Mystery: Mr. Witch and Miss Hunter

Chapter 316 Bancy's Telegram

"A good news and a bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

When Wendy woke up, she saw Adele sitting beside her bed, cleaning that delicate Hidden Blade.

The other party also noticed that the roommate had woken up, and asked quite casually.

"So... good news?"

Wendy wasn't sure what Adele meant, so she asked tentatively.

"Today there are muffins that you like in the navy canteen." Adele took out a dinner plate covered by a glass cover behind her like magic, and there were muffins for two people in it, and put the plate on the warm Dee's bedside table.

"Yeah!" Wendy cheered briefly, and then continued to ask with some anxiety: "Then, what's the bad news?"

"The bad news is, you won't be able to eat it for the next few months."

Adele straightened her arms to let the blade of the Hidden Blade protrude for easy cleaning, "We will go to sea to fight tomorrow, if there is anything you haven't done, it's best to do it today, I will greet you at the shipyard .”

"What?!" Wendy's face became bitter all of a sudden, and she wanted to complain a few words. When she saw the Hidden Blade in Adele's hand, she still didn't dare to make a sound, "When did you decide? I thought we At least one more week to prepare."

"Actually, I thought so too, but last night a local gardener suddenly came to inform me that the frontline battle was unfavorable, and the time for our expedition was advanced."

Adele glanced around subconsciously, and whispered to Wendy, "You were sleeping too soundly at that time, and the combat meeting had nothing to do with you, so I didn't wake you up."

"Oh."

Wendy's last remaining hope was also shattered, she nodded listlessly, and was about to get up from the bed, when she realized that she didn't even take off her coat last night, which made her light riding clothes crumpled .

"You can go out in my clothes."

Adele suggested that she would not be too morbidly opposed to other people wearing her own clothes and using her own things since she was originally a man who often needed to change clothes. Venata often wore her men's clothes to go out, but since she arrived This is rarely the case after Fusac.

"Uh... I don't think I can wear it anymore." Wendy blushed slightly, and pointed to her chest, "It will be crowded in your current clothes."

Adele's face darkened suddenly.

——When the source quality witch was promoted to Sequence Seven, the lack of rituals affected not only the degree of digestion of the potion, but also the physical changes.Although Adele avoided most possible abnormalities as much as possible due to Mister Fool's protection, the development of some secondary sexual characteristics was not so perfect.

"Konstantin will set off on a boat with us. He will come here to meet you later. If you have anything you want, you can go buy it with him. I'm going to the telegraph office to see the civil telegram leading to the Northern Continent. Has the dedicated line been restored?"

Taking a deep breath, Adele tried to keep her tone calm.

"Shall I send a telegram to Miss Venata?"

Wendy asked enviously, "It's a great thing to have a life partner."

"Yeah, if it's still popular in the Fourth Era to call girlfriends 'life partners', then you will have them too."

Adele said sourly, "After all, for some people, all the problems can be solved by sticking the cellulite on their upper body to the other's arm."

"...I always feel that you are getting more and more used to your status as a witch now."

Wendy opened her mouth, but in the end she could only choke out such a sentence.

"You didn't realize I was already at Sequence Six? Then you are really slow."

Adele shrugged, refastened the strap of the Hidden Blade, and prepared to leave the room.

"By the way, what does that Constantine look like? Is he handsome?" Wendy shouted expectantly behind Adele when she was about to open the door and leave.

"Hmm... brown skin, blue eyes, typical appearance of people from the Southern Continent, generally speaking... a little worse than before."

Adele thought for a while, and finally made a relatively objective evaluation.

"Well, if I say that I don't want to concentrate on academics and ignore the handsome guys around me like I used to do in Intis and Lemburg, do you have any suggestions?"

Wendy hesitated briefly, and asked Adele.

My suggestion is to find a bottle of witch potion and pour it down, but it won't work...

Hearing Wendy's words, Adele was surprised to find that the first thought that came to her mind was this.

"I'm not sure... Maybe you should pray to the goddess, hoping that He can bring you back to the fourth era when 'life partner' was still popular."

Wendy smiled wryly, "I remember that the goddess doesn't seem to have time-related authority... Even if she had, the donation box of the church probably wouldn't be able to hold the price corresponding to this wish."

"Then you should start by getting rid of the title, and then iron your clothes... well, you'll get wrinkled anyway."

……

After separating from Wendy, Adele continued to wander the streets.

Although she is a little interested in the matter between Wendy and Constantine, she has a good understanding of Wendy's character. At least in her cognition, Wendy is likely to talk to Constantine about marine biology for a whole day Knowledge.She must not have wanted to be there then, because that would have doubled the embarrassment of that poor man Constantine.

Soon Adele arrived at the largest telegraph office in Port Behrens, and not surprisingly received the news that the telegraph office had not yet resumed normal operations and only opened a few special lines for military use.

The break with the Church of Steam really set back the quality of life of the Loen people by 20 years...

Adele left a note with some regrets, asking the staff of the telegraph office to send her telegram to Port Indor after the telegraph system was restored.

If it weren't for the fact that this telegraph office also operates some military special lines part-time, it would probably have been closed by now...

After walking out of the telegraph office, Adele murmured in her heart.

In Ruen, most of the telegraph offices are partly owned by the state, so they will also operate and maintain some military dedicated lines. Of course, there are also small-scale, privately held telegraph offices that only operate civilian lines, but Adele doubts that in the colonies Will there be such a place in the city?

After thinking for a while, Adele decided to continue walking around the street to see if there were any private telegraph offices still in operation.

As a result, she really found such a telegraph office.

Compared with the previous telegraph office, this one is much smaller. Both the reception window and the lobby are full of a sense of age, and the sign of "Red District Telegraph Office" is erected at the door.

