125. Butcher Bird Hotel
For the rest of the day, Ritch spent reading books and resting, trying to do activities that didn't drain her magic, and taking a two-hour nap in the middle. The airship appeared over the Atlantic Ocean at around 12 noon Tokyo time, just two hundred kilometers away from Florida.
There is a 13-hour time difference between the United States and Japan, and the time in Japan is earlier than in the United States, and it is 11 o'clock in the evening, which is just right for all-night parties and all-night parties.
The Canary Islands are divided into two parts, the Sky Island and the Sea Island, each of which is lit up until sunrise, making it a true paradise on the sea.
It is more disordered and free than Flotin. Flotin has a unique set of rules, behind which there are witch managers of all sizes secretly maintaining order, seemingly disorderly but in fact chaotic and orderly, like parts operating in order, occasionally one or two parts may be "loose", as long as they are replaced in time, it is impossible to affect this stable operation mode.
There is only pure openness here, the witches live for their own masters, or only for themselves, and there are only one or two stewards on each island, fighting each other openly and secretly, and the dark tide is turbulent.
Except for the relatively safe hotel, or the witch in a powerful position on the island and staying in the place she arranged, the rest of the places lack stability and are prone to trouble.
Miss Eudora is enigmatic and confident, and she has no worries about the safety of the future. She had already made all the arrangements before the trip, and there were special witches to prepare the accommodation and meals for her.
The witch who opened a resort hotel on the main island of the Canary Islands is a local tyrant, with a status that ordinary people cannot shake, and the witch is protected by staying in the hotel, and the scope of the hotel's influence is a real sense of the safety zone.
Western witches have been influenced by territorial consciousness since ancient times, and when their strength is insufficient, they will not easily invade the territory of other witches, unless they are completely sure that they can capture the opponent's land or empty island.
The lights on the island are so bright that you can see them from a height of several thousand meters. Near the Bianchi family's airship there are several other witches' airships, both private and civil. We all have the same goal - to go to the island of hope for the fallen.
"A witch friend told me that the archipelago is home to at least one-fifth of the world's fugitive witches, who for various reasons had to leave their homes and could not afford to go to a place like Flotin's. Flotin's life is not as glamorous as it seems, and it is too difficult for ordinary witches to ask for a chance.
The cake was divided among the locals, and the benefits belonged to the rich and the snowy owls. The friend gave up his stable job and life to go to Flotin, hoping to earn a sum of money and return to Venice to propose marriage to the witch he liked, but the money was not earned, and the girlfriend ran away with the other witches, and now there are a group of children.
She was disheartened, and finally joined the house of a rich woman and witch of Floting, and lived a very ...... every day Tired life, yesterday also sent me a message complaining that she has been wronged recently, and hopes that his wife will divorce her as soon as possible. ”
Miss Eudora looked at the Canary Islands under the viewing window, and let out a puff of light blue smoke from her thin lips.
"I suggested she come here for an opportunity. In fact, the more unstable the place, the more opportunities, the canary islands are not high, and the island also supports dozens of currencies in circulation, which is not much worse than Flotin. Someone as good as Miss Sakuma who can be appreciated by the snow owl is a different matter, and my complaint is only aimed at that hapless friend. ”
"I don't mind."
Riji put down her teacup and returned to the couch.
The airship began to lower its flight altitude. Each sub-island of the Canary Islands is named after a bird, with the main island being called Butcher's Bird Island.
Although it is not bad to call it Bailuo Island, Bailuo is the name of the butcher bird, but the witch who took the name thinks that the butcher bird island is more imposing and louder, and insists that the main island should be called the butcher bird island.
The butcher bird is a small carnivorous bird, fierce by nature, able to prey on small beasts, cute but cruel, sometimes even the same kind of food, known as the "Desert Butcher".
The witches on the island live in a similar way to the butcher birds, "hunting" every day, and all foreign witches can become their prey. As soon as they set foot on the island, they must be prepared to be "hunted".
The hotel is located on a small and large island, and the airport is outside the island, but the passenger airship has not set aside a special place to moor, so it needs to hover all night.
