Mystery: Mr. Witch and Miss Hunter

Chapter 332 Engagement Rings
Will we become stars...?
For no reason, Adele felt a chill on her back, as if something was staring at her back, which made her unable to calm down.

For a moment, she even wanted to directly order the ship to be scuttled, abandon all the spoils, and go to the next port at full speed, and if anyone dared to resist, she would forcibly throw them overboard.

However, this idea just flashed in her mind and then disappeared. After all, she still couldn't be as self-sufficient as Katerina.

After thinking about it, Adele took out the citrine pendulum from her pocket, took a deep breath, and began to silently recite the divination sentences in her heart:
"There is contamination on board this ship, either from the sky or from the ground."

After reciting seven times, Adele opened her eyes and found that the citrine pendant was rotating counterclockwise.

No pollution from the stars on board?
Adele frowned. Originally, she was already mentally prepared that this ship actually came from the starry sky or the ground, and was contaminated with some kind of pollution. The negative answer was somewhat unexpected.

The results of divination with the citrine pendulum from Mister Fool are infallible, there must be something that I haven't discovered yet...

Adele frowned and thought about it.

Although the citrine pendulum bestowed by Mister Fool is miraculous, it is only a pendulum in essence, and can only provide answers of "yes" and "no", and cannot perform the detailed divination process like a real fortune-teller. Dale finds out for herself.

Adele thought about it, and quickly made a decision, took the pendulum again, and began to try the second divination statement:

"Continuing on this boat would put my life in danger."

Open your eyes again, the pendulum is still rotating counterclockwise, the amplitude and frequency are normal, it is a result with clear meaning and almost impossible to further interpret:

Continuing to stay on the boat will not pose a life-threatening threat to Adele.

In the judgment range of the pendulum, the irreversible change caused by loss of control is also counted as life-threatening, indicating that there does not seem to be any danger from various pollutions here.

Although there is no doubt about the result of the divination, Adele still feels uneasy. After all, everything here looks so weird. As a result, the divination told her that this place will not pose a threat to her life at all, so she can safely and boldly carry out private... Loo, this made it difficult for her to accept it for a while.

How can there be no problems in this kind of place? !
Holding the citrine pendulum, Adele tried divination many times in disbelief, repeatedly confirmed her own safety, and asked six questions in a row before she felt that all loopholes had been plugged.

Could it be that I am really too suspicious?Adele looked at the diary spread out on the table and fell into hesitation.

Could it be that the time spent at sea is too long, which makes my spirit too tense?No no no, Tracy was as cautious as I was at first...

Adele couldn't help but began to envy Tracy. Although the group of pirates under her were also very greedy, they had been controlled by Tracy for many years after all. Jin rebelled against water, but at least he would not resist Tracy's orders, unlike himself, if he wanted to order them to do something now, he had to think about the consequences in advance.

Adele's emotions didn't last long, because Tracy came in soon, followed by Constantine, and the two looked excited, as if they had discovered a new world.

"How's the loot check going?"

Seeing the appearance of these two people, Adele felt that something good had happened, so she asked.

"It's not a loss to go to sea this time just with the things on this boat." Tracy's face was full of joy, and her expression became extremely vivid because she had just discovered a huge amount of wealth.

"Such an exaggeration?" Adele couldn't believe it. "Mr. Eggers, you and Tracy went together. Please give us an estimate for our harvest this time. Can it exceed [-] pounds?"

"Although it's strange for a middle-class person like me, fifty thousand pounds is really nothing, especially in front of this harvest."

"The collection on this ship alone is enough to buy a baron of Loen; with the depreciation of titles after the war, I'm afraid even viscounts can be won."

Constantine said with a Loen accent unique to the Southern Continent, "It's hard to describe with words alone... why don't you go to the bottom cabin with us to have a look."

"Okay, I'd like to see it."

Adele nodded, stood up, and made a "please" gesture, "please lead the way."