The inside of the red brick wall has not been painted, and moss has even grown in the corners of the ceiling. The room is filled with the smell of cigar smoke, a specialty of the Balam region. The blue-white smoke even affects Adele's vision to a certain extent. .

Inside the yellowed glass window, a slender man was sitting in an easy chair, holding a newspaper in his hand, chatting with the young lady at the counter.

The pipe in his hand was exuding a strong smell of tobacco, and he had refilled it several times. The smoke in the room was almost all caused by him alone.

The sound insulation effect of the thick glass is unexpectedly strong, and Adele can only hear a few words in their chat.

"Ahem... sir?"

Adele saw that the two were talking happily, and she didn't intend to talk to her at all, so she couldn't help coughing twice, trying to get the other party's attention.

Hearing Adele's voice, the man turned around, his movements were a little stiff, and he said slowly:

"Hi sir, my name is Paavo Court. May I help you?"

He still had the pipe in his mouth, and when Adele focused her eyes on his face, a puff of bluish-blue smoke just happened to blow out from the pipe, completely covering his face.

"I want to send a telegram to my wife in Feysac."

Adele said frankly, "I don't know if the telegram here can still operate normally, and if so, how to calculate the price?"

"Currently, there is only one line in operation." Paavo Court still said slowly, "You can take pictures of Binxi first, and then transfer to Fusac. If you want to send a telegram, one word , a penny."

"Bincy?" Adele repeated the name of the place in doubt, "Where is this?"

I always feel like I've heard of this place somewhere, but I can't remember it for a while...

Adele thought hard, but she wasn't too surprised.After all, from the spirit-calling bracelet to the night veil, the side effect will make the memory worse, otherwise she would not carry a notepad with her.

"That's the Kingdom, a small port on the Sunya Sea, called the 'Weather Museum'."

The brown curly-haired female employee next to Paavo Court explained aloud, but she didn't turn around, still turned her back to Adele, and said in the same word: "My name is Melanie. "

"... Forget it, just pay the price you said." Adele didn't want to waste time, and said directly to Paavo Court, "The sender is Adele Circe, and the recipient is Venata Seven. S."

Adele and Venata are still women after all, and cannot get married in the church. Just look at Britten and Loretta.

Therefore, in official documents, Venata's current surname is still Sevens, instead of being named Brewster or Circe according to Adele's surname.

"You are, Miss Adele Circe?" Melanie said suddenly, "We received a telegram from you before."

God, I beg you, can you stop talking like that?

Adele felt a little anxious, but she couldn't get into a fit, so she took out her wallet and said to Melanie, "I'll see that later, and send my telegram first."

"Okay, what do you want to send?"

Pavocott moved his fingers and said mechanically, his voice sounded as broken as that old typewriter.

"'Accidentally arrived in Port Behrens, no problem, don't worry about it. I'm going to sea, and I'll be back in three months.'"

Adele considered the words for a while, and expressed her meaning as concisely as possible.

The price was four times higher than the usual telegram, and it was only a penny per word, so she couldn't help but consider it carefully.

Although she had asked Miss Justice for similar help in the Tarot meeting, she always felt that it would be unreasonable not to send a telegram herself.

"How much is it now?" Adele looked at the change in her wallet, only a few one-soul banknotes.The rest is gold pounds, and it seems a little uneconomical for this broken money.

"One soli and ten pence." Paavo Court still had the same half-dead voice.

"...Then add 'I love you'." Adele said to Pavocott after thinking for a while.

"Three words, two soli and a penny," said Paavo Court.

"Well, I feel much better because of this bad money."

Adele smiled, handed over a one-pound note, and waited for the other party to give her the draft.

……

Soon, Paavo Court and Melanie finished the work and handed the manuscript, the telegram and the found change to Adele through the small window.

"thanks……"

Adele was subconsciously thanking her when her eyes suddenly shrank.

On the telegram that had been yellowed for a long time, faint red writing was revealed. Adele's nostrils had a faint smell of rust, but it was not so obvious under the strong smell of cigars.

"... Is any of you injured?" Adele pondered for a while and asked cautiously.

This time, the two didn't respond immediately, but after a while, they replied hesitantly: "It's okay, Kurt's prosthetic limb fell off, and we are trying to get it back."

"Do you need my help?" Adele's arms tensed slightly, and she had already flicked out the Hidden Blade out of sight of the two of them.

"No, thank you, we can solve it ourselves."

Pavokot's voice was a little weak, but it sounded very determined.At the same time, there was a crackling sound from inside the counter, as if something wet had fallen to the ground.

This doesn't sound like a solution at all...

Adele frowned, thought carefully, then put away the Hidden Blade, and left the hall quickly.

She is now a member of the military department, there is no need to take the risk of solving it by herself, just let the official Extraordinary investigate here.

She cautiously exited the Telegraph Office in the Red City District while being on guard against any changes behind her.

Pawcourt and Melanie were very quiet from the beginning to the end, they didn't attack Adele suddenly because she turned around and left, and allowed Adele to retreat without incident.

Adele, who returned to the street again, breathed a sigh of relief, and wanted to remember the location of this weird telegraph office, but the moment she turned her head, she was stunned.

There is no telegraph office behind her, there is only an empty house that has been abandoned for a long time, and even the courtyard wall is half collapsed!
Adele rubbed her eyes in disbelief, confirming that all this was not an illusion, but something that actually happened.At this moment, she suddenly remembered something, and quickly took out the telegram of unknown origin in her pocket, and unfolded it.

Just glanced at it, and Adele was stunned.There was a row of scarlet handwriting on the telegram, and the neat font was blurred on the paper due to the ink, which seemed quite ostentatious.

"I found you."

(End of this chapter)