Stepping off the airship, the first thing you see is a witch riding a small black wyvern in the west.
Ritch meets the Western Dragon for the first time. The wyvern's body is covered with hard scale armor, its wings are broad, its head, the tips of its wings, the joints of its limbs and other places have dragon scales that look like spikes, and the dragon's tail is also covered with sharp spikes, which can bleed if you touch it casually.
The small wyvern was small, five meters long, and was covered with stiff chains, chains, and a carriage.
"It's the dragon car, the canary islands universal means of transport, cheap, fast and smooth, which is hardly seen in the big cities, and can only be used at will on the islands and in unruly wilderness. In big cities like Venice and Tokyo, witches who use the dragon cart need to file with the government and leave detailed personal information so that they don't find the source when the dragon hurts other witches. ”
Miss Eudora stepped into the carriage and held out her hand to Ryge.
"Miss Sakuma might as well try something new, and it's worth the trip. Not every witch has the opportunity to come to the Canary Islands for a vacation, and 90% of witches are afraid of danger in this treacherous land. The name of the Bianchi family, and this badge, are enough to protect you from infestation. ”
As if by juggling, Miss Eudora conjured a brass-colored metal badge in the shape of a small bird of prey from the cuff of her gold-threaded robe.
The badge representing the butcher's bird comes from a gift given to guests staying at the hotel by the hotel. The name of the hotel is also very casual, it is called the Butcher Bird Hotel, which is exactly the same as the name of the island.
"Put it on, and most of the Canary Islands are free to open up to you."
"Thank you."
The badge is exquisitely carved, not an assembly line product produced by a small workshop, which makes Ruiji feel the urge to take it home as a souvenir. She pinned the badge to her chest and straightened it, and Miss Eudora did the same thing as her.
Riji can roughly understand the meaning of this butcher bird badge. There is no order in the lawless land, and the witch needs to have the token of the ruler to have a relatively stable journey.
Those witches must see with their own eyes to be able to shock themselves before they dare to make a mistake, and pale words alone are not enough to prove identity and status, witches only believe what they see.
Flotin's token is the Snowy Owl coin, and the Canary Islands token is the Butcher's Bird badge.
The dragon cart sped through the illuminated canopy, and rushed to the Butcher's Bird Hotel, which was suspended about 100 meters above Butcher's Bird Island. Several Japanese witches with different accents also rode by in a dragon cart and quickly passed by.
Since the 18th century, Japanese witches have traveled all over the world, and they are eager to travel and enrich their knowledge, and the distance between Japan and the Atlantic Ocean has become unstoppable.
In just over a month, having traveled to three different countries, two unregulated and extralegal places, Reji sometimes wondered if what was happening to her was a dream—the most unrealistic daydream from a delusional person in small distress.
Whenever she wakes up from a four-hour or so sleep, the first thing she does is feel the absolute realm underneath her nightgown and touch her hair and career line again.
I found that I was still a real witch, full of vigor and vitality, and I was relieved to start a new day's life.
Time flew by in a whimsy, and in the blink of an eye, the dragon carriage stopped in front of a magnificent hotel. Each witch's take on the sky island and the décor is intensely personal, and so is the Butcher Bird Hotel. The only name that has an air of slaughter is that the interior structure and architectural style are exactly like the hanging gardens of ancient Babylon.
With the level of technology in the world of witches, the technology of making buildings suspended in the air has been reduced to the foundation of the foundation, and witches who study architectural design must learn suspended architectural design.
The Sky Garden, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is modeled after the Sky Garden, using a three-dimensional approach to gardening, where the buildings are built on high platforms and stacked on top of each other to reach the sky. On each floor, pavilions were built with large white columns, watertight flower beds on the roof terraces, and automatic irrigation and fertilization systems.
Some of the palaces are built on the branches of giant trees, which are more than 100 meters high and rise from the center of Butcher Bird Island, and the excessively dense branches and leaves form an umbrella cover with a diameter of tens of meters, covering a large area of the sky.
The hotel is built on a tree, and the complexity and ornificence of the building surpass that of the average sky island building, and its very existence is a miracle, comparable to the Tower of Babel in ancient Babylon.
