Chapter 115: The Road Ahead
Thursday, February 15.
In the morning, outside the steam train station in the bridge area.
Dressed as a gentleman, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a sparse beard glued to her lips, Varina was carrying a suitcase and saying goodbye to Qili.
After saying a few words, Qi Li, who was wearing a long light green dress and a white gauze hat, suddenly threw herself into his arms, ignoring the people around her.
In order not to attract attention, Varina had to drop the suitcase, put his arms around her, patted her on the back, and acted as a loving couple.
After a few moments, Varina gently pushed her away from her embrace and said:
"It's almost time, it's time for me to go."
"Hmm."
Qi Li nodded slightly.
Varina picked up the suitcase, took a few steps back, waved at Qili, and then turned and walked into the crowd.
With the ticket she bought with her real name, Varina followed the crowd into the station.
He didn't go to the waiting platform to queue up at the first time, but walked a few more steps to the item storage office, and handed the deposit voucher to the waiter in the red vest at the counter.
Soon, the waiter came over with a paper bag sealed with fire paint.
"Sir, your thing."
The waiter placed the bulging paper bag on the counter and expertly helped Varina check the deposit number and check the seal.
Everything is correct.
"Thank you."
Varina smiled and nodded, and just opened the suitcase on the counter and put the paper bag inside.
He then walked to the platform with his suitcase.
……
After the night of the full moon, Varina actually planned to leave as soon as possible.
But Qi Li rarely showed a tough stance and let him stay for two more days.
It wasn't until this morning that he knew why—
Qi Li gave him two more boxes of communication ointment.
To be honest, he really couldn't figure out what this witch was thinking now, and he didn't know how much truth and falsehood there was in her actions.
But it doesn't matter.
What matters is his plan.
In any case, he must first take back the handle to restrain himself, and after breaking away from the witch sect, he can really get along with Qi Li as an equal.
Whether her true feelings are true or false, it will only make sense then.
……
The seats in the first class are quite spacious, and in addition to the newspapers of the last few days, there is also Xibe black tea on offer.
Varina flipped through the pages and quickly picked out a few copies of the Daily Observer, the last three days.
He wanted to know about the attack and disappearance of the bounty hunter Lexa and the news about the "Workers' Union Party".
It took some time for Varina to read the key points and get a general idea.
The first is the relevant reports of the "Workers' Union Party";
In the column, Makarov, Marke, and Burton are called ministers, and each leads three parts of the party, each with a photograph and a brief description.
Makarov also served as the chief minister.
On the basis of Varina's forced patchwork, they worked hard to coordinate resources and ease contradictions, and they really stabilized the structure without splitting.
They are working together to strengthen the cohesion within the "Workers' Union Party" while keeping the external operations of the docklands largely unchanged.
Of course, the fact that the bounty hunter Lexa, as the founder of the extremely prestigious founder, was attacked and disappeared at such a time was a big blow to the "Workers' Union Party".
Many workers felt that this was a revenge of a certain force.
However, there are various theories about which side of the force, some say that it is the government, some say that it is a gangster, and some say that it is a factory owner or a wealthy businessman......
Of course, there are also a very small number of people who have guessed the closest target to the truth - Campbell, who was briefly promoted to the president of the dock union.
However, even if there is a 100% correct answer, it will only drown in a lot of speculation.
The second is about the disappearance of Lexa;
Because there are many eyewitnesses, although the statement is outrageous, at least the newspaper accepts some of it-
The part that can be determined to be the truth.
On the first night after the march, Lexa was attacked in front of everyone on the streets, fled the scene and disappeared, his fate unknown.
As for bizarre statements such as "slender ghosts" and "diving underground", they are still mentioned in an urban supernatural column, and they are only mentioned in a few sentences.
But these few sentences are enough for those who understand to judge that the attacker is an extraordinary person.
Thankfully, Varina didn't show anything extraordinary at the time, except for jumping a little higher, so he wasn't specifically mentioned.
In addition to the two things she wanted to know, Varina had a bonus.
The Upper and Lower Councils of the Kingdom have announced that the repeal of the Corn Laws has been reopened and is being discussed.
It was sooner than he expected.
Varina's original expectation was that it would not reopen until at least March, and that a result would be discussed in mid-March.
During this time, he planned to live in seclusion in Tingen's Iron Cross, looking for some small and large opportunities to play the role of "instigators" in order to cooperate with the feedback from the abolition of the law and completely digest the potion.
In his plan, he would stay in Sequence 8 until late March; By the end of May, he would have to become Sequence 6 and leave Tingen.
This is because Tingen will then become the stage for Seals 0-08 and Ince Zangwill, staging the crappy stories he wrote.
"Mr. Fool" Zhou Mingrui came on the night of June 28th.
But before that, the story of Ince Zangwill unfolds......
Varina couldn't say for sure exactly when "The Story of Tingen" would be performed, but leaving a month early should be safe enough.
The original content he dug out from his memory was like this-
"It's a logical coincidence that Reggins, a member of the Esoteric Order, mistook the Antigonus family notes for an ordinary ancient book due to the dual effects of exhaustion and hallucination."
Inspired by the blood of the Antigonus family, the note quietly influenced its owners and traveled to Tingen, where they arrived at Cialis, a member of the Aurora Society. Arepis and Haynas. In the hands of Vincent. ”
"After going through the contents of the notes and transcribing the corresponding potion recipes, both Sirius and Henus were worried that the tantric cultivators who were good at divination would track them down, and after discussion, they decided not to take the risk and resell the notes to others."
……
A reasonable assumption is that –
The first passage was written much earlier, in Trier, the capital of Intis, where the headquarters of the Tantric Order was located;
The second stanza is where the story unfolds in Tingen.
In terms of content, this time will not be longer than a month.
Originally, Varina had arranged a plan for himself, but he was in a hurry, and he might only have less than two months left to digest the "witch" potion.
This is quite a test of him, her playing strength.
But now that the discussion has been restarted early, it is equivalent to adding half a month of playing time to him, and the fault tolerance rate has been greatly improved.
This is obviously excellent unexpected news.