Mystery: Mr. Witch and Miss Hunter

Chapter 304 Look, Curled Eyes

It took Adele a lot of time to persuade the Whites and his wife, so that when she left the White family's mansion in the Southern Continent, it was almost noon.

The manor house of the White family is located outside the city of Behrens. It has a special wall to guard the manor. On both sides of the road, you can see the tenants employed by the White family busy collecting medicinal materials.

Adele rejected the White couple's proposal to send her back in a carriage. She planned to personally experience the customs and customs of the Southern Continent up close, as well as prepare for her further plans.

Anyway, this place is not far from the city, and there is an obvious man-made river as a landmark, as long as you walk along the river, you will soon see the city.

Adele changed into a set of comfortable casual clothes at White's house, consisting of a long coat with a cropped waist, a tailored cotton vest, boots covered with shiny iron leather, and a gray hood at the back of the clothes. The pretty appearance covered part of it, so as not to cause a sensation.

Due to the logging by the colonists, the rainforest near the manor has long since disappeared, replaced by sparse mountain forests.The sky became clear and open, people along the road became denser, the land became fertile and easy to cultivate, and the roughly cultivated farmland was distributed along the canals.

About 10 minutes later, Adele saw a small lake at a tributary of the man-made river, and in the middle of the lake was a field in the lake in the shape of a floating island.

The edge of the floating field is a circle of supporting and fixed fences, half of which are submerged in the water, and the center is a neatly staggered waterway, which cuts the floating island into uniform small pieces. On the field of the floating island, densely planted corn, pumpkins and Three staples of kidney beans, with peppers, sunflowers and some herbs that Adele hadn't seen on the side.

Before they left, the Whites told Adele that after seeing this "Chinampa" in the middle of the river, they were considered to have officially returned to the range of Behrens City.

Sure enough, Adele saw this port city with the characteristics of the Balam Empire not long after her journey.

When Adele first came here, she entered the city directly from the relatively well-developed port area; while on the way to the White House, she kept struggling with her clothes and didn't take a good look at the surrounding environment.

There are some similarities with the east and west districts of Loen. There are also obvious differences in the architectural composition of Behrens Port. The northern district near the port is closer to the style of Loen. Most of the factories and public facilities are concentrated in the North District.

The southern district was more seriously influenced by the architectural style of the Balam Empire.The original Behrens was not a port city and had its own city walls. However, after the Loen colonists landed and occupied this place, they established the North District on the edge of the original city walls, and the original buildings were thus preserved.

Looking at the city of Behrens from the land, you can see a trapezoidal earth and stone wall with a height of four or five meters, carved with dark red patterns, which is said to be the result of blood sacrifices in the colonies hundreds of years ago.

After crossing the city wall, one can see the pyramid temple in the middle of the South District at a glance. It is tens of meters high and was once a place dedicated to the God of Death.

But now, four chimneys taller than the temple stood at the four corners of the temple. These were several metallurgical factories in Loen, and the black smoke from them always covered the sky above the temple.

It doesn't seem like a coincidence, the buildings of these factories seem to have some mystical significance... Adele relied on the witch's intuition to evaluate.

The four chimneys are not equidistantly distributed, but are far or near, and keep different fixed distances from each other.

They are also of different heights, the shortest being as tall as the temple, and the tallest almost twice as tall.

With the help of the mystical significance of the buildings in daily life, the suppression at the mystical level was constructed, thus effectively preventing the mutation of the temple that once worshiped the god of death... I am afraid that the people who were in charge of building these factories back then were not simple.

Adele narrowed her eyes, carefully examined the mystic meanings symbolized by the four chimneys and the smoke, and after confirming again and again that they were correct, she finally felt relieved.

Adele then walked in through the open city gate, paid a penny to enter the city, and then walked along the cross-shaped street that runs through the southern district.

Below that pyramid temple is the central square of the South District, with an area of ​​thousands of square meters.In the past, this was the square where the indigenous people who believed in the god of death held large-scale live sacrifices. Although it was transformed into a trading market by the colonists, after hundreds of thousands of years, there are still occasional ghosts here.

