Mystery: Mr. Witch and Miss Hunter

Chapter 293 Mr. Azik Who Needs Money
"Seal fishing?"

Kelly raised her eyes and looked at the bronze-skinned middle-aged man in front of her, "Then we have to go further north."

"How far north is it?" Azik asked.

"I don't know... In short, it's far, far away."

Kelly shook her head regretfully. "I'm a native, and the farthest place I've been to is Saint-Milon."

"That's it." Azik didn't insist anymore, and started to deal with the food in front of him.However, at this moment, he heard a female voice beside him saying:
"Take the steam train to the north, and after arriving at St. Miron, change to a sled and pass through the middle of the Evernight Plain. You may meet the aborigines who still live in the northern part of Feysac. They should still have the custom of fishing for seals. .”

Azik raised his head and saw a blonde woman wearing the same style of uniform as Kelly, and beside her was a well-behaved little girl with green hair.Hearing the conversation between Azik and Kelly, the blond woman interjected indistinctly, but the little girl beside her seemed a little shy.

"Boss lady?" When Kelly saw the other person's face, she quickly stood up and wanted to salute, but Venata pushed her back into her seat.

"Stop messing around with notes, lean in and make room for us."

Venata sat down on the vacant seat, "I just heard you talking about seal fishing, and I know a little bit about it..."

However, Azik was a little dazed, and he didn't hear the second half of Venata's words.On the little green-haired girl next to Venata, from her light red eyes, he felt a familiar atmosphere for a moment.

"A bad angel?"

At the same time that this thought came to his mind, Azik glanced at the two of them with some surprise, and did not despise them just because the strength of the other party had not yet recovered.

Venata also noticed Azik's daze, and followed his gaze.

Seeing that Sophie didn't sit down in the empty seat, she looked at Azik with some wariness, so she rubbed Sophie's head indifferently, "What's the matter, don't you like crowded places? Then go back Your own room."

Sophie gave a timid "hmm" and went upstairs with some awkward steps.

"This child is not like this." Naturally, Venata couldn't detect this level of incident, and it was just Sophie's childish temper.

"It's okay, it's normal." Azik also came back to his senses, and smiled gently, "When I was lecturing at Hoy University, most of my students felt that there was a... sense of distance between me and them , of course, except for one student."

"Sounds like a good kid, he must be very promising now?" Venata asked with a smile.

Azik was stunned again, couldn't help looking out the window, and muttered to himself: "Yeah, he's more promising than me..."

……

On the second floor, in Sophie's room, Cecilia, who dominated her body, sat on the bed in a daze, her eyes a little confused.

"Sister, what happened just now? Why did you suddenly pull me back?" Sophie asked in surprise.

Just now, she was walking upstairs with Venata while communicating with Cecilia in her heart, but she didn't expect that after entering the building of the Esco family, Cecilia immediately greeted him silently. After passing the control of the body, he found an excuse to escape from the hall.

"The person sitting at that table just now is a real angel, at the same level as my heyday... No, maybe even stronger!"

Cecilia was a little absent-minded, and replied subconsciously.

"Better than you were before?"

Sophie couldn't believe it.During this period of time, under Venata's urging, she supplemented a lot of mystic knowledge, among which the power of the demigod left a strong impression on her.

As for Cecia, who claimed to be stronger than a demigod, Sophie only had a vague impression.Even stronger than Cecia, this concept is very abstract.

"In terms of strength alone, we are at the same level; but he is an angel outside and has fought with all kinds of angels, while I have been near the mother tree since I was born."

Cecia sighed, "In other words, he may have had the experience of fighting Extraordinary people with the 'demon' pathway, but I don't know anything about his pathway—for us, the ability to describe it in words is fundamentally impossible. It’s not called understanding.”

In fact, Cecia was right.Just looking at the ability description, nothing can be seen at all.The ability attributes of high-sequences are definitely higher than those of low-sequences, but how much higher and in what specific aspects, this kind of thing is not clear from the description, and you can only know it after playing it.

