked, and everyone quickly lined up to take the rice to divide the fish. Garland De gave himself a piece, then leaned over to Richard, handed over a cup of Southern Continent flavor herbal milk tea, and asked the question he had long wanted to know: "Chief, is there something wrong with coming to the sea this time?"

"Something's true."

Richard took the milk tea, took a sip, and began to heat the water inside: "I was entrusted to come to the sea to investigate some things."

"Do you need me to arrange for an intelligence monger?"

"Yes, then I'll trouble you." Richard tasted the sweetness of milk tea, "It's best to be able to contact the captain's intelligence dealers, because I'm going to sea, but I don't need to be too strong, I don't want to deal with the four kings and seven generals." ”

"This ...... Sir, if you want to go to sea, why don't you contact Her Majesty the Empress? As long as you ask, Her Majesty will be willing to lend you the Black Tulip and Ludinville for the time being. ”

"I don't want to trouble her." Richard shook his head, "She'll take this opportunity to ask me for a discount, and the client probably doesn't want to make a noise." ”

Discounts are the main reason! Garland de leaned back tactically, and he was also very relieved and helpless to see that his leader had been careful for decades: "I understand, I'll contact you as soon as possible."

Richard snorted, didn't say anything, and looked at the scene in the backyard with a distracted view: delicious grilled fish, fragrant birds, and children holding their own small bowls of fish and brown rice, playing and eating happily. The adults sat in twos and threes talking, bursting into laughter from time to time. It was nearly dusk, the evening breeze was quiet, and the leaves rustled. It's a beautiful picture like a dream, and you want to indulge in it and never wake up.

“…… Fill me a bowl of rice, Garland. Richard said softly, with an apologetic smile in return, "I seem to be a little hungry too." ”

204

Above the gray mist, Crane, who had cleared all occult connections, was using divination to confirm Daisy's subsequent safety.

"Daisy will be able to get home without a hitch."

He held the pendulum in his left hand and closed his eyes to recite the words silently.

Seven times later, Crane opened his eyes and saw that the citrine pendant was turning counterclockwise, but in a very small and slow way. This means that Daisy's journey home has a few twists and turns, but it is almost negligible...... Crane read the revelation and let go of his last worries.

He then closed his eyes and leaned back to relax. Tonight's operation was unexpected, but it ended smoothly, and the next thing to do was to wait for Maria to deliver the payment. The intervention of the Aurora Society, the watchful eye of Maria, and the claws of the giant monster that mysteriously appeared at the end, some things are messed up and occasionally contradictory.

If Mr. A and Mary are hostile, then what is Maria's purpose in taking Mr. A away in the end? There is no answer to this at present, and it can only be judged by relying on Mr. A's subsequent state.

If Maria and Mr. A are collaborators, then the act of doing something to Kapin can be understood as a cult-intervened gangster act of gangsterism, but it is the easiest answer to get. The point is, in this case, there may not be any need to help himself, Mr. A infiltrated the restaurant alone, showing enough ability to kill Heras alone, with Maria in ambush in the outer circle, the two of them have a good chance of killing Capin's men, so there is no need to ask a strange detective to help, spend hundreds of pounds more.

Maria's entanglement with Mr. A is not mentioned for the time being, and the last claw that can directly cause damage to herself is also very problematic.

It appears after Mary's prayer, and praying in the fire is a very unusual thing, and it is very likely that it is calling or reporting something. But if this claw and Maria, the monster that has not yet appeared behind her, summon it, then she may not even need Mr. A.

The intricate threads are intertwined, and whatever Crane thinks is the result of contradictions, and he simply doesn't want to. Anyway, Sherlock Moriarty only received a commission to investigate the Caping Mansion, so why should he care about all the mess in the East End? What's more, it is the ghost of the "Black Emperor" who participates in the battle, and it has nothing to do with Sherlock!

Just wait for Mary's good pay!

So Crane turned to other details.

"Parker is Sequence 8 'Sheriff' and Katie is Sequence 7 'The Interrogator...... Isn't this the 'arbiter' route? This avenue was in the hands of the royal family, the military, and the relatively small number of noble families in Rune, who controlled the leakage of recipes and extraordinary materials quite strictly...... Could it be that some of the girls kidnapped by Capin would be sent to some nobleman's estate?