On the periphery of the farmer's market are small stalls of villagers and citizens with a variety of commodities. The farmers brought turkeys, dogs, rabbits, black bean paste, pumpkins, peppers, sunflower seeds, and last year's avocados.

The vendors here sell a kind of local burrito, which is handmade from cornmeal, wrapped with minced meat or animal offal, served with chopped onions and coriander, and finally sprinkled with bright red freshly squeezed chili sauce, which smells The aroma is tangy and very attractive.

Adele danced for a whole morning and walked all the way back to the city center. She was somewhat hungry, so she spent one soule at a street stall and ordered an enchilada, a bowl of chicken and corn red soup and A piece of handmade chocolate for dessert, I want to fill my stomach first.

Since this place is currently a colony of Loen, the currency of the suzerain country is very strong here, and its purchasing power is much higher than that of the mainland.

There is indeed food at the White House banquet, but on that occasion, people's appetites will naturally decrease. At least Adele can't eat grandiosely when she is in the center of everyone's eyes, which will make her Reminiscent of the monkeys in the zoo.

After taking a sip of the spicy chicken red soup, Adele felt that the chill on her body was driven away by the chili all the way.

Although the place is in the tropics, it is still the end of January, and the temperature is only in the [-]s. Coupled with the strong gust of wind, if you continue to walk outdoors, your body loses moisture and heat very quickly.

"Shredded lettuce, shredded radish and avocado... There is such a combination, I learned it."

Soon, Adele finished the main course, took a sip of hot cocoa, and coughed violently.

Due to the intensity, her hood slipped off, revealing her pretty face, and at this moment, that fair face had already turned slightly red from the sudden stimulation.

Why is chili added to hot cocoa? !
It's not that Adele can't eat spicy food, but as a firm sweetie, adding chili peppers to cocoa, a food that should belong to sweets subconsciously, brought her an abrupt feeling and almost choked.

After finally adjusting her state, Adele raised her head apologetically and looked around, only to find that the eyes of the people around her were a little dull.

So, that's the bad thing about witches. If you don't cover your face, you may be watched even if you go to the street...

Adele sighed in her heart, and she didn't have the intention to stay in the booth any longer. She handed the remaining cocoa to a child on the side of the road, then put on her hood, and turned a little in the crowd. Once, I left the booth.

After walking around for two more laps, Adele gradually became less interested.

After filling her stomach, the attractiveness of the things in the market plummeted to Adele.

Although the pottery made by the indigenous people is exquisite, it is not easy to preserve when sailing at sea, so don't buy it;
Although the handmade obsidian tools and statues are very commemorative, she already has a set of ritual knives from Gagran in her hand, so there is no need to buy them;

As for the clothes with the Grim Reaper style... Adele doesn't think it would be very comfortable to wear a bunch of gorgeous feathers on her body.

After becoming a Extraordinary, especially after being promoted to "Witch", Adele pays special attention to preserving her original personality, which includes reasonable restraint and release of desires, including the profligate desire to buy everything.

Now, Adele doesn't even bother to buy items that aren't related to mysticism... Although she doesn't think this is very good, it's better than being a prodigal.

Without the corresponding temptation, Adele just glanced at the surrounding environment slightly, and felt that she had seen almost all the new things, so she was about to leave and head for the North District where the army headquarters and the port were located.

Along the way, subtle changes have taken place in residents' clothing and architectural styles.

The clothing style of the male residents in the southern area is gorgeous. The male aborigines of a certain status all wear colorful shawls and long crowns of feathers; and the closer to the northern area, the more Ruen-like the clothing of the residents, becoming Combination of cropped pants and taraba shirt.By the time Adele walked near the northern city wall in the southern district, gentlemen in long dresses could be seen everywhere.

There is also a coffin-carrying service on the street. This is a very famous means of transportation in the local area. It comes from the legend of the god of death. At most two soli, you can be carried from the south gate of the southern district to the north gate. .

However, Adele is not interested in trying it. After all, when she lies down, she will inevitably be seen by the other party. She is not too optimistic about the conscience of the aborigines here. where.