"But now at least one thing is certain, the other party has seen through my disguise...Damn it, it seems that that idiot Matafari has no reference point at all!"

Cecia scolded a little irritably.Her hiding technique was indeed concealed from her own brother, another bloody prince, Matafari, and she did not expect to be discovered by Azik at this time.

In fact, this does not completely blame Matafari, because he and Mr. Ards have different methods of investigation.

As an angel of the devil path, he, like Cesia, is a powerhouse who is proficient in flesh and blood magic, so his investigation is mainly to detect abnormalities of flesh and blood.

Cecilia was able to hide Matafari's flesh and blood magic, in the eyes of Mr. Ards, who can directly see the soul, it is not a cover-up at all.This is like a college student going to the exam with confidence after a night of surprise review of high math, but when he opened the paper, he found that it was modern history...

"So, what should we do now?" Sophie asked.

"There's no way, we can't stop what a real angel wants to do, unless he gives up on himself, or something else happens to make him change his mind..."

Cecilia said dejectedly, like a defeated rooster.

……

However, Mr. Azik, who was evaluated by Cecilia as being able to do whatever he wanted with his strength, was listening seriously to Venata's talk about seals at this time.

"So, where did you hear that the Feysacs would dig a hole in the ice to catch seals..."

Venata had a headache, and couldn't help but rubbed her forehead, "It can't be Backlund's zoo, right?"

"No, it's a traveling circus." Mr. Ards replied seriously, "When they toured to Tingen City, I was sitting in the sixth row and saw them threading small fish with thin threads. fins, and use them to fish for seals."

"I told you, it's a circus event!"

Venata couldn't hold back anymore.After the conversation just now, she found that the university teacher in front of her was unexpectedly naive in some places, which caused her to always feel guilty when telling the truth to this person.

"An adult seal weighs about the same as an adult male, and catching two can feed a hunter family for a winter. You want to take a thin line to fish..."

Venata sighed, finding it difficult to speak to this man.

As the saying goes, a catty of fish is ten catties strong. Even in the northern part of Fusac, where the martial arts are abundant, there are incidents of fishermen being dragged into the water and drowned every year.If you want to catch a seal weighing more than [-] kilograms, ordinary people will definitely not be able to do it anyway.

If Wendy is here, she will definitely remember the time when she explained the southern cockroaches with her roommates in the north in her previous life. At that time, Wendy also had the same expression now. When she asked, Wendy got a little annoyed at the end, so she simply replied: "Yes, there is that." A shared cockroach with a QR code on its back that we can ride to work after scanning.”

The naive roommate believed it was true and was amazed. It wasn't until she was transferred to the South after work that she realized that Ms. Qiao was lying to her. It's a pity that Qiao Qiao had already gone to the Bahamas to work on a dissertation at that time, otherwise she would inevitably suffer a blow at the class reunion. Beat up.

"...Okay then, thank you for your explanation."

Mr. Ards quietly listened to Venata's narration, then nodded, and said to her: "I just heard from Miss Kelly that you are the boss here?"

"No, strictly speaking, it's the proprietress."

Venata shook her head, "However, it is indeed difficult for ordinary people to distinguish."

"Then, do I have a chance to meet the boss of this company?" Azik asked immediately.

"She went out to sea and hasn't come back yet. If you have anything to say, you can tell me directly."

Venata replied bluntly, while tossing her curly blond hair to one side.

"...She?" Azik accidentally noticed the personal pronouns used by Venata.

"Yes, I am..." Venata lightly tapped her right earlobe three times, as if she was talking about what she had for breakfast today.

"……Oh."

Mr. Ards didn't know what to say, so he nodded stiffly.Thanks to the efforts of Emperor Roselle, certain gestures have become common body language in the Northern Continent, and even Azik in Tingen can somewhat understand it.

young people...