"But they can't afford to send four extraordinary beings to help Kapin for the sake of enjoyment, which is obviously not equal...... Heras is a lot more powerful than Katie, maybe it's sequence 6 of this path, and maybe even sequence 5 with that glove on...... Could it be that some bloody and evil sacrifices are involved, and the target of the claim cannot be exposed?

"In addition to the kingdom, the Castilian family of Fenerport also holds this remarkable avenue and passes it on to their armies and intelligence systems...... Another spy who doesn't know what's involved?"

Crane tried to make a few guesses of his own, and again failed. He put the matter behind him for the time being, and tapped the edge of the long bronze table, and said to himself silently:

"As long as there is a recipe and corresponding auxiliary materials, these two extraordinary properties can make people become the 'sheriff' of Sequence 8 and the 'interrogator' of Sequence 7 respectively...... Miss 'Magician's friend called Hugh seems to lack the extraordinary material of 'sheriff'......

"Unfortunately, it happened suddenly, and I didn't have time to collect the loot, nor did I leave the tarot cards like Lanerus did...... I don't know how it is now, heh, but if I had been a little greedy and hadn't left immediately, I would have been caught by that claw...... It can actually directly injure the spirit, if it weren't for the residual negative impact being eliminated by the gray mist, it is estimated that the owner of that claw would be able to come directly to the door to find me......"

"I don't know what Sequence 6 and Sequence 5 of the 'arbitrator' path are called, using the sense of order and law ...... 'judge'?"

Crane withdrew his thoughts, half-closed his eyes, and scrutinized his state. He had a spirituality again and became lively, the potion was prying, and the digestion was speeding up. This time, he intuitively believed that he had summarized most of the "magician's code", and some of the remaining details were better, and it didn't matter if they didn't, and they wouldn't affect the progress of digestion too much.

Embodied in a round-bellied pen and parchment, Crane reinforces his memory and writes: "The Magician's Code:

"1. Don't do unprepared performances;

"2. Challenge the impossible, even if the end result is only false;"

According to Crane, the above are the two core points of the "Magician Code", and if you grasp them, you will grasp the key, and the remaining ones will supplement and improve them.

"3. Do more active performances;

"4. Try to get the applause of the audience;

"5. Take control of your target's attention."

……

Putting down the dark red round-bellied pen, Crane went through it from beginning to end, and judged himself: "The daily acting combined with three or four active 'performances' is enough for me to digest the 'magician' potion before the new year." If you try to challenge the impossible 'performance' again in the middle, the progress can be a little faster...... That's pretty much the speed I'm hoping to achieve. ”

Today happens to be November 1st, a new beginning. It was two months before January 1, 1350.

With all this done, Crane rubbed his forehead and prepared to return to the real world. At a cheap hotel in the area of Beckland Bridge, he opened his eyes and saw the candlelight of the ritual he had summoned himself.

Tomato is free to read

After quickly dealing with the beginning and tail, Crane put on the thicker worker's jacket he had just bought for 4 soles and walked to the window. He picked up the sweet iced tea he bought before, looked at his own Mohu figure reflected in the window, showed a heartfelt smile, and whispered to himself:

"Cheers."

As soon as he finished speaking, he touched the glass with the cup in his hand, then raised his chin and drank it in one gulp.

Immediately afterward, he left the hotel leisurely, the nearby gas street lights were already on, and the pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages were busy, unaware of the explosion at the junction of Jowood and Westside. Crane strolled around the "Brave" bar, lingered for a while, and at 7:58 knocked on the door of the "Eyes of Wisdom" old man's extraordinary.

He put on an iron mask and a hooded robe, and behaved in a ordinary, ordinary manner.

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East End, inside the best single room of Charity Hospital.

Mr. A woke up slowly, looked at the unfamiliar ceiling, and his memory gradually returned, and then he was so angry that he fainted again.

Maria, who was sitting next to her and was peeling an apple, was startled, and subconsciously wanted to call out to Dr. Blake, who had just been rescued and was still a little nervous, but turned her head and thought of the other party's current state of mind and haggardness, so she gave up the idea and continued to pay close attention to Mr. A.