The most eye-catching part of the building is the water outlet between the buildings. The transparent blue waterfall flows down the vertical white wall into a dug ditch, partly irrigating the plants along the path and partly continuing through the hotel's water recycling system.
The operators of the Butcher Bird Hotel may be of Iraqi descent, or they may be genuinely Iraqi. The ruins of the ancient Babylonian kingdom are located in the Mesopotamian region of Iraq, the most famous region of the two rivers in the world.
"Staying in a hotel like this, I'm probably so excited that I can't sleep all night."
It's hard for Riji to resist the urge to take pictures.
The ancient Babylon of the witch world line has perished, and now you can still see a complete replica of the hanging garden, and the hand that presses the shutter can't stop at all. By the way, I would like to admire the witch who designed the hotel, using the magic of nature and her own superb skills to create a hotel that surpasses the 5A-level tourist attraction, which is really a model for this generation of designer witches.
After about 100 photos, she felt satisfied and sent the photos to Feng Bu, who had already arrived in Hakone and was probably soaking in the hot springs.
Shizuru can't send it for the time being, and Miss Fujinaga can't send it either. The place where I went to visit on the surface was Hakone, but it wasn't until a few days later that I actually appeared there.
The Canary Islands had to be kept tight-lipped for the whole experience, and like Flotin, it was not a place to be honest with your family.
Looking at the phone again, she didn't reply if she didn't read it, and all the messages showed "unread", Ruiji guessed that she was making up for sleep, and didn't continue to send messages to disturb, and focused her attention on observing the interior of the hotel.
The witch who works in the hotel is finally not dressed in a suit vest or a gothic maid's outfit in the British style, except for the witch hat worn on the head, the costumes are all in line with the environment, all of them are more conservative in style, the upper body is a large piece of cotton and linen cloth cut white robe, the lower body is a waist-wrapping skirt "Shenti", a long cloth scarf around the hips and tied with a belt, and the feet wear papyrus woven sandals.
Shenti comes in a variety of colors, which can be used to identify the area where the witches belong to the hotel, and the magnificence of the ornaments they wear can show the level of their position. The witch who received them was the lobby manager, a blonde and blue-eyed white witch with golden ornaments on her neck, ears, and ankles.
"Welcome to the Butcher Bird Hotel, the room has been arranged."
The witch's Italian was standard, and Ritch could understand a few of the polite words. Next time, take a few days to learn and you will be able to master a new language.
"Thank you, you won't let me down every time. In half an hour, please come to my room, there is a good health, more exciting than the new game. ”
Miss Eudora and the lobby manager have exchanged glances many times, creating some ambiguous sparks, and they also like to bite their ears and whisper.
If you guessed correctly, this guy is an Aquaman, and he likes to hook up with new witches every time he goes to a new place, showing mercy everywhere. The witches who live in the Canary Islands have a special character, they never have a special attachment to any witch, whether they are weak in feelings or debauchery, such a strange tradition has existed since the beginning of the naming of the islands.
Ruiji has always had a high-minded attitude towards the romances of other witches, and used her mobile phone to take pictures of the interior of the lobby and save them in the album.
Two dark-skinned witches were ordered to walk slowly from the end of a long corridor, one with their luggage and the other leading the way, leading Ruiji up the elevator that had been built into a floating pavilion. The elevator is transparent on all sides and is surrounded by glass for easy viewing.
They are silent, expressionless, and mechanically act according to instructions,
The room is on the penultimate floor of the hotel, the highest floor is the 22nd floor, the 22nd floor is not occupied, it is a rooftop and a real sky garden scenic spot. Ruiji lives on the 21st floor, and the surrounding rooms are all palace suites, as gorgeous and spacious as the palace, and the witches who live in them are treated like kings, and the price will not be cheap.
"Your room has arrived, and there will be a witch to serve next, I don't know which one you like? Please let me know your requirements and we will arrange it immediately. ”
One of the leading witches said.
"I ...... Nothing special is required, you can arrange it randomly. ”
Randomness is the fun of opening a blind box.
(End of chapter)