Azik quickly collected his thoughts, and said to Venata: "In this case, I would like to ask, is there a way for your company to allow outsiders like me to pass through the blockade and settle in the north of Feysac?"

During the time at the pier, he heard that Feysac's ban on foreign personnel had not been lifted. As a tourist from Loen, he could still only legally enter the two cities of San Mirón and Indo.Although as long as he is willing, there is almost no existence in Feysac that can hinder his actions, but he still wants to solve it in the way of ordinary people.

"Didn't everyone tell you that there is no such thing as seal fishing?" Venata was a little annoyed, she didn't expect this person to still think about that shit after talking for a long time.

"Even if I don't fish for seals, settling in the northern part of Feysac is one of my ideals." Azik smiled gently, "The knowledge you provided is really useful and made me realize my mistake, but I still want to Go over there and have a look, if only for a look."

"...You are an interesting person. We Fusac mountain people are desperately trying to run out, but you are better than going north."

Venata took a sip of beer, sighed and said, "It's not impossible to talk about the past. During this period, some members of the family have already made similar requests, and with Ruen's cooperation, within half a year It should be able to carry out the first step of opening up."

The power controlled by the Esco family is not limited to the dock area, and many members of innocent background have gradually entered it through the reshuffle of the political circle after the defeat, and even have a certain influence in the internal affairs of the empire.

"However, the initial opening is at best the major cities of Feysac, and then relying on the Teton River and the two railways to develop inland step by step, until you can enter the Evernight Plain at will, I'm afraid it will take three or four years at the earliest. "

Venata said regretfully, but then she changed the topic, "Of course, there are other ways, but it's not very honorable."

"What way?" Azik asked with interest, "It would be best if we could reach the northern part of Feysac earlier."

"We'll have to wait until the 'Empress Honeysuckle' returns. If all goes well, you'll be able to set off in about two months."

Venata said indifferently, "It's just that the price of this smuggling is not low, you have to think about it yourself."

"...How much does it cost?"

Ards hesitated for a moment, carefully thinking about how much money was left in his box.

Thinking about it carefully, although I took out the vacation money I saved during my teaching days, it was only more than 1000 pounds. If I really want to build a house from scratch in the north and settle down, the cost may not be much lower than buying a manor.

"Eight hundred pounds, and it's not direct. I might go to a few mines in the middle to get some goods. The Honeysuckle Queen didn't plan to go there before. If you want to go there, more than 100 people on a boat have to accompany you for a while." Come on, the eight hundred pounds is at most the weekly salary of these more than 100 people."

Venata made some calculations and offered a price.

To be honest, the price is really not high.There are 110 and eight seamen on the Honeysuckle Queen. Considering that this ship will travel to many dangerous places in the future, the salaries of the seamen are not low. Even the most ordinary sailors have a weekly salary of 4 pounds. Bosun, second mate, first mate and other senior crew.

After paying the boat fare, I probably still have... less than four hundred pounds?

Ards thought for a while in his heart, and couldn't help but smiled wryly.

This money is enough to buy a house, but it is still not enough to build a house in a suitable place.

The permafrost in the north of Fusac is hard and the construction is not easy, and the construction cost and labor cost are frighteningly high.But if Azik was to find a random place to live, he felt reluctant.

"Can't afford it?" Venata said bluntly, not to mention that the nature of the provocateur made her not like to hide these emotions, so she asked directly.

Seeing Azik nodding, Venata rolled her eyes and suddenly asked, "How far is it?"

"More than 200 pounds." Azik didn't care about anything, and replied frankly.

"How about that, I happen to have a job here, do you think I can do it?" Venata took out a memo from her pocket, and the first item on it was "Select the captain (civilian) for the family's mounted police." .

"Anyway, there is no news about 'Queen Honeysuckle', why don't you try to select first?"

Venata licked the beer froth on the rim of the glass, and asked with some insatiable meaning.

(End of this chapter)