Ten minutes later, Mr. A woke up again, and before he could recall what had happened, Maria quickly shouted, "You're awake!"

"......" Mr. A still remembered some unbearable memories and asked her bitterly, "How's the situation?" How long have I been in a coma?"

"The children have been saved." Maria breathed a sigh of relief and comforted, "You are seriously injured, but you have been in a coma for more than two hours. ”

Mr. A's facial features were twisted together, and Maria, who was watching from the sidelines, could feel his current chaotic and complicated feelings, and decided not to ask what was going on in the villa for the time being. But she and Mr. A are not familiar with each other, and it is the first time they have worked together, and the atmosphere is suddenly awkward, and both of them have nothing to say.

At this time, a man came to visit Mr. A.

Mr. Z came out of the room with a fruit basket and cake with a meaningful, even somewhat happy smile, with a band-aid on the bridge of his nose, and he seemed to be limping when he walked. He knocked on the half-hidden door of the ward and greeted him with a sad face: "Mr. A, I heard that you almost died in an accident during the mission, so I hurried to see you in a carriage!"

Maria:......

When Mr. Z walked to the bedside and was about to speak, Mr. A suddenly spoke first: "Which foot did you take the first step when you entered the door just now?"

Mr. Z was stunned: "Left foot?"

"I don't talk to the person who came in with the left foot, get out!"

Mr. Z was happy, put down the cake and fruit basket, turned around and walked out again, and then raised his right foot to enter the door under the gaze of two pairs of eyes, and came to Mr. A's bedside again, just about to speak, but was interrupted by Mr. A first: "You also greeted me with your left hand just now!"

Maria:............

"You (the cult foul-mouthed) deliberately find fault, don't you?"

"You and I are both oracs of the Aurora Society, can we deliberately find fault with you?"

"Just say if you deliberately found fault!" Mr. Z then raised his right hand and said hello again, "Satisfied?!" ”

Mr. A frowned: "Are you breathing?" Your breathing is so loud that it affects my rest, get out! ”

Maria really started to feel breathless. She hurriedly stopped the two wise envoys from continuing to quarrel, beckoned Mr. Z to sit down, and then quickly changed the subject: "You got the news so quickly?"

"No, it's Bishop Rose's special way of communicating."

Mr. Z replied in a kind manner: "I was fine before, but suddenly a piece of flesh on my arm began to fall off, and then it became the word "help". I'm renting near the East End now, and I'm wondering who is calling for help, when I hear an explosion coming from the direction of the East End, and then an earthquake. ”

"I know that Mr. A accepted your commission to help, but it turned out to be really him, so I hurried over."

"Are you here to visit me?!" Mr. A's face was hideous and his facial features were distorted, "You obviously came to see my jokes!" Come laugh at me! ”

"How do you slander people's innocence out of thin air?" Mr. Z returned the mouth, and after seeing Maria's kind eyes, he quickly returned to his usual think-tank persona, and returned to the topic logically, "In addition, when I came, I found that the location of the Kapin Mansion in the Eastern District had been blocked, and I went over to inquire about the situation, but the substitutes of the guards were very strict. When I heard that the mansion had been completely destroyed, I realized that something was not quite right. ”

"A, do you have anything to say about this mission?"

Mr. A closed his eyes and his face was ugly. After a long silence, he slowly exhaled a breath: "...... Judging from the results of the commission, I did not get the road map of the Kaping mansion, and I was not the one who destroyed the mansion and killed Kapin. Judging from the process, I ignored unknown people due to a mistake in judgment, which eventually led to my near death and exposed the involvement of the Aurora Society. To sum up, my mission failed and I made a fatal mistake. ”

"Your damage is huge, and the good thing is that it doesn't fail. You have been injured like this, and you can't be deducted for meritorious service without being kind. Mr. Z said very seriously and calmly, "So I am still the first of the month." ”

Mr. A was just about to be moved, but when he heard the last sentence, he suddenly didn't catch his breath, and he was stunned again on the spot.

TBC

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A few small details

The Divine Descent is September 16, and the current time is November 1.

I calculated the growth rate of Ulorius at twice the rate, half a month is a month, and it is now three months.

I was counted as one month and one year old, and now I am two and a half years old. (Great disrespect.)