Mystery: Mr. Witch and Miss Hunter

Chapter 248
When Adele woke up in the morning, she found that the sea around her was covered with floating ice at some point.

On the ocean, a long, blinding gray-white band stretched south to the horizon.Loen's whalers call it the Ice Belt.No matter how thick the ice layer is, it cannot darken the ice belt. It heralds the appearance of floating ice areas or floating icebergs.

Sure enough, a huge ice floe with a dazzling surface appeared soon.Their luster changes with the changes of clouds and mist, allowing light to penetrate and refract sunlight on countless crystal surfaces.

"Captain, we have arrived at the edge of the Northland, and that is Minsk Cape."

Wagner knocked on the door and walked into Adele's room.

"Slow down the Honeysuckle Queen and go through this ice."

Adele stretched her waist, and said lazily, "Although the ironclad ships are very strong, there is no need to compete with those icebergs."

"Yes, Captain!"

Wagner saluted with his hands on his chest, and trotted out of the room.

"It feels like you are becoming more and more like a real captain now."

Wendy sighed, "If you were born a few years earlier, you might be another famous pirate general. For example...'Vice Admiral Honeysuckle'?"

If I had been born a few years earlier, it is very likely that I would not have come to Shanghai... Maybe I would buy a house in Backlund and become an ordinary middle class?

Hearing Wendy's words, Adele couldn't help being a little dazed, but she quickly came to her senses and gradually returned to normal.

Minsk Cape is the mouth of the sea at the end of Miner Minsk Mountains, and it is the northernmost natural landmark of the Kingdom of Loen.Although there is Northland further north, no one wants to go there except for the Church of the God of War who mines some kind of high-phlogiston gas there.

After the Honeysuckle Queen passes Minsk Cape, it only needs to sail southwest for about a day before arriving at the location agreed with Tracy.

The further south you go, the more and bigger the island-like ice floes will be.Thousands of polar birds build their nests on the bases of the Icelandic islands.The calls of petrels, sea eagles and some unknown bird with black and white plumage were deafening.

Even though the Honeysuckle Queen stayed as close to the land as possible, it didn't make the temperature any warmer.The sailors removed the mercury thermometer that had been hanging outside, which was in danger of freezing in minus thirty degrees.

In this kind of weather, even Natalie, who has a little northern blood, was reluctant to go on the deck, so the captain's cabin with a wide view became their gathering place.Less than 10 minutes after Wagner left, the witches in costumes came to Adele's room.

Aphra directly got into the bed that Adele hadn't had time to make up, and wrapped herself tightly.This poor person has never seen snow in her entire life, and the outdoor temperature of minus [-] degrees is still a bit irritating to her.

Lisette and Wendy sat on the sofa, silently looking at the collection of books in Captain Adele's room.Although many of those books were old antiques left by Basque captains, probably older than Lyra, they read them very seriously.

Laila sat on Adele's office chair, staring at the icebergs floating in the distance.She likes similar entertainment very much, and she often looks at it for a whole day, and only at this time can she calm down, and at other times she is always chirping, like a noisy bird.

"...So, how far is 'Vice Admiral Disease''s fleet from here?"

Natalie stood beside Adele, watching Laila tenderly while chatting with Adele.

"It's not far away. Even if the fleet slows down due to passing through the ice floes, it can reach the agreed meeting place in at most two days."

Adele replied. "However, the further north we go, the more inaccurate the compass instructions will be, and it will be more troublesome for us to determine our position. I hope Tracy can find a way to locate us."

According to Wendy, who is from the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, the north indicated by the compass is actually not the north in the geographical sense, and there will be a certain deviation from the actual result, and the further north, the more obvious this deviation will be.

Therefore, if the "Empress Honeysuckle" wants to accurately locate the direction, it needs to be measured repeatedly at different positions of the ship with a compass, and an average value is taken.And this work can only be done by Wendy. Every hour or so, she has to walk up and down the entire ship to make corresponding measurements and calculations.

"Since they asked you to go, there must be a way to locate it."

Natalie didn't seem anxious about this, "Will we stop at other ports this time?"

"Of course not."

Adele shook her head, "This time we went to sea secretly. The official statement is that we went to Queen's Island to conduct a preliminary survey, but in fact we went in the completely opposite direction."

"A new thing like an ironclad ship, no matter which port it stops at, can't hide it. Once it gets close, leaks are inevitable. For the sake of confidentiality, we won't even meet the 'Black Death' face to face. Tracy will Come directly to the Honeysuckle Queen, and after completing the exploration together, she will return to the Black Death."

Adele drew a circle with her finger on the chart hanging on the wall, "We don't take the whaling route, we don't stay in Israel, we go directly between the three major islands in the Northland, and the food supply lands directly Just go hunting."

Israel is the northernmost port of Loen, and it is the mouth of the Winter County River that runs through the Amanda Mountains and the Miner Minsk Mountains.

"Speaking of hunting, why didn't that Venata come out with you?"

Natalie asked casually, "The last time she came to the bar, she said she was living with you."

"And she told you all this?"

Adele raised her eyebrows in surprise, "It's not easy to explain. To put it simply, she is now helping me take care of my children and housekeeping at the company headquarters in Port Indo..."

"You two even have children?!"

Natalie looked shocked, "I didn't see any signs when she came last time?"

"It's not our child..."

Adele wanted to explain something, but was robbed by Natalie and said: "It's not your child, is it your child and someone else's child?"

"It's not my child either... That's why I said it's troublesome to explain."

Adele, who felt that she was getting darker and darker, pressed her swollen forehead, "In short, she and I adopted an orphan when we left Backlund. And the company also needs a person in charge..."

"Why do you want to adopt a child if you are living well... don't you know how to do it?"

Natalie was still confused, but then suddenly realized: "Oh, no matter whether it worked before or not, it really doesn't work now."

"...Go away!"

(End of this chapter)