Mystery: Mr. Witch and Miss Hunter

Chapter 155 Before setting sail
After more than ten minutes, the sailors left the room step by step.During this period, because they peeked at Adele from time to time, they put the rivets in the wrong position several times, or got the instruments assembled in the wrong order, which made Wendy furious and drove them out of the room.

"I'm really sorry, Mrs. Statham..." Wendy said to Adele apologetically, "Maybe you didn't have similar experience before. At sea, especially the sailors on ships whose crew can't return to land for a long time, It tends to be more... rude."

She hesitated for a moment, seeming to choose a word that Adele was more receptive to.

In fact, as far as I know, the schemes of these sailors deserve your harsher words...

Adele, who had learned about the sailors' plans through divination, slandered in her heart.

Just when Adele was about to answer Wendy, Venata brought Sophie back into the cabin.Sophie's little face was flushed with cold, but she was still in high spirits.

"Mom, Sister Wenata bought me a thick collection of Jianhai County folk tales, and said she would tell me stories tonight!"

Sophie excitedly held up the thick hardcover book in her hand and showed it to Adele.

So thick... Adele twitched slightly.She looked at Venata, who had a guilty expression on her face.

You obviously want to see it yourself!Adele couldn't laugh or cry, and cast a disdainful look at Venata.

"Speaking of stories on the sea, the legend of treasures is more famous, right?"

After hearing the conversation here, Wendy interrupted.

"But I've heard that the legends about treasures in the sea are probably false."

Adele returned a shallow smile.

"You've heard about the treasures in the Sunya Sea, Wild Sea, and Misty Sea in the south of Loen, right?" Wendy replied unsurprisingly, "The rumors about those treasures are indeed more or less true, even if there are With genuine and reliable clues to the treasure, people who can rely on this level of information to find the treasure are even rarer.”

"However, what I'm talking about is the unique treasure rumor in Jianhai County, which has been verified repeatedly and is reliable."

Wendy said mysteriously.

"How much is the treasure worth?" Sophie asked enthusiastically.

"Golden pounds? No, no, no." Wendy shook her head, "I'm not talking about man-made treasures such as gold, silver and jewelry, but mines on small islands in the Jianhai area. This is unique to Jianhai County, A natural treasure."

"On the high seas in the Intersea region, there are many islands formed by submarine volcanic eruptions. According to geological knowledge, there must be different types of gemstone mines in these areas formed after volcanic eruptions, including emeralds, garnets, topaz , spinel and other gemstones that are closely related to magma."

"But since there is such a gemstone mine, why is no one mining it?"

Adele's eyes moved slightly, not only because of the profits brought by the gemstone mine, but also because he heard the name of a familiar material: spinel.

This is one of the main ingredients of the "Assassin" potion!

"Because these mines are located on the high seas, no matter whether it is Loen, Fusac or Intis, it is difficult to do it, fearing that it will cause conflicts among the three countries." Wendy explained.

"Among the individual fleets nearby, the largest is the Basque captain's fleet. However, even this kind of fleet can sail at the high latitudes where those small islands are located. The time is quite limited. What's more The important point is that they have neither the money nor the people to expand the size of the fleet, and they alone cannot establish a complete gem mining industry, and the income is not proportional to the investment.”

Adele nodded approvingly.The smaller the size of similar companies, the greater the proportion of workers' labor costs, and the less profits, unless they are willing to squeeze like Backlund's factory owners.However, the sailors begging for food at sea are no better than Backlund's workers.Anyway, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, so he really pissed off his subordinates, so he became a foreman on the island, fearing that there would be nowhere to cry.

"In addition, there is a more important point."

Wendy pushed back the flat glasses on her face, "The pirates didn't come here before because they didn't have any oil to fish for, so they didn't bother to do those mining things by themselves. But if you establish a mining company on these islands, Then this place will become a cash machine for pirates."

"Excuse me, what is a 'cash machine'?"

Adele asked in confusion.

"It's probably another new gadget from the Church of Steam." Venata said carelessly, "However, you can tell what it is probably by listening to the name."

"...Yes, this is an invention that the Church of Steam is still in trial production recently..." Wendy suddenly covered her mouth: "Sorry, I seem to have said something I shouldn't have said, please forget about it..."

"It's okay, miss, we didn't mean to pry into the secrets of the Church of Steam." Seeing Wendy's appearance, Adele thought she had said something wrong again, so she didn't take it to heart, and turned her attention to Sophie. "Why is your hair loose again? Come here quickly, and I'll tie it up for you."

Sophie gave an obedient "um", turned around and sat on Adele's lap.Adele lifted her hair and began to straighten it.The slightly curly long green hair exudes a faint fragrance and feels very good to the touch, but Adele's mood has not improved at all.

Because, behind Sophie's neck, she found a piece of horny skin that was obviously more flexible than the skin in other places, and it also tended to spread around.And Sophie's originally smooth hair was divided into several locks at this time, which felt like tiny green snakes.

Demonization has really started to affect her body structure...

Adele's heart was a little heavy, but she was soon stumped by another problem in front of her.

"It's not easy to take care of..."

Adele looked at Sophie's messy green hair and sighed with a headache.After hesitating for a while, she decided to simply make a multi-strand braid.

Having made up her mind, Adele simply stopped thinking about other messy things, spread out Sophie's hair, patiently overlapped them in a specific order, tied them into three complicated braids, and then used three strands The braids are tied together and loosened slightly to the right.

Venata didn't take off her shoes, she was half lying on her bed, reading the "Collection of Jianhai County Folk Tales", occasionally raised her head to look at Adele who was working hard, and her knees were writhing restlessly Sophie.

The few people were doing their own things quietly like this, until the sunset outside the window gradually fell, and the sky became as dark as ink.

"Several, wait a moment, I'm going to get you dinner."

Wendy put down the instrument in her hand, nodded to Adele, and then left the room.

(End of this chapter)