——Of course, Adele is not worried about her own safety, but rather does not want to cause trouble. After all, she has an important task to help Emlyn solve the follow-up problems. If she is caught by others, it will be terrible. It's troublesome.

Adele walked around the corner of the street, and randomly looked at a corner in surprise.There is an exquisite cloth shed, and a group of people are gathering there, puffing clouds comfortably, enjoying the relaxing atmosphere together.

There seemed to be a stall selling various herbs. The shopkeeper burned fresh tobacco leaves, mandrakes, wormwood, and some kind of cactus from the southern continent in an open-air censer, emitting a strange fragrance, even Adele could smell it. Also feel refreshed.

This recipe is not simple, is the stall owner an Extraordinary?
After a little thought, Adele ruled out this possibility.It is obviously not the first day that the other party has set up a stall here. Like him, he openly burns plants with spiritual materials on the street to attract customers. If he is an Extraordinary person, he would have been caught by the "gardener" of the Mother Earth Church to drink tea up.

It should be some folk mysticism enthusiasts who have learned a certain amount of herbal medicine... Adele quickly made a judgment in her heart.

There are actually various ways to get started with mysticism. Before the Extraordinary Path has been summed up, human beings have mastered the way to use supernatural power to a certain extent through ritual magic, and herbalism is also one of them. There are rituals set up through the types of herbs. There are those who set the ceremony through the position arrangement, and those who set the ceremony through the ratio of medicinal materials, and so on.

Adele stopped in front of the booth, picked up a cigarette on the table and observed it carefully.This kind of smoke is carefully wrapped with local leaves, which are dried tobacco leaves, and herbs and spices that cannot be seen.

"Welcome, beautiful lady." A friendly voice sounded, "Would you like to try the sacred smoke from the rainforest holy land inherited from the Balam Empire?"

Adele looked up, and what caught her eyes was a deformed head that was twice as long as her own. The skull was bent backwards from the forehead, extending a slender head cover, which was decorated with circles of feathers Ornaments and drapes of silver.

Adele couldn't help but took a step back guardedly. This was one of the bad customs among the nobles in the southern colonies, and it was often the descendants of noble priests and nobles who kept this custom.

From birth, they press the child's skull against two wooden boards tied together, tightening a little more each day.They didn't remove the device until three years later, when a child's skull was completely deformed.Of course, the skull is also wrapped with a cloth belt to force it to grow upwards, but the principle is similar.

After Loen occupied this place, he was greatly shocked by this barbaric and backward custom, but he repeatedly banned it.It was not until the past hundred years that this custom gradually disappeared.

I didn't expect to see you here... Adele frowned, and began to think about the reason to leave here.

"This is the sigh of the god of death left in the world. Just a small one can allow you to establish a connection with him for a quarter of an hour and feel the beauty of the kingdom of God."

Seeing Adele hesitate, the descendant of the priest seemed to think that Adele was moved, and continued to introduce excitedly: "This bag of magic smoke has a total of five sticks, and you only charge one pound. If you are not satisfied, I will return it here There is ayahuasca inherited from the family of priests, which can make you feel incredible tranquility and joy..."

"It seems that He does have some effect. At least bless you so far that you have not been captured by the Goddess Church."

Adele replied sarcastically, while getting ready to pull away.

"What I said is true!" Seeing Adele turning around to leave, the businessman suddenly broke out at an unimaginable speed, grabbed Adele's wrist, and with the other hand grabbed the tableware placed on the table. A glass bottle filled with black ayahuasca.

Before Adele could stop it, he quickly uncorked the bottle and took a big gulp.

His expression suddenly became sluggish, and his body twisted on the spot like a zombie, facing the direction of the four chimneys.

His mouth opened morbidly wide, and a black liquid far exceeding the amount he drank was spit out from his mouth. Fortunately, Adele was quick to avoid being sprayed on her body.

While black liquid was flowing from the corner of his mouth, he said in an intermittent hoarse voice:
"I saw... the white bookshelves, the black shadows, and, the scrunched up eyes..."

(End of this chapter)