……

"To be honest, it's a good thing you didn't order the ship to be sunk, otherwise..."

Walking in front of the iron door of the bottom cabin, Constantine suddenly said with emotion: "It may be a little serious for me to say this, but in the eyes of some nobles, you may become a sinner of mankind."

"so serious?"

Adele glanced at the gate. The gate that originally needed to be opened with a password had already been unloaded by Constantine and Tracy.

The metal door is indeed very strong, but the bulkhead is made of wood, and Constantine's undead creature easily destroyed the bulkhead and removed the door.

Adele looked into the room, and what was placed inside was not the materials and weapons that Adele had imagined, but a variety of artworks, which were classified in detail in chronological order, dazzling and dizzying.

"Why art?"

Adele clearly knew that no one could answer her question, but she still couldn't help asking.

This is not a place of geomantic omen, but the war zone between the Loen-Feneport coalition forces and the Balam colony; the eastern front battlefield is a rainforest terrain, and land transportation is not easy, so the supplies of the colonial rebels are transported by sailboats by sea. Dozens of tragic offensive and defensive battles broke out in the coastal port city of East Balam.

And this empty ship from Intis not only has no one on board, but also carries precious artworks. This style of painting really doesn't match the bloody war zone.

Tracy and Constantine didn't speak, they just looked at the artwork in the cabin obsessively.

These objects have obviously been carefully selected, and they are all very representative art form carriers in their own era.It can be said that by seeing these things, one can see a tributary of the long river of human history, and can deduce the whole history from it.

"Do the sailors know about this?"

After Adele came to her senses, her first reaction was to ask eagerly.

"No one knows for the time being. I forbid them to come down and explore on the grounds that the ground floor room has a curse."

Tracy nodded and replied that she wasn't completely lying, because there was indeed a curse here, which she had placed herself, to prevent rash sailors from breaking in and discovering the artwork here.

Give these works of art to uneducated pirate mercenaries, and let them trade them for beer?Even Tracy, who is a pirate herself, finds it difficult to give such an order, because it is simply a blasphemy against human civilization.

Moreover, although most of the hundreds of works of art in this room have not been clearly appraised in the market, even for the most recent piece of jade, the transaction price of similar works of art has reached more than [-] pounds.

Send such a work of art as a reward to the navy... Let alone whether the ordinary sailor's contribution is worth so much reward, even if an ordinary sailor is given a work of art worth thousands of pounds, can he keep it?
Obviously, this chance is very slim. Instead of expecting them to be arty, it is better to reward your subordinates with your own money and give them a price they can afford.

"Good job, continue to maintain the blockade, assign some sailors to the 'Nebchadnezzar', let them drive the ship back to the port of Behrens, and we will escort them."

Adele paced slowly along the display cabinets that store all kinds of artworks, "Call Wendy and the others over later, each Extraordinary on board will pick one as a trophy, and the remaining [-]% ​​will go to Your Excellency the Major General , [-]% goes to the Church of the Earth, [-]% goes to the Church of Evernight, and the rest goes to the Kingdom.”

"As for ordinary sailors, it's enough to give each one a hundred pounds as a bonus, and they won't be able to keep them if there is more."

Constantine nodded, representing the church's acquiescence to Adele's distribution method.

Within the Church of the Earth, it is a well-known secret that Emlyn White also believes in "The Fool". That existence doesn't seem to be worried that Emlyn's actions to publicize his name will cause dissatisfaction with the Mother God. Constantine also knew that this major general could also represent the Church of Fools.

As a church that was tacitly allowed to exist by both the Goddess and the Mother God, it seemed reasonable to Constantine that the Church of Fools wanted a share of the pie.

According to the oracle sent down by the Mother God and the Goddess, when it comes to the "Fool" church, the church's internal personnel can make a lot of concessions. Except for the believers' contention, each of them can't give in based on their ability, the senior deacons of the church can make a lot of concessions. Considerable resource concession.

Now Adele only asks for [-]% for Emlyn, which in Konstantin's view is already very restrained, and he immediately gave him a price that makes it difficult for him to bargain. It can be won without affecting the relationship between the two parties. to the greatest benefit.

From Tracy's point of view, however, it was a different matter.

"The royal family and the military get [-]%, the Church of Evernight gets [-]%, and the Church of the Earth gets [-]%..."

Tracy thought to herself, "The vampires in the royal family are so generous that they confiscated [-]% of it?"

——Ever since she met Emlyn White, she has always regarded Adele as a member of the kingdom's military. Adele can guess a little bit of it, but she doesn't bother to correct it.

"If there is no problem, those two can start choosing now."

Adele pointed to the spacious bilge, "Afterwards, whether it is sold or collected, Your Majesty the Major General will not pursue it."

Tracy and Constantine responded and walked into the jungle of showcases.

Adele also walked in and began to choose carefully.

She said it was a choice, but in fact she avoided the eyes of the two of them, secretly rubbed the pendulum on her wrist, and began to divination whether the artwork in the room was dangerous. The conclusion of the collection of mysticism ability, this is relieved.

Although she said that everyone would choose one gift, most of the other Extraordinary people on the ship are still single. A witch with a family like her is naturally special, so I helped my girlfriend and daughter choose two more gifts... um ,Reasonable.

A gift for Sophie is a good choice, and children don't know much about these things. After all, Adele didn't take her for a long time, and it was too late to instill this kind of knowledge about art recognition, so Adele quickly found it. A set of beautifully crafted windmill models, at first glance, is the work of the Church of Steam.

Although according to the plan, Sophie should be promoted to "Cold-Blooded" when she goes back, and it's hard to say whether she can maintain her current innocence by then, but Adele still stubbornly chose this model.

As for the gift for Venata...Tracey and Constantine seem to have reached a consensus that Adele can take more, and deliberately placed it in a conspicuous position.

It was a ruby ​​ring, with 14 brilliant diamonds of different sizes dotted around the oval red main stone, made of platinum as a whole, and it still looked extraordinarily bright under the dim light in the cabin.

According to the small card attached above, this ring was once custom-made by a nobleman of the Sauron family for his fiancée, but it was not used for some reason, and it was processed by twelve jewelers before and after. It is the jewelry processing technology of the Fourth Epoch. representative.

Noticing that Adele found the ring, Tracy smiled at her: "I discussed it with Constantine just now, and we both feel that after you go back this time, you need a ring that can hold up the scene ...I'm not talking about magical items, but more important rings."

Adele froze for a moment, and soon understood the meaning of Tracy's words, and a rare warm current surged in her heart.

"You're right... I really need such a ring."

Adele carefully took the ring out of the patent leather jewelry box, first measured it on her own finger, and then compared it with the thickness of Venata's finger in memory to confirm that the size was appropriate.

——Although Venata used to be a gangster, as a Extraordinary, her body did not become thick joints and muscles. Instead, she focused on flexibility and muscle explosiveness, which also made her fingers The size is not much different from Adele after becoming a witch.

Constantine glanced at Adele with a smile in his eyes, and didn't say much, but Adele noticed that he also put a small box that looked like a jewelry box into his pocket, and it seemed to be just the right size for him. Put on a ring.

No way, isn't he and Wendy's progress too fast?
Adele was a little surprised, thinking that either Constantine likes to plan ahead and plan well, or his development is too slow to keep up with the times.

Since meeting Venata in October last year, Adele and the two began to prepare for their marriage within four months of dating. In Adele's eyes, this is already quite fast, but seeing that Constantine is now preparing for the ring , Adele couldn't help but wonder if it was time for her outlook on life to be updated.

Could it be that the Intis blood in Wendy's body showed signs of recovery?Adele thought wildly.

(End of this chapter)